| SB83 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the Hawaii public housing authority to retain dwelling units in housing projects for lease or rent by nonprofit organizations and government agencies and to provide for the development of community facilities for lease or rent to nonprofit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-07
To House Housing Committee |
| SB337 | Engross
Sine Die | Makes it a violation to drive a motor vehicle, trailer, or semi-trailer equipped with dangerous wheels. Defines dangerous wheels. Effective 7/1/50. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-07
To House Transportation Committee |
| SB452 | Engross
Sine Die | Reestablishes the governor's authority to nominate and, with the advice and consent of the senate, appoint the members of the board of regents of the University of Hawaii by repealing the candidate advisory council for the board of regents of the Uni...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-07
To House Higher Education Committee |
| SB453 | Engross
Sine Die | Proposes an amendment to article X, section 6, of the Hawaii State Constitution to modify the appointment process for the board of regents of the University of Hawaii; repeals reference to the candidate advisory council for the board of regents of th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-07
To House Higher Education Committee |
| SB460 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the hiring of one full-time equivalent librarian position for the Okinawan collection at the University of Hawaii at Manoa library. Effective 07/01/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-07
To House Higher Education Committee |
| SB464 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires county liquor commissions that choose to regulate dancing to adopt or amend rules regarding limitations on dancing. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-07
To House Economic Development & Business Committee |
| SB465 | Engross
Sine Die | Creates a civil cause of action of physical or constructive invasion of privacy if the person obtains any type of visual image, sound recording, or other physical impression of another person under circumstances in which another person has a reasonab...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-07
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| SB624 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits the expenditure of moneys deposited into the University of Hawaii tuition and fees special fund on executive and managerial positions with salaries of $150,000 or more. Effective 07/01/2050. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-07
To House Higher Education Committee |
| SB1175 | Engross
Sine Die | Updates chapter 329, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to make it consistent with amendments in federal law on controlled substances; amends section 329-14 to add new controlled substances emergency scheduled by the State under section 329-11; and amends sect...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-07
To House Public Safety Committee |
| SB490 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the professional and vocational licensing division of the department of commerce and consumer affairs and the state board of nursing to collaborate with the center for nursing to enable the center to obtain nursing-related data, including bu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-07
To House Health Committee |
| SB814 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the Hawaii public housing authority to allow law enforcement officers who would not otherwise be eligible to occupy a state low-income public housing project, to reside in a state low-income public housing for the purpose of increasing sec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-07
To House Housing Committee |
| SB204 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for state programs related to the re-integration of offenders into the general population. Effective 07/01/13. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-07
To House Public Safety Committee |
| SB974 | Engross
Sine Die | Assists agricultural enterprises in the State by authorizing the State to issue special purpose revenue bonds for their benefit. Contingent upon ratification of constitutional amendment authorizing the State to issue special purpose revenue bonds and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-07
To House Agriculture Committee |
| SB945 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows cooperative housing corporations, associations of apartment owners, and condominium associations to adopt rules to prohibit smoking in units or apartments if a majority of the tenant shareholders or owners approved the smoking prohibition; pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-07
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| SB991 | Engross
Sine Die | Exempts the purchase of fresh meats and produce and animals and plants by any governmental body from the Hawaii Public Procurement Code. Effective 07/01/50. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-07
To House Agriculture Committee |
| SB992 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows for agricultural loans to be administered for livestock biosecurity projects. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-07
To House Agriculture Committee |
| SB527 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the comprehensive breast and cervical cancer control program. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-07
To House Health Committee |
| SB350 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the date of filing of monthly, quarterly, and semiannual general excise tax returns from the twentieth day of the calendar, quarterly, or semiannual month to the last day of the month. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-07
To House Finance Committee |
| SB1233 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires certain private employers to allow employees to take paid leaves of absence for organ, bone marrow, or peripheral blood stem cell donation. Requires employers to restore an employee returning from leave to the same or equivalent position. Es...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-07
To House Health Committee |
| SB775 | Engross
Sine Die | Designates the Hawaiian hoary bat as the state land mammal.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-07
To House Veterans, Military, & International Affairs, & Culture and the Arts Committee |
| SB59 | Engross
Sine Die | Increases the monthly board rate distributed by the department of human services for foster care services for children. Effective 07/01/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-07
To House Human Services Committee |
| SB1306 | Engross
Sine Die | Permits the regional systems of the Hawaii health systems corporation and their health facilities to transition to non-public status. Effective 01/01/2050. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-07
To House Health Committee |
| SB58 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes and provides appropriations for a statewide language access resource center and multilingual website pilot project to be administered by the office of language access. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-07
To House Health Committee |
| SB1213 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires one-half of franchise utility tax to be paid to DOT highways division as compensation for use of state rights-of-way. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-07
To House Transportation Committee |
| SB225 | Engross
Sine Die | Adds a definition of "residency" to rules for determining residency. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-07
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB103 | Engross
Sine Die | Directs the executive office on aging to conduct a public education and awareness campaign on long term care and have the campaign independently evaluated. Appropriates moneys. Effective 07/01/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-07
To House Health Committee |
