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HOW MAJOR BILLS FARED AT THE CAPITOL


Here is the status of major bills near the halfway point of the 60-day legislative session. The bills that are alive have passed at least one chamber of the Legislature, or are
about to pass.The bills that are failing were not approved by the House or Senate by the procedural deadline. Failing bills can be revived later, however, and measures
can be rewritten to change their effect before the session adjourns in May.

CONSUMER HEALTH/
GOVERNMENT TAXES EDUCATION PROTECTION/LABOR PUBLIC SAFETY SOCIAL SERVICES ENVIRONMENT HOMELESS
PASSING PASSING PASSING PASSING PASSING PASSING PASSING PASSING
State Budget Home sales tax School safety Paid family leave Bump stock ban Medical aid in dying Bottle deposits Pu‘uhonua villages
HB 1900 HD1 SB 2188 SD3 SB 2576 SD2 SB 2990 SD2 SB 2046 SD1 HB 2739 HD1 SB 3099 SD2 HB 2014 HD2
Would authorize $14.3 HB 2750 HD2 Would require all public HB 2598 HD1 HB 1908 HD2 Would allow terminally Would automatically Would require the gover-
billion in spending on Would increase the school classroom doors Would require the state Would explicitly ban in ill adult Hawaii residents increase the beverage nor to identify state lands
government operations conveyance tax to to be retrofitted with in- Department of Labor and Hawaii all “bump stock” with less than six months container deposit from 5 to establish a homeless
in the year beginning July raise money to develop terior locks by 2019 and Industrial Relations to devices that allow rifles to live to request a pre- cents per bottle or can to villages program. Each
1, and $4.48 billion in affordable housing. SB connected to an intercom establish rules by 2020 to mimic automatic weap- scription for medication 10 cents if the container village would have up to
construction spending 2415 SD1 also would system independent to implement an insur- ons fire. Bump stock to end their lives. Imposes redemption rate drops 100 units; a community
this year and next year. raise the conveyance tax of the school’s phone ance program for paid devices were used in criminal penalties for below 80 percent for center with communal
Additional spending is on non-owner occupied system by 2020. Would family leave coverage for the Las Vegas massacre tampering with a patient two consecutive years. showers, bathrooms
contained in dozens of homes worth more than impose mandatory annual all workers in the state. last year that killed 58 request or coercing The redemption rate was and kitchen; and waste
appropriations bills mov- $2 million emergency-preparedness Existing federal and state concertgoers. a patient to request a about 66 percent over the disposal systems.
ing separately through training for Department leave programs in Hawaii prescription. past three fiscal years.
the Legislature. Teachers’ tax of Education teachers, allow for unpaid leave. Immigration holds Ohana zones
SB 2922 SD1
students and school staff.
SB 2290 SD2 Child welfare Red Hill tanks HB 2753 HD1
Moonlighting Would ask the voters Sick leave Would prohibit Hawaii HB 2277 HD1 SD1 SB 2930 SD2 HD1 HB 2281 HD1
HB 71, HD1 whether to amend the Farm-to-school HB 1727 HD1 law enforcement SB 2276 SD1 HD1 Would require the state Would create an “Ohana
Would prohibit any Hawaii state constitution meals Would require employers agencies from complying Would provide funds for Department of Health to Zone Program” to
Hawaii governor or to allow the Legislature to SB 2387 SD2 with 50 or more employ- with federal immigration Department of Human adopt rules for preventing designate areas where
mayor from maintaining impose a new surcharge Would authorize the ees to provide a minimum holds unless required Services to establish a leaks in underground homeless people could
any other employment on residential investment Department of Education amount of paid sick to do so by law or by a five-year pilot program in storage tanks that would live. Would provide
or receiving any outside properties and hotels to establish a Farm to leave to minimum-wage federal warrant signed by the East Hawaii section include the military-­ toilets, showers and other
salary, fees or earnings to help fund public edu- School program, with earners. Would give a judge. of Child Welfare Services operated tanks at Red hygiene facilities; areas
beginning on the sixty-first cation. dedicated staff positions, employers the option to to cap the number of Hill. One of those tanks for food preparation;
Negligent homicide children supervised by
calendar day after their to incorporate more local- offer paid sick leave to leaked 27,000 gallons of on-site child care; and
election. Honolulu Mayor REIT tax
HB 2588 HD1
HB 2702 HD1 ly grown, scratch-cooked minimum-wage and other each caseworker at 20, fuel more than four years transportation services.
