Hawaii Senator Gil Keith-agaran [D]

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HISB116Engross
50%
Authorizes the issuance of special number plates to commemorate Duke Kahanamoku. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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2024-03-19
To House Finance Committee
HISB1099Engross
50%
Extends the period in which a county may adopt a surcharge on state tax, under certain conditions. Authorizes the use of the surcharge revenues for affordable and workforce housing infrastructure. Allows the counties to use surcharge revenues for hou...
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2024-03-15
[Hearing: Mar 19 @ 10:00 am]
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee
HISB370Engross
50%
Removes the exemption that allowed owners of multiple parking facilities within the State to designate and electrify fewer parking spaces than required in one or more of the properties if the requirement for the total number of aggregate spaces on al...
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2024-03-07
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee
HISB849Engross
50%
Amends the state supplemental payment ceiling for domiciliary care paid to recipients who are eligible for federal supplementary security income or public assistance, or both. Amends the monthly needs allowance for individuals residing in foster home...
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2024-03-07
To House Human Services Committee
HISB367Intro
25%
Prohibits the sale of tickets at higher price than the original price charged by the primary venue ticket provider. Takes effect 1/1/2050. (SD1)
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2024-02-16
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
HISB1119Intro
25%
Appropriates funds for the purpose of engaging the community and developing plans for a potential future memorial, monument, or other appropriate means to properly honor and respectfully recognize the memory of those who lost their lives or were impa...
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2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB760Intro
25%
Requires the Board of Psychology to grant prescriptive authority to qualified psychologist applicants statewide. Requires a report to the Legislature. Takes effect 12/31/2050. (SD1)
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2024-02-15
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
HISB371Intro
25%
Defines "incidental and supplemental work" for purposes of specialty contractors under the contractors law. Takes effect 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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2024-02-14
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
HISB1208Intro
25%
Increases the income thresholds and credit amounts of the income tax credit for low-income household renters by using tax brackets individuals and different categories of households. Annually adjusts the income thresholds and credit amounts for infla...
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2024-02-09
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB462Intro
25%
Increases the amount of interest in real property that is exempt from attachment and execution. Amends the value of personal property that is exempt from attachment and execution, including increasing the exemption amount for a motor vehicle. Exempts...
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2024-02-02
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB343Intro
25%
Establishes provisional or associate-level licensure requirements for marriage and family therapists, mental health counselors, and psychologists and authorizes insurance reimbursements in certain circumstances. Allows psychologist license applicants...
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2024-02-02
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
HISB1209Intro
25%
Conforms the amount allowable for the Hawaii expenses for household and dependent care services necessary for the gainful employment tax credit to the credit amounts allowed in the federal tax code. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/22.
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2024-01-25
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB1132Intro
25%
Appropriates funds for the Department of Agriculture to identify a central area on Maui and plan a hemp decorticator facility for the use of interested parties in the area. (SD1)
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB791Intro
25%
Appropriates funds to the Department of Health to purchase one advanced life support ambulance to be based on the island of Molokai, and related equipment, and pay related personnel costs for state-certified emergency medical services personnel. (SD1...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB595Intro
25%
Appropriates funds for the executive office on aging to create an Alzheimer's disease public health campaign.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB1020Intro
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 Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB794Intro
25%
Establishes within the Department of Health, a three-year Cesspool Conversion Financial Assistance Pilot Program to provide financial assistance to owners of cesspools located in the county of Maui to upgrade or convert their cesspools to a wastewate...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
HISB1137Intro
25%
Establishes a teacher loan program to encourage individuals to become teachers in hard-to-fill positions of Department of Education schools. Allows the loan to be forgiven after 5 years of teaching in a hard-to-fill position.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee
HISB1542Intro
25%
Specifies sensitive locations in which the carrying of firearms is restricted or prohibited. Authorizes, in certain circumstances, the carrying of firearms on private property. Specifies areas in which the carrying or possession of electric guns is r...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB1018Engross
50%
Requires the Governor to ensure continued operation of medical facilities upon declaration of a state of emergency or local state of emergency and during times of health or pandemic emergencies. Allows hospitals to suspend elective surgeries during t...
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HISB1439Intro
25%
Establishes and appropriates funds for a pre-litigation mediation pilot program. Requires landlords to participate in mediation before filing an action for summary possession. Creates and appropriates funds for an emergency rent relief program.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
HISB755Engross
50%
Requires the State Council on Developmental Disabilities to submit a report to the Legislature prior to the convening of the Regular Session of 2025 focused on the health disparities experienced by persons in the State with developmental or intellect...
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HISB64Engross
50%
Requires the insurance commissioner to establish an annual enrollment period for medigap insurance plans. Requires issuers of Medigap insurance in the State to accept an eligible individual's application for coverage during the open enrollment period...
