| SB965 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the department of taxation to share information with the department of labor and industrial relations for the purposes of enforcing the tip credit. Requires the department of taxation to provide an online tool or program to employers to dete...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-29
To Senate Labor, Culture and the Arts Committee |
| SB1003 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires inclusion of an unspecified minimum percentage of affordable housing units in state agencies' development and redevelopment plans along the rail transit corridor. Allows the Office of Planning to make exceptions to the affordable housing req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-29
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| SB1221 | Intro
Sine Die | Removes the sunset provision in Act 42, Session Laws of Hawaii 2018.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-29
To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| SB1005 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts from legislative approval the sale of the leased fee interest in certain affordable leasehold developments by the Hawaii housing finance and development corporation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-29
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| SB833 | Intro
Sine Die | Expands the time period by which a civil action for childhood sexual abuse must be initiated. Extends the period during which a victim of childhood sexual abuse may bring an otherwise time-barred action against the victim's abuser or an entity having...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-29
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB861 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires any county with a population greater than 150,000 to establish a metropolitan planning organization.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-29
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB1043 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes it clear that the police may grant applications to acquire firearms to lawful permanent resident aliens and United States Nationals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-29
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB1247 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the 16th senatorial district.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-29
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB917 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the broadband infrastructure grant program to award grants to applicants to extend deployment of infrastructure used to provide broadband service to unserved areas of the State. Amends the Hawaii technology loan revolving fund to change i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-29
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| SB1217 | Intro
Sine Die | Reduces the membership of the State Highway Safety Council appointed by the Governor from twenty to ten.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-29
To Senate Transportation Committee |
| SB1066 | Intro
Sine Die | Consolidates the survey and the certification requirements for the research activities tax credit, requires the certification on a first come, first served basis by date subject to certain conditions, and adds a cap for the taxpayer and related entit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-29
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| SB967 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the department of education to establish rules for the procurement of goods and services related to the administration of food programs at public schools that incorporate a geographic preference for unprocessed locally grown and locally rais...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-29
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB985 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the important agricultural land qualified agricultural cost tax credit by repealing the cap amount of the tax credit. Extends by nine years the time period that the department of agriculture may certify important agricultural lands qualified a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-29
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
| SB883 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires department of education school football programs to ensure that each non-new football and privately purchased football helmet used in a football program is reconditioned and recertified at least once every two years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-29
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB1131 | Intro
Sine Die | Continues the nursing facility sustainability program for two additional years. Appropriates funds out of the nursing facility sustainability program special fund for fiscal years 2021-2022 and 2022-2023.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-29
To Senate Health Committee |
| SB859 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes an appropriation to establish and fund one advanced life support ambulance based in Makalei on the island of Hawaii, including acquisition of a vehicle, equipment, and personnel costs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-29
To Senate Health Committee |
| SB926 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the allocation of excess transient accommodations tax revenues to the Turtle Bay conservation easement special fund, for the operation of a Hawaiian center and the museum of Hawaiian music and dance, to the counties, and to the special land a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-29
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| SB846 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to support and expand physician residency training programs in state teaching hospitals. Requires dollar-for-dollar matching funds from private funding sources.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-29
To Senate Health Committee |
| SB1006 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits offshore drilling for oil, natural gas, or minerals 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, na...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-29
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| SB845 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires electric utilities to compensate electricity producers for excess electricity credits.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-29
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| SB1228 | Intro
Sine Die | Transfers for administrative purposes only the Commission for National and Community Service from the University of Hawaii to the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism. Adds a representative from each county mayor?s office to the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-29
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| SB847 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires each public or private school to have staff trained in the administration of epinephrine. Requires signs to be displayed in school buildings stating the symptoms of anaphylaxis and the proper method for administering epinephrine. Appropriate...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-29
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB909 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the department of business, economic development, and tourism to develop a plan to ensure that all communities in the State having schools receiving federal Title I education funds have high-speed broadband internet access.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-29
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| SB203 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Hawaii medical board to establish standards for health care providers to ensure that a patient's consent to treatment is an informed consent. Requires that informed consent for a proposed medical or surgical treatment or a diagnostic or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-29
To Senate Health Committee |
| SB1226 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the requirement that each University of Hawaii campus prepare an operations plan, to be reviewed by the President and the Vice President for Budget and Finance and the Chief Financial Officer of the University of Hawaii, for each fiscal year....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-29
To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| SB1148 | Intro
