Hawaii Representative Elle Cochran [D]

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HIHB2648Intro
25%
Amends the definition of "restricted use pesticide" to include neonicotinoid pesticides.
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2024-01-26
To House Agriculture Committee
HIHB2574Intro
25%
Beginning with the - school year, requires public elementary, middle, and high schools to start no earlier than 8:30 a.m. Requires the Department of Education to adjust state-provided bus and school meal schedules accordingly.
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2024-01-26
To House Education Committee
HIHB2605Intro
25%
Requires the Department of Education to establish a teacher loan forgiveness program to assist in the payment of loans for teachers who commit to teaching in the Hawaii public school system. Appropriates funds.
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2024-01-26
To House Education Committee
HIHB2624Intro
25%
Establishes a substance abuse treatment special fund. Increases liquor tax rates to unspecified amounts. Allocates increased liquor tax revenues to the substance abuse treatment special fund.
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2024-01-26
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HIHB2769Intro
25%
Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the fourteenth representative district.
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2024-01-26
To House Finance Committee
HIHB2768Intro
25%
Includes oilseed cover crops into the Cover Crop Reimbursement Pilot Program established by Act 312, SLH 2022.
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2024-01-26
To House Agriculture Committee
HIHB1564Intro
25%
Establishes a statewide firefighting helicopter program, to be administered by the State Fire Marshal. Appropriates funds to obtain helicopters, facilities equipment, and supplies; hire and train staff; and do other things necessary to ensure that th...
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2024-01-24
To House Water & Land Committee
HIHB1586Intro
25%
Requires the Department of Health to conduct a feasibility study on the establishment of a wastewater treatment works project in Waialua, Oahu. Appropriates funds.
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2024-01-24
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee
HIHB1589Intro
25%
Appropriates funds for student housing capital improvement projects at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
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2024-01-24
To House Higher Education & Technology Committee
HIHB1583Intro
25%
Establishes the public employee health benefits working group to investigate the feasibility of establishing and offering a fully self-insured health benefits plan with no deductible or monthly premium cost to state and county public employees. Requi...
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2024-01-24
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee
HIHB1607Intro
25%
Prohibits users of algorithmic decision-making from utilizing algorithmic eligibility determinations in a discriminatory manner. Requires users of algorithmic decision-making to send corresponding notices to individuals whose personal information is ...
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2024-01-24
To House Higher Education & Technology Committee
HIHB1612Intro
25%
Exempts unemployment compensation from state personal income tax beginning in the 2023 tax year. Increases the maximum weekly benefit a person may receive in unemployment compensation beginning on 1/1/2025.
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2024-01-24
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee
HIHB1667Intro
25%
Requires a licensing authority to deny or suspend, or refuse to renew, reinstate, or restore, any license if the licensee or applicant is found to have been involved with unlawful fentanyl dealings.
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2024-01-24
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB1671Intro
25%
Prohibits intentionally leaving or confining pet animals in a vehicle under conditions that endanger their health, safety, or well-being. Permits law enforcement officers, animal control officers, and firefighters to enter an unattended vehicle to pr...
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2024-01-24
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB1665Intro
25%
Requires the Hawaii emergency management agency to prepare and develop a plan to upgrade all-hazard warning sirens to be capable of transmitting voice instructions and directions and capable of voice activation.
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2024-01-24
To House Water & Land Committee
HIHB1789Intro
25%
Requires the Department of Transportation to identify any roadways other than Makakilo Drive that may be used as emergency egress routes in Makakilo. Requires the Department of Transportation to plan for, design, and construct an emergency egress rou...
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2024-01-24
To House Transportation Committee
HIHB1796Intro
25%
Requires the Hawaii clean energy initiative program to design and implement a plan to increase jobs that strengthen emergency preparedness and climate resilience. Authorizes the use of the energy security special fund to advance the State's goals of ...
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2024-01-24
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee
HIHB1790Intro
25%
Exempts qualified disabled veterans from various annual motor vehicle fees and taxes, including vehicle weight taxes and beautification fees.
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2024-01-24
To House Transportation Committee
HIHB1792Intro
25%
Beginning in the 2025-2026 school year, requires each public, private, and charter school in the State to establish a program within the health education curriculum for high school students to provide instruction in cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Spe...
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2024-01-24
To House Education Committee
HIHB1905Intro
25%
Requires the Hawaii Public Housing Authority to allow any resident of a public housing project or state low-income housing project to keep 1 or more pet animals in the resident's unit, subject to applicable state laws, county ordinances, and any reas...
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2024-01-24
To House Housing Committee
HIHB2086Intro
25%
Excludes xylazine testing strips from the definition of "drug paraphernalia". Requires the administrator of the narcotics enforcement administration to make an emergency scheduling by placing xylazine into schedule III on an emergency basis.
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2024-01-24
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB2000Intro
25%
Clarifies that the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority's duties include supporting aquaculture.
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2024-01-24
To House Agriculture Committee
HIHB2115Intro
25%
Requires the Department of Education to assign school resource officers or guards to serve at each department school and charter school. Requires the Department of Education to seek funding from federal grants. Appropriates funds.
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2024-01-24
To House Education Committee
HIHB2108Intro
25%
Requires the Office of Enterprise Technology to develop multilingual accessibility standards. Appropriates funds to establish one full-time position to develop multilingual accessibility standards within the Office of Enterprise Technology Services. ...
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2024-01-24
To House Higher Education & Technology Committee
HIHB1999Intro
25%
Requires the Department of Agriculture to conduct a market analysis study to identify the optimum mix of private sector, public sector, and philanthropic funding sources and mechanisms needed to support blue carbon ecosystem projects in the State and...
