HI Legislation | 2019 | Regular Session | Engrossed

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SB695Engross

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Requires the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to digitize its applicant, beneficiary, and lessee records. Requires that the digital database be completed and available no later than July 1, 2020. (SB695 HD1)
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2019-03-21
To House Finance Committee
HB1521Engross

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Appropriates funds for the fiscal biennium 2019-2021 operating budget of the University of Hawaii under the purview of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Lower and Higher Education. (HB1521 HD1)
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2019-03-21
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HB1218Engross

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Appropriates funds out of the works of art special fund to the State foundation on culture and the arts for the integration of works of art projects into several major capital improvement projects. (SD1)
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2019-03-21
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HB488Engross

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Prohibits written nondisclosure agreements involving sexual assault and sexual harassment as part of an employee's condition of employment under certain conditions. Prohibits employers from retaliating against an employee for disclosing or discussing...
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2019-03-21
To Senate Judiciary Committee
SB97Engross

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Requires the office of elections to join the Electronic Registration Information Center and share information with counties to encourage voter participation and ensure integrity of voter registration rolls. Authorizes election officials to have elect...
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2019-03-21
To House Finance Committee
HB1522Engross

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Appropriates funds for the fiscal biennium 2019-2021 operating budget of the University of Hawaii under the purview of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Lower and Higher Education. (HB1522 HD1)
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2019-03-21
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
SB1143Engross

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Expands the types of employee information government agencies are required to disclose, upon written request, to employees' exclusive representatives. Requires that information regarding new hire employees be provided to the appropriate exclusive rep...
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2019-03-21
To House Finance Committee
SB701Engross

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Directs OHA to convene a task force to determine appropriate sources for authenticating and verifying appropriate Hawaiian language usage and syntax in public documents, letterhead, emblems, and symbols and establish a process for review. Requires OH...
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2019-03-21
To House Finance Committee
HB788Engross

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Authorizes a law enforcement officer to cite any person who operates a motor vehicle that does not display a current, valid vehicle registration tag or emblem and a current, valid safety inspection sticker as prescribed by statute. (HB788 HD2)
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2019-03-21
To Senate Judiciary Committee
SB1031Engross

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Establishes the long-term rental assistance pilot program to be administered by the Hawaii Public Housing Authority for individuals over sixty years old who are homeless, or at imminent risk of becoming homeless. Appropriates funds. (SB1031 HD1)
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2019-03-21
To House Finance Committee
HB1277Engross

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Provides scholarships for the unmet direct cost needs of qualified students at any four-year University of Hawaii campus who meet certain eligibility criteria. Makes an appropriation for the Hawaii Promise Program. (HB1277 HD1)
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2019-03-21
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HB762Engross

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Prohibits a full-service restaurant from providing a single-use plastic straw to a consumer unless requested by the consumer. Takes effect on 7/1/2100. (SD1)
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2019-03-21
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
SB728Engross

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Changes the maximum amount of public funds available to each candidate running for the Office of State Senator, State Representative, County Council, and the Board of Trustees of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs to an unspecified per cent of the expend...
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2019-03-21
To House Finance Committee
HB839Engross

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Appropriates funds for installing signalized crosswalks and related pedestrian improvements at four specified unsignalized intersections in the Nuuanu area of the Pali Highway. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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2019-03-21
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
SB967Engross

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Authorizes the state public charter school commission to establish and fund charter school prekindergarten classrooms. Makes an appropriation. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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2019-03-21
To House Finance Committee
SB376Engross

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Requires a public school that has a career and technical education program to review all geographic exceptions applications and make a determination whether to allow students to enroll in career and technical education programs in schools outside the...
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2019-03-21
To House Finance Committee
SB373Engross

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Establishes a K-12 Curriculum-to-Career-Pipeline Initiative to enable students to pursue training and education throughout their time at a school complex so that upon graduation they are prepared to enter the State's workforce. Appropriates funds. (S...
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2019-03-21
To House Finance Committee
HB821Engross

