| HI | SB2304 | Intro
25% | Repeals existing law that preempted local ordinances or regulations that regulate the sale of cigarettes, tobacco products, and electronic smoking devices and nullified and voided any conflicting local laws and regulations. Allows counties to adopt o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-19
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| HI | SB2302 | Intro
25% | Requires the Director of the Executive Office on Aging to work with health care providers to ensure that there are sufficient long-term care facilities on each island of the State. Makes an appropriation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-19
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| HI | SB2316 | Intro
25% | Prohibits a health insurer from requiring an insured diagnosed with stage two through stage five cancer to undergo step therapy prior to covering the insured for certain drugs prescribed by the insured's health care provider, under certain conditions...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-19
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| HI | SB2260 | Intro
25% | Relating To Health. Short form bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-19
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| HI | SB2282 | Intro
25% | Requires providers of no cost emergency shelter and related services to take steps to ensure pertinent youth obtain and receive services from the juvenile justice or child welfare systems and maintain separation for unrelated adults and minor childre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-19
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| HI | SB2248 | Intro
25% | Authorizes qualifying patients and qualifying out-of-state patients to transport cannabis between islands of the State for personal medical use.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-19
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| HI | SB2223 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the Director of Health from assessing any fees for the issuance of municipal separate storm sewer system permits to county governments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
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| HI | SB2195 | Intro
25% | Establishes strict liability for crimes against elders with respect to the attendant circumstance that the victim was 60 years of age or older.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
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| HI | SB2048 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Health to establish and implement a program to improve and increase support for emergency medical services in the State. Requires the Department of Health to submit reports to the Legislature. Declares that the general fund...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
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| HI | SB2185 | Intro
25% | Requires certain amounts of child support moneys collected by the Department of Human Services for public assistance of a child to pass through to the family receiving public assistance. Requires the Department of Human Services to disregard passed-t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
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| HI | SB2169 | Intro
25% | Exempts medical and dental services provided by health care providers to patients who receive Medicaid, Medicare, or TRICARE benefits from the general excise tax. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2024.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
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| HI | SB2125 | Intro
25% | Increases the amount of interest in real property that is exempt from attachment and execution. Amends the value of personal property that is exempt from attachment and execution, including increasing the exemption amount for a motor vehicle. Exempts...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
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| HI | SB2118 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the Department of Health to approve in-vehicle receipt of medical cannabis and medical cannabis products on the premises of dispensaries subject to Administrative Rules adopted by the Department of Health.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
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| HI | SB2104 | Intro
25% | Establishes a Business Activity Water Catchment System Working Group within the Department of Health to assess the feasibility of allowing business owners in the State to utilize filtered water collected by water catchment systems for business activi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
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| HI | SB2224 | Intro
25% | Repeals existing law that provides that all local ordinances or regulations that regulate the sale of cigarettes, tobacco products, and electronic smoking devices are preempted and that existing local laws and regulations conflicting with the state l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
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| HI | SB2059 | Intro
25% | Requires a retail establishment with an employee toilet facility to allow a customer suffering from an eligible medical condition to use that restroom during normal business hours, under certain conditions. Exempts a retail establishment and employee...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
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| HI | SB2189 | Intro
25% | Allows a person who employs or contracts with a health care worker who suffers an act of violence to report the event to law enforcement and petition for a temporary restraining order and injunction under certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
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| HI | SB2023 | Intro
25% | Beginning on January 1, 2025, permits manufacturers of investigational drugs or biological products to make these drugs and products available to terminally ill patients under certain conditions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17
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| HI | SB1361 | Intro
25% | Making the nursing facility sustainability program and exemptions from the special fund assessments permanent. Make changes to strengthen the nursing facility sustainability program and other nonsubstantive changes for consistency and clarify. Approp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB357 | Intro
25% | Establishes a refundable state child tax credit payable on a monthly basis.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB728 | Intro
25% | Beginning 1/1/2027, prohibits the operation of leaf blowers or string trimmers that are powered using two-stroke engines. Establishes penalties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB638 | Intro
25% | Amends the definition of "imminent harm" for the purposes of the Child Protective Act. Requires a police officer assuming protective custody without a court order of a child to provide to the Department of Human Services a written report detailing th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB689 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Health for the Hawaii State Loan Repayment Program administered through the John A. Burns School of Medicine, subject to a matching funds requirement.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB1176 | Intro
25% | Requires any document that constitutes a certificate of birth issued under the laws of this State to allow for "nonbinary" or "X" to be a sex or gender marker choice.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB1322 | Intro
