Hawaii Senator Stanley Chang [D]

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HISB2094Engross
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Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (DCR) to establish a one-year pilot program to allow inmates incarcerated at the Women's Community Correctional Center to foster pets while incarcerated. Requires DCR to submit a report to the...
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2024-03-19
To House Finance Committee
HISB2329Engross
50%
Appropriates funds for mullet production for fishponds and stock enhancement, including for new positions, equipment, maintenance, and operating costs. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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2024-03-19
To House Finance Committee
HISB2405Engross
50%
Allows campaign funds to be used for a candidate's child care and vital household dependent care costs under certain conditions. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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2024-03-19
To House Finance Committee
HISB2401Engross
50%
Appropriates funds to each county as a grant-in-aid for the implementation of feral chicken control programs. Appropriates funds to the Department of Health for a feeding of feral animals education campaign. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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2024-03-19
To House Finance Committee
HISB2601Engross
50%
Expands the time period by which a civil action for childhood sexual abuse committed on or after July 1, 2024, may be initiated. Authorizes a court to require personnel of legal entities to undergo training on trauma-informed response. Effective 7/1/...
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2024-03-19
To House Finance Committee
HISB2553Engross
50%
Clarifies the definition of "covered employer" under the Hawaii Retirement Savings Act. Requires covered employers to automatically enroll covered employees into the Hawaii Retirement Savings Program unless the employee chooses to opt out. Effective ...
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2024-03-19
To House Finance Committee
HISB2727Engross
50%
Allows condominiums to be eligible for commercial property assessed financing. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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2024-03-19
To House Finance Committee
HISB2731Engross
50%
Authorizes the issuance of special number plates to honor veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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2024-03-19
To House Finance Committee
HISB2715Engross
50%
Makes it unlawful for an employer to discharge, discipline, or otherwise penalize or threaten any adverse employment action against an employee because the employee declines to attend or participate in an employer-sponsored meeting that communicates ...
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2024-03-19
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HISB2718Engross
50%
Allows the Hawaii Labor Relations Board to admit and consider hearsay evidence. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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2024-03-19
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HISB2977Engross
50%
Authorizes the imposition of a penalty for unlicensed individuals performing certain work that requires a contractor license, including the offering or performing of repairs or improvements to existing structures and property and tearing down or rebu...
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2024-03-19
To House Finance Committee
HISB2159Engross
50%
Requires the Department of Agriculture, in coordination with the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development, to prepare and periodically update the State Agriculture Functional Plan to include other agricultural economic updates, including aquacu...
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2024-03-18
[Hearing: Mar 20 @ 9:30 am]
To House Agriculture Committee
HISB2362Engross
50%
Appropriates moneys for statewide research into ornamental ginger pathogens, prevention of the spread of ornamental ginger pathogens, production and distribution of pathogen-free ornamental ginger plants, and outreach to ornamental producers. Declare...
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2024-03-18
[Hearing: Mar 20 @ 10:15 am]
To House Agriculture Committee
HISB2305Engross
50%
Establishes a Silver Alert Program within the Department of Law Enforcement to help locate and safeguard missing persons who are sixty-five years of age or older, cognitively impaired, or developmentally disabled. Appropriates funds. Effective 1/1/20...
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2024-03-18
[Hearing: Mar 20 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HISB2351Engross
50%
Renames the "Hawaii Workforce Development Council" to the "Hawaii Workforce Development Board". Clarifies that the Workforce Development Board is administratively attached to the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism. Requires the...
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2024-03-18
[Hearing: Mar 20 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HISB2556Engross
50%
Permanently establishes and appropriates funds for the Community Outreach Court as a division of the District Court of the First Circuit. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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2024-03-18
[Hearing: Mar 20 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HISB2605Engross
50%
Beginning 1/1/2026, requires health insurers, mutual benefit societies, and health maintenance organizations to provide health insurance coverage for various sexual and reproductive health care services. Applies this coverage to health benefits plans...
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2024-03-18
[Hearing: Mar 20 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HISB2770Engross
50%
Allows the counties to establish, by ordinance, an opt-in program that allows an annual payment in lieu of real property taxes on the land or improvements thereon that are actively used to produce or store renewable energy that is sold to an electric...
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2024-03-18
[Hearing: Mar 20 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HISB2836Engross
50%
Establishes within the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism the Interagency Council for Maui Housing Recovery to coordinate and facilitate Maui's permanent housing recovery and facilitate consultation and collaboration between st...
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2024-03-18
[Hearing: Mar 20 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HISB2726Engross
50%
Requires the Legislative Reference Bureau to conduct a study on how certain other states approach the following subjects as they relate to condominiums: ombudsman programs, licensing for management, alternative dispute resolution, governmental regula...
