Hawaii Senator Donovan Cruz [D] | Introduced

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HISB308Intro
25%
Establishes the Erin's law task force to review policies, programs, and curricula for educating public school students about sexual abuse and sex trafficking prevention, report recommendations for the establishment of a program to educate public scho...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB80Intro
25%
Makes a person or entity liable for all or a portion of search or rescue expenses when the person or entity knowingly enters state, county, or private property, knowingly enters a hiking trail that is closed to the public, or violates applicable laws...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee
HISB450Intro
25%
Requires boards to use interactive conference technology to remotely conduct public meetings in conjunction with in-person meetings that allow for public participation. Requires boards to archive certain recordings of meetings on their websites.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee
HISB857Intro
25%
Beginning on January 1, 2024, permits manufacturers of investigational drugs or biological products to make these drugs and products available to terminally ill patients under certain conditions. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD1)
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2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
HISB124Intro
25%
Prohibits the possession of firearms on school property and school buses and at school-sponsored functions. Exempts certain law enforcement officers and instructors and participants of certain educational or training programs. Establishes that violat...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB469Intro
25%
Authorizes the counties to reclassify lands fifteen to one fifty acres in certain rural, urban, and agricultural districts in which at least seventy-five per cent of the housing units on the land sought to be reclassified are set aside for persons an...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB1037Intro
25%
Designates Limu Kala (Sargassum echinocarpum) as the official Hawaii state limu. Effective 07/01/2050. (SD1)
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB333Intro
25%
Promotes development within one-half mile radius of any station along the rail transit system. Eliminates certain restrictions for developing state-owned real property located within one-half mile radius of any station along the rail transit system. ...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Housing Committee
HISB1096Intro
25%
Establishes an exemption from applicable county permit requirements for repetitive construction projects for facilities under the control of the Department of Education, University of Hawaii, or School Facilities Authority.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB289Intro
25%
Requires that appropriations allocated to Department of Education programs that provide instructional services directly to students shall remain within the budget of the program to which they were originally allocated and that the retention of an app...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee
HISB788Intro
25%
Prohibits the Department of Health from issuing permits for commercial burning of green waste products in residential areas or within one thousand feet of a residential property.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
HISB341Intro
25%
Inserts unspecified amounts for minimum required liability coverage for accidental harm and destruction of property for motor vehicle insurance policies in the State. Takes effect 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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2023-12-11
Carried over to 2024 Regular Session.
HISB301Intro
25%
Amends Act 257, Session Laws of Hawaii 2022, to authorize the School Facilities Authority to provide affordable housing to Department of Education teachers.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee
HISB815Intro
25%
Establishes an accelerator program within the Hawaii Technology Development Corporation. Amends the reporting requirements for Hawaii Technology Development Corporation's manufacturing and development program. Requires the Hawaii Technology Developme...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee
HISB1030Intro
25%
Authorizes the department of land and natural resources to establish and operate conservation mitigation banks to restore, create, enhance, or preserve conservation habitats or resources as compensatory mitigation. Authorizes the department to contra...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee
HISB1110Intro
25%
Establishes a framework to regulate controllers and processors with access to personal consumer data. Establishes that a violation of the consumer data privacy act constitutes an unfair method of competition and unfair and deceptive acts or practices...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
HISB1483Intro
25%
Prohibits cyber harassment and cyberstalking. Allows for civil liabilities and injunctions for cyber harassment and cyberstalking.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB1021Intro
25%
Authorizes agencies to expend moneys from special funds under the agency's control for capital improvement projects, subject to legislative appropriation or authorization. Prohibits the expenditure of amounts that exceed 20% of the special fund's cei...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB1102Intro
25%
Authorizes the counties to adopt an ordinance regulating the operation of hosting platforms that provide booking services for transient accommodation operators.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB1061Intro
25%
Permits the governing body of a county to create, by ordinance, a process for the recordation and enforcement of solar easements. Allows counties to require individuals claiming a solar easement to record that easement by filing a declaration with th...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee
HISB122Intro
25%
Establishes uniform firearms safety and training requirements for applicants of permits to acquire firearms, regardless of firearm type. Prohibits the issuance of permits to acquire firearms to aliens who are not state law enforcement officers. Requi...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB1180Intro
25%
Prohibits the sale of geolocation information and internet browser information without consent.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee
HISB1160Intro
25%
Allows the Intermediate Appellate Court to review orders issued by the Hawaii Paroling Authority.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB288Intro
25%
Transfers the Culinary Institute of the Pacific from the University of Hawaii to the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism as an administratively attached agency.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Higher Education Committee
HISB65Intro
25%
