Hawaii Bills

in committee · Hawaii · Senate Jan 24, 2019

SB 469: RELATING TO THE STATE BUDGET.

Appropriates funds to support and sustain the disaster relief and recovery efforts in Hawaii County resulting from the Kilauea eruption.

Russell E. Ruderman (D) Kaiali‘i Kahele (D) Lorraine Inouye (D) Dru Kanuha (D)

in committee · Hawaii · Senate Jan 24, 2019

SB 899: RELATING TO MEDICAL RESIDENCY PROGRAMS.

Appropriates funds to the University of Hawaii Family Medicine Residency Program to establish a consortium of hospitals and other institutions participating in medical training to develop physician residency opportunities throughout the State.

in committee · Hawaii · Senate Jan 24, 2019

SB 962: RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT.

Requires that each fiscal year all departments, agencies, and other instrumentalities of the State identify positions that have been vacant for five or more years and eliminate those positions from their budget request for the next fiscal year.

in committee · Hawaii · Senate Jan 24, 2019

SB 888: RELATING TO COFFEE LABELING.

Requires coffee blend labels to disclose regional origins and percent by weight of the blended coffees. Prohibits using geographic origins of coffee in labeling or advertising for roasted or instant coffee that contains less than 51 percent coffee by weight from that geographic origin.

in committee · Hawaii · House Jan 24, 2019

HB 604: 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.

in committee · Hawaii · Senate Jan 24, 2019

SB 961: RELATING TO CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE.

Requires the department of business, economic development, and tourism and the counties to identify and develop plans for critical infrastructure following a natural disaster or during a state of emergency. Requires the department of business, economic development, and tourism and the counties to identify and develop plans for ensuring access to electricity following a natural disaster or during a state of emergency.

in committee · Hawaii · Senate Jan 24, 2019

SB 465: RELATING TO ELECTRONIC EAVESDROPPING.

Prohibits the State and its political subdivisions from collecting or using a person's electronic data or metadata by means of a cell site simulator device, except under certain conditions. Prohibits the installation and use of a cell site simulator device without a court order. Specifies conditions when a cell site simulator device may be used. Specifies procedures for application and issuance of an order for a cell site simulator device. Specifies reporting requirements related to cell site simulator device applications.

in committee · Hawaii · Senate Jan 24, 2019

SB 648: RELATING TO FAIR SCHEDULING.

Requires employers to provide employees with written notice of the employee's shift schedule at least ten calendar days before the employee is scheduled to work, under certain conditions.

in committee · Hawaii · Senate Jan 24, 2019

SB 532: RELATING TO HEALTH CARE PEER REVIEW.

Amends the definition of "physician", for purposes of health care peer review, to include physicians participating in nationally-recognized accredited graduate medical training programs that occur in a health care entity.

in committee · Hawaii · Senate Jan 24, 2019

SB 968: RELATING TO CARGO INSPECTIONS.

Authorizes Department of Public Safety to inspect shipping containers for illegal fireworks and explosives. Establishes a shipping container inspection program using explosive-sniffing dogs and associated special fund. Authorizes Department of Transportation to impose shipping container import fees. Increases fine for fireworks violations.

in committee · Hawaii · Senate Jan 24, 2019

SB 925: RELATING TO VACCINATION GUIDELINES.

Repeals the authority of the Department of Health to adopt, amend, or repeal rules to establish a list of specific vaccines and the immunization recommendations of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices.

in committee · Hawaii · Senate Jan 24, 2019

SB 679: PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE VI, SECTION 3 OF THE HAWAII STATE CONSTITUTION TO REMOVE THE MANDATORY RETIREMENT AGE FOR JUSTICES AND JUDGES.

Proposes a constitutional amendment to remove the mandatory retirement age of seventy years for justices and judges.

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