| HB2509 | Pass | Appropriates funds to assist communities affected by discarded or abandoned tires by providing funds for programs promoting the removal of abandoned tires that have been illegally dumped from the landscape, including funding county abandoned tire rem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-03
Act 190, 7/1/2014 (Gov. Msg. No. 1293). |
| HB1966 | Pass | Requires the State Auditor to review the current civil service exemption process and recommend procedures, guidelines, and criteria to ensure that the civil service exemption process is used appropriately and only in extraordinary circumstances. Requ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-03
Act 199, 7/1/2014 (Gov. Msg. No. 1302). |
| HB2448 | Pass | Authorizes HHFDC to issue bonds for infrastructure for land owned by an eligible developer for the construction of affordable housing. (HB2448 CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-03
Act 194, 7/1/2014 (Gov. Msg. No. 1297). |
| HB2288 | Pass | Amends the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act to permit the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to dispose of department-owned or department-controlled improvements, or space within an improvement, on Hawaiian home lands through direct negotiations. (HB2288...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-03
Act 173, 7/1/2014 (Gov. Msg. No. 1276). |
| SB2465 | Pass | Requires psychologists in the State, beginning July 1, 2016, to complete a minimum of 18 credit hours of continuing education courses for each licensing renewal biennium. (SB2465 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-03
Act 187, 7/1/2014 (Gov. Msg. No. 1290). |
| HB2152 | Pass | Appropriates funds to the Pacific international space center for exploration systems to support administrative and general tasks and strategic program initiatives. (HB2152 CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-03
Act 169, 7/1/2014 (Gov. Msg. No. 1272). |
| SB2346 | Pass | Appropriates general funds to the Department of Health for community-based services and programs for older persons. Requires the Department of Health Executive Office on Aging to conduct a public education and awareness campaign on long-term care and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-03
Act 151, 6/30/2014 (Gov. Msg. No. 1254). |
| HB2304 | Pass | To facilitate meeting quorum requirements, reduces Neurotrauma Advisory Board membership from twenty-one to eleven members while maintaining representation of all existing parties. Clarifies quorum and voting requirements and allows the Director of H...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-03
Act 191, 7/1/2014 (Gov. Msg. No. 1294). |
| HB2052 | Pass | Increases access to Provider Orders for Life-sustaining Treatment (POLST) by updating references from "physician orders for life-sustaining treatment" to "provider orders for life-sustaining treatment". Expands health care provider signatory authorit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-03
Act 154, 6/30/2014 (Gov. Msg. No. 1257). |
| HB2543 | Pass | Authorizes the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds of up to $50,000,000 for BioTork Hawaii LLC for the development and operation of a facility to convert agricultural crops and by-products to biofuels and high-protein feed. (HB2543 CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-03
Act 177, 7/1/2014 (Gov. Msg. No. 1280). |
| SB2729 | Pass | Amends the law prohibiting operation of a motor vehicle while using a mobile electronic device by adding an exemption for completely stopped drivers, amending the definition of "operate", amending the penalties for violations, and deeming a violation...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-03
Act 175, 7/1/2014 (Gov. Msg. No. 1278). |
| HB1712 | Pass | Authorizes issuance of general obligation bonds. Makes findings required by Article VII, section 13 of the State Constitution to declare that issuance of authorized bonds will not cause debt limit to be exceeded. (HB1712 CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-03
Act 172, 7/1/2014 (Gov. Msg. No. 1275). |
| SB2820 | Pass | Prohibits rescission of coverage under health benefit plans in most circumstances; requires written notice prior to rescission. Clarifies the authority of insurers with general casualty insurance authority. Clarifies retention requirements. Allows th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-03
Act 186, 7/1/2014 (Gov. Msg. No. 1289). |
| HB1942 | Pass | Authorizes the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds to assist Princeton Energy Group or Princeton Energy Group's related entity, Ikehu Molokai LLC, with the financing and refinancing costs relating to the planning, design, and construction of a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-03
Act 183, 7/1/2014 (Gov. Msg. No. 1286). |
| HB2320 | Pass | Establishes health equity as a goal for the Department of Health. Requires the Department to consider social determinants of health in assessing health needs in the State. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-03
Act 157, 6/30/2014 (Gov. Msg. No. 1260). |
| HB2213 | Pass | Authorizes the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds to assist West Maui Hospital Foundation, Inc. in establishing a hospital in west Maui. (HB2213 CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-03
