| HB2248 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs to adopt state appliance efficiency standards to save consumers' money while conserving energy and water resources. (HB2248 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-01
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HB2392 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes an emergency appropriation to provide funds for Department of Public Safety to reimburse the Department of Human Services for specialty out-of-facility care and to pay the increased costs for pharmacy services. (HB2392 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-01
Received from Governor re: Emergency Appropriation (Gov. Msg. No. 9). |
| HB1988 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the Department of Land and Natural Resources to lease fast lands and submerged lands at the Ala Wai boat harbor for office space, parking, commercial use, hotel use, training facilities, vessel use, and deep seawater air-conditioning plants. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-28
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2459 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts affordable housing units acquired, developed, financed, or rehabilitated by qualified nonprofit housing trusts from the use restrictions and the 10-year owner-occupancy, 10-year buyback, owner qualifications, and shared appreciation equity re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-23
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2372 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows licensed dental hygienists to practice under the general or direct supervision of any licensed dentist providing dental services in a public health setting. (HB2372 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-21
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| HB1877 | Intro
Sine Die | Raises the threshold under the contractor licensing law's handyman exemption from $1,000 to an unspecified amount. (HB1877 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-21
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB1902 | Intro
Sine Die | Designates May as Military Appreciation Month in Hawaii.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1957 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits a person who is entitled enforce a mortgage note as a negotiable instrument from also foreclosing on the property in a foreclosure by action unless the person is the owner, as opposed to a holder, of the mortgage note. (HB1957 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2506 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes and appropriates funds to the Statewide Rat Lungworm Disease Working Group for research and education for the prevention, treatment, and eradication of rat lungworm disease. Requires a report to the Legislature prior to the Regular Sessio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2469 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits a county or state agency from approving a permit to construct or operate a new grid-connected electrical generation facility in excess of five megawatts or storage facility in excess of fifty megawatt hours if it is located in a sea level r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1668 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the number of district judges in the Second Circuit from three to four judges. (HB1668 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1782 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes an income tax credit based on the actual cost, including installation, water, and permit fees, of an automatic fire sprinkler system in any residential occupancy in a building used for residential purposes. Applies to taxable years beginn...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2185 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for a position to increase school-health coordination in the Department of Education. Establishes evidence-based screenings and assessment for school vision, oral health, and behavioral health. Effective 7/1/3000. (HB2185 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1640 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires employers to pay for all medical services required for the employee for the compensable injury and the process of recovery, even when claims are disputed. Establishes negotiation, notice, and review procedures for disputed claims. Imposes fi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2016 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that a county shall not impose an exaction or inclusionary zoning requirement on a housing development offered exclusively for sale to buyers earning less than 140 percent of the area median income. Repeals this prohibition in five years. (H...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1761 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Emergency Department Homelessness Assessment Pilot Program to identify a possible correlation between multidisciplinary team interventions and the use of hospital emergency departments by individuals experiencing homelessness and make...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1746 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the cap amounts of the tax deduction for individual housing accounts. Authorizes use of funds to obtain rental housing. Authorizes maintenance of accounts in a community development financial institution. (HB1746 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2096 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Emergency Hazard Flood Mitigation Special Fund. Appropriates moneys into the Special Fund. Appropriates moneys from the Special Fund for emergency flood mitigation equipment. (HB2096 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2351 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates a Chargeable Transient Quarters Revolving Fund into which lodging and billet fees are deposited. (HB2351 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2732 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a study group within the Department of Health to develop a pilot program to address contamination relating to waste-water, cesspools, and shore waters at Puako. (HB2732 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2231 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides a nonrefundable income tax credit to a taxpayer who purchases or modifies a personal vehicle for use by a person with a disability. Applies to taxable years beginning after December 31, 2018. (HB2231 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2723 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the sale, offer for sale, or distribution for sale of non-prescription SPF sunscreen products containing octinoxate or oxybenzone. Violation of the prohibition is a petty misdemeanor. (HB2723 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1708 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires DOH to study the protection of waters in the State. The study shall identify state statutes that rely on, or are applied in conjunction with, the federal Clean Water Act, prior to the issuance of the Clean Water Rule; identify waters that ar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1919 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the incorporation of housing visitability standards in the new construction of publicly funded residential housing. (HB1919 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1789 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a nonrefundable income tax credit of 25% of the total costs, including installation costs, of an automatic fire suppression system in any new detached 1- or 2-family dwelling unit in a structure used only for residential purposes. Sunsets...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1813 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a three-year pilot program to create a new category of professional licensure for assistant physicians, through which recent medical school graduates who have passed certain medical exams but have not been placed into a residency program ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2102 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes and appropriates funds for a Regional Nutrient Cycling Pilot Program on Maui. Requires DOA to report on the efficacy of the pilot program. (HB2102 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2217 | Intro
