| 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). |
| HB1248 | Pass | Enacts voting by mail uniformly across all counties for all elections commencing in 2020. Establishes a limited number of voter service centers that would remain open from the tenth business day preceding an election through the day of the election t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-28
Act 136, 06/25/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1238). |
| 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). |
| HB168 | Pass | Authorizes a voter with special needs, including a disability, to request that a ballot be forwarded by electronic transmission at any time. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-28
Act 137, 06/25/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1239). |
| HB757 | Pass | Requires DOT and county transportation departments to adopt Vision Zero policies to prevent and eliminate traffic fatalities. Requires the State Highway Safety Council, in consultation with the counties, to review traffic policies and recommendations...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-28
Act 134, 06/25/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1236). |
| HB465 | Pass | Makes an appropriation to the department of health to provide funding for the kupuna care program. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-28
Act 123, 06/25/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1225). |
| 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). |
| HB471 | Pass | Establishes quorum requirements for the Policy Advisory Board for Elder Affairs. (HB471 CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-28
Act 125, 06/25/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1227). |
| HB1453 | Pass | Authorizes the DOH to establish fees for ground transportation to medical facilities and for provision of emergency medical services that do not include transport. Authorizes transportation by ambulance to medical facilities other than hospital emerg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-28
Act 140, 06/25/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1242). |
| HB1070 | Pass | Provides that a public school shall not be required by the Department of Education to expend its own school funds to maintain any geographically disadvantageous land on or adjacent to its property. Appropriates funds for teacher stipends for the Grow...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-25
Act 116, 06/21/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1218). |
| HB546 | Pass | Allows a class 18 small craft producer pub licensee to manufacture not more than 70,000 barrels of malt beverages on the licensee's premises during the license year. Clarifies that a class 14 brewpub licensee or class 18 small craft producer pub lice...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-25
Act 115, 06/21/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1217). |
| HB116 | Pass | Appropriates funds for the operating budget of the Executive Branch for fiscal years 20192020 and 20202021. (HB116 CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-25
Act 113, 06/21/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1215). |
| 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). |
| HB807 | Pass | Amends the misdemeanor offense of unsworn falsification to authorities to include knowingly making a false statement to a state investigator or county inspector in certain circumstances. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-25
Act 114, 06/21/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1216). |
| 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). |
| HB507 | Pass | Authorizes a judge or magistrate to approve a search warrant based on sworn oral statements or electronic communications. Effective 1/1/2020. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-25
Act 117, 06/21/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1219). |
| 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). |
| HB1157 | Pass | Exempts students in post-secondary education programs from immunization requirements if they attend classes exclusively online or through distance learning, under certain conditions. (HB1157 CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-25
Act 101, 06/20/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1203). |
| HB903 | Pass | Requires the Judiciary to establish a financial hardship task force. (HB903 CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-25
Act 112, 06/21/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1214). |
| HB1307 | Pass | Requires the Legislative Reference Bureau (LRB) to submit a report to the Legislature regarding the existing administrative hearings process in the State and the potential for a centralized office of administrative hearings. Requires state department...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-25
Act 110, 06/21/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1212). |
| HB1268 | Pass | Amends or repeals various provisions of the Hawaii Revised Statutes and the Session Laws of Hawaii for the purposes of correcting errors and references, clarifying language, and deleting obsolete or unnecessary provisions. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-25
Act 111, 06/21/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1213). |
| 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). |
| HB463 | Pass | Requires and appropriates funds to the Department of Agriculture to partner with the Hawaii agricultural community to establish a Food Safety Certification Training Program to assist small to medium sized farms to comply with the United States Depart...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-25
Act 104, 06/21/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1206). |
| HB169 | Pass | Clarifies provisions of the State Ethics Code regarding gift disclosure statements, retention of financial disclosure statements, transcripts from contested case hearings, and ethics training. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-25
Act 120, 06/21/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1222). |
| HB170 | Pass | Clarifies application of the fair treatment and conflict of interest laws with respect to legislators and task force members. (HB170 CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-25
Act 119, 06/21/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1221). |
| HB852 | Pass | Establishes the Hawaii State Energy Office and Chief Energy Officer position in Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism (DBEDT). Repeals Director of DBEDT's function as Energy Resources Coordinator and Renewable Energy Facilitator. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-25
Act 122, 06/21/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1224). |
| 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). |
| HB356 | Pass | Increases the Comptroller's settlement authority for tort and automobile claims to $25,000. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-25
Act 118, 06/21/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1220). |
| HB349 | Pass | Designates June 21 of each year as International Yoga Day. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-25
Act 102, 06/21/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1204). |
| HB297 | Pass | Directs DOA to review the Aedes aegypti mosquito with Wolbachia bacteria, including Aedes aegypti mosquitoes originating from Hawaii stock that could be imported for landscape scale mosquito control, and render a determination to place it on the appr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-25
Act 106, 06/21/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1208). |
| 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). |
| HB999 | Pass | Permanently exempts nine positions in the Department of Human Services from civil service. Temporarily exempts from civil service three positions in the Department of Human Services. (HB999 CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-12
Act 081, 06/07/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1182). |
| 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). |
| HB990 | Pass | Allows the Department of Defense to recoup operating costs when the Adjutant General permits temporary use of department facilities to the public and requires remaining net proceeds to be deposited into the general fund. (HB990 CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-12
Act 076, 06/07/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1177). |
| 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). |
| SB1237 | Pass | Requires health insurance providers that provide medicare advantage (medicare part C) health benefit plans to submit administrative data, including health care services claims and payment data, to the State Health Planning and Development Agency, or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-12
Act 088, 06/07/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1189). |
| SB1176 | Pass | Amends the false claims statute, section 661-21(a), Hawaii Revised Statutes, to increase civil monetary penalty minimum and maximum amounts to maintain consistency with federal law so that the State can continue to maximize its recoveries in cases wh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-12
Act 068, 06/07/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1169). |
| HB809 | Pass | Appropriates operating and capital improvement grants for fiscal year 2020. Effective 7/1/2019. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-12
Act 039, 06/07/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1140). |
| HB1417 | Pass | Requires the Department of Human Services to use an integrated and multigenerational approach to delivering human services to reduce the incidence of intergenerational poverty and dependence on public benefits. (HB1417 CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-12
Act 082, 06/07/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1183). |
| HB340 | Pass | Appropriates funds to HTDC for the Small Business Innovation Research Program, Manufacturing Assistance Program, and Excelerator Program. (HB340 CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-12
Act 055, 06/07/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1156). |
| SB1204 | Pass | Amends the definitions of "dependent-beneficiary" and "employee-beneficiary" as used in the Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund, chapter 87A, Hawaii Revised Statutes. Clarifies the eligibilities of surviving children to receive benefits....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-12
Act 051, 06/07/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1152). |
| SB1240 | Pass | Adds an exception to the department of health home care agency licensing requirements for medicaid waiver provider agencies providing services to medicaid waiver participants. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-12
Act 091, 06/07/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1192). |
