Hawaii State Legislature
2008 Legislative Session
House Measures Introduced
House Measures Introduced
Generated on 1/28/2008 12:16:19 PM
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HB4 RELATING TO PUBLIC SAFETY. |
EVANS, HAR |
| Requires a feasibility review regarding the sale of the Oahu community correctional center in order to build a new facility in a different location to accommodate and manage the continued growth of the inmate population. | ||
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HB94 RELATING TO INSURANCE. |
HERKES |
| Short form bill. | ||
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HB96 RELATING TO GOVERNMENT. |
HERKES |
| Short form bill. | ||
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HB245 RELATING TO DESIGNATION OF A HAWAII ARCHEOLOGICAL SURVEY. |
ITO, CHONG, KARAMATSU, MAGAOAY, MANAHAN, MIZUNO, YAMANE, YAMASHITA, Carroll |
| Establishes and designates the Hawaii archeological survey as a program of the Hawaii museum of natural and cultural history. Creates an exception to disclosure for sensitive information that may frustrate the purpose of protecting the archeological sites and artifacts. (HB245 HD1) | ||
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HB419 RELATING TO PUBLIC LANDS. |
HERKES |
| Exempts private property acquired by the Board of Land and Natural Resources through gift or exchange from the requirements of conservation district, land use, coastal zone management, and county zoning and subdivision laws, if the property is dedicated for public recreational and educational uses in conjunction with adjoining public lands. (HB419 HD1) | ||
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HB466 RELATING TO HEALTH. |
THIELEN, AWANA, BELATTI, BERG, CARROLL, CHANG, EVANS, HANOHANO, LEE, LUKE, MORITA, RHOADS, SHIMABUKURO, Cabanilla, Har |
| Requires a hospital, including a public health facility, to provide information and emergency contraception to a sexual assault victim; requires training; includes penalties. (HB466 HD1) | ||
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HB715 MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE PURCHASE OF WATER FOR AGRICULTURAL USE ON LANAI. |
CARROLL, CALDWELL, CHANG, CHONG, ITO, KARAMATSU, LEE, WATERS, B. Oshiro, Say |
| Appropriates funds for the creation of a Lanai agriculture industry by providing funds for the purchase of water by the Lanai farmers. (HB715 HD2) | ||
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HB832 RELATING TO HOUSING. |
MAGAOAY, BERG, CABANILLA, CHANG, HERKES, ITO, KARAMATSU, LEE, MORITA, PINE, SONSON, YAMANE, Belatti, Bertram, Finnegan, Manahan, Mizuno, Rhoads, Sagum |
| Requires the Land Survey Division of the Department of Accounting and General Services to establish the boundaries of the Del Monte employee housing at its Kunia camp. Appropriates funds to purchase the housing area for eventual resale to former Del Monte employees and retirees presently inhabiting the housing. (HB832 HD1) | ||
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HB844 MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE PURCHASE OF REAL PROPERTY IN WAHIAWA, OAHU. |
MAGAOAY, CHONG, EVANS, HERKES, ITO, KARAMATSU, LEE, MANAHAN, MIZUNO, YAMANE, YAMASHITA, Chang, Morita |
| Makes an appropriation for the purchase of land in Wahiawa, Oahu, underlying Lake Wilson or in the event of grant of the land by the landowners, an appropriation to maintain the Wahiawa dam. (HB844 HD1) | ||
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HB893 RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION. |
SOUKI (BR) |
| Allows for the operation of larger articulated buses used for public transit purposes on public roadways. | ||
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HB1037 RELATING TO COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT. |
CHONG, ITO, YAMASHITA |
| Requires affected agencies to account for sea-level rise and minimize risks from coastal hazards such as erosion, storm inundation, hurricanes, and tsunamis. Preserves public access and public shoreline access. Extends shoreline setback to not less than forty feet from shoreline and requires counties to account for annual erosion rates. (HB1037 HD1) | ||
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HB1101 RELATING TO DRIVER LICENSES. |
SAY |
| Permits the examiner of drivers to waive the knowledge and performance tests for applicants holding a valid drivers license from another state of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Guam, a province of the Dominion of Canada, or the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. (HB1101 HD1) | ||
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HB1121 RELATING TO WATER RATES FOR AGRICULTURAL USES. |
GREEN, BERG, HANOHANO |
| Directs the Board of Agriculture to require private entities that furnish water used for agricultural purposes in an area zoned for agricultural use to establish a water rate structure for qualified agricultural water users by January 1, 2008. (HB1121 HD2) | ||
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HB1219 RELATING TO DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE LOANS. |
SAY (BR) |
| Increases the amount of money for agricultural loans and aquacultural loans that the chairperson may approve from $25,000 to $75,000. | ||
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HB1389 RELATING TO TIME SHARES IN LAND COURT. |
SAY (BR) |
| Deregisters fee simple time share interest from the Land Court System. | ||
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HB1433 RELATING TO MILITARY INSTALLATIONS. |
M. OSHIRO, LEE, LUKE, MAGAOAY, Hanohano, Nishimoto, Souki, Takumi |
| Requires notification to the commanding officer of a military installation of zoning change applications and district boundary amendment petitions for land within 3,000 feet or 2 miles(depending on county population) of a military installation. | ||
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HB1442 RELATING TO KIKALA-KEOKEA. |
HANOHANO, AWANA, CHANG, EVANS, GREEN, SAGUM, SHIMABUKURO, TOKIOKA, Herkes |
| Authorizes the Department of Land and Natural Resources, subject to specific criteria and priority requirements, to award the remaining leases in the Kikala-Keokea area not previously executed under Act 314, Session Laws of Hawaii 1991. (HB1442 HD1) | ||
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HB1577 RELATING TO GENETICALLY MODIFIED COFFEE. |
CARROLL, BERG, HANOHANO, MORITA, Belatti |
| Temporarily prohibits the growing of genetically modified coffee. Allows research on genetically modified coffee in environmentally secure facilities. | ||
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HB1609 RELATING TO HIGHWAYS. |
MCKELVEY, EVANS, HAR, HERKES, Carroll, Souki, Tokioka |
| Excludes repairs or maintenance to existing state highways and roads from county special management area permit requirements to the extent the repair or maintenance is necessary to preserve or regain the integrity of the road or highway. (HB1609 HD1) | ||
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HB1667 AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF REVENUE BONDS FOR THE PURCHASE OF LAND TO DEVELOP KALAELOA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT. |
HAR, CALDWELL, CHONG, MCKELVEY |
| Authorizes the issuance of revenue bonds in the amount of $ for necessary infrastructure and the acquisition of land within the former Barbers Point Naval Air Station by the Hawaii community development authority to develop the Kalaeloa Community Development District. (HB1667 HD2) | ||
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HB1968 RELATING TO PUBLIC MEETINGS. |
SONSON, AWANA, MIZUNO, Lee, Nakasone, Souki |
| Permits board members, numbering less than quorum, to: (1) discuss their individual positions related to official board business at other board meetings and legislative public hearings; (2) attend and participate in discussions at presentations, such as community meetings; and (3) discuss membership to a board's committees in private. Requires a quorum for discussion prior and related to voting and for voting to validate board actions. | ||
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HB1969 RELATING TO WORKERS' COMPENSATION. |
SONSON, NAKASONE, Awana, Green, Lee, Souki |
| Excludes services for a limited liability company or limited liability partnership from the definition of "employment" if the person performing services has a fifty per cent or higher transferable interest in the limited liability company or limited liability partnership. | ||
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HB1970 RELATING TO PREPAID CALLING CARDS. |
TAKAI |
| Requires companies selling prepaid calling cards to disclose the terms and services of the cards. Makes a violation of disclosure requirement an unfair or deceptive act or practice. | ||
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HB1971 RELATING TO VACCINATIONS. |
TAKAI |
| Makes all vaccinations in the State non-compulsory but only recommended unless there is danger of an epidemic from any communicable disease. Allows exemptions from vaccinations on any grounds. | ||
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HB1972 RELATING TO TRAFFIC. |
TAKAI |
| Requires DOT to establish and operate a county-wide highway traffic advisory radio system to advise motorists of updated current traffic conditions in any county having a population of greater than 300,000. Appropriation. | ||
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HB1973 RELATING TO AN ENVIRONMENTAL COURT. |
BERTRAM |
| Establishes environmental courts as divisions within the circuit court to handle complaints, administrative appeals, and certain other judicial proceedings of an environmental nature. | ||
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HB1974 RELATING TO INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS. |
CABANILLA |
| Amends the Hawaii Revised Statutes with regard to international affairs. | ||
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HB1975 RELATING TO INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS. |
CABANILLA |
| Amends the Hawaii Revised Statutes with regard to international affairs. | ||
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HB1976 RELATING TO CONSTRUCTION OF LAWS. |
RHOADS, BROWER |
| Repeals law providing that each of the terms "or" and "and" has the meaning of the other or both. | ||
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HB1977 RELATING TO TRAFFIC VIOLATIONS. |
RHOADS, BROWER |
| Establishes a $150 fine for running a red light. | ||
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HB1978 RELATING TO PUBLIC ORDER. |
RHOADS, BROWER |
| Makes permanent the prohibition against urinating or defecating in public or within the boundaries of downtown Honolulu. | ||
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HB1979 RELATING TO STATE SALARIES. |
RHOADS, BROWER |
| Establishes a 3 year statute of limitation for recovering the overpayment of state salaries. | ||
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HB1980 RELATING TO TRAFFIC INFRACTIONS. |
RHOADS, BROWER |
| Requires district court to delete from a driver's traffic abstract any violation which the driver is found not to have committed. | ||
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HB1981 RELATING TO WASTE PREVENTION. |
RHOADS, Brower |
| Prohibits publishers of telephone directories from distributing directories without first obtaining prior authorization from intended recipients in the form of an affirmative confirmation expressing the recipient's willingness to accept delivery. Defines "telephone directory". Requires department of health to adopt rules. | ||
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HB1982 RELATING TO CUSTOMER SERVICE. |
RHOADS, Brower |
| Appropriates funds for the ombudsman to develop and implement a pilot program using informed customers to investigate customer service at state agencies. | ||
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HB1983 RELATING TO LIQUOR LICENSES. |
RHOADS, Brower |
| Extends the period of time, from 1 to 3 years, that an applicant who has been denied or refused a liquor license must wait before becoming eligible to submit another application. | ||
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HB1984 RELATING TO PUBLIC HOUSING. |
RHOADS, BROWER |
| Prohibits the consumption of any liquor on any public sidewalk or common area within a public housing project. | ||
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HB1985 RELATING TO PUBLIC HOUSING. |
RHOADS |
| Amends criminal trespass in the first degree to include a person who enters or remains unlawfully in or upon the premises of a public housing project after reasonable request or warning to leave by housing authorities or a police officer. Excludes an invited guest. | ||
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HB1986 RELATING TO NEWS MEDIA PRIVILEGE. |
WARD |
| Provides a news media privilege to allow reporters to protect their sources of information. | ||
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HB1987 RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLES. |
EVANS |
| Prohibits young drivers from using a telephone while operating a motor vehicle. | ||
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HB1988 RELATING TO MACADAMIA NUTS. |
EVANS, HERKES, Tsuji |
| Establishes a macadamia nut commission to develop marketing and promotional programs for the macadamia nut industry in the State. Appropriation. | ||
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HB1989 RELATING TO VETERANS. |
EVANS |
| Requires director of office of veterans' services to deposit gifts into an account in the state treasury to be known as the veterans' gift trust fund. | ||
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HB1990 RELATING TO ENERGY RESOURCES. |
EVANS |
| Prohibits condominium associations and like entities from preventing homeowners of single-family residential dwellings or townhouses from installing a solar energy device that meets engineered designed systems. | ||
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HB1991 RELATING TO THE STATE PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM. |
EVANS |
| Appropriates funds for the state public library system to establish an outreach program, including personnel and supplies, to identify, develop, and implement programs for underserved areas in Hawaii. | ||
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HB1992 RELATING TO MEDICAL LIABILITY. |
GREEN |
| Limits noneconomic damages that may be recovered in medical tort actions. Limits the amount of attorney's fees that may be collected in connection with a medical tort action. Amends the definition of "health care provider" and "medical tort". | ||
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HB1993 RELATING TO HEALTH. |
GREEN, BERTRAM, BROWER, MIZUNO, RHOADS, WARD |
| Appropriates funds to provide care for uninsured Hawaii residents. | ||
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HB1994 RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE SIXTH REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT. |
GREEN |
| Appropriates funds for district CIP for the Sixth Representative District. | ||
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HB1995 RELATING TO TORTS. |
GREEN, MIZUNO |
| Limits noneconomic damages in medical tort actions to $500,000. | ||
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HB1996 RELATING TO HEALTH CARE. |
GREEN, BROWER, MIZUNO, WARD |
| Establishes Health Enterprise Zones in the state to provide incentives for health care providers to serve in health professional shortage areas of the state. | ||
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HB1997 RELATING TO ENERGY EFFICIENCY. |
GREEN, AWANA, BROWER, MIZUNO, MORITA, WARD |
| Requires the use of compact fluorescent light bulbs in all state and county facilities. | ||
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HB1998 RELATING TO THE NUMBER OF BLIND, DEAF, AND DEAF-BLIND PERSONS IN THE STATE OF HAWAII. |
SHIMABUKURO |
| Appropriates funds for a survey of the number of blind, deaf, and deaf-blind persons in the State of Hawaii. | ||
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HB1999 RELATING TO HEALTH. |
SHIMABUKURO |
| Appropriates funds for hearing and vision screening for newborns, children, and teenagers. | ||
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HB2000 RELATING TO HEALTH INSURANCE. |
SHIMABUKURO |
| Requires that hearing aid devices be included in mandatory insurance coverage for medicaid and private health insurance. | ||
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HB2001 RELATING TO TELEPHARMACY. |
MORITA, CARROLL, HANOHANO, HERKES, SAGUM, Tokioka |
| Requires board of pharmacy to allow telepharmacy by certain federally qualified health centers participating in the federal 340B Pharmaceutical Purchasing Program administered by the United States Department of Health and Human Services. Defines "telepharmacy" to limit dispensing to only acute medications. | ||
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HB2002 RELATING TO DEPOSIT BEVERAGE CONTAINERS. |
MORITA, TAKAI |
| Requires the refund value of a deposit beverage container to be marked directly on the container. | ||
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HB2003 RELATING TO THE HAWAII ENERGY POLICY FORUM. |
MORITA, CARROLL |
| Makes an appropriation for the continuation of the Hawaii Energy Policy Forum. | ||
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HB2004 MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR A STUDY ON ENERGY EFFICIENT TRANSPORTATION STRATEGIES. |
MORITA, CARROLL |
| Appropriates funds to collect and analyze data and to develop a plan for developing, using, and maintaining a statewide transportation energy information and monitoring system. | ||
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HB2005 RELATING TO RENEWABLE ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES. |
MORITA, CARROLL |
| Expands the renewable energy technologies tax credit to include solar electric energy systems. | ||
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HB2006 RELATING TO ATTACHMENT AND EXECUTION. |
EVANS |
| Increases the real property exemption to $650,000 with respect to attachments and executions. | ||
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HB2007 RELATING TO CORRECTIONS. |
EVANS, HAR |
| Requires the auditor to conduct a financial and management audit of each commissary located in a Hawaii correctional facility, as well as commissaries located at out-of-state contracted correctional facilities where Hawaii inmates are confined. | ||
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HB2008 RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY. |
EVANS |
| Repeals section 353-32, Hawaii Revised Statutes, which provides that gifts of money or property donated to the department of public safety must be deposited in the state treasury and reported to the legislature by the department annually. | ||
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HB2009 RELATING TO CORRECTIONS. |
EVANS |
| Repeals section 353-33, Hawaii Revised Statutes, which establishes the correctional program revolving fund for the purpose of offsetting the cost of providing programs for inmates. | ||
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HB2010 RELATING TO ANATOMICAL GIFTS. |
MARUMOTO |
| Enacts the Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act. | ||
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HB2011 RELATING TO BREAST CANCER. |
GREEN, AWANA, BROWER, CABANILLA, MIZUNO, WARD, Belatti |
| Requires insurers, mutual benefit societies, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage for hospital stays of at least forty-eight hours in connection with mastectomies. | ||
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HB2012 RELATING TO HEALTH INSURANCE REIMBURSEMENTS. |
GREEN, AWANA, BELATTI, CABANILLA, MIZUNO, Rhoads, Ward |
| Ensures physicians are reimbursed for services at a rate of not less than one hundred twenty-five per cent of medicare reimbursement rates. | ||
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HB2013 RELATING TO CANCER. |
GREEN, AWANA, CABANILLA, MIZUNO, Belatti, Bertram, Rhoads |
| Requires insurers, mutual benefit societies, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage for oral chemotherapy. | ||
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HB2014 RELATING TO HEALTH INSURANCE. |
GREEN, AWANA, BELATTI, BERTRAM, CABANILLA, MIZUNO, RHOADS, Brower |
| Requires DOH, in collaboration with DCCA's Insurance Division, to develop and implement a health insurance plan for part-time workers and the uninsured. | ||
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HB2015 RELATING TO HEALTH. |
GREEN, AWANA, CABANILLA, MIZUNO, Belatti, Bertram, Rhoads |
| Prohibits health plans from requiring prior authorization for persons before receiving general Obstetric/Gynecological services or treatment for Hepatitis C. | ||
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HB2016 RELATING TO HEALTH INSURANCE. |
GREEN, AWANA, CABANILLA, MIZUNO, Belatti |
| Requires health insurance plans to include methods of oral chemotherapy treatment as a medical benefit and not as a drug benefit. | ||
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HB2017 RELATING TO VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION. |
NAKASONE |
| Amends workers' compensation law to require that, as part of the process for returning an injured worker to suitable gainful employment, a vocational rehabilitation provider examine the feasibility of modified or other work at the employee's same employer. | ||
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HB2018 RELATING TO WORKERS' COMPENSATION. |
NAKASONE |
| Establishes a workers' compensation advisory council in the department of labor and industrial relations. | ||
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HB2019 MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING AND A VETERANS CENTER. |
CHANG, GREEN, HANOHANO, HERKES, TSUJI, Evans |
| Makes a grant to the Hawaii Island Veterans' Memorial, Inc. for plans, design, and construction of infrastructure to build affordable housing and a center for Hawaii's veterans. | ||
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HB2020 MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR SMALL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT. |
CHANG, EVANS, GREEN, HANOHANO, HERKES, NISHIMOTO, TSUJI |
| Appropriates funds to support the statewide economic development program of the Hawaii Small Business Development Center Network hosted by the University of Hawaii at Hilo. | ||
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HB2021 RELATING TO SOLAR ENERGY. |
NISHIMOTO (BR) |
| Requires community and condominium associations and cooperatives to adopt rules regarding the placement of clotheslines by 12/31/09. Requires community and condominium associations and cooperatives to enforce rules regarding placement of clotheslines on 01/01/10, and thereafter. | ||
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HB2022 RELATING TO CHILDREN'S HEALTH. |
MIZUNO, AWANA, CABANILLA, CHING, GREEN, MARUMOTO, MEYER, Belatti, Brower, Carroll, Har, Magaoay, Rhoads, Sagum, Shimabukuro, Sonson |
| Provides a means for childhood screening required for entry into school, from birth to eight years of age, and establishes the Hawaii Childhood Screening Initiative Advisory Committee. | ||
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HB2023 RELATING TO DRUG ADDICTION TREATMENT. |
MIZUNO, AWANA, CABANILLA, CHING, HAR, MARUMOTO, MEYER, SHIMABUKURO, Carroll, Magaoay, Sagum, Sonson |
| Establishes a pilot project at Hina Mauka to treat crystal methamphetamine ("ice") addiction using Vivitrol (long-acting, injectable form of naltrexone). | ||
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HB2024 RELATING TO CRIMINAL PROCEDURE. |
MIZUNO, AWANA, BROWER, CARROLL, CHING, GREEN, MARUMOTO, MEYER, SONSON, THIELEN, WARD, Har, Sagum, Shimabukuro |
| Requires electronic monitoring of probationers and parolees convicted of offenses related to criminal street gangs. | ||
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HB2025 RELATING TO TOBACCO. |
MIZUNO, AWANA, CHING, GREEN, MARUMOTO, M. OSHIRO, RHOADS, SHIMABUKURO, THIELEN, Brower, Cabanilla, Carroll, Magaoay, Sagum, Sonson |
| Prohibits the sale and distribution of flavored tobacco products. | ||
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HB2026 MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO HIRE TEACHERS THROUGH THE TEACH FOR AMERICA PROGRAM. |
MIZUNO, CHING, GREEN, MARUMOTO, MEYER, THIELEN, Awana, Belatti |
| Makes an appropriation to hire 10 teachers from the Teach for America Program to teach in high needs schools in Hawaii. | ||
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HB2027 RELATING TO CHILDREN. |
MIZUNO, AWANA, CHING, HAR, MARUMOTO, THIELEN |
| Requires the Department of Human Services to establish a pilot project to develop or contract to develop and operate programs to provide services and support for at-risk children from low-income families. | ||
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HB2028 RELATING TO THE INTERNET. |
MIZUNO, AWANA, BELATTI, BROWER, CABANILLA, CARROLL, CHING, HAR, MAGAOAY, MARUMOTO, MEYER, SAGUM, SHIMABUKURO, THIELEN, WARD, M. Oshiro, Sonson |
| Creates a cyber safety pilot project in the department of the attorney general aimed to protect school children by educating students, teachers, and parents about how to avoid dangers on the Internet. | ||
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HB2029 RELATING TO EDUCATION. |
MIZUNO, AWANA, CHING, MARUMOTO, MEYER, THIELEN |
| Establishes special education advisory council in chapter 302A, HRS, relating to education. | ||
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HB2030 RELATING TO SCHOOL-AGE CHILDREN. |
MIZUNO, AWANA, CHING, MARUMOTO, THIELEN, Green |
| Appropriates funds to non-school hour programs for youth enrolled in school. | ||
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HB2031 RELATING TO EDUCATION. |
MIZUNO, AWANA, CHING, GREEN, HAR, MARUMOTO, THIELEN, Lee, Rhoads, Ward |
| Appropriates moneys for the development, renewal, and maintenance of fine arts classes in secondary schools. | ||
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HB2032 RELATING TO THE EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM. |
MIZUNO, AWANA, BELATTI, BROWER, CARROLL, GREEN, MAGAOAY, M. OSHIRO, SHIMABUKURO, THIELEN, WARD, Cabanilla, Rhoads, Sagum, Sonson |
| Prohibits the employees' retirement system from acquiring securities of companies that have active business operations with Uganda. | ||
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HB2033 RELATING TO CRIME. |
MIZUNO, AWANA, BROWER, MARUMOTO, THIELEN, WARD |
| Creates a new criminal offense of unlawful distribution of adware or spyware if a person knowingly transmits prohibited computer software, adware, or spyware to a computer to obtain the owner's personally identifiable information or control the computer, and makes the offense a class B felony. | ||
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HB2034 RELATING TO UNATTENDED CHILDREN IN MOTOR VEHICLES. |
LEE, AWANA, BROWER, CARROLL, HAR, MAGAOAY, MARUMOTO, MIZUNO, M. OSHIRO, RHOADS, SAY, SHIMABUKURO, THIELEN, WARD, Sagum, Sonson |
| Makes it a violation of the statewide traffic code to leave a child unattended in a motor vehicle. Effective on approval. Requires the examiner of drivers to test driver's license applicants for knowledge of this offense. Requires notice of law in rental cars. Effective on 10/1/2008. | ||
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HB2035 RELATING TO MINORS. |
MIZUNO, AWANA, BELATTI, HAR, MARUMOTO, THIELEN |
| Requires the Board of Education to establish an Internet safety policy for minors with respect to the use of computers that have Internet access in public schools and libraries. | ||
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HB2036 RELATING TO INTOXICATING LIQUOR. |
MIZUNO, AWANA, GREEN, HAR, MARUMOTO, MEYER |
| Changes the classification of the offense of promoting intoxicating liquor to a minor from a misdemeanor to a petty misdemeanor. Allows the courts to impose a jail sentence for those convicted of the offense. | ||
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HB2037 RELATING TO FAMILY COURT. |
MIZUNO, MARUMOTO, THIELEN |
| Establishes the procedures and requirements for child custody evaluator training and certification. | ||
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HB2038 RELATING TO EDUCATION. |
MIZUNO, Har |
| Allows the department of education to hire its own attorneys independent of the attorney general. | ||
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HB2039 RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES. |
MIZUNO, Belatti |
| Requires the department of human services to disregard specified assets for purposes of determining eligibility for certain public assistance benefits. | ||
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HB2040 RELATING TO HAWAII'S ECONOMY. |
MIZUNO, AWANA, BROWER, MARUMOTO, MEYER, WARD |
| Authorizes an independent study and analysis of Hawaii's economy, including recommendations for public policy changes that will begin to address the cost of living, affordability, and quality of life issues that Hawaii residents face. | ||
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HB2041 RELATING TO THE PUBLIC FINANCIAL EDUCATION AND ASSET BUILDING TASK FORCE. |
MIZUNO, AWANA, MARUMOTO, MEYER |
| Establishes the public financial education and asset building task force to develop standards for the financial education of state employees. Makes an appropriation for this purpose. | ||
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HB2042 RELATING TO FAMILY COURT. |
MIZUNO, Awana |
| Amends custody and visitation criteria and procedures to specify what factors the courts shall consider in determining the best interest of the child. | ||
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HB2043 RELATING TO HIGHER EDUCATION BOARD ALLOWANCE FOR FORMER FOSTER YOUTH. |
MIZUNO, AWANA, MARUMOTO, MEYER, THIELEN, WARD |
| Allows a former foster youth to be eligible for higher education board allowance until the age of twenty-one and for a period of five and one-half years. Makes an appropriation for this purpose. | ||
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HB2044 RELATING TO ENERGY EFFICIENCY. |
MARUMOTO, AWANA, SHIMABUKURO, THIELEN, WARD, Belatti, Brower, Carroll, Green, Lee, M. Oshiro, Rhoads, Sagum, Sonson |
| Appropriates funds to replace all incandescent lighting with compact fluorescent lighting in public schools. | ||
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HB2045 RELATING TO ESTABLISHING A GLOBAL YOUTH CENTER. |
MIZUNO, AWANA, BROWER, CABANILLA, CARROLL, SHIMABUKURO, WARD, Har, Magaoay, Sagum |
| Establishes a global youth center under the University of Hawaii. | ||
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HB2046 RELATING TO INDIVIDUAL DEVELOPMENT ACCOUNTS. |
MIZUNO, LEE, MARUMOTO, Awana, Rhoads |
| Expands the provisions of individual development accounts. | ||
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HB2047 RELATING TO INDIVIDUAL DEVELOPMENT ACCOUNTS. |
MIZUNO, AWANA, LEE, Belatti |
| Appropriates funds for the individual development account program, instead of making grants. Requires the department of human services to provide technical and administrative assistance to entities seeking to become fiduciary organizations. Prohibits fiduciary organizations from using more than 25% of state funds per year for operating costs. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2048 RELATING TO EDUCATION. |
MIZUNO, AWANA |
| Appropriates funds for incorporating peace education in the current public school curriculum, including funding for counselor training, expansion of the peer education program, and the hiring of additional substance abuse counselors. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2049 RELATING TO INSURANCE. |
MIZUNO, AWANA, BELATTI, CABANILLA |
| Expands the power of the insurance commissioner to include regulating the rates of dental insurance providers. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2050 RELATING TO HOUSING. |
MIZUNO, AWANA, MARUMOTO, MEYER, THIELEN, WARD, Belatti, Har, Rhoads |
| Appropriates funds for various homeless and housing programs and projects. Extends sunset date for allocation of conveyance tax to the rental housing trust fund to June 30, 2013. Makes appropriation to assist developers in contracting for third party review and certification to expedite the processing and issuance of building permits for affordable housing projects. Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds for the planning, development, and construction of affordable housing in cooperation with nonprofit and private developers and for other purposes relating to public and affordable housing. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2051 RELATING TO EDUCATION FOR FOSTER CHILDREN. |
MIZUNO, AWANA, MARUMOTO, MEYER, THIELEN, Green |
| Establishes rules for school placement and transportation for foster children. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2052 RELATING TO HIGHWAY SAFETY. |
WARD, Awana, Belatti, Sonson |
| Establishes the photo red light imaging detector system program. Authorizes counties to implement the program. Increases the time to mail a citation to the owner of the vehicle that used a high occupancy lane illegally. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2053 RELATING TO CRIME. |
WARD, AWANA, BERTRAM, FINNEGAN, Belatti, Tsuji |
| Provides a system of bonding that will allow for the conditional early release of nonviolent criminal offenders. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2054 RELATING TO HEALTH. |
WARD, Awana, Belatti, Bertram, Finnegan, Mizuno, Pine, Sonson, Tsuji |
| Mandating progressive disclosure of costs of medical procedures. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2055 APPROPRIATING FUNDS FOR A PILOT PROJECT TO INCREASE BUS RIDERSHIP. |
WARD, AWANA, BERTRAM, MIZUNO, PINE, Belatti, Finnegan, Rhoads, Sonson |
| Appropriates funds for a pilot program to encourage ridership on buses by offering free ridership for 6 months. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2056 RELATING TO PEDESTRIAN SAFETY. |
MIZUNO, BELATTI, CHING, GREEN, HAR, MARUMOTO, MEYER, SONSON, THIELEN, WARD, Rhoads |
| Appropriates funds for pedestrian safety improvements by the State and counties. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2057 RELATING TO VETERANS. |
MIZUNO, BELATTI, CHING, HAR, MEYER, Sonson |
| Directs the Department of Health to establish a comprehensive suicide prevention program for veterans in Hawaii. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2058 RELATING TO FINES FOR DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF AN INTOXICANT. |
MIZUNO, BELATTI, CHING, GREEN, HAR, MARUMOTO, THIELEN, WARD, Sonson |
| Increases fines for driving after license suspended or denied for noncompliance with an order of support. Increases the fine for first time DUI offenders. Requires the state director of finance to pay fines received from DUI offenders to the county in which the offense occurred for use in road design, construction, maintenance, and repair. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2059 RELATING TO CIGARETTES. |
MIZUNO, CALDWELL, GREEN, HANOHANO, HAR, MANAHAN, SONSON, THIELEN, Say |
| Prohibits sale of cigarettes in Hawaii that are not reduced ignition propensity "fire-safe" beginning 7/1/2009. Sets civil fines and requires attorney general to adopt rules to enforce law. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2060 RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION. |
MIZUNO, Belatti, Har, Meyer |
| Allows courts the option of imposing the penalty of vehicle forfeiture of a vehicle used by a defendant in the commission of the offense of street racing if a person is convicted for a first offense. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2061 RELATING TO VETERANS. |
MIZUNO, Belatti |
| Provides access for Hawaii national guard veterans to information on health screening tests for exposure to depleted uranium. Establishes a task force to study the health effects of depleted uranium exposure. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2062 RELATING TO LONG-TERM CARE. |
MIZUNO, BELATTI, CHING, HAR, MARUMOTO, MEYER, THIELEN, WARD |
| Allows persons eligible to receive Medicaid funds for care at nursing home facilities to remain at home and receive home and community-based long-term care. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2063 RELATING TO EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES. |
MIZUNO, HAR, LEE, MARUMOTO, MEYER, THIELEN, WARD, Sonson |
| Requires department of health to establish a 2-year pilot project on Oahu to equip paramedics to transmit electrocardiogram data in the field or in ambulances directly to a hospital's emergency room or to a cardiologist prior a cardiac patient's arrival at an emergency room. Makes appropriation from the emergency medical services special fund. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2064 RELATING TO THE BUDGET. |
MIZUNO, BERTRAM, RHOADS, Belatti, Cabanilla, Caldwell, Chang, Chong, Manahan, M. Oshiro, Sagum, Say, Shimabukuro, Sonson, Tokioka |
| Clarifies that the joint legislative budget committee may hold public hearings on gubernatorial budget restrictions and funds withholding. Requires prior written notice to the joint legislative budget committee of any intent to restrict or withhold any funds. Requires executive agency allotment estimates to include all amounts appropriated by the legislature. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2065 RELATING TO OSTEOPOROSIS. |
MIZUNO, HAR, SONSON, THIELEN, WARD |
| Requires insurers, mutual benefit societies, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage for bone mass measurements for the diagnosis of osteoporosis. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2066 RELATING TO PUBLIC SAFETY. |
EVANS, HAR |
| Repeals exemption from civil service of the first and second deputy sheriff; requires the deputy director for law enforcement and the sheriff to be graduates of a law enforcement academy. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2067 RELATING TO HEALTH. |
EVANS |
| Establishes a committee that may add other medical conditions to the definition of "debilitating medical condition" for the purpose of medical marijuana use; amends the definitions of "primary caregiver" and "written certification"; defines "adequate supply" to include seven plants and three ounces of usable marijuana; adds definition for "registration" and amends the registration requirements. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2068 RELATING TO OFFENDER REENTRY. |
EVANS |
| Makes clarifying amendments to chapter 353H, Hawaii Revised Statutes, relating to the offender reentry program. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2069 RELATING TO THE NATURAL ENERGY LABORATORY OF HAWAII AUTHORITY. |
EVANS |
| Creates a protocol account to be used at the discretion of the executive director of the natural energy laboratory of Hawaii authority for the purposes of marketing and promotion. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2070 RELATING TO CHILDREN. |
EVANS |
| Requires the court or other designated agency to review the juvenile justice information system when determining whether a child is a first-time offender and whether mental health services for the child are appropriate. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2071 RELATING TO INSURANCE. |
EVANS |
| Establishes the Hawaii medical malpractice insurance relief fund to offer policies of medical malpractice insurance to physicians in the State. Repeals Hawaii medical malpractice underwriting plan (chapter 435C, HRS). Appropriates funds to the medical malpractice insurance reserve trust fund. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2072 RELATING TO VETERANS. |
EVANS |
| Requires office of veterans services to help inform certain members of the Hawaii national guard of federal services for depleted uranium exposure. Prohibits state funds use. Requires office to implement outreach. Requires adjutant general to certify annually that the Hawaii national guard members are informed. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2073 RELATING TO LAND USE. |
EVANS |
| Directs the office of planning to petition the land use commission to reclassify certain land in Hawaii county from the agricultural district to the conservation district. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2074 RELATING TO WATERCRAFT SAFETY. |
EVANS |
| Creates a recreational vessel safety education program. Provides for issuance of permits to persons who complete the program. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2075 RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLE INSURANCE RATE FILINGS. |
EVANS |
| Requires insurers to file rates that provide for an appropriate reduction in premium charges for insureds who are 65 years of age and older after successfully completing a motor vehicle accident prevention course. Requires the department of transportation to develop the motor vehicle accident prevention course. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2076 RELATING TO DEPLETED URANIUM. |
EVANS |
| Requires the department of health to establish air sampling stations to monitor for levels of depleted uranium. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2077 RELATING TO HEALTH INSURANCE. |
GREEN, AWANA, BELATTI, CABANILLA, MIZUNO |
| Requires that mutual benefit societies annually spend on health community benefit programs no less than 50 percent of the savings that they receive annually from their general excise tax exemption as nonprofit organizations. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2078 RELATING TO HOUSING. |
SHIMABUKURO |
| Short form bill relating to housing. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2079 RELATING TO HOUSING. |
SHIMABUKURO |
| Short form bill relating to housing. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2080 RELATING TO HOUSING. |
SHIMABUKURO |
| Short form bill relating to housing. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2081 RELATING TO HOUSING. |
SHIMABUKURO |
| Short form bill relating to housing. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2082 RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES. |
SHIMABUKURO |
| Short form bill relating to human services. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2083 RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL PROCESSING FACILITIES. |
YAMASHITA, BROWER, HANOHANO, HERKES, TSUJI, WAKAI, YAMANE, Chang |
| Appropriates funds to establish a state agricultural processing facility. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2084 MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII. |
YAMASHITA, CHONG, Chang |
| Appropriates funds for 2 full-time executive-level positions at the University of Hawaii college of engineering. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2085 RELATING TO THE AGRIBUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION. |
YAMASHITA, TSUJI, YAMANE, Chong, Nakasone |
| Makes the Agribusiness Development Corporation an attached agency of the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism, instead of the Department of Agriculture. Requires DBEDT to provide its expertise to ADC. Requires the composition of the Board of ADC to include certain secondary industries related to agriculture. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2086 RELATING TO TECHNOLOGY. |
YAMASHITA |
| Short form bill relating to technology. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2087 RELATING TO TAXATION. |
YAMASHITA |
| Short form bill relating to taxation. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2088 RELATING TO THE ECONOMY. |
YAMASHITA |
| Short form bill relating to the economy. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2089 RELATING TO THE INNOVATION ECONOMY. |
YAMASHITA |
| Amends the Hawaii Revised Statutes relating to the innovation economy. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2090 RELATING TO THE ECONOMY. |
YAMASHITA |
| Short form bill relating to the economy. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2091 RELATING TO LANDFILLS. |
GREEN, MIZUNO |
| Transfers regulation of private landfills from the counties to the department of health. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2092 RELATING TO INCOME TAXATION. |
GREEN, MIZUNO |
| Increases the renewable energy technologies tax credit for wind-powered energy systems for commercial properties from 20% to 35% of the actual cost of the system up to $500,000. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2093 RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLE INSURANCE. |
M. OSHIRO, HERKES, Souki |
| Requires motor vehicle insurers to reduce the rates of senior citizens who successfully complete a driver improvement course. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2094 RELATING TO PROCUREMENT. |
M. OSHIRO, YAMANE |
| Requires that moneys received pursuant to a solicitation of funds by a government body to cover costs and expenses of state-sponsored trips and endeavors to generate business opportunities and goodwill be deposited into the general fund and disbursed pursuant to legislative appropriation. Appropriates funds. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2095 RELATING TO THE STATE BUDGET. |
M. OSHIRO |
| Makes technical amendment to budget allotment modification law. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2096 RELATING TO STATE FINANCES. |
M. OSHIRO |
| Makes technical amendment to transfer of nongeneral funds to general funds law. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2097 RELATING TO THE STATE OF HAWAII. |
M. OSHIRO |
| Makes a technical amendment to the state budget laws relating to the deposit of state funds into the state treasury. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2098 RELATING TO STATE FUNDS. |
M. OSHIRO |
| Makes a technical amendment to the state budget law relating to the deposit of state funds into the state treasury. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2099 RELATING TO INCOME TAX CREDIT. |
M. OSHIRO |
| Provides a mandatory tax credit to taxpayers pursuant to article VII, section 6 of the Constitution of the State of Hawaii. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2100 RELATING TO STATE BONDS. |
M. OSHIRO |
| Authorizes issuance of general obligation bonds. Makes findings required by Article XII, Section 13 of the State Constitution to declare that issuance of authorized bonds will not cause the debt limit to be exceeded. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2101 RELATING TO THE HAWAII ENERGY LOAN PROGRAM. |
MORITA, AWANA, BELATTI, BERG, BERTRAM, CALDWELL, CARROLL, CHING, EVANS, GREEN, MARUMOTO, NISHIMOTO, B. OSHIRO, PINE, SAGUM, SAY, THIELEN, TSUJI, WATERS, Rhoads |
| Establishes the Hawaii energy loan program to provide low-interest loans for energy programs that promote energy conservation and renewable energy resource development. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2102 RELATING TO ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION. |
MORITA, AWANA, BELATTI, BERG, CALDWELL, CARROLL, CHING, GREEN, HAR, MARUMOTO, NISHIMOTO, B. OSHIRO, PINE, SAGUM, SAY, THIELEN, TSUJI, WATERS, Bertram, Evans, Rhoads |
| Establishes the Hawaii clean vehicle incentive program to encourage consumers to purchase motor vehicles with low greenhouse gas emissions. Creates special fund to receive surcharges and fund rebates. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2103 RELATING TO ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENTS. |
MORITA, AWANA, BERG, CARROLL, CHING, GREEN, B. OSHIRO, PINE, THIELEN, Belatti, Bertram, Rhoads, Waters |
| Requires environmental impact statements to address climate change. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2104 RELATING TO THE CONSUMER ADVOCATE. |
MORITA, AWANA, BELATTI, BERG, BERTRAM, CALDWELL, CARROLL, CHING, EVANS, GREEN, HAR, MARUMOTO, NISHIMOTO, B. OSHIRO, PINE, SAGUM, SAY, THIELEN, TSUJI, WATERS, Rhoads |
| Requires the consumer advocate to advocate for the increased use of renewable energy sources in the provision of public utilities. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2105 A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HIGH EFFICIENCY LIGHTING. |
MIZUNO, AWANA, BELATTI, BERTRAM, CALDWELL, CARROLL, EVANS, GREEN, HAR, MARUMOTO, B. OSHIRO, PINE, THIELEN, WATERS, Ching, Nishimoto, Rhoads, Sagum, Say, Tsuji |
| Establishes a preference for the purchase of high efficiency lighting by state agencies, where its use is technically feasible and the lighting is competitively priced. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2106 RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLES. |
MIZUNO, AWANA, BELATTI, CALDWELL, CARROLL, CHING, EVANS, GREEN, HAR, NISHIMOTO, B. OSHIRO, PINE, SAGUM, SAY, THIELEN, WATERS, Bertram, Tsuji |
| Provides a one-time $1,500 tax credit for the purchase of a hybrid or alternative fuel motor vehicle. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2107 RELATING TO COMPACT FLUORESCENT LIGHT BULBS. |
MIZUNO, AWANA, BELATTI, CALDWELL, CARROLL, GREEN, HAR, MARUMOTO, B. OSHIRO, PINE, THIELEN, WATERS, Bertram, Ching, Evans, Nishimoto, Rhoads, Sagum, Say, Tsuji |
| Requires use of compact fluorescent light bulbs in state buildings and public education campaign to promote private use of compact fluorescent light bulbs. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2108 RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLES. |
MIZUNO, AWANA, BELATTI, CALDWELL, CHING, GREEN, HAR, MARUMOTO, NISHIMOTO, B. OSHIRO, PINE, SAGUM, SAY, THIELEN, WATERS, Bertram, Carroll, Tsuji |
| Provides incentives to purchase hybrid and alternative fuel motor vehicles by allowing these vehicles to travel in high-occupancy vehicle lanes. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2109 RELATING TO EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS. |
MIZUNO, HAR, MEYER |
| Establishes a statewide task force to advise the Civil Defense Division of the state Department of Defense on the needs of individuals with disabilities and special health needs. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2110 RELATING TO AGING. |
MIZUNO, BELATTI, LEE, MARUMOTO, THIELEN, Har |
| Establishes four additional full-time equivalent faculty positions at the University of Hawaii's center on aging research and education to assist in the fulfillment of its mission. Makes an appropriation. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2111 RELATING TO LONG-TERM CARE OMBUDSMAN. |
MIZUNO |
| Expands the long-term care ombudsman program by adding three additional ombudsman positions, one for each neighboring county. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2112 RELATING TO THE TASK FORCE ON AGING. |
MIZUNO, BELATTI, HAR, MARUMOTO, MEYER, SONSON, THIELEN |
| Establishes a task force on aging to study the need for and feasibility of establishing a department of aging. Requires the task force on aging to submit findings and recommendations to the legislature. Appropriates funds for the task force on aging. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2113 RELATING TO TAXATION. |
MIZUNO, BELATTI, MARUMOTO, MEYER, RHOADS, SONSON, THIELEN, WARD |
| Provides a tax credit to caregivers who care for qualified care recipients. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2114 RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES. |
MIZUNO |
| Requires Med-QUEST and Medicaid coverage for chiropractic care. Requires the Department of Human Services to pass funding on to QUEST plans to implement the services. Appropriates funds. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2115 RELATING TO ELDER AFFAIRS. |
MIZUNO |
| Prohibits the director of the executive office on aging from altering, editing or withholding any work product issued by policy advisory board for elder affairs because it is inconsistent with the policy of the administration. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2116 RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII CENTER ON AGING EDUCATION AND RESEARCH. |
LEE, BELATTI, CHING, HAR, MARUMOTO, MIZUNO, RHOADS, SONSON, THIELEN |
| Appropriates funds to the University of Hawaii Center on Aging Research and Education to establish up to four faculty positions and for program expenses to develop methods to provide gerontological and aging education, curriculum and teaching development and coordination, outreach and community services, and student aid. (HB2116 HD1) | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2117 RELATING TO HEALTH INSURANCE. |
MIZUNO, MARUMOTO, MEYER, SONSON, WARD |
| Mandates health insurance coverage to screen for colorectal cancer by colonoscopy every ten years, beginning at age fifty. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2118 RELATING TO TUBERCULOSIS. |
MIZUNO, CHING, MARUMOTO, MEYER, Belatti, Rhoads, Sonson |
| Appropriates funds for tuberculosis treatment. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2119 RELATING TO ANATOMICAL TRANSPLANTS. |
MIZUNO, Belatti, Sonson |
| Prohibits health insurers from denying or limiting coverage for organ or tissue transplantation services on the basis that the insured, member, enrollee, or subscriber is infected with the human immunodeficiency virus. (HB2119 HD1) | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2120 RELATING TO MULTI-UNIT RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS. |
LEE, BELATTI, MARUMOTO, MEYER, MIZUNO, SONSON, THIELEN |
| Requires regular surveys of residents of multi-unit residential buildings on specific needs and issues relating to medical needs, accommodations for the disabled, and other special needs for emergency preparation purposes. Requires multi-unit residential buildings to have and inform their residents of emergency evacuation plans. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2121 RELATING TO FERAL PIGS. |
MIZUNO, BELATTI, CHING, MARUMOTO, MEYER, SONSON |
| Directs the department of land and natural resources to establish, implement, and maintain a pilot program to identify and reduce problem feral pig populations. Program terminates on June 30, 2010. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2122 RELATING TO PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY. |
MIZUNO |
| Makes unlawful the use, setting, maintenance, or tending of any body-gripping animal trap except when used by the government to protect human health and safety, for rodent control, or using traps approved by the Department of Land and Natural Resources for feral pig control. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2123 RELATING TO UTILITIES. |
MIZUNO, MARUMOTO, MEYER, Sonson |
| Establishes a utilities coordinating council to coordinate the orderly planning and installation, removal, or relocation of underground facilities. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2124 RELATING TO TAXATION. |
MIZUNO |
| Exempts from the general excise tax and use tax all equipment used directly in the generation of electricity using fuel cells, wind energy, solar energy, or landfill gas. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2125 RELATING TO LOSS MITIGATION. |
MIZUNO |
| Provides a tax credit for individuals who install wind resistive devices, as defined by the director of taxation, in a noncommercial dwelling located in Hawaii that is owned by the taxpayer. Repeals the loss mitigation grant program. Makes an appropriation. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2126 RELATING TO HEALTHCARE. |
MIZUNO, Awana, Magaoay, Rhoads |
| Requires hospitals to establish a policy and program that identifies, assesses, and develops strategies to control the risk of injury to patients and healthcare workers and nurses associated with lifting and moving patients. Provides tax deduction for hospitals that purchase equipment for the moving of patients. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2127 RELATING TO OFFENSES AGAINST THE PERSON. |
MIZUNO, AWANA, CABANILLA, MARUMOTO, WARD, Magaoay |
| Amends the penal code definition of "person" to clarify that for the purposes of offenses against the person, the term "person" includes any infant who is born alive at any stage of development. Defines the term "born alive". | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2128 RELATING TO THE PENAL CODE. |
MIZUNO, AWANA, MAGAOAY, RHOADS |
| Amends the offenses of assault in the second degree and terroristic threatening in the first degree to include conduct committed against victims who the courts and police are attempting to keep safe with protective orders. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2129 RELATING TO HEALTH. |
MIZUNO, Awana, Magaoay, Rhoads |
| Requires hospitals to disclose infection rates; protects patient privacy rights. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2130 RELATING TO CRITERIA FOR EXTENDED TERMS OF IMPRISONMENT. |
MIZUNO, Awana, Magaoay |
| Extends term of imprisonment for offenses committed against pregnant women. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2131 RELATING TO TERMS OF IMPRISONMENT. |
MIZUNO, AWANA, CABANILLA, GREEN, WARD, Magaoay |
| Adds the acts of inflicting serious or substantial bodily injury upon a person who is pregnant in the course of committing or attempting to commit a felony to those actions for which an extended term of imprisonment may be given. Mandates imprisonment for such actions if not subject to extended term. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2132 RELATING TO CRIME. |
MIZUNO, AWANA, BROWER, CABANILLA, GREEN, WARD, Magaoay |
| Makes it a class B felony to assault a pregnant woman if the offender intended or knew the assault would cause death or serious or substantial bodily injury to the fetus. Requires imposition of the maximum indeterminate term of 10 years in prison on conviction. Makes it a class C felony to assault a pregnant woman if the offender acted in reckless disregard of the risk of causing death or serious or substantial bodily injury to the fetus. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2133 RELATING TO NURSING. |
MIZUNO, AWANA, MAGAOAY, RHOADS |
| Creates a nursing teacher loan forgiveness pilot program at the University of Hawaii. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2134 RELATING TO THE CENTER FOR NURSING. |
MIZUNO, MAGAOAY |
| Makes permanent the deposit and disbursement of certain nursing fees into the compliance resolution fund for the credit of the center for nursing special fund. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2135 RELATING TO VETERAN BURIAL GRANTS. |
MIZUNO, AWANA, MAGAOAY, RHOADS |
| Provides for the burial of Filipino veterans. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2136 RELATING TO CARE HOMES. |
MIZUNO, MARUMOTO, THIELEN, Awana, Rhoads |
| Increases payments for level of care for ARCH types I and II, licensed developmental disabilities domiciliary homes, community care foster family homes, and certified adult foster homes by 7% from $641.90 to $686.83 for level I and from $749.90 to $802.39 for level II beginning on 7/1/08. Appropriation. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2137 RELATING TO HEALTH. |
MIZUNO, AWANA, CHANG, MAGAOAY, RHOADS |
| Provides a $1,000 tax credit for expenses related to an organ donation. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2138 RELATING TO CAREGIVER RECOGNITION DAY. |
MIZUNO, AWANA, MAGAOAY, RHOADS |
| Establishes an annual Caregiver Recognition Day on the first Saturday of November. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2139 RELATING TO ANATOMICAL GIFTS. |
MIZUNO, AWANA, MAGAOAY, RHOADS |
| Enacts the Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2140 RELATING TO THE VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN ACT. |
MIZUNO, RHOADS |
| Requires the Department of Human Services to establish a pilot project to assist undocumented immigrants who are victims of domestic violence. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2141 RELATING TO EDUCATION. |
MIZUNO, AWANA, BELATTI, CABANILLA, GREEN, LEE, MAGAOAY, MARUMOTO, RHOADS, THIELEN |
| Requires the department of education, in collaboration with the department of health, to provide accurate information on human papillomavirus, the link between human papillomavirus infection and cervical cancer, and the availability of human papillomavirus immunizations to parents of female sixth graders in public schools. Appropriations. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2142 RELATING TO EDUCATION. |
MIZUNO, AWANA, MAGAOAY, RHOADS |
| Directs the department of education to develop and implement, in consultation with other educational and community organizations, a student and faculty exchange program between Hawaii and its sister provinces in the Philippines. Appropriates funds. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2143 RELATING TO PROCUREMENT. |
B. OSHIRO, MORITA |
| Requires state agencies to consider biobased products in purchasing and enhances the economic development of biobased products. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2144 RELATING TO FIREWORKS. |
B. OSHIRO |
| Assesses a tax on the sale of fireworks instead of assessing a permit fee to discharge fireworks. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2145 RELATING TO UNCLAIMED PROPERTY. |
B. OSHIRO |
| Allows individuals attempting to claim unclaimed property from the State to assert ownership through affidavit. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2146 RELATING TO PUBLIC SAFETY. |
EVANS, HAR |
| Requires the department of public safety to establish performance indicators to ensure that the department is in compliance with the Community Safety Act of 2007. Requires monthly reports to the legislature, using key performance indicators, such as inmate drug test failure rates, educational goals achieved, reentry plans, post-incarceration employment, victim restitution paid, and recidivism rates. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2147 RELATING TO PAROLE. |
EVANS, Har |
| Establishes an earned-time program that provides incentives for inmate rehabilitation by allowing inmates to become eligible for parole when they make consistent progress in completing programs while incarcerated. Appropriates funds. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2148 RELATING TO THE AUDITOR. |
EVANS, Har |