| SB1033 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends section 39-6, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to allow premiums received from the sale of general obligation bonds to be used for eligible capital expenditures pursuant to section 39-2, Hawaii Revised Statutes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-07
To House Finance Committee |
| SB229 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes causes and procedures for impeachment of the governor, lieutenant governor, and appointive officers. Effective 07/01/50. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-07
To House Legislative Management Committee |
| SB104 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the director of the executive office on aging to contract for the performance of a feasibility study and an actuarial analysis for a limited, mandatory, public long term care financing program for the State's working population. Requires a r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-07
To House Health Committee |
| SB754 | Engross
Sine Die | Makes an appropriation for the agribusiness development corporation to purchase agricultural land. Effective 07/01/2050. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-07
To House Agriculture Committee |
| SB210 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits assessment of a fee for registration of a bicycle or moped that is gifted within 90 days of issuance of the original certificate of registration. Effective 7/1/50. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-07
To House Transportation Committee |
| SB1043 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the public utilities commission and the division of consumer advocacy to examine all documents and other information and data deemed necessary for the review of power purchase agreements before the commission and division of consumer advoc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-07
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| SB1387 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends section 304A-104.5, HRS, to give the governor the authority to reject candidates to the board of regents of the University of Hawaii presented by the regents candidate advisory council and require the regents candidate advisory council to pres...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-07
To House Higher Education Committee |
| SB1385 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the UH board of regents to undergo annual training on board policies and procedures, Hawaii's sunshine law, Hawaii's open records law, and Hawaii's ethics standards. Requires each regent to receive certification that the regent successfully ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-07
To House Higher Education Committee |
| SB1384 | Engross
Sine Die | Charges the Board of Regents with oversight of the University General Counsel. Exempts the Board of Regents, and repeals UH's exemption, from the prohibition to contract with attorneys. Requires the Auditor to review legal contracts entered into by U...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-07
To House Higher Education Committee |
| SB190 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends criteria to be used by the auditor in analyzing legislative bills proposing to establish new special or revolving funds. Clarifies that a special or revolving fund to be established or continued shall reflect a clear nexus between benefits sou...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-07
To House Finance Committee |
| SB358 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the department of health to post on its website reports of all inspections at state-licensed care facilities occurring on 1/1/15, and afterward; provided that any report that includes a violation be removed from the website after three years...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-07
To House Health Committee |
| SB726 | Engross
Sine Die | Exempts car-sharing organizations from the rental motor vehicle surcharge tax upon approval of DoTax. Defines car-sharing organization and qualified fleet of vehicles. Effective 07/01/2050. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-07
To House Transportation Committee |
| SB598 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires check cashers to provide specific additional information relating to deferred deposit transactions. Limits the cumulative fees charged by check cashers. Requires check cashers to enter into payment plans with certain customers. Effective 07/...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-07
To House Economic Development & Business Committee |
| SB718 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Hawaii Strategic Development Corporation to establish the HI Growth Initiative, an investment program to develop an ecosystem to support high-growth entrepreneurial companies in the State. Requires an annual report to the le...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-07
To House Economic Development & Business Committee |
| SB369 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires both chambers of the legislature to implement rules to permit residents to present testimony through audiovisual technology. Appropriates funds to establish audiovisual systems throughout the State. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-07
To House Legislative Management Committee |
| SB380 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides funding for an outreach program to conduct a needs assessment for a potential learning center project in Puna under the college of agriculture, forestry, and natural resource management of the University of Hawaii at Hilo. Effective 7/1/2050...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-07
To House Higher Education Committee |
| SB709 | Engross
Sine Die | Increases the agribusiness development corporation's limit on investments in qualified securities of any one enterprise. Effective 07/01/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-07
To House Agriculture Committee |
| SB1091 | Engross
Sine Die | Exempts charitable income tax deductions from the itemized deduction caps. Effective 07/01/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-07
To House Finance Committee |
| SB1103 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates the sum of $12,000,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 20122013, out of the Nursing Facility Sustainability Program Special Fund with such moneys to be used consistent with the Nursing Facility Sustainability Prog...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-07
To House Health Committee |
| SB1109 | Engross
Sine Die | Adds a new part to chapter 321, HRS, to ensure that female victims of sexual assault are provided with medically and factually unbiased information about and access to emergency contraception when receiving emergency medical care at Hawaii's hospital...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-07
To House Health Committee |
| SB1272 | Engross
Sine Die | Sets the employer contribution rate for calendar years 2013 and 2014 at schedule F. Applies retroactively to 01/01/13. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-07
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee |
| SB414 | Engross
Sine Die | Defines a "dog breeder" as any person who owns, possesses, controls, or otherwise has charge or custody of more than ten dogs over the age of twelve months with intact sexual organs, and who sells, barters, or otherwise transfers more than three litt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-07
To House Economic Development & Business Committee |
| SB681 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a temporary food security task force at the national disaster preparedness training center at the University of Hawaii to develop an emergency food plan that addresses certain food security issues resulting from an emergency, catastrophic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-07
To House Public Safety Committee |
| SCR48 | Intro
Sine Die | Requesting The Judiciary To Convene A Working Group To Examine Hawaii's Enhanced Sentencing And Extended Sentencing Laws.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-05
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
