Hawaii Senator Chris Lee [D]

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HISB2563Intro
25%
Requires the Hawaii Public Housing Authority to allow any resident of a public housing project or state low-income housing project to keep one or more pet animals in the resident's unit, subject to applicable state laws, county ordinances, and any re...
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2024-02-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB2895Intro
25%
Permits a shipping container chassis that holds a valid out-of-state certificate of vehicle registration to obtain a certificate of safety inspection. Makes an out-of-state registration for a shipping container chassis valid in the State until its ex...
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2024-02-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB2664Intro
25%
Amends the law governing interest and usury by defining "debt" to include any amount that a consumer agrees to pay under certain conditions; requiring "annual percentage rates" to be calculated pursuant to the Truth in Lending Act and requiring certa...
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2024-02-14
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
HISB3266Intro
25%
Appropriates funds to the Department of Transportation and Department of Land and Natural Resources for vegetation management projects to reduce the risks of wildfires across the State. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. ...
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2024-02-14
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB3341Intro
25%
Establishes the Upcycled Mobile Dishwashing System Pilot Program within the Department of Health. Requires a report to the Legislature. Establishes two full-time positions within the Department of Health. Declares the general fund expenditure ceiling...
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2024-02-14
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB2855Intro
25%
Clarifies U-drive motor vehicle insurance policy requirements.
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2024-02-13
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee
HISB2893Intro
25%
Allows the Director of Transportation to exempt certain ground transportation facility projects from historic preservation review and the environmental impact statement law, subject to certain conditions.
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2024-02-13
To Senate Water and Land Committee
HISB2740Intro
25%
Beginning 1/1/26, requires that every moped rented in the State be an electric moped.
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2024-02-13
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee
HISB2558Intro
25%
Imposes a penalty for knowingly selling invasive plants or plants containing invasive species.
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2024-02-12
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
HISB2661Intro
25%
Establishes the Homeless Employment Grant Program, a three-year pilot program, that provides homeless individuals with work opportunities and connects them with service providers. Requires the Department of Human Services to report to the Legislature...
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2024-02-12
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB3274Intro
25%
Restricts civil asset forfeiture to cases involving the commission of a felony offense where the property owner has been convicted of an underlying felony offense. Directs forfeiture proceeds to the general fund. Amends the allowable expenses for mon...
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2024-02-08
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB2891Intro
25%
Authorizes the Department of Transportation to allow helicopter operations during daylight hours at Kapalua airport.
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2024-02-06
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee
HISB2892Intro
25%
Establishes a fee on the sale of new combustion engine-powered mopeds. Requires that all fees collected from the sale of combustion engine-powered mopeds be deposited into the Electric Moped Rebate Program Special Fund.
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2024-02-06
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee
HISB2672Intro
25%
Authorizes the state librarian to decline to conduct a requested review of an item within the Hawaii State Public Library System collection if the item was previously reviewed by the system in good faith, the basis for the request is duplicative or s...
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2024-01-30
To Senate Education Committee
HISB2573Intro
25%
Requires an owner or operator of a solid waste electric generating facility to ensure that each incinerator operating as part of the facility has implemented air pollution controls sufficient to limit the emissions of nitrogen oxides, mercury, dioxin...
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2024-01-29
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
HISB2734Intro
25%
Amends the procedure of transferring the title or ownership interest in a vehicle. Requires the person whose title or interest is to be transferred, or their representative with the appropriate documentation, and the transferee to appear in person be...
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2024-01-29
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee
HISB2745Intro
25%
Provides that the Department of Land and Natural Resources Division of Boating and Ocean Recreation shall not tow vehicles operated by persons found to have committed certain traffic infractions unless a citation was issued no less than 24 hours befo...
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2024-01-29
To Senate Water and Land Committee
HISB3252Intro
25%
Amends the Hawaii State Constitution to prohibit the State from denying or interfering with an individual's reproductive freedom, including the right to choose or obtain an abortion or to choose to obtain or use contraceptives.
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2024-01-29
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB3241Intro
25%
Establishes a plant-based meals option grant program within the Department of Education. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. Makes an appropriation.
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2024-01-29
To Senate Education Committee
HISB3240Intro
25%
Requires the Hawaii State Energy Office to establish a five-year pilot program to work with other public infrastructure agencies to ensure rebuilt Maui infrastructure is more resilient, provide for resiliency hubs at critical emergency infrastructure...
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2024-01-29
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee
HISB3264Intro
25%
Authorizes manufacturers of electronic devices to coordinate collection activities for the purpose of recycling electronic devices.
