Hawaii Representative Kanani Souza [R]

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HIHB1890Intro

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Prohibits retailers from selling or offering for sale certain combustion engine-powered mopeds beginning 1/1/2026.
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2024-02-08
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee
HIHB2549Intro

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Establishes within the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism the Interagency Council for Maui Housing Recovery to coordinate and facilitate Maui's permanent housing recovery and facilitate consultation and collaboration between st...
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2024-02-08
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB2747Intro

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Establishes the Filmmakers Special Fund for the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts to award grants for film, media, and creative industries intellectual property development projects in Hawaii. Repeals the Hawaii Film and Creative Industries De...
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2024-02-08
To House Economic Development Committee
HIHB2149Intro

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Establishes the death care industry board to regulate the practices of funeral directing and cemetery sales. Establishes the death care industry board special fund. Requires funeral directors and cemetery salespersons to be licensed.
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2024-02-07
To House Health Committee
HIHB2691Intro

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Establishes the Red Hill remediation authority. Creates the Red Hill remediation special fund.
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2024-02-06
To House Water & Land Committee
HIHB1324Intro

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Requires all health insurers in the state, including medicaid managed care programs, to cover annual mental health wellness examinations.
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2024-02-02
To House Health Committee
HIHB2746Intro

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Requires and appropriate moneys for the provision of free voice communication services in the State's youth and adult correctional facilities. Amends sources of funding for and imposes a limit on moneys retained in the victim information and notifica...
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2024-02-01
To House Human Services Committee
HIHB2575Intro

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Establishes a construction trades workforce development program in the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to develop, establish, and implement a construction trades career pathway program for high school students in the State. Appropriates ...
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2024-01-30
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee
HIHB2612Intro

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Abolishes the boards of registration.
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2024-01-30
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB2574Intro

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Beginning with the - school year, requires public elementary, middle, and high schools to start no earlier than 8:30 a.m. Requires the Department of Education to adjust state-provided bus and school meal schedules accordingly.
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2024-01-26
To House Education Committee
HIHB2706Intro

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Establishes fines for any person who sets off fireworks without a valid permit and while a red flag warning is in effect.
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2024-01-26
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB1789Intro

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Requires the Department of Transportation to identify any roadways other than Makakilo Drive that may be used as emergency egress routes in Makakilo. Requires the Department of Transportation to plan for, design, and construct an emergency egress rou...
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2024-01-24
To House Transportation Committee
HIHB1768Intro

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Requires the department of labor and industrial relations to establish and administer a family leave insurance program. Provides family leave insurance benefits and extends the period of family leave to 16 weeks for businesses that employ one or more...
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2024-01-24
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee
HIHB1770Intro

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Increases the monthly needs allowance from $50 to $75. Clarifies that the needs allowance is not intended to replace or affect funds received from the federal supplemental security income program. Requires certain long-term care facility operators to...
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2024-01-24
To House Human Services Committee
HIHB1790Intro

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Exempts qualified disabled veterans from various annual motor vehicle fees and taxes, including vehicle weight taxes and beautification fees.
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2024-01-24
To House Transportation Committee
HIHB1792Intro

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Beginning in the 2025-2026 school year, requires each public, private, and charter school in the State to establish a program within the health education curriculum for high school students to provide instruction in cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Spe...
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2024-01-24
To House Education Committee
HIHB1791Intro

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Requires certain employers in the State to offer reproductive loss leave for employees.
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2024-01-24
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee
HIHB2076Intro

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Amends the appropriation of Act 279, SLH 2022, to conform its lapsing provision by 1 year, to conform to constitutional limitations. Appropriates moneys to the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands for fiscal year 2024-2025 to give practical effect to th...
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2024-01-24
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB2075Intro

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Appropriates funds to the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to further reduce its homestead program applicant waitlist.
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2024-01-24
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB2077Intro

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Establishes rights for watershed ecosystems to exist, flourish, and naturally evolve, in conjunction with native Hawaiian traditional and customary beliefs, practice, and values, for the benefit of present and future generations.
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2024-01-24
To House Water & Land Committee
HIHB2154Intro

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Requires and appropriates moneys for the Department of Transportation to re-establish and operate the Ellison Onizuka Space Center. Declares that the appropriation exceeds the state general fund expenditure ceiling for 2024-2025.
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2024-01-24
To House Culture, Arts, & International Affairs Committee
HIHB2161Intro

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Appropriates funds to the Department of Law Enforcement for an additional fifteen full-time equivalent (15.0 FTE) sheriff positions for transitional law enforcement officer activities in Lahaina. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is ...
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2024-01-24
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB2152Intro

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Establishes a plan for the use of generative artificial intelligence in state agencies, departments, and government branches. Requires the Office of Enterprise Technology Services to carry out risk assessments and to prepare guidelines for state uses...
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2024-01-24
To House Higher Education & Technology Committee
HIHB2150Intro

