| HB1860 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that landscape workers participate in a general use pesticide training workshop or educational program and obtain a certification prior to the application of general use pesticides.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-02
To House Labor & Public Employment 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 |
| HB2245 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes the earned income tax credit refundable in twelve monthly payments, unless the taxpayer opts to receive the refund in a lump sum. Creates a subaccount in the tax reserve fund for refunds of the earned income tax credit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-01
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1953 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows the child support enforcement agency, at the request of a noncustodial parent or on its own initiative, to require a custodial parent to provide evidence that child support funds are being spent in compliance with an order of support. Allows a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-01
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| HB2388 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies circumstances under which the Hawaii Paroling Authority may grant early discharges. Provides the paroling authority with discretion when considering pardons for paroled prisoners and clarifies early discharge consideration of paroled prison...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-01
To House Public Safety Committee |
| HB1955 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the HTA to make available to hotel owners, operators, and employees a course of training on appropriate handling and response procedures for suspected human trafficking activities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-01
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| HB2386 | 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] | 2018-02-01
To House Public Safety Committee |
| HB2673 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits places of public accommodation from denying shelter to any person when the State, or any portion thereof, is the subject of an emergency alert that advises the public to immediately seek shelter. Provides for an unspecified civil penalty fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-01
To House Public Safety Committee |
| HB1719 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the return of all out-of-state inmates by 12/31/20 if adequate bed space exists in Hawaii's prisons and correctional facilities. Provides that no more than 500 Hawaii inmates shall be detained in out-of-state prisons by 12/31/19. Requires th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-01
To House Public Safety 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 |
| HB2577 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies that Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation housing projects are exempt from the Disability and Communication Access Board process under section 103-50, Hawaii Revised Statutes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-01
To House Housing Committee |
| HB2725 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows development of affordable housing in agricultural and rural districts if certain conditions are met.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-01
To House Housing Committee |
| HB2024 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a detailed process allowing law enforcement officers and family or household members to obtain a court order to prevent a person from accessing firearms and ammunition where the person poses a danger of causing bodily injury to oneself or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-01
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2645 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies that a civil liability exemption for providing emergency access during a disaster applies to facilities receiving compensation and to owners who sell commodities to people seeking emergency access shelter on the owner's property; provided t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-01
To House Public Safety Committee |
| HB2221 | 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] | 2018-02-01
To House Public Safety Committee |
| HB466 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes expending agencies of grants, subsidies, and capital improvement project funds to delegate their expending authority to a different agency, subject to approval of the grantee and the Governor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-01
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1881 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a college savings program income tax credit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-01
To House Higher Education Committee |
| HB1648 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes specialty contractors to perform work outside the scope of their licenses when that work is subordinate to another contractor and directly related to and necessary for the project.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-01
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee |
| HB1996 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires courts to order any person charged with a criminal offense to be released on personal recognizance pending trial, unless the person is a flight risk, unlikely to appear for trial, or a danger to others. Requires the Judiciary to establish an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-01
To House Public Safety 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 |
| HB2047 | Intro
Sine Die | Transfers administrative authority, personnel, and facilities for the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy currently located at the University of Hawaii at Manoa to the University of Hawaii at Hilo.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-01
To House Higher Education 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 |
| HB2272 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs DAGS to work with PSD and others to plan and implement security improvements at the state capitol. Requires DAGS to reassign use of certain parking stalls within the state capitol area. Appropriates funds to DAGS and PSD.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-31
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2233 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the Hawaii Technology Development Corporation to issue special purpose revenue bonds in its name to finance the costs of a geothermal industrial park near a new or existing geothermal power source for the purpose of creating economic oppor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-31
To House Economic Development & Business Committee |
| HB2571 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates a narrowly defined subcategory of guards, called watchpersons, who are allowed to be unregistered for sixty days but must meet all the requirements of a guard to continue working in a guard capacity after the sixty day period.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-31
To House Intrastate Commerce Committee |
| HB1973 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the Land Use Commission to compel any public agency to comply with its duties, responsibilities, and statutory requirements regarding conservation districts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-31
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HB2078 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes and provides funding for the Hawaii Technology Development Corporation to participate in and contribute funding for the development of a Hawaii cyber ecosystem and related aspects of cybersecurity.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-31
To House Economic Development & Business 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 |
| HB2050 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the attorney general to condemn parts of Auld Lane, Rawlins Lane, 'Iao Lane, and Akau Lane.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-31
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HB1857 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that gestational surrogacy is permitted only when a contract containing certain terms has been executed between a gestational surrogate and a commissioning couple.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-31
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| HB1764 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Health to consolidate all inspection and licensing activities for certain state-licensed or state-certified facilities into a single office. Requires employees performing surveys or inspections for licensing or certificatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-31
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| HB1759 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes financial exploitation of an elder by a caregiver a class A felony. (HB1759 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-31
To House Judiciary 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 |
| HB2576 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes private organizations to provide shelter to homeless individuals at micro-villages on the organizations' private property. Limits county authority to restrict micro-villages and county liability relating to micro-villages. Appropriates fun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-31
To House Housing Committee |
| HB1703 | Intro
Sine Die | Designates the month of September of each year as Suicide Prevention and Awareness Month.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-31
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1854 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the Lobbyists Law to eliminate outdated references to criminal violations and to clarify that the State Ethics Commission may require payment of an administrative fine or restitution pursuant to a settlement agreement. (HB1854 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-31
To House Judiciary 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 |
| HB1959 | Intro
Sine Die | Expands the duties and functions of the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to include innovative activity development. (HB1959 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-31
To House Finance 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 |
| HB2150 | Intro
Sine Die | Broadens the scope of the Long-Term Care Ombudsman. Transfers the Long-Term Care Ombudsman from the Executive Office on Aging to the State Health Planning and Development Agency.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-31
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| 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 |
| HB1905 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds specific requirements to Hawaii's existing sexuality health education law. Requires the BOE and DOE to collaborate to provide curricula information to the public. Requires students to be excused from the provided instruction upon written request...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-31
To House Health & Human Services 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 |
| HB1823 | Intro
Sine Die | Defines emotional support animals and makes it a misdemeanor to knowingly make a misrepresentation regarding a service dog or emotional support animal.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-30
To House Health & Human Services 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 |
