Hawaii Representative Lisa Kitagawa [D]

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HIHB2537Intro
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Imposes a penalty for knowingly selling invasive plants or plants containing invasive species.
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2024-02-12
To House Agriculture Committee
HIHB2739Intro
25%
Establishes the Hawaii home energy assistance program within the Department of Human Services to assist households in paying their energy bills. Establishes the Hawaii home energy assistance special fund. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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2024-02-12
To House Finance Committee
HIHB2267Intro
25%
Establishes the Automated Speed Enforcement Systems Program. Authorizes the state or counties to administer the Automated Speed Enforcement Systems Program. Requires fines collected beginning 1/1/2025 for violations on a county highway to be expended...
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2024-02-09
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB1540Intro
25%
Requires eligible schools to participate in the federal Community Eligibility Provision, which provides federal funds to help schools offer free meals to all students. Appropriates moneys for any difference between federal funds amounts and costs of ...
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2024-02-08
To House Education Committee
HIHB1797Intro
25%
Appropriates funds to the Department of Education to strengthen student transportation services for Hawaii's public school system.
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2024-02-08
To House Education Committee
HIHB2256Intro
25%
Beginning with the 2024-2025 school year, requires the Department of Education to provide free breakfast and lunch to students enrolled in a public school who meet certain requirements. Appropriates funds.
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2024-02-08
To House Education Committee
HIHB2549Intro
25%
Establishes within the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism the Interagency Council for Maui Housing Recovery to coordinate and facilitate Maui's permanent housing recovery and facilitate consultation and collaboration between st...
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2024-02-08
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB1563Intro
25%
Repeals existing law that preempted local ordinances or regulations that regulate the sale of cigarettes, tobacco products, and electronic smoking devices and nullified and voided any conflicting local laws and regulations. Allows counties to adopt o...
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2024-02-07
To House Health Committee
HIHB1616Intro
25%
Requires the DOE to submit an annual report to the legislature on the installation, repair, and maintenance of fire alarm systems in Hawaii's public schools. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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2024-02-07
To House Finance Committee
HIHB1786Intro
25%
Prohibits the sharing of personal information of clerks, election officials, and election workers for the purposes of intimidation, threats, harassment, or abuse. Amends the offense of assault in the second degree to include causing bodily injury to ...
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2024-02-07
To House Finance Committee
HIHB2240Intro
25%
Opens eligibility under the Hawaii Educator Loan Program for students and teachers who agree to teach as a full-time teacher in a public charter school. Decreases the service requirement for total loan forgiveness to five years and increases the perc...
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2024-02-07
To House Finance Committee
HIHB2538Intro
25%
Provides that each lease that the Department of Agriculture enters into, renews, or extends after the effective date of this Act shall authorize the Department to: (1) Enter the leased premises at any time to identity, investigate, control, or eradic...
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2024-02-07
To House Agriculture Committee
HIHB1573Intro
25%
Caps the primary and secondary ticket seller service charges that may be added on to event ticket prices. Requires website operators to guarantee refunds in certain circumstances and disclose that the website is not the primary ticket seller. Prohibi...
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2024-02-06
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HIHB1947Intro
25%
Reduces the minimum number of years of credited service from ten years to five years qualified Tier 2 employee's retirement system members must have to be eligible for vested benefit status for service retirement allowance purposes. Appropriates fund...
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2024-02-06
To House Finance Committee
HIHB1783Intro
25%
Authorizes and establishes a regulatory framework for the issuance, use, and acceptance of electronic credentials.
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2024-02-06
To House Transportation Committee
HIHB2254Intro
25%
Allows state departments to participate in temporary employee interchanges with private sector organizations, including nonprofit and for-profit organizations. Limits the term for a temporary employee interchange with a private sector organization to...
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2024-02-06
To House Finance Committee
HIHB1593Intro
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Requires the Office of Elections to print and mail a physical copy of the digital voter information guide to any voter upon request. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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2024-02-05
To House Finance Committee
HIHB1614Intro
25%
Increases the bonus for teachers who achieve and maintain a current national board certification from $5,000 to $15,000. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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2024-02-05
To House Finance Committee
HIHB1609Intro
25%
Requires the Office of Elections to apply to be a member of the Electronic Registration Information Center, Inc. (ERIC), by 6/30/2025. Requires the Office of Elections and counties to use information and services made available by ERIC to verify thei...
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2024-02-05
To House Finance Committee
HIHB1649Intro
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Establishes a nationally certified school psychologist incentive program. Appropriates funds for the incentive program. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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2024-02-05
To House Finance Committee
HIHB2044Intro
25%
Establishes the Digital Equity Grant Program to award grants to applicants to deploy digital equity projects to covered populations in the State. Establishes the Broadband and Digital Equity Special Fund.
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2024-02-02
To House Higher Education & Technology Committee
HIHB2194Intro
25%
Prohibits a health insurer from requiring an insured diagnosed with stage two through stage five cancer to undergo step therapy prior to covering the insured for certain drugs prescribed by the insured's health care provider, under certain conditions...
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2024-02-02
To House Health Committee
HIHB1622Intro
25%
Appropriates moneys to each county to mitigate flood risks on privately owned roads. Provides that the appropriation or expenditure of moneys shall not be construed to establish a duty of care or grounds for liability for the State or counties. Decla...
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2024-02-01
To House Transportation Committee
HIHB1965Intro
25%
Establishes a court's authority to issue an order restricting abusive litigation.
