| SB379 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows the governor to negotiate land exchanges to acquire lands that are suitable for long-term diversified agricultural production in return for state lands to be developed for housing. Requires a report to the legislature. Takes effect 12/31/2050....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Water, Land, & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB1027 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires health insurance policies and contracts issued after 12/31/19 to provide coverage for the cost of hearing aids at a minimum of $1,500 per hearing aid for each hearing-impaired ear every 36 months. Exempts mandatory health care coverage from ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Health Committee |
| SB419 | Engross
Sine Die | Raises the minimum age requirement to enter into marriage from sixteen to eighteen years of age. Removes the parental consent and written approval by the family court requirements for a minor to marry. Requires, rather than permits, the family court ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Human Services & Homelessness Committee |
| SB1243 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the State newborn hearing screening program to mandate reporting of diagnostic audiologic evaluation results, improve hearing follow-up of infants, and update definitions and terminology. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Health Committee |
| SB497 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifies the grant application process requirements for organizations that may receive a grant from the State. Specifies additional grant application process requirements for nonprofit organizations. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee |
| SB572 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the auditor to conduct a performance audit of certain offices and programs within the Department of Public Safety. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Public Safety, Veterans, & Military Affairs Committee |
| SB798 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the digitization of records, files, and other materials of the state historic preservation division to be expended by the department of land and natural resources. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Water, Land, & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB1534 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits ticket sellers from disclosing ticket purchasing information to any third party unless the ticket seller has received consent from the ticket purchaser. Prohibits ticket sellers from disclosing ticket purchasers' personally identifiable inf...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| SB438 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides a tiered income tax credit to taxpayers who install or upgrade an electric vehicle charging system that is available for use by the public, unless otherwise required by law. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| SB827 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits a merchant in the State from adopting a warranty policy that requires a purchaser to pay an additional fee to obtain a repair, replacement, or refund for goods returned pursuant to the warranty. Defines "merchant in the State". (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| SB1050 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a task force within the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to examine and report on the feasibility of the State establishing and operating a housing loan program for state employees similar to the United States Department...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Housing Committee |
| SB1500 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Health to collaborate with various agencies to research and develop a plan for a mechanism for increased water circulation in Pokai Bay. Requires the Department of Health to report its activities to the legislature. Takes e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Water, Land, & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB1501 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to implement the cesspool compliance grant program. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Water, Land, & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB705 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for operating expenses of the Department of Accounting and General Services. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Legislative Management Committee |
| SB831 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the counties to incorporate urban agriculture principles and policies in land use planning.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Water, Land, & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB1340 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires that mandatory seller disclosures in real estate transactions include identification of residential real properties lying within the sea level rise exposure area as officially designated by the Hawaii Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Water, Land, & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB318 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for custodial and maintenance staff at the University of Hawaii at Hilo.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Lower and Higher Education Committee |
| SB1224 | Engross
Sine Die | Excludes lands set aside by the governor to the Hawaii Public Housing Authority and lands to which the Hawaii Public Housing Authority holds title from the definition of "public lands" in section 171-2, Hawaii Revised Statutes, provided that the land...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Housing Committee |
| SB149 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the state fire council to employ additional staff, contract with any county fire department to fulfill staff positions, and purchase office equipment and supplies. Repeals the requirement that the state fire council administrator and other...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee |
| SB1516 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes reduced taxpayer penalties for nonpayments and underpayments that are due to reasonable cause. Allows a taxpayer to post a bond to avoid penalties and interest. Assesses interest on a deficiency in state income taxes paid caused by a chan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Finance Committee |
| SB543 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifies that the requirement for a motor vehicle insurer to maintain a complete sales and claims service office does not apply to the county of Kalawao.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Transportation Committee |
| SB161 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides to a taxpayer who hires an individual with a disability a nonrefundable tax credit for the 12-month period after the individual is initially hired by the taxpayer. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2019. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee |
| SB1428 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes any county with a population equal to or less than 500,000 that adopts a county surcharge on state tax ordinance to use the surcharges received from the State for infrastructure and public safety. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Finance Committee |
| SB554 | Engross
Sine Die | Adds a minimum penalty of $50 per violation of the state water code and makes each day that a violation exists or continues a separate offense. Requires the Commission on Water Resource Management to determine the amount of the penalty based on the c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Water, Land, & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB1251 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the BLNR to extend the rental period or term of leases of public lands for commercial or industrial use upon approval of a proposed development agreement to make substantial improvements to the existing improvements as long as the length o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Water, Land, & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB517 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires each county to prepare a housing supply plan to plan for projected increases in the State's housing supply to meet housing demands of the respective county, identify and analyze existing and projected housing needs for all income levels, and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Housing Committee |
