| SB554 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts the gross proceeds of any qualified small farmer from the general excise tax. Repeals on 1/1/2023. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1174 | Intro
Sine Die | Specifies that the per diem legislative allowance for legislators who reside on an island other than Oahu shall be equal to the federal Department of Defense flat rate per diem amount for temporary duty on Oahu.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| SB636 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the invasive species rapid response special fund within DLNR. Establishes procedures for emergency declarations and expenditures. Appropriates moneys. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB851 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the Department of Taxation to require electronic filing of tax returns, subject to exceptions for reasonable cause as provided by administrative rules. Reduces the threshold amount for electronic funds transfers of taxes. Clarifies the thr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| SB764 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the High Technology Development Corporation for the Manufacturing Development Program. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To House Economic Development & Business Committee |
| SB438 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Campaign Spending Commission to publish on its website the names of all noncandidate committees that fail to file a report or to correct a report within the time allowed by the Commission.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB1263 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires principal brokers in a brokerage firm to ensure that: associated real estate licensees and other staff who assist in providing management services for common interest communities are responsive to requests from owners regarding association-r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To House Intrastate Commerce Committee |
| SB1058 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts sales of services or tangible personal property from GET licenses to the federal government from the general excise tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB798 | 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. (SB798 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To House Finance Committee |
| SB550 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the planting of a genetically engineered seed or plant part in an open field. Allows the chairperson of the board of agriculture to grant an exception where such planting is done in a controlled environment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| SB879 | Intro
Sine Die | Restructures the Hawaii Invasive Species Council as the Hawaii Invasive Species Authority, administratively attached to the Department of Agriculture, to coordinate implementation of the Hawaii Interagency Biosecurity Plan and to improve coordination...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| SB769 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts helicopter service and maintenance and construction of service and maintenance facilities from the general excise tax. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1047 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the ERS actuary to conduct an annual stress test of the system and the board to submit an annual report on the result of the test to the legislature. Takes effect 1/7/2059. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1137 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires a mutual benefit society to allow a special meeting to be called upon the written request of not less than one thousand of its members.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB474 | Intro
Sine Die | Imposes a statewide limitation on consumer fireworks, except by permit for cultural events.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB121 | Intro
Sine Die | Expands the scope of the condominium education trust fund to cover voluntary binding arbitration between interested parties. Amends the conditions that mandate mediation and exceptions to mandatory mediation. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB922 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates and authorizes funds for fiscal biennium 2017-2019 for collective bargaining cost items, salary increases, and other cost adjustments for collective bargaining unit (10) and their excluded counterparts. (SB922 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To House Finance Committee |
| SB200 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows annual condominium education trust fund fees to be used for binding arbitration of condominium disputes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB1276 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the requirement that 10% of revenues from the county surcharge on state tax be withheld to reimburse the State for administrative costs. Sunsets if an ordinance that allows the capital costs of a rapid transportation system to be paid from co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| SB1045 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes an appropriation to the department of health to implement and administer an ECHO program to provide the same level of healthcare to rural patients with chronic diseases as can be obtained in an urban setting.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB623 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the department of agriculture to implement an aquaculture development program. Makes an appropriation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB462 | Engross
Sine Die | Repeals the requirement that voters include their social security numbers when signing nomination papers or when petitioning the chief election officer to withdraw their signatures on nomination papers or other petitions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB141 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows the John A. Burns School of Medicine to continue receiving revenues from the physician workforce assessment fee until June 30, 2027, for ongoing physician workforce assessment and planning to support the recruitment and retention of physicians...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To House Finance Committee |
| SB1102 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Contractors License Board to adopt rules to define "incidental and supplemental to the performance of work" to clarify the percentage of a craft or trade in which a specialty contractor may engage without a license while performing work ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB1026 | Intro
Sine Die | Enable the John A. Burns School of Medicine to continue receiving into the John A. Burns School of Medicine special fund a portion of the physician workforce assessment fee to support physician workforce assessment and planning efforts, including rec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| SB1020 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides scholarships for the unmet need of qualified students at any UH community college campus who meet certain criteria.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| SB1314 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates of an office of Native Hawaiian health within the department of health. Establishes the Native Hawaiian health fund. Allocates a percentage of the transient accommodations tax to be deposited into the Native Hawaiian health fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB494 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires persons charged with operating a vehicle under the influence of an intoxicant or habitually operating a vehicle under the influence of an intoxicant to be fitted with a continuous alcohol monitoring device if the person: (1) has a prior conv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To House Transportation Committee |
