| SB456 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the fireworks display permit fee from $110 to $300.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-26
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HB319 | Intro
Sine Die | Deletes the sunset provision for the liability exception for county lifeguards.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-26
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB418 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the state constitution to provide for direct initiative, popular referendum, and recall.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-26
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB554 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends income tax credit for low-income household renters to adjust for inflation. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2015.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-26
To Senate Human Services and Housing Committee |
| SB466 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the number of members and membership requirements and restrictions for the contractors license board.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-26
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| SB607 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires rental motor vehicle lessors to provide vehicle safety information to a lessee and obtain signed statements from a lessee acknowledging that the lessee received safety information.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-26
To Senate Transportation Committee |
| SB645 | Intro
Sine Die | Excepts from the definition of historic property any private residence that has not been entered, or nominated by the owner of the residence for entry, onto the Hawaii register of historic places. Clarifies that nothing in chapter 6E, Hawaii Revised ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-26
To Senate Higher Education and the Arts Committee |
| HB93 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires agencies, before a public hearing to adopt, amend, or repeal rules, to analyze alternatives and determine that the probable benefits of proposed action outweigh probable costs of proposed action and that the proposed action would not require...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-26
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB260 | Intro
Sine Die | Short form bill relating to insurance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-26
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB161 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the offense of habitually operating a vehicle under the influence of an intoxicant to include operating a vehicle under the influence of an intoxicant after at least one conviction within the previous ten years for habitually operating a motor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-26
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB5 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the environmental council to adopt rules that require all environmental impact statements and environmental assessments include climate change analysis.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-26
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HB416 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the public utilities commission to establish policies and procedures related to retail wheeling to enable independent power producers to sell electricity directly to end users.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-26
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| SB547 | Intro
Sine Die | Places the state foundation on culture and the arts within the department of business, economic development, and tourism creative industries division instead of the department of accounting and general services. Designates the director of business, e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-26
To Senate Higher Education and the Arts Committee |
| HB21 | Intro
Sine Die | Short form bill relating to elections.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-26
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB317 | Intro
Sine Die | Deems a corporation's political activity in any form to constitute an ultra vires act if undertaken without prior shareholder notification and approval.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-26
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| SB517 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires electronic monitoring as a condition of probation for repeat misdemeanor and petty misdemeanor offenders who are not sentenced to incarceration.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-26
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB631 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires annual safety inspections and registration of mopeds. Creates civil penalty and potential for seizure and sale for violation. Prohibits the use of off-road vehicles on roadways and highways. Takes effect on 7/1/2016.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-26
To Senate Transportation Committee |
| HB294 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes an election by mail voting system for all elections beginning with the 2016 primary election.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-26
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB426 | Intro
Sine Die | Short form bill relating to airports.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-26
To House Transportation Committee |
| SB487 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a five-year joint city-state roads-in-limbo pilot project for roadway and street repairs and resurfacing to specified roadways and streets. Places the project under the joint jurisdiction of the state department of transportation and the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-26
To Senate Transportation Committee |
| HB359 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that corrections officers for correctional facilities administered by DPS are eligible for overtime compensation only for work performed in excess of forty hours per week.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-26
To House Public Safety Committee |
| HB75 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that the Senate President and House Speaker be notified in writing upon the receipt of any federal aid money for expenditure by the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-26
To House Finance Committee |
| HB427 | Intro
Sine Die | Short form bill relating to harbors.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-26
To House Transportation Committee |
| SB484 | Intro
Sine Die | Specifies that a government agency does not assume ownership or jurisdiction over a disputed road solely through maintenance or repair activities. Authorizes the State to quitclaim ownership of roads in favor of counties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-26
To Senate Transportation Committee |
| HB489 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that all applicants for a new or renewed driver's license, provisional license, instructional permit, or civil identification card, who are eligible to vote, shall simultaneously be registered to vote, unless the applicant has affirmatively ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-26
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB419 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides a general excise tax exemption for food after December 31, 2019, and for medical services after December 31, 2017.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-26
To House Finance Committee |
| HB59 | Intro
