Hawaii Senator Ronald Kouchi [D] | Senate

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HISB1409Intro
25%
Requires operators and passengers of motorcycles, motor scooters, to wear a helmet secured by a chin strap. Requires operators of a moped to wear a helmet with a chin strap.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee
HISB1363Intro
25%
Adds additional circumstances in which family courts may expunge juvenile arrest records.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB1353Intro
25%
Exempts gross income from the planning, design, financing, or construction of any development of homestead lots or housing for the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands from general excise and use taxes. (SD1)
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB1550Intro
25%
Allows telecommunications and emergency dispatchers and employees who perform similar functions employed by the State and counties to collectively bargain.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee
HISB1343Intro
25%
Clarifies that a minor student's parent or legal guardian produce the required student records when transferring schools. Clarifies that emancipated minors may also produce the required student records when transferring schools. Clarifies that the tr...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB233Intro
25%
Specifies that boards subject to the open meetings law shall allow oral testimony on any agenda item at the beginning of the board's agenda or meeting, provided that oral testimony shall not be limited to the beginning of a board's agenda. Specifies ...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Government Operations Committee
HISB178Intro
25%
Changes the deadline for the validation of ballots following an election.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB1398Engross
50%
Conforms Hawaii income and estate and generation-skipping transfer tax laws to the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended as of December 31, 2022. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HISB1308Intro
25%
Provides appropriations for collective bargaining cost items for the members of Unit (11) 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
HISB1270Intro
25%
Adds new sources of revenue generated by the State Veterinary Laboratory and Animal Disease Control Branch as sources for the Animal Industry Special Fund and clarifies that the funds from the special fund may be expended to make laboratory improveme...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
HISB1326Intro
25%
Provides amendments to external review procedures to improve consistency with the National Association of Insurance Commissioners Uniform Health Carrier External Review Model Act. Requires health insurers, mutual benefit societies, and health mainten...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB187Intro
25%
Provides the State Ethics Commission with the discretion to maintain or destroy records of financial disclosure statements beyond the current 6-year statutory requirement. Applies retroactively to applicable disclosures that are in the Commission's p...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB198Intro
25%
Amends sections 11-322 and 11-333, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to require the Campaign Spending Commission ("Commission") to publish on its website the names of candidate and persons who qualify as noncandidate committees who fail to file an organizatio...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB1299Intro
25%
Provides appropriations for collective bargaining cost items for the members of Unit (2) 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
HISB1303Intro
25%
Provides appropriations for collective bargaining cost items for the members of Unit (6) 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
HISB1405Engross
50%
Requires vehicle weights to be consistent with federal weight limits with respect to legal limits for gross vehicle weight and axle loads traveling on all public roadways. (SD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Transportation Committee
HISB1402Intro
25%
Amends the law relating to enforcement of weight limits for vehicle gross weight, axle, and wheel load.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee
HISB1404Engross
50%
Authorizes the department of transportation airports division to demand and collect reimbursement from any airport contractor, tenant, or user for the entire amount of fines and penalties levied for the violation of federal, state, or county laws rel...
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HISB1371Intro
25%
Increases the marriage license fee from $60 to $100. Increases the compensation for a marriage license agent from $9 to $15 per license. Authorizes deposits of marriage license fees into the Vital Statistics Improvement Special Fund. Adjusts the dist...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
HISB1349Intro
25%
Establishes within the Department of Land and Natural Resources the visitor green fee program to collect a fee from visitors through an environmental license and allocate the revenue to protect, restore, and manage natural and cultural resources. Est...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee
HISB1454Engross
50%
Establishes the Therapeutic Psilocybin Working Group within the Department of Health. Requires the working group to examine the medicinal and therapeutic effects of psilocybin or psilocybinbased products on mental health, report to the Legislature be...
