| SB1165 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the department of land and natural resources to issue new ocean recreation commercial permits at public auction. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
To House Water & Land Committee |
| SB1087 | Engross
Sine Die | Suspends the requirement for public employers to make annual required contributions to the Hawaii employer-union health benefits trust fund through fiscal year 2024-2025. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
To House Labor & Tourism Committee |
| SB1132 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the Medicaid Sustainability Program for 2 years. Appropriates funds out of the Medicaid Sustainability Program Special Fund for fiscal years 2021-2022 and 2022-2023. Sunsets on 12/31/2023. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
To House Health, Human Services, & Homelessness Committee |
| SB141 | Engross
Sine Die | Transfers the State Building Code Council from the Department of Accounting and General Services to the Hawaii State Energy Office. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| SB220 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Education to implement a service-learning curriculum to develop student character, values, self-esteem, civic responsibility, financial literacy, and knowledge of local community issues and concerns though community service...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
To House Education Committee |
| SB645 | Engross
Sine Die | Extends the period in which a county may adopt a surcharge on state tax, under certain conditions. Authorizes the use of county surcharge revenues for affordable and workforce housing infrastructure. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
To House Economic Development Committee |
| SB321 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires agencies that collect receipts for any disposition of the public land trust shall each fiscal quarter transfer to the Office of Hawaiian Affairs twenty per cent of each receipt from the disposition. Returns to the Office of Hawaiian Affairs ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
To House Water & Land Committee |
| SB479 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Agriculture to collaborate with agricultural growers and researchers to develop and implement a program to safely distribute disease- and insect-free tropical plant materials to Hawaii farmers. Requires the Department of Ag...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
To House Agriculture Committee |
| SB1157 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides emergency appropriations in fiscal year 2020-2021 to the Department of Health to continue funding for various COVID-19 response related programs and activities. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
To House Pandemic & Disaster Preparedness Committee |
| SB1250 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the Hawaii emergency food assistance program and Hawaii emergency food assistance program special fund to be administered by the department of agriculture and appropriates moneys into the fund to provide food to certain residents during g...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
To House Pandemic & Disaster Preparedness Committee |
| SB1207 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows the head of a purchasing agency to obtain emergency procurements in certain situations that create a threat to life, public health, welfare, public property, or serous disruption to government services, including situations caused by equipment...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
To House Pandemic & Disaster Preparedness Committee |
| SB767 | Engross
Sine Die | Legalizes the personal use, possession, and sale of cannabis in a specified quantity. Requires licensing to operate cannabis establishments. Subjects cannabis establishments to excise taxes and income taxes. Effective 5/6/2137. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
To House Health, Human Services, & Homelessness Committee |
| SB787 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires that revenue estimates provided by the department of taxation to the legislature or to any executive or administrative office be accompanied by a description of the methodology used and assumptions made in providing the estimate. Requires th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
To House Economic Development Committee |
| SB465 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Auditor to perform a program audit of the policies and procedures of the Board of Education and Department of Education to support schools in meeting the goals and statewide student success indicators outlined in the 2017-2020 strategic ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
To House Education Committee |
| SB86 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Health to issue medical cannabis dispensary licenses to the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands, allowing for increased revenue for beneficiaries. Requires the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to study the feasibility and re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
To House Health, Human Services, & Homelessness Committee |
| SB758 | Engross
Sine Die | Increases from three grams to thirty grams: (1) the minimum amount of marijuana that a defendant must possess to be charged with a petty misdemeanor; and (2) the maximum amount of marijuana that a defendant convicted of possessing marijuana could hav...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
To House Health, Human Services, & Homelessness Committee |
| SB341 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes an exclusion from the state income tax for an unspecified portion of a person's income derived from the business of taro cultivation or production of taro products. Provides that the exclusion shall not apply if the department of agricult...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
To House Agriculture Committee |
| SB976 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the definition of "preceptor" and "volunteer-based supervised clinical training rotation" to improve accessibility for providers to receive income tax credits for acting as preceptors. Includes the director of health on the Preceptor Credit As...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| SB1159 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates unspecified sums of general fund revenues for fiscal years 2021-2022 and 2022-2023 for the purpose of reimbursing the federal government for moneys lent to the State for the payment of unemployment benefit claims. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
To House Labor & Tourism Committee |
| SB65 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows direct shipment of beer and distilled spirits by certain licensees. Requires the county liquor commissions to adopt rules and regulations. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| SB1024 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a cannabinoid medicine program within the University of Hawaii, to be administered by the John A. Burns school of medicine. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
To House Health, Human Services, & Homelessness Committee |
| SB619 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends provisions concerning fitness to proceed examinations in criminal proceedings to specify circumstances in which qualified advanced practice registered nurses or advanced practice registered nurses with prescriptive authority who hold an accred...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
To House Health, Human Services, & Homelessness Committee |
| SB1237 | Engross
Sine Die | Reduces the cap amounts of the renewable energy technologies income tax credit. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2021. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| SB241 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes qualifying patients and qualifying out-of-state patients to transport cannabis between islands of the State for personal medical use. Effective 5/6/2137. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
To House Health, Human Services, & Homelessness Committee |
| SB694 | Engross
