| HB274 | Intro
Sine Die | Beginning January 1, 2024, requires agencies to maintain a website with a list of open contested cases that are not confidential by law; provide access to documents filed that are not confidential by law; and establish a subscription-based email noti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| HB490 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes licensure of midwives including scope of practice, professional code of conduct, continuing education requirements, and prescriptive drug authority. Appropriates funds from the compliance resolution fund. Exempts traditional birth attenda...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-15
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB726 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a state income tax credit for certain expenses incurred by prekindergarten through twelfth-grade teachers, instructors, school librarians, counselors, principals, registrars, or aides in a school. (HB726 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1406 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for Iolani Palace's maintenance and operating costs. (HB1406 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| SB664 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows agencies to enter performance contracts to undertake or implement energy conservation or alternate energy measures for vehicles and vehicle fleets. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-15
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB701 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Legislative Reference Bureau to perform a study to determine if the physical therapy practice act should be amended to allow physical therapists to practice dry needling. (HB701 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-15
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB1327 | Intro
Sine Die | Permits a request for an absentee ballot or for permanent absentee voter status to be submitted in English or Hawaiian. Requires absentee ballots to be available to absentee voters in English or Hawaiian. Appropriates funds. (HB1327 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| SB791 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows the Hawaii labor relations board to admit and consider hearsay evidence in unfair labor practices proceedings.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-15
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB1289 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the issuance of building permits beginning on January 1, 2022, for new single-family dwellings that are part of a development of twenty or more dwellings and do not include a rooftop solar energy generation system, unless a variance is gran...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-15
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB1117 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Board of Agriculture and the Agribusiness Development Corporation to ensure the timely collection of lease payments, track lessees that are in arrears of lease payments, and offer payment plans for lessees in arears. Authorizes the BLNR ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| SB608 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates restrictions on the use of administrative segregation and disciplinary segregation in corrections facilities. Takes effect 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-15
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB1574 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the offense of unlawful shipment of e-liquid products. Includes e-liquid within the definition of "tobacco products", as used in the cigarette tax and tobacco tax law. Increases the license fee for persons engaged as a wholesaler or deale...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| SB710 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies that lands set aside to the Hawaii housing finance and development corporation by the governor or leased to the corporation by other state departments and agencies are exempt from the definition of "public lands". Requires the Hawaii housin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-15
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB835 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds a community liaison to the membership of the state board on geographic names. Requires the department of land and natural resources to publish and send a listing of its decisions, along with other information, to state and other agencies, and pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-15
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1171 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends chapter 414D, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to: clarify that a public benefit corporation may not purchase its memberships; clarify that a person who does not have authority to vote as a member of the board is not a director; clarify that a corpora...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-15
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB828 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a Coastal Erosion Proactive Adaptation Plan Task Force, to be assisted by an Advisory Group, to develop a Coastal Erosion Proactive Adaptation Plan for streamlined and proactive shoreline permitting procedures that better mitigate impacts...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-15
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB938 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the Department of Agriculture to provide grants and loans to ranchers and farmers negatively affected by natural disasters through an Agricultural Disaster Funds Program. (HB938 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| SB1066 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates a three-year pilot program to determine if state incentives tied to agricultural land leases can increase local food production. Requires the departments of agriculture, land and natural resources, Hawaiian home lands, and agribusiness develo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-15
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB436 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Health, in collaboration with the Federal Aviation Administration and the Department of Transportation, to conduct a study on the impacts of aviation noise on residents of the State. Appropriates funds to the Department of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-15
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB692 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes allocation of supplemental categorical funding to remote schools, subject to legislative appropriation. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-15
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1234 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires an application for motor vehicle registration to include additional identifying information. Authorizes the counties to assess a fine against the legal or registered owner of a vehicle deemed abandoned. Requires the legal or registered owner...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| SB356 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires homeowners insurers to provide written and oral disclosure to an insured regarding the natural disaster perils not covered by the insured's homeowners insurance policy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-15
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB1363 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes $ as the Office of Hawaiian Affairs' pro rata share of the public land trust. Transfers $ less certain funds to the Office of Hawaiian Affairs for underpayment of the public land trust funds for 7/1/2012 to 6/30/2019. Re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-15
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1543 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the expenditure of state funds by state agencies for the purchase of beverages in plastic bottles or rigid plastic containers, except under certain circumstances. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-15
