| SB2070 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the Department of Education to convene an advisory committee to make recommendations to develop and implement a plan to teach digital citizenship and media literacy in grades kindergarten through twelve in public schools, including charter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2525 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the east Kapolei community development district under the Hawaii Community Development Authority and amends the HCDA membership accordingly. Requires HCDA to establish a plan by 1/1/2020 to return jurisdiction over the Kakaako district to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB3082 | Engross
Sine Die | Adopts the Uniform Regulation of Virtual Currency Businesses Act and codifies the Act. Amends the Money Transmitters Act to expressly apply to persons engaged in the transmission of virtual currency. Requires a licensee dealing with virtual currency ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2368 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Education to establish and implement a Sexual Abuse Prevention Education Program to educate public school students on sexual abuse prevention, provide relevant training to school teachers and staff, and inform parents and g...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2397 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a temporary telecommuting task force to develop incentives and recommendations to encourage and expand telecommuting opportunities in the public and private sectors. (SB2397 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2328 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a task force to conduct a comprehensive analysis and evaluation on all general education courses and high attendance courses taught at the University of Hawaii system to use no- or low-cost options for those courses. (SB2328 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2116 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the biosecurity emergency response special fund within the Department of Agriculture. Establishes procedures for emergency declarations and expenditures. Appropriates moneys into the special fund. Appropriates moneys to the Department of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2049 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the University of Hawaii Cancer Center to determine the reasons that Hawaii has the highest incidence of liver and bile duct cancer in the country. (SB2049 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2565 | Engross
Sine Die | Exempts sales of farm equipment and machinery to certain producers of agricultural products from the general excise tax. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2019. Sunsets on an unspecified date. (SB2565 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2734 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows a public employee's designation of beneficiary form to be filed in the department where the employee was employed. Permits the designation to be filed and maintained electronically. (SB2734 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2320 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes an undergraduate health sciences academy to be administered by the University of Hawaii-West Oahu and John A. Burns School of Medicine to increase recruitment and retention of Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander, and first generation colleg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2108 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Human Services to provide a tiered level of health care premium assistance for individuals depending on their family's income as compared to the federal poverty level. (SB2108 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2761 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the definition of "dependent-beneficiary" as used in chapter 87A, HRS. (SB2761 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB3033 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the definition of agricultural equipment, supplies, or products. Strengthens property right protections for persons who produce agricultural products on private residential property. Effective 7/1/2035. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SCR5 | Engross
Sine Die | Encouraging The Department Of Agriculture To Evaluate The Import Requirements And Process For Domestic Animals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Agriculture Committee |
| SB2602 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the State Procurement Policy Board to conduct annual compliance examinations of procurement contracts that are over $50,000 of an unspecified minimum number of executive departments, divisions, or agencies. Requires the State Procurement Pol...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB3037 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the University of Hawaii, in collaboration with the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism, to fund one or more programs sponsored or organized by the University of Hawaii community colleges or a four-year ca...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2329 | Engross
Sine Die | Caps increases in tuition for the University of Hawaii based on the change in the State's median household income. Requires the University of Hawaii Economic Research Organization to conduct a study regarding tuition affordability and the Consumer Pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2521 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Department of Education to provide up to $1,690 to each special education classroom teacher for instructional materials and equipment. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2753 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifies the intent of the Small Business Regulatory Review Board's powers when reviewing state and county administrative rules that impact small business.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB2711 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends conditions and requirements for sale of liquor by class 14 brewpub and class 18 small craft producer pub licensees. Permits sale at multiple locations statewide. Clarifies that each location is under the jurisdiction of the liquor commission o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2887 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates moneys for events recognizing the twenty-fifth anniversary of the sister state relationship between Hawaii and Taiwan. (SB2887 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2089 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a Youth Commission within the Office of Youth Services to advise the Governor and Legislature on the effects of legislative policies, needs, assessments, priorities, programs, and budgets relating to youth. Appropriates funds. (SB2089 HD1...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2896 | Engross
Sine Die | Makes an emergency appropriation to the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism for the 2018 Gannenmono Celebration. (SB2896 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2084 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the Agricultural Land Acquisition Fund to provide funding for the acquisition, administration, maintenance, and management of agricultural lands and irrigation systems to improve food security. Makes an appropriation. (SB2084 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB738 | Engross
