Bills Pending Hawaii Senate Government Operations Committee

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HIHCR117Engross
50%
Urging The County Of Maui To Adopt A Financially Prudent Budget For Fiscal Year 2024-2025 That Maintains Current Operational Levels Except For Certain Mandatory Or Critical Increases.
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2024-04-11
To Senate Government Operations Committee
HIHCR15Engross
50%
Urging The City And County Of Honolulu To Establish A New Satellite City Hall Office In Mililani To Improve Access To Government Services.
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2024-04-09
To Senate Government Operations Committee
HIHCR201Engross
50%
Establishing A Candidate Advisory Committee For The Nomination Of The Auditor, Ombudsman, And Legislative Reference Bureau Director.
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2024-04-09
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HIHCR76Engross
50%
Urging State Departments And Agencies To Enable Employees To Telework To The Greatest Extent Possible.
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2024-04-05
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HIHCR211Engross
50%
Urging The Department Of Accounting And General Services And The Department Of Human Resources Development To Evaluate Subsidizing Public Transit For Public Employees.
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2024-04-05
To Senate Government Operations Committee
HISCR173Intro
25%
Urging Each Of The County Councils To Adopt Supplemental Rules Pursuant To Section 514b-6, Hawaii Revised Statutes, To Ensure Conformance Of Condominium Property Regimes To The Purposes And Provisions Of County Zoning And Development Ordinances And C...
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2024-03-25
To Senate Government Operations Committee
HISR149Intro
25%
Urging Each Of The County Councils To Adopt Supplemental Rules Pursuant To Section 514b-6, Hawaii Revised Statutes, To Ensure Conformance Of Condominium Property Regimes To The Purposes And Provisions Of County Zoning And Development Ordinances And C...
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2024-03-25
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HISR107Intro
25%
Requesting State And County Agencies To Notify Animal Welfare Organizations Of Deceased Cats And Dogs That Are Picked Up Along State And County Roadways.
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2024-03-19
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HISCR227Intro
25%
Requesting The County Of Maui To Audit The Maui County Film Office.
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2024-03-19
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HISCR125Intro
25%
Requesting State And County Agencies To Notify Animal Welfare Organizations Of Deceased Cats And Dogs That Are Picked Up Along State And County Roadways.
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2024-03-19
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HISR203Intro
25%
Requesting The County Of Maui To Audit The Maui County Film Office.
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2024-03-19
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HISR188Intro
25%
Requesting Legislators To Meet With Their Constituencies At Least Once After The Close Of Each Regular Legislative Session In A Facilitated Debrief, Using The Principles Of Aloha Spirit Pursuant To Act 202, Session Laws Of Hawaii 1986.
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2024-03-14
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HISCR212Intro
25%
Requesting Legislators To Meet With Their Constituencies At Least Once After The Close Of Each Regular Legislative Session In A Facilitated Debrief, Using The Principles Of Aloha Spirit Pursuant To Act 202, Session Laws Of Hawaii 1986.
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2024-03-14
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HIHB2517Engross
50%
Allows the counties to establish, by ordinance, an opt-in program that allows an annual payment in lieu of real property taxes on the land or improvements thereon that are actively used to produce or store renewable energy that is sold to an electric...
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2024-03-14
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HIHB2654Engross
50%
Clarifies that no state or county building code shall prohibit the use of a substitute refrigerant allowed by the Environmental Protection Agency if the applicable equipment is listed and installed in compliance with the latest safety standards. Requ...
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2024-03-14
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HIHB1638Engross
50%
Authorizes the counties to require employers to disclose information regarding its employees' wages, benefits, hours, and employment status and deny, revoke, or suspend a building permit application for violating laws relating to wages, benefits, hou...
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2024-03-07
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HISB2335Intro
25%
Amends the membership, authority, and duties of the State Building Code Council. Gives the counties the sole discretion to amend, adopt, and update the Hawaii state building codes as they apply within each county's respective jurisdiction.
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2024-02-15
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HISB2457Intro
25%
Provides that the Liquor Commission or other licensing agency of each county shall deny the renewal of certain current liquor licenses upon receipt of sufficient protests.
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2024-02-13
To Senate Government Operations Committee
HISB2688Intro
25%
Establishes the Access Hawaii Advisory Committee to advise the Access Hawaii Committee on how to improve accessibility to government information for people with diminished access to government information arising from disabilities. Requires the Acces...
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2024-02-13
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HISB2199Intro
25%
Authorizes any board that is subject to state open meetings law to hold a closed meeting for the purpose of providing training to new and current board members.
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2024-02-13
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HISB2198Intro
25%
Provides that supplemental information received within 48 hours of a meeting of a board subject to state opening meetings law may be added to the board packet; provided that the public is promptly provided access to the supplemental information.
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2024-02-13
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HISB2436Intro
25%
Requires recycling of construction and demolition materials and use of recycled materials to factor into priority offeror selections for competitive procurements of construction or demolition services by the State or any county.
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2024-02-13
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HISB3169Intro
25%
Establishes the Apostilles and Certifications Special Fund. Requires the Office of the Lieutenant Governor to set a fee for the issuance of an apostille or a non-apostille certification by administrative rules. Appropriates funds into and out of the ...
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2024-02-13
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HISB2644Intro
25%
Establishes the legislative budget office to produce fiscal analyses and reports on bills impacting state or county finances. Repeals the joint legislative budget committee and the office of the legislative analyst. Appropriates funds.
