Hse Referral sheet template, revision no. 00002

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		REFERRAL
SB2	RELATING TO SIMULATED FIREARMS. Amends the offenses of terroristic threatening in the first degree and robbery in the first degree to include the use of simulated firearms.	JUD
SB3, SD1	RELATING TO THE OFFICE OF HAWAIIAN AFFAIRS. Provides for the election of the office of Hawaiian affairs board members through a system of nonpartisan primary and general elections to begin with the 2014 elections. (SD1)	OMH, JUD
SB4	RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLES. Requires all front and back seat passengers to be restrained by a seat belt assembly or child passenger restraint while the motor vehicle is being operating upon any public highway.	TRN, JUD
SB5, SD1	RELATING TO PUBLIC LANDS. Provides several means of compensation in addition to rent reductions when the State withdraws, condemns, or takes public land leased for intensive agricultural or pastoral uses and renders the land unusable for the original purposes of the lease. Effective 07/01/2050. (SD1)	AGR/WAL, JUD, FIN
SB6, SD1	RELATING TO ANIMAL CRUELTY. Requires dogs or cats that are captured or killed in a snare or trap to be reported to a county animal control officer. Establishes an animal cruelty offense for the use of steel-jawed leg-hold traps, and the use of snares, conibear, and foot- or leg-hold traps in residential or other prohibited areas; provides exemptions for activities carried out by state and federal agencies; establishes the offense as a misdemeanor. Effective 07/01/50. (SD1)	JUD
SB8, SD1	RELATING TO VETERINARY MEDICINE. Prohibits the owner of a pet animal and the owner's employees from performing any surgical procedure, including but not limited to surgical birth, ear cropping, tail docking, dewclaw removal, and debarking on the pet animal without being licensed as a veterinarian. Makes intentionally or knowingly performing any surgical procedure, including but not limited to surgical birth, ear cropping, tail docking, dewclaw removal, and debarking, on a pet animal by any person not licensed as a veterinarian a class C felony. Specifies that accepted veterinary practices and cropping or docking as customarily practiced, shall not be considered cruelty to animals in the first degree if performed by a veterinarian licensed under chapter 471, HRS. (SD1)	CPC, JUD
SB9, SD1	RELATING TO ANIMALS. Prohibits persons convicted of cruelty to animals in the first degree and second degree from possessing, owning, or residing with any pet animal for a minimum of five years and one year, respectively, from the conviction date. Effective 07/01/50. (SD1)	CPC, JUD
SB15, SD2	RELATING TO ENERGY. Changes existing gasoline requirement of ten per cent ethanol fuel content to a requirement that each distributor who sells liquid fuels in the State for use in motor vehicles shall ensure that locally-produced biofuels account for at least five per cent of the distributor's annual sales of liquid fuels for motor vehicles by volume; provided that for diesel fuel, no more than five per cent of locally-produced biofuel shall be required. Effective 07/01/2050. (SD2)	EEP, CPC
SB16, SD2	RELATING TO ENERGY RESOURCES. Requires appropriate county permitting agency to receive and process application for waivers for installation of solar water heating systems. Requires county councils to establish procedures and standards by which their respective county permitting agencies approve, disapprove, or approve with conditions. Clarifies existing application procedures. Effective 07/01/50. (SD2)	EEP, FIN
SB17, SD2	RELATING TO FOSSIL FUELS. Adds new definition of "fossil fuel" to and amends definition of "distributor" in section 243-1, HRS. Amends section 243-3.5, HRS, to levy the environmental response, energy, and food security tax on liquid or gaseous fossil fuels. Repeals sunset date of Act 253, SLH 2007, as amended by Act 151, SLH 2012. Effective 07/01/2050. (SD2)	EEP, FIN
SB19, SD1	RELATING TO RENEWABLE ENERGY. Exempts landlords and lessors who install renewable energy systems to their property from the definition of "public utility". (SD1)	EEP, CPC
SB23, SD1	RELATING TO THE ISSUANCE OF SPECIAL PURPOSE REVENUE BONDS TO ASSIST A SEAWATER AIR CONDITIONING PROJECT. Authorizes the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds to Kaiuli Energy, LLC, to assist with the financing of the planning, design, and construction of a seawater air conditioning district cooling facility and chilled water distribution system. Effective 07/01/13. (SD1)	EEP/EDB, FIN
SB30, SD1	RELATING TO CAMPAIGN SPENDING. Requires affidavits to voluntarily limit campaign expenditures to be filed no later than the time of filing nomination papers. Limits the base amount a candidate for prosecuting attorney who voluntarily agrees to limit campaign expenditures to be the same amount as for the offices of state senator, state representative, and county council member. Effective 7/01/2050. (SD1)	JUD
SB31	RELATING TO CAMPAIGN SPENDING. Separates noncandidate committee contributions that are required to be disclosed and filed in preliminary, final, and supplemental noncandidate committee reports into contributions received and contributions made. Amends the January deadline for filing supplemental noncandidate committee reports.	JUD
SB32	RELATING TO THE UNIFORM ELECTRONIC LEGAL MATERIAL ACT. Establishes authentication and other requirements for selected legal materials if they are published exclusively in electronic form. Does not require electronic publication.	JUD/CPC
SB41, SD1	RELATING TO REAL ESTATE. Clarifies the role of a local contact for operators of transient accommodations under Act 326, Session Laws of Hawaii 2012. (SD1)	CPC, JUD
SB46, SD2	RELATING TO EDUCATION. Establishes the post-secondary education commission within the department of commerce and consumer affairs. Creates the framework for authorizing private post-secondary educational institutions in the State. Repeals sections 304A-3151, 304A‑3152, 304A-3153, and 304A-3154, relating to the establishment of the post-secondary education commission within the University of Hawaii. Creates the post-secondary education authorization subaccount of the compliance resolution fund established pursuant to section 26-9(o), Hawaii Revised Statutes. Requires the post-secondary education commission to report to the legislature. Requires the department of commerce and consumer affairs to hire an implementation coordinator or team to assist with the implementation of this Act. Makes an appropriation for an implementation coordinator or team. Makes an appropriation for an unspecified number of full-time equivalent permanent positions at the department of commerce and consumer affairs. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)	HED, CPC, FIN
SB49, SD2	RELATING TO EDUCATION. Amends or repeals various provisions of Chapter 302A, Hawaii Revised Statutes, for housekeeping and other purposes. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)	EDN, FIN
SB58, SD2	RELATING TO LANGUAGE ACCESS. Establishes and provides appropriations for a statewide language access resource center and multilingual website pilot project to be administered by the office of language access. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)	HLT, FIN
SB59, SD1	RELATING TO FOSTER CARE SERVICES. Increases the monthly board rate distributed by the department of human services for foster care services for children. Effective 07/01/2050. (SD1)	HUS, FIN
SB60, SD1	RELATING TO VICTIMS OF CRIMES. Requires victims of crimes and surviving immediate family members to be notified of their right to participate in the restorative justice process. Effective on 07/01/50. (SD1)	HUS, JUD
SB61, SD1	RELATING TO JUVENILES. Provides the option of participating in a restorative justice program for children who are undergoing informal adjustment by a court or other designated agency, which program may involve the child and the child's parents or guardian meeting with the victim harmed by the child's law violation. Effective on 07/01/50. (SD1)	HUS, JUD
SB66, SD1	RELATING TO THE CODE OF ETHICS. Makes the financial disclosure statements of members of specific state boards and commissions holding official authority over permitting or licensing of land use related matters, water use related matters, or the regulation of public utilities public documents and available for public inspection and duplication. (SD1)	CPC, JUD
SB68, SD1	RELATING TO SENTENCING. Allows judges discretion in setting incarceration terms when sentencing drug offenders in certain class B and class C felony cases to make the length of the sentence proportionate to the offense and related conduct. Excludes certain offenses. (SD1)	PBS, JUD
SB69, SD2	RELATING TO FIREARMS. Requires county police departments to fingerprint, photograph, and perform background checks on individuals who wish to register a firearm that was procured out-of-state. Authorizes the police departments to assess a fee for conducting a fingerprint check and specifies the amount of the fee. Extends the time period for registering a firearm procured out-of-state, for consistency with the time period for registering firearms obtained in or imported into the State. Appropriates funds for county implementation. Effective 07/01/2050. (SD2)	PBS, JUD, FIN
SB71, SD2	MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR PUBLIC SAFETY PROGRAMS. Makes appropriation to the department of public safety to contract with community-based non-profit organizations to provide education, mentoring, restorative circles, farming, artisan skills, cognitive behavioral therapy, and cultural healing services to inmates and former inmates who are under the custody and control of the department of public safety or the Hawaii paroling authority. Effective 07/01/2050. (SD2)	PBS, FIN
SB74, SD1	RELATING TO CORRECTIONS. Allows committed persons to create and place for sale approved products and crafts. Allocates proceeds to rehabilitation programs, the crime victim compensation special fund, and the committed person's account. Requires department of public safety to study other states' practices on the making and sale of arts and crafts by inmates. Requires a report to the 2014 legislature. Effective 07/01/2050. (SD1)	PBS, JUD, FIN
SB82, SD1	RELATING TO THE HAWAII PUBLIC HOUSING AUTHORITY. Clarifies the power of the Hawaii public housing authority to sell, lease, rent, hold, maintain, use, and operate certain properties. Authorizes the authority to receive all gifts provided they benefit public housing residents. Requires that the acceptance of gifts with an estimated value of $1,000 or more be approved or confirmed by the board. Authorizes the authority to use volunteer services. Exempts the authority from various state laws for the use of volunteer services. Effective 07/01/2050. (SD1)	HSG, FIN
SB83, SD1	RELATING TO THE HAWAII PUBLIC HOUSING AUTHORITY. Authorizes the Hawaii public housing authority to retain dwelling units in housing projects for lease or rent by nonprofit organizations and government agencies and to provide for the development of community facilities for lease or rent to nonprofit organizations and government agencies. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)	HSG/LAB, FIN
SB84	RELATING TO PUBLIC HOUSING. Expands the scope of the definition of "public housing project" to include any housing project controlled or managed by the Hawaii public housing authority pursuant to federally assisted housing.	HSG, FIN
SB86	RELATING TO PUBLIC HOUSING. Moves the State income tax and obligations exemption for public housing agencies from the laws governing the Hawaii housing finance and development corporation to the laws governing the Hawaii public housing authority.	HSG, FIN
SB88, SD1	RELATING TO INTOXICATING LIQUORS IN PUBLIC HOUSING. Prohibits possessing or keeping, while on any sidewalk or common area within a public housing project, any bottle, can, or other receptacle containing any intoxicating liquor which has been opened, has a broken seal, or the contents of which have been partially removed. Adds "state low-income housing project" to definition of public housing project for purposes of liquor control.	HSG, JUD
SB91, SD2	RELATING TO HOUSING. Appropriates funds for the state rent supplement program for homeless working individuals or families who are ready to rent permanent housing in order to obtain and maintain permanent housing. Appropriates funds for the department of human services to hire and train one program specialist to monitor the rent supplement program. Effective 07/01/2050. (SD2)	HSG/HUS, FIN
SB98, SD1	RELATING TO TAXATION. Reduces the tax liability for low-income taxpayers by creating a tax credit that will reduce a taxpayer's income tax to a minimum amount if the taxpayer's federal and Hawaii adjusted gross income falls below certain thresholds. Effective 07/01/2050. (SD1)	HUS, FIN
SB101	RELATING TO ENERGY CONSERVATION. Eliminates required increases to an agency's budget for the agency's implementation of energy efficiency retrofitting through performance contracting.	EEP, FIN
SB102, SD2	RELATING TO THE ELDERLY. Amend section 412:3-114.5, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to require financial institutions to report instances of suspected financial abuse of an elder directly to the appropriate county police department and the Department of Human Services. (SD2)	HUS, CPC, FIN
SB103, SD1	RELATING TO LONG TERM CARE. Directs the executive office on aging to conduct a public education and awareness campaign on long term care and have the campaign independently evaluated. Appropriates moneys. Effective 07/01/2050. (SD1)	HLT/HUS, FIN
SB104, SD2	RELATING TO LONG TERM CARE. Requires the director of the executive office on aging to contract for the performance of a feasibility study and an actuarial analysis for a limited, mandatory, public long term care financing program for the State's working population. Requires a report to the legislature. Appropriates funds for the feasibility study and actuarial analysis. Effective 07/01/2050. (SD2)	HLT, CPC, FIN
SB105, SD2	RELATING TO HEALTH. Establishes a fall prevention and early detection program within DOH's emergency medical services and injury prevention system branch. Appropriates unspecified sums for FY 2013-2014 and 2014-2015. Effective 7/1/50. (SD2)	HLT, FIN
SB106, SD1	RELATING TO AGING. Establishes and funds a position for an Alzheimer's disease and related dementia services coordinator within the executive office on aging. Appropriates funds for programs and services that support the State's elderly population, including kupuna care, the aging and disability resource center, senior centers, and the healthy aging partnership program. Effective 07/01/2050. (SD1)	HLT, FIN
SB120, SD1	RELATING TO PUBLIC UTILITIES. Authorizes the public utilities commission to establish a policy to implement economic incentives and cost recovery regulatory mechanisms to induce and accelerate electric utilities' cost reduction efforts, encourage greater utilization of renewable energy, accelerate the retirement of utility fossil generation, and increase investments to modernize the State's electrical grids. (SD1)	EEP, CPC
SB137, SD2	RELATING TO HEALTH. Appropriates an unspecified amount to the department of health to create one full-time position in the department to facilitate licensing of home care providers. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)	HLT, FIN
SB148, SD2	RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES. Appropriates moneys to establish and operate a comprehensive service center for the deaf, hard of hearing, and deaf-blind. Effective 07/01/2050. (SD2)	HUS, FIN
SB170, SD2	RELATING TO TOURISM. Expands the powers and duties of the Hawaii Tourism Authority to include perpetuating the uniqueness of the native Hawaiian culture and community and the importance of the native Hawaiian culture and community to the quality of the visitor experience by ensuring that native Hawaiian culture is accurately portrayed by the visitor industry; the Hawaiian language is supported and normalized by the visitor industry; cultural practitioners and cultural sites that give value to Hawaii's heritage are supported; and a native Hawaiian cultural education and training program is provided for the visitor industry workforce having direct contact with visitors. Effective July 1, 2050. (SD2)	TOU/OMH, FIN
SB188, SD2	RELATING TO TAXATION. Repeals the definition of large cigar and adds a new definition of premium cigar. Changes the tax rate on sales of premium cigars. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)	HLT/EDB, FIN
