| HB2009 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifies the property types that may be furnished as transient accommodations and subject to the transient accommodations tax. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2930 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Health to adopt rules on or before 10/13/2018 for underground storage tanks and tank systems that conform with, and are no less stringent than, the federal underground storage tank regulations effective as of 10/13/2015. Es...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2008 | Engross
Sine Die | Imposes registration requirements and the 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] | 2018-03-23
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2817 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the Crime Victim Compensation Commission to order the payment of compensation for mental health services for surviving relatives in cases involving a victim's death and for child witnesses in cases involving abuse of family or household me...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2396 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for and out of the agricultural loan revolving fund and Hawaii water infrastructure special fund. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2177 | Engross
Sine Die | Makes the motor vehicle registration fee for U-drive motor vehicles consistent with the fee for all other motor vehicles. Makes any county ordinance that increases a motor vehicle registration fee applicable to U-drive vehicles. (HB2177 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB318 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows home-schooled students to participate in extracurricular activities offered at the public school that they would otherwise be required to attend. Establishes a task force to determine criteria for prioritizing students who attend a public scho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2902 | Engross
Sine Die | Part I: Appropriates funds for grants to participants in software application challenges so that the proofs of concept created during the challenges can be developed into prototypes suitable for local and state government. Part II: Requires the Depar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2969 | Engross
Sine Die | Excludes the reconstruction or alteration of certain existing single-family residences from the definition of "development" for purposes of the special management areas law. Authorizes county planning authorities to further define new single-family r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2420 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes restrictions on the participation in political activities of certain state employees and officers. Imposes penalties for violations. Takes effect on 1/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2070 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the Department of Education to convene an advisory committee to make recommendations to develop and implement a plan to teach digital citizenship and media literacy in grades kindergarten through twelve in public schools, including charter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2525 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the east Kapolei community development district under the Hawaii Community Development Authority and amends the HCDA membership accordingly. Requires HCDA to establish a plan by 1/1/2020 to return jurisdiction over the Kakaako district to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1638 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to continue and expand health care apprenticeship programs at UH community colleges. Takes effect on 7/1/3000. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB3082 | Engross
Sine Die | Adopts the Uniform Regulation of Virtual Currency Businesses Act and codifies the Act. Amends the Money Transmitters Act to expressly apply to persons engaged in the transmission of virtual currency. Requires a licensee dealing with virtual currency ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2368 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Education to establish and implement a Sexual Abuse Prevention Education Program to educate public school students on sexual abuse prevention, provide relevant training to school teachers and staff, and inform parents and g...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2397 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a temporary telecommuting task force to develop incentives and recommendations to encourage and expand telecommuting opportunities in the public and private sectors. (SB2397 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2328 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a task force to conduct a comprehensive analysis and evaluation on all general education courses and high attendance courses taught at the University of Hawaii system to use no- or low-cost options for those courses. (SB2328 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2116 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the biosecurity emergency response special fund within the Department of Agriculture. Establishes procedures for emergency declarations and expenditures. Appropriates moneys into the special fund. Appropriates moneys to the Department of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2049 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the University of Hawaii Cancer Center to determine the reasons that Hawaii has the highest incidence of liver and bile duct cancer in the country. (SB2049 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2565 | Engross
Sine Die | Exempts sales of farm equipment and machinery to certain producers of agricultural products from the general excise tax. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2019. Sunsets on an unspecified date. (SB2565 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2734 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows a public employee's designation of beneficiary form to be filed in the department where the employee was employed. Permits the designation to be filed and maintained electronically. (SB2734 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2320 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes an undergraduate health sciences academy to be administered by the University of Hawaii-West Oahu and John A. Burns School of Medicine to increase recruitment and retention of Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander, and first generation colleg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2108 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Human Services to provide a tiered level of health care premium assistance for individuals depending on their family's income as compared to the federal poverty level. (SB2108 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2761 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the definition of "dependent-beneficiary" as used in chapter 87A, HRS. (SB2761 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB3033 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the definition of agricultural equipment, supplies, or products. Strengthens property right protections for persons who produce agricultural products on private residential property. Effective 7/1/2035. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB2602 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the State Procurement Policy Board to conduct annual compliance examinations of procurement contracts that are over $50,000 of an unspecified minimum number of executive departments, divisions, or agencies. Requires the State Procurement Pol...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB3037 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the University of Hawaii, in collaboration with the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism, to fund one or more programs sponsored or organized by the University of Hawaii community colleges or a four-year ca...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1625 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows the registered owner of a motor vehicle to designate a beneficiary to whom ownership of the vehicle shall be transferred upon the registered owner's death. Takes effect on 1/1/2100. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB2592 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a working group within the department of the attorney general to assess the viability and constitutionality of using tax increment financing on the county level as a means of incentivizing water-related infrastructure projects and other p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2329 | Engross
