| HB1130 | Pass | Authorizes the Department of Public Safety to administer lie detector and psychological tests to determine the suitability of candidates for corrections employment. (HB1130 CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-06
Act 076, 07/03/2017 (Gov. Msg. No. 1177). |
| HB186 | Pass | Extends the sunset date for the Coffee Berry Borer Pesticide Subsidy Program until June 30, 2021, for the purchase of pesticides containing Beauveria bassiana to combat the coffee berry borer. Provides that no single coffee grower shall receive more ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-06
Act 065, 06/30/3017 (Gov. Msg. No. 1166). Enactment date amended to 06/30/2017 by Gov. Msg. No. 1332. |
| SB505 | Pass | Requires prescribing healthcare providers to adopt and maintain policies for informed consent to opioid therapy in circumstances that carry elevated risk of dependency. Establishes limits for concurrent opioid and benzodiazepine prescriptions. Clarif...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-07-06
Act 066, 07/03/2017 (Gov. Msg. No. 1167). |
| HB459 | Pass | Requires written notice to certain law enforcement agencies, the court that issued a protective or restraining order on an applicant, and the applicant's probation or parole officer, as applicable, upon the denial of a permit because of federal or st...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-30
Act 063, 06/29/2017 (Gov. Msg. No. 1164). |
| HB165 | Pass | Requires state and county boards to make meeting documents available to the public. Clarifies notice requirements. Accounts for electronic documents and notices. (HB165 CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-29
Act 064, 06/30/2017 (Gov. Msg. No. 1165). |
| HB571 | Pass | Appropriates moneys for the University of Hawaii Sea Grant College Program to develop a communication and outreach plan for emergency management and disaster preparedness, update and publish the Homeowner's Handbook to Prepare for Natural Hazards, an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-26
Act 061, 06/23/2017 (Gov. Msg. No. 1162). |
| SB885 | Pass | Permits the Comptroller to acquire risk management, investigative, claims adjustment, actuarial, and other services on a fixed fee basis. Exempts a broker submitting a proposal in response to a fixed fee solicitation by the Comptroller and the broker...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-26
Act 062, 06/23/2017 (Gov. Msg. No. 1163). |
| HB852 | Pass | Authorizes the state ethics commission to post on its website for public inspection, the names of legislators, delegates to the constitutional convention, or certain employees who fail to file their financial disclosure statements by the statutory de...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-23
Act 052, on 06/22/2017 (Gov. Msg. No. 1152). |
| HB845 | Pass | Requires the Department of Public Safety, in collaboration with various agencies and upon request of the inmates, to issue civil identification cards to inmates and to assist inmates in obtaining the inmates' birth certificate, social security card, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-23
Act 056, on 06/22/2017 (Gov. Msg. No. 1156). |
| HB89 | Pass | Continues the Hospital Sustainability Program for two years. Increases the cap on the inpatient and outpatient hospital sustainability fees to not more than three and one-half percent of the hospital's net inpatient and outpatient service revenue, re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-23
Act 059, on 06/22/2017 (Gov. Msg. No. 1159). |
| HB90 | Pass | Extends the Nursing Facility Sustainability Program for two years. Appropriates funds out of the Nursing Facility Sustainability Program Special Fund for fiscal year 2017-2018 and fiscal year 2018-2019. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-23
Act 060, on 06/22/2017 (Gov. Msg. No. 1160). |
| HB1179 | Pass | Expands the types of rental housing projects that can be exempt from general excise taxes. Allows the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to exempt certain affordable rental housing projects from general excise tax and use tax costs. A...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-23
Act 054, on 06/22/2017 (Gov. Msg. No. 1154). |
| HB957 | Pass | Authorizes the Department of Education to borrow moneys interest-free from the Hawaii Green Infrastructure Loan Program for heat abatement measures at public schools. Requires the Department of Education to make payments on the loan from revenues sav...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-23
Act 057, on 06/22/2017 (Gov. Msg. No. 1157). |
| HB916 | Pass | Makes an appropriation for the health care provider loan repayment program administered through the John A. Burns School of Medicine. (HB916 CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-23
Act 058, on 06/22/2017 (Gov. Msg. No. 1158). |
| HB508 | Pass | Increases the maximum administrative fines for ethics violations. Clarifies the assessment of fines in the context of a settlement agreement. (HB508 CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-23
Act 050, on 06/22/2017 (Gov. Msg. No. 1150). |
| HB100 | Pass | Appropriates funds for the operating and capital improvement budget of the Executive Branch for fiscal years 2017-2018 and 2018-2019. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-23
Act 049, on 06/21/2017 (Gov. Msg. No. 1149). |
