| HB2527 | Intro
Sine Die | Replaces the guiding principles for children in foster care under the Child Protective Act with the rights of children in foster care, which preserves the current rights of children in foster care and provides certain additional rights. (HB2527 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2039 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires DOE to conduct a review of all school consolidation studies completed by the Department within the past 10 years to determine whether the findings and recommendations of the studies are still valid, review the feasibility of using the school...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-09
To House Education Committee |
| SB2477 | Intro
Sine Die | Changes the penalty for nonreporting of child abuse or neglect from a petty misdemeanor to a class C felony.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-09
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2048 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires public land leases to obligate a lessee to enter into a proprietary interest protection agreement with any labor organization representing the lessee's employees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-09
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HB2042 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Department of Health to establish one full-time position to conduct water quality assessments in West Hawaii island.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-09
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HB2212 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the offense of obstructing county real property zoning enforcement operations. Makes the offense a class C felony.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-09
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HB2450 | Intro
Sine Die | Includes a hospice home operated by a hospice service agency as a state-licensed or state-certified health care facility subject to Department of Health inspections. Requires the licensure of hospice service agencies. (HB2450 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-09
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| SB2349 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that funds received from the federal government for the purpose of addressing domestic violence and moneys from the Emergency Medical Services Special Fund shall not be distributed to a law enforcement agency or emergency medical services ag...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-09
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB2426 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Corrections Population Management Commission to meet at least once per quarter. Expands the commission membership to include a substance abuse or mental health expert and an advocate for incarcerated individuals. Requires the Department ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-09
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HB2226 | 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] | 2018-02-09
To House Ocean, Marine Resources, & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB2255 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds and appropriates funds for the planning, design, and construction of the central Maui transit hub.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-09
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB2040 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes any violation of part II, chapter 200, HRS, a civil offense rather than a criminal offense.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-09
To House Ocean, Marine Resources, & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB2528 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the law authorizing the issuance of a limited purpose driver's license, limited purpose provisional driver's license, or a limited purpose instruction permit to applicants who voluntarily choose to obtain a non-compliant REAL ID licensing cred...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-09
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2532 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows a principal of a public school to enter into contracts for goods, services, and construction valued at less than $25,000.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-09
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| SB2536 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the Department of Human Services to contract the services of a dedicated capture manager responsible for securing grant and other funding opportunities for the Department of Human Services. Makes an appropriation. Repeals on 6/30/2020.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-09
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2707 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires transferors and transferees of used motor vehicles, mopeds, and trailers, including motor vehicles whose owners do not intend to drive the vehicle on public highways, to appear together before the county director of finance with government-i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-08
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| SB2215 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the county infrastructure development loan revolving fund within department of budget and finance to provide nointerest loans to the counties for the development, predevelopment, or construction of infrastructure projects to expedite the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-08
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HB2647 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a pilot project to identify vacant Department of Transportation parcels within the State and to propose uses for those parcels to deter crime and benefit the community. Requires a report to the Legislature. (HB2647 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-08
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HB2394 | Intro
Sine Die | Conforms Hawaii income and estate and generation-skipping transfer tax laws to the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended as of December 31, 2017.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-08
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2342 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that health insurance policies offered by health insurers, mutual benefit societies, fraternal benefit societies, and health maintenance organizations include coverage for clinical victim support services for victims of sexual violence and a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-08
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2432 | Intro
Sine Die | Changes personal injury protection benefits under the motor vehicle insurance law from a required coverage to a required optional coverage for active duty military personnel stationed in the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-08
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HB2387 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies the circumstances under which the Director of Public Safety or a designee of the Director may release pretrial and sentenced misdemeanants at community correctional centers to prevent overcrowding.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-08
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2663 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires each district health officer of the Department of Health to be a physician licensed to practice medicine under Part I of Chapter 453 of the Hawaii Revised Statutes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-08
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| HB1909 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Health to examine all feral bird and pigeon nuisance complaints. Requires the Department to order or carry out actions to abate, destroy, remove, or prevent the nuisance and clean the filth resulting from a feral bird or pi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-08
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB2595 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes an income tax credit for the actual costs of construction and renovation of a residential housing property or a bed and breakfast that complies with residential housing visitability standards. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/3...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-08
