OFFICE OF THE SPEAKER
THIRTIETH STATE LEGISLATURE
COMMITTEE REFERRALS
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NO. 1
4TH LEGISLATIVE DAY-JANUARY 21, 2020
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Committee Abbreviations:
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AGR - Agriculture |
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CPC - Consumer Protection & Commerce |
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EDB - Economic Development & Business |
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EEP - Energy & Environmental Protection |
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FIN - Finance |
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HLT - Health |
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HSG - Housing |
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HSH - Human Services & Homelessness |
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IAC - Intrastate Commerce |
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JUD - Judiciary |
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LAB - Labor & Public Employment |
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LHE - Lower & Higher Education |
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LMG - Legislative Management |
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PVM - Public Safety, Veterans, & Military Affairs |
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TIA - Tourism & International Affairs |
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TRN - Transportation |
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WLH - Water, Land, & Hawaiian Affairs |
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RELATING TO FIREARMS. Authorizes the attorney general to grant licenses to carry a pistol or revolver and ammunition therefor concealed or unconcealed statewide. Limits the county chiefs of police authority to grant licenses to carry. Amends the requirements and fee for licenses to carry.
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JUD, FIN |
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RELATING TO FIREARMS. Conforms the permitting process for rifles and shotguns to the process for pistols and revolvers.
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JUD |
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RELATING TO FIREARMS. Repeals provisions that allow the lending of certain firearms for use within the State for up to 15 days and for use outside the State for up to 75 days without being subject to a background check and other requirements under chapter 134, HRS. Prohibits transferring the possession or ownership of any firearm to any person except as provided under chapter 134, HRS.
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JUD |
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RELATING TO WORKERS' COMPENSATION. Adjusts the method of calculating average weekly wages for workers' compensation claims.
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LAB, FIN |
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RELATING TO HUMAN REMAINS. Includes the use of alkaline hydrolysis and natural organic reduction as methods for the disposal of human remains. Amends the procedures for the resolution of disputes regarding the right of disposition, the right to rely and act upon written instructions in a funeral service agreement or similar document, and provisions for the disposition of a decedent's remains and recovery of reasonable expenses to include hydrolysis facilities and natural organic reduction facilities.
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HLT, CPC |
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RELATING TO TRANSIENT ACCOMMODATIONS. Requires that advertisements for rates for transient accommodations include all mandatory fees, except for taxes imposed by the State or county.
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TIA, CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO CONSUMER PROTECTION. Requires retailers of household appliances to conspicuously display available energy efficiency rebates and state-specific energy operation costs. Effective 10/1/2020.
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EDB, CPC |
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RELATING TO SERVICE CHARGES. Prohibits restaurants and hotels from applying service charges for the sale of food or beverage services unless they are distributed as tip income directly to their employees.
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LAB, JUD, FIN |
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RELATING TO PROFESSIONAL AND VOCATIONAL LICENSURE. Specifies the documentation needed for a military spouse to receive a temporary licensure by endorsement. Requires issuance of the license within 30 days of the application and supporting documents.
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LAB/PVM, FIN |
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RELATING TO THE DEPOSIT BEVERAGE CONTAINER PROGRAM. Repeals the deposit beverage container program. Makes conforming statutory amendments relating to the deposit beverage container program and deposit beverage container deposit special fund. Effective 1/1/2021.
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EEP, CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO PRESCRIPTION DRUGS. Authorizes the Department of Health to implement a program for wholesale drug importation.
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HLT, CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO PHARMACY BENEFIT MANAGERS. Establishes business practice and transparency reporting requirements for pharmacy benefit managers. Replaces the registration requirement for pharmacy benefit managers with a licensing requirement. Increases penalties for violations of the pharmacy benefit managers law. Effective 1/1/2021.
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HLT, CPC/JUD, FIN |
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RELATING TO AN INTERSTATE COMPACT TO PHASE OUT CORPORATE WELFARE. Adopts the Interstate Compact to Phase Out Corporate Welfare.
