SB2969 - Relating To Access For Reproductive Care.
Hawaii - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Maile S L Shimabukuro, Michelle N. Kidani
Last updated 10 months ago2 Co-Sponsors
Clarifies the State's midwifery law to permit care by extended family, cultural supporters, or others with whom a woman chooses to give birth. Specifies that nothing in the midwifery law shall prohibit or restrict healing practices by traditional healers of any ethnic culture or religious faith or their students; limit, alter, or adversely impact any religion or ethnic cultural practices; or prohibit or interfere with a person's right to choose where and with whom the person gives birth.
STATUS
Introduced
SB1109 - Relating To Sports Wagering.
Hawaii - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Gil S Coloma Keith-agaran, Angus L.K. McKelvey, Joy A. San Buenaventura
Last updated almost 2 years ago3 Co-Sponsors
Allows for the regulation of sports wagering by the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism. Establishes licensing requirements for sports wagering operators and sports wagering suppliers. Specifies that sports wagering shall not be considered games of chance or gambling.
STATUS
Introduced
SB1339 - Relating To Fireworks.
Hawaii - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Ronald D. Kouchi
Last updated almost 2 years ago1 Co-Sponsor
Department of Law Enforcement to plan, coordinate, and engage in law enforcement operations to interdict illegal fireworks, develop a comprehensive strategic plan to stop the importation of illegal fireworks and explosives into the State, promote compliance with the fireworks control laws, and ensure the safety and security of airports, harbors, and other facilities and institutions in the State against the discharge of illegal fireworks and explosives. Requires a report to the Legislature. Appropriates funds.
STATUS
Introduced
SB2089 - Relating To Water.
Hawaii - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Glenn Wakai, Henry J.C. Aquino, Stanley Chang
Last updated 10 months ago8 Co-Sponsors
Specifies that fire safety use is a beneficial use of fresh water in the State Water Code. Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources, in consultation with the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency, to cooperate with the counties and reservoir owners to develop protocols and agreements for the use of reservoir waters for fire safety purposes. Amends the conditions, manner, and areas in which the Commission on Water Resource Management can declare and provide notice of water shortages and emergencies.
STATUS
Introduced
SB40 - Relating To Discrimination.
Hawaii - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Karl Rhoads, Stanley Chang, Gil S Coloma Keith-agaran
Last updated over 1 year ago4 Co-Sponsors
Establishes provisions relating to civil remedies for discriminatory reporting to a law enforcement officer. Provides that a person who contacts a law enforcement officer to come to a location to contact a person on the basis of the person's actual or perceived race, color, ancestry, ethnicity, national origin, place of birth, sex, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, or gender identity with the specific intent to infringe upon the person's rights under the Hawaii State Constitution or United State Constitution; discriminate against the person; cause the person to feel harassed, humiliated, or embarrassed; cause the person to be expelled from a place that the person is lawfully located; damage the person's reputation or standing within the community; or damage the person's financial, economic, consumer, or business prospects or interest shall be civilly liable. Requires the Department of the Attorney General, in consultation with the Hawaii Civil Rights Commission, to provide guidance to the public on the enactment of this Act. Effective January 1, 2024, requires the Department of Law Enforcement to also provide guidance on this Act. (SD1)
STATUS
Engrossed
SB1465 - Relating To Procurement.
Hawaii - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Ronald D. Kouchi
Last updated over 1 year ago1 Co-Sponsor
Allows agencies to rank fewer than three persons for professional services when fewer than three qualified persons respond to the solicitation or request to use alternative procurement procedures when no qualified person responds to the solicitation. Effective 7/1/2112. (SD2)
STATUS
Engrossed
SB1486 - Relating To Meat Processing.