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB2311 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies that found electronic devices that may contain personal information shall be sanitized before providing the unclaimed property to finders or disposing of the property by public auction or other means. (HB2311 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-08
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2417 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that a marketplace provider withhold and remit general excise tax on sales made by marketplace sellers in this State that are facilitated by the marketplace provider. Amends the definition of "business" in the State's general excise tax law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-08
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1715 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends Act 32, SLH 2017, by changing the phrase "the greenhouse gas emissions statewide" to "greenhouse gas emissions."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-08
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| SB2259 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires Hawaii consumers who are required to receive a summary of rights under section 609 of the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act, to also receive a notice of their rights under Hawaii law to obtain a security freeze on their credit reports. Expan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-08
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2937 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides an exemption to the licensing requirements for certain qualified individuals in situations when high voltage (six hundred volts or higher) electrical work is performed while employed by a Hawaii licensed electrical contractor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-08
To Senate Labor Committee |
| HB2706 | Intro
Sine Die | Promotes the space industry in Hawaii by creating an International Moon Base Alliance to provide recommendations and guidance for the establishment of a prototype moon base on the island of Hawaii. (HB2706 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-08
To House Economic Development & Business Committee |
| HB1786 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the conveyance tax on the sale of condominiums and single-family residences with a value of $2,000,000 or greater. Allocates the revenue to a county's affordable housing fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-08
To House Housing Committee |
| HB2421 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Labor Law Enforcement Special Fund to finance the collection of penalties for labor law violations; establishes an attorney position and a legal assistant position in the Department of the Attorney General to represent the Department ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-08
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee |
| HB2344 | Intro
Sine Die | Augments the Commissioner of Financial Institutions' ability to adapt chapter 454M, Hawaii Revised Statutes, requirements as reasonably necessary to use in NMLS. Authorizes the commissioner to enter into consent orders, and to issue cease and desist ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-08
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB1930 | 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] | 2018-02-08
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee |
| SB2064 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires health benefit plans supplemental to Medicare to include contributions equal to Medicare part D premiums effective 7/1/2018, in addition to Medicare part B premiums.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-08
To Senate Labor Committee |
| SB2198 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the Director of Finance to issue general obligation bonds to finance the design and construction of a Kauai Fire Department helicopter hangar and the Pua Loke Affordable Housing projects in the county of Kauai.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-08
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2510 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes one full-time equivalent (1.00 FTE) world languages institutional support position within the Department of Education. Appropriates funds to fund the position.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-08
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2345 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates a Hawaii Sexual Assault Response Team to address the manner in which sexual assault evidence collection kits are processed and tracked, and to ensure that victims of sexual assault are informed of their rights under the law. Requires annual r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-08
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB2045 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies that state, county, and authorized agents' authority to enter private property to control and eradicate invasive species also applies when there is a reasonable suspicion that invasive species are present on that property. (HB2045 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-08
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2633 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for low-interest microloans to assist landlords of derelict rental units in small apartment or condominium buildings to render these units habitable.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-08
To House Housing Committee |
| HB2037 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts temporary homeless shelters from state and county health and sanitation provisions, and from county zoning provisions, from 7/1/2018, to 7/1/2028. (HB2037 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-08
To House Water & Land Committee |
| SB2273 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires certain persons to immediately report a potential tort claim to the family court when that person has reason to believe that a child in foster custody has suffered an injury that may arise to a tort claim. Establishes procedures for the fami...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-08
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB2731 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires landlords, who rent more than five dwelling units in a multi-family residential structure to unrelated families, to rent a minimum of twenty-five per cent of the dwelling units to extremely low-income families. Provides for exceptions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-08
To House Housing Committee |
| HB2704 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the income tax credit for low-income renters.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-08
To House Housing Committee |
| SB3011 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs DAGS to work with PSD and others to plan and implement security improvements at the state capitol. Requires DAGS to reassign use of certain parking stalls within the state capitol area. Appropriates funds to DAGS and PSD.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-08
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| SB2119 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the driver of any motor vehicle that is involved in an accident and in possession of a mobile electronic device at or near the time of the accident to, at the request of a police officer, submit the mobile electronic device to the police off...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-08
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| HB2331 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes expedited approvals for affordable housing projects seeking district boundary amendments for land areas of fifteen acres or less under the jurisdiction of the counties, as well as expedited approvals by the Hawaii Community Development Au...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-08
To House Water & Land Committee |
| SB2452 | Intro
Sine Die | Grants county agencies the implicit right to enter property to investigate agricultural buildings and structures for violations of and compliance with building code exemption qualifications.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-08
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2918 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the Hawaii emergency management agency from issuing any alert or warning related to military matters without receiving prior approval for such an alert or warning from the United States Pacific Command.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-08
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