Kirk Caldwell has served employees or to pay min- Would allow courts and would appropriate ago.
meals into cafeterias. Safe zones
on the Territorial Savings Would impose state in- imum-wage employees to impose extended funds for additional case
Bank board since 2007 come tax on shareholders Cap on tests a salary above minimum prison terms for offenders managers and support Feral cats SB 2501 SD2
of Real Estate Investment HB 2117 HD1 wage. convicted of negligent staff. HB 2593 HD1 Would require the
and receives an annual
base salary of about Trusts including those Would limit the number homicide in the first de- Would require the state to Department of Human
$49,000. who live out of state. of standardized tests ‘Conversion gree who failed to remain Kupuna care contract with a nonprofit Services to establish,
SB 2988 SD2
Internet tax students take per school therapy’ at the scene of a traffic animal rescue group to maintain and operate safe
Tax extension year and require that the SB 270 SD1 crash or other crime to Would appropriate register and oversee zones where homeless
HB 2587 HD1 SB 2508 SD1/HB 1655
DOE notify parents about Would prohibit profes- assist injured persons. $3.4 million to expand caretakers of feral cats. persons may reside until
Would extend the Would require internet sional counselors from the kupuna caregiver pro- Exempts those caretakers the Legislature deter-
the right to opt out of Rape kits
deadline for a county platforms that do more gram to support working from laws and ordinances mines that homelessness
participating in statewide advertising or providing HB 2131 HD1
to adopt a half-percent than $100,000 worth of sexual orientation change family caregivers. relating to the feeding and is no longer a crisis.
standardized tests.
surcharge on the state business in Hawaii each therapy to people less Would create a Hawaii confinement of cats. Would require safe zones
excise tax, from March 31 year collect and remit Charter facilities than 18 years of age. Sexual Assault Response Cancer research have hygiene facilities,
to September 30. excise taxes for online HB 2508 HD1 Team to address how SB 2049 SD1 Sunscreen ban security and social
sales. Would provide unspeci- Wages for disabled sexual assault evidence Would provide funding to SB 2571 SD1 services; allow “peaceful
Kapolei jobs fied amount of funding for SB 3023 SD2 kits are processed and the University of Hawaii Would ban the sale of consumption” of alcohol
HB 2659 HD1 Car rental tax tracked, and to ensure Cancer Center to deter-
HB 2601 HD1 charter school infrastruc- HB 1627 HD1 sunscreen products and animal companions.
Would establish a five- ture costs, rent or lease Would include persons victims are informed of mine why Hawaii has the that contain oxybenzone
year Kapolei jobs initiative Would create a new
assistance and repair and with disabilities under the their rights. highest incidence of liver or octinoxate without a TAT for homeless
program with a tax credit motor vehicle rental state’s minimum wage and bile duct cancer in medical prescription. HB 2012 HD2
maintenance costs. Child molestation
to offer incentives to fee to pay for highway requirements. Current the nation. The amount Would set aside transient
increase the number construction projects to UH tuition cuts law allows for special
HB 1847 HD1
requested is $340,000. Visitor impacts accommodations taxes to
ease traffic congestion. HB 1828 HD2
of businesses willing SB 2329 SD2 certificates to pay below Would extend the period fund homeless initiatives
to open in the Kapolei The original draft bill Would reduce tuition minimum wage to individ- during which a victim of Obamacare Would allocate $10 in tourist and resort
proposed a fee of $4.50 child sexual abuse may SB 2340 SD2 HD1 million in transient accom- areas in partnership with
region. at UH campuses by uals whose earning ca-
per day. unspecified percentag- pacity is impaired by old bring an otherwise time- Would ensure certain modations taxes to the the Hawaii Lodging &
Airport corporation es, and also would cap age or physical or mental barred civil action against benefits under the federal Hawaii Tourism Authority Tourism Association.
