| SB849 | Engross
Sine Die | Reduces the minimum Hawaiian blood quantum requirement of certain successors to lessees of Hawaiian home lands from one-quarter to one thirty-second. (SB849 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB1249 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to convene a working group to develop standards for reporting energy consumption to facilitate comparisons of energy consumption and costs by consumers and homebuyers. (HB1249 HD3...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-17
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| SB1156 | Engross
Sine Die | Removes the sunset date of Act 39, Session Laws of Hawaii 2015, thereby making permanent the requirements for a public accommodation that owns, leases, leases to, or operates a motion picture theater in more than two locations in the State to provide...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-17
To House Economic Development & Business Committee |
| SB764 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the High Technology Development Corporation for the Manufacturing Development Program. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-17
To House Economic Development & Business Committee |
| HB618 | Engross
Sine Die | Sets a deadline for the transfer of certain non-agricultural park lands from the Department of Land and Natural Resources to the Department of Agriculture. (HB618 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-17
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| SB203 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the membership of the State Council on Mental Health, defines quorum for the Council, and specifies number of votes required to constitute valid acts of the Council. Designates the State Council on Mental Health within the department of health...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB503 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires health insurance coverage for case management services by qualified mental health providers for victims of sexual violence and abuse. Takes effect on 6/1/2050. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
The committee(s) on HLT recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| SB223 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes a naturopathic physician to prescribe testosterone consistent with naturopathic medical practice. Clarifies that narcotic drugs shall not be included within the naturopathic formulary. (SB223 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB420 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the designation of "one hundred per cent disabled veteran" on drivers' licenses, instruction permits, and civil identification cards. (HB420 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| SB1312 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the board of midwifery to regulate the practice of midwifery by certified midwives and certified professional midwives. Requires licensing of certified midwives and certified professional midwives to commence beginning on July 1, 2020. Re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
The committee(s) on HLT recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| HB1417 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency to develop a post-disaster fresh drinking water security plan. Makes an appropriation. Requires a report to the legislature prior to the regular session of 2018. (HB1417 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB954 | Engross
Sine Die | Makes various updates to title 24, Hawaii Revised Statutes, including: requiring health care providers to continue providing services during a health insurer insolvency; moving the short-term health insurance preexisting disclosure requirement to a m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
To House Health Committee |
| HB1550 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes within HPHA the Section 8 Voucher Homebuyer Assistance Program for recipients of federal Section 8 Housing Choice vouchers. Authorizes issuance of revenue bonds. Authorizes HPHA to make downpayment loans to eligible borrowers. Establishes...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
To Senate Housing Committee |
| SB593 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires research facilities to make available for adoption healthy cats and dogs that the research facility determines are suitable for adoption and are no longer needed for research. Authorizes research facilities to contract with local animal resc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-15
The committee(s) on AGR recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. |
| HB1142 | Engross
Sine Die | Adds the offense of criminal trespass onto State Department of Transportation lands to the penal code.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-15
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| HB959 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Auditor to conduct a management and financial audit of the Agribusiness Development Corporation. (HB959 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-15
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HB1507 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Transportation to establish a Community Crosswalks Pilot Program to design and implement specially painted crosswalk in neighborhoods. Appropriates funds for the pilot program. Creates a Community Crosswalks Pilot Program S...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-15
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| HB1484 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the offense of assault in the second degree if a person intentionally or knowingly causes bodily injury to a health care professional, as defined in section 451D-2, Hawaii Revised Statutes, who is engaged in the performance of duty at the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-14
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB945 | Engross
Sine Die | Creates a framework for authorizing post-secondary degree-granting educational institutions that have applied for accreditation by an accrediting agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. Effective 5/12/2059. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-14
To House Higher Education Committee |
| HB193 | Engross
Sine Die | Increases the value amounts applicable to qualifying for an exemption from attachment or execution of real and personal property. Exempts one month of child support and spousal support in the possession of the debtor-recipient of support from attachm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| HB302 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows district, circuit, or family court to issue a material witness order in cases initiated through felony complaint, indictment, or information. (HB302 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| HB1301 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides that a person or entity that is determined by the Hawaii Invasive Species Council to have introduced an invasive species into the State may be strictly liable for all or part of the expenses to eradicate the invasive species from the State. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HB455 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits the Department of Agriculture from charging agricultural producers for the costs of food safety certification activities conducted by the department. (HB455 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HB314 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a new chapter to regulate the use of unmanned aerial vehicles. Establishes prohibited uses of unmanned aerial vehicles for individuals, law enforcement agencies, and public agencies. Provides certain exceptions for the use of unmanned aer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB367 | Engross
