| HB917 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the attorney general of the State of Hawaii, on behalf of the Department of Education, to institute proceedings to acquire certain land owned by the Mililani Town Association by voluntary action or condemnation. Effective upon approval. (SD1...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-10
Deferred one day. |
| SB2185 | Engross
Sine Die | Excludes violations of privacy in the first degree and certain violations of privacy in the second degree, from qualifying for deferred acceptance of a guilty plea or nolo contendere plea. Limits the government use of facial recognition systems, exce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-10
This measure has been deferred. |
| SB2940 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the stadium development special fund. Defines "stadium development district" and "district". Establishes general development guidance policies for the stadium authority's actions in the stadium development district. Requires the stadium a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-10
This measure has been deferred. |
| SB2139 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the deadline for candidates to withdraw in order to fill a state legislative vacancy. Amends filing deadlines for candidates attempting to fill vacant state senate seats. Effective retroactively to 6/17/2020. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-10
Failed to pass Final Reading. Ayes, 9. Noes, 16 (Senator(s) Dela Cruz, English, Fevella, Gabbard, K. Kahele, Kanuha, Keith-Agaran, J.Keohokalole, Kidani, Kim, Moriwaki, Riviere, Ruderman, Shimabukuro, Taniguchi, Wakai). Excused, 0 (none). |
| HB2002 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes requirements and permitting procedures for transportation network companies operating in the State. Makes permanent insurance requirements for transportation network companies and transportation network drivers. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-10
Deferred one day. |
| HB1902 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits the manufacture, possession, sale, barter, trade, gift, transfer, or acquisition of detachable ammunition magazines with a capacity in excess of ten rounds, regardless of the type of firearm with which the magazine is compatible. Allows pos...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-10
Deferred one day. |
| SB2329 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires proof of compliance with ignition interlock laws to be eligible for a driver's license. Requires any person operating a vehicle with an ignition interlock to have valid government-issued photo identification in their immediate possession. Am...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-09
Received notice of disagreement (Sen. Com. No. 629). |
| HB2323 | Engross
Sine Die | Expands the pool of persons eligible to receive restitution from the Mortgage Loan Recovery Fund. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-08
Received notice of disagreement (Hse. Com. No. 417). |
| HB460 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides the counties with authority to: regulate hosting platforms; require owners or operators to list certain property information on any hosting advertisement or post on a hosting platform; establish short-term rental registries to prohibit hosti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-08
Received notice of disagreement (Hse. Com. No. 417). |
| HB2035 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to transfer to the Department of Agriculture certain non-agricultural park lands by a specified date. Requires lessees, permittees, and other occupants to develop and implement a watershed partner...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-08
Received notice of disagreement (Hse. Com. No. 417). |
| HB1928 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the Pulehunui Community Development Authority on the island of Maui as an autonomous community development authority under the Hawaii Community Development Authority for the purposes of developing the Pulehunui community development distr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-08
Received notice of disagreement (Hse. Com. No. 417). |
| HB2738 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits foreign nationals and foreign corporations from making independent expenditures. Requires every corporation that contributes or expends funds in a state election to file a statement of certification regarding its limited foreign influence. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-08
Received notice of disagreement (Hse. Com. No. 417). |
| HB2253 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the statewide traffic code to allow for the chairperson of the BLNR and county chiefs of police to designate state or county employees or contractors to issue citations for traffic violations. Effective upon approval. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-08
Received notice of disagreement (Hse. Com. No. 417). |
| HB1651 | Engross
Sine Die | Codifies certain certification, renewal, and violation processes of vehicle inspectors who conduct vehicle safety inspections under the DOT. Repeals section 286-85, HRS, which requires reconstructed vehicles to obtain a special inspection and certifi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-08
Received notice of disagreement (Hse. Com. No. 417). |
| HB2527 | Engross
Sine Die | Specifies that certain provisions of the Internal Revenue Code related to at-risk rules and deductions and passive activity loss do not apply to the state low-income housing tax credit allocations after 12/31/2019. Extends the time period in which to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-08
Received notice of disagreement (Hse. Com. No. 417). |
| HB2317 | Engross
Sine Die | Protects elders and vulnerable adults from financial exploitation in relation to securities. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-08
Received notice of disagreement (Hse. Com. No. 417). |
| HB2502 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the Director of Health, upon consultation with and authorization from the Governor, to screen, test, and monitor travelers. Provides for penalties for noncompliance. Amends and adds definitions and procedural and administrative provisions ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-08