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2023-12-11
To House Health Committee
HISB1298Intro
25%
Provides appropriations for collective bargaining cost items for the members of Unit (1) 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
HISB1366Intro
25%
Establishes the Hawaii Public Housing Authority public housing tenant upward mobility pilot program. Provides part-time on-the-job training to attain minimum qualifications needed for future part-time and full-time employment. Effective upon its appr...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee
HISB1269Intro
25%
Establishes the agricultural emergency loan revolving fund, to be administered by the Department of Agriculture, to fund Class D emergency loans. Provides a separate source of funding for agricultural emergency loans. Makes an appropriation.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
HISB1395Intro
25%
Updates the Uniform Controlled Substances Act, chapter 329, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to make it consistent with amendments in the federal controlled substances law as required by section 329-11, Hawaii Revised Statutes.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB1365Intro
25%
Amends Act 317, Session Laws of Hawaii 2022, to give the Department of Human Services needed flexibility in developing a comprehensive child welfare information system that complies with federal regulation, which may allow the department to receive f...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB1566Intro
25%
Requires the Department of Health to give written notice of a patient's final unconditional release to any person that the patient has harmed or threatened to harm, or who has a temporary restraining order against the patient or has submitted a writt...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB186Intro
25%
Prohibits a legislator or public employee from naming, appointing, or hiring a relative for public employment. Prohibits a legislator or public employee from supervising a relative in public employment. Prohibits a legislator or employee from awardin...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee
HISB1411Engross
50%
Amends the name and administration of the drug and alcohol toxicology testing laboratory special fund. Appropriates funds. Requires a report to the legislature. Effective 7/1/2050. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HISB1360Intro
25%
Strengthens and continues the Hospital Sustainability Program indefinitely. Appropriates funds out of the Hospital Sustainability Program Special Fund for fiscal years 2023-2024 and 2024-2025. Makes other non-substantive changes for consistency and c...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB1310Intro
25%
Provides appropriations for collective bargaining cost items for the members of Unit (14) 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
HISB485Engross
50%
Establishes 1 additional district court judgeship in the First Circuit. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HISB1420Intro
25%
Prohibits state and county elected officials from soliciting and accepting campaign contributions during any regular session or special session of the state legislature, including any extension of any regular session or special session and any legisl...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB1320Intro
25%
Appropriates general funds to various programs due to anticipated operating shortfalls due to the limited ability for departments to transfer funds between programs.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB1350Intro
25%
Appropriates funds to the Hawaii Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Commission to address impacts of climate change and to mitigate further impacts on the State through carbon sequestration and resiliency planning. Allocates funds to the sea le...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB205Intro
25%
Appropriates moneys to fund the operating expenses of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs for the fiscal biennium beginning on 7/1/2023, and ending on 6/30/2025. (SD1)
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB188Intro
25%
Requires each state legislator to include within the legislator's disclosures of financial interest the names of certain lobbyists with whom the legislator has a relationship.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB1304Intro
25%
Provides appropriations for collective bargaining cost items for the members of Unit (7) 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
HISB1347Intro
25%
Adds new tax credit for teacher's expenses. Adds an inflation index for the income tax brackets, personal exemption amount and standard deduction amounts. Increases the amounts for the income tax brackets, personal exemption amount and standard deduc...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee
HISB1311Engross
50%
Repeals Act 192, Session Laws of Hawaii 2007, which requires the employees' retirement system to divest itself of investments in companies that provide support for genocide in Darfur, Sudan, and provide annual reports to the legislature on the status...
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2023-12-11
Carried over to 2024 Regular Session.
HISB223Intro
25%
Establishes the Hawaii Opportunity Probation with Enforcement Program for each county with a population greater than five hundred thousand to be administered by the Judiciary. (SD1)
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB1583Intro
25%
Appropriates funding contingent upon matching fund availability to support the Village, an agricultural community and learning center that works to improve food security and sustainability on the Island of Hawaii by offering training for interested p...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB1302Engross
50%
Provides appropriations for collective bargaining cost items for the members of bargaining unit (5) and their excluded counterparts, including the cost of salary adjustments negotiated between the State and the bargaining unit representative for fisc...
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HISB1339Intro
25%
Department of Law Enforcement to plan, coordinate, and engage in law enforcement operations to interdict illegal fireworks, develop a comprehensive strategic plan to stop the importation of illegal fireworks and explosives into the State, promote com...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB1465Engross
50%
Allows agencies to rank fewer than three persons for professional services when fewer than three qualified persons respond to the solicitation or request to use alternative procurement procedures when no qualified person responds to the solicitation....
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2023-12-11
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee
HISB196Intro
25%
Amends section 11-410, HRS, by: (1) amending subsection (b) to provide that a person waives the right to a contested case hearing if the person fails to request a contested case hearing within 20 days of receipt of the Commission's preliminary determ...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB1318Intro
25%
Increases the amount of moneys that can be carried over at June 30 of each fiscal year by the Unclaimed Property Trust Fund from $1,300,000 to $2,500,000.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB1469Engross
50%
Appropriates funds for the development of the First Responders Technology Campus and Cybersecurity Data Center. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Higher Education & Technology Committee
HISB231Intro
25%
Repeals the minimum age requirement for individuals who become an Employees' Retirement System member after 6/30/2012, and who have at least 25 years of credited service.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee
HISB1362Intro
25%
Authorizes the Department of Human Services to conduct comprehensive background checks on current and prospective employees, volunteers, and contractors and contractor's employees and volunteers, in positions that require them to be in close proximit...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
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