| HB954 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies the distribution and allowable uses of Transient Accommodations Tax funds allocated and deposited into the Special Land and Development Fund in accordance with the Hawaii Tourism Authority's Strategic Plan.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HB1304 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposes a constitutional amendment to lower the qualifying age of voters for any state or local election to sixteen years of age.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB1026 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the department of taxation to allow a taxpayer to designate or "check-off" that a specified amount of the taxpayer's income tax refund be paid to the rental housing trust fund. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/15.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To House Housing Committee |
| HB826 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriate funds to the state ethics commission to design and develop a system that allows filers to electronically file required statements and reports with the state ethics commission.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1061 | Intro
Sine Die | Raises the adjusted gross income threshold and increases the tax credit amount for low-income household renters.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To House Finance Committee |
| HB537 | 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 12/31/2015.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To House Finance Committee |
| HB996 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a framework to regulate geothermal resources development through a permitting process administered by the BLNR and the appropriate county authority. Requires penalties, fees, and costs collected pursuant to chapter 182, HRS, to be deposit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HB1229 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes an additional $5,000 per year bonus for teachers who maintain current national board certification and teach in a Title 1 school under the Teacher National Board Certification Incentive Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee |
| HB671 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the date of filing of monthly, quarterly, and semiannual general excise tax returns from the 20th day of the respective applicable month to the last day of the month. Applicable to returns and payments after 7/1/15.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1281 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes out-of-state certified public accountants to practice in the State under certain conditions. Establishes criminal penalties for noncompliance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB736 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds and appropriation to the Hawaii Public Housing Authority for the redevelopment of their Kuhio Homes and Kuhio Park Terrace Low Rise properties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To House Housing Committee |
| HB628 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends campaign spending for advertisements and creates a reporting requirement for "covered transfers".
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB909 | Intro
Sine Die | To provide fund authorizations and appropriations for collective bargaining cost items for Unit (3) and their excluded counterparts, including the cost of salary adjustments negotiated between the State and the bargaining unit representative for fisc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee |
| HB230 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires public school lands that are leased to benefit public educational purposes rather than simply to be used for public purposes. Authorizes the DOE to enter into lease-back agreements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HB1396 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires annual registration and inspection of mopeds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB265 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes an investment-or utilization-based income tax credit for grid-connected energy storage properties installed and placed in service after December 31, 2015. Expires in taxable years beginning after December 31, 2026. Appropriates funds to a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB231 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes permanent the fiscal flexibility previously granted temporarily to the Department of Education to allow the Department to continue to use its resources in a more cost-effective manner. (HB231 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To House Finance Committee |
| HB196 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the Hawaii Rules of Evidence to authorize nonresident property crime victims to testify in criminal proceedings by a live two-way video connection.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB670 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes term limits on board of director members for planned community associations and condominiums.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB243 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes out-of-state CPAs to practice in the State without a license under certain conditions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To House Economic Development & Business Committee |
| HB1382 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the minimum monthly foster care basic board rate and foster care maximum difficulty of care rate. Requires Department of Human Services to report to the Legislature prior to the 2016 Regular Session. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To House Human Services Committee |
| HB106 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits an operator of an internet web site, online service, online application, or mobile application from knowingly engaging in targeted advertising to students or their parents or legal guardians, using covered information to create a profile ab...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To House Education Committee |
| 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] | 2015-12-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB202 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes members of a county council to jointly attend and speak at meetings.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB565 | Intro
Sine Die | Defines and prohibits the use of dangerous wheels.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB1318 | Intro
Sine Die | Assesses conveyance tax surcharge on residential property sold by a non-occupant owner.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HB967 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends section 235-55.91(e), Hawaii Revised Statutes, by updating references to the Internal Revenue Code.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To House Finance Committee |
| HB364 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds a building, premise, and place in which a gambling offense is committed as a nuisance that is subject to abatement.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1235 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires a 7.5% of the conveyance tax revenues collected each fiscal year to be paid into the Kahoolawe rehabilitation trust fund for the long-term rehabilitation and maintenance of the Kahoolawe island reserve.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HB34 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows condominiums and cooperative housing corporations to adopt rules to prohibit smoking, including electronic smoking devices, in units, common elements, or limited common elements. (HB34 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB327 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits legislators, and persons acting on behalf of legislators, from holding any fundraiser or receiving campaign contributions during selected times of any regular legislative session. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1202 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows the fee or leasehold owner of agricultural district land to change rent or fee for dwelling accommodations on the property for various non-agricultural purposes. (HB1202 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HB718 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a reduced per gallon tax rate on beer sold in barrels for the first 60,000 barrels sold annually. Effective 1/1/2016.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To House Economic Development & Business Committee |
| HB160 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes all class B and C felony charges to be instituted by written information subject to specified exceptions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB356 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a tax credit for taxpayers investing in a motor sports facility to be developed at Kalaeloa, parcel 9.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HB215 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that a physician selected and paid for by an employer to conduct a medical examination for workers' compensation purposes shall be actively treating at least ten patients in a one-month period; be actively treating at least 50 per cent of th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee |
| HB282 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds to the Hawaii Public Housing Authority to leverage funds for the redevelopment of its Mayor Wright Homes property. Requires dollar-for-dollar matching with private or federal funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To House Housing Committee |
| HB128 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the Child Support Enforcement Agency to pursue support and maintenance for a child born to a minor from any parent of the minor. (HB128 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB109 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires a tax clearance before a professional or vocational license may be issued or renewed. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2016.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
Carried over to 2016 Regular Session. |
| HB64 | Intro
Sine Die | Short form bill relating to legislative management.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To House Legislative Management Committee |
| HB655 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the glass container recovery program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HB47 | Intro
Sine Die | Short form bill relating to public safety.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To House Public Safety Committee |
| HB38 | Intro
Sine Die | Imposes a statewide limitation on consumer fireworks, except by permit for religious and cultural events.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To House Public Safety Committee |
| 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] | 2015-12-17
To House Health Committee |
| HB404 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to support the operations of the Hawaii Innovation Waiver Task Force for fiscal year 2016-2017.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To House Health Committee |
| HB403 | Intro
Sine Die | Removes the current cap on transient accommodations tax revenues to be distributed to the counties and establishes the distribution of these revenues as a percentage of TAT collected for infrastructure and services related to increased tourism.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To House Tourism Committee |
| HB672 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides insurance coverage equality for women who are diagnosed with infertility by making available to them expanded treatment options, ensuring adequate and affordable health care services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To House Health Committee |
| HB1496 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds and appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the 17th representative district.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To House Finance Committee |
| HB555 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that any undergraduate degree-granting program that graduates less than ten graduates per year be abolished. Provides an exception for undergraduate programs that are self-sustaining. Authorizes the board of regents to extend the three-year ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To House Higher Education Committee |
| HB963 | Intro
Sine Die | Includes misdemeanor offenses under chapter 134 (Firearms, Ammunition and Dangerous Weapons), Hawaii Revised Statutes, to the offenses that disqualify parolees from the provisions of Act 139, Session Laws of Hawaii 2012.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-12-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
