| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| SB624 | 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 increase food exports by 2020. Requires the Department of Agriculture to submit the strategic plan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-22
To House Finance Committee |
| SB308 | Engross
Sine Die | Providing an annual inflationary adjustment in the methodology used to reimburse facilities for the long-term care of Medicaid recipients beginning with fiscal year 2017-2018. Appropriates funds to provide an inflationary adjustment to long-term care...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-21
To House Finance Committee |
| SB533 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the Aging and Disability Resource Center. (SB533 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-21
To House Finance Committee |
| SB530 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to support the Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program on Oahu by establishing one full-time equivalent (1.00 FTE) permanent program specialist IV position for the City and County of Honolulu and for contracted services through the Office...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-21
To House Finance Committee |
| SB901 | Engross
Sine Die | To eliminate the requirement for the Governor to appoint certain representative members of the Aerospace Advisory Committee.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-21
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB631 | Engross
Sine Die | Exempts tangible and nonperishable gifts received by an elected or appointed official on behalf of the State from gift reporting requirements under the ethics code. Requires the gift to be publicly recorded and maintained as property of the State and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-21
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB49 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Education to collaborate with the Workforce Development Council on workforce development initiatives. (SB49 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-21
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee |
| SB352 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates moneys to and from the Agricultural Loan Revolving Fund. (SB352 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-21
To House Finance Committee |
| SB202 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends statutory provisions relating to quorum and voting requirements for service area boards on mental health and substance abuse. Designates service area boards on mental health and substance abuse within the department of health for administrativ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-21
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB924 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates and authorizes funds for fiscal biennium 2017-2019 for collective bargaining cost items, salary increases, and other cost adjustments for collective bargaining unit (1) and their excluded counterparts. (SB924 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-21
To House Finance Committee |
| SB343 | Engross
Sine Die | Expands the required qualifications that applicants may fulfill as part of the requirements for dental licensure to include passage of any other nationally recognized clinical dental examination recommended by the American Dental Association and dent...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-21
The committee(s) on HLT/IAC recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| SB284 | Engross
Sine Die | Corrects an error in the Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2016 to clarify that the CIP project for Maalaea small boat harbor on Maui was for plans, design, and construction for pier improvements, rather than dredging. (SB284 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-21
To House Finance Committee |
| SB340 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the counties to incorporate urban agriculture principles and policies in land use planning. (SB340 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-21
To House Water & Land Committee |
| SB419 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires compliance with the Military Selective Service Act to be eligible for enrollment in a state-supported post-secondary institution, qualify for state financial assistance for post-secondary education, or be eligible for state or county employm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-21
To House Higher Education Committee |
