Hawaii Senator Sharon Moriwaki [D]

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HISB906Intro
25%
Establishes enhanced penalties for multiple violations of the same liquor law by licensees in a county with a population of 500,000 or more, under certain circumstances.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB308Intro
25%
Establishes the Erin's law task force to review policies, programs, and curricula for educating public school students about sexual abuse and sex trafficking prevention, report recommendations for the establishment of a program to educate public scho...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB376Engross
50%
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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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HISB723Intro
25%
Prohibits the sale, offer for sale, or operation of gasoline-powered leaf blowers. Increases the amounts of fines for offenses against leaf blower restrictions and provides for the forfeiture of gasoline-powered leaf blowers on a third violation. Rem...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
HISB168Intro
25%
Requires the Department of Health to post on its website an easily understandable, searchable, and sortable list of all state-licensed care facilities including information on their licenses and inspections. Requires that the list be updated within f...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB441Intro
25%
Establishes an excise tax of 25 cents for e-liquid cartridges and fifteen per cent of the wholesale price of open system eliquid sold, used, or possessed by a wholesaler or dealer on or after 7/1/2023. Defines and amends related terms. Makes conformi...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB1212Engross
50%
Prohibits any campaign website for any candidate or candidate committee from containing information or manipulating content in any manner that is designed to induce a noncandidate committee to use that content to make expenditures supporting the cand...
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2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HISB632Intro
25%
Establishes a 5-year pilot program within the Department of Health to eradicate feral chickens in the State. Requires the Department of Agriculture to submit a special local need registration to the United States Environmental Protection Agency. Make...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
HISB596Intro
25%
Amends the definition of "covered employer" in the Hawaii Retirement Savings Act.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee
HISB1045Intro
25%
Establishes a career and technical education working group to strengthen career and technical education in the State's public schools. Makes an appropriation.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee
HISB385Engross
50%
Establishes registration and driver's licensing requirements for operation of electric rickshaws. Defines electric rickshaw. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HISB301Intro
25%
Amends Act 257, Session Laws of Hawaii 2022, to authorize the School Facilities Authority to provide affordable housing to Department of Education teachers.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee
HISB460Engross
50%
Appropriates funds to the Office of Community Services of the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to fund the purchase, storage, and transportation costs of food for distribution to food banks in the State. Effective 1/1/2050. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HISB815Intro
25%
Establishes an accelerator program within the Hawaii Technology Development Corporation. Amends the reporting requirements for Hawaii Technology Development Corporation's manufacturing and development program. Requires the Hawaii Technology Developme...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee
HISB496Intro
25%
Prohibits the sale of flavored tobacco products and the mislabeling of e-liquids as nicotine free. Authorizes the department of health to appoint, commission, or contract for services of inspectors. Establishes two full-time equivalent program specia...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
HISB1419Intro
25%
Appropriates funds to the Executive Office on Aging within the Department of Health for the Hawaii Healthy Aging Partnership.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB285Engross
50%
Creates within the Department of Health's wastewater branch a cesspool conversion section, which will be responsible for facilitating the conversion of cesspools within the State. Establishes and appropriates funds for three full-time equivalent posi...
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HISB1483Intro
25%
Prohibits cyber harassment and cyberstalking. Allows for civil liabilities and injunctions for cyber harassment and cyberstalking.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB1569Engross
50%
Establishes a temporary Telework Working Group. Requires interim and final reports to the Legislature. Makes an appropriation. Effective 07/01/2050. (SD2)
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2023-12-11
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee
HISB364Intro
25%
Establishes the natural resource management special fund and authorizes uses for moneys in the fund. Establishes a Natural Resource Management Commission to guide and approve the disbursement of moneys deposited into the fund. Allocates transient acc...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee
HISB585Intro
25%
Prohibits a condominium board from expending association funds in an amount of $10,000 or greater without first obtaining approval from the association.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
HISB1102Intro
25%
Authorizes the counties to adopt an ordinance regulating the operation of hosting platforms that provide booking services for transient accommodation operators.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB426Engross
50%
Requires priority level 1 cesspools to be upgraded, converted, or connected before 1/1/2035, with certain exceptions, and priority level 2 cesspools to be upgraded, converted, or connected before 1/1/2040, rather than before 1/1/2050. Specifies that ...
