| SB2307 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires all state and state funded facilities, with certain exceptions, to have internet computer and wireless access filters to restrict access to pornography sites. Exempts state-owned housing and dormitories. Effective 1/1/2050. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-13
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SCR192 | Intro
Sine Die | Directing The Executive Branch Departments Of The State Of Hawaii To Participate In The Department Of Human Resources Development's Modernization "pathway Programs" To Recruit And Hire Employees To Fill The State's Vacancies With The Best And Brighte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-13
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| SB2576 | Engross
Sine Die | Specifies exemptions for the University of Hawaii from sections 87A-39 and 88-125, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to enhance transparency and accountability regarding fringe benefit reimbursement exemptions under the cost-sharing agreement between the Univ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-13
To House Lower and Higher Education Committee |
| HB2549 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the language and meaning of any proposed constitutional amendment and ratification question to be as simple, concise, and direct as possible considering the complexity of the subject matter. Allows the presiding officers of the Legislature t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-13
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2235 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a state drug and alcohol toxicology testing laboratory special fund, to be administered by the Department of Health. Deposits fines for repeat offenders, habitual offenders, and offenders who operate a vehicle after license and privilege ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-13
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB2679 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Judiciary to conduct a study regarding income-based fines and how other states address habitual offenders who have low incomes. Takes effect on 1/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-13
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2490 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the retirement savings task force to secure a consultant to assess the feasibility of a Hawaii retirement savings program; assess the viability of current state retirement savings programs in other states; determine the feasibility of joi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-13
To House Human Services & Homelessness Committee |
| SB2989 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows candidates seeking election to use campaign funds for child care costs, under certain conditions. Effective 7/1/2050. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-13
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| SB2311 | Engross
Sine Die | Strengthens campus safety and accountability procedures and protocols, including those relating to sexual harassment, sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence, stalking, and related issues, at the University of Hawaii. Takes steps to extend...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-13
To House Lower and Higher Education Committee |
| SB2879 | Engross
Sine Die | Expands the pool of persons eligible to receive restitution from the mortgage loan recovery fund. Authorizes the director of commerce and consumer affairs to issue orders for restitution. Effective 7/1/2050. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-13
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| SB2787 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the department of health to issue permits to medical cannabis dispensaries for the delivery of medical cannabis and manufactured cannabis products to qualifying patients or primary caregivers if certain conditions are met. Authorizes the d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-13
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| SB2541 | Engross
Sine Die | Beginning July 1, 2022, requires massage therapy licensees to complete twelve hours of continuing education within the two-year period preceding the renewal date, two hours of which shall include first aid, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, or emergency...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-13
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| SB2727 | Engross
Sine Die | Exempts a beverage dealer who is located in a high density population area from operating a redemption center if the dealer is located within 1 mile of a certified redemption center operated independently of the dealer. Requires the department of hea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-13
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| SB2005 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires that any person who is eligible to vote and applies for a new or renewal motor vehicle driver's license, provisional license, or instruction permit, or a new, renewal, or duplicate identification card be automatically registered to vote if t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-13
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HR31 | Intro
Sine Die | Requesting The Legislative Reference Bureau, In Consultation With The Department Of The Attorney General, To Conduct A Study Relating To The Reporting Requirements Of Section 353c-8.5, Hawaii Revised Statutes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-13
To House Public Safety, Veterans, & Military Affairs Committee |
| SB3037 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the performance framework requirements for charter schools. Amends authorizers' reporting and audit requirements. Amends authorizers' responsibilities in reviewing charter applications. Effective 7/1/2051. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-13
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee |
| SB2010 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes The Uniform Employee and Student Online Privacy Protection Act that adopts uniform laws on protecting the online accounts of employees, prospective employees, unpaid interns, applicants, students, prospective students, and independent con...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-13
To House Lower and Higher Education Committee |
| SB3099 | Engross
Sine Die | Implements the recommendations of the Hawaii Sea Level Rise Vulnerability and Adaptation Report issued by the Hawaii Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Commission. Makes an appropriation to the Department of Health to conduct a sea level rise m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-13
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB2692 | Engross
Sine Die | Broadens the requirements under administrative rules for primary and substitute caregivers caring for three clients in community care foster family homes to allow for primary caregivers to be absent from the community care foster family home if a sub...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-13
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2434 | Engross
Sine Die | Addresses the disposition of salvaged motor vehicles by authorizing the county directors of finance to issue certificates of ownership and salvage certificate to expedite the disposal of the vehicles under specified circumstances. Effective 7/1/2050....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-13
To House Intrastate Commerce Committee |
| HR187 | Pass | Recognizing Kapena For Their Lifelong Achievements And Profound Impact On Island Music.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-13
Resolution adopted in final form. |
| SB2922 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the transient accommodations tax law to repeal the misdemeanor penalty for failing to register and replace it with a civil fine structure. Makes various technical amendments. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-13
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB35 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes expenditures from the mental health and substance abuse special fund to be used for capital improvement projects. Effective 7/1/2050. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-13
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB2598 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the abandoned and derelict vehicles task force to make recommendations to ensure the proper identification and disposal of abandoned and derelict vehicles left on the State's highways. Appropriates moneys. Effective 7/1/2050. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-13
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2586 | Engross
Sine Die | Permits qualifying patients to be reimbursed by health insurers, mutual benefit societies, and health maintenance organizations for amounts spent on medical cannabis and manufactured cannabis products. Limits the monthly amount of reimbursement. Requ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-13
