Hawaii Senator Joy San Buenaventura [D]

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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
HISB1531Engross
50%
Establishes the Beneficial Treatments Advisory Council to review mental health treatment information and advise the Department of Health. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD2)
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2023-12-11
To House Health Committee
HISB1175Intro
25%
Requires the department of education to develop and implement safety training for all cafeteria student helpers and ensure the student helpers receive the training prior to them volunteering.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee
HISB1479Intro
25%
Increases from $100 to $200 the fine imposed against an adult pedestrian who improperly crosses the street if the pedestrian does so while accompanied by a minor under the age of 15.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary 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
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
HISB902Engross
50%
Requires the Executive Office on Aging to establish a workforce development and support center. Appropriates funds for the center's establishment. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Health Committee
HISB1042Intro
25%
Clarifies the definition of "imminent harm". Requires police officers to comply with exigency requirements when removing a child from the child's home and to promptly submit a police report documenting specific, articulable evidence of imminent harm ...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB1038Engross
50%
Temporarily allows for the reimbursement of services provided through telehealth via an interactive telecommunications system and two-way, real-time audio-only communications in certain circumstances. Defines "interactive telecommunications system". ...
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2023-12-11
To House Health 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
HISB1091Engross
50%
Authorizes certain counties to use county surcharge on state tax revenues and fuel tax revenues for the repair and maintenance of private roadways that are open to and used by the public. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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2023-12-11
To House Transportation Committee
HISB609Engross
50%
Requires health insurance policies and contracts issued on or after 01/01/2024 to provide coverage for the cost of hearing aids at a minimum of an unspecified amount per hearing aid for each hearing-impaired ear every thirty-six months. Effective 12/...
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2023-12-11
To House Health Committee
HISB1487Intro
25%
Imposes labeling requirements for mamaki tea grown in the State. Appropriates funds to the department of agriculture to administer the mamaki tea labeling requirements.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
HISB1109Intro
25%
Allows for the regulation of sports wagering by the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism. Establishes licensing requirements for sports wagering operators and sports wagering suppliers. Specifies that sports wagering shall not be...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee
HISB1529Intro
25%
Appropriates funds for the establishment of one full-time equivalent (1.0 FTE) permanent position within the Animal Industry Division of the Department of Agriculture that shall find, solicit, and distribute grants for the control of feral game mamma...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
HISB1486Engross
50%
Requires the Department of Agriculture, in collaboration with the Hawaii Interagency Council on Homelessness; Department of Land and Natural Resources, Division of Forestry and Wildlife; and Department of Health, Food Safety Branch; and in consultati...
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HISB1083Intro
25%
Appropriates funds for a three-year continuation of the wind-generated storm damage reef-insurance policy purchased by The Nature Conservancy in November 2022.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land 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
HISB1181Intro
25%
Requires solar conduit and electrical panel readiness for new residential construction and electric vehicle readiness when an electrical panel and parking area are installed. Effective 1/1/2024.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee
HISB466Engross
50%
Prohibits noncandidate committees from making expenditures or contributions or disseminating any advertisements on the day of any election and the two-week period preceding any election. (SD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HISB163Engross
50%
Appropriates funds to be expended by the Executive Office on Aging for an Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias Public Health Campaign. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Health Committee
HISB79Intro
25%
Repeals the requirement for Board of Land and Natural Resources approval for lease extensions in the Hilo Community Economic District. Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to use the current tax assessed value when offering lease ext...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB899Intro
25%
Authorizes advanced practice registered nurses to practice medical aid in dying or provide counseling to a qualified patient. Amends the mandatory waiting period between oral requests and the provision of a prescription.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB1503Intro
25%
Prohibits certain boards from taking adverse action against individuals possessing or applying for a license to practice medicine and surgery or nursing for providing abortion care services or gender affirming treatments in the State in compliance wi...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB605Intro
25%
Requires the Department of Education to meet with Hawaii School for the Deaf and Blind stakeholders and members of the Hawaii deaf community regarding the development of a plan to transition the Hawaii School for the Deaf and Blind to a conversion ch...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee
HISB1034Intro
25%
Requires the maintenance of at least three hundred parking stalls at Ala Wai Boat Harbor at no cost for recreational ocean access and for the practice of traditional and customary Native Hawaiian rights. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB311Intro
25%
Requires the Department of Human Services to establish and administer a two-year Infant and Toddler Child Care Contracted Slots Pilot Program. Requires annual reports on the pilot program's development and administration to the Legislature. Appropria...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB1480Intro
25%
Establishes within the Department of the Attorney General, an Environmental Crimes Unit, which shall be a cooperative effort between the Department of the Attorney General and the Department of Health to investigate and prosecute crimes that pose sub...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
HISB882Intro
25%
Increases the minimum classroom instruction time for state certified or National Rifle Association certified firearm safety courses from four to fourteen hours. Requires firearm safety courses to include additional subject matter. Requires applicants...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB603Intro
25%
Allows students who experienced educational disruption to graduate high school through enrollment in an accepted alternative education program and participation in certain activities approved by the department of education.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee
HISB895Intro
25%
Establishes the Hawaii health data exchange framework. Establishes the stakeholder advisory group to assist the department of health in the development of the framework. Requires certain health care organizations to execute a health data sharing agre...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB606Engross
50%
Exempts from the general excise tax, gross receipts received by a hospital, infirmary, medical clinic, health care facility, pharmacy, or a practitioner licensed to administer drugs to an individual, from the sale of hearing aids. Effective 12/31/205...
