Hawaii Representative Mahina Poepoe [D]

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HIHB1564Intro
25%
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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2024-01-24
To House Water & Land Committee
HIHB1574Intro
25%
Permits the courts to consider enhanced sentencing for defendants convicted of sex trafficking if the victim was a minor, Native Hawaiian, or transported between islands or across state lines for the purposes of sex trafficking.
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2024-01-24
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB1586Intro
25%
Requires the Department of Health to conduct a feasibility study on the establishment of a wastewater treatment works project in Waialua, Oahu. Appropriates funds.
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2024-01-24
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee
HIHB1553Intro
25%
Appropriates funds to the Department of Land and Natural Resources for natural resource protection and restoration.
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2024-01-24
To House Water & Land Committee
HIHB1550Intro
25%
Re-establishes the position of the State Fire Marshal.
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2024-01-24
To House Water & Land Committee
HIHB1528Intro
25%
Proposes a constitutional amendment that guarantees individuals the right to a clean and healthy environment; the control of pollution; and the conservation, protection, and enhancement of the natural, native, cultural, scenic, and healthful qualitie...
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2024-01-24
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee
HIHB1548Intro
25%
Makes appropriations to the Department of Land and Natural Resources and Department of Transportation for vegetation management projects to reduce the risks of wildfires across the State.
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2024-01-24
To House Water & Land Committee
HIHB1607Intro
25%
Prohibits users of algorithmic decision-making from utilizing algorithmic eligibility determinations in a discriminatory manner. Requires users of algorithmic decision-making to send corresponding notices to individuals whose personal information is ...
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2024-01-24
To House Higher Education & Technology Committee
HIHB1612Intro
25%
Exempts unemployment compensation from state personal income tax beginning in the 2023 tax year. Increases the maximum weekly benefit a person may receive in unemployment compensation beginning on 1/1/2025.
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2024-01-24
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee
HIHB1547Intro
25%
Establishes the Hawaii Wildfire Relief Fund. Requires the establishment of a Wildfire Reserve Trust Fund to support the Hawaii Wildfire Relief Fund. Authorizes the Director of Commerce and Consumer Affairs to establish a Wildfire Bond Loan Program in...
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2024-01-24
To House Water & Land Committee
HIHB1659Intro
25%
Requires certain employers to provide a minimum amount of paid sick leave to employees to be used to care for themselves or a family member who is ill or needs medical care and supplemental paid sick leave to employees under certain public health eme...
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2024-01-24
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee
HIHB1658Intro
25%
Requires the department of labor and industrial relations to establish and administer a family leave insurance program. Provides family leave insurance benefits and extends the period of family leave to 16 weeks for businesses that employ one or more...
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2024-01-24
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee
HIHB1667Intro
25%
Requires a licensing authority to deny or suspend, or refuse to renew, reinstate, or restore, any license if the licensee or applicant is found to have been involved with unlawful fentanyl dealings.
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2024-01-24
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB1665Intro
25%
Requires the Hawaii emergency management agency to prepare and develop a plan to upgrade all-hazard warning sirens to be capable of transmitting voice instructions and directions and capable of voice activation.
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2024-01-24
To House Water & Land Committee
HIHB1794Intro
25%
Requires that each Department of Education public school student earn 2 credits in Hawaiian language as a graduation requirement.
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2024-01-24
To House Education Committee
HIHB1823Intro
25%
Requires certain owners and occupants of properties located in hazardous fire areas to maintain effective firebreaks within thirty feet of the property and to practice other fire prevention activities. Establishes the Community Fuels Reduction Projec...
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2024-01-24
To House Water & Land Committee
HIHB1796Intro
25%
Requires the Hawaii clean energy initiative program to design and implement a plan to increase jobs that strengthen emergency preparedness and climate resilience. Authorizes the use of the energy security special fund to advance the State's goals of ...
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2024-01-24
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee
HIHB1798Intro
25%
Beginning September 30, 2028, requires the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to annually calculate an adjusted minimum wage rate to within the nearest twenty-five cents using the Urban Hawaii Consumer Price index to take effect on January ...
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2024-01-24
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee
HIHB1905Intro
25%
Requires the Hawaii Public Housing Authority to allow any resident of a public housing project or state low-income housing project to keep 1 or more pet animals in the resident's unit, subject to applicable state laws, county ordinances, and any reas...
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2024-01-24
To House Housing Committee
HIHB1926Intro
25%
Establishes the Wildfire Safety Advisory Board within the Department of Land and Natural Resources to advise and make recommendations to state agencies concerning the State's wildfire safety and prevention efforts.
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2024-01-24
To House Water & Land Committee
HIHB2004Intro
25%
Requires the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to conduct an actuarial study on a leave grant pilot program to help small businesses offer their employees paid family leave and paid sick leave. Appropriates funds.
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2024-01-24
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee
HIHB1999Intro
25%
Requires the Department of Agriculture to conduct a market analysis study to identify the optimum mix of private sector, public sector, and philanthropic funding sources and mechanisms needed to support blue carbon ecosystem projects in the State and...
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2024-01-24
To House Agriculture Committee
HIHB2014Intro
25%
Prohibits a person from using a location tracker to harass, stalk, or perpetuate a crime against another person without their knowledge.
