Hawaii Senator Lorraine Inouye [D] | Bills

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HISB305Intro
25%
Establishes a career and technical education working group to strengthen career and technical education in the State's public schools. Makes an appropriation.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee
HISB776Intro
25%
Amends the composition of the Board of Agriculture by requiring representation from the islands of Molokai and Lanai.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB292Engross
50%
Requires the Governor to ensure that the Governor's variance reports accurately reflect the current responsibilities of certain state programs, address the current and future needs of the State, and align with budget-related submittals. Effective 6/3...
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HISB1555Intro
25%
Exempts the sale of groceries that are eligible under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children and the sale of nonprescription drugs from the general excise tax.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB411Intro
25%
Requires the court to appoint counsel to indigent parents upon the filing of a petition for custody or family supervision and make every effort to do so at the first hearing attended by the parents.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB1577Engross
50%
Requires the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs to make all business registration applications available online. Requires all applications to contain certain contact information. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HISB308Intro
25%
Establishes the Erin's law task force to review policies, programs, and curricula for educating public school students about sexual abuse and sex trafficking prevention, report recommendations for the establishment of a program to educate public scho...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB80Intro
25%
Makes a person or entity liable for all or a portion of search or rescue expenses when the person or entity knowingly enters state, county, or private property, knowingly enters a hiking trail that is closed to the public, or violates applicable laws...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee
HISB1158Engross
50%
Provides police officers who become members of the Employees' Retirement System after 6/30/2023 with retirement benefits similar to those provided for members of the Employees' Retirement System who became members before 7/1/2012, including but not l...
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2023-12-11
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee
HISB1036Intro
25%
Authorizes the department of land and natural resources to issue special activity permits for the purpose of recognizing and protecting individuals exercising their Native Hawaiian traditional and customary rights.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee
HISB71Intro
25%
Exempts the proposed drilling, construction, or use of a well and well appurtenances on lands leased from the Department of Agriculture from environmental review requirements, provided that the land is being used to support agriculture and food produ...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB91Intro
25%
Requires the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development to conduct a study to assess the possible implementation of widescale agrivoltaic adaptation and use statewide. Requires the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development to submit a report...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB124Intro
25%
Prohibits the possession of firearms on school property and school buses and at school-sponsored functions. Exempts certain law enforcement officers and instructors and participants of certain educational or training programs. Establishes that violat...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB133Intro
25%
Beginning with the - school year, requires public high schools to start at 9:00 a.m. and public elementary and middle schools to start no earlier than 8:30 a.m. Requires the Department of Education to adjust state-provided bus and school meal ...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee
HISB469Intro
25%
Authorizes the counties to reclassify lands fifteen to one fifty acres in certain rural, urban, and agricultural districts in which at least seventy-five per cent of the housing units on the land sought to be reclassified are set aside for persons an...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB1037Intro
25%
Designates Limu Kala (Sargassum echinocarpum) as the official Hawaii state limu. Effective 07/01/2050. (SD1)
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB736Intro
25%
Allows the Hawaii Community Development Authority to approve the residential development on the parcels owned by the Office of Hawaiian Affairs in Kakaako. Raises the building height limit and increases the maximum floor area ratio for residential de...
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2023-12-11
Carried over to 2024 Regular Session.
HISB290Engross
50%
Requires that appropriations allocated to Department of Education programs that provide instructional services directly to students shall remain within the budget of the program to which the funds were originally allocated and that the retention of a...
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2023-12-11
To House Education Committee
HISB679Intro
25%
Establishes an oral health task force to review the status of oral health in the State and make recommendations to improve oral health infrastructure in Hawaii. Appropriates funds.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB520Engross
50%
Establishes the Farm Succession Pilot Program under Leeward Community College in collaboration with the University of Hawaii College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources. Requires a report to the Legislature. Appropriates funds for the pilot p...
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HISB289Intro
25%
Requires that appropriations allocated to Department of Education programs that provide instructional services directly to students shall remain within the budget of the program to which they were originally allocated and that the retention of an app...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee
HISB103Intro
25%
Removes the ability for a Mayor or the Governor to suspend electronic media transmission during a state of emergency.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB301Intro
25%
Amends Act 257, Session Laws of Hawaii 2022, to authorize the School Facilities Authority to provide affordable housing to Department of Education teachers.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee
HISB1030Intro
25%
Authorizes the department of land and natural resources to establish and operate conservation mitigation banks to restore, create, enhance, or preserve conservation habitats or resources as compensatory mitigation. Authorizes the department to contra...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee
HISB113Engross
50%
Clarifies that calculations to determine whether a non-perishable good labeled "Hawaii Made" has met the requirement that at least 51% of the wholesale value of the product is added by production within the State include operating and overhead expens...
