Hawaii Representative Lisa Kitagawa [D]

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HIHB1830Engross
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Establishes provisional or associate-level licensure requirements for marriage and family therapists, mental health counselors, and psychologists and authorizes insurance reimbursements in certain circumstances. Authorizes psychologist license applic...
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2024-03-22
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HIHB1844Engross
50%
Appropriates funds for the establishment of temporary adjunct faculty positions at the University of Hawaii Maui College. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. Effective 7/1/3000. (SD1)
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2024-03-22
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HIHB1934Engross
50%
Requires the Director of Transportation to convene an intoxicated driving reduction working group, under the leadership of Hawaii's strategic highway safety plan, to make recommendations for amendments to existing laws to reduce incidents of intoxica...
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2024-03-22
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HIHB1946Engross
50%
Establishes a three-year pilot program in the Department of Health for hiring process improvement. Requires a report to the Legislature. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. Makes an appropriation. Takes effect 7/1/2491. (S...
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2024-03-22
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HIHB1900Engross
50%
Appropriates funds to improve the State's water resource management and hydrologic data collection. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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2024-03-22
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HIHB1906Engross
50%
Appropriates funds to the Department of Education to enhance its Panorama platform and Trust Circle mobile application or create a new platform. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. Takes effect 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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2024-03-22
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HIHB2042Engross
50%
Appropriates funds to address the mental health and wellness needs of youth in the State. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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2024-03-22
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HIHB1967Engross
50%
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. Takes effect 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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2024-03-22
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HIHB2175Engross
50%
Appropriates funds for and requires the involvement of community members and organizations in the development of a community-based, long-range transportation plan for the Kaaawa, Punaluu, and Hauula communities. Requires a report to the Legislature. ...
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2024-03-22
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HIHB2174Engross
50%
Repeals the existing conditions under which government entities may seek reimbursement for search or rescue expenses and instead requires a government entity of the State to impose and collect a fee for search or rescue expenses for persons who requi...
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2024-03-22
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HIHB2192Engross
50%
Authorizes the Director of Commerce and Consumer Affairs to appoint an organization as the limited owner of a cemetery, under certain circumstances, for the purposes of perpetual care and security measures. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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2024-03-22
[Hearing: Mar 28 @ 9:30 am]
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
HIHB2563Engross
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Requires the Hawaii Tourism Authority to develop and publish, through a contract with a third party, a mobile application that includes all online application processes, including the collection of any applicable reservation fees, to acquire a reserv...
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2024-03-22
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HIHB2535Engross
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Establishes a child care classroom contracts pilot program to require the Department of Human Services to contract directly with child care center providers in licensed infant and toddler child care centers and group child care centers that meet cert...
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2024-03-22
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HIHB2626Engross
50%
Specifies certain findings the Board of Land and Natural Resources must make for a lease of a government-owned Hawaiian fishpond. (SD1)
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2024-03-22
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HIHB2650Engross
50%
Appropriates funds to the Department of Transportation for the coordinated removal of albizia and other invasive trees. Requires matching funds from public utilities. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
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2024-03-22
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HIHB2743Engross
50%
Requires the University of Hawaii Water Resources Research Center and the University of Hawaii Sea Grant College Program to develop an overlay with the Hawaii Cesspool Prioritization Tool to identify specific priority areas in which the county sewer ...
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2024-03-22
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HIHB2758Engross
50%
Facilitates the control and eradication of invasive species and pests. Establishes a plant nursery registration program. Requires the Board of Agriculture to designate certain species as pests for control or eradication. Imposes certain limits on imp...
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2024-03-22
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HIHB2742Engross
50%
Extends the notice period for summary possession proceedings from five days to fifteen days for failure to pay rent. Requires landlords to provide the notice to mediation centers. Requires landlords to enter into mediation if scheduled by a tenant, w...
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2024-03-22
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HIHB1652Engross
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Establishes a state income tax credit for qualified expenses incurred by certain individuals employed by the Department of Education, a public charter school, the Hawaii State Public Library System, or as part of a head start program in a school. Eff...
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2024-03-21
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HIHB1831Engross
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Establishes the Behavioral Health Crisis Center Pilot Program. Authorizes the Department of Health to establish or contract with behavioral health crisis centers in each county. Requires reports to the Legislature. Appropriates funds for the pilot pr...
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2024-03-21
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HIHB1834Engross
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Appropriates funds to increase the base budget of the Department of Human Services' Homeless Programs Office. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. (SD1)
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2024-03-21
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HIHB1776Engross
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Amends income tax brackets. Temporarily amends the applicable percentage of the employment-related expenses for which the child and dependent care income tax credit may be claimed and permanently provides for a disallowance period when there is a fin...
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2024-03-21
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HIHB1827Engross
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Appropriates funds to the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations and Department of Education to support health care workforce development programs, specifically the public high school health care workforce certificate program and glidepath prog...
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2024-03-21
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HIHB1964Engross
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Requires the Department of Human Services to establish and implement a child care provider subsidy and bonus program to provide subsidies to retain the existing child care workforce in licensed infant and toddler child care centers, group child care ...
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2024-03-21
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HIHB2215Engross
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Appropriates funds to increase the funding of certain Medicaid home and community-based services, including adult day programs and residential services offered in community care foster family homes and expanded adult residential care homes. Requires ...
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2024-03-21
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HIHB2224Engross
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Requires the Executive Office on Aging to create a comprehensive long-term care master plan to accomplish long-term care policy goals that, when implemented, ensure the availability of a full continuum of institutional and community-based services. E...
