SB 105

SD1

(SSCR 864)

(Companion measures:

HB 73 HD2

HB 1026 HD1)

RELATING TO KIKALA-KEOKEA.

SB 1192

RELATING TO PAYMENT OF TAXES BY ELECTRONIC FUNDS TRANSFER.

Removes a disincentive to taxpayer participation in the electronic funds transfer program administered by DOTAX.

SB 1193

SD1

(SSCR 852)

(Companion measure:

RELATING TO GENERAL EXCISE TAX ON NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS.

Simplifies the application process for nonprofit organizations seeking exemption from the payment of GE taxes and reduces the filing burden for these organizations.

SB 1198

SD1

(SSCR 759)

(Companion measure:

RELATING TO THE PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY TAX.

Effectuates an agreement entered into by the State of Hawaii, the City & County of Honolulu, the County of Maui, the County of Kauai, the County of Hawaii, and a number of public service companies by providing for a sharing of the public service company tax revenues with those counties that establish by ordinances an exemption from real property tax for public service companies.

SB 854

SD1

RELATING TO TAXATION.

Provides an unspecified earned income tax credit to resident taxpayers. Amends Hawaii's income tax law to conform to changes in federal law (IRC conformity).

SB 699

relating to taxation.

Provides for an income tax credit to the taxpayers of the State as mandated by the State Constitution.

SB 18

SD1

MAKING APPROPRIATIONs FOR SALARY INCREASES FOR PUBLIC EMPLOYEES.

Appropriates funds to pay for the arbitrated salary increases for the HGEA bargaining units 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 9, and 13. Includes appropriations for state employees assigned to the Hawaii health systems corporation and employees excluded from collective bargaining.

SB 1034

SD2

MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR COLLECTIVE BARGAINING COST ITEMS.

Provides fund authorization and appropriations for collective bargaining cost items for Unit 1 and their excluded counterparts.

SB 1035

SD1

MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR COLLECTIVE BARGAINING COST ITEMS.

Funds all collective bargaining cost items negotiated for state employees in Unit 10, including excluded employees and employees assigned to the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation.

SB 1036

SD1

MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR COLLECTIVE BARGAINING COST ITEMS.

Provides fund authorizations and appropriations for collective bargaining cost items for bargaining Unit 11, Firefighters, and their excluded counterparts.

SB 710

making appropriations for collective bargaining cost items.

Provides fund authorizations and appropriations for collective bargaining cost items for Unit 7 and their excluded counterparts.

SB 1379

relating to collective bargaining cost items.

Provides fund authorizations and appropriations for collective bargaining cost items for Unit 5 and their excluded counterparts.

SB 1382

Relating to State Officers and Employees Excluded From Collective Bargaining and Making Appropriations and Other Adjustments.

Appropriates funds for salary increases and makes other cost adjustments for state officers and employees who are excluded from collective bargaining.

SB 1212

SD1

(SSCR 309)

Companion measure: HB 1671

RELATING TO EDUCATION.

Gives Hawaii Teachers Standards Board the authority to license teachers, rather than the Department of Education.

SB 1213

SD2

(SSCR 772)

Companion measure:

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT AND CONTINUATION OF PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SCHOOLS. Appropriates funds to develop and establish professional development schools within Hawaii public schools to train preservice teachers.

SB 1214

SD2

(SSCR 773)

Companion measure:

RELATING TO NATIONAL BOARD CERTIFICATION FOR DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION TEACHERS.

Authorize Hawaii teacher standards board to develop and administer a program to support National Board Certification candidates in public schools; appropriates funds for reimbursing application fees, salary bonuses, subsidizing a candidate support program, and providing inter-island airfare for neighbor island candidates.

SB 1215

SD2

(SSCR 660)

Companion measure:

HB 1668

RELATING TO REHIRING RETIRED TEACHERS IN THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION.

SB 1211

SD2

(SSCR726)

Companion measure: HB 1666

RELATING TO SCHOOL FACILITIES. Allows taxpayers to donate $2 from their tax refund to the school-level minor repairs and maintenance accounts.

SB 493

SD2

(SSCR 866)

relating to public schools.

Establishes the Hawaii school repair and maintenance trust fund as a separate fund of Hawaii 3R's, a nonprofit corporation, for coordination of private and federal efforts to repair and maintain public schools. Establishes a tax credit.

SB 1315

SD2

relating to education.