Received notice of disagreement (Hse. Com. No. 417). |
| HB2292 | Engross
Sine Die | Repeals the existing law that bans electric guns, and replaces it with a law that restricts the ownership, use, storage, and disposal of electric guns, regulates the sale, distribution, and transfer of electric guns, requires training and education o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-08
Received notice of disagreement (Hse. Com. No. 417). |
| SB2561 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires retailers of household appliances to conspicuously display on certain household appliances that appear in the retailer's showroom floor available energy efficiency rebates funded by the public benefits fee and Hawaii-specific energy operatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-08
Received notice of disagreement (Sen. Com. No. 629). |
| HB2573 | Engross
Sine Die | Includes coercion as a means of committing the offense of sex trafficking. Removes the criminal statute of limitations for sex trafficking. Specifies that sex trafficking of a minor is a strict liability offense. Repeals the offense of solicitation o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-08
Received notice of disagreement (Hse. Com. No. 417). |
| HB2709 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires a personal representative of a decedent appointed under the Uniform Probate Code to notify the police department of the appropriate county of any and all firearms in an estate. Requires the police department to certify that all registered fi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-08
Received notice of disagreement (Hse. Com. No. 417). |
| HB2061 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the AG and DHS to convene a study group to examine the impacts, costs, and impediments of allowing child support payments to pass through to TANF recipients and submit a report to the legislature prior to the 2022 Regular Session. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-08
Received notice of disagreement (Hse. Com. No. 417). |
| HB1701 | Engross
Sine Die | Conforms statutory prohibitions against wage discrimination with other prohibitions on employment discrimination. Clarifies allowable justifications for compensation differentials and remedies for pay disparity. Requires employers to disclose wage ra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-08
Received notice of disagreement (Hse. Com. No. 417). |
| HB2610 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows a narrow hearsay exception for non-testimonial statements made by domestic violence victims to certain government officials within 24 hours of an incident of domestic violence and prior to the arrest of the defendant, as long as the statement ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-08
Received notice of disagreement (Hse. Com. No. 417). |
| HB1805 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires prescription drug manufacturers to notify prescription drug benefit plans and pharmacy benefit managers if a proposed increase in the wholesale acquisition cost of certain drugs would result in a percentage increase of ten per cent or more t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-08
Received notice of disagreement (Hse. Com. No. 418). |
| HB2457 | Engross
Sine Die | Bans the sale of flavored tobacco products. Prohibits mislabeling of e-liquid products containing nicotine. Establishes fines and penalties for violations. Authorizes a court to impose, as a penalty on a person eighteen to twenty-one years of age who...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-08
Received notice of disagreement (Hse. Com. No. 417). |
| HB2420 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifies the meaning of "program or activity receiving state financial assistance". Excludes cases within the scope of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act from the jurisdiction of the Hawaii civil rights commission. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-08
Received notice of disagreement (Hse. Com. No. 417). |
| HB2565 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the Pesticide Disposal Collection Program within the Department of Agriculture to provide a one-time, affordable, and environmentally accessible means for the disposal of restricted and nonrestricted use pesticides from a bona fide agricu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-08
Received notice of disagreement (Hse. Com. No. 417). |
| HB2192 | Engross
Sine Die | Increases the maximum area for each agricultural shade cloth structure, cold frame, and greenhouse that could qualify the structure for an exemption from building permit and building code requirements. Adds language granting county enforcement author...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-06
Received notice of disagreement (Hse. Com. No. 379). |
| HB1748 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides that all animal parts, products, or items containing prohibited animal parts or products involved in the commission of wildlife trafficking or certain hunting offenses shall be considered contraband to be forfeited to and disposed of by the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-06
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB1469 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a state income tax deduction for eligible contributions made to any college savings program under section 529 of the Internal Revenue Code. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2020. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-06
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2794 | Engross
Sine Die | Effective 1/1/21: Makes housekeeping amendments to Hawaii's elections laws to clarify and improve the administration of elections by mail; prohibits agents of a candidate from providing voting assistance; changes the deadline to file nomination paper...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-06
To House Finance Committee |
| HB2177 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends statutory limitations on the time period in which a survivor of childhood sexual abuse may file a civil suit. Allows punitive damages. Permits the court to order restorative justice measures, if deemed appropriate. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-06
