| HB297 | Pass | Imposes a probation services fee on any defendant granted a deferred acceptance of guilty or no contest plea. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-10
(S) Act 295, 7/9/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1412). |
| HB302 | Pass | Requires interstate transfer fees to be deposited into the probation services special fund. Clarifies the fund's uses. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-10
(S) Act 303, 7/9/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1420). |
| HB2264 | Pass | Increases employer contribution rates to the state unemployment compensation fund. Effective 01/01/13. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-10
(S) Act 263, 7/6/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1366). |
| SB1276 | Pass | Requires legislative authorization for the establishment of a basic health program, pursuant to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Requires the insurance division of the department of commerce and consumer affairs to undertake a feasibil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-10
(S) Act 254, 7/6/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1357). |
| HB2436 | Veto | Establishes the chief information officer or that officer's designee as the chair of the information privacy and security council. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-10
(S) Vetoed on 07-10-12 - Returned from the Governor without approval (Gov. Msg. No. 1393). |
| HB1054 | Pass | Authorizes affiliates of the Friends of the Library of Hawaii and certain nonprofit organizations supporting state library branches to use state library facilities for concessions, vending machines and other activities and to maintain their own accou...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-10
(S) Act 308, 7/9/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1425). |
| SB2946 | Veto | Extends until June 30, 2016: the increase in the rental motor vehicle surcharge tax to $7.50 per day; the deposit of a portion of the tax into the general fund; and the suspension of the rental motor vehicle customer facility charges. Allocates a por...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-10
(S) Vetoed on 07-10-12 - Returned from the Governor without approval (Gov. Msg. No. 1399). |
| SB2767 | Pass | Updates provisions of the insurance code governing guaranty associations in conformity with the National Association of Insurance Commissioners' Property and Casualty Insurance Guaranty Model Act and the Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Association...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-10
(S) Act 250, 7/6/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1353). |
| SB2766 | Pass | Updates the insurance code by removing or revising certain provisions that relate to the licensing and regulation of mutual benefit societies, fraternal benefit societies, and health maintenance organizations; updates financial regulatory requirement...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-10
(S) Act 251, 7/6/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1354). |
| HB2258 | Pass | Requires professional and vocational licensing boards to consider relevant military education, training, and service as part of the evaluation process toward the qualifications of a license. Requires the licensing administrator of the professional an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-10
(S) Act 248, 7/6/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1351). |
| SB2765 | Pass | Amends Hawaii's captive insurance company law to ensure that risk retention captive insurance companies comply with the accreditation standards of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-10
(S) Act 253, 7/6/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1356). |
| HB2257 | Pass | Permits licensure by endorsement or licensure by reciprocity in certain situations for a nonresident military spouse. Establishes procedures for a nonresident military spouse to receive a license by endorsement or license by reciprocity. Permits issu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-10
(S) Act 247, 7/6/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1350). |
| SB2344 | Pass | Makes an appropriation for the Hawaii health authority. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-10
(S) Act 280, 7/6/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1383). |
| SB2763 | Pass | Amends the Secure and Fair Enforcement for Mortgage Licensing Act to reflect recent changes to federal law and to adjust fees in consideration of the new regulatory requirements. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-10
(S) Act 252, 7/6/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1355). |
| SB2958 | Pass | Appropriates moneys as a grant pursuant to chapter 42F, Hawaii Revised Statutes, for Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children to establish an apheresis stem cell collection program to serve all young children to adulthood. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-10
(S) Act 274, 7/6/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1377). |
| SB2630 | Pass | Authorizes a liquor commission in a county with a population of over seven hundred thousand to establish a pilot program that uses both the dBA and the dBC weighting system for the purpose of community noise control. (SB2630 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-10
(S) Act 297, 7/9/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1414). |
| SB2827 | Pass | Adds to the uses of the moneys in the Trauma System Special Fund the costs to staff, operate, and continue the services of the injury prevention program. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-10
(S) Act 276, 7/6/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1379). |
| HB2248 | Pass | Authorizes the issuance of up to $120,000,000 in special purpose revenue bonds to assist Hawaii Pacific University. Effective July 1, 2012. (HB2248 CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-10
(S) Act 305, 7/9/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1422). |
