| HB2089 | Intro
Sine Die | Permits the Adjutant General to extend the University of Hawaii tuition assistance awards to qualified retired Hawaii National Guard enlisted persons, warrant officers, and company grade officers. (HB2089 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1724 | Intro
Sine Die | Expands the poster requirement to massage therapy establishments that employ three or more people. Increases the penalties for violations of the poster requirement and deposits the penalties in the human trafficking victim services fund. Allows the D...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2062 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes permanent the regulation of athletic trainers. (HB2062 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2364 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Kawailoa Youth and Family Wellness center and transforms the approach of juvenile justice to a therapeutic model. (HB2364 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2381 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the definition of "commercial activity" within section 200-4(a), Hawaii Revised Statutes. (HB2381 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2350 | Intro
Sine Die | Allow the State Department of Defense to recoup operating costs when the Department allows for temporary facility use to the public. (HB2350 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2153 | Intro
Sine Die | Designates the month of April of each year as the Hawaii Child Abuse Awareness and Prevention Month.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1949 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes a naturopathic physician to prescribe testosterone consistent with naturopathic medical practice. Clarifies that narcotic drugs shall not be included within the naturopathic formulary. Authorizes the Board of Naturopathic Medicine to disci...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB2467 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Legislative Reference Bureau to conduct a study on the factors that contribute to the costs of construction projects in the State. Appropriates funds for the study. (HB2467 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2632 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes requirements, conditions, and restrictions for farm dwellings and employee housing on agricultural land. Limits farm dwellings and employee housing on agricultural land to farmers and employees and immediate family members. (HB2632 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2445 | Intro
Sine Die | Disallows a court, when dividing property upon the dissolution of a marriage, from considering military disability benefits or from indemnifying or awarding the veteran's spouse for waivers or reductions in military pay related to disability benefits...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2604 | Intro
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 cam...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| SB3053 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows and regulates the manufacturing of edible cannabis products as manufactured cannabis products by licensed medical cannabis dispensaries. Establishes requirements for manufacturing, handling, labeling, and packaging of manufactured cannabis pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB2751 | Intro
Sine Die | Expands eligibility and credit amount of the low income-household renters' income tax credit. Appropriates funds for the continued administration of the family assessment center for homeless families and for a housing homeless children rental assista...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1995 | Intro
Sine Die | Regulates broadband internet service providers to ensure a free and open Internet. Establishes a task force to examine the costs and benefits of creating a state-owned public utility company to provide broadband internet service. (HB1995 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1785 | Intro
Sine Die | Implements Act 183, SLH 2005, in accordance with the State's constitutional duty to protect important agricultural lands by providing funds to the counties for the identification and mapping of important agricultural lands. (HB1785 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2448 | Intro
Sine Die | Codifies sustainable development goals based on the United Nations' Global Goal nine, relating to industry, innovation, and infrastructure. (HB2448 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2870 | Intro
Sine Die | Permits public inspection and duplication of salary ranges, rather than exact compensation, for legislative employees. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB2735 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits tobacco use and smoking, including the use of electronic smoking devices, by any person on the premises of UH. (HB2735 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB687 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires insurance coverage after December 31, 2018, for the costs of medically necessary transportation to the continental United States for medical treatment for qualifying patients. Requires the auditor to conduct a study to assess the social and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2776 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the issuance of a citation for specific violations of the motor vehicle repair laws and rules by licensees. Sets forth a process for licensees to contest the citation and provides for the assessment of fines for each violation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB2468 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a Hawaii Beach Preservation Special Fund. Authorizes the DLNR to expend moneys from the Special Fund to acquire lands for beach preservation with prior authorization of the Legislature. Creates a working group within the Hawaii Climate Ch...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2376 | Intro
Sine Die | Raises the threshold under the contractor licensing law's handyman exemption from $1,000 to an unspecified amount. Takes effect on 1/1/2045. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| HB2095 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the agribusiness development corporation to enter into contracts with private businesses to remove select municipal solid waste, glass, and food and green waste from the waste stream for use in other business sectors, including agriculture...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2334 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the definition of "dependent-beneficiary" as used in chapter 87A, Hawaii Revised Statutes. (HB2334 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2324 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends section 201-76, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to expressly place the Pacific International Space Center for Exploration Systems within the Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism. Removes the Executive Director of the space center ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| SB3063 | Intro
