Hawaii Representative Elle Cochran [D] | Introduced

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HIHB2119Intro

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Amends the fine for individuals convicted of criminal littering to $1,000 instead of a range of $500 to $1,000.
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2024-01-24
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB2126Intro

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Establishes a tax credit for small businesses who provide bonuses for their employees.
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2024-01-24
To House Economic Development Committee
HIHB2152Intro

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Establishes a plan for the use of generative artificial intelligence in state agencies, departments, and government branches. Requires the Office of Enterprise Technology Services to carry out risk assessments and to prepare guidelines for state uses...
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2024-01-24
To House Higher Education & Technology Committee
HIHB2150Intro

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Requires the mayor of each county to appoint, and the county council or city council to confirm, a county medical examiner. Provides that the medical examiner for each county shall serve as the county's coroner. Makes conforming amendments. Appropria...
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2024-01-24
To House Health Committee
HIHB2156Intro

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Beginning 1/1/2025, requires physicians to perform or order test for lead poisoning in minor patients at certain intervals, and if the physician performs the test, the results to be included in the minor patient's record of immunization. Requires the...
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2024-01-24
To House Health Committee
HIHB2120Intro

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Provides Hawaii residents with the option of paying for the registration of their motor vehicles and associated taxes and fees on a biannual basis. Restricts the amount of delinquency tax due to the current tax due plus one year. Removes language all...
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2024-01-24
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB2141Intro

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Establishes the Dam and Appurtenance Improvement or Removal Grant Program for plans, design, construction, and equipment that is used to improve or remove deficient dams and appurtenances as determined by the Department of Land and Natural Resources....
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2024-01-24
To House Water & Land Committee
HIHB2168Intro

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Amends the definitions of "board", "board business", and "meeting" within state open meetings law to expand the scope of the law to include state and county policymaking groups, including groups created by emergency proclamations.
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2024-01-24
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee
HIHB2170Intro

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Provides that no trade name, trademark, or service mark registration that relates or refers to a federally declared disaster shall be approved within 90 days of the disaster.
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2024-01-24
To House Water & Land Committee
HIHB2163Intro

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Amends the definition of "prospective loss costs" to incorporate catastrophe modeling instead of historical aggregate losses. Prohibits insurers from basing certain insurance rates on past loss experience within or outside the State.
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2024-01-24
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HIHB2151Intro

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Requires the Department of Transportation to establish and implement at Daniel K. Inouye International Airport a non-traveler visitor pass program.
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2024-01-24
To House Transportation Committee
HIHB2178Intro

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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
HIHB2190Intro

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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
HIHB1421Intro

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Gives authority to the Department of Agriculture to align state hemp production administrative rules with federal law, with regard to exemptions for fiber, fuel, and seed grain hemp crops.
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2023-12-11
To House Agriculture Committee
HIHB1228Intro

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Authorizes raising the building height limit to 400 feet for 2 of the 6 parcels owned by the Office of Hawaiian Affairs in the Kakaako Makai area. Lifts the current restriction against residential development in Kakaako Makai to authorize residential...
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2023-12-11
To House Water & Land Committee
HIHB957Intro

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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
HIHB550Intro

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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
HIHB1404Intro

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Makes the community court outreach project permanent. Amends the project to address homeless defendants and expand the opportunities for eligible defendants to participate. Appropriates funds for additional personnel and enhanced security services. E...
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2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB748Intro

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Beginning 12/31/2026, prohibits the manufacture, sale, offer for sale, distribution for sale, and distribution for use of any food packaging, food service ware, cosmetic, or personal care product that contains perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl subst...
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB1424Intro

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Requires that the identity statement used for labeling or advertising hemp products identify the percentage of Hawaii grown hemp and hemp of other origins contained in hemp products. Appropriates funds. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HIHB239Intro

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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

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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

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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
HIHB501Intro

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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
HIHB443Intro

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Requires the department of agriculture to establish a healthy soils program, which includes a healthy soil assessment and education program and health soil grants program. Appropriates funds. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB284Intro

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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
HIHB82Intro

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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

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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
HIHB931Intro

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Requires the Department of Accounting and General Services to provide menstrual products at no cost in specified restrooms of public buildings maintained by that department. Appropriates funds.
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2023-12-11
To House Health Committee
HIHB1451Intro

