Hawaii Representative Diamond Garcia [R] | House

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HIHB1746Intro

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Allows a home-schooled child to become a member of the sports teams of the public school that the child would otherwise be required to attend.
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2024-01-24
To House Education Committee
HIHB1726Intro

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Standardizes medical exemptions from vaccination and immunization requirements. Allows one medical exemption form to remain valid.
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2024-01-24
To House Health Committee
HIHB1740Intro

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Creates the requirement that the Department of Education designate sexspecific teams for the purpose of gender equality in school sports.
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2024-01-24
To House Education Committee
HIHB1738Intro

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Directs the Department of Taxation, in consultation with the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism, to study the feasibility of replacing the income and general excise taxes with a new retail sales tax or other tax. Requires the D...
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2024-01-24
To House Economic Development Committee
HIHB1709Intro

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Establishes the office of entrepreneurship. Creates a program in partnership with the Hawaii film and creative industries development special fund. Declares the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded.
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2024-01-24
To House Economic Development Committee
HIHB1741Intro

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Repeals the provision of the state constitution that prohibits the construction of nuclear fission power plants unless approved by a two-thirds vote in each house of the Legislature.
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2024-01-24
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee
HIHB1744Intro

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Proposes an amendment to article III of the Constitution of the State of Hawaii to clarify that a legislator who is present to vote on any bill, resolution, confirmation of an appointment, or adoption of a report of a committee, whether in a floor se...
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2024-01-24
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB1717Intro

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Clarifies when the use of deadly force is not justified.
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2024-01-24
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB1725Intro

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Ensures that any mandated medical products are subject to standard liability.
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2024-01-24
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB1753Intro

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Lowers the threshold for a mandatory recount of votes. Requires that a recount be conducted in a different method than the original vote.
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2024-01-24
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB1713Intro

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Establishes a paid family leave program for state and county employees. Authorizes a qualifying employee to take up to twelve weeks of paid leave for the birth or placement of a child or to care for a family member who has a serious health condition.
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2024-01-24
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee
HIHB1752Intro

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Requires that ballot signatures be verified by employees in the presence of at least two official observers.
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2024-01-24
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB1712Intro

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Requires that all moneys in the pro rata portion of the Public Land Trust be transferred to the Office of Hawaiian Affairs.
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2024-01-24
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB1727Intro

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Requires that student health and sexuality health education programs include discussion of fetal growth and development. Outlines specific content to be included.
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2024-01-24
To House Health Committee
HIHB1724Intro

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Exempts the sale of precious metal bullion from the general excise tax.
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2024-01-24
To House Finance Committee
HIHB1710Intro

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Requires leases used in the conveyance of available lands as
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2024-01-24
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB1720Intro

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Provides cancer screening for full-time state firefighters every three years to cover twelve types of cancer. Appropriates funds exceeding the ceiling.
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2024-01-24
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee
HIHB1754Intro

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Requires that post-election pre-certification audits rely on physical ballots.
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2024-01-24
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB1736Intro

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Establishes a program to provide no interest and no fee loans for down payments to Maui wildfire victims who lost their homes in the wildfire. Appropriates moneys. Declares that the appropriation exceeds the State general fund expenditure ceiling for...
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2024-01-24
To House Water & Land Committee
HIHB1737Intro

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Provides for a sentence of death or life imprisonment without possibility of parole upon conviction for sex trafficking of a minor. Requires separate sentencing proceedings after conviction before a jury.
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2024-01-24
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB1716Intro

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Creates the offense of organized retail theft. Provides penalties for organized retail theft. Creates an organized retail theft task force.
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2024-01-24
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB1711Intro

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Allows designation of eligible homestead lots as enterprise zones for a period of twenty years. Provides state and local incentives to qualified businesses on homestead lots.
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2024-01-24
To House Economic Development Committee
HIHB1718Intro

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Amends the definition of "dangerous to self". Defines the terms "gravely disabled" and "psychiatric deterioration". Broadens the term of "imminently dangerous to self and others". Increases the maximum period of emergency hospitalization.
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2024-01-24
To House Health Committee
HIHB1719Intro

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Requires birthing facilities to screen newborns for Duchenne muscular dystrophy, and to report data to the Department of Health. Provides a screening exemption when parents or guardians object on religious grounds.
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2024-01-24
To House Health Committee
HIHB1723Intro

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Adds new sections to the Hawaii Constitution. Allows for amendments by initiative to prevail and reserves the powers of initiative and referendum to the people. Specifies a procedure for recall of elected officials and appointed justices and judges.
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2024-01-24
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB1749Intro

