What's New
Hawaii Teacher Standards Board – Is Oversight Needed?. (PDF, 1.25MB)
Reviews the Auditor's report on the Hawaii Teacher Standards Board and makes recommendations on (1)
whether there is a need for oversight of the Hawaii Teacher Standards Board, and how oversight
is provided for similar boards; and (2) how to strengthen and clarify interagency roles,
responsibilities, and relationships between the Board, Department of Education, and Teacher
Education Coordinating Committee.
LRB Report No. 1, 2010. Available as PDF, 1.3MB
A Review of the Capital Improvement Project Allotment Process and the Memorandum of Understanding Between the Department of Education and the Department of Budget and Finance. (PDF, 1.66MB)
Reviews the memorandum of understanding between the Department of
Education and the Department of Budget and Finance with regard to the capital improvement
projects allotment process, with the goal of replicating the processes of the memorandum of
understanding for use by other state agencies with many capital improvement projects that are
predominantly funded by general obligation bonds.
LRB Report No. 3, 2009. Available as PDF, 1.7MB
Access, distribution, and security components of state medical marijuana programs.
Report to the Medical Cannabis Task Force "on the
policies and procedures for access, distribution, security, and other
relevant issues related to the medical use of cannabis for all the
states that currently have a medical cannabis program."
LRB Report No. 2, 2009. Available as PDF, 1.8MB
Hawaii Administrative Rules 2009 Table of Statutory Sections Implemented & Directory
Includes all of the rules of Hawaii state government agencies filed with the Office of the
Lieutenant Governor in the Hawaii Administrative Rules format prior to May 1, 2009. All prior
versions of the Table are superseded. This publication also contains a partial directory of the
State's administrative rules listing all of the chapters organized under each of the titles of the
Hawaii Administrative Rules.
Available as PDF, 350kB
Supplemental Information Relating To Bills Passed By The Hawaii State Legislature Regular Session Of 2009
This publication sets forth important information concerning the bills
passed by the Hawaii State Legislature during the Regular Session of
2009, which adjourned sine die on May 8, 2009. This publication
supplements the publication entitled "Bills Passed by the Hawaii State
Legislature, Regular Session of 2009" which was issued by the
Legislative Reference Bureau in early May 2009. That publication
contains a brief description of each bill passed during the 2009
session.
Available as pdf, 396KB.
2009 Legislative Statistics (including Special Session):
Number of Bills Introduced, Passed, Enacted, and/or Vetoed.
Number of Resolutions Introduced and Adopted
Download the most current update (as of August 19, 2009; pdf)
Special and Regular Sessions stats available also as an RSS subscription. 
Available for download, by agency or complete volume.
LRB Reports to the Legislature
LRB reports to the 2010 Legislature, requested in 2009 Session; complete volumes and factsheets available for download.
Legislative Aids and Manuals
The Bureau continues to make available online its many handbooks and
guides to the legislative process. Including, How To Research Constitutional, Legislative,
And Statutory History In Hawai`i, and the companion volumes,
Directory and Guide
to Government in Hawai`i, the documents are downloadable in pdf.
Limited print copies are available from the Library.
Digital Services
First Reading
The Library publishes its newsletter blog, First
Reading, to highlight the trends, issues and resources behind
today's news of interest to our Hawaii legislative community. Updated
with links to full-text documents, web sites, and news stories, FR is also available
as an atom news feed.
iClips
Our news aggregator service updated each morning, iClips delivers selected daily news links harvested
from online local and national news providers.
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