| Requires the auditor to conduct performance audits of private prisons on the mainland that house Hawaii prisoners. Makes appropriation. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2149 RELATING TO PUBLIC SAFETY. |
EVANS, Har |
| Requires prisons holding Hawaii prisoners under a contract with the State to make public information about the operation of the prison | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2150 RELATING TO PHARMACY. |
EVANS |
| Requires the board of pharmacy to make unannounced site visits to pharmacies at least once every 2 years. Makes acceptance of on-site visits a condition to receiving a permit to operate a pharmacy. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2151 RELATING TO CAPTIVE INSURANCE. |
EVANS, HERKES |
| Forms a captive insurance company to provide medical malpractice insurance to self-employed medical doctors. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2152 RELATING TO DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY. |
EVANS |
| Short form bill relating to department of public safety. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2153 RELATING TO NARCOTICS ENFORCEMENT DIVISION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY. |
EVANS |
| Short form bill relating to narcotics enforcement division of the department of public safety. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2154 RELATING TO VETERANS. |
EVANS |
| Short form bill relating to veterans. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2155 RELATING TO CIVIL DEFENSE. |
EVANS |
| Short form bill relating to civil defense. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2156 RELATING TO THE OFFICE OF VETERANS' SERVICES. |
EVANS |
| Short form bill relating to the office of veterans' services. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2157 RELATING TO THE OFFICE OF VETERANS' SERVICES. |
EVANS, Har |
| Transfers the office of veterans' services from the department of defense to the department of human services. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2158 RELATING TO CHILDREN. |
EVANS, Har |
| Establishes a bill of rights for children of incarcerated parents. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2159 RELATING TO THE NATURAL ENERGY LABORATORY OF HAWAII AUTHORITY. |
EVANS |
| Provides the natural energy laboratory of Hawaii authority with funds to obtain an environmental impact statement to support rezoning of certain land from conservation to urban. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2160 RELATING TO EMERGENCIES. |
EVANS |
| Establishes an emergency advisory radio station pilot project on the island of Hawaii | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2161 RELATING TO MEDICAL MALPRACTICE INSURANCE. |
EVANS, HERKES |
| Establishes a medical malpractice mutual insurance company modeled upon the employers' mutual insurance company. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2162 MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE OPIHI RESTORATION PROGRAM. |
EVANS |
| Appropriates funds to the University of Hawaii for the opihi restoration project, a hatchery-based restocking program to enhance depleted natural populations of opihi. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2163 RELATING TO COMPTROLLER SUPERVISION OF ACCOUNTS. |
CHANG, BERTRAM, HANOHANO, ITO, KARAMATSU, MAGAOAY, Berg, Brower, Har, Herkes, Lee, Sagum, Tsuji, Wakai |
| Limits the University of Hawaii's duty to preaudit all proposed payments to those that amount to $10,000 or more. (HB2163 HD1) | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2164 RELATING TO THE CANCER RESEARCH SPECIAL FUND. |
CHANG, BERG, BERTRAM, HANOHANO, HAR, HERKES, ITO, KARAMATSU, LEE, MAGAOAY, MORITA, NISHIMOTO, TSUJI, Brower, Rhoads, Sagum, Wakai |
| Increases the sources of revenue available to support the Cancer Research Center of Hawaii. Allows moneys in cancer research special fund to be used for capital expenditures. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2165 RELATING TO NURSING. |
CHANG, BERG, BERTRAM, BROWER, HANOHANO, HAR, ITO, MAGAOAY, MORITA, TSUJI, Herkes, Karamatsu, Lee, Nishimoto, Rhoads, Sagum, Wakai, Yamashita |
| Allows a master's degree candidate in a nursing program who has completed the pre-licensure component of the program to apply for a license by examination to practice as a registered nurse. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2166 RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII. |
CHANG, BERG, BERTRAM, BROWER, HANOHANO, HAR, HERKES, ITO, KARAMATSU, LEE, MAGAOAY, MARUMOTO, MORITA, NISHIMOTO, RHOADS, TSUJI, WAKAI, YAMASHITA, Sagum |
| Appropriates funds to the University of Hawaii to finance energy conservation and renewable energy measures to make Saunders Hall at the University of Hawaii a campus and community model of sustainability and energy conservation. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2167 RELATING TO PUBLIC UTILITIES. |
MORITA |
| Requires electric utilities to create an optional pricing program based on a percentage of renewable energy sources used to generate electricity. Increases the total rated generating capacity produced by eligible customer-generators. Establishes a transferable ownership interest in excess electricity credits. Increases the maximum capacity of an eligible customer-generator. Directs the public utilities commission to hire a consultant to perform a review of solar electric generation in the State. Clarifies that development of solar electric resources are an acceptable use of category C and D agricultural lands. Clarifies that persons who generate electricity from renewable sources for their own consumption are not public utilities. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2168 RELATING TO THE ISSUANCE OF SPECIAL PURPOSE REVENUE BONDS. |
MORITA, CHANG, GREEN, HANOHANO, Carroll, Evans, Herkes, Tsuji |
| Authorizes special purpose revenue bonds to H2 Technologies, Incorporated for construction of Hydrogen Generator Appliance Laboratory and hydrogen generation and conversion facilities. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2169 RELATING TO HEALTH. |
GREEN |
| Short form bill relating to health. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2170 RELATING TO HEALTH. |
GREEN |
| Short form bill relating to health. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2171 RELATING TO HEALTH. |
GREEN |
| Short form bill relating to health. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2172 RELATING TO HEALTH. |
GREEN |
| Short form bill relating to health. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2173 RELATING TO HEALTH. |
GREEN |
| Short form bill relating to health. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2174 RELATING TO GOVERNMENT. |
CALDWELL, ITO, MORITA |
| Requires governor to review, evaluate, and report on steps necessary to create a new department of conservation and environmental protection to encompass environmental and conservation programs now performed by the DLNR, DOH, and other state agencies. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2175 RELATING TO MENTAL HEALTH. |
CALDWELL |
| Repeals the sunset date of December 31, 2008, for Chapter 453D, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to preserve the provisions set in Hawaii's laws dealing with licensure for mental health counselors. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2176 RELATING TO ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION. |
CALDWELL, MORITA, B. OSHIRO |
| Bans the use of polystyrene foam containers by food vendors in the State. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2177 RELATING TO ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION. |
CALDWELL, MORITA, B. OSHIRO |
| Requires retailers in the State to distribute only recyclable, reusable, or compostable checkout bags. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2178 RELATING TO VEHICULAR EMISSIONS. |
CALDWELL, MORITA, B. OSHIRO |
| Directs the department of health to adopt rules implementing California's new vehicle emission standards. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2179 RELATING TO DRUGS. |
MARUMOTO, EVANS, ITO, B. OSHIRO, WATERS, YAMANE, YAMASHITA |
| Adds salvia divinorum and salvinorin A to list of Schedule I drugs | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2180 RELATING TO GOVERNMENT LIABILITY. |
MARUMOTO, EVANS, ITO, B. OSHIRO, THIELEN, WATERS, YAMANE, YAMASHITA |
| Authorizes the superintendent of education to agree to indemnify the counties whenever the department of education uses county facilities for the purpose of interscholastic athletic activities. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2181 RELATING TO ENERGY EFFICIENCY. |
MARUMOTO, EVANS, ITO, B. OSHIRO, THIELEN, WATERS, YAMANE, YAMASHITA |
| Phases out the use of incandescent bulbs in state buildings by July 1, 2010. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2182 MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR RESERVOIRS, DAMS, AND DITCH SYSTEMS. |
TOKIOKA, MORITA, SAGUM |
| Appropriates moneys for a feasibility study on management of dams, reservoirs, and ditch systems. Effective 7/1/08. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2183 RELATING TO GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS. |
THIELEN, GREEN, MORITA |
| Establishes greenhouse gas emissions reduction benchmarks to be achieved prior to 01/01/20. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2184 RELATING TO SELF-SUFFICIENCY. |
MIZUNO, WATERS |
| Requires the department of business, economic development, and tourism to establish, update, and define the self-sufficiency standard. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2185 RELATING TO SPECIAL EDUCATION. |
MIZUNO |
| Establishes research, development, and review panels for individualized education programs and individualized family service plans. Provides access to qualified individuals in the development of individualized education programs and individualized family service plans. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2186 RELATING TO EDUCATION. |
MIZUNO |
| Extends the deadline within which to file a request for a due process hearing relating to the education of a child with a disability from ninety days to two years when the request is for reimbursement of costs of a child's placement. Requires the department to adopt rules that provide for the reimbursement of expert witness and other relevant fees and expenses associated with a hearing. Requires the establishment of an appeals board and process wherein a state review officer shall review the decisions of the impartial hearings officers. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2187 RELATING TO TOXIC PRODUCTS. |
THIELEN, AWANA, BROWER, CARROLL, MARUMOTO, MEYER, MIZUNO, SAGUM, SHIMABUKURO, WARD |
| Prohibits the manufacturing, sale, or distribution of toys and child care articles containing certain toxic chemicals and requires manufacturers to use the least toxic alternatives. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2188 RELATING TO INTERFAITH ACTIVITIES. |
MIZUNO, AWANA, MARUMOTO, WARD |
| Establishes the statewide interfaith steering committee to develop and promote interfaith activities. Appropriates funds for this purpose. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2189 RELATING TO PUBLIC RESTROOMS. |
MIZUNO, BROWER, CHING, MARUMOTO, MEYER, THIELEN, WATERS, Awana, Rhoads |
| Provides funding to ensure that public restrooms are consistently well maintained. Appropriation. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2190 RELATING TO THE ENVIRONMENT. |
MIZUNO, AWANA, CHING, GREEN, MARUMOTO, THIELEN, WATERS, Belatti, Brower, Cabanilla, Rhoads |
| Appropriates funds to the public school system to establish a recycling program and provide recycling bins on every school campus. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2191 RELATING TO EDUCATION. |
MIZUNO, AWANA, BROWER, CABANILLA, CARROLL, MARUMOTO, THIELEN, WATERS |
| Appropriates fund to lower the student to counselor ratio at Hawaii's public middle schools and high schools. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2192 RELATING TO TEACHERS. |
MIZUNO, AWANA, BELATTI, CHING, HAR, MARUMOTO, Waters |
| Appropriates funds to the department of education to provide additional resources to support teacher quality. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2193 RELATING TO SCHOOL COUNSELORS. |
MIZUNO, AWANA, BROWER, GREEN, MARUMOTO, THIELEN |
| Provides funds for the department of education to hire more school counselors for middle and high schools. Appropriation. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2194 MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE STATE COMMISSION ON FATHERHOOD. |
MIZUNO, MEYER, SONSON |
| Appropriates funds for the state commission on fatherhood. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2195 RELATING TO AGING. |
MARUMOTO, BELATTI, CHING, MEYER, MIZUNO, THIELEN |
| Makes an appropriation to increase funding for kupuna care program administered by the executive office on aging. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2196 RELATING TO CAREGIVING. |
LEE, BELATTI, CHING, HAR, MARUMOTO, MEYER, MIZUNO, RHOADS, SONSON, THIELEN, WATERS |
| Extends the joint legislative committee on family caregiving; changes the committee's name to the joint legislative committee on aging in place; expands the committee's mandate to include aging in place issues related to family caregiving; requires the aging and disability resource center to report to the committee; requires the joint legislative committee to conduct a cash and counseling project; appropriates funds to the joint legislative committee; allows kupuna care to include overnight, weekend, and emergency respite, as well as provide grants to caregivers and for home modification; appropriates funds to the kupuna care program. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2197 RELATING TO TAXATION. |
LEE, BELATTI, CHING, HAR, MARUMOTO, MEYER, MIZUNO, RHOADS, SONSON, THIELEN, WARD, WATERS |
| Provides a tax credit to taxpayer caregivers who care for qualified care recipients. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2198 RELATING TO CAREGIVING. |
LEE, BELATTI, CHING, HAR, MARUMOTO, MEYER, MIZUNO, SONSON, THIELEN, WARD, WATERS |
| Establishes a task force to focus on the needs of and issues facing grandparents raising grandchildren. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2199 RELATING TO CAREGIVING. |
LEE, BELATTI, CHING, HAR, MARUMOTO, MIZUNO, RHOADS, SONSON, THIELEN, WATERS |
| Appropriates funds to the Executive Office on Aging to continue its respite inventory project in collaboration with the University of Hawaii at Manoa School of Social Work. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2200 RELATING TO TAXATION. |
LEE, BELATTI, CHING, MARUMOTO, MEYER, MIZUNO, SONSON, THIELEN, WARD, Rhoads, Waters |
| Establishes an income tax credit for taxpayers who make modifications to their home to increase accessibility for individuals with disabilities or special needs. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2201 RELATING TO DISASTER PREPAREDNESS. |
MIZUNO, BELATTI, HAR, MEYER, THIELEN, Sonson, Waters |
| Establishes a disaster planning and preparedness consumer advisory board to review existing and develop new policies and plans that address the needs of the elderly and disabled members of the community in the event of a man-made or natural disaster. Makes an appropriation. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2202 RELATING TO INCOME TAX. |
MIZUNO, MARUMOTO |
| Excludes from gross income the gain realized by a fee simple owner of industrial and commercial properties from the sale of leased fee to a lessee. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2203 RELATING TO PUBLIC ASSISTANCE. |
MIZUNO, AWANA, Belatti |
| Makes appropriation to DBEDT to create one staff position to establish and update biannually a self-sufficiency standard for Hawaii. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2204 RELATING TO THE LIABILITY OF A FIREARM OWNER. |
SAY (BR) |
| Removes government entities from definition of firearm owner for purpose of establishing liability. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2205 RELATING TO THE RE-EMPLOYMENT OF RETIREES BY THE STATE OR COUNTIES. |
SAY (BR) |
| Allows the state and county governments to hire retired state or county public employees that are currently receiving public sector pension or retirement benefits. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2206 MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE WORKFORCE INVESTMENT BOARDS. |
SAY (BR) |
| Appropriates federal Reed Act money to the department of labor and industrial relations to assist the State's four local workforce investment boards. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2207 MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR DISASTER RELIEF. |
SAY (BR) |
| Appropriates moneys to maximize available federal reimbursements to assist Hawaii county with earthquake recovery efforts. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2208 MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES EMPLOYEES IN THE COUNTY OF HAWAII. |
SAY (BR) |
| Appropriates funds for the employer contribution share of retirement funds for emergency medical services employees in the county of Hawaii. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2209 MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR WEST HAWAII HOUSING. |
SAY (BR) |
| Appropriates funds to help with construction of a facility that will provide housing and services for individuals and families that are successfully transitioning through the homeless continuum on the island of Hawaii. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2210 RELATING TO THE MAINTENANCE OF VETERANS CEMETERIES IN THE COUNTY OF HAWAII. |
SAY (BR) |
| Appropriates funds for the maintenance of veterans cemeteries in the county of Hawaii. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2211 MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR WASTEWATER PROJECTS. |
SAY (BR) |
| Appropriates funds wastewater projects to comply with federal Environmental Protection Agency standards. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2212 RELATING TO FIREWORKS. |
SAY (BR) |
| Prohibits a county from enacting any ordinances or adopting any rules regulating fireworks or articles pyrotechnic that are less restrictive than the regulations established by state law. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2213 MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR WELLS. |
SAY (BR) |
| Appropriates funds for exploration and production of wells at Hawaiian Ocean View Estates, reduced by moneys appropriated under this Act if moneys made available under Act 178, Session Laws of Hawaii 2005, are encumbered prior to the effective date of this Act. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2214 RELATING TO PUBLIC LAND LIABILITY. |
SAY (BR) |
| Clarifies county immunity in operating county parks by deleting exclusion of public beach parks from the definition of "improved public lands". | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2215 AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS AND MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR BALL FIELD AND RECREATIONAL FACILITY LIGHT SYSTEM RETRO-FIT, HABITAT CONSERVATION PLAN, AND WAILUA WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT UPGRADES FOR THE COUNTY OF KAUAI. |
SAY (BR) |
| Appropriates $2,460,000 for CIP projects on Kauai for ball field and recreational facility light system retrofit, habitat conservation plan, and Wailua wastewater treatment plant upgrades. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2216 RELATING TO PUBLIC AGENCY MEETINGS. |
SAY (BR) |
| Allows two or more members of a board to discuss official board business to enable them to perform their duties. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2217 RELATING TO THE OFFICE OF INFORMATION PRACTICES. |
SAY (BR) |
| Requires the office of information practices to provide a written opinion within 60 days of a written request for an advisory opinion. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2218 RELATING TO HOUSING. |
SAY (BR) |
| Extends the period of review for a legislative body from 45 days to 90 days when examining affordable housing projects. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2219 RELATING TO THE HAWAII PUBLIC PROCUREMENT CODE. |
SAY (BR) |
| Repeals requirement that county cooperative purchases adhere to administrative rules adopted by the state procurement policy board. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2220 RELATING TO PUBLIC LAND. |
SAY (BR) |
| Protects counties from liability as a result of natural conditions on or near a public beach park. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2221 RELATING TO TRAFFIC INFRACTIONS. |
SAY (BR) |
| Transfers a percentage of uncontested traffic fines and forfeitures to the county in which the violation occurred. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2222 RELATING TO SAILBOARDS. |
SAY (BR) |
| Prohibits operators of sailboards from approaching within 200 feet of a swimmer or surfer in the ocean. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2223 RELATING TO PUBLIC HEALTH. |
SAY (BR) |
| Requires employers to educate employees regarding seizure first aid using information provided by the department of labor and industrial relations. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2224 RELATING TO INSURANCE. |
SAY |
| Requires insurers that offer health care coverage to the regular employees of any group or association to offer the same coverage to part-time employees working at least 15 hours per week; insurance commissioner to report on Act's cost-benefit to the 2010 legislature; sunsets July 1, 2010. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2225 RELATING TO INSURANCE. |
SAY |
| Requires insurers that offer health care coverage to the regular employees of any group or association to offer the same coverage to part-time employees of that group or association; insurance commissioner to report on Act's cost-benefit to the 2010 legislature; sunsets July 1, 2010. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2226 RELATING TO TAXATION. |
SAY (BR) |
| Amends the definition of "person totally disabled" for tax purposes, by deleting the requirement that the disability results in the person's inability to engage in any substantial gainful business or occupation. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2227 RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT. |
SAY (BR) |
| Clarifies disciplinary actions against public employees by requiring evidence to support probable cause for serious offense and documentation showing progressive disciplinary actions. Authorizes suspension with pay pending investigation of charge. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2228 MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR COMMUNITY-BASED ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. |
SAY |
| Appropriates $500,000 into the Hawaii community-based economic development revolving fund to financially assist qualifying community-based organizations statewide. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2229 RELATING TO MOPEDS. |
SAY |
| Specifies when a moped must use a bicycle lane and clarifies the speed limit applicable to a moped. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2230 RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL IRRIGATION. |
SAY, TSUJI |
| Expressly authorizes the board of agriculture to acquire irrigation systems by negotiated purchase, exchange, or gift. Requires agricultural lands served by irrigation systems acquired by the board of agriculture to be used by landowners for agriculture or leased to others for agricultural use. Provides regulations for gifts of irrigation systems from private landowners to the State. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2231 RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. |
SAY, TSUJI |
| Requires the department of land and natural resources and the department of agriculture to collaborate to identify public lands that should be designated important agricultural lands. Beginning 01/01/10, requires the land use commission to designate the identified public lands as important agricultural lands and transfers the authority to manage those public lands from the department of land and natural resources to the department of agriculture. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2232 RELATING TO MEDICAL TORTS. |
SAY (BR) |
| Establishes special medical tort reform provisions for health professional shortage areas. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2233 RELATING TO MEDICAL TORTS. |
SAY (BR) |
| Requires a claimant who rejects the decision of a medical claim conciliation panel and subsequently institutes litigation to pay a fee of $10,000 to the court. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2234 AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS AND MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE PURCHASE OF CERTAIN LANDS ON THE ISLAND OF OAHU. |
SAY (BR) |
| Authorizes issue of $ in general obligation bonds to purchase the Kunia lands owned by the Campbell Estate on the island of Oahu identified as Lot M-8-B (commonly known as parcel 2), portion of TMK 1-9-02-004:005 consisting of 854.23 acres. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2235 RELATING TO THE DEPOSIT BEVERAGE CONTAINER PROGRAM. |
SAY |
| Authorizes the use of moneys in the deposit beverage container deposit special fund to acquire real property for redemption centers. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2236 RELATING TO DNA. |
SAY (BR) |
| Requires collection of DNA sample from all adults arrested for a felony offense. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2237 RELATING TO EDUCATION. |
SHIMABUKURO |
| Allows the department of education to provide stipends to educational assistants to pursue teaching credentials; provided principals are not required to submit recommendations on behalf of educational assistant applicants. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2238 RELATING TO PUBLIC HOUSING. |
SHIMABUKURO |
| Requires public housing projects and affordable housing funded by county or state funds to remain affordable in perpetuity. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2239 RELATING TO THE KALOKO HOUSING PROGRAM. |
SHIMABUKURO |
| Appropriates funds for the Kaloko Housing Program. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2240 RELATING TO PUBLIC HOUSING. |
SHIMABUKURO |
| Allows public housing tenants with excessive incomes more time to relocate, an opportunity to open individual development accounts, and to purchase their units if provided by law. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2241 RELATING TO REAL PROPERTY. |
SHIMABUKURO |
| Enables an owner to convey an interest in real property that does not vest until the death of the owner, at which time the interest transfers to the designated beneficiary. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2242 RELATING TO COUNTIES. |
SHIMABUKURO |
| Authorizes each county to impose upon certain subdividers or developers an affordable housing requirement as a condition for approval of a subdivision or issuance of a building permit. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2243 RELATING TO LAND USE. |
NAKASONE |
| Provides that a zoning ordinance adopted by a county shall not be invalidated by a reclassification of land; provided that the uses allowed under the zoning ordinance are permissible uses under the new classification. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2244 RELATING TO TAXATION. |
NAKASONE (BR) |
| Exempts real property rental transactions between related entities from the general excise tax. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2245 RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII. |
CHANG, BERTRAM, EVANS, HANOHANO, MAGAOAY, MIZUNO, SONSON, Har, Herkes, Ito, Karamatsu, Sagum, Takamine, Wakai, Yamane |
| Authorizes the transfer of all university funds, with the exception of general funds, into the University of Hawaii commercial enterprises revolving fund. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2246 RELATING TO HEALTH. |
HERKES |
| Authorizes pharmacies that dispense medications pursuant to section 340B of the United States Public Health Service Act to engage in telepharmacy dispensing of medication subject to rules created by the Board of Pharmacy. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2247 RELATING TO HISTORIC PRESERVATION. |
HERKES |
| Extends the time allowed to acquire the lands designated as part of the South Kona Wilderness Area on the island of Hawaii. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2248 RELATING TO INSURANCE. |
HERKES |
| Provides that a reciprocal insurer and its attorney-in-fact are considered a single entity for general excise tax purposes. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2249 RELATING TO INSURANCE FRAUD. |
HERKES |
| Expands the authority of the Insurance Division over insurance fraud beyond motor vehicle insurance cases to all lines of insurance except workers' compensation. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2250 RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION. |
HERKES |
| Establishes a statutory scheme for the regulation of Hawaii inter-island air carriers; provided that federal legislation is enacted to permit implementation. Repealed on 6/30/2015. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2251 RELATING TO REAL PROPERTY. |
HERKES |
| Requires any residential real property equity purchaser to provide homeowner with certain disclosures. Requires notices and sales contracts to be in writing, and provides cooling off period for homeowner to cancel sale contract. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2252 RELATING TO INSURANCE. |
HERKES |
| Replaces the property and liability insurance guaranty association act with the National Conference of Insurance Legislators post-assessment property liability insurance guaranty association model act, which provides among other things expanded provisions on "covered claims" and replaces the association's power to cancel policies issued by insolvent insurers with immunity from pre-liquidation settlements of the insurer. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2253 RELATING TO AMENDING OR REPEALING VARIOUS PROVISIONS OF CHAPTER 281, HAWAII REVISED STATUTES, INTOXICATING LIQUOR, FOR THE PURPOSE OF CLARIFYING LANGUAGE, CORRECTING ERRORS, AND DELETING UNNECESSARY AND OBSOLETE PROVISIONS. |
HERKES, YAMASHITA |
| Amends sections of chapter 281 to update the liquor laws. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2254 RELATING TO BANKS AND FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS. |
HERKES |
| Prohibits the deceptive use of the name or trademark of a financial institution or its affiliates or subsidiaries. Establishes $10,000 fine for violations. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2255 RELATING TO LIFE INSURANCE. |
HERKES |
| Eliminates insured employees as a source of funding the premiums for employee group life insurance policies. Eliminates requirement that the employee group life insurance policies must cover at least 10 employees at date of issue. Eliminates policy limits against loss due to death of a dependent other than the spouse of the insured employee under an employee group life insurance policy. Excludes the exercise of among corporate affiliates of a term conversion privilege from the applicability of laws relating to the replacement of life insurance policies and annuities. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2256 RELATING TO INSURANCE. |
HERKES (BR) |
| Clarifies that it is not an unfair method of competition or an unfair or deceptive act or practice for an insurer with a less than 10% market share to refuse to issue or renew a policy with a prospective insured unless the prospective insured contracts for another class or an additional policy of the same class of insurance with the same insurer. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2257 RELATING TO PUBLIC ACCOUNTANCY. |
HERKES (BR) |
| Requires peer review as a condition for the renewal of a permit to practice public accountancy. Applies to both persons and firms. Exempts certain firms from the requirements. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2258 RELATING TO PUBLIC ACCOUNTANCY. |
HERKES (BR) |
| Authorizes out-of-state certified public accountants to practice temporarily in the State without a license. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2259 RELATING TO AEROSPACE DEVELOPMENT. |
TSUJI, AWANA, CHANG, CHONG, EVANS, HANOHANO, ITO, MAGAOAY, MANAHAN, YAMANE, YAMASHITA, Brower, Takamine |
| Makes an appropriation for costs associated with applying for a spaceport license from the Federal Aviation Administration. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2260 MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE HAWAII ASSOCIATION OF CONSERVATION DISTRICTS. |
TSUJI, AWANA, BROWER, CHANG, CHONG, EVANS, GREEN, MAGAOAY, MANAHAN, YAMANE, YAMASHITA, Takamine |
| Appropriates funds for the Hawaii association of conservation districts to assist with its staffing and operating costs. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2261 RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL LOANS. |
TSUJI, AWANA, BROWER, CHANG, CHONG, EVANS, GREEN, HANOHANO, ITO, MAGAOAY, MANAHAN, YAMANE, YAMASHITA, Herkes, Takamine |
| Establishes a loan program to provide financial assistance to farm producers involved in sustainable energy production. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2262 RELATING TO DISORDERLY CONDUCT. |
RHOADS |
| Amends the crime of disorderly conduct to include impeding or obstructing the use of or access to a bus stop by laying across any bench or more than one seat provided at the bus stop or sleeping on the ground within or abutting any bus stop shelter or other bus stop structure. Effective 01/01/2009. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2263 RELATING TO HARBORS. |
RHOADS |
| Allows the director of transportation to adopt rules that regulate harbor noise. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2264 RELATING TO MORTGAGES. |
RHOADS |
| Amends the definition of mortgage loan to clarify that the mortgage brokerage statute is intended to protect consumers. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2265 RELATING TO THE TRAFFIC CODE. |
RHOADS |
| Requires turning driver to yield right-of-way to pedestrian in a crosswalk even if the pedestrian enters the crosswalk after the vehicle begins its turn. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2266 RELATING TO TAX CREDITS. |
RHOADS |
| Requires 75% local hire to qualify for the motion picture, digital media, and film production tax credit and excludes media productions from the definition of "qualified high technology business". | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2267 RELATING TO PROCUREMENT. |
B. OSHIRO, CALDWELL, MAGAOAY, YAMASHITA |
| Prohibits the chief procurement officer from delegating its authority to resolve protested awards; allows reimbursement of attorney's fees for protesting parties that prevail; transfers the review function of state procurement determinations to the office of the ombudsman. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2268 RELATING TO STATEWIDE TRAFFIC CODE. |
B. OSHIRO, CALDWELL, WATERS, Souki |
| Increases the fine for speeding in a construction area to double the amount prescribed by law for the same offense outside of a construction area or $250, whichever is greater. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2269 RELATING TO TRAFFIC INFRACTIONS. |
B. OSHIRO, WATERS, Souki |
| Prohibits district court from disclosing, other than to law enforcement or licensee, dispositions of traffic infractions that precede the date of the request for disclosure by more than 3 years. Does not apply to criminal convictions. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2270 RELATING TO PRESCRIPTIONS. |
B. OSHIRO, CALDWELL, GREEN, HERKES, MIZUNO |
| Authorizes refills for prescriptions during disasters. Directs the director of health to convene a work group to establish an online emergency prescription database. Appropriation. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2271 RELATING TO THE ISSUANCE OF SPECIAL PURPOSE REVENUE BONDS TO ASSIST CASTLE MEDICAL CENTER AND ITS AFFILIATES. |
CHONG, GREEN, ITO, MIZUNO, WATERS |
| Authorizes special purpose revenue bonds to assist Castle Medical Center. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2272 RELATING TO QUALIFIED COMMUNITY REHABILITATION PROGRAMS. |
SOUKI, NAKASONE, SAY |
| Exempts positions and personal services contracts with a qualified community rehabilitation program, which last for no more than one year, from county civil service law regardless of the cost. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2273 RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES. |
MIZUNO, AWANA, GREEN, MARUMOTO, MEYER, THIELEN |
| Appropriates funds to the department of human services for independent living skills training for foster children and children being released from foster care. Authorizes general obligation bonds for transitional housing for foster children and children being released from foster care. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2274 MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO PROVIDE FOR EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANTS. |
MIZUNO, GREEN, MARUMOTO, THIELEN, Awana |
| Appropriates funds to provide one educational assistant for every public school class in grades K-3. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2275 RELATING TO EDUCATION. |
MIZUNO |
| Appropriates funds for special education and early intervention services provided by private sector or county programs through a grant pursuant to chapter 42F, HRS. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2276 RELATING TO THE STUDENT TO TEACHER RATIO IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS. |
MIZUNO, AWANA, BELATTI, BROWER, CABANILLA, CHING, GREEN, HAR, MARUMOTO, RHOADS, THIELEN, WARD, WATERS |
| Appropriates funds for decreasing the student to teacher ratio in Hawaii public schools. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2277 RELATING TO INVASIVE SPECIES. |
MIZUNO, AWANA, BELATTI, BROWER, MARUMOTO, MEYER, THIELEN, WARD, WATERS, Cabanilla, Rhoads |
| Appropriates funds to eradicate invasive species and protect native species. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2278 RELATING TO EDUCATION. |
MIZUNO, AWANA, GREEN |
| Provides tuition and fee waivers for children of military personnel disabled, killed in the line of duty, or declared Prisoners of War or Missing in Action. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2279 MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE HAWAII TEACHER CADET PROGRAM. |
MIZUNO, AWANA, GREEN |
| Appropriates funds for the Hawaii teacher cadet program to address the teacher shortage. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2280 RELATING TO FINANCIAL EDUCATION. |
MIZUNO, AWANA, BELATTI, BROWER, CHING, GREEN, LEE, MARUMOTO, MEYER, WATERS |
| Establishes a public financial education and asset building task force; makes an appropriation. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2281 RELATING TO ALTERNATIVE ENERGY. |
MIZUNO, AWANA, BELATTI, BROWER, CARROLL, CHING, GREEN, MAGAOAY, MARUMOTO, MEYER, M. OSHIRO, SAGUM, SHIMABUKURO, THIELEN |
| Appropriates funds for grants for alternative energy utilities on public school campuses. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2282 RELATING TO TAXATION. |
MIZUNO |
| Eliminates the assessment and collection of the state general excise tax and state fuel tax on gasoline and diesel fuel used for motor vehicles. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2283 RELATING TO TATTOO ARTISTS. |
MIZUNO |
| Allows department of health to issue temporary 14-calendar-day certificates of registration to tattoo artists for educational, trade show, or product demonstration purposes only. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2284 RELATING TO NONECONOMIC DAMAGES. |
EVANS |
| Limits noneconomic damages in an action for a medical tort. Includes dentists. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2285 RELATING TO ELECTRONIC MONITORING. |
EVANS |
| Requires electronic monitoring of persons convicted of violating a domestic abuse temporary restraining order or protective order. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2286 RELATING TO EPILEPSY DISEASE ASSISTANCE. |
MIZUNO, BROWER, CHING, GREEN, MARUMOTO, MEYER, THIELEN, Awana, Carroll, Rhoads |
| Creates epilepsy treatment and education grants-in-aid fund to help epilepsy victims and families. Creates advisory committee to recommend to DOH the creation of treatment and education programs. Exempts fund from transfers for central service expenses and pro rata administrative expenses. Appropriation. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2287 RELATING TO HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS. |
MIZUNO, GREEN, Waters |
| Provides for the resident tuition rates repayment of tuition for five nonresident students of the medical education program at the John A. Burns School of Medicine to encourage nonresident medical school graduates to remain in Hawaii. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2288 RELATING TO GENERAL EXCISE TAX. |
MIZUNO, AWANA, GREEN |
| Requires general excise tax on health services and health products to be deposited into the long-term care benefits fund. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2289 RELATING TO LONG-TERM CARE OMBUDSMAN. |
MIZUNO, GREEN, Belatti |
| Expands the long-term care ombudsman program by adding three additional ombudsman positions, one for each neighboring county. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2290 RELATING TO VACCINATIONS. |
MIZUNO, GREEN, Sonson |
| Provides free influenza vaccinations to certain individuals statewide to reduce mortality. Requires consent forms. Requires DOH to seek federal funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Appropriates $ to DOH for FY 2008-2009. Repealed 6/30/2009. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2291 RELATING TO HEALTH INSURANCE. |
NAKASONE, GREEN, MIZUNO, WATERS |
| Establishes the state health authority to propose a plan to provide medical assistance for all citizens of Hawaii. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2292 RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. |
M. OSHIRO |
| Enables the agribusiness development corporation to contract with banks to provide lease management services. Allows corporation to lease agricultural lands for up to 55 years. Authorizes the corporation to purchase agricultural lands owned by the Galbraith Estate. Makes an appropriation to acquire Galbraith Estate Lands. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2293 RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. |
M. OSHIRO |
| Authorizes issuance of revenue bonds to purchase land in central Oahu from the Galbraith Estate; appropriates funds to purchase the lands; enables the Agribusiness Development Corporation to contract with lending institutions to provide lease management services. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2294 RELATING TO LAND ACQUISITION. |
M. OSHIRO |
| Directs the Department of Land and Natural Resources or any appropriate entity of the State to acquire lands situated in central Oahu owned by the Galbraith Estate by negotiation or condemnation. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2295 RELATING TO SOLAR ENERGY. |
M. OSHIRO |
| Requires community and condominium associations and cooperatives to adopt rules regarding the placement of clotheslines by 12/31/09. Requires community and condominium associations and cooperatives to enforce rules regarding placement of clotheslines on 01/01/10, and thereafter. Clarifies that clotheslines are not included in the definition of "solar energy device" for purposes of claiming the solar energy device income tax credit. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2296 RELATING TO ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION. |
M. OSHIRO |
| Establishes statutory categorical exemptions from chapter 343, Hawaii Revised Statutes. Requires agencies and applicants for a proposed action to apply to the director of the office of environmental quality control for a categorical exemption. Provides that approval of the application for a categorical exemption requires the director's discretionary consent. Repeals office of environmental quality control's authority to establish categorical exemptions pursuant to administrative rulemaking. Clarifies that the director's approval of a categorical exemption be construed as prima facie evidence of due care in the execution of a statute or rule under the State Tort Liability Act. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2297 RELATING TO COUNTIES. |
M. OSHIRO |
| Establishes a blue ribbon committee to plan the reorganization of the city and county of Honolulu into two separate counties; appropriates funds to cover the committee's administrative expenses. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2298 RELATING TO DENTISTS. |
CALDWELL |
| Authorizes the board of dental examiners to sanction licensees for false or misleading advertising. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2299 RELATING TO TRAFFIC VIOLATIONS. |
CALDWELL, NISHIMOTO, B. OSHIRO |
| Prohibits text messaging while operating a motor vehicle. Provides fine for violation of the prohibition. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2300 RELATING TO RENEWABLE ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES. |
CALDWELL |
| Increases the tax credit for the installation of residential photovoltaic energy systems. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2301 RELATING TO DENTISTRY. |
CALDWELL |
| Prohibits interference by an unlicensed person or entity in the practice of dentistry. Prohibits the practice of dentistry in a commercial or mercantile establishment | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2302 RELATING TO REAL PROPERTY. |
CALDWELL, HAR, HERKES, Souki |
| Permits the registrar of the bureau of conveyances to accept electronic documents with electronic signatures for recording. Requires the judiciary to study what effect electronic recording may have on the adjudication of land court applications, determine permissible uses for electronic recording, and report its findings to the legislature prior to 2009 regular session. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2303 RELATING TO REAL PROPERTY. |
CALDWELL, HAR, HERKES |
| Transfers responsibility for bureau of conveyances from department of land and natural resources to department of commerce and consumer affairs. Provides for transfer of records, files, etc. Appropriates funds to the judiciary to co locate land court upon transfer of bureau of conveyances. Requires the judiciary and the department of commerce and consumer affairs to identify, and recommend ways to remedy, redundancy between the functions of the land court and the bureau of conveyances. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2304 RELATING TO EXEMPTION FROM GENERAL EXCISE TAX. |
CALDWELL |
| Exempts from the general excise tax, amounts received for selling assistive devices. Defines assistive devices. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2305 RELATING TO SMOKING. |
CALDWELL, GREEN, Mizuno, Morita, B. Oshiro |
| Prohibits smoking on public beaches and parks and certain recreational areas. Prohibits disposal of smoking waste in any place where smoking is prohibited, except in designated waste disposal container. Subjects violators to $250 fine. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2306 RELATING TO GENERAL EXCISE TAXATION. |
CALDWELL, GREEN |
| Exempts from the general excise tax amounts received by managed care support contractors as reimbursements of costs or advances made pursuant to a contract for the administration of the federal TRICARE program. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2307 RELATING TO LAND COURT. |
CALDWELL, HERKES, Har |
| Abolishes land court and integrates the records of land court with records of bureau of conveyances. Repeals sections of land court law including repeal of section 501 87, HRS, that prohibits adverse possession or prescription of registered land. Provides mechanism for registered land and associated documents to be transferred to bureau of conveyances by 01/01/09, or as soon thereafter as is practicable. Prohibits any additional registration applications after effective date of Act. Prohibits any additional land court registration after 12/31/08. Requires that any registration application still pending as of 12/31/08 be transferred to circuit court to proceed as quiet title action. Establishes clerk of the tax appeal court. Makes bureau of conveyance law apply to all leasehold time share interests. Provides for transfer of records, files, etc. to bureau of conveyances, or circuit court, as appropriate. Makes only those conforming amendments that require substantive changes or that contain substantial technical amendments. Requires legislative reference bureau to prepare proposed conforming legislation to make any additional necessary amendments to statutes affected by Act. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2308 RELATING TO CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS. |
CALDWELL |
| Requires charitable organizations to register with the attorney general. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2309 MAKING AN APPROPRIATION RELATING TO OVERSIGHT OF CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS. |
CALDWELL, B. OSHIRO, Herkes |
| Appropriates funds for the attorney general to provide more rigorous monitoring of expenditures and fundraising activities of charities. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2310 RELATING TO INFORMATION PRACTICES. |
CALDWELL |
| Removes records of complaints from the exceptions to the types of information that are not subject to disclosure as public documents. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2311 RELATING TO EMPLOYMENT. |
CALDWELL, MIZUNO |
| Prevents adverse action by employer against an employee who refrains from working to comply with a quarantine order to ensure the public health. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2312 RELATING TO ETHANOL FACILITY TAX CREDIT. |
CALDWELL, Chong |
| Repeals the qualifying capacity limits of ethanol production facilities, provides a vehicle to change the total tax credits allowed per year, and repeals the sunset provision with respect to the total annual nameplate capacity for qualifying ethanol production facilities. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2313 RELATING TO ETHANOL. |
CALDWELL, MORITA, Chong |
| Creates a tax credit for retail stations for the installation of E-85 fueling facilities. Effective 12/31/08. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2314 RELATING TO INSURANCE. |
CALDWELL |
| Permits insured patients to assign insurance reimbursement for dental services directly to their dentist of choice. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2315 RELATING TO DENTISTS. |
CALDWELL |
| Requires rates of payment to dentists to be based on the 75th percentile of the usual, customary, and reasonable fee established by insurers for services provided by dentists. Defines the term "usual, customary, and reasonable fee". | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2316 RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. |
KARAMATSU, BROWER, CALDWELL, CHONG, HANOHANO, ITO, TSUJI, YAMANE, YAMASHITA, Carroll, Mizuno, B. Oshiro, Souki, Tokioka |
| Protects agricultural classified land from rezoning if the land produces at least $1,000,000 in gross income annually. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2317 RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. |
KARAMATSU, BROWER, MIZUNO |
| Authorizes the agribusiness development corporation to use revenue bonds to purchase agricultural land, including in Kunia on Oahu. Appropriates funds to purchase these lands. Enables the agribusiness development corporation to contract with banks to provide lease management services. Allows the agribusiness development corporation to lease agricultural lands in these areas for up to 55 years. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2318 RELATING TO HARASSMENT. |
KARAMATSU, ITO, MIZUNO, SONSON, Caldwell, Carroll, Chong, Hanohano, Har, Morita, B. Oshiro, Sagum, Souki, Tokioka, Tsuji, Yamane, Yamashita |
| Provides that harassment includes all computer communications. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2319 RELATING TO HARASSMENT. |
KARAMATSU, HANOHANO, ITO, MIZUNO, MORITA, Caldwell, Carroll, Chong, Har, B. Oshiro, Sagum, Souki, Tokioka, Tsuji, Yamane, Yamashita |
| Adds computer communication as a form of nonconsensual contact in the offense of harassment by stalking. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2320 RELATING TO CRIMINAL IMPERSONATION. |
KARAMATSU, GREEN, MIZUNO |
| Establishes the offense of criminal impersonation, making it a petty misdemeanor to impersonate another person and place the person at risk of bodily injury. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2321 RELATING TO THE OFFICE OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS. |
KARAMATSU, GREEN, MIZUNO |
| Establishes a peace mission committee within the office of international affairs to plan and implement peace missions to other nations and organizations. Appropriates funds. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2322 RELATING TO RENEWABLE ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES. |
KARAMATSU, BROWER, CALDWELL, CARROLL, HANOHANO, HAR, ITO, MIZUNO, MORITA, YAMANE, B. Oshiro, Sagum, Souki, Tokioka |
| Adds concentrating solar power energy systems as a new category for claiming the renewable energy technologies tax credit. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2323 RELATING TO BEACHES. |
KARAMATSU, MIZUNO |
| Establishes visitor area beach restoration special fund; dedicates moneys in tourism special fund to visitor area beach restoration special fund for 1 year only. Appropriates moneys from the special fund to pay for visitor area beach restoration project on Waikiki beach fronting the Royal Hawaiian Hotel. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2324 RELATING TO TAXATION. |
KARAMATSU (BR) |
| Excludes the first $50,000 in deferred income retirement plans from state income taxes. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2325 RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. |
KARAMATSU, ITO, TSUJI, Brower |
| Authorizes the agribusiness development corporation to acquire interests in agricultural lands through lump sum purchase or installment purchase agreements. Makes an appropriation for the acquisition of certain lands in central Oahu owned by Dole Food Company of Hawaii. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2326 RELATING TO MORTGAGES. |
CALDWELL, HERKES |
| Imposes certain restrictions on foreclosure consultants. Requires foreclosure consulting contracts to be in writing containing full disclosure of nature of consulting services to be provided, along with right to cancel. Prohibits certain acts by foreclosure consultants. Requires disclosures relating to foreclosure reconveyances and right to rescind any transfer of deed or title by homeowner. Exempts measure from "Sunrise Law" review. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2327 RELATING TO FAMILY COURT. |
WATERS |
| Establishes the procedures and requirements for child custody evaluator training and certification. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2328 RELATING TO PARKING FOR DISABLED PERSONS. |
WATERS (BR) |
| Allows nursing facilities to apply for and receive removable windshield placards for their vehicles that are used solely for transporting nursing facility patients for the purpose of parking in spaces reserved for persons with disabilities. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2329 RELATING TO ANIMALS. |
WATERS (BR), Chong |
| Establishes a breeder permit system for cats and a spay and neuter program to control the cat population in the State. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2330 RELATING TO ELECTRIC VEHICLES. |
WATERS |
| Requires the department of transportation to adopt rules for the registration of electric vehicles and to issue special license plates for electric vehicles. Waives parking fees, high occupancy vehicle restrictions, and vehicle registration fees for electric vehicles. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2331 RELATING TO COUNTY SURCHARGE ON STATE TAX. |
WATERS |
| Repeals the county surcharge on state tax if the University of Hawaii at Manoa and the Honolulu International Airport are not linked under the Honolulu High Capacity Transit Corridor Project. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2332 RELATING TO PUBLIC LANDS. |
WATERS, MORITA |
| Prohibits a person from transiting unencumbered public lands for any commercial activity purpose without a conservation district use permit unless the unencumbered land is within an area that is regulated through a management plan that permits the commercial activity. Effective 01/01/09. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2333 RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLES. |
WATERS |
| Exempts from the Motor Vehicle Industry Licensing Act the purchase by state and county governments of motor vehicles that are not 8,500 pounds or less of gross vehicle weight rating. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2334 RELATING TO CRIME. |
WATERS, MIZUNO, SAY, TSUJI, YAMANE, Lee, Yamashita |
| Establishes mandatory minimum prison terms for certain offenses against pregnant women. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2335 RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLES. |
WATERS, MORITA, SAY, TSUJI, Yamashita |
| Requires the state director of finance to transmit revenues received from all unadjudicated traffic violations or infractions to the police department of the county in which the traffic infraction occurred to enable each chief of police to recruit and retain qualified police officers. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2336 RELATING TO RETIREMENT ALLOWANCE. |
WATERS, SAY, YAMANE, Chong |
| Increases the retirement allowance for certain public safety oriented positions under the state employees' retirement system from 2-1/2 to 3% for each year of credited service. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2337 RELATING TO FAMILY COURT. |
WATERS |
| Amends custody and visitation criteria and procedures to specify what factors the courts shall consider in determining the best interest of the child. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2338 RELATING TO ELECTIONS. |
WATERS |
| Short form bill relating to elections. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2339 RELATING TO SAFETY. |
WATERS |
| Short form bill relating to safety. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2340 RELATING TO ABUSE. |
WATERS |
| Short form bill relating to abuse. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2341 RELATING TO THE ENVIRONMENT. |
WATERS |
| Short form bill relating to the environment. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2342 RELATING TO COURTS. |
WATERS |
| Short form bill relating to courts. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2343 RELATING TO TRAFFIC VIOLATIONS. |
WATERS, MORITA, SAY, TSUJI, Yamane, Yamashita |
| Authorizes a $4 administrative fee on all citations for traffic code violations to be shared by the judiciary and the counties for the establishment and maintenance of an electronic citation system. Establishes the electronic citation system special fund. Provides for the disbursement of the funds to the counties and the judiciary. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2344 PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE VI, SECTION 3, OF THE HAWAII CONSTITUTION TO EXTEND THE MANDATORY RETIREMENT AGE BY TWO YEARS FOR STATE JUSTICES AND JUDGES. |
WATERS, CHONG, MORITA, SAY, TOKIOKA, YAMANE, YAMASHITA, Tsuji |
| Proposes a constitutional amendment to extend the mandatory retirement age of 70 for state justices and judges to 72. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2345 RELATING TO CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES. |
WATERS, Say, Tsuji, Yamane, Yamashita |
| Requires pharmacies and retailers of controlled substances to record and forward information about psuedoephedrine sales to the narcotics enforcement division. Requires the division to maintain an electronic purchase logbook. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2346 RELATING TO ENDANGERING THE WELFARE OF A MINOR. |
WATERS, SAY, Morita, Tsuji, Yamane, Yamashita |
| Expands the crimes of endangering the welfare of a minor in the first and second degrees to include situations in which an adult causes or permits a minor to inject, ingest, or inhale any controlled substance that was not prescribed for the minor by a physician. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2347 RELATING TO METAL. |
WATERS, MORITA, SAY, TSUJI, YAMANE, Yamashita |
| Affirms that penalties in section 445-235, HRS, apply if scrap dealer violates either section 445-232 or 445-233, HRS. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2348 RELATING TO TAXATION. |
ITO, CHANG, LEE, WATERS, Chong, Har, Herkes, Karamatsu, Manahan, Sagum, Tokioka, Tsuji, Yamashita |
| Imposes the state income tax on rollovers made by state and county employees from qualifying deferred compensation plans to eligible state or county retirement plans. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2349 RELATING TO CERTIFICATE OF NEED. |
ITO, THIELEN, Chang, Chong, Har, Karamatsu, Manahan, Sagum, Tokioka, Tsuji, Yamane, Yamashita |
| Requires state health planning and development agency to evaluate community impacts, in addition to its current criteria, when considering for approval or denial an application for a certificate of need. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2350 RELATING TO LANDOWNER LIABILITY FOR NATURAL CONDITIONS. |
ITO, TSUJI, YAMASHITA |
| Codifies common law regarding non-liability of landowners regarding natural conditions on their land that cause damage outside the land and applies standard of negligence upon public landowners regarding natural conditions that cause damage on public roadways. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2351 MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE PACIFIC AVIATION MUSEUM PEARL HARBOR. |
