Hawaii Representative David Tarnas [D]

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HIHB667Intro
25%
Allows the Governor to enter the State into the multi-state Nurse Licensure Compact, which will allow a nurse who is licensed by a home state to practice under a multi-state licensure privilege in each party state.
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2023-12-11
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee
HIHB881Intro
25%
Prohibits any person from presetting commercial beach equipment on any public beach under the jurisdiction of the department of land and natural resources, unless the customer is physically present. Requires commercial vendors to expeditiously remove...
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2023-12-11
To House Water & Land Committee
HIHB952Engross
50%
Appropriates funds to the department of land and natural resources to address the impacts of climate change in the State. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HIHB873Intro
25%
Provides scholarships for the unmet needs of qualified students at any four-year University of Hawaii campus who meet certain eligibility criteria. Appropriates funds for the Hawaii promise program.
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2023-12-11
To House Higher Education & Technology Committee
HIHB1370Intro
25%
Expands the uses for the state archives preservation and long-term access special fund from the preservation of and long-term access to government records only, to include photographic, phonographic, and audio-video records and collections that have ...
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB829Intro
25%
Requires the court to appoint counsel to indigent parents upon the filing of a petition for custody or family supervision and make every effort to do so at the first hearing attended by the parents.
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2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB238Intro
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 House Labor & Government Operations Committee
HIHB247Engross
50%
Increases the percentages of local agricultural products that certain departments are required to purchase by certain deadlines. Expands annual reporting requirements to include the total spending by certain market channels. Requires the University o...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
HIHB1452Intro
25%
For policies, contracts, plans, agreements, and plan contracts issued or renewed after 12/31/2023, requires insurers, mutual benefit societies, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage for standard fertility preservation services.
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2023-12-11
To House Health Committee
HIHB492Intro
25%
Increases the state earned income tax credit from twenty to twenty-five percent of the federal earned income tax credit.
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2023-12-11
To House Economic Development Committee
HIHB237Intro
25%
Legalizes, regulates, and taxes cannabis and manufactured cannabis products for responsible, adult use. Exempts sales of cannabis and manufactured cannabis products for medical use from the general excise tax. Clarifies that qualifying out-of-state p...
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2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB520Intro
25%
Establishes the Access to Local Food Act to allow cottage food operations to sell cottage food products, under certain conditions, upon receiving a permit from the Department of Health. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB434Intro
25%
Short form bill relating to the judiciary.
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2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB79Intro
25%
Authorizes school complexes to incorporate media literacy in its standards-based curriculum, including content that prevents negative impacts of misinformation, disinformation, digital discrimination, and online hate speech. Repeals certain requireme...
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB863Intro
25%
Specifies that a subsequent attempt to prosecute a felony using an alternative charging method, after the first attempt has failed, shall not be permitted unless certain conditions are met.
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2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB655Intro
25%
Requires that Hawaii housing finance and development corporation housing projects include a restrictive covenant that the percentage of units of the housing project that are designated as affordable housing, as described in the submitted housing proj...
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2023-12-11
To House Housing Committee
HIHB1179Intro
25%
Requires health insurance coverage for various sexual and reproductive health care services.
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2023-12-11
To House Health Committee
HIHB832Intro
25%
Requires the chief election officer to develop and distribute a voter information guide for all candidates running for state office, including candidates running for any trustee position of the office of Hawaiian affairs. Requires the office of elect...
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2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB849Intro
25%
Prohibits a pet store operator from selling a dog, cat, or rabbit unless the dog, cat, or rabbit was obtained from certain humane sources.
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2023-12-11
To House Agriculture Committee
HIHB1427Intro
25%
Prohibits a covered entity from disclosing communication or information relating to reproductive health care services. Prohibits the issuance of a subpoena in connection with an out-of-state proceeding relating to reproductive health care services le...
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2023-12-11
To House Health Committee
HIHB285Intro
25%
Appropriates funds to the Department of Land and Natural Resources for the Community Fuels Reduction Project. Beginning with fiscal year 2025-2026, and each fiscal year thereafter, requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to establish th...
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB312Intro
25%
Replaces representatives from the sugar and pineapple industries with representatives of the coffee and diversified agriculture industries. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HIHB260Engross
50%
Requires DOE to develop and implement safety training for all cafeteria student helpers and ensure the student helpers receive the training prior to them volunteering. Requires DOE to provide personal protective equipment for all cafeteria student he...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee
HIHB559Intro
25%
Expands the coffee labeling and advertising requirements to include ready-to-drink coffee beverages and inner packages and inner wrapping labels. Requires disclosure on the label of coffee blends of the respective geographic and regional origins and ...
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2023-12-11
To House Agriculture Committee
HIHB425Intro
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 House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB1410Intro
25%
Requires the department of health to establish a reverse vending machine pilot program to provide grants to deploy reverse vending machines in the State. Allows moneys from the deposit beverage container deposit special fund to be used for grants to ...
