Hawaii Senator Chris Lee [D]

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HISB2705Intro
25%
Prohibits civil asset forfeiture unless the covered offense is a felony for which the property owner has been convicted. Excludes the forfeiture proceedings for an animal pending criminal charges. Requires the Attorney General to deposit the net proc...
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2024-01-24
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB2744Intro
25%
Prohibits any person from parking a vehicle or constructing or installing any parking stall abutting the curb or edge of vehicle travel way near a marked crosswalk on a public right of way along a road or highway.
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2024-01-24
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee
HISB2667Intro
25%
Requires the Department of Health to conduct a study to determine the cost and feasibility of establishing a heavy ion cancer therapy center in the State and using revenues derived from treating non-residents to subsidize cancer treatments of residen...
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2024-01-24
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB2882Intro
25%
Relaxes the requirements for prescribing certain controlled substances as part of gender-affirming health care services. Expands the protections established under Act 2, SLH 2023, to include gender-affirming health care services. Clarifies jurisdicti...
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2024-01-24
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB2660Intro
25%
Establishes a refundable child tax credit. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2024.
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2024-01-24
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB2698Intro
25%
Allows dogs in restaurants at the restaurant owner's or manager's discretion, provided that certain conditions are met.
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2024-01-24
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB2900Intro
25%
Establishes a ridesharing fee. Deposits taxes collected into the State Highway Fund.
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2024-01-24
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee
HISB2899Intro
25%
Requires the auditor to conduct an assessment on the social and financial impacts of mandating health insurance coverage for care provided by a participating registered pharmacist practicing within the scope of the pharmacist's license. Requires a re...
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2024-01-24
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB2662Intro
25%
Exempts unemployment compensation from state personal income tax beginning in the 2023 tax year. Increases the maximum weekly benefit a person may receive in unemployment compensation beginning on 1/1/2025.
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2024-01-24
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee
HISB2670Intro
25%
Requires the Department of Education to implement a process to allow students to use preferred names to strengthen inclusivity in public schools.
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2024-01-24
To Senate Education Committee
HISB2663Intro
25%
Authorizes employees who are not working due to a strike, lockout, or other labor dispute to receive unemployment benefits if the Hawaii Labor Relations Board determines that the employer has not made or is failing to make reasonable, timely, and goo...
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2024-01-24
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee
HISB2736Intro
25%
Clarifying that persons whose driver's licenses have been revoked for certain alcohol-related offenses are required to undergo reexamination before the examiner of drivers may relicense the person.
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2024-01-24
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee
HISB2671Intro
25%
Requires the Department of Education to establish zero-emission vehicle goals as part of the sustainable schools initiative. Requires annual report to the Legislature.
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2024-01-24
To Senate Education Committee
HISB2709Intro
25%
Establishes a Government Innovation Shadow Program that allows the State's governmental units to temporarily assign employees to shadow employees of other governmental agencies and private organizations and businesses to observe and report innovation...
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2024-01-24
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee
HISB2665Intro
25%
Require the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to convene a Four-Day Workweek Task Force. Requires the taskforce to submit a report to the Legislature. Dissolves the taskforce on 6/30/25.
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2024-01-24
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee
HISB2703Intro
25%
Requires a person selling ammunition to require the buyer to provide proof of a valid firearm registration together with a government-issued identification. Prohibits sellers of ammunition from selling ammunition to a buyer of a caliber not compatibl...
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2024-01-24
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB2928Intro
25%
Beginning September 30, 2028, requires the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to annually calculate an adjusted minimum wage rate to within the nearest twenty-five cents using the Urban Hawaii Consumer Price index to take effect on January ...
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2024-01-24
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee
HISB2433Intro
25%
Requires the University of Hawaii to provide menstrual products free of charge to all students on all campuses, including community colleges and education centers.