SB 2996 SD3 EV fee the victim’s abuser or an Affordable Care Act are to mitigate visitor impacts Would likely be used for
SB 1011 SD2 future tuition increases to deficiency or injury.
Would create the Hawaii no more than the mean entity with a duty of care. preserved in Hawaii in affected communities. airfare to return homeless
Would impose an extra
airports corporation change in the state’s me- Salary history Public shelter
law, including extending Would require matching people to the mainland.
within the Department of annual registration fee of dian household income HB 2137 HD1 dependent coverage for funds from the private
$70 for electric vehicles SB 2351 SD1 HB 2693 HD2 Mental health
Transportation to manage for the past decade as adult children up to 26 sector or a county.
the state’s airports, and and $35 for hybrids. determined by the U.S. Would prohibit pro- Would prohibit places of years of age, and prohibit- treatment
transfer the aeronautics spective employers from public accommodation ing health insurers from No floatillas HB 2021 HD2
Timeshare tax Census Bureau. HB 2617 HD2
functions of DOT to the SB 2489 SD2 requesting or considering from denying shelter excluding preexisting Would require the
Hawaii airports corpo- Degrees for a job applicant’s salary to people when an conditions. Would make it illegal to Department of Human
Would increase the history as part of an emergency alert advises consume intoxicating
ration. state workers Services to establish a pi-
transient accommoda- HB 2113 HD2 employment application the public to immediately Prior approval liquor while floating, lot project to operate a fa-
Partnerships tions taxes collected from process or compensation seek shelter. HB 885 HD1 swimming or wading in
HB 2581 HD 2 timeshares to provide an Would provide tuition cility providing shelter and
offer. Would prohibit health in- state water within 1,000 mental health treatment
SB 2705 SD2 HD1 extra $20 million in extra grants at University of Phone alerts surance preauthorization yards of any beach or for homeless individuals
revenue next year. Hawaii campuses for Payday loans SCR 26
House bill would requirements that cause shoreline. with severe mental illness
existing state employees SB 3008 SD2 Would request that the
establish the Office of undue delay in providing
Public-Private Partner-
Vacation rentals in exchange for future em- Federal Communications medical treatment. Spec- Foam containers who are court-ordered to
SB 2963 SD1 ployment with the state. Would regulate the a psychiatric facility.
ship and the position of payday lending industry Commission require that ifies that insurers and not SB 2498 SD2
public-private partnership Would establish a pro- under the state Depart- all cellular phones receive health care providers are Would ban restaurants Homeless children
cess for online platforms UH scholarships
coordinator, and adds HB 2165 HD1 ment of Commerce and emergency alerts without liable for civil damages statewide from serving SB 2401 SD2
public-private partnership to collect and remit to an option to opt out. caused by undue delays food in polystyrene foam
the state the transient Would create the Hawaii Consumer Affairs, impose Would appropriate funds
project delivery methods Promise program to caps on interest and for preauthorization. containers and prohibit for a three-year housing
to the state Procurement accommodations tax on State shelters vendors from selling the
provide scholarships installment payments. HB 2452 HD1 homeless children pilot
Code. Senate bill would short-term rentals such as Foster funding foam containers.
to students based on program to assist families
authorize five positions for those provided by Airbnb. Virtual currency Would require all new HB 1900 HD1
with minors or families
Would allow the state financial need at any UH SB 3082 SD1 state buildings built Shark protection
the office. Would provide $7.1 mil- with minors at imminent
to collect an extra $10 campus. HB 2257 HD2 after July 1 to include a SB 2079 SD2
lion for next year to satisfy risk of homelessness due
Kapolei million next year in taxes. UH regents Would expand the state’s shelter area capable of state and federal class Would create a new
to domestic violence to
development SB 2319 SD2 money transmitter law to withstanding a category action settlements requir- misdemeanor offense
SB 2525 SD2 HD1
Resort fee tax include persons engaged 3 hurricane. ing that Department of for knowingly capturing,
obtain permanent hous-
SB 2699 SD2/HB 2432 Would amend compo- ing. Would appropriate
Would establish the east sition of the UH Board in the transmission of Human Services increase abusing or entangling
Would impose the tran- Police
virtual currency and allow SB 2428 SD1
hiring payments for foster care any shark, within state
funds to the Hawaii Pub-
Kapolei community devel- sient accommodations of Regents from 15 to lic Housing Authority for
opment district under the seven members and for regulation under the to comply with the federal marine waters, and would
tax on hotel resort fees public housing improve-
Hawaii Community De- reestablish governor’s state Division of Financial Would prohibit hiring Child Welfare Act. also prohibit capturing or
ments and renovations
that are calculated sepa- Institutions. of a state or county law killing all rays.
