| SB2241 | Intro
Sine Die | Specifies that an affidavit on application for voter registration shall be a part of the application associated with the issuance of a civil identification card and driver's license. Requires each county examiner of drivers to electronically store th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-29
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| SB2941 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempt certain adoption of regulations by the University of Hawaii from chapter 91, Hawaii Revised Statutes; require certain adoption of regulations by the University of Hawaii be subject to chapter 92, Hawaii Revised Statutes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-29
To Senate Higher Education and the Arts Committee |
| SB2968 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the 2nd senatorial district.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-29
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2897 | 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] | 2016-01-29
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB2986 | Intro
Sine Die | Ends the general excise tax and use tax exemptions for amounts received as rent for the rental or leasing of aircraft or aircraft engines used by lessees or renters for the interstate transportation of passengers and goods on December 31, 2017.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-29
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| SB2997 | Intro
Sine Die | Part I: Designates the office of planning as the lead agency to coordinate and advance transit-oriented development planning in the State. Requires that the office of planning approve all state agencies' and executive branch agencies' development pla...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-29
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| SB3091 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the state ethics commission to offer a more comprehensive ethics training course that is to be completed by persons subject to section 84-41, HRS, at the next available ethics training course administered by the state ethics commission takin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-29
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB3027 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes issuance of general obligation bonds and appropriates moneys for capital improvement projects in the 11th senatorial district.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-29
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2969 | Intro
Sine Die | Subjects to legislative disapproval any tuition fee increase at the University of Hawaii. Requires the University to submit a resolution for review of and a detailed justification for the increase. Applies to tuition fees for the 2017-2018 academic y...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-29
To Senate Higher Education and the Arts Committee |
| SB2889 | Intro
Sine Die | Specifies that the nursing member of the Hawaii Healthcare Workforce Advisory Board is the Executive Director of the Hawaii State Center for Nursing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-29
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB2932 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the composition of the medical advisory board.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-29
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB3003 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates an advisory task force to develop an action plan for the transfer of jurisdiction over state parks from the department of land and natural resources to the counties; requires a report of recommendations and implementing legislation to be subm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-29
To Senate Water, Land, and Agriculture Committee |
| SB2225 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes it unlawful for a person to sell aquatic life acquired through spearfishing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-29
To Senate Water, Land, and Agriculture Committee |
| SB2164 | Intro
Sine Die | Extends criminal liability for certain acts of cruelty to dog owners who fail to report transfers of ownership of the dog. Extends criminal liability for certain acts of animal cruelty to the most recent registered owner and person who most recently ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-29
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2913 | Intro
Sine Die | Specifies that funds for discharged persons be subject to legislative appropriation. Clarifies circumstances under which the Hawaii Paroling Authority may grant early discharges. Provides discretion to the paroling authority with respect to initial p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-29
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB3087 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the disposal of commercial organic material waste at landfills or waste-to-energy facilities in the State, beginning January 1, 2020. Requires all generators of commercial organic material to use alternative means of disposal of waste, such...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-29
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| SB2984 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the state health insurance exchange, known as the Hawaii Health Insurance Programs. Establishes the Affordable Care Act Legislative Oversight Committee. Repeals the Hawaii Health Connector Law. Appropriates funds to carry out the purposes...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-29
To Senate Human Services Committee |
| SB2209 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a preference to bidders who employ persons with disabilities. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-29
To Senate Human Services Committee |
| SB3086 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes community based net energy metering in the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-29
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| SB2292 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposes amendments to the Hawaii Constitution to authorize the board of education to impose a surcharge on real property taxes to fund public school capital improvement projects.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-29
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB3035 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires a preliminary hearing for a case in which a law enforcement officer is charged with a felony offense.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-29
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB3006 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires reporting guidelines for large-scale, outdoor commercial agricultural operations across the State. Establishes disclosure and public notification requirements for outdoor application of pesticides in various environmentally sensitive areas.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-29
To Senate Water, Land, and Agriculture Committee |
| SB3089 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the use of pesticides containing the active ingredient chlorpyrifos.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-29
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| SB3060 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the court, without a hearing, to grant an extension of a temporary protective order for up to twenty-four months when an authorized party applies for an extension.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-29
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB3057 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the 13th senatorial district.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-29
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2890 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes an appropriation to replenish funds in the Premium Supplementation Trust Fund to cover the costs of health care expenses for eligible employees and for premium supplementation for employers that are entitled to premium supplementation under the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-29
