Sen. Joy San Buenaventura

Primary HB 2461

In committee · Hawaii House · Lead sponsor

RELATING TO HOMELESSNESS.

Establishes within the Department of Human Services a Hawaii County Homeless Villages program. Waives applicable state permitting and construction fees for the program. Exempts the State from claims arising out of the provision of housing or services to homeless persons. Establishes the homeless villages special fund. Provides immunity from civil liability to volunteers and state employees who provide housing or services to homeless persons. Appropriates funds. (HB2461 HD1)

In committee Feb 9, 2018 0 co-sponsors Track

Primary HB 2167

In committee · Hawaii House · Lead sponsor

RELATING TO CHARTER SCHOOLS.

Appropriates moneys for start-up grants to assist pre-opening public charter schools. (HB2167 HD1)

In committee Feb 9, 2018 0 co-sponsors Track

Primary HB 2664

In committee · Hawaii House · Lead sponsor

RELATING TO MEDICAL CANNABIS.

Requires the counties to establish a medical cannabis collectives registration system for regulating and taxing the distribution of medical cannabis. Allows primary caregivers and qualifying patients to assert the medical use of cannabis as a defense rather than an affirmative defense under the medical use of cannabis law. Allows qualifying patients to transfer medical cannabis between themselves. Appropriates funds to the counties to establish and administer medical cannabis collectives. (HB2664 HD1)

In committee Feb 9, 2018 0 co-sponsors Track

Primary HB 2412

In committee · Hawaii House · Lead sponsor

RELATING TO INTOXICATING LIQUOR.

Includes distilled beverages containing spirits and added blending materials that contain less than twelve per cent of alcohol by volume in the cooler beverage definition. Deletes definition of draft beer. Applies the tax rate on draft beer to all beer. (HB2412 HD1)

In committee Feb 9, 2018 0 co-sponsors Track

Primary HB 2045

In committee · Hawaii House · Lead sponsor

RELATING TO INVASIVE SPECIES.

Clarifies that state, county, and authorized agents' authority to enter private property to control and eradicate invasive species also applies when there is a reasonable suspicion that invasive species are present on that property. (HB2045 HD1)

In committee Feb 8, 2018 0 co-sponsors Track

Primary HB 2731

In committee · Hawaii House · Lead sponsor

RELATING TO HOUSING.

Requires landlords, who rent more than five dwelling units in a multi-family residential structure to unrelated families, to rent a minimum of twenty-five per cent of the dwelling units to extremely low-income families. Provides for exceptions.

In committee Feb 8, 2018 0 co-sponsors Track

Primary HB 1894

In committee · Hawaii House · Lead sponsor

RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES.

Authorizes the Department of Human Services to contract the services of a dedicated capture manager responsible for securing grant and other funding opportunities for the Department of Human Services. Makes an appropriation. (HB1894 HD1)

In committee Feb 8, 2018 0 co-sponsors Track

Primary HB 2260

In committee · Hawaii House · Lead sponsor

RELATING TO EDUCATION FUNDING.

Requires the Legislative Reference Bureau to conduct a study on the impact of the weighted student formula on small and remote schools to determine whether the formula fulfills its statutory purpose of equalizing operational funding among the State's public schools.

In committee Feb 7, 2018 0 co-sponsors Track

Primary HB 1866

In committee · Hawaii House · Lead sponsor

RELATING TO HOUSING.

Upon approval by a county land use decision-making authority, and with concurrence from the Land Use Commission, requires boundary amendments reflected in county land use plans to be adopted in accordance with such approved plans. (HB1866 HD1)

In committee Feb 6, 2018 0 co-sponsors Track

Primary HB 2264

In committee · Hawaii House · Lead sponsor

RELATING TO THE ENVIRONMENT.

Prohibits the sale, offer for sale, or distribution for sale of non-prescription SPF sunscreen products containing octinoxate or oxybenzone.

In committee Feb 6, 2018 0 co-sponsors Track