Sine Die | Permits the driver of a vehicle to safely proceed through an intersection in which a defective or malfunctioning trafficcontrol device fails to detect the vehicle and stays in the red signal stage through two cycles of the traffic-control device. (HB...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB1688 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes and funds the Rat Lungworm Disease in Non-Human Animals Study Group to evaluate, research, and gather information on rat lungworm disease. Requires a report to the Legislature. (HB1688 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2089 | Intro
Sine Die | Permits the Adjutant General to extend the University of Hawaii tuition assistance awards to qualified retired Hawaii National Guard enlisted persons, warrant officers, and company grade officers. (HB2089 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1724 | Intro
Sine Die | Expands the poster requirement to massage therapy establishments that employ three or more people. Increases the penalties for violations of the poster requirement and deposits the penalties in the human trafficking victim services fund. Allows the D...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2062 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes permanent the regulation of athletic trainers. (HB2062 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2364 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Kawailoa Youth and Family Wellness center and transforms the approach of juvenile justice to a therapeutic model. (HB2364 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2381 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the definition of "commercial activity" within section 200-4(a), Hawaii Revised Statutes. (HB2381 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2350 | Intro
Sine Die | Allow the State Department of Defense to recoup operating costs when the Department allows for temporary facility use to the public. (HB2350 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2153 | Intro
Sine Die | Designates the month of April of each year as the Hawaii Child Abuse Awareness and Prevention Month.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1949 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes a naturopathic physician to prescribe testosterone consistent with naturopathic medical practice. Clarifies that narcotic drugs shall not be included within the naturopathic formulary. Authorizes the Board of Naturopathic Medicine to disci...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB2467 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Legislative Reference Bureau to conduct a study on the factors that contribute to the costs of construction projects in the State. Appropriates funds for the study. (HB2467 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2632 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes requirements, conditions, and restrictions for farm dwellings and employee housing on agricultural land. Limits farm dwellings and employee housing on agricultural land to farmers and employees and immediate family members. (HB2632 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2445 | Intro
Sine Die | Disallows a court, when dividing property upon the dissolution of a marriage, from considering military disability benefits or from indemnifying or awarding the veteran's spouse for waivers or reductions in military pay related to disability benefits...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2604 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the University of Hawaii, in collaboration with the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to fund one or more programs sponsored or organized by the University of Hawaii community colleges or a four-year cam...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2751 | Intro
Sine Die | Expands eligibility and credit amount of the low income-household renters' income tax credit. Appropriates funds for the continued administration of the family assessment center for homeless families and for a housing homeless children rental assista...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1995 | Intro
Sine Die | Regulates broadband internet service providers to ensure a free and open Internet. Establishes a task force to examine the costs and benefits of creating a state-owned public utility company to provide broadband internet service. (HB1995 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1785 | Intro
Sine Die | Implements Act 183, SLH 2005, in accordance with the State's constitutional duty to protect important agricultural lands by providing funds to the counties for the identification and mapping of important agricultural lands. (HB1785 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2448 | Intro
Sine Die | Codifies sustainable development goals based on the United Nations' Global Goal nine, relating to industry, innovation, and infrastructure. (HB2448 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2735 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits tobacco use and smoking, including the use of electronic smoking devices, by any person on the premises of UH. (HB2735 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB687 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires insurance coverage after December 31, 2018, for the costs of medically necessary transportation to the continental United States for medical treatment for qualifying patients. Requires the auditor to conduct a study to assess the social and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2468 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a Hawaii Beach Preservation Special Fund. Authorizes the DLNR to expend moneys from the Special Fund to acquire lands for beach preservation with prior authorization of the Legislature. Creates a working group within the Hawaii Climate Ch...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2095 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the agribusiness development corporation to enter into contracts with private businesses to remove select municipal solid waste, glass, and food and green waste from the waste stream for use in other business sectors, including agriculture...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2334 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the definition of "dependent-beneficiary" as used in chapter 87A, Hawaii Revised Statutes. (HB2334 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
