Hawaii Representative Bertrand Kobayashi [D]

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HIHB1903Engross
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Expands access of early learning programs to other state properties and public lands besides public school campuses. Takes effect 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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2024-03-19
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HIHB1604Engross
50%
Allows the court to order substance abuse assessment and treatment of a defendant before trial. Prohibits the revocation of parole or arrest of a parolee solely due to the parolee having one positive test for drug use. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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2024-03-18
[Hearing: Mar 21 @ 10:01 am]
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HIHB1529Engross
50%
Allows any burial council member whose term has expired to continue in office as a holdover member until the member's reappointment to a second term is confirmed or a successor is nominated and appointed. Prohibits holdover members from holding offic...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HIHB1769Engross
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Establishes a refundable Family Caregiver Tax Credit for nonpaid family caregivers. Requires the Department of Taxation to report to the Legislature before the convening of each Regular Session. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
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2024-03-18
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HIHB1964Engross
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Requires the Department of Human Services to establish and implement a child care provider subsidy and bonus program to provide subsidies to retain the existing child care workforce in licensed infant and toddler child care center, group child care c...
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2024-03-18
The committee(s) on HHS recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in HHS were as follows: 5 Aye(s): Senator(s) San Buenaventura, Aquino, Keohokalole, Shimabukuro, Awa; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 0 Excused: none.
HIHR1Intro
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Urging Retail Stores And Pharmacies Doing Business In The State To Adopt A Policy On A National And Local Level Guaranteeing An Individual's Unhindered Access To All United States Food And Drug Administration-approved Contraceptives.
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2024-03-18
[Hearing: Mar 20 @ 10:30 am]
To House Health Committee
HIHCR6Intro
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Urging The Members Of Hawaii's Congressional Delegation To Monitor The Alliance For Hippocratic Medicine V. U.s. Food And Drug Administration And Take Action To Limit The Case From Further Restricting Access To Safe Abortion Options.
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2024-03-18
[Hearing: Mar 20 @ 10:30 am]
To House Health Committee
HIHCR5Intro
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Urging Retail Stores And Pharmacies Doing Business In The State To Adopt A Policy On A National And Local Level Guaranteeing An Individual's Unhindered Access To All United States Food And Drug Administration-approved Contraceptives.
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2024-03-18
[Hearing: Mar 20 @ 10:30 am]
To House Health Committee
HIHB2253Engross
50%
Authorizes the Department of Health to require all restaurants and hotel establishments to maintain an inventory of an opioid antagonist. Expressly permits law enforcement officers to carry an opioid antagonist while on-duty. Requires funds for the p...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
HIHB2230Engross
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Requires the Law Enforcement Standards Board to develop, and each department employing law enforcement officers to implement, a structured health intervention program to support law enforcement officers' physical and mental health. Takes effect 7/1/2...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HIHB2509Engross
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Proposes a constitutional amendment to increase the mandatory retirement age for state justices and judges from seventy years to seventy-five years. (SD1)
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2024-03-18
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HIHB1530Engross
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For a collective bargaining agreement or executive policy in effect on and after 7/1/2025, requires that an employer of firefighters maintains its fire staffing service at a level of no less than four on-duty firefighters in each company. Effective 7...
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2024-03-15
The committee(s) on PSM recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in PSM were as follows: 4 Aye(s): Senator(s) Wakai, Elefante, Fukunaga, Rhoads; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 1 Excused: Senator(s) Awa.
HIHB1597Engross
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Provides a specific right of action to challenge decisions of the Office of Information Practices relating to the State's open meetings law. Aligns the enforcement mechanisms for the State's open meetings law with the State's Uniform Information Prac...
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2024-03-15
[Hearing: Mar 19 @ 3:00 pm]
To Senate Government Operations Committee
HIHB1653Engross
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Pursuant to a collective bargaining agreement negotiated for Bargaining Unit (5), provides annual salary step increases for public school teachers and educational officers who have completed a year's satisfactory service and comply with specified req...
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2024-03-15
To Senate Education Committee
HIHB1651Engross
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Requires the Department of Education and public charter schools to take certain steps to report incidents of harassment and implement procedures for handling harassment of educational workers. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
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2024-03-15
To Senate Education Committee
HIHB1652Engross
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Establishes a state income tax credit for qualified expenses incurred by certain individuals employed by the Department of Education, a public charter school, the Hawaii state public library system, or as part of a head start program in a school. Eff...
