| SB2079 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes penalties and fines for any person who knowingly captures, takes, possesses, abuses, or entangles any shark, whether alive or dead, or kills any shark, within state marine waters and makes it a misdemeanor. Expands the existing prohibitio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-22
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB1806 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires DOH to educate food establishments about liability protections. Expands liability protection for donors to include donations of food and similar donations made directly to needy persons. Authorizes the donation of expired food when the donor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-22
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB1800 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires each county to use a portion of its highway beautification fee revenues for cleanup of improper tire disposal sites. Appropriates funds from the special account in the environmental management special fund to each county for cleanup of impro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-21
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2493 | Engross
Sine Die | Postpones until 1/1/2020 the effective date of certain provisions of Act 152, Session Laws of Hawaii 2017, that conform Hawaii's insurance producer licensing requirements to national model standards by eliminating the ability of insurance producers t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-21
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2305 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the establishment of a pilot visitation center or centers for children of incarcerated parents at one or more correctional facilities in the State and a plan for visitation centers at all state operated correctional facilities. Appropriates ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-21
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2710 | Engross
Sine Die | Permits brewpub and small craft producer pub licensees to allow minors, who are accompanied by a parent or legal guardian of legal drinking age, on the licensee's premises. (SB2710 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-21
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB1859 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows a minor to petition the Family Court for emancipation, and directs the court regarding investigation of the petition, appointment of legal counsel and a guardian ad litem for the petitioner, and the findings necessary to grant the petition. Sp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-21
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2645 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a task force to evaluate the process of executing a delayed construction project that has not commenced within ten years of acceptance of its environmental impact statement. (SB2645 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-21
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2276 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the Department of Human Services (DHS) to establish a five-year pilot program in the east Hawaii child welfare services section in Hawaii County that limits the number of children per child welfare services caseworker to no mor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-21
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2474 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Health, in collaboration with the Federal Aviation Administration and the Department of Transportation, to conduct a study on the impacts of aviation noise on residents of the State. Appropriates funds to the Department of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-21
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2122 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifies the interests that must be represented by members of the HCDA representing community development districts. Requires the senate president and the speaker of the house of representatives to nominate representatives of the several community d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-21
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2667 | Engross
Sine Die | Codifies sustainable development goals based on the United Nations' Global Goal 6, Clean Water and Sanitation. (SB2667 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-21
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2391 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes disclosure of investigative information collected by the Electronic Prescription Accountability System to authorized employees of the Department of Health's Alcohol and Drug Abuse Division and Emergency Medical Services and Injury Preventi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-21
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2828 | Engross
Sine Die | Expands authority of the Director of Transportation over required motor carrier vehicle safety inspections by authorizing the Director to adjust inspection fees and alter administration of the program through administrative rule-making. Effective 7/1...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-21
To House Finance Committee |
| SB765 | Engross
Sine Die | Expands methods for the delivery of funding to projects under the Hawaii community-based economic development technical and financial assistance program by allowing the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to participate with qua...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-21
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2752 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Judiciary to conduct an evaluation study to assess the impact of the community court outreach project in reducing the administrative burdens within the judicial system and for any staff and technology necessary for conductin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-21
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1712 | Engross
Sine Die | Increases the minimum percentage of residential units, excluding units in a project in which time share use is permitted, in a condominium project that must be offered for sale to prospective owner-occupants in the thirty-day period following the ini...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-21
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| HB2470 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires state and county agencies to adopt and maintain rules pertaining to environmental protection; water supplies; solid waste; air quality; water quality; solid waste control; hazardous waste; underground storage unit regulation; asbestos emissi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-21
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB2744 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to provide additional rent supplement subsidies to eligible individuals and families. Takes effect on 01/01/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-21
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1929 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Hawaii Labor Relations Board to adopt emergency rules if the Board finds that Hawaii's Collective Bargaining in Public Employment Law, or its application, is inconsistent with any federal or state law and the adoption of an emergency rul...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-21
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2748 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the State's charitable solicitations law by: substituting the term "total revenue" for the term "gross revenue" and the term "total receipts" for the term "gross receipts" to conform with IRS form 990; clarifying when professional solicitors m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-21
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2398 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Agriculture to create a local health food dollar-for-dollar matching program for beneficiaries of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). Establishes and appropriates funds for the Local Health Food Incentive ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-21
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2572 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the Department of Agriculture to conduct import substitution projects to encourage Hawaii farmers and growers to identify and grow food and nonfood alternative products to phase out imports of high-risk pathway food and commodi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-21
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2658 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for one ambulance unit each for the counties, which includes the purchase of one ambulance vehicle per county and the corresponding operating costs, including equipment, supplies, and personnel costs for state-certified emergency m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-21
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2399 | Engross
