| HB1326 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for a market study to evaluate and assess the feasibility of developing a basalt fiber facility in Hawaii. (HB1326 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-22
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1489 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits a state agency or program or activity receiving state financial assistance from excluding from participation, denying benefits to, or discriminating against a qualified individual by reason of disability, sex, including gender identity or e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-22
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| HB377 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires building permit applicants to provide to the county a certificate of liability insurance issued by a workers' compensation insurance carrier or a self-insurance authorization, or a signed declaration verifying an exemption from coverage, for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-22
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| HB1305 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the construction of a westbound shoulder lane on the H-1 freeway between the Kunia/Waipahu/Ewa (Exit 5) off-ramp and the Kualakai parkway on-ramp. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-22
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB840 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Auditor to conduct a performance audit of the Department of Land and Natural Resources, Land Division. Appropriates funds for necessary staff positions. (HB840 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-22
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HB470 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the Board of Education to contract for private groundskeeping services for public library properties. (HB470 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-22
To Senate Education Committee |
| HB1172 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes property owner liability for illegal aerial devices possessed or set off on their property by others. Allows probable cause for fireworks offenses to be established from statements from witnesses and photographs, video, and other recordin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-22
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| HB946 | Engross
Sine Die | Specifies that an unauthorized person who drives in a high occupancy vehicle lane shall be subject to a $150 fine. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-22
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| HB783 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the department of agriculture to establish a two-year agricultural theft and vandalism pilot project to examine the effectiveness of prosecuting agricultural theft and agricultural vandalism in the county of Hawaii. Appropriates funds. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-22
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| HB232 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifies the allowable scope of collective bargaining negotiations regarding the rights and obligations of a public employer. Takes effect 1/7/2059. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-22
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB646 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows individuals who are blind or visually handicapped to apply for and obtain a removable windshield placard to use a parking space reserved for persons with disabilities. (HB646 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-22
The committee on HMS deferred the measure. |
| HB456 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires police departments to disclose to the Legislature the identity of an officer upon the officer's second suspension in a five-year period or discharge. Requires disclosure under the Uniform Information Practices Act after a police officer's se...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-22
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| HB1181 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires an opioid therapy informed consent process agreement to be executed between an injured employee and any prescriber of opioids under certain conditions. Requires the harm reduction services branch of the department of health to develop and ma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-22
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| HB113 | Engross
Sine Die | Exempts vehicles transporting asphalt or other high temperature loads from the requirement that their loads be covered; provided that the physical characteristics of the load are not susceptible to blowing off during transport. (HB113 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-22
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB961 | Engross
Sine Die | Excludes for state income tax purposes a portion of income earned by farmers who grow or raise food or valueadded food products and whose annual gross income does not exceed a certain amount. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2017. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-21
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB728 | Engross
Sine Die | Expands the agricultural products general excise tax exemption to include additional types of agricultural products. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2017. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-21
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1248 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the establishment of a NELHA microgrid demonstration project for the generation, storage, and distribution of renewable energy on property controlled by NELHA. (HB1248 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-21
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| HB643 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the Director of Finance to issue general obligation bonds to finance capital improvements to the Waiahole Irrigation System.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-21
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB594 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes within the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism the Maritime Industry Grant Program to enhance maritime productivity and workforce development. Takes effect 1/7/2059. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-21
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1208 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for two full-time equivalent (2.0 FTE) enforcement specialist IV positions to be primarily responsible for the enforcement of Hawaii's workers' compensation, temporary disability insurance, and prepaid health care laws. Takes effec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-21
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB446 | Engross
Sine Die | Makes an appropriation for the acquisition of land, planning, design, and construction of an agricultural park in South Maui. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-21
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1330 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes common interest agricultural communities. (HB1330 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-20
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HB1310 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the Waiakea Peninsula Redevelopment District, Planning Committee, and Revolving Fund. (HB1310 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-20
To Senate Economic Development, Tourism, and Technology Committee |
| HB481 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Agriculture to establish a pilot pesticide treatment coupon project for the county of Hawaii. Requires report to the Legislature on project implementation. Appropriates funds. Takes effect 1/28/2081. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-17
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1544 | Engross
Sine Die | Adds increasing the production of food intended for human consumption that is produced and sold in the State to the list of acts that the Department of Agriculture must undertake as part of its statutorily-established responsibility of administering ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-17
