| HB2382 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends Act 229, Session Laws of Hawaii 2014, to make the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism the State's liaison to the Pacific-Asia Institute for Resilience and Sustainability. (HB2382 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1550 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the amounts of fines that may be assessed against noncandidate committees that make only independent expenditures for campaign spending violations. Allows the Campaign Spending Commission to recover the costs of investigation services and b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2806 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the membership of the King Kamehameha Celebration Commission. Provides the chairperson of the commission with the authority to establish an advisory committee composed of past commission members to advise the chairperson on the historical and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB3039 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes health care providers under the state medicaid program to ask about supplemental nutrition assistance program (food stamp) participation on medicaid certification and re-certification forms. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB3008 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes medicaid providers to place on the medicaid certification and recertification forms a question composed by the department of human services to determine the housing status of the individual. Allows medicaid providers to collect and release...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| HB1843 | 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, agriculture, and aquaponics. Authorize...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2414 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides express legal authority to enable the University of Hawaii to create, promote, and participate in new economic enterprises that use university research and provide workforce opportunities for affiliated university personnel. (HB2414 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2763 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the use of general fund moneys to fund salaries for the King Kamehameha Celebration Commission.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1551 | Intro
Sine Die | Distinguishes the dissemination, distribution, and republication of campaign materials from other coordinated activities. Specifies when the financing by any person of such dissemination, distribution, and republication shall not be considered a cont...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
To House Finance Committee |
| SB3115 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the counties to conduct background checks for criminal history on taxicab drivers and applicants for taxicab drivers' certificates. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| HB1525 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes an offense for remaining unlawfully in or upon state property after a request to leave is made by any law enforcement officer under certain conditions. Requires the departments with jurisdiction over state property to develop and implemen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB2473 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for a dispersion modeling center within the school of ocean and earth science and technology at the University of Hawaii at Manoa in order to improve vog forecasts for the State. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2960 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows the county police departments to receive notification if a new applicant who is granted a permit to possess a firearm is arrested for a criminal offense anywhere in the country.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB2642 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes penalties and fines for any person who knowingly captures, kills, or takes any shark within state marine waters and makes it a misdemeanor. Provides exemptions for native Hawaiian gathering rights and cultural practices, special activity ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2733 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the shallow rent subsidy program for homeless working individuals or families who are ready to rent permanent housing in order to obtain and maintain permanent housing. Appropriates funds to the department of human services to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB2693 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes two positions in the State Historic Preservation Division in the Department of Land and Natural Resources. (HB2693 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1727 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires employers to notify employees, when providing their annual wage summary statements, that they may be eligible to receive the federal earned income tax credit. (HB1727 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2461 | Intro
Sine Die | Beginning January 1, 2017, requires practitioners, except veterinarians, who administer, prescribe, or dispense a controlled substance under schedules II through IV to register with the electronic prescription accountability system as part of the ren...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| HB2351 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes establishment of civil service positions and appropriates associated general and non-general funds to enable Executive Branch departments to provide services to the public with civil service employees rather than through contracting. (HB23...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2738 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Hawaii Three-to-six Out-of-school Program for grades kindergarten through twelve. Authorizes the Department of Education to contract with private providers to furnish out-of-school programs for grades kindergarten through twelve, cond...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2299 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides Enterprise Zone incentives for qualified renewable energy technology business activity on real property owned by the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority. Effective February 19, 2022. (HB2299 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2270 | Intro
Sine Die | Restructures the Hawaii Invasive Species Council as the Hawaii Invasive Species Authority, attached administratively to the Department of Agriculture, for the enhancement of the State's invasive species prevention, early detection, rapid response, co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
To House Agriculture Committee |
| SB3031 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the director of finance to issue general obligation bonds to finance capital improvements to various irrigation systems. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1688 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Hawaii county office of the prosecuting attorney for the career criminal prosecution unit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2771 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Agriculture to establish or participate in public-private partnerships to enhance the biosecurity program and quarantine inspection process. Requires the Department of Agriculture to adopt rules to establish requirements fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2901 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the definition of "commercial activity" within section 200-4(a), Hawaii Revised Statutes, as it relates to the chairperson of the board of land and natural resources' authority to adopt rules necessary to regulate commercial activities in stat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2967 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a community food forest program in the Department of Land and Natural Resources that shall work collaboratively with local government and community organizations to provide sources of healthy food statewide. Appropriate funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2598 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the department of education to hire teachers in the areas of fine arts, Hawaiian and Polynesian studies, Hawaiian language, vocational programs, and mentoring.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB2718 | 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] | 2016-02-18
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HB2298 | Intro
Sine Die | Expands funding sources to support creative industries development within the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism. Removes all references to the Hawaii Television and Film Development Board. (HB2298 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2070 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the department of human services to create one full-time program specialist position for Maui county within the adult protective and community services branch to oversee the foster grandparent program and senior companion progra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2344 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the department of human services to disregard payments made on behalf of an applicant or recipient of public assistance from the section 8 housing voucher program of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development for purposes ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2950 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the public benefits fee to be used to install and upgrade electric power infrastructure to facilitate the use of electric vehicles. Clarifies that in no case shall the public benefits fee administrator fund one hundred per cent of any proj...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2781 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies that funds for bonuses required by statute or collective bargaining shall not be paid out of a charter school's facilities funding or per-pupil funds. Appropriates funds for teacher bonuses for hard-to-fill placement incentives and National...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1621 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the establishment of after-school programs for public middle and intermediate school students. (HB1621 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2650 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the condominium sub-meter working group within DBEDT to examine installing sub-meters in condominiums. (HB2650 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
To House Finance Committee |
| SB80 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds and appropriates funds for the planning and design of an improved four-lane roadway crossing the state right-of-way and connecting to Renton road in West Loch Villages, a sidewalk, bike path, and co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2994 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows the Hawaiian homes commission and the department of Hawaiian home lands to retain independent legal counsel as needed. Authorizes the Hawaiian homes commission and the department of Hawaiian home lands to use the services of the attorney gener...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB3068 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the department of agriculture to acquire parcels of land.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2591 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires principals to consult with school community councils when expending moneys provided to their schools. Requires the weighted student formula to include a superintendent's reserve. Grants the DOE discretion in allocating superintendent's reser...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2092 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to and out of the rental housing revolving fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2834 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the creation of Regional State Infrastructure Improvement Subaccounts within the Dwelling Unit Revolving Fund and the use of the Dwelling Unit Revolving Fund to provide loans and grants to finance regional state infrastructure improvements...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB2428 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the University of Hawaii from transferring moneys from its special and revolving funds, or general funds appropriated for other purposes, to fund construction projects that are not explicitly authorized by the Legislature. (HB2428 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2434 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the composition, appointing authorities, and quorum requirements of the EUTF board of trustees. Effective January 7, 2059. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2730 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the planning, design, construction, and materials and equipment for the Anahola Hawaiian Homes Association.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2300 | Intro
Sine Die | Adjusts the low-income household renter's credit by increasing the maximum value of the credit amount to $150 per qualified exemption for households, and adjusts the income threshold to allow households with an adjusted gross income of less than $60,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB3075 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires an owner of a trailer bought out-of-state and subsequently brought into the State to provide proof of payment of the use tax with the application for registration unless otherwise exempt. Eff. 1/1/2017. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2141 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for three positions in the sustainable and organic agriculture program administered by the UH college of tropical agriculture and human resources and statewide expansion of the program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2766 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates moneys for the state foundation on culture and the arts to establish an arts in the military program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB2112 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases notary public fees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-18
To House Finance Committee |