Sine Die | Caps increases in tuition for the University of Hawaii based on the change in the State's median household income. Requires the University of Hawaii Economic Research Organization to conduct a study regarding tuition affordability and the Consumer Pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2521 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Department of Education to provide up to $1,690 to each special education classroom teacher for instructional materials and equipment. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2044 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to establish four full-time equivalent (4.0 FTE) state ocean safety officers at Maniniowali Beach at Kua Bay in the Kekaha Kai State Park and to purchase ocean safety officer equipment. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2753 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifies the intent of the Small Business Regulatory Review Board's powers when reviewing state and county administrative rules that impact small business.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB2711 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends conditions and requirements for sale of liquor by class 14 brewpub and class 18 small craft producer pub licensees. Permits sale at multiple locations statewide. Clarifies that each location is under the jurisdiction of the liquor commission o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2170 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Executive Office on Early Learning for an online platform to facilitate professional learning for Executive Office on Early Learning public pre-kindergarten program educators. (HB2170 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB2173 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits employers and educational institutions from requiring employees, applicants, students, and prospective students to provide protected personal online account information. Authorizes private civil actions against violators. Takes effect on 1/...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2887 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates moneys for events recognizing the twenty-fifth anniversary of the sister state relationship between Hawaii and Taiwan. (SB2887 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2089 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a Youth Commission within the Office of Youth Services to advise the Governor and Legislature on the effects of legislative policies, needs, assessments, priorities, programs, and budgets relating to youth. Appropriates funds. (SB2089 HD1...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2896 | Engross
Sine Die | Makes an emergency appropriation to the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism for the 2018 Gannenmono Celebration. (SB2896 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2084 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the Agricultural Land Acquisition Fund to provide funding for the acquisition, administration, maintenance, and management of agricultural lands and irrigation systems to improve food security. Makes an appropriation. (SB2084 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB738 | Engross
Sine Die | Expands the pool of orthodontists who are eligible to perform medically necessary orthodontic services for treatment of certain orofacial anomalies covered by health insurance. (SB738 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2507 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Education (DOE) to develop and implement a statewide computer science curricula plan for public school students in K-12 and ensure each public high school offers at least one computer science course each school year. Author...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2113 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits manufacturers and contract testing facilities in Hawaii from using animal test methods for the purpose of testing cosmetics or household products for which an alternative test method is available. Imposes a civil fine and authorizes the att...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB2515 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the authority for department heads to establish federally funded positions for special, research, and demonstration projects approved by the governor, subject to an unspecified cap. Requires Governor to submit an annual report. (SB2515 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2925 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifies the licensing exemptions for certain individuals under certain conditions who provide behavior analysis services. Requires the Department of Education to create and implement a plan to provide Medicaid billable applied behavior analysis ser...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2539 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the owner of any parcel of land included within a planned community master plan that is proposed for sale and intended to be used for a purpose other than as proposed in the planned community master plan, to inform each owner of a unit in th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB2547 | Engross
Sine Die | Renames the office of planning as the office of planning and sustainability and incorporates sustainability into the duties and responsibilities of the office to ensure long-term planning, coordination, and implementation of Hawaii's sustainability g...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2428 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits the hiring of a state or county law enforcement officer if the candidate's previous position as a law enforcement officer was terminated while the officer was in poor employment standing. Requires background checks for prospective police of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB2704 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a process to upgrade and support next-generation wireless broadband infrastructure throughout the State. Establishes a permitting, application, review, and approval process for wireless providers or communications services providers to in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| SB2083 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for after-school programs at Kalanianaole Elementary and Intermediate School, Kapaa Middle School, Konawaena Middle School, and Waimea Canyon Middle School. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
