| SB3093 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the board of land and natural resources to provide qualified coastal landowners, who have privately owned structures situated on previously private land that has become submerged public land due to erosion and sea level rise, with short du...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| SB2967 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts transient accommodations brokers from paying the Transient Accommodations Tax (TAT) unless the broker is also an operator. Amends the definitions of local contact and transient accommodations broker. Requires an online advertisement for a tra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Economic Development, Tourism, and Technology Committee |
| SB3102 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the auditor to conduct an audit of the governor's phone, text, email, and other communication records related to the emergency alert messages that were sent out to the public on January 13, 2018.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| SB3036 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the membership, mission, and purpose of the King Kamehameha celebration commission. Adds representation for the island of Lanai. Authorizes the chairperson to appoint an advisory committee for historical and archival matters. Authorizes the co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB2983 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposes an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Hawaii to raise the mandatory retirement age for justices and judges from seventy years to seventy-five years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB3052 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposes a constitutional amendment to allow incarcerated individuals who are Hawaii residents and convicted of a felony to vote in Hawaii elections at any time after conviction rather than after final discharge.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2944 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the issuance of general obligation funds to be appropriated to the Dwelling Unit Revolving Fund to allow the Hawaii housing finance and development corporation to finance various housing development and infrastructure projects.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Housing Committee |
| SB2929 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Hawaii spay/neuter council to be administratively attached to the department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs. Establishes the Hawaii spay/neuter special fund. Imposes a fee on pet food to support the Hawaii spay/neuter grant program ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| SB2948 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows first-time offenders convicted of misdemeanor operating a vehicle under the influence of an intoxicant offenses in which no persons were injured to expunge the offense from their record if they maintain a clean criminal history record for ten ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| SB2941 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes an appropriation to the Department of Human Services to purchase civil legal services and legal aid for low- and moderate-income persons.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Human Services Committee |
| SB3020 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that the Board of Land and Natural Resources and Commission on Water Resource Management shall not conduct contested case hearings, and counties shall not conduct contested case hearings regarding disputes over land use, but that decisions a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| SB2934 | Intro
Sine Die | Further restricts the criteria for variances from the requirement that all new single-family homes utilize solar water heating.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| SB3026 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits a defendant from motioning the court on the day of trial for a continuance unless a special circumstance exists in which the court shall consider the totality of the circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2932 | Intro
Sine Die | Relating To Cesspools. Short form bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB3040 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends appellate jurisdiction of the supreme court and the intermediate appellate court to conditions as they existed prior to July 1, 2006. Reestablishes criteria for assigning appeals. Reestablishes requirement that most appeals be filed with the s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2636 | Intro
Sine Die | Bans distribution, sale, transport, and use in the State of any pesticide containing chlorpyrifos as an active ingredient. Takes effect on 10/1/2018.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| SB2314 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the University of Hawaii at Hilo for research and other activities related to rat lungworm disease. Conditions release of the funds on the University submitting a report to the legislature listing the specific research and activ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| SB3098 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the construction of tiny homes for residential use within agricultural districts, on farms that are engaged in agricultural production. Provides that a tiny home shall be subject to county ordinances or permitting requirements that are dir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Housing Committee |
| SB3021 | Intro
Sine Die | Enables patients and primary care providers to enter into direct primary care agreements to provide primary care services. Specifies that direct primary care agreements are not insurance and are not subject to the State's insurance code.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2359 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires employers to provide a minimum amount of paid sick leave to employees to be used to care for themselves or a family member who is ill or needs medical care.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Labor Committee |
| SB3065 | Intro
Sine Die | Defines "permanent resident" for legislative reapportionment as any individual counted as a usual resident of the State in the last preceding United States census and requires reapportionment to be done using data on the total number of permanent res...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2923 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes an application screening fee that a landlord may charge an applicant to obtain information about the applicant and establishes the applicant's right to review the credit report obtained by the landlord if the applicant paid the applicatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB3035 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that short-term vacation rental booking services comply with the requirements imposed on transient accommodations brokers under section 237D-4, HRS.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Economic Development, Tourism, and Technology Committee |
| SB3043 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the exemption from any special improvement district assessment or requirement imposed by a county for the redevelopment of the Ala Wai boat harbor. Amends the permissible uses of any leased fast lands and submerged lands at the Ala Wai boat h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| SB3015 | Intro
