Hawaii Senator Stanley Chang [D] | Senate | Introduced

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HISB2344Intro
25%
Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds to the Hawaii Public Housing Authority for the development and construction of permanent supportive housing for certain vulnerable individuals. Requires the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Co...
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2024-02-14
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB2460Intro
25%
Appropriates funds to address the mental health and wellness needs of youth in the State.
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2024-02-14
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB2445Intro
25%
Requires the Department of Transportation to identify an emergency egress route other than Komo Mai Drive from Pacific Palisades or, if no other route can be found, determine the feasibility of constructing an alternate emergency egress route. Requir...
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2024-02-14
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB2483Intro
25%
Requires the Department of Health to administer a three-year pilot program to authorize community health workers to provide outreach, education, training, and navigation of services to address the social determinants of health in Kau, Hawaii County. ...
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2024-02-14
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB2548Intro
25%
Requires employees, applicants, and contracted vendors of condominium associations in employment positions that grant access to security cameras and footage to undergo a background check and be licensed consistent with the requirements in chapter 463...
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2024-02-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB2493Intro
25%
Prohibits condominium associations from assessing, demanding, or seeking reimbursement from a unit owner for the association's total and final legal fees in excess of 25% of the original debt amount sought by the association. Takes effect 7/1/2040. (...
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2024-02-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB2602Intro
25%
Changes the administration of the human trafficking victim services fund from the department of labor and industrial relations to the department of the attorney general.
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2024-02-14
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB2863Intro
25%
Requires that a portion of state moneys be deposited in a financial institution chartered or authorized to do business in the State. Takes effect 7/1/2040; provided that a financial institution chartered or authorized to do business in the State is e...
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2024-02-14
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB2811Intro
25%
Makes state agricultural tourism requirements applicable to all counties, instead of only counties that have adopted an agricultural tourism ordinance. Requires Land Use Commission to adopt rules that establish requirements applicable to all farms im...
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2024-02-14
To Senate Water and Land Committee
HISB2810Intro
25%
Appropriates funds for Pololu Valley management, including for the Division of Forestry and Wildlife of the Department of Land and Natural Resources to develop the trailhead; develop the infrastructure necessary to accommodate parking; install approp...
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2024-02-14
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB2797Intro
25%
Creates a refundable water catchment income tax credit for a homeowner who installs, places in service, or maintains a water catchment system meeting certain requirements on residential property in the State owned by the taxpayer. Applies to taxable ...
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2024-02-14
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB2889Intro
25%
Allows the Department of Transportation to establish a Noise Traffic Pilot Program. Takes effect 1/1/2050. (SD1)
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2024-02-14
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB2835Intro
25%
Amends the definition of "historic property" to include buildings and structures that are registered on the Hawaii Register of Historic places or object, district, area, or site that predate 8/21/1959. Takes effect 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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2024-02-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB2789Intro
25%
Permits film production on lands that are zoned for agricultural use. Establishes the Agricultural Film Production Land Use Oversight Committee to monitor and enforce compliance with regulations on film permit activities on agricultural zoned lands.
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2024-02-14
To Senate Water and Land Committee
HISB2965Intro
25%
Authorizes the Public Utilities Commission to establish a discounted rate by tariff for water carriers that engage in the interisland transport of hydrogen produced from renewable sources. (SD1)
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2024-02-14
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB2978Intro
25%
Establishes an income tax credit to incentivize the voluntary relinquishment of private water systems. Directs the Attorney General to commence eminent domain proceedings in certain counties. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exce...
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2024-02-14
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB3200Intro
25%
Establishes under the Department of Health a Smoking Sensor Rebate Program, which offers a rebate for installation of smoking sensors to detect smoking within smoking-prohibited areas.
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2024-02-14
The committee on HHS deferred the measure.
HISB3266Intro
25%
Appropriates funds to the Department of Transportation and Department of Land and Natural Resources for vegetation management projects to reduce the risks of wildfires across the State. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. ...
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2024-02-14
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB3341Intro
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Establishes the Upcycled Mobile Dishwashing System Pilot Program within the Department of Health. Requires a report to the Legislature. Establishes two full-time positions within the Department of Health. Declares the general fund expenditure ceiling...
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2024-02-14
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB3338Intro
25%
Establishes a WAI policy coordinator and other positions within the Department of Land and Natural Resources for coordination of Red Hill WAI initiatives. Creates the Red Hill Remediation Special Fund. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceili...
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2024-02-14
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB2045Intro
25%
Amends the priority for which moneys in the Rental Housing Revolving Fund are to be used. Requires the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to: (1) prioritize the allocation of low-income housing tax credits to certain projects and (2) ...
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2024-02-13
The committee on WAM deferred the measure.
HISB2026Intro
25%
Requires the Director of Finance to consider, before the selection of a depository for the state treasury, the beneficial effects to the State of using depositories within the State, including but not limited to lending at favorable terms for the cre...
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2024-02-13
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB2162Intro
25%
Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to pursue and obtain accreditation for the Conservation and Resources Enforcement Program from the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies, Inc. Takes effect 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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2024-02-13
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB2352Intro
25%
Repeals the requirement that the Director of Human Resources Development must submit a report to the Legislature before reclassifying and abolishing vacant positions within State departments and agencies that are under the jurisdiction of DHRD. Takes...
