| SB128 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies that the attorney general shall represent the legislature, house of legislature, and individual legislators acting in the course and scope of employment unless the legislature, house of the legislature, or individual legislators decline rep...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-15
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1256 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends fines for destroying or harvesting trees or tree products, including koa, on state forest reserves lands to an amount up to $10,000 or three times the market value at the time and place of the violation for each tree, whichever is greater, in ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-15
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB10 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the office of the affordable housing advocate to work with all state agencies that manage land to solve the housing shortage, and monitor, comment, and report on the State's production of affordable housing units, the development and impl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-15
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1503 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows incarcerated persons who were Hawaii residents immediately prior to incarceration to vote in Hawaii elections by absentee ballot. Takes effect 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-15
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB665 | Intro
Sine Die | Defines electric foot scooters and clarifies that laws relating to bicycles in general also apply to electric foot scooters. Requires an operator of an electric foot scooter to be at least fourteen years of age. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB104 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates moneys for the department of health's lead poisoning prevention activities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-14
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB640 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases for candidates seeking office in an election with no incumbent, under the partial public funding program: the expenditure limit to one hundred forty per cent of the median expenditures received by non-publicly financed candidates in the res...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-14
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1146 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the Hawaii labor relations board to accept paper and electronic filing of documents. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB635 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposes an amendment to article IX, section 5, of the Constitution of the State of Hawaii, to require the Legislature to consider the effect of its actions on the price of housing in the State. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-14
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1279 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the mandatory inscription on civil identification cards. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB1234 | Intro
Sine Die | Transfers the office of collective bargaining, including the position of chief negotiator, to the department of human resources development. Eliminates references to managed competition in chapter 89A, Hawaii Revised Statutes. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-14
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1225 | Intro
Sine Die | Permanently exempts from civil service the Governor's Coordinator on Homelessness; the Executive Director of the State Commission on Fatherhood; in the Med-QUEST Division: division administrator, finance officer, health care services branch administr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-14
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| SB100 | Intro
Sine Die | Eliminates the home mortgage interest deduction for second homes under Hawaii income tax law. Requires the amount of state revenue gained by eliminating the deduction to be deposited into the rental housing revolving fund. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-14
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB527 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Health to convene a working group to develop a universal symbol, quality control procedures with a focus on a retail product recall system, and standards, regulations, and protocols for the manufacture and sale of edible me...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-14
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1517 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the department of transportation to widen Kuakini highway between Lako street and Kamehameha III road on the island of Hawaii. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-14
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1219 | Intro
Sine Die | Transfers personnel employment responsibilities, coordination duties, and emergency management reserve corps responsibilities from the director to the administrator. Amends county emergency operations plan requirements. Increases the maximum amount t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-14
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB577 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the State to: pay, without delay, military personnel called to active duty at the same rate as their active duty counterparts; provide basic housing allowance (BAH); provide service credit for time on active duty; and allow state and county ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-14
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB636 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds to be appropriated into and out of the rental housing revolving fund, dwelling unit revolving fund, and, contingent upon the enactment of S.B. No. 878 in any form, the home ownership housing revolvi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-14
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1444 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Hawaii technology development corporation to continue the small business innovation research program. Requires businesses that receive a small business innovation research grant award to return the award if they move their p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-14
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1524 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits an employer from discriminating against an employee based on the employee's status as a qualifying patient and from taking action against an employee based solely on the employee's status as a qualifying patient or if the results of the emp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB484 | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-14
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1366 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides an appropriation for the Hawaii Technology Development Corporation to support the continuation of business accelerator programs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-14
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB261 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the GoFarm Hawaii program. Requires GoFarm Hawaii to provide the chairperson of the board of agriculture with the program's annual goals and a semi-annual report outlining program outputs and outcomes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-14
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1120 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the rate of real estate conveyance tax for condominiums and single family residences ineligible for a county home-owner's exemption with a value of at least $2,000,000. Amends the calculation for the amount of conveyance taxes to be deposit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-14
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB194 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires candidate names to be randomized on individual ballots and randomly rotated across precincts. Requires the Office of Elections to inform voters and candidates, by a method suited for the voting system, that the names of candidates may not be...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-14
