Hawaii Senator Stanley Chang [D] | Senate | Introduced

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HISB2542Intro
25%
Makes an appropriation to the University of Hawaii for the relocation and expansion of the University of Hawaii Maui College, Molokai Education Center.
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2024-02-06
To Senate Higher Education Committee
HISB2528Intro
25%
Disallows dividends paid deduction for real estate investment trusts, except for real estate investment trusts that provide affordable housing in the State. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2024. Sunsets 12/31/2027.
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2024-02-06
To Senate Housing Committee
HISB2833Intro
25%
Makes an appropriation to the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation for the establishment and hiring of one full-time equivalent (1.0 FTE) project manager III position to aid in the development of affordable housing options in the State....
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2024-02-06
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB3257Intro
25%
Requires the establishment of a One-Stop Student Service Center at each University of Hawaii campus with student enrollment greater than five thousand students beginning in the Fall 2025 semester. Requires that services provided by the One-Stop Stude...
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2024-02-06
To Senate Higher Education Committee
HISB2356Intro
25%
Establishes within the Department of Defense the position and duties of State Wildfire Marshal, the position and duties of State Wildfire Chief, the State Wildfire Corps, and the State Wildfire Fuel Reduction Task Force. Makes an appropriation.
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2024-02-05
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
HISB2435Intro
25%
Authorizes the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to administer an undivided interest Lease Award Program for beneficiaries on the homestead lease waiting list who are sixty years old or older or terminally ill, under certain conditions. Requires the ...
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2024-02-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB2609Intro
25%
Increases from $2,000 to $2,240, the minimum amount of guaranteed compensation required for an individual employed by and an employer who is exempt from the State's Wage and Hour Law.
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2024-02-05
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee
HISB2879Intro
25%
Establishes and appropriates funds for an artificial intelligence government services pilot program to provide certain government services to the public through an internet portal that uses artificial intelligence technologies.
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2024-02-05
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee
HISB2780Intro
25%
Requires the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to complete an interactive digitized beneficiary assessment and report on the feasibility of creating an interactive digital database software program. Requires a report to the Legislature. Declares that...
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2024-02-05
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB2921Intro
25%
Amends the appropriation of Act 279, SLH 2022, to conform its lapsing provision by 1 year, to conform to constitutional limitations. Appropriates moneys to the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands for fiscal year 2024-2025 to give practical effect to th...
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2024-02-05
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB2063Intro
25%
Prohibits the legislative body of a county from imposing requirements for residential incomes lower than those adopted or established by the State for housing projects. (SD1)
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2024-02-02
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB2117Intro
25%
Amends the definition of "preceptor" to include physician assistants, registered dietitians, and social workers. Amends the definition of "volunteer-based supervised clinical training rotation" to clarify that preceptors may be compensated for the pr...
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2024-02-02
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB471Intro
25%
Prohibits camping in public areas that are not designated as camping locations by the State or a county with certain exceptions. Allows the court to order violators to participate in homeless services in lieu of prosecution or sentencing. Requires th...
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2024-02-02
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB343Intro
25%
Establishes provisional or associate-level licensure requirements for marriage and family therapists, mental health counselors, and psychologists and authorizes insurance reimbursements in certain circumstances. Allows psychologist license applicants...
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2024-02-02
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
HISB2181Intro
25%
Requires the Judiciary to increase the hourly fees, mileage reimbursement rate, and commuter-time compensation rate for court interpreters. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. Makes an appropriation. (SD1)
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2024-02-02
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB2486Intro
25%
Establishes a silver alert program within the Department of Law Enforcement to help locate and safeguard missing vulnerable adults with developmental disabilities or mental impairments who pose a credible threat to the health and safety to themselves...
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2024-02-02
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB2552Intro
25%
Requires the law enforcement standards board to develop training materials related to the recognition and signs of Alzheimer's disease and related types of dementia. Requires law enforcement officers to review training materials for at least 1 hour p...
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2024-02-02
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB2055Intro
25%
Establishes a three-year summer tuition pilot program to provide funding to UH community colleges to offset the costs aligning the resident tuition rates for the summer semester with the resident tuition rates for the spring and fall semesters at the...
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2024-02-01
To Senate Higher Education Committee
HISB2021Intro
25%
Requires the Hawaii Public Housing Authority to conduct a study identifying certain state-owned lands located within a one-half mile radius of any rail mass transit station, including lands owned by the Office of Hawaiian Affairs and excluding lands ...
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2024-02-01
To Senate Housing Committee
HISB2068Intro
25%
Makes an appropriation to the Hawaii Public Housing Authority for the rehabilitation, remodeling, renovation, and repair of a certain number of housing units. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. (SD1)
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2024-02-01
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB2008Intro
25%
Allows certain lawful permanent residents, asylees, and refugees, and certain DACA aliens who are not lawfully present in the United States to be eligible for the resident tuition fee at any University of Hawaii campus under certain conditions.
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2024-02-01
To Senate Higher Education Committee
HISB2105Intro
25%
Authorizes students who are individuals from a COFA nation, refugees, or special immigrant visa holders to qualify for the resident tuition fee within the University of Hawaii system, under certain conditions.
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2024-02-01
To Senate Higher Education Committee
HISB2314Intro
25%
Requires the Director of Transportation to establish and implement a Digital Identification Pilot Program. In coordination with the counties and various agencies, requires the Director of Transportation to submit a report to the Legislature.