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EDB, JUD, FIN |
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RELATING TO SHORELINES. Authorizes the Board of Land and Natural Resources to provide shoreline encroachment easements that do not exceed 10 years to landowners having structures that encroach on the shoreline. Requires the Board of Land and Natural Resources to adopt rules that establish a policy and procedure for the granting or renewal of shoreline encroachment easements. Requires the adopted policy to consider the impact of expected sea level rise on the encroaching structures. Prohibits the granting of any new shoreline encroachment easements until the new policy is adopted.
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RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION. Ensures the collection of the state general excise tax in instances in which the transportation of passengers is furnished by common carriers by the use of aircraft when the collection of the tax is not prohibited by federal law. Limits imposition of tax to flights that occur within the airspace of a single island of the State.
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FIN |
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RELATING TO PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES. Requires the department of human services to establish a medicaid buy-in program for workers with disabilities.
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HSH, FIN |
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RELATING TO JURORS. Permits psychologists to claim exemption from service as a juror.
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JUD |
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RELATING TO FIREARMS. Prohibits any person from possessing a loaded firearm while intoxicated, unless the person is in their own dwelling. Violation is a petty misdemeanor.
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JUD |
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RELATING TO PAROLE OFFICERS. Gives parole officers, within the scope of their duty, the powers of a police officers. Provides parole officers with the authority to arrest paroled prisoners without a warrant when there is probable cause of a violation of parole. Authorizes parole officers to use electric guns and subjects parole officers to the authority of the law enforcement standards board.
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PVM, JUD |
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RELATING TO DRIVER'S LICENSES. Changes the renewal period for driver's licenses for persons 72 years old or older from every two years to every four years.
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TRN, JUD |
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RELATING TO THE SEXUAL ASSAULT OF AN ANIMAL. Amends the Penal Code to establish the crime of sexual assault of an animal. Provides that the sexual assault of an animal is a class C felony or a class B felony if the offense subjects a minor to sexual contact with an animal or is committed in the presence of a minor.
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AGR, JUD |
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RELATING TO PENAL RESPONSIBILITY. Authorizes the courts to enter into collaborative agreements to divert into residential, rehabilitative, and other treatment those defendants whose physical or mental disease, disorder, or defect is believed to have become or will become an issue in a judicial case.
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HLT, JUD, FIN |
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RELATING TO THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE. Amends the effect of finding a defendant charged with a misdemeanor or petty misdemeanor not involving violence or attempted violence unfit to proceed. Amends the requirements for fitness determination hearings, court-appointed examiners, and examination reports.
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HLT, JUD, FIN |
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RELATING TO CLIMATE CHANGE. Establishes the Honolulu Shoreline Climate Protection Pilot Project. Requires the Hawaii Climate Change Mitigation Adaptation Commission to develop a comprehensive plan to protect urban Honolulu from the risk of coastal disaster events. Anticipates use of the plan as a model for the State. Appropriates funds. Repeals 6/30/2022.
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EEP/WLH, FIN |
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RELATING TO TOURISM. Short form bill relating to tourism.
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TIA |
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RELATING TO TOURISM. Short form bill relating to tourism.
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TIA |
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RELATING TO THE ARTS. Short form bill relating to the arts.
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TIA |
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RELATING TO TAXATION. Short form bill relating to taxation.
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TIA |
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RELATING TO INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS. Short form bill relating to international affairs.
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TIA |
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RELATING TO THE STATE BUDGET. Makes technical amendments to the budget allotment modification law.
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FIN |
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RELATING TO STATE FUNDS. Makes technical amendments to the state law regarding the deposition of state funds into the state treasury.
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FIN |
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RELATING TO GOVERNMENT SERVICES. Clarifies the office of the legislative analyst.