velopment Authority, and rately from the advertised authority to nominate enforcement officer if Protecting statewide.
requires the HCDA plan short-term rental rate, and board members. Dog tethering the candidate’s previous dispensaries Carbon credits
for the return of respon- would allow the state to HB 2072 HD2 position as a law enforce- SB 2407 SD1 HD1 HB 1986 HD2 SD1 FAILING
sibilities in the Kakaako Sex discrimination
collect an extra $19.4 HB 2139 HD1 Would prohibit certain ment officer was termi- Would create a task Would establish a Trespass exemption
district to the city. million in taxes next year. nated while the officer
Would ban discrimination restraints and tethers force to study how to carbon-offsets program Would exempt Pu‘uhonua
FAILING that endanger or deny was in poor employment protect Hawaii’s medial to fund projects to o Waianae homeless
Estate tax on the basis of sex — in-
sustenance to dogs. standing. marijuana industry after improve the state’s encampment from law
SB 2484 SD1 cluding gender identity or
Law enforcement expression or sexual ori- U.S. Attorney General water infrastructure and prohibiting trespassing on
Would set aside $2.5 mil- Would increase Hawaii Coffee labeling FAILING mitigate threats to water
taxes on estates valued entation — or disability in HB 1757 HD1 Jeff Sessions withdrew state lands.
lion for the state Attorney any educational program Would expand coffee-­ federal guidelines that sustainability efforts.
at more than $10 million, DNA collection Sand Island
General to use to cover or activity that receives had previously limited
allowing the state to col- labeling requirements for Would require anyone Greenhouse gas
costs related to unexpect- state funding. prosecutions of business- homeless
ed emergencies and law lect an extra $900,000 coffee produced in whole arrested for a “serious” es and individuals who
HB 2182 HD2
Would require the state
next year. or in part from Hawaii-­ felony to provide DNA Would set a statutory
enforcement needs. FAILING samples upon arrest. sold pot in a legal manner Department of Human
grown coffee beans to zero-greenhouse gas Services to fund a
Public information Cigarette tax include ready-to-drink Currently felony offenders under state law. The drug
emissions target for the
SB 2654 SD2 HD1 Education fund are only required to pro- remains illegal under pilot program to address
Would require the state Would establish an coffee beverages. state in 2045. chronic homelessness
Would increase the vide DNA samples after federal law, and Sessions
Office of Information education special fund within the Sand Island
cigarette tax and make Video games conviction. said future prosecutions FAILING
Practices to resolve all to receive 25 percent area.
the tabacco tax apply SB 3024 SD2 would be up to individual
public complaints about of general excise tax Investigating police U.S. attorneys.
noncompliance with the to e-liquid as well. The Would prohibit anyone Aquarium fishing Big Island village
original bill would have revenues to fund public Would require the Would restrict the taking
state’s open records education. under 21 from purchas- Marijuana insurance Would establish within
increased the tobacco ing video games that attorney general to of any aquatic life for
and open meetings laws investigate an alleged SB 2488 SD2 HD1 the Department of
within six months from the tax from $3.20 to $4.50 Home-schooling contain gambling-like commercial purposes by Human Services a
per pack, making it the violation of state law by a Would establish a med- any method to persons
date of the complaint. Would require families mechanisms. Hawaii County Homeless
highest state tobacco tax county police officer if the ical cannabis insurance with a valid aquarium fish
that want to educate Villages program, and
prosecuting attorney has reimbursement working
PEG channel switch in the nation. children at home to apply Internet privacy group to study the impli-
permit and commercial waive applicable state
Would require state De- HB 2173 HD2 declined to prosecute marine license.
