HI Legislation | 2010 | Regular Session

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Bill	Status	Summary/Title	Last Action
HB1163	Engross Sine Die	Authorizes the Director of Transportation to require any person who uses or occupies state commercial harbors for business or commercial purposes, to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless the State against claims that may arise from such use or occupa... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-05-11 Carried over to 2010 Regular Session.
HB1435	Intro Sine Die	Establishes the Hawaii state giving campaign as the only authorized solicitation of employees in the state workplace on behalf of charitable organizations. Appropriates funds to implement the campaign. (HB1435 HD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-05-11 Carried over to 2010 Regular Session.
HB1715	Intro Sine Die	Increases, for new public employees, the minimum age and length of service for an unreduced service retirement allowance. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-05-11 Carried over to 2010 Regular Session.
SB182	Intro Sine Die	Expands the scope of services provided and broadens the definition of children covered by state early intervention services. Incorporates elements of the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act of 2004. Makes an appropriation. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-05-11 Carried over to 2010 Regular Session.
SB458	Intro Sine Die	Extends the same rights, benefits, protections, and responsibilities of spouses in a marriage to partners in a civil union. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-05-11 Carried over to 2010 Regular Session.
SB736	Intro Sine Die	Provides county incentives for the development of affordable housing in transit oriented developments. (SD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-05-11 Carried over to 2010 Regular Session.
SB1021	Intro Sine Die	Amends article I of the state constitution to provide that relevant evidence in criminal cases shall not be excluded except pursuant to the laws or constitution of the United States or a state statute. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-05-11 Carried over to 2010 Regular Session.
SB1306	Intro Sine Die	Permits the department of Hawaiian home lands to receive and subsequently assign, transfer, or exchange county affordable housing credits. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-05-11 Carried over to 2010 Regular Session.
SB1570	Intro Sine Die	Short Form bill. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-05-11 Carried over to 2010 Regular Session.
HB77	Intro Sine Die	Specifies that a county shall not grant an exemption from the general excise tax (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 communi... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-05-11 Carried over to 2010 Regular Session.
HB349	Enroll Sine Die	Allows for admission of character evidence showing the aggressiveness of the defendant if the court allows the admission of character evidence showing the aggressiveness of the alleged victim. Effective 7/1/2075. (SD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-05-11 Carried over to 2010 Regular Session.
HB620	Intro Sine Die	Authorizes the court at sentencing to require a person with three or more convictions 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. Classifies as a cla... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-05-11 Carried over to 2010 Regular Session.
HB884	Intro Sine Die	Creates child development account. Requires State to pay $ when account opens at birth. Limits annual contributions to $ . Prohibits withdrawals before age 18. Exempts gains from state income tax. Provides penalties. Requires director of taxa... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-05-11 Carried over to 2010 Regular Session.
HB1164	Intro Sine Die	Authorizes an agency to transfer the responsibility for preparing and funding Environmental Assessments and Environmental Impact Statements to a user for its use of state or county lands or new improvements to be constructed with state or county fund... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-05-11 Carried over to 2010 Regular Session.
HB1437	Intro Sine Die	Establishes the dam and reservoir repair revolving fund. Authorizes the board of land and natural resources to make loans from the fund for the alteration, repair, or removal of dams and reservoirs. Makes owner of dam or reservoir liable for damages ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-05-11 Carried over to 2010 Regular Session.
HB1716	Intro Sine Die	Requires the percentages of employers' contributions to the public employees' retirement system for fiscal year 2009-10 and 2010-11 to be based on fully amortizing the unfunded liability on 6/30/38, and no earlier. Requires the percentages of employe... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-05-11 Carried over to 2010 Regular Session.
SB183	Intro Sine Die	Establish in statutes the state advisory panel, as required by the reauthorized Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, by designating the existing special education advisory council as the state advisory panel, with new members to be appointed ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-05-11 Carried over to 2010 Regular Session.
SB459	Intro Sine Die	Requires the public utilities commission to notify the public about new regulatory proceedings via its website and changes the deadline for intervention in certain proceedings to be no later than 20 days after posting of the preceding notice on the c... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-05-11 Carried over to 2010 Regular Session.
SB737	Intro Sine Die	Authorizes mixed-use housing projects and infrastructure projects that are associated with a housing or mixed-use housing project to be eligible for the expedited review process currently offered to qualifying housing projects; allows ninety days for... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-05-11 Carried over to 2010 Regular Session.
SB1022	Intro Sine Die	Makes permanent the tort law exception to liability for county lifeguard services and the conclusive presumptions relating to the duty of public entities to warn of dangers on improved public lands. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-05-11 Carried over to 2010 Regular Session.
SB1307	Intro Sine Die	Improve Hawaii's economic and energy security position by establishing a preference for locally produced alcohol fuels. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-05-11 Carried over to 2010 Regular Session.
SB1571	Intro Sine Die	Appropriates federal Reed Act funds for workforce investment boards to work in collaboration with the counties. (SD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-05-11 Carried over to 2010 Regular Session.
HB78	Intro Sine Die	Allows a condominium board of directors to lease common elements of the condominium, under certain conditions, if elements are not used by unit owners for purposes permitted in the declaration. Requires all direct costs attributable to condominium ho... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-05-11 Carried over to 2010 Regular Session.
HB350	Intro Sine Die	Provides a definition of "good faith". [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-05-11 Carried over to 2010 Regular Session.
HB621	Intro Sine Die	Proposes a constitutional amendment to allow justices and judges who attain the age of 70 during their term of office to complete their term prior to retirement. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-05-11 Carried over to 2010 Regular Session.
