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SB953 - Relating To Mental Health Licensing.
Chris Kalani Lee, Stanley Chang
Last updated over 1 year ago
2 Co-Sponsors
Requires psychologists licensed in the State to complete at least four hours of continuing education per licensing biennium on topics relating to cultural diversity, cultural competence, sexual orientation, gender identity, or health equity. Requires psychologists seeking renewal of their license in the State without full compliance with the continuing education requirement to have completed at least seven hours of continuing education in the next licensing biennium on topics relating to cultural diversity, cultural competence, sexual orientation, gender identity, or health equity.
STATUS
Introduced
SB901 - Relating To Care Facility Inspections.
Sharon Y. Moriwaki, Stanley Chang, Lynn Decoite
Last updated over 1 year ago
13 Co-Sponsors
Requires the Department of Health to post on its website separate reports for various visits, violations, plans, and confirmations the Department performs or issues of certain care facilities. Establishes deadlines for each report type. Requires the Department of Health to log all reports in a database designed for easy public posting. Requires all facilities inspected by the Department of Health to maintain certain records and notify the Executive Office on Aging, Office of the Long-Term Care Ombudsman, and appropriate county offices on aging of initial inspection visit dates.
STATUS
Introduced
SB128 - Relating To Noise Pollution.
Stanley Chang, Henry J.C. Aquino, Chris Kalani Lee
Last updated over 1 year ago
7 Co-Sponsors
Establishes the photo noise violation monitoring system law. Establishes the Photo Noise Violation Monitoring System Program to enforce the State Community Noise Code, implemented by the State on any state or county highways within the respective county. Allows the State to establish and implement a photo noise violation monitoring system imposing monetary liability on the registered owner of a motor vehicle for failure to comply with the State Community Noise Code. Establishes fines. Establishes the Photo Noise Violation Monitoring System Program Special Fund. Requires annual reports to the Legislature. Prohibits the use, ownership, and sale of excessively loud vehicles. Increases maximum fines. Appropriates funds.
STATUS
Introduced
SB39 - Relating To Recordings Of Law Enforcement Activities.
Karl Rhoads, Stanley Chang, Chris Kalani Lee
Last updated over 1 year ago
4 Co-Sponsors
Establishes the right of persons to record law enforcement activities. Establishes a private right of action for violations of the right to record law enforcement activities.
STATUS
Introduced
SB1083 - Relating To Coral Reef Insurance.
Chris Kalani Lee, Stanley Chang, Gil S Coloma Keith-agaran
Last updated over 1 year ago
7 Co-Sponsors
Appropriates funds for a three-year continuation of the wind-generated storm damage reef-insurance policy purchased by The Nature Conservancy in November 2022.
STATUS
Introduced
SB879 - Relating To The Department Of Labor And Industrial Relations.
Sharon Y. Moriwaki, Stanley Chang, Dru Kanuha
Last updated over 1 year ago
7 Co-Sponsors
Appropriates funds for the retention of employees of the unemployment insurance division of the department of labor and industrial relations. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
STATUS
Engrossed
SB1068 - Relating To Beaches.
Gil S Coloma Keith-agaran, Stanley Chang, Brandon Jc Elefante
Last updated over 1 year ago
8 Co-Sponsors
Includes in the State's policies for the physical environment under the Hawaii State Planning Act, the promotion of statewide beach assessments and beach and shoreline adaptation, restoration, and conservation and the pursuit of compatible relationships among activities, facilities, Native Hawaiian traditional practices mauka to makai, and natural resources. Appropriates funds to the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development for the development of a statewide beach assessment study and shoreline adaptation, restoration, and conservation plan. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
STATUS
Engrossed
SB373 - Relating To Deceptive Trade Practices.
Chris Kalani Lee, Stanley Chang, Gil S Coloma Keith-agaran
Last updated over 1 year ago
5 Co-Sponsors
Establishes that gender-based pricing by manufacturers who sell the goods they manufacture to any person in the State for a price they set constitutes an unlawful deceptive trade practice.
STATUS
Introduced
SB28 - Relating To The Deputy Director Of Highways Of The Department Of Transportation.
Karl Rhoads, Chris Kalani Lee
Last updated over 1 year ago
2 Co-Sponsors
Requires the Deputy Director of Highways of the Department of Transportation to be subject to the advice and consent of the Senate.
STATUS
Introduced
SB294 - Relating To The Child Welfare Services.
Donovan Dela Cruz, Henry J.C. Aquino, Stanley Chang
Last updated over 1 year ago
11 Co-Sponsors
Establishes under the Hawaii Children's Trust Fund Coalition a collective impact program called the Malama Ohana Program to seek, design, and recommend transformative changes to the State's existing child welfare system. Requires the Malama Ohana Program to report to the legislature before the Regular Session of 2025. Appropriates funds.
STATUS
Introduced
BIOGRAPHY
INCUMBENT
Senator from Hawaii district SD-025
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Hawaii Senate
BIRTH
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ABOUT
Chris Kalani Lee earned his undergraduate degree in Chemistry and his law degree cum laude from the Richardson School of Law at the University of Hawaii in Hawaii. He has worked as a deputy prosecutor in Honolulu for over 3 decades. He started prosecuting misdemeanors and traffic offenses and then prosecuted sex crimes before moving to the arson and homicide unit. He helped establish Honolulu's first senior victim-witness counseling program to help elderly victims of crime navigate the justice system.read less
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