Hse Referral sheet template, revision no. 00002

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		REFERRAL
HB807	RELATING TO TAXATION. Establishes an income tax exemption on the first $10,000 of income derived from tips received by a tipped employee.	LAB, FIN
HB808	RELATING TO WORKERS' COMPENSATION. Requires the director of labor and industrial relations to set workers' compensation medical charges that correspond to the United States Department of Labor Office of Workers' Compensation Programs fee schedule instead of the Medicare Resource Based Relative Value Scale applicable to Hawaii. Requires the department of labor and industrial relations to submit a report to the legislature. Makes an appropriation for analysis of the Act's impact on injured worker's access to treatment. Repeals on 12/31/2024.	LAB, FIN
HB809	RELATING TO EMPLOYMENT. Clarifies the grounds under which an employer may take employment action without committing a discriminatory practice. Takes effect on 1/1/2018.	LAB, JUD
HB810	RELATING TO COLLECTIVE BARGAINING. Allows EUTF to resolve impasse contribution disputes through binding arbitration.	LAB, FIN
HB811	RELATING TO SALARIES. Repeals payroll day for public officers and employees by requiring them to be paid pursuant to a predicted payroll schedule, rather than an after-the-fact payroll schedule.	LAB, FIN
HB812	RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLES. Repeals the requirement for special inspection and certification of reconstructed vehicles prior to operation upon a public highway.	TRN, JUD
HB813	RELATING TO EDUCATION. Requires the DOE to consult with exclusive representatives of appropriate bargaining units in establishing an evaluation program for teachers and educational officers. Prohibits a DOE evaluation program from affecting the compensation or employment status of any teacher or educational officer. Repeals provisions requiring a particular frequency and basis of evaluations.	LAB, EDN, FIN
HB814	RELATING TO THE UNIFORM EMPLOYEE AND STUDENT ONLINE PRIVACY PROTECTION ACT. Adopts uniform laws on protecting the online accounts of employees and students from employers and educational institutions, respectively.	LAB, JUD
HB815	RELATING TO CONSERVATION. Appropriates funds for a state civil service position to effectively track and monitor funds and expenditures related to habitat conservation plans and perform other tasks to benefit the recovery of threatened and endangered species.	WAL, FIN
HB816	RELATING TO SPECIES CONSERVATION. Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to include in its annual report the impacts of incidental take license issuances on the status and likelihood of survival of the individual species and the cumulative impacts on the full range of species of the specific island for which incidental take licenses have been issued. Appropriates funds to the department to assess the cumulative effects and detail them in its annual report.	WAL, FIN
HB817	RELATING TO MARINE LIFE CONSERVATION. Prohibits the use or application of sunscreen or sunblock containing oxybenzone or cosmetics with sunscreen containing oxybenzone while in a marine life conservation district.	EEP, OMH, CPC
HB818	RELATING TO OXYBENZONE. Requires advertisements or displays for sunscreen containing oxybenzone in the State to include a conspicuously displayed statement that the use of oxybenzone in nearshore waters poses serious hazards to coral and reef health.	EEP, OMH, CPC
HB819	RELATING TO OXYBENZONE. Prohibits the sale, offering for sale, or distribution of any sunscreen containing oxybenzone in the State, unless the sunscreen label contains a warning that the use of oxybenzone in nearshore waters poses serious hazards to coral and reef health.	EEP, OMH, CPC
HB820	RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE FORTY-EIGHTH REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT. Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects for the benefit of the 48th Representative District.	FIN
HB821	RELATING TO RETAIL WHEELING. Requires the public utilities commission to establish policies and procedures related to retail wheeling to enable independent power producers to sell electricity directly to end users.	EEP, CPC
HB822	RELATING TO TAXATION. Establishes a tax credit for taxpayers investing in a motor sports facility to be developed at Kalaeloa, parcel 9.	WAL, FIN
HB823	RELATING TO RELIGIOUS RIGHTS. Prohibits the State or any county from burdening any person's right to exercise religion absent that burden being the least restrictive means of furthering a compelling governmental interest.	JUD
HB824	RELATING TO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. Requires DAGS to establish a plan to replace the current Aloha Stadium with a new stadium and shopping center complex in exchange for a long-term lease of the stadium site.	EDB/WAL, FIN
HB825	RELATING TO EDUCATION. Establishes the Leeward coast educational renewal pilot project to quickly implement educational reform for schools on the Leeward coast. Appropriates funds for the pilot project.	EDN, FIN
HB826	RELATING TO PROCUREMENT. Authorizes procurement officers to consider a subcontractor's license as valid if it was valid at the time of award of a bid.	LAB, FIN
HB827	PROPOSING AMENDMENTS TO ARTICLE VII, SECTIONS 12 AND 13, OF THE HAWAII CONSTITUTION TO AUTHORIZE THE COUNTIES TO ISSUE TAX INCREMENT BONDS AND TO EXCLUDE TAX INCREMENT BONDS FROM DETERMINATIONS OF THE FUNDED DEBT OF THE COUNTIES. Proposes amendments to the Constitution of the State of Hawaii to expressly provide that the Legislature may authorize political subdivisions, such as counties, to issue tax increment bonds and to exclude tax increment bonds in calculating the debt limit of the political subdivisions.	JUD, FIN
HB828	RELATING TO THE EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM. Removes legislative officers from the same retirement benefit class as elected officials.	LAB, FIN
HB829	RELATING TO PUBLIC HOUSING. Requires the Hawaii Public Housing Authority to document prohibited acts of smoking and retain all violations on a resident's record permanently.	HSG, JUD
HB830	RELATING TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT. Amends the distribution of revenues collected by the transient accommodations tax.	TOU, TRN, FIN
HB831	RELATING TO PUBLIC WORKS. Increases from $500,000 to $5,000,000 the cost threshold for an experimental and demonstration housing developed by the counties or housing developed by the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to be exempted from the wages and hours laws for public works.	HSG, FIN
HB832	RELATING TO CONDOMINIUMS. Allows association members who are not on the board to participate in any deliberation or discussion, except for executive sessions. Allows the condominium board members pursuant to board rules to limit the time provided to any member of the condominium association to participate in deliberation. Allows members of a condominium association to attend executive sessions with approval by a majority vote of the condominium board members, subject to certain limitations.	CPC
HB833	RELATING TO LICENSING. Requires adult family boarding homes and private homes that provide healthcare to the elderly or disabled to be licensed by the Department of Health. Establishes fines for operating an adult residential care home, adult family boarding home or private home that provides healthcare to elderly or disabled individuals who are unrelated to the caregiver family by blood, marriage, or adoption, or hospice home without a license.	HLT/HUS, JUD
