Hawaii Senator Joy San Buenaventura [D]

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HISB2984Intro
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Establishes the Hawaii Capital Loan Revolving Fund to be used to make loans to businesses located in nationally-declared disaster areas relating to the 2023 Maui wildfires and to, in part, administer the Maui Business Bridge Grants Program. Declares ...
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2024-01-26
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee
HISB2138Intro
25%
Requires that each vote cast for a question on a ballot for the ratification of a constitutional amendment be counted in the negative only if the ballot properly indicates that the vote is in the negative.
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2024-01-25
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB2015Intro
25%
Amends the priority for which moneys in the Rental Housing Revolving Fund are to be used.
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2024-01-25
To Senate Housing Committee
HISB2136Intro
25%
Establishes fees that medical providers may charge for medical records and imposes civil penalties.
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2024-01-24
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB2338Intro
25%
For policies, contracts, plans, agreements, and plan contracts issued or renewed after 12/31/2024, requires the insurers, mutual benefit societies, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage for standard fertility preservation services.
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2024-01-24
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB2466Intro
25%
Establishes a Crisis Intervention and Diversion Services Program within the Department of Health to expand existing services to divert those with mental health issues to appropriate health care services. Defines "mental health emergency worker". Decl...
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2024-01-24
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB2472Intro
25%
Increases the monthly needs allowance from $50 to $75. Clarifies that the needs allowance is not intended to replace or affect funds received from the federal supplemental security income program. Requires certain long-term care facility operators to...
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2024-01-24
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB2438Intro
25%
Requires, rather than allows, any person who violates chapter 6E, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to appear before the Board of Land and Natural Resources. Requires, rather than allows, the Board of Land and Natural Resources to impose fines.
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2024-01-24
To Senate Water and Land Committee
HISB2480Intro
25%
Repeals the designation of black coral as the official gem of the State.
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2024-01-24
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee
HISB2464Intro
25%
Authorizes health care organizations to accept a health care provider's credentialing that was conducted by certain health care organizations or state agencies. Establishes a Health Care Credentialing Clearinghouse Pilot Program within the Department...
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2024-01-24
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB2489Intro
25%
Authorizes and establishes procedures and criteria for prescriptive authority for clinical psychologists who meet specific education, training, and registration requirements. Requires the Board of Psychology to accept applications for prescriptive au...
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2024-01-24
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB2549Intro
25%
Removes from the standard condominium proxy form the option of giving a proxy vote to the board of directors of a condominium association as a whole or to directors present at the meeting. Requires a disclosure statement on the standard condominium p...
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2024-01-24
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
HISB2614Intro
25%
Modifies penalties for violations of the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations rules from a fixed fine to a fine proportional to the yearly income of the violator.
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2024-01-24
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee
HISB2491Intro
25%
Establishes the offense of negligent failure to control a dog.
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2024-01-24
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
HISB2484Intro
25%
Appropriates funds for the continued implementation of the return-to-home pilot program, established pursuant to Act 94, Session Laws of Hawaii 2023, to provide eligible homeless individuals with assistance in reuniting with family and relatives in t...
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2024-01-24
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB2616Intro
25%
Authorizes student-athletes attending public and private high schools to earn compensation for the use of their name, image, or likeness, and to obtain related professional representation. Repeals on 1/1/30.
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2024-01-24
To Senate Education Committee
HISB2612Intro
25%
Establishes the offense of habitual runaway.
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2024-01-24
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB2540Intro
25%
Reinstates income tax credit for cesspool upgrade, conversion, or connection for eligible taxpayers and eligible expenses. Applies retroactively to 12/31/2020.
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2024-01-24
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
HISB2488Intro
25%
Subjects certain rent-to-own contracts for real property in the State to state and federal foreclosure procedures.
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2024-01-24
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
HISB2567Intro
25%
Requires the law enforcement standards board to develop training materials related to the recognition and signs of Alzheimer's disease and related types of dementia. Requires law enforcement officers to review training materials for at least 1 hour p...
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2024-01-24
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB2568Intro
25%
Authorizes pharmacists to order and administer immunizations and vaccinations to children three years of age and older under state law.
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2024-01-24
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
HISB2610Intro
25%
Prohibits employers from employing employees for a workday longer than eight hours for more than 6 days in a workweek unless the employer pays the employee overtime pay at 1.5 times the employee's regular rate for hours worked in excess of 8 hours, a...
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2024-01-24
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee
HISB2633Intro
25%
For taxable years beginning after 12/31/2024, provides a temporary income tax credit for the cost of upgrading or converting a qualified cesspool to a wastewater system approved by the director of health, or connecting to a sewerage system. Sunsets 1...
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2024-01-24
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
HISB2544Intro
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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2024-01-24
To Senate Education Committee
HISB2604Intro
25%
Establishes a court's authority to issue an order restricting abusive litigation.
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2024-01-24
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB2629Intro
25%
Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to make phone calls free for incarcerated persons who have been convicted or are detained and awaiting a verdict.
