| HB574 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides that royalties from state land leases for basalt cinder and trap rock manufacturers shall be paid into the Basalt Materials Research Account within the Pacific International Space Center for Exploration Systems Special Fund. Sunsets December...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Economic Development, Tourism, and Technology Committee |
| SB98 | Engross
Sine Die | Raises the district courts' jurisdictional limit for civil actions involving specific performance. Takes effect on 1/7/2059. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB823 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires insurers, mutual benefit societies, fraternal benefit societies, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage for health care services provided by a naturopathic physician. Requires the insurance commissioner to receive and inves...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To House Intrastate Commerce Committee |
| HB1300 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Hawaii institute of marine biology at UH to conduct ongoing studies of the environmental impacts of sewage spills on affected coral reefs. Requires the institute of marine biology to submit an annual report to the legislature prior to th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1012 | Engross
Sine Die | Temporarily disallows the deduction for dividends paid by real estate investment trusts for a period of 15 years, but with an exception for dividends generated from trust-owned housing that is affordable to households with incomes at or below 140 per...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB968 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes permanent civil service positions for the Hawaii Public Housing Authority to provide services historically and customarily performed by civil service employees in connection with creating housing opportunities for homeless individuals and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee |
| SB1088 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for certification of a reforestation carbon project at Haleakala, Maui, operated by DLNR, under an established forest carbon standard certification system. Requires DLNR to submit an annual report on the project certification to th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To House Finance Committee |
| SB490 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows the circuit court or family court to issue a material witness order in cases initiated through felony complaint, indictment, or information. Takes effect on 1/7/2059. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1507 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Transportation to establish a Community Crosswalks Pilot Program to design and implement specially painted crosswalk in neighborhoods. Appropriates funds for the pilot program. Creates a Community Crosswalks Pilot Program S...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| SB441 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the definitions of "disclosure date" and "electioneering communication" pertaining to electioneering disclosure statements. Takes effect on 01/07/2059. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB892 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows the attorney general to disclose confidential covered offender registration information to criminal justice agencies for administration of criminal justice and covered offender registration purposes and to disclose an indication of a covered o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB700 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the offense of cruelty to animals in the first degree to include indigenous birds. Amends the offense of cruelty to animals in the second degree to include certain restraints to dogs. (SB700 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB197 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates moneys for start-up grants for one or more new pre-opening public charter schools. (SB197 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To House Finance Committee |
| HB470 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the Board of Education to contract for private groundskeeping services for public library properties. (HB470 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB1162 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the University of Hawaii Promise Program to provide scholarships for the unmet direct cost needs of qualified students enrolled at any campus of the University of Hawaii system or any community college campus. Appropriates funds to establ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To House Finance Committee |
| SB1030 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides exemptions from vehicle registration, safety inspection, and driver licensure requirements for marine terminal equipment operating on roads between Sand Island parkway and Sand Island access road. Allows the operation of marine terminal equi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB1566 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes "substantial net benefit" as the public utilities commission's standard for a merger involving an electric public utility and allows the commission to establish reasonable criteria to determine whether a "substantial net benefit" exists i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| HB1310 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the Waiakea Peninsula Redevelopment District, Planning Committee, and Revolving Fund. (HB1310 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Economic Development, Tourism, and Technology Committee |
| HB998 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the DLNR to allow bottomfish fishing in six of the Bottomfish Restricted Fishing Areas and to amend any administrative rules to provide that any restriction on fishing shall be based on scientific evidence of environmental necessity. (HB998 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| SB390 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes an Appraisal Management Company Registration Program (Program) within the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs (DCCA) to conform to minimum standards established under federal law and regulations. Establishes registration requireme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To House Finance Committee |
| SB49 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Education to collaborate with the Workforce Development Council on workforce development initiatives. (SB49 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee |
| SB614 | Engross
Sine Die | Deletes the sunset provision for Act 139, Session Laws of Hawaii 2012, to make permanent provisions of the Act regarding pretrial risk assessments and parole.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To House Public Safety Committee |
| SB1189 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifies the definition of "underserved" or "at-risk" children as it relates to the priority given to these children for the Preschool Open Doors program. Provides that priority among undeserved or at-risk children shall be given to children whose f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To House Finance Committee |
