| SB475 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects of the department of human services. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-12
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1139 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for flooding remediation by the engineering division of the department of land and natural resources on Tax Map Key (3) 2-3-023:006 to be expended by the department of land and natural resources. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-12
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1447 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for operating expenses of charter schools and the state public charter school commission. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-12
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB240 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the state building codes to incorporate the International Green Construction Code and minimum requirements for the recycling, reuse, donation, and resale of non-hazardous construction waste.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-12
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB44 | Intro
Sine Die | Specifies that the attorney general shall represent the University of Hawaii in any litigation, render legal counsel to the university, and draft legal documents for the university. Repeals the authority of the board of regents of the University of H...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-12
To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| HB112 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires a tax clearance before a professional or vocational license may be issued or renewed. Applies to taxable years after 12/31/2020.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-12
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| SB157 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the requirement for the adoption of administrative rules relating to the adoption process of the state building code.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-12
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HB396 | 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] | 2019-02-12
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| SB1141 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the department of land and natural resources for the purpose of refurbishing and retrofitting the Kulani water tanks to serve as water reservoirs for firefighting. Takes effect 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-12
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1142 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the department of land and natural resources for the demolition and removal of structures at Uncle Billy's in Hilo, Hawaii. Takes effect 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-12
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1309 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to enter into ninety-nine-year leases of units in residential condominiums located on state lands.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-12
To Senate Housing Committee |
| SB594 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes and appropriates funds for a school meal subsidy program within the department of education to provide school lunch subsidies to children whose families do not otherwise qualify for free lunch under the free and reduced price lunch progra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-12
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1310 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires DAGS and DPS, in consultation with the Legislature and other entities, to plan and implement security improvements at the State Capitol. Requires DAGS to remove all parking meters from the Capitol parking facility and reallocate parking in t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-12
To House Legislative Management Committee |
| SB210 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the family court to terminate parental rights if the court determines, by clear and convincing evidence, that a natural parent committed sexual assault of the other natural parent; the child was conceived as a result of the sexual assault by...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB1527 | Intro
Sine Die | Bans the sale of beverage containers connected to each other with plastic connecting devices. Establishes fines. Establishes the plastic reduction special fund. Takes effect 1/1/2021. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-12
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB147 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the requirement for administrative rules in the adoption process of the state building codes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-12
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB145 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the process for adoption of the state fire code to conform with other Hawaii state building codes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-12
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB584 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Education to include source of project funding and amount of legislative appropriations used for some other purpose and the justification for such use in the information posted on the Department's website relating to school...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-12
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB654 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the employment of lifeguards and for life-saving equipment at Kua Bay. Takes effect 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-12
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1483 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the definition of "lot", "houselot", "residential lot", and "residential houselot" in section 516-1, HRS, by deleting the requirement that such parcels be zoned for residential use.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-12
To Senate Housing Committee |
| SB1007 | Intro
Sine Die | Redirects the $1,000,000 of transient accommodations tax revenues currently allocated to operate a Hawaiian center and the museum of Hawaiian music and dance at the Hawaii convention center to have the State of Hawaii Museum of Natural and Cultural H...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-12
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB615 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Department of Land and Natural Resources Division of Forestry and Wildlife to purchase heavy equipment for use on Kauai. Takes effect 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-12
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1496 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the Hawaii community development authority to permit one building of up to seven hundred sixty-eight feet in height within each approved master plan area for the Mauka area of the Kakaako community development district; provided that the b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-12
To Senate Housing Committee |
| SB585 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies that the school-level minor repairs and maintenance special fund shall be used only to fund minor repairs and maintenance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-12
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB409 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 the Hawaii Association of Independent Schools or the Western Associ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-12
To House Lower and Higher Education Committee |
| HB1293 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires a contractor to procure and use software to verify hours billed and automatically gather verification data for work performed under a contract with a governmental body in excess of $100,000.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-12
