Hawaii Senator Karl Rhoads [D] | Bills | Introduced

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HISB1126Intro
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Amends the income tax credit for expenses for household and dependent care services necessary for gainful employment by increasing the taxpayer's applicable percentage of employment-related expenses and dollar limit on amounts creditable that constit...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB982Intro
25%
Permits interested parties to request the director of health to file an assisted community treatment petition on behalf of the interested party. Requires final orders for a petition to be filed within thirty days of the date an assisted community tre...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB128Intro
25%
Establishes the photo noise violation monitoring system law. Establishes the Photo Noise Violation Monitoring System Program to enforce the State Community Noise Code, implemented by the State on any state or county highways within the respective cou...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee
HISB863Intro
25%
Establishes the Hawaii Residential Developers Loan Corporation and the Hawaii Residential Developers Loan Special Fund for the purpose of enhancing credit and guaranteeing and insuring loans made by private financial institutions to developers of res...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB751Intro
25%
Establishes the Early Childhood Education Scholarship Program within the University of Hawaii to assist students with school tuition in return for a service commitment to teach in the Executive Office on Early Learning Public Prekindergarten Program....
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2023-12-11
To Senate Higher Education Committee
HISB986Intro
25%
Requires corporations to include the income of all foreign subsidiaries to the State. Applies the State's apportionment formula to determine the share of reported profits subject to the appropriate tax. Effective 1/1/2023.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
HISB1007Intro
25%
Expands the State's temporary disability insurance (TDI) coverage to, and exempt from TDI benefit eligibility requirements that are employment-related, employees who are unable to perform their employment duties due to the employee's childbirth or pr...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee
HISB24Intro
25%
Prohibits a retailer from selling or offering for sale combustion engine-powered mopeds beginning January 1, 2025.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee
HISB48Intro
25%
Establishes penalties for failure to comply with certain submerged land reclamation regulations. Adds requirements for presently reclaimed land to be disposed of by the Board of Land and Natural Resources, without recourse to public auction, to an ab...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee
HISB1218Intro
25%
Requires the Deputy Director of Highways of the Department of Transportation to be subject to the advice and consent of the Senate.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee
HISB611Intro
25%
Requires the Public Utilities Commission to use Universal Service Fund moneys to provide free telecommunications access to certain information for individuals with print disabilities.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
HISB373Intro
25%
Establishes that gender-based pricing by manufacturers who sell the goods they manufacture to any person in the State for a price they set constitutes an unlawful deceptive trade practice.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB636Intro
25%
Requires Department of Land and Natural Resources to establish a Visitor Green Fee Program to collect fees from nonresidents via a license to use state natural and cultural resources, to be used for the protection, restoration, and care of Hawaii's n...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB914Intro
25%
Authorizes school complexes to incorporate media literacy in its standards-based curriculum, including content that prevents negative impacts of misinformation, disinformation, digital discrimination, and online hate speech.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee
HISB997Intro
25%
Requires notice and identification of certain top donors who contributed to a noncandidate committee. Changes the requirement of certain information from the schedules filed with the noncandidate committee reports. Removes certain information require...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB378Intro
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.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee
HISB1210Intro
25%
Increases the refundable food/excise tax credit. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/22.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB61Intro
25%
Creates a new category of professional licensure for associate physicians, which are recent medical school graduates who have passed certain medical exams but have not been placed into a residency program and who work under the supervision of a licen...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB747Intro
25%
Prohibits using geographic origins of coffee in labeling or advertising for roasted or instant coffee that contains less than a certain percentage of coffee by weight from that geographic origin, phased in to a minimum of fifty-one per cent after 7/1...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
HISB1597Intro
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 Senate Government Operations Committee
HISB768Intro
25%
Requires each county's Director of Finance, in consultation with the County Examiner of Drivers, to establish an Interpreter Services Program to assist Compact of Free Association citizens with utilizing the services provided by the Department of Mot...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee
HISB714Intro
25%
Establishes the fetal alcohol spectrum disorders special fund, to be administered by the department of human services, and which shall consist of federal funds and interest earned on those funds. Establishes a temporary fetal alcohol spectrum disorde...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB30Intro
25%
Specifies that any minor who resides in the same household as a victim of domestic abuse may file a petition for an order of protection or temporary restraining order.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB1178Intro
25%
Modernizes the definition of "personal information" for the purposes of notifying affected persons of data and security breaches. Includes licensees subject to the Insurance Data Security Law pursuant to article 3B, chapter 431, Hawaii Revised Statut...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB6Intro
