Hawaii Representative Scott Nishimoto [D]

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HIHB1903Engross
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Expands access of early learning programs to other state properties and public lands besides public school campuses. Takes effect 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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2024-03-19
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HIHB1529Engross
50%
Allows any burial council member whose term has expired to continue in office as a holdover member until the member's reappointment to a second term is confirmed or a successor is nominated and appointed. Prohibits holdover members from holding offic...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HIHB1662Engross
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Establishes a refundable child tax credit. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2024. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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2024-03-18
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HIHB1771Engross
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Appropriates funds to the Executive Office on Aging for the Hawaii Healthy Aging Partnership. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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2024-03-18
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HIHB1769Engross
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Establishes a refundable Family Caregiver Tax Credit for nonpaid family caregivers. Requires the Department of Taxation to report to the Legislature before the convening of each Regular Session. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
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2024-03-18
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HIHB1772Engross
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Appropriates funds to support the Department of Health's Senior Fall Prevention Campaign. Effective date 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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2024-03-18
The committee(s) on HHS recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes in HHS were as follows: 5 Aye(s): Senator(s) San Buenaventura, Aquino, Keohokalole, Shimabukuro, Awa; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 0 Excused: none.
HIHB1776Engross
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Amends a taxpayer's applicable percentage of employment-related expenses that may be claimed for the household and dependent care services tax credit for five years. Sunsets 6/30/2029. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
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2024-03-18
The committee(s) on HHS recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in HHS were as follows: 4 Aye(s): Senator(s) San Buenaventura, Aquino, Keohokalole, Shimabukuro; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 1 Excused: Senator(s) Awa.
HIHB1953Engross
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Requires the Judicial Council to conduct a comprehensive review of the Hawaii Penal Code and to recommend proposed changes. Requires the Judicial Council to appoint an advisory committee to assist in the review, and allows the Council to also appoint...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HIHB1964Engross
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Requires the Department of Human Services to establish and implement a child care provider subsidy and bonus program to provide subsidies to retain the existing child care workforce in licensed infant and toddler child care center, group child care c...
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2024-03-18
The committee(s) on HHS recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in HHS were as follows: 5 Aye(s): Senator(s) San Buenaventura, Aquino, Keohokalole, Shimabukuro, Awa; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 0 Excused: none.
HIHR1Intro
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Urging Retail Stores And Pharmacies Doing Business In The State To Adopt A Policy On A National And Local Level Guaranteeing An Individual's Unhindered Access To All United States Food And Drug Administration-approved Contraceptives.
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2024-03-18
[Hearing: Mar 20 @ 10:30 am]
To House Health Committee
HIHCR6Intro
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Urging The Members Of Hawaii's Congressional Delegation To Monitor The Alliance For Hippocratic Medicine V. U.s. Food And Drug Administration And Take Action To Limit The Case From Further Restricting Access To Safe Abortion Options.
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2024-03-18
[Hearing: Mar 20 @ 10:30 am]
To House Health Committee
HIHCR5Intro
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Urging Retail Stores And Pharmacies Doing Business In The State To Adopt A Policy On A National And Local Level Guaranteeing An Individual's Unhindered Access To All United States Food And Drug Administration-approved Contraceptives.
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2024-03-18
[Hearing: Mar 20 @ 10:30 am]
To House Health Committee
HIHB1974Engross
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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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2024-03-18
The committee(s) on HHS recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in HHS were as follows: 5 Aye(s): Senator(s) San Buenaventura, Aquino, Keohokalole, Shimabukuro, Awa; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 0 Excused: none.
HIHB2552Engross
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Extends, under certain conditions, the family leave period for up to eight additional weeks for employees who are unable to perform their employment duties due to the birth of a child who is required to stay in a neonatal intensive care unit. Require...
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2024-03-18
The committee(s) on LBT recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in LBT were as follows: 4 Aye(s): Senator(s) Aquino, Moriwaki, Ihara, Lee; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 1 Excused: Senator(s) Fevella.
HIHB2787Engross
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Increases the maximum amount of deductible contributions for individual housing accounts. Requires the Department of Taxation to create and implement a public awareness campaign about individual housing accounts. Appropriates funds. Applies to taxabl...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HIHB2758Engross
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Facilitates the control and eradication of invasive species and pests. Establishes a plant nursery licensing program. Requires the Board of Agriculture to designate certain species as pests for control or eradication. Imposes certain limits on import...
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2024-03-18
The committee(s) on TCA recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in TCA were as follows: 5 Aye(s): Senator(s) Lee, Inouye, Elefante, Kanuha, Awa; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 0 Excused: none.
