| SB2916 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that persons authorized to use medical cannabis in other states and territories of the United States shall be recognized as qualifying patients for medical cannabis use in this State upon verification. Requires the Department of Health to co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-30
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2439 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes pesticide buffer zones for sensitive areas beginning on July 1, 2020. Establishes penalties for violations. Requires the Department of Agriculture, based on input from the Advisory Committee on Pesticides, to adopt rules that determine am...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-29
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| SB2252 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates a tax credit for taxpayers who engage in reforestation using native plants. Appropriates funds for reforestation using native plants on state and county lands.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-29
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| SB744 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires all state agencies to rely on nonchemical methods of controlling vegetation growth in the maintenance of the state park system. Requires state and county governments to maintain public highways with nonchemical methods of controlling vegetat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-29
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| SB2482 | 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] | 2018-01-29
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB570 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires an environmental assessment for any proposed use or development of property greater than one hundred acres in size. Requires the EA to include the results of a minimum five-day search for endangered or threatened species.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-29
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| SB2587 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for implementation of the kupuna caregivers program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-29
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2459 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the department of agriculture, in collaboration with the department of health, to create a restricted use pesticide amnesty program and provide restricted use pesticide amnesty bins within each county for the anonymous and proper disposal of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-29
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| SB2480 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends conveyance tax rates. Requires that a percentage of conveyance taxes collected be deposited into the Housing Finance Revolving Fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-29
To Senate Housing Committee |
| SB2223 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the initial operational expenses of the day use mooring buoy program. Requires the department of land and natural resources to endeavor fiscal resources in subsequent fiscal years to make the program self-sustainable through us...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-29
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| SB2466 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits a liquor commission from adopting or enforcing a rule or regulation prohibiting a hired stage performer from consuming liquor while performing on stage at a licensed premises.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-29
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB2689 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires a biotechnology company that sells a genetically modified animal, plant, or seed that the company knows or has reason to believe will be used to produce an agricultural commodity to provide written disclosure of possible risks from the use o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-29
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| SB2797 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the sunset date from Act 39, Session Laws of Hawaii 2015, and makes permanent the requirement to offer open captioning during at least two showings per week of each motion picture that is produced and offered with open captioning.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-29
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2294 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the criteria for licensure of midwives by the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs. Provides for interim rules for continuing education requirements, standards of professional conduct, prescriptive authority, and penalties for viol...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-29
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2690 | 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] | 2018-01-29
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| SB2940 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the department of land and natural resources to acquire by eminent domain the seawall and the real property underneath the seawall that is located on or near the seaward boundaries of property between 2943 Kalakaua Avenue and 3019 Kalakaua A...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| SB2957 | Intro
Sine Die | Supports the development and operation of the international moon base alliance to help guide the design and construction of the prototype Moon base on the island of Hawaii. Requires the alliance to conduct its first organizational teleconference by A...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB3013 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the specific findings that must be included prior to the public utilities commission making a finding of public convenience or necessary or issuing an authorization. Authorizes an exemption for cargo to be moved on an alternate carrier, if cer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB3005 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a nonrefundable income tax credit for small business research and development activities within the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Economic Development, Tourism, and Technology Committee |
| SB3091 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the authority of PUC to establish a green infrastructure fee to be imposed on electric utility customers to secure the payment of financing costs for green infrastructure bonds. Requires financing costs to be paid from general funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB3003 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for positions to increase school-health coordination for and among the Department of Education, Department of Health, and Department of Human Services. Establishes evidence-based screenings and assessment for school vision, oral he...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB3084 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Hawaii innovation and technology authority within the department of business, economic development, and tourism. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Economic Development, Tourism, and Technology Committee |
| SB2964 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires department of land and natural resources to collect marine plastic debris. Requires counties to dispose of marine plastic debris collected by the department of land and natural resources or by volunteers. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| SB3076 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires special permit approval for solar energy facilities larger than fifteen kilowatts on non-conforming residential subdivisions located on land with soil classified with an overall productivity rating of class D or E.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| SB3101 | Intro
