Hawaii Representative Ernesto Ganaden [D]

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HIHB603Intro
25%
Appropriates funds to hire school-based youth mental health specialists for department of education schools. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Health Committee
HIHB586Engross
50%
Requires the Judiciary to develop and implement an automated court appearance reminder system that generates text message and electronic mail notifications for upcoming court appearances in certain types of cases. Appropriates funds. Effective 6/30/3...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means 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
HIHB552Intro
25%
Converts the human trafficking victim services fund to a human trafficking reparations fund. Revises the purpose of the fund to provide direct financial assistance to victims of trafficking. Requires the department of human services, rather than the ...
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2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs 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
HIHB934Intro
25%
Beginning 1/1/2024, requires public schools, private schools, and public charter schools to have an employee trained to administer or assist with seizure disorder rescue medication. Requires all principals, guidance counselors, and teachers to perfor...
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2023-12-11
To House Health Committee
HIHB739Engross
50%
Requires the department of transportation to amend its administrative rules to allow motor vehicle owners whose motor vehicle registration and safety check are both expired to register their motor vehicle without first obtaining a certificate of insp...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts 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
HIHB428Intro
25%
Prohibits the public carry of firearms in sensitive places and upon private business establishment or charitable establishment premises, except under certain circumstances.
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2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB830Intro
25%
Requires the Department of Education to meet with Hawaii School for the Deaf and Blind stakeholders and members of the Hawaii deaf community regarding the development of a plan to transition the Hawaii School for the Deaf and Blind to a conversion ch...
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2023-12-11
To House Education Committee
HIHB1365Intro
25%
Establishes the Malama Ohana working group within the office of wellness and resilience to seek, design, and recommend transformative changes to the State's child welfare system. Requires a report to the legislature. Appropriates funds to the departm...
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2023-12-11
To House Finance 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
HIHB1443Intro
25%
Amends the composition of the fuel tank advisory committee. Adds requirements for the committee as it carries out its duties.
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2023-12-11
To House Water & Land Committee
HIHB1232Intro
25%
Authorizes certain inmates to either directly breastfeed any of the inmate's eligible children or to express milk for delivery to the child and to elect to be committed to a correctional facility in the inmate's home county. Requires the Hawaii Parol...
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2023-12-11
To House Corrections, Military, & Veterans 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
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
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
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
HIHB1441Intro
25%
Explicitly provides that a patient has a right to choose to obtain an abortion, or terminate a pregnancy if the termination is necessary to protect the patient's life or health. Repeals criminal penalties for violations of certain abortion provisions...
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2023-12-11
To House Health Committee
HIHB1191Intro
25%
Requires publicly held domestic corporations to have gender-diverse boards of directors. Establishes reporting requirements for the Director of Commerce and Consumer Affairs. Establishes penalties.
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2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce 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
HIHB818Intro
25%
Requires health insurance policies and contracts issued on or after 01/01/2024 to provide coverage for the cost of hearing aids at a minimum of $1,500 per hearing aid for each hearing-impaired ear every thirty-six months. Effective 01/01/2024.
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2023-12-11
To House Health Committee
HIHB1176Intro
25%
Appropriates funds for the development and maintenance of a comprehensive approach to successful prisoner reentry and integration that provides supports to inmates while incarcerated and after their release. Establishes a pilot program within the Jud...
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2023-12-11
To House Health Committee
HIHB1446Intro
25%
Lowers the amount of time in which a health insurer may initiate a recoupment or offset demand effort from a health care provider for services rendered from eighteen months to twelve months. Establishes other requirements that health insurers must fo...
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2023-12-11
To House Health Committee
HIHB958Intro
25%
Requires recycling of construction and demolition materials and use of recycled materials to factor into priority offeror selections for competitive procurements of construction or demolition services by the State or any county. Requires the State Bu...
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2023-12-11
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee
HIHB195Intro
25%
Requires government entities in the State that issue building permits to implement SolarAPP+ or a functionally equivalent online automated permitting platform that verifies code compliance and issues permits to licensed contractors for solar distribu...
