| SB2966 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the class B felony offense of prohibited acts related to female genital mutilation. Requires prosecuting attorneys of the respective counties to keep annual statistics on cases involving prohibited acts related to female genital mutilatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-08
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB3066 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds to assist Wahiawa General Hospital with completion of deferred facilities and maintenance projects that are necessary for the health and safety of patients and staff.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-08
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB2733 | Intro
Sine Die | Relating To Medical Cannabis.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-08
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| SB2815 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies circumstances under which the Hawaii Paroling Authority may grant early discharges. Provides the paroling authority with discretion to consider final discharge in an administrative action and to consider complete pardons for paroled prisone...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-08
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2202 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts gross receipts from the sale 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 f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-08
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB856 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the inclusion of education about sexual abuse and sexual assault, including prevention, identification, safety resources, and health resources for victims. Requires the Board of Education to report to the Legislature prior to the regular s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-08
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB3017 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits health care providers and health care facilities from entering into contractual agreements that in any way restrict the professional's or provider's ability to communicate or disclose the actual cost of, or data related to, health care serv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-08
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| HB2022 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires certain amounts of child support moneys collected by the Department of Human Services (DHS) for public assistance for a child to pass through to the family receiving the public assistance. Requires DHS to disregard passed through child suppo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-08
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB2554 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the department of health to publish information that encourages food manufacturers, processors, and retailers to use standard terminology that clarifies food safety and quality dates when labeling food products.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-08
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| HB1975 | Intro
Sine Die | Transfers small boat harbors, boating, ocean recreation, and coastal areas programs from the Department of Land and Natural Resources back to the Department of Transportation. (HB1975 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-08
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HB2564 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that the Board of Land and Natural Resources and Commission on Water Resource Management shall not conduct contested case hearings, and counties shall not conduct contested case hearings regarding disputes over land use, but that decisions a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-08
To House Water & Land Committee |
| SB2392 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the department of health to establish an electronic registry system for the purpose of collecting a patient's provider order for life-sustaining treatment form and disseminating the information to an authorized user. Specifies certain requir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-08
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2527 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Education to provide school meals to all public charter schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-08
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB2544 | Intro
Sine Die | Grants the presumption that cancer developed by claimants for worker's compensation who performed services as firefighters or volunteer fighters was developed as a result of their work, provided evidence of exposure to a known carcinogen. (HB2544 HD1...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-08
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB2520 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes permanent the requirement for certain motion picture theater owners and operators to provide open movie captioning at least twice per week, one of which begins no earlier than 4:30 p.m. Repeals the requirement to provide an option of personal c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-08
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB898 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires franchisees to disclose their non-participation in advertising campaigns of the franchisor in which discounts or promotions are offered. Prohibits franchisors from limiting or restricting the disclosures. (HB898 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-08
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| SB3073 | Intro
Sine Die | Adopts section 199A of the Internal Revenue Code pertaining to qualified business income.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-08
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1631 | Intro
Sine Die | Limits physician-dispensed prescription drugs in workers' compensation claims to an unspecified number of days from the work injury date. Lowers the reimbursement rates of prescription drugs in workers' compensation claims.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-08
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1858 | Intro
Sine Die | Specifies that the Attorney General may bring a civil action on behalf of the State for alleged abuse of a dependent elder by employees or agents of the State whose duty is to oversee or manage the financial affairs of a dependent elder. (HB1858 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-08
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB2281 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the department of land and natural resources to place markers in the State to indicate significant sites in the life of President Barack Obama. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-08
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB1894 | 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. (HB1894 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-08
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2212 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a family self-sufficiency program to provide matching funds to enable tenants of certain public housing dwelling units to purchase housing units. Authorizes the Hawaii public housing authority to impose maximum rental periods and conditio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-08
To Senate Housing Committee |
| SB3062 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows taxpayers to deduct contributions to a college savings account up to $5,000 per taxpayer from the taxpayer's adjusted gross income. Establishes requirements for college savings accounts to qualify for the deduction. Applies to taxable years be...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-08
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2564 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds and appropriates funds to finance capital improvements to the Waiahole Irrigation System.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-08
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB2211 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to satisfy state and federal class action settlement agreements requiring the Department of Human Services to implement a foster care maintenance payment system that complies with the federal Child Welfare Act, to increase clothing...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-08
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB2589 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the Aging and Disability Resource Center.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-08
