Hawaii Senator Angus McKelvey [D]

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HISR13Intro
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Requesting The University Of Hawaii Economic Research Organization To Conduct A Study Of Ways To Increase Access To Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Benefits.
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2024-03-01
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB3320Intro
25%
Prohibits any articles of incorporation, declaration, bylaws, administrative rules, house rules, or association documents of a condominium property regime, planned community association, or homeowners' association from prohibiting or restricting the ...
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2024-02-20
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
HISB513Intro
25%
Specifies certain findings the Board of Land and Natural Resources must make for a lease of a government-owned Hawaiian fishpond. Takes effect 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB367Intro
25%
Prohibits the sale of tickets at higher price than the original price charged by the primary venue ticket provider. Takes effect 1/1/2050. (SD1)
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2024-02-16
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
HISB1119Intro
25%
Appropriates funds for the purpose of engaging the community and developing plans for a potential future memorial, monument, or other appropriate means to properly honor and respectfully recognize the memory of those who lost their lives or were impa...
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2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB2116Intro
25%
Requires boards to hold hybrid meetings that that allow for participation both in-person and remotely by interactive conference technology. Requires boards to archive minutes and video of meetings on their websites. Takes effect 1/1/2112. (SD1)
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2024-02-16
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB2050Intro
25%
Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to establish and conduct the Marine Life Conservation District Carrying Capacity Program. Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to submit reports to the Legislature and adopt admin...
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2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB1580Intro
25%
Establishes within the Department of Health, the Health Care Facilities Labor Standards Working Group to research, assess, and make recommendations on the best practices in labor standards that can be implemented at hospitals, care homes, and dialysi...
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2024-02-16
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
HISB2364Intro
25%
Establishes a Plant-Based Building Materials Working Group to report on how best to grow plants and develop plant-based building materials in Hawaii and provide economic development and green jobs while sequestering greenhouse gases to help achieve t...
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2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB2369Intro
25%
Establishes a working group to investigate the existence and environmental dangers of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances and related chemicals. Requires reports to the Legislature. (SD1)
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2024-02-16
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
HISB2360Intro
25%
Requires the Department of Health to submit a report to the Legislature on the cesspool Compliance Pilot Grant Project prior to the Regular Session of 2025. Establishes three full-time equivalent (3.0 FTE) positions to implement the Cesspool Complian...
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2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB2317Intro
25%
Requires the Governor to implement a State Capitol Tour Program for volunteer docents to conduct tours of the capitol building and grounds. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. Makes an appropriation. Takes effect 7/1/2112....
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2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB2315Intro
25%
Requires the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs to post the business address and business phone number of each licensed professional on its public website.
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2024-02-16
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
HISB2366Intro
25%
Classifies neonicotinoid pesticides as restricted use pesticides and establishes a list of chemicals that belong to the neonicotinoid class of chemicals.
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2024-02-16
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
HISB2306Intro
25%
No later than January 1, 2025, requires the Department of Accounting and General Services to install and maintain automated external defibrillators in all state buildings. Requires the Department of Accounting and General Services to provide training...
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2024-02-16
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB2368Intro
25%
Requires the Department of Health to conduct a statewide needs assessment to inform the future establishment of an extended producer responsibility program for packaging waste. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. Makes an ...
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2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB2373Intro
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Authorizes the director of finance to issue general obligation bonds to finance capital improvements to various irrigation systems.
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2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB2482Intro
25%
Requires the Comptroller to identify state office buildings that can provide equitable telecommunication access to allow certain residents, including residents with disabilities, to participate remotely in legislative hearings. Requires a report to t...
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2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB2473Intro
25%
Establishes a refundable tax credit for nonpaid family caregivers. Requires the Department of Taxation to report to the Legislature before the convening of each Regular Session. Takes effect 12/31/2050. (SD1)
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2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB2399Intro
25%
Exempts the gross proceeds received after 12/31/2023 by a farmer for the sale of produce from the general excise tax. (SD1)
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2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB2471Intro
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Makes an appropriation to support the Department of Health's Senior Fall Prevention Campaign. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. (SD1)
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2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB2470Intro
25%
Makes an appropriation to the Executive Office on Aging of the Department of Health for the Hawaii Healthy Aging Partnership. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. (SD1)
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2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB2641Intro
25%
Limits moving violations arising from the operation of a motor vehicle that appear on traffic abstracts to those that resulted in convictions. Requires the Traffic and Emergency Period Violations Bureaus to remove all alleged moving violations not re...
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2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB2547Intro
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Establishes income tax credits for employers who offer employer-provided or employer-sponsored child care services for their employees. Takes effect 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB2874Intro
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Establishes a non-refundable income tax credit for residential landlords who lease a unit to a tenant with a pet for at least six months. Takes effect 7/1/2040. (SD1)
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2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB2816Intro
25%
Part I: Requires the Office of the Lieutenant Governor to set a fee for the issuance of an apostille or a non-apostille certification by administrative rule. Establishes the Apostilles and Certifications Special Fund. Appropriates funds into and out ...
