Hawaii Senator Brenton Awa [R] | Senate | Introduced

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HISR97Intro
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Amending The Rules Of The Senate To Prohibit Members And Officers Of The Senate From Consuming Alcohol Within The State Capitol.
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2024-03-15
Failed to be adopted.
HISR144Intro
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Amending The Rules Of The Senate To Require Each Member To Plant At Least One Food Tree On State Land.
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2024-03-15
Failed to be adopted.
HISR30Intro
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Requesting The Department Of Education To Conduct A Study On The Implementation Of Later School Start Times.
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2024-03-14
To Senate Education Committee
HISCR42Intro
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Requesting The Department Of Education To Conduct A Study On The Implementation Of Later School Start Times.
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2024-03-14
To Senate Education Committee
HISR93Intro
25%
Designating The Koolau Kupuna Council As An Advisory Resource To The Elected Members Of The Hawaii State Legislature Representing The Koolau Community.
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2024-03-14
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISCR113Intro
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Urging The Department Of Education To Supply All Classrooms With Narcan Or Another Type Of Naloxone By September 1, 2024.
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2024-03-14
To Senate Education Committee
HISCR111Intro
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Designating The Koolau Kupuna Council As An Advisory Resource To The Elected Members Of The Hawaii State Legislature Representing The Koolau Community.
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2024-03-14
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISR95Intro
25%
Urging The Department Of Education To Supply All Classrooms With Narcan Or Another Type Of Naloxone By September 1, 2024.
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2024-03-14
To Senate Education 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
HISB2109Intro
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Until 6/30/2025, exempts from the offense of unlawful shipment of tobacco products the shipments of large cigars and pipe tobacco sold to a consumer in the State through the Internet under certain circumstances. Defines "pipe tobacco". Takes effect 7...
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2024-02-16
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB263Intro
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Requires council members to receive annual training on topics related to Native Hawaiian healing and health. (SD1)
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2024-02-16
To Senate Judiciary 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
HISB3338Intro
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Establishes a WAI policy coordinator and other positions within the Department of Land and Natural Resources for coordination of Red Hill WAI initiatives. Creates the Red Hill Remediation Special Fund. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceili...
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2024-02-14
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB3249Intro
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Requires retail merchants to accept cash payments.
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2024-01-29
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
HISB3250Intro
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Proposes to amend the Constitution of the State of Hawaii to provide that if a United States census shows that the state Native Hawaiian population decreased by no less than 5% since the prior United States census, all state legislators in office at ...
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2024-01-29
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB2999Intro
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Establishes a temporary restriction that only current and former residents of Hawaii may purchase residential property. Prohibits real estate brokers and real estate salespersons from buying, offering to buy, or negotiating the purchase of residentia...
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2024-01-26
To Senate Housing Committee
HISB2623Intro
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Authorizes state legislators to use state-owned or stateoperated equipment for bona fide community initiatives within their respective districts.
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2024-01-24
To Senate Government Operations Committee
HISB2624Intro
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Prohibits certain foreign parties from owning, purchasing, or acquiring an interest in agricultural lands. Establishes an Office of Agricultural Intelligence within the Department of Agriculture to investigate claims that land is unlawfully owned by ...
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2024-01-24
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
HISB2618Intro
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Provides that within lands under Department of Hawaiian Home Lands jurisdiction, the Department shall have the nonexclusive authority to enforce state statutes and rules and county ordinances and rules in the same manner as state sheriffs and county ...
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2024-01-24
To Senate Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HISB2625Intro
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Permanently excludes businesses within a federally designated opportunity zone from required unemployment insurance contributions and temporarily excludes those businesses from general excise and income tax for five years.
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2024-01-24
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee
HISB2616Intro
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Authorizes student-athletes attending public and private high schools to earn compensation for the use of their name, image, or likeness, and to obtain related professional representation. Repeals on 1/1/30.
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2024-01-24
To Senate Education Committee
HISB2619Intro
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Establishes a licensing system for medical cannabis cultivation. Facilitates the transport of medical cannabis. Expands the scope of authorized actions for medical cannabis patients. Provides that qualifying out-of-state patients need not register wi...
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2024-01-24
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB2621Intro
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Amends the definition of "endangered species". Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to designate as an endangered species any species of land plant as required by legislative act. Directs the department to designate certain species o...
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2024-01-24
To Senate Water and Land Committee
HISB2567Intro
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Requires the law enforcement standards board to develop training materials related to the recognition and signs of Alzheimer's disease and related types of dementia. Requires law enforcement officers to review training materials for at least 1 hour p...