Sine Die | Increases the fines for violations associated with a person operating a vehicle after the person's license and privilege has been suspended or revoked for operating a vehicle under the influence of an intoxicant.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-10
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB218 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires every public notice of a public sale of mortgaged property to be published three times in a newspaper, on a state website, and in a conspicuous location on the mortgaged property or unit. (HB218 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-10
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| HB553 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides that the court may appoint one qualified examiner instead of three, to evaluate a criminal defendant's fitness to proceed or regaining fitness to proceed in all penal cases and removes the requirement that examiner shall be from within the D...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-10
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB336 | Engross
Sine Die | Excludes from the definitions of "advertisement" and "electioneering communication" the communications of a candidate's name on clothing or other attire not directly associated with that candidate's campaign committee. Takes effect on 1/7/2059. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB1567 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the Public Utilities Commission to establish preferential electricity rates for communities that serve as geographic hosts for energy projects. Requires an energy project developer to work collaboratively with a host community to develop a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB1036 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifies that failure to register a firearm within the required time period does not relieve the owner of the duty to register the firearm. Allows the owner of an unregistered firearm to register the firearm thereafter without penalty. Takes effect ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB152 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Public Utilities Commission to explore the feasibility of retail wheeling in Hawaii, report to the Legislature, and, if retail wheeling is deemed feasible and in the public and consumer interest, to submit proposed implementation plans a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB445 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the treasurer of a candidate or noncandidate committee to maintain itemized records showing the name and address of each contributor, regardless of the contribution amount. Requires that the information regarding the employer and occupation ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB892 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows the attorney general to disclose confidential covered offender registration information to criminal justice agencies for administration of criminal justice and covered offender registration purposes and to disclose an indication of a covered o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB534 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates moneys for Hawaii Public Housing Authority to hire an additional security guard to improve security and monitoring at the Alu Street gate of Kalihi Valley Homes public housing. (HB534 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HB589 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Judiciary to retain mental health services and substance abuse treatment for the Hawaii's Opportunity Probation with Enforcement program, which is an intensive supervisory program for persons on probation. (HB589 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB111 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides that the ballot of an absentee or military-overseas voter is valid even if the voter becomes ineligible to vote after casting the ballot. Repeals the requirement that an absentee voter's ballot be deemed invalid if the voter returns the retu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB391 | Engross
Sine Die | Part I: Purpose section. Part II: Clarifies that when a unit owner and association reach a payment plan to cure a nonjudicial foreclosure, completion of the payment plan is required to cure the default; specifies that if a unit owner and an associati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| SB628 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires department heads to inform the governor of any vacancy in any board or commission. Requires the governor to maintain a listing of all boards and commissions including specified information. Appropriates funds for 1.0 FTE position to manage l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To House Finance Committee |
| HB80 | Engross
Sine Die | Imposes a restraining order that preserves the financial assets of the parties and their dependents upon the commencement of annulment, divorce, or separation court action. (HB80 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| 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 |
| SB689 | Engross
Sine Die | Grants county agencies the implicit right to enter property to investigate agricultural buildings and structures for violations of and compliance with building code exemption qualifications. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To House Water & Land 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 |
| SB643 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires all newly created, replaced, or reprinted state and county letterheads, documents, symbols, and emblems to include accurate, appropriate, and authentic Hawaiian names and language. Establishes references for accurate, appropriate, and authen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To House Ocean, Marine Resources, & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB492 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the conditions under which the definition of "enter or remain unlawfully" shall apply with reference to criminal trespass in the second degree. Amends the offense of criminal trespass in the second degree to repeal the definition of "reasonabl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB1170 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires any report of a study or an audit enacted with a legislative appropriation and conducted by an executive department or agency, including the Hawaii health systems corporation, and by the legislative reference bureau, auditor, judiciary, or O...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To House Legislative Management Committee |
| SB453 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for one ambulance unit each for the County of Kauai and the County of Hawaii, including equipment, supplies, and personnel costs. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To House Health Committee |
| SB767 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the high-growth grant program and special fund to provide grants to qualified businesses for certain business development activities. Makes appropriations. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To House Economic Development & Business Committee |
| SB104 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifies the procedures to amend condominium association declarations, bylaws, and other governing instruments that are not of a material adverse nature to condominium owners or do not imperil the viability or stability of the condominium associatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
