Hawaii Representative Terez Amato [D] | Bills

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HIHB892Engross

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Appropriates funds out of the Boating Special Fund for full-time equivalent positions under the Department of Land and Natural Resources to provide security at small boat harbors statewide. Effective 6/30/3000. (SD1)
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HIHB1330Engross

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Appropriates funds to the Department of Education for school bus services. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HIHB469Intro

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Establishes a permanent Hawaii state dividend special fund to collect and disburse annual Hawaii state dividend fund payments. Appropriates funds.
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2023-12-11
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee
HIHB262Engross

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Provides a process for school placement for a child whose parent has transferred or is pending transfer from another state to a military installation in Hawaii while on active military duty pursuant to an official military order. Effective 6/30/3000....
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HIHB914Engross

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Repeals existing law that requires the Department of Health to conduct unannounced visits and inspections, including inspections for relicensing or recertification, of state-licensed special treatment facilities. Requires the Department of Health to ...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
HIHB1328Intro

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Provides funding for rental or lease of facilities under legislative appropriations and bond authorizations to the state public charter school commission for the design, planning, construction, repair, and maintenance of public charter school improve...
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB656Intro

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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 House Agriculture Committee
HIHB1337Intro

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Establishes the Therapeutic Psilocybin Working Group.
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2023-12-11
To House Health Committee
HIHB826Intro

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Permits the use of a vehicle for the purposes of human habitation in any public parking lot operated by a state department, subject to certain conditions.
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2023-12-11
To House Health Committee
HIHB1348Engross

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Clarifies labeling requirements for macadamia nuts. Requires country of origin to be included on the principal display panel of a consumer package of raw or processed macadamia nuts. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD2)
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2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
HIHB856Intro

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Directs state departments to implement four day, forty hour work weeks. Addresses worker concerns of traffic congestion, commuting concerns, and work life balance.
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2023-12-11
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee
HIHB1203Engross

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Establishes an employer child care tax credit for employers who provide or sponsor approved child care. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD2)
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2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee
HIHB548Intro

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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 House Education Committee
HIHB1235Engross

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Appropriates funds for purchasing digital cameras for all adult correctional officer control rooms at state correctional facilities and body cameras for adult correctional officers to wear while on duty at state correctional facilities. Effective 6/3...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HIHB883Engross

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Appropriates funds to the department of health to operate mobile clinics providing medication-assisted treatment throughout the State. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HIHB665Intro

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Extends and modifies the task force established to recommend amendments to update existing parentage laws that reflect outdated, cisheteronormative concepts of families, parenthood, and parental rights to December 31, 2024.
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2023-12-11
To House Health Committee
HIHB1212Engross

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Establishes the water neutrality task force to develop a plan for Hawaii to become water-neutral by the year 2050. Requires the task force to submit a report to the Legislature. Appropriates funds. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee
HIHB558Intro

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Defines "incidental and supplemental work" for purposes of specialty contractors under the contractors law.
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2023-12-11
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee
HIHB502Intro

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Establishes a two-year infant and toddler child care contracted slots pilot program to develop and implement procedures to subsidize child care slots in licensed infant and toddler child care settings. Requires reports to the legislature.
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB190Intro

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Requires the Department of Education to waive school bus fees for fiscal years 2023-2024 and 2024-2025. Appropriates moneys.
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2023-12-11
To House Education Committee
HIHB1196Intro

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Requires the state auditor to conduct a performance and management audit of the ten agriculture parks operated by the agricultural resource management division of the department of agriculture.
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2023-12-11
To House Agriculture Committee
HIHB1249Intro

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Requires the department of land and natural resources to identify all state and county roads, landmarks, monuments, and public parks that use the name Diamond Head and identify the process for renaming these roads, landmarks, and public parks from Di...
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2023-12-11
To House Culture, Arts, & International Affairs Committee
HIHB216Intro

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Establishes the shipping container inspection program and shipping container inspection program special fund. Increases the maximum fine for each violation of the fireworks law. Requires PSD to submit reports to the legislature on implementation of t...
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2023-12-11
To House Transportation Committee
HIHB1335Intro

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Provides that after making an arrest, a police officer may issue to the arrestee an appearance ticket that states the date and time of the initial court appearance, and thereafter release the arrestee from custody. Broadens the range of offenses for ...
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2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB1254Engross

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Appropriates funds to establish homelessness coordinator positions on Maui, Oahu, Kauai, and Hawaii island within the Department of Land and Natural Resources. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HIHB620Intro

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Beginning with the 2023-2024 school year, requires public schools to provide free breakfast and lunch to all enrolled students. Appropriates funds.
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2023-12-11
To House Education Committee
HIHB956Intro

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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 House Tourism Committee
HIHB935Intro

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Exempts from the general excise tax, gross receipts received from the sale of hearing aids.
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2023-12-11
To House Health Committee
HIHB742Intro

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Proposes a constitutional amendment to lower the qualifying age of voters for any state or local election to sixteen years of age.
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2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB838Engross

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Reestablishes the Long-Term Care Commission within the University of Hawaii College of Social Sciences' Social Science Research Institute to identify further needed reforms of Hawaii's long-term care system. Appropriates funds. Effective 6/30/2050. (...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HIHB1506Engross

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Encourages the employees' retirement system, in evaluating venture capital investments, to consider opportunities in industries that will sustain Hawaii's natural environment or produce economic opportunities for its residents, including renewable en...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HIHB585Intro

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Requires the judiciary or supporting agencies to establish and support a program for restorative justice in each county and inform various criminal justice representatives of the existence of the program. Appropriates funds for the establishment of o...
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2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB820Intro

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Establishes a transient accommodations tax rate of twenty-five per cent for furnishing transient vacation units to transient occupants for less than thirty days. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB880Engross

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Requires each county police department to collect, report, and publicly publish certain data regarding police stops, arrests, uses of force, and trends. Effective 12/1/23. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HIHB1199Intro

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Requires law enforcement agencies to adopt and implement a written policy on domestic violence committed or allegedly committed by a law enforcement officer. Establishes standards, training deadlines, administrative procedures, and reporting requirem...
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2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB1127Intro

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Increases the standard deduction amounts for taxpayers for taxable years beginning after December 31, 2022. Requires biannual increases to the standard deduction amounts to match any increase in the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers for Ho...
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2023-12-11
To House Economic Development Committee
HIHB1219Intro

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Defines "cannabis cutting" and "cannabis propagule". Amends the definition of "cannabis" to include cannabis propagules and cannabis cuttings. Allows qualifying patients and primary caregivers who are authorized to cultivate cannabis for medical use ...
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2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HIHB571Intro

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Appropriates funds for the Kahoolawe island reserve commission. Appropriates funds for three full-time equivalent (3.0 FTE) permanent positions. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB1401Intro

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Requires public high school students to complete one financial literacy class before graduation.
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2023-12-11
To House Education Committee
HIHB1195Intro

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Adds specific requirements for sexuality health education programs funded by the State. Requires the Board of Education and Department of Education to collaborate to provide curricula information to the public. Requires students to be excused from th...
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2023-12-11
To House Education Committee
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