Hawaii Senator Joy San Buenaventura [D] | Engrossed

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HISB2526Engross
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Requires the Technology Services Consolidation Working Group to assist the Office of Enterprise Technology Services in working with certain state agencies to inventory and categorize the business criticality of each major state information technology...
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2024-04-19
Received notice of appointment of House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 774).
HISB2782Engross
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Requires the Office of Enterprise Technology Services to develop multilingual accessibility standards. Appropriates funds to establish an unspecified number of positions to develop multilingual accessibility standards within the Office of Enterprise ...
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2024-04-19
Received notice of appointment of House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 774).
HISCR23Engross
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Urging The Department Of Health To Amend The Hawaii Administrative Rules To Authorize Licensed Dietitians To Prescribe Modified Diets And Plan Therapeutic Diets.
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2024-04-19
Reported from CPC (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 1929-24), recommending adoption.
HISCR27Engross
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Encouraging The United States Navy To Eradicate Octocoral And Other Invasive Species From The Waters Of Pearl Harbor.
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2024-04-19
Reported from JHA (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 1927-24) as amended in HD 1, recommending adoption.
HISCR34Engross
50%
Requesting The Hawaii Medical Association And Hawaii Psychiatric Medical Association To Convene A Roundtable To Establish Medical Protocols To Ensure That An Individual's Thyroid Function Is Tested Before Psychotropic Medications For Mental Illness A...
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2024-04-19
Reported from CPC (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 1930-24), recommending adoption.
HISCR97Engross
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Requesting The Hawaii State Energy Office To Convene A Renewable Liquid Fuels Working Group To Study Local Production, Development, And Incentives For Renewable Liquid Fuels.
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2024-04-19
Reported from CPC (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 1931-24), recommending adoption.
HISCR115Engross
50%
Encouraging Developers To Incorporate Net Zero Water Building Strategies When Constructing And Renovating Housing Projects In The State.
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2024-04-19
Reported from CPC (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 1932-24), recommending adoption.
HISB2119Engross
50%
Authorizes out-of-state pharmacists to transfer prescription information for the initial fill of an out-of-state prescription. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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2024-04-18
Received notice of Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 694).
HISB2079Engross
50%
Allows the State of Hawaii Plant and Animal Declaration Form to be distributed, completed, and transmitted electronically. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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2024-04-18
[Hearing: Apr 22 @ 11:00 am]

Bill scheduled for Conference Committee Meeting on Monday, 04-22-24 11:00AM in conference room 325.
HISB2070Engross
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Exempts career and technical education goods and services purchases by the Department of Education from the State Procurement Code. Requires the Department of Education to acquire three verbal or written quotes for career and technical education purc...
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2024-04-18
House Conferees Appointed: Woodson, Matayoshi, Morikawa Co-Chairs; La Chica, Garcia.
HISB1590Engross
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Requires the Department of Agriculture to assess the steps necessary for the State to supplement federal authority to perform meat inspections within the State. Requires the Department of Agriculture to assess the steps necessary to transfer full aut...
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2024-04-18
[Hearing: Apr 22 @ 11:00 am]

Bill scheduled for Conference Committee Meeting on Monday, 04-22-24 11:00AM in conference room 325.
HISB2132Engross
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Amends the deadline related to the repair of conditions that constitute health or safety violations. Increases the amount deducted from a tenant's rent for the tenant's actual expenditures to correct health or safety violations and defective conditio...
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2024-04-18
Received notice of appointment of House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 759).
HISB2245Engross
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Adds a definition for "exigent circumstances" and amends the definitions of "harm" and "imminent harm" under the Child Protective Act. Clarifies when the police may take protective custody of a child and when the Department of Human Services may assu...
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2024-04-18
Received notice of Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 694).
HISB2285Engross
50%
Amends the functions and duties of the State Health Planning and Development Agency. Clarifies the definition of "health care". Establishes a task force known as the Hui Hoomana. Establishes positions. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD3)
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2024-04-18
Received notice of Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 694).
HISB2305Engross
50%
Establishes a Silver Alert Program within the Department of Law Enforcement to help locate and safeguard missing persons who are sixty-five years of age or older, cognitively impaired, or developmentally disabled. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/30...
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2024-04-18
Conference committee meeting scheduled for 04-19-24 2:31PM; CR 016.
HISB2401Engross
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Appropriates funds to each county as a grant-in-aid, subject to a county match, for the implementation of feral chicken control programs. Appropriates funds to the Department of Health for a feeding of feral animals education campaign. Effective 7/1/...
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2024-04-18
House Conferees Appointed: Gates, Kahaloa Co-Chairs; Ward.
