Hawaii Senator Chris Lee [D] | Senate | Bills

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HISB2894Intro
25%
Requires the Department of Human Resources Development to incorporate bikeshare and micro-mobility devices into the Pre-tax Transportation Benefit Pilot Program's commuter benefits. (SD1)
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2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB2896Intro
25%
Effective 1/1/2026 requires each parking lot in the State having public paid parking spaces in the State to accept payment of parking fees by credit card and debit card; and each parking meter in the State that collects parking fees for any public pa...
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2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB2743Intro
25%
Authorizes certain counties to use county surcharge on state tax revenues and fuel tax revenues for the repair and maintenance of private roadways that are open to and used by the public. Takes effect 7/1/2112. (SD1)
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2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB2738Intro
25%
Establishes a three-year pilot program within the Department of Transportation, in collaboration with the counties, to examine signalized intersections. Requires a report to the Legislature. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is excee...
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2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB2777Intro
25%
Establishes the Highways Clean Energy Technology Pilot Program within the Department of Transportation. Requires a report to the Legislature. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. Makes an appropriation. (SD1)
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2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB2742Intro
25%
Establishes three greener highway corridors pilot projects to improve the Interstate H-1, H-2, and H-201 freeway corridors with greenery. Establishes a working group. Requires reports. (SD1)
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2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB2964Intro
25%
Authorizes independent generators of renewable energy to wheel the renewable energy transmitted and used to produce hydrogen, subject to certain conditions determined by the Public Utilities Commission. Takes effect 1/1/2060. (SD1)
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2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB3340Intro
25%
Requires the University of Hawaii College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources, in consultation with livestock industry stakeholders, to conduct a study to assess the effects of heat stress on beef cattle during interisland ocean transportatio...
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2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB3349Intro
25%
Establishes the Office of Gun Violence Prevention within the Department of the Attorney General for administrative purposes only. Repeals the Gun Violence and Violent Crimes Commission. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. ...
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2024-02-16
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB3348Intro
25%
Authorizes the director of finance to develop means to identify additional data about vehicle registration. Requires data collected to be included in the registration database. (SD1)
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2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB2414Intro
25%
Establishes the Sustainable Food Systems Working Group. Requires a report to the Legislature before the Regular Session of 2025. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. Establishes an unspecified number of positions within the...
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2024-02-15
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB2559Intro
25%
Establishes a pest placard program. Requires the Department of Agriculture to inspect certain establishments that are at risk of spreading pests. Establishes correction and quarantine procedures. Declares that the general expenditure ceiling is excee...
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2024-02-15
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB2897Intro
25%
Requires each public employer to pay for the employer's employees' professional license renewal fees.
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2024-02-15
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee
HISB3351Intro
25%
Proposes a constitutional amendment to prohibit discrimination against a person because of ethnicity, national origin, age, disability, or sex, including sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, and pregnancy outcomes. (SD1)
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2024-02-15
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB371Intro
25%
Defines "incidental and supplemental work" for purposes of specialty contractors under the contractors law. Takes effect 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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2024-02-14
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
HISB2454Intro
25%
Prohibits certain entities from distributing unsolicited mail that is reasonably likely to cause the recipient to believe that a governmental agency has approved of the distribution.
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2024-02-14
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
HISB2602Intro
25%
Changes the administration of the human trafficking victim services fund from the department of labor and industrial relations to the department of the attorney general.
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2024-02-14
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB2563Intro
25%
Requires the Hawaii Public Housing Authority to allow any resident of a public housing project or state low-income housing project to keep one or more pet animals in the resident's unit, subject to applicable state laws, county ordinances, and any re...
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2024-02-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB2895Intro
25%
Permits a shipping container chassis that holds a valid out-of-state certificate of vehicle registration to obtain a certificate of safety inspection. Makes an out-of-state registration for a shipping container chassis valid in the State until its ex...
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2024-02-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB2664Intro
25%
Amends the law governing interest and usury by defining "debt" to include any amount that a consumer agrees to pay under certain conditions; requiring "annual percentage rates" to be calculated pursuant to the Truth in Lending Act and requiring certa...
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2024-02-14
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
HISB3266Intro
25%
Appropriates funds to the Department of Transportation and Department of Land and Natural Resources for vegetation management projects to reduce the risks of wildfires across the State. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. ...
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2024-02-14
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB3341Intro
25%
Establishes the Upcycled Mobile Dishwashing System Pilot Program within the Department of Health. Requires a report to the Legislature. Establishes two full-time positions within the Department of Health. Declares the general fund expenditure ceiling...
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2024-02-14
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB2855Intro
25%
Clarifies U-drive motor vehicle insurance policy requirements.
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2024-02-13
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee
HISB2893Intro
25%
Allows the Director of Transportation to exempt certain ground transportation facility projects from historic preservation review and the environmental impact statement law, subject to certain conditions.
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2024-02-13
To Senate Water and Land Committee
HISB2740Intro
25%
Beginning 1/1/26, requires that every moped rented in the State be an electric moped.
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2024-02-13
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee
HISB2558Intro
25%
Imposes a penalty for knowingly selling invasive plants or plants containing invasive species.
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2024-02-12
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
HISB2661Intro
25%
Establishes the Homeless Employment Grant Program, a three-year pilot program, that provides homeless individuals with work opportunities and connects them with service providers. Requires the Department of Human Services to report to the Legislature...