| SB2335 | Pass | Requires the counties to concurrently process subdivision and special management area use permits under certain conditions to ensure that a special management area use permit is processed before final subdivision approval. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-10
(S) Act 239, 7/6/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1342). |
| HB2409 | Pass | Authorizes the director of commerce and consumer affairs to enforce certain federal laws to protect military members and their families from abusive lending practices. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-10
(S) Act 249, 7/6/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1352). |
| SB2825 | Pass | Authorizes the department of health to allow limited health insurer access to the Hawaii immunization registry and authorizes the Hawaii immunization registry to store minimal demographic information for individuals who have elected to refuse inclusi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-10
(S) Act 275, 7/6/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1378). |
| HB2242 | Pass | Establishes a veterinary license renewal requirement of at least twenty continuing education credit hours, to be completed by June 30, 2016, the licensing renewal deadline in order to hold a valid license for the period beginning July 1, 2017, and th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-10
(S) Act 306, 7/9/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1423). |
| SB2655 | Pass | Establishes provisions for the sale of portable electronics insurance; requires vendors to hold a limited lines license to sell or offer coverage under a policy; establishes sanctions for violations; establishes requirements for termination of insura...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-10
(S) Act 321, 7/10/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1438). |
| HB2398 | Pass | Transfers development rights of certain lands under the division of boating and ocean recreation and land division to the public land development corporation. Exempts certain lands from the definition of public land under chapter 171, HRS, but requir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-10
(S) Act 282, 7/6/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1385). |
| SB3017 | Veto | Clarifies that the daily $10 tax on transient accommodations furnished on a complimentary or gratuitous basis includes transient accommodations furnished as part of a travel package, but does not include transient accommodations furnished as part of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-10
(S) Vetoed on 07-10-12 - Returned from the Governor without approval (Gov. Msg. No. 1400). |
| SB2536 | Veto | Establishes a temporary clean and sober home and halfway house task force that shall, among other things, establish a pilot clean and sober home and halfway house for a county with a population over 900,000. Requires the task force to submit a report...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-10
(S) Vetoed on 07-10-12 - Returned from the Governor without approval (Gov. Msg. No. 1397). |
| SB2534 | Pass | Establishes the School Facilities Special Fund to accept revenue generated from the non-permanent disposition of public school lands and facilities to fund school facility construction and upgrade to meet twenty-first century school standards. Includ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-10
(S) Act 309, 7/9/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1426). |
| SB2640 | Veto | Allows counties to permit the use of an otherwise authorized individual wastewater treatment system, except cesspools in a special management area, when it pre-dates a county-operated wastewater treatment system and the county determines that allowin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-10
(S) Vetoed on 07-10-12 - Returned from the Governor without approval (Gov. Msg. No. 1398). |
| SB2214 | Veto | Clarifies provisions that negotiations relating to contributions to the Hawaii employer-union health benefits trust fund shall be to agree upon amounts that the State and counties shall contribute toward the payment of costs for a health benefits pla...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-10
(S) Vetoed on 07-10-12 - Returned from the Governor without approval (Gov. Msg. No. 1395). |
| SB3008 | Pass | Allows impoverished family court plaintiffs and petitioners to serve notice by posting pleadings at the courthouse in lieu of notice by publication, subject to order of the court, demonstration of a diligent search, and mailing of the pleadings to th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-10
(S) Act 290, 7/9/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1407). |
| SB3006 | Pass | Establishes a task force to study ways to prevent or control the problem of abandoned tires. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-10
(S) Act 271, 7/6/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1374). |
| HB1953 | Pass | Appropriates funds to increase the on-call availability of emergency medical services and ambulance services on the Leeward Coast of Oahu. Effective July 1, 2012. (HB1953 CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-10
(S) Act 268, 7/6/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1371). |
| SB3002 | Pass | Amends provisions relating to the licensing and penalties of real estate brokers and salespersons by requiring the real estate commission to consider whether a licensee relied in good faith on information provided by other persons or third parties. (...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-10
(S) Act 257, 7/6/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1360). |
| SB2816 | Pass | Permits the department of health the option of recognizing full accreditation by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations as evidence of hospital compliance with all licensing inspection for the duration of the accreditation....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-10
(S) Act 273, 7/6/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1376). |
