WOMEN’S CAUCUS
Click on a bill number to list all drafts of the bill and bill status
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HB No. |
SB No. |
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Relating to Individual Development Account Contribution Tax Credits |
Establishes Individual Development Account Contribution tax credit equal to fifty per cent of the contribution. |
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Relating to Living Wages |
Requires public contractors with the State to pay their employees living wages. |
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Relating to Income Tax Credits |
Authorizes an earned income tax credit. |
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Relating to Welfare Reform |
Bases TANF benefits on current federal poverty level. |
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Relating to Employment Discrimination |
Makes it unlawful discriminatory practice for an employer to condition employment or hiring upon the employee’s relinquishment of the right to initiate or participate in an investigation or proceeding under the civil rights commission law, or any other right under that law or the unlawful employment practices law. |
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Relating to Public Officers and Employees and Employment Practices |
Establishes a four-year pilot project in the executive branch to promote fair pay. |
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Relating to Long-Term Care |
Amends Act 93, SLH 1999, to extend actuarial study on long-term care; to extend sunset date of joint committee; and to clarify requirements for the actuarial study. |
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Relating to Criminal History Record Checks |
Requires criminal history record checks for all employees of adult residential homes and nursing homes, and employees of home care agencies who have access to the personal belongings of clients. |
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Repealing Section 327E-13(G), Hawaii Revised Statutes |
Removes the pregnant women exemption from the Uniform Health Care Decisions Act. |
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Relating to Abuse of Family or Household Members |
Creates three new classes of offenses for abuse of family or household members; authorizes police to order person to leave premises if officer has reasonable grounds to believe infliction of abuse is imminent. |
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Relating to Domestic Abuse Protective Orders |
Amends definition of "family or household members" to include persons in dating relationships; defines "dating relationships"; extends effective time of TROs to 180 days; requires courts to issue protective orders for minimum period of 5 years; authorizes longer extension period for protective orders. |
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Relating to Awarding Custody and Visitation |
Requires written order with reasons for decision in awarding custody to person against whom there is evidence of family violence. |
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Relating to Rights of Victims of Domestic Violence |
Establishes domestic violence victim’s right to be informed of offender’s probation violation. |
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Relating to Probation |
Authorizes probation officers to inform domestic violence victims, their parents, or immediate family when defendant violates probation or when probation officers have information relating to victim’s safety and welfare. |
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Relating to Firearms |
Repeals good cause exemption for possession of firearms by a person who is subject of a restraining order. |
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Relating to Domestic Violence |
Extends from 24 to 48 hours to time in which a police officer may order a person to leave the premises of a domestic violence incident. Allows for a person arrested for domestic violence to be held after posting a bail bond for up to 48 hours if certain conditions are met. |
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Making an Appropriation for the Development of Protocols and the Special Training of Paramedics in the Treatment of Domestic Violence Patients |
Makes appropriations to the respective counties to develop protocols and training for paramedics in treating domestic violence victims. |
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Relating to Crime |
Establishes interference with the reporting of an emergency or crime as a petty misdemeanor. |
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Making an Appropriation for the Good Beginnings Alliance |
Appropriates $150,000 for Good Beginnings Alliance; requires matching funds from private sector. |
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Relating to Corrections |
Provides for female parity in corrections. |
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Relating to Commercial Sexual Exploitation of a Minor |
Establishes commercial sexual exploitation of a minor as a class B offense. |
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Relating to Sex Offenders |
Requires persons convicted of sex offenses against children to obtain psychiatric or psychological therapy upon the completion of their terms of imprisonment. |
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Relating to the Use of Force in Self-Protection |
Allows a person to use force in self defense against a family or household member when the person reasonably believes that such force is immediately necessary for protection against imminent physical abuse as a result of a pattern of extreme psychological abuse or the actor’s reasonably held cultural beliefs. |
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Relating to Use of Force |
Limits the justification for use of force against a minor. |
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Relating to Stalking |
Allows a court to sentence a defendant who has been convicted of aggravated harassment by stalking to be placed on probation for life. |
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Relating to Domestic Violence |
Provides an income tax credit for donations made to domestic violence programs. |
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Relating to Domestic Violence |
Appropriates funds to family court to establish a dedicated domestic violence court and to provide related services. |
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Requesting the Development and Implementation of a System to Identify and Provide Services and Support for Children of Incarcerated Parents |
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Supporting Continued Funding of Hawaii Healthy Start with General Fund Appropriations |
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Urging the Development of Protocols and the Special Training of Paramedics in the Treatment of Domestic Violence Patients |
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Encouraging the Establishment of a Domestic Violence Court |
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Requesting the Development and Implementation of a System to Identify and Provide Services and Support for Children of Incarcerated Parents |
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Supporting Continued Funding of Hawaii Healthy Start with General Fund Appropriations |
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Urging the Development of Protocols and the Special Training of Paramedics in the Treatment of Domestic Violence Patients |
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Encouraging the Establishment of a Domestic Violence Court |