| SB2534 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the owners of buildings open to the public to provide shelter to visiting members of the public in cases of emergency or disaster. Requires the owners of buildings open to the public to inform the appropriate county emergency management agen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-20
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB2260 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires veterinarians, upon request of the owner of an animal, to make available a copy of any prescription that the veterinarian has previously prescribed the animal free of charge.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-20
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2641 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires transient accommodations operators to designate local contacts who are licensed real estate brokers or salespersons.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-20
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2163 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides a taxpayer who hires a person totally disabled a nonrefundable tax credit for the 6-month period after the individual is initially hired by the taxpayer. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2018. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2425 | Intro
Sine Die | Excludes from the definition of "public lands" lands to which the Hawaii public housing authority in its corporate capacity holds title. Requires legislative approval of the sale or gift of lands to which the Hawaii public housing authority in its co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2353 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex, including gender identity or expression or sexual orientation, or disability, in any state educational program or activity or in any educational program or activity that receives state financial assistanc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2165 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides a taxpayer who hires an elderly individual a nonrefundable tax credit for the 6-month period after the individual is initially hired by the taxpayer. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2018. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2200 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits smoking in a motor vehicle in which a person under the age of eighteen is present. Requires the department of health to report on the enforceability of this Act and coordination of related data collection activities of the respective law en...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2649 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies that the adjudicatory functions of the public utilities commission are exempt from part I of Hawaii's Sunshine Law, relating to meetings; provided that the non-adjudicatory functions of the commission shall be subject to part I of the Sunsh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2986 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires two hours of annual in-service training in suicide prevention for all teachers, principals, and school counselors. Makes an appropriation. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2261 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the education special fund and allocates twenty-five per cent of the general excise tax revenue to be deposited into the education special fund to fund public education. Appropriates moneys out of the education special fund. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2669 | Intro
Sine Die | Codifies the State of Hawaii 2050 sustainable plan goals and the sustainable development goals based on the United Nations' Global Goal eight, decent work and economic growth. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2984 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits lessees who sell or transfer land from obtaining subsequent leases of the same class of land, except if the lease is acquired pursuant to section 209 of the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act, 1920, as amended, if the only prior lease interest h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2607 | Intro
Sine Die | Limits the Research Corporation of the University of Hawaii's exemption from the procurement code for advertising for bids and purchases to be made in Hawaii to research, training, and development related contracts and projects that obtain federal or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB3004 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits tobacco use and smoking, including the use of electronic smoking devices, by any person on the premises of UH.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2475 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to continue and expand health care apprenticeship programs at UH community colleges.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2330 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the department of human services, in consultation with the department of health, to issue a request for proposal to contract for services and housing for homeless individuals with severe mental health illness who have been discharged from ac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB3053 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows and regulates the manufacturing of edible cannabis products as manufactured cannabis products by licensed medical cannabis dispensaries. Establishes requirements for manufacturing, handling, labeling, and packaging of manufactured cannabis pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2870 | Intro
Sine Die | Permits public inspection and duplication of salary ranges, rather than exact compensation, for legislative employees. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2776 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the issuance of a citation for specific violations of the motor vehicle repair laws and rules by licensees. Sets forth a process for licensees to contest the citation and provides for the assessment of fines for each violation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2376 | Intro
Sine Die | Raises the threshold under the contractor licensing law's handyman exemption from $1,000 to an unspecified amount. Takes effect on 1/1/2045. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB3063 | Intro
Sine Die | Requests that the University of Hawaii sea grant college program conduct an economic analysis of North Shore beaches for the area of the North Shore of Oahu that stretches from the Kawailoa to Waialee ahupuaa to estimate the economic value of North S...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2390 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes that the requirements of ethical public procurement and the procurement code of ethics established by the Procurement Policy Board apply to all parties to procurement contracts that are otherwise exempted from the procurement code.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2651 | Intro
Sine Die | Specifies certain felonies and conditions that will preclude employment, and other felonies and conditions that may preclude employment, at a medical cannabis dispensary. Takes effect on 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2960 | Intro
Sine Die | Attaches the office of enterprise technology services to the department of accounting and general services administratively. Reorganizes the members of the information technology steering committee and requires members of the steering committee to be...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2391 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the members of governing boards of charter schools to be certified through programs on ethics, procurement, and fiduciary responsibilities and that are approved by the State Public Charter School Commission no later than their first year ser...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2624 | Intro
