Hawaii Representative Jeanne Kapela [D] | Introduced

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HIHB2189Intro

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Establishes ratemaking regulations for insurers who base their rates on a policyholder or applicant's wildfire risk.
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2024-01-24
To House Water & Land Committee
HIHB2179Intro

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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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2024-01-24
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HIHB2178Intro

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Amends the environmental response, energy, and food security tax to address carbon emissions. Incrementally increases the tax rate over time. Establishes a refundable tax credit to mitigate the effect of a carbon emissions tax on taxpayers. Requires ...
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2024-01-24
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee
HIHB2190Intro

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Prohibits any articles of incorporation, declaration, bylaws, administrative rules, house rules, or association documents of a condominium property regime, planned community association, or homeowners' association from prohibiting or restricting the ...
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2024-01-24
To House Water & Land Committee
HIHB2188Intro

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Prohibits residential rent increases in affected areas for an unspecified period after a severe storm warning or issuance of an emergency proclamation.
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2024-01-24
To House Water & Land Committee
HIHB481Intro

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Requires the University of Hawaii to provide menstrual products free of charge to all students on any University of Hawaii campus, including the community colleges. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB477Intro

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Authorizes the issuance of special number plates to commemorate the Honolulu Museum of Art.
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2023-12-11
To House Culture, Arts, & International Affairs Committee
HIHB664Intro

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Authorizes physician assistants to sign orders for respiratory therapy and plans of care. Expands the class of health care providers under whom respiratory therapists may practice respiratory care to include physician assistants and advanced practice...
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2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HIHB957Intro

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Allows health care facilities to permit terminally ill patients to use medical cannabis under certain conditions.
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2023-12-11
To House Health Committee
HIHB604Intro

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Requires the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to develop a program to provide grants to match funds for hotel employees to buy hotels and establish employee-owned hotel cooperatives. Appropriates moneys.
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2023-12-11
To House Economic Development Committee
HIHB550Intro

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Requires the department of education to offer training for teachers, educational officers, and school-based behavioral health specialists on sex trafficking prevention and response.
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2023-12-11
To House Education Committee
HIHB1404Intro

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Makes the community court outreach project permanent. Amends the project to address homeless defendants and expand the opportunities for eligible defendants to participate. Appropriates funds for additional personnel and enhanced security services. E...
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2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB179Intro

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Requires deposit beverage distributors that sell, offer for sale, or distribute deposit beverage containers in the State to meet minimum postconsumer recycled content requirements or minimum non-petroleum materials content requirements. Effective 6/3...
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2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HIHB1211Intro

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Increases the conveyance tax rate for certain properties. Exempts conveyances of certain real property from the conveyance tax. Establishes the homeless services fund. Eliminates the cap on the amount of conveyance tax collections allocated to the la...
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB915Intro

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Requires certain commercial agricultural entities to issue annual public reports regarding their pesticide use.
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2023-12-11
To House Agriculture Committee
HIHB239Intro

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Requires the clean energy initiative program to design, implement, and administer a plan to increase jobs aligned with the State's transition to a clean energy economy and strategies for evaluating and supporting a transition to a clean energy econom...
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB1116Intro

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Establishes licensure requirements for school psychologists to be administered by the board of psychology. Requires all school psychologists to be licensed by 7/1/2025. Increases the composition of the board of psychology to include two school psycho...
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2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HIHB483Intro

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Clarifies provisions related to the statutory limitations on the time periods in which a survivor of childhood sexual abuse may file a civil action. Allows for punitive damages. Permits the court to order restorative justice measures, if deemed appro...
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2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB1420Intro

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Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds for the replacements to the water capturing system at the Hilo wastewater treatment plant.
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2023-12-11
To House Water & Land Committee
HIHB210Intro

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Establishes the mold information and awareness program administered by DOH. Requires mandatory disclosure of the presence of mold as part of any sale, transfer, or rental of residential, commercial, or industrial property. Requires DOH to conduct rev...
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2023-12-11
To House Health Committee
HIHB501Intro

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Beginning 7/1/2024, subjects all electric vehicles to a state mileage-based road usage fee instead of paying a registration surcharge. Requires a vehicle inspection certificate to state the odometer reading of the vehicle. Clarifies that the type of ...
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2023-12-11
To House Transportation Committee
HIHB443Intro

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Requires the department of agriculture to establish a healthy soils program, which includes a healthy soil assessment and education program and health soil grants program. Appropriates funds. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB284Intro

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Exempts from the general excise tax the gross proceeds or income received from the sale of any product resulting from the cultivation and production of unprocessed taro and value-added products whose primary ingredient is taro or taro leaf. Effective...
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB82Intro

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Expands the definitions of "preceptor" and "volunteer-based clinical training rotation" to allow for improved accessibility for providers to receive income tax credits. Adds dieticians, physician assistants, and social workers to the list of precepto...
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB744Intro