HIHCR47Intro
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Requesting The Department Of Land And Natural Resources To Convene A Working Group To Inform The Public About The Options Available To Address The State's Feral Chicken Population.
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2024-03-18
[Hearing: Mar 20 @ 10:15 am]
To House Agriculture Committee
HIHR36Intro
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Requesting The Department Of Land And Natural Resources To Convene A Working Group To Inform The Public About The Options Available To Address The State's Feral Chicken Population.
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2024-03-18
[Hearing: Mar 20 @ 10:15 am]
To House Agriculture Committee
HIHR166Intro
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Urging The Department Of Health To Explore Avenues To Ensure Continued Access To Affordable Medications For The State's Underserved Populations Under The 340b Drug Pricing Program And Urging Hawaii's Congressional Delegation And Relevant Federal Agen...
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2024-03-18
[Hearing: Mar 20 @ 10:30 am]
To House Health Committee
HIHCR186Intro
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Urging The Department Of Health To Explore Avenues To Ensure Continued Access To Affordable Medications For The State's Underserved Populations Under The 340b Drug Pricing Program And Urging Hawaii's Congressional Delegation And Relevant Federal Agen...
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2024-03-18
[Hearing: Mar 20 @ 10:30 am]
To House Health Committee
HIHB1597Engross
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Provides a specific right of action to challenge decisions of the Office of Information Practices relating to the State's open meetings law. Aligns the enforcement mechanisms for the State's open meetings law with the State's Uniform Information Prac...
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2024-03-15
[Hearing: Mar 19 @ 3:00 pm]
To Senate Government Operations Committee
HIHB1533Engross
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Increases the amount of death benefits paid by the Department of Human Services to cover the cremation and disposition costs for a deceased person who was eligible for medical or financial assistance at the time of the person's death and whose body i...
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2024-03-15
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HIHB1833Engross
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Appropriates funds into and out of the Rental Housing Revolving Fund to provide loans or grants for mixed-income rental projects or units in mixed-income rental projects for qualifying individuals and families. Appropriates funds for an unspecified n...
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2024-03-15
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HIHB1841Engross
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Appropriates funds to DLNR for operating expenses, equipment, the establishment of positions, and capital improvement projects to support wildfire emergency response. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
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2024-03-15
[Hearing: Mar 20 @ 3:00 pm]
To Senate Water and Land Committee
HIHCR3Intro
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Urging Each County To Establish An Emergency Zoning Code For Post-disaster Use.
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2024-03-15
[Hearing: Mar 20 @ 9:00 am]
To House Water & Land Committee
HIHB1837Engross
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Requires the Department of Education to grant public access to emergency action plans that do not pose a security risk to students, staff, or guests of school campuses. Requires each Department school to have a comprehensive school evacuation communi...
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2024-03-15
[Hearing: Mar 20 @ 3:00 pm]
To Senate Education Committee
HIHB1834Engross
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Appropriates funds to increase the department of human services' homeless programs office base budget. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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2024-03-15
The committee(s) on HHS recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in HHS were as follows: 4 Aye(s): Senator(s) San Buenaventura, Aquino, Keohokalole, Shimabukuro; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 1 Excused: Senator(s) Awa.
HIHB1826Engross
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Appropriates funds for temporary positions to support the statewide expansion of the University of Hawaii Windward Community College's mental health-related programs. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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2024-03-15
[Hearing: Mar 19 @ 3:00 pm]
To Senate Higher Education Committee
HIHB1843Engross
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Establishes the office of the state fire marshal to direct fire protection efforts statewide. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
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2024-03-15
The committee(s) on PSM recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in PSM were as follows: 4 Aye(s): Senator(s) Wakai, Elefante, Fukunaga, Rhoads; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 1 Excused: Senator(s) Awa.
HIHB1838Engross
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Allows counties to enact a zoning ordinance to amortize or phase out nonconforming single-family transient vacation rental units over a reasonable period of time. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
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2024-03-15
[Hearing: Mar 19 @ 9:40 am]
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
HIHB1830Engross
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Establishes provisional or associate-level licensure requirements for marriage and family therapists, mental health counselors, and psychologists and authorizes insurance reimbursements in certain circumstances. Requires psychologist license applican...
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2024-03-15
[Hearing: Mar 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
HIHCR4Intro
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Requesting Hawaii's Congressional Delegation To Amend The Wildland Fire Protection Agreement To Allow Hawaii To Join As A Member.