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LMG, FIN |
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RELATING TO GOVERNMENT. Requires that the Senate President and House Speaker be notified in writing upon the receipt of any federal-aid moneys for expenditure by the State within ten days following receipt.
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RELATING TO STATE BONDS. Authorizes issuance of general obligation bonds. Makes findings required by Article VII, Section 13, of the Hawaii State Constitution to declare that the issuance of authorized bonds will not cause the debt limit to be exceeded.
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RELATING TO NON-GENERAL FUNDS. Reclassifies the antitrust trust fund, notaries public revolving fund, and criminal forfeiture revolving fund as special funds; litigation deposits trust fund as a trust account; and the national mortgage settlement trust account as a trust fund. Abolishes the criminal justice commission trust account.
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RELATING TO AUDITORY DEVICES. Exempts gross receipts from the sale of auditory devices, such as hearing aids, from the general excise tax. Amends the definition of "prosthetic device" to include devices worn on the body. Exempts gross receipts from the repair of prosthetic devices from the general excise tax.
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FIN |
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RELATING TO CAMPAIGN FINANCE. Imposes upon both candidate committees and noncandidate committees consistent content, filing, and deadline requirements for organizational reports and preliminary reports.
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JUD, FIN |
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RELATING TO PLANNED COMMUNITY ASSOCIATIONS. Prohibits a planned community association from prohibiting a member from constructing an accessory dwelling unit that is under the separate ownership or occupancy of the member.
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HSG, CPC |
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RELATING TO OFFENSES AGAINST VULNERABLE PERSONS. Adds the acts of killing or inflicting serious or substantial bodily injury upon a pregnant woman in the course of committing or attempting to commit a felony, to the offenses for which a person is subject to an extended or mandatory minimum term of imprisonment.
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JUD, FIN |
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RELATING TO HEALTH. Appropriates funds to DOH for the establishment of a medicare administrator position.
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HLT, FIN |
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RELATING TO DISCHARGE PLANNING. Requires hospitals to provide patients or their designated caregiver with information on hospice and palliative care, if deemed relevant, upon discharge.
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HLT, CPC |
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RELATING TO CRIME. Short form bill relating to crime.
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JUD |
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RELATING TO GUN VIOLENCE. Short form bill relating to gun violence.
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JUD |
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RELATING TO CAMPAIGN FINANCE. Short form bill relating to campaign finance.
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JUD |
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RELATING TO ETHICS. Short form bill relating to ethics.
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JUD |
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RELATING TO PENALTIES. Short form bill relating to penalties.
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JUD |
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RELATING TO THE CONVEYANCE TAX. Requires that the certificate of conveyance filed with the director of taxation include the names and addresses of limited liability company officers, directors, and members or managers.
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CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO HOMELESSNESS. Short form bill relating to homelessness.
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HSH |
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RELATING TO HOMELESSNESS. Short form bill relating to homelessness.
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HSH |
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RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES. Short form bill relating to human services.
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HSH |
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RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES. Short form bill relating to human services.
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HSH |
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RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES. Short form bill relating to human services.
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HSH |
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RELATING TO SEXUAL ASSAULT EVIDENCE COLLECTION KITS. Changes the deadline for the counties to adopt and utilize electronic tracking systems for sexual assault evidence collection kits.
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JUD, FIN |
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RELATING TO VEHICLE INSPECTIONS. Codifies certain certification, renewal, and violation processes of vehicle inspectors who conduct vehicle safety inspections under the DOT.
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TRN, CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO CAREGIVING. Requires certain employers to provide employees with 12 months of paid caregiving leave during any calendar year to care for the employee's spouse, civil union partner, reciprocal beneficiary, significant other, relative, friend, or neighbor.
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LAB, JUD, FIN |
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RELATING TO RESIDENTIAL REAL PROPERTY. Requires that residential real estate purchase contracts provide a time period for the inspection of cesspools and septic tanks and for the review of building permits and final inspections. Authorizes buyers to seek compensation to cover the costs of remedying unpermitted work that was not disclosed by the seller. Authorizes fines.
