Hawaii Representative Terez Amato [D] | Bills

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HIHB1204Engross

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Establishes the Public Education Scholarship Program within the University of Hawaii to provide students who are residents of the State with school tuition in return for a service commitment to teach in a public school classroom of the Department of ...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HIHB895Intro

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Updates the State's integrated solid waste management goals and priorities to include organic waste diversion. Requires the counties to incorporate organic waste diversion into their respective integrated solid waste management plan. Effective 6/30/3...
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB871Intro

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Requires that a written disclaimer be provided by sellers or providers of emotional support animals or certificates or identification tags for emotional support animals that the animal is not a service animal or the item does not qualify as an item f...
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2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HIHB1428Intro

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Prohibits the State from denying or interfering with a patient's right to choose to obtain an abortion or to terminate a pregnancy if the termination is necessary to protect the life or health of the patient. Repeals a criminal penalty for violations...
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2023-12-11
To House Health Committee
HIHB542Engross

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Allows bidders to clarify or correct immaterial or technical information required as part of a bid submission for up to twenty-four hours after the bid submission deadline. Requires that bids for construction be opened no sooner than twenty-four hour...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Government Operations Committee
HIHB556Intro

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Requires the board of education to invite the exclusive representative for bargaining unit (5) (teachers and other personnel of the department of education) to appoint a nonvoting public school teacher representative to the board and the exclusive re...
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB900Intro

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Establishes the fetal alcohol spectrum disorders special fund, to be administered by the department of human services, and which shall consist of federal funds and interest earned on those funds. Establishes a temporary fetal alcohol spectrum disorde...
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2023-12-11
To House Health Committee
HIHB468Intro

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Specifies that a certificate of inspection shall be issued if a vehicle is not equipped with a noisy muffler or exhaust system. Requires rules regarding safety check inspections to ensure that a motorcycle, moped, or motor vehicle is not equipped wit...
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2023-12-11
To House Transportation Committee
HIHB429Intro

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Requires individuals to complete a firearms skills assessment, safety course, and education course prior to being granted a license to carry a pistol or revolver.
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2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB1407Intro

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Appropriates moneys to the department of science of the University of Hawaii Maui college to support water testing on the island of Maui, including supplies and the creation of 2.0 FTE positions. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Water & Land Committee
HIHB572Engross

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Requires that prior to the adoption, amendment, or repeal of an administrative rule, electronic notice of the proposed rulemaking be provided to all persons who have made a timely written request to, and provided a valid working email address to, the...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Government Operations Committee
HIHB318Intro

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Requires each county to establish rates of compensation for members of certain qualifying county boards, commissions, authorities, and committees. Requires each county to submit a report to the Legislature regarding the county's compliance with this ...
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2023-12-11
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee
HIHB330Intro

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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 House Human Services Committee
HIHB206Intro

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Raises the minimum age requirement to enter into marriage from sixteen to eighteen years of age. Removes the parental consent and written approval by the family court requirements for a minor to marry. Removes spousal cohabitation after the parties a...
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2023-12-11
To House Health Committee
HIHB1411Intro

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Amends certain publication procedures to require the publication of information to be on the appropriate state or county department's website, rather than in a newspaper.
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2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB917Intro

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Establishes the Hawaii Sports Task Force within the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to plan and coordinate efforts to secure and maintain Hawaii as a host location for major sporting and sports entertainment events at Aloha ...
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2023-12-11
To House Economic Development Committee
HIHB1448Intro

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Authorizes the department of education to stock bronchodilators for emergency use during respiratory distress and authorize department employees to volunteer to administer bronchodilators. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD2)
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB753Intro

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Establishes a two-year nonrefundable individual income tax credit for expenses paid to retrofit a residence with wind resistive devices. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2023. Sunsets 12/31/2025. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HIHB855Intro

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Establishes a general excise tax exemption for the gross proceeds or income from the manufacture, production, packaging, and sale of diapers. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Economic Development Committee
HIHB1387Intro

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Clarifies that the appointment and removal of the chief executive officer of the Hawaii health systems corporation requires a majority vote by the voting members of the corporation board, rather than by the entire membership of the board.
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2023-12-11
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee
HIHB1177Intro

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Establishes duration, environmental, and other restrictions on public lands leased to the military.
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2023-12-11
To House Water & Land Committee
HIHB587Intro

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Requires each county to submit to the Legislature a comprehensive integrated wastewater management plan report that addresses and identifies the county's wastewater management needs, including financial needs. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HIHB1202Intro

