Hawaii Representative Richard Onishi [D] | House | Bills | Introduced

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HIHB2682Intro
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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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2024-02-23
To House Finance Committee
HIHB1572Intro
25%
Limits the exclusion from gross income to pensions received for past services provided in the State.
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2024-02-21
To House Finance Committee
HIHB1933Intro
25%
Establishes a sobriety checkpoint special fund to provide funding to county law enforcement agencies for staffing for sobriety checks and processing of persons arrested at sobriety checkpoints. Increases the state vehicle registration fee and establi...
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2024-02-15
To House Finance Committee
HIHB2191Intro
25%
Appropriates funds to the City and County of Honolulu for the expansion of the feral chicken project and the Vector Control Branch of the Department of Health for a statewide education campaign for the feeding of feral animals. Effective 7/1/3000. (H...
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2024-02-15
To House Finance Committee
HIHB1931Intro
25%
Appropriates funds for salaries and fringe benefits of positions for the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy's Space Sciences Workforce Development Program, Maunakea Scholars Program, and Akamai Internship Program. Appropriates funds for off...
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2024-02-14
To House Higher Education & Technology Committee
HIHB1955Intro
25%
Authorizes the use of special land and development fund moneys to eradicate or mitigate invasive species and install and maintain safety improvements on improved lands that provide lease revenue to the Department of Land and Natural Resources and tha...
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2024-02-14
To House Finance Committee
HIHB1656Intro
25%
Appropriates funds to the Department of Education to assist individuals in obtaining a commercial driver's license for the purpose of becoming school bus drivers. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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2024-02-13
To House Finance Committee
HIHB1648Intro
25%
Creates a School Psychologists Working Group to recommend actionable steps or propose legislation for an immediate pathway to licensure for school psychologists that can be acted upon in 2025. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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2024-02-13
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HIHB1890Intro
25%
Prohibits retailers from selling or offering for sale certain combustion engine-powered mopeds beginning 1/1/2026.
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2024-02-08
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee
HIHB2725Intro
25%
Establishes the Correction Facilities Authority to be responsible for all public corrections development, planning, and construction related to capital improvement projects. Requires the Correction Facilities Authority to apply for a loan or grant fr...
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2024-02-08
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB2724Intro
25%
Creates the Kona Community Development District to allow for planning, development, and maintenance of public lands in Kona, on the island of Hawaii. Amends the Hawaii Community Development Authority membership to include members of Kona. Requires th...
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2024-02-08
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB1563Intro
25%
Repeals existing law that preempted local ordinances or regulations that regulate the sale of cigarettes, tobacco products, and electronic smoking devices and nullified and voided any conflicting local laws and regulations. Allows counties to adopt o...
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2024-02-07
To House Health Committee
HIHB1616Intro
25%
Requires the DOE to submit an annual report to the legislature on the installation, repair, and maintenance of fire alarm systems in Hawaii's public schools. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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2024-02-07
To House Finance Committee
HIHB1971Intro
25%
Requires the Board of Agriculture to submit a report on the percentage of agricultural lands that are suitable for farming and actively farmed and certain dollar amounts relating to lease transfers between lessees.
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2024-02-07
To House Agriculture Committee
HIHB1663Intro
25%
Expands eligibility for, and automates, the expungement of conviction records if certain criteria are met. Beginning 12/1/2026, requires the Attorney General to issue automatic expungement orders and the Judiciary to seal or remove information from p...
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2024-02-06
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB2539Intro
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. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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2024-02-06
To House Finance Committee
HIHB2643Intro
25%
Requires the Department of Transportation to select multiple certified vendors to install ignition interlock devices.
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2024-02-06
To House Transportation Committee
HIHB1614Intro
25%
Increases the bonus for teachers who achieve and maintain a current national board certification from $5,000 to $15,000. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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2024-02-05
To House Finance Committee
HIHB1649Intro
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Establishes a nationally certified school psychologist incentive program. Appropriates funds for the incentive program. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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2024-02-05
To House Finance Committee
HIHB2194Intro
25%
Prohibits a health insurer from requiring an insured diagnosed with stage two through stage five cancer to undergo step therapy prior to covering the insured for certain drugs prescribed by the insured's health care provider, under certain conditions...
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2024-02-02
To House Health Committee
HIHB2634Intro
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Amends the duties and sunset date of the Technology Services Consolidation Working Group. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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2024-02-02
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee
HIHB2649Intro
25%
Clarifies the State's midwifery law to permit care by extended family, cultural supporters, or others with whom a woman chooses to give birth. Specifies that nothing in the midwifery law shall prohibit or restrict healing practices by traditional hea...
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2024-01-26
To House Health Committee
HIHB2584Intro
25%
Requires all places of public accommodation constructed after 12/31/2024 to provide universal changing accommodations in public restrooms. Where feasible and cost effective, requires all bids for state building construction, projects submitted after ...
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2024-01-26
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB2651Intro
25%
Extends the right to enter private property and remove or stabilize natural hazards that are at risk of harming the public or other properties to the county in which the private property is located and that county's respective mayor.
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2024-01-26
To House Water & Land Committee
HIHB2716Intro
25%
Establishes the offense of involuntary manslaughter. Renames the existing offense of manslaughter as voluntary manslaughter. Amends various statutory provisions to accommodate the 2 forms of manslaughter.