| HB875 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for 5 full-time equivalent (5.00 FTE) temporary student intern II positions within the state historic preservation division. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB855 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides that the submission of a voter registration application either to register to vote or update the voter's registration information constitutes a request for permanent absentee voter status unless the applicant specifically indicates the appli...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB854 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to issue a stop-work order to an employer for violations of chapter 388, Hawaii Revised Statutes, relating to the payment of wages and other compensation, or administrative rules adopted pur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee |
| HB233 | Engross
Sine Die | Offers employees of the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation whose positions will be abolished or directly affected by a reduction-in-force, workforce restructuring plan, or privatization the choice of receiving both special retirement benefits and volu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1384 | Engross
Sine Die | Extends the prohibition that prevents the counties from requiring fire sprinklers in specific family dwelling units and nonresidential agricultural and aquacultural buildings. (HB1384 HD3)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HB670 | Engross
Sine Die | Creates the Hawaii Working Family Tax Credit, a refundable credit capped at 10 percent of the federal earned income tax credit. (HB670 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1210 | Engross
Sine Die | Directs the mayor of each county to designate an officer to oversee any public-private partnerships entered into by the county. Authorizes counties to develop public-private partnerships to construct relief sewers for affordable housing development p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1550 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes within HPHA the Section 8 Voucher Homebuyer Assistance Program for recipients of federal Section 8 Housing Choice vouchers. Authorizes issuance of revenue bonds. Authorizes HPHA to make downpayment loans to eligible borrowers. Establishes...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Housing Committee |
| SB871 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the excise tax rate on large cigars.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| SB150 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires candidates for president and vice president of the United States to post their most recent income tax return on the Internet at least sixty days prior to and continuing through the date of the general election for free access by the public i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB439 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifies that increased fines may apply if a noncandidate committee fails to timely file a second preliminary general report. Takes effect on 1/7/2059. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB393 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifies that the removal or replacement of a director elected by a class of unit owners shall be by a majority of only the members of that class. Specifies that for an election in a mixed-use condominium project where directors are elected by diffe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB316 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifies that reimbursement to crime victims includes lost wages and expenses for mental health treatment, counseling, and therapy. Effective 1/7/2059. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB803 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes an income tax credit to assist farmers with expenses associated with compliance with the Food Safety Modernization Act. Establishes the Food Safety Modernization Act special fund. (SB803 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To House Finance Committee |
| HB594 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes within the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism the Maritime Industry Grant Program to enhance maritime productivity and workforce development. Takes effect 1/7/2059. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB763 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the High Technology Development Corporation for the Small Business Innovation Research Program. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To House Economic Development & Business Committee |
| SB682 | Engross
Sine Die | Extends the sunset date of the Alternative Energy Research and Development Pilot Project to June 30, 2019. Appropriates funds for the Project.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HB618 | Engross
Sine Die | Sets a deadline for the transfer of certain non-agricultural park lands from the Department of Land and Natural Resources to the Department of Agriculture. (HB618 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| SB619 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the DOE, in collaboration and consultation with DBEDT, DLIR, and UH, to develop and implement a K-12 curriculum to career pipeline initiative to ensure that the State's public school students are adequately trained and prepared to enter the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To House Finance Committee |
| SB990 | Engross
Sine Die | Increases the reimbursement rate for the development of forest stewardship management plans. Clarifies conditions that must be met by applicants to receive funds under the Forest Stewardship Program. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To House Water & Land Committee |
| SB804 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires disclosure of commercial agriculture pesticide use under specified conditions. Revises the ceiling and use of the Pesticide Use Revolving Fund. Appropriates funds for the John A. Burns School of Medicine to study the exposure of Chlorpyrifos...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To House Finance Committee |
| SB945 | Engross
Sine Die | Creates a framework for authorizing post-secondary degree-granting educational institutions that have applied for accreditation by an accrediting agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. Effective 5/12/2059. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To House Higher Education Committee |
| SB628 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires department heads to inform the governor of any vacancy in any board or commission. Requires the governor to maintain a listing of all boards and commissions including specified information. Appropriates funds for 1.0 FTE position to manage l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1279 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the University of Hawaii West Oahu to expand its existing programs and develop new means to increase food security and self-sufficiency in the State. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1036 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifies that failure to register a firearm within the required time period does not relieve the owner of the duty to register the firearm. Allows the owner of an unregistered firearm to register the firearm thereafter without penalty. Takes effect ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB113 | Engross
Sine Die | Exempts vehicles transporting asphalt or other high temperature loads from the requirement that their loads be covered; provided that the physical characteristics of the load are not susceptible to blowing off during transport. (HB113 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB657 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the prorated amount of vehicle license and registration fee and weight taxes that rental car companies may pass on to lessees. Requires the motor vehicle rental industry to report to the legislature prior to the regular session of 2019 and def...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-11-30
To House Transportation Committee |
