| HB2750 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the basis and rate for the conveyance tax, adds an exemption to the conveyance tax for qualified affordable housing, and increases allocations of the conveyance tax to the Land Conservation Fund and the Rental Housing Revolving Fund. (HB2750 H...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-08
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HB2027 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Auditor to review the water quality certification process of the Department of Health's Clean Water Branch. (HB2027 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-08
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| HB2013 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to upgrade the Department of Land and Natural Resources' Division of Conservation and Resources Enforcement's trucks currently in use in Hawaii county. (HB2013 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-08
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HB2595 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates moneys to the Department of Land and Natural Resources for improvements, repairs, and maintenance of watersheds throughout the State. (HB2595 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-08
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HB1847 | Engross
Sine Die | Extends the period during which a victim of child sexual abuse may bring an otherwise time-barred civil action against the victim's abuser or an entity with a duty of care. (HB1847 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-08
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB2702 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires that real estate investment trusts file returns reporting their shareholders' pro rata shares of net income and net income attributable to this State. Provides for composite returns and requires withholding for those shareholders who do not ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-08
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB2727 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes certain disclosure requirements for publishers of video games that contain a system of purchasing a randomized reward. Appropriates funds. (HB2727 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-08
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| HB2653 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the board of land and natural resources to provide qualified coastal landowners, who have privately owned structures situated on previously private land that has become submerged public land due to erosion and sea level rise, with short du...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-08
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HB1687 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows an election officer who is required to issue a public notice in a statewide or county publication to satisfy the publication requirement by submitting the notice to the publication and conspicuously posting the notice on the website associated...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-08
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB2137 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits prospective employers from requesting or considering a job applicant's wage or salary history as part of an employment application process or compensation offer. Prohibits enforced wage secrecy and retaliation or discrimination against empl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-08
To Senate Labor Committee |
| HB2498 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes and appropriates funds for one full-time equivalent (1.00 FTE) permanent veterinary medical officer position within the Department of Health. (HB2498 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-08
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| HB1661 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires a candidate committee or noncandidate committee to inform the Campaign Spending Commission if the candidate committee or noncandidate committee does not intend to receive or spend contributions and expenditures that aggregate more than $1,00...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-08
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB2540 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the Department of Health to coordinate with each county water department to establish a low interest loan program for the upgrade or conversion of cesspools in each county to septic systems, aerobic treatment unit systems, for connection t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-08
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| HB2427 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Auditor to conduct a comprehensive audit of the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation. Appropriates funds. (HB2427 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-08
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| HB1879 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes an application screening fee that a landlord may charge an applicant to obtain information about the applicant and establishes the applicant's right to review the credit report obtained by the landlord if the applicant paid the applicatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-08
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| HB2466 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits the Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund (Fund) from withholding any retroactive reimbursement payable after June 30, 2013, to a retired employee-beneficiary and qualified employee-beneficiary's spouse for an income-adjusted Med...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-08
To Senate Labor Committee |
| HB1659 | Engross
Sine Die | Repeals the requirement that noncandidate committee organizational reports include information regarding contributions. (HB1659 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-08
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB1751 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources, through its Division of Aquatic Resources, to establish a network of marine managed areas in areas identified to provide the most benefit to the State's nearshore marine resources. (HB1751 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-06
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HB2194 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows a court of inferior jurisdiction to certify to the Hawaii Supreme Court a question or proposition of law on which the court of inferior jurisdiction seeks instruction for the proper decision of a remanded case. Requires the Supreme Court to an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-06
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB2267 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the State Highway Enforcement Program and related fund within the Department of Transportation. Establishes a parking violation surcharge to be imposed by courts in addition to other penalties and fines for parking violations on state hig...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-06
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| HB885 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits health insurance preauthorization requirements that cause undue delay in receipt of medical treatment or services. Specifies that insurers, but not health care providers, are liable for civil damages caused by undue delays for preauthorizat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-06
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| HB2403 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides funds to the Department of Transportation for the safety oversight of the rail fixed guideway system. (HB2403 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-06
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| HB1799 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows only nonprofit corporations to be recipients of grants in aid appropriated by the Legislature under Chapter 42F, Hawaii Revised Statutes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-06
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB2049 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the Board of Education membership by inviting the exclusive representative for bargaining unit (5) (teachers and other personnel of the Department of Education) to appoint a nonvoting public school teacher representative to the Board. (HB2049 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-06
To Senate Education Committee |
| HB1723 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a working group to identify high priority areas that are in need of marine protection management for potential designation as marine protected areas. (HB1723 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-06