Received notice of disagreement (Hse. Com. No. 384). |
| HB1706 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides that excess contributions by nonresident contributors shall be returned to a nonresident contributor of the candidate' or candidate committee's within 30 days of notice of the excess from the Campaign Spending Commission, after determination...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-06
Received notice of disagreement (Hse. Com. No. 384). |
| HB2102 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a hemp processor registry for hemp-derived products that consists of labeling and independent laboratory testing to ensure products do not contain contaminants unfit for human consumption. Prohibits hemp processors, distributors, and reta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-02
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB2273 | Engross
Sine Die | Increases the penalty for violation of wages and hours laws to a class C felony. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-02
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB2322 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Board of Massage Therapy to adopt and enforce sanitation rules for massage establishments. Repeals existing statutory language that classifies unlicensed activity as a petty misdemeanor in favor of existing statutes that treat unlicensed...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-02
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB2572 | Engross
Sine Die | Modernizes "personal information" for the purposes of security breach of personal information law. Prohibits the sale of contact tracing information without consent. Amends provisions relating to electronic eavesdropping law. Prohibits certain manipu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-02
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB2294 | Engross
Sine Die | Updates the laws regarding notaries public to conform to the Revised Uniform Law on Notarial Acts (2018), the Hawaii Uniform Electronic Transactions Act, other state notary laws, and current notary practices. Takes effect on 9/1/2020. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-01
Received notice of disagreement (Hse. Com. No. 370). |
| HB2304 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for fiscal biennium 2019-2021 for collective bargaining cost items, salary increases, and other cost adjustments for collective bargaining unit (4) and their excluded counterparts. Takes effect upon its approval. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-07-01
To Senate Labor, Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HB2091 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows the University of Hawaii to conduct criminal history record checks on current or prospective employees, and contractors and their employees, whose duties include ensuring security of campus facilities and persons. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-30
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB1529 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows student journalists at public schools to exercise freedom of speech and freedom of the press in school-sponsored media. Takes effect on 7/1/2055. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-30
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB1427 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Department of Transportation for operations and staff positions to increase hours of operation of the Kuhio Highway contraflow on Kauai. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-30
To House Finance Committee |
| SB3180 | Engross
Sine Die | Makes an emergency appropriation to provide funds for the state public charter school commission to pay the claim and settlement amount pursuant to Miller-Potter v. State of Hawaii, et al., Civil No. 16-1-0385K. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-29
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1278 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides that a law enforcement officer has a duty to intervene if the law enforcement officer reasonably believes that another law enforcement officer is using or is about to use unnecessary or excessive force on an arrestee. Requires the law enforc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-26
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB2036 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a pilot project to plan and design an expansion of the Hawaii Coral Restoration Nursery, including improvements to the sea urchin hatchery. Requires a report to the Legislature. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-26
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB2603 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the department of education to establish a pilot program that provides grants for high school students enrolled in a career and technical education or career academy program to enroll in college courses through the running start program or o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-26
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB2207 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the office of planning to conduct a land use study for Hauula, Oahu, that assesses the viability and cost of maintaining the transit corridor. Appropriates funds. Takes effect on 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-26
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1878 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires that mandatory seller disclosures in real estate transactions include identification of residential real properties lying within the sea level rise exposure area as designated by the Hawaii climate change mitigation and adaptation commission...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-26
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| HB2033 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the division of forestry and wildlife to purchase firefighting equipment. Takes effect on 7/1/2050. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-06-26
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
