Hawaii Senator Angus McKelvey [D]

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HISB3378Intro
25%
Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects for the benefit of the 6th senatorial district, including extension of the Lahaina bypass road by the Department of Transportation; projects for Department of Education schools; projects for Departm...
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2024-01-29
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB3342Intro
25%
Establishes a spay and neuter special fund and an advisory committee for the special fund. Allows funds from an income tax check-off to be deposited into the spay and neuter special fund. Appropriates moneys. Declares that the appropriation exceeds t...
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2024-01-29
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
HISB3380Intro
25%
Requires each motor vehicle insurance policy to cover the replacement cost of a child passenger restraint system damaged during a collision for which liability coverage under the policy is applicable.
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2024-01-29
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
HISB3379Intro
25%
Appropriates funds for food bank purchase from local farmers, to be expended by request for proposal via the Department of Agriculture.
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2024-01-29
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
HISB2732Intro
25%
Limits the payment of any delinquent tax and penalty required by the Director of Finance of a county as a condition precedent to the registration, renewal, or transfer of ownership of a vehicle more than 25 years old to the aggregate amount of delinq...
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2024-01-26
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee
HISB2981Intro
25%
Establishes as a class B felony the unlicensed performance of contractor work, during or within 5 years following a national emergency, state of emergency, or disaster proclamation, in an affected political subdivision.
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2024-01-26
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
HISB2987Intro
25%
Establishes the Teacher Home Assistance Program to be administered by the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to provide housing vouchers to certain teachers who are employed by the Department of Education and commit to teach at hard-t...
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2024-01-26
To Senate Housing Committee
HISB2985Intro
25%
Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to acquire all West Maui water systems by eminent domain and hold the water systems in trust for the County of Maui to manage.
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2024-01-26
To Senate Water and Land Committee
HISB2982Intro
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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2024-01-26
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee
HISB2984Intro
25%
Establishes the Hawaii Capital Loan Revolving Fund to be used to make loans to businesses located in nationally-declared disaster areas relating to the 2023 Maui wildfires and to, in part, administer the Maui Business Bridge Grants Program. Declares ...
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2024-01-26
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee
HISB1209Intro
25%
Conforms the amount allowable for the Hawaii expenses for household and dependent care services necessary for the gainful employment tax credit to the credit amounts allowed in the federal tax code. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/22.
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2024-01-25
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB2015Intro
25%
Amends the priority for which moneys in the Rental Housing Revolving Fund are to be used.
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2024-01-25
To Senate Housing Committee
HISB2466Intro
25%
Establishes a Crisis Intervention and Diversion Services Program within the Department of Health to expand existing services to divert those with mental health issues to appropriate health care services. Defines "mental health emergency worker". Decl...
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2024-01-24
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB2459Intro
25%
Requires the employer to initiate negotiations on repricing of classes within a bargaining unit within thirty days of its receipt of the exclusive representative's written request to negotiate. Establishes that the employer's failure to initiate the ...
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2024-01-24
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee
HISB2472Intro
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 certain long-term care facility operators to...
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2024-01-24
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB2464Intro
25%
Authorizes health care organizations to accept a health care provider's credentialing that was conducted by certain health care organizations or state agencies. Establishes a Health Care Credentialing Clearinghouse Pilot Program within the Department...
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2024-01-24
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB2611Intro
25%
Beginning on 7/1/2024: (1) requires that 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 a cert...
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2024-01-24
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB2564Intro
25%
Prohibits insurers from refusing to issue, refusing to renew, canceling, or establishing higher rates for a homeowners insurance policy or dwelling fire insurance policy based on the breed of any dog that is kept on the premises. Requires any pet ani...
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2024-01-24
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
HISB2628Intro
25%
Renames the Department of Law Enforcement to the "Department of the State Sheriff". Renames the Director of Law Enforcement to "State Sheriff" and deputy directors to "undersheriffs". Establishes an assistant position to be designated by the State Sh...
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2024-01-24
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB2618Intro
25%
Provides that within lands under Department of Hawaiian Home Lands jurisdiction, the Department shall have the nonexclusive authority to enforce state statutes and rules and county ordinances and rules in the same manner as state sheriffs and county ...
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2024-01-24
To Senate Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HISB2496Intro
25%
Establishes a gray water income tax credit to encourage the installation of qualified gray water systems certified by the Department of Health on existing residential properties and new housing developments. Effective for taxable years beginning afte...
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2024-01-24
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB2491Intro
25%
Establishes the offense of negligent failure to control a dog.
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2024-01-24
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
HISB2494Intro
25%
Provides police officers who become members of the Employees' Retirement System after 6/30/2023 with retirement benefits similar to those provided for members of the Employees' Retirement System who became members before 7/1/2012, including but not l...
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2024-01-24
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB2484Intro
25%
Appropriates funds for the continued implementation of the return-to-home pilot program, established pursuant to Act 94, Session Laws of Hawaii 2023, to provide eligible homeless individuals with assistance in reuniting with family and relatives in t...
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2024-01-24
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB2616Intro
25%
Authorizes student-athletes attending public and private high schools to earn compensation for the use of their name, image, or likeness, and to obtain related professional representation. Repeals on 1/1/30.
