Hawaii Representative Elle Cochran [D] | House

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HIHB1405Engross
50%
Requires the commission on water resource management and division of aquatic resources of the department of land and natural resources, in partnership with the University of Hawaii and department of health, to conduct research on limu to understand t...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee
HIHB896Engross
50%
Requires the Department of Education to assess its facilities and provide the legislature with a list of priority facilities in each county at which the installation of renewable energy systems on school facilities would provide the most benefit, pro...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee
HIHB389Intro
25%
Establishes a carbon sequestration income tax credit. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB905Engross
50%
Requires the University of Hawaii, in consultation with the commission on water resource management, to develop a scope of work and cost analysis to complete a flexible groundwater model that proposes methods for determining the needs of traditional ...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Higher Education Committee
HIHB886Intro
25%
Eliminates the home mortgage interest deduction for second homes under Hawaii income tax law. Sunsets on 7/1/2028. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB188Intro
25%
Appropriates funds for the Hawaii carbon smart land management assistance pilot program. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB1368Engross
50%
Makes various updates to the hospital sustainability program, including amending the definition of "private hospital"; clarifying the uses of the hospital sustainability program special fund; increasing various hospital sustainability fee caps; requi...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services 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
HIHB440Intro
25%
Establishes an income tax credit for the cost of upgrading or converting a qualified cesspool to a director of health-approved wastewater system or connecting to a sewerage system. Requires certain information regarding cesspools on real property to ...
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2023-12-11
To House Health Committee
HIHB439Engross
50%
Establishes and appropriates funds for an immigrant services and access unit within the office of community services. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee
HIHB512Intro
25%
Establishes an entrepreneurship grant program within the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to assist entrepreneurs with new businesses.
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2023-12-11
To House Economic Development Committee
HIHB1449Intro
25%
Amends Act 162, SLH 2022, to extend the sunset date for the early lung cancer screening task force and extend the date for the task force to submit reports to the legislature. Appropriates funds. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB938Intro
25%
Establishes an income tax credit for employers who create on-site early childhood facilities. Establishes and appropriates funds for 1.0 FTE on-site early childhood facility coordinator position. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2023. ...
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2023-12-11
To House Human Services Committee
HIHB244Engross
50%
Establishes a career and technical education working group to strengthen career and technical education in the State's public schools. Makes an appropriation. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD2)
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2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee
HIHB876Intro
25%
Requires the University of Hawaii to develop and implement a two-year native pollinator habitat pilot project to be deployed at the University of Hawaii at Manoa campus and the University of Hawaii at Hilo campus. Appropriates funds for a technician ...
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB1341Intro
25%
Appropriates funds for the achievement of full funding, including estimated payment increases, of medicaid home and community-based services. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB549Intro
25%
Requires the school facilities authority to, to the greatest extent possible, renovate, improve, and expand existing public school facilities and classrooms to increase pre-kindergarten student capacity, including while expending funds appropriated f...
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2023-12-11
To House Education Committee
HIHB397Intro
25%
Appropriates funds to the Hawaii technology development corporation for the Hawaii small business capital program. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB248Engross
50%
Requires the department of education to fully implement the farm to school program and farm to school meals program by the 20242025 school year. Provides that complex area superintendents have the authority to implement the farm to school and farm to...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee
HIHB555Intro
25%
Allows candidates seeking election to use campaign funds for child care and vital household dependent care costs under certain conditions.
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2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB253Intro
25%
Requires monthly rather than annual reporting of restricted use pesticides. Amends the contents of reports to include specific geospatial data and information, site information, and increased detail on the amount of restricted use pesticides used. Re...
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2023-12-11
To House Agriculture Committee
HIHB354Intro
25%
Appropriates funds for the Kahoolawe Island Reserve Commission and to fund three full-time equivalent (3.00 FTE) permanent positions for the Kahoolawe Island Reserve Commission.
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2023-12-11
To House Water & Land Committee
HIHB442Intro
25%
Establishes a visitor green fee program that requires that visitors purchase a license which is valid for one year for the use of a state park, beach, state-owned forest, hiking trail on state-owned land, or other state-owned natural area, to be admi...
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2023-12-11
To House Tourism Committee
HIHB1351Intro
25%
Amends the conveyance tax by adding a fee schedule for properties that are sold by foreign entities or non-resident foreign nationals.
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2023-12-11
To House Water & Land Committee
HIHB246Intro
25%
Requires the department of education to employ one full-time equivalent counselor, vice principal, and media specialist at each department school. Appropriates funds.
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2023-12-11
To House Education Committee
HIHB251Intro
25%
Amends the definition of "restricted use pesticide" to include neonicotinoid pesticides.
