| SB1011 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes an additional motor vehicle registration fee for electric motor vehicles, hybrid motor vehicles, and plug-in hybrid motor vehicles, and deposits the money into the State Highway Fund. Appropriates funds for the operation and maintenance o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-24
Received notice of Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 833). |
| SB2363 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Human Resources Development to establish a working group to establish and implement a supervisory and professional job shadowing pilot project in which candidates for promotion to supervisory or professional positions recei...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-24
Conference Committee Meeting will reconvene on Wednesday 04-25-18 9:30AM in conference room 329. |
| SB2906 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the position of the Governor's Coordinator on Homelessness in statute. Attaches the Governor's Coordinator on Homelessness to the Department of Human Services for administrative purposes, but requires the position to report to the Governo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-24
Bill scheduled for Conference Committee Meeting on Wednesday, 04-25-18 9:30AM in conference room 329. |
| SB648 | Engross
Sine Die | Allocates additional transient accommodations tax revenues from July 1, 2018 until December 31, 2030 to the counties of Kauai, Hawaii, and Maui. Sunsets 12/31/2030. (SB648 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-24
Received notice of change in conferees (Hse. Com. No. 662). |
| SB2257 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires that revenue estimates provided by the Department of Taxation to the Legislature or to any executive or administrative office with respect to proposed legislation be accompanied by a description of the methodology used and assumptions made i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-24
Conference committee meeting scheduled for 04-25-18 2:15PM in conference room 309. |
| SB535 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires health insurance policies and contracts issued after 12/31/18 to provide coverage for the cost of hearing aids at least a minimum amount per hearing aid for each hearing-impaired ear every thirty-six months. (SB535 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-23
Conference Committee Meeting will reconvene on Wednesday 04-25-18 2:15PM in conference room 229. |
| SB2989 | Engross
Sine Die | Expands eligibility and credit amount of the low-income household renters' income tax credit and adjusts the credit for inflation. Appropriates funds for the Family Assessment Center. Establishes and appropriates funds for the Homeless Children Renta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-23
Conference committee meeting scheduled for 04-24-18 2:30PM in conference room 325. |
| SB2926 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Board of Dental Examiners to adopt rules to establish a regulatory structure for the regulation of dental assistants in Hawaii. (SB2926 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-23
Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-24-18 9:00AM in conference room 229. |
| SB3070 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the Hawaii Teacher Stipend Program to be administered by the Department of Education to address the shortage of teachers in the Hawaii public school system. Creates the Hawaii Teacher Stipend Program Special Fund to provide ongoing fundin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-20
Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-24-18 1:45PM in conference room 312. |
| SB2576 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Education to equip all classroom doors with interior locks by January 1, 2019. Authorizes the Department of Education to establish an emergency management plan for all schools to prepare for and respond to an emergency or a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-19
Received notice of Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 802). |
| SB2891 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Health to conduct a telehealth pilot project and publish an evaluation report on the pilot project outcomes. Exempts the pilot project from the State Procurement Code for a period of twelve months. Clarifies that the period...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-19
Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-20-18 9:05AM in conference room 229. |
| SB2383 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes payment of National Certification Incentive bonuses to school psychologists. Amends provisions for bonuses for teachers and school psychologists at targeted, high-turnover, and hard-to-fill schools, including such schools that have improve...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-17
Received notice of Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 788). |
| SB2381 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes a school's principal to close the school without consulting the complex area superintendent in the event of an emergency created by a natural disaster if the principal deems it unsafe for students and faculty. (SB2381 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-17
Received notice of Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 788). |
| SB2903 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Hawaii Technology Development Corporation for continuance and administration of the manufacturing development program. (SB2903 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-17
Received notice of Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 788). |
| SB2833 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the University of Hawaii to issue revenue bonds for the purpose of financing the construction and maintenance of qualifying capital improvement projects. (SB2833 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-17
Received notice of Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 788). |
| SB2610 | Engross
Sine Die | Adds a definition of "intern" to the State Ethics Code and includes interns among state employees to whom the code applies. (SB2610 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-16
Received notice of appointment of House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 610). |
| SB901 | Engross
Sine Die | Eliminates the requirement for the Governor to appoint certain representative members of the Aerospace Advisory Committee. (SB901 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-16
Received notice of appointment of House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 610). |
| SB2643 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires an insurer to provide privacy notices on a biennial basis rather than an annual basis. (SB2643 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-16
Received notice of Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 786). |
| SB872 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows the State Ethics Commission to employ or retain its own attorneys. (SB872 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-16
Received notice of appointment of House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 610). |
| SB2078 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the Department of Land and Natural Resources to conduct, in collaboration with the University of Hawaii College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources, a statewide breeding ecology study and foraging ecology study on the p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-16
Received notice of appointment of House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 610). |
| SB3025 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires franchisees to disclose their non-participation in advertising campaigns of the franchisor in which discounts or promotions are offered. Prohibits franchisors from limiting or restricting the disclosures. Exempts and defines "quick service r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-16
Received notice of Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 786). |
| SB287 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits all health insurers from requiring a medical treatment or service preauthorization that causes undue delay in the receipt of the treatment or service. Requires all health insurers to disclose the medical policies that the insurer uses for p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-12
