| SB3073 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a six-year school of aviation pilot program at the University of Hawaii at Hilo. Appropriates funds. Repeals June 30, 2022. (SB3073 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-24
To House Finance Committee |
| SB3033 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes motor vehicle and boat towing options for self-service storage facilities after sixty days or more of delinquency; provided that an occupant is provided notice. Requires owners to notify occupants via two of the following three methods: la...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-24
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2458 | Engross
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 all products produced from Hawaiian loko ia. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-24
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2369 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds to assist Hawaii Renewable Resources, LLC, with the development of a natural gas production facility on Maui that will establish and fund energy crops, with renewable natural gas and electricit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-24
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2224 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates general funds for an unspecified amount of FTE positions for the UH Pamantasan Council to promote access and diversity, including for programs and policies related to Philippine courses and Filipino students. Effective 7/1/2525. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-24
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB539 | Engross
Sine Die | Makes an appropriation from the tourism special fund for fiscal year 2016-2017 for travel expenses and subsidies incurred by the intercollegiate athletics program of the University of Hawaii. Requires the governor to determine whether the funding for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-24
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2782 | Engross
Sine Die | Creates an incentive program for current educational assistants in hard-to-fill schools to attain teacher licensure if they commit to teaching for three years in a hard-to-fill subject area at a hard-to-fill school. Appropriates funds for the incenti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-24
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2510 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to establish a housing voucher program for full-time teachers employed by the Department of Education, including teachers at public charter schools. Takes effect 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-24
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2859 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the Public Utilities Commission Special Fund law to increase from $1,000,000 to an unspecified sum the balance that may be retained in the Public Utilities Commission Special Fund at the end of each fiscal year. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-24
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2021 | Engross
Sine Die | Extends the authorization of the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds to BioEnergy Hawaii, LLC, for the purpose of establishing a cogeneration facility and related energy production facilities, for an additional five years. (SB2021 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-24
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1750 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the State and counties to consider storm water management in the development of the Hawaii water resource protection plan. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-24
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB75 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Health to establish the Hawaii Battery Storage Recycling Task Force (Task Force) to make recommendations for a workable recycling program for battery storage devices in Hawaii. Requires the Task Force to submit an interim r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-24
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2269 | Engross
Sine Die | Expands the National Board Certification Incentive Program to provide monetary incentives to school psychologists. Authorizes continuing bonuses for school psychologists in certain designated schools that improve and no longer carry a certain designa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-24
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1397 | Engross
Sine Die | Expands methods for the delivery of funding to a project by providing loans to capitalize a qualified community development entity and provide guarantees or other credit enhancements to facilitate private lender participation in new markets tax credi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-24
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2329 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires a mortgagee or record assignee to provide to a mortgagor or borrower, upon full satisfaction of the mortgage and discharge of the secured debt, a reassignment or release of security interests in leases and rents that served as additional sec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-24
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2473 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires government contractors who violate wages and hours laws to pay a penalty that is equal to ten per cent of the amount of back wages due and up to $1,000, per first offense; and a penalty equal to the amount of back wages found due and up to $...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-24
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2619 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends notice and reporting requirements for holders of unclaimed property by requiring notice to the apparent owner of the unclaimed property through email, telephone, or other reasonable means in addition to currently required written notice. Requi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-24
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2717 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Director of Human Services to apply annual cost of living increases or federal poverty level increases, whichever are greater, to the asset and income thresholds for Medicaid eligibility. Effective 7/1/2030. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-24
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2523 | Engross
Sine Die | Repeals the requirement that medical marijuana dispensary facilities, except retail dispensing locations, be enclosed indoor facilities, and allows medical marijuana production centers licensed after 10/1/2017, to include secured greenhouses or shade...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-24
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2961 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the office of the lieutenant governor to work with the department of labor and industrial relations to conduct an actuarial study on the cost of implementing the family leave insurance program and the effect that it may have on the existing ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-24
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2486 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a Kapolei Jobs Initiative Program that offers tax incentives to increase the number of businesses willing to establish themselves or open a new location in the Kapolei region. Takes effect 2/19/2030. Repeals on 12/31/2021. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-24
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB1022 | Engross
Sine Die | Proposes a constitutional amendment to repeal the minimum one-year Hawaii residency requirement for appointment as an officer of a principal department pursuant to article V, section 6, of the Constitution of the State of Hawaii. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-24
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2690 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the excise tax on cigarettes and little cigars sold on or after January 1, 2017. Amends the allocations of the tax on each cigarette or little cigar sold to various funds and programs. (SB2690 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-24
