Hawaii Bills

in committee · Hawaii · Senate Jan 23, 2017

SB 578: RELATING TO HOUSING.

Authorizes the Hawaii community development authority to prepare a programmatic environmental impact statement for housing development projects on all lands within the Kakaako community development district. Allows the programmatic environmental impact statement, once it is accepted by the office of environmental quality control, to satisfy the environmental assessment and impact statement requirements for any housing development project within the Kakaako community development district.

Donovan Dela Cruz (D) Russell E. Ruderman (D) Michelle Kidani (D) J. Kalani English (D) Stanley Chang (D)

in committee · Hawaii · Senate Jan 23, 2017

SB 811: RELATING TO VOTING.

Beginning on January 1, 2018, requires that any person who is eligible to vote and applies for a new or renewed motor vehicle driver's license, provisional license, instruction permit, limited purpose driver's license, limited purpose provisional driver's license, limited purpose instruction permit, or identification card shall be automatically registered to vote if that person is not already registered to vote; provided that upon receipt of notification from the respective county clerk the applicant shall have twenty-one calendar days to opt-out of automatic voter registration. Makes an appropriation.

in committee · Hawaii · House Jan 23, 2017

HB 251: RELATING TO MARIJUANA.

Authorizes the counties to adopt ordinances to legalize marijuana cultivation, possession, sale, transfer, and use, for persons over the age of twenty-one. Clarifies that penal code provisions pertaining to drug and intoxicating compounds offenses do not apply to counties that have adopted ordinances legalizing marijuana and adopted administrative rules to regulate marijuana.

in committee · Hawaii · Senate Jan 23, 2017

SB 274: RELATING TO PUBLIC LANDS.

Authorizes the board of land and natural resources to extend commercial, hotel, resort, and industrial leases when the lessee makes qualifying substantial improvements to the leased land.

in committee · Hawaii · Senate Jan 23, 2017

SB 556: RELATING TO THE STATEWIDE TRAFFIC CODE.

Clarifies when pedestrians may enter a crosswalk equipped with a countdown timer.

in committee · Hawaii · House Jan 23, 2017

HB 139: RELATING TO GOVERNMENT.

Requires that the Senate President and House Speaker be notified in writing upon the receipt of any federal aid money for expenditure by the State.

in committee · Hawaii · Senate Jan 23, 2017

SB 606: RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION.

Establishes a three-year pilot project that authorizes a vehicle with a single occupant to use the zipper lane for a fee. Appropriates funds to the department of transportation for the pilot project.

in committee · Hawaii · Senate Jan 23, 2017

SB 265: RELATING TO THE HUMANE TREATMENT OF ANIMALS.

Creates an offense of confinement of a dog by tethering under prescribed circumstances with certain exceptions and establishes mandatory fines.

in committee · Hawaii · House Jan 23, 2017

HB 37: RELATING TO MEDICAL MARIJUANA.

Amends Hawaii Revised Statutes and Hawaii Administrative Rules to substitute references to "medical marijuana" and like terms with "medical cannabis" and like terms.

in committee · Hawaii · Senate Jan 23, 2017

SB 583: RELATING TO LAND USE.

Allows counties to approve district boundary amendments involving land areas up to one hundred acres, rather than fifteen acres, except lands in a conservation district or delineated as important agricultural lands.

in committee · Hawaii · House Jan 23, 2017

HB 359: 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.

in committee · Hawaii · Senate Jan 23, 2017

SB 796: RELATING TO PASSENGERS RIDING IN BED OF PICKUP TRUCKS.

Raises the age of passengers prohibited from riding in the bed of a pickup truck under certain conditions from twelve or under to under eighteen years of age. Deems passengers in the bed of a pickup truck to have assumed the risk of injury or death from an accident or injury occurring while the vehicle is in operation.

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