Hse Referral sheet template, revision no. 00002

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		REFERRAL

HB601	RELATING TO EXEMPTIONS FROM REGISTRATION FEES. Repeals the requirement that a disabled veteran be in receipt of disability retirement pay from the armed forces to be exempt from the payment of annual vehicle registration fees.	PVM, TRN, FIN
HB602	RELATING TO THE VEHICLE WEIGHT TAX. Exempts from the vehicle weight tax a military member who is assigned to a unit outside of the State, is a member in good standing, and claims Hawaii as the member's state of legal residence for purposes of withholding state income taxes from the member's military pay.	PVM, TRN, FIN
HB603	RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLES. Authorizes and sets forth procedures for impounding a motor vehicle if a person operating the vehicle fails to display a valid insurance card.	TRN, CPC, JUD
HB604	RELATING TO ELECTRIC VEHICLES. Extends the sunset date for Act 168, Session Laws of Hawaii 2012, authorizing certain incentives and actions by the Department of Transportation regarding electric vehicles.	TRN, FIN
HB605	RELATING TO DOWN PAYMENTS. Establishes a qualified returning resident down payment program funded by revenues collected from real estate investment trusts.	EDB, CPC, FIN
HB606	RELATING TO RENT TO BUILD EQUITY. Requires all housing projects that receive general excise tax exemptions or other State incentives pursuant to 201H HRS to share profits with rental tenants upon sale of the property.	HSG, FIN
HB607	RELATING TO CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION. Amends the Private Trade, Vocational, and Technical School Special Fund within the Department of Education to fund vocational, technical and career pathway classes for public school students and to cover student costs associated with career and technical education classes. Allows individuals to teach vocational, technical or career pathway classes without a bachelor's degree.	LHE, LAB, FIN
HB608	RELATING TO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION FUNDING. Dedicates one-half of one per cent of all state fund appropriations for capital improvements designated for the construction or renovation of state buildings to student art programs within the Department of Education.	TIA, LHE, FIN
HB609	RELATING TO RESIDENCY PROGRAMS FOR HAWAII MEDICAL SCHOOL GRADUATES. Appropriates moneys to the graduate medical education program for physician residency programs in Hawaii; provided that the funds are matched dollar-for-dollar by private sector medical hospitals and institutions.	LHE, HLT, FIN
HB610	RELATING TO GENERAL EXCISE TAX EXEMPTIONS. Exempts certain foods, medical services, and feminine hygiene products from the general excise tax.	HSH/HLT, FIN
HB611	PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO THE HAWAII STATE CONSTITUTION TO LOWER THE QUALIFYING AGE OF VOTERS FOR ANY STATE OR LOCAL ELECTION. Proposes a constitutional amendment to lower the qualifying age of voters for any state or local election to seventeen years of age.	JUD, FIN
HB612	RELATING TO ABANDONED VEHICLES. Establishes fines for any county that fails to comply with any provision of Hawaii's abandoned vehicles law or any lawful rule adopted by the Director of Finance under the authority of the law. Requires the Department of Taxation to collect and deposit the fines into the general fund.	TRN, JUD, FIN
HB613	RELATING TO WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT. Codifies the state YouthBuild program to provide employment, education, leadership development, and training opportunities to disadvantaged and low-income youth between the ages of 16 and 24. Authorizes the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to award grants directly to eligible entities or to the counties. Appropriates funds.	LAB, FIN
HB614	RELATING TO WAIANAE COAST COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH CENTER EMERGENCY ROOM. Appropriates funds to the Waianae Coast Comprehensive Health Center for operation of its twenty-four-hour emergency room.	HLT, FIN
HB615	RELATING TO THE BOARD OF EDUCATION. Amends the Board of Education membership by inviting the exclusive representative for bargaining unit (5) (teachers and other personnel of the Department of Education) to appoint a nonvoting public school teacher representative to the Board.	LHE, JUD, FIN
HB616	RELATING TO TAXATION. Exempts locally grown produce and locally raised livestock food products from the general excise tax.	AGR/EDB, FIN
