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HISB508Intro
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Requires the Clean Water Branch to perform water quality testing during brown water advisories and post informational signs to explain health risks associated with water runoff during brown water advisories. Requires the Department of Health to prior...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HIHB1488Intro
25%
Requires the department of health to provide respite care, paid for by the State, to operators of certain care homes.
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2023-12-11
To House Health Committee
HIHB1433Intro
25%
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
HISB168Intro
25%
Requires the Department of Health to post on its website an easily understandable, searchable, and sortable list of all state-licensed care facilities including information on their licenses and inspections. Requires that the list be updated within f...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB762Intro
25%
Establishes a Business Activity Water Catchment System Working Group within the Department of Health to assess the feasibility of allowing business owners in the State to utilize filtered water collected by water catchment systems for business activi...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HIHB243Intro
25%
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
25%
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
HIHB268Intro
25%
Makes it unlawful to sell, offer to sell, or distribute for sale in the State any flushable wipe. Defines flushable wipe. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HISB788Intro
25%
Prohibits the Department of Health from issuing permits for commercial burning of green waste products in residential areas or within one thousand feet of a residential property.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
HIHB520Intro
25%
Establishes the Access to Local Food Act to allow cottage food operations to sell cottage food products, under certain conditions, upon receiving a permit from the Department of Health. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB1073Engross
50%
Increases the marriage license fee from $60 to $100. Increases the compensation for a marriage license agent from $9 to $15 per license. Authorizes deposits of marriage license fees into the Vital Statistics Improvement Special Fund. Adjusts the dist...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
HISB1419Intro
25%
Appropriates funds to the Executive Office on Aging within the Department of Health for the Hawaii Healthy Aging Partnership.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB285Engross
50%
Creates within the Department of Health's wastewater branch a cesspool conversion section, which will be responsible for facilitating the conversion of cesspools within the State. Establishes and appropriates funds for three full-time equivalent posi...
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB703Intro
25%
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
HIHB182Intro
25%
Requires the Clean Water Branch to perform water quality testing during brown water advisories as practicable and inform the public of health risks associated with water runoff during brown water advisories. Requires the Department of Health to consi...
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2023-12-11
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee
HIHB1410Intro
25%
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
HISB1371Intro
25%
Increases the marriage license fee from $60 to $100. Increases the compensation for a marriage license agent from $9 to $15 per license. Authorizes deposits of marriage license fees into the Vital Statistics Improvement Special Fund. Adjusts the dist...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
HISB901Intro
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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 Senate Health and Human Services 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
HISB1566Intro
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Requires the Department of Health to give written notice of a patient's final unconditional release to any person that the patient has harmed or threatened to harm, or who has a temporary restraining order against the patient or has submitted a writt...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB645Intro
25%
Establishes the mold information and awareness program administered by DOH. Requires mandatory disclosure of the presence of mold as part of any sale, transfer, or rental of residential, commercial, or industrial property. Requires DOH to conduct rev...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB757Intro
25%
Requires the Department of Health to establish and implement a program to improve and increase support for emergency medical services in the State. Requires the Department of Health to submit reports to the Legislature. Appropriates funds.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB294Intro
25%
Establishes under the Hawaii Children's Trust Fund Coalition a collective impact program called the Malama Ohana Program to seek, design, and recommend transformative changes to the State's existing child welfare system. Requires the Malama Ohana Pro...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB379Intro
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Requires restaurants to clearly disclose to customers how tips are allocated to employees.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee
HISB649Intro
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Requires the Department of Health, with assistance from each county, to develop a statewide needs assessment to determine resources necessary to reduce packaging waste by seventy per cent from the baseline amount. Requires the Department of Health to...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
HIHB1167Intro
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Establishes an Emergency Response Vehicle Noise Task Force to determine the impact of emergency response vehicle sirens in terms of excessive noise, the effect on public safety, and the relative effectiveness of the use of emergency lights instead of...
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2023-12-11
To House Health Committee
HISB1104Engross
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Amends the definition of "cannabis" to include cannabis propagules, cuttings, and seeds. Defines "cannabis cutting" and "cannabis propagule". Requires a licensed dispensary's production center to submit to DOH an inventory of cannabis propagules, cut...