Sine Die | Imposes a fee for selling sugar-sweetened beverages at the distributor level. Creates a special fund into which revenues are deposited, the proceeds of which shall fund programs to prevent obesity and chronic disease for Hawaii's ohana.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-29
To Senate Health Committee |
| SB960 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the expenditure of state funds by state agencies for the purchase of beverages in plastic bottles or rigid plastic containers, except under certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-29
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| SB852 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes reduced taxpayer penalties for nonpayments and underpayments that are due to reasonable cause. Allows a taxpayer to post a bond to avoid penalties and interest. Assesses interest on a deficiency in state income tax payment caused by a cha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-29
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB875 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for an expedited agency hearing regarding any criminal activity that threatens the health and safety of the community or any drug-related criminal activity.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-29
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| SB984 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the auditor to perform a comprehensive performance and management audit of the state historic preservation division.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-29
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| SB1051 | Intro
Sine Die | Short form bill to effectuate the title of the Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-29
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB910 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Hawaii Public Housing Authority to establish a pilot program to ensure that all housing units in the Kuhio Park Terrace and Puuwai Momi public housing complexes are provided with sufficient internet speeds and connection quality. Appropr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-29
To Senate Human Services Committee |
| SB1115 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows a person who is a spouse of an active duty service member in the military; accompanies the service member a permanent change of station to Hawaii; and holds a current, unencumbered license in another jurisdiction in specific professions to app...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-29
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB896 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides judges with greater discretion to adjust the amount owed or financial circumstances by a person who violates certain traffic offenses based on the person's inability to pay. Decreases the imprisonment term to contumacious nonpayment ratio. I...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-29
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB1170 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies that a valid commercial marine vessel license shall satisfy the commercial marine license requirement for all persons taking marine life for commercial purposes aboard a validly licensed vessel. Requires any person who provides fishing char...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-29
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| SB849 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes general excise tax exemptions for food, medical services, and feminine hygiene products.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-29
To Senate Health Committee |
| SB948 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the department of transportation and each county's transportation department to create and maintain a priority list of sidewalk installation and improvement projects and to publish the priority list on their respective websites.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-29
To Senate Transportation Committee |
| SB1056 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts land set aside by the Governor to the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation and lands leased to the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation from other State departments or agencies from classification as public land su...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-29
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| SB1052 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies that the statute of limitations for an inverse-condemnation claim brought pursuant to section 20 of article I of the Constitution of the State of Hawaii is two years, pursuant to section 661-5, Hawaii Revised Statutes, by amending section 6...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-29
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB1229 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the operating and capital improvement budget of the Executive Branch for fiscal years 2021-2022 and 2022-2023.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-29
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB860 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires a retail establishment with an employee toilet facility to allow a customer suffering from an eligible medical condition to use that restroom during normal business hours, under certain conditions. Exempts a retail establishment and employee...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-29
To Senate Health Committee |
| SB842 | Intro
Sine Die | Ensures the protection and promotion of the health and well-being of all infants born alive in the State. Mandates medically appropriate and reasonable life-saving and life-sustaining medical care and treatment to all born alive infants. Establishes ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-29
To Senate Health Committee |
| SB972 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the governor to ensure the continued operation of medical facilities during times of health or pandemic emergencies. Authorizes hospitals to suspend elective surgeries in order to address bed capacity during the period of emergency.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-29
To Senate Health Committee |
| SB453 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires builders to provide cost estimates for residential fire sprinklers to potential buyers of all new one- and two-family dwellings. The state fire council shall provide written information on the benefits of a sprinkler system.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-29
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB1013 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases fines for aquarium fishing violations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-29
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| SB823 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits courts from considering parental alienation syndrome in determining child custody. Allows for the consideration of "harm" and "probable harm", rather than just "imminent harm", in Child Protective Act determinations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-29
To Senate Human Services Committee |
| SB918 | Intro
Sine Die | Removes the $3 million cap on the amount the University of Hawaii System can expend from the University of Hawaii tuition and fees special fund for the University of Hawaii Foundation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-29
To Senate Higher Education Committee |
| SB729 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits smoking in all enclosed and partially enclosed areas of individual units of multiple-unit residences or multifamily dwellings, if such units share at least one common floor, wall, or ceiling with another such unit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-27
To Senate Health Committee |
| SB665 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes that knowingly or intentionally providing false information concerning the name or address of a person paying for a campaign advertisement is a class C felony. Repeals certain exemptions from criminal prosecution for campaign finance viol...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-27
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB494 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects of the department of agriculture.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-27
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee |
