Hawaii Representative Jeanne Kapela [D] | Bills | Introduced

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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
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
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
HIHB539Intro
25%
Requires issuers of Medigap insurance in the State to accept an eligible individual's application for coverage at any time throughout the year and prohibits issuers from denying the applicant a Medigap policy or certificate or make any premium rate d...
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2023-12-11
To House Health 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
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
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
HIHB743Intro
25%
Requires the department of education to establish an electric school bus pilot program to provide certain complex areas with ownership and control of electric school buses. Appropriates funds. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Finance 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
HIHB482Intro
25%
Authorizes licensed osteopathic physicians and physician assistants, in addition to physicians and advance practice registered nurses, to provide minor-initiated medical care and services. Requires the licensed health care provider to ensure that the...
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2023-12-11
To House Health Committee
HIHB568Intro
25%
Authorizes the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to issue interim rules that exempt from the public notice, public hearing, and gubernatorial approval requirements of chapter 91, HRS, after beneficiary consultation is conducted by the Department of H...
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2023-12-11
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee
HIHB741Intro
25%
Appropriates funds to the department of education for the expansion of civic education in the public schools. Establishes two full-time equivalent permanent civic education resource teacher positions. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB602Intro
25%
Provides that an employee who earns an hourly wage shall be entitled to one-half hour of a paid break for every eight hours of labor performed within a warehouse.
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2023-12-11
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee
HIHB1180Intro
25%
Requires health insurance coverage for various sexual and reproductive health care services.
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2023-12-11
To House Health Committee
HIHB784Intro
25%
Establishes a task force to review and recommend specific actions to ensure that Hawaii's food imports are sourced, transported, stored, and distributed in compliance with the federal Food Safety Modernization Act, and develop specific recommendation...
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2023-12-11
To House Agriculture Committee
HIHB1277Intro
25%
Requires self-service stations to put labels on gas dispensing equipment that advise consumers on the effects of fossil fuel consumption to human health and the environment.
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2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HIHB191Intro
25%
Requires each regulated electric and gas utility to use the estimated social cost of greenhouse gas emissions established by the United States Interagency Working Group on the Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases in that utility's respective integrated re...
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2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HIHB319Intro
25%
Establishes the Red Hill water contamination health impacts program within the Department of Health to track the long-term impacts of the 2021 petroleum release from the Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility. Appropriates moneys.
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2023-12-11
To House Water & Land Committee
HIHB599Intro
25%
Requires the School Facilities Authority to consider establishing preschool classrooms in or near hotels, office buildings, and other urban areas with high centers of employment, with consideration given to the locations convenient for parents. Autho...
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2023-12-11
To House Education Committee
HIHB331Intro
25%
Establishes the offense of possession of a loaded firearm while intoxicated as a petty misdemeanor.
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2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB827Intro
25%
Requires the DOE to develop and maintain a communication strategy and outreach plan for emergency management and disaster preparedness. Requires the DOE to provide updated information to parents and guardians about its communication strategy and outr...
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2023-12-11
To House Water & Land Committee
HIHB1331Intro
25%
Extends the school supply subsidy pilot program established pursuant to Act 142, Session Laws of Hawaii 2022, for an additional two years. Appropriates funds. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB77Intro
25%
Clarifies that public charter school teachers and other personnel employed by public charter schools under the same pay schedule are included in collective bargaining unit (5). Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB1445Intro
25%
Removes biomass from the renewable portfolio standard definition of "renewable energy".
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2023-12-11
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee
HIHB1190Intro
25%
Establishes a wealth asset tax of one per cent of the state net worth of each individual taxpayer who holds $20,000,000 or more in assets in the State.
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2023-12-11
To House Economic Development Committee
HIHB252Intro
25%
Amends the definition of "restricted use pesticide" to include malathion.
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2023-12-11
To House Agriculture Committee
HIHB467Intro
25%
Requires the department of public safety, or its successor agency, in collaboration with the department of human services, to develop and establish a social work training program to assist nonviolent incarcerated individuals in the area of social wor...
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB779Intro
25%
Requires the court to appoint counsel to indigent parents upon the filing of a petition for custody or family supervision and make every effort to do so at the first hearing attended by the parents.
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2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB553Intro
25%
Establishes the Hawaii reproductive care workforce special fund to be administered by the department of health to support programs that train health care professionals, increase the State's capacity to provide reproductive care services, increase acc...
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2023-12-11
To House Health Committee
HIHB1423Intro
25%
Includes electronic smoking devices within the definition of "tobacco products", as used in the cigarette tax and tobacco tax law. Establishes a tax of ten per cent for the wholesale price for electronic smoking devices. Allocates a portion of funds ...
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2023-12-11
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee
HIHB391Intro
25%
Requires the department of human services to develop an infant and toddler child care worker subsidy pilot program to assist in retaining qualified child care workers in licensed infant and toddler child care centers. Appropriates funds. Sunsets 6/30...
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB1417Intro
25%
Prohibits the elimination of funding for vacant positions in the department of human services and department of health for five years, or until the director of human services or director of health, as applicable, requests that the positions be elimin...
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB235Intro
25%
Requires certain employers to provide a minimum amount of paid sick leave to employees to be used to care for themselves or a family member who is ill or needs medical care and supplemental paid sick leave to employees under certain public health eme...
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2023-12-11
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee
HIHB738Intro
25%
Prohibits commercial operators of surfing tourism, instruction, and lesson companies from providing, or allowing the wearing of, footwear during lessons taking place on or above certain submerged reefs.
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2023-12-11
To House Water & Land Committee
HIHB1253Intro
25%
Establishes the Honolua Bay Special Fund for conservation purposes and the upkeep and maintenance of Lipoa Point. Establishes a Honolua Bay Advisory Board to administer the Honolua Bay Special Fund and oversee the conservation of Honolua Bay. Require...
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2023-12-11
To House Water & Land Committee
HIHB427Intro
25%
Amends the requirements for licenses to carry firearms concealed or unconcealed. Requires possession and display of a valid license when publicly carrying firearms.
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2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB78Intro
25%
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
25%
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
HIHB337Intro
25%
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
25%
Adopts the Interstate Compact to Phase Out Corporate Welfare.
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2023-12-11
To House Economic Development Committee
HIHB1343Intro
25%
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
25%
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
HIHB469Intro
25%
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
HIHB328Intro
25%
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
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