SB190, SD1	RELATING TO STATE FUNDS. Amends criteria to be used by the auditor in analyzing legislative bills proposing to establish new special or revolving funds. Clarifies that a special or revolving fund to be established or continued shall reflect a clear nexus between benefits sought and charges made upon program users or beneficiaries or between the program and the sources of revenue. Requires the auditor to review special funds, as well as revolving and trust funds, of designated governmental entities. Beginning 2014 and every five years thereafter, requires the auditor to review the special, revolving, and trust funds of the DOT and DOD. (SD1)	FIN
SB192	RELATING TO PROSTITUTION. Makes solicitation of a minor for prostitution a crime. Increases the statute of limitations to bring a cause of action for coercion into prostitution from two to six years. Clarifies the minimum and maximum fine for a person convicted of committing the offense of prostitution. Adds the offenses of solicitation of a minor for prostitution, habitual solicitation of prostitution, and solicitation of prostitution near schools and public parks under the State's forfeiture laws. Amends the definition of "sexual offense" under the sexual offender registry laws to include acts that consist of the solicitation of a minor who is less than eighteen years of age for prostitution.	JUD
SB194, SD1	RELATING TO CRIMINAL PROCEDURE. Excludes certain offenses from eligibility to be granted a deferred acceptance of guilty plea. Effective 07/01/50. (SD1)	JUD
SB199, SD2	RELATING TO THE COLORECTAL CANCER SCREENING PILOT PROGRAM. Establishes a two-year Hawaii colorectal cancer screening awareness pilot program using the Hawaii comprehensive breast and cervical cancer control program as a model. Appropriates funds for the pilot program. Repeals on 6/30/15. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)	HLT, FIN
SB200	RELATING TO CONTINUING EDUCATION. Requires licensed social workers to complete a minimum of fifteen credit hours of continuing education courses for the licensing renewal period beginning July 1, 2013, through June 30, 2016, and forty-five credit hours of continuing education courses during each licensing renewal period, for the period beginning July 1, 2016, and thereafter.	CPC, FIN
SB204, SD1	RELATING TO PUBLIC SAFETY. Appropriates funds for state programs related to the re-integration of offenders into the general population. Effective 07/01/13. (HD1)	PBS, FIN
SB210, SD1	RELATING TO REGISTRATION OF BICYCLES AND MOPEDS. Prohibits assessment of a fee for registration of a bicycle or moped that is gifted within 90 days of issuance of the original certificate of registration. Effective 7/1/50. (SD1)	TRN, JUD
SB212, SD1	RELATING TO THE STATE BUILDING CODE. Allows the counties three years to adopt their amendments to the state building code and permits the counties to apply their most recently adopted building code until the new amendments are adopted; the state building code may be used as a reference during this time. (SD1)	PBS, CPC
SB213, SD2	RELATING TO THE STATE BUILDING CODE COUNCIL. Reconfigures the membership of the state building code council by eliminating the member from the department of health and adding members from the Building Industry Association; General Contractors Association; Hawaii Construction Alliance; Subcontractors' Association of Hawaii; department of business, economic development, and tourism; department of accounting and general services; Hawaii Building and Construction Trades Council; and American Council of Engineering Companies. Changes the requirements for a quorum from six to nine. Eliminates the council's obligation to consult with private sector representatives regarding construction practices and training. Makes an appropriation. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)	CPC, FIN
SB225, SD1	RELATING TO ELECTIONS. Adds a definition of "residency" to rules for determining residency. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)	JUD, FIN
SB229, SD1	RELATING TO IMPEACHMENT. Establishes causes and procedures for impeachment of the governor, lieutenant governor, and appointive officers. Effective 07/01/50. (SD1)	LMG, JUD
SB237, SD2	RELATING TO PUBLIC SCHOOL LANDS. Establishes a three-year pilot program to generate revenue through the lease of public school lands for public purposes. Establishes the school facilities special fund within chapter 302A, HRS. Repeals the schools facilities special fund in chapter 171C, HRS. Requires the lieutenant governor to submit a report to the legislature. Makes an appropriation for the pilot program. Effective 07/01/2050. (SD2)	WAL/EDN/FIN
SB238	RELATING TO EDUCATION. Amends the definition of "student instructional hours" for elementary and secondary schools.	EDN, FIN
SB239, SD1	RELATING TO EDUCATION. Moves the framework for establishing an annual conference of secondary school students from chapter 317, HRS, to chapter 302A, HRS. Removes the governor's authority to appoint members of the student conference committee. Authorizes the superintendent or the superintendent's designee to select the public school members of the student conference committee. Authorizes a representative of the Hawaii Association of Independent Schools to select the members of the student conference committee from schools represented by the Hawaii Association of Independent Schools. Clarifies that the student conference advisory committee will provide guidance to the student conference committee in carrying out its purpose and duties. Repeals the mandatory legislator and department of education membership and instead clarifies that the department of education shall maintain guidelines and procedures for selecting the student conference advisory committee. Clarifies that the annual student conference is subject to program and funding limitations and removes the three day limit. Repeals the requirement for an evaluation report on student conference proceedings. Repeals chapter 317, HRS. (SD1)	EDN, FIN
SB240, SD2	RELATING TO EDUCATION. Amends section 302A-854, HRS, to require the department of health, in consultation with the University of Hawaii school of nursing and dental hygiene, to provide training and clinical direction to school health aides until June 30, 2014. Repeals section 302A‑708, HRS, which requires the department of education to provide career pathways development and training opportunities to school health aides in the department's school health services field. Requires the department of education and department of health to enter into a memorandum of understanding relating to the training of school health aides and submit a copy to the legislature no later than twenty days prior to the convening of the regular session of 2014. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)	EDN/HLT, FIN
SB244, SD2	RELATING TO EDUCATION. Permits charter schools to carry over a percentage of unexpended appropriations to the next fiscal year. Requires charter schools to complete an annual independent financial audit. Requires the state public charter school commission (commission) to develop procedures for conducting criminal history checks of persons who are employed or seeking employment in any position that places them in close proximity to children. Specifies enrollment requirements. Authorizes the commission to make facilities funding requests to the director of finance. Requires the commission to determine criteria for distribution of facilities funding. Specifies when an employer or potential employer may use criminal history information to terminate or deny employment. Requires commission members to disclose to the commission a list of all charter schools in which the member is an employee, governing board member, vendor, contractor, agent, or representative and disqualifies members from voting on or participating in the discussion of such matters. Authorizes the commission to hire employees without regard to chapters 76 and 89, HRS. Removes the requirement that a nonprofit organization that governs a conversion charter school make minimum annual contributions to the charter school. Makes other amendments to chapter 302D, HRS, for purposes of clarity and consistency. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)	EDN, FIN
SB286, SD1	RELATING TO REAPPORTIONMENT. Requires reapportionment to be based in part on population data of the total number of permanent residents in the State. Defines "permanent resident" for legislative reapportionment as any individual counted as a usual resident in the last preceding U.S. census within the State of Hawaii. Effective 07/01/50. (SD1)	JUD
SB301, SD2	RELATING TO ASSET BUILDING. Establishes a refundable state earned income tax credit. Effective 07/01/2050. (SD2)	HUS, FIN
SB305, SD1	RELATING TO DEVELOPMENT OF PUBLIC HOUSING. Authorizes the Hawaii public housing authority to develop public housing projects. Authorizes the Hawaii public housing authority to develop commercial and industrial properties in connection with the development of public housing dwelling units. Effective 07/01/2050. (SD1)	HSG, WAL, FIN
SB310, SD2	RELATING TO MENTAL HEALTH TREATMENT. Establishes an assisted community treatment program in lieu of the involuntary outpatient treatment program. Replaces the term "involuntary outpatient treatment" with "assisted community treatment". Makes several amendments regarding involuntary outpatient treatment procedures. (SD2)	HLT, PBS, JUD
SB312, SD1	RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY SHERIFF DIVISION ENTERING INTO AGREEMENTS TO PROVIDE SECURITY AT PUBLIC HOUSING PROJECTS OPERATED BY THE PUBLIC HOUSING AUTHORITY. Authorizes the HPHA to enter into agreements with the DPS to obtain the aid and cooperation of the sheriff division to provide security services to protect the residents, staff, buildings, and lands of the authority. Effective 07/01/2050. (SD1)	HSG/PBS, FIN
SB326, SD1	RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. Creates and appropriates funds for a good agricultural practices task force to develop food safety guidelines for locally farmed products. Effective 07/01/2050. (SD1)	AGR/HLT, FIN
SB327, SD1	RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. Amends the Hawaii State Planning Act objectives and policies for the economy to support the purchase and consumption of locally grown products. (SD1)	AGR/EDB, FIN
SB329, SD1	RELATING TO ANIMALS. Exempts any charitable or nonprofit organization from civil liability for providing shelter or subsistence to any animal in need. Exempts from civil liability any person who donates goods or food to a charitable or nonprofit organization for the purpose of providing shelter or subsistence to any animal in need. Effective on 07/01/50. (SD1)	CPC, JUD
SB331, SD2	RELATING TO LABOR. Increases minimum wage to $8.25 starting 01/01/14, $8.75 starting 01/01/15, and $9.25 starting 01/01/16 and ending 12/31/16. Authorizes DLIR to adjust the minimum hourly wage thereafter in accordance with the Honolulu region consumer price index. Effective 7/1/50. (SD2)	LAB, FIN
SB332, SD1	RELATING TO WAGES. Requires employers to provide employees with specific wage and employer information in employees' pay records; requires employers to maintain accurate and timely wage recordkeeping. Effective 07/01/50. (SD1)	EDB/LAB, FIN
SB337, SD2	RELATING TO STATEWIDE TRAFFIC CODE. Makes it a violation to drive a motor vehicle, trailer, or semi-trailer equipped with dangerous wheels. Defines dangerous wheels. Effective 7/1/50. (SD2)	TRN, JUD
SB341, SD2	RELATING TO DISPOSITION OF REMAINS. Establishes the disposition of remains act. Determines the priority of the persons who may direct the disposition of a decedent's remains and the arrangements for funeral goods and services; permits funeral establishments, cemeteries, mortuaries, and crematories to rely and act upon written directions from the decedent or persons who have the right of disposition without liability in certain circumstances and control the disposition and dispose of a decedent's remains in certain circumstances. (SD2)	CPC
SB343, SD2	RELATING TO DENTAL HEALTH. Requires the director of health to participate in the national oral health surveillance system. Permits dental hygienists to apply preventative sealants, in consultation with a licensed dentist, in a school-based dental sealant program or federally qualified health center. Requires the department of health to establish and administer a school-based dental sealant program in a high-need demonstration school and report to the legislature about the department's efforts to prioritize prevention of tooth decay. Appropriates funds to establish and administer a school-based dental sealant program in a high-need demonstration school, including plans to implement the program on a statewide level. Takes effect 01/01/2054; repeals 01/01/2057. (SD2)	HLT, FIN
SB345, SD1	RELATING TO PORTABLE ELECTRONICS INSURANCE. Amends the fees related to portable electronics insurance licenses to align with similar licensing fees in other jurisdictions. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)	EDB, CPC, FIN
SB350, SD1	RELATING TO TAXATION. Amends the date of filing of monthly, quarterly, and semiannual general excise tax returns from the twentieth day of the calendar, quarterly, or semiannual month to the last day of the month. (SD1)	FIN
SB358, SD2	RELATING TO HEALTH. Requires the department of health to post on its website reports of all inspections at state-licensed care facilities occurring on 1/1/15, and afterward; provided that any report that includes a violation be removed from the website after three years. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)	HLT/HUS, CPC, FIN
SB369, SD1	RELATING TO VIDEOCONFERENCING. Requires both chambers of the legislature to implement rules to permit residents to present testimony through audiovisual technology. Appropriates funds to establish audiovisual systems throughout the State. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)	LMG, JUD, FIN
SB380, SD1	RELATING TO HIGHER EDUCATION. Provides funding for an outreach program to conduct a needs assessment for a potential learning center project in Puna under the college of agriculture, forestry, and natural resource management of the University of Hawaii at Hilo. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)	HED, FIN
SB381, SD2	RELATING TO COMPREHENSIVE PUBLIC FUNDING FOR ELECTIONS. Changes funding formula for the comprehensive public funding pilot project to average the amount of money used by winning candidates in the last two election periods for all county district races. Limits the number of candidates in the pilot program to twenty-five per election period. Effective 07/01/50. (SD2)	JUD, FIN
SB382, SD1	RELATING TO FUEL TAX REVENUES. Permits the county of Hawaii to appropriate the county's share of fuel tax revenues for the maintenance of substandard private subdivision roads that are used by the public. Provides that neither the State nor the county shall be required to install infrastructure improvements if the roads are thereafter sold to a private entity. Effective 07/01/50. Sunsets 06/30/18. (SD1)	TRN, FIN
SB390, SD2	RELATING TO SOCIAL SERVICES. Appropriates funds to be expended by the department of human services for after school hour positive youth programs, an UPLINK administrator in the department of education, and other UPLINK staffing needs. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)	HUS, EDN, FIN
SB391, SD2	RELATING TO YOUTH. Requires the office of youth services to coordinate a two-year safe places for youth pilot program, which will coordinate a network of safe places where youth can access safety and obtain advice, guidance, programs, and services. Establishes the position of safe places for youth program coordinator. Appropriates funds for the coordinator position and residential options for the pilot program. Effective 07/01/2050. (SD2)	HUS, FIN
SB400, SD1	RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES. Requires child care facilities, including family child care homes, group child care centers, and group child care homes, and infant and toddler child care centers that care for children one year of age or younger to implement and maintain safe sleep policies to prevent sudden unexpected infant deaths and sudden infant death syndrome in accordance with rules adopted by the Department of Human Services. Makes certain requirements of operators. (SD1)	HUS, CPC
SB403, SD2	RELATING TO BONDS. Authorizes the office of Hawaiian affairs to issue revenue bonds to fund loan programs. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)	OMH, FIN
SB406, SD2	RELATING TO TRAINING. Requires OHA to either administer or approve a third party to administer a mandatory training course in native Hawaiian and Hawaiian matters to members of certain state councils, boards, and commissions. Requires those members to take the course within one year of their respective appointments. Effective 07/01/2050. (SD2)	OMH, JUD, FIN