Proposed HD1: Authorizes the Department of Education to establish custodial accounts for the deposit of annuity payments of employees. Designates the insurance service providers and/or the custodial service provider offering the annuity or custodial products or the annuity entity maintaining the annuity contracts or custodial accounts on behalf of the employees of the department shall bear the costs of administering the program.

SB 382

SD3

(SSCR 770)

Companion measure:

RELATING TO Education.

Requires teachers to receive their normal annual increment or longevity increase, as the case may be, for a year's satisfactory service in any fiscal year that an increase in the appropriate salary schedule is effected, except as provided by law.

SB 865

SD1

relating to school-to-work.

Amends powers of School To Work Executive Council; administratively places Council within the Department of Education; reinstates the Director of Human Services on the Council and removes the Director of Human Resources Development; and appropriates unspecified funds for the Council.

SB 1361

relating to the volunteer incentive program.

Appropriates funds to create Volunteer Incentives Program in DOE; provides income tax deduction for private individuals/entities for services provided to public schools; school to receive quarterly payments based on volunteer services received.

SB 1081

RELATING TO EDUCATION.

Proposed HD1: Providing for more accountability and equity in new century charter schools.

SB 1364

SD1

RELATING TO TEACHERS.

Proposed HD1: To appropriate funds for the creation of 16 new arts positions in the Department of Education.

SB 535

SD2

relating to education.

Proposed HD1: To clarify that the department's after-school and weekend programs are for child –care and recreational purposes.

SB 1131

SD2

RELATING TO SPECIAL WASTES RECYCLING.

Clarifies the disposal options for used tires and notice requirements to consumers of new tires. Further provides that tire inventory payment by the rental car industry shall be paid annually.

SB 1367

relating to drug offenses.

Changes from one to two years the mandatory minimum term of imprisonment.

SB 72

SD1

(SSCR 503)

RELATING TO THE KAHO`OLAWE ISLAND RESERVE COMMISSION.

Enables the Kaho`olawe Island Reserve Commission to accept grants and donations and to conduct fundraising activities.

SB 1100

RELATING TO THE HAWAIIAN HOMES COMMISSION ACT, 1920, AS AMENDED.

Requires that a majority of the Hawaiian Homes Commission be comprised of members with at least one quarter Hawaiian blood.

SB 1101

RELATING TO THE HAWAIIAN HOMES COMMISSION ACT, 1920, AS AMENDED.

Authorizes the department to require a successor or successors who receives a homestead lease due to the death of a lessee leaving no qualified successor, or the cancellation of a lease by the department, or the surrender of a lease by the lessee, to secure private financing to repay any advances made from the Hawaiian home loan fund or Hawaiian home general loan fund.

SB 1102

SD2

RELATING TO THE HAWAIIAN HOMES COMMISSION ACT, 1920, AS AMENDED.

Exempts the descendants of native Hawaiian individuals who received a homestead lease pursuant to the Acts of 1934 and 1952 referenced in section 209(a) from the blood requirements to succeed to homestead lease in the same manner that non-native Hawaiians are currently exempt. Authorizes community-based self determination on Hawaiian home lands.

SB 1406

Relating to holidays.

Changes the name from "Admission Day" to "Statehood Day".

SB 1365

SD2

Relating to the weed and seed program.

Appropriates monies for the Weed and Seed Program.

SB 1414

SD1

MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR UNIFORM LAWS.

Appropriates funds for Hawaii's contribution to the costs of the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws.

SB 1015

SD1

(SSCR 641)

RELATING TO THE HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF HAWAII.

Allows the Housing and Community Development Corporation of Hawaii to establish permanent resident advisory board or boards comprised of residents who are directly assisted by the corporation under the federal public housing and Section 8 tenant-based assistance programs.

SB 1016

SD1

(SSCR 782)

RELATING TO THE HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF HAWAII.

Adds a resident who is directly assisted by the Housing and Community Development Corporation of Hawaii under the federal low rent public housing program or the tenant-based Section 8 housing assistance payments program to the HCDCH Board of Directors.

SB 1019

SD1

(SSCR 626)

RELATING TO HOMELESS PROGRAMS.

Eliminates HCDCH's duty to ensure that an independent compliance audit of each shelter provider be performed once every biennium. Requires providers to submit annual financial audits to HCDCH.

SB 1021

SD1

(SSCR 718)

(Companion measure: HB 545)

RELATING TO THE RENTAL HOUSING TRUST FUND.

Authorizes the issuance of $30,000,000 in revenue bonds to be deposited into the Rental Housing Trust Fund and to appropriate funds to carry out the purposes of the RHTF.

