Hawaii Representative Terez Amato [D] | Introduced

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HIHB832Intro

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Requires the chief election officer to develop and distribute a voter information guide for all candidates running for state office, including candidates running for any trustee position of the office of Hawaiian affairs. Requires the office of elect...
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2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB1226Intro

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Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the eleventh representative district.
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB1427Intro

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Prohibits a covered entity from disclosing communication or information relating to reproductive health care services. Prohibits the issuance of a subpoena in connection with an out-of-state proceeding relating to reproductive health care services le...
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2023-12-11
To House Health Committee
HIHB285Intro

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Appropriates funds to the Department of Land and Natural Resources for the Community Fuels Reduction Project. Beginning with fiscal year 2025-2026, and each fiscal year thereafter, requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to establish th...
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB793Intro

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Beginning January 1, 2025, authorizes public schools and public charter schools to have an employee trained to administer or assist with the self-administration of seizure disorder rescue medication, with certain exemptions. Authorizes all principals...
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2023-12-11
To House Health Committee
HIHB559Intro

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Expands the coffee labeling and advertising requirements to include ready-to-drink coffee beverages and inner packages and inner wrapping labels. Requires disclosure on the label of coffee blends of the respective geographic and regional origins and ...
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2023-12-11
To House Agriculture Committee
HIHB425Intro

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Requires any person carrying an unloaded firearm in a motor vehicle to locate the firearm so as not to be readily or directly accessible from the passenger compartment of the vehicle or, if the firearm is being carried in a motor vehicle that does no...
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2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB1410Intro

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Requires the department of health to establish a reverse vending machine pilot program to provide grants to deploy reverse vending machines in the State. Allows moneys from the deposit beverage container deposit special fund to be used for grants to ...
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2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HIHB1288Intro

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Repeals the authority of employers to pay tipped employees less than the minimum wage.
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2023-12-11
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee
HIHB1124Intro

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Increases the minimum classroom instruction time for state certified or National Rifle Association certified firearm safety courses from four to fourteen hours. Requires firearm safety courses to include additional subject matter. Requires applicants...
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2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB1227Intro

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Formally recognizes that the Office of Hawaiian Affairs is not barred from pursuing and may negotiate with respect to public land trust claims not addressed in Act 15, Session Laws of Hawaii 2012.
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2023-12-11
To House Water & Land Committee
HIHB1251Intro

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Provides protections to individuals involved in the sex trade from the consequences under criminal law of disclosing their engagement or being identified as engaging in prostitution while in the course of seeking medical or law enforcement assistance...
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2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB702Intro

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Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to conduct a study of the carrying capacity of Makena State Park in the County of Maui. Appropriates funds. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB236Intro

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Requires the department of labor and industrial relations to establish and administer a family leave insurance program. Provides family leave insurance benefits and extends the period of family leave to 16 weeks for businesses that employ one or more...
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2023-12-11
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee
HIHB574Intro

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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 House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB901Intro

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Prohibits the display of aquatic mammals in the State.
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2023-12-11
To House Water & Land Committee
HIHB1224Intro

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Requires rental housing projects to maintain, in perpetuity, 50% of the project's units for certain low-income tenants in order to be eligible for the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation's rental assistance program.
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2023-12-11
To House Housing Committee
HIHB389Intro

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Establishes a carbon sequestration income tax credit. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB570Intro

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Creates an office of Native Hawaiian health within the department of health. Appropriates funds.
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2023-12-11
To House Health Committee
HIHB659Intro

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Establishes permitting and education requirements for pharmacists performing certain diagnostic tests or tests waived pursuant to the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA). Expands the definition of "practice of pharmacy" to inclu...
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2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HIHB791Intro

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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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2023-12-11
To House Housing Committee
HIHB842Intro

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Requires the board of education to adopt and the department of education to administer a kindergarten entry assessment in Olelo Hawaii for Kaiapuni schools. Delays the administration of the kindergarten entry assessment in Olelo Hawaii for Kaiapuni s...
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2023-12-11
To House Education Committee
HIHB886Intro

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Eliminates the home mortgage interest deduction for second homes under Hawaii income tax law. Sunsets on 7/1/2028. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB745Intro

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Conforms statutory prohibitions against wage discrimination with other prohibitions on employment discrimination. Clarifies allowable justifications for compensation differentials and remedies for pay disparity. Requires employers to disclose wage ra...
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2023-12-11
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee
HIHB1435Intro

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Requires the Department of Education to transfer the Ewa Beach Public and School Library from the State Public Library System to James Campbell High School.
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2023-12-11
To House Education Committee
HIHB317Intro

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Prohibits the assessment of any fees, fines, or costs against a person who was adjudicated for an offense committed while the person was a minor under the age of eighteen, or against the person's parent or guardian. Limits court ordered community ser...
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB147Intro

