| SB144 | 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 system.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| SB695 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that all mandatory fees charged by a transient accommodation operator to a guest or resort time share vacation plan manager to an occupant be included in the gross rental or gross rental proceeds for purposes of the transient accommodations ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Economic Development, Tourism, and Technology Committee |
| SB989 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends fines for destroying or harvesting trees including koa on state forest reserves lands to an amount up to $10,000 or three times the market value at the time and place of the violation for each tree including koa, whichever is greater, in addit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB888 | Engross
Sine Die | Makes appropriations for claims against the State, its officers, and its employees. Takes effect on 1/7/2059. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB1100 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the department of education to set a standard for retention of student records, including in electronic format, of not less than one hundred years. Allows the department of education to partner with the Hawaii correctional industries program...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To House Finance Committee |
| SB883 | Intro
Sine Die | Increase the Pesticide Use Revolving Fund threshold from $250,000 to $1,000,000. Allows for additional pesticide education specialists and future research and studies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| SB1281 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows transient accommodations brokers to register as a tax collection agent on behalf of all of its operators and plan managers. Requires registered transient accommodations broker tax collection agent's operators and plan managers to obtain licens...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Economic Development, Tourism, and Technology Committee |
| SB884 | Intro
Sine Die | Establish a special fund within the department of agriculture to deposit fees and expend funds necessary for the industrial hemp pilot program. Specify that the cultivation of industrial hemp shall be limited to licensed owners, lessees, or occupiers...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| SB1310 | Intro
Sine Die | Re-directs the Green Infrastructure Loan Program. Designates "all ratepayers" who pay the green infrastructure fee as the primary beneficiaries of the program. Requires $ of green infrastructure loans to be issued for utility-scale renewable...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| SB1300 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the amount of transient accommodations tax revenue allocated to the special land and development fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Economic Development, Tourism, and Technology Committee |
| SB419 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires compliance with the Military Selective Service Act to be eligible for enrollment in a state-supported post-secondary institution, qualify for state financial assistance for post-secondary education, or be eligible for state or county employm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To House Higher Education Committee |
| SB64 | Intro
Sine Die | Relating To Human Services. Short form bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Human Services Committee |
| SB94 | Intro
Sine Die | Relating To Appropriations. Short form bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1069 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires public procurement construction bids to list subcontractors and joint contractors only for contracts of an unspecified dollar amount or more; provided that bids lacking this list may be accepted if in the State's best interest and subcontrac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB406 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a collective bargaining unit for full-time graduate student assistants employed by the University of Hawaii. Delays formation of the graduate student assistant collective bargaining unit until 7/1/2018. Effective 01/07/2059. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB176 | Intro
Sine Die | Limits the class size in public schools to a maximum of eighteen students, and establishes a minimum salary for new teachers of $55,000 per year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB552 | Intro
Sine Die | Mandates the department of agriculture to take precautionary measures to anticipate, prevent, or minimize the adverse effects of biotechnology and genetic engineering.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
