Hawaii Senator Ronald Kouchi [D]

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HISB1378PassClarifies that any person, corporation, or entity is prohibited from knowingly referring or transferring patients to an uncertified or unlicensed care facility. Repeals the landlord exclusion. (CD1)
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2023-07-07
Act 255, 07/07/2023 (Gov. Msg. No. 1358).
HISB1373PassClarifies the allowable revenues to be deposited into the Executive Office on Aging Administrative Claiming Special Fund and the purposes for which the fund may be used. (CD1)
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2023-07-07
Act 249, 07/07/2023 (Gov. Msg. No. 1352).
HISB1391PassAuthorizes the Board of Land and Natural Resources to place a lien on property for noncompliance with certain administrative enforcement actions related to land use violations and certain unauthorized structures encroaching on public lands. (CD1)
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2023-07-06
Act 236, 07/06/2023 (Gov. Msg. No. 1339).
HISB214PassEstablishes the offense of interference with the operation of a public transit vehicle. Makes clarifying and conforming amendments to the offense of interference with the operator of a public transit vehicle. (CD1)
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2023-07-05
Act 191, 07/03/2023 (Gov. Msg. No. 1294).
HISB1383PassCreates the Unemployment Insurance Technology Special Fund to be funded by an unemployment insurance technology assessment at a rate of a .01 per cent of taxable wages to support the information technology operating and maintenance expenses for the p...
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2023-07-05
Act 208, 07/03/2023 (Gov. Msg. No. 1311).
HISB1327PassAuthorizes the Public Utilities Commission to use electronic filing processes, including electronic service of documents, under the statutory chapters regulating public utilities, motor carriers, and water carriers. (CD1)
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2023-07-05
Act 205, 07/03/2023 (Gov. Msg. No. 1308).
HISB1370PassEstablishes a standard license to solemnize marriages, valid for one year from the date of issuance. Establishes a short-term license to solemnize marriages, valid for sixty days from the date of issuance. Establishes a fee of $100 per year for the i...
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2023-07-05
Act 206, 07/03/2023 (Gov. Msg. No. 1309).
HISB1381PassRepeals section 328-106, Hawaii Revised Statutes, which requires the Department of Health to regulate business practices between private entities engaged in the selling, billing, and reimbursement of pharmaceuticals. (CD1)
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2023-07-05
Act 207, 07/03/2023 (Gov. Msg. No. 1310).
HISB1468PassAuthorizes professional land surveyors, and any assistant under the direct supervision of the professional land surveyor, to enter any private property to perform land surveying, subject to certain provisions regarding notice, objections, and identif...
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2023-07-05
Act 209, 07/03/2023 (Gov. Msg. No. 1312).
HISB1344PassReplaces the term "school health aides" with "school health assistants" to reflect recent changes to the job title. Allows the administration of medication to public school students by school health assistants with the approval of a health care profe...
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2023-07-03
Act 173, 07/03/2023 (Gov. Msg. No. 1276).
HISB1340PassReinstates the exemption from the behavior analyst licensing requirements for certain teachers working in collaboration with a licensed behavior analyst or licensed psychologist. Expands the exemption for registered behavior technicians to implement ...
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2023-07-03
Act 167, 07/03/2023 (Gov. Msg. No. 1270).
HISB193PassAdds to the membership of the State Fire Council, and to the membership of advisory committees that the Council may appoint, representatives from the Hawaii State Aircraft Rescue Fire Fighting Unit and the Division of Forestry and Wildlife of the Dep...
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2023-06-30
Act 142, 06/29/2023 (Gov. Msg. No. 1245).
HISB210PassEstablishes a Criminal Justice Data Sharing Working Group to make recommendations for a statewide criminal justice data repository. (CD1)
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2023-06-30
Act 157, 06/29/2023 (Gov. Msg. No. 1260).
HISB228PassEstablishes the offense of fraud as a class B felony. Establishes the offense of making a false, fictitious, or fraudulent claim against the State or a county as a class C felony. Establishes the offense of the use of false statements or entries in m...
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2023-06-30
Act 131, 06/29/2023 (Gov. Msg. No. 1234).
HISB483PassUpdates articles I through IV of the Uniform Probate Code to adjust for inflation, provide additional clarity, resolve issues that have arisen in probate practice, and address societal changes in familial relations. (CD1)
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2023-06-30
Act 158, 06/29/2023 (Gov. Msg. No. 1261).
HISB203PassAllows the Campaign Spending Commission to treat a respondent's failure to explain or otherwise respond to a complaint alleging a violation of campaign spending laws as a rebuttable presumption that a violation has occurred. Provides the respondent w...