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Requires employers to provide a minimum amount of paid sick leave to employees and supplemental paid sick leave to employees under certain public health emergency conditions. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB795Intro

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Repeals the duty to retreat or take over evasive action with respect to the use of deadly force as a justifiable means of self-protection.
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2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB493Engross

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Amends the adjusted gross income brackets and credit amounts of the refundable food/excise tax credit. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD2)
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HIHB514Intro

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Requires all businesses engaged in the sale of goods to include the amount of general excise tax owed in any display or tag indicating the price of the goods. Effective 1/1/2024.
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2023-12-11
To House Economic Development Committee
HIHB430Intro

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Prohibits concealed firearms in certain sensitive locations. Requires the department of the attorney general to publish an annual report on licenses to carry. Amends requirements for firearm permitting and licenses to carry firearms. Effective 7/1/20...
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2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB877Engross

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Establishes the Hookaulike: A Criminal Legal System Institute for Restoration and Healing, at the University of Hawaii William S. Richardson school of law. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To Senate Higher Education Committee
HIHB845Intro

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Requires the Board of Education to hold not less than six community forums annually, with at least one community forum in each county. Requires the Board to include an open forum for public comments on non-agenda items. Requires a report to the Legis...
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2023-12-11
To House Education Committee
HIHB736Intro

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Appropriates funds for the Department of Human Resources to contract for a study on the gender pay gap within the government of the State. Requires a report to the Legislature.
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2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB882Intro

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Establishes the addiction recovery care working group to help the counties become recovery-ready.
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2023-12-11
To House Health Committee
HIHB874Intro

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Establishes a collective bargaining unit for graduate assistants employed by the University of Hawaii and community college system. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD2)
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB1189Intro

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Requires the maintenance of at least three hundred parking stalls at Ala Wai boat harbor at no cost for recreational ocean access and for the practice of traditional and customary Native Hawaiian rights.
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2023-12-11
To House Water & Land Committee
HIHB1319Engross

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Allows operators of bicycles, motorcycles, and mopeds to proceed through an intersection on a steady red signal during certain hours if the traffic signal is controlled by a vehicle detection device that is inoperative due to the size or composition ...
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2023-12-11
Carried over to 2024 Regular Session.
HIHB582Engross

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Expands the time period by which a civil action for childhood sexual abuse may be initiated, including an otherwise timebarred action. Authorizes a court to require personnel of legal entities to undergo training on traumainformed response. Effective...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HIHB1188Intro

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Requires the department of human services to establish a state corollary to the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program for certain higher education students. Appropriates funds. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB256Intro

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Requires each county to incorporate into its next integrated solid waste management plan revision a plan to divert all organic waste produced within the county by facilities generating more than a certain amount of organic waste per year. Appropriate...
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2023-12-11
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee
HIHB1117Intro

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Authorizes HHFDC to assist DOE in developing housing projects for teachers and other school employees and contract or sponsor an experimental or demonstration housing project with any state department or agency. Appropriates funds for deposit into th...
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB240Intro

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Exempts gross proceeds from medical services provided by physicians and advanced practice registered nurses acting in the capacity of a primary care provider from the general excise tax. Effective 1/1/2024.
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2023-12-11
To House Health Committee
HIHB861Intro

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Requires the Hawaii Correctional System Oversight Commission to oversee the development or expansion of new or existing correctional facilities. Prohibits moneys for construction or other capital expenditures from being requested in the executive bud...
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2023-12-11
To House Corrections, Military, & Veterans Committee
HIHB864Intro

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Establishes and appropriates moneys for a four-year Pacific cultural court pilot program in the family court of the first circuit. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB1210Intro

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Requires the Department of Education to create and manage a sports league for high school students in West Oahu, to further aid the development of high school students. This league is open to all high school students, regardless of whether the studen...
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2023-12-11
To House Education Committee
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
HIHB540Engross

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Beginning with the 2023-2024 school year, requires the department of education and public charter schools to provide free breakfast and lunch to all enrolled students. Appropriates funds. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To Senate Education 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

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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

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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

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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
HIHB1327Engross

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Establishes a state income tax credit for qualified expenses incurred by certain individuals employed by the Department of Education, Hawaii state public library system, or as part of a head start program in a school. Effective 6/30/3000. (SD1)
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2023-12-11
Carried over to 2024 Regular Session.
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
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