| HB2677 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates moneys for interpreter services to be rendered during the Deaf and Blind Task Force's monthly meetings. (HB2677 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1747 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes $35,000,000 as the Office of Hawaiian Affairs' pro rata share of the public land trust proceeds. Transfers $119,000,000 less certain funds to the Office of Hawaiian Affairs for underpayment of the public land trust revenues for 7/1/12 to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2726 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Health to set benchmarks to reach an eighty-five per cent redemption rate by 2023. Establishes and appropriates funds for a plastics recycling grant program to identify Hawaii-based alternatives for the sustainable recyclin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2665 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires special permit approval for solar energy facilities larger than fifteen kilowatts on one or more lots in non-conforming residential subdivisions, which have been identified by the county, located on land with soil classified with an overall ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2006 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation, or the appropriate state entity, to initiate negotiations to keep the units of the Front Street Apartments on the island of Maui affordable or to acquire the Front Street Apartments prop...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2473 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the construction and use of micro housing units on Hawaiian home lands managed by DHHL, notwithstanding zoning laws, permit provisions, and building codes. Makes an appropriation to DHHL for construction of micro housing units, subject to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2087 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires electronic tracking of certain patients who are allowed outside a psychiatric facility. (HB2087 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB1896 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a health care access task force to review health care policies, the affordable care act, and other jurisdictions' health care legislative proposals to determine ways the state can increase access to health care. (HB1896 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2510 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Department of Education to install air conditioning in public schools that prioritize the project. (HB2510 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1994 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits state law enforcement agencies from complying with federal immigration detainers or honoring requests for non-public information unless specifically required to do so by a warrant signed by a judge or provisions of federal, state, or local ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1651 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a collective bargaining unit for graduate student assistants employed by the University of Hawaii. (HB1651 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1616 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for one advanced life support ambulance to be based in Puna on the island of Hawaii and to be used from 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m., and to include a vehicle, equipment, and personnel costs. (HB1616 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2038 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a three-year pilot program which authorizes nonprofit organizations in a county with a population of 500,000 or more to provide shelter to homeless persons, including by hosting temporary encampments on property owned by the organization....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2197 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Land Use Commission to monitor and evaluate the enforcement of laws on conservation lands by the Department of Land and Natural Resources. Requires the Land Use Commission to submit an annual report to the Legislature regarding its findi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2524 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the In Vitro Fertilization Insurance Coverage Study Group to examine health insurance policies and current statutes and to make policy recommendations to the Legislature prior to the convening of the 2019 legislative session. (HB2524 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1967 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows advanced practice registered nurses, physicians, dentists, psychologists, pharmacists, and social workers to receive tax credits for acting as preceptors in volunteer-based supervised clinical training rotations provided to eligible students t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2278 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Prevent Suicide Hawaii Taskforce under the Department of Health to develop annual recommendations to the Legislature to reduce suicide. (HB2278 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HB782 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to improve the health care services related to cardiac care at Kona Community Hospital. Funds may be used for the construction of a hybrid catheterization lab and operating room and funding of cardiology staff positions to alleviat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2296 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits internet service providers from using the personal information of customers for specific purposes without the prior written consent of customers. (HB2296 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2023 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes that a person who intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly causes serious or substantial bodily injury or bodily injury with a dangerous instrument to a utility worker who is engaged in the performance of duty, as assault in the second deg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2155 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates and appropriates funds for Erin's Law Task Force to review policies, programs, and curricula for educating public school students about sexual abuse and sex trafficking prevention, and report recommendations for the establishment of a program...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2298 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires, for any proposed action involving construction for which an environmental impact statement has been accepted by an agency but for which construction has not commenced within five years of acceptance of the statement, the developer of the co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1920 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes an income tax credit, limited to one credit per tax map key number, for a portion of the cost of construction or renovation for purposes of compliance with Type C residential housing visitability standards. (HB1920 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2492 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes unlawful shipment of tobacco products to anyone other than a licensee. Includes e-liquid within the definition of "tobacco products", as used in the cigarette tax and tobacco tax law, thereby making all provisions of the cigarette tax and tobac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2160 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the establishment of a pilot visitation center for children of incarcerated parents at one or more correctional facilities in the State and a plan for visitation centers at all state-operated correctional facilities. Appropriates funds to th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1923 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires operators of child care facilities, including family child care homes, group child care centers, and group child care homes, and infant and toddler child care centers that care for children less than 1 year of age to comply with additional r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