SB 1026

SD1

(SSCR 635)

(Companion measure: HB 550)

RELATING TO THE HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF HAWAII.

Amends the affordable housing ratio for the undeveloped parcels in the Villages of Kapolei, Leiali'i and La'i'opua.

SB 1105

SD1

(SSCR 928)

RELATING TO INFORMATION ON THE NATURAL PARENTS OF THE ADOPTED MINOR CHILD.

Requires courts to order the natural parents of the child to complete a medical information form pursuant to section 578-14.5, HRS, and if the parents fail to comply with this order, the filing requirement of the medical information with the family court is waived.

SB 1109

(SSCR 910)

RELATING TO MEDICAL ASSISTANCE RECOVERY.

Expands the scope of the notice requirements to require that all parties make reasonable inquiry as to whether a claimant has received or is receiving medical assistance, and give timely written notice of any claim or action to the department.

SB 331

SD2

RELATING TO Housing.

Requires that public housing tenants be evicted through the judicial process. Retains tenant grievance procedure, but eliminates termination hearing and administrative appeal.

SB 887

SD1

RELATING TO STATE PARKS.

Requires the Department of Defense and the Department of Land and Natural Resources to work with veterans of the 100^th Infantry Battalion to establish a memorial at Sand Island state recreation area to honor the soldiers of the 100^th Infantry Battalion who served their country with unquestionable loyalty and bravery during WWII.

SB 1540

SD1

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO ESTABLISH A HONOLULU CITY LIGHTS LOOKOUT.

Appropriates $1 for a feasibility study for the creation of a city lights lookout in Honolulu.

SB 902

RELATING TO THE USE OF WASHINGTON PLACE FOR CAMPAIGN ACTIVITIES.

Prohibits campaign activities at Washington Place.

SB 807

SD1

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR BEACH RESTORATION AND BEAUTIFICATION.

Appropriates funds to establish an Adopt-a-Beach Program within DLNR.

SB 48

SD1

RELATING TO PUBLIC LANDS.

Provides for a 15-year lease extension and proper payment for livestock when DLNR exercises its right to use public lands for Saddle Road widening on the County of Hawaii.

SB 41

SD1

RELATING TO CONSERVATION.

Re-establishes a youth conservation corps and authorizes the transfer of unspecified moneys from the natural area reserve fund to the DLNR for the youth conservation corps.

SB 1501

SD2

RELATING TO KAKAAKO COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT.

Authorizes the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds for Hawaii Heritage Preservation Alliance for early childhood education and care facilities.

SB 204

SD2

(SSCR 991)

RELATING TO ANIMAL QUARANTINE.

Appropriates general funds for deposit into the animal quarantine special fund to reduce quarantine user fees; waives repayment to general fund of revenues used to establish animal quarantine special fund.

SB 369

SD3

(SSCR 717)

(Similar measure: HB 1074 HD2)

RELATING TO Agriculture.

Provides a tax credit of an unspecified percentage of the cost of agriculture infrastructure improvements made by the taxpayer for the taxable year in which the improvements were made.

SB 1264

SD2

(SSCR 853)

relating to aquaculture.

Expands the "wholesaler" definition under the general excise tax law to include sales to a commercial aquaculture producer or cooperative of materials, supplies, or commodities, or the rental or leasing of equipment, used by the commercial aquaculture producer or cooperative in the production of aquaculture products for sale. Appropriates $5 million to assists agriculture and aquaculture enterprises on Kauai.

SB 1203

SD1

RELATING TO INCREASING DEVELOPMENT FLEXIBILITY OF PUBLIC LANDS.

Gives the Airports Division greater flexibility in the disposition of leases; subject to the approval of BLNR.

SB 1164

SD1

RELATING TO THE FOREST STEWARDSHIP PROGRAM.

Authorizes the use of a portion of the Forest Stewardship Fund to support administration of the Forest Stewardship program.

SB 185

SD1

RELATING TO FISHING.

Enhances net fishing at Nawiliwili harbor, Port Allen harbor, Hanalei bay, Wai'eli bay, Hanamaulu bay, and Kahului and Honolulu harbors.

SB 754

RELATING TO MARITIME LANDs.

Amends law to establish new class of land for maritime use.

SB 1202

SD1

RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION.

Streamlines the process of implementing the Airports Division's capital improvement program projects by reducing redundant requirements.

SB 216

RELATING TO WATERCRAFT.

Requires all vessels operating in and beyond state waters to be equipped with an Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon (EPIRB).