Renters’ credit for state permission and cations of making medical permitting and construc-
partment of Commerce Would prohibit employers the police officer, and if
undergo background marijuana reimbursable Recreational fishing tion fees for the program.
and Consumer Affairs SB 2989 SD2 and educational insti- the victim requests an
checks. by health insurance, Would require a license Would exempt the state
to intervene in a plan by Would expand the tutions from requiring investigation.
Charter Communications eligibility and amount of School impact fees employees and students Mental exams including the impact on for noncommercial marine from claims arising out of
the low-income house- insurance premiums. fishing, with a resident the provision of housing
to shift the Olelo public Would repeal 2007 state to provide protected
access channels from hold renters’ tax credit. law that authorizes the personal online account
Would allow a court to license fee up to $5 per or services to homeless
The credit hasn’t been Department of Education information.
choose one to three FAILING year and a non-resident persons.
their current location qualified examiners in
at channels 49 and 55 increased since 1981, to collect fees from fee at least five times the Church shelters
felony cases in which CHIP funding
to channels numbered when it was set at $50 developers in high-growth Fireworks arrests Would provide $9.3
resident fee. Would authorize religious,
per exemption. HB 1172 HD2 SD2 a defendant’s mental
between 182 and 187. areas of the state to million in emergency Pesticides charitable, educational,
Would allow probable fitness to proceed is in
offset the cost of building funding for the the Chil- Would ban the import, and other nonprofit
Public workers FAILING cause for fireworks of- doubt. Requires that one
new schools. dren’s Health Insurance use, manufacture, sale organizations to provide
Would create a task force fenses to be established of the examiners be a
Program, a step that be- and storage of chlorpy- shelter to homeless per-
to study the feasibility of Refundable EITC Mandatory recess from witness statements, psychiatrist or licensed
guaranteeing all Hawaii Would change the state Would require public psychologist. came unnecessary when rifos in the state. Would sons, including by hosting
photographs, video and
residents over the age of earned income tax credit schools to provide a Congress reached a deal have banned the use of temporary encampments
other recordings. Pre-arrest diversion to extend federal funding on property owned by the
18 a job in government. from a nonrefundable minimum 15 minutes of neonicotinoid insecti-
Would establish a pre-ar- for CHIP for another 10 cides and glyphosate organization. Would limit
credit to a refundable tax recess prior to the lunch FAILING rest diversion pilot project years. the types of ordinances
AG enforcement credit. meal period for all grade herbicides.
Would establish a Minimum wage hike for individuals with mental Midwife licensing a county may enact or
levels. Straw ban
division in the Attorney Vehicle fee Various bills would health or substance other actions a county
Would establish criteria Would ban food vendors may take in regulating
General’s office to con- Would assess a new $10 Selective Service increase the state’s mini- abuse challenges who for licensure of midwives
solidate law enforcement per vehicle importation Would require young allegedly commit nonvio- from selling and distribut- that shelter to homeless
mum wage from $10.10 by the Department
activities now based in fee for each motor vehicle males to register for the lent, non-felony offenses ing plastic straws. persons.
to various amounts over of Commerce and
the state departments of imported into the state to selective service in order time. on state property.
Consumer Affairs, and Captive whales Homeless insurance
transportation, land and be paid to the counties to attend any college Would ban state permits
Fluoridated water provide for interim rules Would require all health
natural resources and to finance the disposal of or university in the UH allowing inter- and
Would ask voters through for continuing education plans in Hawaii including
public safety. abandoned vehicles. system. intra-state transfers
a statewide referendum requirements, standards Medicaid managed care
of professional conduct, of captive cetaceans programs to provide cov-
whether Hawaii should
prescriptive authority, and (whales, dolphins and erage for the treatment of
pursue community water
penalties for violations. porpoises) solely for homelessness.
fluoridation.
breeding or entertainment
purposes.

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