Hawaii Senator Stanley Chang [D] | Bills | Introduced

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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
HISB289Intro
25%
Requires that appropriations allocated to Department of Education programs that provide instructional services directly to students shall remain within the budget of the program to which they were originally allocated and that the retention of an app...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee
HISB1207Intro
25%
Exempts any code with an official publication date within four years of the prior code publication date from certain adoption requirements.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs 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
HISB788Intro
25%
Prohibits the Department of Health from issuing permits for commercial burning of green waste products in residential areas or within one thousand feet of a residential property.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
HISB341Intro
25%
Inserts unspecified amounts for minimum required liability coverage for accidental harm and destruction of property for motor vehicle insurance policies in the State. Takes effect 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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2023-12-11
Carried over to 2024 Regular Session.
HISB1147Intro
25%
Requires condominium associations and planned community associations that have a service agreement with a towing company to maintain and provide to the towing company a "do not tow" list of authorized resident vehicles. Prohibits authorized vehicles ...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee
HISB938Intro
25%
Requires each county to adopt reasonable standards to allow the construction of up to four dwelling units on any land with an urban state land use district classification that is zoned for residential use where a single-family dwelling unit is permit...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB135Intro
25%
Beginning January 1, , establishes a zero net vehicle growth policy in the State to ensure that the number of vehicles in the State does not exceed the vehicle threshold. Prohibits the importation of a vehicle into the State unless the dealer or...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee
HISB1205Intro
25%
Prohibits landlords from recovering possession of a dwelling unit from tenants if habitability of the premises is significantly impaired. Sets a tenant's liability for rent if habitability of the premises is significantly impaired. Provides remedies ...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection 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
HISB1081Intro
25%
Establishes the safe routes to school advisory committee within the Planning Branch of the Highways Division of the Department of Transportation. Appropriates moneys.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee
HISB255Intro
25%
Prohibits the planting of large trees along evacuation routes. Requires the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency to identify large trees along evacuation routes and trim, spray, or remove large trees having the potential to obstruct an evacuation route...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs 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
HISB967Intro
25%
Establishes an organic foods production tax credit for farmers investing into the organic certification process.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB1030Intro
25%
Authorizes the department of land and natural resources to establish and operate conservation mitigation banks to restore, create, enhance, or preserve conservation habitats or resources as compensatory mitigation. Authorizes the department to contra...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee
HISB852Intro
25%
Establishes the Automated Speed Enforcement Systems Program. Authorizes the state or counties to administer the Automated Speed Enforcement Systems Program. Requires fines collected beginning 1/1/2024 for violations on a county highway to be expended...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee
HISB972Intro
25%
Increases fines for any operator of a motor vehicle carrier using a vehicle for commercial tour operations who is not registered with the Public Utilities Commission. Increases penalty for any person who advertises as a motor carrier of passengers wi...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts 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
HISB380Intro
25%
Prohibits digital application developers and digital application distribution platforms from increasing the price of a digital application subscription plan that is automatically billed to the user's account without obtaining the user's written conse...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee
HISB1604Intro
25%
Authorizes certain criminal offenders to undergo anger management counseling in lieu of domestic violence intervention as part of their sentences.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary 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
HISB365Intro
25%
Establishes the offense of operating a vehicle while impaired, and penalties. Authorizes the Department of Transportation to take administrative action. Takes effect 1/1/2024. (SD1)
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB1445Intro
25%
Conforms the amount allowable for the Hawaii expenses for household and dependent care services necessary for gainful employment tax credit to the credit amounts allowed in the federal tax code. Increases the low-income household renters' income tax ...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services 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
HISB149Intro
25%
Establishes a continuous Legislature. Requires the Legislature to convene at least once a month. Removes language regarding special sessions, adjournment, and recesses. Creates a two-year deadline for a bill to be submitted for gubernatorial consider...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB1149Intro
25%
