Hawaii Senator Stanley Chang [D] | Bills | Introduced

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HISB890Intro
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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 Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB417Intro
25%
Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources, in consultation with the Department of Health, to prepare a report making recommendations on the establishment of a Hawaii Near Shore Waters Quality Program to monitor and test for the quality of...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB1542Intro
25%
Specifies sensitive locations in which the carrying of firearms is restricted or prohibited. Authorizes, in certain circumstances, the carrying of firearms on private property. Specifies areas in which the carrying or possession of electric guns is r...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB1039Intro
25%
Establishes the Environmental Crimes Unit within the Office of the Attorney General. Makes the disposal of motor vehicle tires in violation of State law governing recovery of used motor vehicle tire recovery a petty demeanor crime. Establishes a $1 m...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB705Intro
25%
Appropriates funds to Hawaii Technology Development Corporation for the Manufacturing Assistance Program.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee
HISB512Intro
25%
Establishes within the Department of Land and Natural Resources a water security working group to study and recommend priority capital improvement projects for legislative consideration and approval that leverage public-private investment to increase...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee
HISB987Intro
25%
Appropriates funds to the Department of Health to develop and implement statewide media, education, and training activities for policies related to emergency examination and hospitalization and assisted community treatment for those in need of mental...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB1165Intro
25%
Establishes a process, beginning on January 1, 2024, for automatically preregistering or registering University of Hawaii System students who are at least sixteen years old to vote. Effective 1/1/2024.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Higher Education Committee
HISB870Intro
25%
Prohibits hospitals and health care facilities to permit or require health care providers to provide services for any period after the health care provider has been on duty for sixteen consecutive hours or an aggregate of eighty hours during any peri...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee
HISB713Intro
25%
Establishes a task force to review policy issues and opportunities relating to the navigation, access, and coverage of medicaid services by individuals with autism or fetal alcohol spectrum disorder and make a recommendation on whether a waiver or ot...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB897Intro
25%
Proposes an amendment to the Hawaii State Constitution to provide individuals with the right to marry any human being and for that right not to be abridged by the State.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB1126Intro
25%
Amends the income tax credit for expenses for household and dependent care services necessary for gainful employment by increasing the taxpayer's applicable percentage of employment-related expenses and dollar limit on amounts creditable that constit...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB1053Intro
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Establishes a general excise tax exemption for the gross proceeds or income from the sale of groceries that are eligible under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children, r...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB128Intro
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Establishes the photo noise violation monitoring system law. Establishes the Photo Noise Violation Monitoring System Program to enforce the State Community Noise Code, implemented by the State on any state or county highways within the respective cou...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee
HISB868Intro
25%
Directs the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to develop mixed-use reasonably priced housing at the Aloha Stadium site.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee
HISB684Intro
25%
Conforms existing Medicaid requirements to health insurers, mutual benefit societies, and health maintenance organizations to cover services provided through telehealth, including by way of an interactive telecommunications system. Defines "interacti...
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2023-12-11
Carried over to 2024 Regular Session.
HISB1152Intro
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Establishes a landlord low-income tenant tax credit.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB147Intro
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Requires the Department of Education to administer annual mental health or behavioral health screenings to all students, faculty, and staff members at public schools. Appropriates funds.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee
HISB863Intro
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Establishes the Hawaii Residential Developers Loan Corporation and the Hawaii Residential Developers Loan Special Fund for the purpose of enhancing credit and guaranteeing and insuring loans made by private financial institutions to developers of res...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB751Intro
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Establishes the Early Childhood Education Scholarship Program within the University of Hawaii to assist students with school tuition in return for a service commitment to teach in the Executive Office on Early Learning Public Prekindergarten Program....
