Hawaii Representative Terez Amato [D] | Introduced

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HIHB583Intro
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Establish within the Department of Human Services' Child Care Assistance Program, a Child Care Accreditation Program to support licensed or registered child care providers to obtain accreditation from a national early learning accrediting organizatio...
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2023-12-11
To House Human Services Committee
HIHB737Intro
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Authorizes the Hawaii paroling authority to award credits to parolees for compliance with the terms and conditions of parole supervision that accordingly reduce the overall term of parole supervision.
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2023-12-11
To House Corrections, Military, & Veterans Committee
HIHB431Intro
25%
Repeals the prohibited acts related to drug paraphernalia under the uniform controlled substances act.
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2023-12-11
To House Health Committee
HIHB1276Intro
25%
Requires the department of transportation to authorize state and county traffic projects to make changes, as necessary, to traffic flow and mitigation efforts. Prohibits contractors from charging additional fees to amend traffic flow and safety or mi...
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB740Intro
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 House Finance Committee
HIHB515Intro
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Allows greater flexibility in conditions placed on eligibility requirements for the motion picture, digital media, and film production income tax credit. Amends the amount of the total tax credit that may be claimed per qualified production. Amends t...
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2023-12-11
To House Economic Development Committee
HIHB1433Intro
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Appropriates funds to the Adult Mental Health Division of the Department of Health to support increased behavioral health crisis stabilization beds. Creates a working group to get county input on possible sites for these crisis stabilization beds. Ef...
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2023-12-11
To House Health Committee
HIHB198Intro
25%
Establishes and appropriates funds for the low- to moderate-income electric vehicle rebate program and the electric vehicle subaccount to encourage the purchase and use of electric vehicles by low- to moderate-income households and nonprofit organiza...
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB1252Intro
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Provides rebates for eligible electric vehicle-ready parking stalls for new construction of affordable housing. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD2)
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB663Intro
25%
Increases the categories of women required to be covered for mammogram screenings. Requires the existing health insurance mandate for coverage of low-dose mammography to include digital mammography and digital breast tomosynthesis. Defines "digital b...
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2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HIHB1316Intro
25%
Requires licensees who carry firearms concealed or unconcealed outside their residence to have their carry license in their immediate possession and display the license upon the demand of law enforcement officers when being lawfully detained.
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2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB598Intro
25%
Permits the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to appoint independent counsel in certain circumstances. Requires the Department to amend its administrative rules accordingly.
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2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB1278Intro
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Establishes green infrastructure objectives and policies for transportation systems, infrastructure, and projects. Establishes the green transportation infrastructure task force to examine, evaluate, and develop policies for the design, implementatio...
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB1222Intro
25%
Requires each house of the Legislature to establish by its rules, procedures that enable the Legislature to use remote testimony at legislative committee hearings, enable the public to present oral testimony at legislative committee hearings through ...
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2023-12-11
To House Legislative Management Committee
HIHB1216Intro
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Establishes the Hawaii cannabis regulatory authority, which shall have oversight over the personal use of cannabis. Legalizes and regulates the personal use of small amounts of cannabis. Regulates the cultivation and sale of small amounts of cannabis...
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2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB321Intro
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Lowers the income threshold from one hundred forty per cent to one hundred twenty per cent of the median family income for mixed-income rental projects to be eligible for rental housing revolving fund loans or grants. Effective 1/1/2024.
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2023-12-11
To House Housing Committee
HIHB1218Intro
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Amends the dispensary program licensing fee structure. Adds or clarifies signage, manufactured cannabis product, packaging, escort, and background check requirements for the medical cannabis dispensary program. Establishes annual reporting requiremen...
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2023-12-11
To House Health Committee
HIHB658Intro
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Allows students who experienced educational disruption to graduate high school through enrollment in an accepted alternative education program and participation in certain activities approved by the department of education.
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2023-12-11
To House Education Committee
HIHB424Intro
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Beginning 07/01/2024, establishes the office of administrative hearings to conduct contested case hearings in the department of budget and finance, department of land and natural resources, and department of taxation. Appropriates funds to establish ...
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2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB1122Intro
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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 House Health Committee
HIHB790Intro
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Establishes a program for the licensure, regulation, and oversight of digital currency companies. Appropriates funds.
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2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HIHB243Intro
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Establishes and appropriates funds for one full-time equivalent (1.00 FTE) permanent veterinary medical officer position within the department of health. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB651Intro
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Requires the Department of Health to post on its website separate reports for various visits, violations, plans, and confirmations the Department performs or issues of certain care facilities. Establishes deadlines for each report type. Requires the ...
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2023-12-11
To House Health Committee
HIHB783Intro
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Establishes the 2023 illegal fireworks task force within the department of the attorney general to develop a comprehensive strategic plan to stop the importation of illegal fireworks and explosives into the State, promote compliance with the firework...
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2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB667Intro
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Allows the Governor to enter the State into the multi-state Nurse Licensure Compact, which will allow a nurse who is licensed by a home state to practice under a multi-state licensure privilege in each party state.
