| SB2824 | Intro
Sine Die | Reduces the number of members on the Aerospace Advisory Committee from fifteen to thirteen. Allows the members of the Aerospace Advisory Committee to elect their own committee chair from members appointed by the Governor to this body. Effective July ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-19
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2399 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires all state agencies to obtain the governor's written approval on a request for, amendment to, or supplement to research corporation services for a project. Effective July 1, 2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-19
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB2148 | Intro
Sine Die | Removes the sunset date on new approvals and issuances of safe harbor agreements, habitat conservation plans, and incidental take licenses as recovery options for conserving and protecting the State's threatened and endangered species.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-19
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB1801 | Intro
Sine Die | Reduces executive and managerial salaries at the University of Hawaii for fiscal year 2016-2017 to the extent necessary to provide $4,000,000 in the same fiscal year for graduate assistant salaries. Requires a report on the reduction and redistributi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-19
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2005 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Health to establish a pilot program to permit two private-pay individuals to be cared for in the same community care foster family home, subject to certain conditions. Requires the Department of Human Services to examine th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-19
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2375 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the Department of Land and Natural Resources to establish and operate aquatic mitigation banks to restore, create, enhance, or preserve aquatic habitats or resources as compensatory mitigation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-19
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2988 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Department of Agriculture to research and develop methods for the prevention and treatment of macadamia felted coccid in cooperation with the University of Hawaii College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-19
To Senate Higher Education and the Arts Committee |
| HB1895 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires insurers to cover contraceptive supplies dispensed in an amount sufficient for a twelve-month period. (HB1895 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-19
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2395 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends section 231-18, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to allow disclosure of tax return information to the Department of the Attorney General, federal, state, or local officials, and other persons in specified situations; and amends section 235-116, Hawaii...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-19
To House Finance Committee |
| HB656 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates moneys to the University of Hawaii Sea Grant College Program to develop disaster-preparedness educational materials and conduct community outreach seminars. (HB656 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-19
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1828 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes motor vehicle insurance requirements for transportation network companies and persons who operate or serve as drivers for transportation network companies. Exempts transportation network companies from oversight under the motor carrier la...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-19
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2947 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds and makes an appropriation for the development of an electrolysis process hydrogen production, storage, and dispensing facility and appropriates funds for the operation of the facility. Requires mat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-19
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB2282 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that a parent's rights may be terminated if the court determines, by clear and convincing evidence, that the child was conceived during an act of rape or sexual assault creating a presumption that termination of parental rights is in the bes...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-19
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2698 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds for the purposes of building infrastructure and constructing homes on Hawaiian Home Lands. (HB2698 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-19
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2880 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to DPS, DLNR, DOD, and DAGS to establish civil service positions to provide services to the public using civil service employees. Effective January 7, 2059. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-19
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2515 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires, in places of public accommodation, a ratio of one electric vehicle parking stall per 100 stalls by 2017 and a ratio of two electric vehicle parking stalls per 100 stalls by the year 2022. Designates the appropriate county authority having j...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-19
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1659 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows courts to authorize a person or entity, other than an officer of justice, to carry out a search warrant. Allows courts to authorize an officer to obtain technical assistance if the search warrant granted pertains to an electronic device or sto...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-19
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2917 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases flexibility of DPS in the process of developing or expanding in-state correctional facilities and in community partnering for planning any new prisons or jails. Appropriates funds for the purchasing, constructing, developing, leasing, or ot...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-19
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1741 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates moneys to the Read to Me International Foundation for the promotion of reading aloud to children. (HB1741 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-19
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2314 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes forfeiture of certain Employees' Retirement System benefits, pursuant to court order, for state or county employees and designated beneficiaries who are convicted of an employment-related felony. (HB2314 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-19
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1829 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends penalties pertaining to certain medical marijuana prohibitions. Repeals certain medical marijuana prohibitions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-19
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2400 | 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] | 2016-02-19
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2523 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes default rules for homeowners, community, and condominium associations that have not adopted rules allowing for the placement of solar energy devices on single-family residential dwellings and townhouse units. (HB2523 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-19
To House Finance Committee |
| SB3100 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the director of finance to issue GO bonds to the counties for infrastructure construction related to urban renewal projects. Allows each county to have more than one local redevelopment agency. Repeals the specific naming requirement for l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-19
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2304 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the department of the attorney general to implement and maintain a public database of all law enforcement officers who have been terminated from their law enforcement positions, or forced to resign due to criminal activity, improper behavior...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-19
