Hawaii Representative Lynn Decoite [D]

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HISB3254Intro
25%
Appropriates funds to increase the funding for medicaid in-home services, conditioned on the Department of Human Services obtaining the maximum federal matching funds and pursuing all other funding sources.
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2024-01-29
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB3292Intro
25%
Beginning 7/1/2024, increases the cigarette tax rate and amends the disposition of the cigarette tax revenues by increasing the amount allocated to the Hawaii Cancer Research Special Fund.
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2024-01-29
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB3291Intro
25%
Authorizes the Department of Health to allow dispensaries to dispense cannabis or manufactured cannabis products to qualifying patients or primary caregivers of qualifying patients outside of the dispensary's retail store building but on the dispensa...
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2024-01-29
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB3295Intro
25%
Requires defendants convicted of causing the death of a parent or legal guardian of a minor child by the operation of a vehicle in a negligent manner while under the influence of drugs or alcohol to make restitution in the form of financial support t...
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2024-01-29
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB3293Intro
25%
Establishes an exemption to overtime compensation for employees on public works projects working on a Saturday, Sunday, or state holiday under certain conditions.
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2024-01-29
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee
HISB3343Intro
25%
Requires beekeepers to adhere to certain industry standards and best management practice in the keeping of bees.
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2024-01-29
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
HISB3367Intro
25%
Authorizes the issuance of $55,000,000 in general obligation bonds for the purpose of assisting the Korean War Foundation, Inc., with the acquisition of land and the planning, design, and construction of a war memorial hall within the Aiea (Rainbow) ...
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2024-01-29
To Senate Water and Land Committee
HISB3321Intro
25%
Allows for the use of fine meshed nets for the protection of plants against invasive species.
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2024-01-29
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
HISB3358Intro
25%
Requires the Department of Agriculture to indemnify Molokai ranchers whose herds were affected by the bovine tuberculosis outbreak and have not received indemnification from other sources. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceede...
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2024-01-29
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
HISB3368Intro
25%
Requires the Department of Education to establish a teacher loan forgiveness program to assist in the payment of loans for teachers who commit to teaching in the Hawaii public school system. Appropriates funds.
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2024-01-29
To Senate Education Committee
HISB3342Intro
25%
Establishes a spay and neuter special fund and an advisory committee for the special fund. Allows funds from an income tax check-off to be deposited into the spay and neuter special fund. Appropriates moneys. Declares that the appropriation exceeds t...
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2024-01-29
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
HISB3369Intro
25%
Allows the Director of Health to grant an exemption from the requirement to upgrade, convert, or connect a cesspool if the State is unable to present evidence that the cesspool is affecting the State's drinking water supply or recreational waters.
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2024-01-29
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB3359Intro
25%
Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the 7th senatorial district.
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2024-01-29
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB3385Intro
25%
Requires electronic smoking device of e-liquid manufacturers to submit certifications with the Department of Taxation annually, stating that products comply with federal regulations. Requires the Department of Taxation to maintain a directory. Impose...
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2024-01-29
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
HISB2980Intro
25%
Establishes the Cultural Corridor Authority to develop plans to redevelop areas affected by disaster while maintaining historic and cultural preservation. Establishes an income tax credit to incentivize the voluntary relinquishment of real property l...
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2024-01-26
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee
HISB2966Intro
25%
Establishes a goal to transition all state-owned, non-road vehicles to be zero-emission vehicles by the end of 2045. Defines non-road vehicle.
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2024-01-26
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee
HISB2989Intro
25%
Authorizes the Judicial Council to nominate persons for appointment to a county ethics commission; provided that the county's charter or ordinance requires members of the commission to be appointed from nominations made by the Judicial Council.
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2024-01-26
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB2990Intro
25%
Prohibits the purchase and sale of a motor vehicle to another individual who is not duly licensed to operate that category of motor vehicle. Prohibits the registered owner of a motor vehicle from allowing an individual who is not duly licensed to ope...
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2024-01-26
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee
HISB2987Intro
25%
Establishes the Teacher Home Assistance Program to be administered by the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to provide housing vouchers to certain teachers who are employed by the Department of Education and commit to teach at hard-t...
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2024-01-26
To Senate Housing Committee
HISB2982Intro
25%
Establishes the regenerative tourism program with the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to increase regenerative tourism. Establishes a grant program. Appropriates moneys. Declares that the appropriation exceeds the state gene...
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2024-01-26
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee
HISB1209Intro
25%
Conforms the amount allowable for the Hawaii expenses for household and dependent care services necessary for the gainful employment tax credit to the credit amounts allowed in the federal tax code. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/22.
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2024-01-25
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB2472Intro
25%
Increases the monthly needs allowance from $50 to $75. Clarifies that the needs allowance is not intended to replace or affect funds received from the federal supplemental security income program. Requires certain long-term care facility operators to...
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2024-01-24
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB2496Intro
25%
Establishes a gray water income tax credit to encourage the installation of qualified gray water systems certified by the Department of Health on existing residential properties and new housing developments. Effective for taxable years beginning afte...
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2024-01-24
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB2494Intro
25%
Provides police officers who become members of the Employees' Retirement System after 6/30/2023 with retirement benefits similar to those provided for members of the Employees' Retirement System who became members before 7/1/2012, including but not l...
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2024-01-24
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB2540Intro
25%
Reinstates income tax credit for cesspool upgrade, conversion, or connection for eligible taxpayers and eligible expenses. Applies retroactively to 12/31/2020.