Hawaii - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Herbert Richards, Henry J.C. Aquino, Brenton Awa
Last updated over 1 year ago11 Co-Sponsors
Requires the Department of Agriculture, in collaboration with the Hawaii Interagency Council on Homelessness; Department of Land and Natural Resources, Division of Forestry and Wildlife; and Department of Health, Food Safety Branch; and in consultation with the County of Maui Axis Deer Task Force, to develop and implement a plan to expand the meat processing and distribution capacity in the State to allow for meat from axis deer and other wild game to be processed for distribution by nonprofit food distribution services by 7/1/2024. Appropriates funds. Takes effect 6/30/3000. (HD1)
STATUS
Engrossed
SB1000 - Relating To Firearms.
Hawaii - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Karl Rhoads, Stanley Chang, Gil S Coloma Keith-agaran
Last updated almost 2 years ago4 Co-Sponsors
Requires any person carrying an unloaded firearm in a motor vehicle to locate the firearm so as not to be readily or directly accessible from the passenger compartment of the vehicle or, if the firearm is being carried in a motor vehicle that does not have a compartment separate from the passenger compartment, to keep the firearm in an enclosed container that is locked, other than the glove compartment or console, and not in plain view.
STATUS
Introduced
SB1011 - Relating To Pesticides.
Hawaii - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Maile S L Shimabukuro, Angus L.K. McKelvey
Last updated almost 2 years ago2 Co-Sponsors
Requires monthly rather than annual reporting of restricted use pesticides. Amends the contents of reports to include specific geospatial data and information, site information, and increased detail on the amount of restricted use pesticides used. Requires the department of agriculture to develop an online reporting tool for restricted use pesticides.
STATUS
Introduced
SB1599 - Relating To Emergency Management.
Hawaii - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Angus L.K. McKelvey
Last updated almost 2 years ago1 Co-Sponsor
Provides that any prohibition on the increase of prices of essential commodities during a state of emergency shall only apply to those commodities specifically listed for price protection within the geographic area specified for that price protection by the governor's or mayor's proclamation.
STATUS
Introduced
SB231 - Relating To The Employees' Retirement System.
Hawaii - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Ronald D. Kouchi
Last updated almost 2 years ago1 Co-Sponsor
Repeals the minimum age requirement for individuals who become an Employees' Retirement System member after 6/30/2012, and who have at least 25 years of credited service.
STATUS
Introduced
SB1362 - Relating To Background Checks.
Hawaii - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Ronald D. Kouchi
Last updated almost 2 years ago1 Co-Sponsor
Authorizes the Department of Human Services to conduct comprehensive background checks on current and prospective employees, volunteers, and contractors and contractor's employees and volunteers, in positions that require them to be in close proximity to minors and young adults receiving child welfare or child abuse prevention services, or vulnerable adults receiving adult protective services, social services, or certain other benefits and services from the department. Makes non-substantive conforming amendments to sections 345-2.5 and 846-2.7, Hawaii Revised Statutes. Effective upon approval.
STATUS
Introduced
SB1187 - Relating To Ethics.
Hawaii - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Les S. Ihara, Stanley Chang
Last updated over 1 year ago2 Co-Sponsors
Increases the post-employment restriction for former legislators from twelve months to twenty-four months.
STATUS
Engrossed
SB1017 - Relating To Health.
Hawaii - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Gil S Coloma Keith-agaran, Henry J.C. Aquino, Stanley Chang
Last updated almost 2 years ago4 Co-Sponsors
Adds a voluntary non-opioid option to the sample advance health-care directive form. Establishes that a prescription presented or electronically transmitted to a pharmacy shall be presumed valid and grants pharmacists immunity from civil, criminal, and professional liability for dispensing an opioid in contravention of a patient's non-opioid directive.
STATUS
Introduced
SB881 - Relating To Homelessness.
Hawaii - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Sharon Y. Moriwaki, Stanley Chang, Dru Kanuha
Last updated almost 2 years ago7 Co-Sponsors
Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds to the Hawaii Public Housing Authority for the development and construction of permanent supportive housing for certain vulnerable individuals. Requires the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to consider any available federal low-income housing tax credits needed for construction of permanent supportive housing units. Appropriates funds. (SD1)
STATUS
Introduced
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