| HB1566 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes "substantial net benefit" as the public utilities commission's standard for a merger involving an electric public utility and allows the commission to establish reasonable criteria to determine whether a "substantial net benefit" exists i... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09 To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| HB1541 | Engross
Sine Die | Specifies that the legislative allowance for Oahu-based members' required travel within the State shall be equal to the federal Department of Defense flat rate per diem amount for temporary duty of the same duration in the applicable locality. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09 To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| HB77 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Legislative Reference Bureau to study the feasibility and cost effect of establishing an Office of Administrative Hearings that conducts administrative hearings for the State's executive branch agencies. A report of findings and recommen... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09 To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| HB1184 | Engross
Sine Die | Replaces criminal penalties for certain airport offenses addressed in Chapter 261, Hawaii Revised Statutes, or in certain administrative rules or orders issued pursuant thereto, with a civil penalty. (HB1184 HD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09 To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| HB145 | Engross
Sine Die | Restores the deduction for state taxes paid for taxpayers with income above specified thresholds. Establishes limitations on claims for itemized tax deductions, based on taxpayer's federal adjusted gross income. (HB145 HD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09 To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB593 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides that, notwithstanding provisions of the Internal Revenue Code to the contrary, the amount of the state tax credit for research activities shall be calculated based on all qualified research expenses for the taxable year. Appropriates funds f... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09 To Senate Economic Development, Tourism, and Technology Committee |
| HB1570 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires lessors of rental motor vehicles to include an option for the lessee in the motor vehicle rental agreement to contribute a sum to DLNR for the preservation and protection of the environment, commencing on January 1, 2020. (HB1570 HD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09 To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| HB1421 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a regulatory scheme for roofing contractors to protect consumers from unlicensed insurance adjusters. (HB1421 HD2) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09 To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| HB690 | Engross
Sine Die | Decreases income tax rates by approximately 25 percent for all but the top income earners. Reinstates higher income tax brackets and rates similar to those that were repealed on 12/31/2015. (HB690 HD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09 To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB164 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifies laws regarding an arbitrator's failure to disclose certain facts prior to or during arbitration. (HB164 HD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09 To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| HB207 | Engross
Sine Die | Expands the low income-household renters' income tax credit based on adjusted gross income and filing status. (HB207 HD2) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09 To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB865 | Engross
Sine Die | Makes Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA) employees subject to civil service and collective bargaining rights. Gives OHA voting rights as a public employer. (HB865 HD2) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09 To Senate Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB617 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the requirements that any plan of land for deregistered land must meet for recordation at the bureau of conveyances. Requires that any plan of land that involves deregistered land that is filed with the registrar of conveyances must be ac... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09 To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HB998 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the DLNR to allow bottomfish fishing in six of the Bottomfish Restricted Fishing Areas and to amend any administrative rules to provide that any restriction on fishing shall be based on scientific evidence of environmental necessity. (HB998 ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09 To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HB932 | Engross
Sine Die | Gradually increases the credit amounts and amends the income brackets of the refundable food/excise tax credit. Repeals the sunset date of Act 223, SLH 2015, which amended the food/excise tax credit. (HB932 HD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09 To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB795 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for certification of a reforestation carbon project at Haleakala, Maui, operated by DLNR, under an established forest carbon standard certification system. Requires DLNR to submit an annual report on the project certification to th... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09 To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HB556 | Engross
Sine Die | Repeals the requirement that all applicants for health and human services procurement contracts possess all licenses necessary to conduct the subject business. Repeals the requirement that all contracts include only costs, fees, and taxes reflected o... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09 To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| HB888 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the LRB to study the feasibility of providing health benefits to state and county employees using a self-insured model. Makes an appropriation. (HB888 HD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09 To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| HB476 | Engross
Sine Die | Makes abuse of a family or household member who is younger than fourteen years of age a class C felony. (HB476 HD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09 To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| HB814 | Engross
Sine Die | Adopts uniform laws on protecting the online accounts of employees and students from employers and educational institutions, respectively. (HB814 HD2) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09 To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| HB337 | Engross
Sine Die | Makes a housekeeping amendment to broaden the standards that peer review reports under section 466-36, HRS, must be performed in accordance with. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09 To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| HB1508 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a demonstration project for building energy efficiency designs within the Department of Transportation. Requires all state buildings built or renovated after July 1, 2020, to incorporate certain energy efficient practices. Appropriates sp... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09 To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| HB415 | Engross
Sine Die | Extends the period during which a victim of child sexual abuse may bring an otherwise time-barred civil action against the victim's abuser or an entity with a duty of care. (HB415 HD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09 To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| HB773 | Engross
Sine Die | Makes modifications to the Industrial Hemp Pilot Program by permitting submission of a license application at any time during the year in which the applicant plans to grow industrial hemp, amending physical facility requirements, and repealing the re... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09 To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HB1354 | Engross
Sine Die | Specifies that the per diem legislative allowance for legislators who reside on an island other than Oahu shall be equal to the federal Department of Defense flat rate per diem amount for temporary duty on Oahu. Authorizes a similar allowance to cove... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09 To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| HB1384 | Engross
