| SB3124 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the chairperson of the PUC to obtain concurrence of at least one other commissioner in order to appoint, employ, and dismiss an executive officer. Authorizes each commissioner of the PUC to appoint up to five professional staff and other ass...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-12
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2172 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes restrictions on use of unmanned aerial vehicles. Amends the offenses of violation of privacy in the first and second degrees to specifically address the use of unmanned aerial vehicles in the commission of these offenses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-12
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2900 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies that the board of land and natural resources may lease all fast lands and submerged lands within any existing state boating facility without prior authorization of the legislature by concurrent resolution pursuant to section 171-53, Hawaii ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-12
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2973 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a general excise tax at the wholesale rate of one-half of one per cent for the gross proceeds or income from the sale of all products produced by Hawaiian loko ia. Takes effect on 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-12
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2284 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for three full-time equivalent permanent positions within the Office of Language Access.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-12
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2443 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires recounts of election votes when the margin of victory is less than two hundred fifty votes or less than one per cent of the votes cast, whichever is less. Takes effect on 1/7/2059. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-12
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2450 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits individuals from releasing, feeding, watering, or otherwise caring for unrestrained predators on state lands. Establishes administrative fines for individuals that violate this prohibition. Exempts hunters that deploy, feed, or water unrest...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-12
To Senate Water, Land, and Agriculture Committee |
| SB2391 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes public sector employees and volunteers who may have been exposed to a communicable disease through contact with bodily fluids in the course of their duties to petition a court for an order requiring testing of the person or decedent who is...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-12
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2093 | Intro
Sine Die | Restores the allocation of conveyance tax collections to the rental housing revolving fund to 50%.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-12
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2377 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates moneys to the department of agriculture for planning and engineering studies and designs for construction of water source development, renewable energy sources for agricultural development and delivery, and a reservoir to service the agr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-12
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2194 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires each county police department and all state departments and agencies having law enforcement divisions or law enforcement functions to report crime data to the department of the attorney general for transmission to the Federal Bureau of Inves...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-12
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB3019 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the issuance of new building permits unless it is established that the building will be furnished with equipment that allows for the collection and use of gray water for irrigation. Provides for exemptions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-12
To Senate Water, Land, and Agriculture Committee |
| SB2612 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the licensure of school psychologists in both the public and private sectors of employment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-12
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB2352 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires any environmental assessments and environmental impact statements for any major infrastructure improvement project or major construction project in any coastal lands to include an analysis of the environmental impact of projected sea level r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-12
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| SB2902 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the current rate of the liveaboard fee for state small boat harbors and clarifies that the liveaboard fee may be increased or decreased by rule adopted by the department of land and natural resources pursuant to chapter 91, Hawaii Revised S...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-12
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2597 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes maximum student enrollment per school class for various types of public school classrooms beginning with the 2020-2021 school year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-12
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB2155 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the employees' retirement system to divest its investment portfolio of coal, oil, and gas companies within five years and to report certain information to the legislature. Effective January 7, 2059. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-12
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2386 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires Department of Education schools and charter schools to post informational signs that include the Department of Human Services phone number for reporting abuse and neglect.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-12
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB3028 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Maunalua Bay task force to study and develop recommendations for the Maunalua Bay master plan.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-12
To Senate Water, Land, and Agriculture Committee |
| SB2674 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the regulated industries complaints office to establish a division that specializes in medical cases involving regulated professions and occupations. Appropriates funds for field investigator and staff attorney positions who specialize in me...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SCR24 | Intro
Sine Die | Requesting The Department Of Health To Establish A Palliative Care And Quality Of Life Advisory Council.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB3065 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the department of land and natural resources to establish a system that requires users of Kaena point state park and Kaena point natural area reserve to log in and receive educational information about protected resources of the area. Appr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2050 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the joint campus of the John A. Burns school of medicine and the University of Hawaii cancer center as the Hawaii health sciences campus at the University of Hawaii at Kakaako, to be an administratively separate branch of the University o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To Senate Higher Education and the Arts Committee |
