| SB728 | Intro
Sine Die | Permits moneys in the John A. Burns school of medicine special fund to be used for loan repayment for certain health care professionals. Removes the cap on expenditures from the special fund. Removes the sunset date from the physician workforce asses...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| SB905 | Intro
Sine Die | Renames and expands funding sources for the Hawaii television and film development special fund to support creative industries development within the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism. Repeals laws pertaining to the Hawaii tel...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB571 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the state building code council to adopt net zero energy capability standards for new single-family residential construction. Requires all new single-family residential construction to be net zero capable by 1/1/2019.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Housing Committee |
| SB940 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a state income tax deduction for eligible contributions made to Hawaii's section 529 college savings program. Effective 5/12/2059. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB433 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the environmental response, energy, and food security tax to allocate a portion of the proceeds to the Hawaii agricultural development revolving fund. Directs funds deposited into the Hawaii agricultural development revolving fund through the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB66 | Intro
Sine Die | Relating To Medicaid. Short form bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Human Services Committee |
| SB215 | Engross
Sine Die | Repeals the Education Research and Development Revolving Fund and transfers the unencumbered balances to the general fund as recommended by the Auditor in Auditor's Report No. 16-11.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To House Finance Committee |
| SB294 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a statewide interoperability executive board for public safety communications.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB687 | Engross
Sine Die | Broadens the scope of the Early Learning Program to include early childhood development. Expands the function of the Early Learning Board beyond an advisory capacity and amends the composition and powers of some board members. Allows the Early Learni...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To House Finance Committee |
| SB356 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a farmer apprentice mentoring program to teach and train farmers to utilize a whole farm system approach to agriculture. Makes an appropriation to the department of agriculture for the farmer apprentice mentoring program. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB359 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires a general excise tax license to be conspicuously displayed within any vehicle being driven by a taxicab driver or transportation network company driver. Provides penalties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1098 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the Board of Land and Natural Resources to transfer the operation, administration, management, and maintenance of Honokohau small boat harbor to a county in which the harbor is located. Authorizes a county to operate and maintain a small b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| SB1236 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Auditor to contract with a suitable entity to conduct a study of closed claims in the workers' compensation system, including the processing time for closed claims. Amends the deadline for completion of the study and the deadline for the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To House Finance Committee |
| SB1269 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Hawaii Health Authority (HHA) to submit an updated comprehensive health plan to the Legislature. Appropriates funds for the hiring of an executive director and other staff and other expenses necessary for HHA to carry out its duties and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB9 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires firearms owners to obtain firearms insurance. Requires DCCCA, with the assistance of DPS, to create a firearms insurance program. Creates special fund for administrative fees. Effective 1/1/2019.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB361 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes an income tax credit for taxpayers who purchase and install eligible energy storage systems. The amount of credit depends on type of system installed, filing status, and federal AGI of taxpayer. Excess credit may carry-over to subsequent ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1159 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Office of Medical Marijuana Administration in DOH to administer marijuana dispensary licensing and regulation, and patient registration. Limits each location used to cultivate marijuana to use by five qualifying patients. Authorizes p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB826 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for a post-secondary distance learning center in the Puna district within Hawaii Community College. Requires status report to the Legislature. (SB826 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To House Finance Committee |
| SB563 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates the Civilian Unmanned Aerial Systems Volunteer Corps as part of the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency to assist the state or counties when there is a need for disaster relief.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB651 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes pilot schools that are approved by the Federal Aviation Administration subject to the oversight of the Hawaii Post-secondary Education Authorization Program. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB721 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the statute authorizing the assessment of a special fund for departmental administrative expenses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB820 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for an advanced life support ambulance to be based at the Pahoa fire station in Puna on the island of Hawaii, including the acquisition of a vehicle and equipment, and funding personnel costs for state-certified emergency medical s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB332 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits a commissioned notary public from accepting a limited purpose driver's license for verification of identification. Takes effect on 1/7/2059. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB375 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a fee on sugar-sweetened beverages. Establishes an obesity and chronic disease prevention special fund, Hawaii obesity and chronic disease prevention trust fund, and Hawaii interagency obesity prevention council to support obesity prevent...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB1245 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes certified laboratories to test marijuana received from patients and primary caregivers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB181 | Intro