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2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HIHB959Intro
25%
Establishes the mitigation of the climate effects of commercial air transportation task force to identify, analyze, and make recommendations to mitigate the carbon load of, contributions to global warming made by, and effects on the climate caused by...
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2023-12-11
To House Transportation Committee
HIHB1505Engross
50%
Encourages the EUTF to consider investment opportunities in industries that will sustain Hawaii's natural environment or produce economic opportunities for its residents, including renewable energy businesses and businesses that use investment capita...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee
HIHB782Intro
25%
Authorizes health care providers, nonprofit organizations, businesses, and faith-based organizations to distribute supplemental nutrition assistance program applications to anyone interested in applying for program benefits. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1...
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB1150Engross
50%
Appropriates funds to support the Hawaii ant lab in mitigating the effects of little fire ants in the State. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD2)
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2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
HIHB322Intro
25%
Establishes the Alzheimer's working group to create a public health campaign for awareness of Alzheimer's disease and other related dementia. Appropriates funds.
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2023-12-11
To House Health Committee
HIHB315Intro
25%
Appropriates moneys as grants-in-aid to the several counties for the mitigation of flood risks on privately-owned roads. Provides that the appropriation or expenditure of moneys pursuant to the Act shall not be construed to establish a duty of care o...
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB1175Intro
25%
Requires county police departments to provide training, in collaboration with the Department of Health and University of Hawaii, to officers having contact with individuals experiencing homelessness, behavioral health issues including substance use, ...
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2023-12-11
To House Health Committee
HIHB653Intro
25%
Requires the department of transportation to perform routine inspections of highways in the state highway system that are at risk of rockslides every five years and after major rainfall events. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB199Intro
25%
Establishes a zero-emission vehicle fleet purchasing assistance program within the Hawaii state energy office to support the transition of private fleets to zero-emission vehicles. Designates the Hawaii state energy office as the agency responsible f...
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2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HIHB1261Engross
50%
Beginning 1/1/2024, establishes a program for the licensure, regulation, and oversight of special purpose digital currency companies. Extends operations of companies in the digital currency innovation lab under certain circumstances. Appropriates fun...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
HIHB618Engross
50%
Establishes an exemption from mediation in paternity proceedings where there are allegations of domestic abuse if the party alleging domestic abuse does not wish to participate. Prohibits a mediator from engaging in mediation where there are allegati...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HIHB657Intro
25%
Appropriates funds for the department of agriculture to hire a consultant to work with hemp farmers to identify the infrastructure needs of hemp farmers and the hemp industry in Hawaii. Requires report to the legislature, governor, and chairperson of...
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB444Intro
25%
Proposes a constitutional amendment to ensure that the inherent and inalienable right of the people, including future generations, to clean water and air, a healthful environment and climate, healthy native ecosystems, and beaches shall be protected ...
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2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB186Intro
25%
Prohibits the mining, extraction, and removal of minerals from the seabed in all state marine waters, under certain conditions. Prohibits the issuance of any permit for or in connection with the development or operation of any facility or infrastruct...
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2023-12-11
To House Water & Land Committee
HIHB1213Intro
25%
Authorizes each county to regulate the number of rental motor vehicles within the county.
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2023-12-11
To House Transportation Committee
HIHB1317Intro
25%
Establishes the Hawaii Environmental Protection Agency. Transfers jurisdiction of certain functions and employees of the Department of Agriculture and Department of Health to the Hawaii Environmental Protection Agency.
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2023-12-11
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee
HIHB1146Intro
25%
Establishes a carbon emissions tax credit. Expands the environmental response, energy, and food security tax to include carbon emissions. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2023. Requires the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development...
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2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HIHB746Intro
25%
Transfers the rights, powers, functions, and duties of the department of agriculture plant industry division relating to the State's aquaculture program to the animal industry division.
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2023-12-11
To House Agriculture Committee
HIHB965Intro
25%
Requires health insurers, mutual benefit societies, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage for medication used for the treatment of obesity or weight loss management for a covered individual who is overweight and has one or more rel...
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2023-12-11
To House Health Committee
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