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2023-12-11
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee
HIHB967Intro
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Establishes a comprehensive system of public financing for all candidates seeking election to state and county public offices in the State of Hawaii, to begin with the 2024 general election year. Requires the Campaign Spending Commission to submit a ...
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2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB881Intro
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Prohibits any person from presetting commercial beach equipment on any public beach under the jurisdiction of the department of land and natural resources, unless the customer is physically present. Requires commercial vendors to expeditiously remove...
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2023-12-11
To House Water & Land Committee
HIHB873Intro
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Provides scholarships for the unmet needs of qualified students at any four-year University of Hawaii campus who meet certain eligibility criteria. Appropriates funds for the Hawaii promise program.
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2023-12-11
To House Higher Education & Technology Committee
HIHB922Intro
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Increases the percentage rate of weekly workers' compensation benefits for partially dependent parents of a deceased child from twenty-five per cent to fifty per cent.
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2023-12-11
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee
HIHB1447Intro
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Creates a non-refundable income tax credit for taxpayers who engage in preservation efforts using native plants. Appropriates funds. Repeals 6/30/2028. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB254Intro
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Requires the department of agriculture to use consistent units of measurement in its summary to the public on the amounts of restricted use pesticides used. Effective 1/1/2024, establishes a one-half mile buffer zone for pesticides around schools and...
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2023-12-11
To House Agriculture Committee
HIHB734Intro
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Amends the Hawaii Revised Statutes to replace the word "marijuana" and related terms with the term "cannabis" or related terms, as appropriate.
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2023-12-11
To House Health Committee
HIHB332Intro
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Establishes the shade and fruit tree program in the department of education to support educational activities and encourage propagation of native shade trees or fruit trees for planting in department schools. Appropriates funds for the program and to...
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB1416Intro
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Requires the department of human services to adopt rules, contingent on the approval of the Hawaii state plan amendment by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, to remove the $2,000-per-individual asset limit for eligibility for assistance ...
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2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HIHB829Intro
25%
Requires the court to appoint counsel to indigent parents upon the filing of a petition for custody or family supervision and make every effort to do so at the first hearing attended by the parents.
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2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB1452Intro
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For policies, contracts, plans, agreements, and plan contracts issued or renewed after 12/31/2023, requires insurers, mutual benefit societies, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage for standard fertility preservation services.
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2023-12-11
To House Health Committee
HIHB1338Intro
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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 House Housing Committee
HIHB492Intro
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Increases the state earned income tax credit from twenty to twenty-five percent of the federal earned income tax credit.
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2023-12-11
To House Economic Development Committee
HIHB1367Intro
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Appropriates funds to increase medicaid payments to eligible health care providers in the State up to one hundred per cent of the current medicare rates. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB1318Intro
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Transfers from the Department of Natural Resources certain wharfs, launching ramps, and small boat harbors on Maui to the County of Maui with the corresponding revenue from those harbors.
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2023-12-11
To House Water & Land Committee
HIHB601Intro
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Appropriates moneys for the Department of Education to contract with a qualified nonprofit organization to establish an aquatic safety education program for elementary school students.
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2023-12-11
To House Education Committee
HIHB511Intro
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Appropriation for staffing, commissioner inter-island travel, and other related operating expenses associated with the small business regulatory review board under the Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism.
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2023-12-11
To House Economic Development Committee
HIHB324Intro
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Repeals section 328J-11.5, Hawaii Revised Statutes.
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2023-12-11
To House Health Committee
HIHB898Intro
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Establishes a three-year surcharge on the liquor tax. Repeals 06/30/2026.
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2023-12-11
To House Economic Development Committee
HIHB703Intro
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Prohibits owners of vacant undeveloped land to cause or permit visible fugitive dust to become airborne from their land or to cause or permit visible fugitive dust that originates from their vacant developed land to be discharged beyond their land's ...
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2023-12-11
To House Health Committee
HIHB1413Intro
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Requires that the legislature ensure that state facilities, businesses, and recreational facilities meet certain accessibility requirements and be in compliance with the federal Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, as amended.
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2023-12-11
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee
HIHB863Intro
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Specifies that a subsequent attempt to prosecute a felony using an alternative charging method, after the first attempt has failed, shall not be permitted unless certain conditions are met.
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2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB655Intro
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Requires that Hawaii housing finance and development corporation housing projects include a restrictive covenant that the percentage of units of the housing project that are designated as affordable housing, as described in the submitted housing proj...
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2023-12-11
To House Housing Committee
HIHB1179Intro
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Requires health insurance coverage for various sexual and reproductive health care services.
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2023-12-11
To House Health Committee
HIHB484Intro
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Requires psychologists licensed in the State to complete at least four hours of continuing education per licensing biennium on topics relating to cultural diversity, cultural competence, sexual orientation, gender identity, or health equity. Requires...
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2023-12-11
To House Health Committee
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