Hawaii Representative Nicole Lowen [D]

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HIHB1970Intro
25%
Requires solar conduit- and electrical panel-readiness for new residential construction offered for sale at fair market value and electric vehicle-readiness when an electrical panel and parking area are installed. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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2024-02-05
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HIHB2616Intro
25%
Establishes a funding program that incentivizes electric vehicle charging systems and infrastructure development and allows the Electric Vehicle Charging System Subaccount to expend funds for this program. Increases the amount of petroleum tax to be ...
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2024-02-05
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HIHB1966Intro
25%
Requires health insurers, mutual benefit societies, and health maintenance organizations to provide health insurance coverage for various sexual and reproductive health care services. Applies this coverage to health benefits plans under the Hawaii Em...
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2024-02-02
To House Health 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
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
HIHB846Intro
25%
Enacts the interstate teacher mobility compact to reduce the barriers to teacher license portability and employment. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD2)
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2024-01-31
To House Education 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
HIHB2571Intro
25%
Establishes the multifamily housing accessibility modifications grant program to facilitate the installation of accessibility modifications in certain properties. Appropriates moneys. Declares that the appropriation exceeds the state general fund exp...
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2024-01-31
To House Housing Committee
HIHB1606Intro
25%
Requires that any new contract entered into by the Office of Elections for equipment or services relating to preparing ballots or counting votes include the capability to randomize the names of candidates appearing on the ballot if technologically po...
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2024-01-30
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB183Intro
25%
Requires all private schools to develop and implement comprehensive action plans for the management of anaphylaxis in their respective schools, including administration of auto-injectable epinephrine. Establishes certain immunity from liability for d...
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2024-01-30
To House Education Committee
HIHB1605Intro
25%
Requires that each vote cast for a question on a ballot for the ratification of a constitutional amendment be counted in the negative only if the ballot properly indicates that the vote is in the negative.
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2024-01-30
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB1692Intro
25%
Allows condominiums to be eligible for commercial property assessed financing.
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2024-01-30
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HIHB2198Intro
25%
Allows public employee organizations to negotiate retirement benefits.
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2024-01-30
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee
HIHB2296Intro
25%
Establishes a tax credit for the import of renewable fuel. Updates the renewable fuels production tax credit.
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2024-01-30
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee
HIHB2575Intro
25%
Establishes a construction trades workforce development program in the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to develop, establish, and implement a construction trades career pathway program for high school students in the State. Appropriates ...
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2024-01-30
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee
HIHB2640Intro
25%
Authorizes manufacturers of electronic devices to coordinate collection activities for the purpose of recycling electronic devices.
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2024-01-30
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee
HIHB2102Intro
25%
Requires the Public Utilities Commission to convene workshops to aid electric utilities in the development and implementation of best practices regarding wildfires. Requires electric utilities to design and operate in compliance with a risk-based wil...
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2024-01-29
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee
HIHB2257Intro
25%
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
HIHB2251Intro
25%
Establishes a separate prohibition on driving motor vehicles having noisy mufflers on public highways in high-density areas. Authorizes police officers to conduct examinations and inspections of motor vehicle mufflers in high-density areas. Establish...
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2024-01-26
To House Transportation Committee
HIHB2268Intro
25%
Clarifies the level of environmental restoration owners and operators of underground storage tanks or tank systems that had a confirmed release must satisfy by requiring the removal of all jet fuel, including fuel additives and all compounds resultin...
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2024-01-26
To House Water & Land Committee
HIHB2511Intro
25%
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
HIHB2507Intro
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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2024-01-26
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee
HIHB2647Intro
25%
Amends the definition of "restricted use pesticide" to include malathion.
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2024-01-26
To House Agriculture Committee
HIHB2600Intro
25%
Establishes the Hawaii Cannabis Authority and Cannabis Control Board within the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs to regulate all aspects of the cannabis plant. Beginning January 1, 2026, legalizes the personal adult use of cannabis. Establ...
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2024-01-26
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB2646Intro
25%
Requires monthly rather than annual reporting of restricted use pesticides. Amends the contents of reports to include specific geospatial data and information, site information, and increased detail on the amount of restricted use pesticides used. Re...
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2024-01-26
To House Agriculture Committee
HIHB2648Intro
25%
Amends the definition of "restricted use pesticide" to include neonicotinoid pesticides.
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2024-01-26
To House Agriculture Committee
HIHB2615Intro
25%
Requires the PUC to solicit competitive offers from an entity operating under a non-investor-owned utilities ownership model before approving the sale of a public utility, in whole or in part, to a private entity.
