Hawaii Senator Chris Lee [D]

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HISB1168Intro
25%
Expands eligibility for, and automates, the expungement of arrest and conviction records if certain criteria are met, including the lack of a conviction record for a specified time period following the date of an arrest, conviction, or release from i...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB730Engross
50%
Appropriates funds to the Department of Land and Natural Resources to restore and restock fishponds by providing fingerlings and limu and establishing one full-time equivalent (1.0 FTE) aquaculture coordinator biologist VI position. Effective 6/30/30...
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HISB1177Intro
25%
Allows dogs in restaurants at the restaurant owner's or manager's discretion, provided that certain conditions are met.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB1082Engross
50%
Effective January 1, 2025, requires all state- or county-owned parking lots in the State that contain public paid parking spaces to accept payment of parking fees by credit card and debit card. Requires all state- or county-owned parking meters in th...
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HISB979Intro
25%
Requires individuals to complete a firearms skills assessment, safety course, and education course prior to being granted a license to carry a pistol or revolver.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB294Intro
25%
Establishes under the Hawaii Children's Trust Fund Coalition a collective impact program called the Malama Ohana Program to seek, design, and recommend transformative changes to the State's existing child welfare system. Requires the Malama Ohana Pro...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB1531Engross
50%
Establishes the Beneficial Treatments Advisory Council to review mental health treatment information and advise the Department of Health. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD2)
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2023-12-11
To House Health Committee
HISB379Intro
25%
Requires restaurants to clearly disclose to customers how tips are allocated to employees.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee
HISB1175Intro
25%
Requires the department of education to develop and implement safety training for all cafeteria student helpers and ensure the student helpers receive the training prior to them volunteering.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee
HISB28Intro
25%
Requires the Deputy Director of Highways of the Department of Transportation to be subject to the advice and consent of the Senate.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee
HISB1504Engross
50%
Establishes the museum of modern Hawaii history. Establishes a task force to develop plans for the establishment, construction, and operation of the museum of modern Hawaii history. Appropriates funds. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HISB902Engross
50%
Requires the Executive Office on Aging to establish a workforce development and support center. Appropriates funds for the center's establishment. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Health Committee
HISB18Engross
50%
Requires domestic and foreign corporations to provide their shareholders with reports of independent expenditures and political contributions. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Economic Development Committee
HISB1056Engross
50%
Clarifies that the engineering study required prior to the setting of a maximum speed limit shall not apply to reductions of maximum speed limits.
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2023-12-11
To House Transportation Committee
HISB1091Engross
50%
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. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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2023-12-11
To House Transportation Committee
HISB377Intro
25%
Prohibits an employer from discriminating against a person in hiring, termination, or any term or condition of employment based on the person's status as a medical cannabis registry card holder, under certain conditions. Authorizes an employer to use...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee
HISB1487Intro
25%
Imposes labeling requirements for mamaki tea grown in the State. Appropriates funds to the department of agriculture to administer the mamaki tea labeling requirements.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
HISB974Engross
50%
Establishes a framework to regulate controllers and processors with access to personal consumer data. Establishes penalties. Establishes a new consumer privacy special fund. Appropriates moneys. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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2023-12-11
To House Economic Development Committee
HISB1000Intro
25%
Requires any person carrying an unloaded firearm in a motor vehicle to locate the firearm so as not to be readily or directly accessible from the passenger compartment of the vehicle or, if the firearm is being carried in a motor vehicle that does no...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB1083Intro
25%
Appropriates funds for a three-year continuation of the wind-generated storm damage reef-insurance policy purchased by The Nature Conservancy in November 2022.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee
HISB1089Intro
25%
Establishes a tax credit for commercial property owners that make available parking spaces within the owners' parking lots for use by peer-to-peer car-sharing platforms. Applies to taxable years after 12/31/2022.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee
HISB740Intro
25%
Requires the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to complete an assessment and report on the feasibility of digitizing its applicant, beneficiary, and lessee records and creating an interactive digital database software program. Requires the Department...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB879Engross
50%
Appropriates funds for the retention of employees of the unemployment insurance division of the department of labor and industrial relations. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HISB1261Intro
25%
Requires state facilities to prepare a report assessing the feasibility of installing distributed energy resource systems at each facility. Requires state facilities to implement and install the distributed energy resource systems detailed in the rep...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB1080Intro
25%
Establishes that the representative of labor on the Hawaii Labor Relations Board be a person selected by a majority of the exclusive representatives of the collective bargaining units.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee
HISB1262Intro
25%
Establishes statewide goals for solid waste reduction and organic waste diversion. Requires each county to incorporate into its next integrated solid waste management plan revision a plan to reduce all organic waste produced within the county by faci...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
HISB1181Intro
25%
Requires solar conduit and electrical panel readiness for new residential construction and electric vehicle readiness when an electrical panel and parking area are installed. Effective 1/1/2024.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee
HISB1225Intro
25%
Clarifies when the termination of peer-to-peer car-sharing occurs for purposes of motor vehicle insurance. Clarifies the application of the peer-to-peer car-sharing insurance laws as to other entities that make available rental vehicles under state l...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee
HISB953Intro
25%
Requires psychologists licensed in the State to complete at least four hours of continuing education per licensing biennium on topics relating to cultural diversity, cultural competence, sexual orientation, gender identity, or health equity. Requires...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB973Engross
50%
Requires rental vehicle companies using state facilities to pay or reimburse the State to construct new or use existing state electric vehicle charging infrastructure at those facilities, beginning January 1, 2028. Establishes a task force to develop...