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2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB2808Intro
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Establishes a Statewide Firefighting Helicopter Program, to be administered by the State Fire Marshal. Appropriates funds to obtain helicopters, facilities equipment, and supplies; hire and train staff; and do other things necessary to ensure that th...
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2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB2790Intro
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Appropriates funds for the Department of Agriculture to hire two FTE positions to collect, manipulate, and graph data and to build an agricultural data dashboard for public consumption and a one year study on agricultural markets for Hawaii farmers. ...
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2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB2827Intro
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Requires cash or protest bonds to be returned to the initiating parties, minus administrative costs as determined by the Office of Administrative Hearings of the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs, except in cases where the appeal was frivol...
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2024-02-16
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
HISB2873Intro
25%
Establishes an advisory commission in the Department of Accounting and General Services to propose names or a change of names for state buildings, parks, facilities, and events. Takes effect 7/1/2112. (SD1)
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2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB2815Intro
25%
Establishes a working group within the Department of Transportation to conduct a comprehensive study to assess the State's port and harbor system and the potential viability of each location in that system to support current and future agricultural p...
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2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB2830Intro
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Amends the definitions of "board", "board business", and "meeting" within state open meetings law to expand the scope of the law to include state and county policymaking groups, including groups created by emergency proclamations. (SD1)
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2024-02-16
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB2829Intro
25%
Allows the Department of Accounting and General Services to employ persons exempt from chapters 76 and 89, Hawaii Revised Statutes, as part of the State's information technology modernization efforts. Takes effect 7/1/2112. (SD1)
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2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB2783Intro
25%
Appropriates funds to the Department of Human Services for Medicaid coverage under the Children's Health Insurance Program for income-qualified pregnant persons and children, regardless of immigration status. Declares that the general fund expenditur...
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2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB2822Intro
25%
By 8/1/24, requires the Public Utilities Commission to open a docket and set a procedural schedule to determine whether and by which rules the Department of Accounting and General Services may engage in wheeling of electricity that is produced by ren...
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2024-02-16
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
HISB2964Intro
25%
Authorizes independent generators of renewable energy to wheel the renewable energy transmitted and used to produce hydrogen, subject to certain conditions determined by the Public Utilities Commission. Takes effect 1/1/2060. (SD1)
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2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB3209Intro
25%
Appropriates funds to the University of Hawaii at Manoa College of Education for the establishment of seven full-time equivalent (7.0 FTE) positions and additional program costs for the expanded teacher cohort program to fulfill the requirements of A...
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2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB3235Intro
25%
Establishes the Solar Hui Program to allow multi-family residential property owners to invest into a Solar Hui Investment Fund to provide loans to low- and moderate-income households to install solar energy systems. Establishes the Solar Hui Program ...
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2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB3230Intro
25%
Makes an appropriation for the Insurance Division of the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs, in collaboration with the University of Hawaii, to procure expertise and develop a physical risk model to assess risk in the State for insurance rat...
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2024-02-16
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB3258Intro
25%
Establishes additional requirements for the Department of Land and Natural Resources and Board of Land and Natural Resources regarding the Dam and Appurtenance Improvement or Removal Grant Program. Takes effect 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB3229Intro
25%
Establishes a working group to identify, assess, and recommend certain risk transfer market mechanisms. Establishes requirements for insurers relating to claims for additional living expenses under homeowners insurance policies, including situations ...
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2024-02-16
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB3261Intro
25%
Establishes a Local Agriculture Transportation Cost Reimbursement Program to reimburse eligible ranchers and farmers a portion of their costs to transport livestock, livestock products, agricultural commodities, and certain supplies under certain cir...
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2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB3357Intro
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Requires the Department of Accounting and General Services to prepare reports assessing the feasibility of installing distributed energy resource systems at state facilities. Requires state facilities to implement and install the distributed energy r...
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2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB3382Intro
25%
Establishes an income tax credit to encourage investment in businesses affected by the 2023 Lahaina wildfire, and in redevelopment resiliency projects occurring within the Lahaina district. Takes effect 1/1/2060. (SD1)
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2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB2309Intro
25%
Establishes the Hawaii Age-Appropriate Design Code to promote privacy protections for children and ensure that online products, services, or features that are likely to be accessed by children are designed in a manner that recognizes the distinct nee...
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2024-02-15
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
HISB2358Intro
25%
Appropriates funds to support the Hawaii Invasive Species Council to ensure its long-term viability and prevent future problems. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded.
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2024-02-15
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB2359Intro
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Appropriates funding for the Hawaii Ant Lab to support little fire ant mitigation and eradication efforts.
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2024-02-15
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB2361Intro
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Establishes two permanent full-time equivalent (2.0 FTE) grant specialist positions within the Department of Agriculture. Declares that the general expenditure ceiling is exceeded. Makes an appropriation. (SD1)
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2024-02-15
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB2363Intro
25%
Requires the Department of Agriculture to establish a two-year agricultural crime pilot project to examine the effectiveness of prosecuting agricultural crimes, including agricultural theft and agricultural vandalism, in the City and County of Honolu...
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2024-02-15
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB2412Intro
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Establishes the Aquaculture Advisory Committee within the Department of Agriculture. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. Makes an appropriation. (SD1)
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2024-02-15
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
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