ITO, AWANA, CHANG, CHONG, HANOHANO, HAR, MANAHAN, SONSON, TOKIOKA, TSUJI, YAMASHITA, Lee, Rhoads, Sagum, Waters |
| Appropriates $1,000,000 for the planning, design, and construction of phase 2 of the Pacific Aviation Museum at Pearl Harbor. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2352 RELATING TO IRRIGATION. |
ITO, BROWER, KARAMATSU, TSUJI |
| Requires the ADC to acquire, operate, and maintain certain irrigation systems in the State. Replaces the Waiahole Water System Revolving Fund with the Irrigation Water System Revolving Fund. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2353 RELATING TO WATER. |
ITO, BROWER, KARAMATSU, TSUJI |
| Provides for the acquisition of the Wahiawa irrigation system, including Lake Wilson, under certain conditions. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2354 RELATING TO INDEMNITY. |
ITO, KARAMATSU, TSUJI, Brower |
| Provides that the State indemnifies the owner of an irrigation system, dam, or reservoir for tort liability under certain conditions. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2355 RELATING TO WELLS. |
ITO, KARAMATSU, TSUJI, Brower |
| Establishes a moratorium on the issuance of permits for well construction on certain agricultural lands. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2356 RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. |
ITO, CHONG, TSUJI, Brower, Karamatsu |
| Establishes maximum floor area for a farm dwelling in the agricultural district and increases the minimum lot size in the agricultural district to 5 acres. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2357 RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL LANDS. |
ITO, BROWER, CHONG, KARAMATSU, TSUJI |
| Establishes new policies for the districting and protection of land in agricultural districts designated as "important agricultural land" for the purpose of article XI, section 3, of the state constitution. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2358 RELATING TO LIABILITY. |
ITO, KARAMATSU, TSUJI |
| Provides that an irrigation system owner shall owe no duty of care to a trespasser who enters onto land containing or bordering an irrigation system. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2359 RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL LANDS. |
ITO, BROWER, CHONG, KARAMATSU, TSUJI |
| Requires certain lands to be placed in the agricultural districts on 7/1/10, including certain lands specifically identified, and other lands in a "relevant county agricultural zoning district". Deems those lands to be important agricultural lands. Allows those lands to be redesignated after 7/1/10 by the land use commission or the counties, as the case may be, under land use law. Allows counties to enact rezoning ordinances that, on 7/1/10 includes land in or excludes land from the "relevant county agricultural zoning district". | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2360 RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. |
ITO, BROWER, CHONG, TSUJI, Karamatsu |
| Requires subdivision or condominium property regime in agricultural district to be approved pursuant to ordinance. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2361 RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. |
ITO, BROWER, CHONG, KARAMATSU, TSUJI |
| Defines state agricultural lands and designates state agricultural lands as important agricultural lands. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2362 RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL LANDS. |
ITO, BROWER, CHONG, KARAMATSU, TSUJI |
| Allows the designation of important agricultural lands by concurrent resolution of the legislature. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2363 RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL LANDS. |
ITO, BROWER, CHONG, KARAMATSU, TSUJI |
| Amends various laws to remove exemptions for certain projects or activities on lands in the state agricultural district. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2364 RELATING TO THE SAFETY OF MINORS ON ALL-TERRAIN VEHICLES. |
MARUMOTO, AWANA, CABANILLA, CHING, GREEN, MEYER, MIZUNO, RHOADS, THIELEN, WARD, Belatti, Brower |
| Mandates use of safety helmets by minors when riding all terrain vehicles. Prohibits the lease, rent, loan, or sale of all terrain vehicles to minors unless safety helmet is provided to operator. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2365 RELATING TO TEACHERS. |
MIZUNO, BROWER, CHING, GREEN, THIELEN, WATERS, Awana, Belatti, Rhoads |
| Provides an annual apportionment of funds from the general excise tax to all public school teachers for reimbursement of classroom out-of-pocket expenses | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2366 RELATING TO THE ORGAN DONOR REGISTRY. |
MIZUNO, AWANA, GREEN, MAGAOAY, RHOADS |
| Establishes a statewide organ donor registry. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2367 RELATING TO EDUCATION. |
TAKUMI, Berg, Takamine |
| Authorizes the board of education and the superintendent of education to determine the minimum amount of time that new teachers, principals, or vice-principals shall serve during their initial probationary period. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2368 RELATING TO EDUCATION. |
TAKUMI, BERG, Takamine |
| Directs the department of education and the Hawaii teacher standards board to adopt new administrative rules to align state and federal teacher licensing requirements. Reduces the number of years an individual may be employed as a teacher on an emergency basis from 4 to 3. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2369 RELATING TO THE AFTER-SCHOOL PLUS PROGRAM REVOLVING FUND. |
TAKUMI, Berg, Takamine |
| Limits the after-school plus program revolving fund revenues to participation fees and interest. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2370 RELATING TO EDUCATION. |
TAKUMI |
| Appropriates funds for grants by the department of education for the establishment of schools within schools on certain high school campuses. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2371 RELATING TO DISASTER PREPAREDNESS. |
TAKUMI |
| Requires developers to install siren warning devices in development. Provides an income tax credit for the installation of wind resistive devices. Transfers investment earnings of the Hawaii hurricane relief fund to the loss mitigation grant fund for the next fiscal year. Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds to fund the retrofitting of public school buildings for use as emergency shelters. Appropriates funds to retrofit existing and construct new emergency shelters. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2372 RELATING TO TIME SHARE PLANS. |
YAMANE, HANOHANO, Chang, Tsuji, Yamashita |
| Exempts the offer or sale of a time share interest from the time share law if the offer or sale is for an additional interest in the same time share plan to an existing owner. Exempts a time share developer or an affiliated entity under common ownership from registration if they are selling a time share interest in a time share plan located outside of Hawaii to an individual who currently owns a time share interest that was purchased from that developer or affiliated entity. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2373 MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR MOOKINI HEIAU. |
YAMANE, CALDWELL, Herkes, M. Oshiro |
| Appropriates $150,000 to install a full sprinkler system to cover the grassy area of the Mookini Heiau, and the nearby Kamehameha birthsite, that are used for education and cultural practices. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2374 RELATING TO THE STADIUM AUTHORITY. |
YAMANE |
| Short form bill. | ||
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HB2375 RELATING TO ALOHA STADIUM. |
YAMANE |
| Short form bill relating to Aloha Stadium. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2376 RELATING TO THE STATE FIRE COUNCIL. |
YAMANE, EVANS, TSUJI, YAMASHITA |
| Requires the State Fire Council to develop a statewide brushfire mitigation plan and appropriates funds. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2377 RELATING TO STATE VEHICLE WEIGHT TAX. |
YAMANE, EVANS, TSUJI, YAMASHITA |
| Provides an exemption to the state vehicle weight tax for the private vehicles owned by qualified volunteer civil defense workers who are required to use their vehicles during state emergencies. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2378 RELATING TO COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT. |
EVANS |
| Requires affected agencies to account for sea-level rise and minimize risks from coastal hazards such as erosion, storm inundation, hurricanes, and tsunamis. Preserves public access and public shoreline access. Extends shoreline setback to not less than 40 feet inland from the shoreline and requires counties to account for annual erosion rates. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2379 RELATING TO TAXATION. |
SHIMABUKURO |
| Creates a refundable state earned income tax credit for individual taxpayers' which is equal to 20% of the federal earned income tax credit. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2380 RELATING TO HOMELESSNESS. |
SHIMABUKURO |
| Appropriates funds to the Hawaii Public Housing Authority to provide alternative shelter for the homeless and acquire land. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2381 RELATING TO THE HAIKU DISTRICT OF THE COUNTY OF MAUI. |
CARROLL, CHONG, HANOHANO, HERKES, WATERS, YAMASHITA, Brower, Karamatsu, Shimabukuro |
| Requires the attorney general to assist in resolving ownership issues relating to Ulalena Loop road of the Haiku district in Maui county. Requires the department of transportation to determine the costs of repaving Ulalena Loop road. Effective on approval. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2382 MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR AMBULANCE SERVICE FOR THE HAIKU REGION OF MAUI. |
CARROLL, BROWER, CHONG, HANOHANO, HERKES, KARAMATSU, SHIMABUKURO, WATERS, YAMASHITA, Ward |
| Appropriates $1 in FY 2008-2009 for ambulance service in the Haiku region of Maui. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2383 RELATING TO CIRCUIT COURTS. |
CARROLL, HANOHANO, HERKES, SHIMABUKURO, WATERS, Brower, Chong, Karamatsu |
| Establishes a position for a fifth judge in the second judicial circuit court. Requires circuit court sessions in Kaunakakai when one party is a Molokai resident. Appropriates funds for position of fifth judge and to secure location on Molokai for circuit court sessions. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2384 RELATING TO THE ISLAND OF KAHO'OLAWE. |
CARROLL, BROWER, CHONG, HANOHANO, HERKES, KARAMATSU, SHIMABUKURO, WATERS, Ward, Yamashita |
| Directs the Auditor to conduct an audit to determine the feasibility of deploying alternative energy resources to meet the energy needs of the island of Kaho'olawe and submit a report of findings and recommendations to the Legislature and Governor before the 2009 Regular Session. | ||
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HB2385 RELATING TO JURIES. |
CARROLL, HANOHANO, HERKES, Karamatsu, Shimabukuro, Ward |
| Adds a jury service exemption for actively practicing psychologists. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2386 RELATING TO WORKERS' COMPENSATION. |
SONSON, Ito, Karamatsu, Lee, Takamine |
| Requires an employer to pay temporary total disability benefits regardless of whether the employer controverts the right to benefits. Specifies that the employee's ability to return to work is to be decided by the employee's treating physician. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2387 RELATING TO WORKERS' COMPENSATION. |
SONSON, Belatti, Brower, Cabanilla, Ito, Karamatsu, Takamine |
| Requires the department of labor and industrial relations to appoint impartial physicians to examine injured employees. Authorizes payment of the examinations from the special compensation fund. Appropriates funds. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2388 RELATING TO WORKERS' COMPENSATION. |
SONSON, Belatti, Brower, Ito, Karamatsu, Takamine |
| Requires the employer to continue medical services to an injured employee despite disputes over whether treatment should be continued, until the director of labor and industrial relations decides whether treatment should be continued. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2389 RELATING TO WORKERS' COMPENSATION. |
SONSON, CABANILLA, Belatti, Ito, Karamatsu, Takamine |
| Prohibits claimant attorneys from entering into agreements with claimants to obtain fees that are higher than those approved by the director of labor and industrial relations. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2390 RELATING TO WORKERS' COMPENSATION. |
SONSON, CABANILLA, MIZUNO, Belatti, Brower, Ito, Karamatsu, Lee, Takamine, Tsuji |
| Requires the employer's carrier to submit annual reports to the director of labor and industrial relations on the costs of its policies. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2391 RELATING TO LEGAL SERVICE. |
WATERS |
| Permits a deputy attorney general, except for the attorney general's first deputy, to provide pro bono legal service if the pro bono legal service does not conflict with the duties of the deputy's office. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2392 RELATING TO AMMUNITION. |
WATERS |
| Requires all ammunition of a specified caliber manufactured or sold in Hawaii that is capable of use in handguns, including assault pistols, to be coded to assist law enforcement in identifying and prosecuting gun crime offenders. Requires attorney general to establish a statewide database to track coded ammunition. Effective 7/1/2008. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2393 RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII. |
WATERS |
| Establishes loan repayment program for University of Hawaii medical school graduates working in rural areas of the State. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2394 RELATING TO TAXATION. |
WATERS (BR) |
| Provides for an additional county surcharge on state tax of up to 1% for counties with populations that exceed 500,000. The tax replaces the real property tax collected by participating counties. Reduces rental rates in participating counties to offset reduction in the real property taxes paid by landlords. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2395 RELATING TO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. |
M. OSHIRO |
| Establishes the Hawaii innovation development corporation to promote the development and exploitation of innovations and inventions that have direct economic benefits for Hawaii. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2396 RELATING TO TARO. |
HANOHANO, AWANA, CARROLL, MORITA, WATERS, Chong, Sagum, Tokioka |
| Changes effective date of Act 36, Session Laws of Hawaii 2007, which makes kalo the official plant of the State from 1/1/25 to 7/1/08. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2397 RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE FOURTH REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT. |
HANOHANO |
| Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects for the benefit of the 4th representative district. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2398 RELATING TO GAMING. |
SOUKI (BR) |
| Establishes the Hawaii Gambling Commission to study the feasibility of instituting a limited lottery in Hawaii. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2399 RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE FIFTIETH REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT. |
THIELEN |
| Capital Improvements for the 50th District | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2400 RELATING TO PHOTOGRAPHY. |
CABANILLA (BR) |
| Requires model photographers to be licensed by the State. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2401 AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF SPECIAL PURPOSE REVENUE BONDS TO ASSIST OCEANLINX HAWAII LLC. |
MCKELVEY, AWANA, BELATTI, BERTRAM, CARROLL, CHANG, EVANS, GREEN, HANOHANO, HAR, HERKES, KARAMATSU, LUKE, MANAHAN, MARUMOTO, MIZUNO, MORITA, SAIKI, SHIMABUKURO, THIELEN, TSUJI, WAKAI, WATERS, YAMANE, YAMASHITA, Sagum, Takamine, Takumi, Tokioka |
| Authorizes the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds for planning, designing, and constructing a wave or hydrokinetic power facility on Maui. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2402 RELATING TO REPORTS OF PERSONS WITH A DEMENTING ILLNESS. |
LEE, HANOHANO, MANAHAN, MARUMOTO, MEYER, MIZUNO, THIELEN, Carroll, Chang, Ito, Karamatsu, Magaoay, Souki, Tsuji, Ward |
| Requires physicians to report to county examiners of drivers the name of every patient diagnosed as having a dementing illness, including Alzheimer's disease. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2403 MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR AUTOMATED EXTERNAL DEFIBRILLATORS AT THE STATE CAPITOL. |
LEE, CABANILLA, CARROLL, CHANG, CHING, MAGAOAY, MARUMOTO, MEYER, SONSON, THIELEN, WARD |
| Appropriates funds for automated external defibrillators to be made available at the State Capitol building. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2404 RELATING TO NURSES. |
LEE, CABANILLA, CHING, HANOHANO, MANAHAN, MARUMOTO, MEYER, Carroll, Chang, Ito, Karamatsu, Magaoay, Mizuno, Souki, Tokioka, Tsuji, Ward |
| Revises licensing renewal requirements for nurses. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2405 RELATING TO MEDICAL MALPRACTICE COURTS. |
LEE, CABANILLA, CHING, GREEN, HANOHANO, MARUMOTO, Brower, Evans, Ito, Karamatsu, Magaoay, Manahan, Meyer, Mizuno, Souki, Tokioka, Tsuji, Ward, Yamane, Yamashita |
| Establishes a medical malpractice court pilot project within the State and assigns jurisdiction over civil actions arising from medical malpractice. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2406 RELATING TO SCHOOL BUSES. |
LEE, CARROLL, HANOHANO, MAGAOAY, MANAHAN, MARUMOTO, MIZUNO, M. OSHIRO, THIELEN, TOKIOKA, WARD, Chang, Evans, Ito, Karamatsu, Souki, Tsuji, Yamane |
| Requires large school buses to have an operable seat belt assembly at all designated seating positions and seat backs that are a minimum height by 1/1/11, in order to pass inspection. Requires the department of education to adopt rules requiring the use of seat belt assemblies by pupils and school discipline for a pupil in violation. Requires the State to purchase and lease large school buses in compliance with the new inspection requirements. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2407 RELATING TO WORKERS' COMPENSATION. |
HERKES |
| Requires professional employment organizations providing workers' compensation to assigned employees to register with the insurance commission, and premiums for this insurance to be based on the experience rating of the client company. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2408 RELATING TO MORTGAGE BROKERS. |
HERKES |
| Revises the law regulating mortgage brokers. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2409 RELATING TO AUTOMATED TELLER MACHINES. |
HERKES (BR) |
| Requires that an agreement to operate or share an automated teller machine may not prohibit, limit, or restrict the right of the owner or operator of the automated teller machine to charge a customer transaction fee. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2410 RELATING TO TRAFFIC SAFETY. |
GREEN, MIZUNO |
| Establishes an ignition interlock program that permits court to require use of the system as part of the sentence for driving under the influence of an intoxicant. Requires department of transportation to monitor program. Appropriates funds. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2411 RELATING TO HEALTH. |
GREEN, MIZUNO |
| Authorizes prescriptive authority for qualified psychologists who practice at a federally qualified health center. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2412 RELATING TO HEALTH. |
GREEN, MIZUNO |
| Appropriates funds to match federal funding for the disproportionate share hospital allowance. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2413 RELATING TO INCOME TAXATION. |
GREEN, MIZUNO |
| Allows an income tax credit to physicians practicing in medically underserved areas for a portion of the amount of medical malpractice premiums. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2414 RELATING TO HEALTH. |
GREEN, MIZUNO |
| Provides a good Samaritan exemption from civil damages for physicians practicing medicine in health professional shortage areas and rural areas of the state. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2415 RELATING TO HIGH TECHNOLOGY. |
YAMASHITA |
| Removes the $25,000 limit on HTDC grants to recipients of federal Small Business Innovation Research Phase I awards or contracts, or federal Small Business Technology Transfer Program awards; retains limit of 50 percent of the federal award or contract. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2416 RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL COOPERATIVES. |
YAMASHITA, BROWER, CHANG, CHONG, HANOHANO, HERKES, MANAHAN, NAKASONE, TSUJI, WAKAI, Yamane |
| Appropriates funds to contract for the planning and implementation of a statewide agricultural cooperative. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2417 RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL COOPERATIVES. |
YAMASHITA, BROWER, CHANG, CHONG, HANOHANO, HERKES, MANAHAN, NAKASONE, TSUJI, WAKAI, YAMANE |
| Establishes a process for the planning and establishment of a statewide agricultural cooperative. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2418 RELATING TO HIGHWAYS. |
BERTRAM, Souki |
| Permits a person to petition the department of commerce and consumer affairs for a hearing and decision and order regarding whether a public highway or trail is under the jurisdiction of the state or a county whenever the issue is contested. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2419 RELATING TO HOSPITALS. |
BERTRAM, Green |
| Requires Hawaii health systems corporation to develop a plan to establish a hospital in South Maui and in Lahaina, Maui. Requires corporation to submit plan to legislature by 12/31/2008. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2420 RELATING TO LITTER CONTROL. |
BERTRAM, Shimabukuro |
| Authorizes the director of health to delegate responsibilities for anti-litter and recycling education projects. Creates the anti-litter and recycling education demonstration project special fund. Provides for grant-in-aid to Community Work Day program. Appropriates funds. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2421 RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION. |
BERTRAM, MCKELVEY, Brower, Luke, Sonson, Souki |
| Amends the definition of bicycle to include a bicycle powered by an electric motor. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2422 RELATING TO SERVICES FOR THE DISABLED. |
MIZUNO, MAGAOAY, Brower |
| Establishes Internet access for the disabled program to offer free Internet access to individuals who are disabled; makes appropriation. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2423 RELATING TO HEALTH. |
MIZUNO, AWANA, GREEN, HANOHANO, Brower |
| Requires health insurance providers to cover treatments for cancer. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2424 RELATING TO EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICES. |
MIZUNO, BELATTI, GREEN, HANOHANO |
| Adopts the Uniform Emergency Volunteer Health Practitioners Act, which limits the civil liability of volunteer health practitioners providing health or veterinary services during an emergency. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2425 RELATING TO SENIOR CENTERS. |
MIZUNO, BELATTI, GREEN, HANOHANO, MAGAOAY |
| Makes appropriation for certain senior centers on Oahu. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2426 RELATING TO CANCER TREATMENT. |
MIZUNO, GREEN, HANOHANO, WATERS, Brower |
| Requires the department of human services to develop a program to provide cancer treatment to uninsured cancer patients in Hawaii. Effective 7/1/08. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2427 RELATING TO TEMPORARY ASSISTANCE FOR NEEDY FAMILIES. |
MIZUNO, GREEN, HANOHANO |
| Directs the Department of Human Services to establish a three-year pilot project, beginning with fiscal year 2008-2009, to conduct and expand asset building classes statewide to serve individuals with disabilities and parents of children with a disability in developing skills. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2428 RELATING TO HIGHWAYS. |
NAKASONE |
| Exempts state highways projects from county subdivision approvals regarding highway projects that involve acquisitions. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2429 RELATING TO RECREATION. |
CHANG, BERTRAM, EVANS, HANOHANO, HERKES, ITO, MIZUNO, B. OSHIRO, SONSON, TAKAI, TSUJI, Lee, M. Oshiro, Souki, Takamine, Yamane |
| Creates the University of Hawaii stadium corporation and transfers jurisdiction over Aloha Stadium to the corporation. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2430 RELATING TO PARKING FOR DISABLED PERSONS. |
CHANG, BERTRAM, CABANILLA, EVANS, HANOHANO, HERKES, ITO, LEE, MIZUNO, NISHIMOTO, B. OSHIRO, TAKAI, TSUJI, Souki, Takamine, Takumi, Yamane, Yamashita |
| Allows nursing facilities to apply for and receive removable windshield placards for their vehicles that are used solely for transporting nursing facility patients for the purpose of parking in spaces reserved for persons with disabilities. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2431 RELATING TO THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII. |
CHANG, BERTRAM, EVANS, HANOHANO, ITO, TAKAI, Lee, Mizuno, B. Oshiro, Souki, Takamine, Takumi, Tsuji |
| Exempts board of regents of the University of Hawaii from Hawaii public procurement code requirements. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2432 RELATING TO EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION. |
CHONG, TSUJI, YAMANE, YAMASHITA |
| Requires the department of education to plan, design, and implement a pre-kindergarten academy for four-year-old children and an educational resource program for parents of newborn children. Appropriates funds. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2433 RELATING TO ADULT RESIDENTIAL CARE HOMES. |
BERG, BROWER, CARROLL, HANOHANO, LUKE, MORITA, NISHIMOTO, SAIKI, WAKAI, Bertram |
| Requires a type II adult residential care home in a residential area applying for a license to give notice of its application. Requires applicant to notify DOH if also applying for county permits. Requires DOH to hold a hearing in the district where the proposed home is to be located and invite county attendance. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2434 RELATING TO ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION. |
BERG, BROWER, LUKE, SHIMABUKURO, Bertram, Sagum, Saiki, Takumi |
| Requires retailers in the State to distribute only recyclable, reusable, or compostable checkout bags. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2435 RELATING TO EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION. |
BERG, BROWER, CALDWELL, CHING, HANOHANO, LEE, LUKE, MORITA, NISHIMOTO, SAIKI, SHIMABUKURO, TAKUMI, YAMANE, Bertram, Chong, Sagum, Yamashita |
| Requires the department of education to increase opportunities for special needs preschoolers to interact with their non-disabled peers. Appropriates funds. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2436 RELATING TO FIREWORKS. |
YAMANE, EVANS, MCKELVEY, WATERS |
| Amends the definition of "display fireworks"; clarifies that fireworks may not be used within 500 feet of a hotel unless permitted; and clarifies that minors are prohibited from selling fireworks. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2437 RELATING TO TRAFFIC. |
YAMANE, KARAMATSU, LEE, MAGAOAY, SONSON |
| Requires department of transportation to recommend improvements to traffic in Central Oahu corridor. Requires studying regional connectivity and travel time mitigation and reviewing past traffic flow studies in Central Oahu, including any proposals to extend contra-flow lanes to Mililani. Appropriates funds. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2438 RELATING TO CIGARETTES. |
YAMANE, EVANS, MCKELVEY, Sagum, Tokioka, Tsuji, Yamashita |
| Prohibits sale of cigarettes in Hawaii that are not reduced ignition propensity "fire-safe" beginning 07/01/09. Sets civil fines and requires state fire council to adopt rules to enforce law. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2439 RELATING TO COUNTY FEES. |
YAMANE, YAMASHITA |
| Allows a county to impose a service fee on a cruise ship owner if the county provides direct services to a cruise ship passenger while the passenger is in the county. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2440 RELATING TO THE TRANSIENT ACCOMMODATIONS TAX. |
YAMANE (BR) |
| Requires that all transient accommodations tax revenues transferred to the counties be used for maintaining and upgrading police and fire protection, parks, beaches, roads, water and sewage systems, and other tourism impacted infrastructure. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2441 RELATING TO WORKERS' COMPENSATION. |
TAKUMI |
| Provides for workers' compensation coverage for students participating in school-approved work-based learning programs sponsored by the department of education or the University of Hawaii. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2442 RELATING TO PUBLIC PROCUREMENT. |
TAKUMI, BELATTI, BERG, BROWER, CHONG, ITO, LUKE, MAGAOAY, NISHIMOTO, SONSON, TAKAI, WAKAI, YAMANE, YAMASHITA, Chang, Finnegan, Herkes, McKelvey, Rhoads, Takamine, Tsuji |
| Establishes procedures and criteria and appropriates funds to prevent state or county purchases from businesses that operate sweatshops. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2443 RELATING TO PHTHALATES. |
TAKUMI, BELATTI, BERG, BROWER, CABANILLA, FINNEGAN, ITO, LUKE, MCKELVEY, NISHIMOTO, SONSON, TAKAI, WAKAI, YAMANE, Chang, Chong, Herkes, Magaoay, Rhoads, Takamine, Tsuji, Yamashita |
| Prohibits the manufacturing, sale, or distribution of toys and child care articles containing phthalates and requires manufacturers to use the least toxic alternative. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2444 MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII. |
TAKUMI, CHANG |
| Appropriates funds for an office of school redesign in the college of education at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2445 RELATING TO ADVERTISING BY MANUFACTURERS OF PRESCRIPTION DRUGS AND DISCLOSURE OF CLINICAL TRIALS. |
TAKUMI, GREEN, THIELEN, Belatti |
| Requires prescription drug ads to meet federal standards, public disclosure of clinical trial information, and drug manufacturers to pay fees to department of health to fund a public education initiative on clinical trials and drug safety. Establishes special fund. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2446 MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A STATEWIDE LANGUAGE ACCESS BANK. |
MIZUNO, Chang, Lee, Magaoay |
| Appropriates funds to establish a statewide language access bank to help state agencies and other covered entities provide meaningful access to essential government services to limited English proficient persons. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2447 RELATING TO PSYCHOTROPIC MEDICATION. |
MIZUNO, GREEN, LUKE, MAGAOAY |
| Improves access to psychotropic medication for all participants in medicaid medical plans. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2448 RELATING TO EDUCATION. |
SHIMABUKURO, MIZUNO |
| Appropriates funds for the Waianae Organic Agriculture Center collaborative project between Leeward Community College and Waianae Community Redevelopment Corporation to establish one full-time educational coordinator position and support operating costs. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2449 PROTECTING CHILDREN FROM CERTAIN TOXIC PRODUCTS. |
MIZUNO, GREEN, WATERS |
| Prohibits the manufacturing, sale, or distribution of toys and child care articles containing certain toxic chemicals and requires manufacturers to use the least toxic alternatives. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2450 RELATING TO LAND USE. |
TSUJI, CHONG, GREEN, Awana, Belatti, Berg, Chang, Karamatsu, Lee, Magaoay, Manahan, Mizuno, Takamine, Yamashita |
| Status View measure |
HB2451 RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. |
TSUJI, AWANA, BERG, BROWER, CALDWELL, CARROLL, CHANG, CHING, CHONG, FINNEGAN, GREEN, HANOHANO, HAR, KARAMATSU, LEE, MAGAOAY, MANAHAN, MCKELVEY, MEYER, MIZUNO, MORITA, M. OSHIRO, THIELEN, WAKAI, WATERS, YAMANE, YAMASHITA, Belatti, Cabanilla, Evans, Herkes, Ito, Rhoads, Souki, Takamine, Takumi, Ward |
| Directs the college of tropical agriculture and human resources of the University of Hawaii in consultation with native Hawaiian organizations and taro farmers, to establish a taro farming education and training program. Appropriates funds. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2452 RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. |
TSUJI, AWANA, BROWER, CABANILLA, CALDWELL, CHANG, CHING, CHONG, EVANS, FINNEGAN, GREEN, HANOHANO, ITO, KARAMATSU, MAGAOAY, MANAHAN, MARUMOTO, MEYER, MIZUNO, MORITA, THIELEN, WAKAI, WARD, WATERS, YAMASHITA, Belatti, Berg, Har, Herkes, Lee, McKelvey, Rhoads, Souki, Takamine, Takumi, Yamane |
| Directs the college of tropical agriculture and human resources of the University of Hawaii, in consultation with the department of health, to establish a program for commercial taro farmers to maximize business viability and success. Makes appropriation. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2453 RELATING TO TARO. |
TSUJI, AWANA, BELATTI, BERG, BROWER, CABANILLA, CALDWELL, CARROLL, CHANG, CHING, CHONG, EVANS, FINNEGAN, GREEN, HANOHANO, HAR, ITO, KARAMATSU, MAGAOAY, MANAHAN, MARUMOTO, MCKELVEY, MEYER, MIZUNO, MORITA, M. OSHIRO, THIELEN, WAKAI, WARD, WATERS, YAMANE, YAMASHITA, Herkes, Lee, Rhoads, Souki, Takamine, Takumi |
| Appropriates funds for a taro farming grant program to assist taro farmers in need to help preserve the cultural legacy of taro farming for future generations. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2454 RELATING TO PUBLIC LANDS. |
TSUJI, AWANA, BELATTI, BERG, BROWER, CALDWELL, CARROLL, CHANG, CHING, CHONG, FINNEGAN, GREEN, HANOHANO, HAR, ITO, KARAMATSU, LEE, MAGAOAY, MANAHAN, MCKELVEY, MEYER, MIZUNO, MORITA, WAKAI, WATERS, YAMANE, YAMASHITA, Cabanilla, Evans, Herkes, Marumoto, M. Oshiro, Rhoads, Souki, Takumi, Ward |
| Requires the board of land and natural resources to provide reduced lease rent rates for taro farmers on state leased land. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2455 RELATING TO CAMPAIGN SPENDING. |
B. OSHIRO, CALDWELL, LUKE, SAY, WATERS |
| Clarifies limitations on corporate contributions to a noncandidate committee. Clarifies that retiring elected officials may contribute surplus funds to a political party without filing an organizational statement. Requires campaign spending commission to adopt rules that establish schedule of fines. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2456 RELATING TO TAXATION. |
B. OSHIRO, BERTRAM, CALDWELL, LUKE, WATERS |
| Allows taxpayers who are reciprocal beneficiaries or domestic partners to elect to file as separate individuals, as married, or married filing singly. Excludes from gross income, adjusted gross income, and taxable income the value of health insurance and other direct or indirect benefits provided by an employer to reciprocal beneficiaries or domestic partners. Allows exemptions to be claimed for reciprocal beneficiaries or domestic partners. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2457 RELATING TO EDUCATION. |
CHING, EVANS, FINNEGAN, KARAMATSU, MARUMOTO, MEYER, B. OSHIRO, SAY, TAKUMI, YAMANE, Belatti, Brower, Cabanilla, Herkes, Sagum, Sonson, Souki, Wakai, Ward |
| Allows the principal of each public school to establish and use a debit card system based at the individual school level for the purpose of purchasing school supplies and other related curriculum support supplies. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2458 RELATING TO COLLEGE SAVINGS PROGRAMS. |
CALDWELL, LEE |
| Provides an annual maximum deduction of $10,000 per individual, or $20,000 for a married couple filing jointly against their taxable income for contributions made to Hawaii's college savings program in taxable years beginning after December 31, 2007. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2459 RELATING TO PENSION INCOME. |
CALDWELL |
| Exempts the first $100,000 in pension income from state income taxes. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2460 RELATING TO CONDOMINIUMS. |
CALDWELL, HERKES, B. OSHIRO, SAY |
| Allows condominium associations to invest funds in certificates of deposit through the Certificate of Deposit Account Registry Service network. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2461 RELATING TO DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE. |
CALDWELL, GREEN, HERKES, MIZUNO |
| Includes records kept by a licensed dentist's office as medical records subject to the requirements relating to documentary evidence. Requires the dentists to retain dental records. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2462 RELATING TO TRAFFIC VIOLATIONS. |
CALDWELL, Souki |
| Prohibits cell phone use while driving except with a hands free device. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2463 RELATING TO DISASTER RELIEF. |
EVANS, Carroll, Tsuji |
| Authorizes the director of disaster relief to utilize inmate labor to assist with disaster relief efforts. Establishes the inmate disaster relief labor program within the department of public safety. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2464 RELATING TO FIRE PROTECTION. |
EVANS, CARROLL, HAR, ITO, MCKELVEY, TSUJI, YAMANE |
| Requires a forestry and wildlife manager to declare hazardous fire areas during fire danger periods and impose restrictions on the use of certain land that the department of land and natural resources has direct fire responsibility. Establishes a task force to develop a statewide hazardous fire area program. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2465 RELATING TO THE STATE FIRE CODE. |
EVANS, CARROLL, HAR, ITO, MCKELVEY, TSUJI, YAMANE |
| Makes state fire code, and any updates adopted as rules by the state fire council, immediately effective upon transmission by the state fire council to the county councils without the need for counties to enact ordinances. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2466 RELATING TO WILDFIRE MANAGEMENT. |
EVANS, CARROLL, HAR, ITO, MCKELVEY, TSUJI, YAMANE |
| Allows counties to designate any geographic area receiving an average annual rainfall of less than 10 inches as a fireworks prohibited zone in which no fireworks or consumer fireworks may be used. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2467 RELATING TO FIRE PROTECTION. |
EVANS, CARROLL, HAR, ITO, MCKELVEY, TSUJI, YAMANE |
| Amends the state fire code to include road and sign standards, minimum private water supply reserves, fuel breaks, and green belts to improve fire protection. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2468 RELATING TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING. |
SHIMABUKURO |
| Extends sunset of allocation of conveyance tax to the rental housing trust fund; makes appropriation in general obligation bonds for dwelling unit revolving fund; makes appropriation for expedited third party review of affordable projects. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2469 RELATING TO LAND. |
WARD, AWANA, BROWER, CHING, HANOHANO, MARUMOTO, MIZUNO, Belatti, Berg, Chong, Evans, Finnegan, Herkes, Ito, Morita, Pine, Rhoads, Sonson, Tsuji, Yamane, Yamashita |
| Appropriates funds to purchase the Kalama Village Center in order to make the site a park area to preserve open space. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2470 RELATING TO LAND. |
WARD, Berg, Brower, Ching, Evans, Finnegan, Nishimoto, Shimabukuro |
| Directs the office of planning to prepare and file petition with the land use commission to reclassify TMK: 3-9-10:46 and 3-9-10:47, at Honolulu, Hawaii, from the urban district to the conservation district. Directs the City and County of Honolulu to not issue any permits allowing the development of the parcel pending the final disposition of the petition. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2471 RELATING TO LAND. |
WARD, BROWER, MARUMOTO, Belatti, Berg, Evans, Finnegan, Herkes, Ito, Pine, Sonson, Thielen, Tsuji |
| Appropriates funds to acquire remaining open space in Hawaii Kai and to preserve it as such. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2472 RELATING TO COUNTY FEES. |
YAMASHITA, YAMANE |
| Allows counties to impose resource user fee and environmental impact fees on cruise ship owners based on $ per 500 disembarking passengers. Restricts use of fees to areas directly affected by tourism. Requires prior legislative approval before county may impose fees. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2473 RELATING TO TECHNOLOGY. |
YAMASHITA |
| Extends funding for the Hawaii broadband task force from fiscal year 2007-2008 to add fiscal year 2008-2009. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2474 RELATING TO ELECTRONIC MONITORING. |
MIZUNO, GREEN, Brower, Luke, Waters |
| Requires electronic monitoring of persons convicted of violating a domestic abuse temporary restraining order or protective order. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2475 RELATING TO ADULT ENTERTAINMENT. |
MIZUNO, GREEN |
| Requires adult entertainment businesses to pay fee of $3 for each customer who enters the business. Fee to be deposited in domestic violence and sexual assault special fund. Effective 7/1/08. Repealed effective 1/1/11. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2476 RELATING TO CRUELTY TO ANIMALS. |
MIZUNO, AWANA, BROWER, CALDWELL, GREEN, LUKE, WATERS |
| Repeals existing prohibition against dog fighting and enacts more comprehensive prohibition of dog fighting and related conduct. Provides enhanced penalties. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2477 RELATING TO OPIHI. |
MIZUNO, CARROLL, HANOHANO, Caldwell, Lee, Magaoay, Say |
| Prohibits the selling or offering for sale of opihi, except in certain circumstances. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2478 RELATING TO WORKERS' COMPENSATION. |
SONSON, CABANILLA, MIZUNO, Brower, Evans, Ito, Karamatsu, Tsuji |
| Allows either party to a workers' compensation dispute to decide to refer their dispute to a referee, provided the decision is made within 10 days of the filing of the claim. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2479 RELATING TO WORKERS' COMPENSATION. |
SONSON, Evans, Ito, Karamatsu, Lee, Manahan, Mizuno, Rhoads, Takamine |
| Expands eligibility for vocational rehabilitation to workers who are deemed unable to return to their regular jobs and are not offered work at the pre-injury earnings level. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2480 RELATING TO TEACHERS. |
SONSON, CABANILLA, KARAMATSU, Evans |
| Provides teachers receiving satisfactory service performance evaluations with annual step increases for five years. Denies public school teachers with marginal service performance evaluations from receiving annual step increases. Excludes teachers at the top salary levels from receiving annual step increases. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2481 RELATING TO HEALTH. |
SONSON, KARAMATSU, TAKUMI, Belatti, Evans, Tokioka, Yamane, Yamashita |
| Repeals the sunset date for voluntary employees' beneficiary association trusts pilot program established pursuant to Act 245, Session Laws of Hawaii 2005, as amended. Amends the voluntary employees' beneficiary association trust law to reflect permanent nature of the program. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2482 RELATING TO TEACHER SALARIES. |
TAKAI, TAKUMI |
| Eliminates the salary differential between newly hired public school teachers with more than 6 years of experience and incumbent teachers in the department of education with the identical number of years of experience. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2483 RELATING TO EDUCATION. |
TAKAI, TAKUMI |
| Establishes a task force to develop and implement a campaign to promote a culture of learning and higher education achievement in Hawaii. Appropriation. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2484 RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII. |
TAKAI |
| Grants tuition waivers to veterans and their family members or dependents enrolled at the University of Hawaii. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2485 RELATING TO FIRES. |
EVANS, CARROLL, HAR, ITO, MAGAOAY, MCKELVEY, Tsuji, Yamane |
| Establishes the firewise Hawaii program in the department of land and natural resources to address the growing fire danger in wildland-urban interface areas. Creates the firewise Hawaii special fund. Makes an appropriation. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2486 RELATING TO HISTORIC PRESERVATION. |
EVANS, CABANILLA, CHING, GREEN, MARUMOTO, MCKELVEY, THIELEN, WARD, Awana, Carroll, Meyer, Tsuji |
| Requires a private or public owner of a historic building to provide archival quality black and white photographs of the building to the department of land and natural resources, as a condition of receiving a permit or approval to demolish, construct, or otherwise alter that building. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2487 RELATING TO THE HAWAII CAPITAL CULTURAL HERITAGE AREA. |
EVANS, AWANA, CHING, GREEN, MCKELVEY, Meyer, Tsuji, Ward |
| Codifies the designation of the Nu‘uanu ahupua‘a area in Honolulu respectively between Kalihi and Piikoi streets, and Pali lookout and the Pacific ocean as the Hawaii capital cultural heritage area. Appropriates funds for the arts and culture development branch of the department of business, tourism, and economic development, to plan and implement programs and projects that recognize, preserve, stimulate, and celebrate the significance of the Hawaii capital cultural heritage area. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2488 RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII. |
EVANS, AWANA, CARROLL, CHING, GREEN, MCKELVEY, Bertram, Marumoto, Tsuji, Ward |
| Establishes school within the community colleges of the University of Hawaii to certify crafts persons and subcontractors. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2489 RELATING TO HISTORIC BUILDINGS. |
EVANS, AWANA, BERTRAM, CABANILLA, CARROLL, CHING, GREEN, MARUMOTO, MCKELVEY, TSUJI, WARD, Meyer |
| Appropriates funds to refurbish each historic Japanese-style Buddhist temple in Hawaii. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2490 RELATING TO REMOTE DISPENSING. |
LEE |
| Provides for the establishment of remote dispensing pharmacies. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2491 RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION. |
LEE, CABANILLA, CARROLL, CHING, HANOHANO, ITO, MAGAOAY, MANAHAN, MARUMOTO, MEYER, MIZUNO, YAMANE, YAMASHITA, Brower, Evans, Karamatsu, Souki, Tsuji |
| Declares, as state policy, certain best practices to which the governor and the department of transportation must adhere to ensure that the public interest is protected in any transportation public-private partnership agreement. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2492 RELATING TO PLANNED COMMUNITY ASSOCIATIONS. |
LEE, CABANILLA, CHING, HANOHANO, MARUMOTO, MEYER, WARD, Carroll, Evans, Ito, Karamatsu, Magaoay, Manahan, Mizuno, Souki, Thielen, Tsuji, Yamane |
| Requires the inclusion of property restrictions or conditions of use in a seller's disclosure statement. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2493 RELATING TO LIABILITY. |
LEE, CABANILLA, CARROLL, CHING, EVANS, HANOHANO, MAGAOAY, MANAHAN, MARUMOTO, MEYER, MIZUNO, THIELEN, WARD, YAMANE, Brower, Chang, Ito, Karamatsu, Souki, Tokioka, Tsuji, Yamashita |
| Exempts from liability emergency care rendered by a health care provider or health care facility in response to specified emergencies. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2494 RELATING TO SCHOOL SPORTS CONCUSSIONS. |
LEE, CARROLL, HANOHANO, MANAHAN, MARUMOTO, MEYER, MIZUNO, THIELEN, TOKIOKA, Ito, Karamatsu, Magaoay, Souki, Tsuji, Ward, Yamane, Yamashita |
| Requires department of education to implement a concussion evaluation tool for each high school student athlete participating in the sport of football statewide. Appropriation. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2495 RELATING TO SOLID WASTE. |
MORITA, CALDWELL, GREEN, MAGAOAY, Belatti, Ito, Marumoto, Saiki |
| Prohibits the use of polystyrene foam as a disposable food service-ware product. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2496 RELATING TO BIOPROSPECTING. |
MORITA |
| Short form bill. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2497 RELATING TO ENERGY. |
MORITA |
| Short form effectuates the title of this Act. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2498 RELATING TO STATE HEALTH PLANNING. |
HERKES, BERTRAM, EVANS, MCKELVEY, Brower |
| Repeals certificate of need process and the law governing acquisition of hospitals in relation to state health planning. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2499 RELATING TO LAND USE. |
MCKELVEY, BELATTI, BERTRAM, HAR, MORITA, NAKASONE, SAGUM, THIELEN, TOKIOKA |
| Makes renewable energy development, including solar energy production and ocean energy terrestrial facilities, a permitted use in agricultural districts. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2500 RELATING TO THE STATE BUDGET. |
SAY (BR) |
| Amends the General Appropriations Act of 2007 that appropriates general, general obligation bond, federal, revenue bond, special and other funds for departmental operating and capital improvements budgets. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2501 RELATING TO BIOSECURITY. |
TSUJI, AWANA, BELATTI, BERG, BERTRAM, BROWER, CALDWELL, CARROLL, CHANG, CHONG, EVANS, GREEN, HANOHANO, HAR, HERKES, ITO, KARAMATSU, LEE, LUKE, MAGAOAY, MANAHAN, MIZUNO, MORITA, NISHIMOTO, B. OSHIRO, M. OSHIRO, RHOADS, SAIKI, SAY, SHIMABUKURO, TAKAI, TOKIOKA, WAKAI, WATERS, YAMASHITA, Sagum, Souki, Takamine, Yamane |
| Establishes statutory provisions on and appropriates funds for the department of agriculture's biosecurity program. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2502 RELATING TO SOLAR ENERGY. |
MORITA, AWANA, BELATTI, BERG, BERTRAM, BROWER, CABANILLA, CALDWELL, CARROLL, CHANG, CHONG, GREEN, HANOHANO, ITO, KARAMATSU, LEE, LUKE, MAGAOAY, MANAHAN, MCKELVEY, MIZUNO, NISHIMOTO, B. OSHIRO, M. OSHIRO, RHOADS, SAIKI, SAY, SHIMABUKURO, SONSON, TAKAI, TOKIOKA, TSUJI, WAKAI, WATERS, YAMASHITA, Evans, Har, Sagum, Souki, Takamine, Yamane |
| Makes solar energy facilities a permitted use in the agricultural district on class D or E land. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2503 RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL LANDS. |
MORITA, BELATTI, BERG, BERTRAM, BROWER, CABANILLA, CALDWELL, CARROLL, CHANG, CHONG, EVANS, GREEN, HANOHANO, HAR, ITO, KARAMATSU, LEE, LUKE, MAGAOAY, MANAHAN, MIZUNO, NISHIMOTO, B. OSHIRO, M. OSHIRO, RHOADS, SAIKI, SAY, SHIMABUKURO, SONSON, TAKAI, TAKUMI, TOKIOKA, TSUJI, WAKAI, WATERS, YAMANE, YAMASHITA, Sagum, Souki, Takamine |
| Permits the use of lands in agricultural land use districts to be used for agricultural-energy facilities provided that the primary activity of the agricultural-energy enterprise is agricultural activity. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2504 RELATING TO LIGHTING. |
MORITA, AWANA, BELATTI, BERG, BERTRAM, BROWER, CALDWELL, CARROLL, CHONG, EVANS, GREEN, HANOHANO, HAR, KARAMATSU, LEE, LUKE, MAGAOAY, MANAHAN, MIZUNO, NISHIMOTO, B. OSHIRO, M. OSHIRO, RHOADS, SAIKI, SAY, SHIMABUKURO, TAKAI, TAKUMI, TOKIOKA, TSUJI, WAKAI, WATERS, YAMANE, YAMASHITA, Cabanilla, Chang, Sagum, Souki, Takamine |
| Phases-out and bans the use of lighting products with lead and high mercury content; establishes a statewide lighting efficiency standard for general purpose lights; directs the Department of Health to develop a statewide recycling program for recycling mercury-containing compact florescent bulbs. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2505 RELATING TO ENERGY. |
MORITA, BELATTI, BERG, BROWER, CALDWELL, CARROLL, CHANG, CHONG, GREEN, HANOHANO, HAR, KARAMATSU, LEE, LUKE, MAGAOAY, MANAHAN, MIZUNO, NISHIMOTO, B. OSHIRO, M. OSHIRO, RHOADS, SAIKI, SAY, SHIMABUKURO, TAKAI, TAKUMI, TSUJI, WAKAI, WATERS, YAMANE, YAMASHITA, Awana, Bertram, Evans, Sagum, Takamine |
| Establishes a renewable energy facilitator position with DBEDT. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2506 RELATING TO REORGANIZATION OF STATE AGENCIES. |
MORITA, BELATTI, BERG, BERTRAM, BROWER, CABANILLA, CALDWELL, CARROLL, CHANG, CHONG, EVANS, GREEN, HAR, KARAMATSU, LEE, LUKE, MAGAOAY, MANAHAN, MIZUNO, NISHIMOTO, B. OSHIRO, M. OSHIRO, RHOADS, SAIKI, SAY, SHIMABUKURO, SONSON, TAKAI, TAKUMI, TOKIOKA, WAKAI, WATERS, YAMANE, YAMASHITA, Awana, Hanohano, Sagum, Souki, Takamine, Tsuji |
| Directs the Legislative Reference Bureau to conduct a study on Hawaii's most effective and efficient options to reorganize state agencies tasked with issues relating to energy and environmental protection. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2507 RELATING TO GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS REDUCTION. |
MORITA, BELATTI, BERG, BERTRAM, BROWER, CALDWELL, CARROLL, CHANG, CHONG, HANOHANO, KARAMATSU, LEE, LUKE, MAGAOAY, MANAHAN, MIZUNO, NISHIMOTO, B. OSHIRO, M. OSHIRO, RHOADS, SAIKI, SAY, SHIMABUKURO, TAKAI, TAKUMI, TOKIOKA, TSUJI, WAKAI, WATERS, YAMANE, YAMASHITA, Awana, Evans, Green, Sagum, Souki, Takamine |
| Appropriates funds to establish two positions to support the implementation of Act 234, Session Laws of Hawaii 2007. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2508 RELATING TO THE DEPOSIT BEVERAGE CONTAINER PROGRAM. |
MORITA, AWANA, BELATTI, BERG, BERTRAM, CABANILLA, CALDWELL, CARROLL, CHANG, CHONG, GREEN, HANOHANO, LEE, LUKE, MAGAOAY, MANAHAN, MIZUNO, NISHIMOTO, B. OSHIRO, M. OSHIRO, RHOADS, SAY, SHIMABUKURO, TAKAI, TAKUMI, TSUJI, WAKAI, WATERS, YAMANE, Brower, Evans, Karamatsu, Sagum, Takamine, Tokioka |
| Requires retail dealers with more than 75,000 square feet of retail space to operate redemption centers. Effective 10/1/08. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2509 RELATING TO ELECTRONIC DEVICE RECYCLING. |
MORITA, AWANA, BELATTI, BERG, BERTRAM, BROWER, CABANILLA, CALDWELL, CARROLL, CHANG, CHONG, EVANS, GREEN, HANOHANO, HAR, KARAMATSU, LEE, LUKE, MAGAOAY, MANAHAN, MIZUNO, NISHIMOTO, B. OSHIRO, RHOADS, SAIKI, SAY, SHIMABUKURO, SONSON, TAKAI, TAKUMI, WAKAI, WATERS, YAMANE, YAMASHITA, Sagum, Souki, Takamine, Tsuji |
| Establishes a state program for collection, recycling, enforcement, and monitoring of covered electronic devices; establishes program funding through the electronic device recycling fund. | ||
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HB2510 RELATING TO THE ENVIRONMENT. |
MORITA, AWANA, BELATTI, BERG, BERTRAM, BROWER, CALDWELL, CARROLL, CHANG, CHONG, EVANS, GREEN, HANOHANO, HAR, KARAMATSU, LEE, LUKE, MAGAOAY, MANAHAN, MIZUNO, NISHIMOTO, B. OSHIRO, RHOADS, SAIKI, SAY, SHIMABUKURO, SONSON, TAKAI, TAKUMI, TSUJI, WAKAI, WATERS, YAMANE, YAMASHITA, Souki, Takamine |
| Provides appropriation to auditor to contract with the UH for a study to modernize Hawaii's EIS process. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2511 RELATING TO RENTAL ASSISTANCE. |
SHIMABUKURO, AWANA, BELATTI, BERG, BERTRAM, BROWER, CALDWELL, CARROLL, CHANG, CHONG, EVANS, GREEN, HANOHANO, HERKES, KARAMATSU, LEE, LUKE, MAGAOAY, MANAHAN, MIZUNO, MORITA, NISHIMOTO, B. OSHIRO, RHOADS, SAY, SONSON, TAKAI, TAKUMI, TSUJI, WAKAI, WATERS, YAMASHITA, Sagum, Souki, Takamine |
| Provides qualified rental assistance applicants up to six months to find a qualified rental dwelling. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2512 RELATING TO HOUSING. |
SHIMABUKURO, AWANA, BELATTI, BERG, BERTRAM, CALDWELL, CHANG, CHONG, EVANS, GREEN, HANOHANO, HAR, HERKES, KARAMATSU, LUKE, MAGAOAY, MANAHAN, MIZUNO, MORITA, NISHIMOTO, B. OSHIRO, M. OSHIRO, SAY, SONSON, TAKAI, TSUJI, WAKAI, YAMANE, YAMASHITA, Brower, Lee, McKelvey, Rhoads, Sagum, Saiki, Souki, Takamine, Waters |
| Appropriates $500,000 to assist developers in contracting for third party review and certification to expedite the processing and issuance of building permits for affordable housing projects, including the performance of inspections. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2513 AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS AND MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO THE DWELLING UNIT REVOLVING FUND. |
SHIMABUKURO, AWANA, BELATTI, BERG, BERTRAM, BROWER, CALDWELL, CARROLL, CHANG, CHONG, GREEN, HANOHANO, HAR, HERKES, KARAMATSU, LEE, LUKE, MAGAOAY, MANAHAN, MIZUNO, MORITA, NISHIMOTO, B. OSHIRO, M. OSHIRO, RHOADS, SAIKI, SAY, SONSON, TAKAI, TSUJI, WAKAI, WATERS, YAMANE, YAMASHITA, Evans, Sagum, Souki, Takamine |
| Appropriates $30,000,000 into the dwelling unit revolving fund. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2514 RELATING TO THE CONVEYANCE TAX. |
SHIMABUKURO, BELATTI, BERTRAM, CALDWELL, CARROLL, CHANG, CHONG, EVANS, GREEN, HAR, HERKES, KARAMATSU, LEE, LUKE, MAGAOAY, MANAHAN, MIZUNO, MORITA, NISHIMOTO, B. OSHIRO, M. OSHIRO, RHOADS, SAIKI, SAY, SONSON, TAKAI, TSUJI, WAKAI, WATERS, YAMANE, YAMASHITA, Awana, Berg, Brower, Hanohano, Sagum, Souki, Takamine |
| Extends the sunset date for the allocation of 50% of the conveyance tax to the rental housing trust fund from 6/30/08 to 6/30/13. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2515 RELATING TO KUKUI GARDENS. |
RHOADS, BELATTI, BERG, BROWER, CALDWELL, CHONG, EVANS, GREEN, HANOHANO, HAR, HERKES, KARAMATSU, LEE, LUKE, MAGAOAY, MANAHAN, MIZUNO, MORITA, NISHIMOTO, B. OSHIRO, M. OSHIRO, SAIKI, SAY, SHIMABUKURO, SONSON, TAKAI, TAKUMI, TSUJI, WAKAI, WATERS, YAMANE, YAMASHITA, Awana, Bertram, Carroll, Chang, Nakasone, Sagum, Souki, Takamine, Tokioka |
| Appropriates $26,000,000 in general obligation bonds to finalize the sale of the Kukui Gardens housing project. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2516 RELATING TO BIOSECURITY. |
TSUJI, AWANA, BELATTI, BERG, BERTRAM, BROWER, CALDWELL, CARROLL, CHANG, CHONG, EVANS, GREEN, HANOHANO, HAR, HERKES, ITO, KARAMATSU, LEE, LUKE, MAGAOAY, MANAHAN, MCKELVEY, MIZUNO, MORITA, NAKASONE, NISHIMOTO, B. OSHIRO, M. OSHIRO, RHOADS, SAIKI, SAY, SHIMABUKURO, TAKAI, TAKUMI, TOKIOKA, WAKAI, WATERS, YAMANE, YAMASHITA, Sagum, Souki, Takamine |
| Authorizes issue of general obligation bonds and appropriates funds for the joint biosecurity inspection facilities at Honolulu international airport and Honolulu harbor. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2517 RELATING TO INVASIVE SPECIES. |
TSUJI, BELATTI, BERG, BERTRAM, BROWER, CALDWELL, CARROLL, CHANG, CHONG, EVANS, GREEN, HANOHANO, HAR, HERKES, ITO, KARAMATSU, LEE, LUKE, MAGAOAY, MANAHAN, MCKELVEY, MIZUNO, MORITA, NAKASONE, NISHIMOTO, B. OSHIRO, M. OSHIRO, RHOADS, SAIKI, SAY, TAKAI, TAKUMI, TOKIOKA, WAKAI, WATERS, YAMANE, YAMASHITA, Awana, Sagum, Souki, Takamine |
| Prohibits the sale of plants designated as restricted plants or noxious weeds. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2518 RELATING TO LAND CONSERVATION. |
ITO, AWANA, BERTRAM, BROWER, CABANILLA, CALDWELL, CARROLL, CHANG, CHONG, EVANS, GREEN, HANOHANO, HAR, HERKES, KARAMATSU, LEE, LUKE, MAGAOAY, MANAHAN, MCKELVEY, MIZUNO, MORITA, NISHIMOTO, B. OSHIRO, M. OSHIRO, SAY, SONSON, TAKAI, TOKIOKA, TSUJI, WAKAI, WATERS, YAMANE, YAMASHITA, Berg, Nakasone, Rhoads, Sagum, Souki, Takamine |
| Provides a tax credit to encourage the preservation and protection of conservation land in the State. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2519 RELATING TO HEALTH CARE. |
GREEN, AWANA, BELATTI, BERG, BERTRAM, BROWER, CALDWELL, CARROLL, CHANG, CHONG, EVANS, HANOHANO, HAR, HERKES, ITO, KARAMATSU, LEE, LUKE, MAGAOAY, MANAHAN, MCKELVEY, MIZUNO, MORITA, NAKASONE, NISHIMOTO, B. OSHIRO, RHOADS, SAY, SHIMABUKURO, SONSON, TAKAI, TSUJI, WAKAI, WATERS, YAMANE, YAMASHITA, Sagum, Souki, Takamine |
| Establishes the Hawaii Health Corps Program to provide student loans and physician and dentist stipends, and makes the enterprise zone business tax credit and general excise tax exemption available to physicians and dentists who practice in those enterprise zones. Requires participants in the Hawaii Health Corps Program to serve as first responders in times of civil defense or other emergencies declared by the governor. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2520 RELATING TO CAREGIVERS. |
LEE, AWANA, BELATTI, BERG, CALDWELL, CARROLL, CHANG, CHONG, EVANS, GREEN, HANOHANO, HERKES, ITO, KARAMATSU, LUKE, MAGAOAY, MANAHAN, MCKELVEY, MIZUNO, MORITA, NISHIMOTO, B. OSHIRO, M. OSHIRO, RHOADS, SAIKI, SAY, SHIMABUKURO, SONSON, TAKAI, TAKUMI, TOKIOKA, TSUJI, WATERS, YAMANE, Bertram, Brower, Sagum, Souki, Takamine |
| Amends the temporary disability insurance law to permit an eligible employee to collect up to 4 weeks of temporary disability insurance benefit payments to care for a family member with a qualifying disability. Effective 07/01/09. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2521 RELATING TO EDUCATION. |
CHANG, AWANA, BROWER, CALDWELL, CHONG, GREEN, HANOHANO, HERKES, ITO, LEE, LUKE, MAGAOAY, MANAHAN, MIZUNO, NISHIMOTO, B. OSHIRO, M. OSHIRO, RHOADS, SAY, SHIMABUKURO, SONSON, TAKAI, TAKUMI, TOKIOKA, TSUJI, WATERS, Bertram, Carroll, Evans, Har, Karamatsu, McKelvey, Nakasone, Sagum, Souki, Takamine, Yamane, Yamashita |
| Requires 1% of general revenues to be annually deposited into a special account for the repair and maintenance of University of Hawaii facilities. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2522 RELATING TO THE LAND USE COMMISSION. |
HAR, BERTRAM, CABANILLA, CALDWELL, CHONG, EVANS, GREEN, HANOHANO, HERKES, ITO, KARAMATSU, LEE, MAGAOAY, MANAHAN, MIZUNO, NISHIMOTO, SAY, TAKAI, TOKIOKA, TSUJI, YAMANE, Awana, Belatti, Brower, Carroll, Chang, Luke, Nakasone, M. Oshiro, Rhoads, Sagum, Souki, Takamine, Yamashita |
| Allows county land use decision-making authority to reclassify lands not more than fifty acres. Allows for the consolidation of the boundary amendment process with county proceedings to amend land use maps contained in county plans. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2523 RELATING TO THE LAND USE COMMISSION. |
