| SB945 | Engross
Sine Die | Creates a framework for authorizing post-secondary degree-granting educational institutions that have applied for accreditation by an accrediting agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. Effective 5/12/2059. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To House Higher Education Committee |
| SB628 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires department heads to inform the governor of any vacancy in any board or commission. Requires the governor to maintain a listing of all boards and commissions including specified information. Appropriates funds for 1.0 FTE position to manage l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To House Finance Committee |
| SB1036 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifies that failure to register a firearm within the required time period does not relieve the owner of the duty to register the firearm. Allows the owner of an unregistered firearm to register the firearm thereafter without penalty. Takes effect ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB657 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the prorated amount of vehicle license and registration fee and weight taxes that rental car companies may pass on to lessees. Requires the motor vehicle rental industry to report to the legislature prior to the regular session of 2019 and def...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To House Transportation Committee |
| SB640 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a model project at a location selected by DLNR to designate areas for planting and growing coconut trees for Hawaiian traditional and customary gathering practices. Appropriates funds for the model project. (SB640 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To House Water & Land Committee |
| SB711 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the Executive Office on Early Learning to enter into contracts with third-party providers for family child interaction learning organizations. (SB711 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To House Finance Committee |
| SB664 | Engross
Sine Die | Increases fines for persons who commit the offense of driving a motor vehicle at an excessive speed.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To House Transportation Committee |
| SB593 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires research facilities to make available for adoption healthy cats and dogs that the research facility determines are suitable for adoption and are no longer needed for research. Authorizes research facilities to contract with local animal resc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
Carried over to 2018 Regular Session. |
| SB910 | Engross
Sine Die | Replaces the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism requirements related to the certification, administration and verification of the renewable fuels production tax credit with a survey. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To House Economic Development & Business Committee |
| SB421 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes requirements for body-worn cameras for law enforcement officers. Establishes policy guidelines for the use and discontinuance of use of body-worn cameras by law enforcement officers. Establishes certain restrictions on the use of body-wor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB761 | Engross
Sine Die | Forces the lapse of a fiscal year 2016-2017 appropriation for the HI growth initiative that is not expected to be expended. Re-appropriates the lapsed appropriation for the HI growth initiative. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To House Finance Committee |
| SB245 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires each unit of government of the State and its political subdivisions to exercise reasonable care in the maintenance of all government records under its control that are required to be made available for public inspection. (SB245 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To House Finance Committee |
| SB1170 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires any report of a study or an audit enacted with a legislative appropriation and conducted by an executive department or agency, including the Hawaii health systems corporation, and by the legislative reference bureau, auditor, judiciary, or O...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To House Legislative Management Committee |
| SB1292 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides for the redevelopment of the Hilo area by establishing the framework, requirements, and conditions for redevelopment districts and specifically designating the Waiakea Peninsula Redevelopment District, appropriates funds for the implementati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To House Finance Committee |
| SB195 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates moneys from the general fund for two specialist II positions within the Hawaii teacher standards board. (SB195 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To House Finance Committee |
| SB1086 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the Motion Picture, Digital Media, and Film Production Income Tax Credit by providing additional tax credit options for payroll costs and 35 percent of qualified production costs for qualified productions employing local workers in a county wi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To House Finance Committee |
| SB391 | Engross
Sine Die | Part I: Purpose section. Part II: Clarifies that when a unit owner and association reach a payment plan to cure a nonjudicial foreclosure, completion of the payment plan is required to cure the default; specifies that if a unit owner and an associati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| SB617 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the research and technology grant program within the high technology development corporation to provide grants to qualified research and technology companies in Hawaii for eligible projects. Establishes program guidelines and eligibility ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To House Economic Development & Business Committee |
| SB1298 | Engross
Sine Die | Removes the one-year residency requirement for all appointed officers who are department heads and deputies or assistants to a department head. (SB1298 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB601 | Engross
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] | 2017-11-30
To House Finance Committee |
| SB558 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Department of Land and Natural Resources' Division of Forestry and Wildlife for invasive species technician positions to control invasive plants and animals statewide. (SB558 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To House Finance Committee |
| SB489 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the clerk of the court to grant a single extension of no more than fifteen days for filing with the supreme court a response to an application for writ of certiorari upon timely written request of a party. Clarifies what constitutes a time...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB426 | Engross
Sine Die | Makes physical abuse consisting of intentionally or knowingly impeding normal breathing or circulation of blood of a family or household member by any means a class C felony. Takes effect on 01/07/2059. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB430 | Engross
Sine Die | Adopts the Revised Uniform Athlete Agents Act (2015), which: expands the definition of "athlete agent", who shall register with the director of commerce and consumer affairs, to include individuals who, for compensation or the anticipation of compens...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To House Intrastate Commerce Committee |
| SB981 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows the Hawaii Labor Relations Board to send notices of hearing electronically. Requires the party seeking judicial review to bear the cost of preparing a transcript, except as provided by law, in which case the Board shall bear the cost of prepar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To House Finance Committee |
