Hawaii State Government

...Star in a gold circle marking to appear on Hawaii State Driver’s Licenses or State Identification Cards issued on or after Jan. 16, 2018....

...that which has been done can no longer be done....

...It is commonly said that Hawaii has too many government regulations, but how many regulations are there exactly?....

...The administration just told New York and New Jersey they would have to fund their $13 billion Hudson Tunnel rail project on their own, backing out of an Obama-era promise to foot half the bill....

...look for the following bills to be revived in the 2018 legislative session....

...Energy Office’s personnel costs now account for more than 90 percent of the office’s expenses....

...the state should consider privatizing more of its medical facilities....

...Tuesday, January 2 through Wednesday, January 17, 2018....

...lets take a look at the I and F grade projects--and guess which projects score an 'A'....

...Ige is making appointments to his cabinet to fill the positions left vacant because of two planned retirements. He has also re-appointed the State Procurement Administrator....

...The Calendar for the 2018 Legislative session is now posted....

...The biggest exception to this gatekeeper rule is the constitutional convention, where the people elect delegates directly....

...Learmont fills the vacancy created when former Rep. Marcus Oshiro joined the Hawai‘i Labor Relations Board in October....

...Hawaii’s entrenched state and county bureaucracies delaying the advance of high technology into their own operations....

...FY 19 amendments total $85.5 million – an increase of .6 percent over FY 19...FY 19 amendments total $1.497 billion, an increase of 215 percent over FY 19 CIP....

...high visibility current and upcoming highways projects statewide....

...The ACUF has reviewed each piece of legislation voted on in both the Senate and House of Representatives to produce average scores for each chamber as well as individual scores for each sitting member....

...Working caregivers who pay for services to support their kupuna may now be eligible for financial help of up to $70 per day....

...His appointment is effective January 1, 2018. He succeeds Thomas Matsuda who will retire on December 31, 2017....

...Deadline for GIA applications is January 19, 2018....

...The requirements outlined in the Decision and Order include....

...The seeming political power play is actually a sign of Perreira’s weakness.... 

...Takayama has served as the director of the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations (DLIR) since April 2015. She will assume her new position on Monday, Dec. 11....

...The executive order establishes an Administrative Director in the Office of the Governor who will support companies seeking to test self-driving vehicle technology in Hawaiʻi....

...the State of Hawaii Dashboard and the Office of Hawaiian Affairs Dashboard are only current up to 2013 for most of the categories presented....

...DLIR did not file statutorily required reports for non-general funds and for administratively created funds....

... How do Hawaii legislators get away with sexual harassment? ....

...the Legislature's Public Access Room (PAR) is offering "Your Voice," a free, one-hour workshop at several locations on Oahu....

...We are grateful for your partnership in striving for a Hawaii that leads the world in individual liberty and economic opportunity....

...The evidence suggests that dck worldwide directed how dck pacific handled payments to subcontractors....

...the former state employee could improperly benefit by trading on his or her “insider knowledge” to secure future employment or business opportunities....

...Most begin on January 3, 2018 and end on the last day of the legislative session.... 

...Hawaii’s county governments — and county taxpayers — are about to feel the pinch....

...after decades ignoring the festering problems at the HGEA job trust State Hospital, AG and DoH pretend to suddenly be oh-so-very-concerned....

...a seawater jet powered by Hawaii tax credits is used to shoot pies up into the sky--electricity is generated by harnessing the energy of the pies as they fall back to Earth....

..."We disagree with DHRD. The statutory requirements that DHRD report to the Legislature are unambiguous and do not exempt these trust funds." -- Auditor....

“The Airports Division expects near-term traffic results will be better than projected due to Island Air expanding interisland traffic...." -- Fitch Ratings, October 26, 2017

...the state Legislature has discovered a new tactic for meeting its public pension financial obligations: passing the costs on to the counties....

Legacy Costs evaluates whether states provided adequate funding, as defined by retirement system actuaries, for pensions and other promised retirement benefits for public workers.....

...Ige today announced that his administration has completed the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the relocation of the O‘ahu Community Correctional Center....

...to enable new applicants or existing licensees to search for their application status....

...Featuring: Thom Williams, Executive director, Employees’ Retirement System of the State of Hawaii....

...New datasets include pavement conditions, traffic counts for state roads, and locations of fatal crashes between 2012-2016....

...Kelii Akina and Ray Tsuchiyama discuss applying the lessons of Google to the future of Hawaii....

...meanwhile Island Air planes are being repossessed....

Hawaii’s public pension system has an unfunded liability of $12 billion....

...Did DOTAX Turn the Corner on Customer Service?....

...Hawaii has enough in cash reserves to weather next recession, report says....

...The position of administrative director is actually one of the few positions created by the State Constitution....

...the Hawaii AG office denied the public interest fee waiver request and charged $28,396.30 to complete the document search....