Hawaii Senator Jarrett Keohokalole [D] | Introduced

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HISB689Intro
25%
Appropriates funds to the Department of Health for the Hawaii State Loan Repayment Program administered through the John A. Burns School of Medicine, subject to a matching funds requirement.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB375Intro
25%
Establishes the Hawaii Cannabis Authority within the Department of Health to adopt rules to regulate responsible, adult-use of cannabis in the State. Establishes that possession of cannabis by an adult in the amount of four ounces or less without a p...
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2023-12-11
Carried over to 2024 Regular Session.
HISB1031Intro
25%
Appropriates funds to the department of land and natural resources' state historic preservation division for a library digitization process and for the division's operations.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee
HISB96Intro
25%
Establishes the Aquaculture Development Branch within the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism. Transfers the rights, powers, functions, duties, employees, and other capital of the Aquaculture and Livestock Services Branch of the...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
HISB305Intro
25%
Establishes a career and technical education working group to strengthen career and technical education in the State's public schools. Makes an appropriation.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee
HISB59Intro
25%
Appropriates moneys to the Hawaii Technology Development Corporation for its manufacturing assistance programs.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee
HISB436Intro
25%
Appropriates funds to support and expand the mental health technician certificate of competence program through the hiring of a mental health technician certificate of competence program coordinator, establishment of a scholarship program, and defray...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB598Intro
25%
Authorizes counties, after adoption of an ordinance, to sell private property after all notices, orders, and appeal proceedings are exhausted and to use those revenues to pay unpaid civil fines related to that property.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB400Intro
25%
Restricts civil asset forfeiture to cases involving the commission of a felony offense where the property owner has been convicted of an underlying felony offense. Directs forfeiture proceeds to the general fund. Amends the allowable expenses for mon...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB308Intro
25%
Establishes the Erin's law task force to review policies, programs, and curricula for educating public school students about sexual abuse and sex trafficking prevention, report recommendations for the establishment of a program to educate public scho...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB450Intro
25%
Requires boards to use interactive conference technology to remotely conduct public meetings in conjunction with in-person meetings that allow for public participation. Requires boards to archive certain recordings of meetings on their websites.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee
HISB680Intro
25%
Establishes the Ahu o Laka State Monument. Prohibits certain activities at the Ahu o Laka State Monument.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee
HISB1111Intro
25%
Creates a five-year pilot project for counties with a population of less than 200,000 to regulate the operation of hosting platforms that provide booking services for transient accommodation operators. Requires a report to the Legislature. Repeals on...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB91Intro
25%
Requires the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development to conduct a study to assess the possible implementation of widescale agrivoltaic adaptation and use statewide. Requires the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development to submit a report...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB60Intro
25%
Authorizes state-licensed and credentialed physicians, advanced practice registered nurses, and physician assistants, who are not physically in the State, to issue prescriptions for certain controlled substances under a limited circumstance. Authoriz...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB133Intro
25%
Beginning with the - school year, requires public high schools to start at 9:00 a.m. and public elementary and middle schools to start no earlier than 8:30 a.m. Requires the Department of Education to adjust state-provided bus and school meal ...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee
HISB401Intro
25%
Authorizes the use of ranked-choice voting for all partisan primary elections, special elections, and nonpartisan general elections with more than two candidates held in this State.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB736Intro
25%
Allows the Hawaii Community Development Authority to approve the residential development on the parcels owned by the Office of Hawaiian Affairs in Kakaako. Raises the building height limit and increases the maximum floor area ratio for residential de...
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2023-12-11
Carried over to 2024 Regular Session.
