Hawaii Bills

in committee · Hawaii · Senate Feb 3, 2017

SB 374: RELATING TO MEDICAID.

Establishes an add-on payment of forty per cent to the medicaid base rate for medicaid enrollees at long-term care facilities that have medically complex conditions requiring higher level of care. Appropriates funds for fiscal years 2018 and 2019 to cover increased costs. (SD1)

Karl Rhoads (D) Michelle Kidani (D) Rosalyn H. Baker (D) J. Kalani English (D) Clarence K. Nishihara (D)

in committee · Hawaii · Senate Feb 3, 2017

SB 1153: RELATING TO CAMPAIGN SIGNS.

Prohibits a person from posting, maintaining, displaying, or erecting any sign on public property that urges voters to vote for an election candidate. Designates the candidate that the sign urges voters to vote for as the party responsible for removing the sign. Allows the Campaign Spending Commission to impose fines for violations and place a lien against the campaign account of the candidate if the sign is not removed within 2 weeks of receipt of written notice. Allows the candidate to object to written notice of removal. Requires the Campaign Spending Commission to adopt rules.

in committee · Hawaii · Senate Feb 3, 2017

SB 310: RELATING TO ABSENTEE VOTING.

Requires absentee ballots to be mailed not later than the closing of the polls on any election day and to be received by the clerk not later than three days following the closing of the polls on any election day.

in committee · Hawaii · Senate Feb 3, 2017

SB 515: RELATING TO IN VITRO FERTILIZATION INSURANCE COVERAGE.

Amends insurance coverage requirements for in vitro fertilization to allow for expanded applicability.

in committee · Hawaii · House Feb 3, 2017

HB 1107: RELATING TO AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE INTERPRETER REFERRAL AGENCIES.

Regulates Interpreter Referral Agencies by requiring registration with the State of Hawaii. Includes sections about agency responsibilities, consumer rights, protections for those harmed by using an interpreter referral agency to obtain an interpreter.

in committee · Hawaii · Senate Feb 3, 2017

SB 1051: RELATING TO UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES.

Prohibits the use of an unmanned aerial vehicle without an affixed identification label that contains the operator's name, phone number, and address, beginning on 1/1/18.

in committee · Hawaii · Senate Feb 2, 2017

SB 268: RELATING TO HOMELESSNESS.

Appropriates funds to the department of human services to create an integrated database of certain information related to homeless individuals for providers of homeless services and study the impact and feasibility of such a database. (SD1)

in committee · Hawaii · House Feb 2, 2017

HB 1228: RELATING TO PROCUREMENT.

Provides a bidder of a public works construction project with two working days after the closing of bids to provide the name of each joint contractor or subcontractor and the nature and scope of the work to be performed by each. Allows the bidder to replace a subcontractor that is not in compliance with these requirements, provided that the price of the total bid remains the same.

in committee · Hawaii · Senate Feb 2, 2017

SB 581: RELATING TO THE CONVEYANCE TAX.

Removes the cap on the amount of conveyance taxes that may be paid into the rental housing revolving fund and increases the percentage of conveyance taxes collected that shall be paid into the rental housing revolving fund.

in committee · Hawaii · Senate Feb 2, 2017

SB 368: RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES.

Requires operators of child care facilities, including family child care homes, group child care centers, and group child care homes, and infant and toddler child care centers that care for children one year of age or younger to implement and maintain safe sleep policies to prevent sudden unexpected infant deaths and sudden infant death syndrome in accordance with rules adopted by the Department of Human Services.

in committee · Hawaii · House Feb 2, 2017

HB 467: RELATING TO COLLECTIVE BARGAINING IN PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT.

Creates 7 separate collective bargaining units for employees of the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation.

in committee · Hawaii · House Feb 2, 2017

HB 1105: RELATING TO EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES.

Repeals the Emergency Medical Services Special Fund and deposits moneys from the fund's revenue sources into the general fund, and appropriates an equivalent amount of general funds for the Department of Health.

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