| SB2636 | Intro
Sine Die | Bans distribution, sale, transport, and use in the State of any pesticide containing chlorpyrifos as an active ingredient. Takes effect on 10/1/2018.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| SB2314 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the University of Hawaii at Hilo for research and other activities related to rat lungworm disease. Conditions release of the funds on the University submitting a report to the legislature listing the specific research and activ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| SB3098 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the construction of tiny homes for residential use within agricultural districts, on farms that are engaged in agricultural production. Provides that a tiny home shall be subject to county ordinances or permitting requirements that are dir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Housing Committee |
| SB3021 | Intro
Sine Die | Enables patients and primary care providers to enter into direct primary care agreements to provide primary care services. Specifies that direct primary care agreements are not insurance and are not subject to the State's insurance code.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2359 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires employers to provide a minimum amount of paid sick leave to employees to be used to care for themselves or a family member who is ill or needs medical care.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Labor Committee |
| SB3065 | Intro
Sine Die | Defines "permanent resident" for legislative reapportionment as any individual counted as a usual resident of the State in the last preceding United States census and requires reapportionment to be done using data on the total number of permanent res...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2923 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes an application screening fee that a landlord may charge an applicant to obtain information about the applicant and establishes the applicant's right to review the credit report obtained by the landlord if the applicant paid the applicatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB3035 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that short-term vacation rental booking services comply with the requirements imposed on transient accommodations brokers under section 237D-4, HRS.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Economic Development, Tourism, and Technology Committee |
| SB3043 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the exemption from any special improvement district assessment or requirement imposed by a county for the redevelopment of the Ala Wai boat harbor. Amends the permissible uses of any leased fast lands and submerged lands at the Ala Wai boat h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| SB3015 | Intro
Sine Die | Enacts voting by mail uniformly across all counties for all elections commencing in 2020, and allows any election to be conducted by mail prior to the 2020 primary election, in whole or in part, as determined by the chief election officer or county c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2981 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies that "subsistence farming" is included as a protected activity under the Hawaii Right to Farm Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| SB2987 | Intro
Sine Die | Replaces criminal penalties for certain airport offenses addressed in the laws relating to aeronautics or in certain administrative rules or orders issued pursuant thereto, with a civil penalty.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| SB3041 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes decisions of the family court appealable to the supreme court instead of the intermediate court of appeals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2958 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes within the Department of Human Services a Puuhonua Homeless Villages Pilot Program and requires DHS to identify lands for the pilot program. Waives applicable state and county permitting and approval fees. Exempts the State from claims ar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Housing Committee |
| SR6 | 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 |
| SB3059 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires and appropriates funds to the University of Hawaii at Hilo to, in collaboration with faculty, staff, and other partners, update and strengthen the plans for full development of Ka Haka Ula O Keelikolani.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| SB2949 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies the powers of condominium associations regarding the deduction and application of a portion of an owner's common expense payments to unpaid late fees, legal fees, fines, and interest.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB3045 | 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 |
| SB2936 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the twenty-fourth senatorial district.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2973 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Department of Health for the Tropic Care program of the United States Department of Defense to provide free medical care to individuals in rural areas.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB3050 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts certain affordable housing projects from environmental impact statements. Expands general excise tax exemption to also exempt rental income for management of certain affordable housing projects. Requires Hawaii housing finance and development...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Housing Committee |
| SB3022 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the ninth senatorial district.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SCR6 | Intro
Sine Die | Urging The United States Congress To Require Adult Dental Coverage Under Medicaid And Dental Coverage Under Medicare.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB2971 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the veterans treatment court on the island of Hawaii.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB2917 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires a percentage of units in a housing development on public land or real property in a county-designated transitoriented development zone and under the control of the Board of Land and Natural Resources, the Hawaii Housing Finance and Developme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| SB3081 | Intro
Sine Die | Restricts foreign non-residents from acquiring residential property with a value of $2,000,000 or less within the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2606 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Hawaii tax credit scholarship program to benefit students with disabilities by providing scholarships to cover transportation costs and any other educational fees associated with a student attending a public school that is not in the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB2869 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that the Legislature shall have standing to intervene in any court proceeding involving a claim based upon a constitutional or statutory provision.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2809 | Intro