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB3055 | 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] | 2016-01-29
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| SB2308 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a working group to research and make recommendations regarding medical marijuana edibles for human consumption.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-29
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2953 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the department of health to contract for the performance of outreach, education, and training on issues related to domestic violence.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-29
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB3062 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes an appropriation to the department of business, economic development, and tourism to operate Hawaii's unmanned aerial systems test site activities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-29
To Senate Water, Land, and Agriculture Committee |
| SB2977 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates moneys for start-up grants for newly approved, pre-opening, public charter schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-29
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB2966 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to establish and staff an advanced life support medic unit in Puna on the island of Hawaii.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-29
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB3056 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the department of human services to create a domestic violence call sheet with a domestic violence legal hotline number and domestic violence shelter hotline number. Requires all employers to post the call sheet in the workplace. Requires bo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-29
To Senate Human Services Committee |
| SB2481 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the use of consumer fireworks except for cultural events allowed by permit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-29
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB2929 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the legal notice required on cigarette shipping containers to reference the age of twenty-one rather than the age of eighteen.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-29
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2957 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Hawaii teacher standards board to develop criteria to allow individuals with United States armed forces experience to teach in vocational, technical, and career pathway programs. Requires the DOE and public charter school commission to w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-29
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB2919 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds the Department of Public Safety to the exceptions for the use of lie detector tests and psychological tests.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-29
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB3002 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the 14th senatorial district.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-29
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB3018 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates a pilot project to transfer maintenance and repair functions of state highways from the state department of transportation to counties with populations that are divided among at least three islands. Creates a state and county transportation w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-29
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| SB3063 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the department of land and natural resources, in consultation with the office of the governor and the department of human services, to establish a transitional housing center for the homeless at Sand Island state recreation area. Makes an ap...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-29
To Senate Housing Committee |
| SB3097 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends provisions relating to low income housing income tax credit. Removes eligibility for taxpayers owning a low income building awarded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. Allows owners of buildings not to be financed with ta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-29
To Senate Housing Committee |
| SB3051 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends certain provisions relating to unfair or deceptive acts in the business of insurance. Repeals certain provisions relating to insurance contracts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-29
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB3083 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the insurance commissioner and health insurers, mutual benefit societies, and health maintenance organizations to make public disclosure of rate filings information prior to a rate increase. Requires health insurers, mutual benefit societies...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-29
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2944 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the president of the University of Hawaii system and the director of the Hawaiian language college to produce an implementation plan for the Hawaiian language report created pursuant to S.R. No. 97 S.D. 1, 2015. Appropriates funds to carry ou...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-29
To Senate Higher Education and the Arts Committee |
| SB2991 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals limitation that deposit beverages be mixed wine or mixed spirits, thereby defining deposit beverages to include wine and spirits. Requires the department of health to establish an advisory committee on glass recycling to advise on how to best...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-29
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| SB2979 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies the definition of "bicycles" for purposes of county vehicular taxes, highway safety laws, statewide traffic code, and bicycle laws by adding "low-speed electric bicycles" and defining low-speed electric bicycles. Excludes low-speed electric...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-29
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| SB3094 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Health to: (1) Charge and collect fees for the licensing, relicensing, certification, and recertification of community care facilities; and (2) Submit a report to the Legislature prior to the 2017 Regular Session on impleme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-29
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB3020 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes science and technology research subzones and an approval process for future research facilities that incorporates alternative dispute resolution principles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-29
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| SB2952 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the counties to conduct state and national criminal history record checks on taxicab drivers and applicants for taxicab drivers' certificates.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-29
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB3074 | Intro
Sine Die | Aims to reduce Hawaii's dependence on imported fossil fuels for electrical generation and ground transportation by 2045 and creates goals and targets in Hawaii's Clean Energy Initiative and State Planning Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-01-29
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
