| SB832 | Engross
Sine Die | Expands the victim-counselor privilege under Rule 505.5 of the Hawaii Rules of Evidence to include confidential advocates employed by the University of Hawaii. Effective 7/1/2050. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-18
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB2138 | Engross
Sine Die | Subjects interns who work for the State to the state ethics code by defining and including the term "intern" in the definition of employees, who are subject to the provisions of the code. Effective 7/1/2112. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-18
To House Labor & Tourism Committee |
| SB2292 | Engross
Sine Die | Modernizes the definition of "personal information" for the purposes of notifying affected persons of data and security breaches. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-18
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| SB2300 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows candidates seeking election to use campaign funds for child care and vital household dependent care costs under certain conditions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-18
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB1859 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Hawaii Public Housing Authority for the State Rent Supplement Program and one full time (1.0 FTE) Public Housing Specialist II position. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-18
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2210 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the chief election officer, with assistance from the county clerks for elections that involve county offices and countywide ballot issues, to publish and distribute a voters' pamphlet. Appropriates funds. Requires the counties to match funds...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-18
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB2090 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a zero-emission vehicle rebate program within the public utilities commission to enable low- and moderate-income families greater access to zero-emission vehicles by providing a rebate on the point-of-sale purchase price of zero-emission ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-18
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee |
| SB2034 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires assessment of patients who are subject to emergency hospitalization, diagnosed with a mental illness or severe substance use disorder, and found to be lacking decisional capacity to determine if a surrogate or guardian needs to be appointed ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-18
To House Health, Human Services, & Homelessness Committee |
| SB2726 | Engross
Sine Die | Exempts parking lot operations and ground transportation services at airports and small boat harbors from the mandatory public bidding requirements under the state procurement law. Effective 7/1/2112. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-18
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| SB2334 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the board of education to include an open forum for public comments on non-agenda items at the end of board meetings. Requires the board of education to hold no less than six community forums annually, with at least one forum in each county....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-18
To House Education Committee |
| SB2615 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the composition of the Board of Agriculture by providing representation from the islands of Molokai and Lanai. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-18
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB2640 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the second year of the program to train incarcerated women to be general education development tutors for their peers, provide college correspondence courses for women in the women's community correctional center, and provide r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-18
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB3139 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a department of law enforcement to consolidate and administer criminal law enforcement and investigations functions of the State effective upon approval and reestablishes the department of public safety as an independent department of cor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-18
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB1577 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the Kahoolawe Island Reserve Commission and to fund two full-time equivalent permanent positions for the Kahoolawe Island Reserve Commission. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-18
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB3226 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the office of elections to prepare a digital voter information guide to be posted on its website. Requires the office of elections to mail a notice with each ballot notifying voters that a voter information guide may be found on its website....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-18
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB1426 | Engross
Sine Die | Provides that a person waives the right to a contested case hearing if the person fails to request a contested case hearing within twenty days of receipt of the campaign spending commission's preliminary determination. Allows the campaign spending co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-18
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2880 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits any increase in the fees charged for providing home health care services during a state of emergency or local state of emergency concerning a public health pandemic on the sole basis that the patient receiving the services requires that the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-18
To House Health, Human Services, & Homelessness Committee |
| HB1748 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes, and appropriates funds for, the issuance of general obligation bonds into and out of the rental housing revolving fund for low-income rental housing projects or units that are allocated low-income housing tax credits and developed for fam...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-18
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2532 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the department of public safety to establish a working group to create a pilot program designed to reduce recidivism by providing business education to inmates. Requires a report to the Legislature. Appropriates moneys. Effective 7/1/3000. (...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-18
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB312 | Enroll
Sine Die | Proposes a constitutional amendment to provide that freedom of speech protected under the Hawaii State Constitution does not include the expenditure of money to influence elections. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-18
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB2212 | Engross
Sine Die | Holds telecommunication service providers and third-party spoofing providers accountable by making certain robocalls and spoofing unlawful. Effective 7/1/2050. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-18
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB1423 | Engross
Sine Die | Increases the fine that may be assessed for campaign spending law violations 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 $10,000 in an ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-18
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2071 | Engross
Sine Die | Beginning 1/1/2023, requires public schools, private schools, and public charter schools to have an employee trained to administer or assist with the self-administration of seizure disorder rescue medication; requires all principals, guidance counsel...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-18
To House Education Committee |
| SB3350 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires that any procurement change order that increases the contract cost by more than fifty per cent be considered a new contract for procurement purpose, except if approval of the change order is determined to be in the best interest of the State...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-18
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| SB2622 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes and appropriates moneys for a two-year pilot project to grow biodiesel crops in the State. Requires a report to the Legislature. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-18
