Hawaii Senator Les Ihara [D] | Introduced

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HISB2684Intro
25%
Creates penalties relating to the fighting of birds.
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2024-02-21
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB3222Intro
25%
Repeals the requirement that a corporation's list of members entitled to notice of a meeting include the members' addresses.
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2024-02-20
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
HISB513Intro
25%
Specifies certain findings the Board of Land and Natural Resources must make for a lease of a government-owned Hawaiian fishpond. Takes effect 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB367Intro
25%
Prohibits the sale of tickets at higher price than the original price charged by the primary venue ticket provider. Takes effect 1/1/2050. (SD1)
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2024-02-16
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
HISB2050Intro
25%
Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to establish and conduct the Marine Life Conservation District Carrying Capacity Program. Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to submit reports to the Legislature and adopt admin...
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2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB2317Intro
25%
Requires the Governor to implement a State Capitol Tour Program for volunteer docents to conduct tours of the capitol building and grounds. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. Makes an appropriation. Takes effect 7/1/2112....
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2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB2482Intro
25%
Requires the Comptroller to identify state office buildings that can provide equitable telecommunication access to allow certain residents, including residents with disabilities, to participate remotely in legislative hearings. Requires a report to t...
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2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB2473Intro
25%
Establishes a refundable tax credit for nonpaid family caregivers. Requires the Department of Taxation to report to the Legislature before the convening of each Regular Session. Takes effect 12/31/2050. (SD1)
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2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB2471Intro
25%
Makes an appropriation to support the Department of Health's Senior Fall Prevention Campaign. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. (SD1)
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2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB2470Intro
25%
Makes an appropriation to the Executive Office on Aging of the Department of Health for the Hawaii Healthy Aging Partnership. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. (SD1)
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2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB2636Intro
25%
Requires a board to offer remote testifiers an option to be seen and heard by the board and the public when offering remote testimony. Authorizes a board to remove or block any persons who intentionally disrupt or compromise the conduct of a meeting.
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2024-02-16
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB2588Intro
25%
Appropriates funds for the establishment of four full-time equivalent (4.0 FTE) archaeologist positions and one full-time equivalent (1.0 FTE) historic preservation specialist position within the State Historic Preservation Division; provided that th...
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2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB3001Intro
25%
Appropriates funds to increase the funding for applied behavioral analysis services for persons with autism. Requires the Department of Human Services to obtain maximum federal matching funds and pursue all other funding sources. Declares that the ge...
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2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB3340Intro
25%
Requires the University of Hawaii College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources, in consultation with livestock industry stakeholders, to conduct a study to assess the effects of heat stress on beef cattle during interisland ocean transportatio...
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2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB3307Intro
25%
Authorizes representatives of the news media to be allowed to attend executive meetings held by a board under section 92-4, HRS. (SD1)
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2024-02-16
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB2465Intro
25%
Requires the Department of Health to track and publicly report certain data relating to crisis reports, emergency mental health transports, and court-ordered treatments. Requires DOH to respond to reports about persons having severe mental illness wh...
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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
HISB3375Intro
25%
Appropriates funds for the University of Hawaii College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources to establish a Central Oahu Wildfire Protection Plan, in consultation with the Department of Land and Natural Resources, community stakeholders, and n...
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2024-02-15
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB2460Intro
25%
Appropriates funds to address the mental health and wellness needs of youth in the State.
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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.
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
HISB2638Intro
25%
Requires boards to make available for public inspection board packets, if created, at the time the board packet is distributed to the board members but no later than two business days before the meeting. Carves out an exception by allowing public tes...
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2024-02-13
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB2052Intro
25%
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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2024-02-12
The recommendation was not adopted.
HISB1208Intro
25%
Increases the income thresholds and credit amounts of the income tax credit for low-income household renters by using tax brackets individuals and different categories of households. Annually adjusts the income thresholds and credit amounts for infla...
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2024-02-09
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB3336Intro
25%
Appropriates funds to the Office of Hawaiian Affairs for the retention of third party professionals with the necessary financial, accounting, and land inventory expertise to evaluate and address the completeness and accuracy of the public land trust ...
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2024-02-09
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB2639Intro
25%
Updates the enforcement mechanisms for the Uniform Information Practices Act and the Sunshine Law.
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2024-02-08
To Senate Government Operations Committee
HISB2071Intro
25%
Appropriates funds to the Department of Education to enhance the Department's mobile platforms that provide student mental health and social-emotional health support. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded.
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2024-02-07
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB3331Intro
25%
Establishes an alternative process for the termination of the rental agreement that involves mediation. Requires the Governor to notify the Chief Justice, Legislature, and Revisor of Statutes when the final wildfire proclamation will expire. Declares...