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2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HISB366Engross
50%
Establishes penalties for the failure to comply with a County Director of Finance's request that a vehicle number plate or special number plate be returned. Effective 3/22/2075. (SD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Transportation Committee
HISB368Intro
25%
Establishes a zero-emission vehicle fleet purchasing assistance program within the Hawaii state energy office to support the transition of private fleets to zero-emission vehicles. Designates the Hawaii state energy office as the agency responsible f...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee
HISB899Intro
25%
Authorizes advanced practice registered nurses to practice medical aid in dying or provide counseling to a qualified patient. Amends the mandatory waiting period between oral requests and the provision of a prescription.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB1034Intro
25%
Requires the maintenance of at least three hundred parking stalls at Ala Wai Boat Harbor at no cost for recreational ocean access and for the practice of traditional and customary Native Hawaiian rights. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB1503Intro
25%
Prohibits certain boards from taking adverse action against individuals possessing or applying for a license to practice medicine and surgery or nursing for providing abortion care services or gender affirming treatments in the State in compliance wi...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB383Engross
50%
Requires that any person who applies for an identification card or driver's license be automatically registered to vote. Requires that the applicant be provided the opportunity to opt-out of voter registration.
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2023-12-11
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee
HISB1480Intro
25%
Establishes within the Department of the Attorney General, an Environmental Crimes Unit, which shall be a cooperative effort between the Department of the Attorney General and the Department of Health to investigate and prosecute crimes that pose sub...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
HISB35Engross
50%
Appropriates funds for the Judiciary to purchase civil legal services for low- and moderate-income persons. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HISB882Intro
25%
Increases the minimum classroom instruction time for state certified or National Rifle Association certified firearm safety courses from four to fourteen hours. Requires firearm safety courses to include additional subject matter. Requires applicants...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB1172Intro
25%
Requires manufacturers of powered medical equipment to make available to powered medical equipment owners and independent repair providers parts, equipment, tools, documentation, and training courses and materials. Requires manufacturers to provide t...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB382Engross
50%
Prohibits motor vehicle manufacturers from charging subscription fees for certain services that employ equipment already installed in the motor vehicle at the time of sale as a new motor vehicle. Provides that the prohibition shall not apply to enter...
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2023-12-11
To House Transportation Committee
HISB1059Intro
25%
Amends the definition of "emergency worker" in the Penal Code to include communications dispatchers. Takes effect 1/1/2024. (SD1)
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB132Intro
25%
Requires a written notice to defendants and eligible paroled prisoners of their right to complete a nonreligious substance abuse treatment program. Requires a list of nonreligious substance abuse treatment programs to be provided.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB1182Intro
25%
Requires the Department of Health to conduct a study on possible means by which the State can reduce the number of single-family dwellings that contain asbestos. Requires a report to the Legislature. Appropriates funds.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB144Intro
25%
Establishes the compacts of Free Association Census Task Force within the Department of Human Services to conduct a census of COFA residents in Hawaii.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB978Intro
25%
Includes any firearm or rifle with the capacity to fire ammunition of fifty caliber or higher, excluding antique pistols and revolvers, and muzzleloaders in the list of prohibited weapons.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB148Intro
25%
Prohibits the sale or furnishing of a tobacco product or electronic smoking device to a person born on or after January 1, 2003. Prohibits the possession or consumption of a tobacco product in a public place by a person born on or after January 1, 20...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
HISB1259Intro
25%
Appropriates funds to DOA for the continued administration of the Hawaii healthy food incentive program and to provide matching funds to beneficiaries who participate in the supplemental nutrition assistance program.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
HISB1494Intro
25%
Requires firearms owners to obtain firearms insurance. Effective 1/1/2024.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB1185Intro
25%
Exempts food supply chain businesses from permit or zoning requirements necessary for the installation of a renewable energy technology system or renewable energy storage system. Allows a food supply chain business to self-certify through licensed co...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee
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