Hawaii Representative David Tarnas [D]

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HIHB1540Intro
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Requires eligible schools to participate in the federal Community Eligibility Provision, which provides federal funds to help schools offer free meals to all students. Appropriates moneys for any difference between federal funds amounts and costs of ...
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2024-02-08
To House Education 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
HIHB1797Intro
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Appropriates funds to the Department of Education to strengthen student transportation services for Hawaii's public school system.
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2024-02-08
To House Education Committee
HIHB2256Intro
25%
Beginning with the 2024-2025 school year, requires the Department of Education to provide free breakfast and lunch to students enrolled in a public school who meet certain requirements. Appropriates funds.
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2024-02-08
To House Education Committee
HIHB2284Intro
25%
Repeals language that gives the Director of Finance discretion to use moneys in the Hawaii ABLE Savings Program Trust Fund if the Director elects to accept deposits from contributors instead of sending deposits directly to the ABLE program manager. A...
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2024-02-08
To House Human Services Committee
HIHB2549Intro
25%
Establishes within the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism the Interagency Council for Maui Housing Recovery to coordinate and facilitate Maui's permanent housing recovery and facilitate consultation and collaboration between st...
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2024-02-08
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB2740Intro
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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
HIHB1563Intro
25%
Repeals existing law that preempted local ordinances or regulations that regulate the sale of cigarettes, tobacco products, and electronic smoking devices and nullified and voided any conflicting local laws and regulations. Allows counties to adopt o...
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2024-02-07
To House Health Committee
HIHB1610Intro
25%
Imposes a cap on costs charged to reproduce certain government records. Waives reproduction costs charged for the first one hundred pages if disclosure serves the public interest. Waives costs charged to duplicate certain government records in an ele...
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2024-02-07
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB1616Intro
25%
Requires the DOE to submit an annual report to the legislature on the installation, repair, and maintenance of fire alarm systems in Hawaii's public schools. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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2024-02-07
To House Finance Committee
HIHB1971Intro
25%
Requires the Board of Agriculture to submit a report on the percentage of agricultural lands that are suitable for farming and actively farmed and certain dollar amounts relating to lease transfers between lessees.
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2024-02-07
To House Agriculture Committee
HIHB2003Intro
25%
Requires the Department of Accounting and General Services to provide menstrual products at no cost in specified restrooms in public buildings maintained by the department. Requires the Department of Accounting and General Services to post signage in...
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2024-02-07
To House Labor & Government Operations 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
HIHB2234Intro
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Requires and appropriates funds for the Judiciary to develop a three-year civil legal services pilot program to provide civil legal services at no cost to eligible parties. Requires reports to the Legislature. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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2024-02-07
To House Finance Committee
HIHB2572Intro
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Establishes a teacher loan program to encourage individuals to become teachers in hard-to-staff positions of Department of Education schools. Allows a loan to be forgiven for teachers who become, or have become, a licensed teacher in Hawaii or for te...
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2024-02-07
To House Finance Committee
HIHB2628Intro
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Requires the Judiciary, in consultation with other stakeholders, to submit monthly and annual reports to the Legislature on the effectiveness of agreements for post-booking jail diversion programs in the first circuit. Amends the criminal justice div...
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2024-02-07
To House Health Committee
HIHB1663Intro
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Expands eligibility for, and automates, the expungement of conviction records if certain criteria are met. Beginning 12/1/2026, requires the Attorney General to issue automatic expungement orders and the Judiciary to seal or remove information from p...
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2024-02-06
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB1947Intro
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Reduces the minimum number of years of credited service from ten years to five years qualified Tier 2 employee's retirement system members must have to be eligible for vested benefit status for service retirement allowance purposes. Appropriates fund...
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2024-02-06
To House Finance Committee
HIHB2254Intro
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Allows state departments to participate in temporary employee interchanges with private sector organizations, including nonprofit and for-profit organizations. Limits the term for a temporary employee interchange with a private sector organization to...
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2024-02-06
To House Finance Committee
HIHB2539Intro
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Appropriates funds to increase the funding for medicaid in-home services, conditioned on the Department of Human Services obtaining the maximum federal matching funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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2024-02-06
To House Finance Committee
HIHB2691Intro
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Establishes the Red Hill remediation authority. Creates the Red Hill remediation special fund.
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2024-02-06
To House Water & Land Committee
HIHB1593Intro
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Requires the Office of Elections to print and mail a physical copy of the digital voter information guide to any voter upon request. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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2024-02-05
To House Finance Committee
HIHB1614Intro
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Increases the bonus for teachers who achieve and maintain a current national board certification from $5,000 to $15,000. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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2024-02-05
To House Finance Committee
HIHB1609Intro
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Requires the Office of Elections to apply to be a member of the Electronic Registration Information Center, Inc. (ERIC), by 6/30/2025. Requires the Office of Elections and counties to use information and services made available by ERIC to verify thei...
