SB 2290

SD1

(SSCR2532)

RELATING TO PROTECTION FROM SECURITY BREACHES.

Requires businesses that experience a security breach to notify affected people of the breach.

SB 2292

SD1

(SSCR2513)

RELATING TO DESTRUCTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION RECORDS.

Requires businesses that maintain or possess personal information of Hawaii residents to protect against unauthorized access to or use of the information after its disposal by destroying the personal information.

SB 2289

SD1

(SSCR2472)

RELATING TO CONSUMER CREDIT REPORTING AGENCIES.

Allows consumers who are victims of identity theft to place a security freeze on their credit reports which will prohibit a consumer reporting agency from releasing any information to unauthorized parties without the consumer's express consent and provide consumers more control over who has access to their credit report.

SB 3021

SD1

RELATING TO EMPLOYMENT PRACTICES.

Prohibits an employer from discharging or otherwise punishing an employee for the lawful use of the employee's accrued and available sick leave. (SD1)

SB 3033

SD1

RELATING TO EMPLOYMENT SECURITY.

Establishes job security requirements to protect employees when the business for which the employees work is sold or transferred to another employing entity. (SD1)

SB 3016

SD1

RELATING TO PREVAILING WAGES.

Allows a joint labor-management committee established pursuant to the federal Labor Management Cooperation Act of 1978 to institute an action for injunctive and other relief against an employer that fails to pay its employees the prevailing wage. (SD1)

SB 2986

SD1

(SSCR2195)

RELATING TO EMINENT DOMAIN.

Provides regulations for property taken by eminent domain. (SD1)

SB 3191

SD1

RELATING TO EMINENT DOMAIN.

Prohibits use of power of eminent domain to take and transfer private property to a private entity that had an expressed interest in purchasing the same property for development purposes or other private use. (SD1)

SB 3094

SD1

RELATING TO THE LAND COURT.

Provides that a landowner may not file claim for accreted lands caused by landowner's planting and maintaining vegetation on the seaward boundary of the property affected. (SD1)

SB 2551

SD1

RELATING TO INTOXICATING LIQUOR.

Authorizes the liquor commission to extend the time from 30 days to 45 days for giving a decision to grant or refuse an application. Allows commission to remove names from registered voter list for lack of residency. Deems an application denied if the commission does not make a decision granting or refusing an application. Exempts hearings from chapter 91. (SD1)

SB 2430

SD1

RELATING TO ELECTION.

Directs judiciary to notify county clerk of a felony conviction at time of actual sentencing of the felon. (SD1)

SB 2161

SD1

(SSCR2524)

RELATING TO FOSTER CHILDREN.

Establishes a foster children's bill of rights. (SD1)

SB 2162

SD1

RELATING TO FOSTER CHILDREN.

Allows foster children to apply for a driver's license with the written consent of the Department of Human Services. Requires the child's biological parents to pay for vehicle insurance and provides for free insurance if the child's parents cannot pay. Allows higher education board allowances to be paid directly to former foster children. (SD1)

SB 2166

SD1

RELATING TO MINORS.

Allows a minor under certain circumstances to consent to the provision of medical care and services. (SD1)

SB 3254

SD1

RELATING TO HOME AND COMMUNITY-BASED SERVICES.

Removes the sunset date for the licensing of home and community-based case management agencies and the certification of community care foster family homes until. (SD1)

SB 2615

SD1

RELATING TO CHILD PROTECTION.

Affirms the importance of kinship placement and a child's attachment and bonding with a kin or non-kin foster caregiver. Requires the department of human services to make a good faith effort, which includes consulting with the Na Kupuna Tribunal, to identify family members for possible placement of a child. (SD1)

SB 2688

SD1

RELATING TO CORRECTIONS.

Requires implementation of policies and procedures, protocols, and a quality assurance program to ensure adequate youth correctional facility staff training. Provides for comprehensive assessments of all persons committed to youth correctional facilities. Revises duties and responsibilities of regional advisory boards. (SD1)

SB 3233

SD1

RELATING TO PARENTING PLANS.