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2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HISB1457Engross
50%
Authorizes the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds to assist Kohala Mountain Fish Company, LLC, in establishing The Village project. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HISB1033Intro
25%
Expands the department of land and natural resources' rulemaking authority to include any rule deemed necessary to protect certain aquatic life. Expands the board of land and natural resources' authority to temporarily adopt, amend, or repeal certain...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
HISB95Intro
25%
Requires certain amounts of child support moneys collected by the Department of Human Services for public assistance of a child to pass through to the family receiving public assistance. Requires the Department of Human Services to disregard passed-t...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB72Engross
50%
For applications filed on or after July 1, 2023, requires the Public Utilities Commission to render decisions on certain renewable projects, power purchase agreements, and cost recovery applications within one hundred eighty days of the filing of the...
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2023-12-11
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee
HISB1441Intro
25%
Clarifies the deadline for submitting written protests that are based on the content of a solicitation. Effective 7/1/2112. (SD1)
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB850Intro
25%
Beginning with the 2024-2025 school year, requires the Department of Education to include the teaching of financial literacy in the personal transition plan requirement for each student.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee
HISB1180Intro
25%
Prohibits the sale of geolocation information and internet browser information without consent.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee
HISB100Intro
25%
Appropriates funds for the Kahoolawe Island Reserve Commission and to fund three full-time equivalent (3.00 FTE) permanent positions for the Kahoolawe Island Reserve Commission. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB74Engross
50%
Establishes additional exclusions from the definition of "development" as it applies to special management areas to reduce the need for special management area permits for certain activities. Repeals the 7,500 square foot threshold for single-family ...
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2023-12-11
To House Water & Land Committee
HISB87Intro
25%
Appropriates funds to the Department of Land and Natural Resources and its partner, or partners, for the continuation of benefits of the Green Jobs Youth Corps. Takes effect 07/01/2050. (SD1)
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB288Intro
25%
Transfers the Culinary Institute of the Pacific from the University of Hawaii to the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism as an administratively attached agency.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Higher Education Committee
HISB1616Intro
25%
Beginning 1/1/2024, requires the department of business, economic development, and tourism to administer a workforce development incentive rebate program that incentivizes local independent film and television productions.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee
HISB901Intro
25%
Requires the Department of Health to post on its website separate reports for various visits, violations, plans, and confirmations the Department performs or issues of certain care facilities. Establishes deadlines for each report type. Requires the ...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB1266Intro
25%
Establishes a food manufacturer tax credit. Defines "qualified taxpayers" as manufacturers that produce valued-added products using local crops. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2023.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
HISB730Engross
50%
Appropriates funds to the Department of Land and Natural Resources to restore and restock fishponds by providing fingerlings and limu and establishing one full-time equivalent (1.0 FTE) aquaculture coordinator biologist VI position. Effective 6/30/30...
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HISB1265Intro
25%
Prohibits commercial ocean use activity in Kaneohe Bay waters without a permit. Prohibits any person from advertising any commercial ocean use activity in Kaneohe Bay waters for which the person does not have a permit, lease, or license. Establishes ...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
HISB1082Engross
50%
Effective January 1, 2025, requires all state- or county-owned parking lots in the State that contain public paid parking spaces to accept payment of parking fees by credit card and debit card. Requires all state- or county-owned parking meters in th...
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HISB1029Intro
25%
Prohibits the sale of farm raised fish and wild fish and shellfish without a label stating where the seafood was landed.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
HISB98Engross
50%
Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources' Division of Aquatic Resources to submit an annual report to the Legislature, beginning in 2025, summarizing the Division's expenditure of funds received from the federal Wildlife and Sport Fish R...
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2023-12-11
To House Water & Land Committee
HISB94Engross
50%
Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to approve or deny an application for a special activity permit for aquatic research within ninety days from the date that it was submitted. Appropriates an unspecified amount of funds for the est...
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HISB902Engross
50%
Requires the Executive Office on Aging to establish a workforce development and support center. Appropriates funds for the center's establishment. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Health Committee
HISB293Engross
50%
Requires the Governor to ensure that the Governor's program memoranda accurately reflect the current responsibilities of certain state programs, address the current and future needs of the State, and align with budget-related submittals. Effective 6/...
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HISB82Intro
25%
Limits the discretion of the Department of Land and Natural Resources' Land Division by requiring the Board of Land and Natural Resources to approve all revoked, limited, condemned, removed, or modified public land leases or revocable permits. Effect...
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2023-12-11
Carried over to 2024 Regular Session.
HISB1529Intro
25%
Appropriates funds for the establishment of one full-time equivalent (1.0 FTE) permanent position within the Animal Industry Division of the Department of Agriculture that shall find, solicit, and distribute grants for the control of feral game mamma...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
HISB1459Intro
25%
Establishes a task force to examine the consequences of drinking water contamination detected at the Waipahu Wells II Granular Activated Carbon Treatment Facility. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
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