| HI | HB201 | Pass | Clarifies that a state department that is a member of the invasive species council, counties, and its employees and authorized agents, have authority to enter private property to control and eradicate invasive species when there is a reasonable suspi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-09
Act 197, 07/02/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1299). |
| HI | HB336 | Pass | Requires the Director of Public Safety, in the event of the death of an inmate who is in a state or contracted correctional facility, or death of a correctional facility or community correctional center employee, to report to the Governor, who shall ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-09
Act 234, 07/02/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1336). |
| HI | HB333 | Pass | Establishes the State Highway Enforcement Program. Establishes a parking violation surcharge to be imposed by courts in addition to other penalties and fines for parking violations on State highways. (HB333 CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-09
Act 250, 07/05/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1352). |
| HI | HB654 | Pass | Appropriates funds to the University of Hawaii Cancer Center to determine the etiologies of the high incidence of liver and bile duct cancer in Hawaii. Establishes reporting requirements. (HB654 CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-09
Act 265, 07/08/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1367). |
| HI | HB629 | Veto | Creates a medical release program within the Department of Public Safety for certain ill, disabled, or impaired inmates who pose a low risk to public safety. Takes effect on 3/1/2020. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-09
Vetoed on 07-09-19 - Returned from the Governor without approval (Gov. Msg. No. 1374). |
| HI | HB655 | Veto | Designates the month of September of each year as Suicide Prevention and Awareness Month. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-09
Vetoed (SD1) on 07-09-19 - (SD1) Returned from the Governor without approval (Gov. Msg. No. 1375). |
| HI | HB437 | Pass | Authorizes crime victim compensation for mental health services for survivors in cases involving a death and for children who witness domestic violence. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-09
Act 237, 07/02/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1339). |
| HI | HB812 | Pass | Includes low-speed electric bicycles in the definition of bicycle. Prohibits anyone under the age of fifteen from operating a low-speed electric bicycle. Imposes registration fee. (HB812 CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-09
Act 208, 07/02/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1310). |
| HI | HB1163 | Pass | Authorizes a financial institution that is a depository institution to conduct savings promotion or prizelinked savings contests in which its account holders are contestants. (HB1163 CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-09
Act 253, 07/05/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1355). |
| HI | HB330 | Pass | Appropriates moneys for youth suicide early intervention, prevention, and education initiatives. (HB330 CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-05
Act 180, 07/02/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1282). |
| HI | HB551 | Pass | Extends various reporting deadlines and the sunset date of the cesspool conversion working group established pursuant to Act 132, Session Laws of Hawaii 2018. Extends the lapse date on appropriations for the comprehensive statewide study of sewage co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-03
Act 170, 06/27/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1272). |
| HI | HB556 | Pass | Requires the department of business, economic development, and tourism to adopt minimum appliance efficiency standards for certain products sold or installed in the State that are substantially equivalent to existing appliance efficiency standards es...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-01
Act 141, 06/26/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1243). |
| HI | HB711 | Pass | Amends the affirmative defense of extreme mental or emotional disturbance to murder or attempted murder by prohibiting explanations based solely on the defendant's discovery, defendant's knowledge, or the disclosure of the victim's gender, gender ide...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-01
Act 149, 06/26/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1251). |
| HI | HB1165 | Pass | Requires a license or state identification card to include a person's full legal name, date of birth, gender designation, residence address, and license number. Specifies gender designation options of F, M, or X. Effective 7/1/2020. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-07-01
Act 148, 06/26/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1250). |
| HI | HB471 | Pass | Establishes quorum requirements for the Policy Advisory Board for Elder Affairs. (HB471 CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-28
Act 125, 06/25/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1227). |
| HI | HB465 | Pass | Makes an appropriation to the department of health to provide funding for the kupuna care program. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-28
Act 123, 06/25/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1225). |
| HI | HB468 | Pass | Appropriates funds for the healthy aging partnership program to further the program's role in improving the health and well-being of Hawaii's kupuna. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-28
Act 124, 06/25/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1226). |