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2024-03-15
[Hearing: Mar 19 @ 9:30 am]
To House Water & Land Committee
HIHB1844Engross
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Appropriates funds for temporary adjunct faculty positions at the University of Hawaii Maui College. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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2024-03-15
[Hearing: Mar 19 @ 3:00 pm]
To Senate Higher Education Committee
HIHB1801Engross
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Authorizes issuance of general obligation bonds. Makes findings required by Article VII, Section 13, of the Hawaii State Constitution to declare that the issuance of authorized bonds will not cause the debt limit to be exceeded.
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2024-03-15
[Hearing: Mar 20 @ 10:00 am]
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HIHB1950Engross
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Designates November 22 of each year as "Kimchi Day" in the State.
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2024-03-15
[Hearing: Mar 19 @ 3:00 pm]
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee
HIHB1900Engross
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Appropriates funds to improve the State's water resource management and hydrologic data collection. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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2024-03-15
The committee(s) on WTL recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes in WTL were as follows: 3 Aye(s): Senator(s) Inouye, Elefante, McKelvey; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 2 Excused: Senator(s) Chang, Fevella.
HIHB1940Engross
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Appropriates funds out of the Works of Art Special Fund to the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts for the integration of works of art projects into several major capital improvement projects. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
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2024-03-15
[Hearing: Mar 19 @ 3:00 pm]
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee
HIHB1902Engross
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Clarifies that the Governor's and mayors' emergency management powers shall be consistent with the state constitution. Clarifies the scope of the comprehensive emergency management plan. Clarifies the powers of the Governor and mayors to extend or te...
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2024-03-15
The committee(s) on PSM recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in PSM were as follows: 4 Aye(s): Senator(s) Wakai, Fukunaga, Rhoads; Aye(s) with reservations: Senator(s) Elefante ; 0 No(es): none; and 1 Excused: Senator(s) Awa.
HIHB1906Engross
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Appropriates funds to the Department of Education to enhance its Panorama platform and Trust Circle mobile application or create a new platform. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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2024-03-15
To Senate Education Committee
HIHB2042Engross
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Appropriates funds to address the mental health and wellness needs of youth in the State. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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2024-03-15
[Hearing: Mar 20 @ 1:05 pm]
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HIHB2216Engross
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Increases the cap on state supplemental payments for type l adult residential care homes, licensed developmental disabilities domiciliary homes, community care foster family homes, certified adult foster homes, and type II adult residential care home...
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2024-03-15
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HIHB2224Engross
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Requires the Executive Office on Aging to create a comprehensive long-term care master plan to accomplish long-term care policy goals that, when implemented, ensure the availability of a full continuum of institutional and community-based services. E...
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2024-03-15
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HIHB2174Engross
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Repeals the existing conditions under which government entities may seek reimbursement for search or rescue expenses and instead requires a government entity of the State to impose and collect a fee for search or rescue expenses for persons who requi...
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2024-03-15
[Hearing: Mar 20 @ 3:00 pm]
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HIHB2193Engross
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Takes effect 7/1/2042. (SD1)
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2024-03-15
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HIHB2298Engross
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Establishes a timeline by which roasted coffee, instant coffee, and ready-to-drink coffee beverages that use a geographic origin in labeling or advertising are required to contain a certain per cent coffee by weight from that geographic origin. Requi...
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2024-03-15
[Hearing: Mar 20 @ 9:30 am]
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
HIHB2241Engross
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Grants Civil Air Patrol the ability to receive grant funding from the State without requiring bylaws or policies that describe the manner in which the activities or services for which a grant is awarded shall be conducted or provided. Appropriates fu...
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2024-03-15
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HIHB2771Engross
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Appropriates funds for the continued administration of the Hawaii healthy food incentive program and to provide matching funds to beneficiaries who participate in the supplemental nutrition assistance program. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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2024-03-15
The committee(s) on AEN recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in AEN were as follows: 3 Aye(s): Senator(s) Gabbard, DeCoite, Rhoads; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 2 Excused: Senator(s) Richards, Awa.
HIHB2744Engross
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Establishes an oral health task force to review the status of oral health in the State and make recommendations to improve the State's oral health infrastructure. Requires reports to the Legislature. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
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2024-03-15
The committee(s) on HHS recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in HHS were as follows: 4 Aye(s): Senator(s) San Buenaventura, Aquino, Keohokalole, Shimabukuro; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 1 Excused: Senator(s) Awa.
HIHCR29Intro
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Urging The United States Congress To Support Continued Funding Of The Affordable Connectivity Program.
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2024-03-15
[Hearing: Mar 19 @ 9:30 am]
To House Water & Land Committee
HIHCR67Intro
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Requesting The Establishment Of A Stream Maintenance Working Group Within The Department Of Land And Natural Resources.
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2024-03-15
[Hearing: Mar 19 @ 9:05 am]
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee
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