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HIHB2482PassRequires the Office of the Lieutenant Governor or the appropriate county clerk's office to ensure access to paper or electronic copies of all meeting notices and removes the requirement to post notices in a central location in a public building. (CD1...
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2024-07-03
Act 166, 07/02/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1267).
HIHB1598PassRequires boards to make available for public inspection board packets, if created, at the time the board packet is distributed to board members but no later than two business days before the board meeting. Provides that public testimony may be distri...
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2024-05-03
Act 011, 05/03/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1111).
HIHB1600PassRequires boards to schedule a meeting for deliberation and decision-making on a report by an investigative group at least six business days after the board meeting in which the investigative group presented the findings and recommendations of its inv...
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2024-05-03
Act 013, 05/03/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1113).
HIHB2692Engross
50%
Authorizes two or more members of the Mauna Kea Stewardship and Oversight Authority to meet during its transition period regarding any matter relating to the Authority's business; provided that no commitment to vote is made or sought and no decision-...
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2024-03-07
To Senate Water and Land Committee
HIHB1975Intro
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Establishes accessibility standards for the distribution of public documents and media presentations by boards as defined in section 92-2, Hawaii Revised Statutes. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. Makes an appropriation...
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2024-02-07
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB2021Intro
25%
Removes the Legislature's exemption from the State's sunshine law.
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2024-01-24
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB2168Intro
25%
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
HIHB1386Intro
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Allows no more than two members of the board of land and natural resources, one of which may be the chairperson, to determine items that shall be placed on a meeting agenda and any discussion between the two members shall be a permitted interaction u...
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2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB1467Intro
25%
Allows the Office of Information Practices to resolve open meeting and open record complaints through either a legal determination on whether a violation occurred or written guidance on the relevant legal requirements.
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2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB114Intro
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Specifies that boards subject to the open meetings law shall allow oral testimony on any agenda item at the beginning of the board's agenda or meeting, provided that oral testimony shall not be limited to the beginning of a board's agenda. Specifies ...
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2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee
HIHB723Engross
50%
Expands application of the State's sunshine law to legislatively appointed bodies, including task forces, working groups, commissions, special committees, and select committees. (SD1)
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2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee
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