| SB2564 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds and appropriates funds to finance capital improvements to the Waiahole Irrigation System.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-08
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2589 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the Aging and Disability Resource Center.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-08
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2855 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the Hawaii housing finance and development corporation to develop and implement a housing voucher program for full-time teachers employed by the department of education or at a public charter school.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-08
To Senate Housing Committee |
| SB2130 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the department of health to create and maintain an online information portal making available to the public by January 1, 2019, the information published annually in the Healthcare-Associated Infections in Hawaii report. Requires the departm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-08
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2208 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes parental rights for blind parents or prospective blind parents in the context of child welfare, foster care, family law, and adoption.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-08
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2588 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes an appropriation to DOH for the kupuna care program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-08
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2593 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the healthy aging partnership program to further the program's role in improving the health and well-being of Hawaii's kupuna.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-08
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2430 | Intro
Sine Die | Permits the establishment of a pilot program to use dogs to inspect incoming cargo for illegal fireworks and explosives, after the cargo has been transported from the harbors.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-08
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB2167 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows a county council member to provide other council members with government records that are public record and created by persons who are not members or employees of the county council, subject to certain conditions. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-08
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2871 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires marketplace facilitators, referrers, and remote sellers that meet certain requirements to remit general excise or use taxes or report sales information. Applies to taxable years beginning after December 31, 2019.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-07
To Senate Economic Development, Tourism, and Technology Committee |
| SB2160 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a new chapter to regulate the use of unmanned aerial vehicles. Requires the director of the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs to adopt rules as necessary. Establishes prohibited uses of unmanned aerial vehicles and penalties, an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-07
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2282 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires marketplace providers to collect general excise and use tax on taxable retail sales that the marketplace provider facilities for marketplace participants to customers after a certain threshold. Applies to taxable years after December 31, 201...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-07
To Senate Economic Development, Tourism, and Technology Committee |
| SB2657 | Intro
Sine Die | Ensures the State receives the full amount of transient accommodations tax, calculated based upon the gross rental price paid by a visitor, whether that amount is collected by a local Hawaii operator, travel agent, wholesale travel company, or online...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-07
To Senate Economic Development, Tourism, and Technology Committee |
| SB2352 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends various provisions of the HRS to increase protections for child victims of sex trafficking, prostitution, and commercial exploitation by increasing penalties for offenders and habitual offenders. Among other things, amends the offense of sex t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-07
To Senate Human Services Committee |
| SB2912 | Intro
Sine Die | Permits the driver of a vehicle to safely proceed through an intersection in which a defective or malfunctioning trafficcontrol device fails to detect the vehicle and stays in the red signal stage through 2 cycles of the traffic-control device.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-07
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| SB2708 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates $100,000 to the Department of Defense for the installation of new outdoor sirens in the Salt Lake area of Oahu.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-06
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB2685 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts the gross proceeds received by any qualified small farmer from the sale of produce intended for human consumption from the general excise tax. Repeals on 1/1/2023. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-06
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2884 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows the State to construct temporary emergency transitional housing for homeless persons without going through permitting process. Authorizes the State to cooperate with nonstate actors to find permanent housing and other programs for homeless per...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-06
To Senate Housing Committee |
| SB2946 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the attorney general, upon referral by the county police or county prosecuting attorney, to review or initiate a review of a criminal investigation conducted by the county police or county prosecuting attorney for the purpose of providing an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-06
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB2010 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for drug treatment, including polydrug abuse treatment, for opioid abuse, methamphetamine abuse, heroin abuse, prescription drug abuse, and other drug abuse. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-06
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2082 | Intro
Sine Die | Limits liability for volunteers maintaining or repairing cemetery grounds. Requires the director of commerce and consumer affairs, in consultation with the comptroller, to develop strategies for the upkeep, repair, and maintenance of Sunset Memorial ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-06
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB3072 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires pharmacy benefit managers to notify contracting pharmacies of changes to maximum allowable costs by the National Drug Code fifteen days prior to the change. Requires pharmacy benefit managers to disclose where an equivalent drug can be obtai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-06
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2147 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows proposals to be submitted for concessions on public property. Establishes criteria for acceptance and awarding of proposals for concessions on public property. Specifies advertising requirements for bids or proposals and allows for online adve...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-06
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| SB2568 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes an appropriation to implement the recommendations of the joint fact finding study group's report on pesticide use by large agribusinesses on Kauai.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-06
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB3069 | Intro
Sine Die | Transfers all upkeep and maintenance responsibilities for the state capitol and its grounds and facilities, including all full-time equivalent positions and funding necessary for salaries and maintenance, to the sergeant-at-arms of the senate and hou...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-06