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2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce 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
HISB778Intro
25%
Establishes and funds an environmental investigative hotline pilot project through the Environmental Management Division of the Department of Health to implement and manage an investigative hotline for Molokai residents to report environmental concer...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
HIHB1358Intro
25%
Requires the department of health to provide respite care, paid for by the State, to operators of certain care homes.
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2023-12-11
To House Health Committee
HIHB1071Intro
25%
Repeals the requirement to transfer the Oahu Regional Health care system in its entirety from the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation to the Department of Health.
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2023-12-11
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee
HIHB959Intro
25%
Establishes the mitigation of the climate effects of commercial air transportation task force to identify, analyze, and make recommendations to mitigate the carbon load of, contributions to global warming made by, and effects on the climate caused by...
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2023-12-11
To House Transportation Committee
HISB1418Engross
50%
Establishes that a person's conduct that produces, or causes to be produced, noise exceeding a certain decibel level during night time hours in any area zoned as residential or mixed-use residential is an unreasonable noise that constitutes the offen...
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HISB1480Intro
25%
Establishes within the Department of the Attorney General, an Environmental Crimes Unit, which shall be a cooperative effort between the Department of the Attorney General and the Department of Health to investigate and prosecute crimes that pose sub...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
HISB728Intro
25%
Beginning 1/1/2027, prohibits the operation of leaf blowers or string trimmers that are powered using two-stroke engines. Establishes penalties.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB1585Intro
25%
Prohibits new operations and renewal of existing licenses or permits to operate large concentrated animal feeding operations in the State, under certain conditions and by an unspecified date. Phases out all existing large concentrated animal feeding ...
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2023-12-11
Carried over to 2024 Regular Session.
HISB1435Intro
25%
Appropriate funds to the Department of Health for the purchase of one advanced life support ambulance and related equipment to be based in Central Maui, and to fund pay-related personnel costs for state-certified emergency medical services personnel.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HIHB1302Intro
25%
Establishes a two-year pilot program to require the department of health to implement the excessive amplified noise control regulation in the Waikiki Special District, which prohibits, with certain exceptions, the emission of excessive amplified nois...
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2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HISB1581Intro
25%
Requires the Department of Health to limit unannounced inspections to investigate complaints pertaining to client or patient abuse or life- or health-threatening danger at certain state-licensed or state-certified care facilities and establishes requ...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB1458Intro
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Establishes an Extended Producer Responsibility Program. Requires certain producers of fast-moving consumer goods to register with the Department of Health and pay an annual fee based on the amount of packaging volume the covered producer places on t...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB928Intro
25%
Establishes an Emergency Response Vehicle Noise Task Force to determine the impact of emergency response vehicle sirens in terms of excessive noise, the effect on public safety, and the relative effectiveness of the use of emergency lights instead of...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB908Intro
25%
Imposes a fee for selling sugar-sweetened beverages at the distributor level to be collected by the Department of Health. Establishes a special fund into which revenues are deposited. Establishes a trust fund in the private sector to receive revenues...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB956Intro
25%
Provides for the replacement of certificates of marriage for individuals who have changed their gender, sex, and, if applicable, name.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB1238Intro
25%
Establishes the Kupuna Rural Health Care Pilot Program within the Executive Office on Aging of the Department of Health to improve access to care in rural areas of Hawaii County and expand broadband internet access, provide at-home visits, and ground...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HIHB1337Intro
25%
Establishes the Therapeutic Psilocybin Working Group.
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2023-12-11
To House Health Committee
HISB1252Intro
25%
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 Senate Water and Land Committee
HIHB1147Intro
25%
Beginning 1/1/2027, prohibits the operation of leaf blowers or string trimmers that are powered using two-stroke engines. Establishes penalties.
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2023-12-11
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee
HISB447Intro
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Establishes the Parkinson's Disease Research Collection Database to be administered by the Department of Health. Establishes the Parkinson's Disease Research Collection Database Advisory Committee. Requires the Department of Health to create and main...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB131Intro
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Establishes the class B felony offense of prohibited acts related to female genital mutilation. Requires prosecuting attorneys of the respective counties to keep annual statistics on cases involving prohibited acts related to female genital mutilatio...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HIHB81Intro
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Requires the department of health to conduct a feasibility study for the establishment of an outpatient mental health facility for children and adolescents living in the Ocean View region of Hawaii island, including in the communities of Ocean View, ...
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2023-12-11
To House Health Committee
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