| SB3042 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires a broker-dealer's records that relate to security transactions involving a purchaser, customer, or client be maintained in the broker-dealer's office in this State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| HB1841 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires benchmarking for all nonresidential buildings. Resulting benchmarking data will be disclosed to a prospective buyer, lessee, or lender. (HB1841 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB2346 | Intro
Sine Die | Promotes the financial responsibility of administrators. Regulates the professional practices of third party administrators. Establishes the qualifications and procedures for the licensing of administrators. (HB2346 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2685 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the Office of Hawaiian Education of the Department of Education to continue the Hawaiian Studies Program in schools as determined by the Office of Hawaiian Education. (HB2685 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1714 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies the parking fee exemption for electric vehicles in non-metered stalls. Extends to June 30, 2024, Act 168, Session Laws of Hawaii 2012, which authorizes the Department of Transportation to adopt rules for registration and license plates for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2329 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the statutory cap on the disposition of conveyance taxes dedicated for deposit into the Rental Housing Revolving Fund for the financing of affordable rental housing development. (HB2329 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1639 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for the planning and design of the expansion of the University of Hawaii Maui College culinary arts program to Lahaina. Requires that the Chancellor work with hotels, resorts, and landowners of nearby properties to develop a plan. Makes an a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2743 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds with the funds to be deposited into the Dwelling Unit Revolving Fund and the Rental Housing Revolving Fund. (HB2743 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2566 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the department of land and natural resources to provide assistance and supplemental funding to the National Wildlife Research Center of the U.S. Department of Agriculture to conduct pilot field studies to evaluate control tools ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB2052 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Hawaii Labor Relations Board to deliver its decisions and orders by hand, USPS mail with delivery confirmation, or electronically. (HB2052 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2688 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends 235-17, HRS, to apply to qualified production costs incurred for post-production activities and services performed in Hawaii film studios. Effective 12/31/2018.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2447 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts all proceedings relating to parking violations under certain administrative rules from the exclusive, original jurisdiction of the environmental courts. Effective 7/1/2035. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB2093 | Intro
Sine Die | Restores the voting status of the member of the Association of Emeritus Regents of the University of Hawaii on the Candidate Advisory Council. Specifies term conditions. (HB2093 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2374 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Labor Law Enforcement Special Fund to finance the collection of penalties for violations of labor law. Establishes two positions, including an attorney and legal assistant, to represent the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1529 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits discrimination in the rental of real property based on a veteran's use of HUD-VASH vouchers. (HB1529 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2474 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Hawaii Public Housing Authority to establish a program to offer insurance policies to landlords who rent to tenants using the Section 8 housing choice voucher program and report to the Legislature. Appropriates funds to establish and adm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2347 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends various portions of the Hawaii Insurance Code by adopting NAIC model language for corporate governance annual disclosures, establishing a procedure for changes in trade name or an assumed name, and clarifying reimbursement to health insurance ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1706 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Department of Human Services for the coordinated statewide homeless initiative, subject to certain conditions. (HB1706 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2763 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows payment of employer contributions to the Employees' Retirement System in advance of the fiscal year in which the contributions are required. Provides for interest on and application of the advance payments. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1804 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts affordable housing projects developed or financed by HHFDC or a county, housing projects that satisfy county affordable housing requirements and qualify for county fee exemptions, and affordable rental housing for which the developer received...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2018 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds reproductive health decisions and utilization of family leave to the list of categories that are protected against discriminatory employment practices. (HB2018 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB2369 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends collective bargaining law to ensure that exclusive bargaining representatives retain the resources necessary to adequately represent public employees and remove economic incentive to free ride.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To Senate Labor Committee |
