| SB3067 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that real estate investment trusts file returns reporting their shareholders' pro rata shares of net income and net income attributable to this State. Requires withholding on all payments to shareholders. Applies to taxable years beginning a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-06
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB2248 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs to adopt state appliance efficiency standards to save consumers' money while conserving energy and water resources. (HB2248 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-01
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HB2392 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes an emergency appropriation to provide funds for Department of Public Safety to reimburse the Department of Human Services for specialty out-of-facility care and to pay the increased costs for pharmacy services. (HB2392 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-01
Received from Governor re: Emergency Appropriation (Gov. Msg. No. 9). |
| SB2615 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies that the transient accommodations tax shall be calculated based on the gross rental. Specifies that the transient accommodations tax is to be collected from operators or transient accommodations intermediaries that collect whole or partial ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-01
The committee on WAM deferred the measure. |
| SB2052 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to license non-commercial marine fishing along with freshwater fishing, engage in public outreach prior to implementing the combined non-commercial freshwater and marine fishing license, and submi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-28
The committee on WAM deferred the measure. |
| SB2702 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Hawaii aerospace development corporation to grow investments and job opportunities in the aerospace industry and for workforce development. Transfers all rights, powers, functions, and duties of the office of aerospace development and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-28
The committee on WAM deferred the measure. |
| HB1988 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the Department of Land and Natural Resources to lease fast lands and submerged lands at the Ala Wai boat harbor for office space, parking, commercial use, hotel use, training facilities, vessel use, and deep seawater air-conditioning plants. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-28
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2421 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the director of finance to issue general obligation bonds to construct affordable rental units and homes, homeless shelters or transitional housing centers for the homeless, and a condominium and tiny homes on Hawaiian home lands. Allows m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-28
The committee on WAM deferred the measure. |
| SB2953 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires certain private streets, highways, or thoroughfares in a commercial development district of the HCDA to conform to county construction and maintenance standards. Requires owners who exercise ownership rights for financial gain or profit of p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-27
The committee on JDC deferred the measure. |
| SB2611 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides the Public Utilities Commission with explicit authority to regulate internet service providers by amending the definition of telecommunications carrier to include an internet service provider.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-23
The committee on CPH deferred the measure. |
| SB2935 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Hawaii state energy office to adopt state appliance efficiency standards to protect consumers. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-23
The committee on CPH deferred the measure. |
| SB2022 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a timeframe for the decision-making processes of the Public Utilities Commission. Requires the Commission to establish criteria for prioritizing among multiple proceedings. Requires the Commission to submit a report to the Legislature pri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-23
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2429 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits a security guard from possessing a firearm in the course of employment if the guard was discharged from employment as a law enforcement officer due to poor employment standing. Requires state and county law enforcement agencies to make appr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-23
The committee on CPH deferred the measure. |
| SB2575 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the University of Hawaii West Oahu to expand its existing programs and develop new means to increase food security and self-sufficiency in the State. Takes effect 7/1/2025. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-23
The committee on WAM deferred the measure. |
| HB2459 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts affordable housing units acquired, developed, financed, or rehabilitated by qualified nonprofit housing trusts from the use restrictions and the 10-year owner-occupancy, 10-year buyback, owner qualifications, and shared appreciation equity re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-23
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2269 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires prescription drug coverage provided under the State's medicaid managed care and fee-for-service programs to include prescription drug coverage for buprenorphine, when used in the treatment of opioid dependency. Requires prescriptions for bup...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-23
The committee on CPH deferred the measure. |
| SB2019 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires fuel sold in the State to contain no less than ten per cent biofuel by volume. Sets amount of fine for violating biofuel requirement. Amends definition of "biofuels" to include ethanol and biodiesel. Takes effect on 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-23
The committee on WAM deferred the measure. |
| SB2625 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires officers and directors of associations of apartment owners to disclose activities that could reasonably be construed as a conflict of interest and cease the activity or withdraw from office. Prohibits attorneys from representing both the boa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-23
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2286 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires all use permits at the Ala Wai boat harbor to be obtained at public auction. Requires that public notice of the public auction for a use permit at the Ala Wai boat harbor be given and include certain information. Requires all public auctions...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-23
The committee on WAM deferred the measure. |
| SB2626 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes managerial functions in the operation of the property of a managing agent of a condominium. Exempts certain persons from managing agent licensing and registration requirements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-23
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2005 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the composition of and sets residency requirements for members of the Contractors License Board (Board). Specifies that the protection of the public shall be of the highest priority of the Board in the exercise of the Board's licensing, regula...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-23
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2652 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows licensed producers of motor vehicle insurers to satisfy the requirement that insurers provide a complete sales and claims office in the State by instead allowing the licensed producer to establish and maintain a sales and claims office.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-23
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2483 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes an alternative method of amendment for a condominium association's declaration and bylaws; provided that certain requirements are met.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-23