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB483 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the use of private lands for the ohana zones pilot program. Provides additional time for the implementation of the ohana zones pilot program. Extends sunset dates of the Emergency Department Homelessness Assessment and Medical Respite pilo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-15
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1432 | Intro
Sine Die | Removes the monetary cap for the amount of conveyance taxes collected that can be paid 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] | 2019-02-15
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1481 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a five-year pilot program within the Department of Agriculture for agricultural loans that do not incur interest or require payments for three years. (HB1481 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| SB610 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the Kauai flooding disaster relief appropriation made in Act 12, Session Laws of Hawaii 2018, to include flood mitigation measures. Extends the lapse date of the appropriation to June 30, 2020. Exempts the appropriation from certain restrictio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-15
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1094 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Department of Land and Natural Resources for the operations of the Aha Moku Advisory Committee. Appropriates funds to hire an expert on natural and physical environment to serve in a full-time equivalent position on the comm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| SB531 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes financial exploitation of a vulnerable adult by a caregiver a Class A felony. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-15
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB1172 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends chapter 467B, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to replace the term "gross revenue" with "total revenue" and define the term "total revenue" for purposes of calculating the annual filing fee, clarify when professional solicitors must file financial rep...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-15
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB930 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Hawaii climate change mitigation and adaptation commission and coordinator to assist the State and counties with developing and implementing various sea level rise adaptation plans and climate change mitigation efforts. Appropriate funds...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-15
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1136 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits scuba spearfishing at night for the purpose of taking aquatic life, except through a permit. Takes effect 12/31/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-15
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB142 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires any restaurant that offers a children's meal to offer water, non-flavored milk, a nondairy milk substitute that has no more than 130 calories per container or serving, or no more than eight fluid ounces of fruit or vegetable juice as the def...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-15
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| SB1484 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the department of land and natural resources to devise an appropriate plan to create a hiking trail from Malaekahana state park, along the coast, to Turtle Bay Resort passing makai of the James Campbell National Wildlife Refuge...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-15
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1168 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows a state department employee's designation of beneficiary form to be kept in the department where the employee is employed. Eliminates the requirement that the designation be a verified written statement. Takes effect on 1/1/2051. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-15
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB547 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates an exclusion from income tax for the lesser of an unspecified per cent of gross annual income or an unspecified flat rate amount of gross annual income earned by a farmer from farming activities. (HB547 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| HB581 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementia Services Coordinator position within the Executive Office on Aging. Establishes Program Specialist IV position in the Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion Division. (HB581...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1014 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes permanent license exemptions for home care agencies providing services under contract with the City and County of Honolulu and adds exemption for agencies serving only Medicaid waiver participants. (HB1014 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| SB1375 | Intro
Sine Die | Conforms statutory prohibitions against wage discrimination with other prohibitions on employment discrimination. Clarifies allowable justifications for compensation differentials and remedies for pay disparity. Requires employers to disclose wage ra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-15
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB670 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the maximum fine that may be assessed per fireworks-related violation from $2,000 to $5,000, provided that the fireworks violation does not otherwise have a specific penalty enumerated in chapter 132D, HRS.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-15
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB734 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the agency or appropriate court that receives an income withholding request from an obligee to enter an order requiring the obligor's place of employment to classify the obligor as an employee for payroll or accounting purposes in order to b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-15
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB650 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a teacher retention advisory board within the Department of Education for administrative purposes to study and make recommendations regarding teacher retention and recruitment in the State. Requires the advisory board to design a teacher ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| HB406 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires DBEDT to develop annual regional economic plans for each county to provide K-16 pathways and qualified internship programs to meet each region's specific industry needs. Appropriates funds. (HB406 HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| SB91 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects of the department of education.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-15
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB883 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for healthy start child abuse prevention services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-15
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1544 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a task force to examine the implementation of an automatic voter registration system in the State. (HB1544 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1038 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes an emergency appropriation to provide funds for the Department of Public Safety to pay for the temporary housing of 248 inmates at a non-state facility for the remaining six months of fiscal year 2019, during work on capital improvements to the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1328 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires that state and county websites be translated into the Hawaiian language. Appoints the Office of Planning to coordinate the translation. Appropriates funds. (HB1328 HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| HB995 | Intro
Sine Die | To clarify wording regarding delegation of powers to the Hawaii Teacher Standard Board's Executive Director to timely approve license and permit applications, to include comprehensive reporting of data from Hawaii Department of Education, Charter Sch...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
