| SB891 | Engross
Sine Die | Exempts affordable housing units, additions to existing dwelling units, accessory dwelling units, ohana dwelling units, and affordable housing projects developed by the Hawaii Public Housing Authority from school impact fee requirements. (SB891 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-14
To House Lower and Higher Education Committee |
| SB397 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires contractors and subcontractors to submit tax clearances as a condition of obtaining building permits for private developments exceeding a certain value. Requires contractors and subcontractors to submit additional tax clearances before assig...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-14
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee |
| SB699 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to support the work of the State of Hawaii Museum of Natural and Cultural History. (SB699 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-14
To House Tourism & International Affairs Committee |
| SB1 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the ALOHA homes program under the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation (HHFDC) to facilitate the development of low-cost homes for sale to Hawaii residents on state-owned and county-owned land near rail stations of the Honol...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-14
The committees on WLH recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 6 Ayes: Representative(s) Yamane, Todd, Har, Tarnas, Wildberger; Ayes with reservations: Representative(s) Thielen; Noes: none; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Lowen. |
| SB940 | Engross
Sine Die | Grants county agencies the explicit right to enter property to investigate agricultural buildings and structures for violations of, and compliance with, building permit and code exemption qualifications. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-13
To House Agriculture Committee |
| SB346 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits the planting of large trees along evacuation routes and requires the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency to identify large trees along evacuation routes and trim, spray, or remove large trees if the trees have the potential to obstruct the e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-13
To House Public Safety, Veterans, & Military Affairs Committee |
| SB694 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires that food scales be approved for use, accurate, and properly licensed by the department of agriculture as a commercial measuring device and that indicate the price of the item being weighed. Exempts farmers' markets. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-13
To House Agriculture Committee |
| SB642 | Engross
Sine Die | Inserts article thirteen of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples into the Hawaii Revised Statutes. Requires that Hawaiian be used for public acts and transactions. Directs the office of language access to provide service...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-13
To House Water, Land, & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB878 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the qualified nonprofit housing trust program to authorize the Hawaii housing finance and development corporation to provide loans to qualified nonprofit housing trusts and nonprofit community development financial institutions to develop...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-12
To House Housing Committee |
| SB152 | Engross
Sine Die | Corrects labeling dimension with regard to fireworks used for display.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-12
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| SB1529 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the Hawaii state energy office. Establishes the deputy director of energy. Ends funding for the Hawaii clean energy initiative from the energy security special fund. Increases the distribution of tax revenue to the energy systems developm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-12
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| SB1126 | Engross
Sine Die | Beginning on November 1, 2019, requires all vulnerable coastal property sales or transfers to include a sea level rise hazard exposure statement to ensure that new property owners and transferees understand the special hazards, requirements, and limi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-12
To House Water, Land, & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB221 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the Department of Health to coordinate with each county wastewater agency to establish a low interest loan program to upgrade or convert cesspools to septic systems or aerobic treatment unit systems, or to connect cesspools to existing sew...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-11
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| SB1495 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the Office of Hawaiian Affairs to intervene upon official action of the board of trustees in any action to quiet title in which any portion of the land claimed by the plaintiff is kuleana land. Takes effect 3/15/2094. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-11
To House Water, Land, & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB645 | Engross
Sine Die | Expands ignition interlock system to include other alternative systems or technology that monitors a driver's alcohol concentration. Replacing the term "ignition interlock" with "intoxicant control system". Requires that the revocation of license per...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-11
To House Transportation Committee |
| SB795 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for operating expenses of the Department of Budget and Finance. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-11
To House Legislative Management Committee |
| SB1268 | Engross
Sine Die | Revises the manner in which persons authorized to collect rent provide information to the Department of Taxation and requires (as opposed to permits) them to report the total amount of rent collected under sections 237-30.5 and 237D-8.5, Hawaii Revis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Finance Committee |
| SB122 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits discrimination, including in advertisements for available real property, based on participation in a housing assistance program, or requirements related to participation in housing assistance programs, in real estate transactions and requir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Housing Committee |
| SB1502 | Engross
Sine Die | Adds the chairperson of the Hawaiian Homes Commission or the chairperson's designee to serve as an ex officio, voting member of the Commission on Water Resource Management.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Water, Land, & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB193 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the State Council on Mental Health to comprise at least 3 members with demonstrated knowledge of or work experience involving Native Hawaiian concepts of well-being, culturally grounded mental health methodologies, or traditional healing or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Water, Land, & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB1022 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a Child Welfare Services Task Force to review the Child Welfare Services Branch of the Department of Human Services and examine best practices that will help to improve child care safety through the Branch. Requires report to Legislature....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Human Services & Homelessness Committee |
| SB1161 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes rules, regulations, and permitting procedures for transportation network companies operating in the State. Makes permanent insurance requirements for transportation network companies and transportation network company drivers. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Transportation Committee |
| SB1433 | Engross
Sine Die | Extends the period in which a county may adopt an ordinance to establish a surcharge on state tax, under certain conditions, from 3/31/2019 to 12/31/2019. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Finance Committee |