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2023-06-23
Act 118, 06/23/2023 (Gov. Msg. No. 1219).
HISB182PassAmends the filing deadline for disclosures of financial interests by certain candidates. Amends the penalty for the unauthorized release of confidential financial disclosure information. Amends the fines imposed and procedures relating to disclosures...
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2023-06-23
Act 129, 06/23/2023 (Gov. Msg. No. 1230).
HISB1357PassExtends the sunset dates for the issuance of county affordable housing credits to the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands pursuant to Act 141, Session Laws of Hawaii 2009, as amended, and Act 98, Session Laws of Hawaii 2012, as amended, to 7/1/2030. (C...
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2023-06-21
Act 090, 06/21/2023 (Gov. Msg. No. 1191).
HISB1268PassMakes technical changes to the statutory definitions of "agricultural enterprise lands" and "non-agricultural park lands" for clarification and consistency purposes. (HD2)
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2023-06-07
Act 068, 06/07/2023 (Gov. Msg. No. 1168).
HISB211PassEnsures that employment, work, and pay eligibility for the purpose of calculating retirement benefits includes retroactive reinstatement, retroactive rescission of suspension, and retroactive payments that are restored to an employee as part of a jud...
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2023-06-01
Act 046, 06/01/2023 (Gov. Msg. No. 1146).
HISB1314PassAmends section 87A-23, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to exclude medicare reimbursement by the State and counties for the spouses of retired employees hired after 6/30/2023. (HD1)
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2023-06-01
Act 040, 06/01/2023 (Gov. Msg. No. 1140).
HISB1313PassEnables the board of trustees of the Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund to establish appropriate salaries for the Administrator and Chief Investment Officer of the Trust Fund. (CD1)
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2023-06-01
Act 038, 06/01/2023 (Gov. Msg. No. 1138).
HISB1277PassMakes appropriations and approves payments for claims against the State, its officers, and its employees. (CD1)
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2023-06-01
Act 039, 06/01/2023 (Gov. Msg. No. 1139).
HISB1315PassExcludes state and county retired employees hired after 6/30/2023, and their spouses from receiving reimbursements for Medicare income-related monthly adjustment amounts as part of their Medicare Part B reimbursement payments. (HD1)
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2023-06-01
Act 041, 06/01/2023 (Gov. Msg. No. 1141).
HISCR54PassUrging The Hawaii Housing Finance And Development Corporation To Promote Supportive Housing In The State's Low-income Housing Tax Credit Program.
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2023-05-22
Certified copies of resolutions sent.
HISR50PassUrging Hawaii's Congressional Delegation To Introduce And Support Legislation To Amend Title Iv-a Of The Social Security Act To Allow Temporary Assistance For Needy Families Funds To Be Used By States To Build Transitional Supportive Housing And Affo...
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2023-05-22
Certified copies of resolutions sent.
HISR49PassUrging The Hawaii Housing Finance And Development Corporation To Promote Supportive Housing In The State's Low-income Housing Tax Credit Program.
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2023-05-22
Certified copies of resolutions sent.
HISCR55PassUrging Hawaii's Congressional Delegation To Introduce And Support Legislation To Amend Title Iv-a Of The Social Security Act To Allow Unspent Temporary Assistance For Needy Families Funds To Be Used By States To Build Transitional Supportive Housing ...
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2023-05-22
Certified copies of resolutions sent.
HISB1296Engross
50%
Establishes the Hawaii Economic Development District Planning Organization and governing board within the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism. Designates the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development to organize the Hawaii ...
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2023-04-28
Conference Committee Meeting will reconvene on Friday 04-28-23 3:30PM in conference room 325.
HISB1413Engross
50%
Requires the University of Hawaii to grant resident tuition fees for enrollment at any University of Hawaii campus to individuals who have graduated from a Hawaii high school and are enrolling in an undergraduate degree program, under certain conditi...
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2023-04-28
Conference Committee Meeting will reconvene on Friday 04-28-23 4:30PM in conference room 309.
HISB1351Engross
50%
Establishes the infant and early childhood mental health program within the department of health to provide and coordinate mental health services for children from birth up to age five. Appropriates funds for the establishment of the program, includi...
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2023-04-28
Conference Committee Meeting will reconvene on Friday, 04-28-23 at 04:30pm in Conference Room 309.
HISB1384Engross
50%
Amends chapter 202, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to be consistent with the General Appropriations Act of 2021, Act 88, Session Laws of Hawaii 2021. Renames "Hawaii workforce development council" to "Hawaii workforce development board". Requires the Hawai...