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee |
| SB977 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires each state government branch to establish a shared leave program for state employees. Allows the chief executive of a county to establish a shared leave program for county employees. Precludes a state government branch from prohibiting leave...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-12
To Senate Labor, Culture and the Arts Committee |
| SB858 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposes amendments to the Constitution of the State of Hawaii to expressly provide that the legislature may authorize the counties to issue tax increment bonds. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-12
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB496 | Intro
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 be employ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-12
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee |
| SB832 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds as grants-in-aid to the counties for assistance with identifying and mapping important agricultural lands. Takes effect 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-12
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1482 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Hawaii commercial harbors authority. Transfers jurisdiction and functions relating to commercial harbors and commercial maritime operations from the department of transportation to the Hawaii commercial harbors authority. Appropriates...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-12
To Senate Transportation Committee |
| HB493 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the State Fire Council to use moneys in the reduced ignition propensity cigarette program special fund to support the duties and responsibilities of the state fire council. Specifies the testing procedures of the reduced ignition propensit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-12
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee |
| SB969 | Intro
Sine Die | Beginning in the 2022-2023 school year, requires each public elementary school or public charter elementary school to offer instruction in the basics of computer science and computational thinking. Beginning in the 2023-2024 school year, requires eac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-12
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB669 | Intro
Sine Die | Limits medical malpractice liability for residents and fellows in accredited post graduate residency and fellowship programs acting under the supervision of a licensed physician.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-12
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| SB1068 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes an appropriation to improve na ala hele, the Hawaii statewide trail and access program, by improving access to and maintaining state controlled recreational trails statewide and promoting hiker safety and education and outreach regarding hiker ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-12
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB140 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires candidates who do not intend to receive or spend more than $1,000 in an election period to notify the Campaign Spending Commission of this intention by 6/30 of an election year, and noncandidate committees that do not intend to receive or sp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB643 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that excess contributions by nonresident contributors shall escheat to the Hawaii election campaign fund if not returned to the contributor within thirty days. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-12
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB873 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires priority be given to affordable, reserved, and workforce housing applicants who work within twenty-five miles of the housing sought.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-12
To Senate Housing Committee |
| SB1018 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the Hawaii Zero to Three Court. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-12
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB849 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the board of regents of the University of Hawaii to waive the nonresident tuition and fee differential for veterans of the United States Navy who served on an active ship or ship decommissioned after 2000 that is named after a person, place,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-12
To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| HB1204 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds into and out of the rental housing revolving fund for the purposes for which the fund was established, such as providing loans or grants for the development, pre-development, construction, acquisition, preservation, and substantial...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-12
To House Housing Committee |
| SB922 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects of the department of land and natural resources. Takes effect 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-12
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1564 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Hawaii Beach Preservation Revolving Fund within the State Treasury. Establishes a low-interest Contingent Mortgage Financing Pilot Program to encourage certain shoreline property owners to relocate mauka of expected sea level rise and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-12
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| SB588 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the department of education to report the creation of any temporary positions to the legislature at least twenty days prior to the convening of each regular session.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-12
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB936 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Mauna Kea special fund and Mauna Kea natural area reserve special fund. Reallocates funds from the Mauna Kea lands management special fund to the Mauna Kea special fund and Mauna Kea natural area reserve special fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-12
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| SB906 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Department of Land and Natural Resources for the Division of Boating and Ocean Recreation to make improvements at Wailoa small boat harbor. Takes effect 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-12
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB259 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits offshore drilling for oil or natural gas in state marine waters. Prohibits issuance of permits for or in connection with the development or operation of any facility or infrastructure associated with offshore drilling for oil or natural gas...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-12
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB1467 | Intro
Sine Die | Restricts asset forfeiture to cases involving the commission of a covered criminal misdemeanor or felony offense. Requires seized property to be forfeited only when the property owner has been convicted of an underlying covered criminal misdemeanor o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-12
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB179 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies and expressly authorizes that search warrants may be issued based upon oral statements or electronic communications.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB331 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the excise tax rate on large cigars.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-12
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