HB617	RELATING TO ANIMALS. Codifies provisions of Board of Agriculture rules that prohibit the importation of dangerous wild animals into the State except for research, medical, or scientific purposes as determined by the board; for exhibition in government zoos or government-affiliated aquariums; or for commercial filming.	AGR, JUD
HB618	RELATING TO STATE FUNDS. Establishes the repair and maintenance special fund for the repair and maintenance of state department facilities. Prohibits fund moneys from funding employee salaries and costs or from being considered as part of the employer's ability to pay those costs. Appropriates funds.	FIN
HB619	RELATING TO EDUCATION. Requires the State Auditor to select school complex areas for a determination of each complex area's compliance with its academic plan and financial plan.	LHE, FIN
HB620	PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO THE HAWAII CONSTITUTION TO REQUIRE THE ELECTION OF MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION. Proposes a constitutional amendment to change the Board of Education back to an elected board.	LHE, JUD, FIN
HB621	RELATING TO EDUCATION. Implements an elected board of education.	LHE, JUD, FIN
HB622	RELATING TO PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS. Requires authorizers to withhold public charter school funding for any school under federal investigation. Requires authorizers to establish a purchase order system to pay charter school expenses. Requires charter schools to be subject to an annual financial audit. Requires authorizers to select the independent auditors that are to perform the audits on public charter schools.	LHE, FIN
HB623	RELATING TO THE HAWAII TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION. Repeals Act 67, Session Laws of Hawaii 2018, relating to alternative energy research and funding. Repeals Act 141, Session Laws of Hawaii 2018, relating to the research and development program in the Hawaii technology development corporation.	EDB, FIN
HB624	RELATING TO THE STRUCTURE OF GOVERNMENT. Transfers the rights, powers, functions, and duties of the Hawaii Technology Development Corporation and Hawaii Strategic Development Corporation to the University of Hawaii. Appropriates funds.	LHE/EDB, FIN
HB625	RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT. Abolishes the Department of Human Resources Development and transfers its functions to the Department of Budget and Finance. Replaces the Director of Human Resources Development with the same-tiered Director of Taxation as the new basis for salaries of certain other state officials.	LAB, FIN
HB626	RELATING TO VACANCIES. Requires vacancies in the offices of United States Senator, State Senator, and State Representative to be filled by special election.	JUD, FIN
HB627	RELATING TO CAMPAIGN FINANCE. Establishes that a photograph of a person used in campaign shall be reported as an in-kind contribution to the respective candidate or noncandidate committee. Imposes a fine on a committee that uses a photograph in a campaign without the photographed person's authorization. Classifies any independent expenditure as a contribution to a candidate or as a contribution to each opposing candidate. Requires any advertisement by a noncandidate committee that makes only independent expenditures to disclose all contributors for the advertisement.	JUD, FIN
HB628	RELATING TO THE EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM. Subjects the service retirement allowance, ordinary disability retirement allowance, and service-connected disability retirement allowance, as adjusted by any post retirement allowances, of employees who become contributory, non-contributory, and hybrid plan members in ERS after 12/31/2019, to a maximum amount of 75% of the governor's salary as last recommended by the executive salary commission at the time of the member's retirement.	LAB, FIN
HB629	RELATING TO MEDICAL RELEASE. Requires the Department of Public Safety to assess and refer inmates to the Hawaii Paroling Authority (HPA) for possible medical release. Allows an inmate to be considered for medical release at the request of the director, the inmate, or the inmate's representative, if the inmate meets specified criteria. Requires the HPA to grant or deny the request after a hearing, to set reasonable conditions on an inmate's medical release, and to promptly order an inmate returned to custody to await a revocation hearing if the HPA receives credible information that an inmate has failed to comply with any reasonable conditions of medical release. Makes inmates on medical release presumptively eligible to receive medical assistance from the Department of Human Services.	PVM, JUD, FIN
