| HB1985 | Intro
Sine Die | Voids any planned community association restriction on the construction of agricultural buildings on agricultural classified land.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-27
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HB2181 | 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] | 2016-01-27
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB1862 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the violation of leaving a child unattended in a motor vehicle to (1) include domestic animals left unattended in motor vehicles; and (2) expand the immunity from civil liability for first responders who remove unattended children from motor v...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-27
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB1868 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends Act 119, SLH 2015, to clarify the CIP appropriation for Moloaa well and post-harvest facility project qualifies as a grant, pursuant to chapter 42F, HRS.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-27
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2125 | Intro
Sine Die | Expands the types of investment personnel that may be appointed by the ERS. Requires ERS to make direct payments to a spouse of a system member or retirant pursuant to a qualified domestic relations order.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-27
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee |
| HB1837 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposes amendment to article V, section 6, of the state constitution to provide that the Attorney General shall be elected by voters from among nonpartisan candidates, rather than appointed by the Governor with the advice and consent of the Senate.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-27
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB1871 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides a taxpayer who hires an elderly individual a nonrefundable tax credit for the six-month period after the individual is initially hired by the taxpayer.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-27
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee |
| HB2127 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires certain employers with fifty or more employees to provide sick leave to service workers for specified purposes under certain conditions. Defines the terms "service worker" and "employer". Effective 1/1/17.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-27
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee |
| HB2177 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes Korean War veterans of Korea are to have "Veteran" status on their driver's license or civil identification card.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-27
To House Veterans, Military, & International Affairs, & Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HB2241 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the state procurement policy board to perform annual random audits of government purchasing agencies and audits of agencies selected based on a pattern of agency noncompliance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-27
To House Economic Development & Business Committee |
| HB1974 | Intro
Sine Die | Conforms the State personal exemption amount to the federal personal exemption amount.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-27
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1951 | Intro
Sine Die | Defines disposable electronic smoking device, electronic smoking device, e-liquid, and reusable electronic smoking device in the State's cigarette tax and tobacco tax law. Imposes an excise tax on an e-liquid sold by a wholesaler or dealer on or afte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-27
To House Health Committee |
| HB1939 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires all state agencies to obtain the governor's written approval on a request for, amendment to, or supplement to research corporation services for a project.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-27
To House Higher Education Committee |
| HB1936 | Intro
Sine Die | Assesses a fee on a person who attends the Judiciary's driver education and training program as a requirement pursuant to a conviction under federal law or the laws of another state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-27
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2089 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires family court forms for protective orders to define "perjury" and specify criminal penalties. Authorizes family court to award respondent reasonable attorneys' fees and costs if court finds petitioner made any materially false statement of fa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-27
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB1882 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides an annual maximum deduction of $5,000 per individual or $10,000 for a married couple filing jointly for contributions made to the Hawaii college savings program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-27
To House Higher Education Committee |
| HB1885 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a long-term care surcharge on state tax beginning on 1/1/2018 to pay for claims for defined benefits under the long-term care financing program. Makes an appropriation to the department of taxation for costs of implementation and collecti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-27
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1915 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the GET on all intermediary business transactions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-27
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1916 | Intro
Sine Die | A bill to encourage economic growth by repealing the corporate income tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-27
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2070 | Intro
Sine Die | Grants tuition waivers to students at the community colleges who meet certain criteria.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-27
To House Higher Education Committee |
| HB1903 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a law enforcement standards board for the certification of county police officers, state public safety officers, and employees of the departments of transportation and land and natural resources with police powers. Establishes a special f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-27
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2206 | Intro
Sine Die | Short form bill relating to collective bargaining.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-27
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee |
| HB1921 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Hawaii housing finance and development corporation to establish affordable micro-unit housing and congregate housing residences throughout the State. Allows the private sector to develop micro-unit housing and congregate housing residenc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-27
To House Housing Committee |
| HB2000 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the maximum state income tax check off amount for certain social-service funds from $5 to $10 per individual. Adds the Housing First Special Fund to the list of social service funds to which a taxpayer may designate a portion of the taxpaye...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-27
To House Housing Committee |
| HB2182 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires applicants for category 1 (moped) licenses to designate whether the applicant elects to wear a safety helmet with a chin strap at all times when operating the moped. Requires licenses to bear the indication of the election. Waives moped regi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-27
