Hawaii Senator Karl Rhoads [D] | Senate

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HISB25Intro
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Requires the Liquor Commission to deny any renewal for a liquor license if the applicant for renewal has violated any provision of the Intoxicating Liquor Law under chapter 281, Hawaii Revised Statutes, on three separate occasions during the twelve-m...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
HISB931Intro
25%
Requires check cashers to report suspected financial exploitation of elders and vulnerable adults in relation to check cashing. Provides immunity for good faith reporting. Authorizes a check casher to refuse to cash a check in situations of suspected...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
HISB1142Intro
25%
Places certain requirements and speed restrictions on the operation of water vessels in proximity to humpback whales.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
HISB32Intro
25%
Amends the State Constitution to require the Reapportionment Commission to establish a reapportionment plan to draw district lines for the total number of members of the Board of Trustees of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs. Takes effect on July 1, 205...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB767Engross
50%
Prohibits the Governor or a Mayor from suspending requests for public records or vital statistics during a declared state of emergency. Allows for a reasonable delay in an agency's response to a request as a result of extenuating circumstances.
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2023-12-11
To House Water & Land Committee
HISB382Engross
50%
Prohibits motor vehicle manufacturers from charging subscription fees for certain services that employ equipment already installed in the motor vehicle at the time of sale as a new motor vehicle. Provides that the prohibition shall not apply to enter...
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2023-12-11
To House Transportation Committee
HISB334Intro
25%
Amends the membership of the Hawaii Interagency Council for Transit-Oriented Development to include the House of Representatives chairs of the committees on housing and transportation and the Senate chairs of the committees on housing and transportat...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Housing Committee
HISB132Intro
25%
Requires a written notice to defendants and eligible paroled prisoners of their right to complete a nonreligious substance abuse treatment program. Requires a list of nonreligious substance abuse treatment programs to be provided.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB724Engross
50%
Appropriates funds for the enhancement of technology resources for the Department of Human Resources Development and for positions in the Department. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HISB144Intro
25%
Establishes the compacts of Free Association Census Task Force within the Department of Human Services to conduct a census of COFA residents in Hawaii.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB1540Intro
25%
Expands the Criminal Justice Diversion Program. Amends the allowable period of court-ordered assisted community treatment and considerations for extensions. Allows courts to require certain probation violators to undergo mental health evaluation and ...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB978Intro
25%
Includes any firearm or rifle with the capacity to fire ammunition of fifty caliber or higher, excluding antique pistols and revolvers, and muzzleloaders in the list of prohibited weapons.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB698Intro
25%
Establishes a task force to create a master plan for agricultural facilities at ports of transportation for the purpose of moving commodities to market.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
HISB1060Intro
25%
Establishes a carbon emissions tax credit. Expands the environmental response, energy, and food security tax to include carbon emissions. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2023.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee
HISB707Intro
25%
Requires water carriers to keep records of persons who retrieve fireworks from a terminal facility. Requires water carriers to provide an annual compilation of persons who retrieve fireworks from a terminal facility to the appropriate county police d...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB148Intro
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Prohibits the sale or furnishing of a tobacco product or electronic smoking device to a person born on or after January 1, 2003. Prohibits the possession or consumption of a tobacco product in a public place by a person born on or after January 1, 20...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
HISB1494Intro
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Requires firearms owners to obtain firearms insurance. Effective 1/1/2024.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB37Intro
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Establishes the shipping container inspection program and appropriates funds for the shipping container inspection program. Requires the Department of Public Safety to submit reports to the Legislature on implementation of the shipping container insp...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee
HISB592Intro
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Requires certain patients subject to emergency hospitalization to be assessed to determine whether a surrogate or guardian is needed to make appropriate health care decisions for the patient.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB929Intro
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Requires the Department of Transportation Highways Division to implement recommendations made by the Office of the Auditor regarding compliance with federal funding laws and regulations and information technology authentication. Takes effect 7/1/2050...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB342Intro
25%
Requires the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to conduct a study on paid sick leave. Requires a report to the Legislature. Appropriates funds for the study. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD1)
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB690Engross
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Prohibits the sale of certain fluorescent lamps as a new manufactured product, with certain exemptions. (SD2)
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2023-12-11
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee
HISB33Intro
25%
Requires the licensing of sellers of ammunition, and for the identification and proper permitting of purchasers or possessors of ammunition. Regulates ammunition in the same manner that firearms are regulated.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB349Intro
25%
Specifies that the nominated members of certain boards and commission are subject to the advice and consent of the Senate Standing Committee on Government Operations. Effective 7/1/2112. (SD1)
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2023-12-11
Carried over to 2024 Regular Session.
