| HB2475 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds and appropriates proceeds to the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation for the development and construction of permanent supportive housing units for the chronically homeless. (HB2475 H...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2228 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires individuals who are denied a firearm permit or disqualified from firearms and ammunition ownership or possession to voluntarily surrender their firearms and ammunition to the chief of police within forty-eight hours of receiving notice of di...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-14
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2586 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Hawaii Legal Aid Interagency Roundtable to facilitate cooperation between various state agencies regarding civil legal services and access to justice. Requires the roundtable to report to the Governor and Legislature. Appropriates fun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-14
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2872 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a 5-year Hale Kokua pilot project under the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to reduce homelessness by incentivizing and assisting private homeowners who set aside existing dwelling units, or construct new or improve exi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB2654 | Intro
Sine Die | Restricts sales of residential condominiums developed with state investment within a transit-oriented area to only owner-occupants for 60 days after the initial date of sale for the project. (HB2654 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-14
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1758 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires a two-year motor vehicle inspection safety check for vehicles six years of age or newer. Doubles the inspection fee for the two-year motor vehicle inspection safety check. (HB1758 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-14
To House Finance Committee |
| SB3106 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides three categories and twelve factors for the department of labor and industrial relations to apply to determine independent contractor status. Takes effect 1/1/2045. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2326 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires owners or operators of ticket issuing machines to list a customer service number on the machine. Requires a person who is parking in a stall that is paid for by a ticket issuing machine to contact the owner or operator of the machine if the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB2125 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires every pharmacy to accept for disposal the return of any unused, remaining, or expired prescription drug that the pharmacy previously dispensed. (HB2125 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-14
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| SB2011 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows the University of Hawaii John A. Burns school of medicine with support from the department of health to collect data from voluntary qualifying patients, maintain a database, and conduct research and development regarding the efficacy of medica...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-14
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2358 | Intro
Sine Die | Limits physician-dispensed prescription drugs in workers' compensation claims to the first 30 days from the work injury date. Lowers the reimbursement rates of prescription drugs in workers' compensation claims. Takes effect 1/1/2045. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-14
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB2210 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds definition for highly intoxicated driver. Establishes evidence and sentencing parameters for highly intoxicated drivers. Establishes minimum and maximum administrative license revocation periods for highly intoxicated drivers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-14
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB2409 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Hale Kokua Project, a homeless assistance pilot project under the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation, to provide incentives and assistance to City and County of Honolulu private homeowners who set aside existing dwelli...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-14
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2146 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the State to apply for and implement a waiver from certain provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, as amended. (HB2146 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-14
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2622 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires compliance with the Military Selective Service Act to be eligible for enrollment in a state-supported post-secondary institution, qualify for state financial assistance for post-secondary education, or be eligible for state or county employm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-14
To Senate Labor Committee |
| SB2327 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the global warming and erosion reserve branch within the insurance division of the department of commerce and consumer affairs. Beginning June 1, 2019, requires authorized property insurers that cover losses resulting from an environmenta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-14
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| HB2198 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Watershed Task Force to define the term "watershed". Appropriates moneys. (HB2198 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-14
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2262 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires two hours of annual in-service training in suicide prevention for all teachers, principals, and school counselors.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-14
To House Education Committee |
| SB694 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires a purchaser or transferee to execute a sea level rise hazard exposure statement with every sale or transfer of real estate that acknowledges that the purchaser or transferee has looked at the appropriate sea level rise hazard exposure map an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-14
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| HB2499 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies the definition of "bicycle" for purposes of county vehicular taxes, highway safety laws, statewide traffic code, and bicycle laws by adding "low-speed electric bicycles" to the laws and defining low-speed electric bicycles. Excludes low-spe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-14
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB2044 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposes an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Hawaii to ensure participation of all political parties on the Reapportionment Commission by providing that if there are no members belonging to a minority party in a house of the legislature,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-14
The committee on WAM deferred the measure. |
| HB2599 | Intro
Sine Die | Includes small businesses conducting research and development activities within the State as businesses eligible for Hawaii's tax credit for research activities. (HB2599 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-14
To House Finance Committee |
| HB62 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates the colorectal cancer awareness pilot program within the Department of Health and appropriates funds for the program. Repeals on 6/30/2020. (HB62 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-14
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2880 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the misdemeanor offense of promoting a dangerous drug in the fourth degree for first time offenders who possess smaller amounts of a dangerous drug. Amends related provisions for the promotion of the promotion of dangerous drugs in the se...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB2382 | Intro
Sine Die | Transfers the statutory provisions of section 188-58.5, Hawaii Revised Statutes, that prohibit the taking or killing of female spiny lobsters, kona crabs, and samoan crabs, to administrative rules of the Department of Land and Natural Resources.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-14
