| SB2257 | Engross
Sine Die | Makes eligible for membership on a county arborist advisory committee certified arborists, horticulturists with specialization in trees, and persons who have received a master's degree in botany. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-18
To House Water & Land Committee |
| SB2694 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifies Hawaii's employment security law for independent contractors. Includes twenty factors to be used as guidelines when determining whether an individual could be an independent contractor. Requires the director of labor and industrial relation...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-18
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2200 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the BLNR Chairperson to transfer public land trust funds to the Kahoolawe Rehabilitation Trust Fund. Authorizes the Office of Hawaiian Affairs to expend public land trust funds for purposes consistent with those of the Kahoolawe Rehabilita...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-18
To Senate Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB2773 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the natural resource management, clean energy, and green workforce development goals of the Aloha+ Challenge. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-18
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HB2227 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to continue the operations of the Statewide Language Access Resource Center and Multilingual Website Pilot Project within the Office of Language Access. (HB2227 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-18
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB3017 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the John A. Burns School of Medicine to fund medical residency programs to help alleviate the shortage of primary care physicians in rural Oahu and neighbor island communities. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-18
To House Higher Education Committee |
| SB2030 | Engross
Sine Die | Specifies that certain types of dissemination, distribution, republication, and use of campaign materials or the financing of which by any person is not a coordinated activity and shall not be considered a contribution to a candidate. (SB2030 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-18
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2495 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires every government procurement officer to attend initial training by the State Procurement Office and the procurement workforce of any governmental body to attend follow-up training as determined by the State Procurement Office. Requires the C...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-18
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2137 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes an on-farm mentoring program to teach and train farmers to utilize a whole farm system approach to agriculture. Makes an appropriation to the department of agriculture to support existing on-farm mentoring programs and for a pilot on-farm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-18
To House Agriculture Committee |
| SB1178 | Engross
Sine Die | Increases the authorized benefit for acupuncture treatments allowed under personal injury protection benefits provided through motor vehicle insurance. (SB1178 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-18
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| SB83 | 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 such funding sh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-18
To House Higher Education Committee |
| SB2343 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits any county and the Hawaii Public Housing Authority from disqualifying a legal nonconforming dwelling unit from the Housing Choice Voucher Program if the unit meets zoning and building code requirements and other program standards, including...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-18
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2955 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows permanent resident aliens to receive a permit to acquire a firearm. Requires the issuing authority for firearms permits to perform an inquiry on an applicant using the Criminal Justice Information System (CJIS), National Law Enforcement Teleco...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-18
The committee(s) on JUD recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| SB2389 | Engross
Sine Die | Broadens the scope of health and health care data and other information submitted to the State Health Planning and Development Agency. (SB2389 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-18
To House Higher Education Committee |
| SB2438 | Engross
Sine Die | Replaces the Hawaii election campaign fund with the general revenues of the State as the funding source for the operating expenses of the campaign spending commission. Appropriates moneys to the commission for operating expenses. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-18
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2688 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits the sale of an e-liquid container for an electronic smoking device unless the container is child-resistant and prohibits the sale of an e-liquid container for an e-liquid containing nicotine unless the e-liquid packaging is labeled with war...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-18
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB1870 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides a taxpayer who hires a person totally disabled a nonrefundable tax credit for the six-month period after the individual is initially hired by the taxpayer. (HB1870 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-18
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB2677 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the submittal of electronic fingerprints for the purpose of criminal history record checks from: (1) nurse licensure applicants beginning with the July 1, 2017 licensing biennium; and (2) nurse licensure renewal applicants beginning with the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-18
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| SB2661 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifies the process, including payment obligations, mediation requirements, and triggers for further default, where a condo unit owner and association reach a payment plan to resolve a nonjudicial foreclosure. Establishes procedures providing condo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-18
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB2100 | Engross
Sine Die | Increases the number of district judges in the second judicial circuit by one. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-18
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2645 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires consideration of a defendant's knowledge that a stolen bicycle was the victim's transportation to and from work or was necessary to the victim's employment in imposing a sentence for theft of a bicycle. (HB2645 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-17
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| SB668 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides immunity from liability to DOH and its employees, agents, and volunteers for operating the clean and sober homes registry. (SB668 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB2493 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the state procurement policy board to annually review and examine procurement contracts of at least two executive department, division, or agency contracts that are over $50,000. Requires the state procurement policy board to randomly perfor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-17
To House Economic Development & Business Committee |
| SB2840 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the DOH to continue to disclose, including through electronic means, lists of names of persons whose deaths have been recorded by DOH to state agencies that maintain official lists of persons and are prohibited by federal law from sharing ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-17
To House Health Committee |
| SB2244 | Engross