HB834	RELATING TO A DIABETES ACTION PLAN. Requires DOH, in collaboration with DHS and DHRD, to develop a single, unified action plan to reduce the incidence of diabetes in the State and report to the legislature biennially on plan revisions, recommendations for legislative action, and updated information on areas of need, costs, and resources required for continued implementation of the plan.	HLT/HUS, FIN
HB835	RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE FOURTH REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT. Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects for the benefit of the 4th Representative District.	FIN
HB836	RELATING TO MARIJUANA. Authorizes the interisland transportation of marijuana by medicinal marijuana patients and primary caregivers. Authorizes certified laboratories to test marijuana received from patients and primary caregivers. Requires DOT to adopt rules regarding interisland transportation of marijuana. Effective 7/1/2017.	HLT, TRN, FIN
HB837	RELATING TO HEALTH. Makes an appropriation for one advanced life support ambulance to be based in Puna on the island of Hawaii and to be used from 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m., and to include a vehicle, equipment, and personnel costs.	HLT, FIN
HB838	RELATING TO WATER SECURITY. Amends the two-year pilot program in the Department of Land and Natural Resources that enables public-private partnerships to provide funds for projects that increase water security.	WAL, FIN
HB839	RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCES. Requires the Auditor to conduct a procurement audit of the Department of Land and Natural Resources. Appropriates funds.	WAL, FIN
HB840	RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCES. Requires the Auditor to conduct a procurement audit of the Department of Land and Natural Resources, Land Division. Appropriates funds.	WAL, FIN
HB841	RELATING TO SCHOOL IMPACT FEES. Exempts certain affordable housing projects from the school-impact-fee requirement.	HSG, FIN
HB842	RELATING TO THE HEALTH IMPACT OF PESTICIDES. Establishes buffer zones around schools that restrict pesticide use by any entity or person.	AGR, EDN
HB843	RELATING TO DENTAL HEALTH. Appropriates funds to the Department of Human Services to restore basic adult dental benefits to Medicaid enrollees. Requires the Department of Human Services to obtain the maximum federal matching funds available for the expenditure.	HUS, FIN
HB844	RELATING TO YOUTH. Requires the Office of Youth Services to coordinate a two-year Safe Places for Youth Pilot Program in partnership with private organizations to coordinate a network that youth can access for safety and where youth can obtain advice, guidance, programs, and services. Establishes a Safe Places for Youth Pilot Program Coordinator position. Appropriates funds.	HUS, FIN
HB845	RELATING TO IDENTIFICATION. Requires the Department of Public Safety in collaboration with county and state agencies to issue civil identification cards to inmates and to assist inmates in obtaining their birth certificate, social security card, and other relevant identification necessary for successful reentry.	PBS, JUD, FIN
HB846	RELATING TO THE CHAIRPERSON OF THE HAWAIIAN HOMES COMMISSION. Amends the membership of the commission on water resource management to add the chairperson of the Hawaiian homes commission or the chairperson's designee to serve as an ex officio voting member.	OMH/WAL, FIN
HB847	RELATING TO UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII RESEARCH. Establishes the Innovation and Commercialization Initiative Program to expressly give the University of Hawaii the legal authority to create, promote, and participate in new economic enterprises and expand workforce opportunities based on inventions and discoveries generated by or at the University.	HED, JUD, FIN
HB848	RELATING TO ENERGY MODERNIZATION AT THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII SYSTEM. Exempt microgrids that promote and serve public higher education institutions from regulation as a public utility by the Public Utilities Commission. Adds a definition for "microgrid".	EEP, HED
HB849	RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII ACCOUNTING AND FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM. Reinstates the authority of the University of Hawaii System to maintain a separate accounting and financial management system that is compatible with the State of Hawaii accounting and financial system.	HED, FIN
HB850	RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII. Repeals certain annual reports by the University of Hawaii to the legislature.	HED, FIN
HB851	RELATING TO APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE HONOLULU FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER. Appropriates funds to the Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu for the Honolulu Family Justice Center. Requires the City and County of Honolulu to provide matching funds on a 1:1 basis.	JUD, FIN
HB852	RELATING TO ETHICS. Increases fines for failures to timely file financial disclosure statements. Allows the state ethics commission to use e‑mail or first-class mail to notify those individuals who fail to timely file their financial disclosure statements. Directs the commission to publish the names of individuals who fail to file their financial disclosure statements by the statutory deadline.	LAB, JUD
HB853	RELATING TO LEGAL SERVICES. Makes an appropriation to the judiciary to purchase civil legal services for low- and moderate-income persons.	JUD, FIN
HB854	RELATING TO MOBILE ELECTRONIC DEVICES. Authorizes drivers to use streaming music services through mobile electronic devices while driving.	TRN, JUD
HB855	RELATING TO ONLINE FANTASY SPORTS. Establishes an online fantasy sports contests registration and monitoring program under the department of the attorney general. Exempts registered online fantasy sports contests from state gambling laws. Appropriates funds to the department of the attorney general to establish and implement a registration and monitoring program for online fantasy sports contests.	JUD, CPC, FIN
HB856	RELATING TO HEALTH. Establishes additional mandatory elements to Hawaii's existing sexuality health education law to include general knowledge about sexual abuse and sexual assault, and the prevention, identification, safety resources, and health resources for victims of sexual abuse and sexual assault.	HLT, JUD
HB857	RELATING TO POST-SECONDARY EDUCATION. Grants tuition waivers to students at the community colleges who meet certain criteria. Allows unexpended funds to carryover to fiscal years 2018-2019 and 2019-2020 to fund tuition waivers in the University of Hawaii System.	HED, FIN
HB858	RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLE DRIVER LICENSING. Prohibits agency sharing of documents and information containing citizenship and other biographical information collected from a person applying for a limited purpose driver's license, limited purpose provisional driver's license, or limited purpose instruction permit.	TRN, JUD
HB859	RELATING TO TEACHER SALARIES. Sets a salary schedule for entry-level, mid-level, and senior-level teachers in public schools.	LAB, EDN, FIN