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2024-01-24
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB2076Intro
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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2024-01-24
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB2075Intro
25%
Appropriates funds to the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to further reduce its homestead program applicant waitlist.
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2024-01-24
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB2080Intro
25%
Proposes a constitutional amendment to ensure that the basis to marriage shall not be denied or abridged on the basis of race or sex.
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2024-01-24
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB2077Intro
25%
Establishes rights for watershed ecosystems to exist, flourish, and naturally evolve, in conjunction with native Hawaiian traditional and customary beliefs, practice, and values, for the benefit of present and future generations.
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2024-01-24
To House Water & Land Committee
HIHB2173Intro
25%
Increases the amount of the state supplemental payment for type 1 adult residential care homes, licensed developmental disabilities domiciliary homes, community care foster family homes, and certified adult foster homes to $767 and the amount of the ...
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2024-01-24
To House Human Services Committee
HIHB2189Intro
25%
Establishes ratemaking regulations for insurers who base their rates on a policyholder or applicant's wildfire risk.
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2024-01-24
To House Water & Land Committee
HIHB2178Intro
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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2024-01-24
To House Energy & Environmental Protection Committee
HIHB2172Intro
25%
Establishes the housing assistance program, to be carried out by the housing assistance program coordinator, within the Department of Human Services to provide state grants and rental subsidies to private property owners who set aside, construct, or ...
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2024-01-24
To House Housing Committee
HIHB2190Intro
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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2024-01-24
To House Water & Land Committee
HIHB2188Intro
25%
Prohibits residential rent increases in affected areas for an unspecified period after a severe storm warning or issuance of an emergency proclamation.
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2024-01-24
To House Water & Land Committee
HIHB957Intro
25%
Allows health care facilities to permit terminally ill patients to use medical cannabis under certain conditions.
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2023-12-11
To House Health Committee
HIHB604Intro
25%
Requires the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to develop a program to provide grants to match funds for hotel employees to buy hotels and establish employee-owned hotel cooperatives. Appropriates moneys.
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2023-12-11
To House Economic Development Committee
HIHB550Intro
25%
Requires the department of education to offer training for teachers, educational officers, and school-based behavioral health specialists on sex trafficking prevention and response.
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2023-12-11
To House Education Committee
HIHB203Engross
50%
Allows professional and technical staff of the state historic preservation division to be exempt from civil service laws. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee
HIHB179Intro
25%
Requires deposit beverage distributors that sell, offer for sale, or distribute deposit beverage containers in the State to meet minimum postconsumer recycled content requirements or minimum non-petroleum materials content requirements. Effective 6/3...
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2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HIHB1211Intro
25%
Increases the conveyance tax rate for certain properties. Exempts conveyances of certain real property from the conveyance tax. Establishes the homeless services fund. Eliminates the cap on the amount of conveyance tax collections allocated to the la...
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB915Intro
25%
Requires certain commercial agricultural entities to issue annual public reports regarding their pesticide use.
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2023-12-11
To House Agriculture Committee
HIHB239Intro
25%
Requires the clean energy initiative program to design, implement, and administer a plan to increase jobs aligned with the State's transition to a clean energy economy and strategies for evaluating and supporting a transition to a clean energy econom...
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB325Intro
25%
Increases the minimum penalty imposed upon homeowners, renters, and managers of real property when they intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly allow others to unlawfully use aerial devices from their respective properties after 9:00 p.m. and before ...
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2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB1116Intro
25%
Establishes licensure requirements for school psychologists to be administered by the board of psychology. Requires all school psychologists to be licensed by 7/1/2025. Increases the composition of the board of psychology to include two school psycho...
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2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HIHB843Engross
50%
Authorizes supplemental categorical funding for remote schools. Defines "remote school". Appropriates funds. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee
HIHB501Intro
25%
Beginning 7/1/2024, subjects all electric vehicles to a state mileage-based road usage fee instead of paying a registration surcharge. Requires a vehicle inspection certificate to state the odometer reading of the vehicle. Clarifies that the type of ...
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2023-12-11
To House Transportation Committee
HIHB284Intro
25%
Exempts from the general excise tax the gross proceeds or income received from the sale of any product resulting from the cultivation and production of unprocessed taro and value-added products whose primary ingredient is taro or taro leaf. Effective...
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB497Engross
50%
Requires the school facilities authority to conduct a feasibility study for the development of teacher and workforce housing at the Queen Liliuokalani elementary school property. Requires a report to the legislature prior to the 2024 regular session....
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2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee
HIHB82Intro
25%
Expands the definitions of "preceptor" and "volunteer-based clinical training rotation" to allow for improved accessibility for providers to receive income tax credits. Adds dieticians, physician assistants, and social workers to the list of precepto...
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB638Intro
25%
Authorizes prescriptions made by chiropractors for physical therapy and therapeutic massage treatment to qualify as a motor vehicle insurance personal injury protection benefit. Replaces the existing cap on the number of chiropractic treatment visits...
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB833Intro
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Establishes the criminal offense of unlawful shipment of tobacco products. Amends the definition of "tobacco products" under the Cigarette Tax and Tobacco Tax Law to include electronic smoking devices and e-liquids. Increases the license fee for pers...
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2023-12-11
To House Health Committee
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