| HB511 | Pass | Clarifies the laws governing lobbyists by amending the definitions of "expenditure," "lobbyist," and "lobbying." Allows a former employer of a lobbyist to file a notice of termination of employment. Amends requirements for expenditure reports coverin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-23
Act 051, on 06/22/2017 (Gov. Msg. No. 1151). |
| SB611 | Pass | Extends the prohibition on county requirements for automatic sprinklers or sprinkler systems in one- and two-family detached dwelling units and non-residential agricultural and aquacultural structures located outside urban areas. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-23
Act 053, on 06/22/2017 (Gov. Msg. No. 1153). |
| SB718 | Pass | Establishes a community court outreach project in the City and County of Honolulu, subject to the availability of funds. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-23
Act 055, on 06/22/2017 (Gov. Msg. No. 1155). |
| HB552 | Pass | Establishes the Affordable Health Insurance Working Group to plan for and mitigate adverse effects of the potential repeal of the federal Affordable Care Act by Congress. (HB552 CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-22
Act 043, 06/20/2017 (Gov. Msg. No. 1143). |
| SB850 | Pass | Requires the Chief Information Officer to identify the information technology projects of the executive branch, including DOE and UH, that shall be subject to independent verification and validation. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-22
Act 037, 06/19/2017 (Gov. Msg. No. 1137). |
| SB1016 | Pass | Temporarily exempts the Department of Transportation and its contractors from certain state requirements for certain bridge rehabilitation projects by extending the end date to June 30, 2022. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-22
Act 048, 06/20/2017 (Gov. Msg. No. 1148). |
| SB900 | Pass | Amends the definition of "community-based organization." Amends the qualifications for community-based economic development grants to include technical assistance to community-based organizations. Reduces the number of Community-Based Economic Develo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-22
Act 047, 06/20/2017 (Gov. Msg. No. 1147). |
| SB949 | Pass | Clarifies the money transmitters law, including updating requirements for money transmitter license and change in control applications, criminal background checks, security devices, permissible investments, records, and voluntary surrender of license...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-22
Act 045, 06/20/2017 (Gov. Msg. No. 1145). |
| SB950 | Pass | Updates requirements relating to licensed mortgage servicers by requiring approval by the commissioner of financial institutions for a change in control; and clarifying which persons associated with a mortgage servicer are presumed to exercise contro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-22
Act 046, 06/20/2017 (Gov. Msg. No. 1146). |
| HB1444 | Pass | Requires pharmacy benefit managers to register with the Insurance Commissioner. (HB1444 CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-22
Act 044, 06/20/2017 (Gov. Msg. No. 1144). |
| HB847 | Pass | Establishes the Innovation and Commercialization Initiative Program to expressly give the University of Hawaii the legal authority to create, promote, and participate in new economic enterprises and expand workforce opportunities based on inventions ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-22
Act 039, 06/19/2017 (Gov. Msg. No. 1139). |
| HB1488 | Pass | Adds additional qualifying medical conditions for medical marijuana patients and permits possession of additional plants. Amends requirements for and access to testing. Extends deadlines related to implementation of the dispensary system. Amends secu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-22
Act 041, 06/20/2017 (Gov. Msg. No. 1141). |
| HB1382 | Pass | Assists small business in the state procurement process by establishing a temporary small business assistance initiative, small business advisory group, small business office, and small business procurement coordinator position within the State Procu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-22
Act 042, 06/20/2017 (Gov. Msg. No. 1142). |
| HB425 | Pass | Makes certain sections of the Code of Ethics inapplicable to technology transfer activities sponsored by University of Hawaii if the activities comply with the regulatory framework and research compliance program approved by the Board of Regents. Req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-22
Act 038, 06/19/2017 (Gov. Msg. No. 1138). |
| HB428 | Pass | Allows the John A. Burns School of Medicine to continue to receive a portion of the physician workforce assessment fee for ongoing physician workforce assessment and planning to support the recruitment and retention of physicians in the State, partic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-22
Act 040, 06/20/2017 (Gov. Msg. No. 1140). |
| HB942 | Pass | Authorizes the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts to commission an artist to design and build a monument to honor and commemorate Filipino veterans of World War II, with all costs to be expended from the Works of Art Special Fund. (HB942 CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-22
Act 035, 06/19/2017 (Gov. Msg. No. 1135). |
| HB1534 | Pass | Allows a waiver of the one-year residency requirement for certain appointive officers when the officer is employed as the head of a county police department. Clarifies that all appointed officers in the service of state or county government, other th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-22
