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HB504 - Relating To Child Care.
Justin H. Woodson, Terez Amato, Elle Cochran
Last updated over 1 year ago
24 Co-Sponsors
Requires the department of human services to develop a preschool child care worker subsidy pilot program to assist in retaining qualified child care workers in licensed child care facilities for preschool children aged two through five. Sunsets 6/30/2026. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
STATUS
Introduced
HB1374 - Relating To The Counties.
Sean Quinlan, Cedric Asuega Gates, Troy Hashimoto
Last updated over 1 year ago
14 Co-Sponsors
Makes explicit the counties' authority to regulate hosting platforms providing booking services for short-term rentals. Includes swapping, bartering, or exchange of a residential dwelling, or portion thereof, in the definition of "short-term rental". Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
STATUS
Introduced
HB1197 - Relating To Human Services.
May Besario Mizuno, Terez Amato, Cory M. Chun
Last updated over 1 year ago
21 Co-Sponsors
Appropriates funds to DHS to restore basic adult dental benefits to medicaid enrollees. Requires DHS to obtain the maximum federal matching funds available for this expenditure.
STATUS
Introduced
HB1194 - Relating To An Economic Development District Planning Organization.
Daniel Holt, Della au Belatti, Cedric Asuega Gates
Last updated over 1 year ago
12 Co-Sponsors
Establishes the Hawaii Economic Development District Planning Organization. Designates the Hawaii Economic Development District Planning Organization as the district organization for purposes of implementing the United States Economic Development Administration-approved comprehensive economic development strategy. Establishes positions. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
STATUS
Engrossed
HB390 - Relating To The University Of Hawaii Promise Program.
Justin H. Woodson, Terez Amato, Della au Belatti
Last updated over 1 year ago
29 Co-Sponsors
Provides scholarships for the unmet direct cost needs of qualified students at any four-year University of Hawaii campus who meet certain eligibility criteria. Makes an appropriation for the Hawaii promise program. Effective 6/30/3000.
STATUS
Engrossed
HB424 - Relating To An Office Of Administrative Hearings.
David Tarnas, Terez Amato, Elle Cochran
Last updated over 1 year ago
16 Co-Sponsors
Beginning 07/01/2024, establishes the office of administrative hearings to conduct contested case hearings in the department of budget and finance, department of land and natural resources, and department of taxation. Appropriates funds to establish the office of administrative hearings. Repeals 07/01/2026.
STATUS
Introduced
HB304 - Relating To The Statewide Traffic Code.
Cedric Asuega Gates, Elle Cochran, Troy Hashimoto
Last updated over 1 year ago
8 Co-Sponsors
Prohibits drivers from operating vehicles with more than four wheels and high-passenger cars in the left-hand lane, or close to the left-hand curb or left-hand edge, of roadways. Exempts drivers operating public transportation vehicles in highoccupancy vehicle lanes or zipper lanes.
STATUS
Introduced
HB606 - Relating To Meat Processing.
Cedric Asuega Gates, Elle Cochran, Daniel Holt
Last updated over 1 year ago
12 Co-Sponsors
Requires the Department of Agriculture, in collaboration with other state agencies, to develop and implement a plan by 7/1/2025 to expand the meat processing 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. Appropriates funds. Effective 6/30/3000. (SD1)
STATUS
Engrossed
HB921 - Relating To Environmental Crimes.
Darius K. Kila, Micah Pookela Kim Aiu, Cory M. Chun
Last updated over 1 year ago
7 Co-Sponsors
Establishes the Environmental Crimes Unit within the Department of the Attorney General. Makes the disposal of motor vehicle tires in violation of State law governing recovery of used motor vehicle tire recovery a petty misdemeanor. Establishes a $1 motor vehicle tire surcharge to be imposed on every replacement tire installed on a motor vehicle in the State after 9/30/2023. Requires tire retailers and tire wholesalers who install replacement tires to pay the surcharge to the Department of Health. Requires the Department of Health to deposit the revenues into the Environmental Management Special Fund. Allows the Department of Health to use the Environmental Management Special Fund to fund the Environmental Crimes Unit. Appropriates funds. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
STATUS
Introduced
HB853 - Relating To Business Establishments.
Daniel Holt, Micah Pookela Kim Aiu, Cedric Asuega Gates
Last updated over 1 year ago
10 Co-Sponsors
Adds a new chapter to the HRS to establish a system of regulatory controls for shopping carts and similar devices to prevent unauthorized removal from business establishments; provide for prompt retrieval when lost, stolen, or abandoned; require business owners to take certain specified actions to deter, prevent, or mitigate the removal of these devices from their premises and to retrieve any removed devices; and to prevent the continued possession of unlawfully removed shopping carts and similar devices and the accumulation of these devices on publicly or privately owned property.
STATUS
Introduced
BIOGRAPHY
INCUMBENT
Representative from Hawaii district HD-045
COMMITTEES
Hawaii House
BIRTH
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ABOUT
Cedric Asuega Gates is running for Hawaii House of Representatives District 44. He is 42 years old and a member of the Democratic party. Gates attended Hawaii Pacific University where he received his Master's degree in Business Administration. He is a small business owner. His previous political experience includes working as a Legislative Aide at the Hawaii State Legislature.read less
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Hawaii House from Hawaii
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