HB630	RELATING TO GLASS CONTAINER RECOVERY. Repeals the Glass Container Recovery Program.	HLT/EDB, FIN
HB631	RELATING TO TAXATION. Authorizes each county to impose a surcharge on transient accommodations tax. Changes the transient accommodations tax rate to an unspecified amount. Repeals the distribution of transit accommodations tax revenues to the counties.	TIA, FIN
HB632	RELATING TO THE GENERAL EXCISE TAX. Exempts the sales of mobility enhancing equipment sold by prescription, prosthetic devices, prescription drugs sold pursuant to a prescription, diabetic supplies, medical oxygen, and human blood and its derivatives from the general excise tax for taxable years beginning after December 31, 2018. Amends the definitions of "prosthetic device" and "prescription drugs".	HLT, FIN
HB633	RELATING TO ANIMAL CRUELTY. Limits the use of tethers and certain other types of restraints that are known to endanger dogs or prevent dogs from receiving necessary sustenance. Allows tethering for not more than twenty-four consecutive hours but only by means of a chest harness around a dog. Prohibits the sale, distribution, or use of electric shock dog collars. Specifies penalties.	AGR, JUD
HB634	RELATING TO RESTORATIVE JUSTICE. Requires the Judiciary to establish a 5-year pilot program for restorative justice. Requires the judiciary to inform various criminal attorneys of the existence of the pilot program. Appropriates funds.	PVM, JUD, FIN
HB635	RELATING TO LEGISLATIVE ACCESS THROUGH REMOTE TESTIMONY. Requires each house of the Legislature to establish, by rule, procedures that enable the legislature to use remote testimony at legislative committee hearings to enable the public to present oral testimony at committee hearings and accommodate persons with disabilities. Appropriates funds.	LMG, JUD, FIN
HB636	RELATING TO RENTALS OF MOPEDS AND MOTOR SCOOTERS. Prohibits operating a moped or motor scooter from any rental company unless the person wears a safety helmet that the rental company is required to provide or the person wears a safety helmet that is provided by the person; provided that this requirement does not apply to any person who possesses a valid license from any state to operate a motorcycle. Prohibits the rental of any moped or motor scooter with an aftermarket modification to its motor.	TRN, JUD, FIN
HB637	RELATING TO GARDENS. Authorizes the department of education and Hawaii community development authority to develop programs that provide incentives to establish gardens on school campuses and within housing projects and communities.	AGR/LHE/WLH, FIN
HB638	RELATING TO PLANNED COMMUNITY ASSOCIATIONS. Specifies the powers of a planned community association and its board. Inserts similar provisions concerning governance and documents as are provided to condominium associations. Specifies alternative dispute resolution procedures. Specifies the Real Estate Commission as the regulatory entity.	CPC, JUD, FIN
HB639	RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE THIRTY-FIRST REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT. Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects for the benefit of the 31st Representative District.	FIN
HB640	RELATING TO CHILD SUPPORT ENFORCEMENT. Establishes that every judgment for child support is enforceable until paid in full.	HSH, JUD, FIN
HB641	RELATING TO PUNA. Makes an appropriation for a feasibility and cost study relating to the construction of a new boat ramp and pier in Puna.	WLH, FIN
HB642	RELATING TO LAND USE. Allows agricultural tourism activities including short-term vacation rentals in counties with a population between 150,000 and 500,000.	AGR/TIA, FIN
HB643	RELATING TO HOMELESSNESS. Appropriates funds to the outreach program, rapid re-housing program, housing first program, family assessment centers, law enforcement assisted diversion program, and coordinated statewide homelessness initiative. Establishes and appropriates funds for a short-term rental assistance pilot program and a long-term rental assistance pilot program.	HSH/HSG, FIN
HB644	RELATING TO CHILD SAFETY. Establishes an income tax credit for transportation network companies or taxicab operators that establish a car seat program in Hawaii. Increases the child passenger restraint system tax credit.	HSH/TRN, FIN
HB645	RELATING TO HAWAII FILM STUDIOS. Amends the motion picture, digital media, and film production income tax credit, to include, as qualified production costs, post-production activities and services performed in Hawaii film studios. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2019.	EDB, FIN