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2024-01-29
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
HISB3263Intro
25%
Establishes the Hawaii Home Energy Assistance Program within the Department of Human Services to assist qualifying households in paying their energy bills. Establishes the Hawaii Home Energy Assistance Special Fund. Declares that the general fund exp...
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2024-01-29
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB3347Intro
25%
Establishes requirements for the State of Hawaii Museum of Natural, Indigenous, and Cultural History to meet in order to receive state funds. Requires a report to the Legislature. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. Makes ...
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2024-01-29
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee
HISB2733Intro
25%
Requires transferors and transferees of used motor vehicles, mopeds, and trailers, including motor vehicles whose owners do not intend to drive the vehicle on public highways, to appear together before the county director of finance with governmentis...
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2024-01-26
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts 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
HISB3018Intro
25%
Establishes a framework to regulate controllers and processors with access to personal consumer data. Establishes penalties. Establishes a new consumer privacy special fund. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. Makes an app...
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2024-01-26
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
HISB3019Intro
25%
Authorizes, and establishes a regulatory framework for, the administration of psilocybin for therapeutic use.
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2024-01-26
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB3020Intro
25%
Establishes the offense of operating a vehicle while impaired, and penalties. Authorizes the Department of Transportation to take administrative action.
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2024-01-26
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts 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
HISB2578Intro
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 Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee
HISB2576Intro
25%
Prohibits lodging establishments from providing personal care products in small plastic containers within sleeping room accommodations, any space within sleeping room accommodations, or bathrooms used by the public or guests. Establishes civil penalt...
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2024-01-24
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee
HISB2554Intro
25%
Beginning 1/1/2028, prohibits the operation of leaf blowers or string trimmers that are powered using two-stroke engines. Establishes penalties to be enforced by the Department of Health.
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2024-01-24
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB2577Intro
25%
Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. Makes an appropriation to the Hawaii State Energy Office to conduct a state-wide blanket environmental impact statement for geothermal exploration and development.
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2024-01-24
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee
HISB2883Intro
25%
Beginning with the 2025-2026 school year, requires the Department of Education to ensure that inclusive curricula are available to all students at public schools. Makes it a discriminatory practice to refuse to approve, remove, or prohibit the use or...
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2024-01-24
To Senate Education Committee
HISB2701Intro
25%
Reduces the tax rate for pass-through entities electing to pay Hawaii income taxes at the entity level. Allows certain members of pass-through entities entitled to a tax credit to use the credit against the member's net income tax liability in subseq...
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2024-01-24
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB2666Intro
25%
Requires covered employers to automatically enroll covered employees into the Hawaii Retirement Savings Program unless the employee chooses to opt out.
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2024-01-24
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee
HISB2668Intro
25%
Adopts the Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact. Requires the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs to adopt rules to implement and administer the Compact.
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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
HISB2707Intro
25%
Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to establish a three-year pilot program to employ and pay incarcerated individuals with fewer than five years left on their sentence the minimum wage. Requires the Department of Corrections an...
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2024-01-24
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB2884Intro
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 Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB2708Intro
25%
Requires all public high schools statewide to select not more than two students to represent the interests of students at the public high school and young people in the community on the neighborhood board or regional community advisory board where th...
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2024-01-24
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB2898Intro
25%
Clarifies the law on the detection and management of pests and invasive species.
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2024-01-24
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
HISB2741Intro
25%
Prohibits retailers from selling or offering for sale certain combustion engine-powered mopeds beginning 1/1/2026.
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2024-01-24
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee
HISB2737Intro
25%
Prohibits any person from engaging in any activity that has the intent and effect of distracting drivers along streets, roadways, or other public property within 100 feet of an intersection.
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2024-01-24
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts 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
HISB2739Intro
25%
Establishes registration and driver's licensing requirements for the operation of electric rickshaws.
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2024-01-24
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee
HISB2669Intro
25%
Excepts certain in-person consultation and examination requirements to establish a provider-patient relationship for the purposes of gender affirming treatment via telehealth. Excepts certain in-person consultation and examination requirements to est...
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2024-01-24
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB2699Intro
25%
Requires food establishments to publicly disclose how tips are allocated among employees. Effective 1/1/25.
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2024-01-24
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee
HISB2700Intro
25%
Requires manufacturers of certain products and appliances to make available to any applicable product or appliance owners, service and repair facilities, and service dealers, on fair and reasonable terms, the documentation, parts, and tools used to d...
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2024-01-24
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
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