Hawaii Senator Karl Rhoads [D] | Bills | Introduced

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HISB1221Intro
25%
Requires the department of education to offer training for teachers, educational officers, and school-based behavioral health specialists on sex trafficking prevention and response.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB1164Intro
25%
Requires dealers who sell new or used motor vehicles to display the projected lifetime operating cost of the vehicle with the listed purchase price.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee
HISB350Intro
25%
Eliminates the use of monetary bail and requires defendants to be released on their own recognizance for traffic offenses; violations; and nonviolent petty misdemeanor, misdemeanor, and nonviolent class C felony offenses, with certain exceptions.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB17Intro
25%
Requires the Hawaii Medical Board to establish standards for health care providers to ensure that a patient's consent to treatment is an informed consent. Requires that informed consent for a proposed medical or surgical treatment or a diagnostic or ...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB174Intro
25%
Requires publicly held domestic corporations to have gender-diverse boards of directors. Establishes reporting requirements for the Director of Commerce and Consumer Affairs. Establishes penalties.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
HISB1115Intro
25%
Increases the percentage rate of weekly workers' compensation benefits for partially dependent parents of a deceased child from twenty-five per cent to fifty per cent.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee
HISB928Intro
25%
Establishes an Emergency Response Vehicle Noise Task Force to determine the impact of emergency response vehicle sirens in terms of excessive noise, the effect on public safety, and the relative effectiveness of the use of emergency lights instead of...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB416Intro
25%
Amends the requirements for licenses to carry firearms concealed or unconcealed. Requires possession and display of a valid license when publicly carrying firearms.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB425Intro
25%
Removes from the definition of "renewable energy" the energy generated or produced using trees, wood pellets, and other wood products made for burning.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee
HISB908Intro
25%
Imposes a fee for selling sugar-sweetened beverages at the distributor level to be collected by the Department of Health. Establishes a special fund into which revenues are deposited. Establishes a trust fund in the private sector to receive revenues...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB859Intro
25%
Establishes priority for projects that are awarded funds from the Rental Housing Revolving Fund that are owned by the State or an organization obliged to reinvest financial surplus generated by a completed project into a newly constructed housing pro...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB976Intro
25%
Increases minimum liability coverage of motor vehicles.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee
HISB750Intro
25%
Appropriates funds to the department of education for the expansion of civic education in the public schools. Establishes two full-time equivalent permanent civic education resource teacher positions, one of which shall be grant funded.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee
HISB21Intro
25%
Proposes to amend Article I of the Hawaii State Constitution by establishing the right of each person to own and have an exclusive property right in the data they generate on the Internet.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
HISB1219Intro
25%
Requires and appropriates moneys for the provision of free voice communication services in the State's youth and adult correctional facilities. Prohibits state agencies from deriving revenue or financial benefits from the provision of communication s...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB50Intro
25%
Prohibits the distribution, sale, and provision of plastic straws, except for those who request single-use plastic straws for medical reasons. Establishes a fine for violators. Takes effect 1/1/2024.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
HISB457Intro
25%
Requires all state, county, and private bus operators to upgrade to zero emission buses by 2045.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee
HISB628Intro
25%
Makes it unlawful for any non-government entity or agent thereof to operate a weed whacker in or within one hundred feet of a residential zone, except between 8:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. on most days. Defines weed whacker.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB510Intro
25%
Establishes a Dam and Reservoir Working Group to ensure and enhance the continued availability and operation of dams and reservoirs in the State.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee
HISB912Intro
25%
Establishes that the exemption from mandatory reporting by members of the clergy does not apply when the clergy member believes that there exists a substantial risk that child abuse or neglect that is especially heinous, atrocious, or cruel, manifest...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB386Intro
25%
Appropriates funds for one full-time equivalent (1.0 FTE) engineer position and one full-time equivalent (1.0 FTE) planner position within the Department of Health's Wastewater Branch to support processing of individual wastewater systems application...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
HISB173Intro
25%