| SB2692 | Intro
Sine Die | Imposes an excise tax equal to eighty per cent of the wholesale price of any tobacco product, other than large cigars, sold by a wholesaler or dealer on and after January 1, 2017, whether or not sold at wholesale, or if not sold then at the same rate...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2381 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for maintenance dredging of the Kihei Boat Ramp.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2195 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the director of public safety to annually submit to the legislature and post on the department of public safety's public website reports on misconduct incidents that resulted in suspension or discharge of an employee having police powers. Ex...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB2471 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the issuance of GO bonds and appropriates moneys for the design and construction of a new state mental health hospital to replace the Hawaii state hospital in Kaneohe. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2534 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a simplified regulatory process and procurement mechanism for the public utility commission to review public purpose projects and direct public utilities to procure electricity and fuel from the public purpose projects at a rate authorize...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2285 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to continue the operations of the Statewide Language Access Resource Center and Multilingual Website Pilot Project within the Office of Language Access.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1114 | 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] | 2016-02-11
To Senate Human Services Committee |
| SB2903 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows a holder of a mooring permit for mooring within state small boat harbors to transfer the mooring permit to the new vessel owner under certain terms and conditions. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2234 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the department of health to conduct child death reviews and implement a program to perform maternal death reviews. Requires the department of health to submit an annual report to the legislature relating to child and maternal de...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SCR23 | Intro
Sine Die | Urging The Department Of Education To Equip All School Buses Purchased, Leased, Or Contracted For Use By The State With Seat Belt Assemblies At All Designated Seating Positions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| SB3103 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to support the DOE's student travel program. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2933 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds for a federal inspection station at Kona International Airport at Keahole. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2996 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds to assist Bikeshare Hawaii develop a bikeshare system in the State. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SR7 | Intro
Sine Die | Requesting The Department Of Health To Establish A Palliative Care And Quality Of Life Advisory Council.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB3016 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the confidentiality protection afforded under the Uniform Information Practices Act for certain information regarding misconduct of police officers that results in suspension. Takes effect July 1, 2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB2157 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes an appropriation to the Department of Accounting and General Services to conduct a study relating to the rehabilitation and renovation of the state capitol reflecting pool.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| SB2567 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes court to condition probation on requirement that a convicted defendant stay nightly in a homeless facility. Clarifies that probation may be imposed for conviction of a county crime. Appropriates moneys from the general fund for implementat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB2613 | Intro
Sine Die | Expands the national board certification incentive program to provide greater monetary incentives to public school counselors and school psychologists. Authorizes continuing bonuses for teachers, counselors, and school psychologists in designated hig...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2118 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the examiner of drivers to include information about a person's disability on the person's driver's license or civil identification card.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| SB2122 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires mopeds to have motor vehicle inspection safety checks.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| SB2516 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the University of Hawaii at Hilo, the department of health, and the department of land and natural resources for programs, studies, and activities related to rat lungworm disease.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB3067 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires a purchaser or transferee to execute an oceanfront purchaser statement with every sale or transfer of oceanfront real estate. Requires the statement to be recorded with the bureau of conveyances. Establishes mandatory provisions for every oc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2177 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the department of health to issue a receipt that shall serve as a temporary registration certificate for the medical use of marijuana upon receipt of a written certification form completed by or on behalf of a qualifying patient. Increases p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2316 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires a child to receive at least one dosage of the human papillomavirus vaccine prior to attending seventh grade, beginning with the 2017-2018 school year. Authorizes pharmacists to prescribe and administer the human papillomavirus vaccine to per...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2306 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows the department of health to revoke a medical marijuana dispensary license under certain conditions and subject to a ninety day notice followed by a public hearing within fourteen days. Establishes a fine of up to $500 per day for any licensee ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2332 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes a naturopathic physician to prescribe controlled substances that are consistent with naturopathic medical practice. Clarifies that narcotic drugs shall not be included within the naturopathic formulary.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB2437 | Intro
Sine Die | Changes the name of the Hawaii election campaign fund to the Hawaii citizens' election fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