SB407, SD1	RELATING TO ISLAND BURIAL COUNCILS. Clarifies statutory provisions relating to composition and quorum of island burial councils. (SD1)	OMH, FIN
SB409, SD1	RELATING TO MAHINA ‘OLELO HAWAI‘I. Designates the month of February as "‘Olelo Hawaii Month" to celebrate and encourage the use of Hawaiian language. (SD1)	OMH, FIN
SB414, SD2	RELATING TO COMMERCIAL DOG BREEDERS. Defines a "dog breeder" as any person who owns, possesses, controls, or otherwise has charge or custody of more than ten dogs over the age of twelve months with intact sexual organs, and who sells, barters, or otherwise transfers more than three litters or more than twenty-five dogs per calendar year. Requires dog breeders to meet minimum standards of care and not place certain types of dogs in the same enclosure to ensure the proper treatment and care of dogs and the dogs' offspring. Prohibits any person from owning or having custody of more than thirty dogs over one year with intact sexual organs. Requires dog breeders to maintain specific written records for each dog for a specified period. Authorizes each county to assess, implement, and enforce its own licensing system. Establishes civil and criminal penalties for violations. Effective 07/01/50. (SD2)	EDB, CPC/JUD
SB442, SD1	RELATING TO INTOXICATING LIQUOR. Amends the misdemeanor offense of promoting intoxicating liquor to a person under age 21 to apply to persons who recklessly, rather than knowingly, commit the offense. Applies the offense to liquor licensees who provide liquor to any minor or allow a minor to consume liquor. (SD1)	JUD
SB452, SD2	RELATING TO THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII. Reestablishes the governor's authority to nominate and, with the advice and consent of the senate, appoint the members of the board of regents of the University of Hawaii by repealing the candidate advisory council for the board of regents of the University of Hawaii; effective upon ratification of an amendment to article X, section 6, of the Hawaii Constitution that repeals provisions related to the regents candidate advisory council. Authorizes the board to elect one vice-chairperson, rather than up to two vice-chairpersons. Amends the timing of election and term dates of the board chairperson and vice-chairperson. (SD2)	HED, JUD, FIN
SB453	PROPOSING A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE X, SECTION 6, OF THE HAWAII STATE CONSTITUTION TO MODIFY THE APPOINTMENT PROCESS FOR THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII. Proposes an amendment to article X, section 6, of the Hawaii State Constitution to modify the appointment process for the board of regents of the University of Hawaii; repeals reference to the candidate advisory council for the board of regents of the University of Hawaii.	HED, JUD, FIN
SB456, SD2	RELATING TO MAUNA KEA STATE RECREATIONAL AREA. Requires DLNR to enter into negotiations with the county of Hawaii for the lease of Mauna Kea state recreational area to the county. Requires DLNR to report to the legislature a lease agreement, or progress made if no agreement has been reached by 01/01/2014. Effective 07/01/2013. (SD2)	WAL, FIN
SB457, SD2	RELATING TO HAPUNA BEACH PARK. Requires DLNR to enter into negotiations with the county of Hawaii for the lease of Hapuna Beach Park to the county. Requires DLNR to report to the legislature a lease agreement, or progress made if no agreement has been reached by 01/01/2014. Effective 07/01/2013. (SD2)	WAL/OMH, FIN
SB458, SD1	RELATING TO THE STATE EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES IMPROVEMENT SPECIAL FUND. Removes the requirement that general excise tax revenues be deposited to the credit of the state educational facilities improvement special fund. Limits expenditures from the special fund to projects authorized by the legislature for fiscal years ending prior to 07/01/2014. Limits lease payments required by financing agreements paid from the special fund to those entered into prior to 07/01/2013. Repeals the special fund on 07/01/2023. (SD1)	EDN, FIN
SB460, SD1	RELATING TO THE CENTER FOR OKINAWAN STUDIES. Appropriates funds for the hiring of one full-time equivalent librarian position for the Okinawan collection at the University of Hawaii at Manoa library. Effective 07/01/2050. (SD1)	HED, FIN
SB463, SD2	RELATING TO FILM AND DIGITAL MEDIA INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT. Extends the motion picture, digital media, and film production income tax credit from 01/01/2016 to 01/01/2023. Repeals the credit ceiling per qualified production. Changes the credit amount from 15% to an unspecified amount in a county with a population over 700,000, and from 20% to an unspecified amount in a county with a population of 700,000 or less. Creates a tax credit for media infrastructure projects in West Oahu or the most populous island in a county with a population of 100,000 to 175,000, from 07/01/13 to 01/01/16. Provides for recapture of the media infrastructure project tax credit. Establishes a special fund for management of media infrastructure project tax credits and related programs. Requires analysis and reporting by DOTAX on the effectiveness of the media infrastructure project tax credit. Effective 07/01/2050. (SD2)	EDB, FIN
SB464, SD1	RELATING TO LIQUOR COMMISSIONS. Requires county liquor commissions that choose to regulate dancing to adopt or amend rules regarding limitations on dancing. (SD1)	EDB, CPC/JUD
SB465, SD1	RELATING TO TORT ACTIONS. Creates a civil cause of action of physical or constructive invasion of privacy if the person obtains any type of visual image, sound recording, or other physical impression of another person under circumstances in which another person has a reasonable expectation of keeping private their personal life under certain conditions. Effective 07/01/50. (SD1)	CPC, JUD, FIN
SB470, SD1	RELATING TO CREDIT CARDS. Prohibits retailers from imposing credit card surcharges in certain instances. Effective 07/01/2050. (SD1)	EDB, CPC
SB472, SD1	RELATING TO MARIJUANA. Establishes a civil violation for possession of one ounce or less of marijuana that is subject to a fine of $1,000. Effective 07/01/50. (SD1)	JUD, FIN
SB479, SD2	RELATING TO THE MEMBERSHIP OF A METROPOLITAN PLANNING ORGANIZATION. Updates the membership of the Metropolitan Planning Organization policy committee to comply with the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act, Public Law 112-141. (SD2)	TRN, FIN
SB482, SD1	RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. Clarifies the maximum number of gallons of honey that can be sold by a certified honey house or food processing establishment for an exemption from obtaining a permit from the department of health. Exempts from the permit requirement sales of honey directly to retail stores that in turn sell the honey directly to consumers. Requires honey producers to include certain wording on labels of each container of honey; take a Department of Health food safety workshop and pass an exam; and make records available to the Department of Health in order to be exempt from permit requirements. (SD1)	AGR, CPC
SB490, SD2	RELATING TO NURSING. Requires the professional and vocational licensing division of the department of commerce and consumer affairs and the state board of nursing to collaborate with the center for nursing to enable the center to obtain nursing-related data, including but not limited to workforce data of nurses licensed in the State. Requires the professional and vocational licensing division to provide the center for nursing with various information through a memorandum of understanding. Requests completion of a center for nursing survey as part of the license renewal requirements under chapter 457, Hawaii Revised Statutes. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)	HLT, CPC
SB492, SD2	RELATING TO TOBACCO PRODUCTS. Imposes an excise tax of an unspecified per cent of the wholesale price of any tobacco product, other than large cigars, sold by a wholesaler or dealer on and after January 1, 2014, whether or not sold at wholesale, or if not sold then at the same rate upon the use by the wholesaler or dealer. Requires the additional moneys collected under the excise tax to be deposited to the credit of the Hawaii cancer research special fund. Effective 7/1/50. (SD2)	HLT/EDB, HED, FIN
SB495, SD2	RELATING TO INSURANCE. Implements the recommendations of the motor vehicle insurance verification working group. Establishes a working group attached to DCCA to assist in development of requests for proposals and vendor selection for a motor vehicle insurance verification program. Increases annual motor vehicle registration fee. Removes duplicative and unnecessary requirements for insurance identification cards and safety inspection requirements. Requires the allocated portion of motor vehicle registration fees to be deposited to the credit of the compliance resolution fund and the allocated portion of fines to be deposited into the general fund. Effective 07/01/2050. Sunsets 06/30/2020. (SD2)	TRN, CPC, FIN
SB497, SD2	RELATING TO BEACH NOURISHMENT. Appropriates funds for the environmental impact statement associated with the planned beach nourishment project at Kaanapali beach on the island of Maui; provided that no funds shall be expended unless matched dollar-for-dollar with private funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)	EEP, FIN
SB498, SD2	RELATING TO EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES. Appropriates funds out of the emergency medical services special fund to establish and fund a twenty-four-hour, seven-days-a-week, special emergency medical response vehicle unit based in the Maalaea area on Maui, including acquisition of a vehicle, equipment, and personnel costs, that is appropriately staffed at all times by a state licensed paramedic and equipped with all appropriate life-saving, emergency response equipment. Effective 07/01/2050. (SD2)	HLT, FIN
SB499, SD1	RELATING TO PARTITION OF HEIRS PROPERTY. Adopts Uniform Partition of Heirs Property Act. Establishes procedures and remedies for use in actions for partition of real property involving heirs property (real property held in tenancy in common that meets certain requirements). Effective on 07/01/50. (SD1)	CPC, JUD
SB500, SD2	RELATING TO TRANSIENT ACCOMMODATIONS. Clarifies that an association's duty to report to DOTAX is limited to the relevant information and the name, address, and contact information of a local contact an association actually receives from a transient accommodation operator. Clarifies that the fines imposed for wilfully failing to supply required information shall be limited to civil penalties imposed no more than once a year. Effective 07/01/2050. (SD2)	CPC, FIN
SB502, SD1	RELATING TO REAL ESTATE SELLER DISCLOSURE. Establishes a uniform standard for disclosure for condominium projects, cooperative housing corporations, and other community associations and clarifies the types of documents that are required to be disclosed. Requires the disclosure of documents within ten days after the title report is received. Allows for the electronic receipt of documents with the buyer's consent. Effective 07/01/2050. (SD1)	CPC
SB505, SD2	RELATING TO CONDOMINIUMS. Adds support for mediation of condominium related disputes as one of the educational purposes supported by the condominium education trust fund. Beginning with the July 1, 2015, biennium registration, imposes an additional annual condominium education trust fund fee dedicated to supporting mediation of condominium related disputes. Specifies the total fee payable into the condominium education trust fund. Requires the real estate commission to make adjustments to the condominium education trust fund to ensure adequate funds are available for mediation of condominium related disputes and any mediation requests are fully accommodated prior to the commencement of the additional annual condominium education trust fund fee. Effective 07/01/50. (SD2)	CPC, FIN
SB506, SD2	RELATING TO PROFESSIONAL AND VOCATIONAL LICENSING. Clarifies that licensing authorities that consider relevant education, training, or service of a military veteran applicant and determine the applicant meets or exceeds the requirements for licensure in Hawaii shall accept the results of the passage of a national or regional exam accepted by statute or rule in the specific licensing area or the equivalent as determined by the licensing authority. Requires a certificate or evidence satisfactory to the licensing authority of having passed a national or regional exam or the equivalent to be provided to the licensing authority. (SD2)	VMI, CPC, FIN
SB509	PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE I OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF HAWAII RELATING TO RIGHTS OF CRIME VICTIMS. Proposes an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Hawaii guaranteeing that crime victims and their immediate surviving family members have specific rights related to information pertaining to and participation in the criminal justice process.	PBS, JUD, FIN
SB510, SD2	RELATING TO PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYER ORGANIZATIONS. Repeals chapter 373K, Hawaii Revised Statutes. Clarifies professional employer organization responsibilities with respect to meeting the statutory requirements of the repealed chapter 373K, Hawaii Revised Statutes, and the nexus between the registration of professional employer organizations and qualification for the state general excise tax exemption. Requires professional employer organizations to obtain a bond on a sliding scale that is based on total payroll amount. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)	LAB, CPC, FIN
SB511	RELATING TO UNIFORM COMMERCIAL CODE ARTICLE 4A. Clarifies the relationship between the Uniform Commercial Code article 4A and the federal Electronic Fund Transfer Act.	CPC, FIN
SB512, SD1	RELATING TO ELECTRICAL CONTRACTORS. Provides a limited exemption to the licensing requirements for certain individuals in situations when an electric utility must contract with qualified individuals to work with high voltage (six hundred volts or more), who are not licensed in Hawaii but who are deemed qualified and authorized to perform high voltage work by another jurisdiction in the United States. Sunset 6/30/2018. (SD1)	LAB/EEP, CPC
SB515, SD2	RELATING TO HOUSING. Appropriates unspecified funds to the homeless programs office of the department of human services and the rental housing trust fund. Appropriates unspecified funds to the department of health for substance abuse treatment, mental health support services, and clean and sober housing services. Appropriates funds for a rental assistance program, also known as a shallow subsidy program. Appropriates funds to the Hawaii public housing authority to continue to administer housing first programs for chronically homeless individuals and to reestablish the homeless prevention and rapid re-housing program. Appropriates funds out of the rental housing trust fund. Appropriates matching funds for the federal shelter plus care program to provide rental assistance in connection with supportive services. Effective 07/01/2050. (SD2)	HUS/HSG, FIN
SB516, SD1	RELATING TO PATERNITY. Removes time bar on paternity actions for good cause shown. Effective on 07/01/50. (SD1)	HLT/HUS, JUD
SB524, SD1	RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. Establishes an agricultural development and food security program. Establishes state planning objectives to increase demand and access to locally grown foods. Establishes state planning objectives to increase production of locally grown foods. Makes appropriations. Effective 07/01/2050. (SD1)	AGR/EDB, FIN
SB527, SD1	RELATING TO CANCER. Appropriates funds for the comprehensive breast and cervical cancer control program. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)	HLT, FIN
SB529, SD1	RELATING TO PARENTAL RIGHTS. Prohibits family courts from awarding a natural parent custody of or visitation with a child if the natural parent has been convicted of rape or sexual assault and the child was conceived as a result of that offense. Authorizes the family courts to terminate parental rights, with respect to a child, of a convicted natural parent who has been convicted of rape or sexual assault and the child was conceived as a result of the rape or sexual assault. (SD1)	HUS, JUD
SB532, SD1	RELATING TO BREASTFEEDING IN THE WORKPLACE. Requires certain employers to provide reasonable time and location shielded from view or intrusion by coworkers and the public for breastfeeding employees to express breastmilk in privacy. Requires covered employers to post a notice. Establishes a civil fine. Effective 07/01/50. (SD1)	LAB, JUD, FIN