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2023-12-11
To House Agriculture Committee
HIHB309Intro
25%
Authorizes the director of finance to issue general obligation bonds to finance capital improvements to various irrigation systems. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB432Intro
25%
Allows parties aggrieved by an order of the Hawaii Paroling Authority to appeal to the intermediate appellate court within 90 days of issuance and service of the order fixing the minimum term of imprisonment. Establishes the standard of judicial revi...
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2023-12-11
To House Corrections, Military, & Veterans Committee
HIHB394Intro
25%
Appropriates funds to the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism for the Commission on the Thirteenth Festival of Pacific Arts to plan for the Festival of Pacific Arts to be held in Honolulu from June 6 to June 16, 2024.
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2023-12-11
To House Culture, Arts, & International Affairs Committee
HIHB1406Engross
50%
Requires the Department of Transportation to conduct a two-year study on the maximized use of recycled asphalt across the State. Requires a report to the Legislature. Effective 6/30/3000. (SD1)
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HIHB616Intro
25%
Amends the Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2022 to specify that the appropriation for Hawaii housing finance and development corporation (BED160) is to be deposited into and expended from the affordable homeownership revolving fund for purposes of...
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2023-12-11
To House Housing Committee
HIHB215Intro
25%
Prohibits the sale, offer for sale, display for sale, trade, or distribution of certain animal fur products in the State. Effective 1/1/2024.
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2023-12-11
To House Agriculture Committee
HIHB847Intro
25%
Requires government entities to seek reimbursement for all or a portion of search or rescue expenses for persons who require rescue after leaving a hiking trail to enter an area closed to the public or hiking on a trail closed to the public, with a s...
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2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB1414Intro
25%
Requires all playgrounds located in state and county parks and on public school grounds include special needs recreational playground equipment as part of the recreational apparatuses by 6/30/2025 including at a minimum a wheelchair accessible swing ...
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2023-12-11
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee
HIHB1453Intro
25%
Expands the list of acceptable institutions or organizations that can approve the continuing education courses needed by naturopathic physicians for license renewal.
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2023-12-11
To House Health Committee
HIHB962Intro
25%
Exempts Hawaiian language immersion program students from kindergarten assessment requirements.
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2023-12-11
To House Education Committee
HIHB249Engross
50%
Establishes the Hawaii child nutrition programs agency in the department of human services. Establishes a grant program to support the funding of certain initiatives for the State's public schools. Establishes three permanent full-time equivalent pos...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HIHB955Intro
25%
Exempts birth attendants practicing on or before 7/1/2025 from licensure requirements, under certain conditions. Expands qualifications for licensure to include the North American Registry of Midwives portfolio evaluation process. Effective 6/30/3000...
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB780Intro
25%
Requires the office of the lieutenant governor to convene a working group to examine the feasibility of establishing and implementing a kauhale pilot program based on specified criteria to provide shelter and other services to homeless individuals in...
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2023-12-11
To House Housing Committee
HIHB208Intro
25%
Appropriates funds to the department of the attorney general to collect data and conduct a study on how to reduce criminal activity in Waikiki.
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2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB150Intro
25%
Increases personal income tax revenues for high earning taxpayers by establishing new income tax brackets and rates that are applied against a broader level of taxable income for taxable years beginning after 12/31/2022.
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2023-12-11
To House Economic Development Committee
HIHB460Intro
25%
Prohibits the downloading or use of social media application TikTok on government-issued devices capable of internet connectivity, or on government internet networks.
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2023-12-11
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee
HIHB828Engross
50%
Requires the department of education to establish a student bus fare rate system to include free bus passes for students whose household qualifies the student for free or reduced price lunch under the free and reduced price lunch program. Appropriate...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee
HIHB54Engross
50%
Establishes a nationally certified school psychologist incentive program. Appropriates funds for the incentive program. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee
HIHB649Intro
25%
Appropriates funds for three program specialist positions within the Executive Office on Aging for Hawaii's State Health Insurance Assistance Program.
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2023-12-11
To House Health Committee
HIHB1135Intro
25%
Reduces, then later exempts, the tax collected on the sale of groceries that are eligible under the supplemental nutrition assistance program or special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants, and children, regardless of the means of purch...
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2023-12-11
To House Economic Development Committee
HIHB1234Intro
25%
Requires first responders to record in the incident report for each water rescue event the type of snorkel and mask, if any, worn by the person who was rescued or recovered. Appropriates funds to the department of health to update reporting system te...
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2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB1372Intro
25%
Beginning January 1, 2024, increases the tip credit to be twenty per cent of the minimum wage.
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2023-12-11
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee
HIHB261Engross
50%
Requires the Department of Human Services to establish a Child Care Accreditation Program to assist licensed and registered child care providers in obtaining accreditation. Authorizes the use of the Child Care Grant Program Special Fund for Child Car...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HIHB1264Intro
25%
Requires state participation in the multistate Nurse Licensure Compact, which will allow a nurse who is licensed by a home state to practice under a multistate licensure privilege in each party state.
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2023-12-11
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee
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