| SB137 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the Innovation and Commercialization Initiative Program to expressly give the University of Hawaii the legal authority to create, finance, and participate in new economic enterprises and expand workforce opportunities based on inventions ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To House Finance Committee |
| SB378 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the department of commerce and consumer affairs to include a link on the real estate branch's condominium registration and education website to an educational video program produced by the Hawaii Council of Community Associations. Requires a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
Carried over to 2018 Regular Session. |
| SB1070 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides a bidder of a public works construction project with two hours after the closing of bids to clarify and correct certain information regarding subcontractors. Prohibits bid shopping and bid peddling for the competitive sealed bidding process....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To House Finance Committee |
| SB111 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides that the ballot of an absentee or military-overseas voter is valid even if the voter becomes ineligible to vote after casting the ballot. Repeals the requirement that an absentee voter's ballot be deemed invalid if the voter returns the retu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB1229 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides that the environmental courts shall not have exclusive jurisdiction over any proceedings relating to parking violations under certain administrative rules and laws. (SB1229 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To House Finance Committee |
| SB286 | Engross
Sine Die | Specifies a customer has the right to rescind a deferred deposit by returning the principal amount used to fund the deferred deposit within a specified time frame. Permits customers to convert a deferred deposit into an installment loan plan in certa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
Carried over to 2018 Regular Session. |
| SB767 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the high-growth grant program and special fund to provide grants to qualified businesses for certain business development activities. Makes appropriations. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To House Economic Development & Business Committee |
| SB1154 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifies that the comprehensive loss reduction plan of the HHRF shall include implementing building code requirements for hurricane standards in accordance with state building code and design standards.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To House Water & Land Committee |
| SB1039 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Public Safety in collaboration with county and state agencies and, upon request of the inmate, to issue civil identification cards to the inmate and to assist the inmate in obtaining the inmate's birth certificate, social s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To House Finance Committee |
| SB412 | Engross
Sine Die | Replaces the Hawaii election campaign fund with the general revenues of the State as the funding source for the operating expenses of the campaign spending commission. Allows the commission to use moneys from the Hawaii election campaign fund for inv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB635 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a two-year water conservation financial assistance pilot program to provide financial assistance to county-owned public water systems. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2099. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To House Water & Land Committee |
| SB889 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifies liability for tort claims against a professionally licensed or certified state employee. Assigns exclusive liability and remedy to the State for claims arising out of acts within the scope of public employment and for which the State assume...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB123 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows parties to a marriage or civil union to choose any middle or last name to use upon the marriage or civil union. Takes effect on 1/7/59. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB725 | Engross
Sine Die | Restricts the use of general obligation or revenue bond proceeds to pay for the unfunded pension or other post-employment benefit liabilities accrued for state employees or retirees, by requiring a two-thirds majority vote of each house of the legisl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To House Finance Committee |
| SB991 | Engross
Sine Die | Decriminalizes traffic infractions within natural area reserves, game management areas, wildlife sanctuaries, and public hunting areas. Takes effect 1/7/2059. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To House Water & Land Committee |
| SB251 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes an exemption from the prohibition against using election campaign funds to make charitable donations or to award scholarships during the period from the filing of nomination papers to the date of the general election, for candidates who a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To House Finance Committee |
| SB1277 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows the minutes at public agency meetings to be kept by written or recorded by analog or digital means. If the minutes are recorded, requires that a written summary accompany minutes, and that the written summary include any significant actions ta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB897 | Engross
Sine Die | Adds the child support enforcement agency, the departments of taxation, human services, and labor and industrial relations, and the counties, to the list of entities that are authorized to conduct criminal history record checks on employees, prospect...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB618 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the board of education to establish a process whereby the public may petition the board to add items to the agenda of the next meeting. (SB618 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB104 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifies the procedures to amend condominium association declarations, bylaws, and other governing instruments that are not of a material adverse nature to condominium owners or do not imperil the viability or stability of the condominium associatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| SB518 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires barber, beauty operator, and instructor licensees under the board of barbering and cosmetology to complete a one-time, three-hour training program on intimate partner violence awareness and education. Takes effect on 1/7/2059. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To House Intrastate Commerce Committee |
| SB1234 | Engross
Sine Die | Corrects an error in the Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2016 to clarify that the Kahoolawe island reserve commission is affiliated with the county of Maui, rather than the county of Hawaii.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To House Finance Committee |
| SB553 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes allocation of supplemental categorical funding to remote schools, subject to legislative appropriation. Appropriates funds. (SB553 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To House Finance Committee |
| SB499 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates unspecified funds for staff positions and various services to support the Hawaii zero to three court. Takes effect 2/28/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB443 | Engross
Sine Die | Deletes the requirement in section 11-322(a), HRS, of reporting contributions of more than $100 in the organizational reports of candidate committees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To House Judiciary Committee |
