| HB2288 | Intro
Sine Die | Allocates an unspecified amount of the Corporation Income Tax collected each year for five years to the Hawaii Strategic Development Corporation Revolving Fund for the HI Growth Initiative, an investment program to develop an ecosystem to support hig...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2253 | Intro
Sine Die | Expands access to opioid antagonists to prevent drug-overdose fatalities. Establishes the Overdose Prevention and Emergency Response Act. (HB2253 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB1579 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the office of elections to join the Electronic Registration Information Center and share information with counties to encourage voter participation and ensure integrity of voter registration rolls. Appropriates moneys.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1640 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to establish a stipend program for qualified individuals currently enrolled in job training programs. Requires the Hawaii Public Housing Authority to establish a program to offer insurance pol...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB1647 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the number of district judges in the second judicial circuit by one.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1641 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the examiner of drivers to include information about a person's disability on the person's driver's license or civil identification card.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
To House Health Committee |
| HB2601 | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
To House Tourism Committee |
| HB2248 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies procedures to amend condominium association declarations and bylaws.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB1803 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires motor vehicles to be operated on public highways during daylight hours with the daytime running lights on. Requires motor vehicles not equipped with daytime running lights to be operated on public highways during daylight hours with the head...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB2583 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires principals to consult with teachers and school community councils when expending moneys provided to their schools. Requires the weighted student formula to include a superintendent's reserve to address needs at unique and remote schools. Gra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
To House Education Committee |
| HB2619 | Intro
Sine Die | Gives the Real Estate Commission enforcement powers over planned community associations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB2185 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes an income tax credit for taxpayers who practice carbon farming for agricultural purposes on property located in agricultural districts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HB2515 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies that when a unit owner and association reach a payment plan to cure a nonjudicial foreclosure, completion of the payment plan is required to cure the default. Prohibits an association from converting unpaid fines into fees that may cause a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB1929 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the director of health to recruit board-certified forensic health care professionals, including those from other states. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
The committee(s) on HLT recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| HB2529 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for emergency medical services for North Kona.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
To House Health Committee |
| HB2765 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires pest control operators to contact an expert prior to terminating a honey bee colony to determine whether the colony can be safely removed and transported.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HB1875 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates moneys to the Department of Health for FY 2016-2017 for a 24-hour, 7-days-a-week, ambulance unit for the County of Kauai.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
To House Health Committee |
| HB1817 | Intro
Sine Die | Permits owners in a planned community association or condominium to submit a payment plan within thirty days after receiving notice from an association regarding any delinquent assessments and provides owners with time to cure delinquent assessments....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB1876 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the department of health to require dementia training for caregivers. Requires the department to establish training criteria and annually review the training program. Takes effect on 6/1/2017.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
To House Health Committee |
| HB1944 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the State's medicaid managed care and fee-for-service programs to cover services provided through telehealth. Specifies medical professional liability insurance policy requirements with regard to telehealth coverage. Clarifies requirements f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
The committee(s) on HLT recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| HB2633 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes product labeling standards for products purporting to be Hawaiian sea salt or alaea salt.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB1675 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits teachers and persons who are licensed to provide professional counseling from engaging in or advertising sexual orientation change efforts on students and persons under eighteen years of age.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
To House Health Committee |
| HB2487 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires an electronic benefits cardholder to present photo identification for certain transactions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB2710 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the UH John A. Burns school of medicine to monitor and research issues related to medical marijuana dispensaries. Appropriates moneys.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
To House Health Committee |
| HB2325 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes various updates to title 24, Hawaii Revised Statutes, including: requiring property insurers to establish catastrophe reserve funds; requiring an insurer seeking to discontinue writing property coverage to file an affidavit; requiring the Insur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB1952 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a dispute resolution process by which a dispute for a bill for emergency services or a surprise bill may be resolved. Specifies disclosure requirements for health care professionals and health care facilities, including estimated costs fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
To House Health Committee |
