| HB2423 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds to assist Keahole Management Group, LLC, with planning, designing, constructing, and equipping facilities for the manufacturing and processing of products.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-01
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HB2660 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the definition of vexatious litigant by altering criteria based upon the amount of civil actions brought during a period of time.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-01
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2109 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies that any person that violates: (1) section 183-17, HRS, (timber trespass in forest reserves) shall be guilty of a misdemeanor; or (2) a provision of part II of chapter 183, HRS, (forest reserves) or any rule adopted pursuant thereto, other ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-01
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HB2443 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows the building of ohana dwellings on lands within an agricultural district under certain conditions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-01
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HB2504 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes automobile insurance requirements for transportation network companies and persons who operate or serve as drivers for transportation network companies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-01
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB2441 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposes a constitutional amendment to allow for the recall of public officials.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-01
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2719 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides immunity for individuals and harm reduction organizations who prescribe, possess, or administer an opioid antagonist such as naloxone hydrochloride to prevent opioid-related drug overdoses. Authorizes emergency personnel and first responders...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-01
To House Health Committee |
| HB2483 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Transportation to conduct a study on the capacity and utilization of the zipper lane.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-01
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB2615 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates a deferred deposit lending database program in DCCA to assist a deferred deposit lender in determining the eligibility of a potential borrower of a deferred deposit loan. Makes an appropriation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-01
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB2751 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the misdemeanor offense of evading law enforcement.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-01
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2447 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires a cable operator to disclose the minimum average bandwidth that shall be provided and maximum bandwidth available.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-01
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB2532 | Intro
Sine Die | Protects the free exercise of religious beliefs and moral convictions by prohibiting the State from taking any discriminatory action against a person based on the person's sincerely held religious belief or moral conviction. Provides a cause of actio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-01
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2552 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates a comprehensive public funding program for candidates for election to the state House of Representatives. Repeals those candidates' eligibility for partial public funding under the existing partial public funding program. Appropriates funds t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-01
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2725 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes issuance of general obligation bonds and appropriates moneys for capital improvement projects in the 42nd representative district.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-01
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2579 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the driver of a slow-moving motor vehicle on a two-lane highway where passing or overtaking is unsafe or not permitted to pull over at the nearest reasonable and safe location to allow other motor vehicles to overtake the driver if five or m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-01
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB2624 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the definitions of "dealer", "retailer", "wholesale price" and "wholesaler" to include electronic smoking devices and e-liquid. Establishes definitions for "disposable electronic smoking device", "electronic smoking device", "eliquid", and "re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-01
To House Health Committee |
| HB2667 | Intro
Sine Die | Reduces the corporate income tax rate by fifty per cent. Allocates fifty per cent of corporate income tax revenues to DBEDT and fifty per cent to the general fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-01
To House Economic Development & Business Committee |
| HB2690 | Intro
Sine Die | Beginning with the 2017-2018 school year, requires all elementary, middle, and intermediate public schools to allocate 20 percent of all student hours to arts and culture education.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-01
To House Education Committee |
| HB2759 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes DOE students to decline to dissect animals. Requires schools to provide an alternative to students who have declined.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-01
To House Education Committee |
| HB2500 | Intro
Sine Die | Short form bill relating to dams and reservoirs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-01
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HB2654 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes Molokai irrigation system water users advisory board members to designate an agent, officer, or employee. Removes requirement that members be an active general excise tax licensee.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-01
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HB2479 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the Hawaii Health Connector and associated references in the Hawaii Revised Statutes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-01
To House Health Committee |
| HB2682 | Intro
Sine Die | Redefines "common elements" and "limited common elements". Makes statutory definitions of "common elements" and "limited common elements" supersede the necessity of restating the declaration and bylaws. Requires a vote or written consent of the owner...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-01
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB2653 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects for the benefit of the 13th representative district.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-01
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2562 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds to assist Bikeshare Hawaii develop a bikeshare system in the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-01
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB2761 | Intro
Sine Die | Specifies the criteria to be used for evaluating conservation district use applications submitted by public agencies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-01