The committees on HHS recommend that the measure be HELD. The votes were as follows: 3 Ayes: Representative(s) Mizuno, Kobayashi, Learmont; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 2 Excused: Representative(s) Belatti, Tupola. |
| HB2048 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes individual Department of Education schools and career pathways, academies, or programs operated within a school to engage in commercial enterprises related to the primary educational purposes of the school, career pathway, academy, or prog...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1766 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Hawaii Public Housing Authority for public housing improvements and renovations, and to administer a Rent Supplement Program. Appropriates funds to the Department of Human Services to administer the Housing First, Rapid Reho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1912 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the kupuna caregivers program. Requires the Executive Office on Aging to provide additional information regarding the outcomes of the kupuna caregivers program in its annual report on elder programs. (HB1912 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1803 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the PUC to adopt rules adopting federal energy efficiency and water conservation standards. Makes the rules effective if the federal government repeals current federal energy efficiency and water conservation standards.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HB1822 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the automatic fire sprinkler system revolving fund to provide low interest loans for the installation of automatic fire sprinkler systems in condominiums or apartments; provided that no loans shall be authorized until January 1, 2019. (HB...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2301 | Intro
Sine Die | Restructures the Hawaii Invasive Species Council as the Hawaii Invasive Species Authority, administratively attached to the Department of Agriculture, to coordinate implementation of the Hawaii Interagency Biosecurity Plan and to improve coordination...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| HB122 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Department of Health to enable it to contract with eligible non-profit or charitable organizations, private entities, or public entities to trap, neuter or spay, and release feral cats to the location where they were origina...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2422 | Intro
Sine Die | Redefines "boiler" within the Boiler and Elevator Safety Law. Extends the time from five years to ten years for the Director of Labor and Industrial Relations to reimburse the general fund from the Boiler and Elevator Revolving Fund. Reclassifies the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1841 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires benchmarking for all nonresidential buildings. Resulting benchmarking data will be disclosed to a prospective buyer, lessee, or lender. (HB1841 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB2346 | Intro
Sine Die | Promotes the financial responsibility of administrators. Regulates the professional practices of third party administrators. Establishes the qualifications and procedures for the licensing of administrators. (HB2346 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2685 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the Office of Hawaiian Education of the Department of Education to continue the Hawaiian Studies Program in schools as determined by the Office of Hawaiian Education. (HB2685 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1714 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies the parking fee exemption for electric vehicles in non-metered stalls. Extends to June 30, 2024, Act 168, Session Laws of Hawaii 2012, which authorizes the Department of Transportation to adopt rules for registration and license plates for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2329 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the statutory cap on the disposition of conveyance taxes dedicated for deposit into the Rental Housing Revolving Fund for the financing of affordable rental housing development. (HB2329 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1639 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for the planning and design of the expansion of the University of Hawaii Maui College culinary arts program to Lahaina. Requires that the Chancellor work with hotels, resorts, and landowners of nearby properties to develop a plan. Makes an a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2743 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds with the funds to be deposited into the Dwelling Unit Revolving Fund and the Rental Housing Revolving Fund. (HB2743 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2052 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Hawaii Labor Relations Board to deliver its decisions and orders by hand, USPS mail with delivery confirmation, or electronically. (HB2052 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2688 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends 235-17, HRS, to apply to qualified production costs incurred for post-production activities and services performed in Hawaii film studios. Effective 12/31/2018.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2093 | Intro
Sine Die | Restores the voting status of the member of the Association of Emeritus Regents of the University of Hawaii on the Candidate Advisory Council. Specifies term conditions. (HB2093 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2374 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Labor Law Enforcement Special Fund to finance the collection of penalties for violations of labor law. Establishes two positions, including an attorney and legal assistant, to represent the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1529 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits discrimination in the rental of real property based on a veteran's use of HUD-VASH vouchers. (HB1529 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2474 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Hawaii Public Housing Authority to establish a program to offer insurance policies to landlords who rent to tenants using the Section 8 housing choice voucher program and report to the Legislature. Appropriates funds to establish and adm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2347 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends various portions of the Hawaii Insurance Code by adopting NAIC model language for corporate governance annual disclosures, establishing a procedure for changes in trade name or an assumed name, and clarifying reimbursement to health insurance ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1706 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Department of Human Services for the coordinated statewide homeless initiative, subject to certain conditions. (HB1706 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1804 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts affordable housing projects developed or financed by HHFDC or a county, housing projects that satisfy county affordable housing requirements and qualify for county fee exemptions, and affordable rental housing for which the developer received...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