HISB2476Engross
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Authorizes licensed dental hygienists to perform preventive dental sealant screenings and apply dental sealants on individuals, under certain conditions, in a school-based oral health program. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
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2024-04-18
Conference committee meeting scheduled for 04-19-24 2:09PM; Conference Room 229.
HISB2461Engross
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Specifically authorizes a medical cannabis dispensary to purchase cannabis and manufactured cannabis products from another dispensary. Requires the Department of Health to adopt rules regarding medical cannabis products within a certain time. Effecti...
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2024-04-18
Received notice of appointment of House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 759).
HISB2475Engross
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Establishes a harm to students registry, for all early learning programs or schools and K-12 educational institutions within the State, that contains information on school employees, contractors, or volunteers for whom, as result of an investigation,...
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2024-04-18
Received notice of Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 694).
HISB2556Engross
50%
Permanently establishes and appropriates funds for the Community Outreach Court as a division of the District Court of the First Circuit. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD3)
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2024-04-18
Received notice of Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 694).
HISB2600Engross
50%
Authorizes the use of electronic mail to deliver certain documents when purchasing a condominium. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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2024-04-18
Received notice of appointment of House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 759).
HISB2532Engross
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Clarifies that the definition of "dwelling", as it relates to offenses against property rights, includes multi-unit buildings and connected parking or storage areas that are restricted to residents. Allows the owner of a multi-unit building, an owner...
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2024-04-18
Received notice of appointment of House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 759).
HISB2787Engross
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Establishes within the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations' Office of Community Services the Immigration Services and Access Unit. Appropriates funds for the unit, including for new positions. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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2024-04-18
Received notice of appointment of House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 759).
HISB2657Engross
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Amends the date of Makahiki Commemoration Day. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
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2024-04-18
Received notice of appointment of House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 759).
HISB2845Engross
50%
Prohibits a person from selling ammunition to a person under the age of twenty-one. Prohibits a person under the age of twenty-one from owning, possessing, or controlling ammunition, with exceptions. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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2024-04-18
Conference committee meeting scheduled for 04-19-24 3:30PM; Conference Room 016.
HISB2715Engross
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Makes it unlawful for an employer to discharge, discipline, or otherwise penalize or threaten any adverse employment action against an employee because the employee declines to attend or participate in an employer-sponsored meeting that communicates ...
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2024-04-18
Received notice of appointment of House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 759).
HISB2735Engross
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Requires the driver's license examination to test the applicant's knowledge of the dangers that larger motor vehicles present to pedestrians and bicyclists. Requires persons who commit the offense of excessively speeding or habitually driving while i...
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2024-04-18
House Conferees Appointed: Todd, Tarnas Co-Chairs; Kila, Takayama, Matsumoto.
HISB2819Engross
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Requires vehicles traveling ten miles per hour or more below the posted speed limit on a two-lane highway, behind which five vehicles are formed in a line, to pull over where possible to let the trailing vehicles pass or overtake. Effective 7/1/3000....
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2024-04-18
Conference committee meeting scheduled for 04-19-24 10:01AM; Conference Room 329.
HISB2693Engross
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Establishes the offense of charitable fraud during a state of emergency. Provides that a person commits charitable fraud during a state of emergency if that person, during a state of emergency proclaimed by the Governor, performs certain deceptive ac...
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2024-04-18
Conference committee meeting scheduled for 04-19-24 3:30PM; Conference Room 016.
HISB2943Engross
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Establishes a commercial drivers workforce working group within the Department of Transportation to address the workforce shortage of commercial drivers in the State. Requires a report to the Legislature. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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2024-04-18
Conference committee meeting scheduled for 04-19-24 10:01AM; Conference Room 329.
HISB3011Engross
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Makes it unlawful for any entity or agent thereof to operate a weed whacker in or within one hundred feet of a residential zone, subject to certain exceptions. Extends the time for the use of leaf blowers and weed whackers within or near residential ...
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2024-04-18
Received notice of appointment of House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 759).
HISB3002Engross
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Appropriates funds to the Department of Transportation to implement the recommendations of Task Force on Mobility Management, established pursuant to Act 214, SLH 2013, in consultation with the Aging and Disability Resource Center of the Executive Of...
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2024-04-18
Received notice of Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 694).
HISB3290Engross
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Requires the Disability and Communication Access Board to convene a working group to study the state of American Sign Language interpretation services in Hawaii. Requires a report to the Legislature. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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2024-04-18
Received notice of Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 694).
HISB3305Engross
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Requires all public charter schools that exclusively offer prekindergarten programs to adhere to the public charter school law, with certain exceptions. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
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2024-04-18
Conference committee meeting scheduled for 04-19-24 2:09PM; Conference Room 229.