| HB2193 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds the definition of "intern" to the State Ethics Code to include interns among state employees to whom the code applies. (HB2193 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB2291 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the minimum wage to $12.25 per hour in 2019 and $15 per hour in 2020. Repeals language allowing the hourly wage of a tipped employee to be increased on account of tips. Requires the department of labor and industrial relations to annually c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2003 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the department of land and natural resources from issuing new aquarium fish permits to take aquatic life for commercial or non-commercial aquarium purposes, except for a period of four months. Phases out the taking of aquatic life for comme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB2192 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for the redaction of all amounts reported by non-paid volunteer members of state boards, commissions, and agencies for certain financial interests in their disclosure forms. (HB2192 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2036 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the planning and design of a memorial to honor service members of the recent conflicts in the Persian Gulf, Iraq, Afghanistan, and the various theaters of the Global War on Terrorism, to be located at the Hawaii State Veterans ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2201 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies that Hawaii's anti-discrimination law does not prohibit or prevent an employer, employment agency, or labor organization from refusing to hire or refer or from discharging an individual for reasons unrelated to unlawful discriminatory pract...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB2947 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires county police departments, the department of public safety, department of land and natural resources, and department of transportation to disclose to the legislature the identity of an officer upon the officer's 2nd suspension in a 5-year pe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB2152 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to DHS to restore basic adult dental benefits to Medicaid enrollees. Requires DHS to obtain the maximum federal matching funds available for this expenditure. (HB2152 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1630 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends requirements for apprenticeship and licensure of elevator mechanics and adds provisions relating to examination, license renewals, continued competency, scope of work, and remote interaction. (HB1630 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1924 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes a pharmacist to prescribe and dispense opioid antagonists without a written collaborative agreement; provided that the pharmacist meets certain qualification requirements and the individual receiving the prescription receives opioid antago...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB2053 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Labor Relations Board to deliver its orders and decisions by hand, USPS mail using a delivery confirmation, or electronically. Extends the time to hold a hearing on a complaint from 40 to an unspecified number of days. Repeals the requir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1683 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes an additional conveyance tax rate on the sale condominiums and single family residences with values of at least $2,000,000, and requires that the revenue collected in each county from the additional conveyance tax rate be allocated to the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1853 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies State Ethics Code provisions on gifts disclosure statements, financial interest disclosures, retention of financial disclosure statements, investigations, and training. (HB1853 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB3105 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Lipoa point management special fund for the management of the Lipoa point area and educate visitors on how funding is used for the management of the Lipoa point area. Appropriates funds into and out of the Lipoa point management speci...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB2523 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a non-refundable income tax credit of 25% of the total costs, including installation costs, of an automatic fire sprinkler or automatic fire sprinkler system in any new detached one- or two-family dwelling unit in a structure used only fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2572 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Medical Cannabis Study Group to examine the complexities surrounding the topic of the legality of medical cannabis. (HB2572 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2241 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the State Building Code Council and county councils from establishing disabled accessibility or usability standards for residential buildings that are lower than those established by the most recent editions of the International Building Co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2620 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds for construction and infrastructure development projects to provide affordable housing units for middle class and low income residents. Allows moneys from the conveyance tax and the county surcharge...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2952 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes Queen Liliuokalani Day on the first Monday in the month of September each year, rather than on September 2, in order to coincide with Labor Day.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2357 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes appropriations for the pre-payment of the accrued pension liability and other post-employment benefits liability of the State. Makes an appropriation to the emergency and budget reserve fund. States the intent that this Act is intended to compl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB2512 | Intro
Sine Die | Further restricts the criteria for variances from the requirement that all new single-family homes utilize solar water heating.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| SB2062 | Intro
Sine Die | Places restrictions on the ability of financial institutions to sell residential mortgage loans to other financial institutions. Defines "residential mortgage loans" as any loan primarily for personal, family, or household use that is secured by a mo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| HB2166 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to establish a housing voucher program for full-time classroom teachers employed by the Department of Education or by a public charter school. (HB2166 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2997 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the department of education to prepare a report identifying any unused federal funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2970 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the University of Hawaii at Manoa and the University of Hawaii at Hilo to collaborate with the department of education to establish professional qualifications and develop training programs for the Ka Papahana Kaiapuni program's...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB2250 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds routine medical care for a child as a qualifying reason for an employee to use family leave under the Family Leave Law. (HB2250 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2680 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the committee on weights to submit a report to the legislature detailing any changes to the funding formula within thirty days of the change. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB2484 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Education to establish and maintain a priority list of schools in need of classroom cooling; provided that at least fifty percent of all funds appropriated for classroom cooling projects be made available for grants to scho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
