| HB76 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for severance benefits for separated employees affected by Act 103, SLH 2015, as may be negotiated through collective bargaining supplemental agreements. Takes effect 1/7/2059. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-24
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1466 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a Youth Advisory Commission within the Office of Youth Services to advise the Governor and Legislature on the effects of legislative policies, needs, assessments, priorities, programs, and budgets relating to youth. Appropriates funds. (S...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-24
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1084 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the appointment process of certain members of the Hawaii Tourism Authority's (Authority) Board of Directors (Board). Clarifies the Authority's reporting and disclosure of specific information. Requires the Board to develop policies and procedu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-24
To House Finance Committee |
| HB669 | Engross
Sine Die | Streamlines the reporting requirements of the Department of Human Services (DHS)and the family courts to require DHS, upon direction of the court, to provide the family court with an oral or written report regarding the safety of a minor child of the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-24
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB1298 | Engross
Sine Die | Removes the one-year residency requirement for all appointed officers who are department heads and deputies or assistants to a department head. (SB1298 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-24
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB836 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows the department of education to offer voluntary training for teachers and educational officers on sex trafficking prevention. Requires the department to provide explanatory information about sex trafficking prevention and response to teachers a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-24
To House Finance Committee |
| SB1239 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for research on prevention and mitigation of Rapid Ohia Death. Effective 3/9/2092. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-24
To House Finance Committee |
| HB693 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Department of Human Services for the operational costs of an organization providing prevention, intervention, and group and individual counseling for high risk youth. Takes effect 1/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-24
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB663 | Engross
Sine Die | Increases the fines for speeding violations occurring in a school zone or construction area. (SB663 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-24
To House Finance Committee |
| SB1177 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes common interest agricultural communities. Exempts offers or dispositions of interests of land registered as common interest agricultural community from the uniform land sales practices act. Takes effect 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-24
To House Finance Committee |
| SB553 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes allocation of supplemental categorical funding to remote schools, subject to legislative appropriation. Appropriates funds. (SB553 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-24
To House Finance Committee |
| SB1077 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifies that a mutual benefit society shall maintain a minimum net worth calculated based on gross annual premium revenues and gross annual health care expenditures. Requires gross annual premium revenues and gross annual health care expenditures t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-24
To House Finance Committee |
| SB298 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a Workforce Readiness Program within the Department of Education to allow students to graduate from an extended high school enrollment with a high school diploma and an industry-recognized associate's degree. Appropriates moneys to develo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-24
To House Finance Committee |
| SB975 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a misdemeanor offense for unauthorized sale or purchase of a disability parking permit. Clarifies law enforcement authority to confiscate altered, invalid, or unauthorized disability parking permits. (SB975 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-24
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB1292 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides for the redevelopment of the Hilo area by establishing the framework, requirements, and conditions for redevelopment districts and specifically designating the Waiakea Peninsula Redevelopment District, appropriates funds for the implementati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-24
To House Finance Committee |
| HB660 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the infrastructure development loan subaccount within the dwelling unit revolving fund to make loans to developers to finance the costs of the infrastructure of housing developments. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2030. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-24
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1240 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Department of Human Services for the coordinated statewide homeless initiative, subject to certain conditions. Takes effect 7/1/2030. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-24
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB306 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifies that projects that contain a combination of time share interests, transient vacation rentals, and private residential units located in the same project are required to provide basic documents that will enable an owner to sell the owner's ti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-24
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB394 | Engross
Sine Die | Creates criminal penalties for real estate brokers for improper deposit, segregation, or disposition of client trust account funds. Requires the principal broker to report the client trust account number and name of the managing institution to the re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-24
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB1300 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Hawaii institute of marine biology at UH to conduct ongoing studies of the environmental impacts of sewage spills on affected coral reefs. Requires the institute of marine biology to submit an annual report to the legislature prior to th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-24
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1255 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds to provide financing to assist Honokaa Land Company, LLC, with acquiring, developing, and renovating various agricultural facilities and structures. (SB1255 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-24
To House Finance Committee |
| SB245 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires each unit of government of the State and its political subdivisions to exercise reasonable care in the maintenance of all government records under its control that are required to be made available for public inspection. (SB245 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-24
To House Finance Committee |
| SB389 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes speed limits for Hawaii Route 3000, also known as the Lahaina Bypass or the Honoapiilani Highway Bypass. (SB389 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-24
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB720 | Engross
Sine Die | Makes an appropriation for the concussion monitoring and educational program for school athletics, concussion and awareness program for youth athletic activities, and administration of a concussion and awareness program for youth athletics. (SB720 HD...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-24
To House Finance Committee |
| HB233 | Engross
Sine Die | Offers employees of the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation whose positions will be abolished or directly affected by a reduction-in-force, workforce restructuring plan, or privatization the choice of receiving both special retirement benefits and volu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-24