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2024-02-13
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB2324Intro
25%
Requires the State to share in the cost of county first responder personnel fulfilling state-imposed new mandates or increases in the level of service under existing programs.
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2024-02-13
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB2311Intro
25%
Establishes an electric vehicle battery recycling and disposal program. Prohibits disposal of propulsion batteries as solid waste. Prohibits producers of propulsion batteries from refusing propulsion batteries for reuse, remanufacturing, repurposing,...
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2024-02-13
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
HISB2449Intro
25%
Requires employers to initiate negotiations on repricing of classes within a bargaining unit within 30 days of its receipt of the exclusive representative's written request to negotiate. Establishes that the employer's failure to initiate the negotia...
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2024-02-13
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB2436Intro
25%
Requires recycling of construction and demolition materials and use of recycled materials to factor into priority offeror selections for competitive procurements of construction or demolition services by the State or any county.
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2024-02-13
To Senate Government Operations Committee
HISB2469Intro
25%
Adds credit enhancement for construction loans to the list of permitted uses of moneys in the Rental Housing Revolving Fund. Requires the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to adopt rules.
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2024-02-13
The committee on WAM deferred the measure.
HISB2590Intro
25%
Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to amend the definitions of "inadvertent discovery" and "previously identified" in the HAR, to better protect burial sites.
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2024-02-13
To Senate Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HISB2592Intro
25%
Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to amend the definition of "cultural descendant", in HAR, to more accurately capture relationships between individuals and families.
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2024-02-13
To Senate Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HISB2644Intro
25%
Establishes the legislative budget office to produce fiscal analyses and reports on bills impacting state or county finances. Repeals the joint legislative budget committee and the office of the legislative analyst. Appropriates funds.
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2024-02-13
To Senate Government Operations Committee
HISB2498Intro
25%
Establishes the Cesspool Conversion Revolving Loan Fund. Directs green energy market securitization loan repayments and interest to be deposited into the Cesspool Conversion Revolving Loan Fund. Requires the Hawaii Green Infrastructure Authority to a...
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2024-02-13
The committee on WAM deferred the measure.
HISB2719Intro
25%
Appropriates funds to establish full-time equivalent ( .0 FTE) positions within the Employee Classification and Compensation Division of the Department of Human Resources Development to perform employee classification duties. Declares that t...
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2024-02-13
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB2855Intro
25%
Clarifies U-drive motor vehicle insurance policy requirements.
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2024-02-13
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee
HISB2781Intro
25%
Appropriates funds to establish the position of a Limited English Proficiency Language Access Coordinator within the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. Takes effect 1/1/2042. (SD1)
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2024-02-13
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB2740Intro
25%
Beginning 1/1/26, requires that every moped rented in the State be an electric moped.
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2024-02-13
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee
HISB2880Intro
25%
Expands the existing state exemption for United States Department of Defense-certified providers to those operating off federal property. Takes effect 12/31/2050. (SD1)
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2024-02-13
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB2924Intro
25%
Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds and appropriates funds for planning, design, and construction for a warehouse to expand the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency's ability to store and deploy supplies and equipment to all counties wi...
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2024-02-13
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB3012Intro
25%
Lengthens the time period in which certain vehicles must have a safety inspection.
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2024-02-13
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee
HISB2135Intro
25%
Expands eligibility for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program to include any individual or household whose monthly income is equal to or less than three hundred per cent of the federal poverty level. Appropriates funds.
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2024-02-12
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB2052Intro
25%
Requires the public access room to establish and maintain an outreach and engagement program for primary, secondary, post-secondary, and community education. Requires the department of education and university of Hawaii to assign appropriate staff to...
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2024-02-12
The recommendation was not adopted.
HISB2065Intro
25%
Establishes the Hawaii Residential Developers Loan Revolving Fund to be administered by the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation for the purpose of enhancing credit and guaranteeing and insuring loans made by private financial instituti...
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2024-02-12
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB2151Intro
25%
Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to obtain approval from the Board of Land and Natural Resources before taking any action on a revocable permit. Prohibits tenant eviction in the year of renewal or during the renewed year. Takes e...
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2024-02-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB2184Intro
25%
Expands the authority of the State and counties to develop adaptation pathways plans to modify and relocate infrastructure away from critically threatened areas to locations outside sea level rise and coastal flooding exposure areas. Declares that th...
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2024-02-12
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB2141Intro
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Establishes a Homeland Security and Resiliency Council to assess the resilience of the State's electric grid and other critical infrastructure to natural disasters and other emergencies and make recommendations. Requires the Council to report to Legi...
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2024-02-12
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
HISB2145Intro
25%
Requires the counties to submit annual reports on fire code enforcement updates and fire mitigation planning to the Legislature. Takes effect 1/1/2042. (SD1)
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2024-02-12
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB2152Intro
25%
Limits the discretion of the Land Division of the Department of Land and Natural Resources by requiring the Board of Land and Natural Resources to approve all revoked, limited, condemned, removed, or modified public land leases or revocable permits. ...
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2024-02-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB2784Intro
25%
Repeals the authority of employers to pay tipped employees less than the minimum wage.
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2024-02-12
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee
HISB2973Intro
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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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2024-02-12
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee
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