SB535, SD1	RELATING TO LABOR. Establishes rights for domestic workers. Directs the department of labor and industrial relations to report on feasibility of allowing domestic workers to organize for the purposes of collective bargaining. Effective on 07/01/50. (SD1)	LAB/EDB, JUD
SB539, SD2	RELATING TO VETERANS. Exempts certain totally and permanently disabled veterans from paying motor vehicle registration expenses on certain vehicles. Effective 07/01/2050. (SD2)	VMI, TRN, FIN
SB540	RELATING TO VETERANS. Makes permanent provisions relating to residency requirements for the burial in veterans cemeteries of armed service members and their dependents.	VMI, FIN
SB548, SD1	RELATING TO TELEMEDICINE. Exempts from licensing requirement to practice medicine in the State any commissioned medical officer or commissioned or civilian behavioral health professional employed by the U.S. Department of Defense, who is credentialed by Tripler Army Medical Center, while providing direct telemedicine support or services to neighbor island beneficiaries within a Hawaii national guard armory on the island of Kauai, Hawaii, Molokai, or Maui. Specifies that those civilian behavioral health professionals employed by the United States Department of Defense and who are credentialed by Tripler Army Medical Center must also be otherwise licensed as marriage and family therapists under chapter 451J, HRS, mental health counselors under chapter 453D, HRS, or psychologists under chapter 465, HRS. (SD1)	VMI/HLT, CPC
SB551, SD2	RELATING TO A MEMORIAL. Directs the office of veterans services, with the assistance of DAGS and state DOD, to develop a plan to establish a memorial honoring the veterans of the Persian Gulf War, Operation Desert Storm, Operation Iraqi Freedom, Operation Enduring Freedom, Operation New Dawn, Global War on Terrorism, Homeland Defense, Operation Noble Eagle, and border patrol. Requires a report to the Legislature. Effective 7/1/50. (SD2)	VMI, FIN
SB564, SD2	RELATING TO HAWAII-GROWN PRODUCE. Establishes a Hawaii-grown produce working group to develop the parameters of and implement a demonstration model in which a state facility utilizes locally-grown produce for consumption. Makes an appropriation. Effective 07/01/2050. (SD2)	AGR, FIN
SB571, SD2	RELATING TO COUNTY SURCHARGE ON STATE TAX. Changes the State's automatic deduction of 10% of the gross proceeds of a county's surcharge on state tax to a deduction of an unspecified percentage to reimburse the State for costs associated with handling the assessments, collection, and disposition of the county surcharge on state tax. Allows the State, by rule, to change the unspecified percentage to an amount not exceeding 10% if the costs of assessment, collection, and disposition increase. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)	TRN, FIN
SB573, SD2	RELATING TO TAXATION. Authorizes a state income tax credit for certain expenses paid or incurred by a school teacher during the taxable year. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)	EDN, FIN
SB586, SD1	RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL BUILDING PERMITS. Provides, under certain circumstances, an exemption from building code and permit requirements for nonresidential buildings or structures on commercial farms and ranches located outside the urban district. (SD1)	AGR/WAL, CPC
SB593, SD2	RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. Expands livestock feed subsidies to include milking goats, goats raised for meat, sheep, lambs, fish, and crustaceans. Appropriates funds. Effective 07/01/2050. (SD2)	AGR, FIN
SB595, SD1	RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. Adds to the definition of agricultural commodities exempt from the GET, milk, poultry, eggs, poultry carcass, poultry meat, and aquaculture and aquaponic products to be consumed in the State, whether processed in the State or imported. Effective 07/01/2050. (SD1)	AGR, CPC, FIN
SB598, SD2	RELATING TO CHECK CASHING. Requires check cashers to provide specific additional information relating to deferred deposit transactions. Limits the cumulative fees charged by check cashers. Requires check cashers to enter into payment plans with certain customers. Effective 07/01/2050. (SD2)	EDB, CPC/JUD
SB606, SD2	RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII. Appropriates funds to the University of Hawaii to pay student employees at new or expanded worksites on each campus and for the hiring of support staff for the University of Hawaii at Manoa vice chancellor for students for the coordination, recruitment, training, and compliance with system-wide procedures and student employment regulations. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)	HED, FIN
SB608, SD1	RELATING TO MEDICINE. Requires the Hawaii medical board to set content standards for physician continuing education regarding prevention and treatment of chronic disease through changes in nutrition and lifestyle. Requires the board to disseminate information on the subject to physicians and hospitals in the State. Directs the board to assemble a working group to discuss nutrition and lifestyle behavior for the treatment and prevention of chronic disease at a board meeting before July 1, 2016. Effective January 1, 2050. (SD1)	HLT, CPC
SB614, SD1	RELATING TO PUBLIC WORKS OF ART. Requires the comptroller and the state foundation on culture and the arts to commission permanent works of art to honor the late U.S. Senator Daniel K. Inouye and the late U.S. Representative Patsy T. Mink. Appropriates funds. Effective 07/01/2050. (SD1)	VMI, FIN
SB623, SD2	RELATING TO RENEWABLE ENERGY. Replaces the current renewable energy technology systems tax credit with tax credits for solar energy property and wind energy property. Requires DOTAX and DBEDT to report tax credits claimed under section 235-12.5, HRS. Effective 07/01/2050. (SD2)	EEP, CPC, FIN
SB624, SD2	RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII. Prohibits the expenditure of moneys deposited into the University of Hawaii tuition and fees special fund on executive and managerial positions with salaries of $150,000 or more. Effective 07/01/2050. (SD2)	HED, FIN
SB633	RELATING TO UNLICENSED CONTRACTING ACTIVITIES. Prohibits the value of any work done by a unlicensed contractor to be used as an offset for the value of the property calculated in unlicensed contractor fraud cases.	CPC, FIN
SB635, SD1	RELATING TO ANIMAL CRUELTY. Includes law enforcement animals under the offenses of causing injury or death to a service dog and intentional interference with the use of a service dog. Adds a definition for "law enforcement animal". (SD1)	PBS, JUD, FIN
SB642	RELATING TO HEALTH. Requires cigarettes and tobacco products to be stored for sale behind a counter in certain establishments.	HLT, CPC/JUD
SB652, SD2	RELATING TO HEALTH. Prohibits the sale of tobacco in any shape or form, including chewing tobacco, snuff, and electronic cigarettes, to a minor under eighteen years of age. Includes electronic cigarettes, or e-cigarettes, under the definition of tobacco or tobacco products. Requires the department of health to convene the smoking prevention among children and youth task force to develop potential legislation that addresses concerns related to advertising and product placement promoting or encouraging the purchase or use of cigarettes or other tobacco products by children and youth. Report to the legislature. Task force ceases to exist 06/30/2014. Takes effect 1/1/2050. (SD2)	HLT, CPC
SB654, SD1	RELATING TO HEALTH INSURANCE. Mandates health insurance coverage for tobacco use cessation treatments. Requires insurers to provide policyholders or subscribers information about tobacco use cessation treatment coverage. (SD1)	HLT, CPC, FIN
SB655, SD2	RELATING TO HEALTH. Allows health professionals, subject to certain requirements, to treat the heterosexual partners of patients diagnosed as having chlamydia or gonorrhea, the sexually transmitted diseases recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for expedited partner therapy, by dispensing or prescribing medication to the heterosexual partners without examining the partners. Provides protection from criminal liability, legal liability, and disciplinary action for health professionals who provide expedited partner therapy as authorized. Requires the department of health to develop an information sheet about sexually transmitted diseases for use by health professionals who provide expedited partner therapy. Creates exceptions to prescription drug labeling and reporting requirements for expedited partner therapy. (SD2)	HLT, CPC/JUD
SB661, SD1	RELATING TO THE ISSUANCE OF SPECIAL PURPOSE REVENUE BONDS FOR HAWAI‘I PACIFIC HEALTH. Authorizes the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds for Hawai‘i Pacific Health. Effective 07/01/13. (SD1)	HLT, FIN
SB664, SD2	RELATING TO HEALTH. Appropriates funds for the Hawaii health systems corporation primary care training program at the Hilo medical center. Effective 07/01/2050. (SD2)	HLT, FIN
SB665, SD1	RELATING TO HEALTH. Appropriates funds to address the shortage of primary care physicians in the State through a comprehensive primary care workforce development plan that addresses the critical areas of loan repayment, diversity programs, and primary care workforce expansion. Effective 07/01/2050. (SD1)	HLT, HED, FIN
SB666, SD2	RELATING TO HEALTH. Establishes an emergency services patient advocate program to provide assistance to and advocate on behalf of individuals receiving emergency medical care. Requires the director of health to adopt rules related to implementation of the program. Effective 07/01/2050. (SD2)	HLT, CPC, FIN
SB668, SD2	RELATING TO HEALTH. Requires health insurers, mutual benefit societies, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage for autism spectrum disorder treatments beginning after 12/31/2013. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)	CPC, FIN
SB678, SD2	RELATING TO THE PRESERVATION OF HAWAII'S MOVING IMAGES. Appropriates funds for the ‘Ulu‘ulu: The Henry Ku‘ualoha Giugni Moving Image Archive of Hawai‘i to support the activities of the moving image archive. Effective 07/01/2050. (SD2)	VMI, HED, FIN
SB680, SD1	RELATING TO HOMELAND SECURITY. Enacts a homeland security law to establish a state homeland security office within the department of defense and authorize the establishment of county organizations for homeland security. (SD1)	PBS/VMI, FIN
SB681, SD2	RELATING TO FOOD SECURITY. Establishes a temporary food security task force at the national disaster preparedness training center at the University of Hawaii to develop an emergency food plan that addresses certain food security issues resulting from an emergency, catastrophic event, or quarantine. Makes an appropriation. Effective 07/01/2050. (SD2)	PBS/AGR, HED, FIN
SB693, SD2	RELATING TO HIGHWAY SAFETY. Establishes a three-year pilot photo red light imaging detector system program. Authorizes counties to administer the program. Makes other amendments regarding highway safety. Effective 07/01/2050. Repeals 07/01/2016. (SD2)	TRN, JUD, FIN
SB697	RELATING TO AEROSPACE. Extends the terms of members of the aerospace advisory committee from 2 to 4 years.	EDB, FIN
SB708, SD2	RELATING TO THE LEGACY LAND CONSERVATION PROGRAM. Eliminates the requirement that state and county agencies and nonprofit land conservation organizations that receive legacy land funding must provide easements, deed restrictions, or covenants to county and federal natural resource conservation agencies. Effective 07/01/2050. (SD2)	WAL, FIN
SB709, SD1	RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT. Increases the agribusiness development corporation's limit on investments in qualified securities of any one enterprise. Effective 07/01/2050. (SD1)	AGR, EDB, FIN
SB718, SD2	RELATING TO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. Appropriates funds to the Hawaii Strategic Development Corporation to establish the HI Growth Initiative, an investment program to develop an ecosystem to support high-growth entrepreneurial companies in the State. Requires an annual report to the legislature. Effective 07/01/2050. (SD2)	EDB, FIN
SB722, SD2	RELATING TO GOVERNMENT. Requires the department of accounting and general services to establish an inventory of public buildings, facilities, and sites on the lands of the public land trust to which state agencies hold title. Requires state agencies to provide the department of accounting and general services with an inventory of public buildings, facilities, and sites by January 1, 2014, all programs and hardware associated with the inventory, and an updated inventory of buildings and facilities annually. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)	WAL/OMH, FIN
SB726, SD2	RELATING TO RENTAL MOTOR VEHICLE SURCHARGE TAX. Exempts car-sharing organizations from the rental motor vehicle surcharge tax upon approval of DoTax. Defines car-sharing organization and qualified fleet of vehicles. Effective 07/01/2050. (SD2)	TRN, CPC, FIN
SB727	RELATING TO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. Expressly prohibits the enactment of county ordinances relating to the protection of property and the order and security of inhabitants, if the ordinances conflict with the intent of state or federal statutes, rules, or regulations.	JUD, FIN
SB747, SD2	RELATING TO OCEAN RECREATION. Amends the definition of "thrill craft". Prohibits the operation of more than one parasail vessel at any given time in state waters per permit for counties with populations over 700,000. Limits the number of vessels thrill craft permit holders may operate for rent per permit. Effective 07/01/2050. (SD2)	OMH, CPC, FIN
SB750, SD2	RELATING TO DIGITAL MEDIA INFRASTRUCTURE. Establishes a media infrastructure project tax credit for qualified media infrastructure projects in West Oahu or on the most populous island in a county with a population between 100,000 and 175,000. Provides for recapture of the media infrastructure project tax credit in certain circumstances. Requires annual report to Legislature. Effective 07/01/2050. (SD2)	EDB, FIN
SB753, SD2	RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. Authorizes the DOA to dispose of lands and negotiate and enter into leases with the ADC. Exempts non-agricultural park lands disposed of to the ADC from section 166-8(b)(2) and (5), HRS. Effective 07/01/2050. (SD2)	AGR/WAL, FIN
SB754, SD2	RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL LAND ACQUISITION. Makes an appropriation for the agribusiness development corporation to purchase agricultural land. Effective 07/01/2050. (SD2)	AGR/WAL, FIN
SB757, SD2	RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. Caps the livestock revitalization program grant per qualified producer per year at the lesser of a specified amount or a percentage of the cost of feed for production of poultry products, milk, or pigs and beef cattle raised and slaughtered in Hawaii for local consumption. Expands the livestock program to include subsidies for costs incurred in raising goats, sheep, fish, and crustaceans. Appropriates funds for the livestock revitalization program. Requires the livestock revitalization program to be funded through the agricultural development and food security special fund. Effective 07/01/2050. (SD2)	AGR, FIN
SB775	RELATING TO STATE LAND MAMMAL. Designates the Hawaiian hoary bat as the state land mammal.	VMI, FIN
SB795, SD1	RELATING TO STATE FINANCES. 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. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)	LMG, FIN
SB814, SD1	RELATING TO STATE LOW-INCOME PUBLIC HOUSING. Authorizes the Hawaii public housing authority to allow law enforcement officers who would not otherwise be eligible to occupy a state low-income public housing project, to reside in a state low-income public housing for the purpose of increasing security and safety for the public housing development residents. Effective 07/01/2050. (SD1)	HSG, PBS, FIN
SB815, SD2	RELATING TO CHILDREN. Appropriates funds to the judiciary for the Honolulu zero to three court to fund the coordinator's transportation to visit children and parents, emergency housing assistance, a secure opening at a residential drug and alcohol facility that will accommodate a mother and child, development and implementation of an incentive program similar to the successful model utilized in family drug court, training and professional development of court team members and community partners, and creation and utilization of an enhanced visitation and parenting coaching site in leeward Oahu. Effective 7/01/2050. (SD2)	HUS, JUD, FIN
SB827, SD1	RELATING TO ELECTION OFFENSES. Prohibits a candidate from physically handling or possessing the voter registration form, request for absentee ballot form, polling place ballot, or absentee ballot of another person before or during the election. Effective 07/01/50. (SD1)	JUD