HAR, AWANA, BERG, BERTRAM, CALDWELL, CARROLL, CHANG, CHONG, EVANS, GREEN, HANOHANO, HERKES, ITO, KARAMATSU, LEE, LUKE, MAGAOAY, MANAHAN, MIZUNO, NISHIMOTO, B. OSHIRO, M. OSHIRO, RHOADS, SAY, TAKAI, TOKIOKA, TSUJI, WAKAI, YAMASHITA, Belatti, Brower, Morita, Nakasone, Sagum, Takamine |
| Amends Land Use Commission decision-making criteria to include the County General Plan and plans adopted pursuant to the general plan. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2524 RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION. |
HAR, AWANA, BERTRAM, BROWER, CALDWELL, CARROLL, CHANG, CHONG, GREEN, HANOHANO, HERKES, ITO, LEE, LUKE, MAGAOAY, MANAHAN, MCKELVEY, MIZUNO, MORITA, NISHIMOTO, B. OSHIRO, M. OSHIRO, RHOADS, SAY, SHIMABUKURO, TAKAI, TOKIOKA, TSUJI, WAKAI, WATERS, YAMASHITA, Belatti, Berg, Evans, Karamatsu, Nakasone, Sagum, Takamine |
| Requires the Statewide Transportation Council to comply with county transportation and general plans, to the extent it does not impact federal funds, in the preparation of the statewide transportation plan for projected transportation needs for a six-year period. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2525 RELATING TO HAWAII COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY. |
HAR, AWANA, BELATTI, BERG, BERTRAM, BROWER, CALDWELL, CHANG, CHONG, EVANS, GREEN, HANOHANO, HERKES, ITO, KARAMATSU, LEE, LUKE, MAGAOAY, MANAHAN, MCKELVEY, MIZUNO, MORITA, NISHIMOTO, B. OSHIRO, M. OSHIRO, RHOADS, SAY, SHIMABUKURO, SONSON, TAKAI, TOKIOKA, TSUJI, WAKAI, WATERS, YAMANE, YAMASHITA, Carroll, Souki, Takamine |
| Requires the Hawaii Community Development Authority to incorporate smart growth principles in community plan rules. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2526 RELATING TO THE STATE PLAN. |
HAR, AWANA, BELATTI, BERG, BERTRAM, BROWER, CALDWELL, CHANG, CHONG, EVANS, GREEN, HANOHANO, HERKES, ITO, KARAMATSU, LEE, LUKE, MAGAOAY, MANAHAN, MIZUNO, MORITA, NISHIMOTO, B. OSHIRO, M. OSHIRO, RHOADS, SAY, SHIMABUKURO, SONSON, TAKAI, TOKIOKA, WAKAI, WATERS, YAMANE, YAMASHITA, Carroll, Sagum, Souki, Takamine, Tsuji |
| Adds as an objective in the State Plan that land development shall be in compliance with smart growth principles. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2527 RELATING TO SMART GROWTH. |
BERTRAM, AWANA, BELATTI, BERG, BROWER, CALDWELL, CARROLL, CHONG, EVANS, GREEN, HANOHANO, HERKES, ITO, KARAMATSU, LEE, LUKE, MAGAOAY, MANAHAN, MCKELVEY, MIZUNO, MORITA, NISHIMOTO, B. OSHIRO, M. OSHIRO, RHOADS, SAY, SHIMABUKURO, SONSON, TAKAI, TSUJI, WATERS, YAMANE, YAMASHITA, Chang, Har, Sagum, Souki, Takamine |
| Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to establish a system of greenways and trails. Requires the Office of Planning to coordinate smart growth planning. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2528 RELATING TO DRIVING AFTER THE CONSUMPTION OF ALCOHOL. |
MIZUNO, BROWER, GREEN, HANOHANO, LUKE, Caldwell |
| Requires the use of a vehicle ignition interlock device following administrative or criminal revocation or suspension of a driver's license for driving after the consumption of alcohol. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2529 RELATING TO FOOD SAFETY. |
MIZUNO, GREEN, HANOHANO, Belatti, Brower, Caldwell, Chang, Lee, Magaoay, Waters |
| Establishes State policies on dealing with tainted foods that are processed for consumption by humans and pet animals. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2530 RELATING TO CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES. |
MIZUNO, AWANA, BROWER, GREEN, LUKE, WATERS, Caldwell |
| Requires the narcotics enforcement division of the department of public safety to maintain an electronic purchase logbook for sales of pseudoephedrine and related substances. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2531 RELATING TO THE WEST MAUI TRANSPORTATION ACCESS PLAN. |
MCKELVEY, CARROLL, EVANS, GREEN, HANOHANO, MIZUNO, YAMANE, YAMASHITA, Har, Herkes, Manahan, Sagum |
| Creates an informal, temporary West Maui transportation access plan working group to develop a West Maui transportation access plan. Allows hiring of a consultant without regard to the Hawaii procurement code to develop the plan. Appropriates funds. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2532 RELATING TO NON-SCHOOL HOUR PROGRAMS. |
MIZUNO, GREEN |
| Appropriates TANF funds for non-school hour programs to be expended by the DOE, OYS, and the counties. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2533 RELATING TO VACCINATIONS. |
MIZUNO, GREEN |
| Provides free influenza vaccinations to students statewide to reduce mortality. Requires consent forms. Requires department of health to seek federal funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Appropriates funds to department of health for FY 2008-2009. Repealed 06/30/09. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2534 RELATING TO HISTORIC PRESERVATION. |
EVANS, AWANA, BERTRAM, CABANILLA, CARROLL, CHING, GREEN, MCKELVEY, MEYER, Tsuji |
| Requires 4% of all county fees collected for building, construction, or development-related permits to be deposited into the Hawaii historic preservation special fund. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2535 RELATING TO HISTORIC PRESERVATION OF HEIAU. |
EVANS, AWANA, CARROLL, MCKELVEY, Bertram, Ching, Green, Tsuji |
| Requires the department of land and natural resources to consult with the office of Hawaiian affairs on issues relating to heiau. Establishes procedures for inadvertent discovery of heiau. Authorizes the office of Hawaiian affairs to designate caretaker for heiau. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2536 RELATING TO STATE HERITAGE. |
CHING, AWANA, BERTRAM, CABANILLA, EVANS, GREEN, TSUJI, Meyer, Ward |
| Establishes the Hawaii heritage task force and Hawaii heritage list to recognize and protect the sites and buildings most important to Hawaii's history and rich culture. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2537 RELATING TO TAXATION. |
EVANS, BERTRAM, CABANILLA, CHING, GREEN, MARUMOTO, Awana, Carroll, Tsuji, Ward |
| Directs a portion of transient accommodation tax moneys to the Hawai`i Preservation Fund. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2538 RELATING TO VISUALLY IMPAIRED PERSONS. |
EVANS |
| Directs the department of transportation to adopt rules that require motor vehicles registered in the State to emit an omni-directional sound that may be easily heard by visually impaired persons. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2539 RELATING TO WORKPLACE TRAINING. |
EVANS |
| Requires the department of public safety to develop a curriculum on ethnic and cultural diversity in the workplace and its implications on working with offenders and their families. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2540 RELATING TO TAXATION. |
EVANS |
| Provides an income tax and general excise tax exemption for companies that provide potable water and are exempt under section 501(c)(12) of the IRC and collect at least 85% of its income from members for the sole purpose of meeting losses and expenses. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2541 MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR HOSPITAL-BASED DENTISTRY SERVICES IN THE COUNTY OF HAWAII. |
EVANS |
| Appropriates funds for hospital dentistry in the county of Hawaii. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2542 MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR FAMILY PRACTICE RESIDENCY PROGRAM AT KONA COMMUNITY HOSPITAL. |
EVANS |
| Appropriates $2,177,500 the 1st year in a 3-year family practice residency program based at Kona Community Hospital on the island of Hawaii. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2543 MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR A SHOOTING RANGE IN WEST HAWAII ON THE ISLAND OF HAWAII. |
EVANS, HERKES, ITO |
| Appropriates funds to plan, design, and construct a shooting range in west Hawaii on the island of Hawaii. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2544 RELATING TO WORKERS' COMPENSATION. |
TAKAMINE, EVANS, NISHIMOTO, SONSON, Souki |
| Provides parameters for conducting medical examinations when determining permanent partial disability in workers compensation cases. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2545 RELATING TO WORKERS' COMPENSATION. |
TAKAMINE, EVANS, NISHIMOTO, SONSON, Souki |
| Provides that an independent physician be selected to conduct medical examinations in cases where major and elective surgery, or either, is contemplated or in cases where an employee or employer are dissatisfied with the medical progress. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2546 MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE MAUI OFFICE OF VETERANS' SERVICES. |
MCKELVEY, BERTRAM, ITO, Souki |
| Appropriates funds for personnel, furniture and equipment, and renovations and addition of employee lunch room for Maui office of veterans' services. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2547 RELATING TO THE ISSUANCE OF SPECIAL PURPOSE REVENUE BONDS FOR MAUI PREPARATORY ACADEMY. |
MCKELVEY, YAMASHITA, Bertram, Souki |
| Authorizes the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds for Maui Preparatory Academy. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2548 RELATING TO HOUSING. |
SHIMABUKURO |
| Redefines affordable housing income limits for the purposes of chapter 201H, Hawaii Revised Statutes. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2549 RELATING TO TEACHERS. |
SHIMABUKURO |
| Provides an annual apportionment of funds from the general excise tax to all public school teachers for reimbursement of classroom out-of-pocket expenses | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2550 RELATING TO PUBLIC UTILITIES. |
SHIMABUKURO |
| Increases the total rated generating capacity produced by eligible customer-generators. Increases the maximum capacity of an eligible customer-generator. Requires the public utilities commission to adopt rules that incorporate best practices interconnection standards. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2551 RELATING TO HOMELESSNESS. |
SHIMABUKURO, AWANA |
| Requires the Hawaii Public Housing Authority to conduct a study on various homeless solutions. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2552 RELATING TO RENEWABLE ENERGY. |
SAGUM, AWANA, CARROLL, CHANG, HANOHANO, ITO, MIZUNO, MORITA, B. OSHIRO, Tokioka, Yamashita |
| Requires the department of business, economic development, and tourism to develop a model ordinance for renewable energy projects for adoption by the counties. Appropriates funds to develop the model ordinance. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2553 RELATING TO PAWNBROKERS AND SECONDHAND DEALERS. |
SAGUM, AWANA, CARROLL, HANOHANO, ITO, MIZUNO, MORITA, B. OSHIRO, TOKIOKA, Chang, Yamashita |
| Changes the method used to record the daily transactions of pawnbrokers and secondhand dealers, from a manual system to an electronic system. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2554 RELATING TO RENEWABLE ENERGY. |
SAGUM, AWANA, CARROLL, CHANG, HANOHANO, ITO, MIZUNO, MORITA, B. OSHIRO, YAMASHITA |
| Permits small wind energy systems in all land use districts where structures of any sort are allowed except for the conservation district unless permitted by the department of land and natural resources. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2555 MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE HAWAII CIVIL AIR PATROL. |
SAGUM, CHANG, HANOHANO, ITO, MIZUNO, MORITA, YAMASHITA, Carroll |
| Makes appropriation for expenses of the Hawaii wing, civil air patrol. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2556 RELATING TO SUBSTANCE ABUSE. |
SAGUM, CARROLL, CHANG, HANOHANO, ITO, Souki, Yamashita |
| Appropriates funds for school-based substance abuse programs and for therapeutic living programs. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2557 RELATING TO EVIDENCE. |
B. OSHIRO, CALDWELL, WAKAI, WARD, WATERS |
| Protects the disclosure of sources for journalists and newscasters. Establishes an exception. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2558 RELATING TO CHILD PROTECTION. |
B. OSHIRO, CALDWELL, GREEN, MIZUNO, SHIMABUKURO, WATERS |
| Authorizes department of human services to conduct unannounced visits to inspect a parental home within 3 to 6 months of the return of a child against whom a household member of the parental home has committed a misdemeanor or felony offense relating to child abuse or neglect or has been adjudicated of conduct that would constitute such an offense. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2559 RELATING TO THE UNIFORM UNCLAIMED PROPERTY ACT. |
B. OSHIRO, HERKES, WATERS |
| Updates Uniform Unclaimed Property Act by replacing existing 1981 version of the Act with 1995 version. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2560 RELATING TO TRAFFIC INFRACTIONS. |
B. OSHIRO, WATERS, Souki |
| Requires license revocation for a minimum of 5 years and a maximum of 10 years for driver who is determined to have committed 5 or more traffic infractions relating to traffic movement and control arising out of separate incidents within the preceding 5-year period. Effective 1/1/09. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2561 RELATING TO EDUCATION. |
TAKUMI, BERG, CHANG, SONSON, Cabanilla |
| Establishes the Hawaii charter school facilities fund for funding the repair, maintenance, and other facilities needs of charter schools. Establishes a tax credit for certain individuals who make contributions to charter school repairs, maintenance, or development. Appropriates funds for the Hawaii charter school facilities fund. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2562 RELATING TO SOLID WASTE. |
SHIMABUKURO |
| Establishes the goal of reducing the amount of solid waste entering the State's waste stream by 75%. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2563 RELATING TO ANIMAL CRUELTY. |
MARUMOTO |
| Imposes fines for spectators at events where animals are caused to fight with each other. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2564 RELATING TO THE REVOCATION OF DRIVER'S LICENSES OF MINORS CONVICTED OF PROPERTY CRIMES. |
MARUMOTO, AWANA, FINNEGAN, WARD, Berg, Evans, Karamatsu, Thielen |
| Requires court to suspend a license of a minor who has been convicted of criminal property damage for a period of 6 months. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2565 RELATING TO ADULT RESIDENTIAL CARE HOMES. |
MARUMOTO, AWANA, BERG, CALDWELL, FINNEGAN, THIELEN, Evans, Ward |
| Clarifies licensure requirements for adult residential care homes. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2566 RELATING TO PROFESSIONS. |
GREEN, MIZUNO |
| Repeals sunset provisions for Chapter 453D, Hawaii Revised Statutes, relating to mental health counselors. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2567 RELATING TO DISASTER PREPAREDNESS. |
GREEN, MIZUNO |
| Funds a study to assess the structural integrity of each hospital and nursing home facility to determine their ability to withstand hurricanes and earthquakes. Makes appropriation. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2568 RELATING TO MUTUAL BENEFIT SOCIETIES. |
GREEN, MIZUNO |
| Requires the Attorney General to appoint an independent auditor to conduct a financial and operational audit of mutual benefit societies established in Hawaii prior to 1950. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2569 RELATING TO MENTAL HEALTH. |
GREEN, MIZUNO |
| Establishes the psychiatric health services pilot project which enables psychiatrists to collaborate with primary care physicians at federally qualified health centers for psychiatric care to patients. Makes appropriation. Repealed 6/30/11. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2570 RELATING TO MEDICAL LIABILITY. |
GREEN, CHING, MIZUNO |
| Limits noneconomic damages that may be recovered in medical tort actions. Limits the amount of attorney's fees that may be collected in connection with a medical tort action. Amends the definition of "health care provider" and "medical tort". Sunsets on the earlier of the date on which an insurer does not comply with the premium rate caps, or July 1, 2015. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2571 RELATING TO STUDENT HEALTH. |
GREEN, AWANA, BERG, CABANILLA, HANOHANO, NISHIMOTO, TAKAI, TAKUMI, WAKAI, WATERS |
| Requires each student to have a vision evaluation done by an ophthalmologist, physician, optometrist, physician assistant, or advanced practice registered nurse 6 months before entering the beginning grade of any school in the State, at parents' cost. Gives parents right to refuse examination. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2572 RELATING TO MENTAL HEALTH. |
GREEN, MIZUNO |
| Ensures that psychiatrists are reimbursed on all medicare codes for the provision of medical services to patients at a rate not less than one hundred per cent of the medicare reimbursement amount that is in effect for the current year and updated for each calendar year. Establishes a $30 differential for reimbursements to psychiatrists practicing on the neighbor islands. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2573 RELATING TO WORKERS COMPENSATION. |
GREEN, MIZUNO |
| Increases workers compensation fee schedule from one hundred ten to one hundred twenty percent. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2574 RELATING TO MOTOR SPORTS COMPLEX. |
HAR (BR) |
| Authorizes the department of land and natural resources to condemn land to build a motor sports facility. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2575 RELATING TO LANGUAGE ACCESS. |
MIZUNO, GREEN, MAGAOAY |
| Clarifies definitions related to language access. Requires certain entities to file a language access plan and appoint a language access coordinator. Expands the language access advisory council from 11 to 15 members. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2576 MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE HAWAII HEALTH SYSTEMS CORPORATION. |
MIZUNO, GREEN |
| Appropriates federal funds for community-based dental health clinics. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2577 RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION. |
CARROLL, BERTRAM, MCKELVEY, SHIMABUKURO, TSUJI, YAMASHITA, Chang, Magaoay, Souki |
| Requires director of transportation to develop a contingency plan to maintain transportation access along Hana highway, including its many bridges, on the island of Maui in the event of catastrophic events such as earthquakes, landslides, or flooding. Report to legislature. Appropriates $ . | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2578 RELATING TO PUBLIC ACCESS. |
CARROLL, BERTRAM, MAGAOAY, MARUMOTO, MCKELVEY, SHIMABUKURO, YAMASHITA, Souki, Tsuji |
| Requires developments of 100 units or more to dedicate land for public access by right-of-way or easement. Requires each county to adopt public access signage guidelines. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2579 RELATING TO CARE HOME REPAIR AND RENOVATION LOAN GUARANTEE. |
CARROLL, BERTRAM, CHANG, MAGAOAY, MARUMOTO, MCKELVEY, SHIMABUKURO, TSUJI, Souki, Yamashita |
| Creates an adult residential care home and long-term care facility repair and renovation loan guarantee office to administer a program to guarantee loans to owners of homes or facilities to be repaired or renovated. Appropriates $ . | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2580 RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL LOANS. |
CARROLL, BERTRAM, MAGAOAY, MARUMOTO, MCKELVEY, SHIMABUKURO, YAMASHITA, Souki, Tsuji |
| Prohibits the exclusion of otherwise qualified farmers from state agricultural loan programs who farm land under the jurisdiction of the department of Hawaiian homes. Requires the department of agriculture to provide equal access to all programs administered by the department by all farmers, including farmers on Hawaiian home lands. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2581 RELATING TO LONG-TERM CARE FACILITIES. |
CARROLL, BERTRAM, CHANG, MAGAOAY, MARUMOTO, MCKELVEY, SHIMABUKURO, TSUJI, YAMASHITA, Souki |
| Provides special license plates for motor vehicles registered to long-term care facilities to allow such vehicles to be used to park in handicapped stalls while transporting disabled patients under the facility's care. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2582 RELATING TO THE PUBLIC PROCUREMENT CODE. |
CHANG (BR) |
| Requires competitive bidding on small purchases of construction contracts for drilling and soil testing. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2583 RELATING TO GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS. |
CHANG, CARROLL, GREEN, HANOHANO, HAR, KARAMATSU, MAGAOAY, MIZUNO, NISHIMOTO, TAKAI, TOKIOKA, TSUJI, WATERS, Berg, Evans, McKelvey, Sagum, Shimabukuro, Sonson, Takamine |
| Denies the University of Hawaii the use of the deliberative process privilege in closing an agency meeting to the public. Specifies that the deliberative process privilege does not cover meetings related to the budget of the University of Hawaii. Requires the University of Hawaii to disclose beforehand the range of proposed compensation to executives, including head athletic coaches. Extends annual salary reporting requirement to include salaries of head athletic coaches. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2584 RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII. |
CHANG, BERTRAM, HERKES, KARAMATSU, MAGAOAY, MIZUNO, NISHIMOTO, SHIMABUKURO, TSUJI, YAMASHITA, Takamine |
| Directs the University of Hawaii to compile an inventory of all real estate holdings that the university controls. Establishes a priority list of lands available for development for university or non-university purposes. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2585 RELATING TO GRADUATE LOAN PROGRAMS. |
CHANG, EVANS, HANOHANO, ITO, NISHIMOTO, B. OSHIRO, SHIMABUKURO, Herkes, Lee, Takamine, Takumi |
| Establishes a graduate school loan program and corresponding special fund for qualified individuals in the areas of occupational therapy, physical therapy, speech language pathology, and school psychology. Provides for a loan forgiveness schedule for individuals who maintain approved employment. Appropriates funds for the program. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2586 RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII SYSTEM. |
CHANG, BERTRAM, HERKES, KARAMATSU, MAGAOAY, MIZUNO, NISHIMOTO, SHIMABUKURO, TSUJI, YAMASHITA, Souki, Takamine |
| Appropriates funds for mental health and campus security services within the University of Hawaii system. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2587 MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO ESTABLISH CREATIVITY ACADEMIES. |
YAMANE, FINNEGAN, MARUMOTO, TSUJI, YAMASHITA |
| Appropriates funds to establish a digital media pilot program to enhance and expand the scope of the Hawaii excellence through science and technology academies for the University of Hawaii community colleges and the department of education. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2588 RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII. |
YAMANE, CHONG, ITO, LEE, M. OSHIRO, TSUJI, YAMASHITA |
| Grants resident status to veterans for tuition purposes at the University of Hawaii system. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2589 RELATING TO SCRAP METAL. |
YAMANE, HAR, MANAHAN, YAMASHITA, Tokioka, Tsuji |
| Requires scrap dealers to pay sellers of scrap only by check, issued no sooner than 5 days after the purchase, mailed to the seller. Requires the canceled check to be retained for 2 years and made available for inspection. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2590 RELATING TO SUSTAINABILITY. |
YAMANE, LEE, SHIMABUKURO, Caldwell, Carroll, Takamine |
| Adopts the Hawaii 2050 sustainability plan. Establishes a sustainability council to coordinate, implement, measure, and evaluate the progress of the Hawaii 2050 sustainability plan and activities. Appropriates funds to the sustainability council. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2591 RELATING TO GIFT CERTIFICATES. |
MAGAOAY, HERKES, ITO, SONSON, Tsuji |
| Requires retailers to pay out in cash the balance of any gift card worth less than $5, if requested by the consumer. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2592 RELATING TO MAIL SOLICITATION. |
MAGAOAY, HERKES, ITO, SONSON, TSUJI, WAKAI, Souki, Yamashita |
| Requires department of commerce and consumer affairs to establish a state "Do-not-mail" registry. Provides that sending mail to Hawaii residents soliciting the sale of consumer goods or services is prohibited if the recipient's address has been added to the "Do-not-mail" registry. Requires department of commerce and consumer affairs to work with postal authorities and private entities to ensure that persons on registry do not receive unwanted solicitations. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2593 RELATING TO DROUGHT MITIGATION. |
TSUJI, CHONG, HANOHANO, ITO, YAMANE, YAMASHITA, Brower |
| Appropriates funds for drought mitigation projects in each county of the state. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2594 RELATING TO IRRIGATION. |
TSUJI, BROWER, CHONG, HANOHANO, ITO, YAMANE, YAMASHITA |
| Authorizes general obligation bond funds to be deposited into the irrigation repair and maintenance special fund for repair and maintenance of certain irrigation systems, and for additional personnel to improve irrigation system management. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2595 RELATING TO ETHANOL FACILITY TAX CREDIT. |
CHONG, LEE, B. OSHIRO, M. OSHIRO, SAY, TSUJI, YAMANE, YAMASHITA, Nakasone |
| Caps the total annual amount of ethanol facility tax credits allowed at $8,000,000 between 01/01/08 to 12/31/12. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2596 RELATING TO CHILDREN. |
CHONG, WATERS |
| Permits the special court trustee to recommend that $100 be assessed against a parent who interferes with visitation by failing to keep a scheduled visit without timely notifying the other parent of cancelation or by failing to reschedule a canceled visit within a reasonable time. Fees are to be deposited into the parent education special fund. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2597 RELATING TO SCHOOLS. |
CHONG, BELATTI, BROWER, CARROLL, HAR, KARAMATSU, MAGAOAY, MIZUNO, RHOADS, TSUJI, YAMANE, YAMASHITA, Lee, M. Oshiro, Sagum |
| Appropriates funds to modernize Hawaii's schools and classrooms with such items and services as textbooks, supplies, equipment, computers, software licenses, and services. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2598 RELATING TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING. |
CHONG, HAR, ITO, KARAMATSU, LEE, RHOADS, SAY, TSUJI, YAMANE, YAMASHITA, Carroll, M. Oshiro, Shimabukuro |
| Requires the HHFDC to focus on developing affordable housing in urban cores. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2599 RELATING TO A NEW STADIUM AT KAPOLEI. |
CALDWELL |
| Requires department of accounting and general services, prior to the convening of the 2009 and 2010 regular sessions, to submit preliminary and final plans to the legislature to demolish Aloha Stadium and build low- and moderate-income housing on the site and identify a new location and build a new stadium in Kapolei. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2600 RELATING TO PUBLIC ACCOUNTANCY. |
CALDWELL, M. OSHIRO, Herkes, McKelvey |
| Defines the active practice requirement for member of the board of public accountancy to mean 1,000 hours of practice in the prior calendar year. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2601 RELATING TO CAMPAIGN SPENDING. |
CALDWELL, WATERS |
| Clarifies who is subject to administrative fines for violations relating to campaign contributions and expenditures. Provides for deposit of collected fines into the state general fund. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2602 RELATING TO CAMPAIGN SPENDING. |
CALDWELL, WATERS |
| Doubles the amount a candidate can transfer from campaign or surplus funds to a community or charitable organization. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2603 AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS AND MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR STEVENSON MIDDLE SCHOOL. |
CALDWELL, BELATTI |
| Appropriates funds for Stevenson middle school to construct a building to house administrative and support offices and multipurpose educational facilities, and plan and design a multipurpose recreational facility. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2604 RELATING TO THE HAWAII GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. |
EVANS, AWANA, LUKE, THIELEN, Ito, Karamatsu |
| Establishes the Hawaii geological survey within the department of land and natural resources. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2605 RELATING TO THE ARMED SERVICES. |
EVANS, HAR |
| Provides an exemption of vehicle taxes and registration fees for members of the National Guard and Reserves. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2606 RELATING TO LAND USE. |
EVANS, GREEN, MCKELVEY, Awana, Ching, Takamine |
| Directs the department of land and natural resources to petition Hawaii county to restrict the use of certain lands along the North Kohala coastline in Hawaii county within the agricultural district to prevent low density residential or any other development. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2607 RELATING TO LAND USE. |
EVANS, CABANILLA, CHING, GREEN, MCKELVEY, Awana, Bertram, Carroll, Takamine, Ward |
| Directs the office of planning to petition the land use commission to reclassify certain lands along the North Kohala coastline in Hawaii county from the agricultural district to the conservation district. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2608 RELATING TO PRISONS. |
EVANS |
| Creates separate forensic treatment facilities within all community correctional centers. Ends practice of housing mentally ill prisoners in solitary confinement and with general prison population. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2609 RELATING TO CONSERVATION. |
EVANS, HAR, MCKELVEY, YAMANE |
| Establishes an inmate conservation corps program within the department of land and natural resources. Authorizes the department to enter into agreements with other state or federal agencies to implement the program. Appropriates funds. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2610 RELATING TO THE NATIONAL GUARD. |
EVANS, HAR |
| Increases uniform maintenance allowance from $1.50 to $10 per day, not to exceed $150 per year. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2611 RELATING TO IOLANI PALACE. |
ITO, KARAMATSU |
| Establishes standards and conditions for the receipt of funds appropriated to the State of Hawaii Museum of Monarchy History. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2612 RELATING TO THE PUBLIC LAND TRUST. |
ITO |
| Short form effectuates the title of this Act. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2613 RELATING TO BIOPROSPECTING. |
ITO |
| Short form effectuates the title of this Act. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2614 RELATING TO ISLAND PACIFIC ACADEMY. |
HAR, CHONG, MIZUNO, B. OSHIRO, TSUJI, YAMANE, YAMASHITA, Karamatsu |
| Authorizes the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds up to $30,000,000 for planning and construction of educational facilities by Island Pacific Academy. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2615 RELATING TO HEALTH. |
HAR, CHONG, MIZUNO, B. Oshiro, Tsuji, Yamane, Yamashita |
| Prohibits possession of tobacco products by any person under age 18. Requires department of health to adopt penalties. Makes appropriation to DOH for youth smoking educational program. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2616 RELATING TO STATEWIDE TRAFFIC CODE. |
HAR, CHONG, MIZUNO, B. OSHIRO, Tsuji |
| Prohibits texting using electronic wireless communication device while driving. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2617 RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION. |
HAR, MIZUNO, Chong, Karamatsu, B. Oshiro, Tsuji, Yamashita |
| Provides that high occupancy vehicle lanes may be used by hybrid vehicles. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2618 RELATING TO TRAFFIC INFRACTIONS. |
TAKAI, SOUKI |
| Establishes that the motor vehicle owner is responsible for paying outstanding parking citations even after transferring ownership of the vehicle. Establishes that unpaid parking citations shall not prevent the transfer of ownership and re registration of the vehicle. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2619 RELATING TO TAXATION. |
WARD, BERTRAM, BROWER, CABANILLA, FINNEGAN, MARUMOTO, MEYER, PINE, SONSON, THIELEN, Awana, Evans, Ito, Magaoay, McKelvey, Nishimoto, Sagum |
| Exempts medical care services, long-term care services, and non-prescription drugs from general excise tax liability. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2620 RELATING TO CAREGIVERS. |
WARD, BERTRAM, CABANILLA, CHING, EVANS, FINNEGAN, GREEN, MARUMOTO, MCKELVEY, MEYER, NISHIMOTO, PINE, SONSON, THIELEN, Awana, Belatti, Brower, Herkes, Ito, Magaoay, B. Oshiro, Sagum |
| Provides a tax credit to taxpayer caregivers who care for qualified care recipients. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2621 RELATING TO THE EMPLOYEE RETIREMENT SYSTEM. |
WARD, CABANILLA, CHING, FINNEGAN, GREEN, MARUMOTO, MCKELVEY, MEYER, PINE, THIELEN, Awana, Belatti, Brower, Evans, Herkes, Ito, Magaoay, Nishimoto, B. Oshiro, Sagum, Sonson, Tsuji |
| Mandates the Employee Retirement System to divest itself from companies that operate in countries that support terrorist activities. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2622 RELATING TO ENERGY. |
WARD, AWANA, BELATTI, BERTRAM, BROWER, CABANILLA, CHING, FINNEGAN, HERKES, MARUMOTO, MCKELVEY, NISHIMOTO, SHIMABUKURO, THIELEN, Evans, B. Oshiro |
| Increases incentives to install solar energy systems. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2623 RELATING TO ENERGY. |
WARD, AWANA, BERTRAM, CABANILLA, CHING, FINNEGAN, MARUMOTO, MCKELVEY, MEYER, THIELEN, Brower, Evans, Nishimoto, B. Oshiro |
| Increases incentives to photovoltaic energy systems. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2624 RELATING TO INTERNATIONAL LEARNING MISSIONS. |
WARD, BROWER, CHING, FINNEGAN, GREEN, MARUMOTO, Awana, Bertram, Evans, Nishimoto, B. Oshiro |
| Provides a tax credit for sponsorship of children that undertake international learning missions. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2625 RELATING TO THE DESIGNATION OF APRIL 19 AS "HAWAIIAN MONK SEAL DAY". |
PINE, AWANA, BROWER, CABANILLA, EVANS, FINNEGAN, GREEN, HANOHANO, HERKES, KARAMATSU, LEE, MAGAOAY, MARUMOTO, MEYER, NISHIMOTO, SONSON, THIELEN, WAKAI, Belatti, Bertram, Carroll, Ching, Chong, Har, Mizuno, Saiki, Shimabukuro, Souki, Takumi, Ward, Yamashita |
| Establishes April 19 of each year as Hawaiian Monk Seal Day in Hawaii. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2626 RELATING TO THE DESIGNATION OF THE HAWAIIAN MONK SEAL AS THE STATE MAMMAL OF HAWAI`I. |
PINE, AWANA, BROWER, EVANS, FINNEGAN, GREEN, HANOHANO, HERKES, LEE, MAGAOAY, MARUMOTO, NISHIMOTO, TAKAI, THIELEN, WAKAI, Belatti, Bertram, Cabanilla, Carroll, Ching, Chong, Har, Karamatsu, Meyer, Mizuno, Saiki, Sonson, Souki, Takumi, Ward, Yamashita |
| Designates the Hawaiian Monk Seal as the state mammal. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2627 RELATING TO THE REPEAL OF TAXES ON FOOD. |
FINNEGAN, CHING, MARUMOTO, MEYER, PINE, THIELEN, WARD |
| Repeals taxes on food | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2628 RELATING TO TAXATION. |
FINNEGAN, CHING, MARUMOTO, MEYER, PINE, THIELEN, WARD |
| Increases food tax credit established by Act 211, Session Laws of Hawaii 2007. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2629 RELATING TO HOUSING. |
FINNEGAN, CHING, MARUMOTO, MEYER, PINE, THIELEN, WARD |
| Appropriates funds to repair public housing and to construct a permanent facility for the homeless. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2630 RELATING TO HOUSING. |
FINNEGAN, CHING, MARUMOTO, MEYER, PINE, THIELEN, WARD |
| Appropriates funds to the rental housing trust fund to finance development of affordable rentals through public-private partnerships. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2631 RELATING TO TORTS. |
FINNEGAN, CHING, MARUMOTO, MEYER, PINE, THIELEN, WARD |
| Limits non-economic damages in medical tort actions contingent on compliance with premium rate caps by insurers providing professional liability insurance in Hawaii. Sunsets on the earlier of the date on which an insurer does not comply with the premium rate caps, or July 1, 2015. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2632 RELATING TO THE REPAIR AND MAINTENANCE OF STATE FACILITIES. |
FINNEGAN, CHING, MARUMOTO, MEYER, PINE, THIELEN, WARD |
| Creates a system to build in future repair and maintenance costs into current budgeting. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2633 RELATING TO ENERGY. |
FINNEGAN, CHING, MARUMOTO, MEYER, PINE, THIELEN, WARD |
| Increases incentives for renewable energy | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2634 RELATING TO ENERGY. |
FINNEGAN, CHING, MARUMOTO, MEYER, PINE, THIELEN, WARD |
| Amends definition of renewable electric energy. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2635 RELATING TO RENEWABLE ENERGY. |
FINNEGAN, CHING, MARUMOTO, MEYER, PINE, THIELEN, WARD |
| Provides for the organization of renewable energy cooperatives to generate, transmit, and sell electricity to their membership. Authorizes issuance of revenue bonds to finance costs related to constructing, upgrading, and acquiring transmission facilities. Exempts cooperatives from Public Utilities Commission regulation, except for interconnection agreements. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2636 RELATING TO RENEWABLE ENERGY OPPORTUNITY ZONES. |
FINNEGAN, CHING, MARUMOTO, MEYER, PINE, THIELEN, WARD |
| Requires director of business, economic development, and tourism, in consultation with advisory committee, to designate renewable energy opportunity zones, and determine types of energy generation for a zone, number of zones, and period of zones, and to perform required EIS for zones and expedite issuance of county permits. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2637 RELATING TO ENERGY. |
FINNEGAN, CHING, MARUMOTO, MEYER, PINE, THIELEN, WARD |
| Repeals automatic fuel rate adjustment clause. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2638 RELATING TO PUBLIC SAFETY. |
FINNEGAN, CHING, MARUMOTO, MEYER, PINE, THIELEN, WARD |
| Increases penalties for certain traffic infractions and driving under the influence. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2639 RELATING TO VEHICLE IGNITION INTERLOCK SYSTEMS. |
FINNEGAN, CHING, MARUMOTO, MEYER, PINE, THIELEN, WARD |
| Establishes an ignition interlock program. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2640 RELATING TO SAFETY. |
FINNEGAN, CHING, MARUMOTO, MEYER, PINE, THIELEN, WARD |
| Mandates that internet service providers and computer technicians report incidents of child pornography discovered during their course of business. Provides civil immunity for good faith disclosure to law enforcement authorities. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2641 RELATING TO CHARTER SCHOOLS. |
FINNEGAN, CHING, MARUMOTO, MEYER, PINE, THIELEN, WARD |
| Appropriates funds to charter schools for facilities. Gives charter schools first right to use underutilized or vacant state buildings. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2642 RELATING TO EDUCATION. |
FINNEGAN, CHING, MARUMOTO, MEYER, PINE, THIELEN, WARD |
| Eliminates limit on charter schools. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2643 RELATING TO EDUCATION. |
FINNEGAN, CHING, MARUMOTO, MEYER, PINE, THIELEN, WARD |
| Increases the number of Hawaii teacher standards board members from thirteen to fifteen by adding a representative for charter schools and an additional representative for independent schools. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2644 RELATING TO EDUCATION. |
FINNEGAN, MEYER, PINE, THIELEN, WARD |
| Conditions appropriation to assist with transitional funding for weighted student formula on matching funds from department budget to assist small schools in maintaining financial sustainability. Imposes additional financial accountability measures upon the department. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2645 RELATING TO EDUCATION. |
CHING, FINNEGAN, MARUMOTO, MEYER, PINE, THIELEN, WARD |
| Allows the principal of each public school to establish and use a debit card system based at the individual school level for the purpose of purchasing school supplies and other related curriculum support supplies. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2646 RELATING TO EDUCATION. |
FINNEGAN, CHING, MARUMOTO, MEYER, PINE, THIELEN, WARD |
| Allows a teacher or driver in charge to exclude from the teacher's classroom or the driver in charge's school bus any pupil who: is guilty of disorderly conduct; interferes with an orderly educational process; threatens, abuses, or intimidates a school employee; willfully disobeys a school employee; or uses abusive or profane language directed at a school employee. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2647 RELATING TO ETHICS. |
FINNEGAN, MARUMOTO, MEYER, PINE, THIELEN, WARD |
| Increases time period for restriction on post-employment lobbying of former legislators and state employees | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2648 RELATING TO STANDARDS OF CONDUCT. |
FINNEGAN, CHING, MARUMOTO, MEYER, PINE, THIELEN, WARD |
| Reduces the value of a gift that must be reported by a legislator or government employee, spouse or dependent child of a legislator or government employee from $200 to $100. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2649 RELATING TO GRANTS-IN-AID. |
FINNEGAN, MARUMOTO, MEYER, PINE, THIELEN, WARD |
| Changes current grants-in-aid for social services process to a community planning and delivery process. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2650 RELATING TO INCREASING THE RENEWABLE PORTFOLIO STANDARD. |
FINNEGAN, CHING, MARUMOTO, MEYER, PINE, THIELEN, WARD |
| Increases the renewable portfolio standard. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2651 RELATING TO CAMPAIGN FINANCE. |
BELATTI, GREEN, LEE, MCKELVEY, MORITA, WAKAI, WATERS, Awana, Brower, Evans, Luke, Magaoay, Souki, Takamine |
| Expands prohibition of campaign donations from persons who hold contracts with the government to include contractors who are recipients of grants or subsidies awarded under chapter 42F, Hawaii Revised Statutes. Extends prohibition period to begin at submission of a bid for a contract or application for a grant. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2652 RELATING TO TAXATION. |
BELATTI, GREEN, LEE, LUKE, MAGAOAY, MORITA, WAKAI, YAMANE, Awana, Evans, McKelvey, Souki, Takamine, Waters |
| Increases the election fund contribution amount on state income tax returns from $2 to $5 for campaign spending purposes. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2653 RELATING TO TAXATION. |
BELATTI, LUKE, NISHIMOTO, TAKAI, TAKUMI, Brower |
| Provides for cost of living adjustments for state tax rates, amounts, deductions, and exemptions. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2654 RELATING TO EARNED INCOME TAX CREDIT. |
BELATTI, BROWER, LUKE, NISHIMOTO, TAKAI, TAKUMI |
| Provides for a state earned income tax credit. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2655 RELATING TO SOLID WASTE DISPOSITION. |
SAY |
| Directs that once there is sufficient solid waste to run a county's resource recovery facility, that a county may no longer control where excess solid waste is disposed of. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2656 RELATING TO CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS. |
SAY (BR) |
| Adds reciprocal beneficiaries to the definition of "immediate family" for laws related to campaign contributions. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2657 RELATING TO TENANT SCREENING AGENCIES. |
SAY (BR) |
| Regulates tenant screening agencies. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2658 RELATING TO YOUTH PROGRAMS. |
SAY |
| Makes appropriation for the Palolo at-risk youth outreach program. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2659 RELATING TO CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS. |
SAY (BR) |
| Repeals prohibition of indirect campaign contributions by government contractors during life of contract. Authorizes contractors to establish noncandidate committees for the purpose of making campaign contributions. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2660 MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR ATHLETICS IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS. |
SAY |
| Appropriates funds for an athletic director at Anuenue School; equipment, supplies, and transportation for school athletic programs; and athletic programs for females. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2661 RELATING TO SPECIAL PURPOSE REVENUE BONDS TO ASSIST INDUSTRIAL ENTERPRISES. |
SAY |
| Authorizes the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds in a total amount not to exceed $38,000,000 to assist Hui Mana ‘Oma‘o to establish facilities to convert potential renewable energy resources into electrical energy for public consumption. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2662 RELATING TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING. |
SAY, MAGAOAY |
| Exempts new multi-family housing condominium developments of fifty units of more from certain state and county affordable housing requirements. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2663 RELATING TO EMERGENCIES. |
SAY |
| Clarifies when the governor may exercise emergency powers. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2664 RELATING TO DISASTER RELIEF. |
SAY |
| Clarifies the use of the governor's emergency powers. Clarifies that the governor shall not utilize the power to suspend laws authorized under the Civil Defense and Emergency Act when the State is attacked for purposes of noncivil defense situations unless there is a tangible and measureable threat to the people or environment of the State. Establishes that certain provisions of the State's disaster relief chapter are operative and supersede provisions of the Civil Defense and Emergency Act in times when an emergency arises that is not considered a civil defense emergency. States that any emergency powers in force prior to the effective date of this measure expire at the end of the 2008 regular session unless reauthorized by the legislature. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2665 RELATING TO PUBLIC HOUSING. |
SAY (BR) |
| Authorizes the Hawaii public housing authority to include as part of a request for proposals for the construction or renovation of a public housing project a price preference or scoring bonus for a person who proposes to concurrently redevelop adjacent real property. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2666 RELATING TO AN AFFORDABLE RENTAL HOUSING DONATION TAX CREDIT. |
SAY |
| Establishes an affordable rental housing donation tax credit. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2667 RELATING TO HAWAIIAN HOME LANDS. |
SAY |
| Requires at least 50% of the dwelling units in a homestead project developed on Hawaiian home lands to be affordable to families with incomes of not more than a certain percentage of the relevant area median income. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2668 RELATING TO HOUSING. |
SAY |
| Makes the Hawaii housing finance and development corporation responsible for issuing special purpose revenue bonds for low- and moderate-income housing projects. Requires only grants to be made from the rental housing trust fund as equity gap financing. Repeals the sunset date on the transfer of part of the conveyance tax proceeds to the rental housing trust fund. Transfers the private activity bond volume cap entirely to the State. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2669 RELATING TO RENEWABLE ENERGY. |
SAY |
| Designates lesser impact renewable energy facilities as permitted uses in state agricultural and conservation districts. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2670 RELATING TO RENEWABLE ENERGY. |
SAY |
| Permits additional renewable energy facilities on certain land within an agricultural district. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2671 RELATING TO A KAKAAKO MAKAI PARKING STRUCTURE. |
SAY |
| Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds for planning the construction of a centralized parking structure in the makai area of Kakaako in the city and county of Honolulu. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2672 RELATING TO PARKING. |
SAY |
| Clarifies that comptroller has authority over "parking facilities within the comptroller's jurisdiction". Repeals cap on allowable balance in the state parking revolving fund. Requires state officials' and employees' parking fees to be adjusted annually in accordance with collective bargaining wage adjustments. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2673 RELATING TO MEDICAL MARIJUANA. |
SAY (BR) |
| Affords drug testing protections for public employees holding medical marijuana registration certificates. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2674 RELATING TO MEDICAL MARIJUANA. |
SAY (BR) |
| Increases the amount of medical marijuana a qualifying patient may possess to the number of marijuana plants capable of being cultivated in a ten foot by ten foot garden area and forty-eight ounces of dried useable marijuana. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2675 RELATING TO MEDICAL MARIJUANA. |
SAY (BR) |
| Authorizes the use of a written certification or its equivalent issued by another state government to permit the medical use of marijuana by a qualifying patient in place of a certificate provided by the Department of Public Safety. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2676 RELATING TO MARIJUANA. |
SAY (BR) |
| Authorizes the possession of not more than one ounce of marijuana by a person twenty-one years of age or older. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2677 RELATING TO MARIJUANA. |
SAY (BR) |
| Directs state and county law enforcement officers to make investigation, citation, and arrest for private adult marijuana offenses the lowest law enforcement priority. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2678 RELATING TO MARIJUANA. |
SAY (BR) |
| Authorizes the establishment of a secure growing facility for the production of medical marijuana for not more than fourteen qualified patients. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2679 RELATING TO A STATE LOTTERY. |
SAY (BR) |
| Creates state lottery and state lottery commission. Deposits certain amounts of revenues into the education construction fund and student achievement fund for certain periods of time. Creates the 2 funds to be administered by the department of education. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2680 RELATING TO FOOD. |
SAY (BR) |
| Bans the use of the artificial sweetener aspartame in food products. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2681 RELATING TO SPORTS UTILITY VEHICLES. |
SAY (BR) |
| Prohibits rental motor vehicle lessors from leasing out sports utility vehicles. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2682 RELATING TO HEALTH. |
SAY (BR) |
| Prevents school from refusing a child to attend school if parent declines to administer psychotropic medication. Makes all vaccinations in the State non-compulsory but only recommended unless there is danger of an epidemic from any communicable disease. Allows exemptions from vaccinations on any grounds. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2683 RELATING TO IMMUNIZATIONS. |
SAY (BR) |
| Makes all vaccinations in the State non-compulsory but only recommended unless there is danger of an epidemic from any communicable disease. Allows exemptions from vaccinations on any grounds. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2684 RELATING TO IMPORTANT AGRICULTURAL LANDS. |
M. OSHIRO |
| Establishes a five-year moratorium on the development of agricultural lands located in the State for which general planning has not commenced. Creates a sunset date of 6/30/2013. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2685 RELATING TO PUBLIC SAFETY. |
M. OSHIRO |
| Directs the department of public safety and the office of planning to plan and design the construction and operation of a new minimum security facility at the site of the existing Oahu community correctional facility. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2686 RELATING TO ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURE. |
M. OSHIRO |
| Amends the procedure for the adoption, amendment, or repeal of rules to conform to federal law. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2687 RELATING TO AQUATIC RESOURCES. |
M. OSHIRO |
| Requires the department of land and natural resources to: review each rule adopted after 01/1/08, concerning the protection and propagation of certain aquatic life or the conservation and allocation of the natural supply of aquatic life; determine whether the rule has achieved its intended purpose; and submit a report. Sunsets on 12/31/20. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2688 MAKING APPROPRIATIONS TO PROVIDE FOR THE EXPENSES OF THE LEGISLATURE, THE AUDITOR, THE LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE BUREAU, AND THE OMBUDSMAN. |
M. OSHIRO |
| Appropriates funds to provide for the expenses of the Legislature, Auditor, Legislative Reference Bureau, and Ombudsman. (HB2688 HD1) | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2689 RELATING TO STATUTORY REVISION: AMENDING OR REPEALING VARIOUS PROVISIONS OF THE HAWAII REVISED STATUTES AND THE SESSION LAWS OF HAWAII FOR THE PURPOSE OF CORRECTING ERRORS AND REFERENCES, CLARIFYING LANGUAGE, AND DELETING OBSOLETE OR UNNECESSARY PROVISIONS. |
SAY (BR) |
| Amends or repeals various provisions of the Hawaii Revised Statutes and the Session Laws of Hawaii for the purpose of correcting errors and references, clarifying language, and deleting obsolete or unnecessary provisions. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2690 RELATING TO DECRIMINALIZATION OF MINOR OFFENSES PURSUANT TO ACT 124, SESSION LAWS OF HAWAII 2005. |
SAY (BR) |
| Decriminalizes minor offenses outside the Penal Code pursuant to Act 124, SLH 2005. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2691 RELATING TO CONDOMINIUMS: MAKING VARIOUS TECHNICAL AMENDMENTS TO THE HAWAII REVISED STATUTES FOR THE PURPOSE OF CORRECTING ERRORS AND REFERENCES, AND CLARIFYING LANGUAGE. |
SAY (BR) |
| Amends various provisions of the Hawaii Revised Statutes relating to condominiums for the purpose of correcting errors and references, and clarifying language. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2692 MAKING VARIOUS HOUSEKEEPING AMENDMENTS TO VOLUME 11 OF THE HAWAII REVISED STATUTES FOR THE PURPOSE OF CORRECTING ERRORS AND REFERENCES, AND CLARIFYING LANGUAGE. |
SAY (BR) |
| Amends various provisions of volume 11 of the Hawaii Revised Statutes for the purpose of correcting errors and references, and clarifying language. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2693 RELATING TO THE JUDICIAL SELECTION COMMISSION. |
SAY (BR) |
| Amends certain statutory provisions to facilitate the judicial selection commission's independent status. Appropriates funds. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2694 RELATING TO THE JUDICIAL SELECTION COMMISSION. |
SAY (BR) |
| Appropriates funds for the judicial selection commission. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2695 RELATING TO THE JUDICIAL SELECTION COMMISSION. |
SAY (BR) |
| Permits the judicial selection commission to employ, exempt from chapters 76 and 89, employees as the commission deems necessary to carry out its functions. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2696 RELATING TO THE BOARD OF THE JUDICIARY HISTORY CENTER. |
SAY (BR) |
| Reduces the number of candidates nominated by the friends of the judiciary history center to the center's executive board. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2697 RELATING TO THE INTERMEDIATE APPELLATE COURT. |
SAY (BR) |
| Authorizes the intermediate appellate court to subpoena and compel the attendance of witnesses and compel the production of books, papers, documents, or tangible things. Authorizes any intermediate court of appeals judge to administer oaths. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2698 RELATING TO COURT-APPOINTED COUNSEL AND GUARDIANS AD LITEM IN FAMILY COURT. |
SAY (BR) |
| Clarifies compensation rates for court-appointed attorneys and Guardians Ad Litem in family court. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2699 RELATING TO THE UNIFORM PROBATE CODE. |
SAY (BR) |
| Clarifies applicability of probate laws to payable-on-death accounts and requirements for providing copies and notice of supplementary inventory or appraisement. Allows courts to modify kokua kanawai duties and service requirements for orders appointing a guardian or conservator. Authorizes disclosure of kokua kanawai reports and professional evaluations to certain parties. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2700 RELATING TO THE JUDICIARY. |
SAY (BR) |
| Appropriates funds to the Judiciary for FY 2008-2009. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2701 RELATING TO THE PUBLIC TRUST LANDS SETTLEMENT. |
SAY (BR) |
| Resolves claims and disputes relating to the portion of income and proceeds from the lands of the public land trust for use by the office of Hawaiian affairs between 11/7/1978 and 7/1/2008; fixes prospectively the minimum amount of income and proceeds from the lands of the public land trust that are to be paid to the office of Hawaii affairs at $15,100,000 each fiscal year. Effective 07/01/08. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2702 RELATING TO THE OFFICE OF HAWAIIAN AFFAIRS. |
SAY (BR) |
| Authorizes the office of Hawaiian affairs to develop housing projects that will be exempt from county ordinances and rules relating to planning, districting, zoning, and construction standards for subdivisions, development and improvement of land, and the construction of units thereon, provided that certain conditions are met. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2703 RELATING TO THE OFFICE OF HAWAIIAN AFFAIRS. |
SAY (BR) |
| Clarifies that OHA may create limited liability companies and other entities to and to engage in other transactions. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2704 RELATING TO HA`IKU VALLEY. |
SAY (BR) |
| Establishes the Ha‘iku Valley cultural preserve commission to have policy and management oversight of the Ha‘iku Valley cultural preserve. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2705 RELATING TO THE HAWAIIAN LANGUAGE IMMERSION PROGRAM. |
SAY (BR) |
| Appropriates funds for teaching positions at schools with Hawaiian language immersion programs, where supplemental teaching positions are most needed. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2706 RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII SYSTEM. |
SAY (BR) |
| Establishes a student loan forgiveness program to provide health care to underserved areas of the State. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2707 RELATING TO CHILD PROTECTION. |
SAY (BR) |
| Establishes a grandparent preference for out-of-home placement of children needing child protective services. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2708 RELATING TO CHILD PROTECTION. |
SAY (BR) |
| Permits a child's grandparent to participate as a party at certain child protective hearings. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2709 RELATING TO BIODIVERSITY. |
SAY (BR) |
| Protects the biological diversity on state lands even if they are leased or sold. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2710 RELATING TO THE RE-EMPLOYMENT OF RETIREES. |
SAY (BR) |
| Allows a county to hire retired state or county government employees without restriction as to length of employment or number of hours worked per week. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2711 RELATING TO INTEGRATED SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT. |
SAY (BR) |
| Permit the department of health to distribute excess moneys in the deposit beverage container deposit special fund to the counties to support the establishment and maintenance of recycling programs. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2712 MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO THE CITY AND COUNTY OF HONOLULU. |
SAY (BR) |
| Appropriates funds to the city and county of Honolulu for the development of a data encryption system. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2713 RELATING TO CHAPTER 853, HAWAII REVISED STATUTES. |
SAY (BR) |
| Adds street solicitation of prostitution to the offenses for which a defendant may not seek deferred acceptance of a guilty or no contest plea. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2714 RELATING TO ARSON. |
SAY (BR) |
| Specifies the firefighting costs that a defendant convicted of arson may be requires to reimburse. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2715 RELATING TO FIRE PROTECTION. |
SAY (BR) |
| Prohibits sale of cigarettes in Hawaii that are not reduced ignition propensity "fire-safe" beginning 07/01/09. Sets civil fines and requires state fire council to adopt rules to enforce law. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2716 RELATING TO CONSUMER FIREWORKS. |
SAY (BR) |
| Imposes a total ban on consumer fireworks except for permitted religious or cultural purposes. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2717 RELATING TO FIREWORKS. |
SAY (BR) |
| Prohibits the sale or use of consumer fireworks on the Fourth of July in counties with populations over 500,000. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2718 RELATING TO THE STATE FIRE COUNCIL. |
SAY (BR) |
| Establishes 2 full-time equivalency positions for the state fire council, an administrator and an administrative assistant, to be funded by the department of labor and industrial relations. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2719 RELATING TO FIREWORKS. |