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2023-12-11
To Senate Higher Education Committee
HISB986Intro
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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 Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
HISB245Intro
25%
Requires for each draft environmental assessment and draft environmental impact statement a public hearing in the community directly affected by the underlying proposed action.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
HISB1069Intro
25%
Prohibits purposeful harassment with the intent to prevent the taking of fish from persons who are fishing in state waters.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee
HISB325Intro
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Requires sponsored captive insurance companies to maintain separate protected cells for separate participant contracts. Except for risk retention captive insurance companies, authorizes captive insurance companies to apply for a certificate of exempt...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
HISB880Intro
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Amends the definition of "dangerous to self" as used in State law governing mental health, mental illness, drug addiction, and alcoholism. Defines the terms "gravely disabled" and "psychiatric deterioration". Broadens the term of "imminently dangerou...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB1093Intro
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Establishes and provides moneys for the composting grant program in the Department of Education.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee
HISB373Intro
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Establishes that gender-based pricing by manufacturers who sell the goods they manufacture to any person in the State for a price they set constitutes an unlawful deceptive trade practice.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB630Intro
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Establishes an income tax credit for taxpayers who purchase and install a whole house water filter system.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB1050Intro
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Clarifies internal complaint procedures for civil service positions by requiring a formal complaint to be filed within twenty working days.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee
HISB914Intro
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Authorizes school complexes to incorporate media literacy in its standards-based curriculum, including content that prevents negative impacts of misinformation, disinformation, digital discrimination, and online hate speech.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee
HISB1495Intro
25%
Clarifies requirements for film productions with production expenditures of $1,000,000 or more claiming the motion picture, digital media, and film production income tax credit. Increases the annual cap from $50,000,000 to $75,000,000 for the total a...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB774Intro
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Establishes ownership of any cow, horse, mule, donkey, sheep, goat, or swine, not marked or branded, and running wild on public lands to any person who intentionally feeds the animal.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
HISB1463Intro
25%
Prohibits a landlord from terminating certain tenancies without just cause. Requires a landlord to provide relocation assistance or waive the last month's rent when terminating a tenancy for no-fault just cause. Restricts how much and how often a lan...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
HISB378Intro
25%
Requires the department of education to establish an electric school bus pilot program to provide certain complex areas with ownership and control of electric school buses. Appropriates funds.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee
HISB1128Intro
25%
Exempts gross proceeds from medical services provided by physicians and advanced practice registered nurses acting in the capacity of a primary care provider from the general excise tax. Effective 1/1/2024.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB1210Intro
25%
Increases the refundable food/excise tax credit. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/22.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB747Intro
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Prohibits using geographic origins of coffee in labeling or advertising for roasted or instant coffee that contains less than a certain percentage of coffee by weight from that geographic origin, phased in to a minimum of fifty-one per cent after 7/1...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
HISB1597Intro
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Establishes the Hawaii Environmental Protection Agency. Transfers jurisdiction of certain functions and employees of the Department of Agriculture and Department of Health to the Hawaii Environmental Protection Agency.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Government Operations Committee
HISB1194Intro
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Establishes a financial literacy pilot project within the elementary, intermediate, and high schools in the Castle-Kahuku complex area during the 2024-2025 and 2025-2026 school years.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee
HISB768Intro
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Requires each county's Director of Finance, in consultation with the County Examiner of Drivers, to establish an Interpreter Services Program to assist Compact of Free Association citizens with utilizing the services provided by the Department of Mot...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee
HISB714Intro
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Establishes the fetal alcohol spectrum disorders special fund, to be administered by the department of human services, and which shall consist of federal funds and interest earned on those funds. Establishes a temporary fetal alcohol spectrum disorde...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB871Intro
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Requires the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to employ an Executive Director to be nominated by the Governor, subject to the advice and consent of the Senate. Transfers the duties and powers of the Board of Directors of the Hawaii ...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB635Intro
25%
Proposes a constitutional amendment to ensure that the inherent and inalienable right of the people, including future generations, to clean water and air, a healthful environment and climate, healthy native ecosystems, and beaches, shall be protected...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB309Intro
25%
Redefines historic property to mean buildings and structures that are over 100 years old.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee
HISB1190Intro
25%
Provides standards for the selection of county Ethics Commission members to ensure their impartiality and independence. Effective 7/1/2024.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB1178Intro
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Modernizes the definition of "personal information" for the purposes of notifying affected persons of data and security breaches. Includes licensees subject to the Insurance Data Security Law pursuant to article 3B, chapter 431, Hawaii Revised Statut...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB331Intro
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Prohibits a county from enacting a development policy, standard, or condition that would have the effect of changing the land use designation or zoning of a parcel or parcels of property to a less intensive use or reducing the intensity of land use w...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee
HISB137Intro
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Requires that restrooms and toilet facilities of public amusement facilities constructed, renovated, retrofitted, or installed after 1/1/2024 have two female-use toilets for each male-use toilet or urinal. Requires certain state building construction...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB1528Intro
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Amends the Hawaii State Constitution to prohibit the State from denying or interfering with an individual's reproductive freedom, including the right to choose or obtain an abortion or to choose to obtain or use contraceptives.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB1121Intro
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Requires the Real Property and Financial Services Section of the Hawaii State Bar Association to conduct a study to determine an appropriate increase to the homestead exemption in bankruptcy proceedings. Effective 7/1/2112. (SD1)
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
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