Hawaii Senator Kurt Fevella [R]

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HISB3296Intro
25%
Requires the Department of Human Resources Development to: (1) conduct a remote work study; (2) review any recent remote work studies done by the counties; (3) develop and administer a remote work program; and (4) submit the study to the Legislature ...
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2024-02-15
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB3384Intro
25%
Increases the amount each juror or prospective juror is paid for each actual day of attendance at court.
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2024-02-15
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB2108Intro
25%
Allows a condominium association that claims a Renewable Energy Technologies Income Tax Credit under section 235-12.5, HRS, to transfer the credit, or a portion thereof, to another individual or corporate taxpayer that is not related to the condomini...
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2024-02-14
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB2012Intro
25%
Requires a business that provides an online service, product, or feature likely to be accessed by children to comply with certain data privacy requirements. Requires a business to complete a data protection impact assessment for any online service, p...
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2024-02-14
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
HISB2121Intro
25%
Authorizes consumers aggrieved by the conduct of a mortgage loan originator licensee to recover from the Mortgage Loan Recovery Fund. Allows for excess moneys in the Mortgage Loan Recovery Fund to be used for certain training and educational purposes...
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2024-02-14
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB2038Intro
25%
Requires the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to employ an Executive Director to be nominated by the Governor, subject to the advice and consent of the Senate. Transfers the duties and powers of the Board of Directors of the Hawaii ...
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2024-02-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB2082Intro
25%
Merges the Made in Hawaii with Aloha branding program with the Hawaii Made program under the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism. Specifies that the Department of the Attorney General shall be responsible for enforcement of the ...
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2024-02-14
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee
HISB2155Intro
25%
Requires the Department of Agriculture to: (1) identify and evaluate each parcel of certain state-owned lands; and (2) contract a third-party entity to compile a report evaluating the agricultural land use potential of each parcel of state-owned land...
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2024-02-14
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB2149Intro
25%
Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to approve or deny an application related to aquaculture within 90 days from the date that it was submitted. Establishes two full-time equivalent (2.0 FTE) positions within the Division of Aquatic...
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2024-02-14
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB2157Intro
25%
Beginning 1/1/2025, requires rental kayaks to be registered and numbered with the Department of Land and Natural Resources and have the identification number affixed to the rental kayak. Requires the Department to establish fees for registration and ...
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2024-02-14
To Senate Water and Land Committee
HISB2165Intro
25%
Appropriates funds to the Department of Land and Natural Resources to inventory historic properties and burial sites in the State, collect data on burial site locations, and conduct an archaeological surface survey. Declares that the general fund exp...
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2024-02-14
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB2167Intro
25%
Appropriates additional operational funds to the Department of Land and Natural Resources to protect, manage, and restore Hawaii's natural resources. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. Takes effect 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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2024-02-14
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB2348Intro
25%
Provides that any photo red light imaging detector system's clear and unobstructed recorded image of a motor vehicle license plate shall be prima facie evidence that the motor vehicle to which the license plate is attached is the motor vehicle for wh...
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2024-02-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB2344Intro
25%
Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds to the Hawaii Public Housing Authority for the development and construction of permanent supportive housing for certain vulnerable individuals. Requires the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Co...
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2024-02-14
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB2548Intro
25%
Requires employees, applicants, and contracted vendors of condominium associations in employment positions that grant access to security cameras and footage to undergo a background check and be licensed consistent with the requirements in chapter 463...
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2024-02-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB2555Intro
25%
Establishes a state boating facility lease pilot program within the Department of Land and Natural Resources to lease one state small boat harbor for private development, management, maintenance, and operation in a county with a population of less th...
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2024-02-14
To Senate Water and Land Committee
HISB2602Intro
25%
Changes the administration of the human trafficking victim services fund from the department of labor and industrial relations to the department of the attorney general.
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2024-02-14
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB2495Intro
25%
Requires the Chairperson of the Board of Agriculture or their designee to annually notify all irrigation users by mail and conduct in-person visits on procedures to remove unused irrigation system water meters and stop acreage assessments. By an unsp...
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2024-02-14
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB2811Intro
25%
Makes state agricultural tourism requirements applicable to all counties, instead of only counties that have adopted an agricultural tourism ordinance. Requires Land Use Commission to adopt rules that establish requirements applicable to all farms im...
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2024-02-14
To Senate Water and Land Committee
HISB2810Intro
25%
Appropriates funds for Pololu Valley management, including for the Division of Forestry and Wildlife of the Department of Land and Natural Resources to develop the trailhead; develop the infrastructure necessary to accommodate parking; install approp...
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2024-02-14
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB2797Intro
25%
Creates a refundable water catchment income tax credit for a homeowner who installs, places in service, or maintains a water catchment system meeting certain requirements on residential property in the State owned by the taxpayer. Applies to taxable ...
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2024-02-14
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB2965Intro
25%
Authorizes the Public Utilities Commission to establish a discounted rate by tariff for water carriers that engage in the interisland transport of hydrogen produced from renewable sources. (SD1)
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2024-02-14
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB3200Intro
25%
Establishes under the Department of Health a Smoking Sensor Rebate Program, which offers a rebate for installation of smoking sensors to detect smoking within smoking-prohibited areas.
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2024-02-14
The committee on HHS deferred the measure.
HISB3341Intro
25%
Establishes the Upcycled Mobile Dishwashing System Pilot Program within the Department of Health. Requires a report to the Legislature. Establishes two full-time positions within the Department of Health. Declares the general fund expenditure ceiling...
