| SB150 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires candidates for president and vice president of the United States to post their most recent income tax return on the Internet at least sixty days prior to and continuing through the date of the general election for free access by the public i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB442 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides that the period of limitation for a prosecution under the law relating to falsifying a campaign spending report shall commence upon discovery of the alleged offense by the campaign spending commission. Takes effect on 1/7/2059. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB491 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes and funds a two-year pilot school sidewalk maintenance and repair program that requires counties to maintain and repair sidewalks in school zones or other areas of significant school related pedestrian traffic. Requires each county to rep...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB1030 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides exemptions from vehicle registration, safety inspection, and driver licensure requirements for marine terminal equipment operating on roads between Sand Island parkway and Sand Island access road. Allows the operation of marine terminal equi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To House Transportation Committee |
| SB1263 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires principal brokers in a brokerage firm to ensure that: associated real estate licensees and other staff who assist in providing management services for common interest communities are responsive to requests from owners regarding association-r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To House Intrastate Commerce Committee |
| SB1014 | Engross
Sine Die | Expands the authority of the Director of Transportation over required motor vehicle and motor carrier vehicle inspections in the State. Upgrades the methods and procedures of state motor vehicle inspections. Clarifies the distinction between the insp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB54 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits the Chairperson of BLNR from adopting any rule with respect to a small boat harbor where a marine fueling station has been established that requires the exclusive fueling of vessels from that station only.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HB172 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes a property owner or agent to enter adjacent property under certain conditions to eradicate albizia trees before they become hazardous. Provides defense to criminal prosecution. (HB172 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| HB1457 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Division of Aquatic Resources to promote education about nearshore reef wildlife and to develop a comprehensive plan, programs, and policies for its sustainable management. Places a temporary ban on the issuance of new aquarium fish perm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| SB332 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits a commissioned notary public from accepting a limited purpose driver's license for verification of identification. Takes effect on 1/7/2059. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB1341 | Engross
Sine Die | Designates the month of October as "Farm to School Month in Hawaii."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| SB462 | Engross
Sine Die | Repeals the requirement that voters include their social security numbers when signing nomination papers or when petitioning the chief election officer to withdraw their signatures on nomination papers or other petitions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB337 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides that a candidate committee shall not be required to file a statement of information for an electioneering communication made by a candidate committee that clearly identifies the communication as being paid for by the candidate committee. Rep...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB897 | Engross
Sine Die | Adds the child support enforcement agency, the departments of taxation, human services, and labor and industrial relations, and the counties, to the list of entities that are authorized to conduct criminal history record checks on employees, prospect...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB1221 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to DBEDT in each of fiscal years 2017-2018 and 2018-2019 to address the FDA's industry guidance on the use of color additives in sea salt products. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To House Economic Development & Business Committee |
| HB462 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Public Safety to solicit proposals for a new correctional facility. Requires new facility to be operated by public employees. Temporarily suspends the current EIS process for potential sites for the proposed Oahu Community ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HB263 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends provisions related to licensed medical marijuana dispensaries by imposing GET on a percentage of dispensaries gross proceeds or gross income and allocating a portion of GET revenues received from dispensaries to the Medical Marijuana Registry ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB659 | Engross
Sine Die | Increases the fines for violations of operating a vehicle while under the influence of an intoxicant.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB1591 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the Hawaii Promise Program to provide scholarships for the unmet direct cost needs of qualified students enrolled at a University of Hawaii community college. Appropriates funds to establish and implement the program. (HB1591 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| SB635 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a two-year water conservation financial assistance pilot program to provide financial assistance to county-owned public water systems. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2099. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To House Water & Land Committee |
| SB535 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires health insurance policies and contracts issued after 12/31/18 to provide coverage for the cost of hearing aids at a minimum of $1,500 per hearing aid for each hearing-impaired ear every thirty-six months. Takes effect on 6/1/2050. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To House Health Committee |
| SB708 | Engross
Sine Die | In any county where one-third or less of the county's land is classified in the state agricultural district, prohibits: the creation of a condominium property regime on agricultural land 25 acres or greater; a condominium property regime on agricultu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To House Water & Land Committee |
| SB403 | Engross
Sine Die | Ensures certain benefits under the federal Affordable Care Act are preserved under Hawaii law, including: preserving the individual health insurance mandate for taxpayers; preserving the premium tax credit for individuals and families with low or mod...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To House Health Committee |