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Restores in-person voting at polling places as the principal method of voting in this State. Repeals the establishment of voter service centers.
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2024-01-24
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB1739Intro

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Establishes labeling requirements for products that were developed or tested using human cells.
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2024-01-24
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HIHB1721Intro

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Requires the Med-QUEST Division of the Department of Human Services to adopt rules authorizing reimbursements for remote ultrasound procedures and remote fetal nonstress tests.
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2024-01-24
To House Human Services Committee
HIHB1751Intro

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Requires election information to be publicly available either through website access or public records request.
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2024-01-24
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB1910Intro

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Establishes a telework tax credit for small business employers who allow telework for at least 30% of their employees.
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2024-01-24
To House Economic Development Committee
HIHB1909Intro

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Establishes the Maui small business rent subsidization grant program to assist small businesses displaced by the 2023 Maui wildfires to pay rent at new locations on Maui. Appropriates moneys. Declares that the appropriation exceeds the state general ...
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2024-01-24
To House Economic Development Committee
HIHB2019Intro

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Requires state agencies to offer individuals who resigned or were dismissed from employment for not complying with vaccination or testing requirements the option to be reinstated, with back pay, to the position that person held prior to their termina...
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2024-01-24
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee
HIHB2038Intro

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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
HIHB2036Intro

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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
HIHB2040Intro

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Establishes the building permit expeditionary improvement force to eliminate inefficiencies in the permitting process. Appropriates funds exceeding the ceiling.
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2024-01-24
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee
HIHB2037Intro

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Proposes a constitutional amendment that would legalize the possession and use of recreational cannabis by adults who are at least 21 years of age, as provided by law.
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2024-01-24
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB2039Intro

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Requires DAGS and DPS, in consultation with the legislature and other entities, to plan and implement security improvements at the state capitol. Requires DAGS to remove all parking meters from the capitol parking facility and reallocate parking in t...
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2024-01-24
To House Legislative Management Committee
HIHB2161Intro

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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
HIHB2173Intro

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Increases the amount of 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 to $767 and the amount of the ...
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2024-01-24
To House Human Services Committee
HIHB1275Intro

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Relating to abortions; prohibiting chemical abortion drugs for abortions as specified; providing exceptions; providing a criminal penalty for violating the prohibition on use of chemical abortion drugs for abortions; providing definitions; specifying...
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2023-12-11
To House Health Committee
HIHB843Engross

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Authorizes supplemental categorical funding for remote schools. Defines "remote school". Appropriates funds. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee
HIHB630Intro

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Proposes a constitutional amendment that would: (1) establish local school boards throughout the State to be elected from at least 7 school districts as provided by law; and (2) create an educational standards and accountability commission.
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2023-12-11
To House Education Committee
HIHB507Intro

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Requires the Department of Human Services to include the name of the beneficiary of supplemental nutrition and assistance program (SNAP) benefits on each electronic benefits transfer card. Requires a photo identification to be presented when an elect...
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2023-12-11
To House Human Services Committee
HIHB619Engross

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Establishes an income tax credit for qualified farms that donate eligible food products or prepared food to food banks or food pantries located in the State. Appropriates funds. Sunsets 6/30/2026. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD2)
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HIHB1120Intro

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Allow a criminal charged with a felony to also be charged with first-degree murder if a murder was committed during a volent felony by any of the felony perpetrators.
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2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB891Intro

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Prohibits the performance of gender reassignment surgeries on minors. Establishes a Class A felony for those who perform gender reassignment surgeries on minors.
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2023-12-11
To House Health Committee
HIHB338Intro

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Authorizes the issuance of special number plates to commemorate Carissa Kainani Moore.
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2023-12-11
To House Culture, Arts, & International Affairs Committee
HIHB626Intro

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Proposes a constitutional amendment to limit the terms of members of the legislature to a maximum of twelve years in the house of representatives or senate, or both, for terms beginning on or after the general election of 2024, with a grandfather cla...
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2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB625Intro

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Establishes an annual general excise tax holiday for consumers and businesses for items with a retail price under $2,000; provided that businesses pass savings on to consumers.
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2023-12-11
To House Economic Development Committee
HIHB633Intro

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Establishing a Local Housing Market that is tied to Hawaii State resident's incomes, and not the global economy. Thus, providing housing options that are affordable relative to wages for residents of the State.
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2023-12-11
To House Housing Committee
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