This bill would prevent a property owner from being held liable for civil damages for any injuries that a criminal suffers in the commission of a violent crime. The bill would help protect innocent homeowners from being sued for protecting themselves and their families.

http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2008/Bills/SB1617_.htm

This bill would make violations on public lands a petty misdemeanor. Currently, there is a big problem with ATVs and other vehicles illegally driving on our beaches – putting the safety of people at risk and also causing environmental damage. The bill would allow the Department of Land and Natural Resources' Enforcement Division to issue criminal citations, make arrests, and confiscate vehicles.

http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2008/Bills/SB1891_.htm

This bill would hold rapists strictly liable for sexual assaults against people who are intellectually disabled. Currently, the law requires the perpetrator to be in "full knowledge" that he is raping a intellectually disabled person. Among adults who are developmentally disabled, as many as eighty-three per cent of the females and thirty-two per cent of the males are victims of sexual assault.

http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2008/Bills/SB2363_.htm

The bill would require retailers/pharmacies to keep a pseudoephedrine log in an electronic format. Pseudoephedrine happens to be a primary ingredient in making “ice”. The bill would make it easier to track people who are going store to store purchasing pseudoephedrine to make “ice”.

http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/site1/docs/getstatus2.asp?billno=SB2373

This resolution requests that the Legislative Reference Bureau (LRB) conduct a comprehensive management audit of the Institutional Biosafety Committee at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and the Department of Agriculture's recordkeeping system to help ensure that the citizens and visitors of Hawaii are protected from pathogens that are imported to Hawaii for research purposes.

http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2008/bills/SCR69_.htm

This resolution requests that the Legislative Reference Bureau (LRB) prepare a report on the advisability and feasibility of establishing certificate, undergraduate, and graduate degree programs within the University of Hawaii for the study of Sports and Entertainment Management

http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2008/bills/SCR70_.htm