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2024-01-22
To Senate Higher Education Committee
HISB446Intro
25%
Requires the Department of Health to conduct a study to determine the feasibility of implementing a pilot program to integrate prescription digital therapeutic products approved by the federal Food and Drug Administration in outpatient treatment prog...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB1542Intro
25%
Specifies sensitive locations in which the carrying of firearms is restricted or prohibited. Authorizes, in certain circumstances, the carrying of firearms on private property. Specifies areas in which the carrying or possession of electric guns is r...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB381Intro
25%
Prohibits a person from promoting, arranging, conducting, assisting in, receiving money for, or taking part in any meeting, competition, exhibition, pastime, practice, display, or event at or in the course of which a captive marine mammal is used for...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
HISB1165Intro
25%
Establishes a process, beginning on January 1, 2024, for automatically preregistering or registering University of Hawaii System students who are at least sixteen years old to vote. Effective 1/1/2024.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Higher Education Committee
HISB1053Intro
25%
Establishes a general excise tax exemption for the gross proceeds or income from the sale of groceries that are eligible under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children, r...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB128Intro
25%
Establishes the photo noise violation monitoring system law. Establishes the Photo Noise Violation Monitoring System Program to enforce the State Community Noise Code, implemented by the State on any state or county highways within the respective cou...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee
HISB1093Intro
25%
Establishes and provides moneys for the composting grant program in the Department of Education.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee
HISB373Intro
25%
Establishes that gender-based pricing by manufacturers who sell the goods they manufacture to any person in the State for a price they set constitutes an unlawful deceptive trade practice.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB1050Intro
25%
Clarifies internal complaint procedures for civil service positions by requiring a formal complaint to be filed within twenty working days.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee
HISB378Intro
25%
Requires the department of education to establish an electric school bus pilot program to provide certain complex areas with ownership and control of electric school buses. Appropriates funds.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee
HISB853Engross
50%
Appropriates funds to the Executive Office on Aging for the Hawaii Healthy Aging Partnership. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Health Committee
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
To Senate Government Operations Committee
HISB1026Intro
25%
Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to acquire by eminent domain the fee simple interest to the parcels of land with improvements thereon located between 59-145 and 59-175C Ke Nui Road. Appropriates funds.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee
HISB1178Intro
25%
Modernizes the definition of "personal information" for the purposes of notifying affected persons of data and security breaches. Includes licensees subject to the Insurance Data Security Law pursuant to article 3B, chapter 431, Hawaii Revised Statut...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB1025Intro
25%
Establishes the safe routes to school advisory committee within the Planning Branch of the Highways Division of the Department of Transportation. Appropriates moneys.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee
HISB1240Engross
50%
Specifies that a public servant convicted of the offense of bribery shall be sentenced to pay a fine of up to $250,000, in addition to a sentence of imprisonment or probation. Requires the Commission on Salaries to consider certain factors to retain ...
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2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HISB137Intro
25%
Requires that restrooms and toilet facilities of public amusement facilities constructed, renovated, retrofitted, or installed after 1/1/2024 have two female-use toilets for each male-use toilet or urinal. Requires certain state building construction...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB1145Engross
50%
Requires that Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation housing projects include a restrictive covenant that states that the units designated as affordable housing, as described in the submitted project application, shall remain as affordabl...
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2023-12-11
To House Housing Committee
HISB121Intro
25%
Prohibits the carrying of a firearm in sensitive places. Defines sensitive places. Establishes penalties.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB806Intro
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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2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee
HISB1055Intro
25%
Specifies that the practice of election fraud intimidation includes, among other actions (1) The carrying of any firearm or weapon and (2) The act of photographing the face of any voter without permission from both the voter and an appropriate electi...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB468Intro
25%
Authorizes the Department of Land and Natural Resources to adopt rules to prevent and respond to the introduction of aquatic nuisance species from discharges incidental to the normal operation of a vessel and reflect the relationship between the fede...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee
HISB1174Intro
25%
Requires the Department of Transportation to program intersections to allow walk signals to commence four seconds before the green light is given to motor vehicle traffic when the walk button has been pressed.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee
HISB805Intro
25%
Amends the definitions of "administrative action" and "lobbying" in Chapter 97, HRS.
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2023-12-11
Carried over to 2024 Regular Session.
HISB1087Intro
25%
Renames the state highway safety council as the state highway safety and modernization council and amends the composition and duties of the council.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee
HISB302Engross
50%
Temporarily reinstates the technology infrastructure renovation tax credit. Expands the definition of "technology-enabled infrastructure" to include data servers. Requires a report from the department of taxation analyzing the tax implications for sp...
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HISB369Intro
25%
Prohibits the Department of Public Safety from receiving any commission payment from telephone service providers based on inmate phone calls. Prohibits the Department of Public Safety from entering into or renewing any contract with any privately own...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB1484Intro
25%
Allows the Department of Land and Natural Resources to expend the moneys from the State Parks Special Fund for programs aimed at environmental protection.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee
HISB753Engross
50%
Requires retail establishments with an employee toilet facility to allow a customer suffering from an eligible medical condition to use that restroom during normal business hours under certain conditions. Establishes fines. Effective 12/31/2050. (HD1...
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2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HISB1506Engross
50%
Appropriates funds to the department of transportation for bicycle and pedestrian safety. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HISB773Intro
25%
Requires a landowner in possession of 10,000 or more acres to be liable for damages and fines arising from runoff originating on the land and entering into state waters or onto state lands. Requires the Department of Health to adopt rules as necessar...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
HISB954Intro
25%
Requires the University of Hawaii to provide menstrual products free of charge to all students on any University of Hawaii campus, including the community colleges.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Higher Education Committee
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