| HB1484 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the offense of assault in the second degree if a person intentionally or knowingly causes bodily injury to a health care professional, as defined in section 451D-2, Hawaii Revised Statutes, who is engaged in the performance of duty at the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-17
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| HB314 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a new chapter to regulate the use of unmanned aerial vehicles. Establishes prohibited uses of unmanned aerial vehicles for individuals, law enforcement agencies, and public agencies. Provides certain exceptions for the use of unmanned aer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-17
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| HB456 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires police departments to disclose to the Legislature the identity of an officer upon the officer's second suspension in a five-year period or discharge. Requires disclosure under the Uniform Information Practices Act after a police officer's se...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-17
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HB302 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows district, circuit, or family court to issue a material witness order in cases initiated through felony complaint, indictment, or information. (HB302 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-17
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB888 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the LRB to study the feasibility of providing health benefits to state and county employees using a self-insured model. Makes an appropriation. (HB888 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-17
To Senate Labor Committee |
| HB717 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits a commissioned notary public from accepting a limited purpose driver's license for verification of identification. (HB717 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-17
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| HB887 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the Rate Stabilization Reserve Fund within the Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund to help subsidize the costs of providing health and other benefit plans for active employees and retirees and their beneficiaries. Caps employ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-17
To Senate Labor Committee |
| HB1543 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the University of Hawaii community colleges to establish energy systems and technology training courses for county employees responsible for permitting, inspecting, licensing, and approving construction projects that contain renewable energy...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-17
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| HB80 | Engross
Sine Die | Imposes a restraining order that preserves the financial assets of the parties and their dependents upon the commencement of annulment, divorce, or separation court action. (HB80 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-17
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB455 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits the Department of Agriculture from charging agricultural producers for the costs of food safety certification activities conducted by the department. (HB455 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-17
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HB1301 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides that a person or entity that is determined by the Hawaii Invasive Species Council to have introduced an invasive species into the State may be strictly liable for all or part of the expenses to eradicate the invasive species from the State. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-17
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HB814 | Engross
Sine Die | Adopts uniform laws on protecting the online accounts of employees and students from employers and educational institutions, respectively. (HB814 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-17
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| HB617 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the requirements that any plan of land for deregistered land must meet for recordation at the bureau of conveyances. Requires that any plan of land that involves deregistered land that is filed with the registrar of conveyances must be ac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-17
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HB556 | Engross
Sine Die | Repeals the requirement that all applicants for health and human services procurement contracts possess all licenses necessary to conduct the subject business. Repeals the requirement that all contracts include only costs, fees, and taxes reflected o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-17
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| HB1330 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes common interest agricultural communities. (HB1330 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-17
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HB193 | Engross
Sine Die | Increases the value amounts applicable to qualifying for an exemption from attachment or execution of real and personal property. Exempts one month of child support and spousal support in the possession of the debtor-recipient of support from attachm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-17
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| HB1184 | Engross
Sine Die | Replaces criminal penalties for certain airport offenses addressed in Chapter 261, Hawaii Revised Statutes, or in certain administrative rules or orders issued pursuant thereto, with a civil penalty. (HB1184 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-17
To Senate Judiciary 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] | 2018-01-17
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| HB954 | Engross
Sine Die | Exempts active members of the Hawaii emergency management agency and county emergency management agencies from jury duty. (HB954 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-17
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HB289 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires a candidate or noncandidate committee to inform the Campaign Spending Commission if the candidate or noncandidate committee does not intend to receive or spend contributions and expenditures that aggregate more than $1,000 in an election per...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-17
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB589 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Judiciary to retain mental health services and substance abuse treatment for the Hawaii's Opportunity Probation with Enforcement program, which is an intensive supervisory program for persons on probation. (HB589 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-17
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB783 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the department of agriculture to establish a two-year agricultural theft and vandalism pilot project to examine the effectiveness of prosecuting agricultural theft and agricultural vandalism in the county of Hawaii. Appropriates funds. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-17
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HB946 | Engross
Sine Die | Specifies that an unauthorized person who drives in a high occupancy vehicle lane shall be subject to a $150 fine. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-17
