| SB2438 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the Healthy Aging Partnership Program to further the program's important role in improving the health and well-being of Hawaii's kupuna.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-02
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2024 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the housing support program to make payments to participating landlords on behalf of eligible persons and families. Establishes eligibility requirements for housing support payments under the program. Appropriates funds for housing suppor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-02
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2423 | Intro
Sine Die | Expands and clarifies the no smoking radius around public housing projects, elder or elderly housing, and state low-income housing projects to twenty-five feet from each individual and each administrative office building of the public housing project...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-02
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB3078 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows new farmers to receive income tax credits for purchasing or renting agricultural assets through December 31, 2023. Sets out eligibility requirements to qualify as a new farmer.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-02
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| SB2137 | Intro
Sine Die | Expands the taxing authority of the counties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-02
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB2029 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a new child tax credit of $1,000 and changes percentages of costs for household and dependent care services that may be claimed as tax credits by families in certain income brackets. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-02
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2859 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes procedures for the use of administrative and disciplinary segregation in correctional institutions. Takes effect 1/1/2025. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-02
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2129 | Intro
Sine Die | Adopts the Uniform Regulation of Virtual Currency Businesses Act and codifies the Act into law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-02
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2458 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires state agencies to require climate vulnerability assessments for permit applications for projects involving building, transportation, or land use change that may generate significant greenhouse gas emissions. Applies to permit applications fi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-02
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB2961 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the Hawaii tourism authority's authority to establish an information and education program to inform the public on tourism and tourism-related problems and its authority to encourage the development of tourism educational training and career ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-02
To Senate Economic Development, Tourism, and Technology Committee |
| SB2544 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a college savings program income tax credit. Applies to taxable years after 12/31/2017. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-02
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2453 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates the offense of resisting an order to stop a motor vehicle under unauthorized control. Makes new offense a class B felony. Makes it a class B felony to exert unauthorized control of a propelled vehicle.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-02
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2862 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the University of Hawaii to submit a report to the legislature within thirty days of each appropriation transfer or changes between programs. Takes effect 5/12/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-02
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2692 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts members of a county council from the limitation on the number of members that may attend an informational meeting or presentation on matters relating to official board business, including a meeting of another entity, legislative hearing, conv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-02
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB2016 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes an income tax credit for energy storage.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-01
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| SB2517 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the issuance of GO bonds and appropriates funds for the planning, designing, and constructing of a livestock feed mill. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-01
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2562 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Department of Agriculture for the establishment and administration of the Agriculture Grant Program to support local food production in the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-01
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB3055 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the department of agriculture from issuing permits for the interstate, intrastate, and inter-facility transfer of captive cetaceans solely for breeding or entertainment purposes. Exempts facilities that use cetaceans solely for scientific a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-01
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| SB2246 | Intro
Sine Die | Limits liability for volunteers and certain entities that provide volunteers to maintain or repair cemetery grounds. Requires the director of commerce and consumer affairs, in consultation with the comptroller, to develop strategies for repair and ma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-31
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2386 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires schools to provide a lunchtime period of at least thirty minutes in length.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-31
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB2241 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes school principals to close a school due to a natural disaster, upon approval of the complex area superintendent.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-31
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB2275 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires certain health care professionals, health care employees, social workers, and law enforcement employees or officers to report suspected cases of labor trafficking or sex trafficking.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-31
To Senate Human Services Committee |
| SB2769 | Intro
Sine Die | Eliminates the fee charged by a consumer reporting agency to place, lift, or remove a security freeze requested by a consumer, protected consumer, or a protected consumer's representative. Allows a consumer to request a security freeze at any time.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-31
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2109 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the department of health to investigate the improper disposal of household and consumer products containing volatile organic compounds as a nuisance and requires the department to abate, destroy, remove, or prevent the nuisance. Requires the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-31
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| SB2385 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires all schools where students are required to eat meals at school to establish a recess period of not less than fifteen minutes prior to the lunch period for all grade levels.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-31
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB2813 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes psychiatric and medical treatment by administrative order despite a patient's objection for pretrial detainees or committed persons in the custody of the Department of Public Safety. Establishes criteria for issuing court or administrative...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-30