| HI | HB297 | Pass | Directs DOA to review the Aedes aegypti mosquito with Wolbachia bacteria, including Aedes aegypti mosquitoes originating from Hawaii stock that could be imported for landscape scale mosquito control, and render a determination to place it on the appr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-25
Act 106, 06/21/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1208). |
| HI | HB329 | Pass | Amends the Kauai flooding disaster relief appropriation made in Act 12, Session Laws of Hawaii 2018, to include flood mitigation measures. Extends the lapse date of the appropriation to June 30, 2020. Exempts the appropriation from certain restrictio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-12
Act 035, 06/05/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1136). |
| HI | HB1417 | Pass | Requires the Department of Human Services to use an integrated and multigenerational approach to delivering human services to reduce the incidence of intergenerational poverty and dependence on public benefits. (HB1417 CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-06-12
Act 082, 06/07/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1183). |
| HI | HCR193 | Pass | Requesting The Auditor To Conduct A Follow-up Study To Its 2015 Study Of Departmental Engineering Sections That Manage Capital Improvement Projects.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-02
Resolution adopted in final form. |
| HI | HB402 | Engross | Requires that all grants and contracts awarded by the Office of Hawaiian Affairs shall be subject to be individually approved by the board of trustees. Reduces the University of Hawaii's portion of receipts from the use, sale, lease, or other disposi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-25
Received notice of discharge of conferees (Hse. Com. No. 868). |
| HI | HB713 | Engross | Establishes a three-year Homeless Employment Grant Program that provides homeless individuals with work opportunities and connects them with service providers. Requires the Department of Human Services to submit a report to the Legislature prior to t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-25
Conference Committee Meeting will reconvene on Friday 04-26-19 2:15PM in conference room 225. |
| HI | HB486 | Engross | Permits persons convicted of certain prostitution offenses to file a motion to vacate the conviction if the defendant is not convicted of another offense under the Penal Code within three years of the prostitution offense. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-24
Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-25-19 3:15PM in conference room 325. |
| HI | HB159 | Engross | 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 certain c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-23
Received notice of Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 953). |
| HI | HB295 | Engross | Amends the definition of domestic abuse under Hawaii's insurance laws and domestic abuse protective order statutes to include emotional abuse between family or household members. Defines emotional abuse. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-23
Received notice of Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 953). |
| HI | HB627 | Engross | Requires noncandidate committees and other persons who make independent expenditures supporting or opposing a candidate to report expenditures in support or opposition. Requires the Campaign Spending Commission to post independent expenditure informa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-23
Received notice of all Senate conferees being discharged (Sen. Com. No. 955). |
| HI | HCR36 | Pass | Urging The Governor's Coordinator On Homelessness And The City And County Of Honolulu To Come Together And Prioritize Their Homelessness Efforts In The Area Surrounding The Hawaii Children's Discovery Center By Convening A Task Force.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-22
Resolution adopted in final form. |
| HI | HR136 | Pass | Requesting The United States Postal Service To Issue A Commemorative Postage Stamp In Honor Of Alfred Aholo Apaka.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-22
Resolution adopted in final form. |
| HI | HCR155 | Pass | Urging The Establishment Of A Native Hawaiian Intellectual Property Task Force To Develop A Sui Generis Legal System To Recognize And Protect Native Hawaiian Cultural Intellectual Property, Traditional Cultural Expressions, And Genetic Resources.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-22
Returned from Senate (Sen. Com. No. 939) in amended form (SD 1). |
| HI | HCR214 | Pass | Urging The United States Department Of The Treasury To Maintain The Original Timeline To Introduce Harriet Tubman And Other Female And Civil Rights Leaders Onto United States Currency By 2020 To Celebrate One Hundred Years Of Women's Suffrage.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-22
Resolution adopted in final form. |
| HI | HCR202 | Pass | Declaring April As Child Abuse Prevention Month.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-22
Resolution adopted in final form. |
| HI | HCR232 | Pass | Approving The Selection Of George Ryoichi Ariyoshi To Be Inducted Into The Aloha Order Of Merit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-22
Resolution adopted in final form. |
| HI | HB467 | Engross | Changes the kupuna caregivers program allocation cap from $70 per day to $350 per week. Appropriates funds for the continued implementation of the kupuna caregivers program. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-18
Received notice of Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 917). |
