...Hawaii individual income tax tops out at 11%....

...provide greater clarity to various provisions of the State Ethics Code, HRS chapter 84 (including but not limited to the gifts law, gifts reporting law, fair treatment law, and conflicts of interests law); and various provisions of the Lobbyists law, HRS chapter 97 (including but not limited to reporting and registration requirements for lobbyists)....

...establishing a remote legislative access program that would allow individuals to present oral testimony at legislative committee hearings....

...Senator Brian Schatz February 4, 2020, tweeted, “Is there any solid reason to be against ranked choice voting? I’m honestly asking.”  OK.  We’re honestly answering....

...Dillingham Airfield Can be Better off Without Airports Division....

...Hui Chen is a member of the Complex Litigation, Fraud, and Compliance Unit, and will be tasked with investigating, reviewing, and consulting on compliance issues within state government....

...The Hawaii State Senate today confirmed William J. Aila to be Chair of the Hawaiian Homes Commission, Department of Hawaiian Homelands and Tyler I. Gomes to be Deputy....

...While some bills were deferred, a number of bills unfortunately passed out of committee and will continue on. Additionally, some of the deferred measures on the House side were amended into other measures that were passed....

...from the Honolulu Republican Party....

...the DOE began taking action after the current system — which has been in place since 1991 — experienced an outage in October 2018 that lasted several weeks, impacting operations and payments to vendors....

...to impose a surcharge on real property tax....

...Assisted Suicide Expansion Bills - Safeguards: Going, Going, Gone....

...votes cast and bills introduced for week ending Feb 8, 2020....

...nanny-state proposals, unconstitutional overreach bills and social engineering schemes....

...complete list here....

...More than 6,300 students, or 15.5 percent of UH’s approximately 40,861 adult students participated in the 2019 survey....

... ask the Governor to appoint Malia Martin and Samuel Wilder King II to the panel ....

...Claiming that lawlessness is in fact "civil disobedience" is in the eye of the beholder, making this law almost impossible to enforce....

...Each volunteer will choose one of three technologies for reporting vehicle mileage automatically....

...concealed from Koyo the fact that one of its upper level managers was an owner of the sham pass-through companies....