HI Legislation | 2020 | Regular Session

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HB1309Intro

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Includes the nonadministrative functions of the Judiciary in the definition of "agency" for purposes of the Uniform Information Practices Act. Allows persons to bring actions or make appeals under the Uniform Information Practices Act directly in the...
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2019-12-01
To House Judiciary Committee
HB440Intro

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Short form bill relating to land use.
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2019-12-01
To House Water, Land, & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HB608Intro

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Dedicates one-half of one per cent of all state fund appropriations for capital improvements designated for the construction or renovation of state buildings to student art programs within the Department of Education.
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2019-12-01
To House Tourism & International Affairs Committee
SB1252Engross

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Authorizes the Board of Land and Natural Resources to approve rental reductions or waivers for lease rentals on public lands that require substantial demolition or infrastructure improvement costs in order for the lessee to utilize the premises. Take...
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2019-12-01
To House Water, Land, & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
SB1235Intro

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Repeals the sunset date from Act 39, Session Laws of Hawaii 2015 as amended by Act 211, Session Laws of Hawaii 2017, , and makes permanent the requirement applicable to motion pictures produced and distributed with open movie captioning and audio des...
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2019-12-01
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health 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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2019-12-01
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HB475Engross

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Disallows dividends paid deduction for real estate investment trusts. (HB475 HD1)
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2019-12-01
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HB413Engross

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Establishes the Education Innovation Grants Program to support school-level innovation. Authorizes the Board of Education to adopt guiding principles and measures of success for the Grants Program and the Department of Education to implement the Gran...
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2019-12-01
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
SB560Engross

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Enacts voting by mail uniformly across all counties for all elections commencing in 2022. 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...
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2019-12-01
To House Judiciary Committee
SB565Engross

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Requires the Department of Transportation to implement a vision zero program in Hawaii by 7/1/2020. Establishes a goal of no traffic fatalities or serious injuries by 2030. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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2019-12-01
To House Transportation Committee
HB755Engross

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Appropriates funds for the fiscal biennium 2019-2021 operating budget of the Department of Transportation. (HB755 HD1)
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2019-12-01
To Senate Transportation Committee
HB932Intro

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Grants a circuit court, when sentencing a minor for a criminal offense, greater discretion in sentencing if the victim of the crime for which the minor was convicted had trafficked or sexually assaulted the minor within one year before the minor comm...
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2019-12-01
To House Human Services & Homelessness Committee
SB24Intro

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Relating To Consumer Protection. Short form bill.
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2019-12-01
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee
SB687Intro

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Requires a biotechnology company that sells a genetically modified animal, plant, or seed that the company knows or has reason to believe will be used to produce an agricultural commodity to provide written disclosure of possible risks from the use o...
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2019-12-01
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
SB507Intro

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Requires pharmacy benefit managers to notify contracting pharmacies of changes to maximum allowable costs for any drug, identified by its National Drug Code, fifteen days prior to the change. Requires pharmacy benefit managers to disclose where an eq...
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2019-12-01
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee
SB215Intro

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Makes completion of a voter registration application affidavit a mandatory part of all driver's license and identification card applications. Automatically registers each applicant for voting unless the applicant affirmatively declines to register. R...
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2019-12-01
To Senate Transportation Committee
SB1430Intro

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Allows naturopathic physicians and physician assistants to provide written certification for qualifying patients. Allows licensed dispensaries to have up to two additional manufacturing or processing facilities separate from their production faciliti...
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2019-12-01
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee
SB1426Intro

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Clarifies that the award of a specific grant-in-aid in Act 54, Session Laws of Hawaii 2018, was to the Kauai Habitat for Humanity, Inc.
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2019-12-01
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HB782Intro

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Appropriates funds to establish a foreign agriculture small equipment pilot program to identify efficient agriculture equipment and retrofit engines to meet the United States Environmental Protection Agency's standards. (HB782 HD1)
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2019-12-01
To House Finance Committee
HB1208Intro

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Short form bill relating to housing.
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2019-12-01
To House Housing Committee
HB1161Intro

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Appropriates funds for the establishment of four full-time equivalent (4.0 FTE) permanent level 5 investigators and three full-time equivalent (3.0 FTE) permanent investigative analyst positions within the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force ...
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2019-12-01
To House Judiciary Committee
SB1480Intro

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Requires the City and County of Honolulu to establish a pilot program to assist property owners in upgrading their sewer connections. Appropriates funds.
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2019-12-01
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HB101Intro

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Authorizes the Board of Land and Natural Resources to sell long-term leasehold interests for berths at the Keehi Boat Harbor and Ala Wai Boat Harbor.
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2019-12-01
To House Water, Land, & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HB879Intro