SAY (BR) |
| Authorizes the respective county councils to enact more stringent fireworks laws than those imposed by state fireworks law, chapter 132D, Hawaii Revised Statutes. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2720 RELATING TO A FIRE SPRINKLER TAX DEDUCTION. |
SAY (BR) |
| Provides an income tax deduction to residential unit owner occupants for qualifying costs of installation of an automatic fire sprinkler system installed after 12/31/08. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2721 RELATING TO FIREWORKS. |
SAY (BR) |
| Redefines "display fireworks" to include display fireworks designated as UN0334 by the United States Department of Transportation. Eliminates permits for acts that are generally prohibited. Authorizes the setting off of fireworks within 500 feet of a hotel if done by permit. Prohibits minors from selling fireworks. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2722 RELATING TO PUBLIC SAFETY. |
SAY (BR) |
| Appropriates funds to conduct a feasibility study for a Hawaii state public safety and emergency response training facility to respond to natural and manmade disasters. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2723 RELATING TO PARTIAL PUBLIC FINANCING OF ELECTIONS. |
SAY (BR) |
| Qualifies a candidate for the office of prosecuting attorney to qualify for partial public campaign financing if the candidate does not exceed the respective campaign expenditure limit. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2724 RELATING TO CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS. |
SAY (BR) |
| Prohibits, without the contributor's written consent, contributions to be used for any purpose, including for an election for another state or county office, other than for the office sought by the candidate at the time the contribution is received. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2725 RELATING TO CAMPAIGN SPENDING. |
SAY (BR) |
| Clarifies campaign spending law relating to electronic filing of reports. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2726 RELATING TO CAMPAIGN FINANCING. |
SAY (BR) |
| Makes various amendments to the campaign financing law. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2727 RELATING TO HEALTH INSURANCE. |
WATERS |
| Requires all health insurers, mutual benefit societies, and health maintenance organizations to provide mandatory coverage for all policyholders, member, subscribers, and individuals under age 21 for the diagnosis and treatment of autism spectrum disorders beginning 1/1/2009. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2728 RELATING TO THE AGREEMENT AMONG THE STATES TO ELECT THE PRESIDENT BY NATIONAL POPULAR VOTE. |
WATERS |
| Adopts multi-state compact for election of President of the United States by national popular vote. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2729 RELATING TO BURGLARY. |
WATERS, CHANG, HERKES, TSUJI, Takamine |
| Creates a new offense of burglary in the first degree involving a dangerous instrument. Defines "dangerous instrument". | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2730 RELATING TO LEGAL REQUIREMENTS FOR NEIGHBORHOOD BOARD MEETINGS. |
WATERS, B. OSHIRO |
| Prescribes the procedure to be followed at certain neighborhood board meetings, such as the information that may be included in the written public notice, the information that the board may receive on a matter, and the deliberation and decision making process. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2731 MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR KALANIHUIA ELDERLY HOUSING PROJECT. |
RHOADS |
| Appropriates funds for Kalanihuia elderly housing project. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2732 RELATING TO KAKAAKO. |
RHOADS, BROWER, MAGAOAY, SAY |
| Increases the reserved housing requirement for a planned development on a lot of at least one acre in the Kakaako community development district, mauka area. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2733 RELATING TO HOUSING. |
RHOADS |
| Prohibits public housing policies that deny rent supplement benefits based on the number of persons sharing a bedroom in an apartment or whether tenants reside in Department of Housing and Urban Development subsidized housing. Assesses a graduated anti-speculation tax on the capital gains realized on real property held for less than 24 months before sold. Provides lessees under a long-term residential lease the right to purchase the fee simple title to the leased land. Directs the HPHA to expand the eligibility requirements for the family self-sufficiency program and appropriates funds therefor. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2734 RELATING TO DIGITAL MEDIA. |
RHOADS |
| Authorizes the department of labor and industrial relations to implement and operate media production training programs. Amends the motion picture, digital media, and film production income tax credit to allow a tax credit on fifty per cent of wages paid to below-the-line crew who are Hawaii residents that meet certain training and certification requirements. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2735 RELATING TO PUBLIC HOUSING. |
RHOADS |
| Appropriates funds for the contract hiring of at least three full time security officers at Mayor Wright homes public housing complex. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2736 RELATING TO THE SMALL BUSINESS BILL OF RIGHTS. |
YAMASHITA, CALDWELL, CHONG, HERKES, MCKELVEY, SAY, TOKIOKA, WAKAI, Nakasone |
| Establishes the small business bill of rights. Requires the ombudsman to investigate complaints of violations of the small business bill of rights. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2737 RELATING TO WATER RESOURCES. |
YAMASHITA, BROWER, CARROLL, CHONG, ITO, NAKASONE, TSUJI, Souki |
| Appropriates funds to the Department of Agriculture for the planning and design of a reservoir in Upcountry Maui to serve both agricultural and residential water needs. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2738 RELATING TO IRRIGATION. |
YAMASHITA, HAR, ITO, TSUJI, YAMANE, Brower, Karamatsu |
| Exempts, from the purview of the Public Utilities Commission, any person who controls, operates, or manages irrigation facilities for transmitting nonpotable water for private, nondomestic use. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2739 RELATING TO STATE ENTERPRISE ZONES. |
YAMASHITA, BROWER, CALDWELL, HANOHANO, HAR, HERKES, ITO, MAGAOAY, MCKELVEY, SAY, TOKIOKA, TSUJI, WAKAI, WATERS, YAMANE, Carroll, Chong, Karamatsu, Nakasone, M. Oshiro, Souki |
| Qualifies agricultural businesses for enterprise zones and allows them to receive benefits in case of force majeure. Counts leased employees and joint employment workers in hiring formulas. Changes hiring increases for certain years of operation. Qualifies certain value-added agricultural sales towards certification for income tax credit and disallows general excise tax exemption for agricultural product retail sales. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2740 RELATING TO THE COUNTY OF MAUI. |
YAMASHITA, Brower, Carroll, Chong, Ito, Nakasone, Souki |
| Appropriates moneys to Maui county for fiscal year 2008-2009 for damage repair and mitigation projects necessary as a result of the winter storms of December 2007. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2741 RELATING TO THE RIGHT OF CONSCIENCE. |
MEYER, FINNEGAN, WARD, Brower |
| Allows health care providers a right of conscience | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2742 RELATING TO LEGISLATIVE HEARINGS. |
MEYER, FINNEGAN, MARUMOTO, WARD, Belatti, Bertram, McKelvey |
| Requires 72-hour waiting period between introduction and any vote on appropriation or revenue bill, at least 24 hours between amendment proposal and any vote to adopt, and 48 hours between striking amendment proposal and any vote to adopt. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2743 RELATING TO HARBORS. |
MEYER, BROWER, MARUMOTO, Belatti, Bertram, Finnegan, McKelvey, Ward |
| Extends the department of transportation's jurisdiction and administrative authority over Honolulu harbor Pier 2 to include lots 1, 2, 4, and 5 of the Forrest Avenue subdivision, as well. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2744 RELATING TO MASS TRANSIT ROUTE ECONOMIC ZONES. |
KARAMATSU, AWANA, CABANILLA, GREEN, HANOHANO, HAR, SONSON, Bertram, Brower, McKelvey, Nishimoto, Sagum, Ward |
| Creates for 20 years economic zones proximate to any mass transit route on Oahu. Grants nonrefundable tax credits in varying percentages to economic zone qualified businesses earning above and below $ in gross annual revenues. Grants % tax credit for development of housing within zones. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2745 RELATING TO MASS TRANSIT ROUTE ECONOMIC ZONES. |
KARAMATSU, AWANA, BERTRAM, CALDWELL, HANOHANO, HAR, ITO, MIZUNO, SONSON, Brower, Carroll, Chong, McKelvey, Nishimoto, Sagum, Souki, Tokioka |
| Creates a task force to recommend parameters for the creation of mass transit route economic zones including geographic criteria, eligibility for participating businesses, and benefits and incentives such as tax credits. Report to legislature. Task force terminates on 06/30/2009. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2746 RELATING TO HYDROGEN FUEL. |
KARAMATSU, MAGAOAY, MIZUNO |
| Provides a tax credit and general excise tax exemption for the hydrogen fuel industry. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2747 RELATING TO DEFAMATION. |
KARAMATSU, EVANS, MAGAOAY, Yamashita |
| Establishes that communication of defamatory statements by telephone, facsimile, electronic mail, or other computer communication meets the requirement of publication. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2748 MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE EAST KAUAI IRRIGATION SYSTEM. |
KARAMATSU, AWANA, BROWER, CHONG, LEE, MCKELVEY, SAGUM, TSUJI |
| Appropriates funds for the operation and maintenance of the East Kauai irrigation system. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2749 RELATING TO PERSONAL INFORMATION. |
KARAMATSU, EVANS, MAGAOAY, MEYER, YAMASHITA |
| Implements recommendations of the 12/2007 report of the Hawaii identity theft task force to protect the security of personal information collected and maintained by state and county government. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2750 MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOR PEACE EDUCATION. |
KARAMATSU, BERG, MAGAOAY, MIZUNO, NISHIMOTO, WAKAI |
| Appropriates funds for the Spark M. Matsunaga Institute for Peace at the University of Hawaii for the hiring of a director; administrative, professional, and technical staff; and an assistant professor. Also appropriates funds for research and an international conference. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2751 RELATING TO LEGISLATIVE PROCEEDINGS ON THE INTERNET. |
KARAMATSU, AWANA, BROWER, CHONG, LEE, MCKELVEY, TSUJI |
| Appropriates funds for archived and indexed video and audio streams of legislative proceedings on the internet. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2752 RELATING TO WORKERS' COMPENSATION. |
SONSON, NAKASONE, Tsuji |
| Requires that the physician performing an independent medical examination be licensed in the State for 5 years, be subject to peer review, and be known in the local medical community to have been in the practice of treating injured employees and conducting independent medical examinations for the employers. Repeals authority of employer to appoint a physician to examine the employee where the employer is dissatisfied with the progress of the case or where surgery is contemplated. Prohibits more than one independent medical examination per case. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2753 MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR COLLECTIVE BARGAINING COST ITEMS. |
SONSON, ITO, YAMANE, YAMASHITA, Evans, Magaoay, Marumoto, McKelvey, Mizuno, Souki, Takamine |
| Provides fund authorizations and appropriations for salary increases for unit 5 employees for fiscal year 2008-2009. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2754 RELATING TO EDUCATION. |
SONSON, TSUJI, Ito, Yamashita |
| Authorizes the board of education to establish the duration of probationary periods for new teachers, principals, and vice-principals of the department of education. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2755 RELATING TO THE EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM. |
SONSON, Evans, Ito, Magaoay, McKelvey, Mizuno, Souki, Takamine, Tsuji, Yamane, Yamashita |
| Re-opens election and membership into class H until 7/1/09. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2756 RELATING TO THE HOSPITAL LOAN GUARANTEE PROGRAM. |
CABANILLA, GREEN, KARAMATSU, MAGAOAY, MIZUNO, SONSON, Brower, Caldwell |
| Establishes a hospital loan guarantee program to guarantee a portion of a loan by a private financial institution to a hospital that is experiencing short-term financial problems. Repealed 6/30/20 . | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2757 RELATING TO HOSPITALS. |
CABANILLA, GREEN, KARAMATSU, MAGAOAY, MIZUNO, SONSON, Brower, Caldwell |
| Establishes a hospital capital loan program under department of health. Requires loan to Hawaii Medical Center, LLC. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2758 RELATING TO HEALTH. |
CABANILLA, GREEN, KARAMATSU, MIZUNO, SONSON, Brower, Caldwell, Magaoay |
| Requires the department of taxation to defer general excise tax collection for the Hawaii Medical Center's hospital operations between July 1, 2008, and an unspecified date. Also requires the department to collect the deferred taxes plus interest after the unspecified date. Provides for immediate payment of deferred taxes, interest, and penalty upon occurrence of certain events. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2759 RELATING TO GENERAL EXCISE TAX. |
CABANILLA, GREEN, KARAMATSU, MIZUNO, SONSON, Brower, Caldwell, Magaoay |
| Extends the general excise tax exemption for non-profit hospitals, infirmaries, and sanitaria to for-profit hospitals, infirmaries, and sanitaria. Makes conforming amendments. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2760 RELATING TO THE OAHU METROPOLITAN PLANNING ORGANIZATION. |
CABANILLA, GREEN, SONSON, Brower, Mizuno |
| Adds 2 members to the Oahu metropolitan planning organization policy committee – chairperson of the citizen advisory group and chairperson of the technical advisory group. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2761 RELATING TO WOMEN'S HEALTH. |
MORITA, CARROLL, CHING, EVANS, HANOHANO, LEE, LUKE, MIZUNO, PINE, SHIMABUKURO, THIELEN, YAMANE, Awana, Belatti, Brower, Har, Marumoto, Rhoads |
| Requires not less than 6 months post-partum and interconception care for women of childbearing age who are participants in the Hawaii QUEST health insurance program. Defines "interconception care." Requires department of human services to adopt rules. Appropriation. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2762 RELATING TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE. |
LEE, BELATTI, BERG, CARROLL, CHING, EVANS, HANOHANO, LUKE, MARUMOTO, MEYER, MIZUNO, MORITA, PINE, SHIMABUKURO, THIELEN, Awana, Brower, Har, Rhoads, Yamane |
| Provides protections for domestic violence victims in rental housing. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2763 RELATING TO THE CHILDREN OF INCARCERATED PARENTS TASK FORCE. |
EVANS, BROWER, CABANILLA, CARROLL, HANOHANO, LEE, LUKE, MARUMOTO, MEYER, MIZUNO, PINE, SHIMABUKURO, THIELEN, YAMANE, Awana, Belatti, Berg, Har, Morita, Rhoads |
| Re-establishes the children of incarcerated parents task force, which ceased to exist on December 31, 2007. Appropriates funds. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2764 RELATING TO CHILDREN. |
LEE, BELATTI, BERG, BROWER, CABANILLA, CARROLL, EVANS, HANOHANO, LUKE, MIZUNO, MORITA, SHIMABUKURO, YAMANE, Awana, Har, Marumoto, Rhoads |
| Establishes a bill of rights for children of incarcerated parents. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2765 RELATING TO CRIME. |
LEE, AWANA, BELATTI, BERG, BROWER, CABANILLA, CARROLL, CHING, HANOHANO, LUKE, MEYER, MORITA, PINE, RHOADS, SHIMABUKURO, YAMANE |
| Enables prosecution of human trafficking under Hawaii law by creating new offense of sexual exploitation of a minor, amending existing kidnapping, extortion, and prostitution offenses, and including sexual exploitation of a minor in definition of racketeering. Eliminates distinction between minors under 18 and minors under 16 for purposes of promoting prostitution. Makes victims of sexual exploitation of a minor and promoting prostitution in the first degree eligible for crime victim compensation. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2766 RELATING TO ELECTRONIC MONITORING. |
LEE, AWANA, BERG, BROWER, CABANILLA, CARROLL, CHING, EVANS, HANOHANO, LUKE, MARUMOTO, MEYER, MIZUNO, MORITA, PINE, RHOADS, SHIMABUKURO, THIELEN, YAMANE, Har |
| Requires electronic monitoring of persons convicted of violating a domestic abuse temporary restraining order or protective order. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2767 RELATING TO PROSTITUTION. |
LEE, AWANA, BELATTI, BERG, BROWER, CABANILLA, CARROLL, CHING, EVANS, HANOHANO, LUKE, MARUMOTO, MEYER, MIZUNO, MORITA, PINE, RHOADS, SHIMABUKURO, THIELEN, YAMANE, Har |
| Requires the department of human services to contract the services of a health and human services provider to establish a pilot prostitution prevention education and diversion program. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2768 RELATING TO VETERANS. |
EVANS, BELATTI, BERG, BROWER, CABANILLA, HANOHANO, LEE, LUKE, MARUMOTO, MIZUNO, MORITA, PINE, SHIMABUKURO, THIELEN, YAMANE, Awana, Carroll, Har |
| Changes the composition, terms, and the duties of the advisory board on veterans' services. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2769 RELATING TO MEAT. |
THIELEN, BROWER, HANOHANO, LEE, MARUMOTO, MEYER, PINE, SHIMABUKURO, YAMANE, Awana, Berg, Carroll, Ching, Luke, Mizuno, Morita |
| Requires grocers to list the country of origin of all beef, pork, poultry, and lamb sold. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2770 RELATING TO BRIDGE TO HOPE PROGRAM. |
LEE, AWANA, BELATTI, BERG, CARROLL, CHING, EVANS, HAR, LUKE, MARUMOTO, MIZUNO, MORITA, PINE, RHOADS, SHIMABUKURO, THIELEN, YAMANE, Hanohano, Meyer |
| Expands the bridge to hope program to enable all heads of households receiving financial assistance and participating in first-to-work to pursue education beyond the federal limit of one-year of vocational education. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2771 RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES. |
LEE, AWANA, BELATTI, BERG, CHING, HANOHANO, LUKE, MARUMOTO, MIZUNO, MORITA, PINE, RHOADS, SHIMABUKURO, THIELEN, Carroll, Evans, Har, Meyer, Yamane |
| Clarifies the eligibility requirements of and expands the bridge to hope program to enable all heads of households who are receiving financial assistance and participating in the first to-work program to pursue a full range of educational activities as part of their work activities. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2772 RELATING TO HUMAN TRAFFICKING. |
LEE, BROWER |
| Extends the sunset date for the Hawaii Anti-trafficking Task Force to 2010. Adds members to the Task Force. Appropriates funds. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2773 RELATING TO DNA COLLECTION. |
MARUMOTO, AWANA, CABANILLA, CARROLL, CHING, EVANS, HANOHANO, LEE, MEYER, MIZUNO, PINE, SHIMABUKURO, THIELEN, YAMANE, Berg, Brower, Rhoads |
| Requires DNA collection from those arrested on felony charges. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2774 RELATING TO PUBLIC ASSISTANCE. |
LEE |
| Expands QUEST coverage for post-pregnancy interconception care to up to six months. Appropriates funds for this purpose. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2775 RELATING TO THE EXECUTIVE OFFICE ON AGING. |
LEE |
| Amends HRS sec. 349-2(b) to increase the salary cap for the director of the executive office on aging from sixty-nine to eighty per cent of the salary of the director of the department of human resources development. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2776 RELATING TO CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES. |
LEE |
| Prohibits pre-signed and predated prescriptions. Clarifies how the narcotic enforcement division administrator shall conduct inspections at pharmacies. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2777 RELATING TO INCOME TAX. |
YAMASHITA, BROWER, CALDWELL, CARROLL, CHANG, HANOHANO, HAR, HERKES, ITO, KARAMATSU, MAGAOAY, SAY, TOKIOKA, TSUJI, WAKAI, WATERS, McKelvey, Nakasone, Souki, Yamane |
| Establishes an income tax credit for farmers who purchase water at higher rates from county water boards rather than at lower state irrigation system rates. Establishes the amount of the credit as the difference between the amount charged by state irrigation systems and the amount the state irrigation systems should charge in order to sustain operations. Deducts the cost of the tax credit from the irrigation system revolving fund. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2778 RELATING TO TAX CREDITS. |
YAMASHITA, AWANA, BROWER, CALDWELL, CARROLL, CHANG, CHONG, GREEN, HANOHANO, HAR, HERKES, ITO, KARAMATSU, MAGAOAY, MANAHAN, MCKELVEY, MIZUNO, MORITA, NAKASONE, M. OSHIRO, SAY, TOKIOKA, TSUJI, WAKAI, WATERS, YAMANE, Belatti, Evans, Sagum, Souki, Takamine |
| Requires DBEDT to report on the social and economic benefits of tax credits. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2779 RELATING TO GRAY WATER. |
YAMASHITA, AWANA, BROWER, CARROLL, CHANG, CHONG, EVANS, GREEN, HANOHANO, HAR, HERKES, ITO, KARAMATSU, MAGAOAY, MCKELVEY, MIZUNO, MORITA, NAKASONE, M. OSHIRO, SAY, TOKIOKA, TSUJI, WAKAI, WATERS, YAMANE, Souki |
| Requires the department of health to establish a gray water recycling program. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2780 RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE TWELFTH REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT. |
YAMASHITA |
| Appropriates funds for capital improvements for the benefit of the 12th Representative District. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2781 RELATING TO SMALL BUSINESS. |
YAMASHITA, BROWER, CALDWELL, CHONG, HANOHANO, HAR, HERKES, ITO, KARAMATSU, MAGAOAY, MCKELVEY, M. OSHIRO, SAY, TOKIOKA, TSUJI, WAKAI, WATERS, YAMANE, Carroll, Chang, Nakasone, Souki |
| Requires agency Small Business Impact Statement for a proposed rule that imposes a higher standard than federal, state, or county law, to justify the proposed higher standard; requires agency to periodically identify and justify existing rules that impose those higher standards. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2782 RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION. |
CABANILLA, PINE, Brower, Green |
| Allows public-private partnership agreements to build, operate, own, or finance transport facilities. Exempts bus operations. Requires prior legislative approval. Tolls apply only to new facilities. Imposes % in-state hiring preference. Facilities revert to State upon agreement termination. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2783 RELATING TO COUNTY SURCHARGE ON STATE TAX. |
CABANILLA, PINE, SONSON, Brower |
| Broadens the use of the county surcharge on state tax to include the building of highways for counties with a population greater than 500,000. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2784 RELATING TO SHOPPING CARTS. |
CABANILLA, Brower, Evans, Green, Mizuno |
| Allows abandoned shopping carts to be confiscated by the refuse division of any county with a population greater than 500,000; allows the county to impose a $50 pick-up fee or a $100 recycling fee. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2785 MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO CONTROL OR ERADICATE THE NETTLE CATERPILLAR (DARNA PALLIVITTA MOTH) ON THE ISLAND OF MAUI. |
CARROLL |
| Appropriates funds to control or eradicate the Nettle caterpillar (Darna pallivitta moth) on the island of Maui. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2786 RELATING TO EDUCATION. |
CARROLL |
| Exempts moneys for librarians from the weighted student formula. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2787 RELATING TO CIVIL DEFENSE. |
CARROLL |
| Requires the civil defense division to include in the state preparedness report a plan for providing incident-specific notice for each community. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2788 RELATING TO ZONING. |
CARROLL |
| Prohibits a county from issuing a permit or special permit for any residential or commercial development of any wetland or tidal area abutting the shoreline unless the county first holds a public informational meeting in the affected community and solicits public input on the proposed development. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2789 MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR AMBULANCE SERVICE FOR THE COUNTY OF MAUI. |
CARROLL |
| Appropriates $ in FY 2008-2009 for ambulance service in the Haiku region of Maui and $ for the island of Molokai. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2790 RELATING TO ADULT CORRECTIONS OFFICERS AND YOUTH CORRECTIONS OFFICERS. |
TAKUMI |
| Provides adult corrections officers and youth corrections officers with similar retirement benefits afforded other law enforcement and safety officers by allowing retirement after 25 years of credited service, unreduced for age. Requires increased percentage of contributions to ERS for hybrid plan adult corrections officers and youth corrections officers. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2791 RELATING TO FIREWORKS. |
TAKUMI, TAKAI |
| Bans all fireworks in counties with a population of more than 500,000 persons. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2792 RELATING TO EDUCATION. |
TAKUMI |
| Authorizes the board of education to provide wage adjustments to substitute teachers that are comparable to wage adjustments that are negotiated for teachers in collective bargaining unit 5. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2793 RELATING TO LEGAL SERVICES. |
TAKUMI |
| Allows the board of education to employ or retain its own attorneys. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2794 PROPOSING AMENDMENTS TO THE HAWAII CONSTITUTION RELATING TO THE ISSUANCE OF SPECIAL PURPOSE REVENUE BONDS. |
TAKUMI, BERG |
| Proposes a constitutional amendment to authorize the State to issue special purpose revenue bonds to assist nonprofit corporations supporting one or more charter schools, community development financial institutions benefiting one or more public charter schools, and charter schools. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2795 RELATING TO MEDICAID. |
GREEN |
| Establishes a timeline by which the department of health shall reconcile managed care supplemental payments; provides a clear definition of what conditions constitute a “change of scope” for purposes of increasing or decreasing rates paid to a federally qualified health center or rural health clinic; specifies a process through which these providers may file for a new rate due to “change of scope;” and identifies services that are required to be reimbursed under the prospective payment system. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2796 RELATING TO INSURANCE. |
GREEN |
| Provides that health insurance companies with more than 50 per cent of the market share provide increased insurance reimbursements and those insurers with less than 50 per cent of the market share will be afforded an exemption from taxes on premiums provided they work toward decreasing the number of uninsured in Hawaii. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2797 RELATING TO THE KALOKO HOUSING PROGRAM. |
GREEN |
| Appropriates funds for the design, planning, and construction of the Kaloko Housing Program in West Hawaii. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2798 RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL WATER RATES. |
GREEN |
| Directs the public utilities commission to require private utilities that furnish water used for agricultural purposes in areas zoned for agricultural use to establish a reduced water rate for qualified agricultural water users. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2799 RELATING TO CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES. |
GREEN |
| Authorizes the use of a payor provided identification number in mail-order prescriptions. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2800 MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A WILDLIFE VIEWING SITE AT KIPUKA 21 ON THE ISLAND OF HAWAII. |
GREEN |
| Appropriates funds to the Department of Land and Natural Resources for the planning, design, engineering, and construction of a wildlife viewing site at Kipuka 21 on Saddle Road on the island of Hawaii. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2801 RELATING TO HOME CARE AGENCIES. |
GREEN |
| Requires home care agencies to be licensed by the Department of Health. Appropriates funds. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2802 RELATING TO EMERGENCY TRAFFIC ACCESS TO WAIANAE COAST. |
TAKAI |
| Requires department of transportation to open 1 lane in each direction at Kaena Point on the Waianae Coast to provide traffic access during emergencies. Requires start of construction no later than . Appropriation. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2803 RELATING TO PUBLIC UTILITIES. |
TAKAI |
| Creates a tax credit for electric utilities for undergrounding facilities. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2804 RELATING TO KEWALO BASIN. |
BROWER, ITO, LEE, MIZUNO, M. OSHIRO, TSUJI, Belatti, Caldwell, Carroll, Chong, Rhoads, Shimabukuro, Waters |
| Transfers from the Hawaii community development authority to the department of land and natural resources sole jurisdiction and administrative responsibility for the management of the maritime uses and the submerged lands within Kewalo basin. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2805 RELATING TO THE GENERAL EXCISE TAX. |
BROWER, LEE, MIZUNO, WATERS, Belatti, Caldwell, Ito, Rhoads, Shimabukuro, Tsuji |
| Exempts sales of clothing and accessories from the general excise tax on the first Saturday occurring three weeks before the first day of public school. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2806 RELATING TO THE OFFICE OF THE AUDITOR. |
BROWER, CALDWELL, CHONG, MIZUNO, M. OSHIRO, RHOADS, TSUJI, WATERS, Belatti |
| Authorizes and funds an investigative unit in the Office of the Auditor to conduct investigations involving alleged or suspected government waste, fraud, abuse, nonfeasance, or malfeasance. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2807 RELATING TO LAND USE. |
TSUJI, BROWER, HERKES, KARAMATSU, MIZUNO, SONSON, TAKAI, YAMASHITA, Awana, Chong, Har, Nakasone |
| Provides incentives to landowners who designate their land as important agricultural lands. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2808 RELATING TO IMPORTANT AGRICULTURAL LANDS. |
TSUJI, AWANA, BROWER, HAR, HERKES, KARAMATSU, MIZUNO, SONSON, TAKAI, YAMASHITA, Chong, Nakasone |
| Provides incentives and protections to establish and sustain viable agricultural operations on important agricultural lands. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2809 RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. |
TSUJI, BROWER, HERKES, MIZUNO, TAKAI, Awana, Chong |
| Establishes a program for state matching funds for expenses incurred by the counties in supporting agriculture. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2810 RELATING TO WATER RATES. |
TSUJI, AWANA, BROWER, CHONG, HERKES, MIZUNO, TAKAI |
| Establishes a process for just and reasonable water rates for farming operations with PUC oversight, but excludes the water supplier from the definition of a "public utility." | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2811 RELATING TO ENERGY. |
CALDWELL, M. OSHIRO, Chong |
| Transfers general funds into the energy systems development special fund. Appropriates funds from the energy systems development special fund for the Hawaii natural energy institute. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2812 RELATING TO UTILITIES. |
CALDWELL |
| Adopts a state policy of favoring underground utilities. Establishes an underground conversion fund for sustained incremental conversion of overhead utilities. Allows income tax refund as a voluntary contribution to the fund. Directs the public utilities commission to establish and administer an underground conversion program. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2813 RELATING TO THE HAWAII PUBLIC HOUSING AUTHORITY. |
AWANA, GREEN, MARUMOTO, MIZUNO, TAKAI, TSUJI, Brower, Rhoads |
| Requires the Hawaii Public Housing Authority to conduct a study on creating incentives for public housing tenants to transition into permanent housing. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2814 RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE FORTY-FOURTH REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT. |
AWANA |
| Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects for the benefit of the 44th representative district. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2815 RELATING TO PUBLIC HOUSING. |
AWANA, BROWER, Tsuji |
| Requires the Hawaii Public Housing Authority to submit annual reports to the legislature on the number of vacant units in public housing projects and related information. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2816 RELATING TO SUBSTANCE ABUSE. |
AWANA, GREEN, MIZUNO, TAKAI, Brower, Marumoto, Rhoads, Tsuji |
| Requires the Department of Health to license substance abuse rehabilitation homes and to establish standard operating procedures. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2817 RELATING TO MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT LEARNING EXPERIENCE PROGRAM. |
KARAMATSU |
| Makes an appropriation of $4,800,000 for the music entertainment learning experience program at Honolulu community college, and issues general obligation bonds for site development, renovation, facilities remodeling, and studio construction. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2818 MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII. |
KARAMATSU |
| Appropriates funds for the Institute for Peace. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2819 RELATING TO FIREWORKS. |
KARAMATSU |
| Prohibits open possession of consumer fireworks other than during the days and times authorized by law. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2820 RELATING TO WATER FOR IMPORTANT AGRICULTURAL LANDS. |
KARAMATSU |
| Amends the state water code to support making sufficient water available for agricultural activity on important agricultural lands. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2821 RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. |
KARAMATSU |
| Establishes tax credit for agricultural businesses on important agricultural lands. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2822 RELATING TO DROUGHT MITIGATION TAX CREDIT. |
KARAMATSU |
| Provides a tax credit equal to 50% of the costs for construction of a new drought mitigation water storage facility, or repair or reconstruction of an existing water storage facility | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2823 RELATING TO DAM SAFETY. |
KARAMATSU |
| Establishes limitations on liability for damages for owners of dams and reservoirs. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2824 RELATING TO SENTENCING. |
KARAMATSU |
| Authorizes the court to sentence certain persons convicted of sexual assault in the first degree to wear a global positioning system transmitter for up to 10 years after the person's release from prison. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2825 RELATING TO THE ISSUANCE OF SPECIAL PURPOSE REVENUE BONDS TO ASSIST SOPOGY INC., IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF RENEWABLE ENERGY ON THE ISLAND OF OAHU. |
KARAMATSU |
| Authorizes the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds in an amount not exceeding $35,000,000 to assist Sopogy, Inc. with planning, designing, construction, equipping, and operating a solar farm power plant on the island of Oahu to produce electricity from solar power. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2826 RELATING TO SOLID WASTE. |
CHONG, B. OSHIRO |
| Suspends collection of the deposit beverage container fee. Directs the counties to revise their integrated solid waste management plans and appropriates moneys for this purpose. Requires matching funds from counties. Effective 07/01/08. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2827 RELATING TO THE EMPLOYER-UNION HEALTH BENEFITS TRUST FUND. |
CHONG, B. OSHIRO |
| Specifies that legislative appropriations to the trust fund do not revert to the general fund. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2828 MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE SUPER SUCKER. |
CHONG, TSUJI |
| Appropriates moneys to provide one year of funding for the full-time operation of the super sucker project in Kaneohe bay and for the purchase of a portable super sucker unit. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2829 RELATING TO LAND USE. |
CHONG, B. OSHIRO, TSUJI |
| Amends the land use law to expand the permissible land uses within rural districts. Permits individuals under certain conditions to change land classification from agricultural to rural land. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2830 RELATING TO LAND USE. |
CHONG, TSUJI |
| Requires counties to adopt by ordinance permissible uses and infrastructure standards within rural, urban, and agricultural districts. Clarifies permissible uses for agricultural, rural, and conservation lands. Establishes requirements for reclassification of agricultural lands to rural lands. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2831 RELATING TO WIRELESS ENHANCED 911 SERVICE. |
TAKAI, SAIKI |
| Eliminates the $0.66 monthly surcharge on wireless telephone accounts and terminates the wireless enhanced 911 fund once all moneys in the fund are expended. Effective 7/1/2008. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2832 RELATING TO ARMED SERVICES. |
TAKAI |
| Creates Hawaii military family relief trust program and trust fund to pay cash benefits to certain members of the armed forces who have served in active service. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2833 RELATING TO LAND USE. |
HERKES |
| Allows the redesignation of certain residential subdivisions in the agricultural district into the rural district, subject to certain criteria. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2834 RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE FIFTH REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT. |
HERKES |
| Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects for the benefit of the 5th representative district. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2835 RELATING TO THE NATURAL ENERGY LABORATORY OF HAWAII AUTHORITY. |
HERKES |
| Transfers the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority from the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to the Lieutenant Governor's Office. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2836 RELATING TO THE PATIENTS' BILL OF RIGHTS. |
HERKES |
| Conforms the law to a recent Hawaii supreme court decision by amending the Patients' Bill of Rights external review procedure under which patients may appeal a managed care plan's final, internal decision denying coverage of a health intervention. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2837 RELATING TO MORTGAGE FORECLOSURES. |
HERKES |
| Amends certain sections of the mortgage foreclosures law to ensure that consumers and others receive important information regarding a foreclosure in a timely manner. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2838 RELATING TO RENEWABLE ENERGY. |
MIZUNO, AWANA, BERTRAM, CHING, GREEN, HANOHANO, MARUMOTO, MCKELVEY, B. OSHIRO, RHOADS, THIELEN, TSUJI, Chang, Chong, Magaoay, Morita, Nishimoto |
| Establishes a renewable energy technology grant program to provide renewable energy matching grants for demonstration, commercialization, research, and development projects relating to renewable energy technologies. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2839 RELATING TO TAX EXEMPTIONS. |
MIZUNO, AWANA, BERTRAM, CHING, HANOHANO, MARUMOTO, MCKELVEY, NISHIMOTO, B. OSHIRO, THIELEN, TSUJI, Chong, Luke, Rhoads |
| Exempts from the general excise tax and use tax all equipment used directly in the generation of electricity using fuel cells, hydrogen, biomass, wind, the sun, the ocean, geothermal energy, waste heat, hydroelectric power, or landfill gas. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2840 RELATING TO HAWAII GREEN SEAL PROGRAM. |
MIZUNO, GREEN, Chong, Tsuji |
| Directs the department of business, economic development, and tourism to develop the Hawaii green seal program to certify businesses that meet renewable energy standards. Creates a task force to develop standards for certification. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2841 RELATING TO GRAFFITI. |
MIZUNO, Chong, Tsuji |
| Establishes a reward for persons who report offenders who cause graffiti damage and establishes a schedule of fines applicable to minor children who cause graffiti damage. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2842 RELATING TO APPROPRIATIONS. |
MIZUNO, GREEN, HANOHANO, Caldwell, Chong, Luke, Tsuji |
| Requires funds for bills passed into law through veto override to be released within 90 days of passage. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2843 RELATING TO INVASIVE SPECIES. |
TSUJI, AWANA, BROWER, CHONG, GREEN, KARAMATSU, TAKAI, Rhoads |
| Imposes a invasive species fee for all incoming non-containerized freight into the State. Requires the department of agriculture to assess fines for violations of section 150A-5.3, HRS (inspection, quarantine, and eradication service fees), pursuant to rules. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2844 RELATING TO MASS TRANSIT. |
RHOADS |
| Requires the names of transit station in any mass transit system in the State to consist of Hawaiian names, words, or phrases. Prohibits transit stations in using the same name as any existing name as any existing commercial entity or establishment. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2845 RELATING TO PUBLIC HOUSING. |
RHOADS |
| Confers specific power on chiefs of police to enter and enforce laws in common areas of public housing. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2846 RELATING TO MEDICAL LIABILITY TAX CREDITS. |
WATERS |
| Provides a tax credit equal to an unspecified percentage of medical malpractice premium costs incurred by a physician who relocates to a rural area. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2847 RELATING TO CONDITIONAL LICENSE PERMITS. |
WATERS |
| Allows conditional license permit for a person's medical needs and caregiving. Clarifies when a conditional license permit is permissible for certain commercial drivers. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2848 RELATING TO GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES. |
WATERS |
| Permits state and county governments to rehire retired employees as permanent employees without affecting the rehired retirees' retirement benefits. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2849 RELATING TO ALLOWANCE ON SERVICE RETIREMENT. |
WATERS |
| Makes police radio dispatchers class A members of the employees' retirement system. Exempts Act from prohibition against benefit enhancements, including reduction in retirement age when there is an unfunded liability established in section 88-122(e), HRS by Act 256, SLH 2007, section 3(2). | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2850 RELATING TO THE REHIRING OF RETIREES. |
WATERS |
| Authorizes state and county governments to rehire retired employees during labor shortages and for difficult-to-fill occupational areas without retirement benefit penalty. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2851 RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE FORTY-SECOND REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT. |
CABANILLA |
| Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects for the benefit of the 42nd representative district. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2852 RELATING TO THE ALTERNATIVE ENERGY. |
BERG, AWANA, CARROLL, GREEN, HANOHANO, LEE, MANAHAN, MORITA, TSUJI, WAKAI, Brower, Takumi |
| Requires newly constructed wastewater treatment works to integrate a process for producing energy used to power the treatment works by using the sewage or by-product of the sewage, such as methane gas, for fuel. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2853 RELATING TO THE STATE BUILDING CODE. |
BERG, AWANA, CARROLL, GREEN, HANOHANO, LEE, MANAHAN, MORITA, TSUJI, WAKAI, Brower, Takumi |
| Prohibits counties from reducing the required number of toilet facilities for public use in commercial spaces intended for public use. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2854 RELATING TO PARKING FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES. |
BERG, AWANA, CARROLL, GREEN, HANOHANO, MANAHAN, MORITA, WAKAI, Takumi |
| Makes vehicles owned and operated by nursing facilities eligible for disabled parking license plates, placards, and identification cards. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2855 RELATING TO VEHICLE REGISTRATION. |
MANAHAN, EVANS, LEE, LUKE, Nishimoto, Takumi |
| Imposes a fee for registering motor vehicles in the State that have an engine displacement larger than 200 cubic inches. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2856 RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION. |
MANAHAN, EVANS, Lee, Luke, Nishimoto, Takumi |
| Requires the department of transportation to conduct a feasibility study to implement electronic road pricing in the State. Report to legislature. Appropriation. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2857 RELATING TO TAX CREDITS. |
YAMASHITA |
| Provides a one-time nonrefundable tax credit to assist the victims of the December 2007 flood and wind storm in upcountry Maui and other areas of the 12th representative district. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2858 RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL LANDS TAX CREDITS. |
YAMASHITA, TSUJI |
| Provides an income tax credit for the cost of real property taxes for, or improvements made on agricultural land. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2859 RELATING TO CERTIFICATE OF NEED. |
MCKELVEY, AWANA, CARROLL, EVANS, HANOHANO, HAR, YAMASHITA |
| Requires decision regarding issuance of a certificate of need at only 1 public hearing and within 30 days if an applicant is required to and has obtained (1) an environmental impact statement or a finding of no significant impact; and (2) all necessary county land use and zoning change permits. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2860 RELATING TO TAXATION. |
SOUKI, HERKES, ITO, NISHIMOTO, YAMANE, YAMASHITA, Chang, Chong, Nakasone, M. Oshiro |
| Exempts from general excise and use taxes the fuel sold from a foreign-trade zone for intrastate air transportation by common carriers. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2861 RELATING TO RENEWABLE ENERGY. |
SAY |
| Establishes an inter-island renewable energy facility siting process to expedite the review and action upon state and county permits necessary for the siting, development, construction, and operation of a renewable energy facility. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2862 RELATING TO WIND ENERGY. |
SAY |
| Establishes a consolidated process for the approval of permits for an interisland wind energy and undersea cable project. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2863 RELATING TO RENEWABLE ENERGY. |
SAY |
| Establishes a renewable energy facility siting process to expedite the review and action upon state and county permits necessary for the siting, development, construction, and operation of a renewable energy facility. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2864 RELATING TO ADULT ENTERTAINMENT PRODUCTS. |
SAY (BR) |
| Amends the definition of "adult entertainment products" in section 489X-1, HRS. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2865 PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO THE HAWAII CONSTITUTION ON PRIMARY AND SPECIAL PRIMARY ELECTIONS. |
SAY (BR) |
| Proposes a constitutional amendment to limit a member of a political party to voting in a primary election on a ballot for that person's political party, and no other party. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2866 RELATING TO PRIMARY AND SPECIAL PRIMARY ELECTIONS. |
SAY (BR) |
| Effectuates a constitutional amendment, if adopted, to limit a member of a political party to voting in a primary election on a ballot for that person's political party, and no other party. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2867 RELATING TO STATE HEALTH PLANNING. |
SAY (BR) |
| Repeals certificate of need process and the law governing acquisition of hospitals in relation to state health planning. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2868 RELATING TO HIGHWAYS. |
SAY (BR) |
| Requires the remittance of general excise tax revenues from liquid fuel sales to the state highway fund. Repeals provisions authorizing transfers of revenues deemed excess out of the state highway fund. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2869 RELATING TO MEDICAID HOSPITAL AND LONG TERM CARE REIMBURSEMENTS. |
SAY (BR) |
| Short form bill relating to Medicaid Hospital and Long Term Care Reimbursements. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2870 RELATING TO MEDICAID PRESUMPTIVE ELIGIBILITY. |
SAY (BR) |
| Short form bill relating to Medicaid presumptive eligibility. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2871 RELATING TO ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE. |
SAY (BR) |
| Appropriates funds for the University of Hawaii to study the medical efficacy of marijuana. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2872 RELATING TO PUBLIC LANDS. |
SAGUM, CHANG, HANOHANO, MORITA, TOKIOKA, YAMASHITA, Carroll |
| Requires the department of land and natural resources to extend the recreation-residence use leases at the Koke‘e and Waimea canyon state parks for 5 years. Sunsets 01/01/12. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2873 RELATING TO STATE PARKS. |
SAGUM, ITO, KARAMATSU, Carroll, Morita, Tokioka |
| Clarifies that the conservation of park resources and values is the predominant concern of the state park system. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2874 RELATING TO STATE PARKS ON KAUAI. |
SAGUM, MORITA, TOKIOKA |
| Establishes a sub-account under the state parks special fund into which 100% of the proceeds collected from the various fees collected at the Kokee state park and Waimea canyon state park, less any net amounts due to OHA, will be deposited and used to cover the cost of repair, maintenance, and operation at the Kokee state park and Waimea canyon state park. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2875 MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR A HEALTH CENTER IN PUNA. |
HANOHANO, AWANA, BERG, BERTRAM, GREEN, MCKELVEY, MIZUNO, MORITA, SHIMABUKURO, Belatti, Carroll, Chong, Evans |
| Appropriates funds for the plans and design for a Puna health center. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2876 RELATING TO GEOLOGISTS. |
BERG |
| Requires licensure for persons holding themselves out to the public as professional geologists. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2877 RELATING TO EDUCATION. |
BERG (BR) |
| Authorizes the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds for Mohala Pua School, doing business as the Honolulu Waldorf School. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2878 RELATING TO HEALTH CARE. |
LEE, TAKUMI, YAMANE, Takamine |
| Ensures patient safety and quality health care by establishing direct care registered nurse-to-patient staffing requirements in health care facilities. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2879 RELATING TO PARENTAL RESPONSIBILITY. |
LEE, AWANA, KARAMATSU, MANAHAN, TSUJI, WAKAI, YAMANE, YAMASHITA, Berg |
| Holds parent or guardian liable for damages, injury, or death caused by child while on school grounds and requires parent or guardian to reimburse department of education for reward offered to identify the perpetrator, up to $10,000. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2880 RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE THIRTY-EIGHTH REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT. |
LEE |
| Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects for the benefit of the 38th representative district. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2881 RELATING TO PERINATAL CARE. |
LEE, AWANA, BERTRAM, GREEN, SHIMABUKURO, YAMANE |
| Appropriates funds to continue operations and services for the perinatal clinic within the department of human services. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2882 RELATING TO PARENTAL LIABILITY. |
LEE, AWANA, KARAMATSU, MANAHAN, TSUJI, WAKAI, YAMANE, YAMASHITA, Berg |
| Imposes joint and several liability on the parent or guardian of a minor under the age of 18 whose discharge of a firearm proximately causes personal injury or damage to property. Limits liability to $30,000 per person and $60,000 per incident in the case of injury or death. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2883 RELATING TO CIVIL DEFENSE. |
AWANA, CARROLL, GREEN, KARAMATSU, MAGAOAY, MANAHAN, MCKELVEY, MIZUNO, SHIMABUKURO, TSUJI |
| Directs the civil defense division to conduct a feasibility study on the use of the United States Navy facilities at Lualualei as a civilian emergency shelter. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2884 RELATING TO KULEANA LANDS. |
AWANA, CARROLL, HANOHANO, MAGAOAY, MANAHAN, MCKELVEY, MIZUNO, SHIMABUKURO, Brower, Karamatsu, Tsuji |
| Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to hold any lands where the owner of an inheritable interest in kuleana lands dies intestate and there is no taker under the Hawaii Probate Code, for 10 years before passing to the Office of Hawaiian Affairs. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2885 RELATING TO TAXES. |
AWANA, CARROLL, HANOHANO, MANAHAN, MCKELVEY, MIZUNO, Karamatsu, Yamashita |
| Provides an exemption from general excise taxes on certain food and medical products. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2886 RELATING TO RECYCLING. |
AWANA, GREEN, MAGAOAY, MANAHAN, MCKELVEY, MIZUNO, THIELEN, Carroll, Karamatsu, Tsuji |
| Directs one-half of any excess funds in the deposit beverage container deposit special fund to be provided to the counties as grants-in-aid to facilitate recycling programs in the respective county. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2887 RELATING TO TATTOOING. |
AWANA, CARROLL, GREEN, HANOHANO, MANAHAN, MCKELVEY, MIZUNO, SHIMABUKURO, TOKIOKA, Brower, Karamatsu, Magaoay, Marumoto, Rhoads, Tsuji |
| Exempts experts in the practice of Kakau, traditional Hawaiian tattooing, from current tattoo licensure laws and directs the Department of Health to work with Kahuna ka kakau to develop best practices for traditional Hawaiian tattooing. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2888 RELATING TO MEDICAL SERVICES. |
HERKES |
| Appropriates funds to Kona Hospital for a program to address health care needs in the rural areas of South Kona, Puna, and Ka‘u. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2889 RELATING TO HOUSING. |
HERKES |
| Requires the HHFDC to report to the legislature with a list of cost items that impact the high cost of homes in the State. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2890 RELATING TO ARCHAEOLOGISTS. |
HERKES |
| Authorizes the department of land and natural resources to contract with archaeologists without regard to the procurement code. Exempts contracts between the department of land and natural resources and archaeologists from the procurement code. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2891 RELATING TO PLANNING. |
HERKES |
| Requires office of planning, in conjunction with county planning departments, to develop a state land use plan that takes economic development into account and to submit the plan in a report to the legislature no later than twenty days prior to the convening of the regular session of 2009. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2892 RELATING TO ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENTS. |
HERKES |
| Exempts lands from environmental impact statement law, state or county lands for specified uses of existing public street, road, highway, trail, or bikeways. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2893 RELATING TO INTRA-COUNTY FERRY SERVICE. |
MCKELVEY, AWANA, CARROLL, MORITA |
| Requires department of land and natural resources to assign priority mooring space to intra-county ferries serving a county with 500,000 or less people and at least 3 islands inhabited by permanent residents. Exempts distributors from fuel tax for fuel sold for ultimate use by the intra-county ferry service. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2894 RELATING TO PLANNED COMMUNITY ASSOCIATIONS. |
MCKELVEY (BR) |
| Allows for the restatement of planned community association documents. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2895 RELATING TO AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS. |
MIZUNO, GREEN |
| Requires insurers, mutual benefit societies, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage for the diagnosis and treatment of autism spectrum disorders for covered individuals less than twenty-one years of age. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2896 MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE STATEWIDE LANGUAGE ACCESS BANK. |
MIZUNO |
| Establishes a statewide language access bank in the department of labor and industrial relations to centralize interpretation and translation services for state agencies and covered entities. Makes an appropriation. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2897 MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR ASSET BUILDING. |
MIZUNO |
| Establishes three-year pilot project within the department of human services to conduct and expand asset building classes statewide to serve individuals with disabilities and the parents of children with a disability. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2898 RELATING TO HEALTH. |
MIZUNO |
| Establishes the Hawaii Health Commission to develop a health plan to provide healthcare coverage for all individuals in the state. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2899 RELATING TO INTERNET SAFETY. |
MIZUNO, GREEN |
| Requires the Department of Education to establish an Internet safety education pilot project for students and community members. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2900 RELATING TO INCOME TAX. |
GREEN, Meyer |
| Establishes a tax credit of 50 per cent of revenues lost by bars that have had a drop in business due to the ban of smoking in public places enacted in 2006. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2901 RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLE INSURANCE. |
NAKASONE |
| Exempts motor vehicle insurers from being required to make available to the insured, at the insured's option, personal injury protection benefits through managed care, if there are fewer than 5 managed care providers or equivalent entities within 25 miles of the claimant. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2902 RELATING TO THE ISSUANCE OF REVENUE BONDS TO ASSIST THE MAUI REGION OF THE HAWAII HEALTH SYSTEMS CORPORATION. |
NAKASONE |
| Authorizes issuance of $150,000,000 in revenue bonds for a heart, brain, and spine center at the Maui memorial medical center. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2903 RELATING TO VERTICAL AXIS WIND TURBINES. |
THIELEN, BELATTI, BERG, GREEN, ITO, LUKE, MORITA, PINE |
| Prohibits any county from prohibiting the installation of vertical axis wind turbines in any area zoned residential, where the vertical axis wind turbines meet certain size, output, and noise restrictions. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2904 RELATING TO INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT REVOLVING FUND. |
BELATTI, BERTRAM, BROWER, GREEN, HANOHANO, LEE, LUKE, MARUMOTO, MCKELVEY, MORITA, WAKAI, Berg, Manahan, Saiki |
| Establishes the infrastructure development revolving fund to expedite the construction of affordable housing. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2905 RELATING TO THE COLLEGE SAVINGS PROGRAM. |
BELATTI, BERG, BROWER, GREEN, HANOHANO, LUKE, MARUMOTO, MCKELVEY, MORITA, SAIKI, WAKAI, Bertram, Lee |
| Provides a vehicle with unspecified amounts for an annual state tax deduction for contributions made to Hawaii's section 529 college savings plan. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2906 RELATING TO CERTIFICATE OF NEED. |
BELATTI, BERTRAM, CHING, EVANS, FINNEGAN, GREEN, HANOHANO, HERKES, LUKE, MARUMOTO, MCKELVEY, MEYER, MORITA, WAKAI, Awana, Brower, Magaoay, Mizuno, Sagum, Saiki, Souki, Takamine, Yamane, Yamashita |
| Exempts all long-term care facilities at all levels of care from the certificate of need process under the state health planning and development agency. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2907 MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR FERAL PIG ABATEMENT. |
BELATTI |
| Appropriating funds to the Department of Land and Natural Resources for the control and abatement of the feral pig population, including the purchase of box traps, baits, and corrals. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2908 RELATING TO AUDIT RECOMMENDATIONS. |
M. OSHIRO |
| Requires the Auditor to submit an annual report to the Legislature identifying all audit recommendations more than one year old that have not been implemented. Requires all affected agencies notified by the Auditor that an audit recommendation more than one year old has not been implemented to submit a written report to the Auditor, the Senate President, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives explaining why the recommendation was not implemented and the estimated date of implementation. Requires each department, office or agency, or political subdivision subject to an audit to provide updates on the implementation of the Auditor's recommendations at intervals prescribed by the Auditor. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2909 RELATING TO THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF STATEHOOD COMMISSION. |
