Relating To Polystyrene Foam Containers. [SB-11]
[Waste Management / Recycling ]
[Public Health ]
[Environmental ]
[Food ]
Prohibits restaurants from serving prepared foods using polystyrene foam containers statewide. Authorizes the Department of Health to adopt rules. Takes effect on December 31, 2020. (SD1)
SB-11: Relating To Polystyrene Foam Containers.
Sponsored by: Sen. Stanley Chang
Carried Over To 2020 Regular Session. on 12/01/2019
Relating To The Legislative Broadcast Program. [SB-1382]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Telecommunications ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Funding ]
[Public Safety ]
Requires both chambers of the legislature to establish rules for livestreaming public hearings and informational briefings at the State Capitol to the public through audiovisual technology. Appropriates moneys. Requires the legislative broadcast program to make an audio or audiovisual recording of all public hearings and informational briefings held at the State Capitol and maintain an archive of the recordings to be made available to the public. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
SB-1382: Relating To The Legislative Broadcast Program.
Sponsored by: Sen. Stanley Chang
Carried Over To 2020 Regular Session. on 12/01/2019
Relating To Homelessness. [SB-229]
[Housing ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Human Services ]
[Poverty ]
[Community Development ]
Authorizes $125,000,000 in general obligation bonds to be expended for purposes set forth in section 201H-202, Hawaii Revised Statutes; appropriates $75,000,000 from the general fund to be expended by the Hawaii housing finance and development corporation to build new low-income rental housing units or to apply funds to existing programs or projects targeting the chronically homeless or low-income renters facing eviction.
SB-229: Relating To Homelessness.
Sponsored by: Sen. Stanley Chang
Carried Over To 2020 Regular Session. on 12/01/2019
Relating To Housing. [SB-1395]
[Housing ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Funding ]
[Human Services ]
Appropriates funds for the State Rent Supplement Program. (SB1395 HD2)
SB-1395: Relating To Housing.
Sponsored by: Sen. Jarrett Keohokalole
Received Notice Of Discharge Of All House Conferees (hse. Com. No. 363). on 06/22/2020
Relating To Elections. [SB-943]
[Elections ]
Specifies that the filing date for candidate committee preliminary reports is thirty days, rather than ten days, before a general, subsequent special, or subsequent nonpartisan election. Specifies that the filing date for candidate committee preliminary reports is sixty and then thirty days, rather than thirty days and then ten days, before a primary, initial special, or initial nonpartisan election and that the report filed sixty days before the election shall be current through May 31. Amends the filing due dates for noncandidate committee reports
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SB-943: Relating To Elections.
Sponsored by: Sen. Stanley Chang
Carried Over To 2020 Regular Session. on 12/01/2019
Relating To Child Welfare Services. [SB-1022]
[Children and Youth ]
[Human Services ]
[Public Safety ]
Establishes a Child Welfare Services Task Force to review the Child Welfare Services Branch of the Department of Human Services and examine best practices that will help to improve child care safety through the Branch. Requires report to Legislature. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
SB-1022: Relating To Child Welfare Services.
Sponsored by: Sen. Donna Kim
Carried Over To 2020 Regular Session. on 12/01/2019
Relating To Hawaiian Home Lands. [SB-212]
[Housing ]
[Real Estate ]
[Native American Affairs ]
Provides that a lessee of Hawaiian Homelands may use the value of the lease as collateral for a loan to build a dwelling on the tract of leased land; provided that a lender who does not qualify to be a lessee of Hawaiian Homes under this Act shall not become a lessee of the respective tract of land.
SB-212: Relating To Hawaiian Home Lands.
Sponsored by: Sen. Jarrett Keohokalole
Carried Over To 2020 Regular Session. on 12/01/2019
Relating To Actions For Quiet Title. [SB-749]
[Real Estate ]
[Community Development ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Provides that where a quiet title action involves kuleana land, at the request of any defendant at the time the action was brought, the court shall order mandatory mediation with a goal of resolving the dispute, including any issues that might need to be preliminarily established through an action commenced under chapter 668A, HRS. Allows the court to consolidate separate actions commenced by the same plaintiff or multiple plaintiffs for the same real property in interest. Requires the plaintiff in a quiet title action involving kuleana land to
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SB-749: Relating To Actions For Quiet Title.
Sponsored by: Sen. Stanley Chang
Referred To Wlh, Jud, Fin, Referral Sheet 36 on 03/09/2020
Relating To Housing. [SB-517]
[Housing ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Community Development ]
[Construction ]
[Economic Development ]
Requires each county to prepare a housing supply plan to plan for projected increases in the State's housing supply to meet housing demands of the respective county, identify and analyze existing and projected housing needs for all income levels, and identify adequate sites for housing, including rental housing. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
SB-517: Relating To Housing.
Sponsored by: Sen. Stanley Chang
Carried Over To 2020 Regular Session. on 12/01/2019
Relating To Kindergarten. [SB-982]
[Education ]
[Children and Youth ]
Changes the kindergarten start age from five years of age by July 31 to five years of age by December 31.
SB-982: Relating To Kindergarten.
Sponsored by: Sen. Stanley Chang
Carried Over To 2020 Regular Session. on 12/01/2019