Hawaii Senator Stanley Chang [D] | Bills

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HISB2525Intro
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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
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
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
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
HISB3256Intro
25%
Requires any person responsible for news and social media reports based on government records received under Hawaiis Uniform Information Practices Act to respond to record requests in the same manner as an agency under chapter 92F, HRS, with exceptio...
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2024-01-29
To Senate Government Operations Committee
HISB3284Intro
25%
Specifies some of the measures the Director of Health may take in response to emergency circumstances affecting the availability of safe drinking water or the discovery of contamination in a public water source.
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2024-01-29
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB3254Intro
25%
Appropriates funds to increase the funding for medicaid in-home services, conditioned on the Department of Human Services obtaining the maximum federal matching funds and pursuing all other funding sources.
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2024-01-29
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB3292Intro
25%
Beginning 7/1/2024, increases the cigarette tax rate and amends the disposition of the cigarette tax revenues by increasing the amount allocated to the Hawaii Cancer Research Special Fund.
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2024-01-29
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB3291Intro
25%
Authorizes the Department of Health to allow dispensaries to dispense cannabis or manufactured cannabis products to qualifying patients or primary caregivers of qualifying patients outside of the dispensary's retail store building but on the dispensa...
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2024-01-29
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB3295Intro
25%
Requires defendants convicted of causing the death of a parent or legal guardian of a minor child by the operation of a vehicle in a negligent manner while under the influence of drugs or alcohol to make restitution in the form of financial support t...
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2024-01-29
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB3319Intro
25%
Designates the seventeenth day in January of each year as Reconciliation Day. Establishes Reconciliation Day as a state holiday. Requires the State and its departments and agencies to recognize Reconciliation Day through educational programs, cultura...
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2024-01-29
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee
HISB3343Intro
25%
Requires beekeepers to adhere to certain industry standards and best management practice in the keeping of bees.
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2024-01-29
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
HISB3367Intro
25%
Authorizes the issuance of $55,000,000 in general obligation bonds for the purpose of assisting the Korean War Foundation, Inc., with the acquisition of land and the planning, design, and construction of a war memorial hall within the Aiea (Rainbow) ...
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2024-01-29
To Senate Water and Land Committee
HISB3321Intro
25%
Allows for the use of fine meshed nets for the protection of plants against invasive species.
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2024-01-29
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
HISB3358Intro
25%
Requires the Department of Agriculture to indemnify Molokai ranchers whose herds were affected by the bovine tuberculosis outbreak and have not received indemnification from other sources. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceede...
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2024-01-29
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
HISB3322Intro
25%
Updates and expands the statutory prohibition on the use of tobacco at public schools to include prohibiting the possession and use of electronic smoking devices. Requires the Department of Education to be responsible for educating students, employee...
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2024-01-29
To Senate Education Committee
HISB3368Intro
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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2024-01-29
To Senate Education Committee
HISB3342Intro
25%
Establishes a spay and neuter special fund and an advisory committee for the special fund. Allows funds from an income tax check-off to be deposited into the spay and neuter special fund. Appropriates moneys. Declares that the appropriation exceeds t...
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2024-01-29
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
HISB3369Intro
25%
Allows the Director of Health to grant an exemption from the requirement to upgrade, convert, or connect a cesspool if the State is unable to present evidence that the cesspool is affecting the State's drinking water supply or recreational waters.
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2024-01-29
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB3385Intro
25%
Requires electronic smoking device of e-liquid manufacturers to submit certifications with the Department of Taxation annually, stating that products comply with federal regulations. Requires the Department of Taxation to maintain a directory. Impose...
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2024-01-29
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
HISB3333Intro
25%
Exempts accessory dwelling units, ohana dwelling units, and certain affordable rental housing projects developed pursuant to a county ordinance from school impact fees. Effective 6/30/2024. Sunsets 7/1/2026.
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2024-01-29
To Senate Housing Committee
HISB3346Intro
25%
Requires the Department of Education to provide and disseminate its procedures for dealing with bullying. Requires principals, teachers, and staff to disseminate the Department's bullying procedures to students. Defines bullying procedures.
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2024-01-29
To Senate Education Committee
HISB3380Intro
25%
Requires each motor vehicle insurance policy to cover the replacement cost of a child passenger restraint system damaged during a collision for which liability coverage under the policy is applicable.
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2024-01-29
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
HISB2014Intro
25%
Beginning October 1, 2024, requires that all cartridges for electronic smoking devices and solutions for filling or refilling an electronic smoking device to be in child-resistant packaging.
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2024-01-26
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB2689Intro
25%
Creates a state-initiated process to expunge records of arrests and convictions pursuant to section 712-1249, Hawaii Revised Statutes, at no cost to the record holder. Requires the Hawaii Criminal Justice Data Center to submit biannual reports to the...
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2024-01-26
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB2732Intro
25%
Limits the payment of any delinquent tax and penalty required by the Director of Finance of a county as a condition precedent to the registration, renewal, or transfer of ownership of a vehicle more than 25 years old to the aggregate amount of delinq...
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2024-01-26
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee
HISB2881Intro
25%
Prohibits any person from intentionally encouraging or coercing any other person to consume alcohol or any other intoxicant for the purpose of enabling the other person to operate a vehicle under the influence of an intoxicant. Provides that a person...
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2024-01-26
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee
HISB2980Intro
25%
Establishes the Cultural Corridor Authority to develop plans to redevelop areas affected by disaster while maintaining historic and cultural preservation. Establishes an income tax credit to incentivize the voluntary relinquishment of real property l...
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2024-01-26
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee
HISB2966Intro
25%
Establishes a goal to transition all state-owned, non-road vehicles to be zero-emission vehicles by the end of 2045. Defines non-road vehicle.
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2024-01-26
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee
HISB2981Intro
25%
Establishes as a class B felony the unlicensed performance of contractor work, during or within 5 years following a national emergency, state of emergency, or disaster proclamation, in an affected political subdivision.
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2024-01-26
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
HISB3004Intro
25%
Appropriates funds to maintain seventy-five health technician positions within the Department of Education for the Hawaii Keiki: Healthy and Ready to Learn Program. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded.
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2024-01-26
To Senate Education Committee
HISB2968Intro
25%
Includes hydrogen vehicles as a priority for state agencies when purchasing or leasing light-, medium-, and heavy-duty motor vehicles.
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2024-01-26
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee
HISB2989Intro
25%
Authorizes the Judicial Council to nominate persons for appointment to a county ethics commission; provided that the county's charter or ordinance requires members of the commission to be appointed from nominations made by the Judicial Council.
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2024-01-26
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB2971Intro
25%
Raises the criminal penalty for the offense of indecent exposure from a petty misdemeanor to a misdemeanor if the victim is less than sixteen years of age. Provides that the state of mind requirement is not applicable to the fact that the victim is l...
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2024-01-26
To Senate Judiciary Committee
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