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB755 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the agricultural housing task force within the office of planning to study existing county and state laws, rules, and processes for construction of employee housing within agricultural districts to identify barriers to construction, make ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-14
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB722 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies that a planned community association may exercise nonjudicial power of sale foreclosure remedies regardless of the presence or absence of power of sale language in the association documents. Takes effect on 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB1216 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows the Department of Defense to recoup operating costs when the Adjutant General permits temporary facility use of department facilities to the public. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-14
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB727 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows office of Hawaiian affairs employees to join the State's civil service and public employee collective bargaining systems. Creates bargaining unit (15) as a separate collective bargaining unit for employees of the office of Hawaiian affairs in ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB362 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits any law, ordinance, or rule from imposing an inclusionary zoning requirement on housing offered exclusively for sale in perpetuity to buyers who are residents of the State, are owner-occupants, and do not own any other real property.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB801 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes an appropriation for the renovation, expansion, and modernization of the Waikiki aquarium structure.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-14
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1424 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Hawaii Correctional System Oversight Commission and transfers all rights, powers, functions, and duties of the Reentry Commission and Corrections Population Management Commission to the Hawaii Correctional System Oversight Commission....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB449 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the court and the prosecution to take appropriate action to ensure a prompt trial in order to minimize the length of time a child abuse victim or minor witness must endure the stress of the child's involvement in the proceedings. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB1038 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the State Commission on the Status of Women to establish a statewide training program on the state human trafficking laws for criminal justice personnel.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB1110 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for various capital improvement projects to be expended by the department of accounting and general services. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-13
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB416 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes permanent the requirement that decisions in contested case hearings of the Commission on Water Resource Management, Land Use Commission, Public Utilities Commission, Hawaii Community Development Authority, and those involving conservation distr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-13
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB603 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the requirement that a member of the National Guard, military reserve, or armed forces must be assigned to a unit in the State in order to qualify for a vehicle weight tax exemption. Clarifies that the vehicle weight tax exemption is availabl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-13
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB1055 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the governor, lieutenant governor, members of the legislature, governor-appointed executive of each principal department, president of the University of Hawaii, superintendent of education, administrative director of the State, administrativ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB351 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits advertising a public housing unit and housing subject to an owner or renter occupancy requirement under chapter 201H, Hawaii Revised Statutes, or chapter 206E, Hawaii Revised Statutes, for rental purposes and requires county police departme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB1057 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the office of information practices to resolve all public complaints regarding access to public records or open meetings within six months from the date the office of information practices receives the complaint. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB840 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows the elections commission to refer a complaint to the attorney general or county prosecutor in addition to any administrative determination and without the requirement that the commission believes the respondent has recklessly, knowingly, or in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-13
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB142 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies State Ethics Code provisions regarding gift disclosure statements, retention of financial disclosure statements, and ethics training. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB1170 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies that the State shall be exclusively liable for claims for injury or loss of property, or personal injury or death, resulting from the negligent or wrongful act or omission of any professionally licensed or certified employee of the State wh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-13
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1266 | Intro
Sine Die | Updates chapter 329-22, Hawaii Revised Statutes, by adding subsection (e) to make it consistent with amendments in federal controlled substances law as required under section 329-11.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-13
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB876 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires all public elementary, intermediate, and middle schools in the county of Hawaii to participate in the safe routes to school program. Appropriates funds to support the safe routes to school program for schools in the county of Hawaii. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-13
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB704 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for various capital improvement projects to be expended by the department of accounting and general services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-13
To Senate Technology and the Arts Committee |
| SB568 | Intro
Sine Die | Excludes gender or sex markers from limited purpose driver's licenses and limited purpose provisional driver's licenses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB1260 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies that any police officer or agent of the Department of Land and Natural Resources upon whom the Board of Land and Natural Resources has conferred police powers may, in the performance of their primary duties and without a warrant, inspect ce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB120 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates a statutory right of victims and witnesses of sexual offenses under part V of chapter 707, HRS, to a speedy trial in criminal cases involving adult defendants. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-13
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1008 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the development of utility scale solar development projects on certain lands. Effective upon approval and repealed on 6/30/2025.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-13
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