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HB2383 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes statutory authorization of special duty employment, commonly referred to as special duty services, by deputy sheriffs. (HB2383 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-06
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HB1787 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires mayors to report collective bargaining unit negotiations to their respective county councils. (HB1787 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-06
To Senate Labor Committee |
| HB1819 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Transportation to acquire a privately owned portion of North Road and install lighting there. Appropriates funds for the acquisition and lighting. Appropriates funds as a grant-in-aid to the City and County of Honolulu to i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-06
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| HB1875 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Contractors License Board to adopt rules to define the term "incidental and supplemental to the performance of work". Specifies that the definition shall refer to no more than an unspecified percentage of all work in the subcraft contrac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-06
To Senate Labor Committee |
| HB1966 | Engross
Sine Die | Exempts individuals and establishments that offer only foot, hand, and outer ear manipulation from massage therapy licensure requirements and related advertising restrictions. (HB1966 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-06
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| HB2285 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires grantees to publicly recognize state support of projects that have been awarded grants.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-06
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| HB1886 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a temporary, five-year Senior Citizen Higher Education Access Pilot Program at the University of Hawaii systemwide. (HB1886 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-06
To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| HB2203 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes an enforcement division in the Department of the Attorney General. Transfers to the Department of the Attorney General Enforcement Division the law enforcement activities of the Department of Land and Natural Resources Division of Conserv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-06
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| HB2156 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the Department of Education to establish a Farm to School Program. Requires the Farm to School Coordinator in the Department of Agriculture to work in collaboration with the Department of Education on any Farm to School Program. Establishe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-06
To Senate Education Committee |
| HB1656 | Engross
Sine Die | Increases the amount of the fine that may be assessed against a noncandidate committee making only independent expenditures for campaign spending violations. Allows the Campaign Spending Commission to order that a fine assessed against a noncandidate...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-06
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB1950 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the definition of "practice of pharmacy" to expand the scope of services and specific medications that pharmacists may furnish. Establishes a working group to review the scope of practice of pharmacists and continuing competency requirements f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-06
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| HB1855 | Engross
Sine Die | Empowers the State Ethics Commission to require the payment of restitution for ethics violations after a hearing or agreement between the parties. Effective 1/1/50.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-06
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB2113 | Engross
Sine Die | Directs the Department of Human Resources Development to provide University of Hawaii tuition grants to state employees who commit to continued employment with the State after graduation. Appropriates moneys. (HB2113 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-06
To Senate Labor Committee |
| HB2191 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the appellate jurisdiction of the Hawaii Supreme Court and Intermediate Court of Appeals to conditions as they existed prior to July 1, 2006. Reestablishes the requirement that most appeals be filed with the Supreme Court instead of the Interm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-06
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB2236 | Engross
Sine Die | Transfers to the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism (DBEDT) jurisdiction over cable TV and the Broadband Assistance Advisory Council from the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs and telecommunications carriers from the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-06
To Senate Economic Development, Tourism, and Technology Committee |
| HB1757 | Engross
Sine Die | Expands the coffee labeling requirements to include ready-to-drink coffee beverages. (HB1757 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-01
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| HB2443 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a 3-year accessible playgrounds pilot program under the Department of Land and Natural Resources. Requires a report to the Legislature. Appropriates moneys. (HB2443 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-01
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HB2452 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the design of all state buildings constructed on or after July 1, 2018, to include a shelter room or area that is capable of protecting individuals from Category 3 hurricanes. (HB2452 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-01
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| HB1665 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the amount of transient accommodations tax revenues allocated to the counties from a specified sum to reimbursements to the county for expenditures related to specified county public services and specified tax credits allowed. Provides a prima...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-01
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HB1777 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifies that defendants may be convicted of lesser included offenses in cases filed via felony complaints. (HB1777 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-21
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB1771 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the circuit court or family court to issue a material witness order in cases initiated through felony complaint, indictment, or information. (HB1771 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-21
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB796 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a class C felony for an assault against a utility worker that causes serious or substantial bodily injury or an assault against a utility worker with a dangerous instrument that causes bodily injury. (HB796 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-17
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB801 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires certain amounts of child support moneys collected by the Department of Human Services (DHS) for public assistance of a child to pass through to the family receiving the public assistance. Requires DHS to disregard passed through child suppor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-17
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| HB377 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires building permit applicants to provide to the county a certificate of liability insurance issued by a workers' compensation insurance carrier or a self-insurance authorization, or a signed declaration verifying an exemption from coverage, for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-17
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HB604 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the department of agriculture, in consultation with the department of health, to create and maintain a list of plants and landscaping-related structures or equipment that are known to be preferred habitats for mosquito breeding and prohibits...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-17
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