M. OSHIRO |
| Appropriates funds for the fiftieth anniversary of statehood commission. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2910 RELATING TO TRADE SECRETS. |
M. OSHIRO, SONSON, YAMASHITA |
| Invalidates trade secret protections unless fair compensation is negotiated collectively with employees involved in developing the trade secret. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2911 RELATING TO EMPLOYEES. |
M. OSHIRO, SONSON, YAMASHITA |
| Invalidates any provision in an employment agreement that requires an employee to assign the employee's rights to an invention to the employer if the employee developed the invention entirely on the employee's own time and with the employee's own materials, with certain exceptions. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2912 RELATING TO ADULT RESIDENTIAL CARE HOMES. |
MAGAOAY, AWANA, HANOHANO, HAR, ITO, KARAMATSU, MANAHAN, MIZUNO, TOKIOKA, Carroll, Chong, McKelvey, Rhoads, Shimabukuro, Tsuji, Yamashita |
| Allows mutual benefit societies and health maintenance organizations to operate type I expanded adult residential care homes if they employ staff meeting license requirements and hire a nonresident registered nurse to act as primary caregiver. Limits the registered nurse to act as primary caregiver for no more than care homes. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2913 RELATING TO KIDNEY DISEASE. |
MAGAOAY, AWANA, CARROLL, GREEN, HANOHANO, HAR, ITO, KARAMATSU, MANAHAN, MCKELVEY, MIZUNO, RHOADS, TOKIOKA, TSUJI, Chong, Herkes, Shimabukuro, Yamashita |
| Awards a grant to St. Francis Healthcare System to support the modified home care and community health demonstration project; requires $1,000,000 in matching funds. Effective 7/1/08. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2914 RELATING TO SKILLED NURSING FACILITIES. |
MAGAOAY, HANOHANO, ITO, MANAHAN, MIZUNO, SONSON, TSUJI, Awana, Carroll, Chong, Har, Karamatsu, McKelvey, Tokioka, Yamashita |
| On 1/1/2009, treats each new skilled nursing facility or facility expanding its operations outside an enterprise zone as operating within an enterprise zone for purposes of eligibility to receive all benefits provided in enterprise zones. Adds skilled nursing facilities to definition of "medical and health care services." | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2915 MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM PREPARING CANDIDATES FOR NURSES LICENSING EXAMINATIONS IN HAWAII. |
MAGAOAY, AWANA, CARROLL, HANOHANO, HAR, ITO, KARAMATSU, MANAHAN, MCKELVEY, MIZUNO, SONSON, TOKIOKA, TSUJI, YAMASHITA, Chong |
| Appropriates $100,000 to University of Hawaii to support a program of study to prepare candidates to pass the licensing examination for nurses in Hawaii. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2916 RELATING TO SMOKING. |
BROWER, CABANILLA, GREEN, HANOHANO, KARAMATSU, MIZUNO, RHOADS, Caldwell, Chong, B. Oshiro, Takumi |
| Prohibits smoking in state correctional facilities. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2917 RELATING TO HARBORS. |
BROWER, HANOHANO, LUKE, MIZUNO, TSUJI, Awana, Belatti, Berg, Caldwell, Chong, Evans, Green, Ito, McKelvey, Rhoads, Takumi, Yamashita |
| Requires the department of transportation to allow a vessel with a mooring permit for Kewalo basin to moor in Honolulu harbor under certain conditions. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2918 RELATING TO THE HAWAII PENAL CODE. |
BROWER, MIZUNO, Belatti, Berg, Caldwell, Chong, Evans, Hanohano, Ito, Luke, McKelvey, B. Oshiro, Takumi, Tsuji, Yamashita |
| Establishes the offense of ticket scalping as a misdemeanor. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2919 RELATING TO AIR POLLUTION CONTROL. |
TOKIOKA, MORITA |
| Prohibits cruise ships from burning bunker fuel as an air pollutant within five miles of Nawiliwili harbor; defines bunker fuel oil. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2920 RELATING TO FRAUD PREVENTION. |
TOKIOKA, CALDWELL, MORITA, SAY |
| Requires notary public to place seal over a succinct phrase describing document being notarized and to separately record a description of the document. Authorizes attorney general to adopt rules to prevent fraudulent use of notarized documents. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2921 RELATING TO KULEANA LANDS. |
TOKIOKA |
| Makes the office of Hawaiian affairs the trustee of any unclaimed kuleana lands. Prohibits quieting title to or claiming by adverse possession of any kuleana lands. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2922 RELATING TO FUEL TAX. |
TOKIOKA, MORITA |
| Clarifies that the license tax on diesel fuel is 1 cent, rather than 2 cents if used in power-generating facilities. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2923 RELATING TO NINE HUNDRED NINETY-NINE YEAR HOMESTEAD LEASES. |
TOKIOKA |
| Reverts to the original intent that, notwithstanding any rights of the occupier or lessee, conveyance, devise, or bequest to the contrary, in the case of the death of any occupier or lessee under an existing certificate of occupation or homestead lease, the land will vest in the relations specified by law. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2924 RELATING TO THE WAIANAE COAST COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH CENTER. |
SHIMABUKURO |
| Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds for the expansion and renovation of Waianae Coast Comprehensive Health Center. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2925 RELATING TO LAND HAVING VALUE AS A RESOURCE TO THE STATE. |
SHIMABUKURO |
| Permitting the purchase of land through the Land Conservation Fund at the tax assessed value or the appraised value, whichever is higher. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2926 RELATING TO SUBSTITUTE TEACHERS. |
CALDWELL, CHANG, EVANS, LEE, NISHIMOTO, SONSON, TAKUMI, WATERS, YAMANE, Belatti, Berg, Chong |
| Establishes that the interim compensation of substitute teachers shall be tied to the salary or wage increases provided to licensed class II teachers of the department of education. Appropriates funds for retroactive pay and per diem increases for substitute teachers. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2927 RELATING TO PUBLIC WORKS. |
CALDWELL, M. OSHIRO, B. OSHIRO, SONSON, TAKUMI |
| Amends public works law to require 3-year suspension for any government contractor that delays an investigation or falsifies records. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2928 RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE TWENTY-FOURTH REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT. |
CALDWELL |
| Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects for the 24th representative district. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2929 RELATING TO WORKERS' COMPENSATION. |
CALDWELL, GREEN, MIZUNO, M. OSHIRO, SAY, SONSON |
| Requires independent medical examinations to be performed by mutually agreed upon physicians, and by employer's physician. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2930 RELATING TO THE STATE MINIMUM WAGE. |
CALDWELL, M. OSHIRO, SONSON, TAKUMI |
| Increases the state minimum wage to $8.00 beginning 7/1/2008; to $8.50 beginning 7/1/2009; and to $9.00 beginning 7/1/2010. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2931 RELATING TO A TECHNOLOGY MASTER PLAN. |
WAKAI, AWANA, BERG, FINNEGAN, HANOHANO, MARUMOTO, MEYER, MORITA, M. OSHIRO, PINE, Bertram |
| Creates a high technology industry task force, attached to the high technology development corporation, to develop a state master plan for high technology prior to the convening of the 2010 regular session and updated every 2 years thereafter. Changes composition of task force after 2010 regular session. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2932 RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII. |
WAKAI, AWANA, BERG, CARROLL, HANOHANO, MIZUNO, MORITA, PINE, WATERS, YAMANE, Bertram, Souki, Tsuji |
| Requires at least 90 per cent of revenues from University of Hawaii post-season athletic appearances to be allocated to the UH athletics program. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2933 RELATING TO HIGHWAYS. |
WAKAI, AWANA, GREEN, Berg, Bertram, Carroll, Hanohano, Marumoto, Mizuno, Morita, Souki, Tsuji, Waters |
| Adds a surcharge of 50% to a fine levied for a violation of any section or provision of the statewide traffic code. Establishes a state highway patrol and state highway patrol special fund. Requires the director of finance to distribute the amount of the surcharge to the highway patrol special fund. Appropriates funds. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2934 RELATING TO TOBACCO PRODUCTS. |
WAKAI, AWANA, BERTRAM, GREEN, HANOHANO, MIZUNO, PINE, YAMANE, Berg, Carroll, Finnegan, Marumoto, Morita, M. Oshiro, Tsuji, Waters |
| Prohibits use of tobacco products by minors. Requires minor to complete a tobacco use cessation program, perform community service, and have his or her driver's license revoked for one year. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2935 RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES. |
WAKAI, AWANA, BERTRAM, FINNEGAN, HANOHANO, MARUMOTO, MEYER, PINE, Berg, Morita |
| Establishes a reward program for reporting of fraudulent claims made to Department of Human Services assistance programs. Increases penalties for committing fraud under assistance programs. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2936 RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE THIRD REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT. |
TSUJI, CHANG, HANOHANO |
| Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the 3rd representative district. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2937 RELATING TO EDUCATION. |
TSUJI, CHANG |
| Appropriates funds to support the continued operations of Keaau Middle College High School. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2938 RELATING TO RENEWABLE ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES. |
TSUJI, AWANA, BROWER, KARAMATSU, MAGAOAY, MCKELVEY, MIZUNO, B. OSHIRO, WAKAI, Lee, Morita, Yamashita |
| Expands the renewable energy technologies tax credit to include hydrogen energy systems. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2939 RELATING TO AEROSPACE DEVELOPMENT. |
TSUJI, AWANA, BROWER, CHONG, HANOHANO, KARAMATSU, LEE, MAGAOAY, MANAHAN, MCKELVEY, MIZUNO, B. OSHIRO, WAKAI, YAMANE, YAMASHITA, Morita |
| Appropriates funds for the continuing operations of the Pacific international space center for exploration systems. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2940 RELATING TO WATER RATES FOR AGRICULTURAL USE. |
TSUJI, AWANA, BERG, BROWER, CHONG, HANOHANO, HERKES, ITO, KARAMATSU, LEE, MAGAOAY, MANAHAN, MIZUNO, MORITA, B. OSHIRO, TAKAI, WAKAI, YAMANE, Chang, McKelvey, Yamashita |
| Directs the Public Utilities Commission to require public utilities that furnish agricultural water in an area zoned for agricultural use to establish a water rate structure for agricultural water users. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2941 RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE TWENTY-NINTH REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT. |
MANAHAN |
| Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects for the benefit of the 29th Representative District. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2942 RELATING TO TAXATION. |
CHONG, NAKASONE, M. OSHIRO, SAY, TSUJI, YAMASHITA, B. Oshiro |
| Requires the department of business, economic development, and tourism, and the department of human services to evaluate certain tax credits and tax exemptions and report to legislature as to whether they should be modified, reenacted, or repealed. Provides automatic repeal of the tax credits and tax exemptions unless extended by the legislature. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2943 RELATING TO LAND USE. |
CHONG, ITO, KARAMATSU, TSUJI, YAMASHITA, B. Oshiro |
| Accelerates the process of designating important agricultural lands by removing the 3-year limitation imposed on the land use commission and authorizing a county land use decision-making authority to reclassify certain lands that are greater than 15 acres 1 year after the county transmits its important agricultural lands designation maps to the land use commission. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2944 RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE FORTY-NINTH REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT. |
CHONG |
| Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the 49th representative district. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2945 RELATING TO PRISONS. |
CHONG, EVANS, HAR, B. OSHIRO, YAMASHITA |
| Directs the department of public safety to increase its use of a programs approach to case management and adopt a policy mandating all inmates to participate in in-facility programs. Appropriates funds to increase inmate worklines at correctional facilities and in the community. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2946 RELATING TO LAND USE. |
CHONG, HAR, HERKES, TSUJI, YAMASHITA |
| Allow counties a one-time opportunity to reclassify areas of land into rural land use districts. Sunsets on 12/31/10. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2947 RELATING TO MARINE INSURANCE. |
LUKE |
| Enacts modified version of the British Marine Insurance Act 1906, with the modifications for disclosures and warranties. Defines "marine insurance", specifies necessity of an insurable interest, requires a policy, addresses issues relating to voyage, loss and abandonment, and indemnity. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2948 RELATING TO LEGAL COUNSEL. |
LUKE |
| Authorizes the department of education to appoint and retain attorneys separate from the department of the attorney general for the purpose of monitoring, managing, and addressing the department's legal affairs. Appropriates funds. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2949 RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE TWENTY-SIXTH REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT. |
LUKE |
| Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects for the benefit of the 26th representative district. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2950 RELATING TO PUBLIC MEETINGS. |
LUKE |
| Permits board members, numbering less than quorum, to: (1) discuss their individual positions related to official board business at other board meetings and legislative public hearings; (2) attend and participate in discussions at presentations, such as community meetings; and (3) discuss membership to a board's committees in private. Requires a quorum for discussion prior and related to voting and for voting to validate board actions. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2951 RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION. |
SOUKI, Nakasone |
| Requires department of transportation to implement traffic congestion reduction plans, a statewide traffic flow improvement plan, a statewide infrastructure maintenance and improvement program, and a traffic safety enhancement plan. Requires partnering with academia. Requires annual reports. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2952 RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION. |
SOUKI, Nakasone |
| Authorizes the Department of Transportation to establish and collect car rental customer facility charges. Creates a car rental customer facility charge special fund. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2953 RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLES. |
SOUKI, Nakasone |
| Provides certain vehicle identification exemptions required when shipping a motor vehicle between islands for interisland ferry service providers. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2954 RELATED TO TOWING. |
SOUKI, Nakasone |
| Allows towing companies to charge overtime fees during certain hours of operations. Requires tow companies operating in a county with a population of 500,000 or more to offer consumer service 24 hours a day. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2955 RELATING TO ARCHAEOLOGICAL DATA. |
ITO, CARROLL, CHONG, KARAMATSU, MAGAOAY, SAGUM, YAMASHITA |
| Establishes an archaeological data survey as an online database program under the State of Hawaii Museum of Natural and Cultural History. Authorizes the museum, in consultation with the office of Hawaiian affairs and the state historic preservation division to withhold information from the database if a disclosure may pose a threat to a site or artifact. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2956 RELATING TO HUNTING. |
ITO, KARAMATSU, Chong, Magaoay, Tsuji |
| Authorizes the board and department of land and natural resources to make decisions and changes relating to hunting issues without adopting rules pursuant to Administrative Procedure Act. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2957 RELATING TO TAX CREDITS. |
ITO, BROWER, CHANG, MAGAOAY, MANAHAN, TSUJI, Chong, Herkes, Sagum, Yamashita |
| Provides a refundable small business exporter tax credit based on the percentage of out-of-state business conducted by a small business located in the State. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2958 RELATING TO TAX CREDITS. |
ITO, BROWER, CHANG, MAGAOAY, MANAHAN, TSUJI, Chong, Herkes, Sagum, Yamashita |
| Provides a non-refundable small business exporter tax credit based on the percentage of out-of-state business conducted by a small business located in the State. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2959 RELATING TO WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT. |
YAMASHITA, BROWER, CHANG, CHONG, HERKES, MANAHAN, YAMANE, Tsuji |
| Address workforce development issues within the State through various initiatives, programs, and appropriations. Extends the educational workforce working group two years. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2960 RELATING TO LIQUOR. |
YAMASHITA, EVANS, MCKELVEY, TSUJI, YAMANE, Herkes |
| Allows holder of class 1 liquor manufacturer's license to also sell liquor made from cane for private consumption, and to sell liquor from fruits or cane grown in Hawaii for consumption on the premises; requires liquor labeled with "Hawaii" or similar terms to be wholly manufactured in the State. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2961 RELATING TO TAXATION. |
YAMASHITA, AWANA, BROWER, CALDWELL, CHANG, CHONG, HANOHANO, HERKES, LEE, MANAHAN, MCKELVEY, MORITA, B. OSHIRO, M. OSHIRO, TOKIOKA, TSUJI, WAKAI, YAMANE, Nakasone |
| Provides DoTAX with the powers necessary to evaluate and study the economic impact of Hawaii tax incentives; requires DoTAX to collect information from 1/1/2002, evaluate the high technology business tax credits, and report annually to the Legislature, ending in 2012; appropriates funds; sunsets January 1, 2012. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2962 RELATING TO AFTER-SCHOOL PROGRAMS. |
TAKAMINE, CHANG, EVANS, GREEN, HANOHANO, HERKES, TSUJI |
| Appropriates funds for the Safe Haven after school program in the county of Hawaii. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2963 RELATING TO NATURAL DISASTERS. |
TAKAMINE, CHANG, EVANS, HANOHANO, TSUJI, Herkes |
| Appropriate funds for structural and non-structural earthquake recovery and mitigation projects, provided that the projects include measures to ensure survivability in future disasters with a multi-hazard approach. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2964 RELATING TO EMPLOYMENT SECURITY. |
TAKAMINE, CHANG, EVANS, GREEN, HANOHANO, HERKES, TSUJI |
| Appropriates funds for fiscal year 2007-08 in Reed Act funds for services of the unemployment insurance and workforce development divisions. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2965 RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL WATER SECURITY. |
TAKAMINE, CHANG, EVANS, GREEN, HANOHANO, HERKES, TSUJI |
| Establishes measures for preserving the security of the State's agricultural water supply in the event of an emergency. Creates the agricultural water security revolving fund to be administered by the department of land and natural resources. Makes appropriation. Effective 7/1/08. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2966 RELATING TO PUBLIC LANDS. |
EVANS |
| Permits certain lessees of sites on public lands to sublet the whole or part of the demised premises without approval of the board of land and natural resources; provided that the sublease term shall not exceed one week, the rent charged to the sublessee shall not exceed an amount necessary for the lessee to cover the lessee's operational costs, and the demised premises shall be used substantially for the purposes for which it was originally intended. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2967 RELATING TO OPEN MEETINGS. |
EVANS |
| Requires the lieutenant governor or the appropriate county clerk's office to retain public notices of open meetings for two years from the date of filing and to retain an electronic copy thereafter. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2968 RELATING TO PRETRIAL RELEASE. |
EVANS |
| Allows court to order that defendants on pretrial release be subject to electronic and alcohol monitoring at the defendant's own expense. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2969 RELATING TO INMATE REINTEGRATION PROGRAMS. |
EVANS |
| Appropriates funds to the department of public safety to support the going home reintegration initiative's efforts to provide job readiness training, job placement assistance, and job retention strategies for incarcerated offenders or ex-offenders in the community. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2970 RELATING TO EVIDENCE. |
EVANS |
| Amends the rules of evidence to make expert testimony relating to intimate partner battering and its effects admissible in criminal cases. Authorizes petition for post-conviction relief until 7/1/2010 on the grounds that expert testimony relating to intimate partner battering and its effects was offered but not received in evidence. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2971 RELATING TO EDUCATION. |
TAKUMI, BERG |
| Directs department of education to implement recommendations of the online learning task force. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2972 RELATING TO EDUCATION. |
TAKUMI, TAKAI |
| Creates the facilities alignment commission to revitalize school facilities by developing and submitting recommendations for areas for new school construction, schools for expansion, and schools for consolidation or closure. Allows the legislature to disapprove these recommendations only in their entirety. If no legislative disapproval occurs, requires the Board of Education to comply with these recommendations. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2973 RELATING TO EARLY LEARNING. |
TAKUMI, AWANA, BELATTI, BERG, BROWER, CALDWELL, CARROLL, CHANG, CHING, CHONG, EVANS, FINNEGAN, GREEN, HANOHANO, HAR, HERKES, ITO, KARAMATSU, LEE, LUKE, MAGAOAY, MANAHAN, MARUMOTO, MCKELVEY, MIZUNO, MORITA, NAKASONE, NISHIMOTO, M. OSHIRO, B. OSHIRO, PINE, SAGUM, SAIKI, SAY, SHIMABUKURO, TAKAI, THIELEN, TOKIOKA, TSUJI, WAKAI, WARD, WATERS, YAMANE, YAMASHITA, Bertram, Rhoads, Souki, Takamine |
| Creates the Early Learning Council to govern the state's early learning system. Establishes an early learning system. Establishes the Keiki First Steps Program. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2974 RELATING TO LABOR. |
TAKUMI, AWANA, BELATTI, BERG, BERTRAM, CALDWELL, CARROLL, HANOHANO, ITO, LEE, LUKE, MANAHAN, MIZUNO, MORITA, M. OSHIRO, B. OSHIRO, RHOADS, SAY, SONSON, TAKAI, WAKAI, Brower, Chong, Evans, Green, Har, Herkes, Karamatsu, Magaoay, McKelvey, Nakasone, Sagum, Saiki, Shimabukuro, Souki, Takamine, Tokioka, Tsuji, Waters, Yamane, Yamashita |
| Certifies entities as exclusive representatives absent an election where no other representatives are certified as the exclusive representatives. Requires immediate collective bargaining between parties once entities are certified as exclusive representatives. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2975 RELATING TO PUBLIC WORK PROJECTS. |
TAKUMI, BELATTI, BERG, CALDWELL, HANOHANO, LEE, LUKE, MANAHAN, MORITA, RHOADS, SAY, SONSON, TAKAI, WATERS, Awana, Bertram, Brower, Carroll, Chong, Evans, Herkes, Ito, Karamatsu, Magaoay, McKelvey, Mizuno, Nakasone, M. Oshiro, Sagum, Saiki, Shimabukuro, Souki, Takamine, Tokioka, Tsuji, Yamane, Yamashita |
| Clarifies that a single violation refers to each separate project where the department of labor and industrial relations finds that a contractor has failed to comply with chapter 104. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2976 RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII. |
CHANG, AWANA, BERTRAM, EVANS, HANOHANO, ITO, KARAMATSU, MAGAOAY, MIZUNO, TAKAI, Berg, Cabanilla, Lee, Morita, Rhoads, Souki, Takamine, Takumi |
| Establishes a culture resource management graduate level program at the University of Hawaii in Hilo. Appropriation. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2977 RELATING TO INVASIVE SPECIES. |
CHANG, AWANA, BERTRAM, HANOHANO, ITO, KARAMATSU, MAGAOAY, TAKAI, TSUJI, Berg, Evans, Lee, Mizuno, Rhoads, Shimabukuro, Takamine, Takumi |
| Requires the invasive species council to give priority to eradicating coqui frogs that are on state or county land and within 1 mile of residential areas. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2978 RELATING TO EDUCATION. |
CHANG, BERTRAM, EVANS, HANOHANO, HERKES, ITO, MAGAOAY, MIZUNO, SHIMABUKURO, TAKAI, TSUJI, YAMASHITA, Lee, Morita, Rhoads, Takamine, Takumi |
| Establishes the funding formula task force to develop an equitable, consistent, and responsive funding formula for the distribution of fiscal resources throughout the UH system, with the assistance of an independent consultant. Makes a one-time appropriation of funds to supplement the base operational budgets of UH campuses that have demonstrated a significant increase in enrollment. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2979 RELATING TO TEACHERS. |
CHANG, AWANA, BERTRAM, EVANS, HANOHANO, ITO, KARAMATSU, MAGAOAY, MIZUNO, MORITA, SHIMABUKURO, TAKAI, Lee, Rhoads, Takamine, Takumi |
| Establishes and appropriates funds for the teacher workforce strategic planning committee to address teacher workforce issues in the State. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2980 RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII. |
CHANG, AWANA, BERG, BERTRAM, HANOHANO, ITO, KARAMATSU, LEE, MAGAOAY, MIZUNO, MORITA, SHIMABUKURO, TAKAI, Evans, Rhoads, Takamine, Takumi |
| Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds and appropriates funds for the University of Hawaii college of education and University laboratory school. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2981 RELATING TO LAND USE. |
M. OSHIRO |
| Establishes historic agricultural landmarks, designated by law, to be preserved and perpetuated as agricultural land for the benefit of the people of Hawaii. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2982 RELATING TO CONFORMING STATE INCOME TAX STANDARD DEDUCTION TO FEDERAL STANDARD DEDUCTION. |
WARD, AWANA, BERTRAM, BROWER, MARUMOTO, MEYER, THIELEN, Mizuno, Nishimoto, Rhoads, Takumi |
| Conforms the state income tax standard deduction amounts to the federal amounts. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2983 RELATING TO TAXATION. |
WARD, BERTRAM, FINNEGAN, HANOHANO, MARUMOTO, Belatti, Brower, Mizuno, Morita, Nishimoto, Rhoads, Takumi |
| Provides a tax credit for the mentoring of students involved in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics programs in public schools. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2984 RELATING TO LEGACY LANDS. |
WARD, BROWER, CABANILLA, MARUMOTO, MORITA, Awana, Belatti, Bertram, Finnegan, Hanohano, Mizuno, Nishimoto, Rhoads |
| Makes an appropriation for the board of land and natural resources to purchase the Ka ‘Iwi coast using the land conservation fund. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2985 RELATING TO TAXATION. |
YAMANE, CHANG, MANAHAN, YAMASHITA |
| Provides a tax credit equal to 15% of the costs of hotel renovations between 2014 and 2019. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2986 MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE COMMUNITY COLLEGES. |
YAMANE, MANAHAN, TSUJI, YAMASHITA, Chang |
| Requires community colleges to establish a pilot program in cultural sensitivity training for hospitality industry workers. Appropriates funding from the tourism special fund. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2987 RELATING TO ENERGY RESOURCES. |
YAMANE, LEE, YAMASHITA |
| Requires lighting in state facilities to consist of 25% energy efficient sources by 2020. Requires state agency vehicle fleets to consist of 25% hybrid or fuel cell vehicles by 2020. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2988 RELATING TO TAX CREDITS. |
YAMANE, ITO, YAMASHITA, Evans |
| Provides a $1,000 tax credit to Hawaii national guard members who have served in a combat zone or qualified hazardous duty area. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2989 RELATING TO VETERANS. |
BERTRAM, GREEN, MCKELVEY, Carroll, Mizuno, Souki, Yamashita |
| Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds for the construction of a veterans hospital in the County of Maui, provided that matching federal funds can be obtained. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2990 RELATING TO HOUSING. |
BERTRAM, McKelvey, Rhoads, Ward |
| Establishes the Affordable Housing Loan Revolving Fund to receive funds from developers to provide low-interest home loans to qualified households. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2991 RELATING TO BEACHES. |
BERTRAM, MCKELVEY, Carroll, Morita |
| Makes an appropriation to be expended by the department of land and natural resources to protect and preserve state beaches. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2992 RELATING TO TAXATION. |
BERTRAM, CARROLL, MCKELVEY, MORITA, Evans |
| Authorizes a county to adopt an ordinance to levy a county surcharge on state tax to fund public transportation systems through 12/31/2010. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2993 RELATING TO SCHOOL NUTRITION. |
BERTRAM, McKelvey, Mizuno, Takumi |
| Establishes nutrition standards for food and beverages sold in public schools. Requires DOE to develop nutrition education training requirements for food service managers in the public schools. Requires DOE to encourage schools to provide culturally-appropriate and standards-based nutrition education and farm-to-table nutrition education. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2994 RELATING TO REAPPORTIONMENT. |
FINNEGAN |
| Requires the commission to apportion multi-member house districts of not more than three members that conform to the boundaries of the senate districts, where practicable. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2995 RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE THIRTY-THIRD, THIRTY-FOURTH, AND THIRTY-SIXTH REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICTS. |
B. OSHIRO, TAKAI, TAKUMI |
| Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects for the benefit of the 33rd, 34th, and 36th representative districts. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2996 RELATING TO SECTION 529 COLLEGE SAVINGS PLAN. |
B. OSHIRO, YAMASHITA |
| Provides an annual deduction of $5,000 per individual or $10,000 for a married couple filing jointly against their taxable income for contributions made to a section 529 college savings plan. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2997 RELATING TO TORTS. |
B. OSHIRO, MAGAOAY |
| Abolishes joint and several liability for design professionals except when design professional's degree of negligence is twenty-five per cent or more. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2998 RELATING TO SEX OFFENDER REGISTRATION. |
B. OSHIRO, MAGAOAY, WATERS |
| Establishes a working group to determine what changes to Hawaii law are necessary to comply with the federal Adam Walsh Act. Requires working group also to determine whether cost of compliance outweighs loss of 10% of Department of Justice grant funds that will result from noncompliance by 07/27/09. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB2999 RELATING TO FIREARMS. |
B. OSHIRO, CALDWELL, MAGAOAY, TAKUMI, Waters |
| Requires all guns to be sold with safety devices to prevent unintentional discharges by children and unauthorized users. Prohibits sales of ammunition unless the purchaser shows proof of registration for the firearm for which the ammunition is to be purchased and photo identification proving that purchaser is the person to whom the firearm is registered. Requires the attorney general to adopt rules setting minimum standards for firearms dealers to secure firearms in the ordinary course of business and in the event of a natural disaster. Requires firearms dealers to report theft of a firearm within 24 hours. Prohibits importation, manufacture, possession, sale, barter, trade, gift, transfer, or acquisition of any .50 BMG rifle or .50 BMG cartridge. Prohibits disclosure to an applicant for a permit to acquire a firearm of the source of the information used to deny the application, when the application is denied because the applicant was diagnosed with a mental disorder. Excepts government entities from the definition of owner in the statute that imposes strict liability on firearms owner for injury or damage proximately caused by the firearm | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3000 RELATING TO PROPERTY. |
BELATTI |
| Requires a landlord who rents 2 or more dwelling units in an apartment building to designate the common area in each tenant's rental agreement; provided that in the absence of a designation in the rental agreement, the statutory definition shall apply. Effective 01/01/09. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3001 RELATING TO NOISE. |
RHOADS |
| Authorizes injunctive relief and damages for private nuisance due to excessive noise. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3002 RELATING TO PROSTITUTION. |
RHOADS, AWANA, BROWER, CHING, MIZUNO, SAY, TAKAI, Evans, McKelvey |
| Makes a third and subsequent conviction for prostitution a class C felony when the offense is committed by a person who pays, or offers or agrees to pay, a fee for sex with another person. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3003 MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR A HIGH OCCUPANCY AND TOLL REVERSIBLE EXPRESSWAY ON OAHU. |
MEYER, AWANA, FINNEGAN, GREEN, MARUMOTO, PINE, Bertram, Brower, Cabanilla, Hanohano, Mizuno, Morita, B. Oshiro, Takumi, Ward |
| Requires department of transportation to perform preparatory work to construct a reversible high occupancy and toll expressway in the leeward corridor in conjunction with an integrated bus rapid transit system. Appropriates funds. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3004 RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION. |
MEYER, AWANA, CABANILLA, FINNEGAN, GREEN, HANOHANO, MARUMOTO, PINE, Berg, Brower, McKelvey, Mizuno, Morita, B. Oshiro, Takumi, Ward |
| Requires the department of transportation to identify all existing and any possible rights-of-way within each county that would facilitate the building of more lane miles and increase the carrying capacity of the highways within its jurisdiction. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3005 RELATING TO TRAFFIC. |
MEYER, AWANA, BERG, CHING, MARUMOTO, WARD, Belatti, Hanohano, Morita, B. Oshiro |
| Prohibits the use of a cellular phone for text messaging while operating a motor vehicle upon any public street, road, or highway. Provides limited exceptions. Effective 01/01/09. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3006 RELATING TO INTOXICANTS. |
MEYER, AWANA, BELATTI, CHING, FINNEGAN, GREEN, MARUMOTO, MIZUNO, PINE, WARD, Manahan, B. Oshiro, Takumi |
| Permits the court to order that a vehicle, owned and operated by a person committing the offense of operating a vehicle under the influence of an intoxicant, be impounded at the owner's sole expense and liability for not less than forty eight hours and not more than 30 days. Effective 01/01/09. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3007 RELATING TO CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES. |
MEYER, HANOHANO, PINE, Awana, Ching, Green, Mizuno, B. Oshiro, Ward |
| Requires that the child protective review panel proceedings taken prior to the issuance of a court order upon the request of the child's family who believe that the child was wrongfully removed from the family home. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3008 RELATING TO QUALIFIED IMPROVEMENT TAX CREDIT. |
SHIMABUKURO |
| Provides a tax credit for improvements made to federally qualified health centers. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3009 RELATING TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE. |
WATERS |
| Establishes mandatory minimum and maximum fines for abuse of a family or household member. Requires fines to be deposited into domestic violence and sexual assault special fund. Allows funds to be expended on programs for batterers. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3010 RELATING TO VACCINES. |
WATERS |
| Ensures an informed consent prior to the administration of a vaccine containing any amount of mercury through the provision of written material containing information about the possible effects of the use of such vaccines. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3011 RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLE REGISTRATION. |
WATERS |
| Allows for the greater flexibility in granting special motor vehicle registration. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3012 RELATING TO ETHICS. |
WATERS |
| Conforms county ethics procedures for civil fines with state ethics commission procedures by allowing appeals of civil fines directly to a court and authorizing counties to adopt an ordinance to allow a county ethics commission to issue civil fines without first requesting correction or ceasing of violation. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3013 RELATING TO THE AGREEMENT AMONG THE STATES TO ELECT THE PRESIDENT BY NATIONAL POPULAR VOTE. |
WATERS |
| Adds a new chapter to Hawaii Revised Statutes to allow member states to determine the winner of a presidential election by "national popular vote". | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3014 RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCES. |
CARROLL, HANOHANO, Awana, Bertram, Brower, Lee, Yamashita |
| Changes the appointment process for members of the Board of Land and Natural Resources (BLNR). Limits the powers and duties that may be delegated to the chairperson of the BLNR. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3015 RELATING TO SHORELINES. |
CARROLL, WATERS |
| Prohibits the modification of shorelines through the planting of vegetation. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3016 RELATING TO LAW ENFORCEMENT. |
CARROLL, AWANA, BERTRAM, HANOHANO, YAMASHITA |
| Establishes a two-year pilot project authorizing Department of Land and Natural Resources' Conservation and Resources Enforcement Officers to use tasers while performing their duties within the Counties of Hawaii and Maui. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3017 RELATING TO SOLID WASTE. |
CARROLL, BERTRAM, HANOHANO, LEE, Awana, Brower |
| Prohibits the use of polystyrene foam as a disposable food service-ware product. Effective 7/1/08. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3018 RELATING TO CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES. |
HAR, CALDWELL, CARROLL, ITO, MAGAOAY, MCKELVEY, SAGUM, YAMASHITA, Chang, Evans |
| Requires the narcotics enforcement division of the department of public safety to maintain an electronic purchase logbook for sales of pseudoephedrine and related substances. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3019 RELATING TO VETERANS. |
HAR, BROWER, CARROLL, ITO, MAGAOAY, MANAHAN, MCKELVEY, MIZUNO, B. OSHIRO, YAMANE, Chong, Evans, Karamatsu, Tsuji, Yamashita |
| Establishes a veterans bonus for qualifying veterans. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3020 RELATING TO TAX INCREMENT FINANCING AMENDMENTS. |
HAR, AWANA, BROWER, CALDWELL, CARROLL, CHANG, EVANS, HERKES, ITO, MAGAOAY, MCKELVEY, MIZUNO, Chong, Lee, Nakasone, B. Oshiro, Sagum, Tsuji |
| Amends the tax increment financing enabling law to encourage counties to use that method of financing of project costs for affordable housing. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3021 RELATING TO TAX INCREMENT FINANCING. |
HAR, AWANA, CALDWELL, CARROLL, CHANG, EVANS, HERKES, ITO, KARAMATSU, MAGAOAY, MCKELVEY, MIZUNO, Brower, Chong, Lee, Nakasone, B. Oshiro, Sagum, Tsuji |
| Authorizes a county that has established a tax increment financing district to use county general funds to pay the debt service on tax increment bonds if the tax increment is insufficient and provides for the deposit of excess tax increment revenues into a county general fund. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3022 PROPOSING AMENDMENTS TO ARTICLE VII, SECTIONS 12 AND 13, OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF HAWAII RELATING TO TAX INCREMENT BONDS. |
HAR, AWANA, BROWER, CALDWELL, CARROLL, CHANG, EVANS, HERKES, ITO, MAGAOAY, MCKELVEY, MIZUNO, Chong, Lee, Nakasone, B. Oshiro, Sagum, Tsuji |
| Proposes amendments to the Constitution of the State of Hawaii to expressly provide that the legislature may authorize the counties to issue tax increment bonds. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3023 RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLE DRIVER'S LICENSE. |
TAKAI, HAR, LEE, MCKELVEY, Evans |
| Allows an active service member of the U.S. armed forces to apply for renewal of driver's license twenty-four months prior to the date of expiration. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3024 RELATING TO CONSUMER CREDIT. |
TAKAI, EVANS, HAR, LEE, McKelvey |
| Requires financial institutions and creditors that extend consumer credit to the members of the armed forces or reserves on active duty and their dependents, to conform their lending practices to the federal John Warner National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2007, as amended, relating to the terms of consumer credit extended to the military and their dependents, including maximum annual percentage rates and required disclosures. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3025 RELATING TO INCOME TAX CHECK-OFF. |
TAKAI, BERTRAM, CHANG, NISHIMOTO, Takamine |
| Provides an income tax check-off for an unspecified amount to be divided as follows: 50% equally to the 10 UH campuses; 25% to UH Manoa; and 25% to the UH Hilo athletics program. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3026 RELATING TO INTERSTATE COMPACT ON EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY FOR MILITARY CHILDREN. |
TAKAI, TAKUMI |
| Enacts the interstate compact on educational opportunity for military children. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3027 RELATING TO FIREWORKS. |
SONSON |
| Allows for the forfeiture of vehicles or property used in the sale or setting off of illegal fireworks. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3028 RELATING TO THE PROCUREMENT CODE. |
SONSON, AWANA, BERG, BROWER, CABANILLA, CALDWELL, MAGAOAY, MIZUNO, M. OSHIRO, WAKAI, Karamatsu, Tsuji |
| Requires chief procurement officer to hold a pre-job conference at least 30 days before contract work begins. Allows unselected offerors of professional services and in competitive sealed proposals to ask for a debriefing. Requires any subsequent protest to be submitted before the pre-job conference. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3029 RELATING TO PUBLIC WORKS. |
SONSON, AWANA, BELATTI, BERG, BROWER, CALDWELL, KARAMATSU, MAGAOAY, MIZUNO, M. OSHIRO, RHOADS, TSUJI |
| Includes as public works, construction contracts using public lands for commercial, for-profit activity. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3030 RELATING TO LABOR. |
SONSON, AWANA, BELATTI, BERG, BROWER, CABANILLA, CALDWELL, KARAMATSU, MAGAOAY, MIZUNO, M. OSHIRO, Rhoads, Tsuji |
| Clarifies the circumstances under which the governor may suspend statutes relating to wages and hours on public works projects. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3031 RELATING TO TAXATION. |
SONSON, AWANA, BELATTI, BROWER, CABANILLA, MAGAOAY, MANAHAN, MIZUNO, RHOADS, SHIMABUKURO, TSUJI, Karamatsu, Lee |
| Establishes an income tax credit for care home operators who make modifications to their home to increase accessibility for their clients. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3032 RELATING TO LAND USE |
SAY (BR) |
| Protects and promotes the proper use of Hawaii's best agricultural lands by requiring conditions of approval for subdivisions of agricultural land into smaller lots and farm dwellings, thereby ensuring meaningful agricultural use. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3033 RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL INSPECTIONS |
SAY (BR) |
| Grants the Department of Agriculture authority to require advance written notification of arrival of articles transported to the State or from one island within the State to another as freight, air freight, baggage, or otherwise, for the purpose of debarkation. Broadens the range of articles subject to advance notification and possible inspection to include non-agricultural articles capable of harboring pests. Corrects an error that occurred in Act 64, SLH 2005, regarding import of restricted articles so as to be consistent with other parts of the statute. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3034 RELATING TO MILK |
SAY (BR) |
| Ensures that the remaining Hawaii dairy producers are paid a price commensurate with the quality of the milk they produce. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3035 RELATING TO THE OBLIGATION OF FUNDS. |
SAY (BR) |
| Allows the Department of Hawaiian Homelands and Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to start housing projects when they have the initial portion of construction funds for affordable housing projects rather than waiting until they have the entire financing appropriated. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3036 RELATING TO ENHANCED 911 SERVICES FOR MOBILE PHONES. |
SAY (BR) |
| Decreases from $0.66 to $0.43 cents per month the surcharge customers pay on each mobile phone for E911 emergency mobile phone services. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3037 MAKING AN EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION FOR ELECTRICTY, SEWER, REFUSE, AND INSURANCE PREMIUM PAYMENTS. |
SAY (BR) |
| Appropriates $271,852 from the Stadium Special Fund to pay fiscal year 2007-2008 increases in electricity, sewer, refuse, and insurance premium payments for Aloha Stadium. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3038 MAKING AN EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION FOR ELECTRICITY PAYMENTS STATEWIDE. |
SAY (BR) |
| Appropriates $1.0 million in general funds to pay statewide increases in electricity payments for fiscal year 2007-2008. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3039 MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR CLAIMS AGAINST THE STATE, ITS OFFICERS, OR ITS EMPLOYEES. |
SAY (BR) |
| Makes appropriations for claims against the State, its officers, and its employees. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3040 RELATING TO PUBLIC SAFETY. |
SAY (BR) |
| Revamps Hawaii's sex offender registry laws so as to provide more up-to-date and more useful information about registered sex offenders to the public; strengthens some criminal laws, including relating to electronic enticement of a child; and makes other criminal law changes. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3041 RELATING TO CRIME. |
SAY (BR) |
| Strengthens laws relating to obstruction of justice; revises Hawaii's murder statute to better protect the public; and makes other criminal law changes. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3042 PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE XVI OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF HAWAII. |
SAY (BR) |
| Amend Hawaii Constitution so a criminal case witness who asserts self-incrimination privilege may be compelled to testify/provide evidence as long as the testimony/evidence cannot later be used against the witness in a criminal case except for perjury, false statement, or failure to comply with the order to testify. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3043 PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE XVII OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF HAWAII. |
SAY (BR) |
| Amends Hawaii's Constitution so that only Yes and No votes will be counted in determining whether or not constitutional amendments are adopted; blank votes will no longer count as No votes. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3044 PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF HAWAII RELATING TO TESTIMONY OF DEFENDANTS IN CRIMINAL CASES. |
SAY (BR) |
| Amends Hawaii's Constitution so that in criminal cases, juries and fact finders can learn of prior convictions involving dishonesty of testifying defendants, to the same extent as with any other testifying witness in a criminal case. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3045 RELATING TO HABEAS CORPUS. |
SAY (BR) |
| Places time limits on claims challenging criminal convictions, prison conditions, and related matters. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3046 RELATING TO THE PROTECTION OF CHARITABLE GIVING. |
SAY (BR) |
| Requires registration with the Attorney General of most charitable organizations before they can solicit funds; adds other requirements for charitable organizations and related matters. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3047 RELATING TO TORT ACTIONS. |
SAY (BR) |
| Clarifies certain limitations regarding the State's liability in tort cases and brings State liability in line with similar federal liability in many cases. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3048 RELATING TO GOVERNMENT TORT LIABILITY. |
SAY (BR) |
| Clarifies that government entities are only liable in certain cases for the percentage share of the damages they actually caused; changes definition of "similar circumstances" concerning joint liability in certain motor vehicle accidents. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3049 RELATING TO APPELLATE JURISDICTION. |
SAY (BR) |
| Authorizes immediate appeals from certain court orders regarding injunctions and denials of sovereign, absolute, or qualified immunity. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3050 RELATING TO ACTIONS BY AND AGAINST THE STATE. |
SAY (BR) |
| Clarifies that certain waivers of the State's sovereign immunity can only take place if the Legislature has in a statute unequivocally waived that sovereign immunity. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3051 RELATING TO TORT ACTIONS. |
SAY (BR) |
| Allows juries in civil cases, like those involving accidents, to hear evidence that operators or passengers in motor vehicles, motorcycles, or motor scooters were not wearing seat belts or helmets; currently juries are usually not allowed to hear such evidence. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3052 RELATING TO TOBACCO. |
SAY (BR) |
| Repeals the July 1, 2009 sunset clause of the law requiring those who sell tobacco at a retail level to get a retail tobacco permit from the Department of Taxation; without this law, no permits will be necessary starting July 1, 2009. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3053 RELATING TO NOTARIES PUBLIC. |
SAY (BR) |
| Clarifies the powers and duties of the Attorney General with respect to notaries public; identifies conduct that would subject a notary to fines; and identifies criminal conduct with regard to notarization, notarized documents, and related matters. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3054 RELATING TO CHAPTER 480, HAWAII REVISED STATUTES. |
SAY (BR) |
| Clarifies antitrust and unfair competition law with regard to who can sue in certain instances, including when having made indirect purchases. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3055 RELATING TO CHILD SUPPORT ENFORCEMENT. |
SAY (BR) |
| Changes the law relating to Child Support Enforcement Agency notification in some circumstances to custodial parents; establishes a CSEA Assistant Administrator; clarifies rules relating to some CSEA hearings and related matters. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3056 PROPOSING AMENDMENTS TO ARTICLE VI OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF HAWAII. |
SAY (BR) |
| Amends Hawaii's Constitution to establish an independent Judicial Conduct Commission. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3057 RELATING TO HOUSING. |
SAY (BR) |
| Makes permanent the 50 per cent allocation of conveyance tax proceeds into the Rental Housing Trust Fund set to expire on June 30, 2008. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3058 RELATING TO THE HOUSING LOAN AND MORTGAGE PROGRAM. |
SAY (BR) |
| Provides an increase in Hula Mae multifamily revenue bond authority from $400 million to $500 million to provide financing assistance for the development and preservation/rehabilitation of affordable housing. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3059 RELATING TO LOW-INCOME HOUSING TAX CREDITS. |
SAY (BR) |
| Reduces the period over which state low-income housing tax credits are taken from 10 years to 5 years. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3060 AUTHORIZING THE RESALE OF RESERVED HOUSING UNITS BY THE HAWAII COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY. |
SAY (BR) |
| Allows the Hawaii Community Development Authority to resell reserved housing units as defined in section 206E-101, Hawaii Revised Statutes. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3061 RELATING TO COMMUNITY-BASED ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. |
SAY (BR) |
| Updates sections of Chapter 210D, Hawaii Revised Statues, which created the Hawaii Community-Based Economic Development (CBED) Program, the Hawaii Community-Based Economic Development Revolving Fund, and the CBED Advisory Council; allows for smaller CBED loans, and reduces the maximum interest rate on these loans. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3062 RELATING TO DISASTER LOANS. |
SAY (BR) |
| Provides for variable interest rates below the applicable Small Business Administration rates; increases loan amounts; allows for remediation/mitigation; adjusts loan application deadlines; and makes other housekeeping changes to the State Disaster Commercial and Personal Loan Program. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3063 RELATING TO PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEMS FOR PAY AS YOU SAVE. |
SAY (BR) |
| Expands the successful "Pay As You Save" solar water heater program to photovoltaic systems that convert sunshine into electricity, allowing users to pay each month through their electricity bill. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3064 RELATING TO REFUNDABLE RENEWABLE ENERGY TAX CREDIT. |
SAY (BR) |
| Allows a taxpayer with an adjusted gross income of $20,000 or less to take a refundable tax credit for the purchase and installation of a renewable energy technology, which includes solar water heating, photovoltaic, and wind systems. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3065 RELATING TO MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT LEARNING EXPERIENCE PROGRAM. |
SAY (BR) |
| Makes an appropriation of $4,800,000 for the music entertainment learning experience program at Honolulu Community College, and issues general obligation bonds for site development, renovation, facilities remodeling, and studio construction. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3066 MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO ESTABLISH CREATIVITY ACADEMIES. |
SAY (BR) |
| Makes an appropriation of $1,629,474 to establish a digital media pilot program that builds upon the success of the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics/Hawaii excellence through science and technology academies. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3067 MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO ESTABLISH A CREATIVE CENTER INCUBATOR. |
SAY (BR) |
| Making an appropriation of $500,000 to equip, train and hire faculty for a Creative Center Incubator. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3068 RELATING TO RENEWABLE ENERGY. |
SAY (BR) |
| Requires that the renewable portfolio standards of 20 per cent by 2020 be met by classic electricity generation from renewable sources. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3069 RELATING TO ENERGY RESOURCES. |
SAY (BR) |
| To comprehensively address deficiencies in Hawaii's energy resources coordination statutes. Provide policy guidance needed to provide adequate detail on the nature and relationship of the energy data analyses functions required of the State Energy Resources Coordinator and Energy Program. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3070 RELATING TO ENERGY EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS. |
SAY (BR) |
| To comprehensively address deficiencies in Hawaii's energy emergency preparedness statutes. Provide up to date policy guidance needed for consistency with current federal and state energy emergency and overall emergency management policies and plans, and to provide definitive guidance on critical energy data analyses functions. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3071 RELATING TO ENDOWED CHAIRS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII. |
SAY (BR) |
| Establish an eminent scholars program to create endowed chairs in science, technology, engineering, and math disciplines in the University of Hawaii by appropriating State general funds to be matched by private donations. Appropriate $2,000,000 to be matched by private donations, for an endowed chair in power generation and distribution in the University of Hawaii college of engineering as the first STEM endowed chair. The endowed chair would serve as the foundation of a new power program to support workforce needs at the Pearl Harbor naval shipyard and the growing renewable energy sector. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3072 RELATING TO THE HAWAII HIGHER EDUCATION COMMISSION. |
SAY (BR) |
| Rename the state post-secondary education commission to the Hawaii higher education commission, broaden the membership, and expand the powers and authority. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3073 RELATING TO INNOVATION CAPITAL. |
SAY (BR) |
| Authorizes the Employees' Retirement System of the State of Hawaii to invest up to $100 million in Hawaii venture capital opportunities. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3074 RELATING TO A TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER PARTNERSHIP AT THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII. |
SAY (BR) |
| Appropriate $100,000 to the department of business, economic development, and tourism to enter into a partnership with a qualified private entity to assist the office of technology transfer and economic development to accelerate commercialization of University of Hawaii discoveries. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3075 RELATING TO LAND USE. |
SAY (BR) |
| Sets up a process for determining when land use classifications should be rescinded because they have not been used for a period of time, particularly for lands classified as urban or rural. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3076 RELATING TO WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT. |
SAY (BR) |
| Establishes a rapid response, custom training program and revolving fund in DBEDT to facilitate rapid, custom training for emerging growth industry and high priority business investments. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3077 RELATING TO EXEMPTIONS FROM PROCUREMENT CODE. |
SAY (BR) |
| To add the exemption from the State's procurement code for special purpose revenue bonds issued for not-for-profit private organizations, for-profit private organizations, and public instrumentalities and their qualified affiliates in the development of low- and moderate-income housing and for agricultural enterprises serving important agricultural lands. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3078 RELATING TO THE STATE OF HAWAII SECTION 529 COLLEGE SAVINGS PROGRAM. |
SAY (BR) |
| To provide taxpayers a state tax deduction for contributions to Hawaii’s college savings program. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3079 RELATING TO ENERGY EFFICIENCY. |
SAY (BR) |
| Clarifies provisions of chapter 269, Part VII, Hawaii Revised Statutes, relating to the administration and use of moneys supporting energy-efficiency and demand-side management programs and services. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3080 RELATING TO PROPERTY OF PUBLIC UTILITIES. |
SAY (BR) |
| Grants public utilities the authority to transfer, assign, or otherwise dispose of property, without prior approval from the Public Utilities Commission, under circumstances calling for timely, decisive action in order to aid a customer whose operations have been disrupted due to unforeseeable events. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3081 RELATING TO PUBLICATION OF HEARING NOTICES. |
SAY (BR) |
| Clarifies the type of public notice required for public hearings held by the Public Utilities Commission in its regulation of utility rates and ratemaking procedures. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3082 RELATING TO EMPLOYEES’ RETIREMENT SYSTEM. |
SAY (BR) |
| Requires government employers to provide information to the ERS electronically. Provides for direct deposit of refunds and other lump sum payments. Clarifies that contributions for unpaid leaves are required for service credit. Conforms provision re compensation of ERS member on military leave to USERRA. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3083 RELATING TO FEDERAL TAX QUALIFICATION OF THE EMPLOYEES’ RETIREMENT SYSTEM. |
SAY (BR) |