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1288 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds to assist HPC Foods, Ltd., to fund multi-project capital improvement programs, the construction of facilities, and other processing activities. (SB1288 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-24
To House Finance Committee |
| SB872 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows the State Ethics Commission to employ or retain its own attorneys. Takes effect on 1/7/2059. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-24
To House Finance Committee |
| SB857 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes that employers shall pay all workers' compensation claims for compensable injuries and shall not deny claims without reasonable cause or during a pending investigation. Creates a presumption of compensability for claims submitted by emplo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-24
To House Finance Committee |
| SB887 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a prepaid wireless E911 surcharge of 1.5 per cent of prepaid wireless service purchased at the point of sale. Allows sellers to deduct and retain 3 per cent of the surcharges collected to offset administrative expenses, but requires selle...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-24
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1481 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a working group to study the uses of and determine best practices regarding blockchain technology. Effective 7/1/2038. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-24
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Auditor, with the assistance of the Department of Human Services, to conduct a study to assess the impact of using Medicaid funds to provide coverage for the treatment for homelessness. Requires the Auditor to submit a report to the Legi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-24
To House Finance Committee |
| SB404 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires sellers of electronic smoking devices or eliquid to obtain a retail tobacco permit or dealer or wholesale license. Increases the license fee for wholesalers or dealers and the retail tobacco permit fee. Applies the cigarette and tobacco prod...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-24
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1281 | Engross
Sine Die | Part I: Establishes a three-year Homeless Employment Pilot Program that provides homeless individuals with work opportunities and connects them with service providers. Requires the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to submit a report to th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-24
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB490 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows the circuit court or family court to issue a material witness order in cases initiated through felony complaint, indictment, or information. Takes effect on 1/7/2059. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-24
To House Finance Committee |
| SB798 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a temporary telecommuting task force to develop incentives and recommendations to encourage and expand telecommuting opportunities in the public and private sectors. (SB798 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-24
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1304 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires a permit from the Department of Land and Natural Resources before holding a regatta, marine parade, or surfing contest. Requires permit applications to be submitted up to one year and at least forty-five days before the start of the proposed...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-24
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB698 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires an owner or occupier of agricultural land to notify the Land Use Commission of the agricultural uses for which land was subdivided. Grants the Commission enforcement authority over conditions, restrictions, uses, and subdivision of agricultu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-24
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB251 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes an exemption from the prohibition against using election campaign funds to make charitable donations or to award scholarships during the period from the filing of nomination papers to the date of the general election, for candidates who a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-24
To House Finance Committee |
| SB783 | Engross
Sine Die | Repeals the provision that makes claiming of the Important Agricultural Land Qualified Agricultural Cost Tax Credit contingent upon the tax credit for the aquarium and marine science research facility at Ko Olina Resort and the training and education...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-24
To House Finance Committee |
| SB848 | Engross
Sine Die | Expands the Hawaiian Language College's functions. Authorizes a Hawaiian language medium general education coursework pilot project. Supports the development of an implementation plan for Hawaiian language instruction throughout the University of Haw...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-24
To House Finance Committee |
| SB1070 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides a bidder of a public works construction project with two hours after the closing of bids to clarify and correct certain information regarding subcontractors. Prohibits bid shopping and bid peddling for the competitive sealed bidding process....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-24
To House Finance Committee |
| SB1099 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a mark licensing agreement program within the Department of Education. Authorizes the Department to register trademarks and service marks for department programs and individual department schools and enter into licensing agreements for th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-24
To House Finance Committee |
| HB121 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument Program within the Department of Land and Natural Resources Division of Aquatic Resources to coordinate and fulfill the State's co-management role with OHA and federal authorities. Makes an a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-24
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB804 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires disclosure of commercial agriculture pesticide use under specified conditions. Revises the ceiling and use of the Pesticide Use Revolving Fund. Appropriates funds for the John A. Burns School of Medicine to study the exposure of Chlorpyrifos...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-24
To House Finance Committee |
| SB1229 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides that the environmental courts shall not have exclusive jurisdiction over any proceedings relating to parking violations under certain administrative rules and laws. (SB1229 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-24
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1279 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the University of Hawaii West Oahu to expand its existing programs and develop new means to increase food security and self-sufficiency in the State. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-24
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB287 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires all health insurers, including health benefits plans under chapter 87A, HRS, to disclose on, or have accessible through, their public web sites any medical policies used for making preauthorization decisions. (SB287 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-24
To House Finance Committee |
| SB996 | Engross
Sine Die | Permits the use of lie detector tests and psychological tests by a corrections agency for employment purposes. (SB996 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-24
To House Finance Committee |
| SB417 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides that informal adjustment shall be prioritized over formal action for a child under family court jurisdiction solely as a result of truancy. (SB417 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-24
To House Finance Committee |
| HB913 | Engross
Sine Die | Improves access for firefighters to comprehensive medical coverage and service-connected disability retirement benefits upon diagnosis with or death from cancer that is presumed to arise out of and in the course of employment. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-24
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