HISB10Intro
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Appropriates funds to the Department of Land and Natural Resources' Division of State Parks for the management of feral roosters and chickens on state lands.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee
HISB1554Intro
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Authorizes the director of finance to issue general obligation bonds to finance capital improvements to various irrigation systems.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
HISB842Intro
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Appropriates funds for the Department of Human Services to purchase health care services for certain low-income, uninsured immigrants. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD1)
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB994Intro
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Prohibits all removal of uhu, also known as parrotfish, from state waters.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee
HISB158Engross
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Establishes that charging shipping and delivery charges that exceed the actual cost charged to the seller to ship or deliver a consumer commodity or consumer package to a consumer in Hawaii constitutes an unfair and deceptive practice. Effective 7/1/...
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2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HISB118Intro
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Authorizes the issuance of special number plates to commemorate the Honolulu Museum of Art.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee
HISB1221Intro
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Requires the department of education to offer training for teachers, educational officers, and school-based behavioral health specialists on sex trafficking prevention and response.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB1164Intro
25%
Requires dealers who sell new or used motor vehicles to display the projected lifetime operating cost of the vehicle with the listed purchase price.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee
HISB350Intro
25%
Eliminates the use of monetary bail and requires defendants to be released on their own recognizance for traffic offenses; violations; and nonviolent petty misdemeanor, misdemeanor, and nonviolent class C felony offenses, with certain exceptions.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB17Intro
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Requires the Hawaii Medical Board to establish standards for health care providers to ensure that a patient's consent to treatment is an informed consent. Requires that informed consent for a proposed medical or surgical treatment or a diagnostic or ...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB55Engross
50%
Increases the income thresholds and credit amounts of the income tax credit for low-income household renters by using tax brackets for individuals and different categories of households. Annually adjusts the income thresholds and credit amounts for i...
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2023-12-11
To House Economic Development Committee
HISB174Intro
25%
Requires publicly held domestic corporations to have gender-diverse boards of directors. Establishes reporting requirements for the Director of Commerce and Consumer Affairs. Establishes penalties.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
HISB1179Engross
50%
Prohibits foreign entities and foreign-influenced business entities from making contributions, expenditures, electioneering communications, or donations for election purposes. Requires every business entity that contributes or expends funds in a stat...
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HISB1115Intro
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Increases the percentage rate of weekly workers' compensation benefits for partially dependent parents of a deceased child from twenty-five per cent to fifty per cent.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee
HISB1478Engross
50%
Establishes an offensive cybersecurity program within the office of enterprise technology services to analyze and evaluate cybersecurity threats and increase cybersecurity awareness and education. Establishes a goal for all state and county agencies ...
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HISB928Intro
25%
Establishes an Emergency Response Vehicle Noise Task Force to determine the impact of emergency response vehicle sirens in terms of excessive noise, the effect on public safety, and the relative effectiveness of the use of emergency lights instead of...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB416Intro
25%
Amends the requirements for licenses to carry firearms concealed or unconcealed. Requires possession and display of a valid license when publicly carrying firearms.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB1078Engross
50%
Establishes a statewide electronic citation program within the Judiciary. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HISB425Intro
25%
Removes from the definition of "renewable energy" the energy generated or produced using trees, wood pellets, and other wood products made for burning.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee
HISB990Engross
50%
Establishes a Traffic Fines Task Force that will examine the Finnish tiered traffic fines system, determine whether a similar system could be implemented in Hawaii, and provide recommendations as to how a system could best be implemented. Appropriate...
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2023-12-11
To House Transportation Committee
HISB463Engross
50%
Requires each county to adopt, no later than 6/30/2024, ordinances applicable to subdivisions not approved by 7/1/2024, requiring as a condition of approval, the subdivider or developer to obtain a street address and install a mailbox for lots, parce...
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HISB908Intro
25%
Imposes a fee for selling sugar-sweetened beverages at the distributor level to be collected by the Department of Health. Establishes a special fund into which revenues are deposited. Establishes a trust fund in the private sector to receive revenues...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB154Engross
50%
Requires the Department of Education to develop and implement a School Meal Subsidy Program to provide school lunch subsidies to children whose families do not otherwise qualify for free lunch under the federal Free and Reduced Price Lunch Program, s...
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HISB924Engross
50%
Eliminates the home mortgage interest deduction for second homes under Hawaii income tax law. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HISB467Enroll
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Proposes an amendment to the Hawaii State Constitution to allow the Legislature to enact laws establishing limitations on moneys expended by any noncandidate committee making only independent expenditures to influence the outcome of a state election....
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2023-12-11
Carried over to 2024 Regular Session.
HISB859Intro
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Establishes priority for projects that are awarded funds from the Rental Housing Revolving Fund that are owned by the State or an organization obliged to reinvest financial surplus generated by a completed project into a newly constructed housing pro...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
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