Hawaii Senator Karl Rhoads [D]

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HISB65Engross
50%
Appropriates funds to the Hawaii Public Housing Authority for the rehabilitation, remodeling, renovation, and repair of housing units. (CD1)
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2025-04-25
Forty-eight (48) hours notice Wednesday, 04-30-25.
HISB304Engross
50%
Establishes positions and appropriates funds for the Adult Client Services Branch of the First Circuit Court. (CD1)
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2025-04-25
Forty-eight (48) hours notice Wednesday, 04-30-25.
HISB336Engross
50%
Requires the Attorney General, on behalf of the State, to defend professionally licensed or certified state employees from civil actions or proceedings, under certain circumstances. Clarifies that the employee may employ their own attorney at the emp...
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2025-04-25
Forty-eight (48) hours notice Wednesday, 04-30-25.
HISB428Engross
50%
Increases the fees paid to witnesses in civil and criminal trials. Changes the fees paid to witnesses in civil trials for travel expenses from 20 cents a mile to the mileage allowance prescribed by the Administrator of General Services. Authorizes re...
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2025-04-25
Forty-eight (48) hours notice Wednesday, 04-30-25.
HISB717Engross
50%
Repeals the prohibition placed on certain employees exempt from Civil Service Law from grieving a suspension or discharge. Allows any employee who is a member of an appropriate bargaining unit to grieve a suspension or discharge. Effective 7/1/3000. ...
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2025-04-25
Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-25-25 4:30 PM; Conference Room 016.
HISB828Engross
50%
Expands workers' compensation medical benefits for firefighters to include coverage for adenocarcinoma or mesothelioma of the respiratory system; cancer of the buccal cavity, colon, pharynx, and thyroid; and malignant melanoma. Specifies that an empl...
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2025-04-25
Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-25-25 4:30 PM; Conference Room 016.
HISB1044Engross
50%
Expands the powers of the Hawaii Property Insurance Association and reactivates the Hawaii Hurricane Relief Fund to help stabilize the property insurance market in the State. Establishes the Condominium Loan Program and the Condominium Loan Revolving...
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2025-04-25
Forty-eight (48) hours notice Wednesday, 04-30-25.
HISB1120Engross
50%
Requires the Department of Transportation to conduct a feasibility study on implementing a clean fuel standard for alternative fuels in the State. Requires, no later than 1/1/2028, the Department of Transportation to adopt rules governing a clean fue...
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2025-04-25
Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-25-25 5:15 PM; Conference Room 225.
HISB1252Engross
50%
Appropriates funds to the University of Hawaii to establish positions within the University of Hawaii at Manoa John A. Burns School of Medicine's Department of Geriatric Medicine to coordinate and incorporate training on Alzheimer's disease and other...
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2025-04-25
Forty-eight (48) hours notice Wednesday, 04-30-25.
HISB1567Engross
50%
Requires the Department of Human Resources Development to complete a comprehensive review of the classification and compensation systems for all civil service positions under its jurisdiction by 10/31/2026. Allows the Department to contract with a th...
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2025-04-25
Forty-eight (48) hours notice Wednesday, 04-30-25.
HISCR54PassRequesting The Department Of Land And Natural Resources To Convene And Provide Administrative Assistance To A Desalination Planning Task Force To Determine Whether The Use Of Desalination For Large-scale Water Consumption In The State Is Feasible.
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2025-04-25
Received notice of Adoption (Sen. Com. No. 877).
HISCR53PassRequesting The Comptroller To Cooperate With The Hawaii State Public Library System, Office Of Planning And Sustainable Development, And Hawaii Broadband And Digital Equity Office To Identify Rural And Underserved Communities In The State With A Need...
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2025-04-25
Received notice of Adoption (Sen. Com. No. 877).
HISB31Engross
50%
Authorizes a person who discovers a recorded discriminatory restrictive covenant to take certain actions, without liability, to invalidate the covenant. Defines discriminatory restrictive covenant. (CD1)
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2025-04-24
Forty-eight (48) hours notice Wednesday, 04-30-25.
HISB176Engross
50%
Allows for ballots designated by the county clerks for inclusion to be included in the initial tabulation for purposes of initial recounts. Prohibits ballots that the county clerks initially determine are deficient or need additional time to be corre...
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2025-04-24
Forty-eight (48) hours notice Wednesday, 04-30-25.
HISB344Engross
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Requires all skateboard users under the age of eighteen to wear a helmet while operating a skateboard on public property. (CD1)
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2025-04-24
Forty-eight (48) hours notice Wednesday, 04-30-25.
