Hawaii Representative Bertrand Kobayashi [D] | Introduced

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HIHR179Intro

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Requesting The Department Of Land And Natural Resources To Identify All Appropriate Sites At State Parks At Which A Water-bottle Filling Station Could Be Installed.
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2024-03-19
To House Water & Land Committee
HIHCR199Intro

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Requesting The Department Of Land And Natural Resources To Identify All Appropriate Sites At State Parks At Which A Water-bottle Filling Station Could Be Installed.
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2024-03-19
To House Water & Land Committee
HIHB1603Intro

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Amends various provisions related to pretrial release.
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2024-02-22
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB1562Intro

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Adds forfeiture of a vehicle as a maximum penalty on a third conviction for operating a motor vehicle without a license within a five-year period. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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2024-02-22
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB2531Intro

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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.
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2024-02-21
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB2665Intro

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Establishes green infrastructure objectives, policies, and priority guidelines for state facility systems, infrastructure, transit projects, and other areas in the Hawaii State Planning Act to improve the quality of life for residents and visitors. R...
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2024-02-16
To House Finance Committee
HIHB1778Intro

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Beginning 7/1/2026, amends existing law regarding preemption of local ordinances and regulations regulating the sale of cigarettes, tobacco products, and electronic smoking devices as a matter of statewide concern to clarify that the State's preempti...
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2024-02-15
To House Finance Committee
HIHB1954Intro

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Permanently establishes and appropriates funds for the Community Outreach Court as a division of the District Court of the First Circuit. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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2024-02-15
To House Finance Committee
HIHB2132Intro

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Requires the Hawaii Ant Lab to share data collected related to invasive ant surveys with the Department of Agriculture and Department of Land and Natural Resources. Appropriates funds for the Hawaii Ant Lab to support little fire ant mitigation and e...
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2024-02-15
To House Finance Committee
HIHB2127Intro

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Requires the Department of Agriculture, in collaboration with other state agencies, to develop and implement a plan to expand the meat processing capacity in the State to allow for meat from axis deer and other wild game to be processed for distribut...
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2024-02-15
To House Finance Committee
HIHB2191Intro

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Appropriates funds to the City and County of Honolulu for the expansion of the feral chicken project and the Vector Control Branch of the Department of Health for a statewide education campaign for the feeding of feral animals. Effective 7/1/3000. (H...
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2024-02-15
To House Finance Committee
HIHB2623Intro

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Appropriates funds to the Department of Education to contract with a qualified nonprofit organization to establish an aquatic safety education program for elementary school students and to establish one full-time equivalent position (1.0 FTE) to admi...
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2024-02-15
To House Education Committee
HIHB2672Intro

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Appropriates funds to support the Hawaii ant lab in mitigating the effects of little fire ants in the State. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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2024-02-15
To House Finance Committee
HIHB2232Intro

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Requires the Department of the Attorney General to publish annual reports regarding certain protective and restraining orders, firearms, and electric guns. Authorizes persons subject to certain protective and restraining orders to possess or control ...
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2024-02-14
To House Finance Committee
HIHB1656Intro

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Appropriates funds to the Department of Education to assist individuals in obtaining a commercial driver's license for the purpose of becoming school bus drivers. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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2024-02-13
To House Finance Committee
HIHB1648Intro

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Creates a School Psychologists Working Group to recommend actionable steps or propose legislation for an immediate pathway to licensure for school psychologists that can be acted upon in 2025. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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2024-02-13
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HIHB1670Intro

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Appropriates funds to the Department of Human Services to contract the services of qualified organizations for mobile treatment clinics that provide services throughout the night. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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2024-02-13
To House Finance Committee
HIHB1921Intro

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Appropriates funds to the Department of Health for mobile vaccination services for populations with reduced access to vaccines. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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2024-02-13
To House Finance Committee
HIHB1908Intro

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Repeals payroll day for public officers and employees by requiring them to be paid pursuant to a predicted payroll schedule, rather than an after-the-fact payroll schedule. Provides that the predicted payroll schedule shall not be subject to negotiat...
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2024-02-13
To House Finance Committee
HIHB1594Intro

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Prohibits any person convicted of operating a vehicle under the influence of an intoxicant or habitually operating a vehicle under the influence of an intoxicant from purchasing or publicly consuming alcohol for a certain period. Effective 7/1/3000. ...
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2024-02-12
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB2537Intro

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Imposes a penalty for knowingly selling invasive plants or plants containing invasive species.
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2024-02-12
To House Agriculture Committee
HIHB1540Intro

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Requires eligible schools to participate in the federal Community Eligibility Provision, which provides federal funds to help schools offer free meals to all students. Appropriates moneys for any difference between federal funds amounts and costs of ...
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2024-02-08
To House Education Committee
HIHB1797Intro

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Appropriates funds to the Department of Education to strengthen student transportation services for Hawaii's public school system.
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2024-02-08
To House Education Committee
HIHB2549Intro

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Establishes within the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism the Interagency Council for Maui Housing Recovery to coordinate and facilitate Maui's permanent housing recovery and facilitate consultation and collaboration between st...
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2024-02-08
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB1563Intro

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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...
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2024-02-07
To House Health Committee
HIHB1610Intro