Act 182, 7/1/2014 (Gov. Msg. No. 1285). |
| HB2251 | Pass | Increases the Hula Mae Multifamily Revenue Bond authorization limit. (HB2251 CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-03
Act 162, 6/30/2014 (Gov. Msg. No. 1265). |
| SB2469 | Pass | Requires equivalent reimbursement for services, including behavioral health services, provided through telehealth as for the same services provided via face-to-face contact between a health care provider and a patient. Clarifies that health care prov...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-03
Act 159, 6/30/2014 (Gov. Msg. No. 1262). |
| HB2400 | Pass | Provides temporary disability benefits to employees who suffer disabilities as a result of donating organs. (HB2400 CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-03
Act 160, 6/30/2014 (Gov. Msg. No. 1263). |
| HB1539 | Pass | Requires the return of a housing choice voucher to the Hawaii Public Housing Authority upon the death or removal from assistance of the last original household member or upon the youngest minor of the family reaching the age of twenty-one or twenty-t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-03
Act 178, 7/1/2014 (Gov. Msg. No. 1281). |
| HB2224 | Pass | Establishes a registry for clean and sober homes within the Department of Health. Appropriates funds. Amends the county zoning statute to better align functions of state and county jurisdictions with federal law. (HB2224 CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-03
Act 193, 7/1/2014 (Gov. Msg. No. 1296). |
| SB2300 | Pass | Authorizes the State Fire Council to establish statewide qualifications and procedures for testing, certifying, and credentialing individuals who conduct maintenance and testing of portable fire extinguishers, fire protection systems, and fire alarm ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-03
Act 165, 6/30/2014 (Gov. Msg. No. 1268). |
| HB2401 | Pass | Consolidates into one section under chapter 514B, Hawaii Revised Statutes, the documents, records, and information that must be made available to any unit owner and the unit owner's authorized agents and specifies that these documents, records, and i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-03
Act 188, 7/1/2014 (Gov. Msg. No. 1291). |
| SB3099 | Pass | Makes hiring of technical and professional staff in accordance with civil service laws by the state historic preservation division mandatory. Sunsets civil service exemptions for positions created after July 1, 2014, three years after enactment unles...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-03
Act 181, 7/1/2014 (Gov. Msg. No. 1284). |
| SB1141 | Pass | Requires public agencies in possession of medical, mental health, social, and juvenile records, and any other pertinent records of a defendant ordered to be examined under chapter 704, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to provide those records to the court, n...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-03
Act 192, 7/1/2014 (Gov. Msg. No. 1295). |
| SB1233 | Pass | Requires certain private employers to allow employees to take leaves of absence for organ, bone marrow, or peripheral blood stem cell donation. Unused sick leave, vacation, or paid time off, or unpaid time off, may be used for these leaves of absence...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-03
Act 161, 6/30/2014 (Gov. Msg. No. 1264). |
| HB1564 | Pass | Requires the counties to obtain approval from the office of veterans' services prior to any action that may impact the State's obligation to establish and maintain veterans cemeteries. (HB1564 CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-03
Act 197, 7/1/2014 (Gov. Msg. No. 1300). |
| SB3093 | Pass | Makes an appropriation to the University of Hawaii at Hilo to support its memorandum of agreement with RISE 21st Century After School Program. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-03
Act 167, 7/1/2014 (Gov. Msg. No. 1270). |
| SB2321 | Pass | Requires claims for funds of less than $100 in the unclaimed property trust fund to be filed within ten years of deposit into the trust fund, or the funds will escheat to the State and be transferred to the general fund. (SB2321 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-03
Act 184, 7/1/2014 (Gov. Msg. No. 1287). |
| SB2345 | Pass | Appropriates funds for educational outreach targeted at kupuna, based on DCCA's existing investor education programs. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-03
Act 152, 6/30/2014 (Gov. Msg. No. 1255). |
| SB2953 | Pass | Provides that all royalties from geothermal resources on DHHL lands shall be paid to DHHL. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-03
Act 170, 7/1/2014 (Gov. Msg. No. 1273). |
| SB2583 | Pass | Appropriates funds for an engineering assessment of a proposal to establish a laser optical communications ground station in Hawaii. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-03
Act 171, 7/1/2014 (Gov. Msg. No. 1274). |
| HB2053 | Pass | Establishes a Fall Prevention and Early Detection Coordinator position within the Department of Health's Emergency Medical Services and Injury Prevention System Branch. Appropriates funds. (HB2053 CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-03
Act 153, 6/30/2014 (Gov. Msg. No. 1256). |
