| HI | HB259 | Intro | Requires the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to digitize its applicant, beneficiary, and lessee records. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-23
[Hearing: Jan 25 @ 10:35 am]
To House Water, Land, & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB544 | Intro | Provides that the State or a county that repairs or maintains a street of which the ownership or jurisdiction is in dispute between the State and the county, shall be immune from liability for personal injuries or property damage arising out of the r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-23
[Hearing: Jan 25 @ 10:35 am]
To House Water, Land, & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB453 | Intro | Excludes lands set aside by the Governor to the Hawaii Public Housing Authority (HPHA) and lands to which HPHA holds title from the definition of public lands in section 171-2, Hawaii Revised Statutes. Requires prior legislative approval for the sale...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-23
[Hearing: Jan 25 @ 10:35 am]
To House Water, Land, & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB458 | Intro | Authorizes the Board of Land and Natural Resources to transfer the operation, administration, management, and maintenance of the Kihei Small Boat Harbor, with some exceptions, to Kahoolawe Island Reserve Commission. Authorizes the Kahoolawe Island Re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-23
[Hearing: Jan 25 @ 10:35 am]
To House Water, Land, & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB1064 | N/A | Requires that real estate investment trusts file returns reporting their shareholders' pro rata shares of net income and net income attributable to this State. Provides for composite returns and requires withholding for those shareholders who do not ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-23
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB1065 | N/A | Deletes the provision authorizing the issuance of a written warning notice for a first violation of Hawaii's pesticide laws. Increases the administrative penalties. Enhances the criminal penalties for violations involving bodily injury.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-23
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB1151 | N/A | Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to adopt rules pursuant to Chapter 91, HRS, to require certain safety measures for commercial ocean operators that take customers into state waters for activities such as snorkeling, scuba diving,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-23
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB1122 | N/A | Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to use cooperative resource management strategies to manage and administer the wildlife and wildlife resources of the State. Prohibits closures of game management areas, wildlife sanctuaries, and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-23
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB1133 | N/A | Requires DLNR to limit entry into the Molokini marine life conservation district to forty-one permits and twenty permitted vessels at any given time.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-23
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB1115 | N/A | Requires the Department of Education to teach Hawaiian language to students in each public elementary school.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-23
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB1105 | N/A | Effective 1/1/2020, prohibits approval of new underground injection wells other than sewage wastewater wells where no alternative means of disposal is available. Effective 1/1/2025, prohibits approval of new underground injection wells in any circums...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-23
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB1106 | N/A | Specifies that, for purposes of emergency permits to alleviate coastal erosion in a conservation district, a land use shall be considered to be immediately threatened by coastal erosion that occurs within forty feet of the land use or that will threa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-23
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB1152 | N/A | Appropriates funds to establish a full-time temporary Program Specialist V position to support the coordination and implementation of the Marine 30x30 Initiative. Appropriates funds for the Marine 30x30 Initiative strategic communication and stakehol...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-23
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB1121 | N/A | Requires the Commission on Water Resource Management to conduct an update of the statewide framework for the Hawaii water plan to provide guidance for Hawaii's future water plan. Makes an appropriation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-23
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB1156 | N/A | Establishes the broadband service infrastructure grant program to award grants to applicants to extend deployment of facilities used to provide broadband service to unserved and underserved areas of the State. Makes an appropriation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-23
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB1083 | N/A | Protects the State's ohia forests for future generations by appropriating funds to the Department of Land and Natural Resources for ongoing research, survey and control, expedited removal of hooved animals, and public outreach.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-23
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB1104 | N/A | Repeals the allowance for Oahu-based legislators conducting official business during certain recess and interim periods.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-23
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB1154 | N/A | Requires owner-builders to provide proof of withholding taxes and workers' compensation insurance. Amends fines for failure to comply with statute.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-23
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB1147 | N/A | Requires barber, beauty operator, and instructor licensees under the board of barbering and cosmetology to complete a one-time, one-hour training program on intimate partner violence awareness and education.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-23
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB1158 | N/A | Requires that any county-owned street along which are six or more homes include one or more sidewalks. Provides grants-in-aid to the counties for the purpose of building sidewalks along existing county-owned streets.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-23
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB1116 | N/A | Amends ballot requirements to display candidates for the board of trustees, office of Hawaiian affairs, by residency and non-residency requirements and to randomize the order of candidate names within those groupings.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-23
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB1085 | N/A | Authorizes each county to manage the deposit beverage container program within its jurisdiction. Authorizes each county to retain any corresponding excess funds. Requires deposit beverage distributor reports to include county specific data.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-23
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB1157 | N/A | Temporarily exempts students in post-secondary education programs from immunization requirements if they attend classes exclusively online or through distance learning.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-23
