Hawaii Representative Cedric Gates [D]

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HIHB2232Intro
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Requires the Department of the Attorney General to publish annual reports regarding certain protective and restraining orders, firearms, and electric guns. Authorizes persons subject to certain protective and restraining orders to possess or control ...
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2024-02-14
To House Finance Committee
HIHB2122Intro
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Establishes a private roads task force to identify and facilitate the repair and transfer of certain private or disputed roads to the appropriate government agency.
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2024-02-13
To House Transportation Committee
HIHB2199Intro
25%
Amends the Hawaii Workforce Development Council law to be consistent with the General Appropriations Act of 2021. Renames "Hawaii Workforce Development Council" to "Hawaii Workforce Development Board". Requires the Hawaii Workforce Development Board ...
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2024-02-13
To House Finance Committee
HIHB2537Intro
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Imposes a penalty for knowingly selling invasive plants or plants containing invasive species.
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2024-02-12
To House Agriculture Committee
HIHB966Intro
25%
Beginning on 1/1/2024, permits manufacturers of investigational drugs or biological products to make these drugs and products available to terminally ill patients under certain conditions. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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2024-02-08
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HIHB2219Intro
25%
Increases the number of Commission on Water Resource Management members from 7 to 8, with only 5 of the 8 members required to have substantial experience in water resource management. Adds the Chairperson of the Hawaiian Homes Commission, or the Chai...
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2024-02-08
To House Water & Land Committee
HIHB2580Intro
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Prohibits the removal of a manufacturer- or factory-installed speed limiting device from an electric bicycle. Prohibits the operation of an electric bicycle, in which the manufacturer- or factory-installed speed limiting device was removed from the e...
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2024-02-08
To House Transportation Committee
HIHB2750Intro
25%
Requires the Department of Health to ensure there is equitable distribution of clean and sober homes throughout a county. Requires an applicant to obtain written approval from the appropriate county showing compliance with all land use and zoning ord...
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2024-02-08
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HIHB2728Intro
25%
Establishes the Hui Hoomana task force to identify actionable priorities and financial resources to offer the State's residents universal access to affordable, high-quality healthcare and health insurance. Requires reports to the Legislature. Dissolv...
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2024-02-08
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HIHB2740Intro
25%
Establishes the Hawaii zero waste initiative to manage the State's transition to a zero solid waste economy.
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2024-02-08
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee
HIHB2330Intro
25%
No later than January 1, 2025, requires the Department of Accounting and General Services to install and maintain automated external defibrillators in certain state buildings. Requires the Department of Accounting and General Services to provide trai...
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2024-02-07
To House Finance Committee
HIHB2240Intro
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Opens eligibility under the Hawaii Educator Loan Program for students and teachers who agree to teach as a full-time teacher in a public charter school. Decreases the service requirement for total loan forgiveness to five years and increases the perc...
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2024-02-07
To House Finance Committee
HIHB2197Intro
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Clarifies the definition of "covered employer" under the Hawaii Retirement Savings Act. Requires covered employers to automatically enroll covered employees into the Hawaii Retirement Savings Program unless the employee chooses to opt out. Effective ...
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2024-02-06
To House Finance Committee
HIHB846Intro
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Enacts the interstate teacher mobility compact to reduce the barriers to teacher license portability and employment. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD2)
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2024-01-31
To House Education Committee
HIHB2296Intro
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Establishes a tax credit for the import of renewable fuel. Updates the renewable fuels production tax credit.
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2024-01-30
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee
HIHB2575Intro
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Establishes a construction trades workforce development program in the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to develop, establish, and implement a construction trades career pathway program for high school students in the State. Appropriates ...
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2024-01-30
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee
HIHB2244Intro
25%
Authorizes the court to elevate the offense of criminal trespass in the first degree from a misdemeanor to a class C felony if the court deems the trespassing to be egregious or repeated.
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2024-01-26
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB2249Intro
25%
Clarifies that violation of part I of chapter 200, HRS, relating to ocean recreation and coastal areas, or any rules adopted thereunder shall be subject to criminal penalties.
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2024-01-26
To House Water & Land Committee
HIHB2245Intro
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Establishes and appropriates funds for an artificial intelligence government services pilot program to provide certain government services to the public through an internet portal that uses artificial intelligence technologies.
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2024-01-26
To House Higher Education & Technology Committee
HIHB2269Intro
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Requires the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs to conduct a study on the potential impacts of permitting the sale of aerial devices in the State.
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2024-01-26
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB2273Intro
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Requires special sentencing of habitual violent felons. Requires the Department of Law enforcement, in collaboration with the Statewide Office on Homelessness and Housing Solutions, to work with Weed & Seed Hawaii, Inc., to expand Weed & Seed Hawaii,...
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2024-01-26
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB2252Intro
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Establishes the offense of habitual violent misdemeanor crime.
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2024-01-26
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB2272Intro
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Requires the Legislative Reference Bureau to conduct a feasibility study for the establishment of a state lottery.
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2024-01-26
To House Economic Development Committee
HIHB2511Intro
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Appropriates funds to the University of Hawaii Cancer Center to conduct a multiethnic cohort study focusing on the social determinants of health, lifestyles, environmental exposures, and resilience factors of Native Hawaiians, Pacific Islanders, and ...