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Requires the mayor of each county to appoint, and the county council or city council to confirm, a county medical examiner. Provides that the medical examiner for each county shall serve as the county's coroner. Makes conforming amendments. Appropria...
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2024-01-24
To House Health Committee
HIHB2120Intro

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Provides Hawaii residents with the option of paying for the registration of their motor vehicles and associated taxes and fees on a biannual basis. Restricts the amount of delinquency tax due to the current tax due plus one year. Removes language all...
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2024-01-24
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB2155Intro

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Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds and appropriates funds for capital improvement projects for the benefit of the 43rd Representative District.
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2024-01-24
To House Finance Committee
HIHB2151Intro

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Requires the Department of Transportation to establish and implement at Daniel K. Inouye International Airport a non-traveler visitor pass program.
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2024-01-24
To House Transportation Committee
HIHB1228Intro

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Authorizes raising the building height limit to 400 feet for 2 of the 6 parcels owned by the Office of Hawaiian Affairs in the Kakaako Makai area. Lifts the current restriction against residential development in Kakaako Makai to authorize residential...
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2023-12-11
To House Water & Land 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
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
HIHB626Intro

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Proposes a constitutional amendment to limit the terms of members of the legislature to a maximum of twelve years in the house of representatives or senate, or both, for terms beginning on or after the general election of 2024, with a grandfather cla...
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2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB867Intro

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Requires the posting of informational placards on sex trafficking and resources available to victims, in public buildings and at other specified locations, and the development of a model placard by the Department of Human Services. Requires the Depar...
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2023-12-11
To House Human Services Committee
HIHB736Intro

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Appropriates funds for the Department of Human Resources to contract for a study on the gender pay gap within the government of the State. Requires a report to the Legislature.
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2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB634Intro

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Updating the Individual Housing Account (IHA) statutes to more accurately reflect the current cost of housing down-payments.
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2023-12-11
To House Housing Committee
HIHB1325Intro

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Sets forth requirements under which a convicted person may seek review for a criminal conviction.
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2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB866Intro

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Requires state employers to provide cardiopulmonary resuscitation and defibrillator training to each of the employer's employees. Appropriates moneys.
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2023-12-11
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee
HIHB1323Intro

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Appropriates moneys to the State of Hawaii Museum of Monarchy History (Iolani Palace) for operating and maintenance expenses.
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2023-12-11
To House Culture, Arts, & International Affairs Committee
HIHB793Intro

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Beginning January 1, 2025, authorizes public schools and public charter schools to have an employee trained to administer or assist with the self-administration of seizure disorder rescue medication, with certain exemptions. Authorizes all principals...
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2023-12-11
To House Health Committee
HIHB1227Intro

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Formally recognizes that the Office of Hawaiian Affairs is not barred from pursuing and may negotiate with respect to public land trust claims not addressed in Act 15, Session Laws of Hawaii 2012.
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2023-12-11
To House Water & Land Committee
HIHB1231Engross

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Amends the misdemeanor offense of criminal property damage in the third degree to include intentionally or knowingly damaging the property of another that is used in a business operation, without the other's consent in an amount exceeding $100. Effec...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HIHB916Intro

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Increases the monthly needs allowance from $50 to an unspecified amount. Clarifies that the needs allowance is not intended to replace or affect funds received from the federal supplemental security income program. Requires certain long-term care fac...
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB1321Intro

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Requires the City and County of Honolulu to transfer to the State the City and County of Honolulu's authority to construct a Makakilo Drive extension. Appropriates moneys.
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2023-12-11
To House Transportation Committee
HIHB868Intro

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Makes sexual assault in the fourth degree a class C felony.
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2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB1230Intro

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Establishes the Hawaii Space Corporation to develop a spaceport.
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2023-12-11
To House Economic Development Committee
HIHB869Intro

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Requires the mayor of each county to appoint, and the county council or city council to confirm, a county medical examiner. Provides that the medical examiner for each county shall serve as the county's coroner. Makes conforming amendments.
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2023-12-11
To House Health Committee
HIHB1229Intro

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Establishes the death care industry board to regulate the practices of funeral directing and cemetery sales. Establishes the death care industry board special fund. Requires funeral directors and cemetery salespersons to be licensed.
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2023-12-11
To House Health Committee
HIHB779Intro

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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
HIHB1322Intro

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Requires each county to establish within its police department a fireworks-focused enforcement unit. Requires annual reports to the Legislature on the effectiveness of each unit. Appropriates moneys.
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2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB584Intro

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Establishes a statewide program modeled after the Hawaii's Opportunity Probation with Enforcement (HOPE) program that was implemented in the City and County of Honolulu from 2004 through 2019. Requires the Judiciary to administer the program.
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2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB865Intro

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Requires the Department of Accounting and General Services, in consultation with the Legislature and appropriate agencies, to develop and implement an enhanced security plan for the state capitol. Appropriates moneys for enhanced security measures an...
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2023-12-11
To House Legislative Management Committee
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