Sine Die | Reduces or eliminates the state income tax liability for taxpayers with a federal adjusted gross income of less than 125% of the federal poverty guidelines set forth each year by the United States Department of Health and Human Services. Applies to t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-26
To House Finance Committee |
| HB383 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes an appropriation for one advanced life support ambulance to be based in Puna on the island of Hawaii and to be used from 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m., and to include a vehicle, equipment, and personnel costs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-26
To House Health Committee |
| SB651 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the statutory procedures regarding ethics code violation charges, filed by a person other than the state ethics commission, by requiring the final disposition to be a matter of public record and the filer of the charge to be informed of the st...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-26
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| HB19 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes permanent the County surcharge on State tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-26
To House Finance Committee |
| SB639 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires restaurants or food establishments to provide consumers with the option of using compostable or reusable disposable food service containers. Requires signs to be posted informing consumers that such containers are available. Establishes pena...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-26
To Senate Energy and Environment Committee |
| SB182 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows veterans to use a U.S. Department of Defense DD Form 214 Uniformed Services or U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Veteran Health photo-ID card as sufficient proof of veteran status for the purpose of notating veteran status on a driver's lice...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-26
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB614 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the 14th senatorial district.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-26
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB386 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Human Services to study and report to the Legislature the costs and benefits of requiring drug testing of public benefit recipients, including comparing the effectiveness and legality of random drug testing versus testing b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-26
To House Human Services Committee |
| HB368 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds and makes an appropriation to the department of public safety for the establishment and implementation of a re-entry facility for criminal offenders, which will include residential and day reporting...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-26
To House Public Safety Committee |
| SB659 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires government agencies and custodians of records of government agencies to have a retention schedule on file with the department of accounting and general services. Requires that retention schedules be updated.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-26
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| HB71 | Intro
Sine Die | Short form bill relating to state programs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-26
To House Finance Committee |
| SB348 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the director of business, economic development, and tourism to adopt rules requiring diesel fuel sold in the State to contain increasing amounts of biodiesel. Requires that all state-owned and -operated on-highway diesel motor vehicles use f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-26
To Senate Energy and Environment Committee |
| SB340 | Intro
Sine Die | Transfers certain fines and forfeitures collected for uncontested traffic infractions to the counties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-26
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB411 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends Act 56, SLH 2014, regarding an industrial hemp research program, to expand the type of research to be conducted, require a test site in each county, and extend the repeal date to 7/1/2018.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-26
To Senate Agriculture Committee |
| SB575 | Intro
Sine Die | Beginning on January 1, 2016, prohibits the sale of personal care products that contain synthetic plastic microbeads, excluding personal care products that contain synthetic plastic microbeads that are less than one part per million by weight, natura...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-26
To Senate Energy and Environment Committee |
| HB80 | Intro
Sine Die | Reclassifies the antitrust trust fund as a special fund and repeals the Hawaii criminal justice commission trust account.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-26
To House Finance Committee |
| HB154 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates the offense of resisting arrest in the first degree as a class C felony. Amends the existing resisting arrest offense to resisting arrest in the second degree.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-26
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB61 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Chief Election Officer to coordinate the preparation of voter education materials for proposed constitutional amendments and to deliver the materials to all registered voters.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-26
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB370 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates money from the University of Hawaii revenue bond fund for renovations, repairs, and improvements to the John A. Burns school of medicine.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-26
To Senate Higher Education and the Arts Committee |
| HB135 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a $1,000 per year fee for accident and health or sickness insurers subject to article 10A of chapter 431, or chapters 432 or 432D, HRS. Specifies that the fee shall be paid through the commissioner to the State of Hawaii health insurance ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-26
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB360 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes PSD to hire private employees as temporary corrections officers as necessary to maintain regular visitation hours for inmates or to otherwise ensure adequate staffing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-26
To House Public Safety Committee |
| SB185 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits any state and county law enforcement agency employee from using a respiratory neck restraint or a vascular neck restraint as a method of force to restrain a person; and defines respiratory neck restraint and vascular neck restraint.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-26
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB642 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that the State or a county that repairs or maintains a street of which the ownership or jurisdiction is in dispute between the State and the county, shall be immune from liability for personal injuries or property damage arising out of the r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-26
To Senate Transportation Committee |
| HB39 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes counties to adopt codes and regulations that would require the installation of residential fire protection sprinkler systems by repealing Act 83, SLH 2012.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-26
To House Housing Committee |