SB848, SD1	RELATING TO FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE. Requires a state employee or legislator to disclose every source of annual income that totals more than the employee's or legislator's annual salary if that source is a registered lobbyist or lobbying organization. (SD1)	LMG, JUD
SB853, SD1	RELATING TO THE ELECTIONS COMMISSION. Requires the elections commission to conduct a performance evaluation of the chief election officer after each election and submit a written report regarding the evaluation to the legislature. (SD1)	JUD
SB856	RELATING TO HOLIDAYS. Establishes January 30 of each year as "Fred Korematsu Day" to celebrate, honor, raise awareness, and educate about Fred Korematsu and his commitment to preserving civil liberties.	VMI, FIN
SB858, SD1	RELATING TO BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS. Restricts members of boards and commissions who have been reappointed to a second consecutive term and whose reappointment has failed to receive the consent of the senate from serving as a holdover member after the senate adjourns sine die. Effective 07/01/50. (SD1)	JUD, CPC
SB867, SD2	RELATING TO THE HAWAII EMPLOYER-UNION HEALTH BENEFITS TRUST FUND. Sets the base monthly contributions for health benefit plans, including two-party plans, paid by the State and counties for retired employees to unspecified amounts beginning 01/01/14. Effective 01/01/50. (SD2)	LAB, FIN
SB868, SD1	RELATING TO COLLECTIVE BARGAINING. Requires the Hawaii labor relations board to provide written notice of a hearing to all parties by first class mail at least fifteen days before the scheduled hearing. Makes housekeeping amendments to the law relating to the scope of negotiations between the public employer and the exclusive representative to conform to existing law. Effective 07/01/50. (SD1)	LAB, FIN
SB872, SD1	RELATING TO THE COLLECTION OF RESTITUTION FOR CRIME VICTIMS. Amends the definition of "victim" in section 706-646, HRS, to include any duly incorporated humane society or society for the prevention of cruelty to animals that impounds, holds, or receives custody of a pet animal pursuant to sections 711‑1109.1, 711-1109.2, and 711-1110.5, HRS, for purposes of collection of restitution. Effective 07/01/50. (SD1)	CPC, JUD
SB873, SD2	RELATING TO COLLECTION OF RESTITUTION FOR CRIME VICTIMS. Creates standards and procedures for income-withholding, for purposes of enforcing restitution orders. Amends the definition of "debt" relating to the recovery of money owed to the State to include court-ordered restitution subject to civil enforcement. Provides priority of income withholding orders. Removes court's authority to revoke restitution once ordered. Extends victims' access to adult probation records, to include access to payment compliance records, for purposes of enforcing restitution orders. Requires that any bail posted by a defendant be applied toward payment of any court-ordered restitution in the same case. Makes an unspecified appropriation to the judiciary for the purpose of enhancing restitution collection. (SD2)	JUD, FIN
SB877, SD1	RELATING TO OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH HEARINGS. Authorizes the Hawaii labor relations board to provide written notice of hearing to all parties by first class mail at least fifteen days before the hearing, notwithstanding section 91-9.5, Hawaii Revised Statutes, and clarifies the board's powers for conducting appeals under chapter 396, Hawaii Revised Statutes. Effective 07/01/50. (SD1)	LAB, FIN
SB878, SD1	RELATING TO ARBITRATION. Allows an arbitrator to award costs in addition to attorney's fees and other reasonable expenses of arbitration if the award authorized by law in a civil action involves a comparable, rather than same, claim. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)	JUD, FIN
SB879, SD1	RELATING TO WITNESSES. Amends section 621-7, HRS, to increase the per diem payments for out-of-state witnesses in criminal cases. Provides an additional per diem payment for witnesses from any island other than the island on which the court is located, when that witness is required to stay overnight. Effective 7/01/2050. (SD1)	JUD, FIN
SB880, SD1	RELATING TO SENTENCE OF IMPRISONMENT FOR SEXUAL ASSAULT OF A MINOR UNDER THE AGE OF TWELVE YEARS. Requires the court to impose a mandatory minimum term of imprisonment without possibility of parole or probation for a person convicted of certain acts of sexual assault against a minor under the age of twelve years. Effective 07/01/50. (SD1)	PBS, JUD
SB883, SD2	RELATING TO COLLECTIVE BARGAINING. Creates a new bargaining unit (14) for state law enforcement officers and state and county ocean safety and water safety officers. Effective 07/01/50. (SD2)	LAB/PBS, FIN
SB885, SD2	RELATING TO COLLECTIVE BARGAINING. Repeals language that prohibits parties from using arbitration to resolve impasses or disputes relating to the State and counties' contributions to the employer-union health benefits trust fund. Repeals the procedures parties are required to follow after an arbitration panel issues a decision and the understanding that members of bargaining units are prohibited from striking on the issue of state and county contributions to the employer-union health benefits trust fund. Makes housekeeping amendments relating to the scope of negotiations. Effective 07/01/50. (SD2)	LAB, FIN
SB888	RELATING TO CHILD SUPPORT ENFORCEMENT. Defines the term "new hire" for the purposes of child support enforcement.	HUS, JUD
SB889, SD1	RELATING TO ATTORNEY'S FEES. Clarifies that the attorney general is allowed an award of attorney's fees and litigation costs to the department of the attorney general, but not to the attorney general personally. Effective on 07/01/50. (SD1)	JUD, FIN
SB891	RELATING TO NOTARIES PUBLIC. Clarifies the information required to be on notary seals, authorizes the attorney general to adjust notary commission and renewal fees, and authorizes other fees related to the regulation of notaries public to be established and adjusted by rules.	JUD, FIN
SB893, SD1	RELATING TO ETHICS. Exempts members and designees or representatives of members of task forces that existed on or after 06/03/10, from certain provisions of the code of ethics. Effective on 07/01/50. (SD1)	LMG, JUD
SB895, SD1	MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR COLLECTIVE BARGAINING COST ITEMS. Appropriates funds for the employer-union health benefits trust fund costs for officers and employees within collective bargaining unit (2) and their excluded counterparts. (SD1)	LAB, FIN
SB896, SD1	MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR COLLECTIVE BARGAINING COST ITEMS. Appropriates funds for fiscal biennium 2013-2015 for public employees in collective bargaining unit (2) and for employees excluded from collective bargaining that are on the same compensation plan as those officers and employees within collective bargaining unit (2). (SD1)	LAB, FIN
SB897, SD1	MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR COLLECTIVE BARGAINING COST ITEMS. Appropriates funds for the employer-union health benefits trust fund costs for officers and employees within collective bargaining unit (4) and their excluded counterparts. (SD1)	LAB, FIN
SB898, SD1	MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR COLLECTIVE BARGAINING COST ITEMS. Appropriates funds for fiscal biennium 2013-2015 for public employees in collective bargaining unit (4) and for employees excluded from collective bargaining that are on the same compensation plans as those officers and employees within collective bargaining unit (4). (SD1)	LAB, FIN
SB899, SD1	MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR COLLECTIVE BARGAINING COST ITEMS. Appropriates funds for the employer-union health benefits trust fund costs for officers and employees within collective bargaining unit (6) and their excluded counterparts. (SD1)	LAB, FIN
SB901, SD1	MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR COLLECTIVE BARGAINING COST ITEMS. Appropriates funds for fiscal biennium 2013-2015 for public employees in collective bargaining unit (6) and for employees excluded from collective bargaining that are on the same compensation plans as those officers and employees within collective bargaining unit (6). (SD1)	LAB, FIN
SB902, SD1	MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR COLLECTIVE BARGAINING COST ITEMS. Appropriates funds for the employer-union health benefits trust fund costs for officers and employees within collective bargaining unit (8) and their excluded counterparts. (SD1)	LAB, FIN
SB903	MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR SALARY INCREASES FOR PUBLIC EMPLOYEES. Appropriates funds for public employees in collective bargaining unit (8) and for employees excluded from collective bargaining that are on the same compensation plan as those officers and employees within collective bargaining unit (8).	LAB, FIN
SB904, SD1	MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR COLLECTIVE BARGAINING COST ITEMS. Appropriates funds for the Hawaii employer-union health benefits trust fund costs for officers and employees within collective bargaining unit (9) and their excluded counterparts for the 2011-2013 fiscal biennium. Applies retroactively to July 1, 2011. (SD1)	LAB, FIN
SB905, SD1	MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR COLLECTIVE BARGAINING COST ITEMS. Appropriates funds for the employer-union health benefits trust fund costs for officers and employees within collective bargaining unit (9) and their excluded counterparts. (SD1)	LAB, FIN
SB906, SD1	MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR COLLECTIVE BARGAINING COST ITEMS. Appropriates funds for the employer-union health benefits trust fund costs for officers and employees within collective bargaining unit (3) and their excluded counterparts. (SD1)	LAB, FIN
SB907, SD1	MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR COLLECTIVE BARGAINING COST ITEMS. Appropriates funds for fiscal biennium 2013-2015 for public employees in collective bargaining unit (9) and for employees excluded from collective bargaining that are on the same compensation plans as those officers and employees within collective bargaining unit (9). (SD1)	LAB, FIN
SB908, SD1	MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR COLLECTIVE BARGAINING COST ITEMS. Appropriates funds for fiscal biennium 2011-2013 for public employees in collective bargaining unit (9) and for employees excluded from collective bargaining that are on the same compensation plans as those officers and employees within collective bargaining unit (9). Applies retroactively to 07/01/11. (SD1)	LAB, FIN
SB909, SD1	MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR COLLECTIVE BARGAINING COST ITEMS. Appropriates funds for the employer-union health benefits trust fund costs for officers and employees within collective bargaining unit (13) and their excluded counterparts. (SD1)	LAB, FIN
SB910, SD1	MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR COLLECTIVE BARGAINING COST ITEMS. Appropriates funds for fiscal biennium 2013-2015 for public employees in collective bargaining unit (3) and for employees excluded from collective bargaining that are on the same compensation plans as those officers and employees within collective bargaining unit (3). (SD1)	LAB, FIN
SB911, SD1	MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR COLLECTIVE BARGAINING COST ITEMS. Appropriates funds for fiscal biennium 2013-2015 for public employees in collective bargaining unit (13) and for employees excluded from collective bargaining that are on the same compensation plans as those officers and employees within collective bargaining unit (13). (SD1)	LAB, FIN
SB914, SD1	RELATING TO TIME SHARE CONVEYANCES. Creates a new chapter to authorize the governor to appoint commissioners of deeds to administer oaths, take acknowledgements, and take proofs of execution outside of the United States in connection with the execution of conveyance documents relating to a timeshare interest, any property subject to a time share plan, or the operation of a time share plan covering any property located within the State. Requires written notice to be provided to consumers. Establishes bonding requirements, penalties, and liabilities for commissioners of deeds. (SD1)	VMI, CPC/JUD
SB930, SD1	RELATING TO THE PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL SPACE CENTER FOR EXPLORATION SYSTEMS SUSTAINABLE CONCRETE INITIATIVE. Appropriates funds to support the investigative stage of the Pacific international space center for exploration systems sustainable concrete initiative, contingent upon a dollar-for-dollar match from other sources. Effective 07/01/2050. (SD1)	EDB, FIN
SB933, SD1	RELATING TO THE TRICARE PROGRAM. Extends the general excise tax exclusion for amounts received by a managed care support contractor of the TRICARE program for the actual cost or advancement to third-party health care providers pursuant to a contract with the United States. Effective 07/01/2050. (SD1)	HLT, FIN
SB936, SD2	RELATING TO THE HOSPITAL SUSTAINABILITY PROGRAM. Amends Act 217, Session Laws of Hawaii 2012, to continue the Hospital Sustainability Program by extending the sunset date of the Act; updates the referral dates in the statute; and revises the funding amount for the hospital sustainability program for fiscal year 2013-2014. Effective 06/29/13. (SD2)	HLT/HUS, FIN
SB937, SD2	RELATING TO HAWAII FOOD RESILIENCY. Develops a food resiliency initiative to be guided by the Hawaii food resiliency task force. Effective 07/01/2050. (SD2)	AGR, FIN
SB945, SD2	RELATING TO SMOKING. Allows cooperative housing corporations, associations of apartment owners, and condominium associations to adopt rules to prohibit smoking in units or apartments if a majority of the tenant shareholders or owners approved the smoking prohibition; provided that no such rule shall take effect until one hundred eighty days after the prohibition is approved. Effective 07/01/2050. (SD2)	CPC, JUD
SB946, SD1	RELATING TO RESOLVING THE UNFUNDED LIABILITIES OF THE STATE AND THE COUNTIES. Defines "public employer". Requires the EUTF to establish a separate trust fund for public employer contributions with separate accounts for each public employer. Requires the annual public employer contribution to be equal to the annual required public employer contribution, to be determined by an actuary commencing with FY 2018-2019. Requires the use of a portion of the general excise tax revenues to supplement deficient state public employer contribution amounts commencing with FY 2018-2019. Requires the use of a portion of the transient accommodations tax revenues to supplement deficient county public employer contribution amounts commencing with FY 2018-2019. Establishes a schedule to phase-in the annual required state public employer contribution requirement. Requires the director of finance to report to the legislature on an implementation plan to have both the EUTF and the ERS jointly sharing investment information and services for the benefit of the trust fund and to establish disbursement channels for county public employer contributions into the trust fund. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)	LAB, FIN
SB948, SD1	RELATING TO TAXATION. Amends Hawaii tax laws to implement the streamlined sales and use tax agreement; takes effect when the State becomes a party to the streamlined sales and use tax agreement. Creates a committee to oversee the department of taxation's implementation and administration of, and compliance with the streamlined sales and use tax agreement, to take effect on approval. Effective 07/01/2050. (SD1)	FIN
SB960, SD1	RELATING TO FORECLOSURES. Establishes a notice of postponement or cancellation of sale requirement under part IA, chapter 667, Hawaii Revised Statutes, relating to judicial foreclosures. (SD1)	CPC, JUD
SB961, SD1	RELATING TO INFORMATION SHARING. Requires departments and agencies to share information to improve government operations unless otherwise prohibited by law. Requires the chief information officer to oversee the sharing of the information. Appropriates funds. Effective 07/01/2050. (SD1)	EDB, FIN
SB965, SD1	RELATING TO PROFESSIONAL AND VOCATIONAL LICENSING. Establishes qualifications for "nonresident military spouses" eligible for expedited procedures for professional and vocational licensing by endorsement or reciprocity, and temporary licensing. Establishes requirements for nonresident military spouses to maintain licenses and requires reporting of changes in status or circumstances that may affect licensure. (SD1)	VMI/EDB, CPC
SB966	RELATING TO THE UNIFORM MEDIATION ACT. Adopts the Uniform Mediation Act of the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws.	JUD
SB967, SD2	RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII. Requires the board of regents to submit to the legislature for approval salary range proposals equal to or in excess of two times the governor's salary prior to recruiting for such positions. Effective 07/01/2050. (SD2)	HED, FIN
