| SB1298 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the department of transportation for the purpose of reopening Highway 132, also known as Kapoho Road.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-13
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB686 | Intro
Sine Die | Legalizes the personal use, possession, and sale of cannabis in a specified quantity. Authorizes medical cannabis dispensaries to sell non-medical cannabis for personal use beginning February 1, 2021. Subjects transactions for non-medical cannabis to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-13
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB137 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the fine that may be assessed, for campaign spending law violations, against a noncandidate committee making only independent expenditures and that has received at least 1 contribution of more than $10,000, or spent more than $10,000 in an ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-13
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB239 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits manufacturers and contract testing facilities in Hawaii from using animal test methods for the purpose of testing cosmetics or household products for which an alternative test method is available. Imposes a civil fine and authorizes the att...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB258 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the use of lead-based paint on outdoor structures after 12/31/20. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-13
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB452 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to continue and expand health care apprenticeship programs at UH community colleges.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-13
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB658 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires motor vehicles to have headlights and taillights on at all times during the operation of the vehicle.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-13
To Senate Transportation Committee |
| SB1262 | Intro
Sine Die | Adjusts the proportion of conveyance tax revenues deposited into the Land Conservation Fund. Appropriates funds from the land conservation fund for resource land acquisition. Takes effect 12/31/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-13
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB200 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the University of Hawaii to fund one or more programs sponsored or organized by a University of Hawaii community college or a four-year campus to expand opportunities for international college experiences for University of Hawai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-13
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1269 | Intro
Sine Die | Replaces the tax boards of review with a single tax appeal review panel comprised of members who shall devote full time to their duties. Amends the grounds upon which an appeal to the administrative appeals and dispute resolution program may be made ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-13
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1313 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires both chambers of the legislature to establish rules for livestreaming public hearings and informational briefings at the state capitol to the public through audiovisual technology.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-13
To Senate Technology and the Arts Committee |
| SB357 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to upgrade the sound system in the auditorium and conference rooms at the state capitol.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-12
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| SB475 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects of the department of human services. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-12
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1139 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for flooding remediation by the engineering division of the department of land and natural resources on Tax Map Key (3) 2-3-023:006 to be expended by the department of land and natural resources. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-12
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1447 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for operating expenses of charter schools and the state public charter school commission. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-12
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB240 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the state building codes to incorporate the International Green Construction Code and minimum requirements for the recycling, reuse, donation, and resale of non-hazardous construction waste.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-12
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB44 | Intro
Sine Die | Specifies that the attorney general shall represent the University of Hawaii in any litigation, render legal counsel to the university, and draft legal documents for the university. Repeals the authority of the board of regents of the University of H...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-12
To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| SB157 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the requirement for the adoption of administrative rules relating to the adoption process of the state building code.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-12
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB1141 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the department of land and natural resources for the purpose of refurbishing and retrofitting the Kulani water tanks to serve as water reservoirs for firefighting. Takes effect 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-12
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1142 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the department of land and natural resources for the demolition and removal of structures at Uncle Billy's in Hilo, Hawaii. Takes effect 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-12
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1309 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to enter into ninety-nine-year leases of units in residential condominiums located on state lands.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-12
To Senate Housing Committee |
| SB594 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes and appropriates funds for a school meal subsidy program within the department of education to provide school lunch subsidies to children whose families do not otherwise qualify for free lunch under the free and reduced price lunch progra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-12
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB210 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the family court to terminate parental rights if the court determines, by clear and convincing evidence, that a natural parent committed sexual assault of the other natural parent; the child was conceived as a result of the sexual assault by...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB1527 | Intro
Sine Die | Bans the sale of beverage containers connected to each other with plastic connecting devices. Establishes fines. Establishes the plastic reduction special fund. Takes effect 1/1/2021. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-12
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB147 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the requirement for administrative rules in the adoption process of the state building codes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-12
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB145 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the process for adoption of the state fire code to conform with other Hawaii state building codes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-12
