| SB2601 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires procurement officers to complete periodic performance evaluations of certain contractors. Establishes factors to be included in any evaluation, consideration, or review of past performance, and ratings standards for those factors. Requires p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2778 | Engross
Sine Die | Creates a chargeable transient quarters revolving fund into which billet fees are to be deposited. Effective June 15, 1215. (SB2778 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2380 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the Board of Education membership by requiring the Board to invite the exclusive representative for Bargaining Unit (5) (teachers and other personnel of the Department of Education) to appoint a nonvoting public school teacher representative t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
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| SB2415 | Engross
Sine Die | Raises the conveyance tax rates for residential investment properties with a value of at least $2,000,000. Exempts affordable housing qualified by the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation from the conveyance tax. (SB2415 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2620 | Engross
Sine Die | Removes $10,000 maximum limit on a cash or protest bond that must be posted for a procurement award protest. (SB2620 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
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| SB2843 | Engross
Sine Die | Increases the license fee for wholesalers or dealers of cigarettes and tobacco products. Increases the excise tax on cigarettes and tobacco products. (SB2843 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2924 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes an individual mandate for certain qualified taxpayers to sign up for and maintain health insurance throughout the year, or pay a penalty on their individual income tax return, subject to certain exceptions. Sunsets on 12/31/2023. (SB2924 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
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| SB3079 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes an unspecified number of full-time equivalent lieutenant positions in the Kona unit of the sheriff division within the department of public safety. Appropriates funds for the initial six-month hiring period and for one-time costs for the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2520 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the department of education for behavior analysis services performed by licensed behavior analysts for public school students. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
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| SB2938 | Engross
Sine Die | Permits the insurance commissioner to approve applications for health insurer no action letters, waivers, or variances with respect to specific requirements of the health insurance laws or its rules when certain conditions are met. (SB2938 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2501 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Governor to identify available state land for the establishment of ohana zones where homeless persons may reside and sets preliminary milestones that shall be met by the Department of Human Services. Provides limitation on liability for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2242 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Department of Education to establish a Workforce Development Microgrant Program that awards grants to students who are enrolled in public high schools and are applying for technical or workforce training related to certain o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2660 | Engross
Sine Die | Expedites workers' compensation claims by firefighters by requiring the injured firefighter's private insurance to pay the costs of a controverted claim, subject to reimbursement upon a later finding that the claim is compensable. Requires reimbursem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
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| SB2988 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Executive Office on Aging to include in its annual report to the legislature a section that details outcomes of the Kupuna Caregivers Program. Requires the Executive Office on Aging to offer a plan to maximize the number of participants ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2393 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Education to create a comprehensive plan to establish alternative learning schools in each complex area in the State. Requires the Department of Education to submit the plan to the Legislature prior to the 2019 Regular Sess...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
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| SB2304 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits the issuance of new retail tobacco permits, beginning 11/1/18, for businesses that are located within 500 feet of a preschool, school, or public playgrounds. Enunciates that a business holding a valid retail tobacco permit prior to 11/1/18,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
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| SB2594 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires that new construction of publicly funded residential housing developed or financed on or after January 1, 2019, under the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation or Hawaii Public Housing Authority incorporate housing visitability ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
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| SB2839 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a new agricultural enterprise program within the department of agriculture to plan, design, construct, operate, manage, maintain, repair, demolish, and remove infrastructure on any lands under the jurisdiction of the department, to suppor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
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| SB2134 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires certain additional government decision-makers at the state and county levels to attend OHA training courses on Native Hawaiian and Hawaiian rights. (SB2134 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
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| SB2168 | Engross
Sine Die | Implements Act 183, SLH 2005, in accordance with the State's constitutional duty to protect important agricultural lands by providing funds to the counties for the identification and mapping of important agricultural lands. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
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| SB2196 | Engross
Sine Die | Repeals the requirement that the County of Kauai contract with the Kauai Humane Society to provide certain animal services. (SB2196 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
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| SB2092 | Engross
Sine Die | Adds knowingly making a false statement to a county inspector a crime within the offense of unsworn falsification to authorities. Effective 7/1/2035. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
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| SB2559 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Invasive Species Council to maintain a list of high-risk priority invasive species and diseases. Authorizes the Board of Land and Natural Resources to include species on the list without adopting rules under chapter 91 when the Board dee...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB2085 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a Grant Program to be administered by the Agribusiness Development Corporation to provide grants for agriculture-related improvements to existing and emerging farms and agribusiness operations. Makes an appropriation. (SB2085 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
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| SB2930 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Health to adopt rules on or before 10/13/2018 for underground storage tanks and tank systems that conform with, and are no less stringent than, the federal underground storage tank regulations effective as of 10/13/2015. Es...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
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| SB2817 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the Crime Victim Compensation Commission to order the payment of compensation for mental health services for surviving relatives in cases involving a victim's death and for child witnesses in cases involving abuse of family or household me...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
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| SB2396 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for and out of the agricultural loan revolving fund and Hawaii water infrastructure special fund. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
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| SB318 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows home-schooled students to participate in extracurricular activities offered at the public school that they would otherwise be required to attend. Establishes a task force to determine criteria for prioritizing students who attend a public scho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
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| SB2902 | Engross
Sine Die | Part I: Appropriates funds for grants to participants in software application challenges so that the proofs of concept created during the challenges can be developed into prototypes suitable for local and state government. Part II: Requires the Depar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
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| SB2969 | Engross
Sine Die | Excludes the reconstruction or alteration of certain existing single-family residences from the definition of "development" for purposes of the special management areas law. Authorizes county planning authorities to further define new single-family r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| SB2761 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the definition of "dependent-beneficiary" as used in chapter 87A, HRS. (SB2761 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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