Sine Die | Codifies sustainable development goals based on the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals and indicators. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| SB1122 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires each board of water supply to transmit an accounting of all water credits held by the board to the department of Hawaiian home lands (DHHL). Allows DHHL to request unused and unallocated water credits from each board. Requires each board to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
To House Water & Land Committee |
| SB35 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits landlords from recovering possession of a dwelling unit from tenants if habitability of the premises is significantly impaired. Sets a tenant's liability for rent if habitability of the premises is significantly impaired. Provides remedies ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| SB998 | Engross
Sine Die | Grants voting rights to members of the board of directors of the Honolulu authority for rapid transportation appointed by the president of the senate or speaker of the house of representatives. Effective 5/6/2137. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
To House Transportation Committee |
| SB1289 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the elections commission to, in consultation with the clerk of each county, perform an assessment of whether the election watcher and election observer programs are adequate and, if not, what adjustments are necessary to improve the programs...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB805 | Engross
Sine Die | Makes the exemption from the behavior analyst licensing requirements permanent for certain teachers working in collaboration with a licensed behavior analyst or licensed psychologist. Clarifies exemptions from licensure as a behavioral analyst for ge...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
To House Health, Human Services, & Homelessness Committee |
| SB163 | 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 at its discretion, if requested by the victim. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
To House Health, Human Services, & Homelessness Committee |
| SB12 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Hawaii public housing authority and the Hawaii housing finance and development corporation to accomplish certain housing objectives. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
To House Housing Committee |
| SB775 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides for a mechanism to adjust the transient accommodations tax rate based on visitor arrivals for a calendar year. Requires the Hawaii tourism authority and the department of business, economic development, and tourism to determine and the latte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
To House Labor & Tourism Committee |
| SB1242 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a trauma-informed care task force within the department of health to make recommendations of trauma-informed care in the State. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
To House Health, Human Services, & Homelessness Committee |
| SB307 | Engross
Sine Die | Includes any firearm or rifle with the capacity to fire ammunition of fifty caliber or higher except shotguns and muzzle-loading firearms in the list of prohibited weapons. Takes effect 5/6/2137. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB270 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates elementary and secondary school emergency relief fund (ESSER funds) moneys received by the State from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, 2020, Public Law 116-136, and the Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
To House Education Committee |
| SB1343 | Engross
Sine Die | Removes acreage restrictions on leases of Hawaiian home lands for agricultural purposes. Provides that the availability of the foregoing leases shall be subject to the availability of suitable tracts of land. Specifies that the foregoing leases may b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
To House Agriculture Committee |
| SB1134 | Engross
Sine Die | Broadens the department of human services employees' right of entry into a vulnerable adult's premises without a warrant to investigate any type of abuse regardless of physical injury. Effective 5/6/2137. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
To House Health, Human Services, & Homelessness Committee |
| SB478 | Engross
Sine Die | Creates an exclusion from income tax for the lesser of a percentage of gross annual income or an amount of gross annual income earned by a farmer from farming activities. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
To House Agriculture Committee |
| SB199 | Engross
Sine Die | Mandates appointment of a guardian ad litem to represent the best interest of a mentally ill individual in assistant community treatment proceedings. Eliminates the need for the office of the public defender to participate in the proceedings. Effecti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
To House Health, Human Services, & Homelessness Committee |
| SB670 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows minors under the age of sixteen years to work in theatrical employment provided that the employer procures a valid certificate of employment and the minor is accompanied by a parent, guardian, or responsible adult designated by the parent or g...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
To House Labor & Tourism Committee |
| SB23 | Engross
Sine Die | Repeals vehicle license recovery fees. Takes effect 1/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
To House Transportation Committee |
| SB112 | Engross
Sine Die | Makes flying or facilitating flying without a pilot license a misdemeanor. Defines pilot license. Takes effect 1/1/2050. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
To House Transportation Committee |
| SB1251 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Education to meet the local farm to school meal goal of fifteen per cent of food served in public schools to be locally sourced by 2025 and thirty per cent by 2030. Requires the Department of Education to report to the Legi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
To House Agriculture Committee |
| SB1 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the ALOHA homes program to develop low-cost homes on state-owned and county-owned land in urban redevelopment sites to be sold in leasehold by the Hawaii housing finance and development corporation (HHFDC) to qualified residents. Exempts ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
To House Housing Committee |
| SB176 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides that each industrial park lease shall include a rent escalation clause that specifies that increases in rental rates for a 5-year period shall not exceed the lower of the percentage specified in the Consumer Price Index or 10%. Authorizes th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
To House Water & Land Committee |
| SB301 | Engross
Sine Die | Expands the ban on pistols with a detachable magazine with over ten round capacity to any firearm with a detachable magazine with over ten round capacity. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB1091 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the transfer of moneys from various funds to the general fund. Appropriates funds for Na Wai Eha land acquisition. Repeals or abolishes various non-general funds and accounts and transfers the unencumbered balance to the general fund. Effe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
To House Finance Committee |
| SB1033 | Engross
Sine Die | Makes an emergency appropriation to provide funds for the Stadium Authority for payroll and other expenses. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
To House Economic Development Committee |
| SB839 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes advanced practice registered nurses, in addition to physicians, to practice medical aid in dying in accordance with their scope of practice and prescribing authority. Authorizes psychiatric mental health nurse practitioners and clinical nu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-03-11
To House Health, Human Services, & Homelessness Committee |
