| SB2872 | Intro
Sine Die | Brings state law into alignment with changes to federal law regarding the Child Care and Development Block Grant, Public Law 113-186. Requires the Department of Human Services to establish minimum health and safety requirements for child care provide...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB3107 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the department of business, economic development, and tourism to conduct an economic assessment study on the development and economic viability of a small satellite launch and processing facility on the island of Hawaii.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2525 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies the definitions of "attachment hardware", "dealer", "manufacturer", and "motor vehicle" in the motor vehicle industry licensing act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB1298 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates moneys in fiscal year 2016-2017 to the office of elections, senate, and house of representatives for duties needed to be undertaken to enable registered voters to vote at the 2016 general election on state constitutional amendments propo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
The committee on WAM deferred the measure. |
| SB2579 | Intro
Sine Die | Designates certain state waters surrounding the north coast from Kalaupapa to Halawa head of the island of Molokai as the Molokai Community-Based Fishing Area.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To Senate Water, Land, and Agriculture Committee |
| SB2098 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies that medical health professionals who are employed by the State receive a qualified immunity from personal liability when exercising their governmental discretion as employees of the State when acting in the course and scope of their state ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2358 | Intro
Sine Die | Beginning July 1, 2016, requires that all state and county agency contracts that include disposal of liquid or solid waste to provide a receipt that the waste was received and disposed of at a licensed facility before full or partial payment is made ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2592 | Intro
Sine Die | Limits public school student participation in standardized tests, prohibits the use of standardized tests scores for evaluation purposes, and authorizes standardized testing exemptions. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2513 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to support three additional inspector positions on the island of Oahu within the department of agriculture's pesticides branch.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2927 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that any license issued under section 237-9, Hawaii Revised Statutes, be renewed annually; permits the department to charge a fee for annual renewals; and permits the department to require annual renewals be applied for online.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2097 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires department of public safety corrections division to conduct a water scalping feasibility study for Halawa correctional facility and, if funds are available, authorizes development of a process design for the processing portion of the impleme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB3088 | Intro
Sine Die | Permits hydroelectric facilities on agricultural district lands that are considered small hydropower facilities under federal law. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2509 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits state low-income housing units from being passed along from one individual to another. Requires unemployed tenants, except elders and individuals with a disability, who live in state low-income housing to perform community service or enroll...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB3049 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes requirements for financing, lease, or sale agreements for solar energy devices, including the buyer's or lessee's signature, a cancellation period, payment or financing details, disclosure of tax obligations, disclosure of maintenance and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| SB2949 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the public utility commission from approving power purchase agreements that prohibit the sale of energy to third parties or agreements that require utility consent to sell energy to third parties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| SB2348 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies the content requirements for traffic abstracts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2412 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires police commissions to ensure that all full-time police officers receive crisis intervention training related to interaction with persons with mental disabilities. Requires police commissions to establish policies for officer interaction with...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2846 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes a general fund appropriation of $100,000,000 for fiscal year 20162017 to further capitalize the Emergency and Budget Reserve Fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2179 | Intro
Sine Die | Changes drug paraphernalia possession and delivery offenses from felonies to civil violations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB2737 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides an investment income tax credit for self-generation energy storage used primarily to store energy for the utility customer's own use, that reduces from 30 per cent to 15 per cent over five years. Provides, in lieu of the investment income ta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| SB2594 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the student loan subsidy program for teachers who teach in special education, vocational education, technical education, or career path programs. Establishes the student loan subsidy program special fund. Makes appropriation. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2216 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the sports and entertainment authority to coordinate and develop an entertainment and sports industry in the State, including oversight of the stadium; attracting local, national, and international events; and developing state-of-the-art ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
The committee(s) on EET recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in EET were as follows: 7 Aye(s): Senator(s) Wakai, Baker, Galuteria; Aye(s) with reservations: Senator(s) Slom, Ihara, Ruderman, L. Thielen ; 0 No(es): none; and 2 Excused: Senator(s) Espero, Keith-Agaran. |
| SB2368 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds to assist Pelatron Power Evolution LLC with the development of renewable energy power plants within the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| SB3001 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows a holdover permit to be issued to an applicant seeking to renew their water rights lease.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To Senate Water, Land, and Agriculture Committee |