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB584 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Education to include source of project funding and amount of legislative appropriations used for some other purpose and the justification for such use in the information posted on the Department's website relating to school...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-12
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB654 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the employment of lifeguards and for life-saving equipment at Kua Bay. Takes effect 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-12
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1483 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the definition of "lot", "houselot", "residential lot", and "residential houselot" in section 516-1, HRS, by deleting the requirement that such parcels be zoned for residential use.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-12
To Senate Housing Committee |
| SB1007 | Intro
Sine Die | Redirects the $1,000,000 of transient accommodations tax revenues currently allocated to operate a Hawaiian center and the museum of Hawaiian music and dance at the Hawaii convention center to have the State of Hawaii Museum of Natural and Cultural H...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-12
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB615 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Department of Land and Natural Resources Division of Forestry and Wildlife to purchase heavy equipment for use on Kauai. Takes effect 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-12
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1496 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the Hawaii community development authority to permit one building of up to seven hundred sixty-eight feet in height within each approved master plan area for the Mauka area of the Kakaako community development district; provided that the b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-12
To Senate Housing Committee |
| SB585 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies that the school-level minor repairs and maintenance special fund shall be used only to fund minor repairs and maintenance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-12
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB977 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires each state government branch to establish a shared leave program for state employees. Allows the chief executive of a county to establish a shared leave program for county employees. Precludes a state government branch from prohibiting leave...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-12
To Senate Labor, Culture and the Arts Committee |
| SB858 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposes amendments to the Constitution of the State of Hawaii to expressly provide that the legislature may authorize the counties to issue tax increment bonds. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-12
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB832 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds as grants-in-aid to the counties for assistance with identifying and mapping important agricultural lands. Takes effect 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-12
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1482 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Hawaii commercial harbors authority. Transfers jurisdiction and functions relating to commercial harbors and commercial maritime operations from the department of transportation to the Hawaii commercial harbors authority. Appropriates...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-12
To Senate Transportation Committee |
| SB969 | Intro
Sine Die | Beginning in the 2022-2023 school year, requires each public elementary school or public charter elementary school to offer instruction in the basics of computer science and computational thinking. Beginning in the 2023-2024 school year, requires eac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-12
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1068 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes an appropriation to improve na ala hele, the Hawaii statewide trail and access program, by improving access to and maintaining state controlled recreational trails statewide and promoting hiker safety and education and outreach regarding hiker ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-12
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB140 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires candidates who do not intend to receive or spend more than $1,000 in an election period to notify the Campaign Spending Commission of this intention by 6/30 of an election year, and noncandidate committees that do not intend to receive or sp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB643 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that excess contributions by nonresident contributors shall escheat to the Hawaii election campaign fund if not returned to the contributor within thirty days. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-12
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB873 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires priority be given to affordable, reserved, and workforce housing applicants who work within twenty-five miles of the housing sought.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-12
To Senate Housing Committee |
| SB1018 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the Hawaii Zero to Three Court. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-12
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB849 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the board of regents of the University of Hawaii to waive the nonresident tuition and fee differential for veterans of the United States Navy who served on an active ship or ship decommissioned after 2000 that is named after a person, place,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-12
To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| SB922 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects of the department of land and natural resources. Takes effect 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-12
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB588 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the department of education to report the creation of any temporary positions to the legislature at least twenty days prior to the convening of each regular session.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-12
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB936 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Mauna Kea special fund and Mauna Kea natural area reserve special fund. Reallocates funds from the Mauna Kea lands management special fund to the Mauna Kea special fund and Mauna Kea natural area reserve special fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-12
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| SB906 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Department of Land and Natural Resources for the Division of Boating and Ocean Recreation to make improvements at Wailoa small boat harbor. Takes effect 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-12
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB259 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits offshore drilling for oil or natural gas in state marine waters. Prohibits issuance of permits for or in connection with the development or operation of any facility or infrastructure associated with offshore drilling for oil or natural gas...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-12
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1467 | Intro
Sine Die | Restricts asset forfeiture to cases involving the commission of a covered criminal misdemeanor or felony offense. Requires seized property to be forfeited only when the property owner has been convicted of an underlying covered criminal misdemeanor o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-12
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