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB2151 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits any person from wilfully exhibiting another person's ballot or another person's unvoted ballots in a special primary or primary election, except as provided in sections 11-132 and 11-139, HRS, after the ballot has been marked. Preserves the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-27
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB1879 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires hospitals to provide patients the opportunity to designate a caregiver upon entry to a hospital. Establishes hospital requirements regarding caregivers, including designation of a caregiver, notification to a caregiver, and a discharge plan ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-27
To House Health Committee |
| HB1967 | Intro
Sine Die | Guarantees motorists the right to display evidence of current motor vehicle insurance by electronic mobile device.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-27
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB2068 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes an elections by mail process for all elections, to be phased-in by county starting with the 2018 primary and fully implemented by the 2022 primary. Provides for in-person ballot deposit and voting assistance. Appropriation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-27
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB1919 | Intro
Sine Die | Decreases the income tax by twenty-five per cent for all but top income earners.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-27
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1858 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires DOH to examine activities of the Prevent Suicide Hawaii Task Force and evaluate the potential to establish a training program for professionals. Requires reports to the Legislature.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-27
To House Health Committee |
| HB2087 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a refundable state earned income tax credit. Requires DOTAX to prepare an annual report on the tax credit's usage for the previous year. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2016.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-27
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2101 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that all police officers receive crisis intervention training related to interaction with persons with mental disabilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-27
To House Health Committee |
| HB1826 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects for the benefit of the 38th representative district.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-27
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2153 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires recounts of election votes when the margin of victory is less than two hundred fifty votes or less than one percent of the votes cast, whichever is less.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-27
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2174 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes a small-satellite economic assessment study to analyze potential markets, timeframes, and other drivers of small-satellite launch facilities in Hawaii. Appropriates moneys.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-27
To House Economic Development & Business Committee |
| HB1809 | Intro
Sine Die | Changes drug paraphernalia possession and delivery offenses from felonies to civil violations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-27
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB1977 | Intro
Sine Die | A bill to encourage economic growth by repealing the corporate income tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-27
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2152 | Intro
Sine Die | Beginning with the primary election in an unspecified year, requires the office of elections to implement elections by mail. Thereafter requires all federal, state, and county primary, special primary, general, special general, and special elections ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-27
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB1956 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts nonprofit organizations and their employees from the licensing and regulations of mortgage servicers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-27
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB2119 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies that reimbursement to crime victims includes lost wages, mental health treatment, counseling, and therapy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-27
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2265 | Intro
Sine Die | Places the state foundation on culture and the arts within the creative industries division of the department of business, economic development, and tourism instead of the department of accounting and general services. Designates the director of busi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-27
To House Economic Development & Business Committee |
| HB1790 | Intro
Sine Die | Expands the powers of the liquor commission to include alcohol abuse treatment and prevention. Converts the 10% ceiling on the use of fines for certain programs to a 10% floor. Requires the commission to use fine moneys to provide grants to the count...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-27
To House Health Committee |
| HB1770 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the fee for an aerial device, display fireworks, or articles pyrotechnic permit from $110 to $300.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-25
To House Public Safety Committee |
| HB1576 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds to finance construction of an adolescent treatment and healing center, plans for a centralized auto maintenance facility, construction of a hangar for a fire department helicopter, development of a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-25
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1563 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows a court to order a person who is found guilty of speeding not more than 25 miles over the maximum speed limit to attend driver retraining. Provides for expungement of the violation and retention of insurance premium rates upon successful compl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-25
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB1582 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates offenses of violation of privacy through use of an unmanned aircraft system in the first and second degree.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-25
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB1600 | Intro
Sine Die | Imposes a conveyance tax on the conveyance of a controlling interest of an entity that has an interest in real property in the State. Applies to conveyances occurring after June 30, 2016.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-25
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HB1646 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies county zoning authority by distinguishing single-family residential use from single-family vacation rental use and allowing amortization by ordinance for single-family transient vacation rentals over a reasonable period.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-25
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HB1632 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the offenses of violation of privacy in the first and second degree to address privacy concerns because of the use of unmanned aircraft systems.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-25
To House Transportation Committee |