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2024-01-31
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB2612Intro
25%
Abolishes the boards of registration.
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2024-01-30
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB2257Intro
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Establishes the Public Education Scholarship Program within the University of Hawaii to provide students who are residents of the State with scholarships in return for a service commitment to teach in a public school classroom of the Department of Ed...
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2024-01-26
To House Higher Education & Technology Committee
HIHB2287Intro
25%
Appropriates funds for prefabricated, modular, or kauhale-type housing for individuals impacted by the Lahaina wildfire.
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2024-01-26
To House Water & Land Committee
HIHB2255Intro
25%
Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the forty-ninth representative district.
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2024-01-26
To House Finance Committee
HIHB2302Intro
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Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the forty-eighth representative district.
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2024-01-26
To House Finance Committee
HIHB2511Intro
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Appropriates funds to the University of Hawaii Cancer Center to conduct a multiethnic cohort study focusing on the social determinants of health, lifestyles, environmental exposures, and resilience factors of Native Hawaiians, Pacific Islanders, and ...
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2024-01-26
To House Health Committee
HIHB2584Intro
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Requires all places of public accommodation constructed after 12/31/2024 to provide universal changing accommodations in public restrooms. Where feasible and cost effective, requires all bids for state building construction, projects submitted after ...
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2024-01-26
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB2605Intro
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Requires the Department of Education to establish a teacher loan forgiveness program to assist in the payment of loans for teachers who commit to teaching in the Hawaii public school system. Appropriates funds.
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2024-01-26
To House Education Committee
HIHB1564Intro
25%
Establishes a statewide firefighting helicopter program, to be administered by the State Fire Marshal. Appropriates funds to obtain helicopters, facilities equipment, and supplies; hire and train staff; and do other things necessary to ensure that th...
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2024-01-24
To House Water & Land Committee
HIHB1574Intro
25%
Permits the courts to consider enhanced sentencing for defendants convicted of sex trafficking if the victim was a minor, Native Hawaiian, or transported between islands or across state lines for the purposes of sex trafficking.
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2024-01-24
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB1589Intro
25%
Appropriates funds for student housing capital improvement projects at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
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2024-01-24
To House Higher Education & Technology Committee
HIHB1584Intro
25%
Requires the Department of Agriculture to establish a two-year agricultural crime pilot project to examine the effectiveness of prosecuting agricultural crimes, including agricultural theft and agricultural vandalism, in the City and County of Honolu...
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2024-01-24
To House Agriculture Committee
HIHB1590Intro
25%
Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds and appropriates funds for a capital improvement project for the repair, maintenance, and demolition of buildings at the Poamoho Research Station.
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2024-01-24
To House Higher Education & Technology Committee
HIHB1665Intro
25%
Requires the Hawaii emergency management agency to prepare and develop a plan to upgrade all-hazard warning sirens to be capable of transmitting voice instructions and directions and capable of voice activation.
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2024-01-24
To House Water & Land Committee
HIHB1905Intro
25%
Requires the Hawaii Public Housing Authority to allow any resident of a public housing project or state low-income housing project to keep 1 or more pet animals in the resident's unit, subject to applicable state laws, county ordinances, and any reas...
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2024-01-24
To House Housing Committee
HIHB2000Intro
25%
Clarifies that the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority's duties include supporting aquaculture.
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2024-01-24
To House Agriculture Committee
HIHB2006Intro
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Establishes and appropriates funds for an invasive species placard program. Requires the department of agriculture to inspect certain establishments that are at risk of spreading invasive pests. Establishes correction and quarantine procedures.
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2024-01-24
To House Agriculture Committee
HIHB2014Intro
25%
Prohibits a person from using a location tracker to harass, stalk, or perpetuate a crime against another person without their knowledge.
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2024-01-24
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB1404Intro
25%
Makes the community court outreach project permanent. Amends the project to address homeless defendants and expand the opportunities for eligible defendants to participate. Appropriates funds for additional personnel and enhanced security services. E...
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2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB325Intro
25%
Increases the minimum penalty imposed upon homeowners, renters, and managers of real property when they intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly allow others to unlawfully use aerial devices from their respective properties after 9:00 p.m. and before ...
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2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB1116Intro
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Establishes licensure requirements for school psychologists to be administered by the board of psychology. Requires all school psychologists to be licensed by 7/1/2025. Increases the composition of the board of psychology to include two school psycho...
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2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HIHB843Engross
50%
Authorizes supplemental categorical funding for remote schools. Defines "remote school". Appropriates funds. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee
HIHB277Engross
50%
Increases the fines for violating motor vehicle insurance requirements. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee
HIHB501Intro
25%
Beginning 7/1/2024, subjects all electric vehicles to a state mileage-based road usage fee instead of paying a registration surcharge. Requires a vehicle inspection certificate to state the odometer reading of the vehicle. Clarifies that the type of ...
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2023-12-11
To House Transportation Committee
HIHB497Engross
50%
Requires the school facilities authority to conduct a feasibility study for the development of teacher and workforce housing at the Queen Liliuokalani elementary school property. Requires a report to the legislature prior to the 2024 regular session....
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2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee
HIHB465Intro
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Requires Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to offer 5-year lease extensions to Waiahole Valley lessee at the current terms. Requires the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to submit a report regarding whether a differ...
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2023-12-11
To House Water & Land Committee
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