| HB484 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires PUC to establish community-based renewable energy tariff or tariffs by no later than January 1, 2016, to allow more utility customers to participate in renewable energy production and use. Prohibits cost-shifting to non-participants. (HB484 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-21
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| HB485 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires DLNR to develop individual emergency response plans for natural and non-natural emergencies that threaten small boat harbors under DLNR jurisdiction. (HB485 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-21
To Senate Water, Land, and Agriculture Committee |
| HB1039 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates moneys to the Local and Immigrant Farmer Education Program of the UH College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources Cooperative Extension Service to support the growth and sustainability of the agriculture industry.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-21
To Senate Water, Land, and Agriculture Committee |
| HB1087 | Engross
Sine Die | Changes the amount of the barrel tax deposited into the Environmental Response Revolving Fund from 5 cents per barrel to an unspecified amount to support environmental activities and programs. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-21
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HB840 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the department of public safety to construct a multi-story correctional facility at the Halawa correctional facility to replace the existing Oahu community correctional center. Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds and appropri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-21
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HB1293 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifies that the real property tax exemption for property owned as a primary home covers persons who own, but cannot occupy in, the primary home due to a serious medical condition; provided that they do not rent or lease out that property. (HB1293 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-21
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| HB283 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes an exemption from general excise taxes for the development of mixed-use projects incorporating affordable housing units on state or county lands. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-21
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HB583 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides for an annual inflationary adjustment to long-term care facility prospective reimbursement rates for care provided to Medicaid recipients. (HB583 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-21
To Senate Human Services Committee |
| HB1469 | Engross
Sine Die | Caps the distribution of conveyance tax revenue as follows: Caps at $7,600,000 or ten percent, whichever is less, the distribution into the land conservation fund, with any difference to be expended on wildfire prevention, control, and emergency resp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-21
To Senate Water, Land, and Agriculture Committee |
| HB827 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds and the appropriation of funds for plans, design, and construction of a juvenile services center as part of a mixed-use residential project at 902 Alder Street. (HB827 HD3)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-21
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HB619 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifies standards and criteria for the Public Utilities Commission and Division of Consumer Advocacy to apply when determining whether to approve a sale, lease, assignment, mortgage, disposition, encumbrance, merger, or consolidation, of an electri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-21
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| HB613 | Engross
Sine Die | Limits and controls the ways in which a computer service provider working with the DOE can use student data. (HB613 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-21
To Senate Education Committee |
| HB1393 | Engross
Sine Die | Expands the types of energy generation and distribution devices that could make certain electric utility customers eligible for net energy metering. Defines "renewable energy generation and distribution device". (HB1393 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-21
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| HB1454 | Engross
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, 2015. Sunsets January 1, 2023. (HB1454 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-21
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HB1188 | Engross
Sine Die | Changes appropriations of money in the Hawaii tobacco settlement fund to set dollar amounts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-21
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| HB1086 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires LRB to update its 1985 study on environmental reorganization for Hawaii and assess the feasibility of implementing the findings and recommendations of the 1992 department of environmental protection task force. Makes an appropriation. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-21
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HB1372 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the DOA to establish a working group to study the feasibility of excluding any person who provides water solely to agricultural activities from the definition of "public utility" as used in chapter 269, HRS. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-21
To Senate Water, Land, and Agriculture Committee |
| HB314 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the use of: (1) Any advertising device or billboard erected, placed, or maintained upon a county office building if erected, placed, or maintained by authority of the county agency, department, or officer; and (2) Any outdoor advertising d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-21
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HB1161 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the department of human services to restore basic adult dental benefits to medicaid enrollees and to provide outreach and eligibility services for individuals and families at federally qualified health centers. Appropriates fund...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-21
To Senate Human Services Committee |
| HB1195 | Engross
Sine Die | Increases the capacity from two to three nursing facility level residents in Type I Expanded Adult Residential Care Homes. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-21
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| HB527 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for salaries and benefits for lifeguards for Kua bay located in Kekaha Kai State Park on the island of Hawaii, an area under the jurisdiction of DLNR. (HB527 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-21
To Senate Water, Land, and Agriculture Committee |
| HB1040 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates moneys to the HISC to contract with UHERO to establish an economic model formula to establish the impact and cost of mitigating the most significant invasive species in the State. Directs LRB to update its 2002 study to reflect costs and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-21
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HB853 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a K-12 Agriculture Workforce Development Pipeline Initiative in DLIR to conduct trainings for teachers and school administrators in agricultural self-sufficiency. Appropriates funds to support the Initiative. Effective 01/20/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-21
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| HB507 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Department of Agriculture, in cooperation with UH CTAHR, to research and develop methods for the prevention and treatment of macadamia felted coccid. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-21
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HB825 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes licensing requirements and enforcement provisions for transient vacation rentals to be administered by the department of commerce and consumer affairs. (HB825 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-21
To Senate Tourism and International Affairs Committee |
