Hawaii Senator Brenton Awa [R] | Engrossed

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HISCR112Engross
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Demanding The Department Of Accounting And General Services To Develop A Comprehensive Recycling Program, With Specific Focus On The Collection Of Hi-5 Recyclable Items, To Be Implemented In All Offices At The Hawaii State Capitol.
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2024-04-05
To House Legislative Management Committee
HISCR114Engross
50%
Urging The Department Of Hawaiian Home Lands To Display A Portrait Of Prince Jonah Kuhio Kalanianaole In Each State Building, Office, Meeting Room, And Waiting Area Under The Department's Jurisdiction.
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2024-04-04
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HISB430Engross
50%
Establishes the Hawaii Farm to Food Bank Program and Hawaii food assistance program special fund to alleviate food shortages in the State. Appropriates funds. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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2024-03-25
Received notice of discharge of all conferees (Hse. Com. No. 457).
HISB744Engross
50%
Requires the Hawaii Invasive Species Council to classify the fungal pathogen that causes coffee leaf rust as an invasive species in its administrative rules and to direct available funding for mitigation efforts, research, and prevention or control a...
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2024-03-25
Received notice of discharge of all conferees (Hse. Com. No. 457).
HISB782Engross
50%
Establishes and appropriates funds for a grant program in the Department of Agriculture to provide grants to taro farmers in meeting the costs of cultivating taro for consumption. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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2024-03-25
Received notice of discharge of all conferees (Hse. Com. No. 457).
HISB735Engross
50%
Exempts the instream use of water for commercial kalo cultivation conducted in a manner consistent with traditional and customary Native Hawaiian practices and on traditional kalo lands from the existing process for the disposition of water rights. E...
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2024-03-25
Received notice of discharge of all conferees (Hse. Com. No. 457).
HISB304Engross
50%
Effective 7/1/2025, establishes the visitor impact fee program within the department of land and natural resources, through which the department will collect a fee from visitors for a license to visit a state park, forest, hiking trail, or other stat...
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2024-03-25
Received notice of discharge of all conferees (Hse. Com. No. 457).
HISB57Engross
50%
Appropriates funds to the judiciary to support the Olelo Hawaii Initiatives. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD2)
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2024-03-25
Received notice of discharge of all conferees (Hse. Com. No. 457).
HISB3335Engross
50%
Establishes the Hawaii Cannabis and Hemp Authority and Cannabis and Hemp Control Board within the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs to regulate all aspects of the cannabis plant. Beginning 1/1/2026, legalizes the personal adult use of canna...
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2024-03-22
To House Finance Committee
HISB775Engross
50%
Requires hunting guides who take their clients to hunt on private lands to first obtain written permission from the owner, occupier, holder, or duly appointed agent of the private land, where appropriate. Requires hunting guides to provide copies of ...
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2024-03-20
Received notice of all Senate conferees being discharged (Sen. Com. No. 340).
HISB306Engross
50%
Requires that prior to the adoption, amendment, or repeal of an administrative rule, electronic notice of the proposed rulemaking be provided to all persons who have made a timely written request to, and provided a valid working email address to, the...
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2024-03-20
Received notice of all Senate conferees being discharged (Sen. Com. No. 340).
HISB786Engross
50%
Requires government entities to seek reimbursement for all or a portion of search or rescue expenses for persons who require rescue after leaving a hiking trail to enter an area closed to the public or hiking on a trail closed to the public, and ther...
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2024-03-20
Received notice of all Senate conferees being discharged (Sen. Com. No. 340).
HISB2617Engross
50%
Requires the Legislative Reference Bureau to conduct a study and report on the forty-one states in the country that have enacted laws limiting the sale of real property to foreign individuals or entities, and how those laws and related constitutional...
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2024-03-07
To House Water & Land Committee
HISB1240Engross
50%
Specifies that a public servant convicted of the offense of bribery shall be sentenced to pay a fine of up to $250,000, in addition to a sentence of imprisonment or probation. Requires the Commission on Salaries to consider certain factors to retain ...
