| HB2417 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds the Chair of the Board of Land and Natural Resources and Director of Transportation as members of the Hawaii Interagency Council on Homelessness.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-12
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB1222 | Intro
Sine Die | Expands the scope of the Hawaiian language college revolving fund at the University of Hawaii at Hilo to include funds generated by the Hawaiian language college, Hawaiian language support center, and indigenous outreach program through fees for serv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-12
To House Higher Education Committee |
| HB2511 | Intro
Sine Die | Conforms the current renewable energy technology systems tax credit with federal renewable energy tax credits. Applies to taxable years beginning after December 31, 2016. (HB2511 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-12
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB2365 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Hawaii State Health Insurance Programs. Requires the Department of Human Services to develop and administer outreach as required by the Affordable Care Act. Establishes the Affordable Care Act Legislative Oversight Committee. Repeals ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-12
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| SB2093 | Intro
Sine Die | Restores the allocation of conveyance tax collections to the rental housing revolving fund to 50%.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-12
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB2756 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Hawaii Port Authority. Empowers the Authority to administer a statewide system of small airports. Appropriates funds. (HB2756 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-12
To House Water & Land Committee |
| SB2377 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates moneys to the department of agriculture for planning and engineering studies and designs for construction of water source development, renewable energy sources for agricultural development and delivery, and a reservoir to service the agr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-12
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1844 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts kalo farm cooperative marketing sites from county zoning restrictions. Makes protection of kalo farming an agricultural planning objective of the State. Establishes Income Tax and GET exemptions for taro production and manufacturing. (HB1844 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-12
To House Water & Land Committee |
| SB2194 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires each county police department and all state departments and agencies having law enforcement divisions or law enforcement functions to report crime data to the department of the attorney general for transmission to the Federal Bureau of Inves...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-12
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| HB2255 | 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] | 2016-02-12
To House Health Committee |
| HB1626 | Intro
Sine Die | Removes the Department of Transportation's authority to confer police powers to persons performing services at airports under contract with the department. Clarifies that private detectives and private guards are prohibited from self-identifying as a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-12
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB3019 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the issuance of new building permits unless it is established that the building will be furnished with equipment that allows for the collection and use of gray water for irrigation. Provides for exemptions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-12
To Senate Water, Land, and Agriculture Committee |
| HB2706 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies requirements for licensure as a dental hygienist. Prohibits dental assistants from performing certain intra-oral functions and related activities. (HB2706 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-12
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| SB2612 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the licensure of school psychologists in both the public and private sectors of employment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-12
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB2352 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires any environmental assessments and environmental impact statements for any major infrastructure improvement project or major construction project in any coastal lands to include an analysis of the environmental impact of projected sea level r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-12
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| HB868 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows certain individuals to engage in the practice of behavior analysis when this practice is done in a public educational setting; provided that the individual cannot use any title or description stating or implying that the individual is a "licen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-12
To House Health Committee |
| SB2902 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the current rate of the liveaboard fee for state small boat harbors and clarifies that the liveaboard fee may be increased or decreased by rule adopted by the department of land and natural resources pursuant to chapter 91, Hawaii Revised S...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-12
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1766 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds deer to the list of animals included in the theft of livestock offense.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-12
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HB1883 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for a permanent full-time associate professor and permanent full-time assistant specialist position within the University of Hawaii Center on Aging. (HB1883 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-12
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2597 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes maximum student enrollment per school class for various types of public school classrooms beginning with the 2020-2021 school year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-12
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB2155 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the employees' retirement system to divest its investment portfolio of coal, oil, and gas companies within five years and to report certain information to the legislature. Effective January 7, 2059. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-12
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1816 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the department of human services to disregard subsidies received directly by an applicant or recipient or payments made on behalf of or directly to an applicant or recipient of public assistance from the section 8 housing voucher program of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-12
To House Human Services Committee |
| SB2386 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires Department of Education schools and charter schools to post informational signs that include the Department of Human Services phone number for reporting abuse and neglect.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-12
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB2167 | Intro
Sine Die | Updates fee provisions relating to financial institutions. Effective 7/1/2112. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-12
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2046 | Intro
