Hawaii Senator Joy San Buenaventura [D] | Senate

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HISB957Intro
25%
Appropriates funds to the Department of Health to implement the recommendations of the Task Force on Mobility Management, including funding of positions.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services 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
HISB1555Intro
25%
Exempts the sale of groceries that are eligible under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children and the sale of nonprescription drugs from the general excise tax.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB1048Intro
25%
Repeals payroll day for public officers and employees by requiring them to be paid pursuant to a predicted payroll schedule, rather than an after-the-fact payroll schedule.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee
HISB165Intro
25%
Mandates reimbursement for services provided by participating registered pharmacists practicing within their scope of practice by private and public health plans in the State beginning January 1, 2024.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB1577Engross
50%
Requires the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs to make all business registration applications available online. Requires all applications to contain certain contact information. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce 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
HISB310Intro
25%
Appropriates funds to the Department of Human Services and the Department of Public Safety for the pilot visitation and family resource center at Waiawa Correctional Facility on Oahu, including a restroom in compliance with the Americans with Disabil...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB1051Intro
25%
Establishes a paid family leave program for state and county employees. Authorizes a qualifying employee to take up to 12 weeks of paid leave for the birth or placement of a child or to care for a family member who has a serious health condition. Req...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee
HISB607Intro
25%
Adopts the National Instructional Materials Accessibility Standard for the purposes of providing instructional materials to eligible students in a timely manner and requires the Department of Education to coordinate with the National Instructional Ma...
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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
HISB678Intro
25%
Increases the conveyance tax rates. Exempt the conveyance tax on property with a restriction on increasing the rental price or resale price above any increase in the consumer price index for at least thirty years. Removes the maximum disposition caps...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB679Intro
25%
Establishes an oral health task force to review the status of oral health in the State and make recommendations to improve oral health infrastructure in Hawaii. Appropriates funds.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB520Engross
50%
Establishes the Farm Succession Pilot Program under Leeward Community College in collaboration with the University of Hawaii College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources. Requires a report to the Legislature. Appropriates funds for the pilot p...
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HISB1212Engross
50%
Prohibits any campaign website for any candidate or candidate committee from containing information or manipulating content in any manner that is designed to induce a noncandidate committee to use that content to make expenditures supporting the cand...
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2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HISB613Intro
25%
Requires each house of the Legislature to establish by its rules, procedures that enable the Legislature to use remote testimony at legislative committee hearings, enable the public to present oral testimony at legislative committee hearings through ...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB322Intro
25%
Adopts the Interstate Licensed Professional Counselors Compact to allow a person who is a licensed professional counselor in the person's state of residence to practice professional counseling in a compact state in which the person is not licensed pu...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection 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
HISB1030Intro
25%
Authorizes the department of land and natural resources to establish and operate conservation mitigation banks to restore, create, enhance, or preserve conservation habitats or resources as compensatory mitigation. Authorizes the department to contra...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee
HISB1419Intro
25%
Appropriates funds to the Executive Office on Aging within the Department of Health for the Hawaii Healthy Aging Partnership.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB408Intro
25%
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
HISB317Intro
25%
Establishes provisions relating to the Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology Interstate Compact to facilitate interstate practice of audiology and speech-language pathology. Requires the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs to adopt rules to...
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2023-12-11
Carried over to 2024 Regular Session.
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
HISB1604Intro
25%
Authorizes certain criminal offenders to undergo anger management counseling in lieu of domestic violence intervention as part of their sentences.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary 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
HISB1149Intro
25%
Requires state and county agencies to process the aggregated energy and water data of certain properties through the federal ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager and submit the benchmarking data to the office of planning and sustainable development. Appropr...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee
HISB675Intro
25%
Establishes a nationally certified school psychologist incentive program. Appropriates funds for the incentive program.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee
HISB403Engross
50%
Repeals the designation of black coral as the official gem of the State. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs 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
HISB885Intro
25%
Makes the quorum and voting requirements of the Nonprofit Corporation Act inapplicable to planned community associations and condominiums.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
HISB612Engross
50%
Requires that a written disclaimer be provided by sellers or providers of emotional support animals or certificates or identification tags for emotional support animals that the animal is not a service animal or the item does not qualify as an item f...
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2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HISB1167Enroll
75%
Proposes a constitutional amendment to protect an individual's reproductive freedom in their most intimate decisions, including the right to abortion and contraceptives. (SD1)
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2023-12-11
Carried over to 2024 Regular Session.
HISB1180Intro
25%
Prohibits the sale of geolocation information and internet browser information without consent.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee
HISB1054Intro
25%
Prohibits non-compete and non-solicit clauses in employment contracts relating to employees of a restaurant, retail store, newspaper, magazine, news agency, press association, wire service, or radio or television transmission station or network.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee
HISB1160Intro
25%
Allows the Intermediate Appellate Court to review orders issued by the Hawaii Paroling Authority.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB321Engross
50%
Establishes a working group to study the feasibility and effects of the State adopting the Advanced Practice Registered Nurse Compact. Requires a report to the Legislature. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Health 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
HISB1092Intro
25%
Makes driving without a license a civil violation. Establishes fines. Takes effect 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB1250Intro
25%
Establishes a state income tax deduction for eligible contributions made by residents of the State into the HI529Hawaii's College Savings Program.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Higher Education Committee
HISB901Intro
25%
Requires the Department of Health to post on its website separate reports for various visits, violations, plans, and confirmations the Department performs or issues of certain care facilities. Establishes deadlines for each report type. Requires the ...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB1168Intro
25%
Expands eligibility for, and automates, the expungement of arrest and conviction records if certain criteria are met, including the lack of a conviction record for a specified time period following the date of an arrest, conviction, or release from i...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB1177Intro
25%
Allows dogs in restaurants at the restaurant owner's or manager's discretion, provided that certain conditions are met.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services 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
HISB315Intro
25%
Classifies certain former military vehicles as special interest vehicles. Enables owners of former military vehicles to apply for registration. Effective 07/01/2050. (SD1)
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary 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
HISB1470Engross
50%
Requires the Department of Public Safety to install digital cameras in all guard control rooms of any correctional center housing women. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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2023-12-11
To House Corrections, Military, & Veterans Committee
HISB1213Intro
25%
Requires all private schools to develop and implement comprehensive action plans for the management of anaphylaxis in their respective schools, including administration of auto-injectable epinephrine. Establishes certain immunity from liability for d...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB600Intro
25%
Increases the categories of women required to be covered for mammogram screenings. Requires the existing health insurance mandate for coverage of low-dose mammography to include digital mammography and breast tomosynthesis. Defines "digital breast to...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB98Engross
50%
Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources' Division of Aquatic Resources to submit an annual report to the Legislature, beginning in 2025, summarizing the Division's expenditure of funds received from the federal Wildlife and Sport Fish R...
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2023-12-11
To House Water & Land Committee
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