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Clarifies that failure to register a firearm within the required time period does not relieve the owner of the duty to register the firearm. Allows the owner of an unregistered firearm to register the firearm thereafter without penalty.
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2019-12-01
To House Public Safety, Veterans, & Military Affairs Committee
SB57Intro

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Relating To The Judiciary. Short form bill.
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2019-12-01
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HB1223Intro

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Ensures access to information about multiple midwifery pathways. Requires birth practitioners to provide all pertinent birth education information and materials in a manner that is comprehensible by the consumer.
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2019-12-01
To House Health Committee
HB1203Intro

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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...
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2019-12-01
To House Judiciary Committee
HB1401Intro

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Requires the Department of Education's budget to allocate 94% of all moneys to be appropriated for the operating budget of the Department among the complex areas, excluding moneys appropriated for the public library system and agencies administrative...
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2019-12-01
To House Lower and Higher Education Committee
HB995Intro

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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...
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2019-12-01
To House Finance Committee
SB1450Intro

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Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the seventh senatorial district.
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2019-12-01
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HB534Intro

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Establishes the ship repair industry income tax credit for non-profit entities to offset costs incurred to construct and put into service a purpose-built floating drydock at Pearl Harbor for use by the United States Navy. Repeals the capital infrastr...
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2019-12-01
To House Finance Committee
HB190Intro

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Makes an exemption from tort liability for the State and counties arising from lifeguard services, except for gross negligence or wanton acts or omissions.
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2019-12-01
To House Judiciary Committee
HB1024Intro

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Establishes the Marine Life Conservation Special Fund. Authorizes the Department of Land and Natural Resources to collect nonresident user fees and require permits for entry into the boundaries of any marine life conservation district.
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2019-12-01
To House Water, Land, & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HB298Engross

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Authorizes any government agency to engage in the wheeling of electricity that is produced at its own facilities from renewable energy resources, subject to disallowance by the Public Utilities Commission. Designates the Natural Energy Laboratory of ...
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2019-12-01
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee
HB1492Intro

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Authorizes issuance of GO bonds to finance plans, design, construction, and equipment for new music facilities at President Roosevelt high school.
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2019-12-01
To House Finance Committee
SB935Engross

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Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds for two water reuse demonstration projects. (SB935 HD1)
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2019-12-01
To House Finance Committee
SB1307Engross

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Appropriates funds for the Department of Education to determine the feasibility of combining the resources and organization of the Department of Accounting and General Services with the Department of Education on the islands of Kauai, Maui, Molokai, ...
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2019-12-01
To House Lower and Higher Education Committee
SB1178Intro

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Amends section 707-702(1), Hawaii Revised Statutes, to authorize manslaughter prosecutions for dangerous drug distribution that results in overdose deaths.
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2019-12-01
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HB182Intro

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Transfers certain fines and forfeitures collected for uncontested traffic infractions to the counties.
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2019-12-01
To House Judiciary Committee
HB832Intro

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Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects for the benefit of the 48th Representative District.
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2019-12-01
To House Finance Committee
HB736Intro

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Authorizes residents of adult residential care homes and expanded adult residential care home to install electronic monitoring of their own rooms.
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2019-12-01
To House Health Committee
SB1003Engross

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Establishes the Innovative Project Delivery Guidelines Task Force to establish guidelines for the use of innovative project delivery arrangements for public infrastructure. Requires DAGS to adopt rules. Requires task force to submit report to the 202...
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2019-12-01
To House Finance Committee
HB628Intro

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Subjects the service retirement allowance, ordinary disability retirement allowance, and service-connected disability retirement allowance, as adjusted by any post retirement allowances, of employees who become contributory, non-contributory, and hyb...
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2019-12-01
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee
HB109Intro

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Short form bill relating to state finances.
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2019-12-01
To House Finance Committee
HB148Intro

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Short form bill relating to commerce.
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2019-12-01
To House Intrastate Commerce Committee
SB630Intro

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Amends Act 53, SLH 2012, and removes the restriction that prohibits counties from requiring the installation of residential fire sprinklers.
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2019-12-01
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HB1112Intro

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Requires the College of Engineering of the University of Hawaii to conduct a traffic study to identify ways to alleviate traffic congestion at the intersection of University Avenue and Dole Street in Honolulu. Appropriates funds for the study.
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2019-12-01
To House Water, Land, & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
SB1164Intro

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Adds the promotion of civics learning in the K-12 curriculum to the education objective and policies for sociocultural advancement. Adds the development of resources and programs for civic education in the K-12 curriculum as a priority guideline to p...
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2019-12-01
To Senate Education Committee
SB68Intro

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Relating To Water. Short form bill.
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2019-12-01
To Senate Water and Land Committee
HB752Intro

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Authorizes issuance of general obligation bonds and appropriates funds for capital improvement projects for the benefit of the 29th Representative District.
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2019-12-01
To House Finance Committee
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