Hawaii Senator Karl Rhoads [D]

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HISB787Intro
25%
Authorizes a court to order the forfeiture of all of the Employees' Retirement System (ERS) benefits of an ERS member, former member, or retirant upon conviction of the individual for a felony related to the State or county employment of the individu...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee
HISB166Intro
25%
Expands the ban on pistols with a detachable magazine with over a ten round capacity to any firearm with a detachable magazine with over a ten round capacity.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB1491Intro
25%
Prohibits, with certain exceptions, any state agency or political subdivision from providing private information regarding, or authorizing an arrest warrant based on, the receipt or provision of, or assistance with, reproductive health care services ...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB22Engross
50%
Prohibits landlords, including those operating in public housing and educational dorm settings, from renting a dwelling unit that the landlord knows has a current bed bug infestation. Establishes procedures that landlords shall take upon receiving no...
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2023-12-11
To House Housing Committee
HISB983Intro
25%
Requires the registration and registration renewal for methadone clinics and substance use disorder services clinics to be deemed a clinic and for the handling of controlled substances to be contingent upon its location being at least 750 feet away f...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB773Intro
25%
Requires a landowner in possession of 10,000 or more acres to be liable for damages and fines arising from runoff originating on the land and entering into state waters or onto state lands. Requires the Department of Health to adopt rules as necessar...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
HISB175Intro
25%
Requires state agencies to implement an on-site recycling program using rules issued by the Department of Health, in conjunction with the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development, at buildings and facilities managed, maintained, or serviced by ...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB1231Intro
25%
Establishes the Digital Equity Grant Program to award grants to applicants to deploy digital equity projects to covered populations in the State. Appropriates funds. (SD1)
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB27Intro
25%
Prohibits the sale of any new combustion engine-powered vehicle by a person or entity that engages in the practice of selling vehicles to consumers. Imposes a fine of up to $1,000 for each offense.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee
HISB143Intro
25%
Requires self-service stations to put labels on gas dispensing equipment that advise consumers on the effects of fossil fuel consumption to human health and the environment.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
HISB505Intro
25%
Prohibits the harvesting of aquatic life for commercial aquarium purposes, regardless of the method of collection.
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2023-12-11
Carried over to 2024 Regular Session.
HISB1496Intro
25%
Increases the maximum value of the low-income household renters credit to $150 per qualified exemption for households. Adjusts and provides income threshold tiers based on filing status.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Housing Committee
HISB38Intro
25%
Beginning 1/1/2024, allows a qualified applicant to change their sex designation on their birth certificate. Establishes information required for an applicant to change their sex designation on their birth certificate. Requires the Department of Heal...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB498Engross
50%
Establishes the Shipping Container Inspection Program and shipping container inspection program special fund. Amends the definitions of "aerial devices" and "fireworks" within state fireworks law. Requires reports to the Legislature on implementation...
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2023-12-11
To House Transportation Committee
HISB689Intro
25%
Appropriates funds to the Department of Health for the Hawaii State Loan Repayment Program administered through the John A. Burns School of Medicine, subject to a matching funds requirement.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB432Engross
50%
Designates Hawaii coral reefs as critical natural infrastructure.
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2023-12-11
To House Water & Land Committee
HISB509Intro
25%
Requires each executive branch department to: identify existing and planned facilities that are vulnerable to sea level rise, flooding impacts, and natural hazards; assess options for mitigating the impacts of sea level rise to existing and planned f...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB503Intro
25%
Requires the department of health to establish a refrigerant management program to reduce emissions of high global warming potential refrigerants and any refrigerant that is an ozone depleting substance from operation of stationary, commercial, and i...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
HISB910Engross
50%
Restricts the sale of liquor under temporary liquor licenses to confined and demarcated spaces not located on public streets, roads, sidewalks, or pedestrian walkways. Applies restrictions to temporary liquor licenses granted to nonprofit organizatio...
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2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HISB442Engross
50%
Authorizes advanced practice registered nurses, in addition to physicians, to practice medical aid in dying in accordance with their scope of practice and prescribing authority. Authorizes psychiatric mental health nurse practitioners, in addition to...
