Hawaii Representative Justin Woodson [D] | Bills

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HIHB1893Intro
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Amends Act 153, Session Laws of Hawaii 2022, to increase the cesspool compliance pilot grant project grant amount and update a reference. Appropriates funds for fiscal year 2024-2025 and to establish positions to implement the pilot grant project.
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2024-02-13
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee
HIHB1894Intro
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Authorizes and appropriates funds to the Department of Health to retain qualified consultants as necessary to identify necessary public outreach and education resources and tools and develop a comprehensive public outreach strategy and website to edu...
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2024-02-13
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee
HIHB2739Intro
25%
Establishes the Hawaii home energy assistance program within the Department of Human Services to assist households in paying their energy bills. Establishes the Hawaii home energy assistance special fund. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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2024-02-12
To House Finance Committee
HIHB1587Intro
25%
Requires the Public Access Room to establish and maintain an outreach and engagement program for primary, secondary, post-secondary, and community education. Requires the Department of Education and University of Hawaii to assign appropriate staff to...
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2024-02-08
To House Finance Committee
HIHB1797Intro
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Appropriates funds to the Department of Education to strengthen student transportation services for Hawaii's public school system.
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2024-02-08
To House Education Committee
HIHB2256Intro
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Beginning with the 2024-2025 school year, requires the Department of Education to provide free breakfast and lunch to students enrolled in a public school who meet certain requirements. Appropriates funds.
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2024-02-08
To House Education Committee
HIHB2728Intro
25%
Establishes the Hui Hoomana task force to identify actionable priorities and financial resources to offer the State's residents universal access to affordable, high-quality healthcare and health insurance. Requires reports to the Legislature. Dissolv...
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2024-02-08
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HIHB2740Intro
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Establishes the Hawaii zero waste initiative to manage the State's transition to a zero solid waste economy.
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2024-02-08
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee
HIHB2240Intro
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Opens eligibility under the Hawaii Educator Loan Program for students and teachers who agree to teach as a full-time teacher in a public charter school. Decreases the service requirement for total loan forgiveness to five years and increases the perc...
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2024-02-07
To House Finance Committee
HIHB2234Intro
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Requires and appropriates funds for the Judiciary to develop a three-year civil legal services pilot program to provide civil legal services at no cost to eligible parties. Requires reports to the Legislature. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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2024-02-07
To House Finance Committee
HIHB1573Intro
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Caps the primary and secondary ticket seller service charges that may be added on to event ticket prices. Requires website operators to guarantee refunds in certain circumstances and disclose that the website is not the primary ticket seller. Prohibi...
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2024-02-06
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HIHB1661Intro
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Expands eligibility for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program to include any individual or household whose monthly income is equal to or less than three hundred per cent of the federal poverty level. Appropriates funds.
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2024-02-06
To House Human Services Committee
HIHB1958Intro
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Requires the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to establish a three-year child care pilot grant program to provide grants to employers to assist in offering child care or caregiving support for their employees.
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2024-02-06
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee
HIHB2087Intro
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Establishes a two-year elder 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. Authorizes the Executiv...
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2024-02-06
To House Finance Committee
HIHB2539Intro
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Appropriates funds to increase the funding for medicaid in-home services, conditioned on the Department of Human Services obtaining the maximum federal matching funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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2024-02-06
To House Finance Committee
HIHB1614Intro
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Increases the bonus for teachers who achieve and maintain a current national board certification from $5,000 to $15,000. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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2024-02-05
To House Finance Committee
HIHB1649Intro
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Establishes a nationally certified school psychologist incentive program. Appropriates funds for the incentive program. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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2024-02-05
To House Finance Committee
HIHB1687Intro
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Requires full retail crediting for energy exports enrolled in grid services programs, whereby energy exported to the electrical grid past a participating customer-generator's point of common coupling from photovoltaic solar systems paired with batter...
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2024-02-05
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HIHB2158Intro
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Adopts the nurse licensure compact. Beginning 01/01/2026, requires nurses who hold multistate licenses issued by a state other than Hawaii to complete demographic data surveys. Authorizes the Board of Nursing to assess different fees for registered n...
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2024-02-02
To House Health Committee
HIHB2194Intro
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Prohibits a health insurer from requiring an insured diagnosed with stage two through stage five cancer to undergo step therapy prior to covering the insured for certain drugs prescribed by the insured's health care provider, under certain conditions...
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2024-02-02
To House Health Committee
HIHB2035Intro
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Codifies program modification requirements for demonstration projects established by child care facilities that are licensed by the Department of Human Services.
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2024-02-01
To House Human Services Committee
HIHB2591Intro
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Appropriates moneys to the Department of Human Services for the Preschool Open Doors program. Declares that the appropriation exceeds the general fund expenditure ceiling.
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2024-02-01
To House Human Services Committee
HIHB846Intro
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Enacts the interstate teacher mobility compact to reduce the barriers to teacher license portability and employment. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD2)
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2024-01-31
To House Education Committee
HIHB2250Intro
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Requires the Department of Law Enforcement to coordinate crisis intervention training for state and county law enforcement agencies and crisis intervention officers. Requires the Department of Health to certify crisis intervention officers. Defines "...
