Hawaii Senator Troy Hashimoto [D]

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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
HIHB543Intro
25%
Establishes a nonrefundable income tax credit for taxpayers who purchase and install a whole house water filter system. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB680Intro
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Appropriates funds to the Hawaii public housing authority for the repair, renovation, improvements, and maintenance of dwelling units at federal and state low-income public housing projects. Requires the Hawaii public housing authority to submit repo...
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB592Intro
25%
Modifies the existing plant and animal declaration form to also require in-bound travelers to the State to acknowledge federal and state laws, and individual responsibility to protect the environment and agriculture of the State. Requires all other d...
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2023-12-11
To House Agriculture Committee
HIHB260Engross
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Requires DOE to develop and implement safety training for all cafeteria student helpers and ensure the student helpers receive the training prior to them volunteering. Requires DOE to provide personal protective equipment for all cafeteria student he...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Education 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
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
HIHB1279Intro
25%
Establishes a rebuttable presumption that a person charged with a crime is entitled to unconditional release. Requires the court to consider conditioning pre-trial release on nonfinancial conditions before ordering bail if unconditional release is in...
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2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB696Intro
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Establishes system access and system integration requirements for the computer software tracking system for medical cannabis dispensaries. Requires the department of health to submit an annual report to the legislature on data captured using the comp...
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2023-12-11
To House Health Committee
HIHB574Intro
25%
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
HIHB536Intro
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Amends the competitive sealed bidding process for construction projects to require joint contractors and subcontractors to submit their bids to a bid depository established under DCCA. Authorizes joint contractors and subcontractors to submit differe...
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2023-12-11
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee
HIHB1438Intro
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Adjusts the method by which the department of human services shall calculate payments to providers of medical care and long-term supports and services. Appropriates funds.
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2023-12-11
To House Human Services Committee
HIHB538Engross
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Establishes penalties for failure to remediate violations, including fines and, under circumstances, foreclosure. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HIHB920Engross
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Allows the counties to adopt a county building code for single-family dwellings, additional dwellings, duplexes, and non-commercial structures that has an unspecified amount of square feet of living area and is distinct from the Hawaii state building...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Housing Committee
HIHB842Intro
25%
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
HIHB814Engross
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Requires the counties to adopt ordinances by 7/1/2024 to allow religious institutions, educational institutions, and medical institutions to build housing units on land that the institutions own for purchase in fee simple or use by the institutions, ...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HIHB1440Intro
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Adopts the Uniform Guardianship, Conservatorship, and Other Protective Arrangements Act. Repeals the superseded Uniform Guardianship and Protective Proceedings Act.
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2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB1186Intro
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Provides that the State or a county that repairs or maintains a street of which the ownership or jurisdiction is in dispute between the State and the county shall be immune from liability for personal injuries or property damage arising out of the re...
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2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB439Engross
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Establishes and appropriates funds for an immigrant services and access unit within the office of community services. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology 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
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
HIHB1244Intro
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Appropriates funds to the Hawaii public housing authority for the state rent supplement program. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Finance 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
HIHB670Engross
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Specifies that a simple majority of affirmative votes of the members of the Land Use Commission present at a meeting and qualified to vote is required for any boundary amendment. Reduces the number of days within which the Land Use Commission must ac...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HIHB1223Engross
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Establishes a teacher loan program to encourage individuals to become teachers in hard-to-fill positions of department of education schools. Allows the loan to be forgiven after five years of teaching in a hard-to-fill position. Establishes a similar...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee
HIHB594Intro
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Clarifies that the residential zone restriction on the use of leaf blowers at certain hours includes residential districts, apartment districts, and business mixed use districts. Removes the exemption on leaf blower restrictions for government agenci...
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2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB669Intro
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Expands the jurisdiction of county land use decision-making authorities, enabling them to amend the district boundaries of lands less than fifty acres, from lands less than fifteen acres. Limits the Land Use Commission's authority over special permit...
