| SB2152 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Hawaii emergency management agency for the purpose of supporting community resilience and preparedness programs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-08
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2629 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the puuhonua commission within the department of public safety to help post-incarcerated persons, probationers, and parolees reintegrate into society. Creates county advisory committees to advise the commission. Establishes a special fund...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-08
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2610 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires at least one member of the committee on weights to be a representative of the special education community, such as a special education teacher or the parent of an exceptional child.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-08
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB2678 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a separate board of dental hygiene to oversee the licensing and regulation of dental hygienists in the State, independent from the board of dental examiners, who regulate licensed dentists. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-08
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2980 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires Department of Land and Natural Resources to establish a temporary west Maui ocean recreation management area advisory committee to advise Department of Land and Natural Resources on issues relating to the state waters within the west Maui oc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-08
To Senate Water, Land, and Agriculture Committee |
| SB532 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to Mookini Luakini, Inc., to host children's day in Kohala. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-08
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2879 | Intro
Sine Die | Updates the wording from "foster boarding home" to "resource family home" and "foster parents" to "resource caregivers"; establishes qualified immunity for resource caregivers and child caring institutions; adds the requirement that resource caregive...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-08
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB2480 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the auditor to conduct an audit of the correctional facility commissaries. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-08
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2866 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the salary cap on the State Librarian position.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-08
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2606 | Intro
Sine Die | Defines curricular materials to include printed and digital material. Requires textbook manufacturers to make a digital format of the textbook available for use in public schools when such format is available. Clarifies that moneys for curricular mat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-08
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2869 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the Child Protective Act to allow the Department of Human Services to access criminal history records without consent of individuals identified as alleged perpetrators of harm or threatened harm to a child, and individuals identified as adult ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-08
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB2978 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the department of land and natural resources, with the collaboration of the department of agriculture, to identify, purchase, and rehabilitate freshwater reservoirs in central Maui suitable for fishing and agriculture. Authorizes the issuanc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-08
To Senate Water, Land, and Agriculture Committee |
| SB2628 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a task force within the state building code council to consider the necessity, potential source, and application of long-term funding for council operations, and appropriates funds to the council for administrative expenses and staff posi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-08
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2440 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates an exclusion from income tax for the first $50,000 of income earned by farmers whose gross income is $200,000 or less. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-08
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2340 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates additional funds for outreach to homeless individuals and families, as well as homeless unaccompanied youth. Appropriates funds to the department of human services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-08
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2631 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the department of public safety for the expansion of work furlough programs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-08
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2227 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes an appropriation for subsidies for the preschool open doors program. Makes an appropriation to create one full-time position and for costs related to administering the program. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-08
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2704 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides an income tax exclusion for compensation received by an individual taxpayer for service in the United States military and who is on active military duty outside the State pursuant to orders. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-08
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB3010 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the hospice and palliative care and quality of life advisory council within the department of health to advise the director of health on hospice and palliative care matters. Requires the advisory council to assist health care facilities a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-06
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2779 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes community paramedic services to expand the provision of emergency medical services and assist in providing more timely medical services to the community. Specifies community paramedic services covered under medical assistance. Appropriate...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-06
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2958 | 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] | 2016-02-06
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2161 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the administration and operation of the aha moku advisory committee and for community outreach. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-05
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2602 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts certain aspects of educational tours from the Ethics Code under specified circumstances. Defines "educational tour".
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-05
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB2714 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeal of failing recycling program to allow for exploration of sustainable alternatives.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-05
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| SB2909 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the R.E.A.C.H. (Resources for Enrichment, Athletics, Culture, and Health) program in the Office of Youth Services to provide a standardized framework and a funding mechanism for after-school programs in public middle schools. Requires the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-05
To Senate Human Services Committee |
| SB2139 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to DLNR for positions and expenses in support of community based co-management of near shore marine resources. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-05
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2546 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a maximum aggregate dollar amount of the certified high technology business investment tax credits that may be claimed in a taxable year. Requires a taxpayer claiming the credit to provide certain information and consent to allow the info...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-05
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| SB2264 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates $5,000,000 for the study, design, engineering, and land acquisition for a solid waste treatment plant for Pahoa, Hawaii.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-05
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2792 | Intro
Sine Die | Reenacts the Hawaii capital loan revolving fund. Appropriates funds to the Hawaii capital loan revolving fund and funds one permanent full-time program manager position (1.0 FTE) within the department of business, economic development, and tourism.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-05
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| SB1034 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the authorized benefit for naturopathic, chiropractic, and acupuncture treatments allowed under personal injury protection benefits provided through motor vehicle insurance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-05
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2644 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates a non-refundable income tax credit for construction costs of new residential water conservation systems incurred after December 31, 2017. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-05
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2382 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for pier improvements at Maalaea small boat harbor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-05
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB3041 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires health care professionals to take a continuing medical education course in health issues unique to Hawaii. Requires the DOH to develop the course, in consultation with the Hawaii medical board.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-05
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2356 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires ten per cent or $7,600,000, whichever is less, of conveyance taxes collected to be paid into the land conservation fund. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-05
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2138 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes an appropriation for a nutrient cycling center pilot project on Maui. Requires DOA to report on the efficacy of the pilot project.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-05
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2640 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a two-year pilot program in the Department of Land and Natural Resources that enables public-private partnerships to provide funds for projects that increase water security.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-05
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2502 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts personal income tax income, general excise tax income, and use tax income in an amount up to an unspecified percentage of the costs of construction and operation of projects entered into under a public-private partnership with the ERS to impr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-05
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB3052 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires all liability insurance policies to specify that when an examination of an injured party is requested by the insurance company, the selection of the examining doctor is made by mutual agreement. Authorizes the insurance commissioner or circu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-05
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2601 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts extracurricular service of employees from the state ethics code if certain conditions are met. Defines detached remuneration and extracurricular service.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-05
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB2091 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the repair and maintenance of existing public housing stock in the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-04
To Senate Housing Committee |
| SB2393 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts the department of health from the rulemaking process pursuant to chapter 91, Hawaii Revised Statutes, when adopting recommendations from the United States Department of Health and Human Services, Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-04
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SCR21 | Intro
Sine Die | Requesting The Convening Of A Task Force To Examine Cancer In The Firefighting Profession.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-04
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2159 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires personnel performing any work on an underground storage tank or on an underground storage tank system to be certified by the American Petroleum Institute and receive ongoing training from the Institute.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-04
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2935 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the law relating to the storage of opened container that contains intoxicating liquor or the consumption at the scenic lookout. Clarifies where intoxicating liquor may be kept in a motor vehicle. Further clarifies who and where an opened conta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-04
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| SB2798 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a three-year Hawaii Port Authority pilot project. Empowers the Authority to administer a statewide system of harbors and airports. Appropriates moneys for the pilot project.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-04
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| SB3106 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires DHS to distribute confidential lists of foster boarding homes in the community to the respective chiefs of police. Requires DHS to conduct interviews of the neighbors of persons and organizations seeking their initial certificate of approval...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-04
To Senate Human Services Committee |
| SB2124 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires agencies that collect receipts for any disposition of the public land trust shall each fiscal quarter transfer to the office of Hawaiian affairs twenty per cent of each receipt from the disposition. Returns to the office of Hawaiian affairs ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-04
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2087 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes various appropriations for various housing programs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-04
To Senate Housing Committee |
| SB2499 | Intro
Sine Die | Subjects the procurement of construction contracts to federal procurement laws.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-04
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| SB2275 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds and appropriates funds for the repair and maintenance of public housing projects managed by the Hawaii public housing authority.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-04
To Senate Housing Committee |
