Hawaii Representative Terez Amato [D] | Introduced

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HIHB1905Intro
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Requires the Hawaii Public Housing Authority to allow any resident of a public housing project or state low-income housing project to keep 1 or more pet animals in the resident's unit, subject to applicable state laws, county ordinances, and any reas...
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2024-01-24
To House Housing Committee
HIHB2086Intro
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Excludes xylazine testing strips from the definition of "drug paraphernalia". Requires the administrator of the narcotics enforcement administration to make an emergency scheduling by placing xylazine into schedule III on an emergency basis.
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2024-01-24
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB2000Intro
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Clarifies that the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority's duties include supporting aquaculture.
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2024-01-24
To House Agriculture Committee
HIHB1999Intro
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Requires the Department of Agriculture to conduct a market analysis study to identify the optimum mix of private sector, public sector, and philanthropic funding sources and mechanisms needed to support blue carbon ecosystem projects in the State and...
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2024-01-24
To House Agriculture Committee
HIHB2006Intro
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Establishes and appropriates funds for an invasive species placard program. Requires the department of agriculture to inspect certain establishments that are at risk of spreading invasive pests. Establishes correction and quarantine procedures.
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2024-01-24
To House Agriculture Committee
HIHB2014Intro
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Prohibits a person from using a location tracker to harass, stalk, or perpetuate a crime against another person without their knowledge.
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2024-01-24
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB2075Intro
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Appropriates funds to the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to further reduce its homestead program applicant waitlist.
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2024-01-24
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB2078Intro
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Beginning with the 2025-2026 school year, requires the Department of Education to ensure that inclusive curricula are available to all students at public schools. Makes it a discriminatory practice to refuse to approve, remove, or prohibit the use or...
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2024-01-24
To House Education Committee
HIHB2080Intro
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Proposes a constitutional amendment to ensure that the basis to marriage shall not be denied or abridged on the basis of race or sex.
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2024-01-24
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB2088Intro
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Requires that condominium renters who prevail in a lawsuit for a violation of the Residential Landlord-Tenant Code be awarded reasonable attorney's fees and costs and threefold damages. Requires the Real Estate Commission to establish a Condominium A...
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2024-01-24
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HIHB2097Intro
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Clarifies the definition of "power-generating facility" for the purposes of environmental impact assessments to include new combustion electricity-generating facilities operating beginning January 1, 2024, that were not previously operational. Includ...
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2024-01-24
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee
HIHB2077Intro
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Establishes rights for watershed ecosystems to exist, flourish, and naturally evolve, in conjunction with native Hawaiian traditional and customary beliefs, practice, and values, for the benefit of present and future generations.
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2024-01-24
To House Water & Land Committee
HIHB2114Intro
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Amends the definition of gambling to exclude digital sports betting on a platform licensed pursuant to state law. Requires the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism, to develop a pilot program to license businesses in the State to...
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2024-01-24
To House Economic Development Committee
HIHB2162Intro
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Amends emergency management law to protect tenants, mortgagors, consumers, and residents for certain periods of time after the issuance of a gubernatorial or mayoral emergency proclamation. Classifies violations as unfair methods of competition and u...
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2024-01-24
To House Water & Land Committee
HIHB2161Intro
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Appropriates funds to the Department of Law Enforcement for an additional fifteen full-time equivalent (15.0 FTE) sheriff positions for transitional law enforcement officer activities in Lahaina. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is ...
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2024-01-24
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB2126Intro
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Establishes a tax credit for small businesses who provide bonuses for their employees.
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2024-01-24
To House Economic Development Committee
HIHB2120Intro
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Provides Hawaii residents with the option of paying for the registration of their motor vehicles and associated taxes and fees on a biannual basis. Restricts the amount of delinquency tax due to the current tax due plus one year. Removes language all...
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2024-01-24
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB2160Intro
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Requires the State Council on Developmental Disabilities to submit a report to the Legislature that focuses on the health disparities experienced by persons in the State with developmental or intellectual disabilities. Appropriates funds.
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2024-01-24
To House Health Committee
HIHB2168Intro
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Amends the definitions of "board", "board business", and "meeting" within state open meetings law to expand the scope of the law to include state and county policymaking groups, including groups created by emergency proclamations.
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2024-01-24
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee
HIHB2121Intro
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Requires the Department of Law enforcement to provide security twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week for all state buildings. Appropriates funds.
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2024-01-24
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB2124Intro
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Prohibits geotagging on public lands in the State.
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2024-01-24
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HIHB2163Intro
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Amends the definition of "prospective loss costs" to incorporate catastrophe modeling instead of historical aggregate losses. Prohibits insurers from basing certain insurance rates on past loss experience within or outside the State.
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2024-01-24
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HIHB2173Intro
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Increases the amount of the state supplemental payment for type 1 adult residential care homes, licensed developmental disabilities domiciliary homes, community care foster family homes, and certified adult foster homes to $767 and the amount of the ...
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2024-01-24
To House Human Services Committee
HIHB2189Intro
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Establishes ratemaking regulations for insurers who base their rates on a policyholder or applicant's wildfire risk.
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2024-01-24
To House Water & Land Committee
HIHB2179Intro
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Requires publicly held domestic corporations to have gender-diverse boards of directors. Establishes reporting requirements for the Director of Commerce and Consumer Affairs. Establishes penalties.