| SB557 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits state and county law enforcement agencies from complying with federal immigration detainers or honoring requests for non-public information unless specifically required to do so by a warrant signed by a judge or provisions of federal, state...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Public Safety, Veterans, & Military Affairs Committee |
| SB1296 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Department of Land and Natural Resources for support of the Kahoolawe Island Reserve Commission, including two full-time equivalent (2.0 FTE) permanent positions. Takes effect 12/31/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Water, Land, & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB1533 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the tax advisory commission to advise the department of taxation in making the tax system more user-friendly for the taxpayer and private sector. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Finance Committee |
| SB714 | Engross
Sine Die | Imposes the transient accommodations tax on resort fees that are calculated separately from the advertised transient accommodation's rate. Clarifies the calculation of the transient accommodations tax. Amends the formula for the amount of transient a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Tourism & International Affairs Committee |
| SB1078 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the definition of "bicycle" for the purposes of county vehicular taxes, highway safety laws, and Statewide Traffic Code by adding and defining low-speed electric bicycles and requiring that an operator of a low-speed electric bicycle be at lea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Transportation Committee |
| SB269 | Engross
Sine Die | Enables condominium associations to adopt rules and regulations that prohibit smoking by all persons inside a condominium unit and on lanais and in the entire condominium project. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| SB1370 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a grant program to assist lessees on Hawaiian home lands with cesspool upgrade, conversion, or connection costs. Establishes that a recipient of a cesspool upgrade grant shall not be eligible for the cesspool upgrade, conversion, or conne...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Water, Land, & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB1254 | Engross
Sine Die | Expands the type of revenue that can be deposited into the Endangered Species Trust Fund. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| SB191 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Budget and Finance to use certain reporting and accountability procedures in implementing the public land trust reporting requirements of Act 178, Session Laws of Hawaii 2006. Requires the Department of Budget and Finance t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Water, Land, & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB1512 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the University of Hawaii, West Oahu campus, to offer a bachelor's of arts degree in creative media. Requires the University of Hawaii system and board of regents to finalize the degree by no later than May 1, 2019. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Lower and Higher Education Committee |
| SB826 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes an exemption that allows an insurer to send a privacy notice to its customers at least once every three years, rather than annually. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| SB1014 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the income tax credit for expenses for household and dependent care services necessary for gainful employment by increasing the taxpayer's applicable percentage of employment-related expenses and dollar limit on amounts creditable that constit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Finance Committee |
| SB1389 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation, at the request of the Hawaii Community Development Authority (HCDA), to establish and operate transit-oriented development infrastructure improvement zone subaccounts within the dwell...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Transportation Committee |
| SB1293 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the State to enter into a mutual assistance agreement with an out-of-state utility or other energy provider in order to restore power and utility service to the State, without regard to any regulatory law, in times of an emergency or natur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| SB574 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes that every judgment for child support is enforceable until paid in full.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Human Services & Homelessness Committee |
| SB1329 | Engross
Sine Die | Aligns the salary of the Public Utilities Commission chair with the highest pay tier of the First Deputy Attorney General. Aligns the salary of the other Public Utilities Commission commissioners with the lowest pay tier of the First Deputy Attorney ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee |
| SB740 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes each county to adopt ordinances establishing a minimum housing density on state lands that are within an urban district and zoned for development or redevelopment. Allows developers to be exempt from this requirement under certain conditio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Housing Committee |
| SB1029 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the policy advisory board for elder affairs to establish quorum requirements through its bylaws and post its bylaws on the executive office on aging's website. Specifies that a majority of currently serving members, but no fewer than eight, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Human Services & Homelessness Committee |
| SB1274 | Engross
Sine Die | Changes the fees for certain permits and licenses issued pursuant to chapters 243, 244D and 245, Hawaii Revised Statutes, from specified amounts to reasonable fees to be established by Department of Taxation rule. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Finance Committee |
| SB1504 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires a tax return preparer to have a valid preparer tax identification number issued by the Internal Revenue Service. Requires the tax return preparer to furnish the preparer's tax identification number on any return or claim for refund as requir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Finance Committee |
| SB226 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates moneys for youth suicide early intervention, prevention, and education initiatives in Kauai, Hawaii, and Maui counties. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Health Committee |
| SB11 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits restaurants from serving prepared foods using polystyrene foam containers statewide. Authorizes the Department of Health to adopt rules. Takes effect on December 31, 2020. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| SB1111 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for operating expenses of the Department of Accounting and General Services. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Legislative Management Committee |
| SB1339 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires a vulnerable coastal property purchaser statement to be executed by the purchaser or transferee with the sale or transfer of vulnerable coastal real estate. Takes effect 12/31/2050. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To House Water, Land, & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
