| HB520 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows the Director of the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to establish workforce advisory boards. (HB520 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-10
Recommitted to FIN with none voting no and none excused. |
| HB864 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends insurance coverage for in vitro fertilization to allow for expanded applicability. (HB864 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-10
Recommitted to CPC with none voting no and Representative(s) Cachola, Creagan, Hashem, Ichiyama excused. |
| HB684 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires employers to implement workplace procedures to prevent unlawful discrimination and harassment in the workplace. (HB684 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-06
The committee(s) on JUD recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| HB1507 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a working group to study methods to reduce the use of all disposable bags. (HB1507 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-06
The committee(s) on CPC recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| HB228 | Intro
Sine Die | Reduces the maximum fee a check casher may charge under a payday loan agreement for deferring the deposit of a check from 15 to percent of the face value of the check. (HB228 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-04
The committee(s) on FIN recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| HB760 | Intro
Sine Die | Changes the State's automatic deduction of the gross proceeds of a county's surcharge on state tax for mass transit to three per cent to reimburse the State for costs associated with handling of the county surcharge on state tax. Requires an annual r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-04
The committee(s) on FIN recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| HB945 | Intro
Sine Die | Extends the date by which the Department of Health must post inspection reports for state-licensed care facilities by six months and increases the number of days to post the reports, as recommended by a legislative task force.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-04
The committee(s) on HLT recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| HB275 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes provisions for condominium association annual meetings and quorum requirements. Permits the board of an association to employ and discharge the managing agent of an association, subject to a vote of a majority of the unit owners at an ass...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-04
The committee(s) on CPC recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| HB591 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the interagency climate adaptation committee to assist with coordinating the implementation of climate change policies developed by county, state, and federal agencies. Requires the committee to prepare public health vulnerability and adapta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-04
The committee(s) on HLT recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| SB679 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposes an amendment to the Hawaii State Constitution guaranteeing that victims of crime and their surviving immediate family members have specific rights related to information pertaining to and participation in the criminal justice process.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-04
The committee on JDL deferred the measure. |
| HB320 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals deadline for counties electing to establish a county surcharge on state tax to pass an ordinance to enact the surcharge. Increases maximum rate of surcharge from 0.5% to 1%. Allows counties with a population of 500,000 or less to use proceeds...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-04
The committee(s) on FIN recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| SB1210 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows more than two members of a board to discuss official board business as long as no commitment to vote is made and the number of members do not constitute a quorum of the board.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-03
The committee on JDL deferred the measure. |
| SB1240 | Intro
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 the requirement that appointments to the University of Hawaii board of reg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-03
The committee on JDL deferred the measure. |
| SB346 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits certain large vehicles of more than 10,000 pounds from being driven on the far left lane of any roadway having three or more lanes, with certain exceptions. Establishes a fifty-five mile per hour speed limit for trucks having a gross vehicl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-03
The committee on TRA deferred the measure. |
| SB1334 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows law enforcement officers to cause to be towed a motor vehicle if the operator is arrested or cited for various alcohol-related traffic offenses. Adds an exception for community caretaking. Provides definition of "community caretaking". (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-03
The committee on JDL deferred the measure. |
| HB873 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes an aquatic life conservation program in the Division of Aquatic Resources to implement conservation measures, including limited entry areas and certification requirements, to regulate the collection of fish and other aquatic life for aqua...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-03
The committee(s) on JUD recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| SB1332 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes an additional sanction available to the judiciary prior to full parole revocation. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-03
The committee on JDL deferred the measure. |
| SB242 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows electronic copies, as an alternative to printed copies, of a bill to be made available for members of a house in which the bill is being voted upon for third or final reading in fulfillment of the 48-hour availability requirement.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-03
The committee on JDL deferred the measure. |
| HB1248 | Intro
Sine Die | Mandates instead of permits a family court to terminate the parental rights to any child of a natural parent if the natural parent is convicted of rape or sexual assault and that rape or sexual assault resulted in the conception of the child.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-03
The committee(s) on JUD recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| HB1339 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates administrative penalties for any person who knowingly captures, kills, or takes any shark or manta ray within state marine waters. Provides exemptions for native Hawaiian gathering rights and cultural practices, research purposes, and public ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-03
The committee(s) on JUD recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| HB1213 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to set criteria for independent contractor status and when that status is presumed. Establishes certification procedures. Places the burden of proving an employee-employer relationship on the ce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-02
The committee(s) on CPC/JUD recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| HB25 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits discrimination in the rental of real property based on lawful source of income. (HB25 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-02
The committee(s) on CPC/JUD recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| SB832 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows a public charter school student who has been notified of the prospect of charter revocation or nonrenewal or school closure to enroll in a school outside of the student's service area.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-02
The committee on WAM deferred the measure. |
| SB970 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows a portion of conveyance tax revenues dedicated to the rental housing trust fund to be monetized to increase the amount of funding for the rental housing trust fund. Authorizes the issuance of revenue bonds to finance the rental housing trust f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-02
The committee on WAM deferred the measure. |
| SB1245 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to continue administration of the Hawaii home visiting program, a hospital-based early identification designed to enhance health and safety outcomes and prevent child abuse and neglect, and ensure continuation of home visiting serv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-02
