Hawaii Senator Karl Rhoads [D] | Bills | Introduced

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HISB1000Intro
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Requires any person carrying an unloaded firearm in a motor vehicle to locate the firearm so as not to be readily or directly accessible from the passenger compartment of the vehicle or, if the firearm is being carried in a motor vehicle that does no...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB123Intro
25%
Requires a person to report the person's lost, stolen, or destroyed firearms to the appropriate county police department. Establishes penalties for failure to report and false reporting.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB1083Intro
25%
Appropriates funds for a three-year continuation of the wind-generated storm damage reef-insurance policy purchased by The Nature Conservancy in November 2022.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee
HISB909Intro
25%
Restricts civil asset forfeiture to cases involving the commission of a felony offense where the property owner has been convicted of an underlying felony offense. Directs forfeiture proceeds to the general fund. Amends the allowable expenses for mon...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB1459Intro
25%
Establishes a task force to examine the consequences of drinking water contamination detected at the Waipahu Wells II Granular Activated Carbon Treatment Facility. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB46Intro
25%
Raises the minimum age requirement to enter into marriage from sixteen to eighteen years of age. Removes the parental consent and written approval by the family court requirements for a minor to marry. Removes spousal cohabitation after the parties a...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB43Intro
25%
Amends the definition of "employer" in chapter 388, Hawaii Revised Statutes, relating to wages and other compensation to include the State and counties when a provision in that chapter has no comparable provision in chapter 78, Hawaii Revised Statute...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee
HISB176Intro
25%
Authorizes a county with a pre-existing surcharge to continue the surcharge after December 31, 2030 at a lower rate of one-fourth per cent. Authorizes counties that have not adopted a surcharge ordinance on state tax to adopt a surcharge ordinance at...
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2023-12-11
Carried over to 2024 Regular Session.
HISB1261Intro
25%
Requires state facilities to prepare a report assessing the feasibility of installing distributed energy resource systems at each facility. Requires state facilities to implement and install the distributed energy resource systems detailed in the rep...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB1080Intro
25%
Establishes that the representative of labor on the Hawaii Labor Relations Board be a person selected by a majority of the exclusive representatives of the collective bargaining units.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee
HISB1262Intro
25%
Establishes statewide goals for solid waste reduction and organic waste diversion. Requires each county to incorporate into its next integrated solid waste management plan revision a plan to reduce all organic waste produced within the county by faci...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
HISB1181Intro
25%
Requires solar conduit and electrical panel readiness for new residential construction and electric vehicle readiness when an electrical panel and parking area are installed. Effective 1/1/2024.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee
HISB993Intro
25%
Removes discriminatory requirements for mandatory insurance coverage of in vitro fertilization procedures to create parity of coverage for same-sex couples, unmarried women, and opposite-sex couples for whom male infertility is the relevant factor. R...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB1222Intro
25%
Requires the school facilities authority to, to the greatest extent possible, renovate, improve, and expand existing public school facilities and classrooms to increase pre-kindergarten student capacity, including while expending funds appropriated f...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee
HISB53Intro
25%
Requires individuals denied a firearm permit or otherwise disqualified from possessing firearms and certain defendants to provide a sworn statement that the individual has disposed of any firearms and ammunition in the individual's possession. Requir...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB1503Intro
25%
Prohibits certain boards from taking adverse action against individuals possessing or applying for a license to practice medicine and surgery or nursing for providing abortion care services or gender affirming treatments in the State in compliance wi...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB332Intro
25%
Prohibits each county from adopting ordinances that restrict housing density on state lands that are within 0.5 miles of an elevated mass transit station.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Housing Committee
HISB368Intro
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 Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee
HISB1070Intro
25%
Amends the definition of "income" to include tips or gratuities for the purposes of determining child and spousal support amounts, assignments, and withholdings.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee
HISB899Intro
25%
Authorizes advanced practice registered nurses to practice medical aid in dying or provide counseling to a qualified patient. Amends the mandatory waiting period between oral requests and the provision of a prescription.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB1003Intro
25%
Requires the Director of Human Resources Development, in consultation with the Hawaii Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Commission, State Energy Office, and Department of Accounting and General Services to develop and implement a comprehensive...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee
HISB605Intro
25%
Requires the Department of Education to meet with Hawaii School for the Deaf and Blind stakeholders and members of the Hawaii deaf community regarding the development of a plan to transition the Hawaii School for the Deaf and Blind to a conversion ch...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee
HISB167Intro
25%
Establishes an investigator position in the Campaign Spending Commission. Appropriates funds.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB590Intro
25%
Requires the department of health to adopt rules by 6/30/2026 for amplified sound on public and private property where decibel weighted levels exceed current standards for zoning districts and residential properties where noise is excessive during ce...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB922Intro
25%
Requires a law enforcement officer who observes criminal misconduct by another law enforcement officer to report the criminal misconduct. Requires passage of a psychological screening test battery to qualify for appointment as a law enforcement offic...
