| 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 |
| HB1421 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a regulatory scheme for roofing contractors to protect consumers from unlicensed insurance adjusters. (HB1421 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-17
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| HB164 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifies laws regarding an arbitrator's failure to disclose certain facts prior to or during arbitration. (HB164 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-17
To Senate Labor 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] | 2018-01-17
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| HB199 | Engross
Sine Die | Includes physical isolation as a form of abuse, allegations of which the Department of Human Services is authorized to investigate and instances for which the Department may take corrective action, including obtaining judicial relief. Takes effect 1/...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-17
To Senate Human Services 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] | 2018-01-17
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB913 | Engross
Sine Die | Improves access for firefighters to comprehensive medical coverage and service-connected disability retirement benefits upon diagnosis with or death from cancer that is presumed to arise out of and in the course of employment. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-17
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| HB1281 | Engross
Sine Die | Part I: Establishes a three-year Homeless Employment Pilot Program that provides homeless individuals with work opportunities and connects them with service providers. Requires the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to submit a report to th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-17
To Senate Human Services 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] | 2018-01-17
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB476 | Engross
Sine Die | Makes abuse of a family or household member who is younger than fourteen years of age a class C felony. (HB476 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-17
To Senate Judiciary 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] | 2018-01-17
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB1240 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Department of Human Services for the coordinated statewide homeless initiative, subject to certain conditions. Takes effect 7/1/2030. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-17
To House Housing Committee |
| HB669 | Engross
Sine Die | Streamlines the reporting requirements of the Department of Human Services (DHS)and the family courts to require DHS, upon direction of the court, to provide the family court with an oral or written report regarding the safety of a minor child of the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-17
To Senate Human Services Committee |
| HB773 | Engross
Sine Die | Makes modifications to the Industrial Hemp Pilot Program by permitting submission of a license application at any time during the year in which the applicant plans to grow industrial hemp, amending physical facility requirements, and repealing the re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-17
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HB1142 | Engross
Sine Die | Adds the offense of criminal trespass onto State Department of Transportation lands to the penal code.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-17
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| HB693 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Department of Human Services for the operational costs of an organization providing prevention, intervention, and group and individual counseling for high risk youth. Takes effect 1/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-17
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| HB865 | Engross
Sine Die | Makes Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA) employees subject to civil service and collective bargaining rights. Gives OHA voting rights as a public employer. (HB865 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-17
To Senate Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB415 | 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. (HB415 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-17
To Senate Judiciary 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] | 2018-01-17
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| HB629 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Board of Directors of the Employees' Retirement System to conduct a study into the viability of exempting from income tax and general excise tax an amount up to an unspecified percentage of the costs of the construction and operation of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-17
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| HB1181 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires an opioid therapy informed consent process agreement to be executed between an injured employee and any prescriber of opioids under certain conditions. Requires the harm reduction services branch of the department of health to develop and ma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-17
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| HB646 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows individuals who are blind or visually handicapped to apply for and obtain a removable windshield placard to use a parking space reserved for persons with disabilities. (HB646 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-17
To Senate Transportation and Energy 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] | 2018-01-17
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| HB457 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a community court outreach project in the City and County of Honolulu, subject to the availability of funds and memoranda of agreements from the Judiciary, Prosecuting Attorney, and the Public Defender. Appropriates funds. (HB457 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-17
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB1466 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a Youth Advisory Commission within the Office of Youth Services to advise the Governor and Legislature on the effects of legislative policies, needs, assessments, priorities, programs, and budgets relating to youth. Appropriates funds. (S...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-17
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| HB92 | Engross
Sine Die | Applies an inflation adjustment factor to long-term care providers' annual costs or basic prospective payment system rates. Appropriates funds. (HB92 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-17
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| HB432 | Engross
Sine Die | Makes financial exploitation of an elder by a caregiver a class A felony. Defines "caregiver", "elder", and "financial exploitation". Effective 7/1/2075. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-17
To Senate Human Services Committee |
| HB1359 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows each county to enact and enforce ordinances necessary to prevent, investigate, control, or eradicate invasive species identified by the Hawaii invasive species council on any public or private premises within the limits of the county. (HB1359 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-17
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
