| SB2769 | Intro
Sine Die | Eliminates the fee charged by a consumer reporting agency to place, lift, or remove a security freeze requested by a consumer, protected consumer, or a protected consumer's representative. Allows a consumer to request a security freeze at any time.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-31
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2109 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the department of health to investigate the improper disposal of household and consumer products containing volatile organic compounds as a nuisance and requires the department to abate, destroy, remove, or prevent the nuisance. Requires the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-31
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| SB2385 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires all schools where students are required to eat meals at school to establish a recess period of not less than fifteen minutes prior to the lunch period for all grade levels.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-31
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB2813 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes psychiatric and medical treatment by administrative order despite a patient's objection for pretrial detainees or committed persons in the custody of the Department of Public Safety. Establishes criteria for issuing court or administrative...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-30
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB2956 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires, on or before 1/1/2020, the public utilities commission to establish performance incentive and penalty mechanisms that directly tie electric utility revenues to the utility's achievement on performance metrics.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-30
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2400 | Intro
Sine Die | Removes the cap on the amount of conveyance taxes that may be paid into the rental housing revolving fund and increases the percentage of conveyance taxes collected that shall be paid into the rental housing revolving fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-30
To Senate Housing Committee |
| SB2225 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the laws relating to money transmitters to include virtual currency as a money transmission.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-30
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB3007 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the department of airports. Transfers the airport and aeronautics functions of DOT to the department of airports by the established transfer completion date agreed upon by the director of airports, the director of transportation, and the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-30
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| SB2389 | Intro
Sine Die | Gives the board of education authority to hold title to all lands acquired for the use of libraries. Makes conforming amendments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-30
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB2217 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies that medical use of cannabis is not considered to be a state or federal crime.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-30
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2216 | Intro
Sine Die | Permits qualifying patients to be reimbursed by health insurers, mutual benefit societies, and health maintenance organizations for amounts spent on medical cannabis and manufactured cannabis products. Limits the monthly amount of reimbursement.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-30
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB3103 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Transportation to work in conjunction with the Department of Land and Natural Resources, the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology of the University of Hawaii, the county of Maui and federal agencies to develop a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-30
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| SB2456 | Intro
Sine Die | Bans import, use, manufacture, sale, and storage of chlorpyrifos in the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-30
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| SB2978 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends Hawaii Revised Statutes and Hawaii Administrative Rules to substitute references to "marijuana" with "cannabis". Reschedules cannabis from a schedule I drug to a schedule III drug.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-30
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2107 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the use of pesticides containing the active ingredient chlorpyrifos.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-30
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| SB2467 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires and appropriates funds to the counties to establish medical cannabis collectives to regulate and tax the distribution of medical cannabis. Amends primary caregivers' and qualifying patients' defense related to medical cannabis. Defines distr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-30
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2560 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Office of Affordable Housing Finance and Development for the purpose of facilitating the financing, planning, permitting, designing, and construction of affordable housing. Establishes an affordable housing development loan program to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-30
To Senate Housing Committee |
| SB2284 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits noncompete agreements for low wage workers whose earnings do not exceed the greater of the hourly rate equal to the minimum wage required by applicable federal or state law or $15 per hour.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-30
To Senate Labor Committee |
| SB2860 | 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] | 2018-01-30
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB2726 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires department of health to update how it obtains information for the birth defect registry with respect to pesticides, develop a comprehensive pesticide testing program, require reporting of pesticide use, ban pesticide use near public areas, a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-30
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| SB2277 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows an income tax credit on sales of principal residences that are less than the home's original purchase price, limited by the taxpayer's income, up to an annual statewide cap of $2,000,000. Allows for a taxpayer to elect to take a discounted amo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-30
To Senate Housing Committee |
| SB2814 | Intro
Sine Die | Defines the circumstances for the Director of Public Safety or a designee of the director to release pretrial and sentenced misdemeanants at community correctional centers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-30
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB3080 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows the board of land and natural resources to waive costs associated with a right-of-entry permit for ocean recreation-related tournaments and ancillary services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-30
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| SB2837 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the use of pesticides containing the active ingredient chlorpyrifos.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-30
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| SB2979 | Intro
Sine Die | Limits the Director of Public Safety's ability to transfer convicted felons to any federal correctional institution or a correctional institution in another state to only those felons incarcerated for violent crimes under HRS section 351-32. Requires...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-30
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB2321 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the definition of "quality assurance committee" to include committees established by long-term care facilities, skilled nursing facilities, assisted living facilities, home care agencies, hospices, and authorized state agencies. Allows for the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-30
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2457 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Hawaii Tourism Authority to develop a list of unit addresses, including housing units and rental units marketed to the visitor industry for occupancy and to post the list on its website.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-30
To Senate Economic Development, Tourism, and Technology Committee |
| SB2927 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs to conduct a study of the effectiveness and enforcement issues relating to the State's foreclosure statutes under chapter 667, Hawaii Revised Statutes. Requires the Department of Commerce and C...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-30
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| 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 |