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2024-03-18
[Hearing: Mar 20 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HISB3237Engross
50%
Requires the Department of Agriculture to designate certain species as pests, and periodically update taxa designated as pests, for control or eradication and develop and implement a control or eradication program for each designated pest but, if the...
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2024-03-18
[Hearing: Mar 20 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HISB3234Engross
50%
Amends the laws relating to the Hawaii Hurricane Relief Fund and Hawaii Property Insurance Association. Expands the Hawaii Property Insurance Association's authority to include the issuance of property insurance other than fire insurance for certain ...
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2024-03-18
[Hearing: Mar 20 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HISB2066Engross
50%
Requires certain projects meeting the criteria of section 201H38(a)(1), HRS, to be exclusively for sale or rent to qualified residents as defined in section 201H-32, HRS, who are deemed to be moderate income household. Takes effect 4/14/2112. (SD2)
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2024-03-15
[Hearing: Mar 20 @ 10:00 am]
[Hearing: Mar 20 @ 10:00 am]
To House Housing Committee
HISB2044Engross
50%
Establishes that the transfer or acquisition of a controlling interest in an entity that owns real property in the State shall be subject to the conveyance tax. Eliminates the dollar cap amounts of conveyance tax collections paid into the Land Conser...
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2024-03-15
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HISB2112Engross
50%
Amends the definition of "installment lender" to clarify that the law is not intended to eliminate the ability of lenders to make low interest rate loans under the interest and usury law. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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2024-03-15
To House Finance Committee
HISB2122Engross
50%
Extends the State's energy efficiency portfolio standards from 2030 to 2045. Authorizes the Public Utilities Commission to establish interim goals, and clarifies procedures. Takes effect 1/1/2060. (SD1)
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2024-03-15
[Hearing: Mar 21 @ 9:30 am]
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee
HISB2132Engross
50%
Amends the deadline related to the repair of conditions that constitute health or safety violations. Increases the amount deducted from a tenant's rent for the tenant's actual expenditures to correct health or safety violations and defective conditio...
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2024-03-15
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HISB2072Engross
50%
Authorizes the Department of Health to require the Department of Education to report coronavirus disease 2019 potential outbreaks or other public health emergencies and related information in a manner most appropriate to public health and safety, as ...
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2024-03-15
To House Finance Committee
HISB2172Engross
50%
Prohibits staff members from assuming the authority and duties of the chairperson of a board or commission. Takes effect 7/1/2112. (SD1)
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2024-03-15
[Hearing: Mar 19 @ 10:00 am]
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee
HISB2143Engross
50%
Appropriates funds to the Wildfire Management Branch of the Department of Land and Natural Resources' Division of Forestry and Wildlife to provide nonprofit organizations with grants for wildfire preparedness and mitigation programming. Effective 7/1...
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2024-03-15
To House Finance Committee
HISB2182Engross
50%
Makes permanent the Ocean Stewardship Special Fund.
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2024-03-15
[Hearing: Mar 19 @ 9:30 am]
To House Water & Land Committee
HISB2322Engross
50%
Requires the Department of Health to continue water sampling and analysis of Tier 1 beaches during brown water advisories, with certain exceptions and under certain conditions. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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2024-03-15
[Hearing: Mar 20 @ 10:00 am]
To House Health Committee
HISB2345Engross
50%
Requires the Department of Law Enforcement to coordinate crisis intervention training for state and county law enforcement agencies and crisis intervention officers. Defines "crisis intervention officer". Establishes positions. Declares that the gene...
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2024-03-15
The committee on HLT recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 8 Ayes: Representative(s) Belatti, Takenouchi, Amato, Ilagan, Kobayashi, Marten, Nishimoto, Garcia; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and Excused: none.
HISB2406Engross
50%
Requires contracts entered into by the Hawaii Tourism Authority for management of the Hawaii Convention Center facility to include marketing for all uses of the facility. Amends the frequency with which the Hawaii Tourism Authority is required to sub...
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2024-03-15
To House Finance Committee
HISB2443Engross
50%
Establishes the Automated Speed Enforcement Systems Program, to be implemented in at least one school or work zone in each county. Authorizes the State to administer the Automated Speed Enforcement Systems Program. Creates a new offense of noncomplia...
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2024-03-15
[Hearing: Mar 19 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HISB2461Engross
50%
Specifically authorizes a medical cannabis dispensary to purchase cannabis and manufactured cannabis products from another dispensary. Requires the Department of Health to adopt rules regarding medical cannabis products within a certain time. Effecti...