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2024-03-15
To Senate Education Committee
HIHB1771Engross
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Appropriates funds to the Executive Office on Aging for the Hawaii Healthy Aging Partnership. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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2024-03-15
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HIHB1833Engross
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Appropriates funds into and out of the Rental Housing Revolving Fund to provide loans or grants for mixed-income rental projects or units in mixed-income rental projects for qualifying individuals and families. Appropriates funds for an unspecified n...
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2024-03-15
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HIHB1841Engross
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Appropriates funds to DLNR for operating expenses, equipment, the establishment of positions, and capital improvement projects to support wildfire emergency response. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
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2024-03-15
[Hearing: Mar 20 @ 3:00 pm]
To Senate Water and Land Committee
HIHCR3Intro
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Urging Each County To Establish An Emergency Zoning Code For Post-disaster Use.
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2024-03-15
[Hearing: Mar 20 @ 9:00 am]
To House Water & Land Committee
HIHB1837Engross
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Requires the Department of Education to grant public access to emergency action plans that do not pose a security risk to students, staff, or guests of school campuses. Requires each Department school to have a comprehensive school evacuation communi...
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2024-03-15
[Hearing: Mar 20 @ 3:00 pm]
To Senate Education Committee
HIHB1772Engross
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Appropriates funds to support the Department of Health's Senior Fall Prevention Campaign. Effective date 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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2024-03-15
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HIHB1834Engross
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Appropriates funds to increase the department of human services' homeless programs office base budget. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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2024-03-15
The committee(s) on HHS recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in HHS were as follows: 4 Aye(s): Senator(s) San Buenaventura, Aquino, Keohokalole, Shimabukuro; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 1 Excused: Senator(s) Awa.
HIHB1826Engross
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Appropriates funds for temporary positions to support the statewide expansion of the University of Hawaii Windward Community College's mental health-related programs. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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2024-03-15
[Hearing: Mar 19 @ 3:00 pm]
To Senate Higher Education Committee
HIHB1843Engross
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Establishes the office of the state fire marshal to direct fire protection efforts statewide. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
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2024-03-15
The committee(s) on PSM recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in PSM were as follows: 4 Aye(s): Senator(s) Wakai, Elefante, Fukunaga, Rhoads; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 1 Excused: Senator(s) Awa.
HIHB1838Engross
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Allows counties to enact a zoning ordinance to amortize or phase out nonconforming single-family transient vacation rental units over a reasonable period of time. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
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2024-03-15
[Hearing: Mar 19 @ 9:40 am]
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
HIHB1830Engross
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Establishes provisional or associate-level licensure requirements for marriage and family therapists, mental health counselors, and psychologists and authorizes insurance reimbursements in certain circumstances. Requires psychologist license applican...
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2024-03-15
[Hearing: Mar 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
HIHCR4Intro
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Requesting Hawaii's Congressional Delegation To Amend The Wildland Fire Protection Agreement To Allow Hawaii To Join As A Member.
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2024-03-15
[Hearing: Mar 19 @ 9:30 am]
To House Water & Land Committee
HIHB1844Engross
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Appropriates funds for temporary adjunct faculty positions at the University of Hawaii Maui College. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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2024-03-15
[Hearing: Mar 19 @ 3:00 pm]
To Senate Higher Education Committee
HIHB1900Engross
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Appropriates funds to improve the State's water resource management and hydrologic data collection. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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2024-03-15
The committee(s) on WTL recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes in WTL were as follows: 3 Aye(s): Senator(s) Inouye, Elefante, McKelvey; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 2 Excused: Senator(s) Chang, Fevella.
HIHB1902Engross
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Clarifies that the Governor's and mayors' emergency management powers shall be consistent with the state constitution. Clarifies the scope of the comprehensive emergency management plan. Clarifies the powers of the Governor and mayors to extend or te...
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2024-03-15
The committee(s) on PSM recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in PSM were as follows: 4 Aye(s): Senator(s) Wakai, Fukunaga, Rhoads; Aye(s) with reservations: Senator(s) Elefante ; 0 No(es): none; and 1 Excused: Senator(s) Awa.
HIHB1906Engross
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Appropriates funds to the Department of Education to enhance its Panorama platform and Trust Circle mobile application or create a new platform. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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2024-03-15
To Senate Education Committee
HIHB1939Engross
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Appropriates funds to the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts to provide greater access to the arts for children and communities in need, with a focus on those affected by the Maui wildfires. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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2024-03-15
[Hearing: Mar 19 @ 3:00 pm]
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee
HIHB2042Engross
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Appropriates funds to address the mental health and wellness needs of youth in the State. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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2024-03-15
[Hearing: Mar 20 @ 1:05 pm]
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HIHB1976Engross
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Requires the Office of Elections to annually request funding for the Statewide Elections Accessibility Needs Advisory Committee. Appropriates funds to the Office of Elections Statewide Elections Accessibility Needs Advisory Committee to gather inform...