HB860	RELATING TO ACTIONS FOR QUIET TITLE. Provides that: (1) actions for quiet title of kuleana lands shall be subject to mandatory mediation; (2) court cases by the same plaintiff that seeks quiet title for separate kuleana lands within the same court circuit shall be consolidated; (3) defendant's access for cultural and traditional practices shall not be alienated or extinguished; and (4) plaintiff shall not recover costs, expenses, or attorney's fees from the defendant.	OMH/WAL, JUD
HB861	RELATING TO COMMUNITY-BASED SUBSISTENCE FISHING AREAS. Establishes a goal for the Department of Land and Natural Resources to designate and adopt rules for the management of no fewer than four community-based subsistence fishing areas by December 31, 2020. Establishes designation process and rule requirements.	OMH, FIN
HB862	RELATING TO TRAINING. Requires state and county department heads to take the training on native Hawaiian and Hawaiian traditional and customary rights administered by OHA.	OMH, JUD
HB863	RELATING TO THE JUDICIARY. Requires the Judiciary to post information on its websites in both English and Hawaiian. Appropriates funds.	OMH, JUD
HB864	RELATING TO CORAL REEF PROTECTION. Bans the sale, offer for sale, or distribution for sale of sunscreen or personal care products containing oxybenzone. Effective July 1, 2018.	EEP, OMH, CPC
HB865	RELATING TO COLLECTIVE BARGAINING. Grants OHA employees collective bargaining rights. Gives OHA voting rights as a public employer.	LAB/OMH, FIN
HB866	RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL AND AQUACULTURAL BUILDING PERMITS. Repeals the changes made to agricultural and aquacultural building permit requirements in Act 203, SLH 2013, to ensure that Hawaii's communities are not suspended from participation in the NFIP.	WAL, CPC
HB867	RELATING TO THE HAWAII COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY. Establishes Transit-Oriented Development Community Districts within the Hawaii Community Development Authority (HCDA) to develop districts along certain rail stations in the Honolulu rail station transit corridor. Allows the HCDA to enter into public-private partnerships for a lease-back arrangement of lands.	WAL, FIN
HB868	RELATING TO PUBLIC HOUSING. Requires the Hawaii Public Housing Authority to establish trust accounts to provide matching funds to tenants who rent dwelling units. Specifies tenancy termination requirements. Authorizes the issuance of general obligations bonds for capital improvement projects at state low-income housing projects. Appropriates funds.	HSG, FIN
HB869	RELATING TO HOUSING. Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds for construction and infrastructure development projects to provide affordable housing units for middle class and low income residents. Allows moneys from the conveyance tax and the county surcharge on state tax to be used to repay the bonds.	HSG, FIN
HB870	RELATING TO MORTGAGES. Removes the requirement that a co-mortgagor assisting a qualified resident in securing a mortgage to purchase a dwelling unit from the Hawaii housing finance and development corporation be a family member. Requires a qualified resident who is assisted by a co-mortgager to have an income of at least fifty per cent of the amount required to qualify for a loan to purchase the dwelling unit.	WAL, FIN
HB871	RELATING TO PUBLIC UTILITIES. Prohibits electric utilities from installing power connections or transferring accounts or services without owner or occupant consent.	EEP, JUD
HB872	RELATING TO CHAPTER 302D, HAWAII REVISED STATUTES. Requires that the appropriation made to the Public Charter School Commission be apportioned to other authorizers. Requires that authorizers meet similar governance requirements as the Public Charter School Commission.	EDN, FIN
HB873	RELATING TO SUSTAINABLE LIVING. Establishes a permit that exempts sustainable living research and sites from certain county codes, ordinances, and rules.	EDB, WAL, JUD
HB874	RELATING TO HOUSING. Requires an unspecified percentage of funds in the mental health and substance abuse special fund to be used to provide homes for persons who qualify for Social Security disability benefits and are diagnosed with a life-long serious mental illness.	HUS/HLT, FIN
HB875	RELATING TO HISTORIC PRESERVATION. Appropriates funds for 5 full-time equivalent (5.0 FTE) temporary student intern II positions within the state historic preservation division.	WAL, FIN
HB876	RELATING TO BROADBAND COMMUNICATIONS. Short form bill relating to broadband communications.	IAC
HB877	RELATING TO COMMERCE. Short form bill relating to commerce.	IAC
HB878	RELATING TO COMMERCE. Short form bill relating to commerce.	IAC
HB879	RELATING TO PROPERTY INSURANCE. Short form bill relating to property insurance.	IAC
HB880	RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. Establishes a Service Mark Licensing Agreement Program within the Department of Education and authorizes the Department of Education to register service marks for department programs and individual department schools and enter into licensing agreements for their use.	EDN, CPC
HB881	RELATING TO CONDOMINIUMS. Requires contracts between the association and the resident manager or general manager to be made available to any unit owner, and allows certain personal information to be redacted from the contracts.	CPC, JUD
HB882	RELATING TO TAXATION. Exempts food and over-the-counter nonprescription medications from the general excise tax.	FIN
HB883	RELATING TO GENERAL EXCISE TAXES. Exempts amounts received from sales of food and over-the-counter drugs from the general excise tax.	FIN
HB884	RELATING TO SCHOOL IMPACT FEES. Exempts affordable housing units, additions to existing dwelling units, accessory dwelling units, and ohana dwelling units from school impact fee requirements.	HSG, EDN, FIN
HB885	RELATING TO DELAY IN PRIOR APPROVAL FOR MEDICAL SERVICES. Prohibits health insurance preauthorization requirements that cause undue delay in receipt of medical treatment or services. Specifies that insurers, but not health care providers, are liable for civil damages caused by undue delays for preauthorization.	HLT, CPC, JUD
HB886	RELATING TO FILIPINO VETERANS. Requires and funds the Office of Veterans' Services to establish a Filipino Veterans Legacy Exhibit at the Honolulu International Airport.	VMI, FIN
HB887	RELATING TO UNFUNDED LIABILITIES. Establishes the Rate Stabilization Reserve Fund within the Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund to help subsidize the costs of providing health and other benefit plans for retirees and their beneficiaries. Caps employer contributions to the OPEB trust fund, which are made to prefund the unfunded actuarial accrued liability of the EUTF, when the separate accounts for each public employer within the OPEB trust fund have a combined balance of at least $2,000,000,000.	LAB, FIN
HB888	RELATING TO ADDRESSING THE HEALTH UNFUNDED LIABILITY. Requires the auditor to study the feasibility of providing health benefits to state and county employees using a self-insured model. Makes an appropriation.	LAB, FIN
