Hawaii Senator Stanley Chang [D] | Bills | Introduced

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HISB1494Intro
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Requires firearms owners to obtain firearms insurance. Effective 1/1/2024.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB37Intro
25%
Establishes the shipping container inspection program and appropriates funds for the shipping container inspection program. Requires the Department of Public Safety to submit reports to the Legislature on implementation of the shipping container insp...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee
HISB592Intro
25%
Requires certain patients subject to emergency hospitalization to be assessed to determine whether a surrogate or guardian is needed to make appropriate health care decisions for the patient.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB1185Intro
25%
Exempts food supply chain businesses from permit or zoning requirements necessary for the installation of a renewable energy technology system or renewable energy storage system. Allows a food supply chain business to self-certify through licensed co...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee
HISB1043Intro
25%
Decriminalizes and legalizes the personal use, possession, and sale of cannabis in a specified quantity. Entitles persons arrested or convicted of certain marijuana offenses from custody or incarceration. Entitles certain persons to the expungement o...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB342Intro
25%
Requires the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to conduct a study on paid sick leave. Requires a report to the Legislature. Appropriates funds for the study. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD1)
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB33Intro
25%
Requires the licensing of sellers of ammunition, and for the identification and proper permitting of purchasers or possessors of ammunition. Regulates ammunition in the same manner that firearms are regulated.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB282Intro
25%
Reduces the amount transferred to the works of art special fund from 1% to 0.5% of all state fund appropriations for capital improvements designated for the construction cost element.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee
HISB412Intro
25%
Converts the human trafficking victim services fund to a human trafficking reparations fund. Revises the purposes for the monies in the fund to provide direct financial assistance to victims of trafficking.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB117Intro
25%
Authorizes the issuance of special number plates to commemorate Carissa Kainani Moore.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB335Intro
25%
Repeals vehicle license recovery fees. Takes effect 1/1/2024.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee
HISB1183Intro
25%
Requires the department of agriculture to include a statement on desecration laws in the plants and animals declaration form.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
HISB1554Intro
25%
Authorizes the director of finance to issue general obligation bonds to finance capital improvements to various irrigation systems.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
HISB842Intro
25%
Appropriates funds for the Department of Human Services to purchase health care services for certain low-income, uninsured immigrants. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD1)
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB413Intro
25%
Increases the fines for violating motor vehicle insurance requirements.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee
HISB102Intro
25%
Exempts services provided by a hospital, infirmary, medical clinic, health care facility, pharmacy, or licensed medical practitioner from the general excise tax.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB1164Intro
25%
Requires dealers who sell new or used motor vehicles to display the projected lifetime operating cost of the vehicle with the listed purchase price.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee
HISB695Intro
25%
Allows the department of agriculture to extend the agricultural park lease of any lessee who holds a lease with a remaining term of 15 years or less; provided that the land covered by the lease is 25 acres or less, located in a county with a populati...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
HISB1084Intro
25%
Requires dealers selling new light trucks, including sports utility vehicles, pick-up trucks, and minivans, to disclose to prospective consumers that larger vehicles pose an increased danger to pedestrians.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee
HISB1169Intro
25%
Requires all applicants who are younger than sixty years of age who are applying for or renewing a driver's license to provide proof of cardiopulmonary resuscitation certification, beginning 1/1/2024.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee
HISB1211Intro
25%
Establishes within the Office of Wellness and Resilience, the Malama Ohana Working Group to seek, design, and recommend transformative changes to the State's existing child welfare system. Allows the Office of Wellness and Resilience to contract with...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB433Intro
25%
Establishes green infrastructure objectives, policies, and priority guidelines for state facility systems, infrastructure, and transit projects in the Hawaii State Planning Act to improve the quality of life for residents and visitors. Defines green ...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee
HISB677Intro
25%
Authorizes and establishes procedures and criteria for prescriptive authority for clinical psychologists who meet specific education, training, and registration requirements. Requires the Board of Psychology to accept applications for prescriptive au...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
HISB1251Intro
25%
Beginning July 1, 2023, requires substitute teachers who work ninety days or more to be compensated equivalent to the daily rate for an entry-level teacher salary commensurate with their placement in Class I, II, or III.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee
HISB816Intro
25%
Allows students to complete computer science courses as a substitute for science credits at the high school level to count towards graduation requirements. Requires a computer science course credit as a graduation requirement at the high school level...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee
HISB848Intro
25%
Specifies that the registration fee for mopeds shall not exceed $100 per year, as determined by the counties' director of finance. Specifies that the issuance fee for a tag or emblem shall be no more than $20.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee
HISB720Intro
25%
Adds an exception to mandatory disclosure of government records for deliberative and pre-decisional government inter-agency or intra-agency records concerning an agency decision about a government action. From July 1, 2023, through June 30, 2027, req...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB956Intro
25%
Provides for the replacement of certificates of marriage for individuals who have changed their gender, sex, and, if applicable, name.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB819Intro
25%
Authorizes the Hawaii Technology Development Corporation to temporarily re-establish the Hawaii Office of Naval Research Grant Program to provide fifty per cent matching grants to Hawaii awardees of alternative energy research grants from the Departm...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee
HISB702Intro
25%
Beginning with the 2024-2025 school year, requires the Department of Education to include the teaching of financial literacy in grades kindergarten through twelve. Requires students in grades nine through twelve to complete a one-half credit in finan...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee
HISB1114Intro
25%
Requires HHFDC to establish a five-year dwelling unit revolving fund equity pilot program. Creates one full-time equivalent housing development specialist III position. Appropriates funds.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Housing Committee
HISB758Intro
25%
Beginning with policies issued on or after 1/1/2024, requires health insurance policies to cover oocyte cryopreservation in certain circumstances. Removes the one-time benefit limitation for in vitro fertilization, and requires the insured or the ins...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB1238Intro
25%
Establishes the Kupuna Rural Health Care Pilot Program within the Executive Office on Aging of the Department of Health to improve access to care in rural areas of Hawaii County and expand broadband internet access, provide at-home visits, and ground...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB859Intro
25%
Establishes priority for projects that are awarded funds from the Rental Housing Revolving Fund that are owned by the State or an organization obliged to reinvest financial surplus generated by a completed project into a newly constructed housing pro...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB976Intro
25%
Increases minimum liability coverage of motor vehicles.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee
HISB704Intro
25%
Appropriates funds to the Hawaii Technology Development Corporation for the State Small Business Credit Initiative Program.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee
HISB338Intro
25%
Creates the Department of Housing. Places the Hawaii Community Development Authority, Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation, Office of Planning and Sustainable Development, and Hawaii Public Housing Authority under the Department of Hous...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB452Intro
25%
Establishes a junior police pilot program at Farrington High School in coordination with the Honolulu Police Department. Appropriates funds.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB1260Intro
25%
Appropriates funds to support collaboration between the Department of Agriculture and the aquaculture industry.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
HISB628Intro
25%
Makes it unlawful for any non-government entity or agent thereof to operate a weed whacker in or within one hundred feet of a residential zone, except between 8:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. on most days. Defines weed whacker.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB510Intro
25%
Establishes a Dam and Reservoir Working Group to ensure and enhance the continued availability and operation of dams and reservoirs in the State.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee
HISB912Intro
25%
Establishes that the exemption from mandatory reporting by members of the clergy does not apply when the clergy member believes that there exists a substantial risk that child abuse or neglect that is especially heinous, atrocious, or cruel, manifest...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB114Intro
25%
Requires the Animal Industry Division of the Department of Agriculture to administer an assessment and approval process to import and move aquatic livestock in the State. Requires the Animal Industry Division to develop a risk-based framework for the...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
HISB337Intro
25%
Increases the term that the Hawaii Community Development Authority may lease certain property from sixty-five to ninety-nine years. Retains terms for leases of ceded lands at sixty-five years.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee
HISB1077Intro
25%
Requires the Office of the Lieutenant Governor to establish a ballot-tracking system that allows all voters to receive alerts regarding the mailing, receipt, and counting of their ballots returned by mail. Requires the counties to immediately notify ...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB1607Intro
25%
Requires a talent agency to provide educational materials regarding sexual harassment prevention, retaliation, and reporting resources and nutrition and eating disorders to adult artists represented by the talent agency. Requires proof of compliance ...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee
HISB749Intro
25%
Requires the Public Access Room to establish and maintain an outreach and engagement program for primary, secondary, post-secondary, and community education and appropriates funds for one full-time equivalent (1.0 FTE) position to assist in effectuat...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB1052Intro
25%
Requires each public employer to pay for the employer's employees' professional license renewal fees.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee
HISB157Intro
25%
Repeals the exemption granted to churches by Act 22, Session Laws of Hawaii 2020, relating to bonding requirements and fee requirements for licenses, renewals, and reinstatements of licenses applicable to cemeteries and funeral trusts. Clarifies that...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
HISB142Intro
25%
Eliminates the mortgage interest deduction for second homes under Hawaii income tax law. Requires the Department of Taxation to calculate the savings and report the revenue gained to the Director of Finance by September 1 of each year.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
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