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2548 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires members of the county liquor commissions and liquor control adjudication boards to submit to annual criminal history record checks. Requires attorneys hired by the liquor commission or liquor control adjudication board to submit to annual cr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-22
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2431 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows a court to choose from 1 to 3 qualified examiners in felony cases in which a defendant's fitness to proceed is in doubt. Requires that at least 1 of the examiners is a psychiatrist or licensed psychologist. Removes the requirement that 1 of th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-22
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2017 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires climate vulnerability assessments for permit applications filed after December 31, 2019, to construct, modify, relocate, or operate any regulated air pollutant source. Takes effect 1/1/2025. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-22
The committee on CPH deferred the measure. |
| SB3094 | Intro
Sine Die | Specifies certain activities that shall become lawful, upon approval by the federal Food and Drug Administration of one or more prescription drugs containing cannabidiol.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-22
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| HB2372 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows licensed dental hygienists to practice under the general or direct supervision of any licensed dentist providing dental services in a public health setting. (HB2372 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-21
To House Health & Human Services Committee |
| HB1877 | Intro
Sine Die | Raises the threshold under the contractor licensing law's handyman exemption from $1,000 to an unspecified amount. (HB1877 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-21
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| SB2534 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the owners of buildings open to the public to provide shelter to visiting members of the public in cases of emergency or disaster. Requires the owners of buildings open to the public to inform the appropriate county emergency management agen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-20
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB2260 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires veterinarians, upon request of the owner of an animal, to make available a copy of any prescription that the veterinarian has previously prescribed the animal free of charge.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-20
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2641 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires transient accommodations operators to designate local contacts who are licensed real estate brokers or salespersons.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-20
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| HB1902 | Intro
Sine Die | Designates May as Military Appreciation Month in Hawaii.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2163 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides a taxpayer who hires a person totally disabled a nonrefundable tax credit for the 6-month period after the individual is initially hired by the taxpayer. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2018. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2425 | Intro
Sine Die | Excludes from the definition of "public lands" lands to which the Hawaii public housing authority in its corporate capacity holds title. Requires legislative approval of the sale or gift of lands to which the Hawaii public housing authority in its co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2353 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex, including gender identity or expression or sexual orientation, or disability, in any state educational program or activity or in any educational program or activity that receives state financial assistanc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2165 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides a taxpayer who hires an elderly individual a nonrefundable tax credit for the 6-month period after the individual is initially hired by the taxpayer. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2018. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1957 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits a person who is entitled enforce a mortgage note as a negotiable instrument from also foreclosing on the property in a foreclosure by action unless the person is the owner, as opposed to a holder, of the mortgage note. (HB1957 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2506 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes and appropriates funds to 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 Sessio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2200 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits smoking in a motor vehicle in which a person under the age of eighteen is present. Requires the department of health to report on the enforceability of this Act and coordination of related data collection activities of the respective law en...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2649 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies that the adjudicatory functions of the public utilities commission are exempt from part I of Hawaii's Sunshine Law, relating to meetings; provided that the non-adjudicatory functions of the commission shall be subject to part I of the Sunsh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2986 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires two hours of annual in-service training in suicide prevention for all teachers, principals, and school counselors. Makes an appropriation. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2261 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the education special fund and allocates twenty-five per cent of the general excise tax revenue to be deposited into the education special fund to fund public education. Appropriates moneys out of the education special fund. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB2469 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits a county or state agency from approving a permit to construct or operate a new grid-connected electrical generation facility in excess of five megawatts or storage facility in excess of fifty megawatt hours if it is located in a sea level r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| SB2669 | Intro
Sine Die | Codifies the State of Hawaii 2050 sustainable plan goals and the sustainable development goals based on the United Nations' Global Goal eight, decent work and economic growth. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1668 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the number of district judges in the Second Circuit from three to four judges. (HB1668 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1782 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes an income tax credit based on the actual cost, including installation, water, and permit fees, of an automatic fire sprinkler system in any residential occupancy in a building used for residential purposes. Applies to taxable years beginn...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2185 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for a position to increase school-health coordination in the Department of Education. Establishes evidence-based screenings and assessment for school vision, oral health, and behavioral health. Effective 7/1/3000. (HB2185 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1640 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires employers to pay for all medical services required for the employee for the compensable injury and the process of recovery, even when claims are disputed. Establishes negotiation, notice, and review procedures for disputed claims. Imposes fi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2016 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that a county shall not impose an exaction or inclusionary zoning requirement on a housing development offered exclusively for sale to buyers earning less than 140 percent of the area median income. Repeals this prohibition in five years. (H...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