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2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HISB705Intro
25%
Appropriates funds to Hawaii Technology Development Corporation for the Manufacturing Assistance Program.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee
HISB1105Intro
25%
Requires original equipment manufacturers of digital electronic equipment to make documentation, parts, and tools available to independent repair providers and owners for the purposes of diagnosis, maintenance, and repair on fair and reasonable terms...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee
HISB512Intro
25%
Establishes within the Department of Land and Natural Resources a water security working group to study and recommend priority capital improvement projects for legislative consideration and approval that leverage public-private investment to increase...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee
HISB987Intro
25%
Appropriates funds to the Department of Health to develop and implement statewide media, education, and training activities for policies related to emergency examination and hospitalization and assisted community treatment for those in need of mental...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB1165Intro
25%
Establishes a process, beginning on January 1, 2024, for automatically preregistering or registering University of Hawaii System students who are at least sixteen years old to vote. Effective 1/1/2024.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Higher Education Committee
HISB870Intro
25%
Prohibits hospitals and health care facilities to permit or require health care providers to provide services for any period after the health care provider has been on duty for sixteen consecutive hours or an aggregate of eighty hours during any peri...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee
HISB699Engross
50%
Establishes a state capitol tours program within the office of the governor. Establishes two full-time equivalent positions. Appropriates funds. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
Carried over to 2024 Regular Session.
HISB1065Intro
25%
Specifies, in the State Water Code, that fire safety use is a beneficial use of fresh water. Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources, in consultation with the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency, to cooperate with the counties and reserv...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee
HISB1126Intro
25%
Amends the income tax credit for expenses for household and dependent care services necessary for gainful employment by increasing the taxpayer's applicable percentage of employment-related expenses and dollar limit on amounts creditable that constit...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB1053Intro
25%
Establishes a general excise tax exemption for the gross proceeds or income from the sale of groceries that are eligible under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children, r...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB756Engross
50%
Establishes the Access to Local Food Act to allow cottage food operations to sell cottage food products, under certain conditions, upon receiving a permit from the Department of Health. Effective July 1, 2050. (SD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Economic Development Committee
HISB1223Engross
50%
Authorizes a new issuance of special purpose revenue bonds in the amount of $30 million, to assist MauiGrown Coffee, Inc. with the operation and expansion of its farm and mill. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HISB1019Intro
25%
Appropriates funds to the Executive Office on Aging for an Alzheimer's disease and related dementias public health campaign.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB298Engross
50%
Authorizes the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency to acquire any real, personal, or mixed property for immediate or future use; own, hold, improve, rehabilitate, sell, assign, exchange, transfer, convey, lease, or dispose of any real, personal, or mi...
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2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HISB684Intro
25%
Conforms existing Medicaid requirements to health insurers, mutual benefit societies, and health maintenance organizations to cover services provided through telehealth, including by way of an interactive telecommunications system. Defines "interacti...
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2023-12-11
Carried over to 2024 Regular Session.
HISB1161Engross
50%
Requires the State to pay, without delay, military personnel called to active duty at the same rate as their active duty counterparts and provide basic housing allowance. (SD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Corrections, Military, & Veterans Committee
HISB648Intro
25%
Requires the Department of Agriculture to establish and administer an aquaculture disease diagnostic laboratory. Appropriates funds for the laboratory. Establishes and appropriates funds for positions within the Department of Agriculture. (SD1)
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB751Intro
25%
Establishes the Early Childhood Education Scholarship Program within the University of Hawaii to assist students with school tuition in return for a service commitment to teach in the Executive Office on Early Learning Public Prekindergarten Program....
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2023-12-11
To Senate Higher Education Committee
HISB48Intro
25%
Establishes penalties for failure to comply with certain submerged land reclamation regulations. Adds requirements for presently reclaimed land to be disposed of by the Board of Land and Natural Resources, without recourse to public auction, to an ab...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee
HISB1069Intro
25%
Prohibits purposeful harassment with the intent to prevent the taking of fish from persons who are fishing in state waters.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee
HISB1093Intro
25%
Establishes and provides moneys for the composting grant program in the Department of Education.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee
HISB373Intro
25%
Establishes that gender-based pricing by manufacturers who sell the goods they manufacture to any person in the State for a price they set constitutes an unlawful deceptive trade practice.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB630Intro
25%
Establishes an income tax credit for taxpayers who purchase and install a whole house water filter system.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB1050Intro
25%
Clarifies internal complaint procedures for civil service positions by requiring a formal complaint to be filed within twenty working days.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee
HISB914Intro
25%
Authorizes school complexes to incorporate media literacy in its standards-based curriculum, including content that prevents negative impacts of misinformation, disinformation, digital discrimination, and online hate speech.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee
HISB69Intro
25%
Includes the establishment of a consistent and balanced framework for developing and implementing sea level rise adaptation strategies as an objective of the Coastal Zone Management Program. Includes the promotion of research, study, and understandin...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee
HISB774Intro
25%
Establishes ownership of any cow, horse, mule, donkey, sheep, goat, or swine, not marked or branded, and running wild on public lands to any person who intentionally feeds the animal.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
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