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2855 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the Hawaii housing finance and development corporation to develop and implement a housing voucher program for full-time teachers employed by the department of education or at a public charter school.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-08
To Senate Housing Committee |
| SB2130 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the department of health to create and maintain an online information portal making available to the public by January 1, 2019, the information published annually in the Healthcare-Associated Infections in Hawaii report. Requires the departm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-08
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2208 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes parental rights for blind parents or prospective blind parents in the context of child welfare, foster care, family law, and adoption.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-08
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2588 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes an appropriation to DOH for the kupuna care program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-08
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2593 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the healthy aging partnership program to further the program's role in improving the health and well-being of Hawaii's kupuna.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-08
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2430 | Intro
Sine Die | Permits the establishment of a pilot program to use dogs to inspect incoming cargo for illegal fireworks and explosives, after the cargo has been transported from the harbors.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-08
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB2167 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows a county council member to provide other council members with government records that are public record and created by persons who are not members or employees of the county council, subject to certain conditions. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-08
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB1763 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a temporary task force on rental housing for extremely low-income households. Makes an appropriation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-08
To House Housing Committee |
| HB1775 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the definition of "confidential personal information" with regard to offenses against property rights. (HB1775 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-08
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB2871 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires marketplace facilitators, referrers, and remote sellers that meet certain requirements to remit general excise or use taxes or report sales information. Applies to taxable years beginning after December 31, 2019.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-07
To Senate Economic Development, Tourism, and Technology Committee |
| HB1901 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires DHS, in collaboration with DOH, to review the progress of the Hawaii pathways project pilot and continue to pursue efforts to utilize medicaid to provide supportive housing services for chronically homeless individuals. Provides consideratio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-07
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| SB2160 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a new chapter to regulate the use of unmanned aerial vehicles. Requires the director of the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs to adopt rules as necessary. Establishes prohibited uses of unmanned aerial vehicles and penalties, an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-07
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| HB2260 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Legislative Reference Bureau to conduct a study on the impact of the weighted student formula on small and remote schools to determine whether the formula fulfills its statutory purpose of equalizing operational funding among the State's...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-07
To House Education Committee |
| HB2129 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the offense of abuse of family or household members to provide for felony, misdemeanor, and petty misdemeanor penalties. Expands the family court's jurisdiction over certain enumerated offenses committed against family or household members. Re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-07
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB2282 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires marketplace providers to collect general excise and use tax on taxable retail sales that the marketplace provider facilities for marketplace participants to customers after a certain threshold. Applies to taxable years after December 31, 201...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-07
To Senate Economic Development, Tourism, and Technology Committee |
| HB577 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposes a non-binding, statewide referendum on whether the State should pursue policies and programs for community water fluoridation in order to improve the overall dental health of Hawaii's children and adults.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-07
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| HB1565 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes science and technology research subzones and an approval process for future research facilities that incorporates alternative dispute resolution principles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-07
The committees on EDB recommend that the measure be HELD. The votes were as follows: 6 Ayes: Representative(s) Evans, Keohokalole, Holt, Johanson, Yamashita, Matsumoto; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Ichiyama. |
| SB2657 | Intro
Sine Die | Ensures the State receives the full amount of transient accommodations tax, calculated based upon the gross rental price paid by a visitor, whether that amount is collected by a local Hawaii operator, travel agent, wholesale travel company, or online...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-07
To Senate Economic Development, Tourism, and Technology Committee |
| HB2415 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires a court that convicts a person for driving a motor vehicle without the required insurance to suspend the person's driver's license and to impound the vehicle at the vehicle owner's expense.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-07
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2408 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the homelessness special fund. Establishes a community shelter commission in each county. Raises the conveyance tax and directs revenues toward experimental or demonstration housing projects administered by the Hawaii Housing Finance and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-07
To House Housing Committee |
| HB1989 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Board of Land and Natural Resources to transfer to the Department of Agriculture by 6/30/2020, all lands under its ownership that are classified for agricultural use and have been identified by the Department of Agriculture as suitable f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-07
To House Water & Land Committee |
| SB2352 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends various provisions of the HRS to increase protections for child victims of sex trafficking, prostitution, and commercial exploitation by increasing penalties for offenders and habitual offenders. Among other things, amends the offense of sex t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-07
To Senate Human Services Committee |
| SB2912 | Intro
Sine Die | Permits the driver of a vehicle to safely proceed through an intersection in which a defective or malfunctioning trafficcontrol device fails to detect the vehicle and stays in the red signal stage through 2 cycles of the traffic-control device.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-07
To Senate Transportation and Energy Committee |
| HB2636 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the penalties for simple trespass and criminal trespass in the second degree for individuals who enter or remain unlawfully in or upon private residential premises.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-07
To House Judiciary Committee |