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB1603 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the auditor to conduct a study to assess the social and financial effects of requiring health insurers, mutual benefit societies, and health maintenance organizations to provide health care coverage and benefits for a minimum of 6 months of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-14
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2425 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the Department of Land And Natural Resources to issue commercial marine licenses and subtypes of commercial marine licenses for the taking of marine life. (HB2425 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-14
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2279 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a forum on the Department of Health website where state-licensed care facilities may post vacancy information to facilitate the placement of individuals. Requires community-based foster family homes, adult foster homes, and adult day care...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-14
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| SB2915 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits a person from intentionally or knowingly manufacturing, importing, installing, reinstalling, distributing, selling, or offering for sale any counterfeit supplemental restraint system component, nonfunctional airbag, or airbag that does not ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB2712 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires, on or before 9/1/2018, that the Department of Health adopt rules for underground storage tanks and tank systems to conform with certain federal regulations and that include additional requirements for field-constructed underground storage t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-14
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| SB2323 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes procedures for a parent or legal guardian to obtain authorization to home school a child. Requires the complex area superintendent or the complex area superintendent's authorized representative to request child welfare services to conduct...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-14
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB3056 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the natural energy laboratory of Hawaii authority to enable the authority to continue its efforts in producing hydroelectric power for the State. Takes effect on 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-14
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB2243 | Intro
Sine Die | Reconvenes and repurposes the Hui Imi advisory council and requires the advisory council to conduct a study on the state of Hawaiian small business in Hawaii and to submit a report of its findings to the legislature. (HB2243 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-14
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1705 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the auditor to conduct a study to assess the social and financial impacts of mandating certain health insurers and plans to provide coverage for treatment of port-wine stains. (HB1705 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-14
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2826 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies the definition of "drug" in chapter 291E, Hawaii Revised Statutes, regarding the use of intoxicants while operating a vehicle. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2591 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the executive office on aging to biennially update the state plan on Alzheimer's disease and related dementias, and to include information on progress made toward the goals of the state plan on Alzheimer's disease and related dementias in it...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-14
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2210 | Intro
Sine Die | Beginning on January 1, 2019, requires that any person who is eligible to vote and applies for a new or renewed motor vehicle driver's license, provisional license, instruction permit, limited purpose driver's license, limited purpose provisional dri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB2401 | Intro
Sine Die | Expands authority of the Director of Transportation over required motor carrier vehicle inspections. (HB2401 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-14
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1704 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires and appropriates funds for the Department of Education to implement a mobile application for suicide prevention that provides twenty-four hours per day crisis support services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-14
To House Education Committee |
| SB2179 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires persons arrested for certain felony offenses to provide a DNA sample. Provides for the destruction of DNA samples and expungement of a DNA database profile when appropriate. Makes an appropriation for the costs of DNA collection, processing,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2377 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the counties to designate an agency to inform the public and hold a hearing when lands included in a community master plan are proposed for sale and intended to be used for a purpose other than as proposed in the master plan. Takes effect on...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-14
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| HB2658 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts citizens of countries having a valid Compact of Free Association with the United States from the requirement that a driver's license of a legal immigrant expire no later than the legal immigrant's authorized period of stay in the United State...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-14
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB133 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows Department of Education schools and charter schools to post signs containing the Department of Human Services hotline for reporting child abuse and neglect. (HB133 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-14
To House Education Committee |
| SB2417 | Intro
Sine Die | Waives exaction requirements and zoning requirements for housing projects where all units are affordable to persons and families with household income at or below eighty per cent of the area median income. Makes such projects also eligible for additi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-14
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB163 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds as prerequisites to awarding visitation that the court finds that awarding visitation to grandparent is in the best interest of the child and that denial of reasonable grandparent visitation rights would cause significant harm to the child. Clar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-14
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2649 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires DHS to contract with an organization to establish a pilot program to address all aspects of chronic homelessness in the 96817 zip code. Appropriates moneys. (HB2649 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-14
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2301 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a rental motor vehicle surcharge dedicated to road improvements in the county in which the funds are generated.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-14
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| SB2240 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows the owner of a vehicle, upon registration, to designate a beneficiary to whom ownership of the vehicle will be transferred upon the death of the owner.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2877 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the issuance of GO bonds and appropriates funds for the construction of the Hawaii early phase cancer clinical trials program at the University of Hawaii cancer center.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-14
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2492 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the board of dental examiners to issue a license by credentials to a practicing dentist who is licensed in another state and meets other specific requirements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-14
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
