| SB829 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a community food forest program in the Department of Land and Natural Resources and requires Department of Land and Natural Resources to work collaboratively with local government and community organizations to provide sources of healthy ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| SB1204 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the agriculture accelerator program to authorize the agribusiness development corporation to provide grants and invest in existing or new agriculture businesses approved by the board of directors of the ADC in return for equity in those a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB42 | Intro
Sine Die | Relating To Health. Short form bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB751 | Intro
Sine Die | Expands treatment capacity of behavior analysis services by allowing individuals with certain certification and under supervision conditions to implement behavior analysis services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB541 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes requirements for gerontologist licensure beginning on 7/1/2018.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB201 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies the process, including payment obligations, mediation requirements, and triggers for further default, where a condo unit owner and association reach a payment plan to resolve a nonjudicial foreclosure. Establishes procedures providing condo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB143 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempt microgrids that promote and serve public higher education institutions from regulation as a public utility by the Public Utilities Commission. Adds a definition for "microgrid".
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| SB943 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes a general fund appropriation of $25,000,000 for fiscal year 2017 2018 to further capitalize the Emergency and Budget Reserve Fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB466 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Legislative Reference Bureau to conduct a study on the non-facility general fund per-pupil funding system for public charter schools, to determine whether the system fulfills its statutory purpose of equalizing operational funding among ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB398 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates the colorectal cancer screening and awareness pilot program within the department of health and appropriates funds for the program. Repeals on 6/30/2020. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB228 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the research, development, marketing, and conservation of ulu.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1237 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts individuals selling only insurance for property stored at a self-service storage facility from obtaining a license as an insurance producer provided that specific requirements are met.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB485 | Intro
Sine Die | Expands the threshold size of land areas that are processed by LUC for district boundary amendments from 15 acres to 30 acres.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| SB304 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the interest earned on the balance of the Hawaii hurricane reserve trust fund to be retained in the trust fund. Requires the board of directors of the Hawaii Hurricane Relief fund to conduct a study of the acquisition of a catastrophic hurri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB35 | Intro
Sine Die | Relating To Condominiums. Short form bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB696 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the sale, offering for sale, or distribution of any sunscreen containing oxybenzone in the State, unless the sunscreen label contains a warning that the use of oxybenzone in nearshore waters poses serious hazards to coral and reef health.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB59 | Intro
Sine Die | Relating To The University Of Hawaii. Short form bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| SB350 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes and appropriates funds for a regional nutrient cycling pilot program on Maui. Requires DOA to report on the efficacy of the pilot project. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB729 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the joint campus of the John A. Burns school of medicine and the University of Hawaii cancer center as the Hawaii health sciences campus at the University of Hawaii at Kakaako, to be an administratively separate branch of the University o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| SB863 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the department of health for the purchase of one twenty-four-hour, seven-days-a-week, ambulance unit for the county of Kauai and one twenty-four-hour, seven-days-a-week, ambulance unit for the county of Hawaii and operational co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB1246 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the multinational lunar architecture alliance to be administratively attached to the office of aerospace development in the department of business, economic development, and tourism to guide the development and implementation of a prototy...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Economic Development, Tourism, and Technology Committee |
| SB225 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires health insurers, mutual benefit societies, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage beginning 1/1/2018 for medically necessary cognitive rehabilitation therapy for survivors of traumatic brain injury. Requires coverage for up...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB998 | Intro
Sine Die | Updates chapter 329, Hawaii Revised Statutes as follows: amends sections 329-16 and 329-38(f) to be consistent with federal law which allows prescribing authorization of drugs including buprenorphine and naloxone to patients undergoing detoxification...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB1217 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the monthly needs allowance paid under section 346D4.5(a), HRS. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1046 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases, to an unspecified amount, the authorized benefit for acupuncture treatments allowed under personal injury protection benefits provided through motor vehicle insurance. Automatically increases the amount by an unspecified percentage on an a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB1025 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a dark night skies protection advisory committee to assist the University of Hawaii in the development of a statewide dark night skies protection strategy to preserve dark night skies and reduce light pollution.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| SB977 | Intro
Sine Die | Abolishes the Hawaii Health Authority.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB296 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires prompt repair of any damages to the common areas or common elements in a planned community association or condominium. Specifies that if a management company or managing agent is responsible for repairs on an association's behalf and fails t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB377 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes an income tax credit for taxpayers who lease housing to certain low-income tenants. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB214 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the twentieth senatorial district.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB867 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the two-year extension of the Post-Bypass Beach Monitoring Program of the Kikiaola Small Boat Harbor Sand Bypass Operation at Waimea, Kauai.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| SB136 | Intro
Sine Die | Reinstates the president of the university as the chief procurement officer for contracts for construction and construction related professional services furnished by licensees under chapter 464, Hawaii Revised Statutes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| SB1076 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires health care facilities to use transport services from an air ambulance that is contracted with the patient's health carrier when transferring the patient to another health care facility via air ambulance, except under certain conditions. Req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB473 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the display permit fee.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB235 | Intro
Sine Die | Permits the installation of clotheslines in any residential dwelling, apartment, condominium, or townhouse, under certain conditions. Defines a reasonable restriction on the placement and use of clotheslines as any restriction that is necessary to pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB841 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the department of land and natural resources to conduct a feasibility study to determine the best means to provide a Pohoiki swimming area and develop plans, in cooperation with the United States Army Corps of Engineers, county ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB126 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes an emergency response vehicle noise task force to determine the impact of emergency response vehicle sirens in terms of excessive noise, the effect on public safety, and the relative effectiveness of the use of emergency lights instead of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB44 | Intro
Sine Die | Relating To Health. Short form bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB791 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates a separate offense for criminal property damage by graffiti. Takes effect on 1/7/2059. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB177 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts gross proceeds from the sale of certain medical services from the general excise tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB346 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the pesticide licensing fee and requires annual renewal of the license. Amends authorized uses for moneys in the pesticide use revolving fund. Requires memorandum of understanding between the department of agriculture and the University of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| SB1143 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a conservation fee of $20 per person for any length of continuous stay at a hotel or condominium, to be deposited into the special land and development fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Economic Development, Tourism, and Technology Committee |
| SB1132 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the general excise tax by 0.5% to provide a dedicated funding source for the department of education and the University of Hawaii. Increases the use tax by 0.5%. Reduces the amount deducted from the county surcharge on state tax to reimburs...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB348 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates a public service loan forgiveness program and revolving fund in the University of Hawaii. Establishes eligibility and repayment requirements for individuals who complete an associate, bachelor, or graduate degree program within the University...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1151 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the seventh senatorial district.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1302 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Hawaii airport authority. Transfers the administration of airports and the general aviation commuter portions of other airports to the Hawaii airport authority. Makes an appropriation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| SB1065 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires supervising electricians, as a condition of licensure, to submit satisfactory evidence of completed training on the most recent edition of the National Fire Protection Association's NFPA 70E: Standard for Electrical Safety in the Workplace.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB116 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for 2 FTE positions in the disability compensation division of DLIR.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB668 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates a 50% tax credit to a maximum of $250,000 for costs involved in projects that provide housing for low-income and very-low-income residents.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Housing Committee |
| SB1295 | 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] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