Sine Die | Allocates a portion of the conveyance tax revenues to the rental assistance revolving fund to be used to subsidize rents for persons who meet certain income requirements. Authorizes moneys in the rental assistance revolving fund to be used to finance...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Housing Committee |
| SB3039 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposes amendments to the Constitution of the State of Hawaii relating to the appointment and retention of justices and judges. Authorizes the senate to approve or reject subsequent terms of office for supreme court justices. Changes the required ti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB3075 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the State's medicaid managed care and fee-for-service programs to cover palliative care services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB3074 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires continuing education for physician assistants to renew their licenses. Prohibits the Hawaii Medical Board from requiring a physician assistant to maintain or receive certification by the National Commission of Certification of Physician Assi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB3012 | Intro
Sine Die | Disallows the tax credit for cesspool upgrade, conversion, or connection for taxpayers whose adjusted gross income exceeds certain amounts. Amends the definition of "qualified cesspool" to include cesspools located an unspecified distance from a shor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2985 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the sale of sunscreen or personal care products that contain oxybenzone or octinoxate in Hawaii, beginning 1/1/2023.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| SB3061 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires health care providers to obtain informed consent in writing from a person before administering a vaccination. Establishes requirements for obtaining informed consent.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2933 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the public utilities commission to establish a microgrid services tariff or tariffs to encourage and facilitate the development and use of energy resilient microgrids.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB3016 | Intro
Sine Die | Assesses an additional conveyance tax of 50 cents per $100 for units in the Kakaako community development district with a value of at least $1,000,000. Requires the proceeds to be used for the development of affordable housing by the Hawaii housing f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Housing Committee |
| SB3009 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates a supplemental rental motor vehicle user fee of $4.50 per day to be levied, assessed, and collected for rental motor vehicles rented from a rental motor vehicle concession located in any medium-hub airport serving a county that includes at le...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| SB2993 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies that Hawaii's anti-discrimination law does not prohibit or prevent an employer, employment agency, or labor organization from refusing to hire or refer or from discharging an individual for reasons unrelated to unlawful discriminatory pract...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Labor Committee |
| SB2976 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the thirteenth senatorial district.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2991 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds and appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the 11th Senatorial District.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2266 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires long-term care facilities to continue providing care for individuals after they receive acute medical care from a hospital. Requires a long-term care facility that provides care to an individual who leaves the facility to receive acute medic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Human Services Committee |
| SB2300 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies that any member of a state board or commission, whose nomination for reappointment is withdrawn by the governor for cause prior to the senate's action to advise and consent or not advise and consent, shall be considered disqualified and ine...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| SB3054 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the independent correctional oversight board, a public entity, independent of any correctional agency, to regularly inspect and publicly report on conditions in prisons, jails, and other correctional and detention facilities for adults an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB2982 | Intro
Sine Die | Expands credited service in the ERS by adding volunteer service in the Peace Corps to both membership service and prior service.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Labor Committee |
| SB2998 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the fourteenth senatorial district.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2942 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the state minimum wage on an annual basis beginning on 1/1/2019. Requires DLIR to annually calculate, beginning in 2021, the following year's minimum wage based on a consumer price index. Repeals the tip credit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Labor Committee |
| SB3019 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that a court of inferior jurisdiction may certify to the Hawaii Supreme Court a question or proposition of law on which the court of inferior jurisdiction seeks instruction for the proper decision of a remanded case. Requires the Supreme Cou...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2950 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires condominium unit owners' associations to keep additional records and take further actions to make such records available for examination by unit owners and owners' authorized agents. Requires associations to make required documents, records,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2975 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposes an amendment to the Hawaii State Constitution to provide victims of crime with specific rights related to the criminal justice process.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB3071 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes pest control operator examination processes in statute. Establishes pest control operator continuing education training requirements. Establishes a pest control operator application coordinator position in the DCCA. Requires the DCCA and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2980 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes that effective January 1, 2019, rent for all residential dwelling units shall be established at an amount equal to the amount of rent charged for the same dwelling unit in 2015 and shall not be increased more than three per cent annually ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB2631 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows medical cannabis dispensaries to dispense without charge cannabis or manufactured cannabis products to qualifying patients who are at or below the federal poverty level or their primary caregivers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2954 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the nineteenth senatorial district.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
