| SB3023 | Engross
Sine Die | Includes persons with disabilities under the minimum wage requirements. Requires the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to study the impacts of raising the minimum wage and submit a report to the Legislature on its findings and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2583 | Engross
Sine Die | Designates June 21 of each year as International Yoga Day. (SB2583 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB351 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends various provisions related to the Aha Moku Advisory Committee, including budgetary requirements. Appropriates funds for expenses of the Aha Moku Advisory Committee and the annual Puwalu event. (SB351 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2943 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the transit-oriented development infrastructure improvement zone program to facilitate the development of certain areas. Authorizes the creation of transit-oriented development infrastructure improvement zone subaccounts to make grants or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2598 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires each department to deduct the department's total salary overpayment from the department's budget request for the following fiscal biennium. Requires that employees who exhaust their sick leave be placed on a manual accounting system. Removes...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2011 | Engross
Sine Die | Increases the revenue threshold for the tax administration special fund and allocates the additional moneys to the special enforcement section for the enforcement of the transient accommodations tax. (HB2011 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2747 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the Hawaii Nonprofit Corporations Act to clarify that a public benefit corporation may not purchase its memberships; that the term "director" only includes those who have the authority to vote as a member of a board; and that a corporation wit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2662 | Engross
Sine Die | Codifies sustainable development goals based on Goal 1, no poverty, and Goal 3, good health and well-being, of the United Nations' Global Goals in the Hawaii State Planning Act. (SB2662 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB3031 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifies and strengthens the organic foods production tax credit. Effective 7/1/2050. Applies to unspecified taxable years. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2496 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows adults with autism spectrum disorders to receive appropriate applied behavior analysis treatment, while simultaneously providing safeguards for consumer protection. Exempts from licensure requirements for behavior analysis certain individuals ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2149 | Engross
Sine Die | Increases the number of district judges in the Second Circuit from three to four judges. (SB2149 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2931 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the ethics continuing education requirement for dentists to require six hours of ethics training within each biennial renewal period instead of three hours annually. (SB2931 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| SB2055 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Governor to provide written notice to the Senate within a certain time period during the regular legislative session of the name of any gubernatorial nominee for an executive branch position that is subject to the Senate's advice and con...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB1177 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the leasehold common interest agricultural community pilot program under the jurisdiction of the Department of Agriculture. Requires the Department to authorize a minimum of three leasehold common interest agricultural community projects....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2665 | Engross
Sine Die | Codifies in state law the goal relating to quality education of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and Indicators. (SB2665 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB3068 | Engross
Sine Die | Implements the recommendations of the Hawaii Sea Level Rise Vulnerability and Adaptation Report issued by the Hawaii Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Commission. Makes appropriations. Effective 07/01/2050. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1805 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires UH community colleges to establish energy systems and technology training courses for county officers and employees responsible for permitting, inspecting, licensing, and approving construction projects and an advisory committee of industry ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2678 | Engross
Sine Die | Codifies Sustainable Development Goals 9, 10, 16, and 17 based on the United Nations' Sustainability Development Guidelines and indicators. (SB2678 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB3097 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the Statewide Rat Lungworm Disease Working Group for research and education for the prevention, treatment, and eradication of rat lungworm disease. Requires a report to the Legislature prior to the Regular Session of 2019. Appropriates fu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2563 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations for the K-12 Agriculture Workforce Development Pipeline Initiative. (SB2563 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB3006 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Legislative Reference Bureau to conduct a study on construction projects in the State. Appropriates funds for the study. Allows state projects to be designed and constructed using the International Plumbing Code in lieu of the Uniform Pl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2211 | Engross
Sine Die | Expands the scope of the concussion educational program to include middle- and elementary-school students. Appropriates funds. (SB2211 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2163 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Executive Office on Early Learning for additional operational costs, including equipment, supplies, and personnel costs. (HB2163 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2659 | Engross
Sine Die | Updates transdermal patches to transdermal devices in section 329D-10, Hawaii Revised Statutes, thereby including non-patch devices that deliver through the dermis. Adds cannabinoid suppositories to the list of cannabis products that may be manufactu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB7 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Human Services, in collaboration with the Department of Health, to review the progress of the Hawaii Pathways Project pilot and continue efforts to use Medicaid to provide supportive housing services for chronically homeles...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB222 | Engross
Sine Die | Exempts the sales of mobility enhancing equipment, durable medical equipment, prosthetic devices, prescription drugs sold pursuant to a doctor's prescription, diabetic supplies, medical oxygen, and human blood and its derivatives from the general exc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2601 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires procurement officers to complete periodic performance evaluations of certain contractors. Establishes factors to be included in any evaluation, consideration, or review of past performance, and ratings standards for those factors. Requires p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2778 | Engross