| Repeals the provisions that (1) make ERS membership by elective officers optional and (2) allow elective officer and judges to withdraw from ERS membership by nominally retiring even though they remain in office. Provides for service by retirants as elective officers without suspension of retirement benefits. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3084 RELATING TO BUSINESS REGISTRATION. |
SAY (BR) |
| (1) To make the laws governing corporate dissolution and director's rights consistent; (2) to more accurately reflect the administrative procedures of administratively cancelling a limited partnership; (3) to make provisions regarding the expiration of corporations consistent with other entities; and (4) to streamline and conform limited liability company law filing requests. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3085 RELATING TO BUSINESS REGISTRATION. |
SAY (BR) |
| Clarifies the law relating to registration and protection of trademarks and names and clarifies how similar trade names are resolved. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3086 RELATING TO THE CODE OF FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS. |
SAY (BR) |
| Updates Hawaii’s Code of Financial Institutions by requiring licenses to be conspicuously displayed, addresses temporary closures during emergencies, clarifies how prepayment penalties are calculated, and allows greater access to records by State inspectors. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3087 RELATING TO MONEY TRANSMITTERS. |
SAY (BR) |
| Amends the Money Transmitters Act, Chapter 489D, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to amend the fee structure, enhance consumer protection, make necessary clarifications, and correct errors and omissions, to effectively regulate the industry. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3088 RELATING TO RESIDENTIAL MORTGAGE PRACTICES. |
SAY (BR) |
| Repeals the law on Mortgage Brokers and Solicitors, chapter 454, Hawaii Revised Statutes, and replaces it with a statute that provides for more specialized regulation of residential mortgage brokers, residential mortgage lenders and residential loan originators by the Division of Financial Institutions. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3089 RELATING TO INSURANCE. |
SAY (BR) |
| Allows the Insurance Division to include a 3-month reserve in the calculation of Compliance Resolution Fund (CRF) assessments in order to ensure continued operations of the Division at the end of the fiscal year. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3090 RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLE INSURANCE. |
SAY (BR) |
| In determining motor vehicle insurance policy personal injury protection benefits, imposes the same limitations on the number of visits, charge per visit, and combined total visits for therapeutic massage treatments as are imposed on naturopathic, chiropractic, and acupuncture treatments. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3091 RELATING TO LOSS MITIGATION. |
SAY (BR) |
| Repeals and replaces the loss mitigation grant program with a wind resistive devices tax credit. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3092 RELATING TO THE HAWAII HURRICANE RELIEF FUND. |
SAY (BR) |
| Increases insurance coverages available under the Hawaii Hurricane Relief Fund to reflect increases in property values. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3093 RELATING TO THE PATIENTS’ BILL OF RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES ACT. |
SAY (BR) |
| Amends the Patients' Bill of Rights and Responsibilities Act by prohibiting certain unfair or deceptive business practices by managed care plans, such as disenrolling a person because of a medical condition. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3094 RELATING TO MUTUAL BENEFIT SOCIETIES. |
SAY (BR) |
| Maintains competition and consumer choice by deleting requirements that pose obstacles to smaller health plans. Deletes requirement that health plans must maintain a fund equal to "one half of twenty times the maximum benefits paid in 30 days" and caps the deposit requirement at $20 million. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3095 RELATING TO INSURANCE. |
SAY (BR) |
| Improves the Insurance Commissioner's ability to protect consumers from improper transactions between health insurance companies and their affiliates by authorizing the Commissioner to monitor the relationships and transactions between these companies and their affiliates. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3096 RELATING TO INSURANCE. |
SAY (BR) |
| Adopts National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) Model provisions relating to the insurers' disclosure of material financial transactions and actuarial reports. The uniform reporting requirements for all insurers is necessary to meet NAIC requirements for accreditation. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3097 RELATING TO INSURANCE. |
SAY (BR) |
| Provides insurers with greater investment flexibility by updating the Insurance Code to reflect the investment strategies, such as stocks, bonds, and notes developed since the Code was last updated in 1987. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3098 RELATING TO ACTIVITIES REGULATED BY THE INSURANCE COMMISSIONER. |
SAY (BR) |
| Creates uniformity between other states' laws and Hawaii law in regard to licensing requirements. Increases educational requirements to keep a license, automatically inactivates a license if fees are not paid on time, allows reactivation if the fee is paid in 30 days, and broadens the types of reinsurance that can be used to meet the financial obligations of insurance agents. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3099 RELATING TO VIATICAL SETTLEMENTS. |
SAY (BR) |
| Protects those with terminal or chronic illnesses from unscrupulous brokers who trade in life insurance policies of the sick, by requiring disclosure of the consequences to the consumer, providing the right to rescind the contract, and prohibiting the transfer of the life insurance benefits to the new owner for five years. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3100 RELATING TO ENHANCED PENALTIES FOR INSURANCE VIOLATIONS COMMITTED AGAINST ELDERS. |
SAY (BR) |
| Adds enhanced civil and administrative penalties for insurance violations committed against elders. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3101 RELATING TO INSURANCE. |
SAY (BR) |
| Authorizes the creation and regulation of special purpose financial captive insurance companies (SPFCIC). Establishes confidentiality provisions applicable to captives, including SPFCs. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3102 RELATING TO MEDICAL LIABILITY. |
SAY (BR) |
| Addresses medical malpractice insurance costs by capping non-economic damages at $250,000, establishing limits for attorney contingent fees, and requiring that economic damages be allocated based upon proportionate percentage of negligence. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3103 RELATING TO INSURANCE. |
SAY (BR) |
| Clarifies suspension pending a hearing requirements for actions to suspend, revoke, or refuse to renew a license. Establishes a cap on the bond amount that managing general agents are required to furnish. Requires insurers to require managing general agents's compliance with bond and errors and omissions policy requirements. Conforms financial statement filing requirements for title insurers with existing law. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3104 RELATING TO THE PREVENTION OF MORTGAGE RESCUE FRAUD. |
SAY (BR) |
| Requires mortgage foreclosure rescuers to provide specific information and disclosures to distressed property owners as well as impose specific prohibitions on mortgage foreclosure rescuers. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3105 RELATING TO OSTEOPATHY. |
SAY (BR) |
| Includes doctors of osteopathy in the medical doctors chapter (chapter 453) so that the Board of Medical Examiners may treat medical doctors and doctors of osteopathy in the same manner; repeals osteopathy chapter (chapter 460). | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3106 RELATING TO GRADUATES OF FOREIGN ACUPUNCTURE PROGRAMS. |
SAY (BR) |
| Requires applicants for acupuncture licensure who graduated from foreign institutes to have their educational information evaluated by a professional crediting evaluator as a prerequisite for taking an exam and getting a license in Hawaii. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3107 RELATING TO OWNER-BUILDER PERMITS. |
SAY (BR) |
| Requires sellers to disclose whether a building or structure was built or improved under an owner-builder permit, clarifies that owner-builders must use licensed subcontractors, and establishes penalties for owner-builders who fail to comply with the owner-builder permit requirements. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3108 RELATING TO MIXED MARTIAL ARTS. |
SAY (BR) |
| Establishes a fee structure to fund mixed martial arts regulation. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3109 RELATING TO DISPENSING OPTICIANS. |
SAY (BR) |
| Specifies that a dispensing optician's license is required for the dispensing and fitting, upon written prescription, of non-corrective contact lenses and for the sale of or offer to sell non-corrective contact lenses. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3110 RELATING TO CONTRACTOR PENALTIES. |
SAY (BR) |
| Increases fines five-fold that may be imposed on contractors for performing work outside of their licensed specialty, unlicensed activity, and other violations relating to contractors. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3111 RELATING TO PRICE GOUGING DURING EMERGENCIES. |
SAY (BR) |
| Prohibits price gouging and unfair business practices during a declared State disaster by clarifying that price increases on services, rentals, and construction or repair contracts during disasters are illegal. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3112 RELATING TO CIVIL DEFENSE. |
SAY (BR) |
| Supports State Civil Defense’s Shelter-in-Place initiative by exempting civil liability for care homes and schools, in addition to hotels, during an officially designated emergency. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3113 RELATING TO THE PROCUREMENT CODE. |
SAY (BR) |
| Expedites the purchase of equipment and services by allowing state and county agencies to participate in government cooperative purchasing programs outside of Hawaii when using federal Homeland Security grants. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3114 RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLES. |
SAY (BR) |
| Provides an exemption from motor vehicle tax and registration fees for private vehicles of Hawaii residents who are members of the military, including the National Guard and Coast Guard. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3115 RELATING TO UNIFORM MAINTENANCE ALLOWANCE FOR ENLISTED PERSONNEL. |
SAY (BR) |
| Repeals the Uniform Maintenance Allowance of $1.50 per day since uniforms no longer need to be dry-cleaned. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3116 RELATING TO PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS. |
SAY (BR) |
| Improves the composition of the Charter School Review Panel; makes the Panel subject to the sunshine law; removes the cap on the number of charter schools; and ensures funding for new charter schools. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3117 RELATING TO THE HAWAII EDUCATOR LOAN PROGRAM. |
SAY (BR) |
| Allows recipients of awards from the Hawaii Educator Loan Program to attend any university or college with a State-approved teacher education program and allows them to teach at traditional public or charter schools as a way to repay the loan. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3118 PROPOSING AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF HAWAII RELATING TO PUBLIC EDUCATION. |
SAY (BR) |
| Allows voters in each county to decide whether or not to establish a district (local) school board; requires the legislature to establish a fair allocation of public school resources if a new district is established. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3119 RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII. |
SAY (BR) |
| Amends the requirements for the candidate advisory council which screens and proposes candidates for appointment to the Board of Regents of the University of Hawaii to allow background checks and geographic representation and extends from 30 to 60 days the period to submit candidate names. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3120 RELATING TO ANIMAL QUARANTINE FACILITIES. |
SAY (BR) |
| Allows the Department of Agriculture to negotiate the lease rent for use of the Animal Quarantine Station located in Halawa Valley on Oahu. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3121 RELATING TO PHYSICAL EDUCATION. |
SAY (BR) |
| Requires physical education as a mandatory component of the public school education curriculum. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3122 RELATING TO ELECTIONS. |
SAY (BR) |
| Requires precinct chairperson to post preliminary election results at the poll site; provides for an automatic recount when there is only a ˝ of one per cent difference between winning and losing candidates; moves primary date to the 2nd Saturday in August in every even numbered year to allow time for run-off elections. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3123 RELATING TO ACCESS TO HEALTH CARE. |
SAY (BR) |
| Amends the current certificate of need requirement under chapter 323D, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to promote increased access to quality health care. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3124 RELATING TO INTERSTATE COMPACT ON EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY FOR MILITARY CHILDREN. |
SAY (BR) |
| Adopts the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3125 RELATING TO TAX CREDITS. |
SAY (BR) |
| Expands the current $7.5 million annual Ko Olina tax credit to allow the credits to be used for commercial activities and affordable housing built on the Leeward Coast. Clarifies recapture provisions to require recapture of credits certified where results of certain expenditures are not placed in service by December 31, 2013. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3126 RELATING TO THE HAWAIIAN HOMES COMMISSION ACT |
SAY (BR) |
| Increases the loan ceiling for farm and ranch operations on Hawaiian home lands from $50,000 to $200,000. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3127 RELATING TO ADULT PROTECTIVE SERVICES. |
SAY (BR) |
| Expands authority to investigate allegations of abuse, neglect, and financial exploitation of vulnerable adults. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3128 RELATING TO ADULT PROTECTIVE SERVICES. |
SAY (BR) |
| Expands the list of persons mandated to report known or suspected abuse of vulnerable adults to include caregivers and the entity or agency designated by the governor to provide advocacy services to persons with developmental disabilities and mental illness. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3129 RELATING TO CRIMINAL HISTORY BACKGROUND CHECKS FOR SOCIAL SERVICES PROGRAMS. |
SAY (BR) |
| Authorizes the Department of Human Services or its designee to conduct criminal history record checks for those providing services to vulnerable adults and children | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3130 RELATING TO COMMUNITY CARE FOSTER FAMILY HOMES. |
SAY (BR) |
| Establishes a grant program to assist operators of community care foster family homes and increases the capacity for cost effective home and community based services for elderly and disabled medicaid clients. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3131 RELATING TO SIBLING VISITATION. |
SAY (BR) |
| Specifies that the Family Court may grant reasonable visitation with their siblings before and after adoption or award of legal guardianship. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3132 RELATING TO AGE OF CONSENT FOR ADOPTION. |
SAY (BR) |
| Changes the age of consent by a child for adoption from 10 to 14. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3133 RELATING TO MANDATORY REPORTING OF CHILD ABUSE AND NEGLECT. |
SAY (BR) |
| Broadens the group of persons required to report child abuse and neglect to include family members. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3134 RELATING TO WELL CHILD FOLLOW-UP VISITS. |
SAY (BR) |
| Establishes a pilot project allowing the Department to conduct well-child follow-up visits for children who have been reported but not confirmed as abused or neglected. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3135 RELATING TO FEDERAL REVENUE MAXIMIZATION IN THE JUDICIARY. |
SAY (BR) |
| Requires the District and Family Courts to report to the Governor and the Legislature on the reasons for not establishing and implementing a federal revenue maximization program for all services they provide to children in their care that may be eligible for federal financial participation and the Family Court's plan to do so in the future. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3136 RELATING TO CHILD WELFARE SERVICES. |
SAY (BR) |
| Clarifies the law to ensure that local customs of caring for children outside the home by friends and relatives are an available alternative when considering the custody of children. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3137 RELATING TO INVESTIGATORS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES. |
SAY (BR) |
| Allows the Department of Human Services to appoint and commission an administrative investigator for the Office of Youth Services, pursuant to a memorandum of agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3138 RELATING TO HAWAII PUBLIC HOUSING AUTHORITY EVICTION BOARDS. |
SAY (BR) |
| Allows the Hawaii Public Housing Authority to hold eviction hearings without the tenant member of the Authority's eviction boards present, provided that quorum is met. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3139 RELATING TO THE FIRST-TO-WORK PROGRAM. |
SAY (BR) |
| Conforms state law to current federal law by deleting references to the Aid to Families with Dependent Children and Job Opportunities and Basic Skills Act and replaces it with the federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families law. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3140 MAKING AN EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION TO THE HAWAII PUBLIC HOUSING AUTHORITY. |
SAY (BR) |
| Emergency appropriation in general funds for fiscal year 2007-2008 to repay the department of budget and finance for a loan made to cover payroll and risk management costs for liability insurance for fiscal year 2006-2007, and to address a critical funding shortfall for operational costs of its public housing programs for fiscal year 2007-2008. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3141 RELATING TO GOVERNMENT SERVICES. |
SAY (BR) |
| Provides flexibility and reliability to the hiring and contracting processes by exempting from civil service law positions or contracts lasting up to one year with non-government entities for personal services. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3142 RELATING TO SALARIES. |
SAY (BR) |
| Increases the salaries of the Stadium Manager, the Public Utilities Commissioners, Executive Director of Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation, and Civil Defense Director to be commensurate with their duties and responsibilities by linking them to 92% of the Director of Health's salary. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3143 RELATING TO PARENTAL PREFERENCES IN GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS, PROGRAMS, AND SERVICES. |
SAY (BR) |
| Repeals an obsolete requirement that all State and County Executive Branch agencies and the Judiciary report to the Legislature annually identifying programs, contracts, and services that provide preference to a parent. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3144 RELATING TO THE STATE OF HAWAII DEFERRED COMPENSATION PLAN. |
SAY (BR) |
| Encourages employees to save for retirement by automatically enrolling newly hired employees into the Deferred Compensation Plan (DCP) unless the new employee elects not to enroll. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3145 RELATING TO STATE AND COUNTY CONTRACTS FOR SERVICES. |
SAY (BR) |
| Authorizes the procurement of contracts for services by the State and counties and exempts the contracts from chapter 76, Hawaii Revised Statutes. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3146 MAKING AN EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH FOR THE ADULT MENTAL HEALTH DIVISION |
SAY (BR) |
| To authorize an emergency appropriation for fiscal year 2007-2008 of $10,000,000 from general funds to the Department of Health (DOH), for the Adult Mental Health Division (AMHD). | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3147 RELATING TO RECORDS OF DEFENDANTS COMMITTED TO A HOSPITAL CONTROLLED BY THE DIRECTOR OF HEALTH OR TO CUSTODY OF DIRECTOR OF HEALTH |
SAY (BR) |
| Requires the courts to provide the Director of the Department of Health (DOH) records of defendants court-ordered to the State Hospital or related facility under the cognizance of the Department. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3148 RELATING TO CONDITIONAL RELEASE |
SAY (BR) |
| Provide statutory guidance and clarification on the seventy-two (72) hour hold and extended hold process, especially as it relates to patients under Conditional Release (CR) from the State Hospital or related facility. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3149 RELATING TO CONDITIONAL RELEASE |
SAY (BR) |
| Grants the Director of the Department of Health (DOH) the authority to apply for discharge from conditional release (CR) or modification of the CR order for any patient in a mental health facility served by the DOH directly or through a contracted provider. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3150 RELATING TO THE HAWAII EMERGENCY PLANNING AND COMMUNITY RIGHT-TO-KNOW ACT |
SAY (BR) |
| Clarifies the different reporting requirements for hazardous substances and extremely hazardous substances. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3151 RELATING TO ELECTRONIC PERMITTING FEES |
SAY (BR) |
| Allows certain Department of Health environmental programs to conduct business electronically and withhold sufficient moneys to cover the cost of electronic and credit card provider services. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3152 MAKING AN EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH FOR THE EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES AND INJURY PREVENTION SYSTEM BRANCH |
SAY (BR) |
| Makes an emergency appropriation for FY 2008 to pay for the City and County of Honolulu's collective bargaining costs relating to emergency medical services. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3153 RELATING TO EPIDEMIOLOGIC INVESTIGATIONS |
SAY (BR) |
| Grants the Department of Health authority to take samples necessary for epidemiologic investigations. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3154 RELATING TO EPIDEMIOLOGISTS |
SAY (BR) |
| Authorizes the Department of Health (DOH) to create permanent or temporary exempt epidemiologist positions. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3155 RELATING TO VOLUNTEER MEDICAL ASSISTANCE SERVICES |
SAY (BR) |
| Provides immunity from liability and workers' compensation for licensed medical personnel providing volunteer medical services on behalf of the State or a county. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3156 RELATING TO WORKSITE WELLNESS PROGRAMS |
SAY (BR) |
| Gives State and counties immunity from liability for injury and damage that occur as a result of voluntary participation in state and county worksite wellness programs. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3157 RELATING TO DIRECT PAYMENT TO PROVIDERS |
SAY (BR) |
| Allows medical services providers to receive payment directly from health insurers, health maintenance organizations, and mutual benefit societies, rather than attempting to collect from the patient when the provider does not have a contract with the insurer. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3158 RELATING TO HAWAII HEALTH SYSTEMS CORPORATION BACKGROUND CHECKS |
SAY (BR) |
| Authorize the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation to conduct FBI criminal history record checks through the Hawaii Criminal Justice Data Center on employees, applicants, current or prospective contractors, providers, or volunteers. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3159 RELATING TO THE HAWAII PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM |
SAY (BR) |
| Requires hospital participation with the department of health in an electronic health surveillance system to benefit the public health and safety of the people of Hawaii. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3160 RELATING TO CRUISE SHIPS |
SAY (BR) |
| Transfers the cruise ship air emission provisions from HRS, chapter 342D, Water Pollution, to HRS, chapter 342B, Air Pollution Control. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3161 MAKING AN EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION TO THE HAWAII HEALTH SYSTEMS CORPORATION |
SAY (BR) |
| Appropriation of general funds for fiscal year 2007-2008 to pay current, essential vendors, reduce accounts payable, and allow operation and provision of current levels of service in Hawaii Health Systems Corporation’s facilities. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3162 RELATING TO WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL. |
SAY (BR) |
| Transfer the Workforce Development Council from the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to assist in aligning Hawaii's workforce development policy with the State's economic development initiatives. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3163 RELATING TO THE SPECIAL FUND FOR DISABILITY BENEFITS. |
SAY (BR) |
| Amends the purpose of the special fund for disability benefits to allow for the use of currently available funds for automation purposes. Appropriates $5,000,000 from the special fund for disability benefits for automation of the department of labor and industrial relations' disability compensation division. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3164 RELATING TO WORKERS’ COMPENSATION NEGOTIATION FOR BENEFIT COVERAGE. |
SAY (BR) |
| Provides public unions and employers the same ability as private unions and their signatory employers to collectively design and enter into an alternative workers' compensation systems. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3165 RELATING TO CONTRACTOR SUSPENSION ON PUBLIC WORKS PROJECTS. |
SAY (BR) |
| Suspends contractors found to be in violation of Chapter 104 for falsification of records or delaying an investigation under the wage and hour statute, section 104-22(b). | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3166 RELATING TO THE LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS APPEALS BOARD. |
SAY (BR) |
| Authorizes the Labor and Industrial Relations Appeals Board (Board) to employ a hearings officer, as well as to allow that hearings officer to hold a hearing, in order for the Board to expedite hearings on certain workers' compensation matters. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3167 RELATING TO THE CLASSIFICATION OF CERTAIN FUNDS UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS. |
SAY (BR) |
| Clarifies the classification of the unemployment compensation fund, the workers’ compensation special compensation fund, the temporary disability insurance special fund for disability benefits, and the prepaid health care special premium supplementation fund as trust funds. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3168 RELATING TO UNEMPLOYMENT CONTRIBUTION RATES. |
SAY (BR) |
| Intended to conform Hawaii's unemployment insurance law to federal law to ensure uniform application to all state unemployment insurance experience rating transfers for employers. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3169 RELATING TO LIFELONG LEARNING ACCOUNTS. |
SAY (BR) |
| Establishes a Lifelong Learning Accounts program and tax credit in the department of labor and industrial relations to support upgraded training for the incumbent workforce, and encourages participation by employers and employees through tax credit incentives. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3170 RELATING TO SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER. |
SAY (BR) |
| Stipulates that only the last four digits of an individual's social security number shall be listed on judgments, orders, or decrees endorsed and recorded in the Bureau of Conveyances or Land Court. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3171 RELATING TO THE LAND COURT SYSTEM. |
SAY (BR) |
| Removes fee-simple time share transactions from the Land Court System and to provide the option for all landowners to transfer their property from the Land Court System to the Regular System of the Bureau of Conveyances. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3172 RELATING TO ELECTRONIC FILINGS IN THE BUREAU OF CONVEYANCES AND THE OFFICE OF THE ASSISTANT REGISTRAR. |
SAY (BR) |
| Authorizes the Registrar and Assistant Registrar of the Bureau of Conveyance to accept electronic signatures and electronically filed documents in lieu of an original document with original signatures. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3173 RELATING TO GROUNDED VESSELS. |
SAY (BR) |
| Authorizes the Department of Land and Natural Resources to remove a grounded vessel under its control, by any means necessary, in order to minimize damages to the natural resources and not become a hazard to navigation. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3174 RELATING TO FEDERAL FISHERIES REGULATIONS. |
SAY (BR) |
| Clarify that the Department of Land and Natural Resources may adopt, amend, or repeal administrative rules to be consistent with federal fishery regulations to improve management and enforcement in a state and federal marine water fishery that has been determined to be in decline. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3175 RELATING TO COMMERCIAL MARINE FISHING REPORTS. |
SAY (BR) |
| Amend the title of section 189-3, Hawaii Revised Statutes, from "monthly catch" to "commercial marine fishing reports" to more accurately reflect that reports will be filed on a "per catch" basis. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3176 RELATING TO ADMINISTRATIVE PENALTIES FOR DAMAGE TO STONY CORAL AND LIVE ROCK. |
SAY (BR) |
| Imposes administrative fines for damage to stony coral and live rock based on the amount of area damaged. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3177 RELATING TO PENALTIES FOR VIOLATIONS WITHIN THE CONSERVATION DISTRICT. |
SAY (BR) |
| Increases the maximum penalty for violations within the Conservation District and authorizes the Board of Land and Natural Resources to assess fines based on damages to natural resources within the Conservation District. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3178 RELATING TO CIVIL PENALTIES FOR VIOLATIONS ON PUBLIC LANDS. |
SAY (BR) |
| Increases civil penalty fine amounts for violations on public lands and clarifies penalties for encroachment on public lands. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3179 RELATING TO THE DEFINITION OF RENEWABLE ENERGY PRODUCER. |
SAY (BR) |
| Amends the definition of "renewable energy producer" to include growers and producers of organic materials used primarily for the production of biofuels or other fuels, so that they will be eligible for direct leases of public land. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3180 RELATING TO THE LAND CONSERVATION FUND. |
SAY (BR) |
| Allows public and private moneys to be deposited into the Land Conservation Fund (Fund) and distributed as grants for acquisition of land having value as a resource to the State, and allows moneys from the Fund to be used for the operation, maintenance, and management of the acquired lands. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3181 RELATING TO ENDANGERED SPECIES. |
SAY (BR) |
| Authorizes the development and use of programmatic safe harbor agreements and programmatic habitat conservation plans that cover multiple landowners or a class of landowners and over a wide area or region. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3182 RELATING TO THE OFFICE OF INFORMATION PRACTICES. |
SAY (BR) |
| Authorizes the Office of Information Practices to conduct inquiries and provide advisory opinions on alleged Sunshine Law violations the same way the office is authorized to conduct inquires and provide opinions for violations of the Uniform Information Practices Act | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3183 RELATING TO PUBLIC AGENCY MEETINGS. |
SAY (BR) |
| Allows boards and commissions to conduct on-site inspections without public participation if public attendance is impracticable, such as on working farms. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3184 RELATING TO INTEREST ARBITRATION |
SAY (BR) |
| Modifies the factors that an arbitration panel must consider when reaching collective bargaining wage decisions including considering the impact of pay increases on other bargaining units, compliance with budget provisions, and ensuring that wage comparisons are kept within Hawaii's labor market. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3185 RELATING TO PRISON LITIGATION. |
SAY (BR) |
| Requires inmates to exhaust their administrative remedies before filing a lawsuit in State court, to avoid frivolous lawsuits. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3186 RELATING TO PRISON LITIGATION. |
SAY (BR) |
| Requires inmates to pay for the civil lawsuit they file in State court and requires inmates who have three lawsuits deemed "frivolous" to pay the filing fees prior to filing another lawsuit. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3187 RELATING TO THE CORRECTIONAL PROGRAM REVOLVING FUND. |
SAY (BR) |
| Deletes the correctional program revolving fund which has never been used by the Department of Public Safety and has no funds in it. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3188 RELATING TO THE COMPREHENSIVE OFFENDER REENTRY SYSTEM. |
SAY (BR) |
| Amends the parameters of the comprehensive offender reentry system program (Act 8 of 2007) to ensure its provisions are in compliance with good governance of correctional facilities. Eliminates provisions allowing contact between former inmates and those still in prison, requires return of out-of-state prisoners only when safety of staff and inmates is not endangered, and involves relevant State agencies in helping with family, education, and housing needs of inmates. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3189 RELATING TO TAXATION. |
SAY (BR) |
| Provides an additional exemption for those with a dependent aged 18 and under with adjusted gross incomes of $200,000 or less. Modifies and increases the child and dependent care credit. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3190 RELATING TO ARTICLE VII, SECTION 6, OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF HAWAII. |
SAY (BR) |
| Provides a constitutionally-mandated refund to Hawaii taxpayers based upon federal adjusted gross income. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3191 RELATING TO CONFORMITY OF THE HAWAII INCOME TAX LAW TO THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE. |
SAY (BR) |
| Provides a short form measure for conforming amendments to the Hawaii income tax law based upon amendments to the Internal Revenue Code for calendar year 2007. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3192 RELATING TO REVENUE AUTHORITIES ADMINISTERED BY THE GOVERNMENT. |
SAY (BR) |
| Establishes a twenty per cent penalty for erroneous refund or credit claims. Clarifies that information discussed in a public board of review hearing is public information. Provides authority for taxpayer and the department of taxation to redact parts of a social security number in tax returns filed with the tax appeal court. Amends conformity law to allow discretion in submitting a digest to the legislature and requires testimony by the department of taxation. Makes technical corrections to conform Hawaii tax law to the internal revenue code for purposes of the "Kiddie Tax." Clarifies the uses of funds available in the tax administration special fund. Extends the capital goods excise tax credit to include canned computer software. Clarifies the general excise tax wholesale rate for sales of tangible personal property. Clarifies that the general excise tax exemption for building and repair of a surface vessel applies to subsurface vessels. Clarifies tax lien recording requirements. Adds an exemption for the proper use of social security numbers for tax administration. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3193 RELATING TO ELECTRONIC TAX ADMINISTRATION. |
SAY (BR) |
| Provides the Department of Taxation with the authority to require electronic filing and electronic payment by rule. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3194 RELATING TO INCOME TAXATION EXCLUSION FOR INDIVIDUAL TAXPAYERS AGED 65 AND OVER. |
SAY (BR) |
| Excludes the first $25,000 of income from income taxation for Hawaii taxpayers age 65 and over. Phases out the exemption amount for income received over $25,000 and for currently exempt retirement income received on a graduated basis. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3195 RELATING TO INCOME TAX CREDIT. |
SAY (BR) |
| Provides a refundable income tax credit for up to 50% of costs incurred in retrofitting a primary residence for purposes of accommodating aging and disability access. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3196 RELATING TO RENTAL MOTOR VEHICLE SURCHARGE TAX. |
SAY (BR) |
| Extends the $1 per day surcharge on rental motor vehicles beyond September 1, 2008 and deposits the money into the State Highway Fund. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3197 MAKING AN EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION TO THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION FOR THE STATE HIGHWAY SYSTEM. |
SAY (BR) |
| Appropriates $21,253,032 out to the State Highway Fund for fiscal year 2007-2008. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3198 RELATING TO HIGHWAY SAFETY. |
SAY (BR) |
| Prohibits the use of cell phones, including hands-free, or other electronic communications devices by persons aged fifteen years and six months but less than eighteen years while operating a motor vehicle under either a temporary instruction permit or a provisional license. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3199 RELATING TO HIGHWAY SAFETY. |
SAY (BR) |
| Strengthens the current reckless driving penalties for individuals guilty of two or more traffic violations under the State’s Traffic Code. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3200 RELATING TO THE EXEMPTION OF STATE HIGHWAY PROJECTS FROM THE COUNTY SUBDIVISION APPROVAL PROCESS. |
SAY (BR) |
| Exempts State Highways from county subdivision approval requirements to expedite highway projects and reduce project costs. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3201 RELATING TO VEHICLE IGNITION INTERLOCK SYSTEMS. |
SAY (BR) |
| Establishes an ignition interlock program, which directs the courts and the administrative driver’s license revocation office to require use of the system as part of the sentence for driving under the influence of an intoxicant, as a condition for conditional license permits, and as a condition for being relicensed. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3202 RELATING TO COMMERCIAL HARBORS MODERNIZATION. |
SAY (BR) |
| Expands the authority of the Aloha Tower Development Corporation to assist in the development of the statewide harbors modernization plan. Authorizes the Department of Transportation to issue revenue bonds to finance the harbor improvements. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3203 RELATING TO COMMERCIAL DRIVERS. |
SAY (BR) |
| Conforms Hawaii to federal law by closing a loophole that allows individuals convicted of driving under the influence to operate a commercial vehicle on a restructured commercial driver's license. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3204 RELATING TO THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII |
SAY (BR) |
| Reinstates the ability of the Board of Regents of the University of Hawaii to develop internal policies and procedures for the procurement of goods and services rather than use the State procurement code. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3205 RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII |
SAY (BR) |
| To increase the sources of revenue available to support the Cancer Research Center of Hawaii. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3206 RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII |
SAY (BR) |
| Authorizes the transfer of all University funds with the exception of general funds, into the University of Hawaii Commercial Enterprise Revolving Fund. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3207 RELATING TO COMPTROLLER SUPERVISION OF ACCOUNTS |
SAY (BR) |
| Allow the University of Hawaii to preaudit all proposed payments of $10,000 or more. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3208 RELATING TO NURSING |
SAY (BR) |
| To provide an additional means to qualify for licensure as a registered nurse by allowing a graduate with a completed portion of a master’s entry program in nursing to apply as a registered nurse by examination. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3209 RELATING TO ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENTS. |
MORITA (BR) |
| Exempts an existing public street, road, highway, trail, or bikeway from applicability of the environmental impact statements law. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3210 MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR ACQUISITION OF A PUBLIC RIGHT OF ACCESS TO HAENA BEACH PARK. |
MORITA, SAGUM, TOKIOKA |
| Appropriates matching funds from the department of land and natural resources for Kauai county's acquisition of a public right of way to Haena beach park. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3211 RELATING TO CLOTHESLINES. |
MORITA, HANOHANO, LEE, NISHIMOTO, TAKAI, THIELEN, Belatti, Berg, Ito, Karamatsu, Magaoay, Sagum, Takumi |
| Allows for the use of clotheslines on any privately owned single-family residential dwelling, with limited restrictions. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3212 RELATING TO THE HAWAII ACADEMY OF SCIENCE. |
MORITA, CALDWELL, HANOHANO, LUKE, NISHIMOTO, TAKAI, WAKAI, YAMASHITA, Belatti, Brower, Carroll |
| Appropriates funds for the Hawaii Academy of Science to assist the organization in the administration and operation of its current and future interscholastic academic programs, including outreach and training programs. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3213 RELATING TO AIR POLLUTION. |
MORITA, BERG, BROWER, HANOHANO, LEE, LUKE, MAGAOAY, NISHIMOTO, TAKAI, THIELEN, WAKAI, Belatti, Carroll, Ito, Karamatsu, Sagum, Takamine, Takumi |
| Removes the maximum limitation on fees for air pollution emissions from covered sources. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3214 RELATING TO MILITARY SPECIAL NUMBER PLATES. |
PINE, BERTRAM, FINNEGAN, MCKELVEY, NISHIMOTO, SONSON, Carroll, Chang, Evans, Herkes, Karamatsu, Lee, Morita, Rhoads, Takumi, Wakai |
| Requires counties to set aside a portion of the fee charged for special number plates to be transferred to the office of veterans' services to support veterans' rights and benefits under chapter 363. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3215 RELATING TO EDUCATION. |
CHING |
| Establishes a pilot program to allow a principal at each designated public school to establish and use a debit card system based at the individual school level for the purpose of purchasing school supplies and other related curriculum support supplies. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3216 RELATING TO EXEMPTIONS FROM THE GENERAL EXCISE TAX. |
CHING |
| Provides general excise tax exemptions for certain food items and medicine and medical services. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3217 RELATING TO SENIOR CENTERS. |
CHING |
| Makes appropriation for certain senior centers on Oahu. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3218 RELATING TO EDUCATION. |
TAKUMI, Berg |
| Establishes and appropriates funds for the department of education real property and facilities use revolving fund. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3219 RELATING TO EDUCATION. |
TAKUMI |
| Increases the compensation rate per day from $100 to $200 for board of education members. Establishes a protocol allowance. Allows board members to receive personal expenses at rates specified by the board while attending board meetings or while on official business as authorized by the board. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3220 RELATING TO EDUCATION. |
TAKUMI, Berg |
| Allows board of education to remove members of charter school review panel. Makes panel subject to "Sunshine" (open meetings) law. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3221 RELATING TO EDUCATION. |
TAKUMI |
| Authorizes the Hawaii teacher standards board to coordinate an effort that creates a data interface network to promote the free interchange of information among public and private Hawaii teacher education institutions and the department of education. Appropriates funds. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3222 RELATING TO NOISE. |
CHING, BERTRAM, GREEN, HANOHANO, RHOADS, WAKAI, WARD, Berg, Evans, Morita, Sagum |
| Establishes a noise abatement zone for motor vehicles and mopeds. Authorizes impoundment of vehicles for transgressors; criminalizes the modification of motorcycles and moped mufflers. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3223 RELATING TO NOISE. |
CHING, BERTRAM, GREEN, HANOHANO, RHOADS, WAKAI, WARD, Berg, Evans, Morita |
| Prohibits selling of leaf blowers and other motorized landscaping tools not tested under standards. Appropriates funds for establishment of buyback program for noncompliant models of leaf blowers. Expands scope of unreasonable noise category of disorderly conduct crime. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3224 RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE THIRTY-SECOND REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT. |
FINNEGAN |
| Capital Improvements for the 32nd District | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3225 RELATING TO NEIGHBORHOOD ELECTRIC VEHICLES. |
SOUKI |
| Amends the definition of neighborhood electric vehicle to include vehicles with gross vehicle weight rating of less than 3,000 pounds. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3226 RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII. |
CHANG, AWANA, EVANS, HANOHANO, ITO, KARAMATSU, MAGAOAY, MIZUNO, MORITA, TAKAI, TSUJI, Berg, Bertram, Lee, Rhoads, Takamine, Takumi |
| Requires the submission of candidates' names for the regents candidate advisory council within sixty days following the notification of a vacancy. Clarifies the requirement of the submission of the names of the candidates to the governor. Makes confidential all information received or maintained by the regents candidate advisory council. Requires candidates to reside in the geographic area which the candidate represents. Appropriates funds for an administrative position to support regents candidate advisory council operations. Requires the governor to notify the regents candidate advisory council of vacancies on the board of regents in a timely manner. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3227 RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII. |
CHANG, AWANA, BERTRAM, HANOHANO, ITO, KARAMATSU, MAGAOAY, MIZUNO, MORITA, TAKAI, TAKUMI, Lee, Rhoads, Takamine |
| Authorizes and funds sixteen additional positions at the University of Hawaii, West Oahu campus for teacher education. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3228 RELATING TO ABANDONED VEHICLES. |
NISHIMOTO (BR) |
| Allows counties to remove abandoned motor vehicles from private roads. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3229 RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES. |
NISHIMOTO, GREEN, LUKE, MANAHAN, MCKELVEY, MIZUNO, SAIKI, Takamine |
| Requires Med QUEST and Medicaid coverage for chiropractic care. Requires the Department of Human Services to adjust rates of payment per participating recipient amounts to allow for chiropractic coverage to QUEST participants. Appropriates funds. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3230 RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE TWENTY-FIRST REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT. |
NISHIMOTO |
| Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects for the 21st representative district. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3231 RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES. |
NISHIMOTO, GREEN, LUKE, MANAHAN, MCKELVEY, MIZUNO, SAIKI, Takamine |
| Requires Med QUEST and Medicaid coverage for chiropractic care limited to 24 visits per calendar year. Requires department of human services to pass funding on to QUEST plans to implement the services. Appropriates funds. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3232 RELATING TO NOISE. |
SAIKI, LUKE |
| Prohibits the sale of leaf blowers and other motorized landscape tools with untested sound levels. Appropriates funds for the director of health to establish a buyback program for noncompliant tools. Expands disorderly conduct to include noise from motorized apparatuses. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3233 RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLES. |
SAIKI, LUKE |
| Includes the inspection of the exhaust system in the safety inspection of motor vehicles and motorcycles. Imposes penalties for violations. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3234 RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE TWENTY-SECOND REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT. |
SAIKI |
| Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects for the benefit of the 22nd representative district. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3235 RELATING TO CHILD ABUSE. |
THIELEN (BR) |
| Eliminates absolute immunity for those who report child abuse. Provides qualified immunity for those who act in good faith. Defines good faith. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3236 RELATING TO COUNTY ZONING. |
THIELEN, ITO |
| Requires a prior public informational hearing be held in the affected community before a county agency may issue any permit for group living in facilities with five or more unrelated persons. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3237 RELATING TO RENEWABLE ENERGY. |
THIELEN (BR) |
| Provides a comprehensive approach towards reducing greenhouse gas emissions and improving Hawaii's energy self sufficiency. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3238 RELATING TO APPLIED ARCHAEOLOGY. |
CHANG, AWANA, EVANS, ITO, LEE, MAGAOAY, TSUJI, YAMANE, Sagum, Takamine, Takumi |
| Establishes an applied archaeology graduate program at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa; makes appropriation. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3239 AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS FOR CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE SECOND REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT. |
CHANG |
| Authorizes issuance of general obligation bonds for capital improvement projects for the 2nd representative district. Reauthorizes issuance of general obligation bonds for Hawaii community college. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3240 RELATING TO ANIMALS. |
SHIMABUKURO |
| Requires pet dealers and dog breeders to provide purchasers of dogs with written statements of the dog's medical history. Allows consumers to return dogs to the pet dealer or breeder for a refund or exchange where the dog has a pre-existing condition. Requires pet dealers to provide purchasers of cats with written statements of the cat's medical history. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3241 RELATING TO CONSUMER PROTECTION. |
LEE (BR) |
| Protects consumers and encourages market competition by prohibiting wireless telecommunication service providers from charging unfair service agreement cancellation penalties. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3242 RELATING TO HEALTH. |
LEE, AWANA, BERTRAM, CALDWELL, GREEN, HANOHANO, LUKE, MANAHAN, MCKELVEY, MORITA, TAKAI, THIELEN, YAMANE, Brower, Har, M. Oshiro, Takamine |
| Clarifies the prescribing of opiates for pain treatment. Extends the time limit in which scheduled II controlled substances prescriptions must be filled. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3243 MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE HONOLULU SYMPHONY AND ITS PROGRAMS. |
LEE, AWANA, CALDWELL, GREEN, HANOHANO, HAR, LUKE, MANAHAN, SHIMABUKURO, TAKAI, YAMANE, Bertram, Brower, Takamine |
| Appropriates funds to support the Honolulu Symphony and its programs. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3244 RELATING TO COMPENSATION OF CRIME VICTIMS AND WITNESSES. |
LEE, AWANA, BERTRAM, BROWER, CALDWELL, GREEN, HANOHANO, HAR, LUKE, MANAHAN, MCKELVEY, MORITA, TAKAI, THIELEN, M. Oshiro, Takamine, Yamane |
| Authorizes criminal injuries compensation for mental health services of survivors and witnesses in cases involving death or violent crimes and of young or elderly witnesses of violent crimes. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3245 RELATING TO MEDICINE AND SURGERY. |
NISHIMOTO, LUKE, MIZUNO, SAIKI, McKelvey, Takamine |
| Establishes a data depository containing individual profiles on persons licensed to practice medicine or surgery and provides for the public release of information relating to criminal charges, administrative disciplinary actions, and hospital privilege revocations. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3246 RELATING TO NOISE. |
NISHIMOTO, BROWER, GREEN, LUKE, SAIKI, Mizuno, Takamine |
| Establishes a noise abatement zone for motor vehicles and mopeds and assesses an escalating fine starting at $100 and impoundment of vehicles for violators. Effective 07/01/09. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3247 RELATING TO THE EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM. |
WATERS |
| Allows police officers a retirement allowance of five percent of the retirees average final compensation for each year of service as a police officer. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3248 RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE FIFTY-FIRST REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT. |
WATERS |
| Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects for the benefit of the 51st representative district. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3249 RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION. |
WATERS |
| Prohibits parking of motor vehicles on bikeways. Assesses up to $500 fine per violation. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3250 RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE TWENTY-EIGHTH REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT. |
RHOADS |
| Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects for the benefit of the 28th Representative District. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3251 RELATING TO TAXATION. |
RHOADS, BROWER, HAR, NISHIMOTO, SAIKI |
| Specifies that a county shall not grant an exemption from GET or receipt taxes for a mixed use transit oriented joint development project; exempts from GET a project developed to provide affordable rental housing or a community health care facility within a mixed use transit oriented joint development project; exempts from GET amounts received by the operator of a county fixed guideway transportation system operated under an operating contract with a county or political subdivision. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3252 RELATING TO MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT LEARNING EXPERIENCE PROGRAM. |
RHOADS, CALDWELL, MANAHAN, Chang, M. Oshiro, Say, Yamashita |
| Makes an appropriation of $4,800,000 for the music entertainment learning experience program at Honolulu community college, and issues general obligation bonds for site development, renovation, facilities remodeling, and studio construction. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3253 RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE THIRTY-SEVENTH DISTRICT. |
YAMANE, LEE |
| Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects for the benefit of the 37th representative district. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3254 RELATING TO LIFE SCIENCES. |
YAMANE, TSUJI, YAMASHITA, Karamatsu |
| Provides for an income tax credit amounting to fifteen per cent of qualified clinical trials incurred, in any county of Hawaii with a population over 700,000, and twenty per cent in any county with a population under 700,000. Establishes criteria to qualify for the tax credit. Caps credit at $8,000,000 per clinical trial. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3255 RELATING TO TAXATION. |
YAMANE, Souki, Yamashita |
| Provides an exemption for common carriers from general excise and use taxes on fuel used for intrastate air travel. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3256 MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO ASSIST GEOGRAPHICALLY ISOLATED SCHOOLS UNDER THE WEIGHTED STUDENT FORMULA. |
SAY (BR) |
| Appropriates funds to assist geographically isolated schools under the weighted student formula. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3257 MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN PUBLIC EDUCATION. |
SAY (BR) |
| Appropriates funds to support science and technology resource needs within the department of education. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3258 MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO ESTABLISH TWO BOARD OF EDUCATION ANALYST POSITIONS. |
SAY (BR) |
| Appropriates funds for 2 permanent analyst positions in the board of education to staff and support the budgetary and school-community-related responsibilities of the board. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3259 RELATING TO THE ALA WAI WATERSHED. |
SAY |
| Makes an appropriation to the department of land and natural resources to study the use of land trusts and easements to reduce flooding and pollution in the Ala Wai watershed. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3260 RELATING TO FISHING. |
SAY (BR) |
| Establishes a fishing bag limit for uhu and goatfish to no more than two kumu, two moano ukali, two munu and two uhu per person, per day, for recreational, subsistence, or commercial purposes. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3261 RELATING TO ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENTS. |
SAY (BR) |
| Exempts proposed actions that only use state or county highways and meet certain other limiting conditions from preparation of an environmental assessment or an environmental impact statement. Effective upon approval and repealed 6/30/09. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3262 RELATING TO HONOLUA BAY. |
MCKELVEY, AWANA, BERG, BERTRAM, CARROLL, CHANG, EVANS, GREEN, HANOHANO, HAR, LEE, MAGAOAY, MANAHAN, MIZUNO, MORITA, SAGUM, SHIMABUKURO, THIELEN, TSUJI, WAKAI, YAMANE, YAMASHITA, Chong, M. Oshiro, Tokioka |
| Creates a temporary Honolua Bay advisory committee to develop an acquisition and management plan for Lipoa Point on the island of Maui. Report to the legislature. Appropriates funds. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3263 RELATING TO TRAFFIC FINE SURCHARGE. |
TOKIOKA, AWANA, HANOHANO, HAR, MAGAOAY, MANAHAN, MCKELVEY, MIZUNO, MORITA, RHOADS, WATERS, Chang, Sagum, Shimabukuro |
| Adds a 10% traffic fine surcharge to each fine and forfeiture imposed for a violation of the traffic code; allocates the amount of the surcharge to the county in which the violation occurred. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3264 RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE FOURTEENTH, FIFTEENTH, AND SIXTEENTH REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICTS. |
TOKIOKA, MORITA, SAGUM |
| Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects for the 14th, 15th, and 16th representative districts. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3265 RELATING TO PUBLIC ACCESS TO COASTAL AREAS. |
BERG, BROWER, GREEN, MCKELVEY, WATERS, Belatti, Carroll, Hanohano, Luke, Nishimoto, Saiki, Takumi, Yamashita |
| Requires the State to acquire land for public rights-of-way. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3266 RELATING TO THE HAWAII TEACHER STANDARDS BOARD. |
BERG, CARROLL, GREEN, HANOHANO, WAKAI, WATERS, YAMASHITA, Belatti, Brower, Luke, McKelvey, Nishimoto, Saiki, Takumi |
| Requires the Hawaii teacher standards board to adopt rules necessary to ensure that a license is not issued or renewed or is suspended or revoked if the person is convicted of a crime if the board finds by reason of the nature and circumstances of the crime that the person poses a risk to the health, safety, or well-being of children. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3267 RELATING TO LEGACY LANDS. |
BERG |
| Makes an appropriation for the board of land and natural resources to purchase the Ka ‘Iwi coast using the land conservation fund. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3268 RELATING TO WATER SAFETY. |
CABANILLA, GREEN, MCKELVEY, Caldwell, Ito, Karamatsu, Luke, Mizuno, Morita, Sagum, Say, Ward |
| Establishes requirements for rainwater and storm water retention, detention, and catchment area pond inspection and safety. Allows fines. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3269 RELATING TO ABANDONED VEHICLES. |
CABANILLA, MIZUNO, Awana, Manahan, Yamashita |
| Requires mayors of each county to report to the legislature by 2009 regular session, on the county's storage space needs for storing abandoned vehicles. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3270 RELATING TO GRAY WATER. |
