| HB286 | Intro
Sine Die | Deletes the requirement in section 11-322(a), HRS, of reporting contributions of more than $100 in the organizational reports of candidate committees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-23
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB523 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows a civil action for recovery of damages to be brought by persons subjected to sexual offenses as a minor against the person who committed the act at any time by repealing the statute of limitations. Repeals the period during which a victim of c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-23
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| HB6 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases penalties for certain offenses relating to the importation, storage, purchase, possession, setting off, igniting, transfer, sale, alteration, and construction of fireworks.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-23
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB233 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates the class C offense of endangering public transportation for tampering with a public highway or a facility of public transportation with intent to cause any damage, malfunction, nonfunction, theft, or unauthorized removal of material which wo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-23
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| HB445 | Intro
Sine Die | Reduces the conveyance tax rates for properties with a value of less than $1,000,000. Increases the conveyance tax rates for properties with a value of $2,000,000 or greater.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-23
To House Water & Land Committee |
| SB574 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes various changes to the campaign finance laws.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-23
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB707 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a refundable state earned income tax credit and earned income tax credit special fund. Establishes an 11% income tax rate for taxable income over $200,000 after December 31, 2016. Allocates revenues collected for deposit into the earned i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-23
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB227 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the hiring of a coordinator and for interisland travel and operating expenses of the P-20 Agriculture Education Working Group within the University of Hawaii at Manoa College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources. Outline...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-23
To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| SB699 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to include in its annual report the impacts of incidental take license issuances on the status and likelihood of survival of the individual species and the cumulative impacts on the full range of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-23
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| SB256 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends Act 223, SLH 2015 to extend the sunset of the refundable food/excise tax credit for two years to 12/31/19.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-23
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB419 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows home schooled students to participate on an equal basis in extracurricular activities offered at the public school they would otherwise be required to attend.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-23
To House Education Committee |
| SB752 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires DBEDT to create a state program for economic development in the fields of clean energy, high technology, and healthcare.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-23
To Senate Economic Development, Tourism, and Technology Committee |
| SB812 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the department of commerce and consumer affairs to post the business address and business phone number of each licensed professional on its public website.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-23
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| HB139 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that the Senate President and House Speaker be notified in writing upon the receipt of any federal aid money for expenditure by the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-23
To House Finance Committee |
| HB162 | Intro
Sine Die | Short form bill proposing an amendment to the state constitution.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-23
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB296 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a tax credit of 30% of the actual cost, including installation, water meter, and permitting fees, of an automatic fire sprinkler system in any one- and two-family dwelling in a structure used only for residential purposes. Sunset 6/30/202...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-23
To House Housing Committee |
| SB552 | Intro
Sine Die | Mandates the department of agriculture to take precautionary measures to anticipate, prevent, or minimize the adverse effects of biotechnology and genetic engineering.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-23
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HB114 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires any assessment of penalty or interest on taxes to be accompanied by an explanation, including calculations, of how the amount of the penalty or interest was determined. Amends the date of filing of monthly, quarterly, and semiannual general ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-23
To House Finance Committee |
| HB321 | Intro
Sine Die | Deletes the sunset provision for the tort liability exceptions for county lifeguard services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-23
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB733 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the department of health to accept FDA-approved, CDC-recommended tuberculosis (TB) blood tests in addition to the TB skin test for the purpose of granting a certificate of TB examination. Amends the law requiring tuberculosis clearance prior...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-23
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| HB365 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposes a constitutional amendment to establish a public employees' collective bargaining fund. Requires an annual deposit of a minimum percentage of the total compensation provided by the State to every person employed by the State during the previ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-23
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee |
| SB754 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits tethers and certain other types of restraints that are known to endanger dogs or prevent dogs from receiving necessary sustenance. Specifies penalties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-23
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB321 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the definition of "drug" for Operating a Vehicle Under the Influence of an Intoxicant (OVUII) offenses under Chapter 291E, Hawaii Revised Statutes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-23
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| SB315 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the threshold value in controversy requirement for jury trials in civil cases at common law from $5,000 to $10,000.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-23
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB484 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the right for a representative of each county council to be present as a non-voting participant in negotiations with bargaining units if the relevant county has employees in the particular bargaining unit. Requires the mayor or mayor's re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-23