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HB2509 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to train and deputize volunteer investigators investigating public work projects. Requires the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to submit reports. Appropriates moneys.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-01
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee |
| HB2589 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals certain maximum dollar amounts that limit the distribution among certain non-general funds from the conveyance tax. Requires that twenty-five per cent of conveyance tax revenues be distributed to the natural area reserve fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-01
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HB2549 | Intro
Sine Die | Includes the Director of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism as a permanent member on the Broadband Assistance Advisory Council. Ensures a member from each county is represented through appointment on the council. Authorizes the chair of the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-01
To House Economic Development & Business Committee |
| HB2557 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies that the use of sirens by a driver of an emergency vehicle is discretionary and must follow the best practices of the driver's profession.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-01
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB2421 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to research the interaction of the Hawaiian coot, moorhen, nene goose, stilt, and duck with agricultural practices and publish an annual report in a format that assists the agricultural industry i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-01
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HB2514 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires payment, from the Criminal Forfeiture Fund, of attorneys' fees to individuals that successfully recovered property forfeited to the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-01
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2580 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the DOH to conduct a one-year pilot project for sepsis education and awareness. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2016.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-01
To House Health Committee |
| HB2578 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires motor vehicle safety inspections to be conducted every two years rather than annually.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-01
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB2713 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a K-12 agriculture workforce development pipeline initiative in DLIR to conduct training sessions for teachers and school administrators on agricultural self-sufficiency. Appropriates funds to support the initiative.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-01
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee |
| HB2536 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a state lottery commission to implement a lottery, the proceeds of which would be used to address homelessness. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-01
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2553 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Agribusiness Development Corporation to prepare for the closure of the HC&S thirty-six thousand-acre sugar plantation on Maui by, among other things, monitoring the closure; identifying suitable lands for acquisition by the State; and in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-01
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HB2731 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the general excise tax from four per cent to five per cent and requires that additional revenue collected from the general excise tax increase be deposited into a special account in the general fund for department of education operations, i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-01
To House Education Committee |
| HB2522 | Intro
Sine Die | Expands the base of the vehicle-related fees and taxes that motor vehicle lessors may pass on to lessees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-01
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB2556 | Intro
Sine Die | Transfers the management of Mauna Kea lands back to DLNR. Establishes the office of Mauna Kea Management in DLNR and the Mauna Kea management commission within the office.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-01
To House Higher Education Committee |
| HB2637 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates moneys for capital improvement projects in the 41st representative district.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-01
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2425 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires each county police chief to adopt criteria for the approval or denial of concealed weapon license applications. Requires an applicant to be informed of the specific reason for a denial. Requires annual reports.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-01
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2462 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds and appropriates funds for the installation of air conditioning in all public schools in the State over 5 fiscal years. Establishes a special fund to be used to reimburse the general fund for paymen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-01
To House Education Committee |
| HB2599 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes an income tax exemption on the first $10,000 of income derived from tips received by a tipped employee.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-01
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee |
| HB2584 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes an on-farm mentoring program to teach and train farmers to utilize a whole farm system approach to agriculture. Appropriates funds as a grant for existing on-farm mentoring programs and a pilot on-farm mentoring program in Maui.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-01
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HB2752 | Intro
Sine Die | Limits dwellings and employee housing on agricultural land to farmers and immediate family members. Establishes standards for dwellings and employee housing on agricultural land.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-01
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HB2551 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes an income tax credit for taxpayers who incur certain expenses for manufacturing products in Hawaii. Applies to taxable years beginning after December 31, 2016. Sunsets January 1, 2023.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-01
To House Economic Development & Business Committee |
| HB2609 | Intro
Sine Die | Mandates the enrollment of certain drug offenders into the Judiciary's substance abuse treatment program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-01
To House Public Safety Committee |
| HB2766 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that DLNR shall be immune from liability for any civil action that arises from an act or omission that occurs during the process of conducting rockfall mitigation activities on public lands.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-01
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HB2572 | Intro
Sine Die | Eliminates the use of coal as a fuel for electricity generation by 2023 by prohibiting the approval of such power purchase agreements and recovery of such power purchase costs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-01
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
