| SB347 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits the intentional release of balloons inflated with a gas that is lighter than air. Effective 7/1/2050. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-19
Received notice of appointment of House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 559). |
| SB1333 | Engross
Sine Die | Updates the Uniform Controlled Substances Act to be consistent with amendments in the federal controlled substances law. Exempts hemp from the Uniform Controlled Substances Act. Removes cannabidiol drugs that have been approved by the United States F...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-19
Conference committee meeting scheduled for 04-21-21 1:30PM; CR 329. |
| SB579 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds to assist the House of Aloha Enterprises LLC, with planning, designing, constructing, and equipping facilities in Hawaii for the manufacturing and processing of certain products. Effective 7/1/...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-19
Received notice of appointment of House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 559). |
| SB401 | Engross
Sine Die | Increases the amount of the fine for campaign spending law violations that may be assessed against a noncandidate committee making only independent expenditures and that has received at least one contribution of more than $10,000, or spent more than ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-19
Received notice of appointment of House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 559). |
| SB1104 | Engross
Sine Die | Increases the monetary amount an injured homeowner may recover from the contractors recovery fund. Effective 1/1/2050. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-19
Conference committee meeting scheduled for 04-21-21 1:30PM; CR 229. |
| SB76 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires that the board of education prioritize for the superintendent of education position candidates that have minimum of ten years of employment in the department of education, with at least five of those years serving in the capacity as a teache...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-19
Received notice of appointment of House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 559). |
| SB969 | Engross
Sine Die | Beginning January 1, 2022, prohibits the manufacture or importation for sale of certain animal fur products in the State. Effective 7/1/2050. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-19
Received notice of appointment of House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 559). |
| SB2 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifies that lands set aside by the governor to the Hawaii housing finance and development corporation or leased to the corporation by other state departments or agencies are exempt from the definition of "public lands". Clarifies that lands set as...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-13
To House Finance Committee |
| SB827 | Engross
Sine Die | Expands coverage of breast cancer screening and imaging to include an annual mammogram for a woman of any age with an above average risk for breast cancer, risk factor screening for women ages thirty or older, and additional supplemental imaging for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-07
To House Finance Committee |
| SB866 | Engross
Sine Die | Temporarily exempts affordable housing projects by HHFDC from certain state and county fees and exactions related to discretionary approval or ministerial permitting when the projects are exclusively for certain qualified residents. Effective 5/6/213...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-07
To House Finance Committee |
| SB266 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates moneys. Exempts any person from the post-arrival mandatory selfquarantine if the person receives a negative test result prior to arrival. Allows the governor to establish statewide conditions for exemption. Requires certain COVID-19 test...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-07
To House Finance Committee |
| SB428 | Engross
Sine Die | Specifies that interference with an automated public transit operation is unlawful and is a class C felony. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-06
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB1035 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes and appropriates moneys from the state procurement automation system special fund to fund the project management of the procurement automation system. Allows the state procurement administrator to set procedures for final decisions on inv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-01
To House Finance Committee |
| SB1156 | Engross
Sine Die | Makes emergency appropriations to the department of health provide funds for supplies, personnel, equipment, and related efforts to implement the State's COVID-19 vaccination plan and other COVID-19 related expenses. Requires that should any project ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-01
To House Finance Committee |
| SB788 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows selection committees for procurement of professional services to weigh the selection criteria in the order of importance relevant to their agency and project. Beginning 12/31/2022, requires the state procurement office to develop a vendor past...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-01
To House Finance Committee |
| SB1138 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides that the annual expenditure ceiling of the office of healthcare assurance special fund shall be established through the state budget process. Authorizes emergency spending beyond the established budget ceiling. Effective 7/1/2060. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-01
To House Finance Committee |
| SB1144 | Engross
Sine Die | Increases the marriage license application fee to support the Hawaii birth defects program and operating costs of marriage license agents. Amends remittances of the increased fee to various special funds and accounts in unspecified amounts. Effective...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-01
To House Finance Committee |
| SB1198 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows the department of taxation to mandate the electronic filing of certain partnership, S-corporation, and individual tax returns. Requires certain tax return preparers to file returns electronically. Amends the rules for filing and payment of tax...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-04-01
To House Finance Committee |
| SB668 | Engross
Sine Die | Part I: Requires the State to regulate all agricultural imports and inspections. Establishes the air cargo pest inspection, quarantine, and eradication fund. Part II: Renames the agricultural development and food security special fund as the land-, a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-31
To House Finance Committee |
| SB191 | Engross
Sine Die | Specifies a procedure for condominium associations to incorporate power of sale language into their governing documents. Clarifies that liens may be foreclosed upon if the power of sale language is contained within an association's governing document...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-30
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB826 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits a sex offender from residing within two thousand feet of the sex offender's former victim or the victim's immediate family members. Requires the sex offender to receive approval from the Attorney General prior to a change in address. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-30
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB1311 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the department of education to establish food waste and zero-emission vehicle goals as part of the sustainable schools initiative. Requires an annual report to the legislature. Effective 7/1/2050. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-25
To House Finance Committee |
| SB675 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the definition of "employee-beneficiary" to include the surviving unmarried adult child of a deceased retired member if the child is incapable of self-support due to a mental or physical incapacity that existed prior to the unmarried child's r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-25
To House Finance Committee |
| SB387 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes conditions and time limits for placing a child in room confinement at a detention or shelter facility. Effective 7/1/2060. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-25
To House Finance Committee |
