Hawaii Representative Jeanne Kapela [D] | House

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HIHB78Intro

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Expands eligibility for the Hawaii community college promise program to all qualified students. Appropriates funds to expand access to community college to qualified Hawaii residents through Hawaii community college promise program scholarships. Effe...
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB648Intro

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Temporarily expands the state rent supplement program to specifically target qualified individuals who are sixty-two years of age or older and are homeless or at imminent risk of becoming homeless. Requires HPHA to submit annual reports to the legisl...
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB1415Engross

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Requires the Public Utilities Commission to design and administer an Electric Vehicle Charging System Loan Program to provide loans to certain applicants who install eligible electric vehicle charging systems. Appropriates funds. Effective 6/30/3000....
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HIHB337Intro

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Increases the capital gains tax threshold from 7.25 per cent to 9 per cent. Increases the alternative capital gains tax for corporations from 4 per cent to 5 per cent. Applies to tax years beginning after 12/31/2022. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB735Intro

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Adopts the Interstate Compact to Phase Out Corporate Welfare.
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2023-12-11
To House Economic Development Committee
HIHB1343Intro

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Establishes and appropriates funds for the Office of the Reproductive Health Care Access Coordinator within the Department of Human Services for administrative purposes. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB255Intro

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Amends various powers and priorities of the agribusiness development corporation, including several of its processes, membership of its board of directors, term of its executive director, and the scope of its work.
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2023-12-11
To House Agriculture Committee
HIHB1330Engross

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Appropriates funds to the Department of Education for school bus services. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HIHB469Intro

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Establishes a permanent Hawaii state dividend special fund to collect and disburse annual Hawaii state dividend fund payments. Appropriates funds.
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2023-12-11
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee
HIHB262Engross

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Provides a process for school placement for a child whose parent has transferred or is pending transfer from another state to a military installation in Hawaii while on active military duty pursuant to an official military order. Effective 6/30/3000....
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HIHB328Intro

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Authorizes the department of land and natural resources to establish and operate conservation mitigation banks to restore, create, enhance, or preserve species, their habitats, or resources as compensatory mitigation, or for past damages. Authorizes ...
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB1328Intro

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Provides funding for rental or lease of facilities under legislative appropriations and bond authorizations to the state public charter school commission for the design, planning, construction, repair, and maintenance of public charter school improve...
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB914Engross

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Repeals existing law that requires the Department of Health to conduct unannounced visits and inspections, including inspections for relicensing or recertification, of state-licensed special treatment facilities. Requires the Department of Health to ...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
HIHB80Engross

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Authorizes public school complexes to develop rigorous classroom-based performance assessments, including the use of authentic assessments as part of classroom-based performance assessments. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD2)
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2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee
HIHB656Intro

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Establishes a list of substances allowed for use as pesticides and fertilizers on state and county property. Provides that the use of substances not specifically allowed as pesticides and fertilizers on state property and county property is prohibite...
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2023-12-11
To House Agriculture Committee
HIHB927Intro

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Establishes within the Hawaii State Energy Office the future fusion task force to promote the use of fusion as an energy source in the State.
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2023-12-11
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee
HIHB1337Intro

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Establishes the Therapeutic Psilocybin Working Group.
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2023-12-11
To House Health Committee
HIHB1237Intro

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Requires the department of land and natural resources to establish a green user fee program to collect user fees for certain parks. Requires the department of land and natural resources to develop a mobile application for the green user fee program. ...
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2023-12-11
To House Water & Land Committee
HIHB1147Intro

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Beginning 1/1/2027, prohibits the operation of leaf blowers or string trimmers that are powered using two-stroke engines. Establishes penalties.
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2023-12-11
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee
HIHB1203Engross

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Establishes an employer child care tax credit for employers who provide or sponsor approved child care. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD2)
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2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee
HIHB548Intro

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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 House Education Committee
HIHB207Intro

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Requires employers with five or more employees to provide rest breaks under certain conditions.
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2023-12-11
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee
HIHB1235Engross

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Appropriates funds for purchasing digital cameras for all adult correctional officer control rooms at state correctional facilities and body cameras for adult correctional officers to wear while on duty at state correctional facilities. Effective 6/3...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HIHB665Intro

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Extends and modifies the task force established to recommend amendments to update existing parentage laws that reflect outdated, cisheteronormative concepts of families, parenthood, and parental rights to December 31, 2024.
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2023-12-11
To House Health Committee
HIHB1212Engross