HB646	RELATING TO LIVE ADULT ENTERTAINMENT. Imposes a per person, per day admission tax on certain live adult entertainment businesses. Imposes filing, reporting, and recordkeeping requirements. Deposits moneys collected from the tax into the human trafficking victim services fund.	JUD, FIN
HB647	RELATING TO DIGITAL CONTENT BLOCKING CAPABILITIES. Requires persons who manufacture, sell, offer for sale, lease, or distribute a product that makes content accessible on the internet to include digital content blocking capability that renders inaccessible human trafficking websites, child pornography, revenge pornography, and other pornographic material. Allows consumers to request deactivation of the blocking capability if the consumer fulfills certain requirements, including payment of a digital access fee that is deposited into the human trafficking victim services fund. Requires persons who manufacture, sell, offer for sale, lease, or distribute a product that makes content accessible on the internet to establish and maintain a reporting system for content that is improperly blocked and pornographic content that the blocking capability fails to block. Establishes the misdemeanor offense of failure to include digital content blocking capability.	EDB, JUD, FIN
HB648	RELATING TO UNFAIR AND DECEPTIVE PRACTICES. Makes it an unfair and deceptive practice to charge mileage or travel fees to customers for the delivery of goods and services except as otherwise specified.	EDB, JUD, FIN
HB649	RELATING TO TEACHER HOUSING SUBSIDIES. Establishes the teacher home assistance program within the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to provide housing vouchers to full-time teachers employed by the department of education, including teachers at public charter schools, who teach in hard-to-fill schools and whose household income does not exceed eighty percent of the area's median income. Appropriates funds.	HSG, LHE, FIN
HB650	RELATING TO TEACHER RETENTION. Establishes a teacher retention advisory board within the Department of Education for administrative purposes to study and make recommendations regarding teacher retention and recruitment in the State. Requires the advisory board to design a teacher mentorship pilot program to be administered by the Department of Education during the 2019-2020, 2020-2021, and 2021-2022 school years. Requires the Department of Education to conduct detailed exit interviews with teachers who voluntarily leave the employ of the department. Requires annual reports to the legislature.	LAB, LHE, FIN
HB651	RELATING TO THE HAWAII EDUCATOR LOAN PROGRAM. Appropriates moneys into and out of the Hawaii educator loan program revolving fund to provide loans for students who are completing a state-approved teacher education program and who agree to teach in a hard-to-fill position in the public school system or at a public school located in a rural area of the State.	LHE, FIN
HB652	RELATING TO TEACHERS. Establishes a state income tax credit for certain expenses paid or incurred by school teachers, special education teachers, school librarians, and counselors for supplementary materials used in the classroom, as well as expenses incurred while accompanying students on educational trips.	LHE, FIN
HB653	RELATING TO STATE PARTITIONS. Requires that land court actions for partition by the State be given priority.	WLH, JUD, FIN
HB654	RELATING TO HEALTH. Appropriates funds to the University of Hawaii Cancer Center to determine whether Hawaii has the highest incidence in the country of liver and bile duct cancer due to liver fluke infection, aflatoxin ingestion, or intrahepatic bile duct dilation in Hawaii.	LHE/HLT, FIN
HB655	RELATING TO HEALTH. Designates the month of September of each year as Suicide Prevention and Awareness Month.	HLT, JUD
HB656	RELATING TO CHILD CARE FACILITIES. Requires the Department of Human Services to post on its website reports of child care facility inspections beginning with inspections occurring after 12/31/2019, and suspected or actual complaint violations, including the Department of Human Services' findings and corrective actions. Appropriates funds to implement and comply with the reporting requirements for child care facilities.	HSH, JUD, FIN
HB657	RELATING TO BULLYING. Requires the Department of Education to establish a Bullying Prevention and Response Action Plan. Requires the Board of Education or Department of Education to submit an annual report to the Legislature on the Action Plan and reported incidents of alleged bullying and harassment.	LHE, JUD, FIN