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2024-02-07
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
HISB2486Intro
25%
Establishes a silver alert program within the Department of Law Enforcement to help locate and safeguard missing vulnerable adults with developmental disabilities or mental impairments who pose a credible threat to the health and safety to themselves...
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2024-02-02
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB2307Intro
25%
Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, in collaboration with various agencies and upon request of the inmates, to assist inmates in obtaining the inmates' civil identification card, birth certificate, social security card, and oth...
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2024-01-31
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB2049Intro
25%
Establishes a five-year pilot program to allow qualified psychologists limited authority to prescribe psychotropic medications to patients under the care of the psychologist at a federally qualified health center. Requires a report to the Legislature...
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2024-01-29
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB3221Intro
25%
Decreases the gift value amount required for legislators, employees, and their spouses and dependent children to file a gifts disclosure statement with the State Ethics Commission.
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2024-01-29
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB3223Intro
25%
Allows vacancies in the Senate and House of Representatives to be filled by an appointee without selection by the Governor from a list of three prospective appointees if the appointee was selected by the political party by unanimous vote using the ra...
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2024-01-29
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB3254Intro
25%
Appropriates funds to increase the funding for medicaid in-home services, conditioned on the Department of Human Services obtaining the maximum federal matching funds and pursuing all other funding sources.
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2024-01-29
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB3306Intro
25%
Prohibits state and county contractors from participating in election campaign activities including canvassing, sign holding, and other volunteer support for a candidate or noncandidate committee.
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2024-01-29
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB2980Intro
25%
Establishes the Cultural Corridor Authority to develop plans to redevelop areas affected by disaster while maintaining historic and cultural preservation. Establishes an income tax credit to incentivize the voluntary relinquishment of real property l...
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2024-01-26
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee
HISB2989Intro
25%
Authorizes the Judicial Council to nominate persons for appointment to a county ethics commission; provided that the county's charter or ordinance requires members of the commission to be appointed from nominations made by the Judicial Council.
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2024-01-26
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB2472Intro
25%
Increases the monthly needs allowance from $50 to $75. Clarifies that the needs allowance is not intended to replace or affect funds received from the federal supplemental security income program. Requires certain long-term care facility operators to...
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2024-01-24
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB2611Intro
25%
Beginning on 7/1/2024: (1) requires that state supplemental payment for type 1 adult residential care homes, licensed developmental disabilities domiciliary homes, community care foster family homes, and certified adult foster homes not exceed a cert...
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2024-01-24
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB2628Intro
25%
Renames the Department of Law Enforcement to the "Department of the State Sheriff". Renames the Director of Law Enforcement to "State Sheriff" and deputy directors to "undersheriffs". Establishes an assistant position to be designated by the State Sh...
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2024-01-24
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB2851Intro
25%
Increases from $800 to $1,600 the amount of death benefits paid by the Department of Human Services to cover the cremation and disposition costs for a deceased person who was eligible for medical or financial assistance at the time of the person's de...
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2024-01-24
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB2662Intro
25%
Exempts unemployment compensation from state personal income tax beginning in the 2023 tax year. Increases the maximum weekly benefit a person may receive in unemployment compensation beginning on 1/1/2025.
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2024-01-24
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee
HISB2760Intro
25%
Specifies that the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives shall each have one vote if they have employees in a particular bargaining unit for the purposes of negotiating a collective bargaining agreement. Repeals staf...
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2024-01-24
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee
HISB2800Intro
25%
Beginning with the 2025-2026 school year, requires the Department of Education to require the teaching of financial literacy to be included in the existing personal transition plan requirement for each student.
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2024-01-24
To Senate Education Committee
HISB2131Intro
25%
Designates World Peace Day as a state holiday in place of Good Friday.
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2024-01-18
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee
HISB2059Intro
25%
Requires a retail establishment with an employee toilet facility to allow a customer suffering from an eligible medical condition to use that restroom during normal business hours, under certain conditions. Exempts a retail establishment and employee...
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2024-01-18
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB446Intro
25%
Requires the Department of Health to conduct a study to determine the feasibility of implementing a pilot program to integrate prescription digital therapeutic products approved by the federal Food and Drug Administration in outpatient treatment prog...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB595Intro
25%
Appropriates funds for the executive office on aging to create an Alzheimer's disease public health campaign.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB1452Intro
25%
Establishes a six-year term and the selection process for the Director of the Office of Information Practices.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB1451Intro
25%
Limits compelled disclosure of sources or unpublished information for journalists, newscasters, and persons participating in collection or dissemination of news or information of substantial public interest. Establishes exceptions.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
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