| HB544 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the University of Hawaii board of regents to study the feasibility of selling or leasing the building that houses the University of Hawaii Cancer Center, or leasing or selling the underlying land. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-24
Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to WAM. |
| HCR53 | Engross
Sine Die | Requesting The United States Congress To Convene A Constitutional Convention To Propose A Constitutional Amendment To Overturn The United States Supreme Court's Decision In Citizens United V. Federal Election Commission.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| HB1086 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires LRB to update its 1985 study on environmental reorganization for Hawaii and assess the feasibility of implementing the findings and recommendations of the 1992 department of environmental protection task force. Makes an appropriation. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to WAM. |
| HB766 | Engross
Sine Die | Makes an appropriation for the construction of micro apartment housing units. (HB766 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Report adopted; Passed Second Reading and referred to WAM. |
| HB810 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the P4C Program of the University of Hawaii Uehiro Academy for Philosophy and Ethics in Education and for teachers of the Department of Education to train with the P4C Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB906 | Engross
Sine Die | Ensures that certain eligible housing projects will remain affordable for certain minimum periods to be certified for exemption from general excise taxes. (HB906 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Report adopted; Passed Second Reading and referred to WAM. |
| HB1087 | Engross
Sine Die | Changes the amount of the barrel tax deposited into the Environmental Response Revolving Fund from 5 cents per barrel to an unspecified amount to support environmental activities and programs. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to WAM. |
| HB141 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the exemption from the civil service laws for personal services contracts for building, custodial, and grounds maintenance services with qualified community rehabilitation programs at a cost of no more than $850,000 by specifying that the $850...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-20
Report adopted; Passed Second Reading and referred to WAM. |
| HB264 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the PUC to establish a process for the creation of integrated energy districts. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-20
Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to CPN. |
| HB385 | Engross
Sine Die | Increases the minimum age in which one can purchase any tobacco product or electronic smoking device from 18 to 21 years of age. Prohibits the sale or furnishing of tobacco, tobacco products, and electronic smoking devices to persons under 21 years o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-19
The recommendation was not adopted. |
| HB1403 | Engross
Sine Die | Mandates the Department of Agriculture to establish a little fire ant Pesticide Treatment Coupon Pilot Project and site map.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-19
The committee on ENE deferred the measure. |
| HB1176 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits doctors and podiatrists from prescribing more than three sequential thirty-day prescriptions totaling a ninety-day supply of a schedule II controlled substance. Prohibits refills of a schedule III controlled substance more than five times. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-19
The committee on CPN deferred the measure. |
| HB484 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires PUC to establish community-based renewable energy tariff or tariffs by no later than January 1, 2016, to allow more utility customers to participate in renewable energy production and use. Prohibits cost-shifting to non-participants. (HB484 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-19
The committee on CPN deferred the measure. |
| HB1185 | Engross
Sine Die | Proposes to amend the State Constitution by requiring the first principal installment of general obligation bonds and reimbursable general obligation bonds to mature not later than one year from the date of issuance. (HB1185 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-19
The committee on JDL deferred the measure. |
| HB1147 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a two-year pilot emergency services failsafe program to assist physicians and patients in obtaining a second medical opinion regarding diagnosis and treatment. Authorizes the Department of Health to convene a committee to create a forum r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-18
The committee on HTH deferred the measure. |
| HB1188 | Engross
Sine Die | Changes appropriations of money in the Hawaii tobacco settlement fund to set dollar amounts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-18
The committee on HTH deferred the measure. |
| HB155 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the department of accounting and general services to develop a Wailuku state office master plan to address the shortage of space in the Wailuku state office building and old courthouse building. Makes an appropriation. (HB155 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-18
Report adopted; Passed Second Reading and referred to WAM. |
| HB1384 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires additional Land Use Commission review for permit plan applications for wind turbines with over 100 kilowatt capacity and located within three-quarters of a mile of residential, school, hospital, or business property lines. (HB1384 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-18
To Senate Energy and Environment Committee |
| HB443 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates moneys for the office of planning and LUC to update agricultural soil classification system and maps. (HB443 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-18
The committee on WTL deferred the measure. |
| HB749 | Engross
Sine Die | Imposes on wholesalers and dealers a beach clean-up cigarette fee per cigarette sold, used, or possessed. Establishes and allocates moneys generated to the Beach Clean-Up Special Fund for litter removal from beach land.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-17
The committee on CPN deferred the measure. |
| HB1422 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires providers of service contracts and the obligors of service contract buyback agreements to disclose to contract holders that a claim against the contract voids the contract holder's right to a full refund. (HB1422 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-17
The committee on CPN deferred the measure. |
| HB759 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires DOE and DAGS, in consultation with the State Energy Office of DBEDT and Hawaii Natural Energy Institute of UH, to develop a cooling master strategy and comprehensive retrofitting study for public schools and to report findings to the Legisla...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-17
To Senate Education Committee |
| HB1089 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires motor vehicle safety inspections to be conducted every two years rather than annually for vehicles registered in a county with a population of three hundred thousand or less. (HB1089 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-17
The committee on CPN deferred the measure. |
| HB1293 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifies that the real property tax exemption for property owned as a primary home covers persons who own, but cannot occupy in, the primary home due to a serious medical condition; provided that they do not rent or lease out that property. (HB1293 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-17
The committee on CPN deferred the measure. |
| HB1230 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes an interagency working group to create a comprehensive plan to transfer the Department of Accounting and General Services's personnel and functions related to neighbor island public schools, to the Department of Education. (HB1230 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-17
To Senate Education Committee |
| HB485 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires DLNR to develop individual emergency response plans for natural and non-natural emergencies that threaten small boat harbors under DLNR jurisdiction. (HB485 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-16
