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SB369 - Relating To Telephone Services For Committed Persons.
Chris Kalani Lee, Stanley Chang, Gil S Coloma Keith-agaran
Last updated over 1 year ago
6 Co-Sponsors
Prohibits the Department of Public Safety from receiving any commission payment from telephone service providers based on inmate phone calls. Prohibits the Department of Public Safety from entering into or renewing any contract with any privately owned prison telephone communications provider.
STATUS
Introduced
SB38 - Relating To Vital Statistics.
Karl Rhoads, Stanley Chang, Chris Kalani Lee
Last updated over 1 year ago
3 Co-Sponsors
Beginning 1/1/2024, allows a qualified applicant to change their sex designation on their birth certificate. Establishes information required for an applicant to change their sex designation on their birth certificate. Requires the Department of Health to create and make available necessary forms beginning 7/1/2023.
STATUS
Introduced
SB121 - Relating To Firearms.
Glenn Wakai, Donovan Dela Cruz, Gil S Coloma Keith-agaran
Last updated over 1 year ago
7 Co-Sponsors
Prohibits the carrying of a firearm in sensitive places. Defines sensitive places. Establishes penalties.
STATUS
Introduced
SB380 - Relating To Unfair And Deceptive Practices.
Chris Kalani Lee, Stanley Chang, Gil S Coloma Keith-agaran
Last updated over 1 year ago
7 Co-Sponsors
Prohibits digital application developers and digital application distribution platforms from increasing the price of a digital application subscription plan that is automatically billed to the user's account without obtaining the user's written consent.
STATUS
Introduced
SB137 - Relating To Gender Equity.
Stanley Chang, Chris Kalani Lee, Angus L.K. McKelvey
Last updated over 1 year ago
6 Co-Sponsors
Requires that restrooms and toilet facilities of public amusement facilities constructed, renovated, retrofitted, or installed after 1/1/2024 have two female-use toilets for each male-use toilet or urinal. Requires certain state building construction that is constructed or substantially modified after 1/1/2024 to provide for the installation of a gender-neutral bathroom with at least three stalls.
STATUS
Introduced
SB1049 - Relating To Employer-union Health Benefits Trust Fund Contributions.
Chris Kalani Lee, Stanley Chang
Last updated over 1 year ago
2 Co-Sponsors
Sets the amount of the employer contribution to the Hawaii employer-union health benefits trust fund as a fixed percentage of the health benefits plan or life insurance plan premium cost. Makes conforming amendments to remove the amount of contributions by the State and counties to the Hawaii employerunion health benefits trust fund from the scope of collective bargaining negotiations.
STATUS
Introduced
SB1506 - Relating To Transportation.
Chris Kalani Lee
Last updated over 1 year ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Appropriates funds to the department of transportation for bicycle and pedestrian safety. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
STATUS
Engrossed
SB1025 - Relating To Safe Routes To School.
Chris Kalani Lee
Last updated over 1 year ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Establishes the safe routes to school advisory committee within the Planning Branch of the Highways Division of the Department of Transportation. Appropriates moneys.
STATUS
Introduced
SB1090 - Relating To Motor Vehicles.
Chris Kalani Lee, Stanley Chang, Brandon Jc Elefante
Last updated over 1 year ago
4 Co-Sponsors
Establishes requirements for number plates issued for zero-emission, hybrid, and gasoline-powered vehicles beginning 1/1/2025. Requires the continued use of the rainbow number plate design for hybrid and gasoline-powered vehicles. Requires the Department of Transportation to adopt or amend its administrative rules to authorize the use of high-occupancy vehicle lanes by zero-emission vehicles and repeal on 1/1/2035 any provision authorizing the use of high-occupancy vehicle lanes by zero-emission vehicles and electric vehicles.
STATUS
Introduced
SB124 - Relating To Prohibition Of Firearms On School Property.
Glenn Wakai, Donovan Dela Cruz, Lorraine Rodero Inouye
Last updated over 1 year ago
7 Co-Sponsors
Prohibits the possession of firearms on school property and school buses and at school-sponsored functions. Exempts certain law enforcement officers and instructors and participants of certain educational or training programs. Establishes that violators are guilty of a class B felony. Requires children enrolled in school who are in violation to be excluded from school attendance for not less than one year. Defines school, school bus, school property, and school-sponsored function.
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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