Incorporates a regenerative framework into the State Planning Act by expanding objectives and policies for the visitor industry. Requires an update to the State Tourism Functional Plan to be submitted to the Legislature no later than twenty days prio...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB307Intro
25%
Authorizes the School Facilities Authority of the Department of Education to disregard any ordinance or rule related to the use, zoning, planning, or development of land to which the authority holds title or for any construction on land to which the ...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee
HISB339Intro
25%
Requires all health insurers in the state, including medicaid managed care programs, to cover annual mental health wellness examinations.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB845Intro
25%
Makes comprehensive updates to chapter 436E, Hawaii Revised Statutes, regarding acupuncture practitioners to reflect modernized scopes of practice, titles, and licensing and renewal requirements. Authorizes the Board of Acupuncture to establish an al...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
HISB846Intro
25%
Increases fines that may be assessed against certain fireworks-related violations.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB294Intro
25%
Establishes under the Hawaii Children's Trust Fund Coalition a collective impact program called the Malama Ohana Program to seek, design, and recommend transformative changes to the State's existing child welfare system. Requires the Malama Ohana Pro...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB647Intro
25%
Authorizes the Department of Agriculture to extend the lease of any lessee who holds a lease with a remaining term of fifteen years or less; provided that the land covered by the lease is twenty-five acres or less and located in a county with a popul...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB1507Intro
25%
Establishes and appropriates moneys for a food and product innovation network office within the Agribusiness Development Corporation. Establishes a food and product innovation network advisory council to advise the administrators of the food and prod...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
HISB377Intro
25%
Prohibits an employer from discriminating against a person in hiring, termination, or any term or condition of employment based on the person's status as a medical cannabis registry card holder, under certain conditions. Authorizes an employer to use...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee
HISB123Intro
25%
Requires a person to report the person's lost, stolen, or destroyed firearms to the appropriate county police department. Establishes penalties for failure to report and false reporting.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB718Intro
25%
Clarifies teachers and other personnel of state public charter schools are members of the same collective bargaining unit as their Department of Education counterparts.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee
HISB827Intro
25%
Exempts Hawaiian language immersion program students from kindergarten assessment requirements.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee
HISB392Intro
25%
Defines the term Hawaiian language with regard to Hawaii's official languages and requires that every effort shall be made to accommodate Hawaiian speakers and readers. Authorizes Department of Education schools to offer Hawaiian language as the sole...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HISB882Intro
25%
Increases the minimum classroom instruction time for state certified or National Rifle Association certified firearm safety courses from four to fourteen hours. Requires firearm safety courses to include additional subject matter. Requires applicants...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB590Intro
25%
Requires the department of health to adopt rules by 6/30/2026 for amplified sound on public and private property where decibel weighted levels exceed current standards for zoning districts and residential properties where noise is excessive during ce...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB1142Intro
25%
Places certain requirements and speed restrictions on the operation of water vessels in proximity to humpback whales.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
HISB780Intro
25%
Requires the Office of the Auditor to conduct a comprehensive management and financial audit of the Hawaii Tourism Authority and the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism, specifically relating to the Request for Proposals regardi...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee
HISB280Intro
25%
Allows the Department of Education to create temporary positions under certain conditions. Amends the requirement that the Department of Education report the creation of temporary positions to the Department of Budget and Finance by requiring that th...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee
HISB707Intro
25%
Requires water carriers to keep records of persons who retrieve fireworks from a terminal facility. Requires water carriers to provide an annual compilation of persons who retrieve fireworks from a terminal facility to the appropriate county police d...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB836Intro
25%
Authorizes the Agribusiness Development Corporation to acquire property through condemnation.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB342Intro
25%
Requires the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to conduct a study on paid sick leave. Requires a report to the Legislature. Appropriates funds for the study. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD1)
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB282Intro
25%
Reduces the amount transferred to the works of art special fund from 1% to 0.5% of all state fund appropriations for capital improvements designated for the construction cost element.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee
HISB78Intro
25%
Requires the Auditor to conduct a performance audit of the Department of Land and Natural Resources' State Historic Preservation Division.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee
HISB1171Intro
25%
Requires that funds from the Dwelling Unit Revolving Fund be used to provide zero interest loans or grants to certain buyers and aid certain existing-for sale projects that have received funds from the Dwelling Unit Revolving Fund. Appropriates funds...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Housing Committee
HISB117Intro
25%
Authorizes the issuance of special number plates to commemorate Carissa Kainani Moore.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB1554Intro
25%
Authorizes the director of finance to issue general obligation bonds to finance capital improvements to various irrigation systems.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
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