The committee on WTL deferred the measure. |
| HB613 | Engross
Sine Die | Limits and controls the ways in which a computer service provider working with the DOE can use student data. (HB613 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-16
The committee on EDU deferred the measure. |
| HB314 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the use of: (1) Any advertising device or billboard erected, placed, or maintained upon a county office building if erected, placed, or maintained by authority of the county agency, department, or officer; and (2) Any outdoor advertising d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-16
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HB854 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires hotels to distribute porterage service charges to employees in full or disclose to customers that the charges are being used for other purposes. (HB854 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-16
The committee(s) on TSI deleted the measure from the public hearing scheduled on 03-18-15 2:45PM in conference room 225. |
| HB437 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the natural resource goals of the Aloha+ Challenge. (HB437 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-13
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HB886 | Engross
Sine Die | Extends the high-earner income tax brackets established pursuant to Act 60, Session Laws of Hawaii 2009 by an additional five years. Raises the income tax credits provided to low-income households by the refundable food/excise tax credit and low-inco...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-12
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB867 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the director of finance to issue general obligation bonds to support the Pacific international space center for exploration systems' basalt rebar initiative, including construction of a basalt rebar plant and engineering assessments of the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-12
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HB1468 | Engross
Sine Die | Removes the authorization granted to the public utilities commission to establish a regulatory structure for the installation and implementation of an interisland high-voltage electric transmission cable system. (HB1468 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-12
To Senate Energy and Environment Committee |
| HB152 | Engross
Sine Die | Adopts Uniform Partition of Heirs Property Act. Establishes procedures and remedies for use in actions for partition of real property involving heirs property (real property held in tenancy in common that meets certain requirements). (HB152 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-12
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HB722 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a Lipoa point management council in DLNR for the development of Lipoa point. Appropriates moneys for land surveyor services, maintenance services, and development of a master plan for Lipoa point. (HB722 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-12
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HB493 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for a permanent full-time director (1.0 FTE) and permanent full-time faculty specialist position (1.0 FTE) within the University of Hawaii Center on Aging. (HB493 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-12
To Senate Human Services and Housing Committee |
| HB95 | Engross
Sine Die | Replaces the running start program and jump start program with dual credit program; amends definition of "eligible student" to include all high school students; replaces standardized test to determine college readiness with an assessment approved by ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-12
To Senate Education Committee |
| HB210 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu for the Career Criminal Prosecution Unit and Victim Witness Assistance Program. (HB210 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-12
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HB999 | Engross
Sine Die | Exempts from the Transient Accommodations Tax, accommodations provided solely for use as temporary lodging by an individual, or the individual's immediate family members, spouse, or civil union partner while the individual is receiving health care se...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-12
To Senate Tourism and International Affairs Committee |
| HB1393 | Engross
Sine Die | Expands the types of energy generation and distribution devices that could make certain electric utility customers eligible for net energy metering. Defines "renewable energy generation and distribution device". (HB1393 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-12
To Senate Energy and Environment Committee |
| HB1179 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides for annual adjustments to the Hawaii standard deduction, income tax rate brackets, and personal exemption in response to increases in inflation as documented by the U.S. Department of Labor Consumer Price Index. Requires DOTAX to submit a re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-12
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB813 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifies the fair treatment law by separating out certain limitations placed on task force members from those placed on legislators. Makes clear that legislators are not prohibited from making statements or taking action in the exercise of their leg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-12
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| HB96 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the Office of the Ombuds at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Appropriates funds to establish and operate the office. (HB96 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-12
To Senate Higher Education and the Arts Committee |
| HB401 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides that all applicants for a new or renewed driver's license, provisional license, instructional permit, or civil identification card must either clearly decline to register to vote or fill out the voter affidavit on their application before th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-12
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| HB1404 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the county of Hawaii office of the prosecuting attorney for the career criminal prosecution unit and victim witness assistance program. (HB1404 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-12
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HB1098 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the Commissioner of Financial Institutions to make adjustments to the collection of fees for the Mortgage Loan Recovery Fund without regard to chapter 91, HRS, to better maintain the intended $750,000 balance in the Mortgage Loan Recovery ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-12
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HB1154 | Engross
Sine Die | Increases the state vehicle registration fee, with proceeds to be deposited into the Disability and Communication Access Board Special Fund to cover the costs of administering the parking program for persons with disabilities. (HB1154 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-12
To Senate Transportation Committee |
| HB376 | Engross
Sine Die | Specifies that the Chief Election Officer is an at-will employee. Requires Elections Commission to provide notice and reason for removal of a Chief Election Officer. Requires a performance evaluation of the Chief Election Officer after a general elec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-12
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| HB1102 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires DOTAX to conduct a study on modernizing the state tax collection system and submit a report to the legislature. (HB1102 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-12
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB866 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a mortgage license exemption for sellers of real property who offer or negotiate terms of a residential mortgage loan secured by the seller's own real property for which the seller is the mortgagee; provided that the seller provides three...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-12
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