HB889	RELATING TO PESTICIDES. Increases the pesticide licensing fee and requires annual renewal of the license. Amends authorized uses for moneys in the pesticide use revolving fund. Requires memorandum of understanding between the department of agriculture and the University of Hawaii college of tropical agriculture and human resources regarding the expenditure of funds from the pesticide use revolving fund and a report to the legislature. Establishes an environmental toxicologist position within the department of agriculture and a pesticide extension specialist, through a contract with the department of agriculture, within the University of Hawaii college of tropical agriculture and human resources. Appropriates funds out of the pesticide use revolving fund for specific purposes.	AGR, FIN
HB890	RELATING TO BULLYING. Requires the Department of Education to establish policies to prohibit bullying. Requires those policies to include anti-bullying classes for students found to have engaged in bullying and the parents or guardians of those students. Requires suspension of any student found to have engaged in bullying until the student and the student's parent or guardian have successfully completed an anti-bullying class at the parent's or guardian's expense.	EDN, JUD
HB891	RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. Requires the board of agriculture, in cooperation with the office of the governor, to develop a strategic plan to double local food production and exports by 2020. Requires the board of agriculture to submit a report to the legislature prior to the regular session of 2018 in order to codify the strategic plan and benchmarks.	AGR/EDB, FIN
HB892	RELATING TO MOLOKAI HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETICS. Appropriates funds for Molokai High School athletics to account for increasing travel costs and other expenses. Appropriates funds.	EDN, FIN
HB893	RELATING TO HUNTING ON PRIVATE LANDS. Requires hunters to obtain prior written permission from landowners, occupiers, or holders of private lands to hunt on private lands. Does not affect Native Hawaiian gathering rights.	WAL/OMH, JUD
HB894	RELATING TO INSURANCE. Exempts individuals selling only insurance for property stored at a self-service storage facility from obtaining a license as an insurance producer provided that specific requirements are met.	IAC, CPC
HB895	RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLE INSURANCE. Allows insurance commissioner discretion in requiring motor vehicle insurers to have claims, adjustment, and sales service at an office in the State, to facilitate access to such services by electronic technology.	TRN, CPC
HB896	RELATING TO CITATIONS FOR BEAUTY CULTURE VIOLATIONS. Authorizes the issuance of a citation for specific violations of beauty culture laws by licensees and permittees. Sets forth a process for licensees and permittees to contest the citation and provides for the assessment of fines for each violation.	IAC, CPC
HB897	RELATING TO CONDOMINIUM GOVERNING INSTRUMENTS. Clarifies the procedures to amend condominium association declarations, bylaws, and other governing instruments.	CPC, JUD
HB898	RELATING TO CONSUMER PROTECTION. Short form bill relating to consumer protection.	CPC
HB899	RELATING TO AERONAUTICS. Amends provisions relating to penalties under Chapter 261 Aeronautics, Hawaii Revised Statutes. Allows for a fine not to exceed $200 for each violation.	TRN, JUD
HB900	RELATING TO TAXATION. Requires a general excise tax license to be conspicuously displayed within any vehicle being driven by a taxicab driver or transportation network company driver. Provides penalties.	TRN, JUD
HB901	RELATING TO MOTOR CARRIERS. Simplifies the process for filing of tariffs by common carriers by motor vehicle and contract carriers by motor vehicle with the public utilities commission. Requires every contract carrier by motor vehicle to publish the tariff for public inspection. Amends the definition of "rates" to only include the transportation component of an agreement with a tour packager or event organizer when transportation is included in that agreement. Repeals existing provisions relating to tariff filing by common carriers by motor vehicles and contract carriers by motor vehicles.	TRN, FIN
HB902	RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII. Appropriates general funds for 6.0 FTE positions for the UH Pamantasan Council to promote access and diversity, including for programs and policies related to Philippine courses and Filipino students.	HED, FIN
HB903	RELATING TO RENEWABLE ENERGY. Amends the "renewable portfolio standard" definition to more accurately reflect the amount of renewable energy generation in Hawaii by amending the renewable portfolio standard calculation to be based on electrical energy generation as opposed to electrical energy sales.	EEP, CPC
HB904	RELATING TO INVASIVE SPECIES. Establishes the invasive species rapid response special fund within DLNR. Establishes procedures for emergency declarations and expenditures. Appropriates moneys.	EEP, FIN
HB905	RELATING TO FROZEN FOOD PRODUCT LABELING. Requires that the words "previously frozen" on labels for frozen food products must be not less than 75% of the size of the font used for the main text of the label.	EDB, CPC
HB906	RELATING TO PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION. Enables the Public Utilities Commission to include certain external impacts when establishing standards prescribing the portion of the RPS to be met by specific types of renewable energy resources. Amends the definition of "renewable energy" to include energy generated or produced by emissions-free sources.	EEP, CPC
HB907	RELATING TO ACUPUNCTURE. Increases, to an unspecified amount, the authorized benefit for acupuncture treatments allowed under personal injury protection benefits provided through motor vehicle insurance. Automatically increases the amount by an unspecified percentage on an annual basis.	HLT, CPC
HB908	RELATING TO THE RIGHT OF FIRST REFUSAL FOR THE DISPOSITION OF REMNANTS. Provides the office of Hawaiian affairs with the right of first refusal for any disposition of public lands classified as remnants.	OMH, WAL, FIN
HB909	RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII. Requires the University of Hawaii to study the development and implementation of a Center for Commercialization to commercially use the intellectual property from research at the University for the benefit of the State and its residents.	EDB, HED, FIN
HB910	RELATING TO THE OFFICE OF HAWAIIAN EDUCATION. Appropriates funds for the Office of Hawaiian Education of the Department of Education.	OMH, EDN, FIN
HB911	RELATING TO THE HIGH TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION. Establishes a program for companies to borrow and loan high technology equipment to be administered by HTDC.	EDB, FIN
HB912	RELATING TO NURSING. Allows advanced practice registered nurses to offer care and services to minors and patients in assisted community treatment programs similar to care and services offered by physicians and other health care service providers.	HLT/IAC, CPC
HB913	RELATING TO MEDICAL COVERAGE FOR FIREFIGHTERS. Improves access for firefighters to comprehensive medical coverage and service-connected disability retirement benefits for hazardous duty related diseases that are presumed to arise out of and in the course of employment.	HLT, LAB, FIN
HB914	RELATING TO HEALTH INSURANCE. Requires a health carrier with a network plan to maintain a network that is sufficient in numbers with appropriate types of providers to ensure that covered persons have access to covered services.	HLT, CPC, FIN
