| SB2470 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires competitive bidding on construction procurements of less than $50,000 to contract for drilling work and soil testing. Requires that the bid for drilling work and soil testing be separate from a bid for engineering work on the same project.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| SB2789 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts from civil service positions known as Administrative Appeals Hearing Officer in the Department of Human Services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Labor Committee |
| SB2864 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the department of transportation to conduct a pilot project, in cooperation with one or more counties, to include the Hawaiian language on traffic signs on state and county lands of the participating counties. Appropriates funds for the exec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| SB2732 | Intro
Sine Die | Extending through the June 30, 2022, the exemption from chapter 76, Hawaii Revised Statutes, of the pesticide subsidy program manager position in order to provide assistance to local coffee farmers for pesticide costs incurred through the final year ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| SB2721 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the use of voter registration lists to populate the master list of prospective jurors in each circuit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2838 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires persons who manufacture, sell, offer for sale, lease, or distribute a product that makes content accessible on the internet to include digital blocking capability that renders pornographic material inaccessible. Allows consumers to disable t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Economic Development, Tourism, and Technology Committee |
| SB2840 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires check cashers to register with the department of commerce and consumer affairs. Requires check cashers to offer consumers the option to participate in a payment plan, if certain conditions are met. Requires posting of certain information and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2688 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the planting of a genetically engineered seed or plant part in an open field. Allows the chairperson of the board of agriculture to grant an exception where such planting is done in a controlled environment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| SB2739 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides public entities with an alternative method to deliver and finance state projects.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| SB2901 | Intro
Sine Die | Forgives the debt owed to the State by the Hawaii Tourism Authority for the convention center construction costs and related interest. Reduces the transient accommodations tax revenue allocation to the convention center enterprise special fund. Estab...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Economic Development, Tourism, and Technology Committee |
| SB2850 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the department of health to coordinate with each county water department to establish a low interest loan program for the upgrade or conversion of cesspools in each county to aerobic treatment unit systems.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2878 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a working group to examine and advise on amendments that can be made to the department of health's statutory powers, duties, functions, and responsibilities to include population-based approaches to public health and prevention that recog...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2723 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposes amendments to the state constitution to provide for direct initiative.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2695 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the high-growth grant program and special fund to provide grants to qualified businesses for certain business development activities. Makes an appropriation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Economic Development, Tourism, and Technology Committee |
| SB2495 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects for the new high school in Kihei, Maui.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB2825 | Intro
Sine Die | To amend the drivers licensing requirements for operation of autocycles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| SB2543 | Intro
Sine Die | Expands the candidate advisory council for the board of regents of the University of Hawaii from seven to eight members to make the member of the Association of Emeritus Regents of the University of Hawaii a voting member. Specifies term conditions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| SB2795 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes establishment of permanent civil service positions for the Hawaii Public Housing Authority to provide services historically and customarily performed by civil service employees in connection with refuse collection.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Labor Committee |
| SB2642 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a study group within the Department of Health to develop a pilot program to address contamination relating to waste-water, cesspools, and shore waters at Puako.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2895 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds and appropriates funds from the issuance of those bonds for plans, design, construction, and equipment for a new gymnasium and new music building at Roosevelt high school.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB2889 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds to fund the planning, design, and construction of six classrooms at Paia elementary school on Maui.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB2694 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires any metropolitan planning organization serving a metropolitan planning area within the jurisdiction of a county that includes at least three islands inhabited by permanent residents to include on its policy board one member of the senate and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB2526 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows the governor to negotiate land exchanges to acquire lands that are suitable for long-term diversified agricultural production. Requires a report to the legislature.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| SB2883 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires and appropriates funds for the department of business, economic development, and tourism, in collaboration with the University of Hawaii West Oahu, to develop a master plan to build a studio complex on the campus of the University of Hawaii ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Economic Development, Tourism, and Technology Committee |