Sine Die | Restructures the Hawaii Invasive Species Council as the Hawaii Invasive Species Authority, to be administratively attached to the Department of Agriculture, to coordinate implementation of the Hawaii Interagency Biosecurity Plan and to improve coordi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-20
To House Finance Committee |
| SB3099 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Health to set benchmarks to reach an 85% redemption rate by 2023. Establishes and appropriates funds for a plastics recycling grant program to identify Hawaii-based alternatives for the sustainable recycling and reuse of pl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-20
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2126 | Engross
Sine Die | Increases the Pesticide Use Revolving Fund balance threshold from $250,000 to $1,000,000. (SB2126 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-20
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2574 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the issuance of GO bonds for plans for a biological control containment facility on Oahu. Appropriates funds. (SB2574 HD1).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-20
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2650 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Human Services to develop a regularly updated, publicly accessible system that tracks appropriations made for contracts with provider agencies that offer services to homeless persons on behalf of the State and measures the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-20
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2573 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes and appropriates moneys for a regional nutrient cycling pilot program on Maui. Requires the Department of Agriculture to report on the efficacy of the pilot project. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-20
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1395 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a temporary Kalihi 21st Century Commission in the Office of Planning. Requires the Commission to develop a community development plan for the development of the Kalihi area on Oahu. (HB1395 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-20
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2965 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Hawaii Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Commission to prioritize, identify, utilize, and maintain nature-based solutions in its climate change mitigation and adaptation efforts at the regional, state, and local levels. Clarifies ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-20
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2069 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the research, development, marketing, and conservation of ulu. (SB2069 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-20
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2581 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the Office of Public-Private Partnership and the position of State Office of Public-Private Partnership Coordinator. Adds public-private partnership project delivery methods to the Procurement Code and related conditions and requirements....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-20
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| SB2125 | Engross
Sine Die | Extends the pesticide subsidy program manager position, including the civil service and collective bargaining exemptions for the position, until June 30, 2022, in order to provide assistance to local coffee farmers for coffee berry borer pesticide co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-20
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1720 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows for a state income tax deduction for teacher supplies purchased for use in the classroom and for professional development courses; provided that the teacher obtains a written certification from the Department of Education. (HB1720 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-20
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| SB2188 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes an additional conveyance tax for the sale of certain condominiums or single family residences. Requires that the revenue collected in each county from the additional conveyance tax be allocated to the respective county's affordable housin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-20
To House Housing Committee |
| SB2114 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to establish two positions for the Glass Advance Disposal Fee Program. (SB2114 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-20
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2110 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires retail automotive parts stores with an existing oil collection and storage unit to accept household generated used oil from motor vehicles for recycling or disposal. Defines retail automotive parts store. Allows a retail automotive parts sto...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-20
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2526 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes a pharmacy to provide a customized patient medication package to any patient of an institutional facility or any member of the general public upon consent, with a valid prescription, and in compliance with labeling and dispensing requireme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-20
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| HB2541 | Engross
Sine Die | Enacts voting by mail uniformly across all counties for all elections commencing in 2020, and allows any election to be conducted by mail prior to the 2020 primary election, in whole or in part, as determined by the chief election officer or county c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-20
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2299 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes a naturopathic physician to prescribe and administer testosterone that is consistent with naturopathic medical practice. Clarifies that narcotic drugs and controlled substances, other than testosterone, shall not be included within the nat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-20
To House Intrastate Commerce Committee |
| SB3064 | Engross
Sine Die | Requests immediate, favorable action by the public utilities commission once applications for new joint pole agreements have been submitted. Requires a report from the public utilities commission once the new joint pole agreements have been approved....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-20
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| SB2812 | Engross
Sine Die | Updates chapter 329, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to make it consistent with amendments in the federal Controlled Substances Act as required under section 329-11, Hawaii Revised Statutes. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-20
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| SB2792 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires, without limitation, criminal history record checks of household members of a child whose family receives a child care subsidy from the Department of Human Services, clarifies that the Department of Human Services may take administrative and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-20
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB584 | Engross
Sine Die | Expands the types of business activity eligible for participation in Hawaii's enterprise zone program to include production of electricity from a biomass energy facility. (HB584 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-19
To Senate Economic Development, Tourism, and Technology Committee |
| HB2617 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits liquor consumption by bathers within one thousand yards of any beach or shoreline in the State. (HB2617 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-19
The recommendation was not adopted. |
| HB71 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits any Governor or county Mayor, while serving in their respective individual capacities as Governor or county Mayor, to maintain any other employment or receive any emolument, beginning on the sixty-first calendar day after their election or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-19
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB2224 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the definition of "qualified high technology business" to remove exclusions of various businesses from eligibility from participation in the Hawaii Technology Investment Program. (HB2224 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-19
To Senate Economic Development, Tourism, and Technology Committee |
| HB1944 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the Filipino-American Veterans of World War II burial assistance program. Establishes the Filipino-American veterans of World War II burial assistance program special fund. Makes an appropriation. (HB1944 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-19
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