Sine Die | Enacts voting by mail uniformly across all counties for all elections commencing in 2020, and allows any election to be conducted by mail prior to the 2020 primary election, in whole or in part, as determined by the chief election officer or county c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2981 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies that "subsistence farming" is included as a protected activity under the Hawaii Right to Farm Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| SB2987 | Intro
Sine Die | Replaces criminal penalties for certain airport offenses addressed in the laws relating to aeronautics or in certain administrative rules or orders issued pursuant thereto, with a civil penalty.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| SB3041 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes decisions of the family court appealable to the supreme court instead of the intermediate court of appeals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2958 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes within the Department of Human Services a Puuhonua Homeless Villages Pilot Program and requires DHS to identify lands for the pilot program. Waives applicable state and county permitting and approval fees. Exempts the State from claims ar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Housing Committee |
| SB3059 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires and appropriates funds to the University of Hawaii at Hilo to, in collaboration with faculty, staff, and other partners, update and strengthen the plans for full development of Ka Haka Ula O Keelikolani.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| SB2949 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies the powers of condominium associations regarding the deduction and application of a portion of an owner's common expense payments to unpaid late fees, legal fees, fines, and interest.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB3045 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the membership, mission, and purpose of the King Kamehameha celebration commission. Adds representation for the island of Lanai. Authorizes the chairperson to appoint an advisory committee for historical and archival matters. Authorizes the co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB2936 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the twenty-fourth senatorial district.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2973 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Department of Health for the Tropic Care program of the United States Department of Defense to provide free medical care to individuals in rural areas.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB3050 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts certain affordable housing projects from environmental impact statements. Expands general excise tax exemption to also exempt rental income for management of certain affordable housing projects. Requires Hawaii housing finance and development...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Housing Committee |
| SB3022 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the ninth senatorial district.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2971 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the veterans treatment court on the island of Hawaii.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB2917 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires a percentage of units in a housing development on public land or real property in a county-designated transitoriented development zone and under the control of the Board of Land and Natural Resources, the Hawaii Housing Finance and Developme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| SB3081 | Intro
Sine Die | Restricts foreign non-residents from acquiring residential property with a value of $2,000,000 or less within the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2606 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Hawaii tax credit scholarship program to benefit students with disabilities by providing scholarships to cover transportation costs and any other educational fees associated with a student attending a public school that is not in the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB2869 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that the Legislature shall have standing to intervene in any court proceeding involving a claim based upon a constitutional or statutory provision.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2809 | Intro
Sine Die | Transfers the statutory provisions of section 188-58.5, Hawaii Revised Statutes, that prohibit the taking or killing of female spiny lobsters, kona crabs, and samoan crabs, to administrative rules of the Department of Land and Natural Resources.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| SB2729 | Intro
Sine Die | Extending through the 2028 tax year, the time that the Department of Agriculture may certify important agricultural lands qualified agricultural costs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| SB2807 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies that the Board of Land and Natural Resources may lease all fast lands and submerged lands within any existing state boating facility pursuant to a request for proposals without regard to section 200-2.6, Hawaii Revised Statutes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| SB2608 | Intro
Sine Die | In a summary possession proceeding brought by a landlord against a holdover tenant: requires the court to address the complaint for summary possession during the first court appearance of the parties; prohibits a writ of possession from allowing the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2683 | Intro
Sine Die | Legalizes the personal use, possession, and sale of marijuana in a specified quantity. Requires licensing to operate marijuana establishments. Subjects marijuana establishments to excise taxes and income taxes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2900 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the revenue threshold for the tax administration special fund and allocates the additional moneys to the special enforcement section for the enforcement of the transient accommodations tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Economic Development, Tourism, and Technology Committee |
| SB2853 | Intro
Sine Die | Defines "virtual currency" within the Money Transmitters Act. Clarifies that the permissible investment requirements for money transmitter licensees shall not apply to money transmissions of virtual currency.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2874 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires certain commercial agricultural entities to disclose use of pesticides. Requires certain commercial agricultural entities to disclose production of genetically engineered crops. Establishes pesticide buffer zones. Prohibits open air testing ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| SB2634 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the department of accounting and general services to establish a working group to examine and evaluate state and private land to find a suitable location for the construction of a new stadium to serve as a replacement for Aloha Stadium and d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Economic Development, Tourism, and Technology Committee |