HB658	RELATING TO HEALTH. Requires that advanced practice registered nurses be included within certain rules adopted by the Department of Health.	HLT, JUD/CPC, FIN
HB659	RELATING TO OVERPAYMENTS. Establishes unspecified time limits in which the Director of Human Services (DHS) can recover Medicaid overpayments made to providers and DHS can recover public assistance overpayments made to recipients, under certain circumstances.	HSH, JUD, FIN
HB660	RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES. Authorizes the Department of Humans Services and the Department of Health to contract the services of dedicated capture managers responsible for securing grant and other funding opportunities for each department. Appropriates funds.	HLT/HSH, FIN
HB661	RELATING TO HEALTH. Requires the Department of Health to adopt rules for underground storage tanks and tank systems that are no less stringent than federal underground storage tank regulations. Establishes the Red Hill Task Force to study the implementation of containment measures at Red Hill and report to the legislature.	EEP/HLT, JUD, FIN
HB662	RELATING TO HEALTH. Designates the month of October as "Disability Awareness Month: Employment, Enrichment, and Inclusion" to annually recognize the immense contributions and achievements of persons with disabilities in the State.	HSH, JUD
HB663	RELATING TO HEALTH. Authorizes the Department of Education to use licensed professionals other than applied behavior analysts, where appropriate, to meet the department's needs for students diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder.	LHE, FIN
HB664	RELATING TO GENDER IDENTITY. Prohibits both sexual orientation and gender identity change efforts under Chapter 453J, Hawaii Revised Statutes.	HLT, JUD/CPC
HB665	RELATING TO THE ELECTRONIC PRESCRIPTION ACCOUNTABILITY SYSTEM. Specifies that a health care provider shall not be required to consult the electronic prescription accountability system for patients when the prescription will be directly administered under the supervision of a health care provider or for patients who qualify for hospice care. Clarifies that an informed consent agreement is not necessary for patients whose prescription will be directly administered under the supervision of a health care provider.	HLT, JUD/CPC
HB666	RELATING TO HEALTH. Establishes a comprehensive healthcare task force in the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs to study and report on specified major issues relating to healthcare.	HLT, CPC
HB667	RELATING TO HEALTH. Prohibits registered pharmacists from accepting prescription drugs for return or exchange once the drug has been dispensed or sold by prescription unless the pharmacist is an authorized collector for the disposal of controlled substances or the prescription drug is subject to a patient level recall.	HLT, JUD/CPC
HB668	RELATING TO HEALTHCARE. Requires the Department of Human Services to enroll Hawaii as a member in the Sovereign States Drug Consortium to lower medicaid purchasing and administrative costs to the State.	HSH, FIN
HB669	RELATING TO MEDICAL MALPRACTICE. Limits medical malpractice liability for residents and fellows in accredited residency and fellowship programs acting under the supervision of a licensed physician.	HLT, JUD, FIN
HB670	RELATING TO PUBLIC SAFETY. Establishes a two-year pilot program on the island of Oahu to reduce recidivism through intervention, prevention, cultural support, and education initiatives. Appropriates funds.	PVM, JUD, FIN
HB671	RELATING TO VETERANS SERVICES. Provides that a surviving unmarried same-sex partner of a deceased veteran may be interred at any state veterans cemetery if the surviving partner provides evidence that the couple would have married but for a state law prohibiting same-sex marriage.	PVM, JUD, FIN
HB672	RELATING TO THE KALIHI TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY COMMISSION. Establishes a temporary Kalihi 21st Century Commission in the Office of Planning. Requires the Commission to develop a community development plan for the Kalihi area on Oahu.	TRN/HSG/EDB, FIN
HB673	RELATING TO MEDICAL CANNABIS. Allows naturopathic physicians and physician assistants to provide written certification for qualifying patients. Allows licensed dispensaries to have up to two additional manufacturing or processing facilities separate from their production facilities. Provides a process for the voluntary or involuntary sale or transfer of an individual dispensary license. Allows retail dispensaries to operate on state and federal holidays. Allows a licensed dispensary to purchase medical cannabis or manufactured cannabis products from another licensed dispensary, with department approval, in the event of a crop failure. Allows remediation of any cannabis batch that fails laboratory testing standards as long as any final product passes such standards. Allows licensed retail dispensaries to sell edible cannabis and cannabidiol products.	HLT, JUD, FIN