| HB2608 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires registration of check cashers, requires bond, requires verification that customer has only one deferred deposit agreement outstanding at any time, allows extended payment plan by customer, increases investigatory and enforcement powers, and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB2214 | Intro
Sine Die | Simplifies the process for an entity to become an authorizer (an entity that approves or denies applications to become a charter school). Establishes a shortened timeline for the release of charter school funds. Authorizes charter schools to retain a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
To House Education Committee |
| HB1617 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the state director of finance to annually transfer general funds to the counties to fund lifeguard and emergency medical services personnel positions in the counties. Repeals the emergency medical services special fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
To House Health Committee |
| HB1775 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires information on organ and tissue donation to be included in the curriculum for the statewide driver education program and behind-the-wheel driver training program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
To House Health Committee |
| HB2531 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Hawaii public housing authority to document violations related to prohibited acts of smoking. Defines the term "violation" as it relates to prohibited acts of smoking in and around public housing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
To House Health Committee |
| HB1953 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes public sector employees and volunteers who may have been exposed to a communicable disease through contact with bodily fluids in the course of their duties to petition a court for an order requiring testing of the person or decedent who is...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
To House Health Committee |
| HB2702 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases TAT. Requires distribution of one-half of TAT revenue collections to each county based on the proportion of TAT revenues generated by each county. Reduces the general excise tax rate for gross proceeds received on the sale of food or on the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
To House Tourism Committee |
| HB1896 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes pharmacists to prescribe and dispense contraceptive supplies to persons eighteen years of age or older. Specifies requirements pharmacists must meet prior to prescribing and dispensing contraceptive supplies. Requires all insurers in the S...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
The committee(s) on HLT recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| HB2641 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Human Services to create a domestic violence call sheet with a domestic violence legal hotline number and shelter hotline number. Requires both the Department of Human Services and the Department of Labor and Industrial Rel...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2001 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a Commission on Criminal Justice and Sentencing Reform in the Governor's Office. Requires the Commission to develop a statewide framework of sentencing and corrections policies to further reduce the State's incarcerated population by an u...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2246 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a seven-year limit on tenants in state low-income housing projects. Prohibits state low-income housing units from being passed along from one individual to another. Requires unemployed tenants who live in state low-income housing to perfo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
To House Human Services Committee |
| HB1686 | Intro
Sine Die | Defines "imminently dangerous to self or others" to mean that, without intervention, the person will likely remain dangerous to the person's self or others within the next ninety days. (HB1686 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HCR39 | Intro
Sine Die | Requesting The Department Of Transportation To Convene A Task Force To Work Towards The Goal Of Erecting Ahupuaa Boundary Marker Signage On All Islands Of Hawaii.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB2096 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes an attorney's duty to report the unauthorized practice of law despite any applicable privilege.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB1782 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a sexual abuse prevention instructional program for public schools modeled after Erin's law. Sets out guidelines of instruction. (HB1782 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
To House Education Committee |
| HB2368 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires employers to keep a record of the physical addresses of the employer and the North American Industry Classification System code applicable to the employer; deletes anachronistic provision pertaining to insurance plan information. Takes effec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee |
| HB2573 | Intro
Sine Die | Prevents the Public Utilities Commission from approving power purchase agreements that prohibit the sale of energy to third parties or require the utility consent to the sale of energy to third parties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HB2547 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the increased access to responsible small dollar loans pilot program, within the department of commerce and consumer affairs division of financial institutions, to increase the availability of responsible small dollar investment loans of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
To House Economic Development & Business Committee |
| HB2592 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds to assist Pelatron Power Evolution LLC with the development of renewable energy power plants within the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HB1931 | Intro
Sine Die | Reduces the minimum Hawaiian blood quantum requirement of certain successors to lessees of Hawaiian home lands from one-quarter to one thirty-second. (HB1931 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB1824 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates moneys to the University of Hawaii College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources for the restoration and preservation of historic relief maps of the Hawaiian Islands. (HB1824 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2130 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that informal adjustment shall be prioritized over formal action for a child under family court jurisdiction solely as a result of truancy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2178 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to employ and retain independent counsel. (HB2178 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2498 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a homeless care residence program to provide financial assistance to households providing temporary housing and care to a homeless relative. Requires that providers undergo certification and inspection by the department of human services ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
To House Human Services Committee |
