Hawaii Senator Ronald Kouchi [D]

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HISB1466Intro
25%
Establishes and appropriates funds for a pilot program within the Environmental Management Division of the Department of Health to work with each county to identify a priority area to expand the county sewerage system or other centralized treatment s...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB1467Intro
25%
Appropriates funds for the planning and design for new housing units at the Kapaa public housing project site in Kapaa, Kauai.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Housing Committee
HISB220Intro
25%
Authorizes the use of diacritical marks for Hawaiian words on special number plates.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee
HISB1377Engross
50%
Revises chapter 342D, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to add definitions that are consistent with federal Clean Water Act regulations. Clarifies the Director of Health's role as a certifying agency including enforcement of water quality certifications, and ...
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2023-12-11
To House Water & Land Committee
HISB1336Intro
25%
Establishes a Targeted Violence Prevention program within the state Office of Homeland Security. Mandates reporting by state and county government agencies regarding specific enumerated activity. Establishes the all-threats or all-hazards statewide r...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB1421Intro
25%
Establishes the offense of fraud as a class B felony. Disqualifies a person from holding elective public office for a period of ten years upon conviction of fraud.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB486Intro
25%
Prohibits, in certain circumstances, the publication of the personal information of state and federal judges and other judicial staff whose duties put them at risk for acts of violence or threats.
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2023-12-11
Carried over to 2024 Regular Session.
HISB1285Intro
25%
Amends section 201-13.8, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to allow the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to collect and analyze employer information and data.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee
HISB194Intro
25%
Amends section 11-357, HRS, to prohibit elected officials as defined in section 11-342(d), HRS, from soliciting and accepting campaign contributions during any regular session or special session of the State Legislature, including any extension of an...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB1380Intro
25%
Requires that written certifications for a patient with a chronic condition be valid for three years. Removes the requirement that a certifying physician or advanced practice registered nurse have a "bona fide" physician-patient or advanced practice ...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB201Engross
50%
Amends the prohibition against contributions to a candidate committee or noncandidate committee by state and county contractors to include state and county grantees and the owners, officers, and immediate family members of a state or county contracto...
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HISB219Intro
25%
Clarifies county zoning to explicitly authorize counties to adopt zoning regulations that eliminate or amortize land uses or structures established after the effective date of the first comprehensive zoning ordinance adopted by a county and zoning re...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB1282Intro
25%
Amends, clarifies, and enacts provisions of chapter 134, Hawaii Revised Statutes (HRS); amends section 707-716, HRS; and amends and clarifies section 846-2.7(b), HRS. Amends and enacts requirements and processes regarding permits to acquire and licen...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB1427Intro
25%
Expands application of the State's sunshine law to legislatively appointed bodies, including task forces, working groups, special committees, and select committees. Requires the senate and the house of representatives to hold public hearings on a bie...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Government Operations Committee
HISB1387Intro
25%
Establishes a state boating facility lease pilot program within the Department of Land and Natural Resources (Department). Clarifies that a private partner under lease or contract with the Department may assist with development, management, and maint...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee
HISB221Engross
50%
Appropriates funds as a grant-in-aid to the Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu for the Victim Witness Assistance Program. Effective 06/30/3000. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HISB1330Intro
25%
Converts the Emergency Management Specialist series positions at level IV and higher in the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency from civil service status to exempt status.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB192Intro
25%
Imposes a statewide limitation on consumer fireworks, except by permit for cultural events.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB1294Intro
25%
Repeals the provision for farm dwelling and farm employee housing on Important Agricultural Lands and adopts a new provision for farm cluster housing as an incentive for the designation of lands as Important Agricultural Lands pursuant to chapter 205...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
HISB204Intro
25%
Limits to $100 the total amount of cash a candidate, candidate committee, or noncandidate committee may accept from a single person during each election period.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB1559Intro
25%
Amends the State Constitution to allow electronic copies, as an alternative to printed copies, of a bill to be made available for members of a house of the Legislature in which the bill is being voted upon for third or final reading in fulfillment of...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB225Intro
25%
Repeals section 801-1 of the Hawaii Revised Statutes.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB1341Intro
25%
Repeals the Department of Education's weekly report on schools that have reported positive COVID-19 cases.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee
HISB1329Intro
25%
Updates definitions related to the education and training requirements of psychologists; amends the screening process for applicants educated at a foreign institution.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB1558Intro
25%
Provides that in the case of an unopposed candidate in the primary election, the candidate's name shall not appear on the primary election ballot but shall instead appear on the general election ballot.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB209Intro
25%
Clarifies that each county may, by ordinance, designate certain sections of county highways as areas in which stopping, standing, or parking vehicles is prohibited or restricted.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee
HISB1582Intro
25%
Ensures that the $600,000,000 appropriated to the department of Hawaiian home lands in Act 279, Session Laws of Hawaii 2022, is available for expenditure until June 30, 2025.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB488Intro
25%
Clarifies that any provision in a private agreement contained in a conveyance of land recorded on or before 7/8/2003 that have since expired but have not been renewed and recorded in the bureau of conveyances are prohibited from restricting bona fide...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
HISB1306Intro
25%
Provides appropriations for collective bargaining cost items for the members of Unit (9) and their excluded counterparts, including the cost of salary adjustments negotiated between the State and the bargaining unit representative for fiscal biennium...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee
HISB1289Intro
25%
Increases the cap for awards to assist businesses applying for the Small Business Innovation Research Grant Program and the Small Business Technology Transfer Grant Program. Adds purchasing of renewable energy systems as an eligible expense and clari...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee
HISB1284Intro
25%
Adds a new section to chapter 710, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to establish the class C felony offense of official misconduct.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB482Intro
25%
Appropriates funds for the Judiciary for the fiscal biennium beginning 7/1/2023, and ending 6/30/2025. Effective 7/1/2023. (SD1)
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB195Intro
25%
Amends section 11-342, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to increase transparency by requiring candidate committees and noncandidate committees to file fundraiser notices regardless of the price or suggested contribution for attending the function.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB1423Intro
25%
Establishes the office of the public advocate. Establishes rights for members of the public with respect to the conduct and operation of the legislature and its members. Specifies procedures for the investigation and reporting of alleged violations o...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Government Operations Committee
HISB212Intro
25%
Provides that a person having professional-level government employment performing lawful experience in review of engineered plans and calculations under the direct supervision of an applicably licensed engineer is eligible for licensure as a professi...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB229Intro
25%
Establishes the felony offenses of misuse of unmanned aircraft in the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd degrees.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee
HISB1399Intro
25%
Exempts the State and its departments and agencies that maintain or operate a stormwater management system that is interconnected to a county stormwater system from county stormwater user fees. Prohibits each county from denying services to the State...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee
HISB1279Intro
25%
Authorizes a fingerprint-based criminal history background check by the county police departments of applicants for licenses to sell, offer to sell, distribute, or otherwise transfer electric guns or cartridges.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB226Intro
25%
Adds a new section to Chapter 801, Hawaii Revised Statutes, establishing circumstances in which the presence of a defendant is required for court proceedings or may be waived.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB1307Intro
25%
Provides appropriations for collective bargaining cost items for the members of Unit (10) and their excluded counterparts, including the cost of salary adjustments negotiated between the State and the bargaining unit representative for fiscal bienniu...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee
HISB1425Intro
25%
Limits the permitted uses of campaign funds to only those purposes that are directly related to the campaigns of candidates.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB1390Intro
25%
Expands the authority of the State and the counties and develops funding to begin utilizing managed retreat as an option for voluntarily moving residential development and associated infrastructure away from critically vulnerable areas to locations o...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee
HISB1393Intro
25%
Amends section 329-40, Hawaii Revised Statutes (HRS), to allow the medical director of a methadone treatment program to dispense the maximum days of supply of take-home doses as allowed under federal law to a patient.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB1337Intro
25%
Amends Act 278, Session Laws of Hawaii 2022, to modify the transfer of the personnel and functions of the Department of the Attorney General to the Department of Law Enforcement, clarify that Act 278 does not amend or abrogate the Attorney General's ...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB963Intro
25%
Exempts parking lot operations at state parks and operation of concessions at certain state parks from the bidding requirements for concessions operating on public property.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Government Operations Committee
HISB1272Intro
25%
Establishes a program specialist position within the Department of Agriculture and appropriates moneys to fund the position. Prioritizes assistance for farmers and ranchers who produce local food that is at least partially consumed within the State.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB216Intro
25%
Authorizes a county to proceed with a power of sale on real property subject to a recorded lien.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
HISB1403Intro
25%
Allows the Director of Transportation to upgrade the motor carrier vehicle inspections in the State by authorizing changes to the program to be implemented by administrative rules.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee
HISB1401Intro
25%
Makes an emergency appropriation into and from a newly established special fund to authorize funds for the Department of Transportation Highways Division's Electric Bicycle and Electric Moped Rebate Program. Authorizes the Department of Transportatio...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee
HISB1564Intro
25%
Allows a requestor of a public record to receive the public record in the format of their choice; provided that the format that is being requested is available.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Government Operations Committee
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