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2024-01-24
To Senate Education Committee
HISB2643Intro
25%
Amends the definition of "imminent harm" in the Child Protective Act. Clarifies the due process required for child removals, including removals by a police officer without a court order.
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2024-01-24
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB2540Intro
25%
Reinstates income tax credit for cesspool upgrade, conversion, or connection for eligible taxpayers and eligible expenses. Applies retroactively to 12/31/2020.
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2024-01-24
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
HISB2567Intro
25%
Requires the law enforcement standards board to develop training materials related to the recognition and signs of Alzheimer's disease and related types of dementia. Requires law enforcement officers to review training materials for at least 1 hour p...
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2024-01-24
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB2541Intro
25%
Clarifies that the Director of Human Resources Development shall not hold the position of Chief Negotiator of the State.
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2024-01-24
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee
HISB2633Intro
25%
For taxable years beginning after 12/31/2024, provides a temporary income tax credit for the cost of upgrading or converting a qualified cesspool to a wastewater system approved by the director of health, or connecting to a sewerage system. Sunsets 1...
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2024-01-24
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
HISB2544Intro
25%
Requires the Department of Education Committee on Weights to consider the impact of its weighted student formula recommendations on small and remote schools.
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2024-01-24
To Senate Education Committee
HISB2604Intro
25%
Establishes a court's authority to issue an order restricting abusive litigation.
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2024-01-24
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB2485Intro
25%
Establishes the advisory council for sexual trauma in the Hawaii national guard. Requires annual reports to the Legislature.
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2024-01-24
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB2786Intro
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 Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB2848Intro
25%
Allows direct shipment of beer and distilled spirits by certain licensees. Requires the Liquor Commission of each county to adopt rules and regulations.
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2024-01-24
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
HISB2648Intro
25%
Adds the Chairperson of the Hawaiian Homes Commission or the Chairperson's designee to the Hawaii Community Development Authority.
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2024-01-24
To Senate Water and Land Committee
HISB2862Intro
25%
Prohibits a landlord from renting or leasing, or offering to rent or lease, a dwelling unit in the district described in section 41(2)(D), HRS, at a rate that exceeds the rate for which that dwelling unit was rented or leased or offered for rent or l...
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2024-01-24
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
HISB2724Intro
25%
Requires defendants convicted of causing the death of a parent or legal guardian of a minor child by the operation of a vehicle in a negligent manner while under the influence of drugs or alcohol to make restitution in the form of financial support t...
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2024-01-24
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB2868Intro
25%
Establishes an online fantasy sports contests registration and monitoring program under the Department of the Attorney General. Imposes an online fantasy sports contests tax on the gross revenues of registrants. Establishes the Online Fantasy Sports ...
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2024-01-24
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB2852Intro
25%
Establishes a two-year senior access pilot program in the Executive Office on Aging to improve access to essential services and reduce wait times for seniors seeking public services through state and county government offices. Requires the Auditor to...
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2024-01-24
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB2704Intro
25%
Prohibits civil asset forfeiture unless the covered offense is a felony for which the property owner has been convicted. Excludes the forfeiture proceedings for an animal pending criminal charges. Requires the Attorney General to deposit the net proc...
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2024-01-24
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB2821Intro
25%
Authorizes the Department of Accounting and General Services to directly hire persons exempt from civil service and collective bargaining requirements. Exempts DAGS employees from civil service.
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2024-01-24
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee
HISB2802Intro
25%
Declares that the general fund expenditure is exceeded. Makes an appropriation to the Department of Agriculture to increase the benefits of the Hawaii healthy food incentive program to a wider portion of the State's population and the provision of ma...
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2024-01-24
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
HISB2773Intro
25%
Prohibits the mining, extraction, and removal of minerals from the seabed in all state marine waters. Prohibits the issuance of any permit for or in connection with the development or operation of any facility or infrastructure associated with the mi...
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2024-01-24
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
HISB2871Intro
25%
Authorizes a sheriff, deputy sheriff, or police officer to retire after twenty-five years of service and receive employment benefits through the Employees' Retirement System.
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2024-01-24
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee
HISB2799Intro
25%
Establishes a Local Agriculture Transportation Cost Reimbursement Incentive Program to be administered by the Department of Agriculture to reimburse eligible producers for a portion of the producer's costs to transport agricultural commodities. Decla...
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2024-01-24
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
HISB2826Intro
25%
Requires state agencies to process the aggregated energy and water data of certain properties through the federal ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager and submit the benchmarking data to the Hawaii State Energy Office. Declares that the general fund expendi...
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2024-01-24
To Senate Government Operations Committee
HISB2809Intro
25%
Requires the State Fire Council to appoint the State Fire Marshal. Establishes that this measure only takes effect if another bill is passed that establishes a State Fire Marshal position.
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2024-01-24
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee
HISB2694Intro
25%
Requires each food establishment to clearly and conspicuously display, in each advertisement and when a price is first shown to a customer, the total price of the food or beverage provided, including any mandatory fees a customer would incur during t...
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2024-01-24
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
HISB2696Intro
25%
Establishes standards for the collection, sale, and destruction of consumer health data by regulated entities and small businesses.
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2024-01-24
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
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