Hawaii Senator Ronald Kouchi [D]

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HISB1338Intro

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Amends chapter 138, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to add the director of the Department of Law Enforcement or the director's designee as a member of the Enhanced 911 Board.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB213Intro

Sine Die
Allows departments and agencies time to comply with Employees' Retirement System reporting standards based on when final specifications are provided by the Employees' Retirement System.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee
HISB1321Intro

Sine Die
Appropriates general funds to various programs due to anticipated operating shortfalls due to the limited ability for departments to transfer funds between programs.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB215Intro

Sine Die
Requires license plates to include okinas. Authorizes the use of all uppercase letters, all lowercase letters, or initial capital letters in license plates.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee
HISB1388Intro

Sine Die
Specifies the methods by which the Department of Land and Natural Resources can issue new ocean recreation commercial permits and renew existing ocean recreation commercial permits. Specifies that new permits for ocean recreation management areas and...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee
HISB190Intro

Sine Die
Provides for additional use of the reduced ignition propensity cigarette certification fees to support the State Fire Council and its programs and activities.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB183Intro

Sine Die
Requires each chamber of the Legislature to post on the Legislature's website a report of the legislative allowance expenditures for each member of the respective chamber.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB1412Intro

Sine Die
Provides scholarships for the unmet needs of qualified students at any four-year University of Hawaii campus who meet certain criteria.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Higher Education Committee
HISB1322Intro

Sine Die
Allows for temporary permits to be issued to registered nurses and licensed practical nurses, and revises the exemptions for license.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB200Intro

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Increases the maximum amount of public funds available for all offices by fifty per cent. Increases the maximum amount of public funds available for a candidate for the Office of Hawaiian Affairs from $1,500 to ten per cent of the expenditure limit f...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB1331Intro

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Adds to the State Building Code Council a voting member representing the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB1379Engross

Sine Die
Clarifies the penalty to be assessed on any person who intentionally operates a care facility without a certificate or license. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Health Committee
HISB232Intro

Sine Die
Requires procurement officers, when assessing an offeror's responsibility, to require the offeror to submit answers to questions contained in a standard questionnaire. Establishes certain questions that must be included in the questionnaire. Requires...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Government Operations Committee
HISB218Intro

Sine Die
Allows government agencies to publish public notices on their official websites as an alternative to publishing them in the newspaper.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Government Operations Committee
HISB189Intro

Sine Die
Prohibits lobbyists from making gifts that are prohibited under state ethics law.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB1300Intro

Sine Die
Provides appropriations for collective bargaining cost items for the members of Unit (3) and their excluded counterparts, including the cost of salary adjustments negotiated between the State and the bargaining unit representative for fiscal biennium...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee
HISB1426Intro

Sine Die
Encourages boards to maintain any electronic audio or visual recording of a board meeting as a public record on the board's website regardless of whether the written minutes of the meeting have been posted. Amends the information that must be include...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Government Operations Committee
HISB1305Intro

Sine Die
Provides appropriations for collective bargaining cost items for the members of Unit (8) and their excluded counterparts, including the cost of salary adjustments negotiated between the State and the bargaining unit representative for fiscal biennium...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee
HISB1287Engross

Sine Die
Makes an appropriation to the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism for expenses related to building renovations. Effective 1/6/2050. (SD2)
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HISB1191Engross

Sine Die
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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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HISB1328Intro

Sine Die
Increases the balance that may be retained in the Public Utilities Commission Special Fund at the end of each fiscal year to an unspecified amount. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB1368Intro

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Authorizes the Department of Human Services to pay certain healthcare professionals who provide care allowable under the Medicaid program to patients enrolled in Medicaid an amount similar or equivalent to reimbursement rates paid by the Medicare pro...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB1376Intro

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Establishes the Water Pollution Control Special Fund to collect fees formerly deposited to the State general fund to create a supplemental source of funding to implement and enforce water quality management as implemented in permits, certifications, ...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
HISB1295Enroll

Sine Die
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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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HISB1275Intro

Sine Die
Abolishes the Community Council on purchase of health and human services
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB1335Intro

Sine Die
Amends section 2 of Act 97, Session Laws of Hawaii 2022, to reflect the migration of the Office of Homeland Security from the Department of Defense to the Department of Law Enforcement on January 1, 2024.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB1361Intro

Sine Die
Making the nursing facility sustainability program and exemptions from the special fund assessments permanent. Make changes to strengthen the nursing facility sustainability program and other nonsubstantive changes for consistency and clarify. Approp...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB1345Intro

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Changes the Department of Education's quarterly report on autism spectrum disorder to an annual report.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee
HISB484Intro

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Enacts portions of the Uniform Parentage Act of 2017 to replace the Uniform Parentage Act of 1973. Takes effect 1/1/2024.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB1359Intro

Sine Die
Permits commercial enterprise vocational programs for young adults within the purview of the Office of Youth Services to market and sell goods and services that develop job readiness skills that lead to self-sufficiency. Establishes the Office of You...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB1364Intro

Sine Die
Restores the second deputy director position for the Department of Human Services; authorizes a private secretary position for the second deputy; appropriate funds.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
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