Hawaii Senator Donovan Cruz [D]

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HISB829Intro
25%
Appropriates general fund moneys that are required to match federal moneys for broadband programs. Appropriates moneys received by the State from the federal Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act for the broadband equity, access, and deployment prog...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB598Intro
25%
Authorizes counties, after adoption of an ordinance, to sell private property after all notices, orders, and appeal proceedings are exhausted and to use those revenues to pay unpaid civil fines related to that property.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB292Engross
50%
Requires the Governor to ensure that the Governor's variance reports accurately reflect the current responsibilities of certain state programs, address the current and future needs of the State, and align with budget-related submittals. Effective 6/3...
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HISB766Intro
25%
Beginning 7/1/2025, requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources State Historic Preservation Division to contract its review of proposed state projects, and projects affecting historic properties to third party consultants if the projects in...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB1577Engross
50%
Requires the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs to make all business registration applications available online. Requires all applications to contain certain contact information. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HISB308Intro
25%
Establishes the Erin's law task force to review policies, programs, and curricula for educating public school students about sexual abuse and sex trafficking prevention, report recommendations for the establishment of a program to educate public scho...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB80Intro
25%
Makes a person or entity liable for all or a portion of search or rescue expenses when the person or entity knowingly enters state, county, or private property, knowingly enters a hiking trail that is closed to the public, or violates applicable laws...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee
HISB824Engross
50%
Requires the securing of mooring lines from vessels requiring tug assistance to be manned by an existing, operational stevedoring company that is operating within the State, except the securing of mooring lines from vessels for purposes of shipyard o...
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2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HISB376Engross
50%
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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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HISB283Engross
50%
Excludes from the charter school per-pupil funding calculation all amounts relating to programs that provide comparable benefits for all public school students regardless of whether the student is a Department of Education school student or a public ...
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2023-12-11
To House Education Committee
HISB450Intro
25%
Requires boards to use interactive conference technology to remotely conduct public meetings in conjunction with in-person meetings that allow for public participation. Requires boards to archive certain recordings of meetings on their websites.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee
HISB857Intro
25%
Beginning on January 1, 2024, permits manufacturers of investigational drugs or biological products to make these drugs and products available to terminally ill patients under certain conditions. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD1)
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2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
HISB1158Engross
50%
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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2023-12-11
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee
HISB828Engross
50%
Establishes a fee for the issuance of an apostille or certification. Establishes the Apostilles and Certifications Special Fund. Authorizes the Office of the Lieutenant Governor to expend moneys in the fund for operational expenses. Appropriates fund...
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2023-12-11
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee
HISB124Intro
25%
Prohibits the possession of firearms on school property and school buses and at school-sponsored functions. Exempts certain law enforcement officers and instructors and participants of certain educational or training programs. Establishes that violat...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB469Intro
25%
Authorizes the counties to reclassify lands fifteen to one fifty acres in certain rural, urban, and agricultural districts in which at least seventy-five per cent of the housing units on the land sought to be reclassified are set aside for persons an...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB1037Intro
25%
Designates Limu Kala (Sargassum echinocarpum) as the official Hawaii state limu. Effective 07/01/2050. (SD1)
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB290Engross
50%
Requires that appropriations allocated to Department of Education programs that provide instructional services directly to students shall remain within the budget of the program to which the funds were originally allocated and that the retention of a...
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2023-12-11
To House Education Committee
HISB333Intro
25%
Promotes development within one-half mile radius of any station along the rail transit system. Eliminates certain restrictions for developing state-owned real property located within one-half mile radius of any station along the rail transit system. ...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Housing Committee
HISB1521Engross
50%
Requires the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development to create an integrated land use study for the use of land within the agricultural district. Requires the Hawaii State Energy Office, Department of Agriculture, Department of Transportation,...
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HISB1212Engross
50%
Prohibits any campaign website for any candidate or candidate committee from containing information or manipulating content in any manner that is designed to induce a noncandidate committee to use that content to make expenditures supporting the cand...
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2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HISB1096Intro
25%
Establishes an exemption from applicable county permit requirements for repetitive construction projects for facilities under the control of the Department of Education, University of Hawaii, or School Facilities Authority.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB289Intro
25%
Requires that appropriations allocated to Department of Education programs that provide instructional services directly to students shall remain within the budget of the program to which they were originally allocated and that the retention of an app...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee
HISB788Intro
25%
Prohibits the Department of Health from issuing permits for commercial burning of green waste products in residential areas or within one thousand feet of a residential property.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
HISB341Intro
25%
Inserts unspecified amounts for minimum required liability coverage for accidental harm and destruction of property for motor vehicle insurance policies in the State. Takes effect 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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2023-12-11
Carried over to 2024 Regular Session.