SB972	RELATING TO ELECTRONIC PRESCRIPTIONS. Amends the Uniform Controlled Substances Act in Chapter 329, Hawaii Revised Statutes, by adding definitions consistent with federal law, clarifying the conditions for electronic transmittal of prescriptions, and adding and clarifying violations of prohibited acts.	PBS, HLT, JUD
SB974, SD2	RELATING TO SPECIAL PURPOSE REVENUE BONDS TO ASSIST AGRICULTURAL ENTERPRISES. Assists agricultural enterprises in the State by authorizing the State to issue special purpose revenue bonds for their benefit. Contingent upon ratification of constitutional amendment authorizing the State to issue special purpose revenue bonds and use the proceeds from the bonds to assist agricultural enterprises. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)	AGR, FIN
SB978	RELATING TO THE PENAL CODE. Imposes a mandatory sentence of one year of imprisonment on a defendant convicted of cruelty to animals in the second degree involving five or more pet animals in any one instance.	JUD
SB982, SD1	PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE XVII, SECTION 3, OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF HAWAII. Proposes a constitutional amendment to determine whether an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Hawaii proposed by the legislature has been ratified by requiring that only yes and no votes be counted and that the total number of yes and no votes tallied upon the question in comparison with the total number of votes cast, including blank and spoiled ballots cast at the general election, constitutes a percentage that is at least equal to the percentage of the total number of yes and no votes on legislatively proposed amendments using the same comparison with the total number of votes cast, including blank and spoiled ballots cast at the general elections of the immediately preceding ten years. (SD1)	JUD, FIN
SB987, SD1	RELATING TO IMPACT FEES. Requires the assessment of impact fees prior to issuance of a water meter and requires that impact fees be collected in full before or upon issuance of the water meter. Effective 07/01/50. (SD1)	WAL, CPC
SB991, SD2	RELATING TO PROCUREMENT. Exempts the purchase of fresh meats and produce and animals and plants by any governmental body from the Hawaii Public Procurement Code. Effective 07/01/50. (SD2)	AGR, FIN
SB992, SD2	RELATING TO LIVESTOCK BIOSECURITY. Allows for agricultural loans to be administered for livestock biosecurity projects. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)	AGR/EDB, FIN
SB993, SD2	RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL LOANS. Modifies the new farmer loan program of the Department of Agriculture to promote the development of innovative technologies and to assist new farm enterprises. Effective 07/01/2050. (SD2)	AGR/EDB, FIN
SB997, SD2	RELATING TO PUBLIC ARCHIVES. Clarifies the duties of the State Archivist to enable the department of accounting and general services to address the management of the digital archives and protection of electronic records of enduring value and to establish the State Archives Preservation and Long-Term Access Special Fund. Effective 07/01/2050. (SD2)	CPC, FIN
SB998, SD1	RELATING TO WASHINGTON PLACE. Designates the Department of Accounting and General Services as the entity responsible for management and operations of Washington Place and establishes a trust fund for its operations. Effective 07/01/2050. (SD1)	VMI, FIN
SB1002, SD2	RELATING TO KAPOLEI RECREATIONAL SPORTS COMPLEX. Makes housekeeping amendments to repeal the provisions providing for the maintenance, operation, management, and promotion of the Kapolei recreational sports complex from the Stadium Authority's statutory framework. (SD2)	WAL, FIN
SB1003, SD2	RELATING TO INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY. Authorizes the Chief Information to conduct or cause to be conducted security audits, which may include reviews of physical security practices, of all executive branch agencies regarding the protection of government databases and data communications and to direct remedial actions as necessary. Effective 07/01/2050. (SD2)	EDB, FIN
SB1007, SD2	RELATING TO PUBLIC LAND LIABILITY. Amends and clarifies the definition of "improved public lands" for the limitation of liability for public entities based on the duty to warn of dangers on public lands. (SD2)	WAL/OMH, JUD, FIN
SB1009, SD1	RELATING TO TORT LIABILITY. Repeals the sunset date and makes permanent the law shielding county lifeguards from liability with certain exceptions. Takes effect 1/1/2020. (SD1)	WAL, JUD, FIN
SB1010, SD1	RELATING TO LEGAL SERVICES. Permits a deputy attorney general, except for the attorney general's first deputy, to provide pro bono legal service if, in the determination of the attorney general, the pro bono legal service does not conflict with the duties of the deputy's office. Effective 07/01/50. (SD1)	JUD, FIN
SB1020, SD1	RELATING TO CHARITABLE SOLICITATION. Extends reporting and recordkeeping requirements to commercial co-venturers; allows penalties to be imposed on commercial co-venturers who fail to comply with reporting requirements; clarifies the exemption from registration for organizations who receive less than $25,000 in contributions annually. (SD1)	CPC
SB1025	RELATING TO THE HOUSING LOAN AND MORTGAGE PROGRAM. Updates the Hula Mae Single Family mortgage loan program to allow for broader program participation by potential homeowners, add downpayment assistance as a program feature, and make housekeeping and conforming amendments.	HSG, CPC, FIN
SB1027, SD1	RELATING TO COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT. Adds a new section to part II of chapter 205A, HRS, to provide a process for state consistency review and certification for development by a state agency on state land within the special management area. After a notice of state consistency certification is published in the periodic bulletin by the office of environmental quality control, or upon issuance of federal consistency concurrence, a development by a state agency on state land shall be allowed within a special management area without obtaining a special management area permit or shoreline setback variance as otherwise required by chapter 205A, HRS. Effective 07/01/2050. (SD1)	WAL/OMH, JUD
SB1033	RELATING TO PUBLIC FINANCE. Amends section 39-6, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to allow premiums received from the sale of general obligation bonds to be used for eligible capital expenditures pursuant to section 39-2, Hawaii Revised Statutes.	FIN
SB1036	RELATING TO EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM PERSONNEL. Allows the Board of Trustees of the Employees' Retirement System, through its Administrator, to appoint one or more investment officers and changes the title of the "Administrator" of the system to "Executive Director."	LAB, FIN
SB1039	RELATING TO THE PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION. Consolidates the submission of reports made by the Public Utilities Commission on a fiscal year basis to the Legislature within the Commission's annual report required under section 269-5, Hawaii Revised Statutes.	CPC, FIN
SB1040	RELATING TO ELECTRIC SYSTEMS. Authorizes the Public Utilities Commission to consider the value of implementing advanced grid modernization technology in the State.	EEP, CPC
SB1042, SD2	RELATING TO THE PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION. Improves the flexibility of the public utilities commission to hire professional staff. Clarifies staff who may be appointed by the chairperson of the commission. Repeals existing position staff descriptions for the commission under Act 177, Session Laws of Hawaii 2007. Effective 7/1/50. (SD2)	CPC, FIN
SB1043, SD1	RELATING TO ELECTRICITY PRODUCERS. Authorizes the public utilities commission and the division of consumer advocacy to examine all documents and other information and data deemed necessary for the review of power purchase agreements before the commission and division of consumer advocacy, including financial records, projections, cost reports, and other material of third-party electricity producers seeking to sell power to a public utility under a power purchase agreement. (SD1)	EEP, CPC
SB1045, SD1	RELATING TO ELECTRIC COOPERATIVES. Directs the public utilities commission and the division of consumer advocacy to specifically consider the ownership structure and interests of an electric cooperative. Authorizes the public utilities commission to waive or exempt an electric cooperative operating in the State from compliance with the provisions of chapter 269, Hawaii Revised Statutes, as well as any other applicable charters, franchises, rules, decisions, orders, or any other laws. (SD1)	EEP, CPC
SB1057, SD2	RELATING TO EMPLOYER UNION HEALTH BENEFITS TRUST FUND CONTRIBUTIONS. Establishes employer contribution amounts for plan years 2011-2012 and 2012-2013 for EUTF health benefit plan premiums for the employees of collective bargaining unit (10) and their excluded counterparts. Applies retroactively to 07/01/11. Effective 7/1/50. (SD2)	LAB, FIN
SB1066	RELATING TO SECURITIES LAW. Clarifies, corrects errors, and amends Hawaii's securities laws.	CPC, FIN
SB1067, SD2	RELATING TO ESCROW DEPOSITORIES. Requires escrow depositories to report any change of their corporate designated escrow officer or branch manager to the Commissioner of Financial Institutions; establishes a statutory fee for the transfer or change in control of an escrow depository license; increases the fidelity bond maintained by escrow depositories to a minimum of $100,000; increases the errors and omissions policy amount escrow depositories are required to carry to not less than $250,000; increases fees; provides powers for the commissioner to supervise and regulate the industry; empowers the commissioner to issue cease and desist orders; increases net capital requirement to $100,000. Effective July 1, 2050. (SD2)	CPC, FIN
SB1068, SD2	RELATING TO MONEY TRANSMITTERS. Authorizes the Commissioner of Financial Institutions to require money transmitters to register with NMLS. Establishes procedures for a licensed money transmitter to surrender its license. Amends the bond requirement, the fee structure for services provided by the Division of Financial Institutions of the DCCA for the regulation of money transmitters, and the fine for violations of money transmitter regulations. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)	EDB, CPC, FIN
SB1069, SD2	RELATING TO MORTGAGE LOAN ORIGINATION. Raises application and renewal fees for mortgage loan originators, mortgage loan originator companies, and exempt sponsoring mortgage loan originator companies; and establishes fees for mortgage servicer companies that conduct mortgage loan origination activities. Substitutes the word "NMLS" wherever the words "the Nationwide Mortgage Licensing System", or similar term, appears, as the context requires. Effective 7/01/2050. (SD2)	CPC, FIN
SB1070, SD2	RELATING TO MORTGAGE SERVICERS. Authorizes the commissioner of financial institutions to conduct examinations and investigations and adjust the fees for mortgage servicer licensees to use NMLS. Effective 7/01/2050. (SD2)	CPC, FIN
SB1071, SD2	RELATING TO FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS. Modernizes the State's financial institutions law, codified as chapter 412, Hawaii Revised Statutes. Replaces individual fees for Hawaii banks and nondepositories for specific regulatory items with one assessment. Increases and clarifies bank powers. Clarifies the authority of the commissioner of financial institutions. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)	CPC, FIN
SB1072, SD2	RELATING TO INSURANCE. Updates the Insurance Code by streamlining and improving the operations of the Insurance Division of the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs and ensuring that the Insurance Division retains its accreditation with the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. Effective 07/01/2050. (SD2)	CPC, FIN
SB1073, SD2	RELATING TO DENTAL SERVICE CORPORATIONS. Establishes licensing and financial solvency requirements for dental insurers, including compliance with the requirements of chapter 423, Hawaii Revised Statutes, relating to dental service corporations. Effective 07/01/2050. (SD2)	HLT, CPC
SB1074, SD2	RELATING TO PHYSICAL THERAPY. Regulates physical therapist assistants by limiting the use of certain titles and requiring licensure prior to practicing in the State. Ensures physical therapist assistants have the appropriate education and training background. Adds a physical therapist assistant to the composition of the Board of Physical Therapy of the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs. Appropriates funds out of the compliance resolution fund to implement the licensure of physical therapist assistants. Effective 7/01/2050. (SD2)	HLT, CPC, FIN
SB1076	RELATING TO THE USE OF THE DOCTOR OF ACUPUNCTURE TITLE. Requires acupuncture applicants for the use of the doctor of acupuncture title to complete their doctoral studies from an institution recognized by the United States acupuncture accrediting body or from a foreign institution that is licensed, approved, or accredited by the applicable governmental authority in that respective foreign jurisdiction and also requires applicants for the use of the doctor of acupuncture title who complete their doctoral studies from a doctoral program at an educational institution in a foreign jurisdiction to have their doctoral education credentials evaluated by professional evaluators designated by the Board of Acupuncture.	HLT, CPC
SB1077, SD2	RELATING TO THE OWNER-BUILDER EXEMPTION. Sets forth specific responsibilities of and protections for owner-builders exempted from licensing and other requirements under chapter 444, Hawaii Revised Statutes. Effective 07/01/2050. (SD2)	WAL/AGR, CPC
SB1082, SD1	RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION OF SCHOOL CHILDREN. Deletes statutory language specifying considerations and provisions for contracting transportation of school children. (SD1)	EDN, FIN
SB1083	RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION OF SCHOOL CHILDREN. Amends section 103-55(c), Hawaii Revised Statutes, to make wage certification inapplicable to contracts to provide transportation services for school children.	EDN, FIN
SB1084, SD1	PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE X, SECTION 1, OF THE HAWAII STATE CONSTITUTION TO PERMIT THE APPROPRIATION OF PUBLIC FUNDS FOR PRIVATE EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION PROGRAMS. Proposes a constitutional amendment to permit the appropriation of public funds for private early childhood education programs, as provided by law. Effective 7/01/2050. (SD1)	EDN, JUD, FIN
SB1087, SD2	RELATING TO GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE. Establishes a regulatory financing structure that authorizes the PUC and DBEDT to provide low-cost loans for green infrastructure equipment to achieve measurable cost savings and Hawaii's clean energy goals. Requires a report to the legislature. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)	EEP, CPC, FIN
SB1091, SD1	RELATING TO ITEMIZED INCOME TAX DEDUCTIONS. Exempts charitable income tax deductions from the itemized deduction caps. Effective 07/01/2050. (SD1)	FIN
SB1092, SD1	MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO RECAPITALIZE THE HURRICANE RESERVE TRUST FUND. Makes a general fund appropriation of an unspecified amount for fiscal year 2014-2015 to recapitalize the hurricane reserve trust fund. (SD1)	FIN
SB1093, SD2	RELATING TO SCHOOL READINESS. Establishes the school readiness program within the early learning system. Effective 07/01/2050. (SD2)	EDN, FIN
SB1094, SD1	MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO THE EMERGENCY AND BUDGET RESERVE FUND. Makes a general fund appropriation of $ for fiscal year 2014-2015 to recapitalize the emergency and budget reserve fund. (SD1)	FIN
SB1095, SD2	RELATING TO EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION. Establishes the early childhood education program within the early learning system. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)	EDN, JUD, FIN
SB1099, SD2	RELATING TO ELIMINATING THE ASSET LIMIT ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENT FOR THE TEMPORARY ASSISTANCE FOR NEEDY FAMILIES PROGRAM. Eliminates the asset limit for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program. Effective 07/01/2050. (SD2)	HUS, FIN
SB1100, SD1	RELATING TO THE GENERAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM. Authorizes the DHS to draw from other funds appropriated to the DHS to maintain the level of general assistance benefits payments set at the beginning of each fiscal year for the entire fiscal year. Effective 07/01/2050. (SD1)	HUS, FIN