HB915	RELATING TO AIR AMBULANCE SERVICES. Requires health care facilities to first request transport services from an air ambulance that is contracted with the patient's health carrier when transferring a patient to another health care facility via air ambulance. Requires notification if a non-contracted air ambulance service is utilized. Establishes a procedure for dispute resolutions.	HLT, CPC/JUD, FIN
HB916	RELATING TO LOAN REPAYMENT FOR HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS. Makes an appropriation for the health care professionals loan repayment program administered through the John A. Burns School of Medicine.	HLT, HED, FIN
HB917	RELATING TO INSURANCE. Clarifies that a mutual benefit society shall maintain a minimum net worth calculated based on annual net premium revenues and net health care expenditures.	CPC, FIN
HB918	RELATING TO EARLY INTERVENTION. Appropriates funds for the procurement of, and maintenance and training for, a web-based data system in the department of health's early intervention section.	HLT, FIN
HB919	RELATING TO REINTEGRATION PROGRAMS. Directs the Department of Health, in collaboration with the Judiciary, to create and maintain a directory of reintegration programs and services for incarcerated or formerly incarcerated individuals with an emphasis on culturally based programs and services for Native Hawaiians.	HLT/PBS, FIN
HB920	RELATING TO TAXATION. Provides a temporary tax credit for residential construction and remodeling projects. Requires a report to the Legislature comparing the impact on jobs and the state budget for various tax credit applications.	FIN
HB921	RELATING TO TAXATION. Increases the income tax for high income brackets. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2017.	FIN
HB922	RELATING TO MARIJUANA. Requires DCCA to submit annual report regarding physician discipline related to medical marijuana certifications. Requires DOH to submit monthly report on medical marijuana certifications. Requires Hawaii medical board to investigate potential misconduct regarding medical marijuana, take appropriate disciplinary action, and submit annual report.	HLT, CPC/JUD, FIN
HB923	RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYEES. Establishes the public employees' collective bargaining fund. Requires the deposit of not less than the amount equal to an undisclosed percentage of the total compensation provided to all public employees during the previous fiscal year. Amends the rights of public employee elective representation and deductions for nonmembers. Repeals the religious exemption from support of employee organization.	LAB, FIN
HB924	RELATING TO STATE FINANCES. Increases the general excise tax by one percentage point for a two-year period to provide a dedicated funding source for the acquisition of agricultural lands. Establishes the Acquisition of Agricultural Lands Trust Fund to further this purpose.	AGR, FIN
HB925	RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE FORTY-SIXTH REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT. Authorizes issuance of general obligation bonds and appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the 46th Representative District.	FIN
HB926	RELATING TO THE CONSTRUCTION OF RAIL TRANSIT. Requires the auditor to contract with an independent auditor to conduct a comprehensive financial and management audit of the Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation. Appropriates funds.	TRN, FIN
HB927	RELATING TO GAMING. Establishes a commission to analyze the possibility of gaming in Hawaii. Requires a preliminary and a final report to the Governor and Legislature. Dissolves the commission on 12/31/2018. Appropriates funds to undertake the analysis, including contracts for services.	EDB, JUD, FIN
HB928	RELATING TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING. Exempts the development of affordable housing projects developed in the urban core by the Hawaii housing finance and development corporation from environmental assessment and environmental impact statement requirements.	HSG, EEP/WAL
HB929	RELATING TO HEALTH. Adds specific requirements to Hawaii's existing sexuality health education law. Requires the BOE and DOE to collaborate to provide curricula information to the public. Requires students to be excused from the provided instruction upon written request by a parent or guardian.	EDN, JUD
HB930	RELATING TO EDUCATION. Creates and appropriates funds for Erin's Law Task Force to review policies, programs, and curricula for educating public school students about sexual abuse and sex trafficking prevention, and report recommendations for the establishment of a program to educate public school children on sexual abuse prevention through age appropriate curricula.	EDN, FIN
HB931	RELATING TO TAXATION. Expands the income tax credit for low-income household renters, based on adjusted gross income and filing status. Adjusts the tax credit for inflation. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2017.	FIN
HB932	RELATING TO TAXATION. Gradually increases the credit amounts and amends the income brackets of the refundable food/excise tax credit. Repeals the sunset date of Act 223, SLH 2015, which amended the food/excise tax credit.	FIN
HB933	RELATING TO TAXATION. Establishes a working families tax credit. Requires the Department of Taxation to prepare an annual report on the tax credit’s usage for the previous year.	FIN
HB934	RELATING TO CRIME. Allows a court to sentence a person convicted of a misdemeanor or petty misdemeanor offense to a term of imprisonment of 1 to 5 years, if the person has 10 or more prior convictions for a petty misdemeanor or higher grade of offense, subject to earlier release and alternative sentencing opportunities.	JUD
HB935	RELATING TO WAGE AND HOUR LAW. Increases the amount of guaranteed monthly compensation required to exempt an individual from minimum wage, overtime, and record keeping requirements under the Hawaii wage and hour law. Establishes a formula for calculation of the guaranteed monthly compensation that ties the guaranteed monthly compensation to the applicable minimum wage. Removes exemptions for automobile salespersons and golf caddies from the wage and hour law.	LAB, FIN
HB936	RELATING TO TEACHER INCENTIVES. Clarifies that funds for bonuses required by statute or collective bargaining shall not be paid out of a charter school's facilities funding or per-pupil funds. Requires, beginning with fiscal year 2018-2019, that such bonuses be separate line items in the budget. Appropriates funds for teacher bonuses for hard-to-fill placement incentives and National Board certified teacher incentives for charter school teachers.	EDN, FIN
HB937	RELATING TO EARLY LEARNING. Makes an appropriation for the Executive Office on Early Learning to enter into contracts with third party providers for family-child interaction learning programs. Appropriates funds.	EDN, FIN
HB938	RELATING TO KINDERGARTEN. Allows the Department of Education to allow early entrance to kindergarten pursuant to Title 8, Chapter 51, of the Hawaii Administrative Rules, pertaining to gifted and talented children.	EDN, FIN
HB939	RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE THIRTY-NINTH REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT. Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects for the benefit of the 39th Representative District.	FIN