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2024-03-15
[Hearing: Mar 19 @ 9:55 am]
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HIHB2159Engross
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Part I: requires the Department of the Attorney General to assist with the preparation and filing of petitions for assisted community treatment and with the presentation of the case, unless declined by the petitioner. Part II: repeals language entitl...
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2024-03-15
[Hearing: Mar 20 @ 1:01 pm]
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HIHB2224Engross
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Requires the Executive Office on Aging to create a comprehensive long-term care master plan to accomplish long-term care policy goals that, when implemented, ensure the availability of a full continuum of institutional and community-based services. E...
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2024-03-15
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HIHB2174Engross
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Repeals the existing conditions under which government entities may seek reimbursement for search or rescue expenses and instead requires a government entity of the State to impose and collect a fee for search or rescue expenses for persons who requi...
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2024-03-15
[Hearing: Mar 20 @ 3:00 pm]
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HIHB2193Engross
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Takes effect 7/1/2042. (SD1)
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2024-03-15
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HIHB1974Engross
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Increases the monthly needs allowance from $50 to $75. 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 facility operators to...
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2024-03-15
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HIHB2553Engross
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Authorizes pharmacists to administer vaccines to persons three years of age or older. Authorizes pharmacy interns and pharmacy technicians under the direct supervision of a pharmacist to administer vaccinations to persons between the ages of three an...
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2024-03-15
[Hearing: Mar 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
HIHB2622Engross
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Appropriates funds to the Department of Law Enforcement for the State's gun buyback program. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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2024-03-15
The committee(s) on PSM recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in PSM were as follows: 4 Aye(s): Senator(s) Wakai, Elefante, Fukunaga, Rhoads; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 1 Excused: Senator(s) Awa.
HIHB2744Engross
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Establishes an oral health task force to review the status of oral health in the State and make recommendations to improve the State's oral health infrastructure. Requires reports to the Legislature. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
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2024-03-15
The committee(s) on HHS recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in HHS were as follows: 4 Aye(s): Senator(s) San Buenaventura, Aquino, Keohokalole, Shimabukuro; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 1 Excused: Senator(s) Awa.
HIHB2748Engross
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Establishes statewide vehicular law enforcement pursuit policies. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
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2024-03-15
The committee(s) on PSM recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in PSM were as follows: 4 Aye(s): Senator(s) Wakai, Elefante, Rhoads; Aye(s) with reservations: Senator(s) Fukunaga ; 0 No(es): none; and 1 Excused: Senator(s) Awa.
HIHCR22Intro
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Authorizing The Issuance Of A Term, Non-exclusive Easement Covering A Portion Of State Submerged Lands At Waikiki, Honolulu, Oahu, For Construction, Use, Repair, And Maintenance Of Steps.
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2024-03-15
[Hearing: Mar 19 @ 9:30 am]
To House Water & Land Committee
HIHCR157Intro
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Urging The United States And The State To Recognize And Address The Air Transportation Crisis On Molokai And Lna`i.
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2024-03-15
[Hearing: Mar 21 @ 10:30 am]
To House Transportation Committee
HIHR179Intro
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Requesting The Department Of Land And Natural Resources To Identify All Appropriate Sites At State Parks At Which A Water-bottle Filling Station Could Be Installed.
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2024-03-15
[Hearing: Mar 19 @ 9:30 am]
To House Water & Land Committee
HIHCR198Intro
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Requesting The State's Congressional Delegation To Advocate For The Enforcement Of Existing International Laws To Reduce Ghost Nets Entering The State From International Waters And Take Other Actions To Reduce Marine Debris From Fishing Gear.
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2024-03-15
[Hearing: Mar 19 @ 9:30 am]
To House Water & Land Committee
HIHCR199Intro
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Requesting The Department Of Land And Natural Resources To Identify All Appropriate Sites At State Parks At Which A Water-bottle Filling Station Could Be Installed.
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2024-03-15
[Hearing: Mar 19 @ 9:30 am]
To House Water & Land Committee
HIHR178Intro
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Requesting The State's Congressional Delegation To Advocate For The Enforcement Of Existing International Laws To Reduce Ghost Nets Entering The State From International Waters And Take Other Actions To Reduce Marine Debris From Fishing Gear.
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2024-03-15
[Hearing: Mar 19 @ 9:30 am]
To House Water & Land Committee
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