SB1101, SD2	RELATING TO THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE INTERIM ASSISTANCE REIMBURSEMENT SPECIAL FUND. Establishes the Interim Assistance Reimbursement Special Fund into which interim assistance reimbursements received from the SSA are deposited for repayment of state-funded financial assistance provided under the general assistance, aged, blind, and disabled, or TANF programs for recipients who are retroactively approved for supplemental security income and authorizes DHS to expend the funds for state-funded financial assistance programs. Appropriation. Effective 7/1/50. (SD2)	HUS, FIN
SB1102	MAKING AN EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES FROM THE HOSPITAL SUSTAINABILITY PROGRAM SPECIAL FUND. Appropriates the sum of $43,000,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2012–2013, out of the Hospital Sustainability Program Special Fund with such moneys to be used consistent with the Hospital Sustainability Program Special Fund, including the reimbursement of moneys advanced in fiscal year 2012-2013 from the health care payments program (HMS 401).	HLT/HUS, FIN
SB1103	MAKING AN EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES FROM THE NURSING FACILITY SUSTAINABILITY PROGRAM SPECIAL FUND. Appropriates the sum of $12,000,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2012–2013, out of the Nursing Facility Sustainability Program Special Fund with such moneys to be used consistent with the Nursing Facility Sustainability Program Special Fund, including the reimbursement of moneys advanced for those purposes in fiscal year 2012-2013 from the health care payments program (HMS 401).	HLT/HUS, FIN
SB1106, SD2	RELATING TO EXEMPTIONS FROM CHILD CARE LICENSING. Allows a child care program licensed by the United States Department of Defense or the Hawaii Council of Private Schools to be exempt from licensing by the Department of Human Services. In order for a child care program licensed by the Hawaii Council of Private Schools to be exempt from licensure by the Department of Human Services, the child care program must apply and show evidence that the licensing standards of the Hawaii Council of Private Schools meet or exceed the licensing standards of the Department of Human Services, and that the standards include a monitoring system that ensures compliance with the standards. (SD2)	HUS, CPC, JUD
SB1109, SD2	RELATING TO HOSPITAL STANDARDS FOR SEXUAL ASSAULT VICTIMS. Adds a new part to chapter 321, HRS, to ensure that female victims of sexual assault are provided with medically and factually unbiased information about and access to emergency contraception when receiving emergency medical care at Hawaii's hospitals for sexual assault. Effective 07/01/2050. (SD2)	HLT, JUD
SB1112	RELATING TO DELETING STATE PUBLIC HOUSING DELINQUENT ACCOUNTS. Authorizes the Hawaii Public Housing Authority to delete delinquent accounts receivable records for state low-income public housing projects that have been delinquent at least ninety days and also authorizes the Hawaii Public Housing Authority to assign delinquent accounts to a collection agency.	HSG, FIN
SB1118, SD1	RELATING TO THE HAWAII PUBLIC HOUSING AUTHORITY. Authorizes the Hawaii Public Housing Authority Board of Directors to set the salaries of the executive director, the executive assistant, and other key management personnel subject to federal limitations. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)	HSG, LAB, FIN
SB1124, SD1	RELATING TO THE DIETITIAN LICENSURE SPECIAL FUND. Authorizes the Department of Health to expend fees from the Dietitian Licensure Special Fund to offset the expenses incurred relating to the licensing of dietitians. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)	HLT, CPC, FIN
SB1127, SD1	RELATING TO SALES OF ELECTRONIC SMOKING DEVICES TO PERSONS UNDER 18 YEARS OF AGE. Adds tobacco products and vapor products as items that are unlawful to sell or furnish to persons under eighteen years of age. Adds vapor products as an item that is unlawful for a person under eighteen years of age to purchase. Requires the additional listing of vapor products to sales prohibition signage. (SD1)	HLT, CPC
SB1131, SD2	RELATING TO RECYCLING. Establishes a tiered glass advance disposal fee based on the capacity of the glass container. Effective 7/1/50. (SD2)	EEP, FIN
SB1132, SD1	RELATING TO SOLID WASTE. Increases the solid waste management surcharge to $1.25 per ton of solid waste disposed of in landfills or shipped out-of-state; increases the solid waste management surcharge to 60 cents per ton of solid waste disposed of at waste-to-energy facilities that accept 150,000 tons or more of solid waste annually; provides for no surcharges to waste-to-energy facilities that accept less than 150,000 tons of solid waste annually and for ash disposed of in landfills that originates from a waste-to-energy facility; and defines "waste-to-energy facility". Effective 7/1/50. (SD1)	EEP, FIN
SB1133, SD2	RELATING TO THE DEPOSIT BEVERAGE CONTAINER PROGRAM. Removes the exemption for dietary supplements in amounts greater than one ounce from the deposit beverage container program. Effective 7/1/50. (SD2)	EEP, CPC, FIN
SB1135, SD2	RELATING TO RECYCLING. Amends and expands the Electronic Waste and Television Recycling program. Effective date is 7/1/50. (SD2)	EEP/HLT, JUD, FIN
SB1138	RELATING TO VACCINATION GUIDELINES. Authorizes the Department of Health to adopt, amend, or repeal a list of specific vaccines and to adopt, amend, or repeal, as rules, the immunization recommendations of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, as they apply to the list of specific vaccines. This will ensure that immunizations required, and the manner and frequency of their administration, conform with currently recognized standard medical practices.	HLT, CPC/JUD
SB1139, SD2	RELATING TO THE HAWAII HOME VISITING PROGRAM. Establishes a statewide hospital-based early identification and home visiting system to enhance health and safety outcomes, and prevent child abuse and neglect. Appropriates funds to the department of health to administer the program. Effective 07/01/2050. (SD2)	HLT/HUS, FIN
SB1141, SD2	RELATING TO FORENSIC MENTAL HEALTH. Establishes a one-year limit on the length of time an individual may remain on conditional release if charged with a misdemeanor, petty misdemeanor, or violation. Clarifies under what circumstances the one-year conditional release status may be tolled pending an individual's hospitalization. Requires public agencies in possession of information related to a defendant's fitness to proceed to provide the information to the court. Effective 07/01/50. (SD2)	HLT/PBS, JUD
SB1143, SD2	RELATING TO THE OFFICE OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY CONTROL. Establishes filing fees to help fund operations of the Office of Environmental Quality Control; creates a special fund and authorizes expenditures out of the special fund; and provides for a lag time for collection of fees. Effective 7/1/50. (SD2)	EEP/HLT, FIN
SB1161, SD1	RELATING TO VESSELS. Clarifies that all costs and expenses associated with the impoundment and disposal of an unauthorized vessel by the Department of Land and Natural Resources shall be borne by the vessel owner and clarifies circumstances when no vessel registration shall be renewed or transferred. (SD1)	TRN, OMH, FIN
SB1162, SD1	RELATING TO SHORELINE VEGETATION. Makes permanent the statutory provisions enacted by Act 160, Session Laws of Hawaii 2010, requiring the removal of landowner's induced or cultivated vegetation that interferes or encroaches seaward of the shoreline. Effective 07/01/2050. (SD1)	OMH/WAL, JUD
SB1166, SD1	RELATING TO THE CONVEYANCE TAX. Increases the conveyance tax on certain real estate transactions and directs an additional amount of conveyance tax revenues to the natural area reserve fund for watershed protection and invasive species control. Effective 07/01/2050. (SD1)	EEP, WAL, FIN
SB1168, SD1	RELATING TO LIMITED LIABILITY FOR MOUNTAIN CLIMBING, ROCK CLIMBING, RAPPELLING, AND BOULDERING ON GOVERNMENT LAND. Clarifies that no public entity or public employee shall be liable to any person for injury or damage sustained on government land when engaged in mountain climbing, rock climbing, rappelling, and bouldering. Defines rock climbing and bouldering. (SD1)	WAL, JUD, FIN
SB1169, SD2	RELATING TO THE KAHOOLAWE ISLAND RESERVE. Clarifies the offenses for which property is subject to forfeiture under chapter 6K, Hawaii Revised Statutes, relating to the Kaho‘olawe island reserve, including any activity prohibited by rules of the island reserve and any violation of rules regulating fishing in waters within the island reserve, except by persons or vessels within one nautical mile of the boundaries of the island reserve. Clarifies that property seized in accordance with section 199-7, Hawaii Revised Statutes, may be forfeited and any natural resource seized may be disposed of as provided by law. Effective 07/01/50. (SD2)	OMH, JUD, FIN
SB1170, SD2	RELATING TO ENFORCEMENT OF VIOLATIONS BY THE DEPARTMENT OF LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCES. Provides alternative civil enforcement options that may be utilized by the BLNR in the processing of natural and cultural resource violation cases. Effective 07/01/2050. (SD2)	WAL/OMH, JUD, FIN
SB1171, SD1	RELATING TO THE REVIEW OF HISTORIC PRESERVATION PROJECTS. Authorizes the phased review of certain projects by the Department of Land and Natural Resources' State Historic Preservation Division to ensure consistency between state and federal law. Effective January 1, 2050. Deletes language that provided the governor with the option to request the Hawaii advisory council on historic preservation to report an action to overrule or sustain a department when an agency, officer, or other person is dissatisfied with a decision of the Hawaii historic places review board. (SD1)	TRN
SB1172	RELATING TO THE NATURAL AREA RESERVES SYSTEM COMMISSION. Amends the composition of the Natural Area Reserves System Commission by adding a member possessing a background in native Hawaiian traditional and customary practices, and removing the Superintendent of Education as a member.	WAL/OMH, CPC
SB1174, SD1	MAKING EMERGENCY APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE OPERATIONS OF THE OFFICE OF THE LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR. Makes emergency appropriations for costs associated with the operations of the office of the lieutenant governor. Appropriations for LTG100, PSD503, and AGS221. (SD1)	FIN
SB1175	RELATING TO THE UNIFORM CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES ACT. Updates chapter 329, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to make it consistent with amendments in federal law on controlled substances; amends section 329-14 to add new controlled substances emergency scheduled by the State under section 329-11; and amends section 329-75(h) to limit the penalty to violations of section 329-75(g) relating to pseudoephedrine.	PBS, JUD
SB1176, SD1	RELATING TO THE HAWAII PAROLING AUTHORITY. Allows the chief justice, director of public safety, president of the Hawaii State Bar Association, and president of the Hawaii Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers, who serve on the panel that nominates Hawaii Paroling Authority members, to select designees to represent them on the panel. Requires certain information regarding parole decisions by the paroling authority to be made public after a parole release hearing. Requires three paroling authority panel members for quorum, unless there is a recusal due to a conflict of interest, then two panel members meet quorum. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD1)	PBS, JUD
SB1177	RELATING TO THE REENTRY COMMISSION. Replaces the Reentry Coordinator with the Director of Public Safety as an ex officio nonvoting member of the Reentry Commission.	PBS, JUD
SB1179, SD1	RELATING TO COURT ORDERS TO PROVIDE MEDICAL TREATMENT FOR INMATES AND DETAINEES IN CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES. Provides for the filing of a petition for involuntary medical treatment in either the district or circuit court; allows for a declaration to be filed with the petition as an alternative to an affidavit; expands the court's ability to continue the hearing on the petition for good cause; gives the court more flexibility in deciding when a guardian ad litem is necessary; changes the time within which a person must be examined from two days to five days prior to filing of the petition; amends the list of persons who must be notified of the petition; and clarifies the effective expiration date of the order for persons who return to custody after release. (SD1)	PBS, JUD, FIN
SB1180	RELATING TO EMERGENCY SCHEDULING OF CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES. Requires the Department of Public Safety to post a public notice thirty days prior to the effective date of the emergency scheduling action, at the State Capitol, in the Office of the Lieutenant Governor, and on the department's website for public inspection.	PBS, JUD
SB1181, SD1	RELATING TO COMMITTED PERSONS ON FURLOUGH. Adds child support payments as obligations for inmates on furlough who are employed and delineates percentage of earnings that shall be deducted to satisfy outstanding orders regarding restitution, crime victim compensation, other fees and fines, and reimbursement to the State for the cost of room and board. (SD1)	PBS, JUD
SB1183, SD2	RELATING TO INTAKE SERVICE CENTERS. Requires intake service centers to provide pretrial bail reports to the courts on adult offenders that are consented to by the defendant or that are ordered by the court and amends the law to provide statutory authority to the courts to treat information contained in the pretrial bail reports as confidential. Repeals the intake service centers' duty to provide pretrial assessments on adult offenders that are consented to by the defendant or ordered by the court and assist in the conduct of presentence assessments on adult offenders and the preparation of presentence reports when requested by the courts. (SD2)	PBS, JUD
SB1184, SD1	RELATING TO CONFORMITY OF THE HAWAII INCOME TAX LAW TO THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE. Conforms Hawaii income tax law with amendments made to the Internal Revenue Code as of 1/2/2013. (SD1)	FIN
SB1185, SD1	RELATING TO DENIAL OF GENERAL EXCISE TAX BENEFITS. Mandates that nonprofit organizations receive notice before denial of general excise tax benefit; limits liability of persons having control of certain amounts held in trust for nonprofit organizations; and defines "nonprofit organization". (SD1)	FIN
SB1187, SD1	RELATING TO DELINQUENT TAXES. Establishes a reasonableness standard for determining when a tax is uncollectible. (SD1)	FIN
SB1188, SD1	RELATING TO THE ESTATE AND GENERATION-SKIPPING TRANSFER TAXES. Amends the applicable exclusion amount by adding a definition for "nonresident not citizen". Clarifies the application of estate and generation-skipping taxes for civil union couples. Makes technical, housekeeping amendments to chapter 236E, HRS, for consistency. (SD1)	FIN
SB1190, SD1	RELATING TO THE IMPOSITION OF USE TAX ON IMPORTED CONTRACTING. Clarifies taxation of contracting under use and general excise tax laws. (SD1)	FIN
SB1191, SD1	RELATING TO BOARDS OF REVIEW. Allows for up to 3 boards of review per taxation district and allows members of one board to be temporarily assigned to another board within the same district for purposes of establishing and maintaining quorum. (SD1)	FIN
SB1192, SD1	RELATING TO COLLECTION OF TAXES. Increases the amount of time that the department of taxation has within which to sell property that has been seized due to a failure of the taxpayer to pay the tax delinquency and provides for a tolling of the time period if any party commences an action concerning the seized property. (SD1)	FIN
SB1193, SD1	RELATING TO SECTION 237-24.3, HAWAII REVISED STATUTES. Eliminates the general excise tax exemption for liquor, tobacco, and food sold to common carriers. Effective 07/01/2050. (SD1)	FIN
SB1194, SD2	RELATING TO TRANSIENT ACCOMMODATIONS TAX. Eliminates the sunset of the transient accommodations tax rate of 9.25 per cent, and decreases amounts to be distributed to the convention center enterprise special fund, the tourism special fund, and the counties. Eliminates the daily transient accommodations tax for complimentary accommodations. Changes the amount of the temporary cap on funds allocated to the tourism special fund. Changes the total amount of transient accommodations tax revenues and the percentages of that total amount deposited from the tourism special fund to the state parks special fund and the special land and development fund. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)	TOU, FIN