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2024-03-21
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HIHB2552Engross
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Extends, under certain conditions, the family leave period under state law, for up to eight additional weeks for employees who are unable to perform their employment duties due to the birth of a child who is required to stay in a neonatal intensive c...
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2024-03-21
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HIHB2712Engross
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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. Effective 7/1/3000. ...
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2024-03-21
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HIHB1409Engross
50%
Extends under certain conditions, the family leave period for up to eight weeks for employees who are unable to perform their employment duties due to the birth of a child who is required to stay in a neonatal intensive care unit. Requires the Civil ...
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2024-03-20
Received notice of all Senate conferees being discharged (Sen. Com. No. 340).
HIHB1395Engross
50%
Appropriates funds to the Hawaii Public Housing Authority for the planning and design for new housing units at the Kapaa public housing project site in Kapaa, Kauai. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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2024-03-20
Received notice of all Senate conferees being discharged (Sen. Com. No. 340).
HIHB1250Engross
50%
Imposes labeling requirements for mamaki tea grown in the State. Appropriates funds to the Department of Agriculture to administer the mamaki tea labeling requirements. Effective 7/1/3000. (SD1)
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2024-03-20
Received notice of all Senate conferees being discharged (Sen. Com. No. 340).
HIHB852Engross
50%
Amends the definition of "eligible business activity" to include the processing of value-added agricultural products grown within an enterprise zone and the development or production of renewable energy. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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2024-03-20
Received notice of all Senate conferees being discharged (Sen. Com. No. 340).
HIHB1193Engross
50%
Adds a cap for the amount of tax credits for research activities that an eligible taxpayer and the taxpayer's related entities may receive per taxable year. Consolidates the survey and certification requirements for tax credits for research activitie...
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2024-03-20
Received notice of all Senate conferees being discharged (Sen. Com. No. 340).
HIHB1651Engross
50%
Requires the Department of Education and public charter schools to take certain steps to report incidents of harassment and implement procedures for handling harassment of educational workers. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
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2024-03-20
To Senate Education Committee
HIHB1841Engross
50%
Appropriates funds to DLNR for operating expenses, equipment, the establishment of positions, and capital improvement projects to support wildfire emergency response. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
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2024-03-20
To Senate Water and Land Committee
HIHB1832Engross
50%
Authorizes a state department, division, or agency, rather than the Department of Human Resources Development, to conduct a minimum qualification review of applicants for vacant positions within the department, division, or agency. Requires the Depar...
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2024-03-20
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HIHB1840Engross
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Appropriates funds to the Department of Land and Natural Resources to support long-term water quality monitoring and pollution source detection. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
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2024-03-20
To Senate Water and Land Committee
HIHB1892Engross
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Part II: Amends the deadlines for required upgrades conversions, or connections for certain priority level 1 and priority level 2 cesspools. Part III: Authorizes and appropriates funds to the Department of Health to retain qualified consultants as ne...
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2024-03-20
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HIHB1784Engross
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For taxable years beginning after 12/31/2024, temporarily reinstates the Technology Infrastructure Renovation Tax Credit and expands the definition of "technology-enabled infrastructure" to include data servers. Sunsets the tax credit for taxable yea...
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2024-03-20
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HIHB1828Engross
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Extends the State's energy-efficiency portfolio standards from 2030 to 2045 and updates the standards. Authorizes the Public Utilities Commission to adjust the 2045 and interim standards. Takes effect 1/1/2060. (SD1)
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2024-03-20
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
HIHB1843Engross
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Establishes the State Fire Marshal within the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to direct fire protection efforts statewide. Appropriates funds. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. Effective 7/1/3000. (SD1)
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2024-03-20
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HIHB2261Engross
50%
Amends the definition of "historic property" used in historic preservation laws to only include property listed on the Hawaii or National Register of Historic Places or built before 8/21/1959. Require historic review for proposed projects on existing...
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2024-03-20
To Senate Water and Land Committee
HIHB2771Engross
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Appropriates funds for the continued administration of the Hawaii Healthy Food Incentive Program and to provide matching funds to beneficiaries who participate in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. Declares that the general fund expenditu...
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2024-03-20
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HIHCR47Intro
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Requesting The Department Of Land And Natural Resources To Convene A Working Group To Inform The Public About The Options Available To Address The State's Feral Chicken Population.
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2024-03-20
To House Agriculture Committee
HIHR36Intro
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Requesting The Department Of Land And Natural Resources To Convene A Working Group To Inform The Public About The Options Available To Address The State's Feral Chicken Population.
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2024-03-20
To House Agriculture Committee
HIHCR4Intro
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Requesting Hawaii's Congressional Delegation To Amend The Wildland Fire Protection Agreement To Allow Hawaii To Join As A Member.
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2024-03-19
The committee on WAL recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 9 Ayes: Representative(s) Ichiyama, Poepoe, Chun, Ganaden, Hashem, M. Mizuno, Morikawa, Takayama, Souza; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and Excused: none.
HIHB1903Engross
50%
Expands access of early learning programs to other state properties and public lands besides public school campuses. Takes effect 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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2024-03-19
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HIHB1653Engross
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Pursuant to a collective bargaining agreement negotiated for Bargaining Unit (5), provides annual salary step increases for public school teachers and educational officers who have completed a year's satisfactory service and comply with specified req...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Education Committee
HIHB1662Engross
50%
Establishes a refundable child tax credit. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2024. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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2024-03-18
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HIHB2509Engross
50%
Proposes a constitutional amendment to increase the mandatory retirement age for state justices and judges from seventy years to seventy-five years. (SD1)
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2024-03-18
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
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