Sine Die | Transfers all state land leased by the United States Army to state DOD by June 30, 2017. Requires DOD to submit a report to the legislature.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-12
To House Water & Land Committee |
| SB3028 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Maunalua Bay task force to study and develop recommendations for the Maunalua Bay master plan.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-12
To Senate Water, Land, and Agriculture Committee |
| HB1588 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a Rail Business Interruption Fund to help small businesses struggling with economic loss directly related to rail construction. Appropriates funds for the implementation of the Fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-12
To House Economic Development & Business Committee |
| HB2733 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends laws affecting the public education system in Hawaii, including whole child education, special education, vocational education, facilities, weighted student formula, teacher recruitment and retention, standardized testing, early childhood educ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-12
To House Education Committee |
| HB1707 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Insurance Commissioner and health insurers, mutual benefit societies, and health maintenance organizations to make public disclosure of rate filings information prior to a rate increase. (HB1707 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-12
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB2168 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows lessors of rental motor vehicles to pass on to lessees a vehicle license recovery fee with some exceptions. Defines vehicle license recovery fee. (HB2168 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-12
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB686 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits propagating, cultivating, or farming genetically engineered fish in state marine waters and selling, attempting to sell, or possessing genetically engineered fish. (HB686 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-12
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HB1657 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a notice of preparation pilot program requiring the Office of Hawaiian Affairs to ensure that notice is posted at any site impacted by an action taken by it alone or in partnership with another state or county agency, prior to the draftin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-12
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB1584 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes each county to levy and collect an 8.25 to 9.25 per cent monthly surcharge on the transient accommodations tax. (HB1584 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2674 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the regulated industries complaints office to establish a division that specializes in medical cases involving regulated professions and occupations. Appropriates funds for field investigator and staff attorney positions who specialize in me...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB3065 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the department of land and natural resources to establish a system that requires users of Kaena point state park and Kaena point natural area reserve to log in and receive educational information about protected resources of the area. Appr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2050 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the joint campus of the John A. Burns school of medicine and the University of Hawaii cancer center as the Hawaii health sciences campus at the University of Hawaii at Kakaako, to be an administratively separate branch of the University o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To Senate Higher Education and the Arts Committee |
| SB2692 | Intro
Sine Die | Imposes an excise tax equal to eighty per cent of the wholesale price of any tobacco product, other than large cigars, sold by a wholesaler or dealer on and after January 1, 2017, whether or not sold at wholesale, or if not sold then at the same rate...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2381 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for maintenance dredging of the Kihei Boat Ramp.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2195 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the director of public safety to annually submit to the legislature and post on the department of public safety's public website reports on misconduct incidents that resulted in suspension or discharge of an employee having police powers. Ex...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB2471 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the issuance of GO bonds and appropriates moneys for the design and construction of a new state mental health hospital to replace the Hawaii state hospital in Kaneohe. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB2358 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the definition of "developmental disabilities" in section 333F-1, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to include children from birth to age nine who have substantial developmental delay or specific congenital or acquired condition and without services an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To House Human Services Committee |
| SB2534 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a simplified regulatory process and procurement mechanism for the public utility commission to review public purpose projects and direct public utilities to procure electricity and fuel from the public purpose projects at a rate authorize...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| HB2591 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the University of Hawaii system to allocate fifty acres of land for a creative media technology campus at the West Oahu Campus. Requires specific entities to enter into a memorandum of agreement to design, plan, and develop the creative medi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To House Higher Education Committee |
| SB2285 | Intro
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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1630 | Intro
Sine Die | Supplements the procedure for clearing titles by adding a reference to recorded assignments of leases and rents for which the underlying debt has been satisfied. (HB1630 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| SB1114 | Intro
Sine Die | Extends the date by which the Department of Health must post inspection reports for state-licensed care facilities by six months and increases the number of days to post the reports, as recommended by a legislative task force.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To Senate Human Services Committee |
| HB2588 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes term limits on board of director members for planned community associations and condominiums. Establishes exceptions to term limits.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB2771 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that rental housing project developers who receive tax and law exemptions and fail to complete a project pay a penalty of no less than the tax exemption amount and comply with the exempted laws. (HB2771 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB956 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides the Board of Land and Natural Resources discretion to grant easements for less than fair market value for structures that were authorized by a governmental authority and legally constructed landward of the shoreline within the record boundar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB1877 | 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] | 2016-02-11
To House Finance Committee |