HB885	Intro Sine Die	Proposed an amendment to article VII, section 6 of state constitution to use an unspecified percentage of the general fund balance excess to fund the child development account program. (HB885 HD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-05-11 Carried over to 2010 Regular Session.
HB1165	Engross Sine Die	Authorizes the Department of Transportation to adopt rules relating to safety measures, security requirements, and shipping activities for the purpose of protecting and ensuring the general public interest and safety of persons and vessels in the com... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-05-11 Carried over to 2010 Regular Session.
HB1438	Engross Sine Die	Allows the commissioner of financial institutions to regulate, license, examine, and enforce laws regulating mortgage brokers and loan originators. Repeals chapter 454, Hawaii Revised Statutes, effective 12/31/10. Effective 07/01/2090. (SD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-05-11 Carried over to 2010 Regular Session.
HB1717	Intro Sine Die	Requires the Hawaii employer-union trust fund to contract with a carrier to provide health benefit plans to members and dependents. Deletes authority of the board of trustees to provide health benefits through self insurance. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-05-11 Carried over to 2010 Regular Session.
SB184	Intro Sine Die	Reduces the period over which state low-income housing tax credits are taken from 10 years to 5 years. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-05-11 Carried over to 2010 Regular Session.
SB460	Intro Sine Die	Requires the board of regents to auction the naming rights to buildings on the UH-West Oahu campus with proceeds to be deposited into the University of Hawaii-West Oahu special fund to be used for electric generation from renewable energy resources. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-05-11 Carried over to 2010 Regular Session.
SB738	Intro Sine Die	Establishes and funds a Hawaii beginning teacher induction center pilot program to assist in the development and retention of highly qualified teachers in the State's public schools. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-05-11 Carried over to 2010 Regular Session.
SB1023	Intro Sine Die	Increases the composition of the board of trustees of the employees' retirement system from 8 to 12 and amends the composition and appointment procedures in order to provide for county representation. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-05-11 Carried over to 2010 Regular Session.
SB1308	Engross Sine Die	Transfers functions and duties of the Hawaii teacher standards board to the board of education. (SD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-05-11 Carried over to 2010 Regular Session.
SB1572	Intro Sine Die	Short Form bill. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-05-11 Carried over to 2010 Regular Session.
HB79	Intro Sine Die	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 transport... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-05-11 Carried over to 2010 Regular Session.
HB351	Intro Sine Die	Appropriates funds for the purpose of expenditures by the Hawaii public housing authority to make required repairs and renovations at public housing facilities to ensure compliance with state and federal law. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-05-11 Carried over to 2010 Regular Session.
HB622	Engross Sine Die	Adds electronic communication as a form of nonconsensual contact in the offense of harassment by stalking. (HB622 HD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-05-11 Carried over to 2010 Regular Session.
HB886	Intro Sine Die	Makes compliance with smoking restriction law by nightclubs and restaurants a condition of renewal for a liquor license. Authorizes the liquor commission to enforce smoking laws, concurrently with the department of health. Increases fines for violati... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-05-11 Carried over to 2010 Regular Session.
HB1167	Engross Sine Die	Authorize the department of transportation to pursue a comprehensive six-year modernization program and provides it sufficient resources to implement the plan by amending the state liquid fuel tax, state vehicle registration fee, state vehicle weight... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-05-11 Carried over to 2010 Regular Session.
HB1718	Intro Sine Die	Specifies that the requirement that the State and the counties reimburse retired employees for medicare part B premiums through the employer-union trust fund applies only to the employees who retire prior to 12/31/09. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-05-11 Carried over to 2010 Regular Session.
SB185	Intro Sine Die	Assesses a surcharge on all soft drinks sold in the State. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-05-11 Carried over to 2010 Regular Session.
SB461	Engross Sine Die	Removes the dependency of the price of electrical energy generated from nonfossil fuel sources from the avoided cost of energy generated by the electric public utility purchasing the nonfossil fuel generated electricity. (SD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-05-11 Carried over to 2010 Regular Session.
SB739	Intro Sine Die	Establishes, through rulemaking, transit oriented development districts, and standards for these districts, in proximity to rapid transit stations located within the Hawaii community development authority's community development districts. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-05-11 Carried over to 2010 Regular Session.
SB1024	Intro Sine Die	Requires 4 of the 5 seats on the board of trustees of the employer-union health benefits trust fund allocated to public employers to be occupied by the respective county directors of finance. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-05-11 Carried over to 2010 Regular Session.
SB1573	Intro Sine Die	Short Form bill. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-05-11 Carried over to 2010 Regular Session.
HB80	Intro Sine Die	Makes it illegal for a rooster to escape or be removed from its owner's property while wearing a sharp object. Imposes penalties. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-05-11 Carried over to 2010 Regular Session.
HB352	Intro Sine Die	Establishes August 4 of each year as a state holiday to be known as Barack Obama Day. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-05-11 Carried over to 2010 Regular Session.
HB623	Engross Sine Die	Allows the attorney general to contract with counties for processing and issuing state identification cards. Clarifies that counties may utilize driver licensing offices or other suitable county facilities to issue state identification cards. (SD1) [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-05-11 Carried over to 2010 Regular Session.
HB887	Intro Sine Die	Assesses a surcharge tax on the sale of consumer fireworks. Also requires retailers to report on fireworks sold and requires the DOH to report on the effects of fireworks on young children. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2009-05-11 Carried over to 2010 Regular Session.