Entries for 'News Release'

... mandatory background check bill on already acquired firearms .....

Governor is requested to engage and work with Lanai, Molokai, and the other neighbor island communities when formulating energy policy ....

Army announces the completion of the Final Environmental Impact Statement to construct and operate a modern Infantry Platoon Battle Course and associated infrastructure at Pōhakuloa....

"The negative changes to SB 642 fall squarely on Senator Green...."

... six town hall meetings that will be held across Oahu during the month of May ....

Hawaii Court decisions on the Constitutional mandate that the contents of a bill must contain only one subject, and the subject of the bill must be expressed in its title....

The “Shield Law” bill passed out of Conference Committee yesterday (HB 622)....

The bills await final, floor votes of both the House and the Senate on Tuesday, April 30th....

The bill appropriated $1.160M for administration costs for two years and $6M in FY15 for subsidies based on a sliding fee scale....

Lead Senate and House negotiators on the State Budget bill announced they closed negotiations three days ahead of an internal deadline. ..

HGEA’s Unit 8 membership consists of approximately 2,350 administrative, professional and technical University of Hawaii employees....

Caldwell said he received further assurance that federal funding for Honolulu’s rail transit project remains firmly on track...

...provisions that require any hospital in Hawaii to provide information about, offer and, if accepted or requested, dispense emergency contraception....

... conference committee will reconvene tomorrow, April 23, at 10:30 am in Conference Room 312 ....

... BRT was not considered even a reasonable alternative to be studied ....

Due to maneuvers by various legislative committees resulting in major changes in bills without public notice, we are petitioning the legislative bodies to defeat the following bills....

... civil litigation involving Enron’s collapse, the Catholic Church’s priest abuse scandals, Bridgestone/Firestone’s allegedly defective tires, tobacco company liability and almost any product liability lawsuit ....

THAAD remains the most successfully tested Missile Defense system since 2003, with a 10 for 10 intercept flight record....

The 32 non-profit groups were selected from 146 applications for OHA grant money....

...Young is currently serving as the director of communications and acting deputy director....

"There are many changes coming to medicine that some physicians might not like."

House Bill 634, which would require the purchase of a company to hire 100 percent of the seller’s employees, is now in a conference committee....

SB535SD1HD2 would make it illegal for any Hawaii family to fire or otherwise change the employment status of nannies, babysitters, caretakers, and other domestic workers....

Both the House and Senate will present a CD1 draft of SB 642 and HB 668 that would amend the bills....

...seeking proposals from (ahem) 'qualified non-profit organizations' for $1.6 million in Grants-in-Aid funds....

SB1084 proposes a constitutional amendment to allow the appropriation of public funds for private early childhood education programs ....

Department employees were initially told to expect to be furloughed for up to 22 days, but that was reduced to 14 days....

Each enforcement action costs the city about 15 thousand dollars.  Bill 7 will cut that expense in half ....

The Democratic Party of Hawaii will file a lawsuit in U.S. District Court to seek an injunction against the state of Hawaii over its primary election laws....

...an unfair bidding advantage for those contractors who do not provide health coverage to their workers....