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HISB942Intro
25%
Bans the sale of flavored tobacco products and mislabeled eliquid products. Establishes fines.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB727Intro
25%
Establishes procedures and eligibility criteria for a privilege to practice public accountancy in this State for public accountants and certified public accountants licensed in another state with comparable education, examination, and experience requ...
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2023-12-11
Carried over to 2024 Regular Session.
HISB1433Intro
25%
Increases the maximum sentence of imprisonment from one year to two years for a misdemeanor and thirty days to one year for a petty misdemeanor.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB885Intro
25%
Makes the quorum and voting requirements of the Nonprofit Corporation Act inapplicable to planned community associations and condominiums.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
HISB961Intro
25%
Appropriates funds for the Department of Health to control the State's feral chicken population. Requires the establishment of a complaint hotline that may be used to report nuisances and health hazards caused by the presence of feral chickens and to...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
HISB901Intro
25%
Requires the Department of Health to post on its website separate reports for various visits, violations, plans, and confirmations the Department performs or issues of certain care facilities. Establishes deadlines for each report type. Requires the ...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB307Intro
25%
Authorizes the School Facilities Authority of the Department of Education to disregard any ordinance or rule related to the use, zoning, planning, or development of land to which the authority holds title or for any construction on land to which the ...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee
HISB864Intro
25%
Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds for the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation and Hawaii Public Housing Authority's programs to develop housing exclusively for residents of the State who are owner- or renter-occupants...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB722Engross
50%
Establishes the workforce safety and health special fund. Directs certain fees and penalties to be deposited into the special fund. Effective 1/1/2050. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HISB757Intro
25%
Requires the Department of Health to establish and implement a program to improve and increase support for emergency medical services in the State. Requires the Department of Health to submit reports to the Legislature. Appropriates funds.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB294Intro
25%
Establishes under the Hawaii Children's Trust Fund Coalition a collective impact program called the Malama Ohana Program to seek, design, and recommend transformative changes to the State's existing child welfare system. Requires the Malama Ohana Pro...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB1593Intro
25%
Adjusts the method by which the department of human services shall calculate payments to providers of medical care and long-term supports and services. Appropriates funds.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB902Engross
50%
Requires the Executive Office on Aging to establish a workforce development and support center. Appropriates funds for the center's establishment. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Health Committee
HISB1434Intro
25%
Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the 12th senatorial district.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB293Engross
50%
Requires the Governor to ensure that the Governor's program memoranda accurately reflect the current responsibilities of certain state programs, address the current and future needs of the State, and align with budget-related submittals. Effective 6/...
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HISB241Intro
25%
Establishes general excise tax exemptions for food, medical services, and feminine hygiene products.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB1591Intro
25%
Creates a Public Places Special Fund to fund hiring private security to work with county law enforcement to enforce state or county laws, rules, ordinances, or regulations prohibiting camping, loitering, nuisance, or other violations in public places...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB391Engross
50%
Appropriates funds for the University of Hawaii community colleges' workforce development programs. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HISB1459Intro
25%
Establishes a task force to examine the consequences of drinking water contamination detected at the Waipahu Wells II Granular Activated Carbon Treatment Facility. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB879Engross
50%
Appropriates funds for the retention of employees of the unemployment insurance division of the department of labor and industrial relations. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HISB718Intro
25%
Clarifies teachers and other personnel of state public charter schools are members of the same collective bargaining unit as their Department of Education counterparts.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee
HISB1181Intro
25%
Requires solar conduit and electrical panel readiness for new residential construction and electric vehicle readiness when an electrical panel and parking area are installed. Effective 1/1/2024.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee
HISB888Intro
25%
Clarifies that the deadline for proxy votes to be delivered to the Secretary for association meetings is 4:30 p.m. Hawaii-Aleutian Standard Time. Clarifies that any owner seeking nomination to the Association Board and wanting to receive proxy votes ...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
HISB886Intro
25%
Specifies the procedure for condominium association meetings conducted in person and electronically. Clarifies the procedure for electronic, machine, or mail voting.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
HISB366Engross
50%
Establishes penalties for the failure to comply with a County Director of Finance's request that a vehicle number plate or special number plate be returned. Effective 3/22/2075. (SD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Transportation Committee
HISB368Intro
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 Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee
HISB752Engross
50%
Requires the comptroller to identify state office buildings that can provide equitable telecommunication access to allow certain residents, including residents with disabilities, to participate remotely in legislative hearings. Requires a report to t...
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
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