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EEP, FIN |
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RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. Short form bill relating to agriculture.
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AGR |
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RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. Short form bill relating to agriculture.
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AGR |
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RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. Short form bill relating to agriculture.
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AGR |
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RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. Short form bill relating to agriculture.
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AGR |
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RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. Short form bill relating to agriculture.
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AGR |
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RELATING TO HEALTH. Short form bill relating to health.
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HLT |
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RELATING TO HEALTH. Short form bill relating to health.
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HLT |
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RELATING TO HEALTH. Short form bill relating to health.
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HLT |
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RELATING TO HEALTH. Short form bill relating to health.
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HLT |
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RELATING TO HEALTH. Short form bill relating to health.
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HLT |
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RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES. Authorizes the establishment of the Supporting Employment Empowerment Hawaii Work Program to transition public assistance recipients to the workforce.
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HSH, LAB, FIN |
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RELATING TO HEALTH. Prohibits the use of any pesticide containing glyphosate as an active ingredient.
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RELATING TO HEALTH. Makes it unlawful to distribute sample cigarette or tobacco products, cigarette or tobacco promotional materials, and coupons redeemable for cigarette or tobacco products or promotional materials within 1,500 feet of any elementary, middle or intermediate, or high school.
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LHE/HLT, CPC, JUD |
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RELATING TO HEALTH. Designates the month of October as "Disability Awareness Month: Employment, Enrichment, and Inclusion" in recognition of the employment challenges and successes of persons with disabilities in the State.
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HSH, JUD |
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RELATING TO BALLOT HARVESTING. Clarifies that only a designated agent can deliver a ballot on behalf of another. Prohibits ballot harvesting. Violators will be punishable under felony voter fraud statutes.
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JUD, FIN |
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RELATING TO RENEWABLE ENERGY. Establishes a residential property assessed clean energy (PACE) program. Allows residential property owners to finance qualified renewable energy improvements through a non-ad valorum property assessment and revenue bonds.
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EEP, CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLES. Requires every pickup truck manufactured after 12/31/2021 that is sold, offered for sell, purchased, or operated in the State to be equipped with a seat belt assembly in the bed of the pickup truck. Prohibits any passenger from riding in the bed or load-carrying area of a pickup truck manufactured after 12/31/2021 without being restrained by a seat belt assembly.
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TRN, JUD |
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RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE THIRD REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT. Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the third representative district.
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RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE THIRTY-SECOND REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT. Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the thirty-second representative district.
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RELATING TO THE STATE ETHICS CODE. Restores statutory protection for legislators when carrying out a legislative function. Clarifies that each house of the legislature shall adopt rules regarding disclosure of the nature and extent of any interest or transaction that the legislator believes may be affected by the legislator's official action.
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JUD |
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RELATING TO SECONDHAND DEALERS. Clarifies that the secondhand dealers law applies to a secondhand dealer's operation of an automated recycling kiosk.
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CPC, JUD |
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RELATING TO WILDLIFE. Establishes the wildlife conservation special fund to maintain a response to oiled wildlife and preserve and enhance wildlife habitation under threat from sea level rise associated with climate change. Allocates a portion of environmental response, energy, and food security tax revenues to the special fund.
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RELATING TO HIGHWAY SAFETY. Establishes a three-year photo red light imaging detector system pilot program. Authorizes any impacted county to administer the photo red light imaging detector system pilot program. Establishes a photo red light imaging detector systems pilot program account as a special account within the general fund. Requires proceeds of fines expended in the county from which they were collected for operation of the photo red light imaging detector system pilot program. Appropriates funds. Sunsets 6/30/2023.
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TRN, JUD, FIN |
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RELATING TO STATE HOLIDAYS. Repeals the designation of Election Day as a state holiday.