HB674	RELATING TO FAMILIES. Prohibits the disability of a parent or caregiver from being the sole factor in determining fitness as a foster parent, adoptive parent, guardian, parent seeking custody or visitation, or provider of a safe family home.	HSH, JUD
HB675	RELATING TO HEALTH. Requires the Department of Health to educate food establishments about liability protections. Expands liability protection for donors to include donations of food and similar donations made directly to needy persons. Authorizes the donation of expired food when the donor believes in good faith that the food remains fit for human consumption.	AGR, HLT, FIN
HB676	RELATING TO HEALTH CARE WORKERS. Makes intentionally or knowingly causing bodily injury to certain health care facility workers a Class C felony.	HLT, JUD
HB677	RELATING TO HEALTH CARE PRACTITIONERS. Expands the pool of orthodontists who are eligible to perform medically necessary orthodontic services for treatment of certain orofacial anomalies covered by health insurance.	HLT, CPC, FIN
HB678	RELATING TO HEALTH. Establishes a residency program to assist newly-graduated advanced practice registered nurses (APRN)in transitioning into a clinical practice. Appropriating funds for the APRN residency program and the APRN residency loan repayment program.	HLT, FIN
HB679	RELATING TO MEDICAL CANNABIS. Authorizes qualifying patients to transport cannabis between islands of the State for personal medical use.	HLT/TRN, JUD, FIN
HB680	RELATING TO INTERNAL REVENUE CODE SECTION 501(C)(4) ORGANIZATIONS. Requires an organization that is exempt from federal taxation under IRC section 501(c)(4) to submit semi-annual reports to the campaign spending commission if the organization expends funds to make communications that advocate for or against elected officials or their positions on government actions.	JUD, FIN
HB681	RELATING TO DOGS. Allows dogs in restaurants at the restaurant owner's or manager's discretion provided that certain conditions are met.	HLT/AGR, CPC/JUD
HB682	RELATING TO THE CONVEYANCE TAX. Increases the rate of real estate conveyance tax for properties with a value of $2,000,000 and more. Establishes rates for the sale of real property to the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to an eligible developer. Amends the calculation for the amount of conveyance tax revenues to be deposited into the Rental Housing Revolving Fund.	FIN
HB683	RELATING TO SPORTS. Establishes the Hawaii Sports Task Force to plan and coordinate efforts to reestablish the Pro Bowl in Hawaii, and to secure and maintain Hawaii as a host site for other sporting and sports entertainment events statewide, including a National Football League preseason game, world-title soccer tournaments, mixed martial arts Ultimate Fighting Championship tournaments, and other international sporting events at Aloha Stadium. Repeals on January 5, 2020.	TIA/EDB, FIN
HB684	RELATING TO THE GOVERNOR'S COORDINATOR ON HOMELESSNESS. Establishes in statute the position of Governor's Coordinator on Homelessness. Attaches the Governor's Coordinator on Homelessness to the Department of Human Services for administrative purposes, but requires the position to report to the Governor. Appropriates funds.	HSH, FIN
HB685	RELATING TO GROUP LIVING FACILITIES. Specifies that until the department of health establishes the clean and sober homes registry, group living facility operators shall be permitted to operate upon providing notice of operation to the applicable county.	HLT/HSH, FIN
HB686	RELATING TO VACCINATIONS. Clarifies that pharmacists may perform certain vaccinations or immunizations and are required to maintain immunization records.	HLT, CPC
HB687	RELATING TO HEALTH COVERAGE FOR PORT-WINE STAINS. Mandates coverage for medically necessary treatment of port-wine stains including laser surgery, remediation, and any necessary post-acute medical services under accident and health or sickness and mutual benefit society's policies.	HLT, CPC, FIN
HB688	RELATING TO HEALTH EDUCATION. Requires Department of Education schools to include mental health education within health education programs in all schools.	LHE, HLT, FIN
HB689	RELATING TO BREAST CANCER SCREENING. Requires health insurance plans to cover 3D mammograms for cancer patients.	LAB, CPC, FIN