HISB330Engross
50%
Authorizes the Department of Agriculture to enforce federal quarantines. (CD1)
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2025-04-24
Forty-eight (48) hours notice Wednesday, 04-30-25.
HISB401Engross
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Establishes prohibitions on assault rifles, assault shotguns, and .50 caliber firearms. Expands the ban on high-capacity detachable magazines. Effective 1/1/2026. (CD1)
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2025-04-24
Forty-eight (48) hours notice Wednesday, 04-30-25.
HISB405Engross
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Allows neighborhood boards to discuss and receive information on matters raised by third-party reports from any government official not included in a publicly noticed agenda. Requires neighborhood boards to make decisions on matters raised by third-p...
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2025-04-24
Forty-eight (48) hours notice Wednesday, 04-30-25.
HISB601Engross
50%
Requires law enforcement to post notice that a warranted or warrantless search has been conducted on a property. Requires a law enforcement officer to secure any entrance used by an officer in the search. Requires law enforcement agencies to develop ...
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2025-04-24
Forty-eight (48) hours notice Wednesday, 04-30-25.
HISB602PassIncludes any parcels owned by the Hawaii Public Housing Authority as areas that may be closed to the public. Specifies required signage.
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2025-04-24
Act 027, on 04/23/2025 (Gov. Msg. No. 1127).
HISB752Engross
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Beginning 1/1/2026, amends the notice period for a property insurer to notify a policyholder of a cancellation, including cancellation due to nonpayment, or nonrenewal of a policy of property insurance. (CD1)
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2025-04-24
Forty-eight (48) hours notice Wednesday, 04-30-25.
HISB1030Engross
50%
Specifies that the practice of election fraud intimidation includes carrying any unconcealed firearm or dangerous instrument at or within two hundred feet of a voter service center, place of deposit, or polling place. (CD1)
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2025-04-24
Forty-eight (48) hours notice Wednesday, 04-30-25.
HISB850Engross
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Requires the State Council on Developmental Disabilities to collect data and submit to the Legislature a report focused on the health disparities experienced by individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities in the State prior to the con...
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2025-04-24
Forty-eight (48) hours notice Wednesday, 04-30-25.
HISB1008Engross
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Authorizes the counties to adopt ordinances to enforce the accessible parking space requirements for parking spaces reserved for persons with disabilities and electric vehicles. (CD1)
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2025-04-24
Forty-eight (48) hours notice Wednesday, 04-30-25.
HISB1051Engross
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Designates September as Hawaiian History Month. (CD1)
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2025-04-24
Forty-eight (48) hours notice Wednesday, 04-30-25.
HISB1522Engross
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Clarifies that proof that a transferor has filed required notice forms with the County Director of Finance serves as a complete defense to any action brought against the transferor for an act or omission, civil or criminal, arising from the use, oper...
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2025-04-24
Forty-eight (48) hours notice Wednesday, 04-30-25.
HISB1651Engross
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Requires board packets to be posted at least three full business days before a public meeting. Requires boards to provide notice to persons who have requested notification of meetings at the time the board packet is made available for public inspecti...
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2025-04-24
Forty-eight (48) hours notice Wednesday, 04-30-25.
HISB657Engross
50%
Appropriates funds for the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology within the University of Hawaii at Manoa to establish and operate a Center for Climate Resilient Development. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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2025-04-23
Conference Committee Meeting will reconvene on Friday 04-25-25 3:00PM in conference room 229.
HISB1202PassAllows campaign funds to be used for a candidates child care and vital household dependent care costs under certain conditions.
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2025-04-23
Act 019, on 04/22/2025 (Gov. Msg. No. 1119).
HISB1520Engross
50%
Establishes an exemption from mediation in paternity proceedings where there are allegations of domestic abuse. Clarifies the exemption from mediation in divorce proceedings as it relates to domestic abuse. (HD1)
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2025-04-23
Received notice of Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 866).
HISB298Engross
50%
Appropriates funds to be expended by the Department of Human Services to increase funding for Medicaid in-home services. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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2025-04-22
Conference committee meeting scheduled for 04-23-25 3:30PM; Conference Room 329.
HISB299Engross
50%
Appropriates funds for the Healthcare Education Loan Repayment Program. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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2025-04-22
Conference committee meeting scheduled for 04-23-25 3:30PM; Conference Room 329.
HISCR31PassEndorsing Taiwan's International Participation, Supporting The Signing Of A United States-taiwan Bilateral Trade Agreement, And Commemorating The Relationships And Exchanges Between The State Of Hawaii And Taiwan.