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JUD, FIN |
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RELATING TO MUSICAL PERFORMANCES. Prohibits a person from advertising or conducting a live musical performance or production through the use of a false, deceptive, or misleading affiliation, connection, or association with a performing group and recording group. Allows a court to grant restitution.
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TIA, CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO HOUSING. Authorizes the Hawaii Public Housing Authority to give preference to persons residing in the zip code in which a low-income or elder housing project is constructed for the housing project's initial tenants or residents.
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HSG, FIN |
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RELATING TO ENHANCED 911 SERVICES. Establishes a prepaid wireless E911 surcharge to be imposed on prepaid wireless telecommunications services purchased at a retail transaction. Allows sellers to deduct and retain three per cent of the surcharge for administrative expenses. Requires deposit of the surcharge balance into the enhanced 911 fund. Amends the enhanced 911 surcharge rate.
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IAC, CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO SENTENCING. Enhances the term of imprisonment for habitual violent felons. Defines "habitual violent felon."
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JUD, FIN |
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RELATING TO INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETICS. Authorizes a student-athlete to enter into a contract providing compensation to the student-athlete for use of the student-athlete's name, image, or likeness. Establishes various provisions prohibiting schools, athletic associations, and conferences from discriminating against student-athletes who receive compensation. Effective 1/1/2021.
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LHE, JUD, FIN |
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RELATING TO APPRENTICESHIPS. Requires DLIR to develop and implement a high school apprenticeship program in public and charter schools with grades nine through twelve. Requires the DOE and DCCA to assist and support DLIR. Requires annual progress reports to the Legislature. Makes an appropriation.
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RELATING TO SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT. Establishes the solid waste management research and development special fund. Sets aside 1% of general revenues collected by the State each fiscal year to be deposited into the solid waste management research and development special fund. Requires the Department of Health to use moneys in the solid waste management research and development special fund for research and development into solid waste management. Requires the department to submit biennial reports to the Legislature.
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EEP, FIN |
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RELATING TO TAXATION. Establishes an income tax credit for investment in qualified businesses that develop cybersecurity and artificial intelligence.
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RELATING TO SUSTAINING HAWAII. Requires that 1% of all assessments, fees, fines, penalties, reimbursements, and taxes collected by the Insurance Division be deposited into a special fund in the Department of Land and Natural Resources to be used for countermeasures against climate change.
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RELATING TO RESTROOM FACILITIES. Requires that restrooms and toilet facilities of public amusement facilities constructed, renovated, or installed after 1/1/21 have two female-use toilets for each male-use toilet or urinal.
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JUD, FIN |
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RELATING TO THE ALA WAI BOAT HARBOR. Requires the Board of Land and Natural Resources to offer to sell leasehold condominium boat slips at the Ala Wai boat harbor to certain tenants of the harbor and allocate the proceeds of these sales for deferred maintenance of the harbor. Allows for the establishment of a condominium association at Ala Wai boat harbor to serve as the landlord of all boat slips at the harbor. Exempts owners of leasehold condominium boat slips at the Ala Wai boat harbor from moorage fees.
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RELATING TO ANIMAL FUR PRODUCTS. Prohibits the manufacture and sale of animal fur products, with certain exceptions. Effective 1/1/21.
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JUD, FIN |
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RELATING TO TELEHEALTH. Establishes goals for the adoption and proliferation of telehealth to increase health care access. Establishes the State Strategic Telehealth Advisory Council and permanent State Telehealth and Health Care Access Coordinator position. Dissolves the Advisory Council on 7/1/2023. Establishes the Telehealth Administrative Simplification Working Group to research, make recommendations, and report to the Legislature. Appropriates funds.
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HLT, FIN |
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RELATING TO HEALTH. Designates the month of September of each year as Suicide Prevention and Awareness Month.
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HLT, JUD |
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RELATING TO MINORS. Requires members of the clergy to report child abuse and neglect to the Department of Human Services or to the police. Specifies that the general rule of privilege under the Hawaii Rules of Evidence for confidential communications made to a member of the clergy does not apply to communications relating to child abuse or neglect.