HB690	RELATING TO PRESCRIPTIONS. Clarifies that existing law intended to curb over-access to and abuse of opioids, including the time frame for filling prescriptions, supply limitations, and requirements to check the state electronic prescription accountability system and execute an informed consent process, do not apply to qualifying patients who are prescribed or issued prescriptions pursuant to the State's our care, our choice act.	HLT, JUD, FIN
HB691	RELATING TO HEALTH. Makes financial exploitation of an elder by a caregiver a Class A felony.	HSH, JUD
HB692	RELATING TO HEALTH. Makes Department of Health unannounced inspections of care facilities discretionary rather than mandatory.	HLT, CPC, FIN
HB693	RELATING TO THE MINIMUM WAGE. Repeals exemption authorizing compensation of impaired individuals at less than minimum wage.	LAB, FIN
HB694	RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII. Authorizes general obligation bonds for the design and construction of a new athletic facility for the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Requires a one-third private sector funding match. Appropriates funds.	LHE, FIN
HB695	RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF ACCOUNTING AND GENERAL SERVICES. Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds for the design and construction of a new stadium. Requires a one-third private sector funding match. Appropriates funds.	TIA/WLH/EDB, FIN
HB696	RELATING TO PARKING FOR DISABLED PERSONS. Limits the exemption from parking fees to drivers with a disability who are unable to operate a parking meter or pay station because of the driver's disability and who display a distinguishing parking device, code, permit, or decal. Clarifies time limits applicable to the exemption. Establishes a misdemeanor offense for unauthorized sale or purchase of a disability parking permit. Clarifies law enforcement authority to confiscate altered, invalid, or unauthorized disability parking permits.	HSH, JUD
HB697	RELATING TO EDUCATION. Beginning with the 2020-2021 school year, requires all public, private, and charter schools in the State to establish a program within the health education curriculum for students grades nine through twelve to provide instruction in cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Specifies instruction requirements. Waives liability for instruction under certain circumstances.	LHE, FIN
HB698	RELATING TO MEDICAL CANNABIS. Includes severe autism within the definition of debilitating medical condition for the purposes of the medical use of cannabis.	HLT, JUD, FIN
HB699	RELATING TO THE HAWAII PUBLIC HOUSING AUTHORITY. Allows the Hawaii Public Housing Authority (HPHA) to evict a tenant convicted of a misdemeanor or felony related to the HPHA's property or funds during the term of the tenancy.	HSG, JUD
HB700	RELATING TO PHARMACISTS PRESCRIBING AND DISPENSING OF OPIOID ANTAGONIST. Clarifies the scope of practice of the pharmacist to authorize pharmacists to prescribe and dispense an opioid antagonist to patients, and family members and caregivers of opioid patients.	HLT, JUD
HB701	RELATING TO THE PHYSICAL THERAPY PRACTICE ACT. Amends the physical therapy practice act to allow physical therapists to practice dry needling.	HLT, CPC
HB702	RELATING TO SATELLITE NAVIGATION TECHNOLOGY. Prohibits the sale or offering for sale of location data collected using satellite navigation technology without the explicit consent of the individual who is the primary user of the satellite navigation technology-equipped device.	CPC, JUD
HB703	RELATING TO INTOXICATING LIQUOR. Prohibits any person convicted of Operating a Vehicle Under the Influence of an Intoxicant or Habitually Operating a Vehicle Under the Influence of an Intoxicant from purchasing or publicly consuming alcohol for a period of three years following conviction or administrative license revocation.	JUD, FIN
HB704	RELATING TO COSMETICS. Bans, beginning January 1, 2020, the import for profit, sale, and offer for sale of any cosmetic in the State, if the final product or any component of the product was developed or manufactured using animal testing performed on or after January 1, 2020. Effective January 1, 2020.	AGR, JUD/CPC
HB705	RELATING TO DISPOSAL OF SOLID WASTE. Adds the impounding of a vehicle as a punishment for any vehicle used in the commission of illegal disposal of solid waste.	EEP, JUD
HB706	RELATING TO ELECTRIC VEHICLES. Provides that each parking space designated for an electric vehicle shall count as four parking spaces available for public use towards any city or county requirements regarding number of total public use parking spaces. Establishes notification requirements and fines for noncompliance.	EEP/TRN, JUD, FIN
