Hawaii Senator Henry Aquino [D] | Introduced

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HISB408Intro
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Authorizes any candidate committee, under certain circumstances, to expend campaign funds to purchase a ticket for a candidate to attend a nonprofit organization's event.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB95Intro
25%
Requires certain amounts of child support moneys collected by the Department of Human Services for public assistance of a child to pass through to the family receiving public assistance. Requires the Department of Human Services to disregard passed-t...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB1445Intro
25%
Conforms the amount allowable for the Hawaii expenses for household and dependent care services necessary for gainful employment tax credit to the credit amounts allowed in the federal tax code. Increases the low-income household renters' income tax ...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB1475Intro
25%
Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to create a strategic plan for maintenance dredging of important port and harbor locations and report the plan to the Legislature. Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to complete...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB1102Intro
25%
Authorizes the counties to adopt an ordinance regulating the operation of hosting platforms that provide booking services for transient accommodation operators.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB499Intro
25%
Clarifies that the conviction of a crime by a person holding a license to practice professional engineering, architecture, land surveying, or landscape architecture in the State, that is substantially related to the qualifications, functions, and dut...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
HISB1061Intro
25%
Permits the governing body of a county to create, by ordinance, a process for the recordation and enforcement of solar easements. Allows counties to require individuals claiming a solar easement to record that easement by filing a declaration with th...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee
HISB421Intro
25%
Establishes procedures for the Department of Transportation to assist and enable a person to voluntarily purchase a verified carbon offset for carbon dioxide emissions resulting from the person's air travel to or from an airport in the State. Require...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB850Intro
25%
Beginning with the 2024-2025 school year, requires the Department of Education to include the teaching of financial literacy in the personal transition plan requirement for each student.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee
HISB1150Intro
25%
Establishes a list of substances allowed for use as pesticides and fertilizers on state and county property. Provides that the use of substances not specifically allowed as pesticides and fertilizers on state property and county property is prohibite...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
HISB87Intro
25%
Appropriates funds to the Department of Land and Natural Resources and its partner, or partners, for the continuation of benefits of the Green Jobs Youth Corps. Takes effect 07/01/2050. (SD1)
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB1184Intro
25%
Prohibits golf carts from operating at a speed greater than twenty-five miles per hour. Prohibits neighborhood electric vehicles and golf carts from being driven on highways with a posted speed limit greater than twenty-five miles, except for crossin...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee
HISB1443Intro
25%
Authorizes the department of education to stock bronchodilators for emergency use during respiratory distress and authorize department employees to volunteer to administer bronchodilators.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee
HISB288Intro
25%
Transfers the Culinary Institute of the Pacific from the University of Hawaii to the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism as an administratively attached agency.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Higher Education Committee
HISB443Intro
25%
Limits the tax credits for research activities each taxpayer may receive to $1,500,000 per taxable year. Requires that every qualified high technology business be registered to do business in the State and occupy a business location and address in th...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee
HISB153Intro
25%
Authorizes supplemental categorical funding for remote schools. Appropriates funds.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee
HISB1266Intro
25%
Establishes a food manufacturer tax credit. Defines "qualified taxpayers" as manufacturers that produce valued-added products using local crops. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2023.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
HISB307Intro
25%
Authorizes the School Facilities Authority of the Department of Education to disregard any ordinance or rule related to the use, zoning, planning, or development of land to which the authority holds title or for any construction on land to which the ...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee
HISB396Intro
25%
Subjects rent-to-own contracts for real property in the State to state and federal foreclosure procedures.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
HISB272Intro
25%
Requires health insurers, mutual benefit societies, and health maintenance organizations to cover mandated services for mammography on terms at least as favorable as the terms for other radiological examinations
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB339Intro
25%
Requires all health insurers in the state, including medicaid managed care programs, to cover annual mental health wellness examinations.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB845Intro
25%
Makes comprehensive updates to chapter 436E, Hawaii Revised Statutes, regarding acupuncture practitioners to reflect modernized scopes of practice, titles, and licensing and renewal requirements. Authorizes the Board of Acupuncture to establish an al...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
HISB757Intro
25%
Requires the Department of Health to establish and implement a program to improve and increase support for emergency medical services in the State. Requires the Department of Health to submit reports to the Legislature. Appropriates funds.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB846Intro
25%
Increases fines that may be assessed against certain fireworks-related violations.