Authorizes the court or the parties to change a parenting plan at any time during the minority of the child without requiring a material change of circumstances. (SD1)

SB 3219

SD1

RELATING TO COMMUNITY PLACEMENT.

Directs the departments of health and human services to maintain an inventory of all facilities licensed or certified under their jurisdiction and their vacancies to facilitate the placement of individuals in community-based facilities. (SD1)

SB 2188

SD1

RELATING TO A COMMISSION ON FATHERHOOD.

Replaces the director of the office of children and youth with the director of public safety, or a designee, as a member of the commission. (SD1)

SB 3200

SD1

RELATING TO CHILD PROTECTION.

Provides immunity from prosecution for leaving an unharmed newborn at a hospital, fire station, or police station within seventy-two hours of its birth. Provides immunity for personnel receiving a newborn. Requires medical history from a person relinquishing a newborn. (SD1)

SB 2328

SD1

RELATING TO NOTICE TO FOSTER PARENTS FOR CHAPTER 587, HAWAII REVISED STATUTES, CHILD PROTECTIVE ACT HEARINGS.

Authorizes a child's current foster parents to attend and participate as parties in all Child Protective Act proceedings subsequent to a disposition hearing. (SD1)

SB 2332

SD1

RELATING TO HOUSING.

Amends the definitions of "public housing project" and "tenant" for purposes of evictions from federal public housing. Amends references to the time period in which a public housing tenant has to request a grievance hearing in the written notice of eviction to conform to the recently amended grievance procedure rules. Amends reference to public housing project or complex in the residential landlord-tenant code. (SD1)

SB 2327

SD1

RELATING TO CHILD ABUSE OR NEGLECT REPORTING.

Requires staff members of public or private schools, agency, or institutions who, in their professional capacity, have reason to believe that child abuse or neglect has occurred, or that there exists a substantial risk that a child may be abused or neglected in the foreseeable future, to immediately report the abuse or neglect directly to the DHS.

SB 2443

SD1

RELATING TO THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A TASK FORCE TO DETERMINE VISITATION RIGHTS FOR GRANDPARENTS AND HANAI INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE INFORMALLY RAISING THESE CHILDREN.

Establishes a joint legislative task force to determine visitation rights of grandparents and hanai individuals who raise grandchildren they have informally raised when biological parent is unable to do so. (SD1)

SB 2938

SD1

RELATING TO COMMUNITY NOTIFICATION.

Requires that community organizations such as neighborhood boards and community associations be notified when halfway houses, clean and sober homes, or drug rehabilitation homes are being proposed to be situated in their community. (SD1)

SB 2079

SD1

RELATING TO CHILDREN.

Establishes a motor vehicle violation that prohibits leaving a child unsupervised in a motor vehicle. Requires the examiner of drivers to test driver's license applicants for knowledge of this offense. (SD1)

SB 2213

SD1

RELATING TO TORT ACTIONS.

Makes effective minor's waiver of liability for injuries from use of motorsports facilities; provides qualified immunity to a public entity and public employees from injuries from such use. (SD1)

SB 2215

SD1

RELATING TO USE OF INTOXICANTS WHILE OPERATING A MOTOR VEHICLE.

Increases sanctions for driving with a high blood alcohol level. (SD1)

SB 2385

SD1

RELATING TO HIGHWAY SAFETY.

Increases the penalties for motorists who violate Hawaii's crosswalk law. (SD1)

SB 2746

RELATING TO OUTDOOR ADVERTISING.

Prohibits advertising on a vehicle engaged in business when the vehicle is operated or parked in a public place, or private place if viewed from a public place, if the primary purpose is advertising.

SB 2712

SD1

RELATING TO ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURE.

Clarifies quorum requirement under sunshine law to allow for action to be taken by a majority of the number of members to which a board is statutorily entitled minus vacancies. (SD1)