| SB1542 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Department of Land and Natural Resources for the Board of Water Supply to offset the design and construction costs for one of four exploratory wells proposed by the Board of Water Supply for the proposed Kunia wells IV pump ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Water, Land, & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB875 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for salaries and benefits for lifeguards for Kua Bay, Kekaha Kai State Park, on the island of Hawaii, an area under the jurisdiction of the Department of Land and Natural Resources. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee |
| SB1307 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the Department of Education to determine the feasibility of combining the resources and organization of the Department of Accounting and General Services with the Department of Education on the islands of Kauai, Maui, Molokai, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Lower and Higher Education Committee |
| SB1505 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the department of transportation to make harbor facilities temporarily available as a harbor of safe refuge when the National Weather Service forecasts a tropical storm or hurricane strength cyclones, unless specifically prohibited by the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Water, Land, & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB477 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows the Department of Education to provide sexual abuse and sex trafficking prevention training to certain staff. Requires DOE to make available to certain staff explanatory information about protocols that DOE has approved for providing services ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Lower and Higher Education Committee |
| SB1507 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to plan for and hold a 2020 Hawaii Philippines sister city trade show and economic outlook symposium. Takes effect 1/1/2051. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Tourism & International Affairs Committee |
| SB334 | Engross
Sine Die | Codifies the administrative rule definition of "assistance animal". Clarifies the type of verification an individual may provide to substantiate a reasonable accommodation request for a specific assistance animal. Specifies that possession of a vest ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Health Committee |
| SB656 | Engross
Sine Die | Repeals the requirement that the auditor conduct an annual review of certain rapid transportation authorities in the State. Repeals the requirements that the comptroller verify the capital costs of a locally preferred alternative for a mass transit p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Transportation Committee |
| SB198 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes counties to levy a county surcharge on transient accommodations tax in their respective counties pursuant to certain conditions. Sunsets on 12/31/2036. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Tourism & International Affairs Committee |
| SB808 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes pharmacies to accept the return of any prescription drug for disposal via collection receptacles or mail-back programs; prohibits pharmacies from redispensing returned prescription drugs or from accepting returned prescription drugs in exc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Health Committee |
| SB1206 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends section 39-6, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to authorize premiums received from the sale of general obligation bonds to be used for eligible capital expenditures pursuant to section 39-2, Hawaii Revised Statutes. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Finance Committee |
| SB141 | Engross
Sine Die | Specifies that disclosure of communications by an agency to the ombudsman does not waive any existing attorney-client or attorney work-product privilege pertaining to those communications. Prohibits the ombudsman from disclosing privileged communicat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Legislative Management Committee |
| SB498 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires inclusion of an unspecified minimum percentage of affordable housing units in state agencies' development and redevelopment plans along the rail transit corridor. Allows the Office of Planning to make exceptions to the affordable housing req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Transportation Committee |
| SB364 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a professional tour guide certification task force to determine whether it is appropriate to require persons who use various state resources for commercial purposes or apply for various commercial use permits to hold and maintain certific...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Tourism & International Affairs Committee |
| SB253 | Engross
Sine Die | Codifies the substantive provisions of Executive Order No. 1802, which requires all state agencies to: contract internet-related services only with internet service providers that demonstrate and contractually agree to support and practice net neutra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Intrastate Commerce Committee |
| SB308 | Engross
Sine Die | Extends the deadline for the Legislative Reference Bureau to submit the sunrise analysis required by Act 109, Session Laws of Hawaii 2018, from 9/1/2019, to 12/2/2019. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee |
| SB671 | Engross
Sine Die | Exempts students in post-secondary education programs from immunization requirements if they attend classes exclusively online or through distance learning. Takes effect on 7/1/2020. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Health Committee |
| SB1220 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits the suspension and expulsion of children participating in the Executive Office on Early Learning Public Prekindergarten Program. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Lower and Higher Education Committee |
| SB565 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Transportation to implement a vision zero program in Hawaii by 7/1/2020. Establishes a goal of no traffic fatalities or serious injuries by 2030. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Transportation Committee |
| SB489 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes an offense of knowingly capturing, taking, possessing, abusing, entangling, or killing a shark in state marine waters, along with penalties and fines. Expands the existing prohibition on knowingly capturing or killing a manta ray in state...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Water, Land, & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB395 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the exemption from conveyance tax for realty leases of less than 5 years by applying the exemption only to residential leases of 1 year or less. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Finance Committee |
| SB1368 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a collective bargaining unit for graduate student assistants employed by the University of Hawaii. Takes effect on 1/1/2051. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Lower and Higher Education Committee |
| SB662 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits vehicle lessors from renting, leasing, or offering for rent or lease, vehicles subject to a manufacturer's recall, until appropriate repairs are made. Defines peer-to-peer vehicle sharing related terms. Requires persons in the peer-to-peer ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Transportation Committee |
| SB1275 | Engross
Sine Die | Makes various technical amendments to chapters 231, 243, 244D, and 245, Hawaii Revised Statutes. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Finance Committee |
| SB472 | Engross
Sine Die | Makes an appropriation for a feasibility and cost study relating to the construction of a new boat ramp and pier in Puna. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Water, Land, & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB1016 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits a business from seeking a new retail tobacco permit or renewal of an existing permit if the place of business is located within 750 feet of a preschool, school, or public playground. Beginning January 1, 2020, prohibits the sale of tobacco ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Health Committee |
| SB1134 | Engross
Sine Die | Makes an appropriation for a Heeia State Park community-based long-range plan and planning and design of the education center for the Heeia National Estuarine Research Reserve System. Takes effect 12/31/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Water, Land, & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
