Hawaii Representative Mahina Poepoe [D] | Bills | Introduced

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HIHB782Intro
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Authorizes health care providers, nonprofit organizations, businesses, and faith-based organizations to distribute supplemental nutrition assistance program applications to anyone interested in applying for program benefits. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1...
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB322Intro
25%
Establishes the Alzheimer's working group to create a public health campaign for awareness of Alzheimer's disease and other related dementia. Appropriates funds.
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2023-12-11
To House Health Committee
HIHB539Intro
25%
Requires issuers of Medigap insurance in the State to accept an eligible individual's application for coverage at any time throughout the year and prohibits issuers from denying the applicant a Medigap policy or certificate or make any premium rate d...
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2023-12-11
To House Health Committee
HIHB1175Intro
25%
Requires county police departments to provide training, in collaboration with the Department of Health and University of Hawaii, to officers having contact with individuals experiencing homelessness, behavioral health issues including substance use, ...
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2023-12-11
To House Health Committee
HIHB825Intro
25%
Excludes income received from deferred compensation retirement plans from the state income tax for taxpayers who meet certain income requirements. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB199Intro
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 House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HIHB444Intro
25%
Proposes a constitutional amendment to ensure that the inherent and inalienable right of the people, including future generations, to clean water and air, a healthful environment and climate, healthy native ecosystems, and beaches shall be protected ...
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2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB186Intro
25%
Prohibits the mining, extraction, and removal of minerals from the seabed in all state marine waters, under certain conditions. Prohibits the issuance of any permit for or in connection with the development or operation of any facility or infrastruct...
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2023-12-11
To House Water & Land Committee
HIHB1213Intro
25%
Authorizes each county to regulate the number of rental motor vehicles within the county.
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2023-12-11
To House Transportation Committee
HIHB1317Intro
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 House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee
HIHB743Intro
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. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB1146Intro
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 House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HIHB746Intro
25%
Transfers the rights, powers, functions, and duties of the department of agriculture plant industry division relating to the State's aquaculture program to the animal industry division.
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2023-12-11
To House Agriculture Committee
HIHB965Intro
25%
Requires health insurers, mutual benefit societies, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage for medication used for the treatment of obesity or weight loss management for a covered individual who is overweight and has one or more rel...
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2023-12-11
To House Health Committee
HIHB766Intro
25%
Appropriates funds to the Department of Land and Natural Resources to inventory historic properties and burial sites in the State, collect data on burial site locations, and conduct an archaeological surface survey.
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2023-12-11
To House Water & Land Committee
HIHB1225Intro
25%
Establishes a landlord low-income tenant tax credit.
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2023-12-11
To House Housing Committee
HIHB602Intro
25%
Provides that an employee who earns an hourly wage shall be entitled to one-half hour of a paid break for every eight hours of labor performed within a warehouse.
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2023-12-11
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee
HIHB932Intro
25%
Changes the total amount of motion picture, digital media, and film production income tax credits allowed per year from $50,000,000 to an unspecified amount. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB897Intro
25%
Establishes a joint task force to review policy issues and opportunities relating to the navigation, access, and coverage of medicaid services by individuals with autism or fetal alcohol spectrum disorder and make a recommendation on whether a waiver...
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB1180Intro
25%
Requires health insurance coverage for various sexual and reproductive health care services.
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2023-12-11
To House Health Committee
HIHB894Intro
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 House Water & Land Committee
HIHB191Intro
25%
Requires each regulated electric and gas utility to use the estimated social cost of greenhouse gas emissions established by the United States Interagency Working Group on the Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases in that utility's respective integrated re...
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2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HIHB319Intro
25%
Establishes the Red Hill water contamination health impacts program within the Department of Health to track the long-term impacts of the 2021 petroleum release from the Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility. Appropriates moneys.
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2023-12-11
To House Water & Land Committee
HIHB599Intro
25%
Requires the School Facilities Authority to consider establishing preschool classrooms in or near hotels, office buildings, and other urban areas with high centers of employment, with consideration given to the locations convenient for parents. Autho...
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2023-12-11
To House Education Committee
HIHB827Intro
25%
Requires the DOE to develop and maintain a communication strategy and outreach plan for emergency management and disaster preparedness. Requires the DOE to provide updated information to parents and guardians about its communication strategy and outr...
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2023-12-11
To House Water & Land Committee
HIHB1331Intro
25%
Extends the school supply subsidy pilot program established pursuant to Act 142, Session Laws of Hawaii 2022, for an additional two years. Appropriates funds. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB1445Intro
25%
Removes biomass from the renewable portfolio standard definition of "renewable energy".