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2024-02-12
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB3274Intro
25%
Restricts civil asset forfeiture to cases involving the commission of a felony offense where the property owner has been convicted of an underlying felony offense. Directs forfeiture proceeds to the general fund. Amends the allowable expenses for mon...
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2024-02-08
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB2891Intro
25%
Authorizes the Department of Transportation to allow helicopter operations during daylight hours at Kapalua airport.
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2024-02-06
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee
HISB2892Intro
25%
Establishes a fee on the sale of new combustion engine-powered mopeds. Requires that all fees collected from the sale of combustion engine-powered mopeds be deposited into the Electric Moped Rebate Program Special Fund.
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2024-02-06
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee
HISB2672Intro
25%
Authorizes the state librarian to decline to conduct a requested review of an item within the Hawaii State Public Library System collection if the item was previously reviewed by the system in good faith, the basis for the request is duplicative or s...
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2024-01-30
To Senate Education Committee
HISB2573Intro
25%
Requires an owner or operator of a solid waste electric generating facility to ensure that each incinerator operating as part of the facility has implemented air pollution controls sufficient to limit the emissions of nitrogen oxides, mercury, dioxin...
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2024-01-29
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
HISB2734Intro
25%
Amends the procedure of transferring the title or ownership interest in a vehicle. Requires the person whose title or interest is to be transferred, or their representative with the appropriate documentation, and the transferee to appear in person be...
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2024-01-29
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee
HISB2745Intro
25%
Provides that the Department of Land and Natural Resources Division of Boating and Ocean Recreation shall not tow vehicles operated by persons found to have committed certain traffic infractions unless a citation was issued no less than 24 hours befo...
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2024-01-29
To Senate Water and Land Committee
HISB3252Intro
25%
Amends the Hawaii State Constitution to prohibit the State from denying or interfering with an individual's reproductive freedom, including the right to choose or obtain an abortion or to choose to obtain or use contraceptives.
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2024-01-29
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB3241Intro
25%
Establishes a plant-based meals option grant program within the Department of Education. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. Makes an appropriation.
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2024-01-29
To Senate Education Committee
HISB3240Intro
25%
Requires the Hawaii State Energy Office to establish a five-year pilot program to work with other public infrastructure agencies to ensure rebuilt Maui infrastructure is more resilient, provide for resiliency hubs at critical emergency infrastructure...
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2024-01-29
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee
HISB3264Intro
25%
Authorizes manufacturers of electronic devices to coordinate collection activities for the purpose of recycling electronic devices.
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2024-01-29
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
HISB3263Intro
25%
Establishes the Hawaii Home Energy Assistance Program within the Department of Human Services to assist qualifying households in paying their energy bills. Establishes the Hawaii Home Energy Assistance Special Fund. Declares that the general fund exp...
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2024-01-29
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB3347Intro
25%
Establishes requirements for the State of Hawaii Museum of Natural, Indigenous, and Cultural History to meet in order to receive state funds. Requires a report to the Legislature. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. Makes ...
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2024-01-29
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee
HISB2733Intro
25%
Requires transferors and transferees of used motor vehicles, mopeds, and trailers, including motor vehicles whose owners do not intend to drive the vehicle on public highways, to appear together before the county director of finance with governmentis...
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2024-01-26
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee
HISB2732Intro
25%
Limits the payment of any delinquent tax and penalty required by the Director of Finance of a county as a condition precedent to the registration, renewal, or transfer of ownership of a vehicle more than 25 years old to the aggregate amount of delinq...
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2024-01-26
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee
HISB3018Intro
25%
Establishes a framework to regulate controllers and processors with access to personal consumer data. Establishes penalties. Establishes a new consumer privacy special fund. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. Makes an app...
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2024-01-26
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
HISB3019Intro
25%
Authorizes, and establishes a regulatory framework for, the administration of psilocybin for therapeutic use.
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2024-01-26
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB3020Intro
25%
Establishes the offense of operating a vehicle while impaired, and penalties. Authorizes the Department of Transportation to take administrative action.
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2024-01-26
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee
HISB2564Intro
25%
Prohibits insurers from refusing to issue, refusing to renew, canceling, or establishing higher rates for a homeowners insurance policy or dwelling fire insurance policy based on the breed of any dog that is kept on the premises. Requires any pet ani...
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2024-01-24
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
HISB2578Intro
25%
Requires the Hawaii clean energy initiative program to design and implement a plan to increase jobs that strengthen emergency preparedness and climate resilience. Authorizes the use of the energy security special fund to advance the State's goals of ...
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2024-01-24
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee
HISB2576Intro
25%
Prohibits lodging establishments from providing personal care products in small plastic containers within sleeping room accommodations, any space within sleeping room accommodations, or bathrooms used by the public or guests. Establishes civil penalt...
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2024-01-24
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee
HISB2554Intro
25%
Beginning 1/1/2028, prohibits the operation of leaf blowers or string trimmers that are powered using two-stroke engines. Establishes penalties to be enforced by the Department of Health.
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2024-01-24
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB2577Intro
25%
Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. Makes an appropriation to the Hawaii State Energy Office to conduct a state-wide blanket environmental impact statement for geothermal exploration and development.
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2024-01-24
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee
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