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB1084 | N/A | Specifies who may be granted a temporary permit to practice public accountancy. Specifies the requirements that must be met prior to obtaining a temporary permit to practice. Requires a person to obtain a temporary permit to practice from the board o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-23
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB1107 | N/A | Creates the Hawaii sports wagering corporation to regulate and administer sports wagering in the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-23
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB1113 | N/A | Establishes a department of civil service for the office of Hawaiian affairs to apply merit-based hiring practices to future office of Hawaiian affairs employees; permits employees of the office of Hawaiian affairs to enter into collective bargaining...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-23
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB1119 | N/A | Reestablishes La Kuokoa, Hawaiian Recognition Day, as an official state holiday.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-23
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB1114 | N/A | Increases the amount of money available from partial public funding to candidates running for the board of trustees, office of Hawaiian affairs, to match the amount available to candidates running for the office of lieutenant governor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-23
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB1148 | N/A | Prohibits health insurers and like entities from making changes to policies or contracts prior to their renewal.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-23
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB1123 | N/A | Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to perform a stock assessment on the fish species in the affected area prior to adopting any new rules to regulate fishing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-23
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB1111 | N/A | Requires the cancellation or expiration of conservation district use permits in certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-23
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB1153 | N/A | Requires each house of the Legislature to establish, by rule, procedures for the public to present oral testimony at legislative committee hearings through remote testimony. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-23
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB1155 | N/A | Amends the offense of unsworn falsification to authorities to include knowingly making a false statement, in oral, written, printed, or electronic form, to a public servant engaged in criminal, civil, or administrative enforcement activity pursuant t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-23
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB1108 | N/A | Beginning July 1, 2022, requires persons who use the Na Ala Hele trail system for commercial purposes and applicants for new and renewal commercial use permits in state parks, small boat harbors, and ocean recreation management areas; instructor/oper...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-23
Pending introduction. |
| HI | HB4 | Intro | Makes completion of a voter registration application affidavit a mandatory part of all driver's license and identification card applications. Automatically registers each applicant for voting unless the applicant affirmatively declines to register. R...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HI | HB5 | Intro | Increases the minimum wage to $11.50 per hour in 2020, $13.00 per hour in 2021, and $14.60 per hour in 2022.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee |
| HI | HB3 | Intro | Redirects the $1,000,000 of transient accommodations tax revenues currently allocated to operate a Hawaiian center and the museum of Hawaiian music and dance at the Hawaii convention center to have the State of Hawaii Museum of Natural and Cultural H...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To House Water, Land, & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB53 | Intro | Appropriates funds as a subsidy to the Office of the Prosecuting Attorney for Hawaii County for the Career Criminal Prosecution Unit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HI | HB146 | Intro | Establishes and appropriates funds for one full-time equivalent (1.00 FTE) permanent veterinary medical officer position within the Department of Health.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HB145 | Intro | Requires a two-year motor vehicle inspection safety check for vehicles six years of age or newer. Doubles the inspection fee for the two-year motor vehicle inspection safety check.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To House Transportation Committee |
| HI | HB147 | Intro | Requires each district health officer for the Department of Health to be a licensed physician.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB159 | Intro | Increases criminal penalties for anyone who knowingly keeps or maintains any structure or place for the purpose of using controlled substances or which is used for keeping or selling them in violation of controlled substance laws. Increases criminal ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HI | HB131 | Intro | Legalizes hemp to the extent legalized under federal law. Requires the Chairperson of the Board of Agriculture to prepare and submit a proposed state plan to monitor and regulate hemp production, including commercial production and research, to the f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HB143 | Intro | Expands the coffee labeling requirements to include ready-to-drink coffee beverages.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HB144 | Intro | Requires coffee blend labels to disclose regional origins and percent by weight of the blended coffees. Prohibits using geographic origins of coffee in labeling or advertising for roasted or instant coffee that contains less than 51 percent coffee by...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HB161 | Intro | Appropriates funds for the judiciary to purchase civil legal services for low and moderate income persons.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HI | HB201 | Intro | Clarifies that state, county, and authorized agents' authority to enter private property to control and eradicate invasive species also applies when there is a reasonable suspicion that invasive species are present on that property.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To House Agriculture Committee |
| HI | HB155 | Intro | Requires the Department of Health to promptly send personnel to a source, or immediate vicinity of a source, that is reported to have air pollution and conduct an investigation and tests to determine the validity of the report.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB233 | Intro | Removes the criminal statute of limitations for sex trafficking and promoting prostitution. Exempts minors from criminal liability for prostitution and street solicitation of prostitution. Establishes minimum criminal and regulatory penalties for pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HI | HB228 | Intro | Establishes the home ownership housing revolving fund to provide loans and grants for the development of affordable for-sale housing projects. Makes an appropriation into and out of the fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-22
To House Housing Committee |