Sine Die | Requests that the University of Hawaii sea grant college program conduct an economic analysis of North Shore beaches for the area of the North Shore of Oahu that stretches from the Kawailoa to Waialee ahupuaa to estimate the economic value of North S...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2390 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes that the requirements of ethical public procurement and the procurement code of ethics established by the Procurement Policy Board apply to all parties to procurement contracts that are otherwise exempted from the procurement code.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB2573 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that the existence of any cesspool on real property be considered a material fact and be included in a seller's disclosure statement if disclosure of the existence of a cesspool on real property is determined to be mandatory. (HB2573 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2651 | Intro
Sine Die | Specifies certain felonies and conditions that will preclude employment, and other felonies and conditions that may preclude employment, at a medical cannabis dispensary. Takes effect on 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB1963 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows two or more separate entities to submit single joint offers in response to a solicitation. Allows purchasing agencies to award single contracts to two or more separate entities that submit joint offers. Requires the Procurement Policy Board to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1983 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds from a special fund for enforcement officer positions in all counties. (HB1983 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2625 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources and the counties to form a Marine Debris Working Group, with other interested parties, to resolve jurisdictional issues between the State and counties regarding the removal of marine debris and pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2677 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates moneys for interpreter services to be rendered during the Deaf and Blind Task Force's monthly meetings. (HB2677 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2960 | Intro
Sine Die | Attaches the office of enterprise technology services to the department of accounting and general services administratively. Reorganizes the members of the information technology steering committee and requires members of the steering committee to be...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1747 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes $35,000,000 as the Office of Hawaiian Affairs' pro rata share of the public land trust proceeds. Transfers $119,000,000 less certain funds to the Office of Hawaiian Affairs for underpayment of the public land trust revenues for 7/1/12 to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2726 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Health to set benchmarks to reach an eighty-five per cent redemption rate by 2023. Establishes and appropriates funds for a plastics recycling grant program to identify Hawaii-based alternatives for the sustainable recyclin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2391 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the members of governing boards of charter schools to be certified through programs on ethics, procurement, and fiduciary responsibilities and that are approved by the State Public Charter School Commission no later than their first year ser...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB2665 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires special permit approval for solar energy facilities larger than fifteen kilowatts on one or more lots in non-conforming residential subdivisions, which have been identified by the county, located on land with soil classified with an overall ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2006 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation, or the appropriate state entity, to initiate negotiations to keep the units of the Front Street Apartments on the island of Maui affordable or to acquire the Front Street Apartments prop...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2624 | Intro
Sine Die | Specifies that a condominium association's proxies and ballots may be destroyed ninety days, rather than thirty days, after an association meeting. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB2473 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the construction and use of micro housing units on Hawaiian home lands managed by DHHL, notwithstanding zoning laws, permit provisions, and building codes. Makes an appropriation to DHHL for construction of micro housing units, subject to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2087 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires electronic tracking of certain patients who are allowed outside a psychiatric facility. (HB2087 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB1896 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a health care access task force to review health care policies, the affordable care act, and other jurisdictions' health care legislative proposals to determine ways the state can increase access to health care. (HB1896 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2133 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the counties to provide for the establishment of Hawaiian cultural reserves as a condition of approval and development of certain types of subdivisions and condominium property regimes on agricultural and rural lands that include the constru...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2687 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the University of Hawai`i to translate the Hawai`i State Constitution into the Hawaiian language. Requires courts, to the extent reasonably possible, to provide Hawaiian language translation services upon request of any party to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2555 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the employees' retirement system to divest its investment portfolio of coal, oil, and gas companies within an unspecified number of years and to report certain information to the legislature. Takes effect 1/1/2045. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB2510 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Department of Education to install air conditioning in public schools that prioritize the project. (HB2510 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1994 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits state law enforcement agencies from complying with federal immigration detainers or honoring requests for non-public information unless specifically required to do so by a warrant signed by a judge or provisions of federal, state, or local ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1651 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a collective bargaining unit for graduate student assistants employed by the University of Hawaii. (HB1651 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