SB1196, SD1	RELATING TO CASH ECONOMY ENFORCEMENT. Assists with enforcement of cash economy laws by the department of taxation. (SD1)	EDB, FIN
SB1197, SD1	RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION SPECIAL ENFORCEMENT SECTION. Deletes the sunset provisions for the special enforcement section of the department of taxation. (SD1)	FIN
SB1201, SD1	RELATING TO TRANSIENT ACCOMMODATIONS TAX. Clarifies that mandatory resort fees or mandatory surcharges imposed by a transient accommodations operator, owner, plan manager, or representative are subject to the transient accommodations tax. Effective July 1, 2050. (SD1)	TOU, FIN
SB1203, SD1	RELATING TO CONFORMITY OF THE HAWAII ESTATE AND GENERATION-SKIPPING TRANSFER TAX LAW TO THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE. Amends the Hawaii estate and generation-skipping transfer tax law to conform to the Internal Revenue Code in existence on 01/02/2013. (SD1)	FIN
SB1206, SD1	RELATING TO TAX COLLECTION. Clarifies provisions regarding the collection of taxes. (SD1)	FIN
SB1207	RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION. Amends chapter 266, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to exempt the Department of Transportation, Harbors Division, from the permit and site plan approvals requirements relating to submerged lands within the conservation district.	TRN, WAL
SB1209, SD1	RELATING TO HIGHWAYS. Authorizes the director of transportation, upon application, to issue a written permit authorizing the applicant to vend in the airspace above a highway. (SD1)	TRN, FIN
SB1213, SD2	RELATING TO UTILITY FRANCHISES. Requires one-half of franchise utility tax to be paid to DOT highways division as compensation for use of state rights-of-way. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)	TRN, FIN
SB1214, SD1	RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION. Repeals the commission on transportation in the DOT. (SD1)	TRN, FIN
SB1221, SD2	RELATING TO HIGHER EDUCATION. Appropriates funds to the University of Hawaii to hire a program coordinator and a technical support staff member for the proposed international flight training center and associated degree programs at the University of Hawaii at Hilo and Hawaii community college. Effective 07/01/2050. (SD2)	HED, FIN
SB1233	RELATING TO LEAVES OF ABSENCE. Requires certain private employers to allow employees to take paid leaves of absence for organ, bone marrow, or peripheral blood stem cell donation. Requires employers to restore an employee returning from leave to the same or equivalent position. Establishes a private right of action for employees seeking enforcement of provisions.	HLT/LAB, FIN
SB1235, SD2	RELATING TO CABLE TELEVISION. Requires the director of commerce and consumer affairs to work with various interested stakeholders and assess the best method to ensure dedicated funding for the development of a Hawaiian television channel and report to the legislature. Appropriates funds to ‘Oiwi TV for the production and distribution of Hawaiian language content on cable television. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)	OMH, CPC, FIN
SB1236, SD1	RELATING TO FIBER OPTICS. Requires installation of fiber optic cable systems in new condominiums and planned communities. Effective January 1, 2018. (SD1)	EDB, CPC
SB1237, SD2	RELATING TO LONG-TERM CARE FACILITIES. Amends Act 156, Session Laws of Hawaii 2012, to continue the Nursing Facility Sustainability Program by extending the sunset date of the Act, updating the referral dates in the statute, and appropriating funding out of the nursing facility sustainability program special fund for fiscal year 2013-2014. Repeals nursing facility sustainability program on 06/30/2014 instead of 6/30/13. (SD2)	HLT/HUS, FIN
SB1238, SD2	RELATING TO HEALTH. Establishes the maternal mortality review panel to conduct comprehensive reviews of maternal deaths in Hawaii, which includes collecting, analyzing, and disseminating maternal mortality information. Requires the committee to hold meetings and submit an annual report to the legislature. Makes appropriation. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)	HLT, CPC, FIN
SB1240, SD2	RELATING TO PEDIATRIC DENTAL HEALTH COVERAGE. Requires the Hawaii health connector to ensure that all individuals under age nineteen purchase Federal Act essential benefits including pediatric dental coverage under a health plan. Effective 07/01/2050. (SD2)	HLT, CPC
SB1249, SD2	RELATING TO THE COMPENSATION OF TRUSTEES. Clarifies and updates trustee compensation by setting out several categories of fees to which trustees are entitled. Effective 07/01/2050. (SD2)	JUD, FIN
SB1254, SD1	RELATING TO EMERGENCY MEDICAL CARE. Appropriates funds to increase the on-call availability of emergency medical services and ambulance services in Ewa Beach. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)	HLT, FIN
SB1256, SD1	RELATING TO THE PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL SPACE CENTER FOR EXPLORATION SYSTEMS. Appropriates funds to support operations and the purchase of equipment required to support the Pacific international space center for exploration systems activities. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)	HED/EDB, FIN
SB1258, SD1	RELATING TO REAL ESTATE APPRAISERS. Requires real estate appraisers, acting as arbitrators, to record arbitration awards, the records of the awards, if separately issued, and any supplementary, dissenting, or explanatory opinions with the bureau of conveyances within ninety days of the determination of the award and its notification to the parties. (SD1)	CPC, FIN
SB1261, SD2	RELATING TO LIQUOR TAX LAW. Defines "barrel" and "small brewery or brewpub." Establishes a tax rate of $0.23 per wine gallon on draft beer and beer other than draft beer that is brewed or produced by a small brewery or brewpub. Effective 07/01/2050. (SD2)	EDB, FIN
SB1265, SD1	RELATING TO CONTRACTS. Exempts an owner's agreement with an attorney to file a claim as to identified property or contest the administrator's denial of a claim from the application of section 523A-25, Hawaii Revised Statutes; provided that an owner's agreement with an attorney that provides for compensation shall not exceed twenty-five per cent of the total value of the property. Effective 07/01/2050. (SD1)	CPC/JUD, FIN
SB1272, SD1	RELATING TO EMPLOYMENT SECURITY. Sets the employer contribution rate for calendar years 2013 and 2014 at schedule F. Applies retroactively to 01/01/13. (SD1)	LAB, FIN
SB1273, SD2	RELATING TO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. Establishes the system‑wide, statewide academy for creative media to award certificates and degrees emphasizing narrative storytelling through a unique program in indigenous filmmaking. Makes an appropriation. Effective 7/1/50. (SD2)	HED/EDB, FIN
SB1275, SD1	RELATING TO THE KAHO‘OLAWE ISLAND RESERVE COMMISSION. Grants the Kaho‘olawe island reserve commission a permanent exemption from chapter 103D, HRS, for the procurement of food or fuel products necessary for the commission to carry out the purposes of chapter 6K, HRS. Effective 07/01/50. (SD1)	OMH, FIN
SB1280, SD2	RELATING TO THE ISSUANCE OF SPECIAL PURPOSE REVENUE BONDS TO ASSIST A SEAWATER PROJECT. Authorizes the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds to assist Kona SWAC, LLC, in constructing part of a seawater air conditioning district cooling system. (SD2)	EDB, FIN
SB1293, SD1	RELATING TO CONTRACTORS. Requires any person applying for a license as an electrical contractor, pole and line contractor, high voltage electrical contractor, or electronic systems contractor to possess a trade license to perform electrical work in the State. Provides an exemption for employees of a public utility within the State. (SD1)	LAB, CPC
SB1298	RELATING TO STATE FINANCIAL ADMINISTRATION. Requires that projected operating costs of all capital improvements be included in the six-year program and financial plan.	FIN
SB1301, SD1	RELATING TO PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS. Authorizes the board of electricians and plumbers to regulate journey worker air conditioning and refrigeration plumbers and journey worker fire sprinkler plumbers. Establishes minimum qualifications for licensure beginning July 1, 2016. Establishes that journey worker air conditioning and refrigeration plumbers and journey worker fire sprinkler plumbers shall renew their license every three years effective June 30, 2018, and shall meet new requirements for licensure prior to the June 30, 2021, renewal deadline. Effective 07/01/2050. (SD1)	LAB/EDB, CPC, FIN
SB1306, SD2	RELATING TO THE HAWAII HEALTH SYSTEMS CORPORATION. Permits the regional systems of the Hawaii health systems corporation and their health facilities to transition to non-public status. Effective 01/01/2050. (SD2)	HLT/LAB, CPC, FIN
SB1317, SD2	RELATING TO THE JAPANESE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE IN HAWAII. Appropriates a blank amount of funds for the planning, design, and construction of the Nisei Veterans Legacy Center and a Honouliuli Park Site Project Advisory Group. Appropriation is subject to matching funds. Allows the value of in-kind donations to be calculated in the matching amount, subject to verification by the director of finance. Effective 07/01/2050. (SD2)	VMI, HED, FIN
SB1336, SD2	RELATING TO HEALTH CARE. Designates the Kahuku medical center as a rural hospital. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)	HLT, FIN
SB1337, SD2	RELATING TO HEALTH WELLNESS PROGRAMS. Amends the definitions of "gambling" and "something of value" to clarify that participation in health wellness programs is not considered gambling or lottery participation under the Hawaii penal code. (SD2)	CPC, JUD
SB1339, SD1	RELATING TO RURAL AREAS. Creates a state definition for a rural area for purposes of federal programs only so that certain areas that would not otherwise be considered rural pursuant to a federal definition will be eligible for federal funds designated for rural areas. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)	HLT, FIN
SB1340, SD2	RELATING TO FOSTER CARE. Establishes the young adult voluntary foster care program to care for and supervise eligible foster youth until age twenty-one. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)	HUS, JUD, FIN
SB1349, SD2	RELATING TO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. Reenacts the tax credit for qualified research activities to apply to taxable years from 2014 to 2017. Adds, amends, and deletes definitions. Establishes new reporting requirements. Requires DBEDT to conduct studies to measure the effectiveness of the tax credit and submit reports to the legislature. Effective 07/01/2050. (SD2)	EDB, FIN
SB1357, SD2	RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION. Allows state agencies that assume maintenance of disputed roads to improve the condition of the disputed road without incurring liability. Specifies that if a county accepts by resolution the dedication of a road in limbo, the county shall not be liable for injury or damage sustained while using that road for ten years after acceptance of that road by resolution. Specifies that a county agency maintaining or repairing a road whose ownership is in dispute between the State and the county shall not be liable to any person for injury or damage sustained when using that road. Effective 7/01/50. Repeals December 31, 2023 (SD2)	WAL/TRN, JUD
SB1360, SD1	RELATING TO GENERAL EXCISE TAX. Makes permanent the general excise tax exemptions for condominium common expenses paid by managers, submanagers, and suboperators and for hotel employee expenses paid by hotel operators and timeshare projects. Eliminates the aggregate cap of $400,000 for taxpayers eligible for the exemptions. Effective 07/01/2050. (SD1)	FIN
SB1361, SD2	RELATING TO BANYAN DRIVE. Requires DLNR to enter into negotiations with the county of Hawaii for the lease of certain properties associated with Banyan drive to the county. Requires DLNR to report to the legislature a lease agreement, or progress made if no agreement has been reached by 01/01/2014. Effective 07/01/2013. (SD2)	WAL, FIN
SB1370, SD2	RELATING TO MEDIATION AFFECTING JUDICIAL FORECLOSURE. Expands the application of mandatory mortgage foreclosure dispute resolution by requiring mortgagees, at the mortgagor's election, to participate in mediation to avoid foreclosure or mitigate damages from foreclosure prior to filing a judicial foreclosure action for property that has been the mortgagor's primary residence for a specified period. Applies the dispute resolution requirement to judicial foreclosure actions filed prior to the effective date of this bill and pending an initial court hearing. Exempts the dispute resolution requirement to judicial foreclosure actions if the mortgagee engages in loss mitigation procedures with the mortgagor. Establishes notification requirements for a mortgagee to notify a mortgagor with respect to loss mitigation options. Requires that an attorney affirm that a mortgagee engaged in loss mitigation procedures with the mortgagor when filing for a judicial foreclosure action. Effective 07/01/50. (SD2)	CPC/JUD, FIN
SB1371, SD2	RELATING TO SMALL BOAT HARBORS. Requires DLNR to accommodate mooring of native Hawaiian canoes owned by nonprofit entities and used for educational purposes in small boat harbors. Effective 07/01/50. (SD2)	WAL/OMH, FIN
SB1384, SD2	RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII. Charges the Board of Regents with oversight of the University General Counsel. Exempts the Board of Regents, and repeals UH's exemption, from the prohibition to contract with attorneys. Requires the Auditor to review legal contracts entered into by UH. Effective 07/01/50. (SD2)	HED, JUD
SB1385, SD1	RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII. Requires the UH board of regents to undergo annual training on board policies and procedures, Hawaii's sunshine law, Hawaii's open records law, and Hawaii's ethics standards. Requires each regent to receive certification that the regent successfully completed the training. Provides that the certification may include passing a test on the training's subject matter. Requires the removal of a regent from the Board if the regent does not meet the annual training requirements more than once during the regent's term. Requires the Board chair- and vice-chairpersons to be elected by sitting, not outgoing, regents. Effective 7/1/50. (SD1)	HED, FIN
SB1387, SD2	RELATING TO THE REGENTS CANDIDATE ADVISORY COUNCIL. Amends section 304A-104.5, HRS, to give the governor the authority to reject candidates to the board of regents of the University of Hawaii presented by the regents candidate advisory council and require the regents candidate advisory council to present new candidates within sixty days. Specifies that each member of the regents candidate advisory council shall serve for the duration of the term of the member's appointing authority, up to a maximum of four years per term. Effective 07/01/2050. (SD2)	HED, FIN
SB1388, SD2	RELATING TO THE RESEARCH CORPORATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII. Reduces the membership of the board of directors of the UH research corporation from 10 to 8 members. Reduces the number of members of the board of regents who must be members of the board of directors from 5 to 2. Specifies the qualifications of the 5 members to be selected by the governor. Adds the UH vice president for research as an ex officio member of the board of directors. Provides that the research corporation's exemption from the procurement requirements shall not apply to certain construction contracts. Removes the university president's authority to serve as the president of the research corporation. Authorizes the board of directors to employ an executive director of the research corporation. Caps the executive director's salary at twice the salary of the highest paid head of a department within the executive branch. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)	HED, FIN

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HB143, HD1	RELATING TO FREEDOM OF INFORMATION. Clarifies that a license applicant does not have a significant privacy interest in records that show relevant experience, trade examination results, or adequate bonding. Makes such information contained in government records subject to disclosure. (HB143 HD1)	CPC
HB1308, HD1	RELATING TO THE STATEWIDE TRAFFIC CODE. Adds civil defense, state law enforcement, and county emergency management vehicles to the definition of "emergency vehicle" under the move over law. Adds a charge of manslaughter as a possible offense when a driver does not move over and kills an emergency responder. (HB1308 HD1)	PBS/TRN