| HB630 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for county drought mitigation projects and measures. Appropriates funds for one full-time equivalent permanent planner IV position within the Commission on Water Resource Management to update the Hawaii drought plan. Effective 3/15...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-23
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB14 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the employment of lifeguards and for necessary equipment to be used by state lifeguards in their work at Kua Bay, Kekaha Kai State Park in North Kona on the island of Hawaii. Effective March 15, 2099. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-23
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1306 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes and funds a State Public-Private Partnership Coordinator position within the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to manage public-private partnerships entered into by the State and associated contracts, proposals, an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1276 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides an additional state income tax deduction of up to $5,000 per year for student loan interest paid on qualified education loans. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-23
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1438 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates moneys for the commemoration of the centennial anniversary of World War I. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-23
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1587 | Engross
Sine Die | Increases state fuel taxes by unspecified amounts. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-23
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB432 | Engross
Sine Die | Makes financial exploitation of an elder by a caregiver a class A felony. Defines "caregiver", "elder", and "financial exploitation". Effective 7/1/2075. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-23
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| HB634 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds to the Board of Water Supply to upgrade Nuuanu reservoir #1 to meet state dam safety standards, as a component of the Nuuanu hydroelectricity project. Effective 1/28/2081. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-23
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB195 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates moneys from the general fund for two specialist II positions within the Hawaii teacher standards board. (SB195 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| HB875 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for 5 full-time equivalent (5.00 FTE) temporary student intern II positions within the state historic preservation division. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-23
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB499 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifies the definition of "underserved" or "at-risk" children as it relates to the priority given to these children for the Preschool Open Doors program. Provides that priority among undeserved or at-risk children shall be given to children whose f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-23
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB558 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Department of Land and Natural Resources' Division of Forestry and Wildlife for invasive species technician positions to control invasive plants and animals statewide. (SB558 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB1100 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the department of education to set a standard for retention of student records, including in electronic format, of not less than one hundred years. Allows the department of education to partner with the Hawaii correctional industries program...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB761 | Engross
Sine Die | Forces the lapse of a fiscal year 2016-2017 appropriation for the HI growth initiative that is not expected to be expended. Re-appropriates the lapsed appropriation for the HI growth initiative. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| HB861 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires DLNR to adopt rules for a community-based subsistence fishing area within two years of receipt of a proposal. Establishes annual reporting requirement. Effective 7/1/2030. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-23
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB619 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the DOE, in collaboration and consultation with DBEDT, DLIR, and UH, to develop and implement a K-12 curriculum to career pipeline initiative to ensure that the State's public school students are adequately trained and prepared to enter the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB197 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates moneys for start-up grants for one or more new pre-opening public charter schools. (SB197 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB826 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for a post-secondary distance learning center in the Puna district within Hawaii Community College. Requires status report to the Legislature. (SB826 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB1086 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the Motion Picture, Digital Media, and Film Production Income Tax Credit by providing additional tax credit options for payroll costs and 35 percent of qualified production costs for qualified productions employing local workers in a county wi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB199 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifies that funds for bonuses required by statute or collective bargaining shall not be paid out of a charter school's facilities funding or per-pupil funds. Requires, beginning with fiscal year 2018-2019, that such bonuses be separate line items ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB141 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows the John A. Burns School of Medicine to continue receiving revenues from the physician workforce assessment fee until June 30, 2027, for ongoing physician workforce assessment and planning to support the recruitment and retention of physicians...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB1129 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a medical aid in dying act that establishes a regulatory process under which an adult resident of the State with a medically confirmed terminal disease may obtain a prescription for medication to be self-administered to end the patient's ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-23
The committee(s) on HLT recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| SB285 | Engross
Sine Die | Continues the nursing facility sustainability program for two years. Appropriates funds out of the nursing facility sustainability program special fund for fiscal years 2017-2018 and 2018-2019. (SB285 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| HB604 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the department of agriculture, in consultation with the department of health, to create and maintain a list of plants and landscaping-related structures or equipment that are known to be preferred habitats for mosquito breeding and prohibits...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-23
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB635 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds to the Board of Water Supply to upgrade Nuuanu reservoir #4 to meet state dam safety standards, as a component of the Nuuanu hydroelectricity project. Effective 1/28/2081. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-23
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1200 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Department of Land and Natural Resources to conduct a feasibility study to determine the best means to provide a Pohoiki swimming area and develop plans, in cooperation with the United States Army Corps of Engineers, County ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-23
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB519 | Engross
Sine Die | Specifies that citizen complaints against a police officer that involve allegations of domestic violence against a family or household member on the part of the police officer shall not be required to be in writing or sworn to by the complainant. (SB...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-23
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB629 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Board of Directors of the Employees' Retirement System to conduct a study into the viability of exempting from income tax and general excise tax an amount up to an unspecified percentage of the costs of the construction and operation of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-22
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB27 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Department of Human Services (DHS) to restore basic adult dental benefits to Medicaid enrollees. Requires DHS to obtain the maximum federal matching funds available for this expenditure. (SB27 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-22
To House Finance Committee |
| SB955 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the Hawaii State Fusion Center (Center) as a program under the Office of Homeland Security and establishes the position of Hawaii State Fusion Center Director who shall be state-funded, responsible to the Director of Homeland Security, an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-22
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1378 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Transportation to develop plans for the construction of secondary access roads for the Waianae district of leeward Oahu. Appropriates funds. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-22
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1324 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes a tax credit equal to 20% of qualifying business costs for the transportation of agricultural commodities between islands within the State of Hawaii. (HB1324 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-22
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HB954 | Engross
Sine Die | Exempts active members of the Hawaii emergency management agency and county emergency management agencies from jury duty. (HB954 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-22
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| 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 |
| SB422 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires a finding that denial of reasonable grandparent visitation rights would cause significant harm to the child as a condition of awarding grandparent visitation rights. Clarifies procedures for an order awarding reasonable grandparent visitatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-22
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB961 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act to reduce the number of commissioners that are residents of the city and county of Honolulu and adds a commissioner from the island of Lanai. (SB961 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-22
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB1210 | Engross
Sine Die | Directs the mayor of each county to designate an officer to oversee any public-private partnerships entered into by the county. Authorizes counties to develop public-private partnerships to construct relief sewers for affordable housing development p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-22
To House Finance 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 |
| SB803 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes an income tax credit to assist farmers with expenses associated with compliance with the Food Safety Modernization Act. Establishes the Food Safety Modernization Act special fund. (SB803 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-22
To House Finance 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 |
| SB7 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the department of human services, in collaboration with the department of health, to review the progress of the Hawaii pathways project pilot and continue to pursue efforts to utilize medicaid to provide supportive housing services for chron...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-22
The committee(s) on HLT/HUS recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| SB1313 | Engross
Sine Die | Makes various appropriations to implement the recommendations of the increased food security and food self-sufficiency strategy. Requires the Department of Agriculture to establish a strategy and goals for increased food security and self-sufficiency...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-22
To House Finance 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. |