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Authorizes advanced practice registered nurses to certify whether a person is totally disabled under the income tax code. Adds advanced practice registered nurses as primary providers in advance mental health care directives. Authorizes advanced prac...
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2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HIHB1256Intro

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Establishes and appropriates moneys for a Maui campus housing pilot program, to be administered by the school facilities authority which shall make on-campus housing available to employees at Lahainaluna and Kulanihakoi high schools on the island of ...
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB910Intro

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Prohibits the harvesting of aquatic life for commercial aquarium purposes, regardless of the method of collection.
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2023-12-11
To House Water & Land Committee
HIHB1425Intro

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Legalizes, regulates, and taxes cannabis and manufactured cannabis products for adult use. Establishes the Hawaii cannabis commission to oversee the regulation of adult use cannabis manufacturers and retailers. Appropriates funds.
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2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB1454Intro

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Authorizes naturopathic physicians to provide written certifications to qualified patients for the medical use of cannabis.
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2023-12-11
To House Health Committee
HIHB327Intro

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Beginning 1/1/2024, prohibits the issuance of building permits for new single-family dwellings that are part of a development of ten or more dwellings and do not include a rooftop photovoltaic energy generating system, under certain circumstances. Au...
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2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HIHB1198Intro

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Establishes the prevent suicide Hawaii taskforce within the Department of Health. Requires the task force to make annual recommendations to the Legislature on ways to reduce suicide rates in the State by 25% by 2025. Dissolves the task force on 1/1/2...
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2023-12-11
To House Health Committee
HIHB438Intro

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Appropriates funds and establishes one Pacific youth programs coordinator position within the Department of Human Services Office of Youth Services. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB398Intro

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Establishes a refundable job creation income tax credit for employers who increase the number of full-time employees in the State and make certain capital investment expenditures. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB1197Intro

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Appropriates funds to DHS to restore basic adult dental benefits to medicaid enrollees. Requires DHS to obtain the maximum federal matching funds available for this expenditure.
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2023-12-11
To House Human Services Committee
HIHB885Intro

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Appropriates funds to the department of health to develop and implement statewide media, education, and training activities for policies related to emergency examination and hospitalization and assisted community treatment for those in need of mental...
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB698Intro

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Exempts easements granted over public lands affecting the transfer of public lands between DLNR and DOA from formal county subdivision process and approval requirements. Requires the DOA to accept the transfer of and manage certain qualifying non-agr...
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2023-12-11
To House Water & Land Committee
HIHB499Intro

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Authorizes the issuance of special number plates to commemorate Duke Kahanamoku. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB148Intro

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Establishes a surcharge on the conveyance tax upon the transfer or conveyance of prolonged vacant property.
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2023-12-11
To House Housing Committee
HIHB504Intro

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Requires the department of human services to develop a preschool child care worker subsidy pilot program to assist in retaining qualified child care workers in licensed child care facilities for preschool children aged two through five. Sunsets 6/30/...
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB895Intro

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Updates the State's integrated solid waste management goals and priorities to include organic waste diversion. Requires the counties to incorporate organic waste diversion into their respective integrated solid waste management plan. Effective 6/30/3...
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB871Intro

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Requires that a written disclaimer be provided by sellers or providers of emotional support animals or certificates or identification tags for emotional support animals that the animal is not a service animal or the item does not qualify as an item f...
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2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HIHB1428Intro

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Prohibits the State from denying or interfering with a patient's right to choose to obtain an abortion or to terminate a pregnancy if the termination is necessary to protect the life or health of the patient. Repeals a criminal penalty for violations...
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2023-12-11
To House Health Committee
HIHB556Intro

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Requires the board of education to invite the exclusive representative for bargaining unit (5) (teachers and other personnel of the department of education) to appoint a nonvoting public school teacher representative to the board and the exclusive re...
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HIHB338Intro

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Authorizes the issuance of special number plates to commemorate Carissa Kainani Moore.
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2023-12-11
To House Culture, Arts, & International Affairs Committee
HIHB330Intro

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Establishes within the Office of Wellness and Resilience, the Malama Ohana Working Group to seek, design, and recommend transformative changes to the State's existing child welfare system. Allows the Office of Wellness and Resilience to contract with...
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2023-12-11
To House Human Services Committee
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