| 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 |
| HB335 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposes an amendment to the Hawaii state constitution that would repeal the state educational facilities improvement special fund's exemption from the requirement that moneys appropriated from the fund be lapsed after 3 years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-26
To House Education Committee |
| HB312 | Intro
Sine Die | Defines and regulates electric bicycles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-26
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB366 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the threshold value of property or services from $300 to $400 under the offense of theft in the second degree.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-26
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB29 | Intro
Sine Die | Changes to 25 per cent the maximum number of berths at Ala Wai Boat Harbor that may be used by recreational boaters as places of principal habitation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-26
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HB37 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for fiscal year 2015-2016 for the department of public safety to build and operate a new medium-security correctional facility.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-26
To House Public Safety Committee |
| SB292 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for the submission of a question regarding a constitutional convention to be placed on the ballot for the 2016 general election.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-26
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB449 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals task force member exemptions to certain conflict of interest and disclosure prohibitions of the State's code of ethics. Clarifies that all task force members must file annual disclosures of financial interests. Makes task force member disclos...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-26
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB574 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds the mouth and nose of a family or household member to the types of body parts on which pressure that is applied to intentionally or knowingly impede normal breathing or blood circulation shall constitute abuse of a family or household member as ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-26
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB173 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows UH and the community colleges to waive tuition for spouses and children of totally disabled veterans and active or reserve members of the armed forces who were killed in action.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-26
To Senate Higher Education and the Arts Committee |
| HB198 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies county zoning by allowing amortization or phasing out of nonconforming single-family transient vacation rentals over a reasonable period of time.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-26
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HB341 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a time limitation for filing habeas corpus complaints and post-conviction judicial proceedings. Limits basis for successive complaints.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-26
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB409 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the office of the legislative analyst to create fiscal impact statements for certain bills that have a fiscal impact. Makes an appropriation to the office of the legislative analyst.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-26
To House Legislative Management Committee |
| SB590 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates the offenses of cruelty to animals by cockfighting in the first and second degree.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-26
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB430 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the exclusive jurisdiction of the small claims division of the district court over cases in which the amount claimed is $1,000 or less. Expands the small claims division's jurisdiction over personal property cases to include any personal ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-26
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB241 | Intro
Sine Die | Enacts the statute to implement the constitutional provision on impeachment by establishing qualifying causes, manner, and procedures for impeachment of the governor, lieutenant governor, and appointive officers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-26
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| HB303 | Intro
Sine Die | Short form bill relating to land use.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-26
To House Water & Land Committee |
| SB188 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the definition of "drug" for OVUII violations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-26
To Senate Transportation Committee |
| HB177 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends procedures for nominating and electing a U.S. senator to complete an unexpired term after a vacancy occurs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-26
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB374 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires DOT to contract for a study on the feasibility of establishing a harbor or port at Kapoho bay.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-26
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB491 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes an appropriation to the department of health to implement the recommendations of the task force on mobility management, established pursuant to Act 214, Session Laws of Hawaii 2013.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-26
To House Health Committee |
| HB251 | Intro
Sine Die | Adopts the interstate compact on prescription monitoring.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-26
To House Health Committee |
| HB42 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the elections commission to conduct a performance evaluation of the chief election officer after each election and submit a written report regarding the evaluation to the legislature.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-26
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB186 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals task force member exemptions to certain conflict of interest and disclosure prohibitions of the State's code of ethics. Clarifies that all task force members must file annual disclosures of financial interests. Makes task force member disclos...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-26
To House Legislative Management Committee |
| HB317 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the definition of "board" to exclude neighborhood boards.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-26
To House Judiciary Committee |