Sine Die | Expands the pool of orthodontists who are eligible to perform medically necessary orthodontic services for treatment of certain orofacial anomalies covered by health insurance. (SB738 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2507 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Education (DOE) to develop and implement a statewide computer science curricula plan for public school students in K-12 and ensure each public high school offers at least one computer science course each school year. Author...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2113 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits manufacturers and contract testing facilities in Hawaii from using animal test methods for the purpose of testing cosmetics or household products for which an alternative test method is available. Imposes a civil fine and authorizes the att...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB2515 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the authority for department heads to establish federally funded positions for special, research, and demonstration projects approved by the governor, subject to an unspecified cap. Requires Governor to submit an annual report. (SB2515 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2925 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifies the licensing exemptions for certain individuals under certain conditions who provide behavior analysis services. Requires the Department of Education to create and implement a plan to provide Medicaid billable applied behavior analysis ser...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2428 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits the hiring of a state or county law enforcement officer if the candidate's previous position as a law enforcement officer was terminated while the officer was in poor employment standing. Requires background checks for prospective police of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB2704 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a process to upgrade and support next-generation wireless broadband infrastructure throughout the State. Establishes a permitting, application, review, and approval process for wireless providers or communications services providers to in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| SB2083 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for after-school programs at Kalanianaole Elementary and Intermediate School, Kapaa Middle School, Konawaena Middle School, and Waimea Canyon Middle School. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2955 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires rental motor vehicle lessors with more than two hundred light duty passenger vehicles, to plan for the incorporation of at least fifty per cent of zero-emission vehicles into the lessor's fleet by 2030 and report information on all vehicles ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2343 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the offense of abuse of family or household members to provide for felony, misdemeanor, and petty misdemeanor penalties. Expands the family court's jurisdiction over cases involving harassment of a family or household member. Allows the granti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2904 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Hawaii Technology Development Corporation for continuance of the small business innovation research program. Effective July 2, 2050. (SB2904 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2498 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits the sale of polystyrene foam containers and serving of prepared foods using polystyrene foam containers statewide. Authorizes the Department of Health to adopt rules to implement the prohibition and include within its administrative rules a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2666 | Engross
Sine Die | Codifies Goal 5 of the United Nations' 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development to achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls. (SB2666 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2779 | Engross
Sine Die | Increases membership on the Hawaii Teacher Standards Board to include the Chairperson of the Native Hawaiian Education Council and a non-voting teacher candidate from a Hawaii educator preparation program at a public university. Clarifies that a perm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2056 | Engross
Sine Die | PART I: Clarifies restaurants that sell children's meals that include a beverage for a single price shall make the default beverage a healthy beverage. PART II: Establishes a home care agency licensing program in the Department of Health. Authorizes ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB3107 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for programs and other efforts to help persons suffering from multiple chronic conditions, including coordinated treatment, centralized referral, case managers, and peer mentors. (SB3107 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2189 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides that failure of state and county officers and employees to carry out or comply with chapter 801D, HRS, shall provide a basis for disciplinary action, with certain exceptions. Requires competent authority to immediately report such disciplina...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB229 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates moneys for program costs and 12 permanent full-time equivalent positions in the vector control branch of the Department of Health. (SB229 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-22
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2757 | Engross
Sine Die | Extends the general excise tax exemption for certain affordable rental housing projects from June 30, 2022, to June 30, 2026. Removes the statutory cap for the exemption. Prohibits housing owners from refusing to lease a dwelling unit to a holder of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-22
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2319 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the composition and term length of members of the Board of Regents of the University of Hawaii. (SB2319 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-22
To House Higher Education Committee |
| SB1235 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to improve the health care services related to cardiac care at Hilo Medical Center. Requires the Auditor to audit contracts over $1,000,000 that the Department of Health or the Department of Human Services entered into with domesti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-22
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2756 | Engross
Sine Die | Repeals the statutory cap on the disposition of conveyance taxes dedicated for deposit into the Rental Housing Revolving Fund for the financing of affordable rental housing development. (SB2756 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-22
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2703 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds to assist SpinLaunch, Inc., with the financing of the planning, design, and construction of a satellite launch system. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-22
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2142 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the Lobbyists Law to eliminate outdated references to criminal violations and requires an individual to demonstrate good cause for noncompliance. Clarifies that the State Ethics Commission may require payment of an administrative fine or resti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-22
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB2184 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the State Fire Council to expend moneys in the Reduced Ignition Propensity Cigarette Program Special Fund to defray the actual cost of the Council's fire and life safety programs and activities and to employ additional personnel. (SB2184 H...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-22
To House Finance Committee |