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2023-12-11
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee
HIHB1190Intro
25%
Establishes a wealth asset tax of one per cent of the state net worth of each individual taxpayer who holds $20,000,000 or more in assets in the State.
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2023-12-11
To House Economic Development Committee
HIHB395Intro
25%
Appropriates funds for the small business innovation research program under the Hawaii technology development corporation. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB467Intro
25%
Requires the department of public safety, or its successor agency, in collaboration with the department of human services, to develop and establish a social work training program to assist nonviolent incarcerated individuals in the area of social wor...
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB779Intro
25%
Requires the court to appoint counsel to indigent parents upon the filing of a petition for custody or family supervision and make every effort to do so at the first hearing attended by the parents.
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2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB1292Intro
25%
Requires the Hawaii State Energy Office to enter into a publicprivate partnership to develop a waste-to-energy generating facility on land under the jurisdiction of the Department of Land and Natural Resources.
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2023-12-11
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee
HIHB754Intro
25%
Appropriates funds to the department of land and natural resources' state historic preservation division for a library digitization process and for the division's operations. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB392Intro
25%
Requires board of education approval prior to the termination of a complex area superintendent.
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2023-12-11
To House Education Committee
HIHB513Intro
25%
Establishes a telework tax credit for small business employers who allow telework for at least 30% of their employees.
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2023-12-11
To House Economic Development Committee
HIHB553Intro
25%
Establishes the Hawaii reproductive care workforce special fund to be administered by the department of health to support programs that train health care professionals, increase the State's capacity to provide reproductive care services, increase acc...
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2023-12-11
To House Health Committee
HIHB1295Intro
25%
Appropriates funds to the department of agriculture to provide grants to qualified chicken and egg farmers. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB391Intro
25%
Requires the department of human services to develop an infant and toddler child care worker subsidy pilot program to assist in retaining qualified child care workers in licensed infant and toddler child care centers. Appropriates funds. Sunsets 6/30...
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB1417Intro
25%
Prohibits the elimination of funding for vacant positions in the department of human services and department of health for five years, or until the director of human services or director of health, as applicable, requests that the positions be elimin...
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB1423Intro
25%
Includes electronic smoking devices within the definition of "tobacco products", as used in the cigarette tax and tobacco tax law. Establishes a tax of ten per cent for the wholesale price for electronic smoking devices. Allocates a portion of funds ...
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2023-12-11
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee
HIHB235Intro
25%
Requires certain employers to provide a minimum amount of paid sick leave to employees to be used to care for themselves or a family member who is ill or needs medical care and supplemental paid sick leave to employees under certain public health eme...
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2023-12-11
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee
HIHB738Intro
25%
Prohibits commercial operators of surfing tourism, instruction, and lesson companies from providing, or allowing the wearing of, footwear during lessons taking place on or above certain submerged reefs.
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2023-12-11
To House Water & Land Committee
HIHB862Intro
25%
Allows for judicial review of orders fixing minimum terms of imprisonment. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB764Intro
25%
Establishes an inter-division program between the State Historic Preservation Division, Land Division, Office of Conservation and Coastal Lands, Island Burial Councils, and the Office of Hawaiian Affairs that addresses the location, movement, and res...
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2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB78Intro
25%
Expands eligibility for the Hawaii community college promise program to all qualified students. Appropriates funds to expand access to community college to qualified Hawaii residents through Hawaii community college promise program scholarships. Effe...
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB648Intro
25%
Temporarily expands the state rent supplement program to specifically target qualified individuals who are sixty-two years of age or older and are homeless or at imminent risk of becoming homeless. Requires HPHA to submit annual reports to the legisl...
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB337Intro
25%
Increases the capital gains tax threshold from 7.25 per cent to 9 per cent. Increases the alternative capital gains tax for corporations from 4 per cent to 5 per cent. Applies to tax years beginning after 12/31/2022. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB1388Intro
25%
Establishes the natural resource management commission and special fund. Repeals the allocation of transient accommodations tax revenues to the special land and development fund. Allocates transient accommodations tax revenues to the natural resource...
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2023-12-11
To House Water & Land Committee
HIHB1343Intro
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Establishes and appropriates funds for the Office of the Reproductive Health Care Access Coordinator within the Department of Human Services for administrative purposes. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB328Intro
25%
Authorizes the department of land and natural resources to establish and operate conservation mitigation banks to restore, create, enhance, or preserve species, their habitats, or resources as compensatory mitigation, or for past damages. Authorizes ...
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
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