Sine Die | Extends the prohibition that prevents the counties from requiring fire sprinklers in specific family dwelling units and nonresidential agricultural and aquacultural buildings. (HB1384 HD3) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09 To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HB146 | Engross
Sine Die | Adopts moving date conformity, which will allow changes in the Federal Internal Revenue Code to automatically apply to State income tax law. (HB146 HD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09 To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB386 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the two-year extension of the Post-Bypass Beach Monitoring Program of the Kikiaola Small Boat Harbor Sand Bypass Operation at Waimea, Kauai. (HB386 HD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09 To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HB644 | 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] | 2017-03-09 To Senate Economic Development, Tourism, and Technology Committee |
| HB1012 | Engross
Sine Die | Temporarily disallows the deduction for dividends paid by real estate investment trusts for a period of 15 years, but with an exception for dividends generated from trust-owned housing that is affordable to households with incomes at or below 140 per... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09 To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| HB1025 | Engross
Sine Die | Imposes a fine against any employer who fails to comply with income withholding requirements applicable to child and spousal support, or discharges, refuses to employ, or takes disciplinary action against a person because the person is subject to inc... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09 To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| HB670 | Engross
Sine Die | Creates the Hawaii Working Family Tax Credit, a refundable credit capped at 10 percent of the federal earned income tax credit. (HB670 HD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09 To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB911 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the High Technology Development Corporation to establish and administer a High Technology Shared Equipment Program to allow companies to share high technology equipment. Appropriates funds. (HB911 HD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09 To Senate Economic Development, Tourism, and Technology Committee |
| HB179 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes ranked choice voting for special elections for Congressional races. (HB179 HD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09 To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| HB522 | Engross
Sine Die | Transfers title, custody, and control of two parcels of land identified as Tax Map Key No. 370120070000 and Tax Map Key No. 370040030000, from the State of Hawaii to the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation. (HB522 HD2) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09 To Senate Housing Committee |
| HB738 | Engross
Sine Die | Includes fuel cell electric vehicles in the definition of "electric vehicles" for purposes of parking exemptions, HOV lane use, registration, and required parking spaces in places of public accommodation. Grants procurement priority for fuel cell ele... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09 To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| HB1270 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires BLNR to enter into negotiations to acquire the property identified as Tax Map Key: (3) 6-8-001:030 Kamuela, Hawaii. Appropriation. (HB1270 HD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09 To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HB1474 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the Industrial Hemp Special Fund. Provides that agricultural land utilized to grow industrial hemp shall qualify for the minimum dedication period and be assessed at the lowest percentage of fair market value. Clarifies that the cultivati... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09 To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HB1448 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Education to provide free school meals to children who are eligible for free or reduced-price school meals, based on the United States Department of Agriculture's most current income eligibility guidelines. Appropriates fun... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09 To Senate Education Committee |
| HB1415 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes additional performance bond requirements for surety companies and bond companies under the Hawaii Public Procurement Code. Establishes conditions for releasing or terminating the obligations of a payment bond. (HB1415 HD2) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09 To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| HB1308 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Auditor to conduct a study, including a cost analysis, on the necessity and feasibility of establishing an agency within the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs to regulate homeowners associations, and to submit a report of its p... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09 To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| HB457 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a community court outreach project in the City and County of Honolulu, subject to the availability of funds and memoranda of agreements from the Judiciary, Prosecuting Attorney, and the Public Defender. Appropriates funds. (HB457 HD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09 To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| HB894 | Engross
Sine Die | Exempts individuals selling only insurance for property stored at a self-service storage facility from obtaining a license as an insurance producer provided that specific requirements are met. (HB894 HD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09 To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| HB95 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the licensing procedures of the industrial hemp pilot program by allowing applicants to apply for a license at any time during the year in which the applicant plans to grow industrial hemp. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09 To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HB725 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Transportation to establish a weigh in motion and axle scale system at all commercial harbor facilities. Requires maritime cargo carriers to report to the Department containers or loads subject to highway weight restriction... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09 To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| HB486 | Engross
Sine Die | Eliminates the mortgage interest deduction for second homes under the Hawaii Income Tax Law. Specifies that the revenue gain attributable to this measure be deposited into the Rental Housing Revolving Fund. Requires the Department of Budget and Finan... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09 To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB887 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the Rate Stabilization Reserve Fund within the Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund to help subsidize the costs of providing health and other benefit plans for active employees and retirees and their beneficiaries. Caps employ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09 To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| HB491 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes and funds a two-year pilot school sidewalk maintenance and repair program that requires counties to maintain and repair sidewalks in school zones or other areas of significant school related pedestrian traffic. Requires each county to rep... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09 To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HB54 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits the Chairperson of BLNR from adopting any rule with respect to a small boat harbor where a marine fueling station has been established that requires the exclusive fueling of vessels from that station only. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09 To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HB172 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes a property owner or agent to enter adjacent property under certain conditions to eradicate albizia trees before they become hazardous. Provides defense to criminal prosecution. (HB172 HD2) [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09 To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |