Hawaii Representative Gene Ward [R] | House

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HIHB1174Intro
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Requires leases used in the conveyance of available lands as defined by section 203 of the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act, as amended, to conform to the requirements for securitization by federally insured lending programs.
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2023-12-11
To House Water & Land Committee
HIHB1276Intro
25%
Requires the department of transportation to authorize state and county traffic projects to make changes, as necessary, to traffic flow and mitigation efforts. Prohibits contractors from charging additional fees to amend traffic flow and safety or mi...
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB1327Engross
50%
Establishes a state income tax credit for qualified expenses incurred by certain individuals employed by the Department of Education, Hawaii state public library system, or as part of a head start program in a school. Effective 6/30/3000. (SD1)
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2023-12-11
Carried over to 2024 Regular Session.
HIHB515Intro
25%
Allows greater flexibility in conditions placed on eligibility requirements for the motion picture, digital media, and film production income tax credit. Amends the amount of the total tax credit that may be claimed per qualified production. Amends t...
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2023-12-11
To House Economic Development Committee
HIHB1286Intro
25%
Requires DAGS and DPS, in consultation with the Legislature and other entities, to plan and implement security improvements at the State Capitol. Requires DAGS to remove all parking meters from the Capitol parking facility and reallocate parking in t...
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2023-12-11
To House Legislative Management Committee
HIHB1433Intro
25%
Appropriates funds to the Adult Mental Health Division of the Department of Health to support increased behavioral health crisis stabilization beds. Creates a working group to get county input on possible sites for these crisis stabilization beds. Ef...
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2023-12-11
To House Health Committee
HIHB149Intro
25%
Requires corporations to include the income of all foreign subsidiaries to the State. Applies the State's apportionment formula to determine the share of reported profits subject to the appropriate tax. Effective 1/1/2023.
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2023-12-11
To House Economic Development Committee
HIHB637Intro
25%
Mandatory mental health screening for arrested persons who are houseless. Supportive services provided by social worker or psychiatrist, doing the evaluation.
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2023-12-11
To House Health Committee
HIHB1284Intro
25%
Prohibits discrimination by employers based on political affiliation. Prohibits unfair discriminatory practices that deny, or attempt to deny, a person the full and equal enjoyment of the goods, services, facilities, privileges, advantages, and accom...
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2023-12-11
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee
HIHB567Engross
50%
Exempts certain projects for the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands from general excise taxes. Makes permanent the exemption of certain housing developed by the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands from school impact fee requirements. Ensures that the $6...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HIHB557Intro
25%
Makes the sale of gasoline for an unconscionably excessive price during periods of abnormal disruption of the market an unfair trade practice. Increases penalties for violations of the law regulating unfair trade practices by the petroleum industry. ...
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2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB1323Intro
25%
Appropriates moneys to the State of Hawaii Museum of Monarchy History (Iolani Palace) for operating and maintenance expenses.
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2023-12-11
To House Culture, Arts, & International Affairs Committee
HIHB1367Intro
25%
Appropriates funds to increase medicaid payments to eligible health care providers in the State up to one hundred per cent of the current medicare rates. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB459Intro
25%
Prohibits the possession and ownership of gambling machines larger than one cubic foot.
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2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB461Intro
25%
Repeals Act 86, SLH 2021, which authorized the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds to assist Luana Kai A Life Plan Community in the development of a continuing care retirement community in Hawaii Kai. Effective 7/30/3000. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB511Intro
25%
Appropriation for staffing, commissioner inter-island travel, and other related operating expenses associated with the small business regulatory review board under the Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism.
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2023-12-11
To House Economic Development 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
HIHB316Intro
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 House Transportation Committee
HIHB1172Intro
25%
Authorizes the court to release a defendant in custody on unsecured bail.
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2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs 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
HIHB458Intro
25%
Establishes a Desalination Planning Task Force to examine the feasibility of, and develop a plan and timeline for, the use desalination as a source of potable water in the State. Appropriates moneys.
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2023-12-11
To House Water & Land Committee
HIHB623Intro
25%
Exempts foods and medical services products from the general excise tax.
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2023-12-11
To House Economic Development Committee
HIHB628Intro
25%
Amends various provisions to improve the integrity and accuracy of voter rolls, ballot security, and increases the number of voter service centers.