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2024-01-31
To House Health Committee
HIHB2571Intro
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Establishes the multifamily housing accessibility modifications grant program to facilitate the installation of accessibility modifications in certain properties. Appropriates moneys. Declares that the appropriation exceeds the state general fund exp...
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2024-01-31
To House Housing Committee
HIHB2296Intro
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Establishes a tax credit for the import of renewable fuel. Updates the renewable fuels production tax credit.
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2024-01-30
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee
HIHB2575Intro
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Establishes a construction trades workforce development program in the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to develop, establish, and implement a construction trades career pathway program for high school students in the State. Appropriates ...
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2024-01-30
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee
HIHB2102Intro
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Requires the Public Utilities Commission to convene workshops to aid electric utilities in the development and implementation of best practices regarding wildfires. Requires electric utilities to design and operate in compliance with a risk-based wil...
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2024-01-29
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee
HIHB2257Intro
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Establishes the Public Education Scholarship Program within the University of Hawaii to provide students who are residents of the State with scholarships in return for a service commitment to teach in a public school classroom of the Department of Ed...
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2024-01-26
To House Higher Education & Technology Committee
HIHB2243Intro
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Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the ninth representative district.
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2024-01-26
To House Finance Committee
HIHB2287Intro
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Appropriates funds for prefabricated, modular, or kauhale-type housing for individuals impacted by the Lahaina wildfire.
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2024-01-26
To House Water & Land Committee
HIHB2251Intro
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Establishes a separate prohibition on driving motor vehicles having noisy mufflers on public highways in high-density areas. Authorizes police officers to conduct examinations and inspections of motor vehicle mufflers in high-density areas. Establish...
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2024-01-26
To House Transportation Committee
HIHB2245Intro
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Establishes and appropriates funds for an artificial intelligence government services pilot program to provide certain government services to the public through an internet portal that uses artificial intelligence technologies.
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2024-01-26
To House Higher Education & Technology Committee
HIHB2233Intro
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Prohibits private and state workforce development programs from rejecting an applicant who is 18 years of age or younger based solely on the applicant's active sentence of probation; provided that the applicant is in full compliance with any court-or...
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2024-01-26
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee
HIHB2545Intro
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Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds and appropriates funds for various agricultural infrastructure projects throughout the State.
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2024-01-26
To House Agriculture Committee
HIHB2573Intro
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Requires planned community associations to either develop and adopt program rules for a neighborhood security watch program within the association's planned community or allocate a portion of the association's regular assessments to fund a neighborho...
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2024-01-26
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HIHB2624Intro
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Establishes a substance abuse treatment special fund. Increases liquor tax rates to unspecified amounts. Allocates increased liquor tax revenues to the substance abuse treatment special fund.
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2024-01-26
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HIHB2727Intro
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Requires planned community associations to either develop and adopt program rules for a neighborhood security watch program within the association's planned community or allocate a portion of the association's regular assessments to fund a neighborho...
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2024-01-26
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HIHB1589Intro
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Appropriates funds for student housing capital improvement projects at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
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2024-01-24
To House Higher Education & Technology Committee
HIHB1567Intro
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Short form bill relating to education.
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2024-01-24
To House Education Committee
HIHB1568Intro
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Short form bill relating to early learning.
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2024-01-24
To House Education Committee
HIHB1667Intro
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Requires a licensing authority to deny or suspend, or refuse to renew, reinstate, or restore, any license if the licensee or applicant is found to have been involved with unlawful fentanyl dealings.
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2024-01-24
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB1671Intro
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Prohibits intentionally leaving or confining pet animals in a vehicle under conditions that endanger their health, safety, or well-being. Permits law enforcement officers, animal control officers, and firefighters to enter an unattended vehicle to pr...
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2024-01-24
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB1796Intro
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Requires the Hawaii clean energy initiative program to design and implement a plan to increase jobs that strengthen emergency preparedness and climate resilience. Authorizes the use of the energy security special fund to advance the State's goals of ...
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2024-01-24
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee
HIHB1785Intro
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Allows striking workers to be eligible for unemployment benefits.
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2024-01-24
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee
HIHB2108Intro
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Requires the Office of Enterprise Technology to develop multilingual accessibility standards. Appropriates funds to establish one full-time position to develop multilingual accessibility standards within the Office of Enterprise Technology Services. ...
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2024-01-24
To House Higher Education & Technology Committee
HIHB2109Intro
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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 House Human Services Committee
HIHB2014Intro
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Prohibits a person from using a location tracker to harass, stalk, or perpetuate a crime against another person without their knowledge.
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2024-01-24
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB2076Intro
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Amends the appropriation of Act 279, SLH 2022, to conform its lapsing provision by 1 year, to conform to constitutional limitations. Appropriates moneys to the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands for fiscal year 2024-2025 to give practical effect to th...
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2024-01-24
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB2075Intro
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Appropriates funds to the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to further reduce its homestead program applicant waitlist.
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2024-01-24
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
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