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Establishes the water neutrality task force to develop a plan for Hawaii to become water-neutral by the year 2050. Requires the task force to submit a report to the Legislature. Appropriates funds. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee
HIHB558Intro

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Defines "incidental and supplemental work" for purposes of specialty contractors under the contractors law.
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2023-12-11
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee
HIHB502Intro

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Establishes a two-year infant and toddler child care contracted slots pilot program to develop and implement procedures to subsidize child care slots in licensed infant and toddler child care settings. Requires reports to the legislature.
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB190Intro

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Requires the Department of Education to waive school bus fees for fiscal years 2023-2024 and 2024-2025. Appropriates moneys.
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2023-12-11
To House Education Committee
HIHB1196Intro

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Requires the state auditor to conduct a performance and management audit of the ten agriculture parks operated by the agricultural resource management division of the department of agriculture.
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2023-12-11
To House Agriculture Committee
HIHB1249Intro

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Requires the department of land and natural resources to identify all state and county roads, landmarks, monuments, and public parks that use the name Diamond Head and identify the process for renaming these roads, landmarks, and public parks from Di...
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2023-12-11
To House Culture, Arts, & International Affairs Committee
HIHB216Intro

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Establishes the shipping container inspection program and shipping container inspection program special fund. Increases the maximum fine for each violation of the fireworks law. Requires PSD to submit reports to the legislature on implementation of t...
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2023-12-11
To House Transportation Committee
HIHB1335Intro

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Provides that after making an arrest, a police officer may issue to the arrestee an appearance ticket that states the date and time of the initial court appearance, and thereafter release the arrestee from custody. Broadens the range of offenses for ...
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2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB1254Engross

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Appropriates funds to establish homelessness coordinator positions on Maui, Oahu, Kauai, and Hawaii island within the Department of Land and Natural Resources. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HIHB1506Engross

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Encourages the employees' retirement system, in evaluating venture capital investments, to consider opportunities in industries that will sustain Hawaii's natural environment or produce economic opportunities for its residents, including renewable en...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HIHB620Intro

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Beginning with the 2023-2024 school year, requires public schools to provide free breakfast and lunch to all enrolled students. Appropriates funds.
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2023-12-11
To House Education Committee
HIHB81Intro

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Requires the department of health to conduct a feasibility study for the establishment of an outpatient mental health facility for children and adolescents living in the Ocean View region of Hawaii island, including in the communities of Ocean View, ...
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2023-12-11
To House Health Committee
HIHB935Intro

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Exempts from the general excise tax, gross receipts received from the sale of hearing aids.
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2023-12-11
To House Health Committee
HIHB742Intro

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Proposes a constitutional amendment to lower the qualifying age of voters for any state or local election to sixteen years of age.
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2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB838Engross

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Reestablishes the Long-Term Care Commission within the University of Hawaii College of Social Sciences' Social Science Research Institute to identify further needed reforms of Hawaii's long-term care system. Appropriates funds. Effective 6/30/2050. (...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HIHB585Intro

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Requires the judiciary or supporting agencies to establish and support a program for restorative justice in each county and inform various criminal justice representatives of the existence of the program. Appropriates funds for the establishment of o...
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2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB880Engross

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Requires each county police department to collect, report, and publicly publish certain data regarding police stops, arrests, uses of force, and trends. Effective 12/1/23. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HIHB1199Intro

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Requires law enforcement agencies to adopt and implement a written policy on domestic violence committed or allegedly committed by a law enforcement officer. Establishes standards, training deadlines, administrative procedures, and reporting requirem...
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2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB1219Intro

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Defines "cannabis cutting" and "cannabis propagule". Amends the definition of "cannabis" to include cannabis propagules and cannabis cuttings. Allows qualifying patients and primary caregivers who are authorized to cultivate cannabis for medical use ...
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2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HIHB571Intro

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Appropriates funds for the Kahoolawe island reserve commission. Appropriates funds for three full-time equivalent (3.0 FTE) permanent positions. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB1195Intro

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Adds specific requirements for sexuality health education programs funded by the State. Requires the Board of Education and Department of Education to collaborate to provide curricula information to the public. Requires students to be excused from th...
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2023-12-11
To House Education Committee
HIHB181Intro

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Implements the recommendation of the cesspool conversion working group to accelerate the dates for required upgrades, conversions, or connections of priority level 1 cesspools and priority level 2 cesspools by requiring priority level 1 cesspools to ...
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
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