| SB592 | Pass | Updates the state librarian's salary cap to $175,000 per year. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-09
Act 224, 07/02/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1326). |
| SB19 | Pass | Amends the calculation of surplus lines insurance premium tax to tax the entirety of the premium using the rate established by Hawaii statute regardless of location of risk. (SB19 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-09
Act 216, 07/02/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1318). |
| SB536 | Pass | Clarifies that existing law intended to curb over-access to and abuse of opioids, including the time frame for filling prescriptions, supply limitations, and requirements to check the state electronic prescription accountability system and execute an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-09
Act 256, 07/05/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1358). |
| SB335 | Pass | Requires public meeting notices to include instructions regarding accommodations for persons with disabilities. Requires boards to post a notice in the board's office and to retain a copy of proof of filing the notice with the Lieutenant Governor's o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-09
Act 244, 07/02/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1346). |
| SB660 | Pass | Establishes a non-compliant state identification card for individuals that are unable to provide an updated photograph and documentation in person as required by the REAL ID Act of 2005. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-09
Act 233, 07/02/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1335). |
| SB1360 | Pass | Requires partnerships, estates, and trusts to withhold taxes on the income of nonresident partners and beneficiaries. Exempts publicly traded partnerships. (SB1360 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-09
Act 232, 07/02/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1334). |
| SB540 | Pass | Allows the board of pharmacy to approve pilot and demonstration projects for innovative applications in the practice of pharmacy under certain conditions. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-09
Act 222, 07/02/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1324). |
| SB1494 | Pass | Establishes a working group within the department of health to evaluate current behavioral health care and related systems and identify steps to promote effective integration to respond to and coordinate care for persons experiencing substance abuse,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-09
Act 263, 07/05/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1365). |
| SB980 | Pass | Defines, for the purpose of compulsory education, a private school to be an education institution that teaches kindergarten through grade twelve and that is licensed or accredited by specified licensing or accrediting organizations. Effective 7/1/202...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-09
Act 227, 07/02/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1329). |
| SB763 | Pass | Requires the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism, in consultation with the Department of Agriculture, to conduct a study to assess the impact of companies selling products in the United States using place-based marketing without...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-09
Act 258, 07/05/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1360). |
| SB1459 | Veto | Establishes the temporary State Commission on Surfing. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-09
Vetoed on 07-09-19 - Returned from the Governor without approval (Gov. Msg. No. 1387). |
| SB1292 | Veto | Requires hosting platforms that collect fees for booking services to register as tax collection agents and collect GET and TAT for transient accommodation bookings from operators and plan managers. Converts penalties for violation of TAT requirements...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-09
Vetoed on 07-09-19 - Returned from the Governor without approval (Gov. Msg. No. 1383). |
| SB1039 | Pass | Permits persons convicted of certain prostitution offenses to file a motion to vacate the conviction if the defendant is not convicted of another offense under the Penal Code within three years of the prostitution offense and without regard to the de...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-05
Act 176, 07/02/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1278). |
| SB1406 | Pass | Requires supervision of physician assistants by physician groups. Permits supervising physicians or groups to establish practice-appropriate record review policies. Establishes continuing education requirements and authorizes audits to enforce compli...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-05
Act 181, 07/02/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1283). |
| SB804 | Pass | Establishes the culturally competent palliative care pilot program within the Department of Health to promote palliative care, gather health care utilization data, and conduct bidding for at least two pilot programs for home- or community-based palli...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-05
Act 182, 07/02/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1284). |
| SB1037 | Pass | Amends the offense of abuse of family or household member by amending the type of physical abuse that constitutes strangulation to include blocking the nose and mouth or applying pressure to the chest. Clarifies that infliction of a visible bodily in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-05
Act 175, 07/02/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1277). |
| SB988 | Pass | Authorizes the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds to Mele Associates, Inc., a renewable energy developer, for the provision of electric energy and installation of renewable energy projects in Hawaii. (SB988 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-03