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2023-12-11
Carried over to 2024 Regular Session.
HISB25Intro
25%
Requires the Liquor Commission to deny any renewal for a liquor license if the applicant for renewal has violated any provision of the Intoxicating Liquor Law under chapter 281, Hawaii Revised Statutes, on three separate occasions during the twelve-m...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
HISB931Intro
25%
Requires check cashers to report suspected financial exploitation of elders and vulnerable adults in relation to check cashing. Provides immunity for good faith reporting. Authorizes a check casher to refuse to cash a check in situations of suspected...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
HISB1142Intro
25%
Places certain requirements and speed restrictions on the operation of water vessels in proximity to humpback whales.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
HISB32Intro
25%
Amends the State Constitution to require the Reapportionment Commission to establish a reapportionment plan to draw district lines for the total number of members of the Board of Trustees of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs. Takes effect on July 1, 205...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB334Intro
25%
Amends the membership of the Hawaii Interagency Council for Transit-Oriented Development to include the House of Representatives chairs of the committees on housing and transportation and the Senate chairs of the committees on housing and transportat...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Housing Committee
HISB132Intro
25%
Requires a written notice to defendants and eligible paroled prisoners of their right to complete a nonreligious substance abuse treatment program. Requires a list of nonreligious substance abuse treatment programs to be provided.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB144Intro
25%
Establishes the compacts of Free Association Census Task Force within the Department of Human Services to conduct a census of COFA residents in Hawaii.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB1540Intro
25%
Expands the Criminal Justice Diversion Program. Amends the allowable period of court-ordered assisted community treatment and considerations for extensions. Allows courts to require certain probation violators to undergo mental health evaluation and ...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB978Intro
25%
Includes any firearm or rifle with the capacity to fire ammunition of fifty caliber or higher, excluding antique pistols and revolvers, and muzzleloaders in the list of prohibited weapons.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB698Intro
25%
Establishes a task force to create a master plan for agricultural facilities at ports of transportation for the purpose of moving commodities to market.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
HISB1060Intro
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.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee
HISB707Intro
25%
Requires water carriers to keep records of persons who retrieve fireworks from a terminal facility. Requires water carriers to provide an annual compilation of persons who retrieve fireworks from a terminal facility to the appropriate county police d...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB148Intro
25%
Prohibits the sale or furnishing of a tobacco product or electronic smoking device to a person born on or after January 1, 2003. Prohibits the possession or consumption of a tobacco product in a public place by a person born on or after January 1, 20...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
HISB1494Intro
25%
Requires firearms owners to obtain firearms insurance. Effective 1/1/2024.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB37Intro
25%
Establishes the shipping container inspection program and appropriates funds for the shipping container inspection program. Requires the Department of Public Safety to submit reports to the Legislature on implementation of the shipping container insp...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee
HISB592Intro
25%
Requires certain patients subject to emergency hospitalization to be assessed to determine whether a surrogate or guardian is needed to make appropriate health care decisions for the patient.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB929Intro
25%
Requires the Department of Transportation Highways Division to implement recommendations made by the Office of the Auditor regarding compliance with federal funding laws and regulations and information technology authentication. Takes effect 7/1/2050...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB342Intro
25%
Requires the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to conduct a study on paid sick leave. Requires a report to the Legislature. Appropriates funds for the study. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD1)
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB33Intro
25%
Requires the licensing of sellers of ammunition, and for the identification and proper permitting of purchasers or possessors of ammunition. Regulates ammunition in the same manner that firearms are regulated.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB349Intro
25%
Specifies that the nominated members of certain boards and commission are subject to the advice and consent of the Senate Standing Committee on Government Operations. Effective 7/1/2112. (SD1)
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2023-12-11
Carried over to 2024 Regular Session.
HISB10Intro
25%
Appropriates funds to the Department of Land and Natural Resources' Division of State Parks for the management of feral roosters and chickens on state lands.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee
HISB1554Intro
25%
Authorizes the director of finance to issue general obligation bonds to finance capital improvements to various irrigation systems.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
HISB842Intro
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Appropriates funds for the Department of Human Services to purchase health care services for certain low-income, uninsured immigrants. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD1)
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB994Intro
25%
Prohibits all removal of uhu, also known as parrotfish, from state waters.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee
HISB118Intro
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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 Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee
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