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2024-02-13
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HISB2751Intro
25%
Establishes accessibility standards for the distribution of public documents and media presentations by boards as defined in section 92-2, Hawaii Revised Statutes. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. Makes an appropriation...
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2024-02-13
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HISB2200Intro
25%
Provides that a maximum time period to grant or deny a business or development-related permit, license, or approval shall only apply if a request for a contested case has not been filed.
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2024-02-13
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HISB3014Intro
25%
Extends the right to enter private property and remove or stabilize natural hazards that are at risk of harming the public or other properties to the county in which the private property is located and that county's respective mayor.
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2024-02-12
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HISB3052Intro
25%
Conforms county debt limit statements law to exclude tax increment bonds from the debt limit of the counties if a constitutional amendment authorizing the use of tax increment bonds and excluding tax increment bonds from determinations of the countie...
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2024-02-08
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HISB2872Intro
25%
Authorizes the counties to regulate by ordinance the use of vehicles, campers, and mobile homes as alternative residential dwellings.
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2024-02-08
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HISB2723Intro
25%
Authorizes counties, after adoption of an ordinance, to sell private property after all notices, orders, and appeal proceedings are exhausted and to use those revenues to pay unpaid civil fines related to that property.
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2024-02-08
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HISB2281Intro
25%
Establishes a continuous Legislature. Requires the Legislature to convene at least once a month. Removes language regarding special sessions, adjournment, and recesses. Creates a two-year deadline for a bill to be submitted for gubernatorial consider...
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2024-02-08
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HISB2639Intro
25%
Updates the enforcement mechanisms for the Uniform Information Practices Act and the Sunshine Law.
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2024-02-08
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HISB3256Intro
25%
Requires any person responsible for news and social media reports based on government records received under Hawaiis Uniform Information Practices Act to respond to record requests in the same manner as an agency under chapter 92F, HRS, with exceptio...
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2024-01-29
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HISB3314Intro
25%
Requires that if parking is to be included in any new state building construction, the design provide that at least twenty-five per cent of parking stalls be electric vehicle charger-ready. Requires the Hawaii State Energy Office, in consultation wit...
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2024-01-29
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HISB2490Intro
25%
Requires each county to adopt, no later than June 30, 2025, ordinances applicable to subdivisions not approved by July 1, 2025, requiring as a condition of approval, the subdivider or developer to obtain a street address and install a mailbox for lot...
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2024-01-29
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HISB3203Intro
25%
Enables boards to operate more effectively by amending sections of the Sunshine Law pertaining to the declaration of policy and intent, permitted interactions of members, limited meetings, executive meetings, exceptions, board packets, and minutes. A...
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2024-01-29
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HISB2826Intro
25%
Requires state agencies to process the aggregated energy and water data of certain properties through the federal ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager and submit the benchmarking data to the Hawaii State Energy Office. Declares that the general fund expendi...
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2024-01-24
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HISB2550Intro
25%
Requires the Real Estate Commission (Commission) to receive and investigate complaints by condominium unit owners against associations that are subject to chapter 514B, Hawaii Revised Statutes. Requires the Ombudsman to issue findings within an unspe...
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2024-01-24
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HISB2623Intro
25%
Authorizes state legislators to use state-owned or stateoperated equipment for bona fide community initiatives within their respective districts.
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2024-01-24
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HISB2825Intro
25%
Requires the Department of Accounting and General Services to conduct a study on the overall energy consumption by department facilities and associated fiscal costs to make the facilities more energy efficient. Requires a report to the Legislature.
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2024-01-24
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HISB2208Intro
25%
Amend the procurement code to require County Council approval for contracts awarded by a county under its statutory authorization for sole source procurement if the contract amount exceeds $30,000.
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2024-01-18
To Senate Government Operations Committee
HIHB1192Engross
50%
Requires the public access room to establish and maintain an outreach and engagement program for primary, secondary, post-secondary, and community education. Requires the department of education and university of Hawaii to assign appropriate staff to...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Government Operations Committee
HIHB542Engross
50%
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
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HISB232Intro
25%
Requires procurement officers, when assessing an offeror's responsibility, to require the offeror to submit answers to questions contained in a standard questionnaire. Establishes certain questions that must be included in the questionnaire. Requires...
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2023-12-11
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HISB218Intro
25%
Allows government agencies to publish public notices on their official websites as an alternative to publishing them in the newspaper.
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2023-12-11
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HISB1453Intro
25%
Expands the definition of "administrative action" in lobbyists law to include granting or denying applications for business or development-related permits, licenses, or approvals and procurement of goods and services under the Hawaii Public Procureme...
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2023-12-11
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HISB538Intro
25%
Relating To Government Operations. Short form bill.
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2023-12-11
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HISB1597Intro
25%
Establishes the Hawaii Environmental Protection Agency. Transfers jurisdiction of certain functions and employees of the Department of Agriculture and Department of Health to the Hawaii Environmental Protection Agency.
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2023-12-11
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HISB1564Intro
25%
Allows a requestor of a public record to receive the public record in the format of their choice; provided that the format that is being requested is available.
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2023-12-11
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HISB1450Intro
25%
Requires all public contractors to explicitly agree through a provision in their public contracts to be subject to the prohibition and penalties for any violations of campaign finance laws.
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2023-12-11
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