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2023-12-11
To House Health Committee
HISB1416Engross
50%
Requires any report of a study or an audit enacted with a legislative appropriation or adopted by concurrent resolution to be submitted to the President of the Senate, Speaker of the House of Representatives, the chairs of the appropriate subject mat...
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2023-12-11
To House Legislative Management Committee
HISB1172Intro
25%
Requires manufacturers of powered medical equipment to make available to powered medical equipment owners and independent repair providers parts, equipment, tools, documentation, and training courses and materials. Requires manufacturers to provide t...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB1214Intro
25%
Establishes a tax equal to seventy per cent of the manufacturer's list price for electronic smoking devices and e-liquid products. Expands the electronic smoking device retailer registration unit to include wholesalers. Requires electronic cigarette ...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB1118Intro
25%
Reduces and eliminates the general excise tax for the sale of groceries that are eligible under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children over a four-year period. Reduces ...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB464Intro
25%
Repeals criminal penalties for possession of one ounce or less of marijuana.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB672Intro
25%
Repeal language that gives the Director of Finance discretion to use moneys in the Hawaii ABLE Savings Program Trust Fund if the Director elects to accept deposits from contributors instead of sending deposits directly to the ABLE Program Manager. Au...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB1043Intro
25%
Decriminalizes and legalizes the personal use, possession, and sale of cannabis in a specified quantity. Entitles persons arrested or convicted of certain marijuana offenses from custody or incarceration. Entitles certain persons to the expungement o...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB1576Intro
25%
Gradually reduces the general excise tax rate imposed on the retail sale of groceries and nonprescription medication over a period of four years until eliminated in calendar year 2027. Preserves the county surcharge on tax and the general excise tax ...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB161Intro
25%
Appropriates grant funding to the YMCA of Honolulu for its Youth Wellness Program for Mental Health to address the statewide declining mental health outcomes of youths related to the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD1)
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB1183Intro
25%
Requires the department of agriculture to include a statement on desecration laws in the plants and animals declaration form.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
HISB1195Intro
25%
Requires the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to report to the Legislature on the progress and ultimate outcome of the ongoing lease rent renegotiations and to recommend whether the management duties for the valley should be transfe...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB1015Engross
50%
Appropriates funds for the expansion of the certified nurse aide to practical nurse bridge program at the University of Hawaii Maui college, including funding for instructional costs and student aid. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Higher Education & Technology Committee
HISB601Intro
25%
Authorizes the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds to assist Hawaii Pacific Health. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD1)
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB1179Engross
50%
Prohibits foreign entities and foreign-influenced business entities from making contributions, expenditures, electioneering communications, or donations for election purposes. Requires every business entity that contributes or expends funds in a stat...
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HISB399Intro
25%
Expands the original jurisdiction of family court to include proceedings for declaration of emancipation of minors. Expands the circumstances under which a minor shall be deemed to be emancipated to include minors on active duty with the Armed Forces...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB1115Intro
25%
Increases the percentage rate of weekly workers' compensation benefits for partially dependent parents of a deceased child from twenty-five per cent to fifty per cent.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee
HISB1478Engross
50%
Establishes an offensive cybersecurity program within the office of enterprise technology services to analyze and evaluate cybersecurity threats and increase cybersecurity awareness and education. Establishes a goal for all state and county agencies ...
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
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