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2024-01-26
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB2761Intro
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Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the second representative district.
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2024-01-26
To House Finance Committee
HIHB1623Intro
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Authorizes pedestrians to act contrary to the statewide traffic code when a reasonably careful pedestrian would determine that there is no immediate danger of a collision with a moving vehicle.
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2024-01-24
To House Transportation Committee
HIHB1693Intro
25%
Requires the Department of Health to establish and administer an electronic smoking device disposal program for the collection and disposal of electronic smoking devices that contain rechargeable lithium-ion batteries. Requires all retail tobacco sto...
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2024-01-24
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee
HIHB1669Intro
25%
Except under certain circumstances, makes it unlawful for a person to possess, purchase, deliver, sell, or intend to sell an encapsulating machine or tabulating machine when the person knows, or reasonably should know, that the machine will be used t...
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2024-01-24
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB2000Intro
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Clarifies that the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority's duties include supporting aquaculture.
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2024-01-24
To House Agriculture Committee
HIHB2014Intro
25%
Prohibits a person from using a location tracker to harass, stalk, or perpetuate a crime against another person without their knowledge.
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2024-01-24
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB2114Intro
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Amends the definition of gambling to exclude digital sports betting on a platform licensed pursuant to state law. Requires the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism, to develop a pilot program to license businesses in the State to...
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2024-01-24
To House Economic Development Committee
HIHB2154Intro
25%
Requires and appropriates moneys for the Department of Transportation to re-establish and operate the Ellison Onizuka Space Center. Declares that the appropriation exceeds the state general fund expenditure ceiling for 2024-2025.
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2024-01-24
To House Culture, Arts, & International Affairs Committee
HIHB501Intro
25%
Beginning 7/1/2024, subjects all electric vehicles to a state mileage-based road usage fee instead of paying a registration surcharge. Requires a vehicle inspection certificate to state the odometer reading of the vehicle. Clarifies that the type of ...
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2023-12-11
To House Transportation Committee
HIHB831Intro
25%
Proposes a constitutional amendment to limit the terms of members of the legislature to a maximum of sixteen years in the house of representatives or senate, or both, for terms beginning after the general election of 2024.
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2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB1386Intro
25%
Allows no more than two members of the board of land and natural resources, one of which may be the chairperson, to determine items that shall be placed on a meeting agenda and any discussion between the two members shall be a permitted interaction u...
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2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB499Intro
25%
Authorizes the issuance of special number plates to commemorate Duke Kahanamoku. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB871Intro
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Requires that a written disclaimer be provided by sellers or providers of emotional support animals or certificates or identification tags for emotional support animals that the animal is not a service animal or the item does not qualify as an item f...
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2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HIHB1428Intro
25%
Prohibits the State from denying or interfering with a patient's right to choose to obtain an abortion or to terminate a pregnancy if the termination is necessary to protect the life or health of the patient. Repeals a criminal penalty for violations...
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2023-12-11
To House Health Committee
HIHB58Intro
25%
Requires compensation benefits for volunteer firefighters who are injured or killed in the line of duty to be determined based on equivalent firefighter pay based on years of service and rank, rather than on a rate of $18 per week.
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2023-12-11
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee
HIHB1380Intro
25%
Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the third representative district.
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB267Intro
25%
Appropriates funds for staff positions and various services to support the Olelo Hawaii Initiatives.
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2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB1448Intro
25%
Authorizes the department of education to stock bronchodilators for emergency use during respiratory distress and authorize department employees to volunteer to administer bronchodilators. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD2)
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB1387Intro
25%
Clarifies that the appointment and removal of the chief executive officer of the Hawaii health systems corporation requires a majority vote by the voting members of the corporation board, rather than by the entire membership of the board.
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2023-12-11
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee
HIHB1243Intro
25%
Establishes the east Hawaii community development district and board. Requires the department of land and natural resources to transfer certain leases within the district to the board. Repeals the Hilo community economic district. Appropriates moneys...
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2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB272Intro
25%
Limits the discretion of the Department of Land and Natural Resources' Land Division by requiring the Board of Land and Natural Resources to approve all revoked, limited, condemned, removed, or modified public land leases or revocable permits.
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2023-12-11
To House Water & Land Committee
HIHB1379Intro
25%
Requires the department of business, economic development, and tourism to establish and maintain a statewide data hub to collect employer and employee data. Authorizes the department of business, economic development, and tourism to determine the typ...
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2023-12-11
To House Economic Development Committee
HIHB1381Intro
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Requires the legislative reference bureau to conduct a study that identifies and analyzes alternative tourism governance systems. Requires the study to include a solicitation of input from certain stakeholder groups. Requires a final report to be sub...
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2023-12-11
To House Tourism Committee
HIHB149Intro
25%
Requires corporations to include the income of all foreign subsidiaries to the State. Applies the State's apportionment formula to determine the share of reported profits subject to the appropriate tax. Effective 1/1/2023.
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2023-12-11
To House Economic Development Committee
HIHB1218Intro
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Amends the dispensary program licensing fee structure. Adds or clarifies signage, manufactured cannabis product, packaging, escort, and background check requirements for the medical cannabis dispensary program. Establishes annual reporting requiremen...
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2023-12-11
To House Health Committee
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