Sine Die | Specifies that a condominium association's proxies and ballots may be destroyed ninety days, rather than thirty days, after an association meeting. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2133 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the counties to provide for the establishment of Hawaiian cultural reserves as a condition of approval and development of certain types of subdivisions and condominium property regimes on agricultural and rural lands that include the constru...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2687 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the University of Hawai`i to translate the Hawai`i State Constitution into the Hawaiian language. Requires courts, to the extent reasonably possible, to provide Hawaiian language translation services upon request of any party to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2555 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the employees' retirement system to divest its investment portfolio of coal, oil, and gas companies within an unspecified number of years and to report certain information to the legislature. Takes effect 1/1/2045. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1303 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires two at-large seats to reside in an urban district and two at-large seats to reside in a rural district. Requires one urban district candidate and one rural district candidate to be elected in any election cycle. Changes the term of the membe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2596 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a senior citizen higher education access pilot program at the University of Hawaii at Hilo. Requires a report to the Legislature before the Regular Session of 2024. Repeals June 30, 2024. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2597 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes procedures for the custody, inventory, and care of protocol gifts received by legislators on behalf of the State or either house of the legislature.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2395 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows DHS to establish or contract with a victim service provider to operate and manage a sex trafficking emergency shelter. Provides for tax and fee exemptions. Makes an appropriation. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2557 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows Hawaiian homestead lessees to pass their homestead lease to their adopted children; provided that the adopted children meet the minimum Hawaiian blood quantum requirement for lease successorship prior to adoption. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2096 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to satisfy state and federal class action settlement agreements requiring the Department of Human Services to implement a foster care maintenance payment system that complies with the federal Child Welfare Act, to increase clothing...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2356 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds as a purpose of the University of Hawaii community college system the provision of occupational training and certification programs designed to rapidly qualify persons to fill new and hard-to-fill position classes of the State, counties, and pri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2755 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes technical and housekeeping amendments to Act 159, Session Laws of Hawaii 2017, and statutes amended by Act 159. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB3042 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires a broker-dealer's records that relate to security transactions involving a purchaser, customer, or client be maintained in the broker-dealer's office in this State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2566 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the department of land and natural resources to provide assistance and supplemental funding to the National Wildlife Research Center of the U.S. Department of Agriculture to conduct pilot field studies to evaluate control tools ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2447 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts all proceedings relating to parking violations under certain administrative rules from the exclusive, original jurisdiction of the environmental courts. Effective 7/1/2035. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2763 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows payment of employer contributions to the Employees' Retirement System in advance of the fiscal year in which the contributions are required. Provides for interest on and application of the advance payments. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2369 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends collective bargaining law to ensure that exclusive bargaining representatives retain the resources necessary to adequately represent public employees and remove economic incentive to free ride.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To Senate Labor Committee |
| SB2291 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the minimum wage to $12.25 per hour in 2019 and $15 per hour in 2020. Repeals language allowing the hourly wage of a tipped employee to be increased on account of tips. Requires the department of labor and industrial relations to annually c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2003 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the department of land and natural resources from issuing new aquarium fish permits to take aquatic life for commercial or non-commercial aquarium purposes, except for a period of four months. Phases out the taking of aquatic life for comme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2947 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires county police departments, the department of public safety, department of land and natural resources, and department of transportation to disclose to the legislature the identity of an officer upon the officer's 2nd suspension in a 5-year pe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB3105 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Lipoa point management special fund for the management of the Lipoa point area and educate visitors on how funding is used for the management of the Lipoa point area. Appropriates funds into and out of the Lipoa point management speci...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2952 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes Queen Liliuokalani Day on the first Monday in the month of September each year, rather than on September 2, in order to coincide with Labor Day.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2357 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes appropriations for the pre-payment of the accrued pension liability and other post-employment benefits liability of the State. Makes an appropriation to the emergency and budget reserve fund. States the intent that this Act is intended to compl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2062 | Intro
Sine Die | Places restrictions on the ability of financial institutions to sell residential mortgage loans to other financial institutions. Defines "residential mortgage loans" as any loan primarily for personal, family, or household use that is secured by a mo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