HB940	RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS. Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds and appropriates funds for construction of East Kapolei Middle School on Oahu.	EDN, FIN
HB941	RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS. Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds and appropriates funds for plans, design, and construction of East Kapolei High School on Oahu.	EDN, FIN
HB942	RELATING TO FILIPINO VETERANS. Appropriates funds for the Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts to commission an artist to design and build a monument at the Filipino Community Center in Waipahu, Oahu, that honors Filipino veterans of World War II.	VMI, FIN
HB943	RELATING TO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. Establishes a Kapolei jobs initiative pilot program that offers incentives to increase the number of businesses willing to establish themselves or open a new location in the Kapolei region. Establishes a tax credit, until 12/31/2024, as part of the Kapolei jobs initiative pilot program.	EDB, FIN
HB944	RELATING TO SCHOOLS. Prohibits persons from interfering with or disrupting the orderly operation, safety, or peaceful conduct of a school or school-related activity.	EDN, JUD
HB945	RELATING TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING. Requires the Hawaii housing finance and development corporation to establish affordable micro-unit housing and congregate housing residences throughout the State. Allows the private sector to develop micro-unit housing and congregate housing residences. Makes an appropriation.	HSG, FIN
HB946	RELATING TO HIGH OCCUPANCY VEHICLE LANES. Specifies that an unauthorized person who drives in a high occupancy vehicle lane shall be subject to a $150 fine.	TRN, JUD
HB947	RELATING TO LAND. Increases the acreage from 15 acres to 25 acres for district boundary reclassifications requiring the approval of the Land Use Commission.	WAL, JUD
HB948	RELATING TO THE FUEL TAX. Requires every retail dealer to conspicuously post a tax rate decal on each pump owned or leased by the retail dealer that displays the current federal fuel tax, state fuel tax, each county's fuel tax, and state license tax assessed on a gallon of gasoline and other liquid fuel sold at the pump. Establishes the tax rate decal special fund to be administered by the department of agriculture. Provides a penalty. Makes appropriation. Takes effect on January 1, 2018.	CPC, FIN
HB949	RELATING TO EDUCATION. Allows the department of education to offer voluntary training for teachers and educational officers on sex trafficking prevention. Requires the department to provide explanatory information about sex trafficking prevention and response to teachers and educational officers.	EDN, JUD
HB950	RELATING TO HIGHER EDUCATION. Establishes the Hawaiian language university college as an autonomous entity within the University of Hawaii system to be located at the University of Hawaii at Hilo. Implements an indigenous university college model by transferring the University of Hawaii at Hilo Hawaiian language college's rights, duties, powers, and functions to the Hawaiian language university college. Mandates the Hawaiian language university college and University of Hawaii at Hilo to enter into a memorandum of agreement by the end of the 2017-2018 academic year to establish shared operations and administration.	OMH, HED, FIN
HB951	RELATING TO THE OFFICE OF INFORMATION PRACTICES. Allows OIP to adopt rules pursuant to chapter 91, HRS, for all state and county agencies to follow, to ensure uniformity among agencies.	JUD
HB952	RELATING TO PUBLIC MEETINGS. Allows two or more members of a board, including a quorum of the board, to discuss selection of board officers in private without limitation or subsequent reporting.	JUD
HB953	RELATING TO EVIDENCE. Amends the Hawaii Rules of Evidence to authorize nonresident property crime victims to testify in criminal proceedings by a live two-way video connection.	JUD, FIN
HB954	RELATING TO EXEMPTIONS FROM JURY DUTY. Exempts active members of the Hawaii emergency management agency and county emergency management agencies from jury duty.	JUD
HB955	RELATING TO HEALTH. Creates penalty for health care providers who fail to provide auxiliary aids or services to patients with a communication disability.	HLT/HUS, JUD
HB956	RELATING TO GENDER EQUITY. Requires all places of public accommodation constructed or substantially modified after June 30, 2017 to provide baby diaper-changing accommodations that are equally accessible to men and women.	EDB, JUD
HB957	RELATING TO HEAT ABATEMENT. Authorizes the DOE and B&F to borrow moneys from the Hawaii green infrastructure loan program for heat abatement measures at public schools. Appropriates general funds to make an initial repayment to the Hawaii green infrastructure special fund.	EEP, EDN, FIN
HB958	RELATING TO STUDENT LOAN DEBT. Allows individuals to pay student loan debt with pre-tax income.	HED, FIN
HB959	RELATING TO THE AGRIBUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION. Requires the Auditor to conduct a management and financial audit of the Agribusiness Development Corporation.	AGR, FIN
HB960	RELATING TO THE MULTINATIONAL LUNAR ARCHITECTURE ALLIANCE. Establishes the Multinational Lunar Architecture Alliance to hold an International Lunar Development Summit to, among other things, identify the major goals and challenges associated with prototype lunar architecture.	EDB, FIN
HB961	RELATING TO FARMERS. Creates an exclusion from income tax for the first $50,000 of income earned by farmers whose annual gross income does not exceed $150,000. Repeals the organic foods production tax credit.	AGR, FIN
HB962	PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF HAWAII TO PROVIDE FOR RECALL. Amends article II of the state constitution to provide for recall.	JUD, FIN
HB963	RELATING TO EDUCATION. Creates and appropriates funds for Erin's Law Task Force to review policies, programs, and curricula for educating public school students about sexual abuse and sex trafficking prevention, and report recommendations for the establishment of a program to educate public school children on sexual abuse prevention through age appropriate curricula.	EDN, FIN
HB964	RELATING TO CONTRACTORS. Mandates the contractors license board to require specialty and general contractors to put up surety bonds. Expanded rights for subcontractors.	IAC, CPC
HB965	RELATING TO PREPAID HEALTHCARE. Extends Hawaii's prepaid health care law to cover qualified independent contractors. Includes criteria to be used in determining whether a person is classified as a qualified independent contractor.	CPC, JUD
HB966	RELATING TO FAMILY LEAVE. Amends definition of employee to include independent contractors who have been providing services for at least six consecutive months.	LAB, CPC
HB967	RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII. Appropriates moneys for the University of Hawaii to hire three psychologists and one case manager to provide student mental health services.	HED, FIN
HB968	RELATING TO AFFORDABLE TEMPORARY HOUSING. Allows property owners the ability to lease yard space or driveway space for campers and recreational camping vehicles.	HSG, WAL, JUD