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2024-01-26
To House Health Committee
HIHB2561Intro
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Clarifies that a person who uses deadly force in self-defense does not have a duty to retreat if they are in their dwelling or on their property unless they are the initial aggressor. Repeals statutory language that permits a person to use deadly for...
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2024-01-26
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB2545Intro
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Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds and appropriates funds for various agricultural infrastructure projects throughout the State.
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2024-01-26
To House Agriculture Committee
HIHB2540Intro
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Requires each public high school in the State to require students to complete and pass 2 full years of Hawaiian language courses as a condition of graduation.
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2024-01-26
To House Education Committee
HIHB2507Intro
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Requires the Department of Human Resources Development to: (1) conduct a remote work study; (2) review any recent remote work studies done by the counties; (3) develop and administer a remote work program; and (4) submit the study to the Legislature ...
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2024-01-26
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee
HIHB2600Intro
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Establishes the Hawaii Cannabis Authority and Cannabis Control Board within the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs to regulate all aspects of the cannabis plant. Beginning January 1, 2026, legalizes the personal adult use of cannabis. Establ...
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2024-01-26
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB2608Intro
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Clarifies the definition of "burial site".
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2024-01-26
To House Water & Land Committee
HIHB2752Intro
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Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the forty-fifth representative district.
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2024-01-26
To House Finance Committee
HIHB2751Intro
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Establishes the misdemeanor offense of criminal littering in the first degree for the improper disposal of household hazardous waste on public or private property or in public or private waters. Amends existing criminal littering offense to be the of...
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2024-01-26
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB2749Intro
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Amends the definition of "imminent harm" in the Child Protective Act. Clarifies the due process required for child removals, including removals by a police officer without a court order.
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2024-01-26
To House Human Services Committee
HIHB2753Intro
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Before the transfer of non-agricultural park lands, authorizes the Department of Agriculture to request information from the Department of Land and Natural Resources related to the establishment of necessary and reasonable easements upon the lands. A...
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2024-01-26
To House Water & Land Committee
HIHB2115Intro
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Requires the Department of Education to assign school resource officers or guards to serve at each department school and charter school. Requires the Department of Education to seek funding from federal grants. Appropriates funds.
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2024-01-24
To House Education Committee
HIHB2117Intro
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Establishes within the Department of Land and Natural Resources a Makua Valley task force to prepare for the transition of the management of the Makua military reservation from the United States Army upon the expiration of the Army's lease for the la...
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2024-01-24
To House Corrections, Military, & Veterans Committee
HIHB2076Intro
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Amends the appropriation of Act 279, SLH 2022, to conform its lapsing provision by 1 year, to conform to constitutional limitations. Appropriates moneys to the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands for fiscal year 2024-2025 to give practical effect to th...
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2024-01-24
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB2075Intro
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Appropriates funds to the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to further reduce its homestead program applicant waitlist.
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2024-01-24
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB2057Intro
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Establishes an alternative routes general excise tax surcharge to be assessed on the sale of new motor vehicles. Establishes an alternative routes special fund.
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2024-01-24
To House Transportation Committee
HIHB2077Intro
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Establishes rights for watershed ecosystems to exist, flourish, and naturally evolve, in conjunction with native Hawaiian traditional and customary beliefs, practice, and values, for the benefit of present and future generations.
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2024-01-24
To House Water & Land Committee
HIHB2114Intro
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Amends the definition of gambling to exclude digital sports betting on a platform licensed pursuant to state law. Requires the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism, to develop a pilot program to license businesses in the State to...
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2024-01-24
To House Economic Development Committee
HIHB2118Intro
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Remove state-related construction projects from the permitting requirements of the counties. Establishes a permitting process and division within the Department of Accounting and General Services. Appropriates funds.
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2024-01-24
To House Water & Land Committee
HIHB2135Intro
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Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds and appropriates funds for a capital improvement project for the repair, maintenance, and demolition of buildings at the Poamoho Research Station.
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2024-01-24
To House Finance Committee
HIHB2119Intro
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Amends the fine for individuals convicted of criminal littering to $1,000 instead of a range of $500 to $1,000.
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2024-01-24
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB2126Intro
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Establishes a tax credit for small businesses who provide bonuses for their employees.
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2024-01-24
To House Economic Development Committee
HIHB2128Intro
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Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to establish imu infrastructure in state parks. Appropriates funds.
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2024-01-24
To House Water & Land Committee
HIHB2156Intro
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Beginning 1/1/2025, requires physicians to perform or order test for lead poisoning in minor patients at certain intervals, and if the physician performs the test, the results to be included in the minor patient's record of immunization. Requires the...
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2024-01-24
To House Health Committee
HIHB2120Intro
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Provides Hawaii residents with the option of paying for the registration of their motor vehicles and associated taxes and fees on a biannual basis. Restricts the amount of delinquency tax due to the current tax due plus one year. Removes language all...
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2024-01-24
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB2160Intro
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Requires the State Council on Developmental Disabilities to submit a report to the Legislature that focuses on the health disparities experienced by persons in the State with developmental or intellectual disabilities. Appropriates funds.
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2024-01-24
To House Health Committee
HIHB2141Intro
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Establishes the Dam and Appurtenance Improvement or Removal Grant Program for plans, design, construction, and equipment that is used to improve or remove deficient dams and appurtenances as determined by the Department of Land and Natural Resources....
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2024-01-24
To House Water & Land Committee
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