| SB2147 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows proposals to be submitted for concessions on public property. Establishes criteria for acceptance and awarding of proposals for concessions on public property. Specifies advertising requirements for bids or proposals and allows for online adve...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-06
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| SB2568 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes an appropriation to implement the recommendations of the joint fact finding study group's report on pesticide use by large agribusinesses on Kauai.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-06
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB3069 | Intro
Sine Die | Transfers all upkeep and maintenance responsibilities for the state capitol and its grounds and facilities, including all full-time equivalent positions and funding necessary for salaries and maintenance, to the sergeant-at-arms of the senate and hou...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-06
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| SB2236 | Intro
Sine Die | Corrects inconsistent terminology in statutory provisions relating to beneficiaries of retirement benefits dying prior to the death of the retirant.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-06
To Senate Labor Committee |
| SB2350 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a family leave insurance program, which requires employees and employers to make contributions into an insurance fund to be used to provide employees with family leave insurance benefits in order to care for a designated person. Appropria...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-06
To Senate Labor Committee |
| SB2128 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Hawaii emergency management agency for a hurricane shelter retrofit program for the retrofitting of emergency public shelters and residential homes and buildings.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-06
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB2533 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts from the general excise tax the value or gross income derived from the sale of agricultural products. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-06
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2920 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Education to set a standard for retention of student records of not less than 100 years. Allows the Department of Education to partner with the Hawaii Correctional Industries Program to establish a three-year student record...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-06
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB2171 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows identification cards to indicate a person's disability, to allow the person access to certain eligible public services and help identify the disability to public safety personnel in case of an emergency. Effective 1/2/2019.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-06
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| SB3047 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Paid Family and Medical Leave Program. Creates fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-06
To Senate Labor Committee |
| SB2025 | Intro
Sine Die | Beginning January 1, 2019, requires all health plans in the State, including EUTF health plans and medicaid managed care programs, to provide coverage for the treatment of homelessness. Requires the department of human services to seek a section 1115...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-05
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2794 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes an emergency appropriation from the general revenues of the State of Hawaii for fiscal year 2017-2018 to address the budget shortfall for health care payments program (HMS 401) in the Department of Human Services. Effective upon approval.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-05
To Senate Human Services Committee |
| SB3096 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the State to encourage people to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions through the installation of on-site renewable energy systems, energy efficiency systems, and energy storage systems. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2413 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits long distance running event organizers from allowing minors to register unless the minors will be eighteen years or older on the scheduled date of the running event.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-05
To Senate Human Services Committee |
| SB2285 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the distribution, sale, and provision of plastic straws. Establishes a fine and requires individual and business violators to pick up litter or perform community service. Takes effect 1/1/2019. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB3085 | Intro
Sine Die | Transfers responsibility for inspection, quarantine, and approval of aquaculture livestock from the plant quarantine branch within the division of plant industry of the department of agriculture to the division of animal industry of the department of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-05
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| SB2842 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the director of finance to issue general obligation bonds and appropriates funds for the acquisition of certain farm lands in west Kauai by the agribusiness development corporation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-05
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB3051 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a general excise tax exemption for the gross proceeds or income from the sale of groceries that are eligible under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, regardless of the means of purchase and the SNAP eligibility of the purchase...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-05
To Senate Human Services Committee |
| SB2892 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the counties to adopt supplemental rules on condominium property regimes, including those that include agricultural lands.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-05
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB2332 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a general excise tax exemption for the gross proceeds or income from the sale of groceries that are eligible under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and prescription drugs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-05
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2787 | Intro
Sine Die | Extends the implementation and enforcement dates of Act 161, Session Laws of Hawaii 2017, until July 1, 2019. Requires the Department of Human Services to submit a report to the Legislature prior to the 2019 Regular Session.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-05
To Senate Human Services Committee |
| SB3010 | Intro
Sine Die | Supports the sustainability of the Hawaii virtual dental home pilot projects by ensuring providers who use certain telehealth procedures and apply caries arresting medications are reimbursed for doing so and clarifying that, for purposes of billing a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-05
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2592 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds dementia training and a passing score on an examination on that training as an option for the recertification of nurse aides working in state-licensed and state-certified health care settings other than medicare or medicaid certified nursing fac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-05
To Senate Human Services Committee |
| SB2816 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that committed persons be given appropriate resource referrals before being furnished with funds to meet the committed person's immediate needs by the Hawaii paroling authority at discharge. Specifies that funds for discharged persons be sub...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-02
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2696 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides an income tax credit for wages paid by a technology business owner to employees who were formerly in the custody of the department of public safety. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-02
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2008 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the department of human services to provide outreach to and shelter and services for unaccompanied homeless youth. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-02
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2161 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the Sunshine Law, part I, chapter 92, HRS, to clarify the ability of board members to attend and speak at community, educational, or informational meetings that are open to the public; and to provide that the limitation on the number of attend...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-02
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB2558 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a Kapolei jobs initiative pilot program that offers incentives to increase the number of businesses willing to establish themselves or open a new location in the Kapolei region. Establishes a tax credit, until 12/31/2023, as part of the K...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-02
To Senate Economic Development, Tourism, and Technology Committee |
| 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 |