| HI | HB469 | Engross | Requires health insurance policies and contracts issued after 12/31/19 to provide coverage for the cost of hearing aids at a minimum of $1,500 per hearing aid for each hearing-impaired ear every thirty-six months in their base plans. Exempts mandator...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-17
Received notice of Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 909). |
| HI | HB709 | Enroll | Proposes an amendment to the Hawaii State Constitution to allow a recount of votes cast at an election to be conducted in a manner as provided by the Legislature. Effective 01/28/2081. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-16
Notice of bill proposing constitutional amendment transmitted to Governor pursuant to Article XVII, Section 3 (Sen. Com. No. 2). |
| HI | HB618 | Engross | Establishes the repair and maintenance special fund for the repair and maintenance of state department facilities. Prohibits fund moneys from funding employee salaries and costs or from being considered as part of the employer's ability to pay those ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-15
Received notice of Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 900). |
| HI | HB1394 | Engross | Authorizes any county with a population equal to or less than 500,000 that adopts a county surcharge on state tax ordinance to use the surcharges received from the State for infrastructure and public safety. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-15
Received notice of Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 900). |
| HI | HB712 | Engross | Requires candidates for President, Vice President, Governor, Lieutenant Governor, or Mayor to disclose their federal income tax returns to be listed on a general election ballot. Prohibits electors from voting for candidates for President or Vice Pre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-09
Failed to pass Third Reading. Ayes, 10; Aye(s) with reservations: Senator(s) Ruderman, Taniguchi . Noes, 15 (Senator(s) S. Chang, Dela Cruz, English, Fevella, Ihara, Inouye, Kanuha, J.Keohokalole, Kidani, Kim, Moriwaki, Riviere, Shimabukuro, L. Thielen, Wakai). Excused, 0 (none). |
| HI | HCR93 | Engross | Requesting The Auditor To Assess The Social And Financial Effects Of Requiring Health Insurers To Provide Coverage For Clinical Victim Support Services For Victims Of Sexual Violence And Abuse.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-09
To Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health Committee |
| HI | HB1326 | Engross | Allows for ten consecutive one-year holdovers of water permits under section 171-58(c), HRS. Makes conforming amendments to the reporting requirement in Act 126 (2016). Extends the repeal and reenactment provision for Act 126 (2016) by seven years, f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-04
The committee on WAM deferred the measure. |
| HI | HR88 | Pass | Requesting The Auditor To Assess The Social And Financial Effects Of Requiring Health Insurers To Provide Coverage For Clinical Victim Support Services For Victims Of Sexual Violence And Abuse.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-04
Resolution adopted in final form. |
| HI | HR142 | Pass | Urging The Establishment Of A Native Hawaiian Intellectual Property Task Force To Develop A Sui Generis Legal System To Recognize And Protect Native Hawaiian Cultural Intellectual Property, Traditional Cultural Expressions, And Genetic Resources.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-04
Resolution adopted in final form. |
| HI | HR174 | Pass | Requesting The Auditor To Conduct A Follow-up Study To Its 2015 Study Of Departmental Engineering Sections That Manage Capital Improvement Projects.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-04
Resolution adopted in final form. |
| HI | HR192 | Pass | Urging The United States Department Of The Treasury To Maintain The Original Timeline To Introduce Harriet Tubman And Other Female And Civil Rights Leaders Onto United States Currency By 2020 To Celebrate One Hundred Years Of Women's Suffrage.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-02
Resolution adopted in final form. |
| HI | HCR5 | Intro | Requesting Members Of The United States Congress To Amend Federal Law To Ensure That Victims Of Sexual Harassment And Sexual Assault Who Might Otherwise Be Forced Into Arbitration And Silence Instead Have Access To The Courts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-28
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HR6 | Intro | Requesting Members Of The United States Congress To Amend Federal Law To Ensure That Victims Of Sexual Harassment And Sexual Assault Who Might Otherwise Be Forced Into Arbitration And Silence Instead Have Access To The Courts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-28
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HCR46 | Intro | Requesting The Department Of Health To Conduct A Study On The State Comprehensive Emergency Medical Services System To Identify Issues And Problems And Propose Initiatives To Improve The System.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-28
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HR44 | Intro | Requesting The Department Of Health To Conduct A Study On The State Comprehensive Emergency Medical Services System To Identify Issues And Problems And Propose Initiatives To Improve The System.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-28
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HCR66 | Intro | Requesting The State And Counties To Expand Efforts For Community Input Regarding Adoption Of Administrative Rules, Statewide Plans, And Plans That Affect Rural Communities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-28
To House Finance Committee |