Act 160, 06/27/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1262). |
| SB398 | Pass | Directs the department of human services, in partnership with the state procurement office, to provide training on government procurement and other relevant procedures to nonprofit organizations that offer homeless outreach services or manage homeles...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-03
Act 162, 06/27/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1264). |
| SB981 | Pass | Repeals the Hawaii Teacher Standards Board Special Fund and transfers the remaining balance to the general fund. Amends related HRS sections. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-03
Act 161, 06/27/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1263). |
| SB1525 | Pass | Makes permanent the licensure requirements for home care agencies licensed by the Department of Health. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-03
Act 158, 06/27/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1260). |
| SB1091 | Pass | Makes an emergency appropriation to the Department of Transportation to mitigate landslide damages and install rockfall protection structures on the Pali Highway and Honoapiilani Highway. (SB1091 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-03
Act 159, 06/27/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1261). |
| SB162 | Pass | Increases the amount of the rental motor vehicle surcharge tax to $5. Repeals the additional surcharge tax for lessees who do not possess a valid Hawaii driver's license. Repeals the requirement that $2 of the additional surcharge be deposited into t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-03
Act 174, 07/01/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1276). |
| SB1466 | Pass | Establishes a process by which a law enforcement officer, family or household member, medical professional, educator, or colleague may obtain a court order to prevent a person from accessing firearms and ammunition when the person poses a danger of c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-01
Act 150, 06/26/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1252). |
| SB1148 | Pass | Appropriates funds into and out of the agricultural loan revolving fund for the Department of Agriculture to provide loans to support local ranchers and farmers. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-01
Act 152, 06/26/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1254). |
| SB50 | Pass | Appropriates funds to the University of Hawaii for the Hawaii Nutrition Employment and Training Program to include materials and supplies and the hiring of seven full-time equivalent instructional and student support positions. (SB50 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-01
Act 156, 06/26/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1258). |
| SB390 | Pass | Requires the Department of Agriculture to create a dollar-for-dollar matching program for beneficiaries of the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program to purchase Hawaii-grown produce. Appropriates funds. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-01
Act 153, 06/26/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1255). |
| SB661 | Pass | Grants procurement priority for fuel cell electric vehicles for state and county vehicle purchases. Includes fuel cell electric vehicles in the definition of "electric vehicles" for purposes of parking fee exemption, high occupancy vehicle lane use, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-01
Act 143, 06/26/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1245). |
| SB330 | Pass | Requires the Department of Human Services to implement an earned income disregard program as an intermediate step to implementing a medicaid buy-in program. Requires reports to the legislature. Takes effect upon approval by the Centers for Medicare a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-01
Act 155, 06/26/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1257). |
| SB375 | Pass | Requires the Department of Agriculture, in cooperation with the Office of the Governor, to develop a strategic plan to double local food production and increase food exports by 2030. Requires the Department of Agriculture to submit the strategic plan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-01
Act 151, 06/26/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1253). |
| SB549 | Pass | Requires restaurants that sell children's meals that include a beverage to make the default beverage a healthy beverage. (SB549 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-28
Act 138, 06/25/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1240). |
| SB1246 | Pass | Establishes goals for the adoption and proliferation of telehealth to increase health care access. Establishes the State Strategic Telehealth Advisory Council and permanent State Telehealth and Health Care Access Coordinator position. Dissolves the A...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-28
Act 139, 06/25/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1241). |
| SB567 | Pass | Appropriates funds for program ID HTH420 for the Department of Health to contract for legal assistance with petitions for assisted community treatment and related court proceedings. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-28
Act 130, 06/25/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1232). |
| SB366 | Pass | Appropriates funds to the Executive Office on Aging to fund the existing position of Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementia Services Coordinator. Exempts the position from civil service and collective bargaining. (SB366 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-28
Act 127, 06/25/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1229). |