AWANA, BERTRAM, CABANILLA, CHANG, CHONG, HANOHANO, ITO, MIZUNO, SHIMABUKURO, THIELEN, Belatti, Brower, Carroll, Green, Magaoay, McKelvey, Rhoads |
| Allows the use of gray water for the sole purpose of irrigating lawns and gardens. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3271 RELATING TO TAX CREDITS. |
AWANA, BERTRAM, GREEN, HANOHANO, MCKELVEY, MIZUNO, MORITA, RHOADS, Belatti, Carroll, Chang, Chong, Ito, Magaoay, Shimabukuro, Yamane, Yamashita |
| Provides a tax credit to employers who allow employees to telecommute. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3272 RELATING TO PUBLIC LANDS. |
CHANG, BERTRAM, HERKES, KARAMATSU, MIZUNO, Berg, Evans, Har, Ito, Lee, Magaoay, Nishimoto, Sagum, Shimabukuro, Takamine, Tsuji, Yamane, Yamashita |
| Permits a current lessee of public land to be disposed by public auction to match the winning bid under certain circumstances. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3273 RELATING TO TRAFFIC INFRACTIONS. |
MCKELVEY (BR) |
| Decriminalizes violations of statutes and rules governing traffic and parking in state harbors. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3274 MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR URGENT AND EXTENDED EMERGENCY MEDICAL CARE IN WEST MAUI. |
MCKELVEY, CARROLL, MIZUNO, MORITA, Evans, Souki |
| Appropriates $450,000 to DOH to provide outpatient urgent and extended medical care after normal physician hours in West Maui. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3275 RELATING TO OWNER-BUILDER PERMITS. |
MAGAOAY, HERKES, ITO, KARAMATSU, MANAHAN, MIZUNO, Hanohano, Har, McKelvey, Sonson, Tokioka, Tsuji, Yamashita |
| Increases period prohibiting sale or lease by owner-builder from 1 to 2 years, and requires that an exemption from licensing requirements is given no more than once in 3 years. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3276 RELATING TO INTOXICATING LIQUOR. |
MAGAOAY, AWANA, CABANILLA, GREEN, HAR, MCKELVEY, MIZUNO, SHIMABUKURO, TOKIOKA, Belatti, Rhoads, Sagum, Tsuji |
| Requires liquor licensees to have supervisory personnel and servers who have completed an alcohol management training program. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3277 RELATING TO ORGANIC AGRICULTURE. |
MAGAOAY, CHANG, HERKES, MCKELVEY, TSUJI, YAMANE, YAMASHITA |
| Establishes an organic agriculture task force under the direction of the department of business, economic development, and tourism to focus on the promotion of organic agriculture as a key industry for the State. Makes an appropriation to the task force to carry out its purposes. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3278 MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR GEOGRAPHICAL MAPPING. |
MAGAOAY, CHANG, KARAMATSU, TSUJI |
| Appropriates funds for the department of accounting and general services to contract with a service provider to provide interferometric synthetic aperture radar base maps of the State for state and county agencies. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3279 RELATING TO THE HAWAII UNITED OKINAWA ASSOCIATION. |
MAGAOAY, AWANA, CHONG, HANOHANO, HAR, ITO, KARAMATSU, MANAHAN, MCKELVEY, MIZUNO, NAKASONE, B. OSHIRO, M. OSHIRO, SAY, SHIMABUKURO, TSUJI, YAMANE, Takamine, Yamashita |
| Amends an appropriation for fiscal year 2006 2007 to the Hawaii United Okinawa Association. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3280 MAKING APPROPRIATIONS TO KAPIOLANI COMMUNITY COLLEGE. |
MARUMOTO |
| Appropriates funds to Kapiolani Community College for increased security and distance learning. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3281 RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE NINETEENTH REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT. |
MARUMOTO |
| Capital Improvements for the 19th District | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3282 RELATING TO EDUCATION. |
MARUMOTO |
| Alters Department of Education's energy-savings program to account for state department offices located at individual schools. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3283 RELATING TO PUBLIC HIGHWAYS. |
MARUMOTO |
| Requires the DOT to expend an unspecified percentage of moneys in the state highway fund annually for maintenance and repair of the state highway system and county roads; to annually determine and repair the ten most critical public highways and the ten most critical public highways in resort destination areas; to determine and adhere to minimum quality standards for materials and construction methods, a formula for pothole repair and maintenance of previous pothole repairs, and a reasonable time period for the use of temporary plates when maintenance and repair require extensive road patching; establishes unspecified penalty for failure to meet requirements. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3284 PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO THE HAWAII CONSTITUTION TO PROTECT THE TRADITIONAL CULTURAL PRACTICE OF FIGHTING GAMECOCKS. |
SAGUM (BR) |
| Amends the constitution to guarantee a right to engage in the traditional cultural practice of fighting gamecocks. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3285 RELATING TO WATER RESOURCES. |
SAGUM |
| Creates a sustainable yield advisory committee to make recommendations to revise estimates of groundwater sustainable yield. Makes appropriation. Effective 7/1/08. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3286 RELATING TO MINING. |
SAGUM, CHANG, MIZUNO, Awana, Lee, Tokioka, Ward, Yamashita |
| Permits mining for sand, rock, gravel, and other materials suitable for use and used in construction and activities ancillary to mining, including processing and storage, within the agricultural districts; provided that the person is engaged in mining. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3287 RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT. |
TAKAI, SONSON |
| Allows members without vested benefit status in the employees' retirement system who return to service to continue accumulating service credit as if no break in service had occurred. Requires the State to pay the entire base monthly contribution into the employer-union health benefits trust fund for retirees hired prior to 7/1/96 who cumulatively accrue, either prior to or after a break in service of any duration, a total of at least 10 years of credited service. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3288 RELATING TO EDUCATION. |
FINNEGAN, CHING |
| Conditions appropriation to assist with transitional funding for weighted student formula on matching funds from department budget to assist small schools in maintaining financial sustainability. Imposes additional financial accountability measures upon the department. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3289 RELATING TO THE COMPACT OF FREE ASSOCIATION. |
WAKAI, CARROLL, FINNEGAN, HANOHANO, MARUMOTO, TSUJI, YAMASHITA, Bertram, Evans, Ito, Sagum, Thielen |
| Requests the compact of free association task force, established pursuant to H.R. 94, H.D.1, 2007, to include in its final report to the 2009 legislature a recommendation for a pilot program for delivery of medical, educational, housing and social services for the migrants from the freely associated state | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3290 RELATING TO ASSISTING PERSONS UNDER A COMPACT OF FREE ASSOCIATION. |
WAKAI, AWANA, BERG, GREEN, HANOHANO, MORITA, Bertram, Carroll, Finnegan, Marumoto, Meyer, Mizuno, M. Oshiro, Pine, Tsuji, Waters, Yamane |
| Creates one state coordinator position within the department of labor and industrial relations to assist individuals present in Hawaii under the various Compacts of Free Association; makes appropriation. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3291 RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE THIRTY-FIRST REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT. |
WAKAI |
| Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects for the benefit of the 31st representative district. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3292 RELATING TO LOSS MITIGATION. |
WAKAI (BR) |
| Includes earthquake resistive devices in the loss mitigation grant program. Directs the insurance commissioner, in consultation with department of defense, to develop criteria for earthquake resistive devices. Appropriates moneys to the loss mitigation grant fund. Effective 07/01/08. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3293 RELATING TO A CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION. |
BELATTI, AWANA, BERG, BERTRAM, CABANILLA, CARROLL, FINNEGAN, GREEN, MARUMOTO, MEYER, MIZUNO, MORITA, PINE, SAIKI, THIELEN, WAKAI, Evans, Souki, Takamine, Tsuji |
| Appropriates funding for the Office of Elections to provide in print, radio, television, and other media education on the pros and cons of holding a constitutional convention. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3294 RELATING TO A CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION. |
BELATTI, BERG, BERTRAM, CABANILLA, FINNEGAN, MARUMOTO, MEYER, MORITA, PINE, TAKAI, THIELEN, WAKAI, Awana, Brower, Carroll, Evans, Luke, Mizuno, Saiki, Souki, Takamine, Tsuji |
| Provides that if voters in the 2008 general election approve a constitutional convention, there shall be a special election for 102 delegates to be held in August 2009; voters will elect two nonpartisan delegates for each district of the house of representatives by mail-ballots; the constitutional convention will convene on September 1, 2009; constitutional amendments proposed by the convention will be submitted for ratification by the voters in the 2010 general election. Appropriates funds for the special election, convention expenses and compensation of delegates, a citizen education program, and updating of the constitutional convention studies. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3295 RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE TWENTY-FIFTH REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT. |
BELATTI |
| Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects for the 25th representative district. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3296 RELATING TO A CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION. |
BELATTI, BERG, BERTRAM, CABANILLA, LUKE, MARUMOTO, MEYER, MORITA, PINE, SAIKI, THIELEN, Awana, Carroll, Evans, Finnegan, Mizuno, Souki, Takamine, Tsuji, Wakai |
| Provides for full public funding for delegate candidates for the constitutional convention. Appropriates funds. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3297 RELATING TO A CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION. |
BELATTI, FINNEGAN, LUKE, MARUMOTO, MEYER, PINE, THIELEN, WAKAI, Awana, Berg, Bertram, Cabanilla, Carroll, Evans, Mizuno, Morita, Saiki, Souki, Takamine, Tsuji |
| Amends campaign spending laws to include public funding for special elections for the election of delegates to a constitutional convention. Appropriates funds. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3298 RELATING TO ATTORNEY'S FEES. |
SONSON, CABANILLA, Morita, Souki, Yamashita |
| Limits the recovery of attorney's fees in matters relating to condominium delinquent assessments, foreclosure of liens, or enforcement of any provision in the association's governing documents, to no more than twenty-five percent of the principal amount due. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3299 RELATING TO TEACHERS. |
SONSON, HAR, MORITA, RHOADS, SHIMABUKURO, Awana, Chong, Nishimoto, Souki, Takumi, Tsuji, Yamashita |
| Establishes the classroom teacher program to guarantee home loans for qualified public school teachers. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3300 RELATING TO CONTRACTORS. |
SONSON, MORITA, Shimabukuro, Yamashita |
| Amends section 444-10.5, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to prohibit the resumption of work for any person who is issued a citation for operating without a license until a hearing is conducted, and provide a $10,000-per-day fine for operating without a license. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3301 RELATING TO FISHING. |
HERKES (BR) |
| Designates the Honaunau and Hookena Community-based Subsistence Fishing Areas in the South Kona District of the island of Hawaii. Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to consult with the inhabitants of the respective fishing areas. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3302 RELATING TO THE HAWAII PUBLIC PROCUREMENT CODE. |
HERKES |
| Requires state and county agencies to use competitive bidding for small purchase construction contracts of less than $50,000 for drilling and soil testing. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3303 MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE HAWAII COUNTY ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL. |
HERKES |
| Makes an appropriation to the office of community services for the Hawaii county economic opportunity council to implement new programs and expend existing programs to aid the Marshallese in the county of Hawaii. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3304 RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. |
HERKES |
| Appropriates funds for a study by the legislative reference bureau on the effect of regulations of Kona coffee blends. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3305 RELATING TO CONDOMINIUMS. |
HERKES (BR) |
| Makes amendments to the recodified condominium law in chapter 514B, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to clarify and improve implementation of its provisions. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3306 RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. |
TSUJI |
| Short form bill relating to agriculture. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3307 RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. |
TSUJI |
| Short form bill relating to agriculture. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3308 RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. |
TSUJI |
| Short form bill relating to agriculture. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3309 RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII. |
TSUJI, BROWER, CHANG, EVANS, ITO, KARAMATSU, MAGAOAY, WAKAI, YAMASHITA |
| Makes an appropriation to the college of tropical agriculture and human resources for the acquisition of land for its agricultural business incubator, its Poamoho field station, and other needs. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3310 RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. |
TSUJI, BROWER, CHANG, CHONG, EVANS, ITO, MAGAOAY, WATERS, YAMANE, YAMASHITA, Karamatsu |
| Appropriates funds for a grant to the Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3311 MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII. |
KARAMATSU, CHANG |
| Appropriates funds to the University of Hawaii college of education to do a feasibility study regarding the establishment of a center for peace education. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3312 RELATING TO HEALTH PRODUCTS. |
KARAMATSU |
| Requires certification of non-prescription health products sold in the State. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3313 RELATING TO THE STATE CAPITOL BUILDING. |
KARAMATSU |
| Appropriates $80,000 to upgrade and enhance the wiring in the public rooms of the capitol, including the conference rooms used for public hearings, the capitol auditorium, and both chambers, to increase digital access and to improve safety and ease of use by the public. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3314 RELATING TO CREATIVE MEDIA. |
KARAMATSU |
| Establishes the academy for creative media program in statute under the University of Hawaii at west Oahu; amends Act 11, special session 2007, to delete all references to a lease agreement with PBS Hawaii. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3315 MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE FORTY-FIRST REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT. |
KARAMATSU |
| Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the 41st representative district. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3316 RELATING TO THE DEPOSIT BEVERAGE CONTAINER PROGRAM. |
MEYER, Brower, Cabanilla, Souki |
| Repeals the deposit beverage container program and requires that all moneys collected under the program and deposited into the deposit beverage container deposit special fund lapse into the general fund. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3317 RELATING TO FUEL. |
MEYER, CABANILLA, Brower, Souki |
| Requires a refiner of gasoline to make available gasoline that does not contain ethanol. Enacts certain conditions. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3318 RELATING TO SMOKING. |
MEYER, Brower, Cabanilla, Souki, Ward |
| Requires the Department of Health to promulgate rules governing smoking in outdoor areas of restaurants. Requires posting of appropriate signs. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3319 RELATING TO SMOKING. |
MEYER, BROWER, CABANILLA, Souki, Ward |
| Allows smoking in properly licensed establishments. Requires collection of smoking establishment licensing fee with proceeds to go towards organ donation education and tobacco education. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3320 RELATING TO HEALTH. |
MEYER, Brower, Souki, Ward |
| Allows smoking at airports up to the passenger terminal gates. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3321 RELATING TO CHAPTER 580, HAWAII REVISED STATUTES. |
MEYER, CHING, THIELEN, Brower, Finnegan, Marumoto, Pine, Souki, Ward, Waters |
| Allows annulment, divorce, and separation proceedings under chapter 580 to be held at Circuit Court at 777 Punchbowl Street unless the parties agree to have proceedings held at different court. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3322 RELATING TO EDUCATION. |
MEYER (BR) |
| Allows charter schools to receive special education services, staff, and funds. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3323 RELATING TO TRAFFIC VIOLATIONS. |
LUKE |
| Prohibits cell phone use while driving except with a hands-free device. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3324 RELATING TO INTERIOR DESIGNERS. |
LUKE |
| Requires interior designers to be licensed. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3325 RELATING TO THE UNIFORM LAND SALES PRACTICES ACT. |
LUKE, MAGAOAY, YAMANE, Caldwell, Herkes, Souki |
| Exempts offers or dispositions of interests in time share plans from the Uniform Land Sales Practices Act. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3326 RELATING TO HEALTH. |
BERTRAM, MCKELVEY |
| Establishes regional councils in place of subarea councils, the statewide council, and the certificate of need review panel to increase the decision-making power of regions in the certificate-of-need process. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3327 RELATING TO ENERGY. |
BERTRAM, BERG, CARROLL, MORITA |
| Requires the installation of solar energy devices in all new residential construction, beginning January 1, 2009. Increases limits for renewable energy income tax credit to systems installed and placed in service, in single family and multi-family residential properties before January 1, 2009. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3328 RELATING TO CIVIL RIGHTS. |
BERTRAM |
| Prohibits discrimination on the basis of gender identity and expression as a public policy matter and specifically with regard to employment. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3329 RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE ELEVENTH REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT. |
BERTRAM |
| Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects for the benefit of the 11th representative district. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3330 RELATING TO FISHING. |
BERTRAM |
| Imposes bag limits on certain ornamental fish; prohibits catching of certain ornamental fish; appropriation | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3331 RELATING TO CONDOMINIUMS. |
BROWER, GREEN, Berg, Caldwell, Evans, Ito, Magaoay, McKelvey, Mizuno, Morita, Souki, Tsuji |
| Specifies matters that are subject to mediation. Permits unsatisfied parties to mediation to pursue arbitration after 30 days. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3332 RELATING TO PRE-PACKAGED MEAT. |
BROWER, HANOHANO, MAGAOAY, MIZUNO, MORITA, WAKAI, Awana, Berg, Chang, Evans, Tsuji |
| Amends the definition of "adulterated" to include pre-packaged meat that has been treated with gas or other technology to enhance color only. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3333 RELATING TO KAKAAKO. |
BROWER, AWANA, GREEN, LEE, LUKE, MAGAOAY, MIZUNO, SAIKI, TSUJI, Belatti, Cabanilla, Karamatsu, Morita, Rhoads, Sagum, Takamine |
| Provides an unspecified tax credit for real property in the Kakaako community development district zoned I-1 and I-2 for a portion of the industrial real property tax assessment imposed by the city and county of Honolulu; provided that the property was in use for light industrial, wholesaling, or service and commercial operations in the year in which the tax credit is taken and retains I-1 or I-2 zoning; clarifies that the HCDA may, not shall, affix assessments against real property for district-wide improvements. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3334 RELATING TO THE HAWAII COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY. |
BROWER, AWANA, CABANILLA, GREEN, HANOHANO, LUKE, MAGAOAY, MCKELVEY, MIZUNO, TSUJI, WAKAI, Evans, Morita, Souki, Takamine |
| Amends chapter 206E, HRS, to designate that at least two members of the HCDA shall be designated as the small business representatives of the HCDA and to provide that these members shall not be prohibited from voting on matters concerning small business in the initial designated district that they represent. Also directs the governor to initially designate the foregoing small business representatives from the existing members of the HCDA. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3335 RELATING TO SCHOOL BUSES. |
AWANA, MCKELVEY |
| Requires public and private elementary school children to wear seat belts on school buses. Requires all state contracted school buses to be fitted with seat belts after July 1, 2010. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3336 RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE FIRST REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT. |
TAKAMINE |
| Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects for the benefit of the 1st Representative District. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3337 RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION. |
TAKAMINE, CALDWELL, LEE, MIZUNO, TAKUMI, TSUJI, Brower |
| Allows motor vehicles registered to individuals with serious skin conditions to obtain darker window sun-screening devices than currently allowed by law. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3338 RELATING TO EDUCATION REFORM. |
TAKAMINE |
| Establishes a task force to review the development and implementation of the weighted student formula used to allocate funds among the public schools, including an evaluation of whether the current funding formula provides an equitable allocation of school funds. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3339 RELATING TO SUSTAINABILITY. |
TAKAMINE |
| Adopts the Hawaii 2050 Sustainability Plan. Establishes a Sustainability Council to coordinate, implement, measure, and evaluate the progress of the Hawaii 2050 Sustainability Plan and activities. Appropriates funds to the Sustainability Council. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3340 RELATING TO KAWAI NUI MARSH. |
CHONG, WATERS |
| Establishes the Kawai Nui marsh advisory council; appropriates moneys to DLNR for the work of the council. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3341 RELATING TO WATER. |
CHONG, ITO, KARAMATSU, Waters |
| Appropriates funds for various measures to address water quality and other issues facing Kailua waterways. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3342 RELATING TO TAX CREDITS. |
CHONG, B. OSHIRO, TSUJI, YAMASHITA |
| Provides a tax credit for qualified agricultural costs incurred to improve farms on land classified as agricultural districts. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3343 RELATING TO FILIPINO-AMERICAN HISTORY MONTH. |
MANAHAN, BELATTI, BERG, CABANILLA, CHANG, HAR, HERKES, KARAMATSU, LEE, MAGAOAY, MIZUNO, SONSON, WAKAI |
| Designates the month of October as Filipino-American History Month to annually commemorate the contributions of Filipino-Americans to Hawaii and the United States. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3344 RELATING TO EDUCATION. |
MANAHAN, ITO, MAGAOAY, Takumi |
| Appropriates funds to ensure that children whose first language is not English have the resources they need to succeed in Hawaii's school system. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3345 RELATING TO BOATING FACILITIES AT KEEHI LAGOON. |
MANAHAN |
| Appropriates funds for boat repair facilities at Keehi Lagoon. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3346 RELATING TO PRIVATE PATROL OPERATORS AND TRAINING FACILITIES. |
EVANS (BR) |
| Repeals authority of the board of private detectives and guards to license guards. Requires private patrol operators to be licensed and security guards to be registered by the director of commerce and consumer affairs. Requires security guards and patrolpersons to take training courses in arrests and firearms. Requires firearms and baton training facilities to be certified by the director. Makes appropriation. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3347 MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO THE QUEEN'S MEDICAL CENTER TO PROVIDE FOR EMERGENCY ENERGY CAPACITY. |
EVANS |
| Appropriates $10,000,000 to the Queen's Medical Center as a grant to increase its emergency power generator system to ensure a required maximum capacity of 6,000 kilowatts to continue operating its hospital and trauma center in the event of a disaster. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3348 RELATING TO HISTORIC PRESERVATION. |
EVANS, BROWER, CABANILLA, CALDWELL, CHING, MARUMOTO, SAY, TSUJI |
| Directs a portion of transient accommodations tax moneys to initially capitalize the Hawaii preservation fund. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3349 RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE SEVENTH REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT. |
EVANS |
| Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects for the 7th representative district. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3350 RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE THIRTIETH REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT. |
MIZUNO, Brower |
| Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects for the benefit of the 30th Representative District. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3351 RELATING TO TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDERS. |
MIZUNO, Brower, Belatti, Sagum, Waters |
| Requires the judiciary to establish a three-year statewide electronic temporary restraining order pilot project to allow the filing and issuance of temporary restraining orders on weekends and nights. Makes an appropriation. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3352 RELATING TO AN AUDIT OF THE HAWAII DISABILITY RIGHTS CENTER. |
MIZUNO, Brower |
| Requires the auditor to perform a financial and management audit of the Hawaii Disability Rights Center. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3353 RELATING TO INFECTIOUS AND COMMUNICABLE DISEASES. |
MIZUNO, GREEN, Brower, Sagum |
| Requires health care providers to administer HIV tests for any woman being provided prenatal care unless the woman specifically refuses. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3354 RELATING TO EDUCATION. |
MIZUNO |
| Establishes a cultural activities education program under the department of education to provide greater opportunities for public school students to participate in cultural activities. Appropriates funds to the department of education to establish a cultural activities education program. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3355 RELATING TO ELECTRIC GUNS. |
NAKASONE, YAMASHITA |
| Permits the investigators of the county liquor authorities to possess electric guns. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3356 RELATING TO THE HIGH TECHNOLOGY BUSINESS INVESTMENT TAX CREDIT. |
M. OSHIRO |
| Specifically excludes "large capacity ferry vessel company" from the high technology businesses that are eligible for the High Technology Business Investment Tax Credit. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3357 RELATING TO BUSINESS. |
YAMASHITA |
| Reduces from 30 days, to 15 working days, the time within which the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism, after reviewing county zone designation applications, must convey to the Governor its recommendations for approval of selected applications. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3358 RELATING TO HIGH TECHNOLOGY. |
YAMASHITA, AWANA, BERG, CALDWELL, CHONG, HANOHANO, HAR, ITO, LEE, MCKELVEY, MIZUNO, MORITA, B. OSHIRO, M. OSHIRO, SAY, TSUJI, WAKAI, WATERS, YAMANE, Karamatsu, Nakasone, Tokioka |
| Establishes a high technology park. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3359 RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. |
YAMASHITA, CHONG, TSUJI |
| Appropriates fund to establish a grant-writer position within the department of agriculture. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3360 RELATING TO SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY. |
YAMASHITA, AWANA, BERG, BERTRAM, BROWER, CALDWELL, CARROLL, CHANG, CHONG, EVANS, HANOHANO, HAR, HERKES, ITO, KARAMATSU, LEE, MAGAOAY, MANAHAN, MARUMOTO, MCKELVEY, MIZUNO, MORITA, B. OSHIRO, M. OSHIRO, SAY, SHIMABUKURO, SONSON, SOUKI, TSUJI, WAKAI, WATERS, YAMANE, Nakasone, Sagum, Takamine, Tokioka |
| Establishes a task force to develop the Hawaii State Science and Technology Plan. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3361 RELATING TO TORTS. |
GREEN |
| Reforms the healthcare liability system for resolving healthcare liability claims and for compensating injured patients. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3362 RELATING TO CRIME. |
PINE, CABANILLA, SAY, Berg, Ching, Finnegan, Ito, Magaoay, Marumoto, McKelvey, Meyer, Rhoads, Shimabukuro, Thielen, Tsuji |
| Mandates minors be tried as adults in cases of first degree murder, second degree murder, first degree sexual assault and second degree sexual assault. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3363 RELATING TO JUVENILE COURT RECORDS. |
PINE, CABANILLA, CHING, FINNEGAN, MARUMOTO, MEYER, THIELEN, Berg, Carroll, Chang, Chong, Evans, Lee, Magaoay, McKelvey, Nishimoto, Rhoads, Say, Shimabukuro |
| Allows limited disclosure of information from family court records on minors under family court jurisdiction pursuant to section 571(1); requires family court to notify public or private school officials registered with court of adjudication of minors for offenses for which court records become public; requires family court to notify public or private school officials of petitions filed with the court for minors accused of offenses that would be serious crimes under penal code; requires that disclosed information remain confidential. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3364 MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO FACILITATE THE SHARING OF INFORMATION OF FAMILY COURT RECORDS WITH SCHOOLS IN THE CASE OF CERTAIN MINOR OFFENDERS. |
PINE, CHING, MARUMOTO, THIELEN, Berg, Carroll, Chang, Chong, Evans, Lee, Magaoay, McKelvey, Meyer, Nishimoto, Rhoads, Say, Shimabukuro |
| Appropriates funds for positions within the Department of Education and the Judiciary to allow for the limited disclosure of family court records to school personnel in the case of violent offenders. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3365 RELATING TO THE HAWAII PENAL CODE. |
PINE, FINNEGAN, MEYER, RHOADS, Bertram, Cabanilla, Chang, Karamatsu, McKelvey, Nishimoto, Sonson |
| Increases the penalty for the offense of abuse of a corpse from a misdemeanor to a class C felony. Effective 01/01/09. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3366 RELATING TO FIREWORKS. |
PINE, FINNEGAN, MARUMOTO, THIELEN, Ching, Evans, McKelvey, Mizuno, Morita, Shimabukuro, Takumi |
| Amends provisions of the of the fireworks control law to provide the counties more authority for enforcement. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3367 RELATING TO WIRELESS ENHANCED 911. |
CALDWELL, HERKES, LEE, MCKELVEY, B. OSHIRO |
| Suspends $0.66 per month surcharge on wireless telephone accounts for deployment of system to locate wireless 911 callers. Requires wireless enhanced 911 board to present a 2 year plan to the 2009 legislature including expenditures for fiscal years 2010 and 2011, the level of surcharge necessary to support those expenditures, and return of surcharge funds in excess of those needed for fiscal years 2010 and 2011. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3368 RELATING TO LABOR. |
CALDWELL |
| Requires that contracts subject to certain wage requirements contain provisions allowing employees to organize. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3369 MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR LEGAL SERVICES. |
CALDWELL, B. OSHIRO, WATERS, Evans, Ito |
| Appropriates funds to certain legal service providers to help them continue to offer a wide range of essential legal services on civil matters to low-income residents at their current levels of operation, and further develop their capacity to meet the expanding need for legal services amongst this population. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3370 RELATING TO SUSTAINABILITY. |
CALDWELL, HANOHANO, ITO, LEE, MAGAOAY, SOUKI, TAKAI, WATERS, Awana, Bertram, Brower, Carroll, Chang, Chong, Evans, Karamatsu, Manahan, B. Oshiro, M. Oshiro, Sagum, Saiki, Say, Takumi, Tsuji |
| Creates a department of planning and sustainability by combining the office of planning, commission on water resource management, energy resources coordinator responsibilities, agribusiness development corporation, land use commission, office of environmental quality control, and Hawaii community development authority. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3371 RELATING TO SUSTAINABILITY. |
CALDWELL, BERTRAM, CHANG, HANOHANO, LEE, MAGAOAY, SOUKI, TAKAI, WATERS, Awana, Belatti, Brower, Carroll, Chong, Evans, Ito, Karamatsu, Manahan, Morita, B. Oshiro, M. Oshiro, Sagum, Saiki, Say, Takumi, Tsuji |
| Establishes sustainable communities in Hawaii with the combined effort of state departments and agencies. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3372 RELATING TO SERIOUS OFFENSES COMMITTED BY MINORS. |
WATERS |
| Permits family court to commit a minor, who commits an act that constitutes sexual assault or murder, to be incarcerated at a youth correctional facility until age 18 then transferred to the custody of the director of public safety until age 26. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3373 RELATING TO THE TRAUMA SYSTEM SPECIAL FUND. |
MIZUNO, WATERS, Souki |
| Provides additional sources of funding for the trauma system special fund by imposing surcharges for driving while intoxicated violations. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3374 RELATING TO THE LAND USE COMMISSION. |
HAR, AWANA, CARROLL, CHANG, EVANS, HERKES, ITO, KARAMATSU, MCKELVEY, NAKASONE, SAGUM, SAY, TOKIOKA |
| Establishes expedited procedures before the Land Use Commission for counties to reclassify lands to conform to county land uses in county plans. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3375 RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII. |
HAR, AWANA, CHONG, LEE, MAGAOAY, SAY, TOKIOKA, YAMANE, Chang, Karamatsu, M. Oshiro |
| Requires the University of Hawaii at Manoa to open its offices for classes and the transaction of public business no earlier than 9:00 a.m. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3376 RELATING TO COUNTY INFRASTRUCTURE CAPACITY CONSTRUCTION FINANCING. |
HAR, AWANA, BROWER, CALDWELL, CHANG, HERKES, ITO, KARAMATSU, MCKELVEY, M. OSHIRO, SAGUM, SAY, Chong, Lee, Magaoay, Nakasone, Rhoads, Tokioka, Yamane |
| Creates the county infrastructure capacity construction loan revolving fund. Appropriates funds. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3377 RELATING TO HIGHWAY SAFETY. |
HAR, AWANA, CALDWELL, CARROLL, CHANG, CHONG, HANOHANO, HERKES, ITO, KARAMATSU, LEE, MAGAOAY, MANAHAN, MCKELVEY, MIZUNO, B. OSHIRO, RHOADS, SAGUM, SAY, TOKIOKA, TSUJI, WATERS, YAMANE, YAMASHITA, Evans, M. Oshiro, Souki |
| Requires installation of ignition interlock device on the vehicle of a person arrested for driving under the influence that prevents the person from starting or operating a motor vehicle with more than a minimal alcohol concentration while their case is pending and while their license is revoked pursuant to chapter 291E, HRS. Provides for certification of devices and vendors and funds installation of devices for the indigent with surcharges on offenders and fees on vendors. Effective 7/1/10. Establishes a task force to prepare for implementation. Appropriates funds for the task force. Effective 7/1/08. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3378 RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE FORTIETH REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT. |
HAR |
| Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects for the benefit of the 40th representative district. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3379 RELATING TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE. |
B. OSHIRO |
| Repeals the existing offense of abuse of family or household members and separately recodifies its procedural and substantive provisions. Establishes three degrees of the offense of abuse of a family or household member. Makes conforming amendments. Effective 7/1/2008. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3380 RELATING TO LOBBYISTS. |
B. OSHIRO |
| Requires persons or entities that hire lobbyists to register. Requires lobbyists to retain records for four years. Adds additional requirements for lobbyists with regard to registration and reporting. Increases the fine for violations of the lobbying law. Adds additional powers and duties to the State Ethics Commission. Requires the State Ethics Commission to conduct random audits. Appropriates funds. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3381 MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR A GRANT TO THE USS MISSOURI MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION, INC., FOR REPAIRS AND RESTORATION OF THE BATTLESHIP MISSOURI. |
B. OSHIRO, BROWER, CHANG, FINNEGAN, HAR, MAGAOAY, TOKIOKA, WARD, YAMANE, Saiki |
| Appropriates funds for a grant for the Battleship Missouri memorial for repairs and restoration work. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3382 RELATING TO BANKRUPTCY. |
B. OSHIRO |
| Provides procedures to allow assignments for the benefit of creditors in bankruptcy proceedings. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3383 RELATING TO HAWAII PENAL CODE. |
B. OSHIRO, CALDWELL, EVANS, HAR, MAGAOAY, WATERS, Takamine |
| Requires that multiple terms of imprisonment run concurrently unless the court orders or the law mandates that the terms run consecutively. Effective upon approval and applies to all terms of imprisonment imposed before or after the effective date. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3384 RELATING TO MEDICAL RECORDS. |
B. OSHIRO, WATERS |
| Permits a patient's attorney with proper authorization for the patient's records to copy, scan, and print the patient's medical records at the health care provider's premises. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3385 RELATING TO HOUSING. |
SAY |
| Provides an expedited process for county review and decision on planning, zoning, and construction exemptions sought by a developer of an affordable rental project. Provides, if the county fails or refuses to take action on the proposed project, the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation may review and make a decision on the proposed project. Makes the provisions applicable only to a county with at least 750,000 residents. Appropriates funds sunsets on December 31, 2013. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3386 RELATING TO ATTORNEYS. |
SAY |
| Changes the procedure for determining representation of state departments by the attorney general and allows the attorney general to represent the legislature and judiciary under certain conditions. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3387 RELATING TO DISASTER PREPAREDNESS. |
GREEN |
| Appropriates funds for the Department of Defense in cooperation with the Department of Health to begin necessary preparations to establish a mobile emergency hospital unit in Hawaii as a shared resource between the Department of Defense and the Department of Health, based on the known need for a comprehensive natural and man-made disaster response plan. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3388 RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE FORTY-EIGHTH REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT. |
ITO |
| Authorizes capital improvement projects for the 48th representative district. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3389 RELATING TO MARINE LIFE CONSERVATION DISTRICTS. |
ITO, M. OSHIRO |
| Prohibits all commercial activities in marine life conservation districts designated after 01/01/68. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3390 RELATING TO REAL PROPERTY. |
ITO, Chong |
| Appropriates funds to be matched by the city and county of Honolulu for the creation of a GPS/GIS based property ownership data base for Oahu. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3391 RELATING TO AQUATIC RESOURCES. |
ITO, M. Oshiro |
| Requires the department of land and natural resources to assess and report the status of Hawaii's aquatic resources. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3392 PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE X OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE HAWAII STATE CONSTITUTION. |
FINNEGAN, CHING, MEYER, WARD |
| Proposes a constitutional amendment that would allow a county to decide whether the county wants local governance over education within their borders. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3393 RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE TWENTY-SEVENTH REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT. |
CHING |
| Capital Improvements for the 27th District | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3394 MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR A GRADUATE MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY AND HISTORY CERTIFICATE PROGRAM. |
CHING, CABANILLA, MARUMOTO, TAKAI, Awana, Brower, Chang, Ito, Magaoay, Meyer, Pine, Say, Shimabukuro, Souki, Takumi, Thielen, Ward, Yamashita |
| Appropriates funds for a full time faculty position and clerical support for the graduate maritime archaeology and history certificate program. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3395 RELATING TO TAXATION. |
CHING, BROWER, CABANILLA, MARUMOTO, TAKAI, WARD, Awana, Ito, Magaoay, Meyer, Pine, Say, Shimabukuro, Thielen, Yamashita |
| Provides a tax credit to small businesses for renovations. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3396 RELATING TO CHILDREN. |
CHING, HERKES, MCKELVEY, Brower, Finnegan, Tsuji |
| Requires identification of child being left at safe haven as well as person leaving child to be presented at time the child is being left at the safe haven. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3397 MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII TO CREATE A FOUR-YEAR DEGREE PROGRAM IN HISTORIC PRESERVATION. |
CHING, BROWER, CABANILLA, EVANS, MARUMOTO, MCKELVEY, TAKAI, Awana, Finnegan, Mizuno, Nishimoto, Say, Sonson, Souki, Tsuji, Wakai, Ward, Yamashita |
| Appropriates funds to create a four-year degree program in historic preservation at the University of Hawaii. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3398 RELATING TO FOREIGN LANGUAGE PROGRAMS. |
MANAHAN, CHANG, MAGAOAY |
| Appropriates funds to the University of Hawaii system to provide Filipino language and ethnic studies courses systemwide. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3399 RELATING TO CHAPTER 346, HAWAII REVISED STATUTES. |
FINNEGAN |
| Clarifies exemptions to part VII of chapter 346, Hawaii Revised Statutes. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3400 RELATING TO PUBLIC ASSISTANCE. |
SHIMABUKURO |
| Makes the guardian or caretaker of an eligible ward or minor, respectively, eligible for assistance as follows: a caretaker may receive assistance from the temporary assistance for needy families and temporary assistance for other needy families programs; and a guardian may receive assistance only from the temporary assistance for other needy families program. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3401 RELATING TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING DEVELOPMENT. |
SHIMABUKURO |
| Establishes the Incentive and Streamlining Grants Program to assist counties in streamlining the permit and approval process for construction and development of workforce housing. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3402 RELATING TO CIVIL DEFENSE. |
SHIMABUKURO |
| Provides an exemption from county permitting requirements for civil defense sirens installation. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3403 RELATING TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING. |
SHIMABUKURO |
| Establishes a self-help housing technical assistance trust fund under the Hawaii housing finance and development corporation to provide funding for technical assistance costs generated by self-help housing projects. Makes an appropriation into the fund and authorizes the moneys to be expended to carry out the purposes of the fund. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3404 RELATING TO CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES. |
SOUKI, MIZUNO |
| Requires the Narcotics Enforcement Division of the Department of Public Safety to maintain an electronic purchase logbook for sales of pseudoephedrine and related substances. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3405 RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE EIGHTH REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT. |
SOUKI |
| Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects for the benefit of the eighth representative district. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3406 RELATING TO COMMERCIAL HARBORS MODERNIZATION. |
SOUKI, NISHIMOTO, SAY, M. Oshiro |
| Expands the authority of the Aloha Tower Development Corporation to assist in the development of the statewide harbors modernization plan by establishing the Harbors Modernization Group. Authorizes the Department of Transportation to issue revenue bonds to finance the harbor improvements. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3407 RELATING TO GASOLINE DEALERS. |
SOUKI |
| Repeals the service station anti-encroachment laws. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3408 RELATING TO FOOD DISTRIBUTION. |
AWANA, Chong, Evans, Ito, McKelvey, Shimabukuro, Sonson, Takumi, Yamashita |
| Requires charitable organizations to follow certain guidelines to ensure the safety of food recipients and the surrounding community. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3409 RELATING TO HOUSING. |
AWANA, MIZUNO, SHIMABUKURO, Cabanilla, Tokioka |
| Establishes a Rural Area Public Employee Loan Special Fund to provide interest-free loans to public employees who purchase homes in rural areas. Establishes a Rural Area Public Employee Housing Allowance Program to provide housing allowances to public employees who live and work in rural areas. Establishes a Rural Area Emergency Worker Loan Special Fund to provide interest-free loans to emergency workers who purchase homes in rural areas. Establishes a Rural Area Emergency Worker Housing Allowance Program to provide housing allowances to emergency workers who live and work in rural areas. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3410 RELATING TO BIODIESEL. |
CARROLL, HANOHANO |
| Provides various market stimulation incentives for the development of biodiesel, including making state agricultural lands available for biodiesel fuel crops; establishing a state biodiesel feedstock crop and biodiesel fuel purchasing program; and creating tax exemptions for biomass crushing facilities and lands used for biodiesel feedstock crops. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3411 RELATING TO BLUE ANGEL FALLS. |
CARROLL |
| Requires the attorney general to assist in resolving ownership and jurisdictional issues relating to Blue Angel Falls in Maui county. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3412 RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE THIRTEENTH REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT. |
CARROLL |
| Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects to benefit the 13th representative district. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3413 MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR HANA HEALTH. |
CARROLL, HANOHANO, MCKELVEY |
| Appropriates $5,000,000 for Hana Health. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3414 RELATING TO ULAINO ROAD ON MAUI. |
CARROLL, HANOHANO, MCKELVEY |
| Requires the attorney general to provide an opinion as to ownership issues related to Ulaino road on the island of Maui. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3415 RELATING TO PUBLIC ROADS. |
CARROLL, HANOHANO, MCKELVEY |
| Allows any person to file for a contested case hearing to determine jurisdiction over a public road and establishes the determination process. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3416 RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE TENTH REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT. |
MCKELVEY |
| Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects for the benefit of the 10th representative district. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3417 RELATING TO THE HAWAII PUBLIC PROCUREMENT CODE. |
HANOHANO, CARROLL, MCKELVEY |
| Exempts contracts to provide public, educational, or governmental cable access services from the Hawaii public procurement code. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3418 RELATING TO THE TRANSFER OF INVASIVE SPECIES REGULATION. |
YAMASHITA, TSUJI |
| Expands the duties of the Invasive Species Council to cover all quarantine, inspection, and control and eradication functions relating to invasive species; transfers departmental authority from the Department of Agriculture to the Council; appropriates funds. | ||
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HB3419 RELATING TO MUTUAL BENEFIT SOCIETIES. |
GREEN |
| Links the payments by mutual benefit societies to private health providers to cost-of-living adjustments based on the national average. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3420 RELATING TO LAND USE. |
CARROLL, BERG, CHONG, EVANS, HANOHANO, MCKELVEY, MORITA, SAGUM, SHIMABUKURO, WATERS, Bertram |
| Establishes culturally valuable districts, designated by concurrent resolution of the legislature, and provides additional decision-making criteria for any land use decision involving a culturally valuable district. Designates certain areas as culturally valuable districts. | ||
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HB3421 RELATING TO LAND USE. |
CARROLL, AWANA, BERG, BERTRAM, CHONG, EVANS, HANOHANO, MORITA, SHIMABUKURO, WATERS, Brower, Lee, Sagum |
| Clarifies that land use laws apply to available Hawaiian home lands that are disposed of to the public and are not leased to native Hawaiians for homesteading purposes. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3422 RELATING TO SURCHARGE FOR INDIGENT LEGAL SERVICES. |
SHIMABUKURO, BERTRAM, MCKELVEY, MORITA, Berg, Chong, Evans, Sagum |
| Increases indigent legal services funding by increasing the surcharge on initial filing fees for civil actions. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3423 MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR TARO RESEARCH, DOCUMENTATION, AND OUTREACH FOR THE CONTROL OF THE INVASIVE APPLE SNAIL. |
CARROLL, BERG, BERTRAM, CHONG, EVANS, HANOHANO, MCKELVEY, MORITA, SHIMABUKURO, TSUJI, WATERS, YAMASHITA, Sagum |
| Provides grants for taro research for the control of the invasive apple snail. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3424 RELATING TO TARO. |
CARROLL, BERG, BERTRAM, CHONG, EVANS, HANOHANO, MCKELVEY, MORITA, SAGUM, SHIMABUKURO, Waters |
| Requires the chairperson of the board of agriculture to report on the status of agricultural opportunities in the State to expand taro farming. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3425 RELATING TO TARO |
CARROLL, BERG, BERTRAM, CHONG, EVANS, HANOHANO, MCKELVEY, MORITA, SHIMABUKURO, WATERS, Sagum |
| Provides a grant for taro research, laboratory costs, and outreach for the control of the invasive apple snail. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3426 RELATING TO COGNITIVE RESTRUCTURING. |
AWANA, BERG, BERTRAM, CARROLL, EVANS, GREEN, HANOHANO, HAR, MIZUNO, MORITA, B. OSHIRO, SHIMABUKURO, TAKUMI, WATERS, Chong, McKelvey, Sagum, Say |
| Appropriates funds for the Department of Public Safety to provide reintegration programs that combine cognitive behavioral theory with Native Hawaiian holistic interventions that address domestic violence, addictions, self mastery through identity, and community connections for successful transitions back into the community. | ||
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HB3427 RELATING TO HOUSING. |
SHIMABUKURO, MCKELVEY, MORITA, WATERS, Chong, Evans, Sagum |
| Establishes a self-help housing trust fund. Amends section 247 7, HRS, to provide for a certain per cent of taxes collected under the chapter to be deposited into the self-help housing trust fund. | ||
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HB3428 RELATING TO THE HAWAIIAN LANGUAGE. |
CARROLL, BERG, BERTRAM, CHONG, EVANS, HANOHANO, MCKELVEY, MORITA, SHIMABUKURO, Sagum, Waters |
| Requires the Department of Accounting and General Services to prepare and submit a plan to the 2009 Legislature to have all signs at the State Capitol in both English and Hawaiian. | ||
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HB3429 RELATING TO HISTORIC PRESERVATION. |
HANOHANO, BERG, BERTRAM, CARROLL, EVANS, MORITA, SHIMABUKURO, WATERS, Chong, McKelvey, Sagum |
| Clarifies that a burial site may include a cave or lava tube. Defines burial cave. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3430 RELATING TO TARO. |
SHIMABUKURO, CARROLL, HANOHANO, MCKELVEY, WATERS |
| Recognizes kalo (taro) as a unique and cherished resource in need of protection. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3431 RELATING TO HISTORIC PRESERVATION. |
CARROLL, AWANA, BERG, BERTRAM, BROWER, HANOHANO, MCKELVEY, WATERS, Chong, Evans, Lee, Manahan, Sagum, Yamashita |
| Adds to the State's public trust native Hawaiian traditional prehistoric burials, buildings, structures, objects, and sites. | ||
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HB3432 RELATING TO EDUCATION. |
SHIMABUKURO, HANOHANO, MCKELVEY, MORITA, Chong, Evans |
| Provides educational stability for foster children by requiring decisions made on where a child will be enrolled for school be based on the best interests of the child. Requires that foster children, including those living outside the geographic area of the school district, receive services comparable to those for children living within the school district. Appropriates funds for school transportation services for foster children. | ||
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HB3433 RELATING TO EDUCATION. |
CARROLL, BERG, BERTRAM, HANOHANO, MCKELVEY, MORITA, SHIMABUKURO, WATERS, Chong, Evans, Sagum |
| Requires students in public high schools to satisfactorily complete one year of instruction in Hawaiian studies as part of the department of education's core curriculum requirements. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3434 RELATING TO CEDED LANDS. |
AWANA, CARROLL, HANOHANO |
| Prohibiting the disposition of ceded lands without proper notice and public input. Also requires the Auditor to provide the Legislature with a progress report every 5 years on the status of the public land trust inventory and information system. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3435 RELATING TO THE EAST MAUI COMMUNITY-BASED SUBSISTENCE FISHING AREA. |
CARROLL, MCKELVEY, WATERS, Evans, Hanohano, Sagum |
| Creating the east Maui community-based subsistence fishing area to consist of the waters along the moku of Ko‘olau, Hana, Kipahulu, Kaupo, and Kahikinui. Authorizes DLNR to regulate uses and activities in the east Maui community-based subsistence fishing area. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3436 RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII. |
TAKAI, AWANA, BELATTI, BERG, BERTRAM, BROWER, CABANILLA, CARROLL, CHANG, CHING, FINNEGAN, GREEN, HANOHANO, HAR, HERKES, ITO, KARAMATSU, LUKE, MAGAOAY, MANAHAN, MARUMOTO, MCKELVEY, MEYER, MIZUNO, MORITA, NISHIMOTO, B. OSHIRO, PINE, RHOADS, SAGUM, SAIKI, SAY, SHIMABUKURO, SONSON, SOUKI, TAKAMINE, THIELEN, TOKIOKA, TSUJI, WAKAI, WARD, WATERS, YAMANE, Chong, Evans, Lee, Nakasone, Takumi, Yamashita |
| Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds for the University of Hawaii for capital renewal, deferred maintenance, repair, renovation, improvement, and replacement projects at the University of Hawaii. Appropriates funds. | ||
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HB3437 RELATING TO EMPLOYMENT. |
CABANILLA, AWANA, BROWER, MANAHAN, MIZUNO, SONSON |
| Gives retroactive application to the exclusions from employment-related laws clarified in Act 259, Session Laws of Hawaii 2007, for service providers who provide Medicaid home and community-based services for persons with developmental disabilities and mental retardation. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3438 RELATING TO HEALTH. |
CABANILLA, AWANA, MIZUNO, Brower, Souki |
| Provides an exemption from civil damages for physicians, dentists, and non-profit health care organizations that provide free services. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3439 RELATING TO HEALTH. |
CABANILLA, AWANA, MIZUNO, SONSON, Brower |
| Expands the responsibilities of the Office of Health Care Assurance to include providing support to the health care facilities they regulate through educational and training initiatives, including support to ensure expansion of the industry they regulate. Changes the name of the office to "Office of Health Care Assurance and Development". | ||
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HB3440 RELATING TO THE ISLAND OF NI‘IHAU |
TOKIOKA, ITO, MORITA, Sagum |
| Establishes the island of Ni‘ihau as a community based subsistence fishing area. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3441 RELATING TO PUBLIC UTILITIES. |
MORITA, AWANA, CALDWELL, M. OSHIRO, SHIMABUKURO, TAKAI, WAKAI |
| Requires public utilities with overhead lines on the island of Oahu to convert at least 10 miles of overhead lines to underground utilities per year, beginning in the Nanakuli-Waianae area. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3442 RELATING TO RENEWABLE ENERGY. |
MORITA, CHANG, GREEN, HANOHANO, TSUJI, Evans, Takamine |
| Makes an appropriation for the Hawaii county economic opportunity council to establish a renewable energy project to build components for rechargeable, battery-powered automobiles. | ||
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HB3443 RELATING TO TAXATION. |
MORITA |
| Provides an enhanced tax credit for owners who donate their hazard-prone property to a public entity, or private non-profit land trust, for a permanent non-developmental purpose that is related to a public use. | ||
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HB3444 RELATING TO ENERGY. |
MORITA, CALDWELL, CARROLL, KARAMATSU, NISHIMOTO, RHOADS, SHIMABUKURO, TAKAI, TAKUMI, WAKAI, SAGUM |
| Establishes the energy security special fund and the energy security tax and appropriates moneys. Effective 7/1/08. | ||
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HB3445 RELATING TO WATER. |
MORITA, AWANA, CARROLL, HANOHANO, MCKELVEY, Karamatsu, Rhoads, Tokioka |
| Imposes a 5 cent surcharge for bottled water produced or distributed in the State to protect watershed areas and to fight invasive species. | ||
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HB3446 RELATING TO CRIME. |
WARD, CABANILLA, CHING, MARUMOTO, WAKAI, Ito, McKelvey, Shimabukuro, Souki, Tsuji, Yamashita |
| Increases penalties for graffiti. Establishes graffiti database special fund and graffiti abatement crews. Provides immunity for graffiti abatement crews when entering private property to eliminate graffiti. | ||
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HB3447 RELATING TO CHARTER SCHOOLS. |
FINNEGAN, AWANA, CHING, HANOHANO, HERKES, MARUMOTO, MEYER, PINE, SONSON, TAKAI, WAKAI, WARD, Brower, Evans, Karamatsu, McKelvey, Sagum, Shimabukuro, Souki, Tsuji |
| Eliminates cap on charter schools. Authorizes the establishment of virtual charter schools. | ||
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HB3448 RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE SEVENTEENTH REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT. |
WARD |
| Capital improvement projects for 17th representative district. | ||
| Status View measure |
HB3449 RELATING TO PUBLIC HOUSING. |
WARD, CABANILLA, CHING, EVANS, FINNEGAN, ITO, MARUMOTO, MCKELVEY, RHOADS, Berg, Herkes, Karamatsu, Morita, Shimabukuro, Tsuji, Yamashita |
| Confers specific power on chiefs of police to enter and enforce laws in common areas of public housing. | ||
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HB3450 RELATING TO VEHICLE IGNITION INTERLOCK SYSTEMS. |
WARD, AWANA, CHING, HERKES, MEYER, McKelvey, Rhoads |
| Establishes an ignition interlock program. Appropriates funds for subsidization of first breathalyzer purchased by bars. Extends time period for ignition interlock working group. | ||
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HB3451 RELATING TO CHAPTER 343, HAWAII REVISED STATUTES. |
WARD, CHING, MCKELVEY, MEYER, Awana |
| Clarifies application of chapter 343. |