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Requires school booster clubs who raise more than $50,000 to be audited by the department of attorney general's tax and charities division on a regular basis. Requires the audited school booster club to reimburse the costs of the audit. Effective 6/3...
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB931Intro

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Requires the Department of Accounting and General Services to provide menstrual products at no cost in specified restrooms of public buildings maintained by that department. Appropriates funds.
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2023-12-11
To House Health Committee
HIHB1451Intro

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Authorizes advanced practice registered nurses to certify whether a person is totally disabled under the income tax code. Adds advanced practice registered nurses as primary providers in advance mental health care directives. Authorizes advanced prac...
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2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HIHB910Intro

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Prohibits the harvesting of aquatic life for commercial aquarium purposes, regardless of the method of collection.
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2023-12-11
To House Water & Land Committee
HIHB1425Intro

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Legalizes, regulates, and taxes cannabis and manufactured cannabis products for adult use. Establishes the Hawaii cannabis commission to oversee the regulation of adult use cannabis manufacturers and retailers. Appropriates funds.
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2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB1454Intro

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Authorizes naturopathic physicians to provide written certifications to qualified patients for the medical use of cannabis.
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2023-12-11
To House Health Committee
HIHB327Intro

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Beginning 1/1/2024, prohibits the issuance of building permits for new single-family dwellings that are part of a development of ten or more dwellings and do not include a rooftop photovoltaic energy generating system, under certain circumstances. Au...
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2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HIHB1198Intro

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Establishes the prevent suicide Hawaii taskforce within the Department of Health. Requires the task force to make annual recommendations to the Legislature on ways to reduce suicide rates in the State by 25% by 2025. Dissolves the task force on 1/1/2...
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2023-12-11
To House Health Committee
HIHB438Intro

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Appropriates funds and establishes one Pacific youth programs coordinator position within the Department of Human Services Office of Youth Services. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB232Intro

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Taxes capital gains income at the same rate as ordinary income.
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2023-12-11
To House Economic Development Committee
HIHB1197Intro

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Appropriates funds to DHS to restore basic adult dental benefits to medicaid enrollees. Requires DHS to obtain the maximum federal matching funds available for this expenditure.
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2023-12-11
To House Human Services Committee
HIHB906Intro

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Requires the Commission on Water Resource Management to conduct an audit of the State's surface water transmission systems.
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2023-12-11
To House Water & Land Committee
HIHB885Intro

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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 House Finance Committee
HIHB909Intro

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Establishes a two-year water neutrality turf replacement pilot program in the county of Maui department of water supply to provide financial incentives to replace irrigated turf with turf or other plants that use less water. Requires a report to the ...
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2023-12-11
To House Economic Development Committee
HIHB499Intro

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Authorizes the issuance of special number plates to commemorate Duke Kahanamoku. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB148Intro

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Establishes a surcharge on the conveyance tax upon the transfer or conveyance of prolonged vacant property.
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2023-12-11
To House Housing Committee
HIHB504Intro

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Requires the department of human services to develop a preschool child care worker subsidy pilot program to assist in retaining qualified child care workers in licensed child care facilities for preschool children aged two through five. Sunsets 6/30/...
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB895Intro

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Updates the State's integrated solid waste management goals and priorities to include organic waste diversion. Requires the counties to incorporate organic waste diversion into their respective integrated solid waste management plan. Effective 6/30/3...
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB871Intro

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Requires that a written disclaimer be provided by sellers or providers of emotional support animals or certificates or identification tags for emotional support animals that the animal is not a service animal or the item does not qualify as an item f...
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2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HIHB1428Intro

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Prohibits the State from denying or interfering with a patient's right to choose to obtain an abortion or to terminate a pregnancy if the termination is necessary to protect the life or health of the patient. Repeals a criminal penalty for violations...
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2023-12-11
To House Health Committee
HIHB556Intro

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Requires the board of education to invite the exclusive representative for bargaining unit (5) (teachers and other personnel of the department of education) to appoint a nonvoting public school teacher representative to the board and the exclusive re...
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB58Intro

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Requires compensation benefits for volunteer firefighters who are injured or killed in the line of duty to be determined based on equivalent firefighter pay based on years of service and rank, rather than on a rate of $18 per week.
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2023-12-11
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee
HIHB274Intro

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Establishes a two-year pilot program for school bus transportation hubs in high-traffic areas. Requires a report to the legislature. Makes an appropriation. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Education Committee
HIHB279Intro

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Authorizes the counties to use the county surcharge on state tax revenues and fuel tax revenues for certain purposes related to public roadways and private roadways that are open to the public. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB429Intro

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Requires individuals to complete a firearms skills assessment, safety course, and education course prior to being granted a license to carry a pistol or revolver.
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2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB1407Intro

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Appropriates moneys to the department of science of the University of Hawaii Maui college to support water testing on the island of Maui, including supplies and the creation of 2.0 FTE positions. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Water & Land Committee
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