Requires state and county agencies to process the aggregated energy and water data of certain properties through the federal ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager and submit the benchmarking data to the office of planning and sustainable development. Appropr...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee
HISB326Intro
25%
Requires the state procurement office to amend its administrative rules to allow expenditures for goods, services, and construction with an estimated total cost that is less than $5,000 to be awarded in a manner the purchasing agency deems practical ...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Government Operations Committee
HISB675Intro
25%
Establishes a nationally certified school psychologist incentive program. Appropriates funds for the incentive program.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee
HISB1475Intro
25%
Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to create a strategic plan for maintenance dredging of important port and harbor locations and report the plan to the Legislature. Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to complete...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB1441Intro
25%
Clarifies the deadline for submitting written protests that are based on the content of a solicitation. Effective 7/1/2112. (SD1)
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB980Intro
25%
Establishes standards of conduct for firearm industry members. Authorizes the attorney general or any county attorney or public prosecutor to bring a civil action against a firearm industry member for violation of standards of conduct.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB943Intro
25%
Appropriates funds to the Department of Education to fund school health support staff to sustain the Hawaii Keiki: Healthy and Ready to Learn Program.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB876Intro
25%
Requires employers to provide employees the right to sit at work when standing is not necessary. Establishes fines.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee
HISB499Intro
25%
Clarifies that the conviction of a crime by a person holding a license to practice professional engineering, architecture, land surveying, or landscape architecture in the State, that is substantially related to the qualifications, functions, and dut...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
HISB336Intro
25%
Restricts any county from disapproving or imposing certain conditions on a housing development project or an emergency shelter unless the county meets certain requirements. (SD1)
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means 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
HISB1061Intro
25%
Permits the governing body of a county to create, by ordinance, a process for the recordation and enforcement of solar easements. Allows counties to require individuals claiming a solar easement to record that easement by filing a declaration with th...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee
HISB918Intro
25%
Establishes notice requirements for employers under Hawaii's Workers' Compensation Law. Requires employers who deny the compensability of an employee's injury to submit a written report supporting the denial to the Director of Labor and Industrial Re...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee
HISB1481Intro
25%
Establishes conditions for the importation of fireworks. Authorizes the county fire departments to inspect warehouses, piers, cargo, baggage, and personal effects of persons arriving in the State to ascertain if they contain any fireworks. Requires i...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB421Intro
25%
Establishes procedures for the Department of Transportation to assist and enable a person to voluntarily purchase a verified carbon offset for carbon dioxide emissions resulting from the person's air travel to or from an airport in the State. Require...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB703Intro
25%
Appropriates funds to the Hawaii Technology Development Corporation for the Small Business Innovation Research Program.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB952Intro
25%
Clarifies provisions related to the statutory limitations on the time periods in which a survivor of childhood sexual abuse may file a civil action. Allows for punitive damages. Permits the court to order restorative justice measures, if deemed appro...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB850Intro
25%
Beginning with the 2024-2025 school year, requires the Department of Education to include the teaching of financial literacy in the personal transition plan requirement for each student.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee
HISB1180Intro
25%
Prohibits the sale of geolocation information and internet browser information without consent.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee
HISB502Intro
25%
Requires that inmates engaged in labor or in vocational training be paid no less than the state minimum wage.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB1150Intro
25%
Establishes a list of substances allowed for use as pesticides and fertilizers on state and county property. Provides that the use of substances not specifically allowed as pesticides and fertilizers on state property and county property is prohibite...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
HISB1054Intro
25%
Prohibits non-compete and non-solicit clauses in employment contracts relating to employees of a restaurant, retail store, newspaper, magazine, news agency, press association, wire service, or radio or television transmission station or network.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee
HISB940Intro
25%
Establishes an additional minimum Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefit of $250 per month per person for SNAP-eligible households whose income is below two hundred per cent of the federal poverty level, as established by the United...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB1004Intro
25%
Establishes a carbon emissions tax credit. Expands the environmental response, energy, and food security tax to include carbon emissions. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2023. Requires the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee
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