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2024-01-24
To House Agriculture Committee
HIHB2109Intro
25%
Beginning on 7/1/2024, requires that the state supplemental payment for type 1 adult residential care homes, licensed developmental disabilities domiciliary homes, community care foster family homes, and certified adult foster homes not exceed $1,136...
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2024-01-24
To House Human Services Committee
HIHB2006Intro
25%
Establishes and appropriates funds for an invasive species placard program. Requires the department of agriculture to inspect certain establishments that are at risk of spreading invasive pests. Establishes correction and quarantine procedures.
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2024-01-24
To House Agriculture Committee
HIHB2117Intro
25%
Establishes within the Department of Land and Natural Resources a Makua Valley task force to prepare for the transition of the management of the Makua military reservation from the United States Army upon the expiration of the Army's lease for the la...
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2024-01-24
To House Corrections, Military, & Veterans Committee
HIHB2014Intro
25%
Prohibits a person from using a location tracker to harass, stalk, or perpetuate a crime against another person without their knowledge.
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2024-01-24
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB2076Intro
25%
Amends the appropriation of Act 279, SLH 2022, to conform its lapsing provision by 1 year, to conform to constitutional limitations. Appropriates moneys to the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands for fiscal year 2024-2025 to give practical effect to th...
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2024-01-24
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB2038Intro
25%
Requires the Department of Human Services to establish state goals for poverty reduction and socio-cultural advancement that support the principles of the Hawaii State Planning Act by reducing by 50% by 2050 the number of families in the State that a...
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2024-01-24
To House Human Services Committee
HIHB2075Intro
25%
Appropriates funds to the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to further reduce its homestead program applicant waitlist.
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2024-01-24
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB2021Intro
25%
Removes the Legislature's exemption from the State's sunshine law.
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2024-01-24
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB2036Intro
25%
Establishes the Fire-free Program within the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs to provide interest-free loans to condominiums for the installation of fire sprinklers or alternative life safety improvements. Declares that the appropriation e...
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2024-01-24
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HIHB2080Intro
25%
Proposes a constitutional amendment to ensure that the basis to marriage shall not be denied or abridged on the basis of race or sex.
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2024-01-24
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB2088Intro
25%
Requires that condominium renters who prevail in a lawsuit for a violation of the Residential Landlord-Tenant Code be awarded reasonable attorney's fees and costs and threefold damages. Requires the Real Estate Commission to establish a Condominium A...
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2024-01-24
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HIHB2099Intro
25%
Requires the Department of Health to construct, establish, and operate an environmental toxins testing laboratory to test samples submitted by the public for diseases; water, air, and soil quality; and complex testing. Allows the Director of Finance ...
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2024-01-24
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee
HIHB2097Intro
25%
Clarifies the definition of "power-generating facility" for the purposes of environmental impact assessments to include new combustion electricity-generating facilities operating beginning January 1, 2024, that were not previously operational. Includ...
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2024-01-24
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee
HIHB1973Intro
25%
Beginning 1/1/2025, prohibits the issuance of building permits for new single-family dwellings that are part of a development of ten or more dwellings and do not include a rooftop photovoltaic energy generating system, under certain circumstances. Au...
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2024-01-24
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee
HIHB2077Intro
25%
Establishes rights for watershed ecosystems to exist, flourish, and naturally evolve, in conjunction with native Hawaiian traditional and customary beliefs, practice, and values, for the benefit of present and future generations.
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2024-01-24
To House Water & Land Committee
HIHB2114Intro
25%
Amends the definition of gambling to exclude digital sports betting on a platform licensed pursuant to state law. Requires the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism, to develop a pilot program to license businesses in the State to...
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2024-01-24
To House Economic Development Committee
HIHB2110Intro
25%
Increases the monthly needs allowance from $50 to $75. Clarifies that the needs allowance is not intended to replace or affect funds received from the federal supplemental security income program. Requires the Department of Human Services to perform ...
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2024-01-24
To House Human Services Committee
HIHB2023Intro
25%
Limits the required payment of certain unpaid motor vehicle taxes and fees and accompanying financial penalties to those incurred during the first 5 consecutive years of delinquency.
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2024-01-24
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB2111Intro
25%
Appropriates funds to the Department of Human Services to achieve the full funding, including estimated payment increases, of Medicaid home- and community-based services.
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2024-01-24
To House Human Services Committee
HIHB2167Intro
25%
Requires governmental bodies of the executive branch of the State to develop an online project management platform by a certain date.
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2024-01-24
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee
HIHB2162Intro
25%
Amends emergency management law to protect tenants, mortgagors, consumers, and residents for certain periods of time after the issuance of a gubernatorial or mayoral emergency proclamation. Classifies violations as unfair methods of competition and u...
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2024-01-24
To House Water & Land Committee
HIHB2135Intro
25%
Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds and appropriates funds for a capital improvement project for the repair, maintenance, and demolition of buildings at the Poamoho Research Station.
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2024-01-24
To House Finance Committee
HIHB2161Intro
25%
Appropriates funds to the Department of Law Enforcement for an additional fifteen full-time equivalent (15.0 FTE) sheriff positions for transitional law enforcement officer activities in Lahaina. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is ...
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2024-01-24
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB2164Intro
25%
Establishes the regenerative tourism program with the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to increase regenerative tourism. Establishes a grant program. Appropriates moneys. Declares that the appropriation exceeds the state gene...
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2024-01-24
To House Tourism Committee
HIHB2119Intro
25%
Amends the fine for individuals convicted of criminal littering to $1,000 instead of a range of $500 to $1,000.
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2024-01-24
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
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