Hawaii Senator Karl Rhoads [D]

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HISB611Intro

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Requires the Public Utilities Commission to use Universal Service Fund moneys to provide free telecommunications access to certain information for individuals with print disabilities.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee
HISB373Intro

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Establishes that gender-based pricing by manufacturers who sell the goods they manufacture to any person in the State for a price they set constitutes an unlawful deceptive trade practice.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB636Intro

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Requires Department of Land and Natural Resources to establish a Visitor Green Fee Program to collect fees from nonresidents via a license to use state natural and cultural resources, to be used for the protection, restoration, and care of Hawaii's n...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB914Intro

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Authorizes school complexes to incorporate media literacy in its standards-based curriculum, including content that prevents negative impacts of misinformation, disinformation, digital discrimination, and online hate speech.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee
HISB997Intro

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Requires notice and identification of certain top donors who contributed to a noncandidate committee. Changes the requirement of certain information from the schedules filed with the noncandidate committee reports. Removes certain information require...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB378Intro

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Requires the department of education to establish an electric school bus pilot program to provide certain complex areas with ownership and control of electric school buses. Appropriates funds.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee
HISB54Engross

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Prohibits the operation of gasoline-powered leaf blowers in any urban land use districts. Increases the amounts of fines for violations of leaf blower restrictions and provides for the forfeiture of gasoline-powered leaf blowers upon a third violatio...
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2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HISB610Engross

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Recognizes American Sign Language as a fully developed, autonomous, natural language with its own grammar, syntax, vocabulary, and cultural heritage.
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2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HISB16Engross

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Requires that the Hawaiian version of a law be held binding if the law in question was originally drafted in Hawaiian and then translated into English and if the law has not been subsequently amended, codified, recodified, or reenacted in English. (H...
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HISB1210Intro

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Increases the refundable food/excise tax credit. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/22.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services 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
HISB1597Intro

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Establishes the Hawaii Environmental Protection Agency. Transfers jurisdiction of certain functions and employees of the Department of Agriculture and Department of Health to the Hawaii Environmental Protection Agency.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Government Operations Committee
HISB768Intro

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Requires each county's Director of Finance, in consultation with the County Examiner of Drivers, to establish an Interpreter Services Program to assist Compact of Free Association citizens with utilizing the services provided by the Department of Mot...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee
HISB714Intro

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Establishes the fetal alcohol spectrum disorders special fund, to be administered by the department of human services, and which shall consist of federal funds and interest earned on those funds. Establishes a temporary fetal alcohol spectrum disorde...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB30Intro

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Specifies that any minor who resides in the same household as a victim of domestic abuse may file a petition for an order of protection or temporary restraining order.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB1178Intro

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Modernizes the definition of "personal information" for the purposes of notifying affected persons of data and security breaches. Includes licensees subject to the Insurance Data Security Law pursuant to article 3B, chapter 431, Hawaii Revised Statut...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB6Intro

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Allows the Department of Human Services to administer and provide public assistance to eligible residents of the State during a Governor-Declared State of Emergency.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB1240Engross

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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
HISB137Intro

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Requires that restrooms and toilet facilities of public amusement facilities constructed, renovated, retrofitted, or installed after 1/1/2024 have two female-use toilets for each male-use toilet or urinal. Requires certain state building construction...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB1528Intro

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Amends the Hawaii State Constitution to prohibit the State from denying or interfering with an individual's reproductive freedom, including the right to choose or obtain an abortion or to choose to obtain or use contraceptives.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
HISB1121Intro

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Requires the Real Property and Financial Services Section of the Hawaii State Bar Association to conduct a study to determine an appropriate increase to the homestead exemption in bankruptcy proceedings. Effective 7/1/2112. (SD1)
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means 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
HISB29Intro

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Adds coercive control and litigation abuse by a parent of a child to the list of factors the court shall consider in determining what constitutes the child's best interest when awarding custody and visitation rights to individuals. Defines "coercive ...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB858Intro

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Requires the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to: prioritize the allocation of low-income housing tax credits to state-owned development projects; amend the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Qualified Allocation Plan to allow up to twen...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB907Intro

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Appropriates funds to the Department of Education to establish and administer a Bicycle Grant Program for all high school students enrolled at a Department of Education school in grades nine through twelve. Requires reports to the Legislature.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee
HISB49Intro

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Establishes the offense of possession of a loaded firearm while intoxicated as a petty misdemeanor.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB352Engross

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Implements amendments to the Uniform Commercial Code set forth by the Uniform Law Commission. (SD2)
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2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HISB389Engross

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Requires all places of public accommodation constructed after 12/31/23, and state building construction projects bid after 6/30/24, to provide one or more universal changing accommodations at each family restroom; provided that state building constru...
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2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee
HISB920Intro

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Increases minimum liability coverage of motor vehicles.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee
HISB1055Intro

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Specifies that the practice of election fraud intimidation includes, among other actions (1) The carrying of any firearm or weapon and (2) The act of photographing the face of any voter without permission from both the voter and an appropriate electi...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs 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
HISB134Intro

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Establishes water fluoridation requirements for privately-owned and government entity water suppliers in the State to conform with the United States Department of Health and Human Services standards for optimal water fluoridation levels. Exempts fede...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB1006Intro

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Appropriates funds for the Department of Transportation to engage climate change adaptation measures for the State's low-lying roads and highways. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB1174Intro

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Requires the Department of Transportation to program intersections to allow walk signals to commence four seconds before the green light is given to motor vehicle traffic when the walk button has been pressed.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee
HISB1087Intro

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Renames the state highway safety council as the state highway safety and modernization council and amends the composition and duties of the council.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee
HISB919Intro

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Requires the independent medical examination and permanent impairment rating examination of an injured employee under the Workers' Compensation Law to be conducted by a qualified chiropractor or physician selected by the mutual agreement of the parti...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Labor and Technology 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
HISB369Intro

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Prohibits the Department of Public Safety from receiving any commission payment from telephone service providers based on inmate phone calls. Prohibits the Department of Public Safety from entering into or renewing any contract with any privately own...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB14Intro

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Requires the Liquor Commission to record all complaints against any licensee, regardless of whether the complaint is filed during or after the occurrence of the violation. Requires the Liquor Commission to review the history of complaints against any...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection 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
HISB31Intro

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Increases the real property exemption amount for attachment or execution. (SD1)
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB1484Intro

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Allows the Department of Land and Natural Resources to expend the moneys from the State Parks Special Fund for programs aimed at environmental protection.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land 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
HISB351Intro

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Expands the prohibition of class 11 cabaret licenses to premises within apartment mixed use subprecincts of special districts and special improvement districts.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee
HISB925Intro

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Establishes a wealth asset tax of one percent of the state net worth of each individual taxpayer who holds $20,000,000 or more in assets in the State. Takes effect 03/22/75. (SD1)
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
HISB754Intro

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Requires the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation to partner with a nonprofit organization in the Kau District in the County of Hawaii to conduct a needs assessment to determine the demand for and access to urgent care and outpatient behavioral health s...
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2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
HISB395Engross

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Requires a seller or its agent in a residential real property transaction to disclose to prospective buyers that the United States Postal Service is unable to deliver mail or packages to the location of the residential real property being offered for...
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2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
HISB999Intro

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Appropriates funds to the Hawaii Public Housing Authority to modernize Hale Poai.
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2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee
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