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2023-12-11
To House Housing Committee
HIHB394Intro
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Appropriates funds to the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism for the Commission on the Thirteenth Festival of Pacific Arts to plan for the Festival of Pacific Arts to be held in Honolulu from June 6 to June 16, 2024.
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2023-12-11
To House Culture, Arts, & International Affairs 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
HIHB671Intro
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Appropriates funds for the ohana zones pilot program, including expenses relating to operations, upkeep of facilities, provision of services, and administrative costs. Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds for the construction or rehabi...
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB56Intro
25%
Allows the department of agriculture to extend the agricultural park lease of any lessee who holds a lease with a remaining term of 15 years or less; provided that the land covered by the lease is 25 acres or less, located in a county with a populati...
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2023-12-11
To House Agriculture Committee
HIHB847Intro
25%
Requires government entities to seek reimbursement for all or a portion of search or rescue expenses for persons who require rescue after leaving a hiking trail to enter an area closed to the public or hiking on a trail closed to the public, with a s...
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2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs 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
HIHB360Engross
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Increases the deadline for a county council to take action on an affordable housing project's application from forty-five days to an unspecified number of days after receipt of the proposed project's preliminary plans and specifications from the Hawa...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Housing Committee
HIHB596Intro
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Requires the Liquor Commission to record all complaints against any licensee, regardless of whether the complaint is filed during or after the occurrence of the violation. Requires the Liquor Commission to review the history of complaints against any...
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2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce 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
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
HIHB962Intro
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Exempts Hawaiian language immersion program students from kindergarten assessment requirements.
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2023-12-11
To House Education Committee
HIHB780Intro
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Requires the office of the lieutenant governor to convene a working group to examine the feasibility of establishing and implementing a kauhale pilot program based on specified criteria to provide shelter and other services to homeless individuals in...
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2023-12-11
To House Housing Committee
HIHB924Intro
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Amends the exemption from the requirement that plans and specifications for construction projects be prepared and construction observed by a licensed engineer, architect, or landscape architect to be determined by floor area of work rather than estim...
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2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HIHB1187Intro
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Specifies that a government agency does not assume ownership or jurisdiction over a disputed road solely through maintenance or repair activities. Authorizes the State to transfer ownership of roads in favor of counties by quitclaim if requested by t...
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2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB649Intro
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Appropriates funds for three program specialist positions within the Executive Office on Aging for Hawaii's State Health Insurance Assistance Program.
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2023-12-11
To House Health Committee
HIHB1247Intro
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Exempts affordable housing and certain qualifying housing development projects from HEPA. Establishes a definition of "program" and "project" to preempt the existing definitions under section 11-200.1-2, Hawaii Administrative Rules, and narrow the ex...
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2023-12-11
To House Housing Committee
HIHB261Engross
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Requires the Department of Human Services to establish a Child Care Accreditation Program to assist licensed and registered child care providers in obtaining accreditation. Authorizes the use of the Child Care Grant Program Special Fund for Child Car...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HIHB1264Intro
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Requires state participation in the multistate Nurse Licensure Compact, which will allow a nurse who is licensed by a home state to practice under a multistate licensure privilege in each party state.
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2023-12-11
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee
HIHB818Intro
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Requires health insurance policies and contracts issued on or after 01/01/2024 to provide coverage for the cost of hearing aids at a minimum of $1,500 per hearing aid for each hearing-impaired ear every thirty-six months. Effective 01/01/2024.
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2023-12-11
To House Health Committee
HIHB322Intro
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Establishes the Alzheimer's working group to create a public health campaign for awareness of Alzheimer's disease and other related dementia. Appropriates funds.
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2023-12-11
To House Health Committee
HIHB539Intro
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Requires issuers of Medigap insurance in the State to accept an eligible individual's application for coverage at any time throughout the year and prohibits issuers from denying the applicant a Medigap policy or certificate or make any premium rate d...
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2023-12-11
To House Health Committee
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