| HB622 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the BLNR Chairperson to transfer public land trust funds to the Kahoolawe Rehabilitation Trust Fund. Authorizes the Office of Hawaiian Affairs to expend public land trust funds for purposes consistent with those of the Kahoolawe Rehabilita...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To Senate Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB860 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides that where a quiet title action involves kuleana land, at the request of a defendant or defendants, the court shall order mandatory mediation or consolidation of separate actions, respectively; defendant's access to the land for native Hawai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| HB1581 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires candidates for President and Vice President of the United States to disclose their federal income tax returns in order for their names to appear on a Hawaii ballot. (HB1581 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| HB574 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides that royalties from state land leases for basalt cinder and trap rock manufacturers shall be paid into the Basalt Materials Research Account within the Pacific International Space Center for Exploration Systems Special Fund. Sunsets December...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To Senate Economic Development, Tourism, and Technology Committee |
| SB1282 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes that for a second offense that occurs within five years, rather than one year, of the first conviction of the offense of abuse of a family or household member is a misdemeanor and the person shall be termed a "repeat offender". Establishe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB489 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the clerk of the court to grant a single extension of no more than fifteen days for filing with the supreme court a response to an application for writ of certiorari upon timely written request of a party. Clarifies what constitutes a time...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB1271 | Engross
Sine Die | Proposes a constitutional amendment to allow individuals who are seventeen years of age but will be eighteen years of age on or before the next state or local general election to vote at the state or local primary election immediately preceding the s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-08
Notice of bill proposing constitutional amendment transmitted to Governor pursuant to Article XVII, Section 3 (Sen. Com. No. 1). |
| SB147 | Engross
Sine Die | Repeals Section 325-15, Hawaii Revised Statutes, which requires United States citizens or nationals to submit a medical examination report to the Department of Health within sixty days of returning to the State under certain conditions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-07
To House Health Committee |
| SB629 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides the Land Use Commission with the power to amend, revise, or modify a decision and order granting a district boundary amendment, or fine a petitioner, when there has been a finding by the Land Use Commission that a petitioner or its successor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-07
To House Water & Land Committee |
| SB444 | Engross
Sine Die | Deletes the requirement in Section 11-323(a), HRS, of reporting contributions in the organizational reports of noncandidate committees and noncandidate committees making only independent expenditures.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-07
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB440 | Engross
Sine Die | Increases the amounts of fines that may be assessed against a noncandidate committee making only independent expenditures for campaign spending violations. Allows the Campaign Spending Commission to recover its costs from violators. Directs moneys co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-07
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB373 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifies that acute care hospitals are covered under the clean claims statute, section 431:13-108, Hawaii Revised Statutes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-07
To House Health Committee |
| SB443 | Engross
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] | 2017-03-07
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB399 | Engross
Sine Die | Ties the authorized benefit for acupuncture treatments allowed under personal injury protection benefits provided through motor vehicle insurance to the workers' compensation supplemental medical fee schedule. Effective 07/01/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-07
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| SB990 | Engross
Sine Die | Increases the reimbursement rate for the development of forest stewardship management plans. Clarifies conditions that must be met by applicants to receive funds under the Forest Stewardship Program. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-07
To House Water & Land Committee |
| SB438 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Campaign Spending Commission to publish on its website the names of all noncandidate committees that fail to file a report or to correct a report within the time allowed by the Commission.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-07
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB966 | Engross
Sine Die | Exempts lands that are set aside by the governor to the Hawaii Public Housing Authority and lands to which Hawaii Public Housing Authority holds title from the definition of "public lands" in section 171-2, Hawaii Revised Statutes. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-07
To House Water & Land Committee |
| SB333 | Engross
Sine Die | Increases notary public fees. Takes effect on 01/01/2018. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-07
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB327 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the electronic transmission of databases containing driver's license and civil identification card information to election officials and the statewide voter registration system. Requires the Office of Elections to join the Electronic Regis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-07
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB871 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the excise tax rate on large cigars.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-22
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB300 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows courts to authorize a person or entity other than a deputy or an officer to provide technical assistance in executing a search warrant that pertains to an electronic device or storage media. (HB300 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-21
To Senate Judiciary and Labor Committee |
| SB426 | Engross
Sine Die | Makes physical abuse consisting of intentionally or knowingly impeding normal breathing or circulation of blood of a family or household member by any means a class C felony. Takes effect on 01/07/2059. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-16
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB1234 | Engross
Sine Die | Corrects an error in the Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2016 to clarify that the Kahoolawe island reserve commission is affiliated with the county of Maui, rather than the county of Hawaii.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| SB123 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows parties to a marriage or civil union to choose any middle or last name to use upon the marriage or civil union. Takes effect on 1/7/59. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-16
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB316 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifies that reimbursement to crime victims includes lost wages and expenses for mental health treatment, counseling, and therapy. Effective 1/7/2059. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-16
To House Judiciary Committee |