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2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HISB733Engross
50%
Requires the office of Hawaiian affairs to conduct a feasibility study on establishing Native Hawaiian cultural centers within the State. Requires the Office to submit a report of its study findings and recommendations to the legislature. Appropriate...
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2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HISB824Engross
50%
Requires the securing of mooring lines from vessels requiring tug assistance to be manned by an existing, operational stevedoring company that is operating within the State, except the securing of mooring lines from vessels for purposes of shipyard o...
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2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HISB283Engross
50%
Excludes from the charter school per-pupil funding calculation all amounts relating to programs that provide comparable benefits for all public school students regardless of whether the student is a Department of Education school student or a public ...
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2023-12-11
To House Education Committee
HISB520Engross
50%
Establishes the Farm Succession Pilot Program under Leeward Community College in collaboration with the University of Hawaii College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources. Requires a report to the Legislature. Appropriates funds for the pilot p...
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HISB420Engross
50%
Establishes the sustainable food systems working group within the department of agriculture. Requires the working group to submit a plan, any recommendations for implementing the plan, and any proposed legislation to the legislature. Appropriates fun...
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HISB745Engross
50%
Extends the offense of false labeling of Hawaii-grown coffee to include roasted coffee. Imposes a mandatory $10,000 fine for each separate offense of false labeling of Hawaii-grown coffee. Appropriates funds for one full-time equivalent (1.0 FTE) enf...
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HISB113Engross
50%
Clarifies that calculations to determine whether a non-perishable good labeled "Hawaii Made" has met the requirement that at least 51% of the wholesale value of the product is added by production within the State include operating and overhead expens...
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2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HISB730Engross
50%
Appropriates funds to the Department of Land and Natural Resources to restore and restock fishponds by providing fingerlings and limu and establishing one full-time equivalent (1.0 FTE) aquaculture coordinator biologist VI position. Effective 6/30/30...
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HISB1486Engross
50%
Requires the Department of Agriculture, in collaboration with the Hawaii Interagency Council on Homelessness; Department of Land and Natural Resources, Division of Forestry and Wildlife; and Department of Health, Food Safety Branch; and in consultati...
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HISB823Engross
50%
Provides an exemption for flatbed trucks from registration renewals and initial registrations of motor carrier vehicles when used as marine terminal equipment temporarily moving in or between certain terminals. Adds new terminal locales, times, and r...
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2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HISB767Engross
50%
Prohibits the Governor or a Mayor from suspending requests for public records or vital statistics during a declared state of emergency. Allows for a reasonable delay in an agency's response to a request as a result of extenuating circumstances.
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2023-12-11
To House Water & Land Committee
HISB521Engross
50%
Establishes a Surplus Military Land Task Force within the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development to plan for the remediation and restoration of lands currently under federal control that are anticipated to be returned to the State, consider p...
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2023-12-11
To House Corrections, Military, & Veterans Committee
HISB734Engross
50%
Establishes an inter-division program between the State Historic Preservation Division, Land Division, Office of Conservation and Coastal Lands, Island Burial Councils, and the Office of Hawaiian Affairs that addresses the location, movement, and res...
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2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HISB738Engross
50%
Authorizes the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to administer a lease award program for beneficiaries on the homestead lease waiting list who are at least sixty years old or terminally ill, under certain conditions. Authorizes qualified successors o...
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HISB388Engross
50%
Prohibits the construction, modification, or expansion of any waste or disposal facility for hazardous waste or solid waste on land that is near or above a significant aquifer as determined by the Department of Health in consultation with the Commiss...
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2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HISB1415Engross
50%
Requires the University of Hawaii to submit annual reports of all university employees who performed work from a location outside of the State during the applicable year to the legislature no later than December 31 of that year. Effective 6/30/3000. ...
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
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