| SB2949 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the public utility commission from approving power purchase agreements that prohibit the sale of energy to third parties or agreements that require utility consent to sell energy to third parties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| HB1573 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies county zoning authority by distinguishing single-family residential use from single-family vacation rental use and allowing amortization by ordinance for single-family transient vacation rentals over a reasonable period. (HB1573 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2348 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies the content requirements for traffic abstracts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB2132 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits denying a student a meal for the first: (1) thirty days of a semester while the student's application for free or reduced lunch is being processed; or (2) week the student's meal fund balance is zero or negative. Authorizes DOE to adopt rul...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1546 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals provisions exempting electric vehicles from the payment of parking fees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB2014 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires employers to keep a record of the former physical addresses and current physical address of the employer and the North American Industry Classification System code applicable to the employer. (HB2014 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2412 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires police commissions to ensure that all full-time police officers receive crisis intervention training related to interaction with persons with mental disabilities. Requires police commissions to establish policies for officer interaction with...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB2404 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for a federal inspection station at Kona International Airport at Keahole. (HB2404 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1906 | Intro
Sine Die | Removes certain unnecessary and redundant reporting responsibilities of the family courts and the Department of Human Services in cases where temporary restraining orders are sought for alleged domestic abuse involving a family or household member wh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2360 | Intro
Sine Die | Specifies that the nursing member on the Hawaii Healthcare Workforce Advisory Board (Board) is the Director of the Hawaii State Center for Nursing and that the Hawaii/Pacific Basin Education Center member is the director of the University of Hawaii J...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2361 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes an appropriation to replenish funds in the Premium Supplementation Trust Fund to cover the costs of health care expenses for eligible employees and for premium supplementation for employers that are entitled to premium supplementation under the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2454 | Intro
Sine Die | Transfers administration of the licensing and regulation program for private trade, vocational, and technical schools from the department of education to the department of commerce and consumer affairs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB1637 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates moneys for the University of Hawaii to hire six additional staff attorneys. (HB1637 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2621 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows the counties in which medical marijuana dispensary licenses are authorized to apply for a license.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
The committee(s) on HLT recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| SB2846 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes a general fund appropriation of $100,000,000 for fiscal year 20162017 to further capitalize the Emergency and Budget Reserve Fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB2176 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a Maunalua Bay task force to study and develop recommendations for a Maunalua Bay master plan.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To House Ocean, Marine Resources, & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB2179 | Intro
Sine Die | Changes drug paraphernalia possession and delivery offenses from felonies to civil violations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB2737 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides an investment income tax credit for self-generation energy storage used primarily to store energy for the utility customer's own use, that reduces from 30 per cent to 15 per cent over five years. Provides, in lieu of the investment income ta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| HB1863 | Intro
Sine Die | Ensures that any surplus proceeds from an association foreclosure be paid to junior creditors and the former owner of the condominium instead of first being paid to the first mortgage holder.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
The committees on CPC recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 12 Ayes: Representative(s) McKelvey, Woodson, Belatti, Brower, Creagan, Hashem, C. Lee, Nakashima, Takayama, Fukumoto Chang; Ayes with reservations: Representative(s) Har, San Buenaventura; 0 Noes: none; and 4 Excused: Representative(s) Kawakami, Oshiro, Yamane, McDermott. |
| HB2117 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates an exclusion from income tax for the first $ of income earned by farmers whose annual gross income is $ or less. (HB2117 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2594 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the student loan subsidy program for teachers who teach in special education, vocational education, technical education, or career path programs. Establishes the student loan subsidy program special fund. Makes appropriation. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2216 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the sports and entertainment authority to coordinate and develop an entertainment and sports industry in the State, including oversight of the stadium; attracting local, national, and international events; and developing state-of-the-art ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
The committee(s) on EET recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in EET were as follows: 7 Aye(s): Senator(s) Wakai, Baker, Galuteria; Aye(s) with reservations: Senator(s) Slom, Ihara, Ruderman, L. Thielen ; 0 No(es): none; and 2 Excused: Senator(s) Espero, Keith-Agaran. |
| SB2368 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds to assist Pelatron Power Evolution LLC with the development of renewable energy power plants within the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| SB3001 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows a holdover permit to be issued to an applicant seeking to renew their water rights lease.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To Senate Water, Land, and Agriculture Committee |