Sine Die | Creates a chargeable transient quarters revolving fund into which billet fees are to be deposited. Effective June 15, 1215. (SB2778 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2380 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the Board of Education membership by requiring the Board to invite the exclusive representative for Bargaining Unit (5) (teachers and other personnel of the Department of Education) to appoint a nonvoting public school teacher representative t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2415 | Engross
Sine Die | Raises the conveyance tax rates for residential investment properties with a value of at least $2,000,000. Exempts affordable housing qualified by the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation from the conveyance tax. (SB2415 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2620 | Engross
Sine Die | Removes $10,000 maximum limit on a cash or protest bond that must be posted for a procurement award protest. (SB2620 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2843 | Engross
Sine Die | Increases the license fee for wholesalers or dealers of cigarettes and tobacco products. Increases the excise tax on cigarettes and tobacco products. (SB2843 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2924 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes an individual mandate for certain qualified taxpayers to sign up for and maintain health insurance throughout the year, or pay a penalty on their individual income tax return, subject to certain exceptions. Sunsets on 12/31/2023. (SB2924 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB3079 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes an unspecified number of full-time equivalent lieutenant positions in the Kona unit of the sheriff division within the department of public safety. Appropriates funds for the initial six-month hiring period and for one-time costs for the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2520 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the department of education for behavior analysis services performed by licensed behavior analysts for public school students. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2460 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the establishment of a Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority (NELHA) microgrid demonstration project for the generation, storage, and distribution of renewable energy on property controlled by NELHA. (HB2460 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2938 | Engross
Sine Die | Permits the insurance commissioner to approve applications for health insurer no action letters, waivers, or variances with respect to specific requirements of the health insurance laws or its rules when certain conditions are met. (SB2938 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2501 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Governor to identify available state land for the establishment of ohana zones where homeless persons may reside and sets preliminary milestones that shall be met by the Department of Human Services. Provides limitation on liability for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2242 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Department of Education to establish a Workforce Development Microgrant Program that awards grants to students who are enrolled in public high schools and are applying for technical or workforce training related to certain o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2660 | Engross
Sine Die | Expedites workers' compensation claims by firefighters by requiring the injured firefighter's private insurance to pay the costs of a controverted claim, subject to reimbursement upon a later finding that the claim is compensable. Requires reimbursem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2988 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Executive Office on Aging to include in its annual report to the legislature a section that details outcomes of the Kupuna Caregivers Program. Requires the Executive Office on Aging to offer a plan to maximize the number of participants ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2393 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Education to create a comprehensive plan to establish alternative learning schools in each complex area in the State. Requires the Department of Education to submit the plan to the Legislature prior to the 2019 Regular Sess...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2304 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits the issuance of new retail tobacco permits, beginning 11/1/18, for businesses that are located within 500 feet of a preschool, school, or public playgrounds. Enunciates that a business holding a valid retail tobacco permit prior to 11/1/18,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB2594 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires that new construction of publicly funded residential housing developed or financed on or after January 1, 2019, under the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation or Hawaii Public Housing Authority incorporate housing visitability ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2225 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires certain information technology projects to adhere to statewide information technology governance and be reviewed in a manner established by the Chief Information Officer for the information technology project. Provides the Chief Information ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2839 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a new agricultural enterprise program within the department of agriculture to plan, design, construct, operate, manage, maintain, repair, demolish, and remove infrastructure on any lands under the jurisdiction of the department, to suppor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1328 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows greater flexibility in conditions placed on eligibility requirements for the motion picture, digital media, and film production income tax credit. Amends the amount of the total tax credit that may be claimed per qualified production. Amends t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB2368 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for permanent civil service positions and equipment for the Hawaii Public Housing Authority to provide services historically and customarily performed by civil service employees in connection with refuse collection. Requires the de...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1801 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the public utilities commission to study the technical feasibility of establishing renewable portfolio standards for gas utility companies in Hawaii. Requires reports to the legislature. Appropriates funds. Takes effect on 1/28/2045. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB2283 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds for the designs, plans, materials, construction, and equipment for three capital improvement projects in the H-1 corridor: the widening of Kualakai Parkway to Waiawa Interchange; the widening of Wah...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