| SB947 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the Hawaii broadband and digital equity office within the department of business, economic development, and tourism. Effective 1/1/2050. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-25
To House Finance Committee |
| SB912 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes a court to order the forfeiture of one half of the employees' retirement system (ERS) benefits of an ERS member, former member, or retirant upon conviction of the individual for a felony related to the state or county employment of the ind...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-25
To House Finance Committee |
| SB410 | Engross
Sine Die | Adds abuse of a family or household member to those felonies that qualify for repeat offender sentencing. Effective 7/1/2060. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-25
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB566 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the legislative reference bureau to conduct a study to determine the increase to the homestead exemption in bankruptcy proceedings. Effective 12/1/2050. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-25
To House Finance Committee |
| SB1128 | Engross
Sine Die | Permits individual vocational programs within the purview of the office of youth services to engage in commercial enterprises, including the sale of goods and services, for self-sustainability purposes, for young adults only. Establishes the office o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-25
To House Finance Committee |
| SB251 | 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. Effective 7/1/2050. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-25
To House Finance Committee |
| SB702 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the committee on weights to submit a report to the legislature detailing any changes to the funding formula within thirty days of the final report. Effective 7/1/2051. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-25
To House Finance Committee |
| SB1027 | Engross
Sine Die | Part I: Redesignates the industrial hemp special fund as the hemp special fund for the department of agriculture's duties regarding hemp. Makes an appropriation. Part II: Amends chapter 328G, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to better distinguish processing ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-25
To House Finance Committee |
| SB678 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the representative of labor on the Hawaii labor relations board (HLRB) to be a person selected by a simple majority of the exclusive representatives of the collective bargaining units. Establishes procedures for removal of the representative...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-25
To House Finance Committee |
| SB913 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires persons in counties having a population greater than seven hundred fifty thousand who receive state funds and state financial assistance to donate unnecessary but functioning electronic devices and televisions to nonprofit organizations that...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-25
To House Finance Committee |
| SB135 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the office of enterprise technology services to establish a working group to conduct a study to identify state office buildings that can provide equitable telecommunication access to allow residents of the counties of Hawaii, Kauai, and Maui...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-25
To House Finance Committee |
| SB562 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes that charging shipping and delivery charges that exceed the actual cost to ship or deliver a commodity to a consumer in Hawaii constitutes an unfair and deceptive practice. Effective 1/1/2050. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-25
To House Finance Committee |
| SB315 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates moneys for the State of Hawaii Museum of Natural and Cultural History from the funds received by the State from the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, Public Law 117-2. Effective 7/1/2050. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-25
To House Finance Committee |
| SB974 | Engross
Sine Die | Beginning 7/1/2023: provides for new viable installment-based small dollar loan transactions; specifies various consumer protection requirements for small dollar loans; requires licensure for small dollar lenders, subject to the oversight of the divi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-25
To House Finance Committee |
| SB256 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds to assist Keahole Hotel & Suites LLC with planning, designing, constructing, and equipping facilities for a hotel at the Ellison Onizuka Kona International Airport at Keahole. Effective 7/1/205...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-25
To House Finance Committee |
| SB148 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires landlords, lessors, or plaintiffs in a summary possession action based on nonpayment of monetary rent to submit a general excise tax license in good standing as a condition to the issuance of a writ of possession. Effective 5/6/2137. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-25
To House Finance Committee |
| SB1107 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the hazard mitigation special fund for the Hawaii emergency management agency. Effective 7/1/2050. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-25
To House Finance Committee |
| SB82 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires each new member of a board or commission to participate in an orientation and training session with the head of the department with jurisdiction of that member's board or commission or their designee. Requires each department and agency to t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-25
To House Finance Committee |
| SB799 | Engross
Sine Die | Makes condominium laws regarding sales to owner-occupants inapplicable to time share units. Increases the minimum number of residential units in a condominium project that must be offered for sale to prospective owner-occupants in the thirtyday perio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-25
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| SB238 | Engross
Sine Die | Includes candidates for the board of trustees of the office of Hawaiian affairs to receive a maximum in public funds up to fifteen percent of the expenditure limit for each election. Amends ballot requirements to display candidates for the office of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-25
To House Finance Committee |
| SB755 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires lessors of rental motor vehicles to include an option for the lessee in the motor vehicle rental agreement to contribute a sum to DLNR for the preservation and protection of the environment. Effective 7/1/2050. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-25
To House Finance Committee |
| SB715 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds for a master planned development proposed by Pueo Development, LLC, on Hawaiian home lands. Effective 7/1/3021. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-25
To House Finance Committee |
| SB756 | Engross
Sine Die | Part I: Authorizes each county to adopt ordinances to enforce section 291-71, Hawaii Revised Statutes, including the establishment of penalties for failure to comply with its requirements or make reasonable efforts to maintain electric vehicle chargi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-25
To House Finance Committee |
| SB804 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes HPHA and HHFDC to provide rental housing projects for teachers employed by the DOE and public charter schools. Appropriates funds for HPHA. Appropriates funds for deposit into the dwelling unit revolving fund. Requires the DOE to lease lan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-25
To House Finance Committee |
| SB1240 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the State to conform to those provisions of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021, relating to taxable income and deductible expenses. Effective 1/1/2050. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-25
To House Finance Committee |
| SB304 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes procedures for the department of transportation to assist and enable a person to voluntarily purchase a verified carbon offset for carbon dioxide emissions resulting from the person's air travel to or from an airport in the State. Effecti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-25
To House Finance Committee |
