| SB2542 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates and appropriates funds for the Erin's Law Task Force to review policies, programs, and curricula for educating public school students about sexual abuse and sex trafficking prevention, and report recommendations for the establishment of a pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB2584 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes presidential preference primary elections conducted by the State. Allows political parties to limit participation in the presidential preference primary election selection of the party's candidates by voter party registration. Allows vote...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2578 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the office of information practices to resolve all public complaints about noncompliance with chapter 92F and part I of chapter 92 within six months from the date the office of information practices receives the complaint.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| SB2547 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals amendments made to provisions relating to the early learning system law by Act 202, Session Laws of Hawaii 2017. Changes early learning board to early learning advisory board. Redefines at-risk children to be from families whose income is no ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB2701 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides an income tax credit for qualified taxpayers, with incomes of not more than eighty per cent of the area median income, for qualified costs of an automatic fire sprinkler system installed and placed into any apartment or condominium built bef...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2577 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes causes and procedures for impeachment of the governor, lieutenant governor, and appointive officers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2706 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the use of audible reverse warning systems on vehicles operating in residential zones, except between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m. on any day. Requires operators of vehicles equipped with an audible reverse warning system to reverse...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| SB2486 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposes a constitutional amendment to limit the terms of members of the legislature to a maximum of six consecutive full terms in the house of representatives and three consecutive full terms in the senate, for terms beginning on the day of the gene...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2627 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires submission of proposed amendment to bylaws to change composition of board, rather than twenty-five per cent, to be submitted to the board and accompanied by a petition from ten per cent of unit owners of record. Permits special meetings of t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2516 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates a state commission for community investment within the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism for administrative purposes to coordinate planning and provide grants for activities advancing community investment. Creates the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Economic Development, Tourism, and Technology Committee |
| SB2538 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts victims of labor trafficking, sex trafficking, and prostitution from those offenses for which the crime victim compensation commission may reduce a victim's compensation based on the victim's behavior. Elevates the offense of prostitution to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2762 | Intro
Sine Die | Expands the exemption of the EUTF from the insurance code.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Labor Committee |
| SB2681 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes, beginning January 1, 2019, labeling requirements for any food or raw agricultural commodity sold in the State that contains a genetically engineered material, or was produced with a genetically engineered material; establishes exceptions...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2503 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that the submission of a voter registration application either to register to vote or update the voter's registration information constitutes a request for permanent absentee voter status unless the applicant specifically indicates the appli...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2857 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds and appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the 17th senatorial district.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2553 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates moneys to the Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the County of Maui for the career criminal prosecution program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2628 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes within the Department of Human Services a Puuhonua Homeless Villages program. Requires the Governor to secure state lands for the program, to be distributed as needed among the counties. Allows the State to adopt reasonable standards and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| SB2629 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates an eviction process for the Hawaii Public Housing Authority's state low-income housing and state housing for elders programs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Housing Committee |
| SB2697 | Intro
Sine Die | Imposes registration requirements and transient accommodations tax on travel agencies and tour packagers that enter into arrangements to furnish transient accommodations at noncommissioned negotiated contract rates on their share of the proceeds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Economic Development, Tourism, and Technology Committee |
| SB2700 | Intro
Sine Die | Allocates funds from transient accommodations tax revenues to the Hawaii Tourism Authority to implement initiatives, in conjunction with the Hawaii Lodging and Tourism Association, to address homelessness in tourist and resort areas.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Economic Development, Tourism, and Technology Committee |
| SB2827 | Intro
Sine Die | To amend the law relating to County finance directors duties by removing authority to issue a vehicle identification number to a reconstructed motor vehicle.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| SB2640 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides a specific exemption to the landlord tenant code for sellers who occupy the residential real property after the transfer of the seller's ownership rights.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2637 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates $1,000,000 to the department of public safety for rehabilitation of incarcerated persons. Allows the department to contract with private service providers for rehabilitation services. Appropriates $250,000 for electronic monitoring of pa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB2379 | Intro
Sine Die | Transfers certain public school lands from city and county of Honolulu and the department of land and natural resources, as applicable, to the department of education.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB2616 | 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] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2518 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes certain counties to establish planning districts and a transit-oriented redevelopment district program. Authorizes state and county incentives for qualified projects. Establishes a discretionary review process for the transfer of floor are...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB2728 | 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] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| SB2499 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals Act 137, SLH 2017, relating to the pass on of vehicle license recovery fees to lessees of motor vehicle rentals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| SB2537 | Intro
Sine Die | Legalizes under state law the growing, processing, possession, transfer, and personal use of cannabis in a specified quantity to persons at least twenty-one years of age. Requires licensing to operate cannabis establishments. Specifies that fifty per...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2541 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires safety helmets to be worn by drivers and passengers of motorcycles, motor scooters, and mopeds, who are under the age of twenty-five.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| SB2540 | Intro
Sine Die | Lowers the threshold of blood alcohol content for the offense of driving under the influence of an intoxicant and the offense of habitually operating a vehicle under the influence of an intoxicant.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| SB2882 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates a statutory right of victims and witnesses of sexual offenses under part V of chapter 707, HRS, to a speedy trial in criminal cases involving adult defendants.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2468 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the department of health to establish a registration system for medical cannabis collective disposal and transfer access centers. Requires the department of health to adopt rules to regulate the medical cannabis collective disposal and trans...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2686 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the issuance of new building permits unless it is established that the building will be furnished with equipment that allows for the collection and future use of gray water. Provides for exemptions. Takes effect on 1/1/2020.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB2829 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Office of Law Enforcement and Security for Transportation Systems in the Department of Transportation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| SB2873 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to DHS and DOH to continue to administer programs for individuals or families who require assistance to avoid or escape homelessness including outreach, Rapid Rehousing, Housing First, Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion, and the Fa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Housing Committee |
| SB2481 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the penalty for criminal trespass onto public parks and recreational grounds. Requires law enforcement officers to provide homeless individuals who trespass onto public parks and recreational grounds with information regarding homeless shelter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Human Services Committee |
| SB2750 | Intro
Sine Die | Describes the application process for a permitted use permit to a state or county agency for the collocation of small wireless facilities on state or county utility poles, light standards, buildings, or structures.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Economic Development, Tourism, and Technology Committee |
| SB2716 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the contractors license board to adopt rules to define "incidental and supplemental to the performance of work" to limit the percentage of work under a single contract in an incidental craft or trade in which a specialty contractor may engag...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Labor Committee |
| SB2632 | Intro
Sine Die | Updates the Uniform Parentage Act in Hawaii to recognize intended parents under valid surrogacy agreements as parents. Specifies the requirements of gestational and genetic surrogacy agreements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2473 | Intro
Sine Die | Bans import, sale, distribution, and use of consumer fireworks. Limits use of aerial devices, articles pyrotechnic, and display fireworks to public displays conducted by trained and licensed pyrotechnic operators. Effective date 04/01/2019.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB2552 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the offense of theft in the first degree, second degree, and third degree to include reckless disregard of risk for the value of the stolen property or services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2804 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates a hierarchy of options for injured workers who require retraining. Creates time limits (two years) for vocational rehabilitation plans.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Labor Committee |
| SB2736 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes rules for small purchase procedures for the purchase of health and human services under chapter 103F, Hawaii Revised Statutes. Effective upon approval.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| SB2599 | 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] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2713 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides an income tax credit to a taxpayer who purchases or modifies a personal vehicle for use by a person with a disability. Applies to taxable years beginning after December 31, 2018.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2618 | Intro
Sine Die | Specifies that a consumer credit reporting agency shall not charge a fee for placing, lifting, or removing a security freeze on a consumer's credit report or for placing or removing a security freeze on a protected consumer's credit report or records...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2535 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires by 2030 that solar power panels are installed on state buildings and that the majority of power used by state facilities comes from renewable energy sources.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| SB2907 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a special fund for public charter school facilities funding. Provides assessment exemptions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB2806 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies that any police officer or agent of the Department of Land and Natural Resources upon whom the Board of Land and Natural Resources has conferred police powers may, in the performance of the officer's or agent's primary duties, inspect certa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
