| SB2964 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires department of land and natural resources to collect marine plastic debris. Requires counties to dispose of marine plastic debris collected by the department of land and natural resources or by volunteers. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| SB3076 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires special permit approval for solar energy facilities larger than fifteen kilowatts on non-conforming residential subdivisions located on land with soil classified with an overall productivity rating of class D or E.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| SR3 | Intro
Sine Die | Requesting The Governor To Establish A Task Force To Examine The Risk Of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy From Youth Football.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| SB3101 | Intro
Sine Die | Allocates a portion of the conveyance tax revenues to the rental assistance revolving fund to be used to subsidize rents for persons who meet certain income requirements. Authorizes moneys in the rental assistance revolving fund to be used to finance...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Housing Committee |
| SB3039 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposes amendments to the Constitution of the State of Hawaii relating to the appointment and retention of justices and judges. Authorizes the senate to approve or reject subsequent terms of office for supreme court justices. Changes the required ti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB3075 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the State's medicaid managed care and fee-for-service programs to cover palliative care services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB3074 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires continuing education for physician assistants to renew their licenses. Prohibits the Hawaii Medical Board from requiring a physician assistant to maintain or receive certification by the National Commission of Certification of Physician Assi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB3012 | Intro
Sine Die | Disallows the tax credit for cesspool upgrade, conversion, or connection for taxpayers whose adjusted gross income exceeds certain amounts. Amends the definition of "qualified cesspool" to include cesspools located an unspecified distance from a shor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2985 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the sale of sunscreen or personal care products that contain oxybenzone or octinoxate in Hawaii, beginning 1/1/2023.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| SB3061 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires health care providers to obtain informed consent in writing from a person before administering a vaccination. Establishes requirements for obtaining informed consent.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2933 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the public utilities commission to establish a microgrid services tariff or tariffs to encourage and facilitate the development and use of energy resilient microgrids.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SR8 | Intro
Sine Die | Requesting The Department Of Human Services, In Consultation With The Department Of Public Safety, To Work With The Family Reunification Working Group And Other Community Stakeholders To Develop A Plan To Establish Visitation Centers At All State Cor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Human Services Committee |
| SB3016 | Intro
Sine Die | Assesses an additional conveyance tax of 50 cents per $100 for units in the Kakaako community development district with a value of at least $1,000,000. Requires the proceeds to be used for the development of affordable housing by the Hawaii housing f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Housing Committee |
| SB3009 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates a supplemental rental motor vehicle user fee of $4.50 per day to be levied, assessed, and collected for rental motor vehicles rented from a rental motor vehicle concession located in any medium-hub airport serving a county that includes at le...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| SB2993 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies that Hawaii's anti-discrimination law does not prohibit or prevent an employer, employment agency, or labor organization from refusing to hire or refer or from discharging an individual for reasons unrelated to unlawful discriminatory pract...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Labor Committee |
| SB2976 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the thirteenth senatorial district.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SCR12 | Intro
Sine Die | Requesting The Department Of Human Services, In Consultation With The Department Of Public Safety, To Work With The Family Reunification Working Group And Other Community Stakeholders To Develop A Plan To Establish Visitation Centers At All State Cor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Human Services Committee |
| SB2991 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds and appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the 11th Senatorial District.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2266 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires long-term care facilities to continue providing care for individuals after they receive acute medical care from a hospital. Requires a long-term care facility that provides care to an individual who leaves the facility to receive acute medic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Human Services Committee |
| SB2300 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies that any member of a state board or commission, whose nomination for reappointment is withdrawn by the governor for cause prior to the senate's action to advise and consent or not advise and consent, shall be considered disqualified and ine...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| SCR10 | Intro
Sine Die | Urging State And County Agencies To Compile Digital Records Of Existing Analog Data And Adopt Digital Data Storage Methods.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| SB3054 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the independent correctional oversight board, a public entity, independent of any correctional agency, to regularly inspect and publicly report on conditions in prisons, jails, and other correctional and detention facilities for adults an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB2982 | Intro
Sine Die | Expands credited service in the ERS by adding volunteer service in the Peace Corps to both membership service and prior service.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Labor Committee |
| SB2998 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the fourteenth senatorial district.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SR5 | Intro
Sine Die | Encouraging Hawaiian Telcom To Address The Lack Of Fiber Optic Redundancy In West Hawaii Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Economic Development, Tourism, and Technology Committee |