| SB2824 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires dismissal of appeals to the board of review if the board has been unable to constitute quorum for twelve consecutive months from the date the appeal is made and allows taxpayers to appeal to the tax appeal court within thirty days of dismiss...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2836 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the UH college of tropical agriculture and human resources cooperative extension service for one full-time ornamental plant extension agent.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| SB2759 | Intro
Sine Die | Specifies that certain provisions of the Internal Revenue Code related to at-risk rules and deductions and to passive activity loss do not apply with respect to claims for the state low-income housing tax credit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Housing Committee |
| SB2673 | Intro
Sine Die | Codifies sustainable development goals based on the United Nations' Global Goal twelve, responsible consumption and production.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| SB2617 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes specialty contractors to perform work outside the scope of their licenses when that work is subordinate to another contractor and directly related to and necessary for the project.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Labor Committee |
| SB2512 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the issuance of limited purpose driver's licenses, limited purpose provisional driver's licenses, and limited purpose instruction permits to include applicants who voluntarily choose to obtain a REAL ID compliant State Civil Identification...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| SB2802 | Intro
Sine Die | Permits advanced practice registered nurses to certify an employee's disability. Increases the penalty an employer is assessed for failing to submit timely wage and employment information. Permits filing of an appeal of a decision related to temporar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Labor Committee |
| SB2737 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the departments to issue the request for statements of qualifications and to establish lists of qualified providers for treatment purchase of service. Effective upon approval.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| SB2546 | Intro
Sine Die | Adjusts the salaries of the Superintendent, Deputy Superintendent, Assistant Superintendents, and Complex Area Superintendents to be no more than one hundred ten per cent of the salary of the highest paid teacher in the Department of Education. Repea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB2835 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the twentieth senatorial district.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2899 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Labor Relations Board to deliver its orders and decisions by hand, USPS mail using a delivery confirmation, or electronically. Extends the time to hold a hearing on a complaint from 40 to 90 days. Repeals the requirement for the State to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Labor Committee |
| SB2505 | Intro
Sine Die | Eliminates the authority of the University of Hawaii, the Department of Education, and the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation to make certain transfers of appropriated funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| SB2630 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes expedited approvals for affordable housing projects seeking district boundary amendments for land areas of fifteen acres or less under the jurisdiction of the counties as well as expedited approvals for project exemptions by the Hawaii co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB2830 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides funds to the Department of Transportation for the safety oversight of rail fixed guideway system.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| SB2633 | Intro
Sine Die | Removes discriminatory requirements for mandatory insurance coverage of in vitro fertilization procedures to create parity of coverage for same-sex couples, unmarried women, and male-female couples for whom male infertility is the relevant factor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2485 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates $1,000,000 to the Department of Health to assist Hawaii Pacific Health with the financing of construction of a family medicine office practice and team-based training site at the Pali Momi outpatient center.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2570 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a fine of not less than $500 nor more than $1,000 for committing an offense of misuse of 911 emergency telephone service.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB2720 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the court to appoint counsel to indigent parents and to make every effort to do so at the first hearing attended by the parent.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2500 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriate funds for a grant in aid to each county for the county agency responsible for enforcing its respective building code to be accredited by the International Accreditation Service.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB2785 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts lands to which Hawaii Public Housing Authority holds title from the definition of "public lands" in section 171-2, Hawaii Revised Statutes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| SB2709 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes sustainability goals for the State. Establishes and appropriates funds for an Office of Sustainability.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| SB2733 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies that the amount appropriated in Act 183, Session Laws of Hawaii 2017, shall be deposited into the food safety certification costs grant program special fund and that the same amount shall be appropriated out of the special fund for fiscal y...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| SB2469 | Intro
Sine Die | After 6/30/2019, prohibits application of neonicotinoid insecticides, including planting any seeds coated with neonicotinoid insecticide, without a permit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| SB2545 | Intro
Sine Die | Bars judicial review of Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs' decisions on protests to the award of procurement contracts for student transportation or education facility construction. Requires parties who protest the award of a contract to pa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB2893 | Intro
Sine Die | Specifies the purposes of a university district. Authorizes the University of Hawaii to adopt rules related to university districts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| SB2579 | Intro
Sine Die | Removes hotel, residential, and timeshare uses from the list of permitted uses under the public-private development lease of fast lands and submerged lands at the Ala Wai boat harbor. Prohibits structures built under the lease that are more than two ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