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2024-03-15
[Hearing: Mar 20 @ 10:00 am]
To House Health Committee
HISB2527Engross
50%
For taxable years beginning after December 31, 2024, temporarily reinstates the Technology Infrastructure Renovation Tax Credit and expands the definition of "technology-enabled infrastructure" to include data servers. Takes effect 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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2024-03-15
The committee on HET recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 7 Ayes: Representative(s) Perruso, Kapela, La Chica, Martinez, M. Mizuno, Todd, Woodson; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 4 Excused: Representative(s) Marten, Matayoshi, Quinlan, Garcia.
HISB2536Engross
50%
Establishes accounting services procurement preferences for certain Hawaii accounting service businesses. Clarifies that the existing reciprocity procurement preference includes offerors under sections 103D-302 and 103D-303, Hawaii Revised Statutes. ...
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2024-03-15
[Hearing: Mar 19 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HISB2615Engross
50%
Authorizes the counties to require employers to disclose information regarding its employees' wages, benefits, hours, and employment status and deny, revoke, or suspend a building permit application for violating laws relating to wages, benefits, hou...
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2024-03-15
[Hearing: Mar 19 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HISB2600Engross
50%
Authorizes the use of electronic mail to deliver certain documents when purchasing a condominium. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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2024-03-15
To House Finance Committee
HISB2532Engross
50%
Clarifies that the secured areas appurtenant to a building, including a multi-unit building, are included as dwellings for the purposes of prosecuting offenses under chapter 708, HRS. Allows the owner of the building, an owner of an individual unit o...
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2024-03-15
The committee on JHA recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 7 Ayes: Representative(s) Tarnas, Takayama, Evslin, Ganaden, Holt, Ilagan, Kong; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 3 Excused: Representative(s) Ichiyama, Miyake, Souza.
HISB2845Engross
50%
Prohibits a person from selling ammunition to a person under the age of twenty-one. Prohibits a person under the age of twenty-one from owning, possessing, or controlling ammunition, with exceptions. (SD2)
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2024-03-15
The committee on JHA recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 6 Ayes: Representative(s) Tarnas, Takayama, Evslin, Ganaden, Holt, Ilagan; Ayes with reservations: none; 1 Noes: Representative(s) Kong; and 3 Excused: Representative(s) Ichiyama, Miyake, Souza.
HISB2819Engross
50%
Requires vehicles traveling ten miles per hour or more below the posted speed limit on a two-lane highway, behind which five vehicles are formed in a line, to pull over where possible to let the trailing vehicles proceed when passing is unsafe. Effec...
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2024-03-15
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HISB2841Engross
50%
Designates May 15 of each year as Water Safety Day, to recognize and spread awareness of the drowning pandemic and to educate Hawaii's youth in becoming safer in and around the water.
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2024-03-15
The committee on CAI recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 5 Ayes: Representative(s) Tam, Martinez, Garrett, Kapela, Alcos; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 2 Excused: Representative(s) Matayoshi, Sayama.
HISB2885Engross
50%
Establishes a working group to develop a Homeless Triage and Treatment Center Program within the Statewide Office of Homelessness and Housing Solutions in the Department of Human Services. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (HD1)
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2024-03-15
To House Finance Committee
HISB2913Engross
50%
Establishes a framework to regulate the sale of travel insurance in the State. Effective 7/1/2040. (HD1)
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2024-03-15
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HISB2919Engross
50%
Expands the zoning powers of counties. Expands the scope of the transient accommodations tax law to include certain shelters and vehicles with sleeping accommodations. Takes effect 7/1/2040. (SD2)
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2024-03-15
The committee on TOU recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 4 Ayes: Representative(s) Quinlan, Hussey-Burdick, Holt, Nakamura; Ayes with reservations: none; 2 Noes: Representative(s) Kong, Pierick; and 2 Excused: Representative(s) La Chica, Lamosao.
HISB2942Engross
50%
Allows minors under the age of sixteen to work in theatrical employment provided that the employer procures a valid certificate of employment, and the minor is accompanied by a parent, guardian, or a certain responsible adult. Requires a nurse certif...
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2024-03-15
[Hearing: Mar 19 @ 10:00 am]
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee
HISB2937Engross
50%
Repeals the sunset date for the exemption of laboratory school programs of the Hawaiian language college at the University of Hawaii at Hilo from state English-medium standards, assessments, performance ratings, staff qualifications, and staff traini...
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2024-03-15
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HISB2991Engross
50%
Requires the Hawaii Labor Relations Board to adopt rules establishing criteria for the creation of new bargaining units. Requires any employee, employer, or exclusive representative proposing a new bargaining unit to submit an application to the Boar...
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2024-03-15
[Hearing: Mar 19 @ 10:00 am]
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee
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