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2024-01-24
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB2485Intro
25%
Establishes the advisory council for sexual trauma in the Hawaii national guard. Requires annual reports to the Legislature.
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2024-01-24
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB2786Intro
25%
Beginning on 7/1/2024, requires that the state supplemental payment for type 1 adult residential care homes, licensed developmental disabilities domiciliary homes, community care foster family homes, and certified adult foster homes not exceed $1,136...
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2024-01-24
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB2775Intro
25%
Establishes the Rural Health Task Force within the Department of Health to make recommendations on registered nurse recruitment and retention in rural areas of east Maui, Molokai, and Lanai.
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2024-01-24
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB2717Intro
25%
Allows the Department of Accounting and General Services to employ persons exempt from civil service and collective bargaining requirements.
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2024-01-24
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee
HISB2883Intro
25%
Beginning with the 2025-2026 school year, requires the Department of Education to ensure that inclusive curricula are available to all students at public schools. Makes it a discriminatory practice to refuse to approve, remove, or prohibit the use or...
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2024-01-24
To Senate Education Committee
HISB2848Intro
25%
Allows direct shipment of beer and distilled spirits by certain licensees. Requires the Liquor Commission of each county to adopt rules and regulations.
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2024-01-24
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
HISB2679Intro
25%
Requires the Department of Education to create and distribute to the parents and guardians of students a firearms access prevention and secure storage model notice.
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2024-01-24
To Senate Education Committee
HISB2724Intro
25%
Requires defendants convicted of causing the death of a parent or legal guardian of a minor child by the operation of a vehicle in a negligent manner while under the influence of drugs or alcohol to make restitution in the form of financial support t...
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2024-01-24
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB2852Intro
25%
Establishes a two-year senior access pilot program in the Executive Office on Aging to improve access to essential services and reduce wait times for seniors seeking public services through state and county government offices. Requires the Auditor to...
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2024-01-24
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB2750Intro
25%
Establishes state policy to promote braille literacy for blind students. Requires the individualized education programs of blind students to include the instruction of Braille and provision of Braille instructional materials under certain circumstanc...
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2024-01-24
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB2704Intro
25%
Prohibits civil asset forfeiture unless the covered offense is a felony for which the property owner has been convicted. Excludes the forfeiture proceedings for an animal pending criminal charges. Requires the Attorney General to deposit the net proc...
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2024-01-24
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB2884Intro
25%
Proposes a constitutional amendment to ensure that the basis to marriage shall not be denied or abridged on the basis of race or sex.
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2024-01-24
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB2776Intro
25%
Requires the State to pay, without delay, military personnel called to active duty at the same rate as their active duty counterparts and provide basic housing allowance.
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2024-01-24
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB2696Intro
25%
Establishes standards for the collection, sale, and destruction of consumer health data by regulated entities and small businesses.
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2024-01-24
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
HISB2807Intro
25%
Establishes an annual tax credit for qualified physicians who actively practice medicine in rural areas of the state.
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2024-01-24
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB2795Intro
25%
Requires the Department of Agriculture, in collaboration with other state agencies, to develop and implement a plan to expand the meat processing capacity in the State to allow for meat from axis deer and other wild game to be processed for distribut...
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2024-01-24
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
HISB2796Intro
25%
Requires the Department of Health, to the extent allowable under federal law, to prioritize the use of water pollution control revolving fund moneys for projects by homeowners to upgrade cesspools to director-approved wastewater systems or connect ho...
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2024-01-24
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB2681Intro
25%
Amends chapter 127A, HRS, to clarify State and local authority. Prohibits the Governor or Mayor from suspending requests for public records or vital specifics during a state of emergency. Clarifies that powers granted for emergency purposes shall not...
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2024-01-24
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB2700Intro
25%
Requires manufacturers of certain products and appliances to make available to any applicable product or appliance owners, service and repair facilities, and service dealers, on fair and reasonable terms, the documentation, parts, and tools used to d...
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2024-01-24
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
HISB2851Intro
25%
Increases from $800 to $1,600 the amount of death benefits paid by the Department of Human Services to cover the cremation and disposition costs for a deceased person who was eligible for medical or financial assistance at the time of the person's de...
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2024-01-24
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB2844Intro
25%
Excludes critical infrastructure information from disclosure requirements under the Uniform Information Practices Act.
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2024-01-24
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB2882Intro
25%
Relaxes the requirements for prescribing certain controlled substances as part of gender-affirming health care services. Expands the protections established under Act 2, SLH 2023, to include gender-affirming health care services. Clarifies jurisdicti...
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2024-01-24
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB2785Intro
25%
Increases the monthly needs allowance from $50 to $75. Clarifies that the needs allowance is not intended to replace or affect funds received from the federal supplemental security income program. Requires the Department of Human Services to perform ...
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2024-01-24
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB2778Intro
25%
Amends the composition of the Board of Agriculture by providing representation from the islands of Molokai and Lanai.
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2024-01-24
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
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