Hawaii Senator Karl Rhoads [D] | Bills

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HISB1180Intro
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Prohibits the sale of geolocation information and internet browser information without consent.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee
HISB502Intro
25%
Requires that inmates engaged in labor or in vocational training be paid no less than the state minimum wage.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB1054Intro
25%
Prohibits non-compete and non-solicit clauses in employment contracts relating to employees of a restaurant, retail store, newspaper, magazine, news agency, press association, wire service, or radio or television transmission station or network.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee
HISB1160Intro
25%
Allows the Intermediate Appellate Court to review orders issued by the Hawaii Paroling Authority.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB1004Intro
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 Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee
HISB288Intro
25%
Transfers the Culinary Institute of the Pacific from the University of Hawaii to the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism as an administratively attached agency.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Higher Education Committee
HISB1072Intro
25%
Prohibits the State's Supreme Court and Intermediate Appellate Court from affirming, modifying, reversing, or vacating a matter on grounds other than those raised by the parties to the proceeding, unless the parties are provided the opportunity to br...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB1001Intro
25%
Establishes procedures for the Department of Transportation to assist and enable a person to voluntarily purchase a verified carbon offset for carbon dioxide emissions resulting from the person's air travel to or from an airport in the State.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee
HISB977Intro
25%
Allows for judicial review of orders fixing minimum terms of imprisonment. Specifies that in any civil action brought by the petitioner seeking compensation of any kind or nature whatsoever as a result of, related to, or arising from a conviction and...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB39Intro
25%
Establishes the right of persons to record law enforcement activities. Establishes a private right of action for violations of the right to record law enforcement activities.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB988Intro
25%
Requires associations of condominium owners to purchase earthquake insurance for their entire buildings.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
HISB901Intro
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Requires the Department of Health to post on its website separate reports for various visits, violations, plans, and confirmations the Department performs or issues of certain care facilities. Establishes deadlines for each report type. Requires the ...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB864Intro
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Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds for the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation and Hawaii Public Housing Authority's programs to develop housing exclusively for residents of the State who are owner- or renter-occupants...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB396Intro
25%
Subjects rent-to-own contracts for real property in the State to state and federal foreclosure procedures.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
HISB345Intro
25%
Amends the exclusion amount of Hawaii's estate tax. Repeals exemption for tax imposed on transfer of taxable estate located in Hawaii for nonresidents and nonresidents who are not citizens. Applicable to decedents dying or taxable transfers occurring...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB1125Intro
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Appropriates funds to the Department of Education to design and construct photovoltaic panel coverings over playgrounds at all Department of Education schools.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee
HISB1470Engross
50%
Requires the Department of Public Safety to install digital cameras in all guard control rooms of any correctional center housing women. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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2023-12-11
To House Corrections, Military, & Veterans Committee
HISB979Intro
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Requires individuals to complete a firearms skills assessment, safety course, and education course prior to being granted a license to carry a pistol or revolver.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB170Intro
25%
Establishes a Zero to Three Court Program Coordinator position. Expands the Zero to Three Court to the Third Circuit. Appropriates funds. (SD1)
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB58Intro
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Modifies the existing plant and animal declaration form to also require in-bound travelers to the State to acknowledge state laws, federal laws, and individual responsibility to protect the environment and agriculture of the State. Requires all other...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
HISB379Intro
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Requires restaurants to clearly disclose to customers how tips are allocated to employees.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee
HISB28Intro
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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
HISB649Intro
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Requires the Department of Health, with assistance from each county, to develop a statewide needs assessment to determine resources necessary to reduce packaging waste by seventy per cent from the baseline amount. Requires the Department of Health to...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
HISB1159Intro
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Clarifies when the identity of a police officer, who has been suspended or discharged following a misconduct incident, is to be disclosed in a county police department's annual report to the legislature.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB23Intro
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Clarifies that the residential zone restriction on the use of leaf blowers at certain hours includes residential districts, apartment districts, and business mixed use districts. Removes the exemption on leaf blower restrictions for government agenci...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB916Intro
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Authorizes long-acting psychotropic medication to be provided to patients who are subject to emergency examination or hospitalization. Expands the administration of treatment over a patient's objection to include persons in director of health custody...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB915Intro
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Amends the Uniform Probate Code to allow courts to appoint emergency guardians for respondents who reside in psychiatric facilities, hospitals, and homeless shelters. Extends the appointment period. Clarifies that guardians may consent to care, treat...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB18Engross
50%
Requires domestic and foreign corporations to provide their shareholders with reports of independent expenditures and political contributions. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Economic Development Committee
HISB1042Intro
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Clarifies the definition of "imminent harm". Requires police officers to comply with exigency requirements when removing a child from the child's home and to promptly submit a police report documenting specific, articulable evidence of imminent harm ...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB609Engross
50%
Requires health insurance policies and contracts issued on or after 01/01/2024 to provide coverage for the cost of hearing aids at a minimum of an unspecified amount per hearing aid for each hearing-impaired ear every thirty-six months. Effective 12/...
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2023-12-11
To House Health Committee
HISB1487Intro
25%
Imposes labeling requirements for mamaki tea grown in the State. Appropriates funds to the department of agriculture to administer the mamaki tea labeling requirements.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
HISB423Intro
25%
Requires the employees' retirement system to divest its investment portfolio of coal, oil, and gas companies within an unspecified number of years and to report certain information to the legislature.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
HISB40Engross
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Establishes provisions relating to civil remedies for discriminatory reporting to a law enforcement officer. Provides that a person who contacts a law enforcement officer to come to a location to contact a person on the basis of the person's actual o...
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2023-12-11
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee
HISB5Intro
25%
Requires the State to consider hurricane resistant criteria when designing and constructing new state buildings, constructed on or after 7/1/2023, for the capability of providing shelter refuge.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
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
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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
HISB391Engross
50%
Appropriates funds for the University of Hawaii community colleges' workforce development programs. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HISB1083Intro
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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
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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
HISB330Engross
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Authorizes the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation the right of first refusal for the development of property for all development on state lands, excluding the Stadium Development District and lands under Hawaii Public Housing Authorit...
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2023-12-11
To House Housing 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
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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
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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
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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.
HISB879Engross
50%
Appropriates funds for the retention of employees of the unemployment insurance division of the department of labor and industrial relations. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HISB1261Intro
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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