| SB2942 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the state minimum wage on an annual basis beginning on 1/1/2019. Requires DLIR to annually calculate, beginning in 2021, the following year's minimum wage based on a consumer price index. Repeals the tip credit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Labor Committee |
| SB3019 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that a court of inferior jurisdiction may certify to the Hawaii Supreme Court a question or proposition of law on which the court of inferior jurisdiction seeks instruction for the proper decision of a remanded case. Requires the Supreme Cou...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2950 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires condominium unit owners' associations to keep additional records and take further actions to make such records available for examination by unit owners and owners' authorized agents. Requires associations to make required documents, records,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2975 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposes an amendment to the Hawaii State Constitution to provide victims of crime with specific rights related to the criminal justice process.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB3071 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes pest control operator examination processes in statute. Establishes pest control operator continuing education training requirements. Establishes a pest control operator application coordinator position in the DCCA. Requires the DCCA and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2980 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes that effective January 1, 2019, rent for all residential dwelling units shall be established at an amount equal to the amount of rent charged for the same dwelling unit in 2015 and shall not be increased more than three per cent annually ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB2631 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows medical cannabis dispensaries to dispense without charge cannabis or manufactured cannabis products to qualifying patients who are at or below the federal poverty level or their primary caregivers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SCR8 | Intro
Sine Die | Recognizing The Role Of Community Health Workers And Requesting Oversight And Certification Of Community Health Workers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2954 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the nineteenth senatorial district.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB3093 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the board of land and natural resources to provide qualified coastal landowners, who have privately owned structures situated on previously private land that has become submerged public land due to erosion and sea level rise, with short du...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| SB2967 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts transient accommodations brokers from paying the Transient Accommodations Tax (TAT) unless the broker is also an operator. Amends the definitions of local contact and transient accommodations broker. Requires an online advertisement for a tra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Economic Development, Tourism, and Technology Committee |
| SB3102 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the auditor to conduct an audit of the governor's phone, text, email, and other communication records related to the emergency alert messages that were sent out to the public on January 13, 2018.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| SB3036 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the membership, mission, and purpose of the King Kamehameha celebration commission. Adds representation for the island of Lanai. Authorizes the chairperson to appoint an advisory committee for historical and archival matters. Authorizes the co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB2983 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposes an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Hawaii to raise the mandatory retirement age for justices and judges from seventy years to seventy-five years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB3052 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposes a constitutional amendment to allow incarcerated individuals who are Hawaii residents and convicted of a felony to vote in Hawaii elections at any time after conviction rather than after final discharge.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2944 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the issuance of general obligation funds to be appropriated to the Dwelling Unit Revolving Fund to allow the Hawaii housing finance and development corporation to finance various housing development and infrastructure projects.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Housing Committee |
| SB2929 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Hawaii spay/neuter council to be administratively attached to the department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs. Establishes the Hawaii spay/neuter special fund. Imposes a fee on pet food to support the Hawaii spay/neuter grant program ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| SB2948 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows first-time offenders convicted of misdemeanor operating a vehicle under the influence of an intoxicant offenses in which no persons were injured to expunge the offense from their record if they maintain a clean criminal history record for ten ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| SB2941 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes an appropriation to the Department of Human Services to purchase civil legal services and legal aid for low- and moderate-income persons.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Human Services Committee |
| SB3020 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that the Board of Land and Natural Resources and Commission on Water Resource Management shall not conduct contested case hearings, and counties shall not conduct contested case hearings regarding disputes over land use, but that decisions a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| SB2934 | Intro
Sine Die | Further restricts the criteria for variances from the requirement that all new single-family homes utilize solar water heating.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| SB3026 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits a defendant from motioning the court on the day of trial for a continuance unless a special circumstance exists in which the court shall consider the totality of the circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SCR7 | Intro
Sine Die | Encouraging Hawaiian Telcom To Address The Lack Of Fiber Optic Redundancy In West Hawaii Island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Economic Development, Tourism, and Technology Committee |
| SB2932 | Intro
Sine Die | Relating To Cesspools. Short form bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB3040 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends appellate jurisdiction of the supreme court and the intermediate appellate court to conditions as they existed prior to July 1, 2006. Reestablishes criteria for assigning appeals. Reestablishes requirement that most appeals be filed with the s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