| HB2705 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a working group to assess physical education in kindergarten through elementary grades in public schools and report to the Legislature. (HB2705 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2653 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the amount of the environmental response, energy, and food security tax that shall be deposited into the energy security special fund and the agricultural development and food security special fund. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2293 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows the electronic mailing and posting of meeting notices; requires the posting of the notice on the state or appropriate county websites; and increases public access to information before a public hearing by a board. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| HB665 | Intro
Sine Die | Grants OHA officers and employees collective bargaining rights. Gives OHA voting rights as a public employer. (HB665 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2520 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the Kakaako community development district. (HB2520 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2457 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes an earned credit certificate for contractors in public works projects who meet certain apprenticeship requirements. Clarifies information that a bidder must disclose in a competitive sealed bid for public works projects. (HB2457 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| SB2176 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Hawaii medical marijuana oversight commission. Requires the commission to evaluate the implementation of medical marijuana, including the impact on patients, the effectiveness of regulatory safeguards, and possible areas of expansion ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2676 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies powers of physician assistants regarding nurses under chapter regulating physicians. Removes sunset date of Act 255, SLH 2012.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| HB2099 | Intro
Sine Die | Defines "person in custody" as used in the offense of sexual assault in the second degree and third degree to mean a person who is stopped by or under the control of a law enforcement officer for official purposes. (HB2099 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2302 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Hawaii Interagency Council for Transit-Oriented Development within the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to institutionalize intergovernmental and interagency coordination on transit-oriented development planni...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2058 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds for certain dam and reservoir projects that improve facilities to protect public safety and provide significant benefits to the general public as important water resources.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-17
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2665 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes employers to establish group health savings accounts in addition to group accident and health or sickness insurance policies, group hospital and medical service plan contracts, and HMO plans issued or renewed after July 1, 2016.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-16
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| HB2564 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a pilot program that creates a vegetative buffer zone around five selected schools near a commercial agricultural production area.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-16
To House Agriculture Committee |
| SB3058 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a temporary task force to discuss how to meet the long-term goal of requiring all state departments to use locally grown agricultural products. Makes an appropriation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-16
To Senate Water, Land, and Agriculture Committee |
| HB1811 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes an Elderly Working Group to recommend a strategic plan to address health care concerns and needs for Hawaii's seniors.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-16
To House Human Services Committee |
| SB2749 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides an exemption from school impact fees for housing developments constructed by nonprofit housing organizations in which the units are rented or sold to persons or families earning up to eighty per cent of the area median income.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-16
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HB2467 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes and designates Flavobacterium akiainvivens as the official microbe of the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-16
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2420 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates moneys for the Hawaii Association of Conservation Districts to assist with its staffing and operating costs. (HB2420 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2999 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires state agencies to participate in a carbon offset program to offset carbon emissions caused by their employees' air travel. Requires DLNR to establish and administer a carbon offset program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-16
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| SB2456 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires certain employers with fifty or more employees to provide sick leave to service workers for specified purposes under certain conditions. Defines the terms "service worker" and "employer". Effective 1/1/17.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-16
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB2110 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the department of education for two alternative schools to provide ongoing education to juveniles involved in the justice system or at risk of involvement in the justice system.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-16
To Senate Education Committee |
| HB1765 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires UH to conduct a study on the effects of sunscreen on Hawaii's coral reefs. Appropriates funds. (HB1765 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-16
To House Higher Education Committee |
| HB1810 | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-16
To House Human Services Committee |
| HB2767 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the University of Hawaii from placing a financial obligation hold on a student's financial account due to an unpaid tuition balance, prior to the last day by which students are allowed to drop a course or receive a refund of tuition.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-16
To House Higher Education Committee |
| SB2096 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires department of public safety corrections division to conduct a feasibility study on transferring the inmates and operations of Oahu community correctional center to Halawa correctional facility, while maintaining the inmates and operations of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-16
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB2427 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes members of the historic places review board to visit sites without regard to open meetings requirements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-16
To Senate Higher Education and the Arts Committee |
