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HB76Intro

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Provides an explicit grant of power of sale to condominium associations and planned community associations for the purposes of enforcing association liens under the power of sale procedures in state foreclosure law. (HB76 HD1)
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2019-02-27
To House Judiciary Committee
HB1536Intro

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Provides that wage disclosure, discussion, inquiry, and other prohibition provisions under section 378-2.3, HRS, do not apply to discussion of other employee wages if knowledge of the wages stem from human resources, payroll, or legal professional re...
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2019-02-27
To House Judiciary Committee
HB1123Intro

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Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to perform a stock assessment on the fish species in the affected area prior to adopting any new rules to regulate fishing. (HB1123 HD1)
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2019-02-27
To House Judiciary Committee
HB1395Intro

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Establishes a $100 fine for persons over twenty-one who smoke on public school property or at public school functions. (HB1395 HD1)
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2019-02-26
To House Finance Committee
HB1166Intro

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Caps the service charges for a primary and secondary ticket seller. Requires website operators to guarantee refunds in certain circumstances and disclose that the website is not the primary ticket seller. Prohibits speculative tickets and the usage o...
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2019-02-21
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HB797Intro

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Requires telecommunications carriers to block calls to residential phone lines and personal mobile phone lines made from telephone numbers that do not match any of the telephone numbers of certain excepted entities as a means to curb scam calls.
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2019-02-21
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HB303Intro

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Creates a Patient Lift Task Force to address employee health and safety in lifting and transporting patients in a hospital setting. Requires a report, including proposed legislation, to the Legislature. (HB303 HD1)
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2019-02-20
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HB1162Intro

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Regulates the operation of pet boarding facilities within the State. (HB1162 HD1)
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2019-02-20
To House Judiciary Committee
HB670Intro

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Establishes a two-year pilot program on the island of Oahu to reduce recidivism through intervention, prevention, cultural support, and education initiatives. Appropriates funds. (HB670 HD1)
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2019-02-19
To House Public Safety, Veterans, & Military Affairs Committee
HB681Intro

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Allows dogs in restaurants at the restaurant owner's or manager's discretion provided that certain conditions are met. (HB681 HD1)
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2019-02-15
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HB259Intro

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Requires the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to digitize its applicant, beneficiary, and lessee records and create a usable digital database no later than July 1, 2020. Appropriates funds.
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2019-02-15
To House Finance Committee
HB552Intro

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Amends penalties for violations of laws and administrative rules governing boating and ocean recreation by aligning penalties with the severity of the prohibited conduct. Clarifies that imposition of civil or criminal penalties does not preclude the ...
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2019-02-15
To House Finance Committee
HB1407Intro

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Expands the scope of the carbon offset program and funds six new positions within the program. Establishes a carbon offset revolving fund to assist in the fulfillment of the purposes of the carbon offset program. Appropriates funds. (HB1407 HD2)
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2019-02-15
To House Finance Committee
HB219Intro

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Requires the department of human services to implement an earned income disregard program as an intermediate step to implementing a medicaid buy-in program. Requires reports to the legislature. Takes effect upon approval by the Centers for Medicare a...
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2019-02-15
To House Finance Committee
HB690Intro

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Clarifies that existing law intended to curb over-access to and abuse of opioids, including the time frame for filling prescriptions, supply limitations, and requirements to check the state electronic prescription accountability system and execute an...
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2019-02-15
To House Finance Committee
HB660Intro

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Authorizes the Department of Human Services and the Department of Health to contract the services of or employ dedicated capture managers responsible for securing grants and other funding opportunities for each department. Appropriates funds. (HB660 ...
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2019-02-15
To House Finance Committee
HB1295Intro

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Establishes and appropriates funds for a state school meal subsidy program within the department of education to provide school lunch subsidies to children whose families do not otherwise qualify for the free and reduced price lunch program. (HB1295 ...
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2019-02-15
To House Finance Committee
HB1448Intro

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Establishes a working group to evaluate current behavioral health care and related system gaps related to the continuum of care for persons experiencing substance abuse, mental health conditions, and homelessness. Makes an appropriation. (HB1448 HD1)
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2019-02-15
To House Finance Committee
HB769Intro

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Permits the transfer of operational authority over the portions of the East Kauai irrigation system operated and maintained by the East Kauai Water Users' Cooperative as of 7/1/2019, to the Department of Agriculture upon adoption of rules. Establishe...
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2019-02-15
To House Finance Committee
HB388Intro

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Appropriates funds for the Hawaii Zero to Three Court. (HB388 HD1)
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2019-02-15
To House Finance Committee
HB900Intro

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Authorizes pharmacists to administer vaccines to persons between eleven and seventeen years pursuant to a valid prescription. Specifies requirements pharmacists must meet prior to administering any vaccine to a person between eleven and seventeen yea...
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2019-02-15
To House Finance Committee
HB448Intro

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Specifies that the data requirements for land recordation by the Bureau of Conveyances, on land other than fee simple timeshare interests deregistered by the land court, shall include a map and description prepared by a licensed surveyor. (HB448 HD1)
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2019-02-15
To House Finance Committee
HB274Intro

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Beginning January 1, 2024, requires agencies to maintain a website with a list of open contested cases that are not confidential by law; provide access to documents filed that are not confidential by law; and establish a subscription-based email noti...
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2019-02-15
To House Finance Committee
HB490Intro

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Establishes licensure of midwives including scope of practice, professional code of conduct, continuing education requirements, and prescriptive drug authority. Appropriates funds from the compliance resolution fund. Exempts traditional birth attenda...
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2019-02-15
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HB726Intro

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Establishes a state income tax credit for certain expenses incurred by prekindergarten through twelfth-grade teachers, instructors, school librarians, counselors, principals, registrars, or aides in a school. (HB726 HD1)
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2019-02-15
To House Finance Committee
HB1406Intro

