Hawaii Senator Sharon Moriwaki [D]

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HISCR29PassUrging The Department Of Agriculture To Support Efforts To Improve The Aquaculture Development Program Strategic Plan.
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2024-04-16
Resolution adopted in final form.
HISB2286Engross
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Permits the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to enter into contracts with eligible employers or registered apprenticeship programs in the private sector to provide on-the-job training to eligible interns. Requires the Department of Human ...
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2024-04-15
Received notice of Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 678).
HISB2291Engross
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Establishes advisory boards, focused on workforce development, for the Agribusiness Development Corporation, Hawaii Technology Development Corporation, and Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
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2024-04-15
Received notice of Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 678).
HISB2308Engross
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Authorizes additional fines and penalties for convictions of speeding in a school zone. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
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2024-04-15
Received notice of Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 678).
HISB2553Engross
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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. Repeals an...
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2024-04-15
Received notice of Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 678).
HISCR98Engross
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Requesting The Department Of Education To Partner With The Hawaii State Teachers Association And Teacher Education Programs At Local Universities And Colleges To Provide Pathways For School Support Personnel To Become Full-time Teachers.
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2024-04-15
To House Finance Committee
HISCR207Engross
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Requesting The Auditor To Conduct A Social And Financial Assessment On Mandating Dental And Vision Insurance Coverage.
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2024-04-15
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HISCR139Engross
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Requesting A Task Force Be Convened To Examine Successful Public Mass Transit Projects In Appropriate Cities And Countries And Develop Options To Reduce Cost And Return Increased Value To Residents From Funds Made Available By The State For Public Ma...
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2024-04-15
To House Finance Committee
HISCR147Engross
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Requesting The State Foundation On Culture And The Arts To Begin Planning To Collaborate With Partners In Japan To Appropriately Recognize The Eightieth Anniversary Of The End Of World War Ii, Including The Atomic Bombings And Lives Lost In Japan And...
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2024-04-15
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HISCR103Engross
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Requesting All High-occupancy State And County Buildings, The Design Of Which Commences On Or After July 1, 2025, To Be Designed And Constructed To Withstand Category Five Hurricanes And To Serve As Shelters In The Event Of An Emergency.
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2024-04-12
To House Water & Land Committee
HISCR226Engross
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Requesting The Governor, In Collaboration With The County Of Maui, To Provide A Clear Strategy For Addressing The Short And Long-term Housing Needs For Residents Displaced By The August 2023 Maui Wildfires.
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2024-04-12
To House Finance Committee
HISCR61Engross
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Requesting The Hawaii Housing Finance And Development Corporation To Adopt Administrative Rules To Enable Credit Enhancement For Construction Loans Under Any Funds Administered By The Corporation.
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2024-04-10
To House Housing Committee
HISCR31Engross
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Requesting The Women's Corrections Implementation Commission To Develop A Strategy And Make Recommendations To Reduce The Number Of Women Incarcerated At The Women's Community Correctional Center By Twenty-five Percent Over The Next Five Years.
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2024-04-05
To House Corrections, Military, & Veterans Committee
HISCR84Engross
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Requesting The Department Of Law Enforcement To Convene A Search And Rescue Working Group To Develop And Make Recommendations To Deter Hikers From Entering Illegal Hiking Trails And To Address Rising Search And Rescue Costs Facing The State And Count...
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2024-04-05
To House Water & Land Committee
HISCR65Engross
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Urging The Department Of Health To Convene An Informal Working Group To Assess The Registration And Monitoring Of All Group Living Facilities As Described In Section 46-4(d), Hawaii Revised Statutes, Including Clean And Sober Homes.
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2024-04-05
To House Health Committee
HISCR112Engross
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Demanding The Department Of Accounting And General Services To Develop A Comprehensive Recycling Program, With Specific Focus On The Collection Of Hi-5 Recyclable Items, To Be Implemented In All Offices At The Hawaii State Capitol.
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2024-04-05
To House Legislative Management Committee
HISCR105Engross
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Requesting The Hawaii Climate Change Mitigation And Adaptation Commission To Conduct An Educational Program Regarding The Activities Of Individuals That Contribute To Climate Change.
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2024-04-05
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee
HISCR94Engross
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Requesting The Establishment Of A Telehealth Working Group To Examine The Impact Of Widespread Telehealth Adoption During The Covid-19 Pandemic And Identify Public Policy Initiatives At The Federal And State Level To Optimize Telehealth Utilization A...
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2024-04-05
To House Health Committee
HISCR155Engross
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Requesting The Hawaii Professional Chapter Of The Society Of Professional Journalists To Recommend A Process That Individuals Can Utilize To Evaluate And Identify Whether Or Not News Sources Adhere To Ethical And Objective Standards.
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2024-04-05
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HISCR158Engross
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Requesting The Department Of Taxation To Conduct A Study On Disallowing The Dividends Paid Deduction For Real Estate Investment Trusts.
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2024-04-05
To House Economic Development Committee
HISCR159Engross
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Requesting The Auditor To Assess The Social And Financial Effects Of Mandatory Health Insurance Coverage For Biomarker Testing.
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2024-04-05
To House Human Services Committee
HISB3194Engross
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Authorizes independent generators of renewable energy to wheel the renewable electricity they produce to users of renewable energy under policies and procedures established by the Public Utilities Commission, should the Public Utilities Commission de...
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2024-04-04
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HISR19PassUrging The Department Of Agriculture To Support Efforts To Improve The Aquaculture Development Program Strategic Plan.
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2024-04-04
Report and Resolution Adopted.
HISR20PassRequesting The Women's Corrections Implementation Commission To Develop A Strategy And Make Recommendations To Reduce The Number Of Women Incarcerated At The Women's Community Correctional Center By Twenty-five Percent Over The Next Five Years.
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2024-04-04
Report and Resolution Adopted, as amended (SD 1).
HISR70PassRequesting The Department Of Law Enforcement To Convene A Search And Rescue Working Group To Develop And Make Recommendations To Deter Hikers From Entering Illegal Hiking Trails And To Address Rising Search And Rescue Costs Facing The State And Count...
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2024-04-04
Report and Resolution Adopted as amended (SD1). Aye(s) with reservations: none. Noes, 1 (Senator(s) Awa).
HISR53PassUrging The Department Of Health To Convene An Informal Working Group To Assess The Registration And Monitoring Of All Group Living Facilities As Described In Section 46-4(d), Hawaii Revised Statutes, Including Clean And Sober Homes.
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2024-04-04
Report and Resolution Adopted, as amended (SD 1).
HISCR58Engross
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Urging The Hawaii Housing Finance And Development Corporation To Adopt Administrative Rules To Create A Process Under Section 201h-38, Hawaii Revised Statutes, For Housing Projects Exclusively For Sale Or Rent To Qualified Residents As Defined In Sec...
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2024-04-04
To House Housing Committee
HISR94PassDemanding The Department Of Accounting And General Services To Develop A Comprehensive Recycling Program, With Specific Focus On The Collection Of Hi-5 Recyclable Items, To Be Implemented In All Offices At The Hawaii State Capitol.
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2024-04-04
Report and Resolution Adopted, as amended (SD 1).
HISR82PassRequesting The Hawaii State Energy Office To Convene A Renewable Liquid Fuels Working Group To Study Local Production, Development, And Incentives For Renewable Liquid Fuels.
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2024-04-04
Report and Resolution Adopted, as amended (SD 1).
HISR80PassRequesting The Establishment Of A Telehealth Working Group To Examine The Impact Of Widespread Telehealth Adoption During The Covid-19 Pandemic And Identify Public Policy Initiatives At The Federal And State Level To Optimize Telehealth Utilization A...
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2024-04-04
Report and Resolution Adopted as amended (SD1). Aye(s) with reservations: none. Noes, 1 (Senator(s) Awa).
HISR87PassRequesting The Hawaii Climate Change Mitigation And Adaptation Commission To Conduct An Educational Program Regarding The Activities Of Individuals That Contribute To Climate Change.
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2024-04-04
Report and Resolution Adopted.
HISR85PassRequesting All High-occupancy State And County Buildings, The Design Of Which Commences On Or After July 1, 2025, To Be Designed And Constructed To Withstand Category Five Hurricanes And To Serve As Shelters In The Event Of An Emergency.
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2024-04-04
Report and Resolution Adopted, as amended (SD 1).
HISR120PassRequesting A Task Force Be Convened To Develop Options To Reduce Cost And Return Increased Value To Residents From Funds Made Available By The State For Public Mass Transit.
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2024-04-04
Report and Resolution Adopted.
