| SB2133 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the counties to provide for the establishment of Hawaiian cultural reserves as a condition of approval and development of certain types of subdivisions and condominium property regimes on agricultural and rural lands that include the constru...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2687 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the University of Hawai`i to translate the Hawai`i State Constitution into the Hawaiian language. Requires courts, to the extent reasonably possible, to provide Hawaiian language translation services upon request of any party to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2555 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the employees' retirement system to divest its investment portfolio of coal, oil, and gas companies within an unspecified number of years and to report certain information to the legislature. Takes effect 1/1/2045. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1303 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires two at-large seats to reside in an urban district and two at-large seats to reside in a rural district. Requires one urban district candidate and one rural district candidate to be elected in any election cycle. Changes the term of the membe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2596 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a senior citizen higher education access pilot program at the University of Hawaii at Hilo. Requires a report to the Legislature before the Regular Session of 2024. Repeals June 30, 2024. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2597 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes procedures for the custody, inventory, and care of protocol gifts received by legislators on behalf of the State or either house of the legislature.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2395 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows DHS to establish or contract with a victim service provider to operate and manage a sex trafficking emergency shelter. Provides for tax and fee exemptions. Makes an appropriation. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2557 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows Hawaiian homestead lessees to pass their homestead lease to their adopted children; provided that the adopted children meet the minimum Hawaiian blood quantum requirement for lease successorship prior to adoption. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2096 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to satisfy state and federal class action settlement agreements requiring the Department of Human Services to implement a foster care maintenance payment system that complies with the federal Child Welfare Act, to increase clothing...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2356 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds as a purpose of the University of Hawaii community college system the provision of occupational training and certification programs designed to rapidly qualify persons to fill new and hard-to-fill position classes of the State, counties, and pri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2755 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes technical and housekeeping amendments to Act 159, Session Laws of Hawaii 2017, and statutes amended by Act 159. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB3042 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires a broker-dealer's records that relate to security transactions involving a purchaser, customer, or client be maintained in the broker-dealer's office in this State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2566 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the department of land and natural resources to provide assistance and supplemental funding to the National Wildlife Research Center of the U.S. Department of Agriculture to conduct pilot field studies to evaluate control tools ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2447 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts all proceedings relating to parking violations under certain administrative rules from the exclusive, original jurisdiction of the environmental courts. Effective 7/1/2035. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2763 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows payment of employer contributions to the Employees' Retirement System in advance of the fiscal year in which the contributions are required. Provides for interest on and application of the advance payments. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2369 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends collective bargaining law to ensure that exclusive bargaining representatives retain the resources necessary to adequately represent public employees and remove economic incentive to free ride.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To Senate Labor Committee |
| SB2291 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the minimum wage to $12.25 per hour in 2019 and $15 per hour in 2020. Repeals language allowing the hourly wage of a tipped employee to be increased on account of tips. Requires the department of labor and industrial relations to annually c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2003 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the department of land and natural resources from issuing new aquarium fish permits to take aquatic life for commercial or non-commercial aquarium purposes, except for a period of four months. Phases out the taking of aquatic life for comme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2947 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires county police departments, the department of public safety, department of land and natural resources, and department of transportation to disclose to the legislature the identity of an officer upon the officer's 2nd suspension in a 5-year pe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB3105 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Lipoa point management special fund for the management of the Lipoa point area and educate visitors on how funding is used for the management of the Lipoa point area. Appropriates funds into and out of the Lipoa point management speci...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2952 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes Queen Liliuokalani Day on the first Monday in the month of September each year, rather than on September 2, in order to coincide with Labor Day.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2357 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes appropriations for the pre-payment of the accrued pension liability and other post-employment benefits liability of the State. Makes an appropriation to the emergency and budget reserve fund. States the intent that this Act is intended to compl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2062 | Intro
Sine Die | Places restrictions on the ability of financial institutions to sell residential mortgage loans to other financial institutions. Defines "residential mortgage loans" as any loan primarily for personal, family, or household use that is secured by a mo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2997 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the department of education to prepare a report identifying any unused federal funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2970 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the University of Hawaii at Manoa and the University of Hawaii at Hilo to collaborate with the department of education to establish professional qualifications and develop training programs for the Ka Papahana Kaiapuni program's...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2680 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the committee on weights to submit a report to the legislature detailing any changes to the funding formula within thirty days of the change. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2872 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a 5-year Hale Kokua pilot project under the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to reduce homelessness by incentivizing and assisting private homeowners who set aside existing dwelling units, or construct new or improve exi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB3106 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides three categories and twelve factors for the department of labor and industrial relations to apply to determine independent contractor status. Takes effect 1/1/2045. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2326 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires owners or operators of ticket issuing machines to list a customer service number on the machine. Requires a person who is parking in a stall that is paid for by a ticket issuing machine to contact the owner or operator of the machine if the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2011 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows the University of Hawaii John A. Burns school of medicine with support from the department of health to collect data from voluntary qualifying patients, maintain a database, and conduct research and development regarding the efficacy of medica...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-14
