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SB377 - Relating To Medical Cannabis.
Chris Kalani Lee, Stanley Chang, Gil S Coloma Keith-agaran
Last updated over 1 year ago
5 Co-Sponsors
Prohibits an employer from discriminating against a person in hiring, termination, or any term or condition of employment based on the person's status as a medical cannabis registry card holder, under certain conditions. Authorizes an employer to use a fit-for-duty test for medical cannabis qualifying patients in potentially dangerous occupations. Exempts certain occupations.
STATUS
Introduced
SB1034 - Relating To Public Parking At Ala Wai Boat Harbor.
Lorraine Rodero Inouye, Stanley Chang, Chris Kalani Lee
Last updated over 1 year ago
7 Co-Sponsors
Requires the maintenance of at least three hundred parking stalls at Ala Wai Boat Harbor at no cost for recreational ocean access and for the practice of traditional and customary Native Hawaiian rights. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
STATUS
Introduced
SB899 - Relating To Health.
Sharon Y. Moriwaki, Stanley Chang, Lynn Decoite
Last updated over 1 year ago
13 Co-Sponsors
Authorizes advanced practice registered nurses to practice medical aid in dying or provide counseling to a qualified patient. Amends the mandatory waiting period between oral requests and the provision of a prescription.
STATUS
Introduced
SB35 - Relating To Civil Legal Services.
Karl Rhoads, Brandon Jc Elefante, Gil S Coloma Keith-agaran
Last updated over 1 year ago
5 Co-Sponsors
Appropriates funds for the Judiciary to purchase civil legal services for low- and moderate-income persons. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
STATUS
Engrossed
SB804 - Relating To Agricultural Lands.
Chris Kalani Lee
Last updated over 1 year ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Authorizes lands under the jurisdiction of the Department of Agriculture to be leased or used for pet animal sanctuaries; provided that the pet animal sanctuary provides a public benefit.
STATUS
Introduced
SB1174 - Relating To Crosswalk Safety.
Chris Kalani Lee, Henry J.C. Aquino, Stanley Chang
Last updated over 1 year ago
6 Co-Sponsors
Requires the Department of Transportation to program intersections to allow walk signals to commence four seconds before the green light is given to motor vehicle traffic when the walk button has been pressed.
STATUS
Introduced
SB1058 - Relating To Collective Bargaining.
Chris Kalani Lee, Stanley Chang, Gil S Coloma Keith-agaran
Last updated over 1 year ago
4 Co-Sponsors
Requires the employer to initiate negotiations on repricing of classes within a bargaining unit within 30 days of its receipt of the exclusive representative's written request to negotiate. Establishes that the employer's failure to initiate the negotiation within such time frame and the parties' failure to reach an agreement within ninety day of the exclusive representative's written request to negotiate or by January 31 of a year in which the collective bargaining agreement is due to expire, whichever is earlier, constitute an impasse to which the impasse procedures in section 89-11, Hawaii Revised Statutes, shall apply.
STATUS
Introduced
SB1087 - Relating To Transportation.
Chris Kalani Lee, Stanley Chang, Gil S Coloma Keith-agaran
Last updated over 1 year ago
6 Co-Sponsors
Renames the state highway safety council as the state highway safety and modernization council and amends the composition and duties of the council.
STATUS
Introduced
SB1484 - Relating To The State Parks Special Fund.
Glenn Wakai, Henry J.C. Aquino, Stanley Chang
Last updated over 1 year ago
12 Co-Sponsors
Allows the Department of Land and Natural Resources to expend the moneys from the State Parks Special Fund for programs aimed at environmental protection.
STATUS
Introduced
SB468 - Relating To Aquatic Nuisance Species.
Lorraine Rodero Inouye, Stanley Chang, Brandon Jc Elefante
Last updated over 1 year ago
7 Co-Sponsors
Authorizes the Department of Land and Natural Resources to adopt rules to prevent and respond to the introduction of aquatic nuisance species from discharges incidental to the normal operation of a vessel and reflect the relationship between the federal Vessel Incidental Discharge Act of 2018, as amended, and state law.
STATUS
Introduced
BIOGRAPHY
INCUMBENT
Senator from Hawaii district SD-025
COMMITTEES
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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Hawaii Senate from Hawaii
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