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Requires the Hawaii technology development corporation to seek to establish a public-private partnership to plan, build, and manage key strategic broadband infrastructure and attract cloud based companies to Hawaii. Makes an appropriation for the Haw...
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2019-03-21
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
SB653Engross

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Requires the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to provide rebates to persons who install a new electric vehicle charging system or upgrade an existing electric vehicle charging system. Creates, and appropriates moneys out of, ...
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2019-03-21
To House Finance Committee
HB887Engross

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Includes certain spirits-based beverages in the definition of cooler beverage. Repeals the definition of draft beer. Applies the same tax rate to all beer. Effective 1/1/2020. (SD1)
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2019-03-21
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HB466Engross

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Appropriates funds to the department of health for the aging and disability resource center. Takes effect on 1/1/2059. (SD1)
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2019-03-21
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
SB1019Engross

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Requires the Judiciary to collaborate with the Office of Youth Services to establish a task force to determine existing diversion programs statewide that can assist the State's youth, and to consider the post-youth needs of the eighteen to twenty-fou...
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2019-03-21
To House Finance Committee
HB453Engross

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Excludes lands set aside by the Governor to the Hawaii Public Housing Authority and lands to which HPHA holds title from the definition of public lands in section 171-2, Hawaii Revised Statutes. Requires prior legislative approval for the sale of lan...
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2019-03-21
The committee(s) on HOU recommend(s) that the measure be HELD. The votes in HOU were as follows: 5 Aye(s): Senator(s) S. Chang, Kanuha, Moriwaki, L. Thielen, Fevella; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 0 Excused: none.
SB303Engross

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Authorizes the Department of Education to develop programs to encourage the development of gardens on school property. Authorizes the Hawaii Community Development Authority to develop programs that provide incentives to establish gardens in housing p...
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2019-03-21
To House Finance Committee
HB1186Engross

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Appropriates funds for various operating expenses of the department of labor and industrial relations. (SD1)
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2019-03-21
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HB1354Engross

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Provides additional funding for the operations of the Office of Information Practices, including the establishment of three additional staff attorney positions, for the fiscal biennium beginning July 1, 2019, and ending June 30, 2021. Effective 7/1/2...
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2019-03-21
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
SB77Engross

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Authorizes the Department of Budget and Finance to enter into a financing agreement in an amount not to exceed $125,000,000 to fund the local match for the Ala Wai Flood Risk Management Project. Appropriates funds for fiscal biennium 2019-2021 for th...
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2019-03-21
To House Finance Committee
SB276Engross

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Appropriates funds and authorizes staff positions for the Women's Community Correctional Center Hookipa Makai Cottage. Appropriates funds for additional housing and transportation costs of certain inmates sent to Saguaro Correctional Center in Arizon...
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2019-03-21
To House Finance Committee
HB696Engross

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Clarifies that the exemption from payment of parking fees is an exception for drivers who are unable to reach or operate a parking meter or unattended pay station because of a physical disability, and who display a disabled paid parking exemption per...
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2019-03-21
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HB1469Engross

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Establishes a state income tax deduction for eligible contributions made to the Hawaii college savings program. Applies to taxable years after 12/31/2019. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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2019-03-21
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HB351Engross

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Amends the membership of the State Capitol Management Committee and Hawaii Interagency Council for Transit-Oriented Development by replacing the Governor's Chief of Staff with the Administrative Director of the State.
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2019-03-21
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HB394Engross

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Makes the motor vehicle registration fee for U-drive motor vehicles consistent with the fee for all other motor vehicles. Makes any county ordinance that increases a motor vehicle registration fee applicable to U-drive vehicles. (HB394 HD1)
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2019-03-21
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HB361Engross

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Prohibits the governor and each county mayor, while holding those offices, to maintain any other employment or receive any emolument, beginning on the sixty-first calendar day after their election or appointment to office. Specifies that the county b...
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2019-03-21
To Senate Judiciary Committee
SB696Engross