HISB301Intro
25%
Amends Act 257, Session Laws of Hawaii 2022, to authorize the School Facilities Authority to provide affordable housing to Department of Education teachers.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee
HISB826Engross
50%
Transfers an unspecified sum of general funds previously appropriated to the School Facilities Authority of the Department of Education to the school facilities special fund. Appropriates moneys from the school facilities special fund in fiscal year ...
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2023-12-11
To House Education Committee
HISB815Intro
25%
Establishes an accelerator program within the Hawaii Technology Development Corporation. Amends the reporting requirements for Hawaii Technology Development Corporation's manufacturing and development program. Requires the Hawaii Technology Developme...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee
HISB1030Intro
25%
Authorizes the department of land and natural resources to establish and operate conservation mitigation banks to restore, create, enhance, or preserve conservation habitats or resources as compensatory mitigation. Authorizes the department to contra...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee
HISB285Engross
50%
Creates within the Department of Health's wastewater branch a cesspool conversion section, which will be responsible for facilitating the conversion of cesspools within the State. Establishes and appropriates funds for three full-time equivalent posi...
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HISB1110Intro
25%
Establishes a framework to regulate controllers and processors with access to personal consumer data. Establishes that a violation of the consumer data privacy act constitutes an unfair method of competition and unfair and deceptive acts or practices...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
HISB1483Intro
25%
Prohibits cyber harassment and cyberstalking. Allows for civil liabilities and injunctions for cyber harassment and cyberstalking.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB927Enroll
75%
Proposes a constitutional amendment to specify that reapportionment shall be based on the resident population, as counted in the decennial United States census for the respective reapportionment year, rather than the permanent resident population. (S...
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2023-12-11
Carried over to 2024 Regular Session.
HISB72Engross
50%
For applications filed on or after July 1, 2023, requires the Public Utilities Commission to render decisions on certain renewable projects, power purchase agreements, and cost recovery applications within one hundred eighty days of the filing of the...
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2023-12-11
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee
HISB1021Intro
25%
Authorizes agencies to expend moneys from special funds under the agency's control for capital improvement projects, subject to legislative appropriation or authorization. Prohibits the expenditure of amounts that exceed 20% of the special fund's cei...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB1102Intro
25%
Authorizes the counties to adopt an ordinance regulating the operation of hosting platforms that provide booking services for transient accommodation operators.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB817Engross
50%
Amends the definition of "eligible business activity" to include the processing of value-added agricultural products grown within an enterprise zone and the development or production of renewable energy, under certain conditions. Effective 6/30/3000....
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2023-12-11
To House Economic Development Committee
HISB1061Intro
25%
Permits the governing body of a county to create, by ordinance, a process for the recordation and enforcement of solar easements. Allows counties to require individuals claiming a solar easement to record that easement by filing a declaration with th...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee
HISB122Intro
25%
Establishes uniform firearms safety and training requirements for applicants of permits to acquire firearms, regardless of firearm type. Prohibits the issuance of permits to acquire firearms to aliens who are not state law enforcement officers. Requi...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB1023Engross
50%
Appropriates funds for the preschool open doors program and executive office on early learning to expand access to preschool and to implement program changes required by previous acts. Requires DHS to provide reimbursements to providers participating...
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HISB1180Intro
25%
Prohibits the sale of geolocation information and internet browser information without consent.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee
HISB1160Intro
25%
Allows the Intermediate Appellate Court to review orders issued by the Hawaii Paroling Authority.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB288Intro
25%
Transfers the Culinary Institute of the Pacific from the University of Hawaii to the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism as an administratively attached agency.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Higher Education Committee
HISB832Engross
50%
Authorizes the counties to transfer land to the School Facilities Authority. Exempts the School Facilities Authority from certain assessments and taxes. Authorizes state and county agencies to render services to the School Facilities Authority upon r...
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HISB65Intro
25%
Incorporates a regenerative framework into the State Planning Act by expanding objectives and policies for the visitor industry. Requires an update to the State Tourism Functional Plan to be submitted to the Legislature no later than twenty days prio...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB307Intro
25%
Authorizes the School Facilities Authority of the Department of Education to disregard any ordinance or rule related to the use, zoning, planning, or development of land to which the authority holds title or for any construction on land to which the ...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee
HISB339Intro
25%
Requires all health insurers in the state, including medicaid managed care programs, to cover annual mental health wellness examinations.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB845Intro
25%
Makes comprehensive updates to chapter 436E, Hawaii Revised Statutes, regarding acupuncture practitioners to reflect modernized scopes of practice, titles, and licensing and renewal requirements. Authorizes the Board of Acupuncture to establish an al...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
HISB846Intro
25%
Increases fines that may be assessed against certain fireworks-related violations.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB294Intro
25%
Establishes under the Hawaii Children's Trust Fund Coalition a collective impact program called the Malama Ohana Program to seek, design, and recommend transformative changes to the State's existing child welfare system. Requires the Malama Ohana Pro...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
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