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2025-04-22
Resolution adopted in final form.
HISB116Enroll
75%
Establishes provisions relating to civil remedies for discriminatory reporting to a law enforcement officer. Provides that any person who causes a law enforcement officer to contact a person on the basis of the person's actual or perceived protected ...
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2025-04-21
Enrolled to Governor.
HISB849Enroll
75%
Prohibits and imposes penalties for the intentional taking, harming, or killing of Io (Hawaiian hawk). Increases penalties and fees for taking and killing indigenous species of aquatic life, wildlife, and land plants that are native to the State. (HD...
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2025-04-21
Received notice of Final Reading (Sen. Com. No. 833).
HISCR60Engross
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Urging The Hawaii Housing Finance And Development Corporation To Develop A Plan To Produce Sufficient Housing To Meet The State's Demand.
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2025-04-21
Received notice of disagreement (Sen. Com. No. 846).
HISCR69Engross
50%
Requesting The Administrator Of The State Health Planning And Development Agency To Convene A Pharmacy Benefit Manager Working Group To Determine The Best Policies To Lower Drug Costs For Patient Consumers And Increase Access To Health Care.
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2025-04-21
Received notice of disagreement (Sen. Com. No. 846).
HISCR111PassDeclaring A Public Health Emergency Relating To Climate Change And Requesting Statewide Coordination To Identify, Plan For, And Create Cross-sector Solutions To Strengthen Hawaii's Public Health Response To The Climate Crisis.
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2025-04-21
Resolution adopted in final form.
HISCR128PassRequesting The Attorney General To Produce And Provide A List Of State Lands Currently Leased To The United States Of America Or Any Federal Agency.
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2025-04-17
Resolution adopted in final form.
HISB71Engross
50%
Establishes the Mixed-Income Subaccount within the Rental Housing Revolving Fund that targets workforce rental housing projects for persons and families with incomes at or below one hundred forty per cent of the area median income. Authorizes the Dir...
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2025-04-16
Received notice of Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 809).
HISB544Enroll
75%
Requires courts to consider certain factors when sentencing a person convicted as an adult for an offense that the person committed when the person was a minor. Allows courts to reduce a mandatory minimum period of incarceration or depart from a mand...
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2025-04-16
Enrolled to Governor.
HISCR12Engross
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Recognizing International Dark Sky Week.
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2025-04-16
Received notice of disagreement (Sen. Com. No. 808).
HISCR131PassUrging The State To Acquire The Hawaii Theatre To Promote Local Culture And Arts, Preserve Its Historic And Cultural Significance, And Facilitate Its Continued Public Use.
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2025-04-16
Resolution adopted in final form.
HISB109Engross
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Requires that the Hawaiian version of a law be held binding if the law in question was originally drafted in Hawaiian and meets certain criteria. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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2025-04-15
Received notice of appointment of House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 731).
HISCR132PassEncouraging The Adoption Of Recommendations From The United Nations Global Plastics Treaty And Rapa Nui Summit Declaration To Address Climate Justice And Sustainable Development.
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2025-04-15
Resolution adopted in final form.
HISB112PassAllows surviving immediate family members of deceased persons for whom law enforcement initiated an investigation to receive a copy of the closing report prepared by the investigating police department after a specified period of time. (SD2)
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2025-04-11
Act 017, on 04/10/2025 (Gov. Msg. No. 1117).
HISCR10Engross
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Urging The Administrator Of The State Health Planning And Development Agency To Establish A Working Group On Health Insurance Reform To Provide Recommendations For Reducing The Impact Of Prior Authorization Requirements On The Timely Delivery Of Heal...
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2025-04-11
To House Health Committee
HISCR110Engross
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Requesting The Hawaii State Energy Office To Conduct A Study Evaluating The Feasibility Of Establishing A Green Bonds Program In The State.
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2025-04-11
To House Finance Committee
HISCR203Engross
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Requesting The University Of Hawaii To Explore The Feasibility Of Establishing An Alzheimer's Disease Research Center And Identify The Requirements For Receiving Federal Funding From The National Institute On Aging For Alzheimer's Disease Research.
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2025-04-11
To House Finance Committee
HISB106Engross
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Establishes a three-year Pedestrian Safety Pilot Program in a county with population of two hundred fifty thousand or less, under certain conditions. Authorizes the Governor to revoke and abolish the Pilot Program and overturn a county's request to o...
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2025-04-10
Received notice of disagreement (Sen. Com. No. 779).
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