Hawaii Senator Karl Rhoads [D] | Senate

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HISB1125Intro
25%
Appropriates funds to the Department of Education to design and construct photovoltaic panel coverings over playgrounds at all Department of Education schools.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee
HISB1470Engross
50%
Requires the Department of Public Safety to install digital cameras in all guard control rooms of any correctional center housing women. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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2023-12-11
To House Corrections, Military, & Veterans Committee
HISB979Intro
25%
Requires individuals to complete a firearms skills assessment, safety course, and education course prior to being granted a license to carry a pistol or revolver.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB170Intro
25%
Establishes a Zero to Three Court Program Coordinator position. Expands the Zero to Three Court to the Third Circuit. Appropriates funds. (SD1)
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB58Intro
25%
Modifies the existing plant and animal declaration form to also require in-bound travelers to the State to acknowledge state laws, federal laws, and individual responsibility to protect the environment and agriculture of the State. Requires all other...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
HISB379Intro
25%
Requires restaurants to clearly disclose to customers how tips are allocated to employees.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee
HISB28Intro
25%
Requires the Deputy Director of Highways of the Department of Transportation to be subject to the advice and consent of the Senate.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee
HISB649Intro
25%
Requires the Department of Health, with assistance from each county, to develop a statewide needs assessment to determine resources necessary to reduce packaging waste by seventy per cent from the baseline amount. Requires the Department of Health to...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
HISB1159Intro
25%
Clarifies when the identity of a police officer, who has been suspended or discharged following a misconduct incident, is to be disclosed in a county police department's annual report to the legislature.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB23Intro
25%
Clarifies that the residential zone restriction on the use of leaf blowers at certain hours includes residential districts, apartment districts, and business mixed use districts. Removes the exemption on leaf blower restrictions for government agenci...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB916Intro
25%
Authorizes long-acting psychotropic medication to be provided to patients who are subject to emergency examination or hospitalization. Expands the administration of treatment over a patient's objection to include persons in director of health custody...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB915Intro
25%
Amends the Uniform Probate Code to allow courts to appoint emergency guardians for respondents who reside in psychiatric facilities, hospitals, and homeless shelters. Extends the appointment period. Clarifies that guardians may consent to care, treat...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB18Engross
50%
Requires domestic and foreign corporations to provide their shareholders with reports of independent expenditures and political contributions. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Economic Development Committee
HISB1042Intro
25%
Clarifies the definition of "imminent harm". Requires police officers to comply with exigency requirements when removing a child from the child's home and to promptly submit a police report documenting specific, articulable evidence of imminent harm ...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB609Engross
50%
Requires health insurance policies and contracts issued on or after 01/01/2024 to provide coverage for the cost of hearing aids at a minimum of an unspecified amount per hearing aid for each hearing-impaired ear every thirty-six months. Effective 12/...
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2023-12-11
To House Health Committee
HISB1487Intro
25%
Imposes labeling requirements for mamaki tea grown in the State. Appropriates funds to the department of agriculture to administer the mamaki tea labeling requirements.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
HISB423Intro
25%
Requires the employees' retirement system to divest its investment portfolio of coal, oil, and gas companies within an unspecified number of years and to report certain information to the legislature.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
HISB40Engross
50%
Establishes provisions relating to civil remedies for discriminatory reporting to a law enforcement officer. Provides that a person who contacts a law enforcement officer to come to a location to contact a person on the basis of the person's actual o...
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2023-12-11
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee
HISB5Intro
25%
Requires the State to consider hurricane resistant criteria when designing and constructing new state buildings, constructed on or after 7/1/2023, for the capability of providing shelter refuge.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB1000Intro
25%
Requires any person carrying an unloaded firearm in a motor vehicle to locate the firearm so as not to be readily or directly accessible from the passenger compartment of the vehicle or, if the firearm is being carried in a motor vehicle that does no...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB123Intro
25%
Requires a person to report the person's lost, stolen, or destroyed firearms to the appropriate county police department. Establishes penalties for failure to report and false reporting.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB391Engross
50%
Appropriates funds for the University of Hawaii community colleges' workforce development programs. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HISB1083Intro
25%
Appropriates funds for a three-year continuation of the wind-generated storm damage reef-insurance policy purchased by The Nature Conservancy in November 2022.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee
HISB909Intro
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 Judiciary Committee
HISB330Engross
50%
Authorizes the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation the right of first refusal for the development of property for all development on state lands, excluding the Stadium Development District and lands under Hawaii Public Housing Authorit...