Requires the Department of Transportation and the counties to implement a Vision Zero program in Hawaii by 7/1/2024. Establishes a goal of no traffic fatalities or serious injuries by 2045.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee
HISB749Intro
25%
Requires the Public Access Room to establish and maintain an outreach and engagement program for primary, secondary, post-secondary, and community education and appropriates funds for one full-time equivalent (1.0 FTE) position to assist in effectuat...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB981Intro
25%
Extends the time period that a family court may order continued assisted community treatment. Reduces the time period that a family court needs to determine whether assisted community treatment should continue.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB157Intro
25%
Repeals the exemption granted to churches by Act 22, Session Laws of Hawaii 2020, relating to bonding requirements and fee requirements for licenses, renewals, and reinstatements of licenses applicable to cemeteries and funeral trusts. Clarifies that...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
HISB142Intro
25%
Eliminates the mortgage interest deduction for second homes under Hawaii income tax law. Requires the Department of Taxation to calculate the savings and report the revenue gained to the Director of Finance by September 1 of each year.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB447Intro
25%
Establishes the Parkinson's Disease Research Collection Database to be administered by the Department of Health. Establishes the Parkinson's Disease Research Collection Database Advisory Committee. Requires the Department of Health to create and main...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB1073Intro
25%
Clarifies that the disqualification requirements for judges also apply to justices. Establishes a process by which a party before an appellate court in the State, who believes that the judge or justice presiding over their case may have a disqualifyi...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB984Intro
25%
Establishes an exemption from mediation in paternity proceedings where there are allegations of domestic abuse if the party alleging domestic abuse does not wish to participate. Prohibits a mediator from engaging in mediation where there are allegati...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB347Intro
25%
Restricts the use of solitary confinement in state-operated and state-contracted correctional facilities, with certain specified exceptions. Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to use appropriate alternatives to solitary confine...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB52Intro
25%
Amends the process for electing members to the Office of Hawaiian Affairs Board of Trustees. Requires the Reapportionment Commission to establish a reapportionment plan for five members of the Board of Trustees of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs so th...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB131Intro
25%
Establishes the class B felony offense of prohibited acts related to female genital mutilation. Requires prosecuting attorneys of the respective counties to keep annual statistics on cases involving prohibited acts related to female genital mutilatio...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB169Intro
25%
Requires Medicaid and private insurance coverage of ambulance services. Authorizes Medicaid programs, and requires private insurers, to cover community paramedicine services rendered statewide by emergency medical technicians or paramedics. Appropria...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB286Intro
25%
Establishes a three-year New Waste Management Solution and Cesspool System Demonstration Pilot Program within the University of Hawaii Water Resources Research Center to examine and demonstrate new wastewater and cesspool technology systems; implemen...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
HISB1245Intro
25%
Requires the Department of Health to establish or contract with behavioral health crisis centers to provide intervention and stabilization services in each county for persons experiencing mental health or substance use disorder crises. Appropriates m...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB985Intro
25%
Designates the Hawaii Theatre Center as the Hawaii State Theatre. Appropriates funds.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee
HISB856Intro
25%
Requires each member of a cooperative housing corporation board of directors, planned community association board of directors, and condominium association board to attend a training and certification course provided by the Real Estate Commission wit...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
HISB683Intro
25%
Extends the State's energy-efficiency portfolio standards from 2030 to 2045. Authorizes the public utilities commission to establish interim goals. Clarifies that certain demand response programs and related activities count toward the portfolio stan...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee
HISB1116Intro
25%
Clarifies that there is a presumption of a nexus for certain nonresident employees who telework. Amends the income tax law to apply to the total income of certain nonresident employees who telework. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2022...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee
HISB998Intro
25%
Establishes a Spay and Neuter Special Fund. Allows funds from an income tax check-off to be deposited into the Spay and Neuter Special Fund. Appropriates funds.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
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