| HB1957 | Pass | Clarifies that persons and entities governed by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), who use or disclose individually identifiable health information in a manner that is consistent with HIPAA regulations, shall be deemed t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-10
(S) Act 315, 7/10/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1432). |
| HB1617 | Veto | Provides for fair compensation when leased public land for agricultural or pastoral uses is withdrawn, condemned, or taken for public purposes. Authorizes the Board of Land and Natural Resources to extend commercial, hotel, resort, and industrial lea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-10
(S) Vetoed on 07-10-12 - Returned from the Governor without approval (Gov. Msg. No. 1390). |
| HB2113 | Pass | Bans the ignition, possession, selling, offering for sale, and use of aerial luminaries. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-10
(S) Act 319, 7/10/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1436). |
| SB2813 | Pass | Clarifies that all moneys collected as application fees or fees for continuing education units shall be deposited into the disability and communication access board special fund and that moneys in the fund shall be used to defray costs of administeri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-10
(S) Act 272, 7/6/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1375). |
| HB2883 | Pass | Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to conduct a flood study on Makaha Valley and investigate all funding sources to finance the flood study and necessary repairs and improvements recommended by the flood study. Appropriates funds. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-10
(S) Act 283, 7/6/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1386). |
| HB679 | Pass | Exempts National Rifle Association certified firearms instructors from absolute liability for injury or damage caused by discharge of their firearms during the course of providing firearms training at a firing range to persons seeking to acquire a fi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-10
(S) Act 301, 7/9/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1418). |
| HB2608 | Pass | Directs the director of transportation to select a statewide driver's license reciprocity committee to evaluate foreign countries' requests for driver's license reciprocity to ensure the standards of the foreign countries' driver's license testing is...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-10
(S) Act 314, 7/9/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1431). |
| SB2745 | Pass | Creates a climate change adaptation policy for the State of Hawaii by amending the Hawaii State Planning Act to include climate change adaptation priority guidelines. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-10
(S) Act 286, 7/9/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1403). |
| SB2506 | Pass | Transfers the non-driver's, or civil, identification program from the Department of the Attorney General to the Department of Transportation. Requires civil identification cards to be issued by the examiners of drivers in each county to comply with t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-10
(S) Act 310, 7/9/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1427). |
| HB2626 | Pass | Permanently establishes the safe routes to school program within the department of transportation. Establishes a safe routes to school program special fund. Assesses a surcharge of $25 for violations of speeding in a school zone and a $10 surcharge o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-10
(S) Act 317, 7/10/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1434). |
| HB1967 | Pass | Amends the medical tort chapter of the Hawaii Revised Statutes, to make the medical claim conciliation process less adversarial and to emphasize inquiry, conciliation, and settlement. Renames the panels as medical inquiry and conciliation panels. Eff...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-10
(S) Act 296, 7/9/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1413). |
| SB2873 | Pass | Permanently amends chapter 343, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to clarify current exemptions for secondary actions and require the Office of Environmental Quality Control to determine which agency has the responsibility for determining whether an environme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-10
(S) Act 312, 7/9/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1429). |
| SB2742 | Pass | Amends the composition of the Hawaii Community Development Authority (HCDA) board to include nine voting members for each established district. Extends the HCDA's authority to lease all or a portion of the real or personal property constituting a pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-10
(S) Act 323, 7/10/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1440). |
| SB2871 | Pass | Prohibits driving a commercial motor vehicle without possession of commercial driver's license; prohibits the use of mobile electronic devices, including for texting, while operating a commercial motor vehicle. Exempts certain drivers and "911" commu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-10
(S) Act 311, 7/9/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1428). |
| SB1500 | Pass | Requires a person to whom an anatomical gift passes to accept or reject the gift if it is medically suitable for transplantation, therapy, research, or education. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-10
(S) Act 270, 7/6/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1373). |
| SB824 | Pass | Deems void and unenforceable any provision of a motor carrier transportation services contract or agreement that requires a motor carrier to indemnify, defend, or hold harmless the indemnitee from any liability for the indemnitee's negligence or inte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-07-10
(S) Act 298, 7/9/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1415). |
