Hawaii Representative Scot Matayoshi [D]

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HIHB2267Intro
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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
HIHB966Intro
25%
Beginning on 1/1/2024, permits manufacturers of investigational drugs or biological products to make these drugs and products available to terminally ill patients under certain conditions. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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2024-02-08
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce 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
HIHB1943Intro
25%
Requires the health benefits plan or plans established by the Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund board to meet or exceed the requirements of the Prepaid Health Care Act. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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2024-02-08
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce 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
HIHB1668Intro
25%
Establishes provisions allowing for consumers to request data brokers that maintain their personal information to delete any personal information related to the consumer.
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2024-02-07
To House Higher Education & Technology Committee
HIHB1813Intro
25%
Requires a property owner of agricultural land to obtain a special permit from the respective county prior to conducting public and private open area types of recreational use.
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2024-02-07
To House Agriculture Committee
HIHB1971Intro
25%
Requires the Board of Agriculture to submit a report on the percentage of agricultural lands that are suitable for farming and actively farmed and certain dollar amounts relating to lease transfers between lessees.
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2024-02-07
To House Agriculture 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
HIHB1958Intro
25%
Requires the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to establish a three-year child care pilot grant program to provide grants to employers to assist in offering child care or caregiving support for their employees.
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2024-02-06
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee
HIHB2197Intro
25%
Clarifies the definition of "covered employer" under the Hawaii Retirement Savings Act. Requires covered employers to automatically enroll covered employees into the Hawaii Retirement Savings Program unless the employee chooses to opt out. Effective ...
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2024-02-06
To House Finance 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
HIHB2691Intro
25%
Establishes the Red Hill remediation authority. Creates the Red Hill remediation special fund.
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2024-02-06
To House Water & Land 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
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
HIHB846Intro
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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
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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
HIHB1606Intro
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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
HIHB1641Intro
25%
Allows the exclusive representative to negotiate benefits of the Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund. Allows disputes relating to benefits of, and amounts of contributions to, the Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund to be re...
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2024-01-30
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee
HIHB2102Intro
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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
HIHB2244Intro
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Authorizes the court to elevate the offense of criminal trespass in the first degree from a misdemeanor to a class C felony if the court deems the trespassing to be egregious or repeated.
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2024-01-26
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB2255Intro
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Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the forty-ninth representative district.
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2024-01-26
To House Finance Committee
HIHB2252Intro
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Establishes the offense of habitual violent misdemeanor crime.
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2024-01-26
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs 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
HIHB2545Intro
25%
Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds and appropriates funds for various agricultural infrastructure projects throughout the State.
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2024-01-26
To House Agriculture 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
HIHB2508Intro
25%
Allows the Hawaii Labor Relations Board to admit and consider hearsay evidence.
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2024-01-26
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee
HIHB2605Intro
25%
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
HIHB2706Intro
25%
Establishes fines for any person who sets off fireworks without a valid permit and while a red flag warning is in effect.
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2024-01-26
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs 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
HIHB1561Intro
25%
Short form bill relating to labor.
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2024-01-24
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee
HIHB1559Intro
25%
Short form bill relating to state workers.
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2024-01-24
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee
HIHB1558Intro
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Short form bill relating to procurement.
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2024-01-24
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee
HIHB1557Intro
25%
Short form bill relating to workers' compensation.
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2024-01-24
To House Labor & Government Operations 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
HIHB1560Intro
25%
Short form bill relating to labor.
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2024-01-24
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee
HIHB1646Intro
25%
Requires and appropriates funds for the state auditor to examine the feasibility of requiring certain human resources job classifications to be certified in human resources.
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2024-01-24
To House Labor & Government Operations 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
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
HIHB1938Intro
25%
Permits the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts to sell artwork purchased with moneys from the works of art special funds as long as the artist or artists who created the work has died and the work is sold at a fair market value as determined by...
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2024-01-24
To House Culture, Arts, & International Affairs 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
HIHB2117Intro
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Establishes within the Department of Land and Natural Resources a Makua Valley task force to prepare for the transition of the management of the Makua military reservation from the United States Army upon the expiration of the Army's lease for the la...
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2024-01-24
To House Corrections, Military, & Veterans Committee
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