| SB1260 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the department of health to create and maintain an online information portal making available to the public by January 1, 2018, the information published annually in the Healthcare-Associated Infections in Hawaii report. Requires the departm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB698 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires an owner or occupier of agricultural land to notify the Land Use Commission of the agricultural uses for which land was subdivided. Grants the Commission enforcement authority over conditions, restrictions, uses, and subdivision of agricultu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB633 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a water security fund for the purpose of providing matching grants for projects related to water security; establishes eligible grantees and designates what moneys shall be deposited into the fund; imposes new water security fee. Creates ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| SB512 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires all child care providers subject to regulation by the Department of Human Services to obtain and maintain liability insurance as a condition of licensure, temporary permission, or registration. Takes effect 1/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB162 | Intro
Sine Die | Permits the acquisition of raw milk and raw milk products by consumers if certain conditions are met, including a label indicating that raw milk and raw milk products are not pasteurized and are only intended for consumption by pet animals. Requires ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB1299 | Engross
Sine Die | Permits charter tour operators to maintain client trust accounts in a federally insured financial institution outside the State; provided that the charter tour operator agrees to allow the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs to access the tou...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To House Finance Committee |
| SB1028 | Intro
Sine Die | Reinstates the authority of the University of Hawaii System to maintain a separate accounting and financial management system that is compatible with the State of Hawaii accounting and financial systems.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| SB424 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires police departments to disclose to the Legislature the identity of an officer upon the officer's discharge or second suspension in a five-year period. Requires disclosure of certain information under the Uniform Information Practices Act afte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB140 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a Dark Night Skies Protection Advisory Committee to assist the University of Hawaii in developing a statewide dark night skies protection strategy. Dissolves the advisory committee on 6/30/2021. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1262 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires DLNR to consider the conclusions and recommendations of the Kauai Feral Cat Task Force when setting department policy regarding feral cats. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB409 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows each county to enact and enforce ordinances necessary to prevent, investigate, control, or eradicate invasive species on any public or private premises within the limits of the county.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| SB306 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifies that projects that contain a combination of time share interests, transient vacation rentals, and private residential units located in the same project are required to provide basic documents that will enable an owner to sell the owner's ti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB1031 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires weigh-in of commercial maritime cargo vehicles with cargo of 55,000 pounds or more immediately upon departing a commercial harbor. Requires report to Department of Transportation on every container or load of such poundage that arrived in a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| SB966 | Engross
Sine Die | Exempts lands that are set aside by the governor to the Hawaii Public Housing Authority and lands to which Hawaii Public Housing Authority holds title from the definition of "public lands" in section 171-2, Hawaii Revised Statutes. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To House Water & Land Committee |
| SB1178 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for fiscal year 2018-2019 for the initial staff necessary to develop and manage the Heeia National Estuarine Research Reserve and its programs. Eff. 3/14/2092. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To House Water & Land Committee |
| SB297 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires prompt repair of any damages to the common areas or common elements in a planned community association or condominium. Specifies that if a management company or managing agent is responsible for repairs on an association's behalf and fails t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB1194 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts gross income from agricultural commodities sold directly to consumers from the general excise tax up to a limit of $50,000 per year. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1018 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds to the General Appropriations Act of 2015 a budget proviso to permit the utilization of the department of transportation, airports division, project adjustment fund. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB604 | Intro
Sine Die | Extends the lapse date for the mitigating of hazardous situations appropriation from June 30, 2017 to June 30, 2019.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB689 | Engross
Sine Die | Grants county agencies the implicit right to enter property to investigate agricultural buildings and structures for violations of and compliance with building code exemption qualifications. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To House Water & Land Committee |
| SB206 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that any person who is eligible to vote but is not already registered to vote and applies for a new or renewed motor vehicle driver's license, provisional license, or instruction permit, or a new, renewed, or duplicate civil identification c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1225 | Intro
Sine Die | Transfers title, custody, and control of two parcels of land identified as Tax Map Key No. 370120070000 and Tax Map Key No. 370040030000, from the State of Hawaii to the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