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2245 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifies that it is unlawful for the owner of any animal or any person in possession of an animal to desert that animal. Amends the petty misdemeanor offense for animal desertion and establishes a misdemeanor when an animal is deserted and the perso...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-24
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB2348 | Engross
Sine Die | Restores the permanently exempt second deputy director position within the Department of Human Services. Establishes secretary, community/project development director, and policy director positions. Exempts the community/project development director ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-24
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB2053 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a special procurement process for the procurement of goods and services. Requires the procurement policy board to establish procedures for use of the special procurement process by rules. Requires the head of a purchasing agency to prepar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-24
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB2006 | Engross
Sine Die | Reduces the benefit multiplier for judges who become judges, are reappointed, or promoted after June 30, 2016. (HB2006 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
The recommendation was not adopted. |
| HB2035 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a three-year pilot project to promote photovoltaic powered desalinization on the island of Kahoolawe and to study certain aspects of the technology's use. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2684 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes motor vehicle insurance requirements for transportation network companies and transportation network company drivers. Provides express authority for counties to regulate transportation network companies. (SB2684 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| SB2855 | Engross
Sine Die | Makes numerous amendments to Hawaii's mortgage rescue fraud prevention act, chapter 480E, Hawaii Revised Statutes, for consistency with the federal Mortgage Assistance Relief Services Rule. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB2028 | Engross
Sine Die | Exempts personal income tax income and general excise 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 improve water infrast...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB818 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the department of health to accept FDA-approved, CDC-recommended tuberculosis (TB) blood tests in addition to the TB skin test for the purpose of obtaining a certificate of TB examination. Amends the law requiring tuberculosis clearance prio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
The committee(s) on HLT recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| SB2972 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the University of Hawaii sea grant college program to create a north shore beach management plan for the north shore of Oahu stretching from the Kawailoa to Waialee ahupuaa. (SB2972 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2793 | Engross
Sine Die | Extends until 6/30/2023 the provisions of Act 264, SLH 2013, which requires the State and the counties to take action within sixty days for broadband-related permit applications, requires the State to take action within one hundred forty-five days fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| SB2679 | Engross
Sine Die | Specifies a customer has the right to rescind a deferred deposit by returning the principal amount used to fund the deferred deposit within a specified time frame. Permits customers to convert a deferred deposit into a loan installment plan in certai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2544 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a tiered scale for the biennial renewal fees for professional employer organizations, based on the number of covered employees a professional employer organization reports to the department of labor and industrial relations. Effective 7/1...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1607 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Agriculture to establish a pilot pesticide treatment coupon project, within the existing little fire ant program, and a little fire ant site map. Requires the Department of Agriculture to report to the Legislature on projec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB2146 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Accounting and General Services to develop a Wailuku state office master plan to address the shortage of space in the Wailuku state office building and old courthouse building. Makes an appropriation for the master plan. Ma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2938 | Engross
Sine Die | Increases the state fuel tax to generate additional revenues for the state highway fund by amending section 243-4, Hawaii Revised Statutes. Allows for an increase in the state motor vehicle registration fee and increases the amount of the fee to be d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB2446 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes public employees facing position abolishment, reduction-in-force, or workforce restructuring to opt to receive either voluntary severance benefits or a special retirement benefit in lieu of exercising any reduction-in-force rights. Effecti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB2540 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes within the Department of Human Services a Medicaid Buy-in Program for Workers with Disabilities. (HB2540 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB2020 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates general funds for the department of land and natural resources to conduct and contract for studies to identify the causes of decline in limu and reef fish along the Ewa coast. (HB2020 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB2668 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the High Technology Development Corporation to continue to provide grants to businesses with a federal small business innovation research phase II or III awards. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2883 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifies that amendments to birth records that change parenthood shall not be conducted through the Uniform Information Practices Act procedures to correct personal records, but must be pursuant to a court order of appropriate jurisdiction or other ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
The committee(s) on HLT recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| HB2012 | Engross
Sine Die | Specifies that the benefits of the Hawaii employer-union health benefits trust fund are subject to negotiation. (HB2012 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| HB2221 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes fines beginning January 1, 2017, for owners of parking facilities with at least one hundred parking spaces that do not provide at least one parking space equipped with a charging system exclusively for electric vehicles. Allows for a warn...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| SB2898 | Engross
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. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1735 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to study the effects of Hawaii's low property tax rates. Appropriates funds. (HB1735 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB2025 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a Marine Species Task Force to identify ten vital marine species vulnerable to extinction if take levels of those species increases and recommend actions to ensure the sustainability of those species. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1987 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a youth gang information program in the office of youth services. Appropriates funds for the development of prevention and intervention services and programs statewide for youth at risk, and to monitor gang activities and establish new ga...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