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Amends the vehicle weight tax exemption for noncommercial vehicles by removing the exemption for military reserves and other active duty military personnel and adding an exemption for certain veterans.
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2023-12-11
To House Transportation Committee
HIHB621Intro

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Exempts the instream use of water for commercial kalo cultivation conducted in a manner consistent with traditional and customary practices of Native Hawaiians from the existing process for the disposition of water rights.
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2023-12-11
To House Water & Land Committee
HIHB1449Intro

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Amends Act 162, SLH 2022, to extend the sunset date for the early lung cancer screening task force and extend the date for the task force to submit reports to the legislature. Appropriates funds. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB916Intro

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Increases the monthly needs allowance from $50 to an unspecified amount. Clarifies that the needs allowance is not intended to replace or affect funds received from the federal supplemental security income program. Requires certain long-term care fac...
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB876Intro

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Requires the University of Hawaii to develop and implement a two-year native pollinator habitat pilot project to be deployed at the University of Hawaii at Manoa campus and the University of Hawaii at Hilo campus. Appropriates funds for a technician ...
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB844Intro

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Appropriates funds for the University of Hawaii Maui college's office of international and regional partnerships for students to study abroad and for study abroad programs. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB1341Intro

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Appropriates funds for the achievement of full funding, including estimated payment increases, of medicaid home and community-based services. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB661Intro

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Appropriates funds for the loan repayment program for health care professionals; provided that the funds are matched on a dollar-for-dollar basis by funds from a private or another public source. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB662Intro

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Exempts medical and dental services provided by health care providers to patients who receive Medicaid, Medicare, or TRICARE benefits from the general excise tax. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2023. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB253Intro

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Requires monthly rather than annual reporting of restricted use pesticides. Amends the contents of reports to include specific geospatial data and information, site information, and increased detail on the amount of restricted use pesticides used. Re...
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2023-12-11
To House Agriculture Committee
HIHB354Intro

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Appropriates funds for the Kahoolawe Island Reserve Commission and to fund three full-time equivalent (3.00 FTE) permanent positions for the Kahoolawe Island Reserve Commission.
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2023-12-11
To House Water & Land Committee
HIHB836Intro

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Appropriates moneys to the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation to retain the services of a consultant to prepare a financial sustainability plan for the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation and its member regions. Appropriates moneys.
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2023-12-11
To House Health Committee
HIHB1351Intro

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Amends the conveyance tax by adding a fee schedule for properties that are sold by foreign entities or non-resident foreign nationals.
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2023-12-11
To House Water & Land Committee
HIHB251Intro

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Amends the definition of "restricted use pesticide" to include neonicotinoid pesticides.
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2023-12-11
To House Agriculture Committee
HIHB432Intro

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Allows parties aggrieved by an order of the Hawaii Paroling Authority to appeal to the intermediate appellate court within 90 days of issuance and service of the order fixing the minimum term of imprisonment. Establishes the standard of judicial revi...
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2023-12-11
To House Corrections, Military, & Veterans Committee
HIHB603Intro

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Appropriates funds to hire school-based youth mental health specialists for department of education schools. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Health Committee
HIHB616Intro

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Amends the Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2022 to specify that the appropriation for Hawaii housing finance and development corporation (BED160) is to be deposited into and expended from the affordable homeownership revolving fund for purposes of...
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2023-12-11
To House Housing Committee
HIHB215Intro

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Prohibits the sale, offer for sale, display for sale, trade, or distribution of certain animal fur products in the State. Effective 1/1/2024.
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2023-12-11
To House Agriculture Committee
HIHB552Intro

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Converts the human trafficking victim services fund to a human trafficking reparations fund. Revises the purpose of the fund to provide direct financial assistance to victims of trafficking. Requires the department of human services, rather than the ...
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2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB1414Intro

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Requires all playgrounds located in state and county parks and on public school grounds include special needs recreational playground equipment as part of the recreational apparatuses by 6/30/2025 including at a minimum a wheelchair accessible swing ...
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2023-12-11
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee
HIHB934Intro

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Beginning 1/1/2024, requires public schools, private schools, and public charter schools to have an employee trained to administer or assist with seizure disorder rescue medication. Requires all principals, guidance counselors, and teachers to perfor...
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2023-12-11
To House Health Committee
HIHB1453Intro

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Expands the list of acceptable institutions or organizations that can approve the continuing education courses needed by naturopathic physicians for license renewal.
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2023-12-11
To House Health Committee
HIHB428Intro

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Prohibits the public carry of firearms in sensitive places and upon private business establishment or charitable establishment premises, except under certain circumstances.
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2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB830Intro

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Requires the Department of Education to meet with Hawaii School for the Deaf and Blind stakeholders and members of the Hawaii deaf community regarding the development of a plan to transition the Hawaii School for the Deaf and Blind to a conversion ch...
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2023-12-11
To House Education Committee
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