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2024-02-01
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee
HISB2986Intro
25%
Requires retail crediting for energy exports enrolled in grid services programs, whereby energy exported to the electrical grid past a participating customer-generator's point of common coupling from photovoltaic solar systems paired with battery sto...
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2024-02-01
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee
HISB2970Intro
25%
Appropriates funds to Leeward community college Waianae Moku to support and assist students who are twenty-four years old or younger and ineligible to apply for federal financial assistance through the Free Application for Federal Student Aid applica...
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2024-02-01
To Senate Higher Education Committee
HISB2148Intro
25%
Exempts persons engaging in aquaculture research from the aquarium fish permit requirement.
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2024-01-31
The recommendation was not adopted.
HISB2346Intro
25%
Requires the Department of Law Enforcement to conduct a voluntary firearm buyback program in each county of the State. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. Makes an appropriation. Takes effect 1/1/2042. (SD1)
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2024-01-31
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB2307Intro
25%
Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, in collaboration with various agencies and upon request of the inmates, to assist inmates in obtaining the inmates' civil identification card, birth certificate, social security card, and oth...
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2024-01-31
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB2444Intro
25%
Appropriates funds for the installation of a new outdoor emergency siren in the Pacific Palisades area of Oahu. Declares that the general expenditure ceiling is exceeded. Takes effect 1/1/2042. (SD1)
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2024-01-31
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB2672Intro
25%
Authorizes the state librarian to decline to conduct a requested review of an item within the Hawaii State Public Library System collection if the item was previously reviewed by the system in good faith, the basis for the request is duplicative or s...
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2024-01-30
To Senate Education Committee
HISB2525Intro
25%
Amends the environmental response, energy, and food security tax to address carbon emissions. Incrementally increases the tax rate over time. Establishes a refundable tax credit to mitigate the effect of a carbon emissions tax on taxpayers. Requires ...
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2024-01-30
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee
HISB2049Intro
25%
Establishes a five-year pilot program to allow qualified psychologists limited authority to prescribe psychotropic medications to patients under the care of the psychologist at a federally qualified health center. Requires a report to the Legislature...
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2024-01-29
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB2005Intro
25%
Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to construct a mental health facility for inmates or detainees with mental health needs. Appropriates funds.
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2024-01-29
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB2462Intro
25%
Amends the functions of the State Health Planning and Development Agency. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. Establishes positions. Makes an appropriation.
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2024-01-29
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB2490Intro
25%
Requires each county to adopt, no later than June 30, 2025, ordinances applicable to subdivisions not approved by July 1, 2025, requiring as a condition of approval, the subdivider or developer to obtain a street address and install a mailbox for lot...
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2024-01-29
To Senate Government Operations Committee
HISB2918Intro
25%
Appropriates the function of the State Health Planning and Developmental Agency with the Department of Health. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. Establishes positions.
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2024-01-29
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB3210Intro
25%
Requires Department of Education school bus contracts to include provisions that require contractors to prioritize the use of motor vehicles that do not require those drivers to hold a commercial driver's license.
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2024-01-29
To Senate Education Committee
HISB3201Intro
25%
Establishes the multifamily housing accessibility modifications grant program to facilitate the installation of accessibility modifications in certain properties. Appropriates moneys. Declares that the appropriation exceeds the state general fund exp...
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2024-01-29
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB3238Intro
25%
For taxable years beginning after 12/31/2024, provides an aquaculture investment tax credit for investments into a qualified aquaculture business.
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2024-01-29
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
HISB3252Intro
25%
Amends the Hawaii State Constitution to prohibit the State from denying or interfering with an individual's reproductive freedom, including the right to choose or obtain an abortion or to choose to obtain or use contraceptives.
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2024-01-29
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB3233Intro
25%
Establishes a statute of repose for land surveyors, after which time a complaint cannot be made.
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2024-01-29
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
HISB3255Intro
25%
Codifies certain administrative rules of the Department of Land and Natural Resources regarding permits to destroy or control harmful feral pigs.
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2024-01-29
To Senate Water and Land Committee
HISB3253Intro
25%
Appropriates funds to provide additional support and resources to families receiving benefits through the State's adoption assistance and permanency assistance programs.
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2024-01-29
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB3262Intro
25%
Renames the John A. Burns School of Medicine special fund as the physician and veterinarian special fund. Expands the authorized uses of the special fund to include providing loan repayments to veterinarians and scholarships for students attending a ...
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2024-01-29
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
HISB3264Intro
25%
Authorizes manufacturers of electronic devices to coordinate collection activities for the purpose of recycling electronic devices.
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2024-01-29
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
HISB3227Intro
25%
Allows religious, educational, and medical institutions to build residential units on lands zoned for residential or commercial use within the urban state land use district, under certain conditions.
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2024-01-29
To Senate Housing Committee
HISB3278Intro
25%
Amends state laws governing medical use of cannabis and the medical cannabis dispensary system.
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2024-01-29
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB3232Intro
25%
Establishes a teacher loan program to encourage individuals to become teachers in hard-to-fill positions of Department of Education schools. Allows a loan to be forgiven for teachers who become a licensed teacher in Hawaii or for teachers who will co...
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2024-01-29
To Senate Education Committee
HISB3251Intro
25%
Requires the Department of Human Services to establish a Medicaid buy-in program for workers with disabilities.
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2024-01-29
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB3263Intro
25%
Establishes the Hawaii Home Energy Assistance Program within the Department of Human Services to assist qualifying households in paying their energy bills. Establishes the Hawaii Home Energy Assistance Special Fund. Declares that the general fund exp...
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2024-01-29
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
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