25%
Allows the Department of Human Services to administer and provide public assistance to eligible residents of the State during a Governor-Declared State of Emergency.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB137Intro
25%
Requires that restrooms and toilet facilities of public amusement facilities constructed, renovated, retrofitted, or installed after 1/1/2024 have two female-use toilets for each male-use toilet or urinal. Requires certain state building construction...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB1528Intro
25%
Amends the Hawaii State Constitution to prohibit the State from denying or interfering with an individual's reproductive freedom, including the right to choose or obtain an abortion or to choose to obtain or use contraceptives.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB1121Intro
25%
Requires the Real Property and Financial Services Section of the Hawaii State Bar Association to conduct a study to determine an appropriate increase to the homestead exemption in bankruptcy proceedings. Effective 7/1/2112. (SD1)
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB685Intro
25%
Establishes the misdemeanor offense of brandishing a firearm.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB121Intro
25%
Prohibits the carrying of a firearm in sensitive places. Defines sensitive places. Establishes penalties.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB29Intro
25%
Adds coercive control and litigation abuse by a parent of a child to the list of factors the court shall consider in determining what constitutes the child's best interest when awarding custody and visitation rights to individuals. Defines "coercive ...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB907Intro
25%
Appropriates funds to the Department of Education to establish and administer a Bicycle Grant Program for all high school students enrolled at a Department of Education school in grades nine through twelve. Requires reports to the Legislature.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee
HISB49Intro
25%
Establishes the offense of possession of a loaded firearm while intoxicated as a petty misdemeanor.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB920Intro
25%
Increases minimum liability coverage of motor vehicles.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee
HISB858Intro
25%
Requires the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to: prioritize the allocation of low-income housing tax credits to state-owned development projects; amend the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Qualified Allocation Plan to allow up to twen...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB1055Intro
25%
Specifies that the practice of election fraud intimidation includes, among other actions (1) The carrying of any firearm or weapon and (2) The act of photographing the face of any voter without permission from both the voter and an appropriate electi...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB387Intro
25%
Requires governmental bodies to obtain written approval from the Administrator of the State Procurement Office to cancel invitations for bids, requests for proposals, or other solicitations, or reject bids or proposals. Prohibits post-award remedial ...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Government Operations Committee
HISB134Intro
25%
Establishes water fluoridation requirements for privately-owned and government entity water suppliers in the State to conform with the United States Department of Health and Human Services standards for optimal water fluoridation levels. Exempts fede...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB1006Intro
25%
Appropriates funds for the Department of Transportation to engage climate change adaptation measures for the State's low-lying roads and highways. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB1174Intro
25%
Requires the Department of Transportation to program intersections to allow walk signals to commence four seconds before the green light is given to motor vehicle traffic when the walk button has been pressed.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee
HISB1087Intro
25%
Renames the state highway safety council as the state highway safety and modernization council and amends the composition and duties of the council.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee
HISB919Intro
25%
Requires the independent medical examination and permanent impairment rating examination of an injured employee under the Workers' Compensation Law to be conducted by a qualified chiropractor or physician selected by the mutual agreement of the parti...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee
HISB883Intro
25%
Establishes the crime of possession of a firearm in a sensitive location as a class C felony. Imposes a duty to inform law enforcement upon contact on concealed and unconcealed carry permit holders. Defines sensitive location.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB369Intro
25%
Prohibits the Department of Public Safety from receiving any commission payment from telephone service providers based on inmate phone calls. Prohibits the Department of Public Safety from entering into or renewing any contract with any privately own...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB14Intro
25%
Requires the Liquor Commission to record all complaints against any licensee, regardless of whether the complaint is filed during or after the occurrence of the violation. Requires the Liquor Commission to review the history of complaints against any...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
HISB1544Intro
25%
Establishes the offense of fraud as a class B felony. Disqualifies a person from holding elective public office for a period of ten years upon conviction of fraud.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB31Intro
25%
Increases the real property exemption amount for attachment or execution. (SD1)
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB1484Intro
25%
Allows the Department of Land and Natural Resources to expend the moneys from the State Parks Special Fund for programs aimed at environmental protection.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee
HISB670Intro
25%
Allows the Governor to enter the State into the multi-state Nurse Licensure Compact, which will allow a nurse who is licensed by a home state to practice under a multi-state licensure privilege in each party state.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB351Intro
25%
Expands the prohibition of class 11 cabaret licenses to premises within apartment mixed use subprecincts of special districts and special improvement districts.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
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