Sine Die | Reestablishes eligibility for the preschool open doors program to 3- and 4-year-old children and for children in the year prior to entering kindergarten.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1044 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates moneys to the department of education to provide engineering design process training sessions to teachers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB86 | Intro
Sine Die | Relating To Bonds. Short form bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1123 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the employment of lifeguards and for life-saving equipment at Kua Bay.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1301 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies the obligation between the seller and purchaser to pay use taxes. Clarifies definitions of "representation", "seller", and "use" to include online and internet sales.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB355 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for three positions and operating expenses of the sustainable and organic agriculture program administered by the UH college of tropical agriculture and human resources.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1111 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates moneys for the HPHA to hire an additional security guard at Kalihi Valley homes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1125 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to DBEDT for the establishment of a State of Hawaii sister-state office in the State of Goa, Republic of India. Requires that DBEDT report at least twenty days prior to the convening of the 2018 regular session of the legislature r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1112 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the University of Hawaii at Manoa to provide its nonsupervisory blue collar employees in collective bargaining unit (1) and supervisory blue collar employees in collective bargaining unit (2), or one of their family members, with tuition wai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1239 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for research on prevention and mitigation of Rapid Ohia Death. Effective 3/9/2092. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To House Finance Committee |
| SB482 | Intro
Sine Die | Extends the window for a county council to approve or disapprove affordable housing projects that are exempt from planning, zoning, and construction standards, from forty-five days to sixty days.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Housing Committee |
| SB444 | Engross
Sine Die | Deletes the requirement in Section 11-323(a), HRS, of reporting contributions in the organizational reports of noncandidate committees and noncandidate committees making only independent expenditures.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB1099 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a mark licensing agreement program within the Department of Education. Authorizes the Department to register trademarks and service marks for department programs and individual department schools and enter into licensing agreements for th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To House Finance Committee |
| SB298 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a Workforce Readiness Program within the Department of Education to allow students to graduate from an extended high school enrollment with a high school diploma and an industry-recognized associate's degree. Appropriates moneys to develo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To House Finance Committee |
| SB1083 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires every retail dealer to conspicuously post a tax rate decal on each pump owned or leased by the retail dealer that displays the current federal fuel tax, state fuel tax, each county's fuel tax, and state license tax assessed on a gallon of ga...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| SB1202 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows hosting platforms registered with the department of taxation to act as tax collectors on behalf of the short-term rental lodging operators and applies the general excise tax on short-term rental lodging. Requires hosting platforms to report de...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB801 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the expenditure of state funds by state agencies for the purchase of single-serving bottled water, except under certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| SB52 | Intro
Sine Die | Relating To Procurement. Short form bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| SB182 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the department of health to establish a comprehensive and coordinated continuum of treatment services for substance abuse and co-occurring mental health disorders that includes certain goals and benefits, and submit progress reports to the l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB654 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires county and municipal planning organizations to incorporate transportation mode share targets into county and municipal plans.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| SB771 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the director of finance to issue general obligation bonds to finance capital improvements to various irrigation systems. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB465 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates moneys to DOH for FY 2017-2018 to purchase an ambulance vehicle and for the costs of operating a 24-hour, 7-days-a-week, ambulance unit for the County of Kauai.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB528 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes an appropriation to the department of health for the kupuna care program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1157 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates penalty for health care providers who fail to provide auxiliary aids or services to patients with a communication disability.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB6 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the department of human services to establish and collect a new residential development fee from developers for certain new residential development projects and establishes the homelessness and affordable housing special fund for the purpose...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Human Services Committee |