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB758 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits all campuses of the University of Hawaii system, except the University of Hawaii at Manoa, from granting doctoral degrees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-23
To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| HB86 | Intro
Sine Die | Short form bill relating to higher education.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-23
To House Higher Education Committee |
| HB150 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a person's ability to choose the End of Life Option when afflicted with a terminal illness; provides safeguards for the affected person; and repeals penalties for participating in the End of Life Option Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-23
To House Health Committee |
| SB816 | Intro
Sine Die | Specifies that no property shall be forfeited unless the owner or interest-holder of the property has been convicted of a covered offense or indicted for a covered offense and there is a significant risk that the property will be destroyed or otherwi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-23
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB811 | Intro
Sine Die | Beginning on January 1, 2018, requires that any person who is eligible to vote and applies for a new or renewed motor vehicle driver's license, provisional license, instruction permit, limited purpose driver's license, limited purpose provisional dri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-23
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| HB288 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies the information about contributors to be kept by treasurers of candidate and noncandidate committees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-23
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB219 | Intro
Sine Die | Asserts sovereign immunity from torts arising from trespass onto public property.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-23
To House Ocean, Marine Resources, & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB412 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a Civil Rights Board to address the civil rights of homeless. Authorizes the board to: (1) request a law enforcement officer to initiate proceedings for an individual's emergency examination and hospitalization; and (2) if the law enforce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-23
To House Human Services Committee |
| SB330 | Intro
Sine Die | Reduces repackaged, relabeled, and compounded prescription drug payments under workers' compensation from 140% to 90% of the average wholesale price. Requires physician dispensed prescription drugs to only be prescribed within 90 days of the injury.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-23
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB692 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the use or application of sunscreen or sunblock containing oxybenzone or cosmetics with sunscreen containing oxybenzone while in a marine life conservation district.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-23
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HB203 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a statewide interoperability executive board for public safety communications. Finances the board through surcharges on traffic violations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-23
To House Public Safety Committee |
| SB587 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits operation of a pickup truck with a passenger in the bed or load-carrying area. Increases fine. Makes applicable to counties with populations of 600,000 or greater.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-23
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| HB42 | Intro
Sine Die | Short form bill relating to tourism.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-23
To House Tourism Committee |
| SB734 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the implementation and administration of the Hawaii state loan repayment program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-23
To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| SB630 | Intro
Sine Die | Expands the definition of "administrative action" in lobbyist law to include granting or denying applications for business or development-related permits, licenses, or approvals and procurement of goods and services under Hawaii public procurement co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-23
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| HB414 | Intro
Sine Die | Addresses the issue of homelessness by creating a statewide, state-funded, subsidized public service employment program. Authorizes subsidies and low-interest loans for employers who participate in the program. Makes an appropriation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-23
To House Human Services Committee |
| HR7 | Pass | Designating January 24, 2017 As "bioenergy Day" To Raise Awareness Of The Significant Environmental And Economic Benefits Of Bioenergy And Its Many Applications.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-23
Resolution adopted in final form. |
| HB57 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires motor vehicle safety inspections to be conducted every three years rather than annually for specific vehicles, including motorcycles, trailers, semitrailers, and pole trailers having a gross vehicle weight rating of 10,000 pounds or less, an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-23
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB221 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the list of non-general funds that receive distributions from the conveyance tax by: (1) increasing the maximum dollar amount of the distribution to the land conservation fund; and (2) restoring and setting a maximum dollar amount for the dist...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-23
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HB334 | Intro
Sine Die | Designates November 28 of each year as "La Ku`oko`a", not constituting a state holiday, to celebrate the historical recognition of independence of the Kingdom of Hawaii.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-23
To House Veterans, Military, & International Affairs, & Culture and the Arts Committee |
| SB821 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides an income tax credit to taxpayers who install or operate an electric vehicle charging system that is available for use by the public, unless otherwise required by law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-23
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| HB343 | Intro
Sine Die | Short form bill relating to housing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-23
To House Housing Committee |
| HB447 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits corporate election contributions, expenditures, or independent expenditures except in accordance with the will of a majority of the corporation's shareholders.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-23
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB384 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals chapter 514A, Hawaii Revised Statutes, relating to condominium property regimes, and ensures that all condominiums in the State are governed under chapter 514B, Hawaii Revised Statutes, relating to condominiums. Effective January 1, 2019.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-23
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB63 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that an elector shall pledge to name in their ballots the candidates for president and vice president of the United States who are the candidates of the political party or group the elector represents. Provides remedy and penalty for non-com...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-23
To House Judiciary Committee |