| SB2653 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the amount of the environmental response, energy, and food security tax that shall be deposited into the energy security special fund and the agricultural development and food security special fund. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2293 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows the electronic mailing and posting of meeting notices; requires the posting of the notice on the state or appropriate county websites; and increases public access to information before a public hearing by a board. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB2176 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Hawaii medical marijuana oversight commission. Requires the commission to evaluate the implementation of medical marijuana, including the impact on patients, the effectiveness of regulatory safeguards, and possible areas of expansion ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2676 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies powers of physician assistants regarding nurses under chapter regulating physicians. Removes sunset date of Act 255, SLH 2012.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2665 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes employers to establish group health savings accounts in addition to group accident and health or sickness insurance policies, group hospital and medical service plan contracts, and HMO plans issued or renewed after July 1, 2016.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-16
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB3058 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a temporary task force to discuss how to meet the long-term goal of requiring all state departments to use locally grown agricultural products. Makes an appropriation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-16
To Senate Water, Land, and Agriculture Committee |
| SB2749 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides an exemption from school impact fees for housing developments constructed by nonprofit housing organizations in which the units are rented or sold to persons or families earning up to eighty per cent of the area median income.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-16
To Senate Housing Committee |
| SB2999 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires state agencies to participate in a carbon offset program to offset carbon emissions caused by their employees' air travel. Requires DLNR to establish and administer a carbon offset program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-16
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| SB2456 | 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] | 2016-02-16
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB2110 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the department of education for two alternative schools to provide ongoing education to juveniles involved in the justice system or at risk of involvement in the justice system.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-16
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB2096 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires department of public safety corrections division to conduct a feasibility study on transferring the inmates and operations of Oahu community correctional center to Halawa correctional facility, while maintaining the inmates and operations of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-16
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB2427 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes members of the historic places review board to visit sites without regard to open meetings requirements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-16
To Senate Higher Education and the Arts Committee |
| SB2290 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a payroll assessment to fund sick leave in the private sector.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-16
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB3012 | Intro
Sine Die | Reduces the corporate income tax rate by twenty-five per cent. Allocates $5,000,000 of corporate income tax revenues to the HI growth initiative until 1/1/2022. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2881 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires charter schools to administer and pay charter schools workers' compensation claims, and secure necessary funding to support payment for charter schools workers' compensation liabilities under one of the several options allowed by the Hawaii ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-16
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB2632 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases fines for violations of the fireworks control law. Authorizes the department of public safety, sheriff division, to inspect shipping containers for explosives and illegal fireworks. Requires DPS, in collaboration with DOD, DOT, and other fe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-16
The committee on TRE deferred the measure. |
| SB2199 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the department of public safety from receiving any commission payments from telephone service providers based on inmate phone calls.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-16
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB2868 | Intro
Sine Die | Lowers to one-thirty-second Hawaiian the blood quantum required by a homestead lessee's husband, wife, children, grandchildren, brothers, or sisters in order to succeed to the lessee's lease. Requires Congressional approval. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2699 | Intro
Sine Die | Limits state senators to 3 consecutive 4-year terms and state representatives to 6 consecutive 2-year terms beginning with terms commencing on the day of the general election of 2020.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-16
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB2623 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies that housing projects claiming an exemption pursuant to chapter 201H, Hawaii Revised Statutes, cannot claim an exemption from the school impact fee.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-16
To Senate Housing Committee |
| SB2992 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes an appropriation to DLNR for a survey of Hawaiian sandalwood on the island of Hawaii.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-12
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2746 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes and appropriates funds for the Korean natural farming pilot program to combat various agricultural pests in Hawaii. Repeals on June 30, .
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-12
To Senate Water, Land, and Agriculture Committee |
| SB2990 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates moneys for the Hawaii Association of Conservation Districts to assist with its staffing and operating costs. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-12
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2197 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the attorney general to ensure that all state departments and agencies employing law enforcement officers report annually to the legislature on specified information concerning firings, forced resignations, alleged criminal activity, grievan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-12
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB2158 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the expenditure of state funds by state agencies for the purchase of single-serving bottled water, except under certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-12
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2064 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to restore staff and long-term care services at Leahi and Maluhia hospitals within the Hawaii health systems corporation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-12
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
