| HB860 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides that where a quiet title action involves kuleana land, at the request of any defendant at the time the action was brought, the court shall order: mandatory mediation with a goal of resolving the dispute, including any issues that might need ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-16
Received notice of appointment of House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 609). |
| HB1977 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency, along with the Board of Land and Natural Resources as support, to convene a working group composed of representatives from appropriate county, state, and federal agencies to develop strategic regional ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-16
Received notice of appointment of House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 609). |
| HB2207 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes minimum requirements for all dental assistants hired on or after 7/1/2018. Requires dental assistants employed on or after 7/1/2018 to successfully complete the Dental Assisting National Board, Inc.'s (DANB) National Entry Level Dental As...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-16
Received notice of Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 785). |
| HB2745 | Engross
Sine Die | Expands the rental assistance program by increasing the minimum percentage of affordable units a rental housing project is required to maintain for eligible tenants from 20 percent to 30 percent. Decreases the qualifying maximum ceiling from 80 perce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-16
Received notice of appointment of House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 609). |
| HB2578 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes biennial requirements of forty credit hours in specified continuing medical education programs for renewal of physician assistant license, beginning with the renewal for the licensing biennium on 2/1/2020, and every biennial renewal there...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-16
Received notice of appointment of House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 609). |
| HB2399 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifies the definition of "drug" in chapter 291E, Hawaii Revised Statutes, regarding the use of intoxicants while operating a vehicle. Takes effect 7/1/2035. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-16
Received notice of appointment of House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 609). |
| HB2703 | Engross
Sine Die | Allocates a portion of the conveyance tax revenues to the rental assistance revolving fund to be used to subsidize rents for persons who meet certain income requirements. Increases the income tax credit for low-income household renters to an unspecif...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-16
Received notice of appointment of House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 609). |
| HB538 | Engross
Sine Die | Creates the intellectual and developmental disabilities medicaid waiver administrative claiming special fund into which federal moneys may be deposited from Department of Health's participation in the waiver program under section 1915(c) of the Socia...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-16
Received notice of appointment of House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 609). |
| HB2746 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends Act 127, Session Laws of Hawaii 2016, to clarify the duties of the Special Action Team on Affordable Rental Housing and add additional members to the Special Action Team for the purpose of addressing issues related to extremely low-income hous...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-16
Received notice of appointment of House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 609). |
| HB1943 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the establishment of two full-time equivalent (2.00 FTE) permanent program specialist positions within the office of language access to assist state agencies and state-funded agencies in implementing the requirements of Hawaii'...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-16
Received notice of appointment of House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 609). |
| HB2107 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the plastic pollution initiative with the mission to eliminate plastic waste impacting native species and polluting the State's environment. Establishes the Plastic Pollution Advisory Council to collect data regarding plastic pollution an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-16
Received notice of appointment of House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 609). |
| HB2174 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the high-growth grant program and special fund to provide grants to qualified businesses for certain business development activities. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-16
Received notice of appointment of House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 609). |
| HB1620 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires insurers to provide a choice to the insured consumer of authorizing a repair provider to utilize a like kind and quality crash part or the original equipment manufacturer crash part. Specifies that an insured consumer who chooses the use of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-16
Received notice of appointment of House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 609). |
| HB2099 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Agriculture to conduct a feasibility study on the establishment of ag-tech zones within the City and County of Honolulu. Appropriates funds for conducting the feasibility study. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-16
Received notice of appointment of House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 609). |
| HB2117 | Engross
Sine Die | Limits the number of standardized tests students take in a school year. Requires the Board of Education to conduct a statewide survey of school administrators and teachers to determine the time spent on preparing for standardized tests and the impact...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-16
Received notice of appointment of House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 609). |
| HB2101 | Engross
Sine Die | Makes an appropriation to the Department of Land and Natural Resources for the operational expenses and staffing costs of the Hawaii Association of Conservation Districts. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-16
Received notice of appointment of House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 609). |
| HB2274 | Engross
Sine Die | Expands the State's existing electric vehicle charging requirements to include public parking lots. Creates a ratio to calculate the total number of electric vehicle parking stalls a parking facility built after 2016 with more than 100 stalls must ha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-16
Received notice of appointment of House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 609). |
| HB2026 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Legislative Reference Bureau to update its 1985 study on environmental reorganization for Hawaii and assess the feasibility of implementing the findings and recommendations of the 1991 Department of Environmental Protection Task Force. M...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-16
Received notice of appointment of House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 609). |
| HB891 | 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 exports by 2020. Requires the Department of Agriculture to submit the strategic plan to the legisl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-05
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1999 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires certain government decision-makers at the state and county levels to attend a training course on native Hawaiian and Hawaiian rights. Appropriates funds for the office of Hawaiian affairs to plan and implement the training course. Takes effe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-05
The committee on WAM deferred the measure. |
| HB2582 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a task force to make recommendations for the Hawaii Disaster Preparedness Plan. Requires the National Disaster Preparedness Training Center at the University of Hawaii to assist the task force in preparing the Plan. Appropriates funds. (H...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-04
The committee(s) on WAM deleted the measure from the public hearing on 04-05-18 10:15AM in conference room 211. |
| HB973 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes and appropriates funds for a Research and Grant Technology Program within the High Technology Development Corporation. Effective 7/1/2038. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-04
The committee(s) on WAM deleted the measure from the public hearing on 04-05-18 10:15AM in conference room 211. |