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2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs 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
HIHB1435Intro
25%
Requires the Department of Education to transfer the Ewa Beach Public and School Library from the State Public Library System to James Campbell High School.
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2023-12-11
To House Education Committee
HIHB1231Engross
50%
Amends the misdemeanor offense of criminal property damage in the third degree to include intentionally or knowingly damaging the property of another that is used in a business operation, without the other's consent in an amount exceeding $100. Effec...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HIHB1206Engross
50%
Requires the department of accounting and general services to establish a state permit pilot program to process building and infrastructure permits for construction of state-owned buildings, state roads and highways, and other construction on state l...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Government Operations 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
HIHB512Intro
25%
Establishes an entrepreneurship grant program within the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to assist entrepreneurs with new businesses.
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2023-12-11
To House Economic Development Committee
HIHB938Intro
25%
Establishes an income tax credit for employers who create on-site early childhood facilities. Establishes and appropriates funds for 1.0 FTE on-site early childhood facility coordinator position. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2023. ...
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2023-12-11
To House Human Services Committee
HIHB1384Engross
50%
Creates an income tax credit to incentivize the food manufacturing industry in the State. Effective 6/30/3000. (SD1)
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means 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
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
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
HIHB926Intro
25%
Abolishes down payment requirements for eligible Hawaii residents purchasing their first home.
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2023-12-11
To House Housing Committee
HIHB1207Intro
25%
Simplifies the tax structure to four brackets and reduces the tax rate.
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2023-12-11
To House Economic Development Committee
HIHB930Intro
25%
Permits a bicyclist to proceed through an intersection from a right turn only lane if they cannot safely merge into the traffic lane. Permits a bicyclist to proceed in a right turn only lane when approaching an intersection, even if they do not inten...
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2023-12-11
To House Transportation Committee
HIHB249Engross
50%
Establishes the Hawaii child nutrition programs agency in the department of human services. Establishes a grant program to support the funding of certain initiatives for the State's public schools. Establishes three permanent full-time equivalent pos...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HIHB929Intro
25%
Prohibits the ownership of holding of real estate interests in land within two miles of federal land by foreign individuals, entities, or governments. Institutes a reciprocal ban on foreign individuals, entities, or governments where Americans are fo...
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2023-12-11
To House Water & Land Committee
HIHB460Intro
25%
Prohibits the downloading or use of social media application TikTok on government-issued devices capable of internet connectivity, or on government internet networks.
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2023-12-11
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee
HIHB54Engross
50%
Establishes a nationally certified school psychologist incentive program. Appropriates funds for the incentive program. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee
HIHB261Engross
50%
Requires the Department of Human Services to establish a Child Care Accreditation Program to assist licensed and registered child care providers in obtaining accreditation. Authorizes the use of the Child Care Grant Program Special Fund for Child Car...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HIHB632Intro
25%
Requires leases used in the conveyance of available lands as defined by section 203 of the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act, as amended, to conform to the requirements for securitization by federally insured lending programs.
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2023-12-11
To House Water & Land Committee
HIHB195Intro
25%
Requires government entities in the State that issue building permits to implement SolarAPP+ or a functionally equivalent online automated permitting platform that verifies code compliance and issues permits to licensed contractors for solar distribu...
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2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HIHB1383Engross
50%
Establishes a task force to identify the top ten fruits or vegetables that are imported into the State but may be commercially grown in the State. Creates an income tax credit to incentivize the production of those fruits or vegetables to obviate the...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HIHB322Intro
25%
Establishes the Alzheimer's working group to create a public health campaign for awareness of Alzheimer's disease and other related dementia. Appropriates funds.
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2023-12-11
To House Health Committee
HIHB315Intro
25%
Appropriates moneys as grants-in-aid to the several counties for the mitigation of flood risks on privately-owned roads. Provides that the appropriation or expenditure of moneys pursuant to the Act shall not be construed to establish a duty of care o...
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB653Intro
25%
Requires the department of transportation to perform routine inspections of highways in the state highway system that are at risk of rockslides every five years and after major rainfall events. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB1287Intro
25%
Requires manufacturers of digital electronic equipment to make available to owners and independent repair providers, on fair and reasonable terms, the documentation, parts, and tools used to diagnose, maintain, and repair the equipment.
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2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HIHB624Intro
25%
Decreases the tax burden on lower income workers by reducing the income tax rate to zero for all but top brackets of income earned.
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2023-12-11
To House Economic Development Committee
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