Hawaii Senator Donovan Cruz [D] | Senate | Introduced

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HISR166Intro

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Requesting The Department Of Human Resource Development To Convene A Working Group To Help State Department Managers Foster Thriving Work Environments.
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2024-03-27
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee
HISCR194Intro

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Requesting The Department Of Human Resource Development To Convene A Working Group To Help State Department Managers Foster Thriving Work Environments.
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2024-03-27
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee
HISCR196Intro

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Applying To The United States Congress To Call An Article V Convention To Propose Certain Limited Amendments To The United States Constitution.
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2024-03-25
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISCR173Intro

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Urging Each Of The County Councils To Adopt Supplemental Rules Pursuant To Section 514b-6, Hawaii Revised Statutes, To Ensure Conformance Of Condominium Property Regimes To The Purposes And Provisions Of County Zoning And Development Ordinances And C...
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2024-03-25
To Senate Government Operations Committee
HISR149Intro

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Urging Each Of The County Councils To Adopt Supplemental Rules Pursuant To Section 514b-6, Hawaii Revised Statutes, To Ensure Conformance Of Condominium Property Regimes To The Purposes And Provisions Of County Zoning And Development Ordinances And C...
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2024-03-25
To Senate Government Operations Committee
HISR168Intro

Sine Die
Applying To The United States Congress To Call An Article V Convention To Propose Certain Limited Amendments To The United States Constitution.
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2024-03-25
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISR165Intro

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Requesting The Board Of Education To Require The Instruction Of Financial Literacy In The Statewide Public School Curriculum.
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2024-03-14
To Senate Education Committee
HISCR141Intro

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Requesting The Auditor To Conduct An Audit Of The Department Of Education's Statewide Backlog Of Capital Improvement Repair And Maintenance Projects.
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2024-03-14
To Senate Education Committee
HISR167Intro

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Requesting The National Energy Laboratory Of Hawaii Authority To Work With The University Of Hawaii At Manoa To Develop New Master And Strategic Plans.
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2024-03-14
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee
HISCR193Intro

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Requesting The Board Of Education To Require The Instruction Of Financial Literacy In The Statewide Public School Curriculum.
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2024-03-14
To Senate Education Committee
HISR170Intro

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Requesting The Auditor To Conduct An Audit Of The Department Of Education's Statewide Backlog Of Capital Improvement Repair And Maintenance Projects.
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2024-03-14
To Senate Education Committee
HISCR195Intro

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Requesting The National Energy Laboratory Of Hawaii Authority To Work With The University Of Hawaii At Manoa To Develop New Master And Strategic Plans.
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2024-03-14
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee
HISB2292Intro

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Clarifies that the procedures for selecting members of boards and commissions also apply to ex officio members.
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2024-02-16
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB2517Intro

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Requires appointments and selections of heads of state divisions and agencies that require a board approval to be made through a publicly established process and timeline. Requires the approval of the process and timeline to appoint or select a new h...
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2024-02-16
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB760Intro

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Requires the Board of Psychology to grant prescriptive authority to qualified psychologist applicants statewide. Requires a report to the Legislature. Takes effect 12/31/2050. (SD1)
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2024-02-15
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
HISB2508Intro

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Authorizes the University of Hawaii to issue $300,000,000 in revenue bonds for the purpose of financing the construction, maintenance, and modernization of qualifying capital improvement projects.
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2024-02-13
To Senate Higher Education Committee
HISB3283Intro

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Lowers the salary of the Hawaii Correctional System Oversight Coordinator to be 100% of the salary of the Deputy Director of Human Resources Development, rather than 100% of the salary of the Director of Human Resources Development, effective 12/1/20...
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2024-02-09
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB2507Intro

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Excludes from civil service requirements employees performing services in University of Hawaii student or employee housing and certain personal services in privately financed leased or owned buildings.
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2024-02-08
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee
HISB3280Intro

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Increases the amounts for the income tax brackets and personal exemption and standard deduction amounts for tax year 2024. Adjusts annually for tax years beginning after 12/31/2024, the income tax brackets and personal exemption, and standard deducti...
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2024-01-29
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB3366Intro

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Adds the Director of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism; Director of Labor and Industrial Relations; and the President of the University of Hawaii to the Board of Education of the Department of Education. Adds the Director of Business, Econo...
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2024-01-29
To Senate Education Committee
HISB2510Intro

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Requires all public schools to implement universal screenings for students in kindergarten through third grade to identify and support students who are at risk of dyslexia and other learning disabilities.
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2024-01-24
To Senate Education Committee
HISB2515Intro