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1395 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a temporary Kalihi 21st Century Commission in the Office of Planning. Requires the Commission to develop a community development plan for the development of the Kalihi area on Oahu. (HB1395 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-17
To Senate Economic Development, Tourism, and Technology Committee |
| HB1359 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows each county to enact and enforce ordinances necessary to prevent, investigate, control, or eradicate invasive species identified by the Hawaii invasive species council on any public or private premises within the limits of the county. (HB1359 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-17
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HB891 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Agriculture, in cooperation with the office of the governor, to develop a strategic plan to double local food production and exports by 2020. Requires the Department of Agriculture to submit the strategic plan to the legisl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-17
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB717 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits a commissioned notary public from accepting a limited purpose driver's license for verification of identification. (HB717 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-17
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| HB1249 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to convene a working group to develop standards for reporting energy consumption to facilitate comparisons of energy consumption and costs by consumers and homebuyers. (HB1249 HD3...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-17
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| HB618 | Engross
Sine Die | Sets a deadline for the transfer of certain non-agricultural park lands from the Department of Land and Natural Resources to the Department of Agriculture. (HB618 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-17
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HB420 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the designation of "one hundred per cent disabled veteran" on drivers' licenses, instruction permits, and civil identification cards. (HB420 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| HB1417 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency to develop a post-disaster fresh drinking water security plan. Makes an appropriation. Requires a report to the legislature prior to the regular session of 2018. (HB1417 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HB1550 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes within HPHA the Section 8 Voucher Homebuyer Assistance Program for recipients of federal Section 8 Housing Choice vouchers. Authorizes issuance of revenue bonds. Authorizes HPHA to make downpayment loans to eligible borrowers. Establishes...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HB1142 | Engross
Sine Die | Adds the offense of criminal trespass onto State Department of Transportation lands to the penal code.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-15
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| HB959 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Auditor to conduct a management and financial audit of the Agribusiness Development Corporation. (HB959 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-15
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HB1507 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Transportation to establish a Community Crosswalks Pilot Program to design and implement specially painted crosswalk in neighborhoods. Appropriates funds for the pilot program. Creates a Community Crosswalks Pilot Program S...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-15
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| HB1484 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the offense of assault in the second degree if a person intentionally or knowingly causes bodily injury to a health care professional, as defined in section 451D-2, Hawaii Revised Statutes, who is engaged in the performance of duty at the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-14
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| HB193 | Engross
Sine Die | Increases the value amounts applicable to qualifying for an exemption from attachment or execution of real and personal property. Exempts one month of child support and spousal support in the possession of the debtor-recipient of support from attachm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| HB302 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows district, circuit, or family court to issue a material witness order in cases initiated through felony complaint, indictment, or information. (HB302 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| HB1301 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides that a person or entity that is determined by the Hawaii Invasive Species Council to have introduced an invasive species into the State may be strictly liable for all or part of the expenses to eradicate the invasive species from the State. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HB455 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits the Department of Agriculture from charging agricultural producers for the costs of food safety certification activities conducted by the department. (HB455 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HB314 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a new chapter to regulate the use of unmanned aerial vehicles. Establishes prohibited uses of unmanned aerial vehicles for individuals, law enforcement agencies, and public agencies. Provides certain exceptions for the use of unmanned aer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| HB218 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires every public notice of a public sale of mortgaged property to be published three times in a newspaper, on a state website, and in a conspicuous location on the mortgaged property or unit. (HB218 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-10
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| HB553 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides that the court may appoint one qualified examiner instead of three, to evaluate a criminal defendant's fitness to proceed or regaining fitness to proceed in all penal cases and removes the requirement that examiner shall be from within the D...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-10
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| HB1567 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the Public Utilities Commission to establish preferential electricity rates for communities that serve as geographic hosts for energy projects. Requires an energy project developer to work collaboratively with a host community to develop a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| HB152 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Public Utilities Commission to explore the feasibility of retail wheeling in Hawaii, report to the Legislature, and, if retail wheeling is deemed feasible and in the public and consumer interest, to submit proposed implementation plans a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| HB534 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates moneys for Hawaii Public Housing Authority to hire an additional security guard to improve security and monitoring at the Alu Street gate of Kalihi Valley Homes public housing. (HB534 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HB589 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Judiciary to retain mental health services and substance abuse treatment for the Hawaii's Opportunity Probation with Enforcement program, which is an intensive supervisory program for persons on probation. (HB589 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| HB80 | Engross
Sine Die | Imposes a restraining order that preserves the financial assets of the parties and their dependents upon the commencement of annulment, divorce, or separation court action. (HB80 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