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2024-01-24
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
HISB2541Intro
25%
Clarifies that the Director of Human Resources Development shall not hold the position of Chief Negotiator of the State.
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2024-01-24
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee
HISB2633Intro
25%
For taxable years beginning after 12/31/2024, provides a temporary income tax credit for the cost of upgrading or converting a qualified cesspool to a wastewater system approved by the director of health, or connecting to a sewerage system. Sunsets 1...
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2024-01-24
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
HISB2544Intro
25%
Requires the Department of Education Committee on Weights to consider the impact of its weighted student formula recommendations on small and remote schools.
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2024-01-24
To Senate Education Committee
HISB2604Intro
25%
Establishes a court's authority to issue an order restricting abusive litigation.
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2024-01-24
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB2786Intro
25%
Beginning on 7/1/2024, requires that the state supplemental payment for type 1 adult residential care homes, licensed developmental disabilities domiciliary homes, community care foster family homes, and certified adult foster homes not exceed $1,136...
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2024-01-24
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB2775Intro
25%
Establishes the Rural Health Task Force within the Department of Health to make recommendations on registered nurse recruitment and retention in rural areas of east Maui, Molokai, and Lanai.
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2024-01-24
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB2773Intro
25%
Prohibits the mining, extraction, and removal of minerals from the seabed in all state marine waters. Prohibits the issuance of any permit for or in connection with the development or operation of any facility or infrastructure associated with the mi...
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2024-01-24
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
HISB2776Intro
25%
Requires the State to pay, without delay, military personnel called to active duty at the same rate as their active duty counterparts and provide basic housing allowance.
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2024-01-24
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB2748Intro
25%
Requires the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency to develop and implement a statewide internet and mobile phone-based hazard tracking system that includes notifications, warnings, maps, weather, and related resources about various hazards in the State...
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2024-01-24
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB2676Intro
25%
Prohibits the State from requiring any person to adopt or use digital currency.
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2024-01-24
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee
HISB2785Intro
25%
Increases the monthly needs allowance from $50 to $75. Clarifies that the needs allowance is not intended to replace or affect funds received from the federal supplemental security income program. Requires the Department of Human Services to perform ...
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2024-01-24
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB2778Intro
25%
Amends the composition of the Board of Agriculture by providing representation from the islands of Molokai and Lanai.
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2024-01-24
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
HISB2774Intro
25%
Establishes within the Department of Health, a three-year Cesspool Conversion Financial Assistance Pilot Program to provide financial assistance to owners of cesspools located in the county of Maui to upgrade or convert their cesspools to a wastewate...
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2024-01-24
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
HISB2847Intro
25%
Transfers the investigators of the Criminal Investigation Division, Narcotics Enforcement Division, Office of Homeland Security Division, Office of the Inspector General Division, and Sheriff Division of the Department of Law Enforcement who are subj...
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2024-01-24
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB2771Intro
25%
Requires the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency, in collaboration with the county emergency management agencies, to conduct a study researching the effectiveness of using distinct sounds or tones emitted by outdoor warning sirens to warn the public o...
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2024-01-24
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB2791Intro
25%
Requires the Department of Agriculture and Department of Health to jointly convene a Hawaii Hemp Task Force to inform public policy and identify methods and actions to best support agriculture and build a hemp industry to support rural economic devel...
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2024-01-24
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
HISB2792Intro
25%
Establishes a working group to develop a plan that creates an educational pathway in the University of Hawaii community college system that equips interested students with the necessary entry level knowledge, skill set, expertise, and advancement pot...
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2024-01-24
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
HISB2916Intro
25%
Requires the Department of Human Services to amend its rules, policies, and plan amendments necessary to ensure that medically necessary services, including applied behavior analysis services, for individuals twenty-one years of age or older with neu...
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2024-01-24
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB2939Intro
25%
Provides that the Hawaiian language college revolving fund may include moneys from any revenue source. Provides that the fund and the Hawaiian early learning trust fund shall support the Imiloa astronomy center. Establishes a cap on individual deposi...
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2024-01-24
To Senate Higher Education Committee
HISB2947Intro
25%
Requires the Department of Education to submit annual reports to the Legislature on prior attendance at early learning programs for students entering kindergarten. Repeals standardized assessment requirements for students entering kindergarten.
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2024-01-24
To Senate Education Committee
HISB2407Intro
25%
Beginning with the 2025-2026 school year, requires the Department of Education to include the teaching of financial literacy in grades nine through twelve. Requires students in grades nine through twelve to complete one course in financial literacy b...
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2024-01-22
To Senate Education Committee
HISB2398Intro
25%
Authorizes a court to order the forfeiture of all of the Employees' Retirement System (ERS) benefits of an ERS member, former member, or retirant upon conviction of the individual for a felony related to the state or county employment of the individu...
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2024-01-22
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee
HISB2409Intro
25%
Requires the Department of Health to construct, establish, and operate an environmental toxins testing laboratory to test samples submitted by the public for diseases; water, air, and soil quality; and complex testing. Allows the Director of Finance ...
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2024-01-22
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB2290Intro
25%
Prohibits the construction, modification, or expansion of any waste or disposal facility for hazardous waste or solid waste on land that is near or above a significant aquifer as determined by the Department of Health, in consultation with the Commis...
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2024-01-19
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
HISB2302Intro
25%
Requires the Director of the Executive Office on Aging to work with health care providers to ensure that there are sufficient long-term care facilities on each island of the State. Makes an appropriation.
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2024-01-19
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
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