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HIHB1968Engross
50%
Expands the time period by which a civil action for childhood sexual abuse committed on or after July 1, 2024, may be initiated. Authorizes a court to require personnel of legal entities to undergo training on trauma-informed response. Effective 7/1/...
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2024-04-02
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HIHB2089Engross
50%
Requires the State Building Code Council to adopt, amend, or update the International Building Code and International Residential Code within two years of every other official publication date of the applicable code or standard. Provides that if a co...
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2024-03-22
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HIHB2579Engross
50%
Clarifies that the Board of Land and Natural Resources shall not unilaterally amend the terms and conditions of any lease of public lands being extended pursuant to Act 149, Session Laws of Hawaii 2018, except as otherwise provided therein; and if th...
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2024-03-22
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HIHB2758Engross
50%
Facilitates the control and eradication of invasive species and pests. Establishes a plant nursery registration program. Requires the Board of Agriculture to designate certain species as pests for control or eradication. Imposes certain limits on imp...
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2024-03-22
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HIHB2174Engross
50%
Repeals the existing conditions under which government entities may seek reimbursement for search or rescue expenses and instead requires a government entity of the State to impose and collect a fee for search or rescue expenses for persons who requi...
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2024-03-22
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HIHB2382Engross
50%
Clarifies the Employees' Retirement System's eligibility requirement definitions for service-connected disability and accidental death benefits. Takes effect 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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2024-03-20
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HIHB2353Engross
50%
Establishes the Criminal Justice Data Sharing and Research Group to consolidate the efforts of the Criminal Justice Data Sharing Working Group and the Gun Violence and Violent Crimes Commission. (SD1)
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2024-03-20
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HIHB2683Engross
50%
Makes permanent the exemption of laboratory school programs of the Hawaiian language college at the University of Hawaii at Hilo from state English-medium standards, assessments, performance ratings, staff qualifications, and staff training requireme...
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2024-03-19
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HIHB2515Engross
50%
Clarifies the types of events that constitute disasters and emergencies for the purposes of emergency management. Takes effect 7/1/2042. (SD1)
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2024-03-14
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HIHB1602Engross
50%
Authorizes a forty-eight-hour grace period after a missed initial court appearance. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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2024-03-07
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HIHB1664Engross
50%
Increases the penalties for bribery offenses under certain circumstances by establishing new offenses for bribery in the first and second degrees. Defines "bribery" for the purposes of these offenses. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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2024-03-07
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HIHB2470Engross
50%
Clarifies that a contested case hearing is not required when an identical or substantially similar administrative matter has been finally adjudicated. Includes administrative contested case proceedings within the scope of the vexatious litigant statu...
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2024-03-07
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HIHB1766Engross
50%
Prohibits the distribution of synthetic media messages in advertisements before an election that a person knows or should have known are deceptive and fraudulent deepfakes of a candidate. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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2024-03-07
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HIHB1845Engross
50%
Increases the amount of partial public campaign financing available for all elective offices. Adjusts the minimum amount of qualifying contributions certain candidates must receive to participate in the program. Increases the matching fund payments f...
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2024-03-07
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HIHB70Engross
50%
Prohibits the sale or holding, offering, and distribution of hemp products that contain cannabinoids created through isomerization. Inserts the alternative name for Delta 6 cis or trans tetrahydrocannabinol, and their optical isomers into the list of...
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2024-02-15
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HIHB89Engross
50%
Amends section 11-357, HRS, to prohibit elected officials as defined in section 11-342(d), HRS, from soliciting and accepting campaign contributions during any regular session or special session of the State Legislature, including any extension of an...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HIHB95Engross
50%
Increases the amount of partial public financing available for all offices. Adjusts the minimum amount of qualifying contributions certain candidates must receive to participate in the program. Increases the matching fund payments for excess qualifyi...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HIHB723Engross
50%
Expands application of the State's sunshine law to legislatively appointed bodies, including task forces, working groups, commissions, special committees, and select committees. (SD1)
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2023-12-11
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HIHB352Engross
50%
Authorizes the family courts to allow petitioners to attend TRO hearings remotely upon request. Requires the courts to consider certain factors. Requires the courts to allow petitioners who allege domestic abuse to attend TRO hearings remotely. Effec...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HIHB670Engross
50%
Specifies that a simple majority of affirmative votes of the members of the Land Use Commission present at a meeting and qualified to vote is required for any boundary amendment. Reduces the number of days within which the Land Use Commission must ac...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HIHB792Engross
50%
Grants a circuit court, when sentencing a minor for a criminal offense or adult convicted of a felony criminal offense that was committed before reaching the age of majority, the discretion to impose a sentence that includes a period of incarceration...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HIHB1266Engross
50%
Allows wild game to be donated as food. (HD2)
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HIHB752Engross
50%
Expands the jurisdiction for a petition for a domestic abuse protective order to be in the family court in which the nonresident is located; the respondent resides; the subject of a petition that is a minor, incapacitated person, or person who is phy...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HIHB1014Engross
50%
Clarifies the employees' retirement system's eligibility requirement definitions for service-connected disability and accidental death benefits. Effective 6/30/3000. (SD1)
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HIHB42Engross
50%
Authorizes candidates and their candidate committees to donate residual campaign funds to the general fund of the State or to the real property tax general fund of any county of the State. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HIHB480Engross
50%
Amends the definitions of "special interest vehicle", "street rod replica vehicle", and "street rod vehicle", for purposes of the Hawaii Highway Safety Act, to be based on the age of the vehicle or the parts used, rather than a certain year. Requires...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HIHB985Engross
50%
Adds a new section to chapter 708, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to establish the class C felony offense of government fraud.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HIHB726Engross
50%
Prohibits state and county elected officials from soliciting and accepting campaign contributions during any regular session or special session of the state legislature, including any extension of any regular session or special session and any legisl...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HIHB1231Engross
50%
Amends the misdemeanor offense of criminal property damage in the third degree to include intentionally or knowingly damaging the property of another that is used in a business operation, without the other's consent in an amount exceeding $100. Effec...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HIHB136Engross
50%
Requires each house of the legislature to post a report of the legislative allowance expenditures for each member of the respective house on the legislature's website. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
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