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2024-01-24
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB2626Intro
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Provides that a project may not proceed under an emergency proclamation relating to housing or affordable housing if that project includes any construction, development, redevelopment, or adaptive reuse that results in a new luxury housing unit or th...
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2024-01-24
To Senate Housing Committee
HISB2622Intro
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Exempts cigars from the prohibition of shipment of tobacco products to non-licensees.
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2024-01-24
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
HISB2620Intro
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Prohibits the use of potable water to irrigate golf courses subject to certain exceptions. Defines potable water.
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2024-01-24
To Senate Water and Land Committee
HISB2929Intro
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Lowers the blood alcohol concentration threshold for driving while under the influence of alcohol from 0.08 to 0.05.
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2024-01-24
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB794Intro
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Establishes within the Department of Health, a three-year Cesspool Conversion Financial Assistance Pilot Program to provide financial assistance to owners of cesspools located in the county of Maui to upgrade or convert their cesspools to a wastewate...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
HISB1495Intro
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Clarifies requirements for film productions with production expenditures of $1,000,000 or more claiming the motion picture, digital media, and film production income tax credit. Increases the annual cap from $50,000,000 to $75,000,000 for the total a...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB747Intro
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Prohibits using geographic origins of coffee in labeling or advertising for roasted or instant coffee that contains less than a certain percentage of coffee by weight from that geographic origin, phased in to a minimum of fifty-one per cent after 7/1...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
HISB1194Intro
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Establishes a financial literacy pilot project within the elementary, intermediate, and high schools in the Castle-Kahuku complex area during the 2024-2025 and 2025-2026 school years.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee
HISB1190Intro
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Provides standards for the selection of county Ethics Commission members to ensure their impartiality and independence. Effective 7/1/2024.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB1536Intro
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Permanently reinstates the liability protections previously afforded to county lifeguards.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB1199Intro
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Lengthens the time period in which certain vehicles must have a safety inspection.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee
HISB1553Intro
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Appropriates funds for positions and activities related to coconut rhinoceros beetle infestation control.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
HISB1544Intro
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Establishes the offense of fraud as a class B felony. Disqualifies a person from holding elective public office for a period of ten years upon conviction of fraud.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB1430Intro
25%
Repeals motor vehicle safety inspection requirements for certain motor vehicles.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee
HISB792Intro
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Establishes a local agriculture transportation cost reimbursement incentive program to be administered by the Department of Agriculture to reimburse eligible producers for a portion of the producer's costs to transport agricultural commodities. Makes...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB1450Intro
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Requires all public contractors to explicitly agree through a provision in their public contracts to be subject to the prohibition and penalties for any violations of campaign finance laws.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Government Operations Committee
HISB1428Intro
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Bans instruction related to sexual orientation and gender identity in public schools. Establishes new parental rights regarding health services and records. Establishes the parental right to sue and receive damages if schools fail to adhere to new pr...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee
HISB375Intro
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Establishes the Hawaii Cannabis Authority within the Department of Health to adopt rules to regulate responsible, adult-use of cannabis in the State. Establishes that possession of cannabis by an adult in the amount of four ounces or less without a p...
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2023-12-11
Carried over to 2024 Regular Session.
HISB96Intro
25%
Establishes the Aquaculture Development Branch within the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism. Transfers the rights, powers, functions, duties, employees, and other capital of the Aquaculture and Livestock Services Branch of the...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
HISB771Intro
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Establishes a criminal penalty and monetary fines for aquarium fishing violations. Clarifies that each fish or aquatic life specimen taken in violation of certain fishing laws regarding aquarium fish and the possession and use of prohibited explosive...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee
HISB305Intro
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Establishes a career and technical education working group to strengthen career and technical education in the State's public schools. Makes an appropriation.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee
HISB761Intro
25%
Beginning July 1, 2024, provides a general excise tax exemption for medical services performed by health care providers.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB508Intro
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Requires the Clean Water Branch to perform water quality testing during brown water advisories and post informational signs to explain health risks associated with water runoff during brown water advisories. Requires the Department of Health to prior...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB776Intro
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Amends the composition of the Board of Agriculture by requiring representation from the islands of Molokai and Lanai.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB1555Intro
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Exempts the sale of groceries that are eligible under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children and the sale of nonprescription drugs from the general excise tax.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB665Intro
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Requires each Department of Education classroom to be equipped with an opioid antagonist. Requires the Department of Education to train employees on opioid-related drug overdose prevention, recognition, and response and opioid antagonist administrati...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee
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