Sine Die | Transfers the statutory provisions of section 188-58.5, Hawaii Revised Statutes, that prohibit the taking or killing of female spiny lobsters, kona crabs, and samoan crabs, to administrative rules of the Department of Land and Natural Resources.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| SB2729 | Intro
Sine Die | Extending through the 2028 tax year, the time that the Department of Agriculture may certify important agricultural lands qualified agricultural costs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| SB2807 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies that the Board of Land and Natural Resources may lease all fast lands and submerged lands within any existing state boating facility pursuant to a request for proposals without regard to section 200-2.6, Hawaii Revised Statutes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| SB2608 | Intro
Sine Die | In a summary possession proceeding brought by a landlord against a holdover tenant: requires the court to address the complaint for summary possession during the first court appearance of the parties; prohibits a writ of possession from allowing the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2683 | Intro
Sine Die | Legalizes the personal use, possession, and sale of marijuana in a specified quantity. Requires licensing to operate marijuana establishments. Subjects marijuana establishments to excise taxes and income taxes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2900 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the revenue threshold for the tax administration special fund and allocates the additional moneys to the special enforcement section for the enforcement of the transient accommodations tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Economic Development, Tourism, and Technology Committee |
| SB2853 | Intro
Sine Die | Defines "virtual currency" within the Money Transmitters Act. Clarifies that the permissible investment requirements for money transmitter licensees shall not apply to money transmissions of virtual currency.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2874 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires certain commercial agricultural entities to disclose use of pesticides. Requires certain commercial agricultural entities to disclose production of genetically engineered crops. Establishes pesticide buffer zones. Prohibits open air testing ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| SB2634 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the department of accounting and general services to establish a working group to examine and evaluate state and private land to find a suitable location for the construction of a new stadium to serve as a replacement for Aloha Stadium and d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Economic Development, Tourism, and Technology Committee |
| SB2542 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates and appropriates funds for the Erin's Law Task Force to review policies, programs, and curricula for educating public school students about sexual abuse and sex trafficking prevention, and report recommendations for the establishment of a pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB2584 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes presidential preference primary elections conducted by the State. Allows political parties to limit participation in the presidential preference primary election selection of the party's candidates by voter party registration. Allows vote...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2578 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the office of information practices to resolve all public complaints about noncompliance with chapter 92F and part I of chapter 92 within six months from the date the office of information practices receives the complaint.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| SB2547 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals amendments made to provisions relating to the early learning system law by Act 202, Session Laws of Hawaii 2017. Changes early learning board to early learning advisory board. Redefines at-risk children to be from families whose income is no ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB2701 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides an income tax credit for qualified taxpayers, with incomes of not more than eighty per cent of the area median income, for qualified costs of an automatic fire sprinkler system installed and placed into any apartment or condominium built bef...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2577 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes causes and procedures for impeachment of the governor, lieutenant governor, and appointive officers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2706 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the use of audible reverse warning systems on vehicles operating in residential zones, except between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m. on any day. Requires operators of vehicles equipped with an audible reverse warning system to reverse...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| SB2486 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposes a constitutional amendment to limit the terms of members of the legislature to a maximum of six consecutive full terms in the house of representatives and three consecutive full terms in the senate, for terms beginning on the day of the gene...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2627 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires submission of proposed amendment to bylaws to change composition of board, rather than twenty-five per cent, to be submitted to the board and accompanied by a petition from ten per cent of unit owners of record. Permits special meetings of t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2516 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates a state commission for community investment within the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism for administrative purposes to coordinate planning and provide grants for activities advancing community investment. Creates the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Economic Development, Tourism, and Technology Committee |
| SB2538 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts victims of labor trafficking, sex trafficking, and prostitution from those offenses for which the crime victim compensation commission may reduce a victim's compensation based on the victim's behavior. Elevates the offense of prostitution to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2762 | Intro
Sine Die | Expands the exemption of the EUTF from the insurance code.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Labor Committee |
| SB2681 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes, beginning January 1, 2019, labeling requirements for any food or raw agricultural commodity sold in the State that contains a genetically engineered material, or was produced with a genetically engineered material; establishes exceptions...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