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JUD, FIN |
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RELATING TO VEHICLES. Modifies the registration process for stored vehicles with expired license plates.
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RELATING TO HEAT ABATEMENT. Expands authorized expenditures from the Hawaii green infrastructure special fund to include energy-efficient air conditioning. Appropriates funds and authorizes the department of education to borrow funds from the green infrastructure loan program for heat abatement.
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EEP, FIN |
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RELATING TO STANDARDIZED TESTING. Requires each complex area superintendent to submit an annual report to the Board of Education on the number of standardized tests required for each school within the complex area and the amount of instructional time devoted to such tests. Requires the Board of Education to inform students and their parents or guardians of ability to opt out of standardized tests. Removes standardized test results as an evaluation metric on performance reviews for teachers or educational officers.
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RELATING TO UNDERGROUND STORAGE TANKS. Requires the fuel tank advisory committee to meet at least twice a year.
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RELATING TO THE GENERAL EXCISE TAX. Exempts the sales of feminine hygiene products from the general excise tax.
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RELATING TO COLLECTIVE BARGAINING. Amends bargaining unit (14). Retains state law enforcement officers under bargaining unit (14). Creates a separate bargaining unit (15) for state and county ocean safety and water safety officers.
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LAB, FIN |
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RELATING TO HEALTH CARE. Requires employers to include the annual premium cost of health care paid by the employer on behalf of the employee on the employee's final pay stub for the calendar year.
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RELATING TO THE HAWAII EMPLOYER-UNION HEALTH BENEFITS TRUST FUND. Specifies that each EUTF trustee, in addition to the EUTF board, shall administer health and other benefit plans for the sole and exclusive benefit of EUTF beneficiaries. Repeals provisions requiring health and other benefit plans to be provided at an affordable cost to both public employers and public employees.
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RELATING TO EQUAL PAY. Conforms statutory prohibitions against wage discrimination with other prohibitions on employment discrimination. Clarifies allowable justifications for compensation differentials and remedies for pay disparity. Requires employers to disclose wage ranges to employees and prospective employees.
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RELATING TO MEDICAL CANNABIS. Requires medical cannabis dispensaries to be closed on official state and federal holidays. Prohibits the transportation of cannabis to another county or island for testing except when there is no certified laboratory located in same county or island as the dispensary. Prohibits dispensaries from being located within 750 feet of a public housing project or complex. Repeals statute allowing for the sale or transfer of dispensary licenses.
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RELATING TO REPORTS OF CANDIDATE COMMITTEES. Provides that candidate committees may reimburse the candidate or other individuals for expenditures made on the candidate's behalf.
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RELATING TO ORDERS OF THE CAMPAIGN SPENDING COMMISSION. Provides that the right to a contested case hearing is deemed waived if a person does not request a hearing within 20 days of receipt of the commission's preliminary determination. Permits an order of the commission to be confirmed as a judgment in the circuit court, giving the order the same force and effect as any other judgment issued by the circuit courts; provided that there shall be no appeal from the judgment.
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JUD, FIN |
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RELATING TO CAMPAIGN FINANCE REPORTS. Clarifies that preliminary primary and preliminary general reports are due 10 days before the primary or general election.
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JUD, FIN |
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RELATING TO CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS. Provides that excess contributions by nonresident contributors shall escheat to the Hawaii election campaign fund if not returned to the contributor within 30 days.
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JUD |
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RELATING TO VIOLATIONS OF CAMPAIGN FINANCE LAW. Increases the amount of the fine that may be assessed against a noncandidate committee making only independent expenditures that has received at least one contribution of more than $10,000, or spent more than $10,000 in an election period, for campaign spending law violations. Allows the Campaign Spending Commission to order that payment of a fine assessed against a noncandidate committee, or any portion thereof, be paid from the personal funds of an officer of the noncandidate committee.
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