The committee on WAM deferred the measure. |
| HB1194 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals provision requiring counties to adopt ordinances regulating agricultural tourism as a precondition for allowing agricultural tourism activities in an agricultural district. Allows agricultural commerce, rather than agricultural tourism, in an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-02
The committee(s) on CPC/JUD recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| SB935 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that a driver's license issued to a person who is an unspecified years of age or older, at the time of issuance, shall expire on the licensee's unspecified birthday, or two years from the date of license issuance, whichever is later in time....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-27
The committee on JDL deferred the measure. |
| SB906 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires HCDA to schedule a public information meeting to present the developer's project proposal and requests for modifications or variances. Amends the deadline to intervene in a proceeding to accept a developer's proposal to twenty days after the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-27
The committee on JDL deferred the measure. |
| SB803 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires a workers' compensation impartial exam to be conducted by a doctor whose specialty is appropriate for the injury to be examined in cases where the director of labor and industrial relations appoints a doctor to conduct an exam. Appropriates ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-27
The committee on WAM deferred the measure. |
| SB1272 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides a temporary income tax credit for the cost of converting a cesspool to a septic system or an aerobic treatment unit system or connecting a cesspool to a sewer system. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-27
The committee on WAM deferred the measure. |
| SB1298 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates moneys in fiscal year 2016-2017 to the office of elections, senate, and house of representatives for duties needed to be undertaken to enable registered voters to vote at the 2016 general election on state constitutional amendments propo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-27
The committee on WAM deferred the measure. |
| SB248 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the expenditure of trust funds for the compensation, including fringe benefits, of public employees and contracts for services to be subject to appropriation and allotment. Effective 01/07/2059. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-27
The committee on WAM deferred the measure. |
| SB497 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the privacy exemption within the Uniform Information Practices Act for county police department officers. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-27
The committee on JDL deferred the measure. |
| SB249 | Intro
Sine Die | Beginning with fiscal year 2016-2017, requires reimbursements from a non-general or federal fund to the general fund for the annual required contribution made for state employees and retirees whose compensation is or was paid from the non-general or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-27
The committee on WAM deferred the measure. |
| HB211 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates moneys to the department of the prosecuting attorney of the city and county of Honolulu for the Honolulu family justice center.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-27
The committee(s) on FIN recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| SB498 | Intro
Sine Die | Beginning July 1, 2015, requires that all state and county agency contracts and private entity contracts that include disposal of liquid or solid waste that require disposal in a permitted waste facility to provide a receipt that the waste was receiv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-27
The committee on WAM deferred the measure. |
| SB708 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a civil penalty for possession of one ounce of less of marijuana or marijuana concentrate that is subject to a fine of not more than $100. Makes various conforming amendments to statutes to reflect the establishment of the civil violation...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-26
The committee on JDL deferred the measure. |
| SB640 | 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] | 2015-02-26
The committee on JDL deferred the measure. |
| SB189 | Intro
Sine Die | Reclassifies marijuana from a schedule I to a schedule II controlled substance. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-26
The committee on JDL deferred the measure. |
| HB878 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows reservists and national guard members in active service who desire to run for office to file nomination papers and take their oaths by mail.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-26
The committee(s) on JUD recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| SB666 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that possession of less than one ounce of marijuana shall be a civil rather than criminal offense. Establishes penalties for violations. Provides for enforcement, notice, and adjudication of violations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-26
The committee on JDL deferred the measure. |
| HB12 | Intro
Sine Die | Bars prohibition of student or class participation in a fundraiser or charitable activity in conjunction with a nonprofit organization as part of a school project when participation benefits student learning. Requires the department to take all steps...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-26
The committee(s) on JUD recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| HB556 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Legislative Reference Bureau to conduct a study on the applicability of the state civil service law and collective bargaining to persons employed by the Research Corporation of the University of Hawaii. (HB556 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-26
The committee(s) on FIN recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| SB626 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the scope of action that is permitted by the fair treatment provisions of the ethics code from official action by a legislator to taking action in the exercise of the legislator's legislative functions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-25
The committee on JDL deferred the measure. |
| SB1073 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows agricultural tourism uses or activities, including certain overnight accommodations, conducted in conjunction with a bona fide farming operation, in the agricultural district. Defines bona fide farming operations. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-25
The committee on WTL deferred the measure. |
| HB723 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires activity desks to designate fiduciaries in case of certain business closures and to submit monthly financial reports to DCCA. Exempts from the law certain activity desks that operate without compensation. (HB723 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-25
The committee(s) on CPC recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| SB764 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows the court to instruct the jury that the jury shall consider the prosecution's failure to disclose information or materials as required by the Hawaii rules of penal procedure as relevant in its deliberations to determine whether or not there is...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-25
The committee on JDL deferred the measure. |
| SB599 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the elections commission to remove the chief election officer by a majority vote of a quorum at a meeting of the commission. Provides the chief election officer with a period of notice of the removal before it takes effect.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-25
The committee on JDL deferred the measure. |
| SB637 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposes a constitutional amendment to divest the board of regents of UH from exclusive jurisdiction over internal structure, management, and operations of UH.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-25
The committee on WAM deferred the measure. |
| SB632 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the forfeiture of any property used or taken in any violation of laws or rules that results in a petty misdemeanor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
The committee on JDL deferred the measure. |
