| SB2586 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the Department of Health to investigate care facilities reported to be operating without an appropriate certificate or license. Prohibits patient referrals and transfers to uncertified and unlicensed care facilities. Establishes penalties ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-08
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| SB2974 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires certain vessel owners to apply for a certificate of title within twenty days of becoming an owner or within twenty days of establishing principal use of the vessel in waters of the State. Establishes what information is required to be includ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-08
To House Transportation Committee |
| SB2569 | Engross
Sine Die | Expands the membership of the pesticide advisory committee to include a representative from the Department of Education, each county mayors' office, Hawaii Farmers Union United, a medical expert, and a non-governmental organization scientist. Expands...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-08
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2374 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes and appropriates funds for a three-year community paramedic services pilot program. Establishes reporting requirements. Repeals December 31, 2021. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-08
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| SB2822 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the Department of Taxation to require certain taxpayers to file returns electronically, subject to exceptions for reasonable cause. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-08
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2603 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the chair of the appropriate subject matter committee to hold either a public hearing or informational briefing for any report of a study or an audit enacted with a legislative appropriation or adopted by concurrent resolution and conducted ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-08
To House Legislative Management Committee |
| SB2715 | Engross
Sine Die | Extends the authorization to issue special purpose revenue bonds to assist Kaiuli Energy, LLC, with the financing of the planning, design, and construction of a seawater air conditioning district cooling facility and chilled water distribution system...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-08
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| SB2186 | Engross
Sine Die | Increases the fireworks display permit fee from $100 to $300. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-08
To House Public Safety Committee |
| SB2312 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifies the grant application process requirements for organizations that may receive a grant from the State. Specifies additional grant application process requirements for nonprofit organizations. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-08
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2758 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes expedited approvals for affordable housing projects seeking district boundary amendments for land areas of 15 acres or less under the jurisdiction of the counties. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-08
To House Housing Committee |
| SB101 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires that any contributions paid on behalf of a civil service or exempt status employee who is funded under special fund revenues and whose contributions are paid to the employees' retirement system of the State shall be paid from the respective ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-08
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee |
| SB2793 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Human Services to use an integrated and multigenerational approach in delivering human services to reduce the incidence of intergenerational poverty and dependence on public benefits. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-08
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| SB3038 | Engross
Sine Die | Redistributes transient accommodations tax revenue by allocating more funds to the special land and development fund and less funds to the tourism special fund, to improve certain state resources and services. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-08
To House Tourism Committee |
| SB2523 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to develop regional economic plans for each county to provide jobs in urban and rural areas of each county based on the development or community boundaries of each respective coun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-08
To House Economic Development & Business Committee |
| SB2508 | Engross
Sine Die | Creates a nexus standard for taxing out-of-state businesses on their business activities in Hawaii. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-08
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2177 | Engross
Sine Die | Creates standards and procedures for income withholding for purposes of enforcing restitution orders. Provides appropriations to the Department of the Attorney General that are effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-08
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB2832 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows funds appropriated by the Legislature to be deposited into the University of Hawaii Green Special Fund and clarifies the authority to expend funds and the scope of projects that can be funded. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-08
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| SB3057 | Engross
Sine Die | Expands the authority of counties to use land-based financing to support operating costs for certain county services provided within improvement districts and community facilities districts. Allows county maintenance of the capital improvements to be...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-08
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2650 | Engross
Sine Die | Makes permanent the requirement for certain motion picture theater owners and operators to provide open movie captioning for at least two showings per week, one of which has a scheduled start time no earlier than 4:30 p.m. Repeals the requirement to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-08
To House Economic Development & Business Committee |
| SB3024 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits the sale of video games that contain a system of further purchasing to consumers under 21 years of age. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-08
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| SB2751 | Engross
Sine Die | Renames the Pacific International Space Center for Exploration Systems (PISCES) as the Office of Aerospace and Aviation Industries. Amends section 201-76, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to attach the Office of Aerospace and Aviation Industries to the Depar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-08
To House Economic Development & Business Committee |
| SB2059 | Engross
Sine Die | Specifies who may be granted a temporary permit to practice public accountancy. Specifies the requirements that must be met prior to obtaining a temporary permit to practice. Requires a person to obtain a temporary permit to practice from the board o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-08
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| SB3044 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires an on-set teacher to accompany, supervise, and advocate on behalf of a minor whenever the minor is on set and a variance from the work hour restrictions to allowable theatrical employment is granted, when employed for theatrical purposes. De...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-08
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee |
| SB2491 | Engross
Sine Die | Makes intentionally or knowingly causing bodily injury to certain health care workers a class C felony. Effective 7/1/2035. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-08
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee |
| SB2886 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates moneys to the Department of Agriculture for capital improvement projects for the benefit of East Maui. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-08
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2614 | Engross
Sine Die | Extends the period by 1 year that a county may adopt a surcharge on state tax, under certain conditions, from 3/31/2018 to 3/31/2019. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-08