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| HB2038 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the natural resource management, clean energy, and green workforce goals of the Aloha+ Challenge. (HB2038 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-19
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2777 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the counties to regulate transportation network companies and transportation network company drivers and issue permits to transportation network companies. Requires transportation network companies to pay an annual airport permit fee to the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-19
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| HB502 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the director of finance to issue general obligation bonds to finance capital improvements to various irrigation systems. (HB502 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-19
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1685 | Intro
Sine Die | Subjects proposed salaries for any UH employee that are at least double that of the governor to the disapproval of the legislature. Requires UH to submit an annual report on the employees with salaries in excess of the governor's salary. (HB1685 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-19
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2369 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes an emergency appropriation for fiscal year 2015-2016 for the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations and the Department of Human Services to cover short-term costs required to comply with the Affordable Care Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-19
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee |
| SB2111 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates moneys to the Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu for the career criminal prosecution unit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-19
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB2345 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals section 346-47 and amends sections 457A-1.5, 457A-2, and 457A-3, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to delete references to the Department of Human Services as licensing or certifying health care settings; and deletes references to the Department of Hu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-19
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB1937 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes framework and requirements for the licensure of school psychologists in both the public and private sectors of employment. (HB1937 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-19
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB2435 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes an appropriation to the Department of Health and Department of Agriculture for a water-quality study of the water resources, including but not limited to ground water, surface water, and adjacent marine waters, of the Waialua district on the is...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-19
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2013 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates the University of Hawaii green special fund to support energy efficiency, renewable energy, and sustainability projects and services, including personnel, equipment costs, project costs, and other expenses, as well as planning, design, and im...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-19
To Senate Higher Education and the Arts Committee |
| SB3023 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes an infrastructure development loan revolving fund to be administered by the director of finance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-19
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB2024 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires all motorized recreational vessels operating in nearshore waters to have properly functioning propeller guards. (HB2024 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-19
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB2219 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides a taxpayer who hires a person totally disabled with a nonrefundable tax credit for wages earned by the individual during the six-month period after the individual is initially hired by the taxpayer. Effective January 7, 2059. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-19
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2995 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the business mitigation relief pilot program to assist businesses negatively impacted by the construction of the rail project. Establishes guidelines and procedures for financial assistance through the program. Appropriates funds for the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-19
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1949 | Intro
Sine Die | Permits monies in the John A. Burns School of Medicine Special Fund to be used for loan repayment for certain health care professionals. Extends the sunset date from the physician workforce assessment fee and related requirements for use of monies in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-19
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2274 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the Agricultural Loan Revolving Fund to support the State's food sustainability goals. (HB2274 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-19
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2519 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides an annual maximum deduction of $5,000 per individual or $10,000 for a married couple filing jointly for contributions made to the Hawaii College Savings Program. (HB2519 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-19
To House Finance Committee |
| HB370 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Insurance Commissioner to determine whether residential property insurance is unavailable due to a moratorium on insurance policies in a lava zone during a state of emergency due to lava flow. (HB370 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-19
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2468 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes and requires the Employees' Retirement System to make direct payment to a spouse or former spouse of a system member or retirant of all or a portion of the member's or retirant's benefits pursuant to a Hawaii domestic relations order. Appr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-19
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2135 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows home schooled students to participate in extracurricular activities offered at the public school that they would otherwise be required to attend. (HB2135 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-19
To House Finance Committee |
| SB3064 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends definitions of "adjuster" and "public adjuster". Adds definitions for "insurance appraiser" and "insurance umpire".
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-19
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB3044 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the transitional energy working group within DBEDT to lay the foundation for future renewable energy development that transitions the State away from fossil fuels and to one hundred per cent clean electricity in general, beginning with th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-19
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1620 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a tax credit for individual taxpayers within the State who install plastic water catchments on the properties at which they reside. Allows taxpayer to elect to make the tax credit refundable. (HB1620 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-19
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2301 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the composition of the Hawaii Green Infrastructure Authority. (HB2301 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-19
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2431 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts teachers, counselors, administrators, coaches, or other employees employed by the Department of Education or a public charter school involved in educational trips from certain ethics code provisions. (HB2431 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-19
To House Judiciary Committee |