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB2956 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires, on or before 1/1/2020, the public utilities commission to establish performance incentive and penalty mechanisms that directly tie electric utility revenues to the utility's achievement on performance metrics.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-30
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2400 | Intro
Sine Die | Removes the cap on the amount of conveyance taxes that may be paid into the rental housing revolving fund and increases the percentage of conveyance taxes collected that shall be paid into the rental housing revolving fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-30
To Senate Housing Committee |
| SB2225 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the laws relating to money transmitters to include virtual currency as a money transmission.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-30
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB3007 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the department of airports. Transfers the airport and aeronautics functions of DOT to the department of airports by the established transfer completion date agreed upon by the director of airports, the director of transportation, and the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-30
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| SB2389 | Intro
Sine Die | Gives the board of education authority to hold title to all lands acquired for the use of libraries. Makes conforming amendments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-30
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB2217 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies that medical use of cannabis is not considered to be a state or federal crime.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-30
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2216 | Intro
Sine Die | Permits qualifying patients to be reimbursed by health insurers, mutual benefit societies, and health maintenance organizations for amounts spent on medical cannabis and manufactured cannabis products. Limits the monthly amount of reimbursement.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-30
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB3103 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Transportation to work in conjunction with the Department of Land and Natural Resources, the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology of the University of Hawaii, the county of Maui and federal agencies to develop a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-30
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| SB2456 | Intro
Sine Die | Bans import, use, manufacture, sale, and storage of chlorpyrifos in the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-30
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| SB2978 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends Hawaii Revised Statutes and Hawaii Administrative Rules to substitute references to "marijuana" with "cannabis". Reschedules cannabis from a schedule I drug to a schedule III drug.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-30
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2107 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the use of pesticides containing the active ingredient chlorpyrifos.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-30
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| SB2467 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires and appropriates funds to the counties to establish medical cannabis collectives to regulate and tax the distribution of medical cannabis. Amends primary caregivers' and qualifying patients' defense related to medical cannabis. Defines distr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-30
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2560 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Office of Affordable Housing Finance and Development for the purpose of facilitating the financing, planning, permitting, designing, and construction of affordable housing. Establishes an affordable housing development loan program to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-30
To Senate Housing Committee |
| SB2284 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits noncompete agreements for low wage workers whose earnings do not exceed the greater of the hourly rate equal to the minimum wage required by applicable federal or state law or $15 per hour.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-30
To Senate Labor Committee |
| SB2860 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires courts to order any person charged with a criminal offense to be released on personal recognizance or on the execution of an unsecured bond, unless the person is unlikely to appear for trial. Requires the Judiciary to establish statewide cou...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-30
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB2726 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires department of health to update how it obtains information for the birth defect registry with respect to pesticides, develop a comprehensive pesticide testing program, require reporting of pesticide use, ban pesticide use near public areas, a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-30
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| SB2277 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows an income tax credit on sales of principal residences that are less than the home's original purchase price, limited by the taxpayer's income, up to an annual statewide cap of $2,000,000. Allows for a taxpayer to elect to take a discounted amo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-30
To Senate Housing Committee |
| SB2814 | Intro
Sine Die | Defines the circumstances for the Director of Public Safety or a designee of the director to release pretrial and sentenced misdemeanants at community correctional centers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-30
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB3080 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows the board of land and natural resources to waive costs associated with a right-of-entry permit for ocean recreation-related tournaments and ancillary services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-30
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| SB2837 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the use of pesticides containing the active ingredient chlorpyrifos.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-30
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| SB2979 | Intro
Sine Die | Limits the Director of Public Safety's ability to transfer convicted felons to any federal correctional institution or a correctional institution in another state to only those felons incarcerated for violent crimes under HRS section 351-32. Requires...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-30
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB2321 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the definition of "quality assurance committee" to include committees established by long-term care facilities, skilled nursing facilities, assisted living facilities, home care agencies, hospices, and authorized state agencies. Allows for the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-30
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2457 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Hawaii Tourism Authority to develop a list of unit addresses, including housing units and rental units marketed to the visitor industry for occupancy and to post the list on its website.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-30
To Senate Economic Development, Tourism, and Technology Committee |
| SB2927 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs to conduct a study of the effectiveness and enforcement issues relating to the State's foreclosure statutes under chapter 667, Hawaii Revised Statutes. Requires the Department of Commerce and C...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-30
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