| HB737 | Engross
Sine Die | Limits the total number of property insurance policies that an insurer may annually non-renew in a lava zone in Hawaii County during a state of emergency to five per cent of the insurer's policies in force, except for nonpayment of premiums or impair...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-21
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| HB763 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Executive Office on Aging and the city and county of Honolulu to establish a three-year intergenerational playground pilot program. Requires reports to the Legislature and the mayor of the city and county of Honolulu. Appropriates funds....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-21
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| HB437 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the natural resource goals of the Aloha+ Challenge. (HB437 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-21
To Senate Water, Land, and Agriculture Committee |
| HB459 | Engross
Sine Die | Specifies additional elements in Hawaii's existing sexuality health education law, including additional criteria regarding implementation of sexuality health education instruction. Requires the Department of Education to provide certain types of info...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-21
To Senate Education Committee |
| HB766 | Engross
Sine Die | Makes an appropriation for the construction of micro apartment housing units. (HB766 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-21
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HB1468 | Engross
Sine Die | Removes the authorization granted to the public utilities commission to establish a regulatory structure for the installation and implementation of an interisland high-voltage electric transmission cable system. (HB1468 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-21
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| HB1347 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Department of Human Services to increase staff, improve systems, and contract for necessary services relating to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. (HB 1347 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-21
To Senate Human Services Committee |
| HB1177 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates moneys to establish a grant writer position within the DOA. Prioritizes organic and Korean natural farming. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-21
To Senate Water, Land, and Agriculture Committee |
| HB1403 | Engross
Sine Die | Mandates the Department of Agriculture to establish a little fire ant Pesticide Treatment Coupon Pilot Project and site map.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-21
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HB749 | Engross
Sine Die | Imposes on wholesalers and dealers a beach clean-up cigarette fee per cigarette sold, used, or possessed. Establishes and allocates moneys generated to the Beach Clean-Up Special Fund for litter removal from beach land.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-21
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| HB441 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the infrastructure capacity construction loan revolving fund to provide loans to counties, state agencies, or private developers for infrastructure improvements. Appropriates funds for the administration and implementation of the infrastr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-21
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HB866 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a mortgage license exemption for sellers of real property who offer or negotiate terms of a residential mortgage loan secured by the seller's own real property for which the seller is the mortgagee; provided that the seller provides three...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-21
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| HB1408 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the counties to accept the surrender of a private road in cases where there has been an absence of any act of private ownership over the road for five years. Exempts the State and counties from performing any maintenance on a surrendered roa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-21
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| HB1051 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the DOA to adopt rules relating to the declaration of Hawaii geographic indication for agricultural commodities. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-21
To Senate Water, Land, and Agriculture Committee |
| HB1267 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the four-year Kanoelehua Redevelopment Pilot Project under the Department of Land and Natural Resources. Appropriates funds. (HB1267 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-21
To Senate Water, Land, and Agriculture Committee |
| HB734 | Engross
Sine Die | Defines "housing first program rental assistance payments". Allows HHFDC to make housing first program rental assistance payments from sums made available from DHS through the housing first program. Defines "chronically homeless individual". Effectiv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-21
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HB1147 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a two-year pilot emergency services failsafe program to assist physicians and patients in obtaining a second medical opinion regarding diagnosis and treatment. Authorizes the Department of Health to convene a committee to create a forum r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-21
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| HB859 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the Department of Health (DOH) to maintain a forum on its website where specified state-licensed care facilities may post vacancy information. Requires DOH to convene a working group to discuss and provide feedback on the implementation an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-21
To Senate Human Services Committee |
| HB847 | Engross
Sine Die | Addresses primary care physician shortages by appropriating funds for the Interdisciplinary Hawaii Health Systems Corporation Primary Care Training Program at Hilo Medical Center. (HB847 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-21
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| HB385 | Engross
Sine Die | Increases the minimum age in which one can purchase any tobacco product or electronic smoking device from 18 to 21 years of age. Prohibits the sale or furnishing of tobacco, tobacco products, and electronic smoking devices to persons under 21 years o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-21
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| HB608 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds up to $45,000,000 to Waimea Nui Community Development Corporation, a private not-for-profit corporation, for the planning, acquisition, and construction of agriculture, renewable energy, and ed...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-21
To Senate Water, Land, and Agriculture Committee |
| HB240 | Engross
Sine Die | Expands the types of businesses qualified to receive benefits under the state enterprise zone law to include service businesses that provide air conditioning project services from seawater air conditioning district cooling systems. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-21
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| HB1225 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes and appropriates funds for DBEDT, in collaboration with DOA, to perform studies and analysis relating to establishing facilities on the island of Hawaii for quarantine inspection and treatment and handling of incoming and outgoing agricult...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-21
To Senate Water, Land, and Agriculture Committee |
| HB483 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes administrative inspections upon certain conditions within the West Hawaii regional fishery management area. Effective 1/1/2016. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-21
To Senate Water, Land, and Agriculture Committee |
| HB837 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to enforce and create a registry for ivory and rhinoceros horn items that are intended for sale or purchase within the State; provided the age and species of the items can be documented. Provides ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-21
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
