| SB2503 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that the submission of a voter registration application either to register to vote or update the voter's registration information constitutes a request for permanent absentee voter status unless the applicant specifically indicates the appli...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2857 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds and appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the 17th senatorial district.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2553 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates moneys to the Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the County of Maui for the career criminal prosecution program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2628 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes within the Department of Human Services a Puuhonua Homeless Villages program. Requires the Governor to secure state lands for the program, to be distributed as needed among the counties. Allows the State to adopt reasonable standards and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| SB2629 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates an eviction process for the Hawaii Public Housing Authority's state low-income housing and state housing for elders programs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Housing Committee |
| SB2697 | Intro
Sine Die | Imposes registration requirements and transient accommodations tax on travel agencies and tour packagers that enter into arrangements to furnish transient accommodations at noncommissioned negotiated contract rates on their share of the proceeds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Economic Development, Tourism, and Technology Committee |
| SB2700 | Intro
Sine Die | Allocates funds from transient accommodations tax revenues to the Hawaii Tourism Authority to implement initiatives, in conjunction with the Hawaii Lodging and Tourism Association, to address homelessness in tourist and resort areas.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Economic Development, Tourism, and Technology Committee |
| SB2827 | Intro
Sine Die | To amend the law relating to County finance directors duties by removing authority to issue a vehicle identification number to a reconstructed motor vehicle.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| SB2640 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides a specific exemption to the landlord tenant code for sellers who occupy the residential real property after the transfer of the seller's ownership rights.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2637 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates $1,000,000 to the department of public safety for rehabilitation of incarcerated persons. Allows the department to contract with private service providers for rehabilitation services. Appropriates $250,000 for electronic monitoring of pa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB2379 | Intro
Sine Die | Transfers certain public school lands from city and county of Honolulu and the department of land and natural resources, as applicable, to the department of education.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB2616 | 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] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2518 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes certain counties to establish planning districts and a transit-oriented redevelopment district program. Authorizes state and county incentives for qualified projects. Establishes a discretionary review process for the transfer of floor are...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB2728 | Intro
Sine Die | Restructures the Hawaii Invasive Species Council as the Hawaii Invasive Species Authority, administratively attached to the Department of Agriculture, to coordinate implementation of the Hawaii Interagency Biosecurity Plan and to improve coordination...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| SB2499 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals Act 137, SLH 2017, relating to the pass on of vehicle license recovery fees to lessees of motor vehicle rentals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| SB2537 | Intro
Sine Die | Legalizes under state law the growing, processing, possession, transfer, and personal use of cannabis in a specified quantity to persons at least twenty-one years of age. Requires licensing to operate cannabis establishments. Specifies that fifty per...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2541 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires safety helmets to be worn by drivers and passengers of motorcycles, motor scooters, and mopeds, who are under the age of twenty-five.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| SB2540 | Intro
Sine Die | Lowers the threshold of blood alcohol content for the offense of driving under the influence of an intoxicant and the offense of habitually operating a vehicle under the influence of an intoxicant.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| SB2882 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates a statutory right of victims and witnesses of sexual offenses under part V of chapter 707, HRS, to a speedy trial in criminal cases involving adult defendants.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2468 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the department of health to establish a registration system for medical cannabis collective disposal and transfer access centers. Requires the department of health to adopt rules to regulate the medical cannabis collective disposal and trans...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2686 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the issuance of new building permits unless it is established that the building will be furnished with equipment that allows for the collection and future use of gray water. Provides for exemptions. Takes effect on 1/1/2020.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB2829 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Office of Law Enforcement and Security for Transportation Systems in the Department of Transportation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| SB2873 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to DHS and DOH to continue to administer programs for individuals or families who require assistance to avoid or escape homelessness including outreach, Rapid Rehousing, Housing First, Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion, and the Fa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Housing Committee |
| SB2481 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the penalty for criminal trespass onto public parks and recreational grounds. Requires law enforcement officers to provide homeless individuals who trespass onto public parks and recreational grounds with information regarding homeless shelter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Human Services Committee |
| SB2750 | Intro
Sine Die | Describes the application process for a permitted use permit to a state or county agency for the collocation of small wireless facilities on state or county utility poles, light standards, buildings, or structures.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Economic Development, Tourism, and Technology Committee |
