Hawaii Senator Donovan Cruz [D] | Bills

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HISB1264Engross
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Authorizes the Department of Land and Natural Resources to establish limited-entry commercial fisheries for fisheries that are not subject to federal fisheries regulations, when appropriate or necessary to ensure sustainable fisheries for two species...
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2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HISB677Intro
25%
Authorizes and establishes procedures and criteria for prescriptive authority for clinical psychologists who meet specific education, training, and registration requirements. Requires the Board of Psychology to accept applications for prescriptive au...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
HISB816Intro
25%
Allows students to complete computer science courses as a substitute for science credits at the high school level to count towards graduation requirements. Requires a computer science course credit as a graduation requirement at the high school level...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee
HISB287Engross
50%
Authorizes counties to require their approval for condominium projects located in agricultural districts that are greater than ten acres prior to the creation of the condominium property regime. Requires a condominium map to be accompanied by a lette...
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2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HISB720Intro
25%
Adds an exception to mandatory disclosure of government records for deliberative and pre-decisional government inter-agency or intra-agency records concerning an agency decision about a government action. From July 1, 2023, through June 30, 2027, req...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB819Intro
25%
Authorizes the Hawaii Technology Development Corporation to temporarily re-establish the Hawaii Office of Naval Research Grant Program to provide fifty per cent matching grants to Hawaii awardees of alternative energy research grants from the Departm...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee
HISB702Intro
25%
Beginning with the 2024-2025 school year, requires the Department of Education to include the teaching of financial literacy in grades kindergarten through twelve. Requires students in grades nine through twelve to complete a one-half credit in finan...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee
HISB1547Engross
50%
Establishes a food and product innovation network within the Agribusiness Development Corporation. Appropriates moneys for food and product innovation facilities on the islands of Molokai and Oahu. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Economic Development Committee
HISB465Engross
50%
Authorizes qualifying patients and qualifying out-of-state patients to transport cannabis between islands of the State for personal medical use; provided that no individual or entity shall be required to violate federal law. Requires the Department o...
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2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HISB591Engross
50%
Establishes the operation of an illegal gambling business as a class C felony. Takes effect 03/22/2075. (SD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HISB510Intro
25%
Establishes a Dam and Reservoir Working Group to ensure and enhance the continued availability and operation of dams and reservoirs in the State.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee
HISB386Intro
25%
Appropriates funds for one full-time equivalent (1.0 FTE) engineer position and one full-time equivalent (1.0 FTE) planner position within the Department of Health's Wastewater Branch to support processing of individual wastewater systems application...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
HISB388Engross
50%
Prohibits the construction, modification, or expansion of any waste or disposal facility for hazardous waste or solid waste on land that is near or above a significant aquifer as determined by the Department of Health in consultation with the Commiss...
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2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HISB831Engross
50%
Authorizes the department of agriculture to acquire property for immediate or future use. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD2)
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HISB394Intro
25%
Establishes a collective bargaining unit for graduate assistants employed by the University of Hawaii and community college system.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee
HISB633Intro
25%
Requires the State of Hawaii Plant and Animal Declaration Form to be distributed, completed, and transmitted electronically.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
HISB1415Engross
50%
Requires the University of Hawaii to submit annual reports of all university employees who performed work from a location outside of the State during the applicable year to the legislature no later than December 31 of that year. Effective 6/30/3000. ...
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HISB969Intro
25%
Establishes that noise generated by helicopters in excess of a certain decibel level constitutes a public nuisance and a source of noise pollution in violation of the State's noise pollution law. Establishes fines and a private right of action for in...
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2023-12-11
Carried over to 2024 Regular Session.
HISB77Engross
50%
Before the transfer of non-agricultural park lands, authorizes the Department of Agriculture to request information from the Department of Land and Natural Resources related to the establishment of necessary and reasonable easements upon the lands. A...
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2023-12-11
To House Water & Land Committee
HISB1233Intro
25%
Authorizes state facilities to wheel electricity that is produced by their own facility from renewable energy sources to another state facility pursuant to administrative rules established by the Public Utilities Commission. Requires a report by the ...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee
HISB286Intro
25%
Establishes a three-year New Waste Management Solution and Cesspool System Demonstration Pilot Program within the University of Hawaii Water Resources Research Center to examine and demonstrate new wastewater and cesspool technology systems; implemen...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
HISB160Engross
50%
Lowers the threshold blood alcohol concentration for the offense of operating a vehicle while under the influence of an intoxicant.
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2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HISB89Engross
50%
Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to comply with Chapter 91, Hawaii Revised Statutes, when designating marine management areas. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Water & Land Committee
HISB765Intro
25%
Exempts state projects from county building permit, inspection, and certificate of occupancy requirements under certain conditions. Requires the state agency responsible for the state project to submit for review and comments, a building permit exemp...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB374Intro
25%
Creates license plates to honor veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan Conflicts.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB1116Intro
25%
Clarifies that there is a presumption of a nexus for certain nonresident employees who telework. Amends the income tax law to apply to the total income of certain nonresident employees who telework. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2022...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee
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