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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
HISB862Intro
25%
Requires that each county agency responsible for enforcing its respective building code be accredited by the International Accreditation Service.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB843Intro
25%
Amends the definition of "wages" to include the payment of any paid time off or personal time off, holiday, sick, or vacation pay earned and payable in accordance with the terms of an employer's policy or a written agreement with the employer.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee
HISB1593Intro
25%
Adjusts the method by which the department of human services shall calculate payments to providers of medical care and long-term supports and services. Appropriates funds.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB783Intro
25%
Requires the Department of Education Committee on Weights to consider the impact of its weighted student formula recommendations on small and remote schools.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee
HISB517Intro
25%
Authorizes operators of motorcycles to utilize the lane shoulders that are at least three-feet-wide with the concurrent use of emergency flashers on interstate highways as authorized by the Department of Transportation. Requires the Department of Tra...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB405Intro
25%
Establishes the cesspool conversion tax credit to upgrade or convert cesspools certified by the Department of Health into a director-approved wastewater system. Effective for taxable years beginning after 12/31/2023.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
HISB1017Intro
25%
Adds a voluntary non-opioid option to the sample advance health-care directive form. Establishes that a prescription presented or electronically transmitted to a pharmacy shall be presumed valid and grants pharmacists immunity from civil, criminal, a...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services 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
HISB1459Intro
25%
Establishes a task force to examine the consequences of drinking water contamination detected at the Waipahu Wells II Granular Activated Carbon Treatment Facility. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means 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
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
HISB812Intro
25%
Establishes and appropriates moneys for an immigrant services and access unit within the Office of Community Services. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD1)
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB1062Intro
25%
Allows up to one dwelling per quarter-acre in rural districts.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Housing Committee
HISB332Intro
25%
Prohibits each county from adopting ordinances that restrict housing density on state lands that are within 0.5 miles of an elevated mass transit station.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Housing Committee
HISB1070Intro
25%
Amends the definition of "income" to include tips or gratuities for the purposes of determining child and spousal support amounts, assignments, and withholdings.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee
HISB90Intro
25%
Repeals section 171-58, Hawaii Revised Statutes to eliminate the Board of Land and Natural Resources' power to issue water use permits. Establishes positions within the Commission on Water Resource Management. Appropriates funds.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee
HISB1606Intro
25%
Establishes a surcharge on the conveyance tax upon the transfer or conveyance of prolonged vacant property.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Housing Committee
HISB803Intro
25%
Establishes and appropriates moneys for a two-year pilot project to grow biodiesel crops on the island of Molokai. Requires a report to the Legislature.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
HISB138Intro
25%
Requires the Board of Education to include in its curriculum a unit of instruction studying the events of Asian American history. Requires the Superintendent of Education to prepare and make available to all school complex areas instructional materia...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee
HISB780Intro
25%
Requires the Office of the Auditor to conduct a comprehensive management and financial audit of the Hawaii Tourism Authority and the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism, specifically relating to the Request for Proposals regardi...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee
HISB334Intro
25%
Amends the membership of the Hawaii Interagency Council for Transit-Oriented Development to include the House of Representatives chairs of the committees on housing and transportation and the Senate chairs of the committees on housing and transportat...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Housing Committee
HISB280Intro
25%
Allows the Department of Education to create temporary positions under certain conditions. Amends the requirement that the Department of Education report the creation of temporary positions to the Department of Budget and Finance by requiring that th...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee
HISB439Intro
25%
Amends the definition of "preceptor" and "volunteer-based supervised clinical training rotation" to improve accessibility for providers to receive income tax credits for acting as preceptors. Includes the Director of Health as a member of the Precept...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB136Intro
25%
Requires that in evaluating and determining the award for redevelopment of state or county lands through competitive sealed bidding or competitive sealed proposals, the number of housing units proposed shall constitute forty per cent of the evaluatio...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Housing Committee
HISB144Intro
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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
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