Hawaii Representative Justin Woodson [D] | Bills | Introduced

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HIHB2100Intro
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Provides rebates for eligible electric vehicle-ready parking stalls for new construction of affordable housing. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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2024-02-20
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee
HIHB2138Intro
25%
Appropriates funds to the University of Hawaii for the College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources to establish an agriculture education coordinator position. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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2024-02-16
To House Finance Committee
HIHB2130Intro
25%
Establishes and appropriates funds for the sustainable food systems working group and positions within the Department of Agriculture. Requires report to the legislature. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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2024-02-16
To House Finance Committee
HIHB2137Intro
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Establishes the Hawaii farm to food bank program to alleviate food shortages in the State. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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2024-02-16
To House Finance Committee
HIHB2297Intro
25%
Requires the Hawaii state energy office to adopt rules governing a clean fuel standard for alternative fuels in the State. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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2024-02-16
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HIHB2757Intro
25%
By 1/1/2027, requires the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to establish a family and medical leave insurance program and begin collecting payroll contributions to finance payment of benefits. By 1/1/2028, requires the Department to start ...
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2024-02-16
To House Finance Committee
HIHB1954Intro
25%
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. (HD1)
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2024-02-15
To House Finance Committee
HIHB1676Intro
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Appropriate funds to the University of Hawaii to fulfill the requirements of Act 141, Session Laws of Hawaii 2022. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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2024-02-14
To House Finance Committee
HIHB2129Intro
25%
Includes single-ingredient products as a purchasing option for certain state departments and entities to fulfill their local food purchasing requirements. Defines "single-ingredient product".
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2024-02-14
To House Agriculture Committee
HIHB2153Intro
25%
Establishes an air and space law program at the William S. Richardson School of Law at the University of Hawaii. Appropriates moneys. Declares that the appropriation exceeds the state general fund expenditure ceiling for 2024-2025.
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2024-02-14
To House Higher Education & Technology Committee
HIHB2271Intro
25%
Beginning 1/1/2025, requires the department of business, economic development, and tourism to administer a workforce development incentive rebate program that incentivizes local independent film and television productions.
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2024-02-14
To House Economic Development Committee
HIHB2722Intro
25%
Prohibits the assessment of any fees, fines, or court costs against a person who was adjudicated for an offense committed during the person's minority, or against the person's parent or guardian, and discharges all related debt obligations assessed b...
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2024-02-14
To House Finance Committee
HIHB1656Intro
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Appropriates funds to the Department of Education to assist individuals in obtaining a commercial driver's license for the purpose of becoming school bus drivers. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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2024-02-13
To House Finance Committee
HIHB1648Intro
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Creates a School Psychologists Working Group to recommend actionable steps or propose legislation for an immediate pathway to licensure for school psychologists that can be acted upon in 2025. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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2024-02-13
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HIHB1893Intro
25%
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
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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
25%
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
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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
25%
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
25%
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
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