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2024-01-24
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HIHB2172Intro
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Establishes the housing assistance program, to be carried out by the housing assistance program coordinator, within the Department of Human Services to provide state grants and rental subsidies to private property owners who set aside, construct, or ...
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2024-01-24
To House Housing Committee
HIHB2190Intro
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Prohibits any articles of incorporation, declaration, bylaws, administrative rules, house rules, or association documents of a condominium property regime, planned community association, or homeowners' association from prohibiting or restricting the ...
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2024-01-24
To House Water & Land Committee
HIHB2188Intro
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Prohibits residential rent increases in affected areas for an unspecified period after a severe storm warning or issuance of an emergency proclamation.
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2024-01-24
To House Water & Land Committee
HIHB1308Intro
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Prohibits the department of health from requiring an applicant, operator, employee, or adult volunteer at a healthcare facility or, in the case of a healthcare facility operated in a private residence, any adult living in the home other than the clie...
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2023-12-11
To House Health Committee
HIHB481Intro
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Requires the University of Hawaii to provide menstrual products free of charge to all students on any University of Hawaii campus, including the community colleges. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB664Intro
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Authorizes physician assistants to sign orders for respiratory therapy and plans of care. Expands the class of health care providers under whom respiratory therapists may practice respiratory care to include physician assistants and advanced practice...
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2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HIHB957Intro
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Allows health care facilities to permit terminally ill patients to use medical cannabis under certain conditions.
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2023-12-11
To House Health Committee
HIHB604Intro
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Requires the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to develop a program to provide grants to match funds for hotel employees to buy hotels and establish employee-owned hotel cooperatives. Appropriates moneys.
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2023-12-11
To House Economic Development Committee
HIHB666Intro
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Adopts the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact to create a comprehensive process that complements the existing licensing and regulatory authority of state medical boards and provides a streamlined process that allows physicians to become licensed in...
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2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HIHB683Intro
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Establishes a penalty of child support costs for motorists who operate a motor vehicle under the influence of an intoxicant and in the process kill the parent of a minor child.
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2023-12-11
To House Transportation Committee
HIHB1404Intro
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Makes the community court outreach project permanent. Amends the project to address homeless defendants and expand the opportunities for eligible defendants to participate. Appropriates funds for additional personnel and enhanced security services. E...
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2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB748Intro
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Beginning 12/31/2026, prohibits the manufacture, sale, offer for sale, distribution for sale, and distribution for use of any food packaging, food service ware, cosmetic, or personal care product that contains perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl subst...
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB1211Intro
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Increases the conveyance tax rate for certain properties. Exempts conveyances of certain real property from the conveyance tax. Establishes the homeless services fund. Eliminates the cap on the amount of conveyance tax collections allocated to the la...
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB915Intro
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Requires certain commercial agricultural entities to issue annual public reports regarding their pesticide use.
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2023-12-11
To House Agriculture Committee
HIHB325Intro
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Increases the minimum penalty imposed upon homeowners, renters, and managers of real property when they intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly allow others to unlawfully use aerial devices from their respective properties after 9:00 p.m. and before ...
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2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB1116Intro
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Establishes licensure requirements for school psychologists to be administered by the board of psychology. Requires all school psychologists to be licensed by 7/1/2025. Increases the composition of the board of psychology to include two school psycho...
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2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HIHB1342Intro
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Appropriates grant funding to the YMCA of Honolulu for its Youth Wellness Program for Mental Health to address the statewide declining mental health outcomes of youths related to the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic.
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2023-12-11
To House Health Committee
HIHB483Intro
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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 House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB501Intro
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Beginning 7/1/2024, subjects all electric vehicles to a state mileage-based road usage fee instead of paying a registration surcharge. Requires a vehicle inspection certificate to state the odometer reading of the vehicle. Clarifies that the type of ...
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2023-12-11
To House Transportation Committee
HIHB443Intro
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Requires the department of agriculture to establish a healthy soils program, which includes a healthy soil assessment and education program and health soil grants program. Appropriates funds. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB284Intro
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Exempts from the general excise tax the gross proceeds or income received from the sale of any product resulting from the cultivation and production of unprocessed taro and value-added products whose primary ingredient is taro or taro leaf. Effective...
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB638Intro
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Authorizes prescriptions made by chiropractors for physical therapy and therapeutic massage treatment to qualify as a motor vehicle insurance personal injury protection benefit. Replaces the existing cap on the number of chiropractic treatment visits...
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB744Intro
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Requires school booster clubs who raise more than $50,000 to be audited by the department of attorney general's tax and charities division on a regular basis. Requires the audited school booster club to reimburse the costs of the audit. Effective 6/3...
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB833Intro
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Establishes the criminal offense of unlawful shipment of tobacco products. Amends the definition of "tobacco products" under the Cigarette Tax and Tobacco Tax Law to include electronic smoking devices and e-liquids. Increases the license fee for pers...
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2023-12-11
To House Health Committee
HIHB931Intro
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Requires the Department of Accounting and General Services to provide menstrual products at no cost in specified restrooms of public buildings maintained by that department. Appropriates funds.
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2023-12-11
To House Health Committee
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