HB969	RELATING TO LIMITING PRIVATE RETAINERS OF ELECTIVE OFFICERS. Prohibits elected officials from receiving any income from private sources that exceeds, in aggregate, twenty per cent of their government salary.	CPC, LAB, JUD, FIN
HB970	RELATING TO PRIVATE FINANCING FOR MASS TRANSIT AND REPEALING GENERAL EXCISE TAX SURCHARGE. Repeals the extension of the increase in the county surcharge on the State general excise tax, and replaces financing for the Honolulu mass transit project with private funding.	TRN, FIN
HB971	RELATING TO HOMELESSNESS. Creates exceptions to the state building code and other existing infrastructure requirements for homeless settlements.	HUS/HSG, WAL
HB972	RELATING TO COLLEGE SERVICE CORPS. Establishes the Hawaii college service corps to provide recent high school graduates with tuition waivers and college credit for participation in qualifying college service corps programs.	HED, FIN
HB973	RELATING TO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. Establishes and appropriates funds for a Research and Grant Technology Program within the High Technology Development Corporation.	EDB, FIN
HB974	RELATING TO BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT. Appropriates funds to the Hawaii Strategic Development Corporation to support the programs under its HI Growth Initiative program.	EDB, FIN
HB975	RELATING TO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. Creates an advisory council for global economic competitiveness to be attached to DBEDT and composed of fifteen or more representatives from the public sector, global business community, economic development organizations, and academia. Directs the council to recommend policy additions and changes to attract more foreign direct investment and increase state exports abroad.	EDB, FIN
HB976	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 or an electrical engineering degree from an accredited college to perform electrical work in the State. Exempts employees of a public utility.	LAB, HED, CPC
HB977	RELATING TO WORKERS' COMPENSATION. Defines duly qualified physician or surgeon. Allows an employee to record medical examinations of the employee that are ordered by the Director of Labor and Industrial Relations. Allows employees to have a chaperone present at medical examinations.	LAB, CPC
HB978	RELATING TO WORKERS' COMPENSATION. Allows an employee to have a chaperone present and use a recording device during the medical examination relating to a work injury under workers' compensation. Clarifies that the employee's right to have a physician or surgeon present at the medical examination applies to the right to have a duly qualified physician or duly qualified surgeon present and defines "duly qualified physician" and "duly qualified surgeon".	LAB, CPC, JUD
HB979	RELATING TO WORKERS' COMPENSATION. Establishes that employers shall pay all workers compensation claims for compensable injuries and shall not deny claims without reasonable cause or during a pending investigation. Establishes that employers shall notify providers of service of any billing disagreements and allows providers to charge an additional rate to employers who fail to adhere to the notification requirements. Establishes resolution procedures for employers and providers who have a reasonable disagreement over liability for services provided an injured worker.	LAB, CPC, FIN
HB980	RELATING TO WORKERS' COMPENSATION. Provides that an independent medical examination and permanent impairment rating examination shall be conducted by a qualified chiropractor or physician selected by the mutual agreement of the parties. Provides a process for appointment in the event that there is no mutual agreement.	LAB, CPC, JUD
HB981	RELATING TO THE HAWAII LABOR RELATIONS BOARD. Allows the Hawaii labor relations board to request the parties appearing before the board to draft decisions and orders to enable a quicker process to resolve cases.	LAB, JUD
HB982	RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL BUILDING PERMITS. Removes exemptions from building codes and building permits for certain agricultural buildings and structures. Requires each county to establish a list of agricultural buildings and structures that are exempt from building permit regulations no later than January 1, 2018. Exempts specified buildings and structures, and their appurtenances, from certain building permit requirements.	WAL, CPC
HB983	RELATING TO CHILD VISITATION. Deletes duplicative provision of awarding grandparents reasonable visitation rights. Adds as prerequisites to awarding visitation that the court also find that awarding custody to a grandparent is in the best interest of the child and that denial of reasonable grandparent visitation rights would cause actual or potential harm to the child. Clarifies procedures for an order awarding reasonable visitation rights to grandparents and that a violation of the terms and conditions of such an order is subject to sanctions or contempt of court.	HUS, JUD
HB984	RELATING TO CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS. Requires a preliminary hearing for a case in which a law enforcement officer is charged with a felony offense.	JUD
HB985	RELATING TO MEDICAL MARIJUANA. Specifies that ten per cent of tax revenues collected from medical marijuana dispensaries shall be allocated to the mental health and substance abuse special fund.	HLT, FIN
HB986	RELATING TO LABOR. Requires certain employers with fifty or more employees to provide sick leave to service workers for specified purposes under certain conditions. Defines the terms "service worker" and "employer". Effective January 1, 2018.	LAB, JUD
HB987	RELATING TO RETIREMENT. Provides that a member of the employees' retirement system who first earned credited service as a judge after June 30, 2017, and has at least twelve years of credited service and attained age sixty, or has at least twenty-five years of credited service and has attained age fifty-five is eligible to receive a pension after retirement. Reduces the retirement allowance for a member who first earned credited service as a judge after June 30, 2017, to two per cent of the member's average final compensation, reduced for each month the member's age at the date of retirement is below age sixty.	LAB, FIN
HB988	RELATING TO GOVERNMENT RECORDS. Requires each unit of government of the State and its political subdivisions to exercise reasonable care in the maintenance of all government records under its control that are required to be made available for public inspection.	JUD
HB989	RELATING TO THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM. Requires the attorney general to serve as legal adviser to the board of trustees of the employees' retirement system and repeals the authority of an appointed representative or outside counsel selected by the board to serve as legal advisor.	LAB, JUD
HB990	RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYEES. Requires public retiree contributions to the EUTF to be paid through withholdings of retirement benefit amounts from the ERS. Beginning after January 1, 2018, requires the EUTF to authorize automatic electronic payments in lieu of withholdings.	LAB, FIN
HB991	RELATING TO OPEN GOVERNMENT. Allows the electronic mailing and posting of meeting notices; requires the posting of the meeting notice and minutes on the state or appropriate county websites; and increases public access to information before a public hearing by a board. Effective January 1, 2018.	CPC, JUD