| SB2716 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the contractors license board to adopt rules to define "incidental and supplemental to the performance of work" to limit the percentage of work under a single contract in an incidental craft or trade in which a specialty contractor may engag...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Labor Committee |
| SB2632 | Intro
Sine Die | Updates the Uniform Parentage Act in Hawaii to recognize intended parents under valid surrogacy agreements as parents. Specifies the requirements of gestational and genetic surrogacy agreements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2473 | Intro
Sine Die | Bans import, sale, distribution, and use of consumer fireworks. Limits use of aerial devices, articles pyrotechnic, and display fireworks to public displays conducted by trained and licensed pyrotechnic operators. Effective date 04/01/2019.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB2552 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the offense of theft in the first degree, second degree, and third degree to include reckless disregard of risk for the value of the stolen property or services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2804 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates a hierarchy of options for injured workers who require retraining. Creates time limits (two years) for vocational rehabilitation plans.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Labor Committee |
| SB2736 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes rules for small purchase procedures for the purchase of health and human services under chapter 103F, Hawaii Revised Statutes. Effective upon approval.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| SB2599 | 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] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2713 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides an income tax credit to a taxpayer who purchases or modifies a personal vehicle for use by a person with a disability. Applies to taxable years beginning after December 31, 2018.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2618 | Intro
Sine Die | Specifies that a consumer credit reporting agency shall not charge a fee for placing, lifting, or removing a security freeze on a consumer's credit report or for placing or removing a security freeze on a protected consumer's credit report or records...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2535 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires by 2030 that solar power panels are installed on state buildings and that the majority of power used by state facilities comes from renewable energy sources.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| SB2907 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a special fund for public charter school facilities funding. Provides assessment exemptions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB2806 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies that any police officer or agent of the Department of Land and Natural Resources upon whom the Board of Land and Natural Resources has conferred police powers may, in the performance of the officer's or agent's primary duties, inspect certa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| SB2847 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the department of land and natural resources to issue commercial marine licenses and subtypes of commercial marine licenses for the taking of marine life.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| SB2724 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposes a constitutional amendment to limit the terms of members of the legislature to a maximum of twelve consecutive years in the house of representatives or twelve consecutive years in the senate, for members who are elected at the general electi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2621 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes a county to adopt rules or ordinances that place stricter limitations on a passenger seated in the bed or loading-carrying area of a pickup truck while the vehicle is in operation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| SB2679 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides limited liability protection for county lifeguards and counties providing lifeguard services on beaches or in the ocean.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB2698 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the definition of transient accommodations for tax purposes to expressly include accessory dwelling units, single family homes, and multi-family homes. Adds a definition of accessory dwelling unit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Economic Development, Tourism, and Technology Committee |
| SB2727 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a medical aid in dying act that establishes a regulatory process under which an adult resident of the State with a medically confirmed terminal disease may obtain a prescription for medication to be self-administered to end the patient's ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2623 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a temporary task force on rental housing for extremely low-income households. Makes an appropriation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Housing Committee |
| SB2530 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the establishment of the Hawaii airports corporation within the department of transportation for administrative purposes. Sets out appointment of members to the board of directors and powers and duties of the Hawaii airport corporation. Tr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| SB2881 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that a defendant be denied bail when the charge is for a violent crime or the defendant has been previously convicted of a violent crime. Distinguishes between a serious crime for which the judge has the discretion to grant bail and a violen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2513 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts from taxation 100 per cent of capital gains realized from sale of leased fee interest in condominium units to association of apartment owners or residential cooperative corporations. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2017.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2509 | Intro
Sine Die | Excludes certain land disposition matters from contested cases and agency rules under the Hawaii Administrative Procedure Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| SB2471 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the University of Hawaii at Hilo for programs, studies, and activities related to the prevention and eradication of rat lungworm disease.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| SB2760 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to deposit moneys it receives from the repayments of loans and payments of interest or fees from the Hawaii capital loan program in chapter 210, the Hawaii large fishing vessel ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Economic Development, Tourism, and Technology Committee |