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2024-01-26
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HIHB2651Intro
25%
Extends the right to enter private property and remove or stabilize natural hazards that are at risk of harming the public or other properties to the county in which the private property is located and that county's respective mayor.
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2024-01-26
To House Water & Land Committee
HIHB2635Intro
25%
Establishes a continuous Legislature. Requires the Legislature to convene at least once a month. Removes language regarding special sessions, adjournment, and recesses. Creates a two-year deadline for a bill to be submitted for gubernatorial consider...
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2024-01-26
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB2688Intro
25%
Establishes a clean vehicle special fund to incentivize the purchase of vehicles that produce less carbon emissions by providing a rebate. Creates a gasoline-powered vehicle tax, graduated based on fuel efficiency, to be paid by purchasers of certain...
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2024-01-26
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee
HIHB2716Intro
25%
Establishes the offense of involuntary manslaughter. Renames the existing offense of manslaughter as voluntary manslaughter. Amends various statutory provisions to accommodate the 2 forms of manslaughter.
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2024-01-26
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB2689Intro
25%
Requires rental motor vehicle lessors with more than two hundred light duty passenger vehicles to expedite the incorporation of zero-emission vehicles, as a percentage, into the lessor's fleet by certain dates. Requires all rental motor vehicle lesso...
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2024-01-26
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee
HIHB2687Intro
25%
Establishes the resilience hub and network grant program and a special fund in the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency. Increases the environmental response, energy, and food security tax and deposits a portion of the tax into the resilience hub and n...
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2024-01-26
To House Water & Land Committee
HIHB2711Intro
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 of Land a...
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2024-01-26
To House Water & Land Committee
HIHB2676Intro
25%
Updates and expands the statutory prohibition on the use of tobacco at public schools to include prohibiting the possession and use of electronic smoking devices. Requires the Department of Education to be responsible for educating students, employee...
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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
HIHB1528Intro
25%
Proposes a constitutional amendment that guarantees individuals the right to a clean and healthy environment; the control of pollution; and the conservation, protection, and enhancement of the natural, native, cultural, scenic, and healthful qualitie...
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2024-01-24
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee
HIHB1536Intro
25%
Requires all school bus contracts to require contractor's vehicles to be propelled by electric power or a non-fossil fuel by January 1, 2035.
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2024-01-24
To House Education Committee
HIHB1658Intro
25%
Requires the department of labor and industrial relations to establish and administer a family leave insurance program. Provides family leave insurance benefits and extends the period of family leave to 16 weeks for businesses that employ one or more...
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2024-01-24
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee
HIHB1693Intro
25%
Requires the Department of Health to establish and administer an electronic smoking device disposal program for the collection and disposal of electronic smoking devices that contain rechargeable lithium-ion batteries. Requires all retail tobacco sto...
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2024-01-24
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee
HIHB1690Intro
25%
Authorizes the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds for Hawaiian Electric Company, Inc. and its subsidiaries Maui Electric Company and Hawaii Electric Light Company for multi-project capital improvement programs.
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2024-01-24
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HIHB1768Intro
25%
Requires the department of labor and industrial relations to establish and administer a family leave insurance program. Provides family leave insurance benefits and extends the period of family leave to 16 weeks for businesses that employ one or more...
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2024-01-24
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee
HIHB1770Intro
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 House Human Services Committee
HIHB1891Intro
25%
Requires the Hawaii Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Commission to develop strategies for vehicle miles traveled reduction in the State. Requires a report to the Legislature.
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2024-01-24
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee
HIHB1798Intro
25%
Beginning September 30, 2028, requires the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to annually calculate an adjusted minimum wage rate to within the nearest twenty-five cents using the Urban Hawaii Consumer Price index to take effect on January ...
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2024-01-24
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee
HIHB1895Intro
25%
Prohibits the installation of septic systems for any development or structure constructed on a subdivision of land in the agricultural district on or after January 1, 2025.
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2024-01-24
To House Energy & Environmental Protection 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
HIHB2006Intro
25%
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
HIHB2076Intro
25%
Amends the appropriation of Act 279, SLH 2022, to conform its lapsing provision by 1 year, to conform to constitutional limitations. Appropriates moneys to the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands for fiscal year 2024-2025 to give practical effect to th...
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2024-01-24
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB2096Intro
25%
Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the seventh representative district.
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2024-01-24
To House Finance Committee
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