HB707	RELATING TO CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATIONS. Removes the capacity to bring an action based upon unfair or deceptive acts or practices from condominium associations in which individuals own fifty per cent or fewer of the units in the project.	CPC, JUD, FIN
HB708	RELATING TO CANNABIS. Legalizes the personal use, possession, and sale of cannabis in a specified quantity. Requires licensing to operate cannabis establishments. Subjects cannabis establishments to excise taxes and income taxes.	HLT, JUD, FIN
HB709	PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE II OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF HAWAII. Proposes an amendment to the Hawaii State Constitution to allow a recount of votes cast in an election be conducted in a manner to be provided by law.	JUD, FIN
HB710	RELATING TO EMPLOYMENT PRACTICES. Adds reproductive health decisions and utilization of family leave to the list of categories that are protected against discriminatory employment practices.	LAB, JUD, FIN
HB711	RELATING TO CRIMINAL DEFENSE. Prohibits defendants from claiming that discovery, knowledge, or disclosure of a victim's gender, gender identity, gender expression, or sexual orientation resulted in extreme mental or emotional disturbance sufficient to reduce a charge of murder to a charge of manslaughter unless the other circumstances of a defendant's explanation are already sufficient to reasonably find extreme mental or emotional disturbance. Requires the court to instruct the jury to disregard bias and prejudice regarding gender, gender identity, gender expression, or sexual orientation when a defendant's explanation of extreme mental or emotional disturbance includes discovery, knowledge, or disclosure of a victim's gender, gender identity, gender expression, or sexual orientation.	JUD
HB712	RELATING TO ELECTIONS. Requires certain executive branch candidates to disclose their federal income tax returns in order for their names to appear on an election ballot. Prohibits electors for the offices of President and Vice President of the United States to vote for candidates who have not disclosed their federal income tax returns.	JUD, FIN
HB713	RELATING TO HOMELESSNESS. Establishes a 3-year Homeless Employment Grant Program that provides homeless individuals with work opportunities and connects them with service providers. Requires the Department of Human Services to submit a report to the Legislature prior to the 2020 Regular Session. Appropriates funds.	HSH/LAB, FIN
HB714	RELATING TO NATURAL DISASTER PROTECTION. Establishes a 3-year parametric disaster insurance pilot program within DAGS to be funded by the interest from the hurricane reserve trust fund.	PVM, CPC, FIN
HB715	RELATING TO ELECTIONS. Requires recounts of election votes when the margin of victory is less than 0.5 per cent of the votes cast.	JUD, FIN
HB716	RELATING TO WILD ANIMALS. Prohibits the importation of dangerous wild animals for exhibition in a circus, carnival, or other live animal act or performance.	AGR, JUD
HB717	RELATING TO ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION. Establishes the Plastic Pollution Initiative Program under the Department of Land and Natural Resources to eliminate plastic waste polluting the State's environment. Establishes the Plastic Pollution Advisory Council to collect data on plastic pollution and associated cleanup costs. Appropriates funds.	EEP, FIN
HB718	RELATING TO RANKED CHOICE VOTING. Establishes ranked choice voting for special federal elections and special elections of vacant county council seats.	JUD, FIN
HB719	RELATING TO ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION. Requires the Department of Accounting and General Services to track the cost to state departments and agencies of collecting and disposing of polystyrene products in each county. Beginning in 2021, requires each county to reimburse the general fund for costs to the State of collecting and disposing of polystyrene products in the county.	EEP, CPC, FIN
HB720	RELATING TO FIREARMS. Requires firearm owners to report lost, stolen, or destroyed firearms. Requires firearm licensees to report attempted unlawful purchases of firearms as a condition of the license to sell and manufacture firearms.	PVM, JUD

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HB500	RELATING TO PERMIT FEES FOR AERIAL DEVICES, DISPLAY FIREWORKS, AND ARTICLES PYROTECHNIC. Increases the fireworks display permit fee to keep pace with administrative costs.	PVM, FIN