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| SB2236 | Intro
Sine Die | Corrects inconsistent terminology in statutory provisions relating to beneficiaries of retirement benefits dying prior to the death of the retirant.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-06
To Senate Labor Committee |
| SB2350 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a family leave insurance program, which requires employees and employers to make contributions into an insurance fund to be used to provide employees with family leave insurance benefits in order to care for a designated person. Appropria...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-06
To Senate Labor Committee |
| SB2128 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Hawaii emergency management agency for a hurricane shelter retrofit program for the retrofitting of emergency public shelters and residential homes and buildings.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-06
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB2533 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts from the general excise tax the value or gross income derived from the sale of agricultural products. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-06
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2920 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Education to set a standard for retention of student records of not less than 100 years. Allows the Department of Education to partner with the Hawaii Correctional Industries Program to establish a three-year student record...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-06
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB2171 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows identification cards to indicate a person's disability, to allow the person access to certain eligible public services and help identify the disability to public safety personnel in case of an emergency. Effective 1/2/2019.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-06
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| SB3047 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Paid Family and Medical Leave Program. Creates fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-06
To Senate Labor Committee |
| SB2025 | Intro
Sine Die | Beginning January 1, 2019, requires all health plans in the State, including EUTF health plans and medicaid managed care programs, to provide coverage for the treatment of homelessness. Requires the department of human services to seek a section 1115...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-05
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2794 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes an emergency appropriation from the general revenues of the State of Hawaii for fiscal year 2017-2018 to address the budget shortfall for health care payments program (HMS 401) in the Department of Human Services. Effective upon approval.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-05
To Senate Human Services Committee |
| SB3096 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the State to encourage people to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions through the installation of on-site renewable energy systems, energy efficiency systems, and energy storage systems. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2413 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits long distance running event organizers from allowing minors to register unless the minors will be eighteen years or older on the scheduled date of the running event.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-05
To Senate Human Services Committee |
| SB2285 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the distribution, sale, and provision of plastic straws. Establishes a fine and requires individual and business violators to pick up litter or perform community service. Takes effect 1/1/2019. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB3085 | Intro
Sine Die | Transfers responsibility for inspection, quarantine, and approval of aquaculture livestock from the plant quarantine branch within the division of plant industry of the department of agriculture to the division of animal industry of the department of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-05
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| SB2842 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the director of finance to issue general obligation bonds and appropriates funds for the acquisition of certain farm lands in west Kauai by the agribusiness development corporation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-05
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB3051 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a general excise tax exemption for the gross proceeds or income from the sale of groceries that are eligible under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, regardless of the means of purchase and the SNAP eligibility of the purchase...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-05
To Senate Human Services Committee |
| SB2892 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the counties to adopt supplemental rules on condominium property regimes, including those that include agricultural lands.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-05
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB2332 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a general excise tax exemption for the gross proceeds or income from the sale of groceries that are eligible under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and prescription drugs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-05
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2787 | Intro
Sine Die | Extends the implementation and enforcement dates of Act 161, Session Laws of Hawaii 2017, until July 1, 2019. Requires the Department of Human Services to submit a report to the Legislature prior to the 2019 Regular Session.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-05
To Senate Human Services Committee |
| SB3010 | Intro
Sine Die | Supports the sustainability of the Hawaii virtual dental home pilot projects by ensuring providers who use certain telehealth procedures and apply caries arresting medications are reimbursed for doing so and clarifying that, for purposes of billing a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-05
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2592 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds dementia training and a passing score on an examination on that training as an option for the recertification of nurse aides working in state-licensed and state-certified health care settings other than medicare or medicaid certified nursing fac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-05
To Senate Human Services Committee |
| SB2816 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that committed persons be given appropriate resource referrals before being furnished with funds to meet the committed person's immediate needs by the Hawaii paroling authority at discharge. Specifies that funds for discharged persons be sub...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-02
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2696 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides an income tax credit for wages paid by a technology business owner to employees who were formerly in the custody of the department of public safety. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-02
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2008 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the department of human services to provide outreach to and shelter and services for unaccompanied homeless youth. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-02
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2161 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the Sunshine Law, part I, chapter 92, HRS, to clarify the ability of board members to attend and speak at community, educational, or informational meetings that are open to the public; and to provide that the limitation on the number of attend...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-02
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB2558 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a Kapolei jobs initiative pilot program that offers incentives to increase the number of businesses willing to establish themselves or open a new location in the Kapolei region. Establishes a tax credit, until 12/31/2023, as part of the K...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-02
To Senate Economic Development, Tourism, and Technology Committee |