HB992	RELATING TO STUDENT MEALS. Prohibits denying a student a meal for the first: (1) 30 days of the first semester of a school year while the student's application for free or reduced lunch is being processed; or (2) week that the student's meal fund balance is zero or negative. Authorizes the Department of Education to adopt rules or policies on the collection of funds for negative student meal balances.	EDN, FIN
HB993	RELATING TO PUBLIC SAFETY COMMUNICATIONS. Short form bill relating to public safety communications.	PBS
HB994	RELATING TO TOLL ROADS. Authorizes director of transportation to impose toll charges on existing highways and construct new toll roads. Provides for agreement with private entities to construct, operate, and maintain toll roads. Prohibits toll roads where there is no toll-free alternative route available for public use. Requires a prior feasibility study and specifies criteria, including consideration of an elevated toll road.	TRN, FIN
HB995	RELATING TO HEALTH SERVICES. Appropriates funds as a grant pursuant to chapter 42F, Hawaii Revised Statutes, for Hale Makua Health Services to allow Hale Makua Health Services to admit more wait-listed patients from Maui Memorial Medical Center.	HLT, FIN
HB996	RELATING TO SPECIALTY CONTRACTORS. Requires the Contractors License Board to adopt rules to define "incidental and supplemental to the performance of work" to clarify the percentage of a craft or trade in which a specialty contractor may engage without a license while performing work in a craft and trade for which contractor is licensed.	IAC, CPC
HB997	RELATING TO CONCESSIONS. Makes subsequent amendments to concession documents subject to sealed bidding requirements. Clarifies that the grant of concession or concession space shall not exceed fifteen years of a remaining term plus any agreed extension of the term. Removes the limitations on the types of airport concessions that are exempt from the public bidding requirements.	TRN, FIN
HB998	RELATING TO BOTTOMFISH. Requires any rule adopted by DLNR that restricts the fishing of bottomfish to include peer-reviewed scientific evidence that establishes the environmental necessity of the rule.	OMH, JUD
HB999	RELATING TO COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT. Appropriates moneys for the executive director of the Hawaii community development authority to conduct a feasibility study regarding: (1) The Hawaii community development authority assuming the role of planning, developing, and redeveloping all state-owned lands within one mile of the Honolulu rail transit system; (2) Creating a new community development district along the Honolulu rail corridor; and (3) Returning jurisdiction over the Kakaako community development district to the city and county of Honolulu.	HSG/TRN, WAL, FIN
HB1000	RELATING TO HOUSING. Requires the strategic plan developed by the Hawaii interagency council for transient-oriented development to require that affordable housing be included as part of the development or redevelopment plan for any state property located within one mile of the Honolulu rail transit system, unless the council determines that housing is not feasible or desirable on a particular property.	HSG/TRN, WAL, FIN
HB1001	RELATING TO SCHOOL IMPACT FEES. Exempts housing developments reserved for persons or families with incomes up to eighty per cent of the area median income located near the Honolulu rail transit line from school impact fee requirements.	HSG, EDN, FIN
HB1002	RELATING TO TRANSIT-ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT. Specifies that 0.5 per cent of the gross proceeds of a county's surcharge on state tax shall be used to reimburse the State for costs associated with handling the assessment, collection, and disposition of the county surcharge on state tax and 9.5 per cent of the gross proceeds shall be used for improvements to infrastructure, street, and trails and bike paths along the rail corridor.	TRN, FIN
HB1003	RELATING TO ANIMAL DISSECTION IN SCHOOLS. Authorizes DOE students to decline to dissect animals. Requires schools to provide an alternative to students who have declined.	EDN, JUD
HB1004	RELATING TO RAPID OHIA DEATH. Appropriates moneys for implementation of the Rapid Ohia Death Strategic Response Plan.	AGR, FIN
HB1005	RELATING TO BIOSECURITY. Appropriate moneys to DOA to enhance the biosecurity program by funding invasive incipient species management programs.	AGR, FIN
HB1006	RELATING TO INVASIVE SPECIES. Appropriates funds to the Hawaii ant lab for personnel and equipment to support mitigation of the little fire ant.	AGR, FIN
HB1007	RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. Establishes and appropriates funds for the Korean natural farming pilot program to combat various agricultural pests in Hawaii. Repeals on June 30, .	AGR, FIN
HB1008	RELATING TO MENTAL HEALTH. Requires DHS and DOH to deem occupational therapists as qualified mental health care professionals.	HUS/HLT, IAC/CPC
HB1009	RELATING TO THE LANDLORD TENANT CODE. Allows a landlord to restrict access to a dwelling unit for failure to pay rent or when the tenant quits the premises. Requires landlord to provide access to tenant for a period of one day to remove personal property. Deems the personal property abandoned if not timely removed and allows landlord to dispose of property.	HSG, JUD
HB1010	RELATING TO EMPLOYMENT. Makes it unlawful for any employer to suspend, discharge, or discriminate against any of the employer's employees based on the individual's status as a registered qualifying patient under the Medical Use of Marijuana Law or an employee's positive drug test for marijuana components or metabolites if the employee is a registered qualifying patient under certain conditions.	LAB, HLT, JUD
HB1011	RELATING TO EMPLOYMENT. Prohibits employment discrimination based on familial status.	LAB, JUD
HB1012	RELATING TO REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUSTS. Temporarily disallows the deduction for dividends paid by real estate investment trusts for a period of 15 years, but with an exception for dividends generated from trust-owned housing that is affordable to households with incomes at or below 200% of the median family income.	HSG, FIN
HB71	RELATING TO ETHICS. Prohibits a sitting governor or mayor from maintaining outside employment or receiving emoluments.	CPC, LAB, JUD, FIN

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HB142	RELATING TO GOVERNMENT SERVICES. Clarifies the Office of the Legislative Analyst.	FIN
HB618	RELATING TO LAND LEASES. Sets a deadline for the transfer of certain non-agricultural park lands from the Department of Land and Natural Resources to the Department of Agriculture.	WAL, FIN
HB632	RELATING TO WATER INFRASTRUCTURE LOANS. Broadens the Water Infrastructure Loan Program to include loans made to water utilities. Amends the definition of "water infrastructure charge" to include on-bill charges to be imposed on water utilities and the definitions of "water infrastructure equipment", "water infrastructure loans", and "loan program" to include water tanks.	WAL, FIN
HB713	RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL BUILDINGS. Removes agricultural buildings located in a special flood hazard area from the exemptions from building permit and building code requirements.	WAL