Sine Die | Reduces the benefit multiplier for judges who become judges, are reappointed, or promoted after June 30, 2016. (SB2244 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2092 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Hawaii Community Development Authority to prohibit or restrict the stopping, standing, or parking of vehicles on sidewalks on private streets in the Kakaako Community Development District. (HB2092 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-17
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| HB2041 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the commission on water resource management to establish a program to provide technical assistance to the counties and public water systems to implement standardized water audits of public water systems. Makes an appropriation. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-17
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2506 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds for TruTag Technologies, Inc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-17
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2895 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the Hawaii Civil Rights Commission's Executive Director to dismiss a discrimination complaint and issue a notice of right to sue after a determination of a reasonable cause of discrimination is made and conciliation fails. Authorizes the C...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB2321 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires any state or county agency who employs personnel whose job duties require or may require intervention in a domestic violence situation to provide such employees with a minimum of eight hours of domestic violence intervention training. Makes ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB2117 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows a permanent absentee voter to temporarily receive a ballot at an alternate address for elections within an election cycle. Clarifies that certain conditions that normally lead to a termination of permanent absentee voter status do not apply if...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-17
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2032 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifies: (1) the due dates of preliminary, final, and supplemental reports to be submitted to the campaign spending commission; and (2) that the supplemental report due on January 31 must be filed every year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-17
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2250 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates revenues for repair work and resurfacing of Kalani Street, Auld Lane, and Rawlins Lane on the island of Oahu. (HB2250 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-17
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| SB2819 | Engross
Sine Die | Changes the name of the High Technology Development Corporation to Hawaii Technology Development Corporation. Effective 7/01/2016.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-17
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2791 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates moneys to the department of business, economic development, and tourism for the purpose of promoting, regulating, and administering the made in Hawaii brand program. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-17
To House Economic Development & Business Committee |
| SB2318 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the address confidentiality program to help survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking to relocate and keep their addresses confidential. Appropriates funds. (SB2318 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB2539 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a temporary special action team for the Hawaii State Hospital to address the capacity and census issues at the hospital and the development there of a new forensic facility ready for occupancy by June 30, 2019. Appropriates funds for the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-17
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2689 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the definitions of "dealer", "retailer", "wholesale price" and "wholesaler" to include electronic smoking devices and e-liquid. Establishes definitions for "disposable electronic smoking device", "electronic smoking device", "eliquid", and "re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-16
To House Health Committee |
| HB2542 | Engross
Sine Die | Directs the Auditor to audit the Plant Quarantine Branch of the Department of Agriculture. (HB2542 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-16
The recommendation was not adopted. |
| SB2026 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a Hawaii apprentice hunting license to authorize persons without a hunting license to hunt under direct supervision of a licensed hunter. (SB2026 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-16
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2023 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to designate and adopt rules for the management of no fewer than five community-based subsistence fishing areas by December 31, 2020. Establishes designation process and rule requirements. (HB2023...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-16
To Senate Water, Land, and Agriculture Committee |
| HB2546 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the Agriculture Grant Program and Agriculture Grant Program Special Fund to provide grants to qualified farmers for certain farming activities. Makes an appropriation. (HB2546 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-16
To Senate Water, Land, and Agriculture Committee |
| HB2122 | Engross
Sine Die | Increases maximum potential unemployment benefits for employees separated from service from 26 to 39 times the individual's weekly benefit amount commencing on or after March 7, 2016. Requires terminated or laid off Hawaiian Commercial and Sugar Comp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-16
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB2031 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifies that increased fines may apply if a noncandidate committee fails to timely file a second preliminary general report.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-16
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2445 | Engross
Sine Die | Permits a candidate who has filed nomination papers to use election campaign funds to make charitable donations or to award scholarships after the candidate is declared to be duly elected to office because the candidate is unopposed. (SB2445 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HCR54 | Engross
Sine Die | Encouraging Kamehameha Schools To Consider The Practice Of Land Exchanges To Facilitate The Development Of Hawaiian Homesteads In Locations That Better Serve The Hawaiian People.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-16
To Senate Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB2076 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Public Utilities Commission to establish policies and rules for the implementation of retail wheeling. Requires the Commission to report on the status of the implementation of retail wheeling annually until the implementation is complete...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-15
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| HB2237 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Department of Health to support the revision of the State Integrated Solid Waste Management Plan, based on the goal of achieving zero waste. (HB2237 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-15
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2418 | Engross
Sine Die | Proposes an amendment to article V, section 6, of the Hawaii State Constitution to provide that the attorney general be elected as a nonpartisan elected official rather than appointed by the governor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-15
Notice of bill proposing constitutional amendment transmitted to Governor pursuant to Article XVII, Section 3 (Sen. Com. No. 2). |
| HB1909 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the provisions for equal pay and sex discrimination for substantially similar work. Clarifies employer defenses. Prohibits employer actions regarding wage disclosure and applicant wage histories. Requires that employer advertisements include m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-15
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
