| HB1417 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency to develop a post-disaster fresh drinking water security plan. Makes an appropriation. Requires a report to the legislature prior to the regular session of 2018. (HB1417 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HB76 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for severance benefits for separated employees affected by Act 103, SLH 2015, as may be negotiated through collective bargaining supplemental agreements. Takes effect 1/7/2059. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB630 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for county drought mitigation projects and measures. Appropriates funds for one full-time equivalent permanent planner IV position within the Commission on Water Resource Management to update the Hawaii drought plan. Effective 3/15...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1208 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for two full-time equivalent (2.0 FTE) enforcement specialist IV positions to be primarily responsible for the enforcement of Hawaii's workers' compensation, temporary disability insurance, and prepaid health care laws. Takes effec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB234 | Engross
Sine Die | Repeals the voluntary severance benefits option from chapter 89E, HRS. Takes effect 1/7/2059. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1305 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the construction of a westbound shoulder lane on the H-1 freeway between the Kunia/Waipahu/Ewa (Exit 5) off-ramp and the Kualakai parkway on-ramp. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB486 | Engross
Sine Die | Eliminates the mortgage interest deduction for second homes under the Hawaii Income Tax Law. Specifies that the revenue gain attributable to this measure be deposited into the Rental Housing Revolving Fund. Requires the Department of Budget and Finan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1341 | Engross
Sine Die | Designates the month of October as "Farm to School Month in Hawaii."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HB894 | Engross
Sine Die | Exempts individuals selling only insurance for property stored at a self-service storage facility from obtaining a license as an insurance producer provided that specific requirements are met. (HB894 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| HB1248 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the establishment of a NELHA microgrid demonstration project for the generation, storage, and distribution of renewable energy on property controlled by NELHA. (HB1248 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| HB1449 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the impact loan fund for Hawaii, to be known as the HI-impact loan program, in the Hawaii Strategic Development Corporation to support dual-use technology small businesses. Establishes the HI-impact special fund. Appropriates funds. Effec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB462 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Public Safety to solicit proposals for a new correctional facility. Requires new facility to be operated by public employees. Temporarily suspends the current EIS process for potential sites for the proposed Oahu Community ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HB499 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifies the definition of "underserved" or "at-risk" children as it relates to the priority given to these children for the Preschool Open Doors program. Provides that priority among undeserved or at-risk children shall be given to children whose f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1448 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Education to provide free school meals to children who are eligible for free or reduced-price school meals, based on the United States Department of Agriculture's most current income eligibility guidelines. Appropriates fun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Education Committee |
| HB1308 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Auditor to conduct a study, including a cost analysis, on the necessity and feasibility of establishing an agency within the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs to regulate homeowners associations, and to submit a report of its p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| HB14 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the employment of lifeguards and for necessary equipment to be used by state lifeguards in their work at Kua Bay, Kekaha Kai State Park in North Kona on the island of Hawaii. Effective March 15, 2099. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB840 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Auditor to conduct a performance audit of the Department of Land and Natural Resources, Land Division. Appropriates funds for necessary staff positions. (HB840 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HB795 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for certification of a reforestation carbon project at Haleakala, Maui, operated by DLNR, under an established forest carbon standard certification system. Requires DLNR to submit an annual report on the project certification to th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HB386 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the two-year extension of the Post-Bypass Beach Monitoring Program of the Kikiaola Small Boat Harbor Sand Bypass Operation at Waimea, Kauai. (HB386 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HB932 | Engross
Sine Die | Gradually increases the credit amounts and amends the income brackets of the refundable food/excise tax credit. Repeals the sunset date of Act 223, SLH 2015, which amended the food/excise tax credit. (HB932 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1579 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the issuance of revenue bonds pursuant to part III of chapter 39, HRS, and appropriates funds to the high technology development corporation for the purpose of constructing an electrolysis hydrogen production, storage, and dispensing facil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB622 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the BLNR Chairperson to transfer public land trust funds to the Kahoolawe Rehabilitation Trust Fund. Authorizes the Office of Hawaiian Affairs to expend public land trust funds for purposes consistent with those of the Kahoolawe Rehabilita...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB146 | Engross
Sine Die | Adopts moving date conformity, which will allow changes in the Federal Internal Revenue Code to automatically apply to State income tax law. (HB146 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB961 | Engross
Sine Die | Excludes for state income tax purposes a portion of income earned by farmers who grow or raise food or valueadded food products and whose annual gross income does not exceed a certain amount. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2017. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB590 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the Hawaii Creative Industries Advisory Group while retaining the Film Industry Branch and Creative Industries Division of DBEDT. Repeals the Hawaii Television and Film Development Board along with the grant and venture capital programs t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1324 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes a tax credit equal to 20% of qualifying business costs for the transportation of agricultural commodities between islands within the State of Hawaii. (HB1324 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HB1457 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Division of Aquatic Resources to promote education about nearshore reef wildlife and to develop a comprehensive plan, programs, and policies for its sustainable management. Places a temporary ban on the issuance of new aquarium fish perm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HB121 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument Program within the Department of Land and Natural Resources Division of Aquatic Resources to coordinate and fulfill the State's co-management role with OHA and federal authorities. Makes an a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB644 | Engross
Sine Die | Expands methods for the delivery of funding to a project by providing loans to capitalize a qualified community development entity and provide guarantees or other credit enhancements to facilitate private lender participation in new markets tax credi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Economic Development, Tourism, and Technology Committee |
| HB446 | Engross
Sine Die | Makes an appropriation for the acquisition of land, planning, design, and construction of an agricultural park in South Maui. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB911 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the High Technology Development Corporation to establish and administer a High Technology Shared Equipment Program to allow companies to share high technology equipment. Appropriates funds. (HB911 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Economic Development, Tourism, and Technology Committee |
| HB1587 | Engross
Sine Die | Increases state fuel taxes by unspecified amounts. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1200 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Department of Land and Natural Resources to conduct a feasibility study to determine the best means to provide a Pohoiki swimming area and develop plans, in cooperation with the United States Army Corps of Engineers, County ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