| HB1702 | Pass | Creates a capital infrastructure tax credit for investors who invest in qualified infrastructure tenants who are displaced by the Kapalama container terminal project. Allows allocations of the capital infrastructure tax credit to a partner under a pa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-03
Act 200, 7/1/2014 (Gov. Msg. No. 1303). |
| HB2590 | Pass | Allows voter registration at absentee polling places beginning in 2016 and late voter registration, including on election day, beginning in 2018. Appropriates funds. (HB2590 CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-07-03
Act 166, 6/30/2014 (Gov. Msg. No. 1269). |
| HB1951 | Pass | Extends the authorization of the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds to Honolulu Seawater Air Conditioning, LLC, for the purpose of design and construction of a seawater air conditioning district cooling system in downtown Honolulu, for an addi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-06-27
Act 150, 6/27/2014 (Gov. Msg. No. 1253). |
| SB2057 | Pass | Amends Act 156, Session Laws of Hawaii 2012, as amended by Act 142, Session Laws of Hawaii 2013, to continue the Nursing Facility Sustainability Program by extending the sunset date of the Act, updating the referral dates in the statute, and appropri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-06-26
Act 124, 6/24/2014 (Gov. Msg. No. 1227). |
| HB1692 | Pass | Requires a single-document Hawaii tourism marketing plan and amends related HTA functions to incorporate, among other things, a Hawaii brand focus. Makes housekeeping amendments to HTA's functions and duties. Clarifies public disclosure requirements ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-06-26
Act 131, 6/24/2014 (Gov. Msg. No. 1234). |
| HB2147 | Pass | Exempts the airport and stadium authority operation of concessions for electronic communication services and solely for advertising from the public concession bidding process. Repeals June 30, 2021. (HB2147 CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-06-26
Act 141, 6/24/2014 (Gov. Msg. No. 1244). |
| SB2118 | Pass | Makes housekeeping amendments to the Partial Public Campaign Financing laws by requiring notice to the Office of Elections upon exceeding campaign expenditure limits and repealing references to an obsolete tax credit for campaign contributors. (SB211...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-06-26
Act 140, 6/24/2014 (Gov. Msg. No. 1243). |
| SB2634 | Pass | Requires individuals who spend more than $750 on lobbying during a statement period to itemize each expenditure in certain categories, as applicable. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-06-26
Act 144, 6/24/2014 (Gov. Msg. No. 1247). |
| SB2391 | Pass | Requires DLNR to establish a 2-year pilot project to resolve user conflicts on public recreational lands by convening a working group on the island of Oahu to identify and implement management strategies through the execution of a written agreement b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-06-26
Act 145, 6/24/2014 (Gov. Msg. No. 1248). |
| HB2188 | Pass | Repeals the Waialua Loan and Subsidy Program, Kikala-Keokea Housing Revolving Fund, and Kikala-Keokea Infrastructure Development Fund. (HB2188 CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-06-26
Act 132, 6/24/2014 (Gov. Msg. No. 1235). |
| HB2003 | Pass | Establishes the Hawaii cybersecurity, economic, education, and infrastructure security coordinator to assist with the development of methods to improve the State's cybersecurity and cyber resiliency. Appropriates funds. (HB2003 CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-06-26
Act 129, 6/24/2014 (Gov. Msg. No. 1232). |
| SB2981 | Pass | Amends the state plan policies, objectives, and priority guidelines to promote and encourage innovative activity in the economy. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-06-26
Act 133, 6/24/2014 (Gov. Msg. No. 1236). |
| HB1772 | Pass | Exempts from the general excise tax amounts received by a contractor of the Patient-Centered Community Care Program established by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs for costs or advances to third party health care providers. (HB1772 CD...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-06-26
Act 143, 6/24/2014 (Gov. Msg. No. 1246). |
| HB2051 | Pass | Amends the criteria for the works of art to be commissioned to honor the late U.S. Senator Daniel K. Inouye and the late U.S. Representative Patsy T. Mink pursuant to Act 281, SLH 2013. Amends the appropriation to $250,000 for fiscal year 2014-2015 o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-06-26
Act 137, 6/24/2014 (Gov. Msg. No. 1240). |
| HB1638 | Pass | Appropriates funds to the judiciary for FY 2014-2015. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-06-26
Act 127, 6/24/2014 (Gov. Msg. No. 1230). |
| HB2363 | Pass | Provides systematic reentry programming for nonviolent, low-risk drug offenders by establishing and funding a reentry pilot project for nonviolent, low-risk drug offenders. (HB2363 CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-06-26
Act 149, 6/24/2014 (Gov. Msg. No. 1252). |
| SB2901 | Pass | Amends or deletes statutes containing federal requirements that are addressed in Hawaii Administrative Rules or are unnecessary. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-06-26
Act 142, 6/24/2014 (Gov. Msg. No. 1245). |