Received notice of disagreement (Sen. Com. No. 784). |
| SB2765 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows the Board of Trustees of the Employees' Retirement System to appoint one or more investment professionals and changes the status of investment specialists from civil service to exempt from civil service and collective bargaining. (SB2732 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-04
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2764 | Engross
Sine Die | Preserves the Employees' Retirement System's use and control of unclaimed member contributions and benefit payments. (SB2764 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-04
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2819 | Engross
Sine Die | Makes an emergency appropriation to provide funds for the 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. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-03
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2511 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates moneys for the establishment of 2 full-time equivalent (2.0 FTE) permanent program specialist positions within the office of language access to assist state agencies and state-funded agencies in implementing the requirements of Hawaii's ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-03
To House Finance Committee |
| SB80 | Engross
Sine Die | Makes an emergency appropriation to finance the relocation of transmission facilities for the "I Heart Radio" aerial. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-03
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2199 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the State to apply for and implement a waiver from certain provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, as amended. (SB2199 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-03
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2360 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires public employees in collective bargaining units to provide written notification to the employee's exclusive representative to discontinue the employee's payroll assignments within a certain time period. Requires the employee's exclusive repr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-28
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2339 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes pharmacies to accept for disposal the return of any unused, remaining, or expired prescription drugs that the pharmacy previously dispensed, via collection receptacles or mail-back programs. (SB2339 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-28
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| SB2373 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides that negotiations over the implementation of management decisions affecting terms and conditions of employment that are subject to collective bargaining are not precluded from collective bargaining negotiations. Specifies that negotiations o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-28
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2894 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Agriculture, in coordination with the Agribusiness Development Corporation, University of Hawaii System, Soil and Water Conservation Districts, and Hawaii Food Industry Association, to conduct crop performance testing trial...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB3023 | Engross
Sine Die | Includes persons with disabilities under the minimum wage requirements. Requires the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to study the impacts of raising the minimum wage and submit a report to the Legislature on its findings and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2583 | Engross
Sine Die | Designates June 21 of each year as International Yoga Day. (SB2583 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB351 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends various provisions related to the Aha Moku Advisory Committee, including budgetary requirements. Appropriates funds for expenses of the Aha Moku Advisory Committee and the annual Puwalu event. (SB351 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2943 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the transit-oriented development infrastructure improvement zone program to facilitate the development of certain areas. Authorizes the creation of transit-oriented development infrastructure improvement zone subaccounts to make grants or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2598 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires each department to deduct the department's total salary overpayment from the department's budget request for the following fiscal biennium. Requires that employees who exhaust their sick leave be placed on a manual accounting system. Removes...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2747 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the Hawaii Nonprofit Corporations Act to clarify that a public benefit corporation may not purchase its memberships; that the term "director" only includes those who have the authority to vote as a member of a board; and that a corporation wit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2662 | Engross
Sine Die | Codifies sustainable development goals based on Goal 1, no poverty, and Goal 3, good health and well-being, of the United Nations' Global Goals in the Hawaii State Planning Act. (SB2662 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB3031 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifies and strengthens the organic foods production tax credit. Effective 7/1/2050. Applies to unspecified taxable years. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2496 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows adults with autism spectrum disorders to receive appropriate applied behavior analysis treatment, while simultaneously providing safeguards for consumer protection. Exempts from licensure requirements for behavior analysis certain individuals ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2149 | Engross
Sine Die | Increases the number of district judges in the Second Circuit from three to four judges. (SB2149 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2931 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the ethics continuing education requirement for dentists to require six hours of ethics training within each biennial renewal period instead of three hours annually. (SB2931 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| SB2055 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Governor to provide written notice to the Senate within a certain time period during the regular legislative session of the name of any gubernatorial nominee for an executive branch position that is subject to the Senate's advice and con...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB1177 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the leasehold common interest agricultural community pilot program under the jurisdiction of the Department of Agriculture. Requires the Department to authorize a minimum of three leasehold common interest agricultural community projects....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2665 | Engross
Sine Die | Codifies in state law the goal relating to quality education of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and Indicators. (SB2665 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB3068 | Engross
Sine Die | Implements the recommendations of the Hawaii Sea Level Rise Vulnerability and Adaptation Report issued by the Hawaii Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Commission. Makes appropriations. Effective 07/01/2050. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2678 | Engross
Sine Die | Codifies Sustainable Development Goals 9, 10, 16, and 17 based on the United Nations' Sustainability Development Guidelines and indicators. (SB2678 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB3097 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes 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 Session of 2019. Appropriates fu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2563 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations for the K-12 Agriculture Workforce Development Pipeline Initiative. (SB2563 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