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Imposes a cap on costs charged to reproduce certain government records. Waives reproduction costs charged for the first one hundred pages if disclosure serves the public interest. Waives costs charged to duplicate certain government records in an ele...
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2024-02-07
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB1616Intro

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Requires the DOE to submit an annual report to the legislature on the installation, repair, and maintenance of fire alarm systems in Hawaii's public schools. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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2024-02-07
To House Finance Committee
HIHB1668Intro

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Establishes provisions allowing for consumers to request data brokers that maintain their personal information to delete any personal information related to the consumer.
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2024-02-07
To House Higher Education & Technology Committee
HIHB1786Intro

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Prohibits the sharing of personal information of clerks, election officials, and election workers for the purposes of intimidation, threats, harassment, or abuse. Amends the offense of assault in the second degree to include causing bodily injury to ...
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2024-02-07
To House Finance Committee
HIHB1971Intro

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Requires the Board of Agriculture to submit a report on the percentage of agricultural lands that are suitable for farming and actively farmed and certain dollar amounts relating to lease transfers between lessees.
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2024-02-07
To House Agriculture Committee
HIHB1975Intro

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Establishes accessibility standards for the distribution of public documents and media presentations by boards as defined in section 92-2, Hawaii Revised Statutes. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. Makes an appropriation...
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2024-02-07
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB2330Intro

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No later than January 1, 2025, requires the Department of Accounting and General Services to install and maintain automated external defibrillators in certain state buildings. Requires the Department of Accounting and General Services to provide trai...
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2024-02-07
To House Finance Committee
HIHB2240Intro

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Opens eligibility under the Hawaii Educator Loan Program for students and teachers who agree to teach as a full-time teacher in a public charter school. Decreases the service requirement for total loan forgiveness to five years and increases the perc...
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2024-02-07
To House Finance Committee
HIHB2234Intro

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Requires and appropriates funds for the Judiciary to develop a three-year civil legal services pilot program to provide civil legal services at no cost to eligible parties. Requires reports to the Legislature. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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2024-02-07
To House Finance Committee
HIHB2572Intro

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Establishes a teacher loan program to encourage individuals to become teachers in hard-to-staff positions of Department of Education schools. Allows a loan to be forgiven for teachers who become, or have become, a licensed teacher in Hawaii or for te...
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2024-02-07
To House Finance Committee
HIHB1947Intro

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Reduces the minimum number of years of credited service from ten years to five years qualified Tier 2 employee's retirement system members must have to be eligible for vested benefit status for service retirement allowance purposes. Appropriates fund...
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2024-02-06
To House Finance Committee
HIHB2254Intro

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Allows state departments to participate in temporary employee interchanges with private sector organizations, including nonprofit and for-profit organizations. Limits the term for a temporary employee interchange with a private sector organization to...
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2024-02-06
To House Finance Committee
HIHB2691Intro

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Establishes the Red Hill remediation authority. Creates the Red Hill remediation special fund.
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2024-02-06
To House Water & Land Committee
HIHB1593Intro

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Requires the Office of Elections to print and mail a physical copy of the digital voter information guide to any voter upon request. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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2024-02-05
To House Finance Committee
HIHB1649Intro

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Establishes a nationally certified school psychologist incentive program. Appropriates funds for the incentive program. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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2024-02-05
To House Finance Committee
HIHB1970Intro

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Requires solar conduit- and electrical panel-readiness for new residential construction offered for sale at fair market value and electric vehicle-readiness when an electrical panel and parking area are installed. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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2024-02-05
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HIHB1966Intro

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Requires health insurers, mutual benefit societies, and health maintenance organizations to provide health insurance coverage for various sexual and reproductive health care services. Applies this coverage to health benefits plans under the Hawaii Em...
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2024-02-02
To House Health Committee
HIHB2194Intro

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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...
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2024-02-02
To House Health Committee
HIHB2793Intro

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Requires the transfer of the Maui State Veterans Home to the Oahu Regional Health Care System and then to the Department of Health, as part of the Oahu Regional Health Care System transfer pursuant to Act 212, Session Laws of Hawaii 2021.
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2024-02-02
To House Health Committee
HIHB846Intro

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Enacts the interstate teacher mobility compact to reduce the barriers to teacher license portability and employment. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD2)
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2024-01-31
To House Education Committee
HIHB2575Intro

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Establishes a construction trades workforce development program in the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to develop, establish, and implement a construction trades career pathway program for high school students in the State. Appropriates ...
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2024-01-30
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee
HIHB2257Intro

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Establishes the Public Education Scholarship Program within the University of Hawaii to provide students who are residents of the State with scholarships in return for a service commitment to teach in a public school classroom of the Department of Ed...
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2024-01-26
To House Higher Education & Technology Committee
HIHB2511Intro

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Appropriates funds to the University of Hawaii Cancer Center to conduct a multiethnic cohort study focusing on the social determinants of health, lifestyles, environmental exposures, and resilience factors of Native Hawaiians, Pacific Islanders, and ...
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2024-01-26
To House Health Committee
HIHB2551Intro

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Establishes the offense of unlawful assembly or disassembly of a bicycle or moped on public property.
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2024-01-26
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB2624Intro

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Establishes a substance abuse treatment special fund. Increases liquor tax rates to unspecified amounts. Allocates increased liquor tax revenues to the substance abuse treatment special fund.
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2024-01-26
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
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