HISB441Intro
25%
Establishes an excise tax of 25 cents for e-liquid cartridges and fifteen per cent of the wholesale price of open system eliquid sold, used, or possessed by a wholesaler or dealer on or after 7/1/2023. Defines and amends related terms. Makes conformi...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB1096Intro
25%
Establishes an exemption from applicable county permit requirements for repetitive construction projects for facilities under the control of the Department of Education, University of Hawaii, or School Facilities Authority.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB632Intro
25%
Establishes a 5-year pilot program within the Department of Health to eradicate feral chickens in the State. Requires the Department of Agriculture to submit a special local need registration to the United States Environmental Protection Agency. Make...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
HISB448Intro
25%
Exempts development of homestead lots or housing for the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands from general excise tax and school impact fee requirements. Makes permanent the school impact fee exemption and the issuance of county affordable housing credi...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB1108Intro
25%
Establishes an online fantasy sports contests registration and monitoring program under the Department of the Attorney General. Exempts registered online fantasy sports contests from state gambling laws. Appropriates funds.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB301Intro
25%
Amends Act 257, Session Laws of Hawaii 2022, to authorize the School Facilities Authority to provide affordable housing to Department of Education teachers.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee
HISB1081Intro
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 Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee
HISB815Intro
25%
Establishes an accelerator program within the Hawaii Technology Development Corporation. Amends the reporting requirements for Hawaii Technology Development Corporation's manufacturing and development program. Requires the Hawaii Technology Developme...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee
HISB1483Intro
25%
Prohibits cyber harassment and cyberstalking. Allows for civil liabilities and injunctions for cyber harassment and cyberstalking.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary 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
HISB943Intro
25%
Appropriates funds to the Department of Education to fund school health support staff to sustain the Hawaii Keiki: Healthy and Ready to Learn Program.
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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
HISB942Intro
25%
Bans the sale of flavored tobacco products and mislabeled eliquid products. Establishes fines.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB1481Intro
25%
Establishes conditions for the importation of fireworks. Authorizes the county fire departments to inspect warehouses, piers, cargo, baggage, and personal effects of persons arriving in the State to ascertain if they contain any fireworks. Requires i...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs 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
HISB952Intro
25%
Clarifies provisions related to the statutory limitations on the time periods in which a survivor of childhood sexual abuse may file a civil action. Allows for punitive damages. Permits the court to order restorative justice measures, if deemed appro...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB100Intro
25%
Appropriates funds for the Kahoolawe Island Reserve Commission and to fund three full-time equivalent (3.00 FTE) permanent positions for the Kahoolawe Island Reserve Commission. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB961Intro
25%
Appropriates funds for the Department of Health to control the State's feral chicken population. Requires the establishment of a complaint hotline that may be used to report nuisances and health hazards caused by the presence of feral chickens and to...
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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
HISB1004Intro
25%
Establishes a carbon emissions tax credit. Expands the environmental response, energy, and food security tax to include carbon emissions. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2023. Requires the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee
HISB152Intro
25%
Authorizes prescriptions made by chiropractors for physical therapy and therapeutic massage treatment to qualify as a motor vehicle insurance personal injury protection benefit. Replaces the existing cap on the number of chiropractic treatment visits...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services 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
HISB65Intro
25%
Incorporates a regenerative framework into the State Planning Act by expanding objectives and policies for the visitor industry. Requires an update to the State Tourism Functional Plan to be submitted to the Legislature no later than twenty days prio...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB947Intro
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 Senate Agriculture and Environment 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
HISB864Intro
25%
Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds for the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation and Hawaii Public Housing Authority's programs to develop housing exclusively for residents of the State who are owner- or renter-occupants...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means 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
HISB891Intro
25%
Requires the Department of Accounting and General Services to provide menstrual products at no cost in specified restrooms of public buildings maintained by that department. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2112. (SD1)
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB688Intro
25%
Specifies that a recount of all ballots cast for any election shall occur if the official tabulation of all of the returns for that office or ballot question reveals that there is a difference equal to or less than one hundred votes, one-quarter of o...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB1159Intro
25%
Clarifies when the identity of a police officer, who has been suspended or discharged following a misconduct incident, is to be disclosed in a county police department's annual report to the legislature.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB515Intro
25%
Appropriates funds to the Hawaii Technology Development Corporation for the Hawaii Small Business Innovation Research Program. Beginning with fiscal year 2025-2026, and each fiscal year thereafter, requires the Department of Business, Economic Develo...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism 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
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