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2024-02-14
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB3338Intro
25%
Establishes a WAI policy coordinator and other positions within the Department of Land and Natural Resources for coordination of Red Hill WAI initiatives. Creates the Red Hill Remediation Special Fund. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceili...
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2024-02-14
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB2045Intro
25%
Amends the priority for which moneys in the Rental Housing Revolving Fund are to be used. Requires the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to: (1) prioritize the allocation of low-income housing tax credits to certain projects and (2) ...
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2024-02-13
The committee on WAM deferred the measure.
HISB2026Intro
25%
Requires the Director of Finance to consider, before the selection of a depository for the state treasury, the beneficial effects to the State of using depositories within the State, including but not limited to lending at favorable terms for the cre...
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2024-02-13
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB2162Intro
25%
Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to pursue and obtain accreditation for the Conservation and Resources Enforcement Program from the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies, Inc. Takes effect 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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2024-02-13
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB2352Intro
25%
Repeals the requirement that the Director of Human Resources Development must submit a report to the Legislature before reclassifying and abolishing vacant positions within State departments and agencies that are under the jurisdiction of DHRD. Takes...
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2024-02-13
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB2324Intro
25%
Requires the State to share in the cost of county first responder personnel fulfilling state-imposed new mandates or increases in the level of service under existing programs.
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2024-02-13
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB2311Intro
25%
Establishes an electric vehicle battery recycling and disposal program. Prohibits disposal of propulsion batteries as solid waste. Prohibits producers of propulsion batteries from refusing propulsion batteries for reuse, remanufacturing, repurposing,...
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2024-02-13
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
HISB2449Intro
25%
Requires employers to initiate negotiations on repricing of classes within a bargaining unit within 30 days of its receipt of the exclusive representative's written request to negotiate. Establishes that the employer's failure to initiate the negotia...
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2024-02-13
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB2498Intro
25%
Establishes the Cesspool Conversion Revolving Loan Fund. Directs green energy market securitization loan repayments and interest to be deposited into the Cesspool Conversion Revolving Loan Fund. Requires the Hawaii Green Infrastructure Authority to a...
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2024-02-13
The committee on WAM deferred the measure.
HISB2719Intro
25%
Appropriates funds to establish full-time equivalent ( .0 FTE) positions within the Employee Classification and Compensation Division of the Department of Human Resources Development to perform employee classification duties. Declares that t...
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2024-02-13
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB2880Intro
25%
Expands the existing state exemption for United States Department of Defense-certified providers to those operating off federal property. Takes effect 12/31/2050. (SD1)
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2024-02-13
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB3012Intro
25%
Lengthens the time period in which certain vehicles must have a safety inspection.
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2024-02-13
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee
HISB2065Intro
25%
Establishes the Hawaii Residential Developers Loan Revolving Fund to be administered by the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation for the purpose of enhancing credit and guaranteeing and insuring loans made by private financial instituti...
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2024-02-12
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB2151Intro
25%
Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to obtain approval from the Board of Land and Natural Resources before taking any action on a revocable permit. Prohibits tenant eviction in the year of renewal or during the renewed year. Takes e...
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2024-02-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB2184Intro
25%
Expands the authority of the State and counties to develop adaptation pathways plans to modify and relocate infrastructure away from critically threatened areas to locations outside sea level rise and coastal flooding exposure areas. Declares that th...
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2024-02-12
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB2141Intro
25%
Establishes a Homeland Security and Resiliency Council to assess the resilience of the State's electric grid and other critical infrastructure to natural disasters and other emergencies and make recommendations. Requires the Council to report to Legi...
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2024-02-12
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
HISB2145Intro
25%
Requires the counties to submit annual reports on fire code enforcement updates and fire mitigation planning to the Legislature. Takes effect 1/1/2042. (SD1)
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2024-02-12
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB2843Intro
25%
Clarifies that the Governor's and mayors' emergency management powers shall be consistent with the Hawaii State Constitution. Clarifies the scope of the Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan. Clarifies the powers of the Governor and mayors to exten...
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2024-02-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB2973Intro
25%
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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2024-02-12
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee
HISB2034Intro
25%
Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds for the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation's and Hawaii Public Housing Authority's projects to develop housing exclusively for qualified residents. (SD1)
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2024-02-09
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB2087Intro
25%
Requires the Insurance Commissioner to conduct a study on wildfire risk and insurance and submit a report regarding the study to the Legislature prior to the Regular Session of 2025.
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2024-02-09
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
HISB2150Intro
25%
Requires the Department of Health to amend its shellfish sanitation administrative rules based on the United States Department of Agriculture's 2019 National Shellfish Sanitation Program model ordinance.
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2024-02-09
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB2448Intro
25%
Reduces the time requirement when a disbursing officer shall inform the employee of indebtedness. Reduces the minimum amount owed per pay period from $100 to $50 or 5% of the new employee's wages.
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2024-02-09
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee
HISB2712Intro
25%
Establishes the Warehouse Worker Protection Act. Requires certain warehouse employers to provide written descriptions of quotas to employees and maintain records of quotas and employee work speed data. Protects employees from quotas that would preven...
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2024-02-09
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee
HISB2854Intro
25%
Establishes a Vacated Encampment Clean Up Task Force to identify potential entities to enter into intergovernmental agreements to coordinate the clean up of vacated encampments located on lands managed by United States Army Garrison Hawaii. Declares ...
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2024-02-09
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB2716Intro
25%
Allows retirement benefits to be negotiated during collective bargaining negotiations.
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2024-02-09
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee
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