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2023-04-28
Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-28-23 4:30PM; Conference Room 309
HISB1332Engross
50%
Clarifies that emergency management powers must be consistent with the state constitution. Clarifies the scope of the Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan. Clarifies the powers of the Governor and mayors to extend or terminate a state of emergency...
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2023-04-28
Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-28-23 3:55PM; Conference room 016.
HISB1286Engross
50%
Increases options to build affordable housing by allowing the Hawaii community development authority to conduct a pilot program to lease real property for one project in the Kakaako community development district for a term of ninety-nine years. Requ...
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2023-04-27
Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-28-23 10:30AM; Conference Room 229.
HISB1291Engross
50%
Requires the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development, in cooperation with each state agency having operational responsibilities over state facilities to develop a standardized process to conduct vulnerability assessments for facilities at risk...
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2023-04-27
Conference Committee Meeting will reconvene on Friday 04-28-23 9:45AM in conference room 229.
HISB224Engross
50%
Allows for noise control infractions to be processed under the traffic and emergency period infractions adjudication process. Grants the district court concurrent jurisdiction over noise control infractions committed by minors. Effective 6/30/3000. (...
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2023-04-25
Conference committee meeting scheduled for 04-26-23 2:45PM; Conference Room 325.
HISB1311Engross
50%
Repeals Act 192, Session Laws of Hawaii 2007, which requires the employees' retirement system to divest itself of investments in companies that provide support for genocide in Darfur, Sudan, and provide annual reports to the legislature on the status...
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2023-04-25
This measure has been deferred.
HISB1317Engross
50%
Transfers the Hawaii broadband and digital equity office from the department of business, economic development, and tourism to the office of the lieutenant governor on a temporary, four-year basis. Appropriates general funds to provide required match...
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2023-04-24
Received notice of appointment of House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 840).
HISB179PassRenames the statewide and county-level voters with special needs advisory committees to elections accessibility needs advisory committees. Recognizes that voting accessibility needs may arise from disabilities other than those of a physical nature.
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2023-04-20
Act 014, 04/19/2023 (Gov. Msg. No. 1114).
HISB487PassAmends or repeals various provisions of the Hawaii Revised Statutes or the Session Laws of Hawaii for the purposes of correcting errors and references, clarifying language, or deleting obsolete or unnecessary provisions.
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2023-04-20
Act 017, 04/19/2023 (Gov. Msg. No. 1117).
HISB1372PassClarifies the definitions of "caregiver support services", "kupuna care services", and "respite care". (SD1)
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2023-04-20
Act 018, 04/19/2023 (Gov. Msg. No. 1118).
HISCR3Intro
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Requesting The Department Of Health To Adopt Rules For A Permit To Discharge Pollutants That Include The Major Factors That Are Considered In Identifying The Functional Equivalent Of A Direct Discharge For Point Sources Or Nonpoint Sources.
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2023-03-31
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
HISB1191Engross
50%
Appropriates funds to the Hawaii Community Development Authority for statewide planning, designing, and constructing of various transit-oriented development projects identified in the state strategic plan for transit-oriented development. Authorizes ...
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2023-03-24
To House Finance Committee
HISB1352Engross
50%
Adds a definition for "affordable housing" and amends the definition of "historic property" used in the State's historic preservation program. Allows the State Historic Preservation Division to contract its historic reviews to third-party consultants...
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2023-03-24
To House Finance Committee
HISB197Engross
50%
Increases the amount of fines for campaign spending law violations that may be assessed against certain noncandidate committees making only independent expenditures. Allows the Campaign Spending Commission to order that the payment of the fine assess...
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2023-03-22
To House Finance Committee
HISB201Engross
50%
Amends the prohibition against contributions to a candidate committee or noncandidate committee by state and county contractors to include state and county grantees and the owners, officers, and immediate family members of a state or county contracto...
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2023-03-22
To House Finance Committee
HISB221Engross
50%
Appropriates funds as a grant-in-aid to the Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu for the Victim Witness Assistance Program. Effective 06/30/3000. (HD1)
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2023-03-21
To House Finance Committee
HISB222Engross
50%
Appropriates funds as a grant-in-aid to the department of the prosecuting attorney of the city and county of Honolulu for the career criminal prosecution unit. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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2023-03-21
To House Finance Committee
HISB1411Engross
50%
Amends the name and administration of the drug and alcohol toxicology testing laboratory special fund. Appropriates funds. Requires a report to the legislature. Effective 7/1/2050. (HD1)
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2023-03-21
To House Finance Committee
HISB1295Enroll
75%
Proposes amendments to the Constitution of the State of Hawaii to expressly provide that the legislature may authorize, by general law, political subdivisions, such as counties, to issue tax increment bonds and to exclude tax increment bonds in calcu...
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2023-03-20
To House Finance Committee
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