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Appropriates funds for Iolani Palace's maintenance and operating costs. (HB1406 HD1)
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2019-02-15
To House Finance Committee
HB701Intro

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Requires the Legislative Reference Bureau to perform a study to determine if the physical therapy practice act should be amended to allow physical therapists to practice dry needling. (HB701 HD1)
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2019-02-15
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HB1327Intro

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Permits a request for an absentee ballot or for permanent absentee voter status to be submitted in English or Hawaiian. Requires absentee ballots to be available to absentee voters in English or Hawaiian. Appropriates funds. (HB1327 HD2)
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2019-02-15
To House Finance Committee
HB1117Intro

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Requires the Board of Agriculture and the Agribusiness Development Corporation to ensure the timely collection of lease payments, track lessees that are in arrears of lease payments, and offer payment plans for lessees in arears. Authorizes the BLNR ...
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2019-02-15
To House Finance Committee
HB1574Intro

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Establishes the offense of unlawful shipment of e-liquid products. Includes e-liquid within the definition of "tobacco products", as used in the cigarette tax and tobacco tax law. Increases the license fee for persons engaged as a wholesaler or deale...
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2019-02-15
To House Finance Committee
HB938Intro

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Appropriates funds for the Department of Agriculture to provide grants and loans to ranchers and farmers negatively affected by natural disasters through an Agricultural Disaster Funds Program. (HB938 HD1)
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2019-02-15
To House Finance Committee
HB1234Intro

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Requires an application for motor vehicle registration to include additional identifying information. Authorizes the counties to assess a fine against the legal or registered owner of a vehicle deemed abandoned. Requires the legal or registered owner...
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2019-02-15
To House Finance Committee
HB1481Intro

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Establishes a five-year pilot program within the Department of Agriculture for agricultural loans that do not incur interest or require payments for three years. (HB1481 HD1)
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2019-02-15
To House Finance Committee
HB1094Intro

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Appropriates funds to the Department of Land and Natural Resources for the operations of the Aha Moku Advisory Committee. Appropriates funds to hire an expert on natural and physical environment to serve in a full-time equivalent position on the comm...
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2019-02-15
To House Finance Committee
HB142Intro

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Requires any restaurant that offers a children's meal to offer water, non-flavored milk, a nondairy milk substitute that has no more than 130 calories per container or serving, or no more than eight fluid ounces of fruit or vegetable juice as the def...
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2019-02-15
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HB547Intro

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Creates an exclusion from income tax for the lesser of an unspecified per cent of gross annual income or an unspecified flat rate amount of gross annual income earned by a farmer from farming activities. (HB547 HD1)
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2019-02-15
To House Finance Committee
HB581Intro

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Appropriates funds for the Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementia Services Coordinator position within the Executive Office on Aging. Establishes Program Specialist IV position in the Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion Division. (HB581...
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2019-02-15
To House Finance Committee
HB1014Intro

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Makes permanent license exemptions for home care agencies providing services under contract with the City and County of Honolulu and adds exemption for agencies serving only Medicaid waiver participants. (HB1014 HD1)
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2019-02-15
To House Finance Committee
HB650Intro

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Establishes a teacher retention advisory board within the Department of Education for administrative purposes to study and make recommendations regarding teacher retention and recruitment in the State. Requires the advisory board to design a teacher ...
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2019-02-15
To House Finance Committee
HB406Intro

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Requires DBEDT to develop annual regional economic plans for each county to provide K-16 pathways and qualified internship programs to meet each region's specific industry needs. Appropriates funds. (HB406 HD2)
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2019-02-15
To House Finance Committee
HB1544Intro

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Establishes a task force to examine the implementation of an automatic voter registration system in the State. (HB1544 HD1)
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2019-02-15
To House Finance Committee
HB1038Intro

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Makes an emergency appropriation to provide funds for the Department of Public Safety to pay for the temporary housing of 248 inmates at a non-state facility for the remaining six months of fiscal year 2019, during work on capital improvements to the...
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2019-02-15
To House Finance Committee
HB1328Intro

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Requires that state and county websites be translated into the Hawaiian language. Appoints the Office of Planning to coordinate the translation. Appropriates funds. (HB1328 HD1)
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2019-02-15
To House Finance Committee
HB995Intro

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To clarify wording regarding delegation of powers to the Hawaii Teacher Standard Board's Executive Director to timely approve license and permit applications, to include comprehensive reporting of data from Hawaii Department of Education, Charter Sch...
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2019-02-15
To House Finance Committee
HB338Intro

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Makes an appropriation into, and out of, the Research and Development Special Fund and the Alternative Energy Research and Development Revolving Fund of the Hawaii Technology Development Corporation. (HB338 HD1)
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2019-02-15
To House Finance Committee
HB1410Intro

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Adds a member to the Board of Land and Natural Resources who has demonstrated knowledge of, and experience in, the State's boating and fishing communities. (HB1410 HD1)
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2019-02-15
To House Judiciary Committee
HB505Intro

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Appropriates funds to the Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu for the career criminal prosecution unit.
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2019-02-15
To House Finance Committee
HB578Intro

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Authorizes the State Health Planning and Development Agency to mandate the submission of Medicare Advantage (Medicare Part C) administrative data and healthcare services claims. (HB578 HD1)
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2019-02-15
To House Finance Committee
HB1012Intro

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Creates the Executive Office on Aging Administrative Claiming Special Fund to enhance the drawdown of federal funds. (HB1012 HD1)
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2019-02-15
To House Finance Committee
HB778Intro

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Appropriates funds to the Department of Agriculture for the acquisition of a mobile animal harvesting unit. (HB778 HD1)
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2019-02-15
To House Finance Committee
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