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| SB594 | Engross
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] | 2020-03-13
To House Finance Committee |
| HR176 | Intro
Sine Die | Requesting The Department Of Health To Convene A Medicinal Psilocybin Working Group To Examine The Medicinal And Therapeutic Effects Of Psilocybin And Develop A Longterm Strategic Plan To Ensure The Availability Of Medicinal Psilocybin Or Psilocybin-...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-13
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| SB2059 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes an income tax credit for taxpayers who are required to fill and seal abandoned wells on their real property. Clarifies the definition of the term "abandoned well". Requires sellers of real property to disclose the existence of wells on th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-13
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| SB2809 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the director of finance to issue general obligation bonds to the department of business, economic development, and tourism for certain transit-oriented development projects. Effective 7/1/2050. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-13
To House Water, Land, & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB2099 | Engross
Sine Die | Transfers to the Department of Agriculture operational authority over portions of the East Kauai Irrigation System operated and maintained by the East Kauai Water Users' Cooperative as of 7/1/2020. Provides a conditional extension to acquire required...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-13
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee |
| SB2054 | Engross
Sine Die | Specifies that the cost of regional infrastructure improvements made by the Hawaii housing finance and development corporation may be assessed against transit-oriented development projects specifically benefiting from the improvements. Requires the H...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-13
To House Water, Land, & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HR118 | Intro
Sine Die | Urging The Department Of Health To Amend Its Administrative Rules To Allow For Commercial Sale Of Rabbit Meat For Consumption.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-13
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HCR195 | Intro
Sine Die | Requesting The Department Of Health To Convene A Medicinal Psilocybin Working Group To Examine The Medicinal And Therapeutic Effects Of Psilocybin And Develop A Longterm Strategic Plan To Ensure The Availability Of Medicinal Psilocybin Or Psilocybin-...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-13
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB2068 | Engross
Sine Die | Limits the period of DOH commitment for those defendants charged with a non-violent class C felony and found to be unfit to proceed under chapter 704, HRS. Effective 7/1/2050. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-13
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| SB2917 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows advanced practice registered nurses, pharmacists serving customers, authorized employees of the department of human services med-QUEST division, and licensed health care providers or delegates of the providers employed by the United States Dep...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-13
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB2722 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes each county to adopt ordinances to enforce section 291-71, Hawaii Revised Statutes, including through the establishment of penalties for failure to comply with its requirements or make reasonable efforts to maintain electric vehicle chargi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2723 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires GoFarm Hawaii to provide the chairperson of the board of agriculture with an annual report of the program's goals and a semi-annual report outlining program outputs and outcomes. Establishes a five-year beginning farmer training program to b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-13
To House Lower and Higher Education Committee |
| SB2544 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a working group to consider and make recommendations on the scope of practice for acupuncturists. Effective 7/1/2050. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-13
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| SB3144 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the office of solid waste management to establish a recycled products manufacturing grant program to support recycled products manufacturers or bioconversion or compositing businesses in the State. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (HD...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-13
To House Economic Development & Business Committee |
| SB2543 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits an employer from discriminating against a person in hiring, termination, or term or condition of employment based on the person's status as a medical cannabis cardholder, under certain conditions. Specifies that an employer may use a fit fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-13
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HCR135 | Intro
Sine Die | Urging The Department Of Health To Amend Its Administrative Rules To Allow For Commercial Sale Of Rabbit Meat For Consumption.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-13
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB3126 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a working group within the department of public safety to study the feasibility of a pilot program to reduce recidivism, focusing on providing inmates with vocational training, in addition to business, entrepreneurial, and financial liter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-13
To House Finance Committee |
| SR152 | Intro
Sine Die | Directing The Executive Branch Departments Of The State Of Hawaii To Participate In The Department Of Human Resources Development's Modernization "pathway Programs" To Recruit And Hire Employees To Fill The State's Vacancies With The Best And Brighte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-13
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| SB2616 | Engross
Sine Die | Exempts affordable housing units, additions to existing dwelling units, accessory dwelling units, ohana dwelling units, and affordable housing projects developed by the Hawaii public housing authority from 50 per cent of school impact fee requirement...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-13
To House Lower and Higher Education Committee |
| HB2152 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires additional circumstances under which every motor vehicle, including motorcycles, motor scooters, electric foot scooters, and motorized bicycles, moving on any public highway in the State must display its lighted head lamps. Effective upon ap...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB2919 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires that the dispensing of a pharmacist-prescribed opioid antagonist be reported to the State's electronic prescription accountability system. Effective 7/1/2050. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-13
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| SB2273 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides purchasers of time shares with rescission rights if there is a material change to the information contained in the disclosure statement. Requires developers to provide notice to the purchaser regarding any pertinent or material change made t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| SB2663 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires a supplemental environmental assessment or supplemental environmental impact statement after the passage of 15 years from the date of the determination of a finding of no significant impact or the acceptance of the statement, if the proposed...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| SB2677 | Engross
Sine Die | Specifies that the family court has jurisdiction in proceedings concerning the custody or guardianship of an immigrant child pursuant to a motion for Special Immigrant Juvenile factual findings requesting a determination that the child was abused, ne...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
To House Human Services & Homelessness Committee |
| SCR14 | Engross
Sine Die | Requesting The Department Of Human Services, In Collaboration With The Department Of Health, To Convene A Task Force To Establish Safe And Effective Discipline For All Children In Hawaii.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
To House Human Services & Homelessness Committee |