25% | Allows for temporary permits to be issued to registered nurses and licensed practical nurses, and revises the exemptions for license.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB134 | Intro
25% | Establishes water fluoridation requirements for privately-owned and government entity water suppliers in the State to conform with the United States Department of Health and Human Services standards for optimal water fluoridation levels. Exempts fede...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | HB1254 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds to establish homelessness coordinator positions on Maui, Oahu, Kauai, and Hawaii island within the Department of Land and Natural Resources. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB595 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for the executive office on aging to create an Alzheimer's disease public health campaign.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB957 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Health to implement the recommendations of the Task Force on Mobility Management, including funding of positions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB952 | Intro
25% | Clarifies provisions related to the statutory limitations on the time periods in which a survivor of childhood sexual abuse may file a civil action. Allows for punitive damages. Permits the court to order restorative justice measures, if deemed appro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB1020 | Intro
25% | Requires health insurers, mutual benefit societies, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage for medication used for the treatment of obesity or weight loss management for a covered individual who is overweight and has one or more rel...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB915 | Intro
25% | Amends the Uniform Probate Code to allow courts to appoint emergency guardians for respondents who reside in psychiatric facilities, hospitals, and homeless shelters. Extends the appointment period. Clarifies that guardians may consent to care, treat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB1530 | Intro
25% | Requires certain persons to immediately report to the family court if the person has reason to believe that a child in foster custody has suffered an injury that may constitute a tort claim. Establishes procedures for the family court to follow when ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB169 | Intro
25% | Requires Medicaid and private insurance coverage of ambulance services. Authorizes Medicaid programs, and requires private insurers, to cover community paramedicine services rendered statewide by emergency medical technicians or paramedics. Appropria...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB890 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the State from denying or interfering with a patient's right to choose to obtain an abortion or to terminate a pregnancy if the termination is necessary to protect the life or health of the patient. Repeals a criminal penalty for violations...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB444 | Intro
25% | Authorizes dispensaries to distribute medical cannabis propagules and cuttings. Authorizes only those persons who may cultivate medical cannabis to purchase the propagules and cuttings. Imposes quantity limits and quality requirements on medical cann...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB1042 | Intro
25% | Clarifies the definition of "imminent harm". Requires police officers to comply with exigency requirements when removing a child from the child's home and to promptly submit a police report documenting specific, articulable evidence of imminent harm ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB1214 | Intro
25% | Establishes a tax equal to seventy per cent of the manufacturer's list price for electronic smoking devices and e-liquid products. Expands the electronic smoking device retailer registration unit to include wholesalers. Requires electronic cigarette ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB1134 | Intro
25% | Exempts medical services from the general excise tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB721 | Intro
25% | Requires the court to consider frequent, continuing, and meaningful contact with each parent when awarding custody of a minor child, unless the court finds that one or both parents are unable to act in the best interests of the child, and to make cer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB1128 | Intro
25% | Exempts gross proceeds from medical services provided by physicians and advanced practice registered nurses acting in the capacity of a primary care provider from the general excise tax. Effective 1/1/2024.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB241 | Intro
25% | Establishes general excise tax exemptions for food, medical services, and feminine hygiene products.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB1182 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Health to conduct a study on possible means by which the State can reduce the number of single-family dwellings that contain asbestos. Requires a report to the Legislature. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB589 | Intro
25% | Makes unlawful for any person to play, use, operate, or otherwise permit a sound amplifier that creates a noise disturbance within thirty feet of a hotel, detached dwelling, or multi-family dwelling in Waikiki between the hours of 7:00 p.m. to 6:00 a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB1200 | Intro
25% | Requires an independent evaluation of a child's parents before a child is returned to the child's family home, under certain conditions. Clarifies the purpose of the child protective act. Allows certain contact between grandparents and a child in fos...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB254 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the abortion of a fetus that is capable of feeling pain. Prohibits abortions by dismemberment. Provides certain exceptions. Establishes penalties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB439 | Intro
25% | Amends the definition of "preceptor" and "volunteer-based supervised clinical training rotation" to improve accessibility for providers to receive income tax credits for acting as preceptors. Includes the Director of Health as a member of the Precept...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB1039 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Environmental Crimes Unit within the Office of the Attorney General. Makes the disposal of motor vehicle tires in violation of State law governing recovery of used motor vehicle tire recovery a petty demeanor crime. Establishes a $1 m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB940 | Intro
25% | Establishes an additional minimum Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefit of $250 per month per person for SNAP-eligible households whose income is below two hundred per cent of the federal poverty level, as established by the United...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB628 | Intro
25% | Makes it unlawful for any non-government entity or agent thereof to operate a weed whacker in or within one hundred feet of a residential zone, except between 8:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. on most days. Defines weed whacker.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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