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2023-12-11
To House Housing Committee
HISB1459Intro
25%
Establishes a task force to examine the consequences of drinking water contamination detected at the Waipahu Wells II Granular Activated Carbon Treatment Facility. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB46Intro
25%
Raises the minimum age requirement to enter into marriage from sixteen to eighteen years of age. Removes the parental consent and written approval by the family court requirements for a minor to marry. Removes spousal cohabitation after the parties a...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB43Intro
25%
Amends the definition of "employer" in chapter 388, Hawaii Revised Statutes, relating to wages and other compensation to include the State and counties when a provision in that chapter has no comparable provision in chapter 78, Hawaii Revised Statute...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee
HISB176Intro
25%
Authorizes a county with a pre-existing surcharge to continue the surcharge after December 31, 2030 at a lower rate of one-fourth per cent. Authorizes counties that have not adopted a surcharge ordinance on state tax to adopt a surcharge ordinance at...
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2023-12-11
Carried over to 2024 Regular Session.
HISB879Engross
50%
Appropriates funds for the retention of employees of the unemployment insurance division of the department of labor and industrial relations. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HISB1261Intro
25%
Requires state facilities to prepare a report assessing the feasibility of installing distributed energy resource systems at each facility. Requires state facilities to implement and install the distributed energy resource systems detailed in the rep...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB1080Intro
25%
Establishes that the representative of labor on the Hawaii Labor Relations Board be a person selected by a majority of the exclusive representatives of the collective bargaining units.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee
HISB1262Intro
25%
Establishes statewide goals for solid waste reduction and organic waste diversion. Requires each county to incorporate into its next integrated solid waste management plan revision a plan to reduce all organic waste produced within the county by faci...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
HISB1181Intro
25%
Requires solar conduit and electrical panel readiness for new residential construction and electric vehicle readiness when an electrical panel and parking area are installed. Effective 1/1/2024.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee
HISB993Intro
25%
Removes discriminatory requirements for mandatory insurance coverage of in vitro fertilization procedures to create parity of coverage for same-sex couples, unmarried women, and opposite-sex couples for whom male infertility is the relevant factor. R...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB1220Engross
50%
Prohibits persons convicted of certain felony offenses against public administration from becoming a candidate for or holding public office for ten years after the person's final discharge. (SD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HISB1222Intro
25%
Requires the school facilities authority to, to the greatest extent possible, renovate, improve, and expand existing public school facilities and classrooms to increase pre-kindergarten student capacity, including while expending funds appropriated f...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee
HISB53Intro
25%
Requires individuals denied a firearm permit or otherwise disqualified from possessing firearms and certain defendants to provide a sworn statement that the individual has disposed of any firearms and ammunition in the individual's possession. Requir...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB1503Intro
25%
Prohibits certain boards from taking adverse action against individuals possessing or applying for a license to practice medicine and surgery or nursing for providing abortion care services or gender affirming treatments in the State in compliance wi...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB332Intro
25%
Prohibits each county from adopting ordinances that restrict housing density on state lands that are within 0.5 miles of an elevated mass transit station.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Housing Committee
HISB368Intro
25%
Establishes a zero-emission vehicle fleet purchasing assistance program within the Hawaii state energy office to support the transition of private fleets to zero-emission vehicles. Designates the Hawaii state energy office as the agency responsible f...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee
HISB1070Intro
25%
Amends the definition of "income" to include tips or gratuities for the purposes of determining child and spousal support amounts, assignments, and withholdings.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee
HISB899Intro
25%
Authorizes advanced practice registered nurses to practice medical aid in dying or provide counseling to a qualified patient. Amends the mandatory waiting period between oral requests and the provision of a prescription.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB1003Intro
25%
Requires the Director of Human Resources Development, in consultation with the Hawaii Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Commission, State Energy Office, and Department of Accounting and General Services to develop and implement a comprehensive...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee
HISB605Intro
25%
Requires the Department of Education to meet with Hawaii School for the Deaf and Blind stakeholders and members of the Hawaii deaf community regarding the development of a plan to transition the Hawaii School for the Deaf and Blind to a conversion ch...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee
HISB383Engross
50%
Requires that any person who applies for an identification card or driver's license be automatically registered to vote. Requires that the applicant be provided the opportunity to opt-out of voter registration.
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2023-12-11
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee
HISB35Engross
50%
Appropriates funds for the Judiciary to purchase civil legal services for low- and moderate-income persons. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HISB167Intro
25%
Establishes an investigator position in the Campaign Spending Commission. Appropriates funds.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB590Intro
25%
Requires the department of health to adopt rules by 6/30/2026 for amplified sound on public and private property where decibel weighted levels exceed current standards for zoning districts and residential properties where noise is excessive during ce...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB922Intro
25%
Requires a law enforcement officer who observes criminal misconduct by another law enforcement officer to report the criminal misconduct. Requires passage of a psychological screening test battery to qualify for appointment as a law enforcement offic...
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2023-12-11
Carried over to 2024 Regular Session.
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