HISR125PassRequesting The State To Begin Planning To Collaborate With Partners In Japan To Appropriately Recognize The Eightieth Anniversary Of The End Of World War Ii, Including The Atomic Bombings And Lives Lost In Japan And Hawaii Throughout The War, And Rea...
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2024-04-04
Report and Resolution Adopted.
HISCR188Engross
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Requesting The Department Of Human Services To Continue To Cease Intercepting Social Security Payments For Children In Foster Care.
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2024-04-04
To House Human Services Committee
HISR183PassRequesting The Auditor To Conduct A Social And Financial Assessment On Mandating Dental And Vision Insurance Coverage.
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2024-04-04
Report and Resolution Adopted, as amended (SD 1).
HISR132PassRequesting The Hawaii Professional Chapter Of The Society Of Professional Journalists To Recommend A Process That Individuals Can Utilize To Evaluate And Identify Whether Or Not News Sources Adhere To Ethical And Objective Standards.
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2024-04-04
Report and Resolution Adopted as amended (SD1). Aye(s) with reservations: none. Noes, 1 (Senator(s) Ihara).
HISR160PassRequesting The Insurance Commissioner To Conduct A Comprehensive Study On Wildfire Risk And Insurance, Including Market-based Approaches.
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2024-04-04
Report and Resolution Adopted.
HISR202PassRequesting The Governor, In Collaboration With The County Of Maui, To Provide A Clear Strategy For Addressing The Short And Long-term Housing Needs For Residents Displaced By The August 2023 Maui Wildfires.
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2024-04-04
Report and Resolution Adopted.
HISR171PassUrging The Department Of Education To Study The Impact Of Teacher Salary Step Movements On Salary Schedule Compression.
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2024-04-03
Resolution Adopted.
HISR50PassRequesting The Hawaii Housing Finance And Development Corporation To Adopt Administrative Rules To Enable Credit Enhancement For Construction Loans Under Any Funds Administered By The Corporation.
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2024-04-01
Report and Resolution Adopted, as amended (SD 1).
HISR47PassUrging The Hawaii Housing Finance And Development Corporation To Adopt Administrative Rules To Create A Process Under Section 201h-38, Hawaii Revised Statutes, For Housing Projects Exclusively For Sale Or Rent To Qualified Residents As Defined In Sec...
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2024-04-01
Report and Resolution Adopted, as amended (SD 1).
HISB2450Engross
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Authorizes the Department of Transportation to weigh any ocean transport container offloaded at any harbor in the State and fine any company that offloads an ocean transport container having an excessive gross weight. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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2024-03-28
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HISCR41Intro
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Requesting The Department Of Labor And Industrial Relations And Workforce Development Council To Establish A Task Force To Conduct A Comprehensive Study Of The State's Current Education And Workforce Development Programs.
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2024-03-27
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee
HISR29Intro
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Requesting The Department Of Labor And Industrial Relations And Workforce Development Council To Establish A Task Force To Conduct A Comprehensive Study Of The State's Current Education And Workforce Development Programs.
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2024-03-27
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee
HISCR100Intro
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Requesting The Establishment Of A Working Group To Discuss Agriculture-related Issues.
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2024-03-27
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
HISB430Engross
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Establishes the Hawaii Farm to Food Bank Program and Hawaii food assistance program special fund to alleviate food shortages in the State. Appropriates funds. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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2024-03-25
Received notice of discharge of all conferees (Hse. Com. No. 457).
HISB744Engross
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Requires the Hawaii Invasive Species Council to classify the fungal pathogen that causes coffee leaf rust as an invasive species in its administrative rules and to direct available funding for mitigation efforts, research, and prevention or control a...
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2024-03-25
Received notice of discharge of all conferees (Hse. Com. No. 457).
HISB281Engross
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Establishes a state income tax deduction for eligible contributions made to a college savings program established under chapter 256, Hawaii Revised Statutes. Effective 6/30/3000. Applies to taxable years beginning after an unspecified date. (HD1)
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2024-03-25
Received notice of discharge of all conferees (Hse. Com. No. 457).
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Establishes positions within the Office of the Governor to be responsible for the deployment of the capital improvement funds appropriated by this Act. Appropriates funds for the ohana zones pilot program for expenses relating to operations, upkeep o...
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2024-03-25
Received notice of discharge of all conferees (Hse. Com. No. 457).
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