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2023-12-11
To House Health Committee
HISB932Intro
25%
Increases shoreline setback requirements.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee
HISB508Intro
25%
Requires the Clean Water Branch to perform water quality testing during brown water advisories and post informational signs to explain health risks associated with water runoff during brown water advisories. Requires the Department of Health to prior...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB1002Intro
25%
Directs the Hawaii State Energy Office, in conjunction with the Hawaii Natural Energy Institute, to develop and submit a strategy report to the Legislature by 2025 for the construction of at least one atmospheric carbon capture plant in the State by ...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB11Intro
25%
Adds the requirement of notifying the Terrorist Screening Center administered by the Federal Bureau of Investigation as part of the gun permit application background check process.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB766Intro
25%
Beginning 7/1/2025, requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources State Historic Preservation Division to contract its review of proposed state projects, and projects affecting historic properties to third party consultants if the projects in...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB172Intro
25%
Expands eligibility for the Hawaii community college promise program to all qualified students. Appropriates funds to expand access to community college to qualified Hawaii residents through Hawaii community college promise program scholarships.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Higher Education Committee
HISB344Intro
25%
Establishes a working group within DHRD to: examine and redescribe certain existing position descriptions of state public workers in all state departments and agencies; examine and make recommendations regarding the impact of the pay disparities betw...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee
HISB1088Intro
25%
Provides public employees with up to 2 hours of paid leave each calendar year to attend a scheduled physical examination with a licensed physician.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee
HISB873Intro
25%
Appropriates funds for the Department of Human Resources to contract for a study on the gender pay gap within the government of the State. Requires a report to the Legislature.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee
HISB913Intro
25%
Prohibits the sale of certain fluorescent lamps as a new manufactured product, with certain exemptions.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee
HISB411Intro
25%
Requires the court to appoint counsel to indigent parents upon the filing of a petition for custody or family supervision and make every effort to do so at the first hearing attended by the parents.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB906Intro
25%
Establishes enhanced penalties for multiple violations of the same liquor law by licensees in a county with a population of 500,000 or more, under certain circumstances.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB400Intro
25%
Restricts civil asset forfeiture to cases involving the commission of a felony offense where the property owner has been convicted of an underlying felony offense. Directs forfeiture proceeds to the general fund. Amends the allowable expenses for mon...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB877Intro
25%
Requires employers to provide certain paid breaks to employees.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee
HISB376Engross
50%
Prohibits the mining, extraction, and removal of minerals from the seabed in all state marine waters. Prohibits the issuance of any permit for or in connection with the development or operation of any facility or infrastructure associated with the mi...
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HISB1143Intro
25%
Requires the department of transportation to perform routine inspections of highways in the state highway system that are at risk of rockslides every five years and after major rainfall events.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee
HISB923Intro
25%
Prohibits a person from lending a firearm to a person who does not have a firearm permit or does not have a registered firearm. Requires an adult who is borrowing a firearm to have either a firearm permit or a registered firearm, and not be prohibite...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB723Intro
25%
Prohibits the sale, offer for sale, or operation of gasoline-powered leaf blowers. Increases the amounts of fines for offenses against leaf blower restrictions and provides for the forfeiture of gasoline-powered leaf blowers on a third violation. Rem...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
HISB353Engross
50%
Clarifies that when trespass involves public land, all state and county law enforcement officers are authorized to and shall enforce trespass laws, without regard to whether the land is owned by the State or by a county. (SD2)
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2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HISB992Enroll
75%
Proposes a constitutional amendment to increase the mandatory retirement age for justices and judges from 70 to 75 years of age. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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2023-12-11
Carried over to 2024 Regular Session.
HISB348Intro
25%
Limits public funding to beach replenishment projects in resort zoned areas to twenty per cent.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee
HISB1051Intro
25%
Establishes a paid family leave program for state and county employees. Authorizes a qualifying employee to take up to 12 weeks of paid leave for the birth or placement of a child or to care for a family member who has a serious health condition. Req...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee
HISB60Intro
25%
Authorizes state-licensed and credentialed physicians, advanced practice registered nurses, and physician assistants, who are not physically in the State, to issue prescriptions for certain controlled substances under a limited circumstance. Authoriz...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB168Intro
25%
Requires the Department of Health to post on its website an easily understandable, searchable, and sortable list of all state-licensed care facilities including information on their licenses and inspections. Requires that the list be updated within f...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB8Intro
25%
Requires all state agencies adopting, amending, or repealing a rule to make the full text of the rules of the agency available on the website of the Office of the Lieutenant Governor in a digitally accessible and searchable format.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Government Operations Committee
HISB1008Intro
25%
Imposes a state carbon emissions tax of $6.25 per ton of carbon dioxide equivalent emissions on all aviation fuel. Directs the aviation fuel tax into the airport revenue fund. Implements a tax credit to mitigate the effects of this tax on lower incom...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee
HISB340Engross
50%
Appropriates funds to the Hawaii Public Housing Authority for the rehabilitation, remodeling, renovation, and repair of housing units without regard to civil service law. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HISB679Intro
25%
Establishes an oral health task force to review the status of oral health in the State and make recommendations to improve oral health infrastructure in Hawaii. Appropriates funds.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB15Intro
25%
Authorizes the Director of Transportation to adopt rules that regulate and limit noise from vessels at harbors, ports, roadsteads, docks, wharves, piers, quays, bulkheads, and landings of the State. Takes effect 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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2023-12-11
Carried over to 2024 Regular Session.
HISB1212Engross
50%
Prohibits any campaign website for any candidate or candidate committee from containing information or manipulating content in any manner that is designed to induce a noncandidate committee to use that content to make expenditures supporting the cand...
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2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
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