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| SB2772 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the judiciary for residential drug treatment, therapeutic living, and mental health programs for judiciary-involved women. Appropriates funds to the department of public safety to expand existing community-based furlough program...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-18
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB2863 | Engross
Sine Die | Exempts amounts received from the sale of feminine hygiene products from the general excise tax. Effective 10/18/2050. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-18
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB2114 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends the definitions of a "distressed property consultant" and "mortgage assistance relief service" in the mortgage rescue fraud prevention act. Effective 1/1/2050. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-18
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| SB2456 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizes the issuance of limited purpose identification cards for certain residents. Takes effect 7/30/2075. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-17
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB2172 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits issuance of future large capacity underground storage tank systems mauka of the underground injection control line beginning July 1, 2022. Prohibits operation of and renewal of large capacity underground storage tank system permits located ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-17
To House Health, Human Services, & Homelessness Committee |
| SB2799 | Engross
Sine Die | Transfers lands to the Department of Land and Natural Resources and establishes that land and adjacent state-owned lands as the Kaiwi Coast State Park. Establishes positions within the Department of Land and Natural Resources for management of the Ka...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-17
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB2189 | Engross
Sine Die | Removes the governor's authority to select the chairperson of the board of education. Authorizes a majority of the members of the board to elect a chairperson from among the members of the board. Removes the requirement that the chairperson be an at-...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-17
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB3192 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes within the Department of Land and Natural Resources a visitor impact fee program to collect a fee to allow visitors to visit a state park, beach, state-owned forest, hiking trail, or other state-owned natural area. Establishes the Environ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-17
To House Labor & Tourism Committee |
| SB2889 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Health to regulate water catchment systems used for business activity and provide testing to businesses that utilize water catchment systems; provided the regulations comply with the Hawaii state plumbing code, including ap...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-17
To House Water & Land Committee |
| SB448 | Engross
Sine Die | Repeals section 46-19.8, Hawaii Revised Statutes, and Act 53, Session Laws of Hawaii 2017, which prohibited the counties from adopting codes and regulations that would require the installation or retrofitting of residential fire sprinklers in one- an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-17
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| SB2291 | Engross
Sine Die | Amends provisions relating to electronic eavesdropping. Requires law enforcement entities to obtain a search warrant before accessing a person's electronic communications in certain circumstances. Amends notification requirements of a law enforcement...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-17
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB2446 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates moneys to the Department of Land and Natural Resources to establish positions in parks administration and operation (LNR 806) to implement visitor reservation systems in Hawaii state parks. Appropriates additional moneys to the Departmen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-17
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2535 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes the number of miles from the shore of a main Hawaiian island where offshore wind turbines may be sited. Takes effect 7/30/2075. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-17
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee |
| HB2007 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires cash or protest bonds to be returned to the initiating parties, minus administrative costs, except in cases where the appeal was frivolous or made in bad faith. Effective 7/1/2112. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-17
To Senate Government Operations Committee |
| SB2662 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires state building codes to incorporate the international green construction code. Sets specific targets for the recycling, reuse, donation, and resale of non-hazardous construction waste. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-17
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| SB2020 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifies that, under the general excise tax law, sales to a licensed retail merchant, jobber, or other licensed seller for resale are only eligible for the wholesale tax rate if the resale is subject to the highest general excise tax rate. Adds a si...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-16
To House Economic Development Committee |
| SB3244 | Engross
Sine Die | Repeals the definition of permanent resident for legislative reapportionment purposes. Takes effect 7/30/2075. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-16
To House Government Reform Committee |
| HB1516 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibits as an unfair and deceptive practice the advertisement of a good or service in the absence of licenses or permits for the good or service, to the extent the licenses or permits are required by applicable state and county laws. Effective 1/1/...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-16
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| SB2335 | Engross
Sine Die | Allows purchasing agencies to use the median bid method of procurement. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-16
To House Government Reform Committee |
| HB1631 | Engross
Sine Die | Creates a nonrefundable water catchment income tax credit for homeowners who install a water catchment system meeting certain requirements on residential property in the State owned by the homeowners. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1834 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires the DOE to establish and administer the strong students grant pilot program to provide grants for eligible education expenses to eligible students. Requires the DOE to submit progress reports to the legislature prior to the 2023 and 2024 reg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-16
To Senate Education Committee |
| SB3039 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires cost or pricing analysis for purchases of health and human services. Adds definition of "policy board." Increases the small purchase threshold for purchases of health and human services. Authorizes heads of purchasing agencies to issue reque...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-16
To House Government Reform Committee |
| HB1656 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds for the establishment of a permanent full-time equivalent land and access specialist position and a permanent full-time equivalent abstractor position within the Na Ala Hele program for the protection and expansion of public trail ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| SB2044 | Engross
Sine Die | Increases from $1,000 to $5,000 the fine that may be assessed for campaign spending law violations against a noncandidate committee making only independent expenditures and that has received at least one contribution of more than $10,000, or spent mo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-16
To House Government Reform Committee |
| HB2417 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires DLNR to review the final report of the house of representatives' investigative committee established under House Resolution No. 164, Regular Session of 2021, for the purpose of conducting a policy analysis and developing proposed legislation...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-16
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