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2358 | Intro
Sine Die | Limits physician-dispensed prescription drugs in workers' compensation claims to the first 30 days from the work injury date. Lowers the reimbursement rates of prescription drugs in workers' compensation claims. Takes effect 1/1/2045. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-14
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2622 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires compliance with the Military Selective Service Act to be eligible for enrollment in a state-supported post-secondary institution, qualify for state financial assistance for post-secondary education, or be eligible for state or county employm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-14
To Senate Labor Committee |
| SB2327 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the global warming and erosion reserve branch within the insurance division of the department of commerce and consumer affairs. Beginning June 1, 2019, requires authorized property insurers that cover losses resulting from an environmenta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-14
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| SB694 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires a purchaser or transferee to execute a sea level rise hazard exposure statement with every sale or transfer of real estate that acknowledges that the purchaser or transferee has looked at the appropriate sea level rise hazard exposure map an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-14
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2044 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposes an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Hawaii to ensure participation of all political parties on the Reapportionment Commission by providing that if there are no members belonging to a minority party in a house of the legislature,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-14
The committee on WAM deferred the measure. |
| SB2880 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the misdemeanor offense of promoting a dangerous drug in the fourth degree for first time offenders who possess smaller amounts of a dangerous drug. Amends related provisions for the promotion of the promotion of dangerous drugs in the se...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2915 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits a person from intentionally or knowingly manufacturing, importing, installing, reinstalling, distributing, selling, or offering for sale any counterfeit supplemental restraint system component, nonfunctional airbag, or airbag that does not ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2323 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes procedures for a parent or legal guardian to obtain authorization to home school a child. Requires the complex area superintendent or the complex area superintendent's authorized representative to request child welfare services to conduct...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-14
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB3056 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the natural energy laboratory of Hawaii authority to enable the authority to continue its efforts in producing hydroelectric power for the State. Takes effect on 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-14
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2826 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies the definition of "drug" in chapter 291E, Hawaii Revised Statutes, regarding the use of intoxicants while operating a vehicle. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2591 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the executive office on aging to biennially update the state plan on Alzheimer's disease and related dementias, and to include information on progress made toward the goals of the state plan on Alzheimer's disease and related dementias in it...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-14
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2210 | Intro
Sine Die | Beginning on January 1, 2019, requires that any person who is eligible to vote and applies for a new or renewed motor vehicle driver's license, provisional license, instruction permit, limited purpose driver's license, limited purpose provisional dri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2179 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires persons arrested for certain felony offenses to provide a DNA sample. Provides for the destruction of DNA samples and expungement of a DNA database profile when appropriate. Makes an appropriation for the costs of DNA collection, processing,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2377 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the counties to designate an agency to inform the public and hold a hearing when lands included in a community master plan are proposed for sale and intended to be used for a purpose other than as proposed in the master plan. Takes effect on...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-14
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2417 | Intro
Sine Die | Waives exaction requirements and zoning requirements for housing projects where all units are affordable to persons and families with household income at or below eighty per cent of the area median income. Makes such projects also eligible for additi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-14
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2301 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a rental motor vehicle surcharge dedicated to road improvements in the county in which the funds are generated.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-14
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| SB2240 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows the owner of a vehicle, upon registration, to designate a beneficiary to whom ownership of the vehicle will be transferred upon the death of the owner.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2877 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the issuance of GO bonds and appropriates funds for the construction of the Hawaii early phase cancer clinical trials program at the University of Hawaii cancer center.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-14
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2492 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the board of dental examiners to issue a license by credentials to a practicing dentist who is licensed in another state and meets other specific requirements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-14
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2220 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits an employer from suspending, discharging, or discriminating against an employee for testing positive for cannabis if the employee is a registered qualifying patient who is authorized for the medical use of cannabis. Provides certain excepti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