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2024-02-05
To House Finance Committee
HIHB1649Intro
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Establishes a nationally certified school psychologist incentive program. Appropriates funds for the incentive program. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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2024-02-05
To House Finance Committee
HIHB1966Intro
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Requires health insurers, mutual benefit societies, and health maintenance organizations to provide health insurance coverage for various sexual and reproductive health care services. Applies this coverage to health benefits plans under the Hawaii Em...
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2024-02-02
To House Health Committee
HIHB2044Intro
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Establishes the Digital Equity Grant Program to award grants to applicants to deploy digital equity projects to covered populations in the State. Establishes the Broadband and Digital Equity Special Fund.
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2024-02-02
To House Higher Education & Technology Committee
HIHB2158Intro
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Adopts the nurse licensure compact. Beginning 01/01/2026, requires nurses who hold multistate licenses issued by a state other than Hawaii to complete demographic data surveys. Authorizes the Board of Nursing to assess different fees for registered n...
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2024-02-02
To House Health Committee
HIHB2194Intro
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Prohibits a health insurer from requiring an insured diagnosed with stage two through stage five cancer to undergo step therapy prior to covering the insured for certain drugs prescribed by the insured's health care provider, under certain conditions...
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2024-02-02
To House Health Committee
HIHB1538Intro
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Increases certain traffic fines and required motor vehicle insurance minimums.
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2024-02-01
To House Transportation 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
HIHB1626Intro
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Requires the Judiciary to establish a compliance credits pilot program for probationers that comply with their conditions of supervision.
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2024-01-31
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB1965Intro
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Establishes a court's authority to issue an order restricting abusive litigation.
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2024-01-31
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB1606Intro
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Requires that any new contract entered into by the Office of Elections for equipment or services relating to preparing ballots or counting votes include the capability to randomize the names of candidates appearing on the ballot if technologically po...
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2024-01-30
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB1605Intro
25%
Requires that each vote cast for a question on a ballot for the ratification of a constitutional amendment be counted in the negative only if the ballot properly indicates that the vote is in the negative.
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2024-01-30
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB2560Intro
25%
Establishes a rebuttable presumption that a person established a new residence in a place if that person has been absent for a prolonged period of time during which the person has only been in one place.
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2024-01-30
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs 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
HIHB2102Intro
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Requires the Public Utilities Commission to convene workshops to aid electric utilities in the development and implementation of best practices regarding wildfires. Requires electric utilities to design and operate in compliance with a risk-based wil...
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2024-01-29
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee
HIHB2257Intro
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Establishes the Public Education Scholarship Program within the University of Hawaii to provide students who are residents of the State with scholarships in return for a service commitment to teach in a public school classroom of the Department of Ed...
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2024-01-26
To House Higher Education & Technology Committee
HIHB2287Intro
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Appropriates funds for prefabricated, modular, or kauhale-type housing for individuals impacted by the Lahaina wildfire.
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2024-01-26
To House Water & Land Committee
HIHB2233Intro
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Prohibits private and state workforce development programs from rejecting an applicant who is 18 years of age or younger based solely on the applicant's active sentence of probation; provided that the applicant is in full compliance with any court-or...
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2024-01-26
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee
HIHB2631Intro
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Appropriates funds, including for positions, equipment, and maintenance and operating costs, for mullet production for fishponds and stock enhancement.
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2024-01-26
To House Water & Land Committee
HIHB2599Intro
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Exempts actions involving the operation and management of fisheries in the State from environmental review requirements.
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2024-01-26
To House Water & Land 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
HIHB2625Intro
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Clarifies that a contested case hearing is not required when an identical or substantially similar administrative matter has been finally adjudicated. Includes administrative contested case proceedings within the scope of the vexatious litigant statu...
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2024-01-26
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB2605Intro
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Requires the Department of Education to establish a teacher loan forgiveness program to assist in the payment of loans for teachers who commit to teaching in the Hawaii public school system. Appropriates funds.
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2024-01-26
To House Education Committee
HIHB2667Intro
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Short form bill relating to elections.
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2024-01-26
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB2668Intro
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Short form bill relating to incarceration alternatives.
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2024-01-26
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB2704Intro
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Short form bill relating to ethics.
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2024-01-26
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB2669Intro
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Short form bill relating to constitutional matters.
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2024-01-26
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
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