| HB975 | Engross
Sine Die | Creates an Advisory Council for Global Economic Competitiveness to be attached to DBEDT. Directs the council to recommend policy additions and changes to attract more foreign direct investment and increase state exports abroad. Appropriates funds. (H...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-04
The committee(s) on WAM deleted the measure from the public hearing on 04-05-18 10:15AM in conference room 211. |
| HB1481 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a working group to study the uses of and determine best practices regarding blockchain technology. Effective 7/1/2038. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-04
The committee(s) on WAM deleted the measure from the public hearing on 04-05-18 10:15AM in conference room 211. |
| HB2433 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows a licensed motor vehicle dealer to engage in business at multiple locations affiliated by common ownership within the same county. Authorizes revocation, suspension, or denial of a manufacturer's or distributor's license or fines for failure t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-03
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| HB2061 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits private detectives and guards from self-identifying as law enforcement officers, police, or police officers and from wearing or using any badge, uniform, equipment, vehicle, or other accoutrement capable of being associated with that of a l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-03
The committee on CPH deferred the measure. |
| HB728 | Engross
Sine Die | Expands the agricultural products general excise tax exemption to include additional types of agricultural products. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2017. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-03
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB2631 | Engross
Sine Die | Enhances the electronic prescription accountability system to inform practitioners of the percentile ranking of their opiate prescription practices as compared to their peers. Takes effect on 7/1/2021. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-28
The committee on CPH deferred the measure. |
| HB2200 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows an employer to seek a temporary restraining order and injunction against further harassment of an employee or invitee who may be harassed at the employer's premises or worksite, provided that the provisions do not apply to the Department of La...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-27
To Senate Labor Committee |
| HB1828 | Engross
Sine Die | Allocates funds from transient accommodations tax revenues, to be matched by private or county funds, to the Hawaii Tourism Authority to support initiatives, with input from the Hawaii Lodging and Tourism Association, to mitigate the negative impacts...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB2011 | Engross
Sine Die | Increases the revenue threshold for the tax administration special fund and allocates the additional moneys to the special enforcement section for the enforcement of the transient accommodations tax. (HB2011 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1805 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires UH community colleges to establish energy systems and technology training courses for county officers and employees responsible for permitting, inspecting, licensing, and approving construction projects and an advisory committee of industry ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB2163 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Executive Office on Early Learning for additional operational costs, including equipment, supplies, and personnel costs. (HB2163 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB2460 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the establishment of a Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority (NELHA) microgrid demonstration project for the generation, storage, and distribution of renewable energy on property controlled by NELHA. (HB2460 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB2225 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires certain information technology projects to adhere to statewide information technology governance and be reviewed in a manner established by the Chief Information Officer for the information technology project. Provides the Chief Information ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1328 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows greater flexibility in conditions placed on eligibility requirements for the motion picture, digital media, and film production income tax credit. Amends the amount of the total tax credit that may be claimed per qualified production. Amends t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB2368 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for permanent civil service positions and equipment for the Hawaii Public Housing Authority to provide services historically and customarily performed by civil service employees in connection with refuse collection. Requires the de...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1801 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the public utilities commission to study the technical feasibility of establishing renewable portfolio standards for gas utility companies in Hawaii. Requires reports to the legislature. Appropriates funds. Takes effect on 1/28/2045. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB2283 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds for the designs, plans, materials, construction, and equipment for three capital improvement projects in the H-1 corridor: the widening of Kualakai Parkway to Waiawa Interchange; the widening of Wah...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB2696 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the establishment of one full-time equivalent cybersecurity analyst position within the state Department of Defense. (HB2696 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1942 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the issuance of limited purpose driver's licenses, limited purpose provisional driver's licenses, or limited purpose instruction permits to applicants who voluntarily choose to obtain a REAL ID compliant State Civil Identification Card. (H...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB2611 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates moneys for Department of Health to fund substance abuse treatment programs relating to persons with multiple chronic conditions, a centralized referral system, case management programs, and a peer mentoring or coaching program. (HB2611 H...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB2009 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifies the property types that may be furnished as transient accommodations and subject to the transient accommodations tax. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB2008 | Engross
Sine Die | Imposes registration requirements and the transient accommodations tax on travel agencies and tour packagers that enter into arrangements to furnish transient accommodations at noncommissioned negotiated contract rates on their share of the proceeds....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB2177 | Engross
Sine Die | Makes the motor vehicle registration fee for U-drive motor vehicles consistent with the fee for all other motor vehicles. Makes any county ordinance that increases a motor vehicle registration fee applicable to U-drive vehicles. (HB2177 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB2420 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes restrictions on the participation in political activities of certain state employees and officers. Imposes penalties for violations. Takes effect on 1/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB1638 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to continue and expand health care apprenticeship programs at UH community colleges. Takes effect on 7/1/3000. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1625 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows the registered owner of a motor vehicle to designate a beneficiary to whom ownership of the vehicle shall be transferred upon the registered owner's death. Takes effect on 1/1/2100. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB2592 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a working group within the department of the attorney general to assess the viability and constitutionality of using tax increment financing on the county level as a means of incentivizing water-related infrastructure projects and other p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB2044 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to establish four full-time equivalent (4.0 FTE) state ocean safety officers at Maniniowali Beach at Kua Bay in the Kekaha Kai State Park and to purchase ocean safety officer equipment. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
