Hawaii State Government

Complete list and links here ....

...2016 VoterVoice Survey Results....

Hemp, Agriculture, Public Safety and TeleHealth....

• HB 2169 Act 212  Relating to Social Workers
• SB 2811 Act 213  Relating to Parental Rights
• HB 1726 Act 214  Relating to Murder

BILL SIGNING CEREMONIES for the following....

State Capitol, 5th floor, Governor’s Ceremonial Room....

On July 12, any measure that has not been signed or vetoed by Gov. Ige will become law with or without his signature....

Since enabling legislation was enacted into law on May 29, 1986....

...in a June 16 letter, Case said she was not extending Friel's employment past his six-month probation period....

...at ceremonies on Oahu and Maui....

...liabilities are equal to 73 percent of total state personal income....

...in a recent Star-Advertiser online poll, 50% of respondents gave the 2016 Legislative Session a “D” or “F” grade....

...despite having secured state funding since 2012, the chairperson of the Board of Agriculture has neither re-established nor filled the branch’s program manager and inspector positions....

...Hawai’i is the first state to file a lawsuit against these companies for their roles in causing millions of cars to be sold with airbags that could explode, posing grave, sometimes fatal, dangers to the cars’ occupants....

This paper examines Hawaii’s recent effort at developing a model to allocate the state’s transient accommodation tax....

...Nearly 300 bills passed the legislature this session....

...Thirty-five states experienced a decrease in absolute debt levels....

... Disagreements are inevitable ....

...new accounting rules require the state to report pension debt in its balance sheet....

Native Hawaiians continue to disagree on the future of the sovereignty movement, or even whether there should be one....

Tuesday (5/3) will be the second to last floor session where many of the bills will be heard for final passage. The 2016 Legislative session officially ends Thursday (5/5)....

...three different scenarios a bill can go through after passing Second Crossover....

A new accounting standard is requiring Hawaii to come clean about its pension debt, but the state is still hiding billions of pension and health care debt from its financial reports....

Bills include heat abatement for schools, crime victims’ rights, body cameras for police, senior care facility inspections, affordable housing, and the Judiciary budget....

Measures include teacher travel exception, water rights, assistance for displaced Maui sugar workers....

On April 14th, the Legislature hit the second crossover deadline of the 2016 legislative session....

The investigative division at the Hawaii Attorney General’s Office relies heavily on retired law enforcement officers hired as temps....

...the Kaho‘olawe Rehabilitation Trust Fund will be depleted by FY2018....

...measures to raise taxes, mandate insurance coverage, increase funding for collective bargaining, establish a special fund, infringe on the constitutional right to bear arms, or further enlarge state government....

...April 8 makes the Second Decking deadline for the 2016 Legislative Session....

The appointments are subject to confirmation by the Senate....

...the Department of the Interior provided approximately $409 million to affected jurisdictions .... In contrast, affected jurisdictions estimated costs of $2.1 billion....

None of the 47 new special and revolving funds proposed during the 2016 legislative session met amended statutory criteria....

...State’s improved financial outlook leads to lower interest rates on refunding general obligation bonds....

...Currently, there is an appointment open with the Elections Commission for Hawaii County....

All bills referred to three or more committees had to be passed through their first committee....

From Hawaii Family Advocates ....

Lassner noted that “The state has had IT facilities challenges for years...."

The House and Senate debated nearly 200 third reading bills each on Tuesday....

Of the lawmakers, only the state’s lone Republican Senator, Sam Slom, divulged the requested information....

...the state of Hawaii paid $538,519.25 of public pension money to people who were deceased....

The Office of Enterprise Technology Services agreed....

Tune in every Monday morning at 7:00 am to KKNE AM 940 on Oahu, broadcasting island-wide! ....

...bills in the 2016 Legislative Session that test the balance between government’s power and the power of the people....

Hawaii's debt levels are high for a U.S. state government, and Fitch expects them to remain so....

All bills under consideration for crossing over to the other chamber must be in their final form 48 hours prior to Third Reading....

This culture of “vote buying” creates a false majority....

We are down to the final week for hearings before bills cross into the other chamber....