Act 036, 06/19/2017 (Gov. Msg. No. 1136). |
| HB1578 | Pass | Establishes the Carbon Farming Task Force within the Office of Planning to identify agricultural and aquacultural practices to improve soil health and promote carbon sequestration in the State's agricultural and aquacultural sectors. Appropriates fun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-08
Act 033, 06/06/2017 (Gov. Msg. No. 1133). |
| SB559 | Pass | Requires the State to expand strategies and mechanisms to reduce greenhouse gas emissions statewide in alignment with the principles and goals adopted in the Paris Agreement. Renames the Interagency Climate Adaptation Committee as the Hawaii Climate ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-08
Act 032, 06/06/2017 (Gov. Msg. No. 1132). |
| SB149 | Pass | Repeals the requirement that certain applicants for procurement contracts for health and human services possess all licenses necessary to conduct the subject business. Repeals the requirement that all contracts include only costs, fees, and taxes ref...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-08
Act 034, 06/07/2017 (Gov. Msg. No. 1134). |
| HB655 | Pass | Appropriates funds to the Department of Land and Natural Resources to assist and provide supplemental funds to the National Wildlife Research Center of the U.S. Department of Agriculture to research the adverse effects of the rose-ringed parakeet on ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-06
Act 031, 06/01/2017 (Gov. Msg. No. 1131). |
| HB1396 | Pass | Authorizes the Department of Health, working in consultation with the Department of Human Services, to allow two private-pay individuals to be cared for in the same community care foster family home after consideration of specified relevant factors. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-06-01
Act 030, 05/31/2017 (Gov. Msg. No. 1130). |
| SR40 | Pass | Requesting The Department Of Land And Natural Resources, In Collaboration With The National Oceanic And Atmospheric Administration, To Explore The Possibility Of Using Autonomous Unmanned Surface Vessel Technology To Detect And Clean Up Ocean Debris ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-30
Certified copies of resolutions sent, 05-30-17. |
| SR26 | Pass | Requesting The Department Of Agriculture And Department Of Land And Natural Resources To Identify Economic, Environmental, And Regulatory Consequences Of Crop Degradation Caused By Invasive And Endangered Species In Hawaii.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-30
Certified copies of resolutions sent, 05-30-17. |
| SR81 | Pass | Urging The Department Of Education To Establish A Vocational Education Out-of-school Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-30
Certified copies of resolutions sent, 05-30-17. |
| SCR150 | Pass | Requesting The Office Of Hawaiian Affairs To Convene A Study Group To Make Recommendations To The Legislature On An Appropriate Means To Honor Robert William Kalanihiapo Wilcox, Hawaii's First Elected Delegate To The United States Congress.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-30
Certified copies of resolutions sent, 05-30-17. |
| SCR28 | Pass | Approving The Sale Of The Leased Fee Interest In 47-394 Keohapa Place, Kaneohe, Hawaii.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-30
Certified copies of resolutions sent, 05-30-17. |
| SR53 | Pass | Requesting The Department Of Business, Economic Development, And Tourism To Develop A Master Plan For The Hilo International Aerospace And Technology Park.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-30
Certified copies of resolutions sent, 05-30-17. |
| SCR24 | Pass | Approving The Sale Of The Leased Fee Interest In 95-029 Kuahelani Avenue, No. 128, Mililani, Hawaii.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-30
Certified copies of resolutions sent, 05-30-17. |
| SCR77 | Pass | Requesting The Establishment Of A Bona Fide Agricultural Producer Task Force To Create A Definition For The Term "bona Fide Agricultural Producer".
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-30
Certified copies of resolutions sent, 05-30-17. |
| SCR19 | Pass | Approving The Sale Of The Leased Fee Interest In 41-529 Inoaole Street, Waimanalo, Hawaii.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-30
Certified copies of resolutions sent, 05-30-17. |
| SCR145 | Pass | Requesting The Development Of A Collaborative Plan To Best Leverage State And County Funds To Build Affordable Housing Projects And An Exploration Of The Feasibility Of Transferring A Parcel Of Land In Kahului, Maui, To The Hawaii Housing Finance And...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-30
Certified copies of resolutions sent, 05-30-17. |
| SCR42 | Pass | Authorizing The Issuance Of A Term, Non-exclusive Easement Covering A Portion Of State Submerged Lands At Kaneohe, Koolaupoko, Oahu, For The Maintenance And Repair Of The Existing Seawall, Boat Ramp, And Pier, And For Use, Repair, And Maintenance Of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-30
Certified copies of resolutions sent, 05-30-17. |
| SCR59 | Pass | Urging All State Departments And Agencies To Duly Consider Women-, Veteran-, And Native Hawaiian-owned Businesses When Awarding State Contracts, And Requesting All State Departments And Agencies To Submit To The Legislature A List Of State Contracts ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-30
Certified copies of resolutions sent, 05-30-17. |