| SB1025 | Pass | Requires the Executive Office on Aging (EOA) to develop and implement a plan to maximize the number of Kupuna Caregivers Program (Program) participants and submit a copy of the Program plan to the 2020 Legislature. Authorizes EOA to adopt administrat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-28
Act 126, 06/25/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1228). |
| SB663 | Pass | Establishes within the DOT a red light running committee to develop policy for pilot programs in the C&C of Honolulu, and Counties of Maui, Kauai, and Hawaii. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-28
Act 131, 06/25/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1233). |
| SB98 | Pass | Clarifies the requirement that a driver of a motor vehicle yield to or stop for a pedestrian by specifying when a pedestrian is considered to be within an intersection or adjacent crosswalk or crossing the roadway within a crosswalk. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-28
Act 132, 06/25/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1234). |
| SB1124 | Pass | Requires a licensed psychiatrist or advanced practice registered nurse with prescriptive authority and psychiatric specialization to determine, prior to a person's discharge from a psychiatric facility, whether an assisted community treatment plan is...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-28
Act 129, 06/25/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1231). |
| SB693 | Pass | Clarifies what pedestrians are required to do when in a crosswalk while a countdown timer is operating. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-28
Act 133, 06/25/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1235). |
| SB216 | Pass | Requires a mandatory recount of election votes and ballot measures when the margin of victory for election contests or tabulation for ballot measures is equal to or less than one hundred or one-quarter of one per cent of the votes cast, whichever is ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-28
Act 135, 06/25/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1237). |
| SB754 | Pass | Enacts produce safety rules in accordance with the federal Food and Drug Administration Standards for the Growing, Harvesting, Packing, and Holding of Produce for Human Consumption. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-25
Act 103, 06/21/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1205). |
| SB197 | Pass | Exempts candidates who are deemed elected, running unopposed, or unsuccessful after a primary or special primary election from the prohibition on donating excess campaign funds for charitable or scholarship purposes before the general election date. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-25
Act 107, 06/21/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1209). |
| SB144 | Pass | Removes restriction on access to transcripts from public contested hearings. Removes statutory remnants from when violations of the lobbyist law resulted in criminal penalties. Allows the state ethics commission to assess an administrative fine pursu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-25
Act 109, 06/21/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1211). |
| SB852 | Pass | Clarifies that lost earnings, mental health treatment, counseling, and therapy are eligible for reimbursement to a crime victim as a result of a defendant's offense. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-25
Act 108, 06/21/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1210). |
| SB1417 | Pass | Appropriates funds for burial grants for qualifying Filipino-American World War II veterans to provide funeral and burial services and transportation of their remains to the Philippines, subject to certain conditions. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-25
Act 121, 06/21/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1223). |
| SB1342 | Pass | Requires the Chief Justice to study and analyze the national landscape of donative transfer statutes and suggest revisions to Hawaii's donative transfer law. (SB1342 CD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-25
Act 105, 06/21/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1207). |
| SB1173 | Pass | Amends the income withholding requirements to impose a fine against any employer who (1) discharges from employment, refuses to employ, or takes disciplinary action against any noncustodial parent subject to income withholding, or (2) fails to withho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-12
Act 067, 06/07/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1168). |
| SB753 | Pass | Appropriates funds for operational expenses for revitalizing the Aquaculture Development Program within HDOA. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-12
Act 063, 06/07/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1164). |
| SB1263 | Pass | Amends the Uniform Controlled Substance Act by updating Schedule V and amending requirements for electronic prescriptions, for consistency with federal law. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-12
Act 095, 06/07/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1196). |
| SB1241 | Pass | Permits the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to share energy data with the Department of Health for purposes of regulating greenhouse gas emissions. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-12
Act 092, 06/07/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1193). |
| SB1231 | Pass | Amends the name and purpose of the Spouse and Child Abuse Special Account to allow the Department of Human Services to retain federal reimbursements for expenditure of funds for child and spousal abuse prevention and intervention under Title IV-E of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-12
Act 084, 06/07/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1185). |
