| SB366 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires, on or before 1/1/2020, the public utilities commission to establish performance incentive and penalty mechanisms that directly tie electric utility revenues to the utility's achievement on performance metrics.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB800 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes an appropriation to the department of accounting and general services to conduct a study relating to the rehabilitation and renovation of the state capitol reflecting pool.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB211 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds and the appropriation of funds for deposit into the rental housing revolving fund to finance affordable rental housing development.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Housing Committee |
| SB1032 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the continued support of Hana Health in Hana, Maui.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB1095 | Intro
Sine Die | Removes limits on the fees assessable by the counties for motor vehicle registration. Allows the counties to use the funds collected from such fees towards the beautification of highways and disposal of abandoned and derelict vehicles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| SB40 | Intro
Sine Die | Relating To Public Utilities. Short form bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB868 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends Hawaii's controlled substances act to mirror federal regulations, which permit qualified practitioners to administer, dispense, and prescribe any schedule II, III, IV, or V narcotic drug approved by the Food and Drug Administration for use as ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB5 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the housing program for homeless individuals with chronic disease. Appropriates funds for the program. Takes effect 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB847 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds for the planning, design, and construction of a visitor and interpretive center at Diamond Head State Monument. Requires the department of land and natural resources to seek funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB632 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the launching, landing, or recovering of an unmanned aerial system at a public park or beach without the prior consent of DOT. Prohibits the operation of an unmanned aerial system over any public park or beach at an altitude that interferes...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| SB256 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends Act 223, SLH 2015 to extend the sunset of the refundable food/excise tax credit for two years to 12/31/19.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB158 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the governor to establish puuhonua safe zones where homeless persons may reside. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Housing Committee |
| SB1048 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies that the public utilities commission may make a finding of public convenience and necessity and may issue a certificate regardless of whether the evidence in the record indicates that the issuance of the certificate would diminish an existi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| SB1251 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the University of Hawaii Intercollegiate Athletic Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| SB1015 | Intro
Sine Die | Deposits funds from Environmental Response, Energy, and Food Security Tax Fund into the State Highway Fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB551 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes, beginning January 1, 2018, 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] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB1188 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a Hawaii teacher stipend program to be administered by the Department of Education to address the shortage of teachers in the Hawaii public school system. Appropriates funds for the program for 2017-2018 and 2018-2019 fiscal years. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1081 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides a state income tax deduction of up to $5,000 per year for student loan interest paid on qualified education loans. Effective 5/12/2059. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1206 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a pilot program to generate revenue through the lease of University of Hawaii land for public purposes. Requires that the parcels of land be located within a county-designated transit-oriented zone, a one-half-mile radius of public transi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| SB736 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires health care professionals serving as a primary care provider to maintain liability insurance. Requires the insurance commissioner to establish uniform, minimum amounts of insurance for all health care professionals, regardless of their profe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB82 | Intro
Sine Die | Relating To Land Use. Short form bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| SB39 | Intro
Sine Die | Relating To Professions And Vocations. Short form bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB53 | Intro
Sine Die | Relating To State Facilities. Short form bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| SB784 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the John A. Burns school of medicine to convene a working group to discuss nutrition and lifestyle behavior for the prevention and treatment of chronic disease. Requires a report to the legislature prior to the convening of the regular sessi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| SB79 | Intro
Sine Die | Relating To Energy. Short form bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| SB467 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the Office of Hawaiian Affairs for the fiscal biennium beginning July 1, 2017, and ending June 30, 2019. Appropriations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB762 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to DBEDT to provide additional resources for the small business regulatory review board.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1092 | Intro
Sine Die | Prevents the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) from approving power purchase agreements that prohibit the sale of energy to third parties or require utility consent to the sale of energy to third parties; provided that the PUC may approve a power pur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| SB962 | Intro
Sine Die | Continues the Hospital Sustainability Program for two years. Appropriates funds out of the Hospital Sustainability Program Special Fund for fiscal years 2017-2018 and 2018-2019.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Human Services Committee |
| SB862 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows counties with populations less than one hundred thousand to enact a zoning ordinance to amortize or phase out nonconforming single-family transient vacation rental units over a reasonable period of time.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB325 | Intro
Sine Die | Specifies that ten per cent of general excise tax revenues collected from medical marijuana dispensaries and ten per cent of gross income generated by each entity that holds a medical marijuana dispensary license shall be allocated to the mental heal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB242 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires at least one of the three PUC commissioners to be a resident of a county other than the city and county of Honolulu and to receive per diem compensation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB1155 | Intro
Sine Die | Specifies that coverage for telehealth under the State's medicaid managed care and fee-for-service programs includes psychiatric services provided by a collaborative care team consisting of a primary care provider, a behavioral health care manager wh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB65 | Intro
Sine Die | Relating To Homelessness. Short form bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Human Services Committee |
| SB379 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires commercial thrill craft and parasailing operators to complete a water safety education course. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Economic Development, Tourism, and Technology Committee |
| SB144 | Intro
Sine Die | Reinstates the authority of the University of Hawaii System to maintain a separate accounting and financial management system that is compatible with the State of Hawaii accounting and financial system.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| SB695 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that all mandatory fees charged by a transient accommodation operator to a guest or resort time share vacation plan manager to an occupant be included in the gross rental or gross rental proceeds for purposes of the transient accommodations ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Economic Development, Tourism, and Technology Committee |
| SB989 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends fines for destroying or harvesting trees including koa on state forest reserves lands to an amount up to $10,000 or three times the market value at the time and place of the violation for each tree including koa, whichever is greater, in addit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB883 | Intro
Sine Die | Increase the Pesticide Use Revolving Fund threshold from $250,000 to $1,000,000. Allows for additional pesticide education specialists and future research and studies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| SB1281 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows transient accommodations brokers to register as a tax collection agent on behalf of all of its operators and plan managers. Requires registered transient accommodations broker tax collection agent's operators and plan managers to obtain licens...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Economic Development, Tourism, and Technology Committee |
| SB884 | Intro
Sine Die | Establish a special fund within the department of agriculture to deposit fees and expend funds necessary for the industrial hemp pilot program. Specify that the cultivation of industrial hemp shall be limited to licensed owners, lessees, or occupiers...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| SB1310 | Intro
Sine Die | Re-directs the Green Infrastructure Loan Program. Designates "all ratepayers" who pay the green infrastructure fee as the primary beneficiaries of the program. Requires $ of green infrastructure loans to be issued for utility-scale renewable...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| SB1300 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the amount of transient accommodations tax revenue allocated to the special land and development fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Economic Development, Tourism, and Technology Committee |
| SB64 | Intro
Sine Die | Relating To Human Services. Short form bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Human Services Committee |
| SB94 | Intro
Sine Die | Relating To Appropriations. Short form bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1069 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires public procurement construction bids to list subcontractors and joint contractors only for contracts of an unspecified dollar amount or more; provided that bids lacking this list may be accepted if in the State's best interest and subcontrac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB406 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a collective bargaining unit for full-time graduate student assistants employed by the University of Hawaii. Delays formation of the graduate student assistant collective bargaining unit until 7/1/2018. Effective 01/07/2059. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB176 | Intro
Sine Die | Limits the class size in public schools to a maximum of eighteen students, and establishes a minimum salary for new teachers of $55,000 per year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB552 | Intro
Sine Die | Mandates the department of agriculture to take precautionary measures to anticipate, prevent, or minimize the adverse effects of biotechnology and genetic engineering.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