HISCR45Engross
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Urging The Director Of Finance To Adopt Administrative Rules To Define "beneficial Effects To The State" In Section 38-2, Hawaii Revised Statutes, To Include The Financing Of Housing.
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2024-04-18
The committee on FIN recommend that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes were as follows: 11 Ayes: Representative(s) Yamashita, Kitagawa, Aiu, Chun, Cochran, Garrett, Kahaloa, Lamosao, Morikawa, Poepoe, Takenouchi; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 5 Excused: Representative(s) Kila, Kobayashi, Nishimoto, Alcos, Ward.
HISCR81Engross
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Urging The Governor To Ensure That Relevant State Agencies, Including The Department Of Health And Department Of Human Services, Collaborate To Explore Avenues To Ensure Continued Access To Affordable Medications For The State's Underserved Populatio...
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2024-04-18
The committee on FIN recommend that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes were as follows: 11 Ayes: Representative(s) Yamashita, Kitagawa, Aiu, Chun, Cochran, Garrett, Kahaloa, Lamosao, Morikawa, Poepoe, Takenouchi; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 5 Excused: Representative(s) Kila, Kobayashi, Nishimoto, Alcos, Ward.
HISB1594Engross
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Establishes an expanded crisis intervention and diversion activities program within the department of health to expand existing activities to divert those with mental health issues to appropriate health care services. Defines "crisis center" and "cri...
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2024-04-17
House Conferees Appointed: Takenouchi, Nishimoto Co-Chairs; Garrett, Lamosao, Garcia.
HISB2405Engross
50%
Allows campaign funds to be used for a candidate's child care and vital household dependent care costs under certain conditions. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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2024-04-17
Received notice of Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 690).
HISB2640Engross
50%
Amends the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act to authorize the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to provide cash awards to beneficiaries on the waiting list in lieu of a lease. Amends the Hawaiian Home Loan Fund to be allow for the use of cash award payme...
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2024-04-17
Received notice of Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 690).
HISB2605Engross
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Beginning 1/1/2026, requires health insurers, mutual benefit societies, and health maintenance organizations to provide health insurance coverage for various sexual and reproductive health care services. Applies this coverage to health benefits plans...
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2024-04-17
House Conferees Appointed: Takenouchi, Nakashima, Nishimoto Co-Chairs; Amato, Garcia.
HISB2837Engross
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Temporarily authorizes the Oahu regional health care system to oversee the operations and management agreement of the proposed state veterans home on Maui. Establishes a timeline and process for the permanent oversight of the operations and managemen...
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2024-04-17
Received notice of Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 690).
HISCR186Engross
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Requesting The Insurance Commissioner To Conduct A Comprehensive Study On Wildfire Risk And Insurance, Including Market-based Approaches.
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2024-04-17
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HISCR2Engross
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Endorsing The Participation Of Taiwan As An Observer In The United Nations Framework Convention On Climate Change, International Civil Aviation Organization, World Health Organization, And International Criminal Police Organization.
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2024-04-16
Received notice of disagreement (Sen. Com. No. 682).
HISB2913Engross
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Establishes a new regulatory framework for the sale of travel insurance in the State. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
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2024-04-16
Received notice of Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 684).
HISB3344Engross
50%
Establishes the Hawaii Wildfire Relief Fund and Hawaii Wildfire Relief Fund Corporation to provide compensation for property damage resulting from catastrophic wildfires in the State. Requires the Corporation's board to report to the Legislature. Mak...
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2024-04-16
Received notice of Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 684).
HISCR67Engross
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Urging The Legislature To Preserve, Protect, And Restore Native Hawaiian Limu.
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2024-04-16
Received notice of disagreement (Sen. Com. No. 682).
HISB2066Engross
50%
Establishes another means for a housing project to seek an exemption from laws and rules of the State that are developed under various programs of the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
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2024-04-15
Received notice of Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 678).
HISB2133Engross
50%
Authorizes HHFDC to issue bonds for housing project infrastructure and finance the development of regional state infrastructure projects. Exempts bonds issued by HHFDC for improvements by assessments, and the interest thereon, from state, county, and...
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2024-04-15
Received notice of Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 678).
HISB2085Engross
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Establishes the office of the state fire marshal to direct fire protection efforts statewide. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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2024-04-15
Received notice of Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 678).
HISB1532Engross
50%
Establishes the Hawaii leadership awards program to honor persons from Hawaii who have made considerable and outstanding contributions to the State and who serve as an inspiration to others. Appropriates funds. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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2024-04-15
Received notice of Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 678).
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