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2845 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Agriculture, in coordination with the Office of Planning and the Department of Land and Natural Resources, to prepare and periodically update a functional plan for seafood sustainability that expands the State's priority on...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-08
To House Economic Development & Business Committee |
| SB2489 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the formula for the amount of transient accommodations tax to be collected from time shares by increasing the base on which time share occupancy is taxed from one-half of the gross daily maintenance fees paid by the owner and are attributable ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-08
To House Tourism Committee |
| SB36 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the department of commerce and consumer affairs to regulate all channel designations and relocation of public, educational, and governmental access channels unless expressly prohibited by federal law. Allows cable operators to relocate or ch...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-08
To House Intrastate Commerce Committee |
| SB2656 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows the synchronization of plan participants' medications. Requires plans, policies, contracts, or agreements that are offered by health insurers, mutual benefit societies, and health maintenance organization and provide prescription drug benefits...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-08
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| SB2479 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the counties to take into custody any abandoned vehicle on a public road within ten business days. Specifies that the requirement to provide written notice to the registered owner of an abandoned vehicle under section 290-2, Hawaii Revised S...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-08
To House Transportation Committee |
| SB3029 | Engross
Sine Die | Changes income tax rates and eliminates state income tax for those at or below the poverty level for taxable years beginning after 12/31/17. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-08
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2848 | Engross
Sine Die | Ensures that any rules adopted by the department of land and natural resources relating to bottomfishing are supported by the current status of stocks and scientific evidence. Takes effect on 3/15/2099.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-08
To House Ocean, Marine Resources, & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB2111 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a two-year agricultural theft and vandalism pilot project to examine the effectiveness of prosecuting agricultural theft and agricultural vandalism in the county of Hawaii. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2035. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-08
To House Agriculture Committee |
| SB2243 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires insurers to provide a choice to the insured consumer of authorizing a repair provider to utilize a like kind and quality crash part or the original equipment manufacturer crash part. Specifies that an insured consumer who chooses the use of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-08
To House Intrastate Commerce Committee |
| SB3014 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifies requirements for public works projects for a bidder who is a party to an apprenticeship agreement. Requires that, the procurement agency shall verify that the apprenticeable trade in which the bidder qualified for the preference is a trade ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-08
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee |
| SB2879 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Office of Enterprise Technology Services, in collaboration with the Department of Education, to establish a working group to study the Department of Education's information technology infrastructure, operations, and services. Establishes...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-08
To House Education Committee |
| SB2561 | Engross
Sine Die | Makes an appropriation to the Department of Land and Natural Resources for the operational expenses and staffing costs of the Hawaii Association of Conservation Districts. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-08
To House Water & Land Committee |
| SB2749 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the child support guidelines requirements to provide for more opportunity for the public to be involved in the review of the guidelines and to require consideration of additional factors relating to the situation of the parents. Appropriates f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-08
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| SB2712 | Engross
Sine Die | Includes distilled beverages containing spirits and added blending materials that contain less than twelve per cent of alcohol by volume in the cooler beverage definition. Deletes definition of draft beer. Applies the tax rate on draft beer to all be...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-06
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| SB2823 | Engross
Sine Die | Increases the limit on revenues collected by the special enforcement section that are deposited into the tax administration special fund. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-06
To House Finance Committee |
| SB3067 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that real estate investment trusts file returns reporting their shareholders' pro rata shares of net income and net income attributable to this State. Requires withholding on all payments to shareholders. Applies to taxable years beginning a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-06
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB384 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes and establishes procedures and criteria for prescriptive authority for clinical psychologists who meet specific education, training, and registration requirements. Requires the Board of Psychology to report to the Legislature prior to the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-06
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| SB2615 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies that the transient accommodations tax shall be calculated based on the gross rental. Specifies that the transient accommodations tax is to be collected from operators or transient accommodations intermediaries that collect whole or partial ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-01
The committee on WAM deferred the measure. |
| SB2963 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a 1-time amnesty program for certain delinquent transient accommodations and general excise tax obligations. Allows transient accommodations brokers to register as a tax collection agent for its operators and plan managers. Requires regis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-01
To House Tourism Committee |
| SB2052 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to license non-commercial marine fishing along with freshwater fishing, engage in public outreach prior to implementing the combined non-commercial freshwater and marine fishing license, and submi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-28
The committee on WAM deferred the measure. |
| SB2702 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Hawaii aerospace development corporation to grow investments and job opportunities in the aerospace industry and for workforce development. Transfers all rights, powers, functions, and duties of the office of aerospace development and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-28
The committee on WAM deferred the measure. |
| SB2421 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the director of finance to issue general obligation bonds to construct affordable rental units and homes, homeless shelters or transitional housing centers for the homeless, and a condominium and tiny homes on Hawaiian home lands. Allows m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-28
The committee on WAM deferred the measure. |
| SB2953 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires certain private streets, highways, or thoroughfares in a commercial development district of the HCDA to conform to county construction and maintenance standards. Requires owners who exercise ownership rights for financial gain or profit of p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-27
The committee on JDC deferred the measure. |
| SB2611 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides the Public Utilities Commission with explicit authority to regulate internet service providers by amending the definition of telecommunications carrier to include an internet service provider.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-23
The committee on CPH deferred the measure. |