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| HB1081 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the issuance of a citation for specific violations of beauty culture laws by licensees and permittees. Sets forth a process for licensees and permittees to contest the citation and provides for the assessment of fines for each violation. (...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-17
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| HB179 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes ranked choice voting for special elections for Congressional races. (HB179 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-17
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB1025 | Engross
Sine Die | Imposes a fine against any employer who fails to comply with income withholding requirements applicable to child and spousal support, or discharges, refuses to employ, or takes disciplinary action against a person because the person is subject to inc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-17
To Senate Labor Committee |
| HB232 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifies the allowable scope of collective bargaining negotiations regarding the rights and obligations of a public employer. Takes effect 1/7/2059. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1544 | Engross
Sine Die | Adds increasing the production of food intended for human consumption that is produced and sold in the State to the list of acts that the Department of Agriculture must undertake as part of its statutorily-established responsibility of administering ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Ways and Means 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] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Higher Education 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] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Economic Development, Tourism, and Technology Committee |
| HB1300 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Hawaii institute of marine biology at UH to conduct ongoing studies of the environmental impacts of sewage spills on affected coral reefs. Requires the institute of marine biology to submit an annual report to the legislature prior to th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1012 | Engross
Sine Die | Temporarily disallows the deduction for dividends paid by real estate investment trusts for a period of 15 years, but with an exception for dividends generated from trust-owned housing that is affordable to households with incomes at or below 140 per...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| HB1507 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Transportation to establish a Community Crosswalks Pilot Program to design and implement specially painted crosswalk in neighborhoods. Appropriates funds for the pilot program. Creates a Community Crosswalks Pilot Program S...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| HB470 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the Board of Education to contract for private groundskeeping services for public library properties. (HB470 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Education Committee |
| HB1566 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes "substantial net benefit" as the public utilities commission's standard for a merger involving an electric public utility and allows the commission to establish reasonable criteria to determine whether a "substantial net benefit" exists i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| HB1310 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the Waiakea Peninsula Redevelopment District, Planning Committee, and Revolving Fund. (HB1310 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Economic Development, Tourism, and Technology Committee |
| HB998 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the DLNR to allow bottomfish fishing in six of the Bottomfish Restricted Fishing Areas and to amend any administrative rules to provide that any restriction on fishing shall be based on scientific evidence of environmental necessity. (HB998 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HB875 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for 5 full-time equivalent (5.00 FTE) temporary student intern II positions within the state historic preservation division. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB233 | Engross
Sine Die | Offers employees of the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation whose positions will be abolished or directly affected by a reduction-in-force, workforce restructuring plan, or privatization the choice of receiving both special retirement benefits and volu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1384 | Engross
Sine Die | Extends the prohibition that prevents the counties from requiring fire sprinklers in specific family dwelling units and nonresidential agricultural and aquacultural buildings. (HB1384 HD3)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HB670 | Engross
Sine Die | Creates the Hawaii Working Family Tax Credit, a refundable credit capped at 10 percent of the federal earned income tax credit. (HB670 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1550 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes within HPHA the Section 8 Voucher Homebuyer Assistance Program for recipients of federal Section 8 Housing Choice vouchers. Authorizes issuance of revenue bonds. Authorizes HPHA to make downpayment loans to eligible borrowers. Establishes...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HB594 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes within the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism the Maritime Industry Grant Program to enhance maritime productivity and workforce development. Takes effect 1/7/2059. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB618 | Engross
Sine Die | Sets a deadline for the transfer of certain non-agricultural park lands from the Department of Land and Natural Resources to the Department of Agriculture. (HB618 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HB1279 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the University of Hawaii West Oahu to expand its existing programs and develop new means to increase food security and self-sufficiency in the State. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB113 | Engross
Sine Die | Exempts vehicles transporting asphalt or other high temperature loads from the requirement that their loads be covered; provided that the physical characteristics of the load are not susceptible to blowing off during transport. (HB113 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB593 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides that, notwithstanding provisions of the Internal Revenue Code to the contrary, the amount of the state tax credit for research activities shall be calculated based on all qualified research expenses for the taxable year. Appropriates funds f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Economic Development, Tourism, and Technology Committee |
| HB597 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes within the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism a broadband coordinator to create the state broadband plan. Requires report to the Legislature. Appropriates funds. (HB597 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB534 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates moneys for Hawaii Public Housing Authority to hire an additional security guard to improve security and monitoring at the Alu Street gate of Kalihi Valley Homes public housing. (HB534 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Housing Committee |
| HB420 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the designation of "one hundred per cent disabled veteran" on drivers' licenses, instruction permits, and civil identification cards. (HB420 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