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Authorizes the use of motorcoaches, small buses, and vans for school bus services if certain conditions are met.
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2024-01-24
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee
HISB2506Intro

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Decreases the number of board members of the Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund from 10 trustees to 9. Changes the composition of board members to include 2 citizens of the State who are not employees, among other things. Limits the trustee's ...
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2024-01-24
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee
HISB2509Intro

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Requires the DOE to work with the BOE to create a public digital platform by the 2025-2026 school year that shows how schools are adopting high-quality instructional materials for K-6 English language arts.
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2024-01-24
To Senate Education Committee
HISB2917Intro

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Beginning 1/1/2027, establishes licensing requirements, including minimum standards and qualifications, for journey worker electric utility linemen and expands the board of electricians and plumbers to include members engaged in electric utility work...
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2024-01-24
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
HISB2290Intro

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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 Commis...
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2024-01-19
To Senate Agriculture and Environment Committee
HISB713Intro

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Establishes a task force to review policy issues and opportunities relating to the navigation, access, and coverage of medicaid services by individuals with autism or fetal alcohol spectrum disorder and make a recommendation on whether a waiver or ot...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB1069Intro

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Prohibits purposeful harassment with the intent to prevent the taking of fish from persons who are fishing in state waters.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee
HISB69Intro

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Includes the establishment of a consistent and balanced framework for developing and implementing sea level rise adaptation strategies as an objective of the Coastal Zone Management Program. Includes the promotion of research, study, and understandin...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee
HISB61Intro

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Creates a new category of professional licensure for associate physicians, which are recent medical school graduates who have passed certain medical exams but have not been placed into a residency program and who work under the supervision of a licen...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services 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
HISB309Intro

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Redefines historic property to mean buildings and structures that are over 100 years old.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee
HISB834Intro

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Appropriates moneys to support the University of Hawaii community college workforce development programs.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Higher Education Committee
HISB685Intro

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Establishes the misdemeanor offense of brandishing a firearm.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB121Intro

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Prohibits the carrying of a firearm in sensitive places. Defines sensitive places. Establishes penalties.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB1067Intro

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Provides that where public access is required as a condition of a subdivision, either the county must accept dedication of and maintain the access or identify an entity to own and maintain the access. Authorizes a county to require the subdivider or ...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB820Intro

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Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to contract reviews of certain proposed projects that may affect historic properties, aviation artifacts, or burial sites to third-party consultants if the department will not be able to complete ...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee
HISB387Intro

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Requires governmental bodies to obtain written approval from the Administrator of the State Procurement Office to cancel invitations for bids, requests for proposals, or other solicitations, or reject bids or proposals. Prohibits post-award remedial ...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Government Operations Committee
HISB883Intro

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Establishes the crime of possession of a firearm in a sensitive location as a class C felony. Imposes a duty to inform law enforcement upon contact on concealed and unconcealed carry permit holders. Defines sensitive location.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB589Intro

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Makes unlawful for any person to play, use, operate, or otherwise permit a sound amplifier that creates a noise disturbance within thirty feet of a hotel, detached dwelling, or multi-family dwelling in Waikiki between the hours of 7:00 p.m. to 6:00 a...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services 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
HISB1610Intro

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Establishes an income tax credit for qualified media facilities and infrastructure projects. Requires annual reports to the Legislature. Increases the motion picture, digital media, and film production income tax credit for qualified productions that...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism Committee
HISB670Intro

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Allows the Governor to enter the State into the multi-state Nurse Licensure Compact, which will allow a nurse who is licensed by a home state to practice under a multi-state licensure privilege in each party state.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB769Intro

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Authorizes the appropriate county land use decision-making authority to determine district boundary amendments involving land areas over fifteen acres if the county has adopted an ordinance that meets certain requirements.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee
HISB509Intro

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Requires each executive branch department to: identify existing and planned facilities that are vulnerable to sea level rise, flooding impacts, and natural hazards; assess options for mitigating the impacts of sea level rise to existing and planned f...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means 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
HISB829Intro

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Appropriates general fund moneys that are required to match federal moneys for broadband programs. Appropriates moneys received by the State from the federal Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act for the broadband equity, access, and deployment prog...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB598Intro

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Authorizes counties, after adoption of an ordinance, to sell private property after all notices, orders, and appeal proceedings are exhausted and to use those revenues to pay unpaid civil fines related to that property.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB766Intro

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Beginning 7/1/2025, requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources State Historic Preservation Division to contract its review of proposed state projects, and projects affecting historic properties to third party consultants if the projects in...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
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