| HB1837 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Public Utilities Commission to conduct a study regarding hydraulic fracturing and establish limits on the amounts of fossil fuels derived from hydraulic fracturing that gas utility companies may use. Requires gas utility companies that u...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-30
To House Energy & Environmental Protection 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 |
| HB2326 | Intro
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] | 2018-01-30
To House Economic Development & Business Committee |
| HB1964 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the conveyance tax for certain properties valued at $4,000,000 or greater. Establishes the Tianxin Zhang public education special fund and deposits a portion of conveyance tax moneys into the special fund. Requires moneys in the special fun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-30
To House Housing 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 |
| HB2066 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the School Impact Fees law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-30
To House Housing 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 |
| HB1694 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows employer and employee to mutually agree to an independent medical examiner or permanent impairment rating examiner. An out-of-state physician may conduct the examination upon approval by the Director of Labor and Industrial Relations (Director...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-30
To House Labor & Public Employment 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 |
| HB1961 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides an appropriation for the Hawaii Technology Development Corporation to support the continuation of business accelerator programs. (HB1961 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-30
To House Finance 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 |
| HB2505 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects for the benefit of the 2nd Representative District.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-29
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2496 | Intro
Sine Die | Expands credited service in the ERS by adding volunteer service in the Peace Corps to both membership service and prior service.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-29
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee |
| HB2629 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the University of Hawaii to establish a habitat conservation preserve at its West Oahu campus.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-29
To House Energy & Environmental Protection 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 |
| HB2502 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the Department of Land and Natural Resources to assess a fee to visitors accessing Lipoa Point by a maritime commercial vessel. Creates the Lipoa Point Management Special Fund for the management of the Lipoa Point area and educate visitors...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-29
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HB2637 | 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] | 2018-01-29
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB2297 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds for design, plans, material, construction, and equipment for an extension of the Lahaina bypass road from north Keawe street to beyond Puukolii road.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-29
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB2290 | 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] | 2018-01-29
To House Intrastate Commerce 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 |
| HB2348 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates and establishes an insurance guaranty fund for Hawaii domestic medical service organizations and health maintenance organizations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-29
To House Health & Human Services 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 |
| HB2370 | 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 House Economic Development & Business 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 |
| HB2263 | Intro
Sine Die | Lowers the automatic jury duty exemption age from eighty to seventy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-29
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2307 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend section 78-23(c), Hawaii Revised Statutes, to allow the Employee's Designation of Beneficiary form to be kept in the department where the employee is employed and also to permit the designation to be filed and maintained electronically.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-29
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee |
| HB2485 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the state earned income tax credit by making it refundable.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-29
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2624 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds and appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the 6th representative district.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-29
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2325 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates a $50,000,000 revolving line of credit sub-fund under the umbrella of the Green Energy Market Securitization (GEMS) loan fund for any state agency or department to finance energy efficiency measures.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-29
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HB2489 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects for the benefit of the 24th Representative District.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-29
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2366 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Human Services to use an integrated and multigenerational approach to delivering human services to reduce the incidence of intergenerational poverty and dependence on public benefits.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-29
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| HB2340 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends and clarifies the acquisition of service provisions to maintain the tax-qualified status of the Employees' Retirement System
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-29
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee |