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Extends various reporting deadlines and the sunset date of the cesspool conversion working group established pursuant to Act 132, Session Laws of Hawaii 2018. Extends the lapse dates for funds appropriated to conduct a comprehensive statewide study o...
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2019-03-21
To House Finance Committee
HB309Engross

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Appropriates funds for the extension of the zipper lane on the H-1 Freeway to Kapolei in the vicinity of the Kualakai parkway on/off ramp. (HB309 HD1)
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2019-03-21
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HB327Engross

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Directs the Department of Transportation to develop and implement a single occupant vehicle access fee to use a zipper lane. Requires that revenues generated from the single occupant vehicle access fee be deposited in the state highway fund. Effectiv...
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2019-03-21
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HB1153Engross

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Establishes the remote legislative access program, to be supervised by the joint legislative access committee. Specific requirements that the joint legislative access committee must consider when developing the program. Requires each house of the Leg...
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2019-03-21
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
SB621Engross

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Requires a person to report the person's lost, stolen, or destroyed firearms to the appropriate county police department. Establishes penalties for failure to report. Requires suspension of any fee related to the Rap Back system until the Rap Back sy...
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2019-03-21
To House Judiciary Committee
SB415Engross

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Establishes a task force to review other states that allow APRNs or similar health care providers to perform abortions, patient access to abortion services, and the costs of unintended teenage pregnancies; study the Safe Haven Law; and submit a repor...
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2019-03-21
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HB462Engross

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Exempts residence or occupancy in a structure or on property directly controlled, owned, or managed by the Department of Agriculture from the Residential Landlord-Tenant Code. (SD1)
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2019-03-20
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
SB529Engross

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Authorizes the Department of Human Services and the Department of Health to contract the services of dedicated capture managers responsible for securing grant and other funding opportunities for each department. Authorizes the Department of Human Ser...
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2019-03-20
To House Finance Committee
HB1490Engross

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Amends the prohibition of contributions by state and county contractors under Hawaii's campaign finance laws to include officers of a contractor, including contractors who provide goods or utilities. Effective 7/1/2030. (SD1)
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2019-03-20
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HB1350Engross

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Provides funding for the operations of the Campaign Spending Commission for the fiscal biennium beginning July 1, 2019, and ending June 30, 2021. Effective 7/1/2030. (SD1)
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2019-03-20
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
SB1464Engross

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Establishes certain positions in the Department of the Attorney General and Judiciary responsible for the preparation, filing, defense, and adjudication of assisted community treatment petitions, related guardianship petitions, and other legal filing...
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2019-03-20
To House Finance Committee
HB1353Engross

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Appropriates funds for the operating budget for the Office of the Public Defender for the fiscal biennium 2019-2021. Effective 7/1/2030. (SD1)
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2019-03-20
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
SB433Engross

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Appropriates funds for the Department of Health to create a social marketing campaign targeting children and their families to inform them of proven interventions to reduce child and teen screen time. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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2019-03-20
To House Finance Committee
SB367Engross

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Prohibits sale of polystyrene foam food service containers and the sale or service of food using polystyrene containers statewide. Authorizes the Department of Health to adopt rules for implementation including for enforcement, exemptions, and consum...
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2019-03-20
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
SB503Engross

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Requires each department to deduct the department's total salary and wage overpayment from the department's budget request for the following fiscal biennium. Removes the 2year statute of limitations on determination and notice to an employee of salar...
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2019-03-20
To House Finance Committee
SB893Engross

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Prohibits counties with a population less than 500,000 from rejecting number 1 and 2 plastic bottles presented for recycling solely because the bottles are accompanied by or adjoined to nonrecyclable bottle caps. Requires and appropriates funds for t...
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2019-03-20
To House Finance Committee
SB955Engross

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Requires financial disclosure statements of state agency executive directors to be public records available for inspection and duplication.
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2019-03-20
To House Finance Committee
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