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2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HIHB1279Intro
25%
Establishes a rebuttable presumption that a person charged with a crime is entitled to unconditional release. Requires the court to consider conditioning pre-trial release on nonfinancial conditions before ordering bail if unconditional release is in...
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2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB536Intro
25%
Amends the competitive sealed bidding process for construction projects to require joint contractors and subcontractors to submit their bids to a bid depository established under DCCA. Authorizes joint contractors and subcontractors to submit differe...
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2023-12-11
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee
HIHB55Engross
50%
Requires the department of education to establish grant programs to provide funds for the planning and implementation of community schools. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee
HIHB538Engross
50%
Establishes penalties for failure to remediate violations, including fines and, under circumstances, foreclosure. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HIHB204Intro
25%
Prohibits the sale of farm raised fish and wild fish and shellfish without a label stating where the seafood was landed.
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2023-12-11
To House Agriculture Committee
HIHB570Intro
25%
Creates an office of Native Hawaiian health within the department of health. Appropriates funds.
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2023-12-11
To House Health Committee
HIHB659Intro
25%
Establishes permitting and education requirements for pharmacists performing certain diagnostic tests or tests waived pursuant to the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA). Expands the definition of "practice of pharmacy" to inclu...
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2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HIHB842Intro
25%
Requires the board of education to adopt and the department of education to administer a kindergarten entry assessment in Olelo Hawaii for Kaiapuni schools. Delays the administration of the kindergarten entry assessment in Olelo Hawaii for Kaiapuni s...
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2023-12-11
To House Education Committee
HIHB886Intro
25%
Eliminates the home mortgage interest deduction for second homes under Hawaii income tax law. Sunsets on 7/1/2028. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB1242Intro
25%
Establishes provisional or associate level licensure requirements for marriage and family therapists, mental health counselors, and psychologists and authorizes insurance reimbursements in certain circumstances. Allows psychologist license applicants...
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2023-12-11
To House Health Committee
HIHB317Intro
25%
Prohibits the assessment of any fees, fines, or costs against a person who was adjudicated for an offense committed while the person was a minor under the age of eighteen, or against the person's parent or guardian. Limits court ordered community ser...
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB621Intro
25%
Exempts the instream use of water for commercial kalo cultivation conducted in a manner consistent with traditional and customary practices of Native Hawaiians from the existing process for the disposition of water rights.
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2023-12-11
To House Water & Land Committee
HIHB440Intro
25%
Establishes an income tax credit for the cost of upgrading or converting a qualified cesspool to a director of health-approved wastewater system or connecting to a sewerage system. Requires certain information regarding cesspools on real property to ...
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2023-12-11
To House Health Committee
HIHB1449Intro
25%
Amends Act 162, SLH 2022, to extend the sunset date for the early lung cancer screening task force and extend the date for the task force to submit reports to the legislature. Appropriates funds. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB244Engross
50%
Establishes a career and technical education working group to strengthen career and technical education in the State's public schools. Makes an appropriation. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD2)
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2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee
HIHB844Intro
25%
Appropriates funds for the University of Hawaii Maui college's office of international and regional partnerships for students to study abroad and for study abroad programs. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB1341Intro
25%
Appropriates funds for the achievement of full funding, including estimated payment increases, of medicaid home and community-based services. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB549Intro
25%
Requires the school facilities authority to, to the greatest extent possible, renovate, improve, and expand existing public school facilities and classrooms to increase pre-kindergarten student capacity, including while expending funds appropriated f...
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2023-12-11
To House Education Committee
HIHB397Intro
25%
Appropriates funds to the Hawaii technology development corporation for the Hawaii small business capital program. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB248Engross
50%
Requires the department of education to fully implement the farm to school program and farm to school meals program by the 20242025 school year. Provides that complex area superintendents have the authority to implement the farm to school and farm to...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee
HIHB1336Engross
50%
Part I: Expands the authorized issuance of citations in lieu of arrests. Authorizes a grace period after a missed initial court appearance. Part II: Amends various provisions related to pretrial release. Part III: Allows the court to order substance ...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HIHB662Intro
25%
Exempts medical and dental services provided by health care providers to patients who receive Medicaid, Medicare, or TRICARE benefits from the general excise tax. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2023. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB442Intro
25%
Establishes a visitor green fee program that requires that visitors purchase a license which is valid for one year for the use of a state park, beach, state-owned forest, hiking trail on state-owned land, or other state-owned natural area, to be admi...
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2023-12-11
To House Tourism Committee
HIHB836Intro
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Appropriates moneys to the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation to retain the services of a consultant to prepare a financial sustainability plan for the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation and its member regions. Appropriates moneys.
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2023-12-11
To House Health Committee
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