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HB190 - Relating To School Buses.
Chris Todd, Terez Amato, Troy Hashimoto
Last updated over 1 year ago
21 Co-Sponsors
Requires the Department of Education to waive school bus fees for fiscal years 2023-2024 and 2024-2025. Appropriates moneys.
STATUS
Introduced
HB571 - Relating To The Kahoolawe Island Reserve Commission.
Amy A. Perruso, Terez Amato, Ernesto M. Ganaden
Last updated over 1 year ago
20 Co-Sponsors
Appropriates funds for the Kahoolawe island reserve commission. Appropriates funds for three full-time equivalent (3.0 FTE) permanent positions. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
STATUS
Introduced
HB851 - Relating To Motor Vehicle Safety Inspections.
Daniel Holt, Micah Pookela Kim Aiu, Della au Belatti
Last updated over 1 year ago
15 Co-Sponsors
Lengthens the time period in which certain vehicles must have a safety inspection.
STATUS
Introduced
HB1768 - Relating To Family Leave.
Cory M. Chun, Terez Amato, Luke A. Evslin
Last updated 8 months ago
21 Co-Sponsors
Requires the department of labor and industrial relations to establish and administer a family leave insurance program. Provides family leave insurance benefits and extends the period of family leave to 16 weeks for businesses that employ one or more employees who meet the hourly qualifications. Eliminates the previous threshold of 100 employees for employers to be subject to the family leave law. Appropriates funds.
STATUS
Introduced
HB1829 - Relating To Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure.
Scott K. Saiki, Micah Pookela Kim Aiu, Terez Amato
Last updated 7 months ago
42 Co-Sponsors
Requires the design of all new state building construction where parking is to be included to provide that at least twenty-five per cent of parking stalls be electric vehicle charger-ready. Requires the Hawaii State Energy Office, in consultation with the Department of Accounting and General Services, to conduct a survey and identify certain high-priority state facilities. Establishes a goal of the State to retrofit state facilities to be electric vehicle charger-ready. Requires a report to the Legislature. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. Appropriates funds. Takes effect 7/1/2491. (SD1)
STATUS
Engrossed
HB2090 - Relating To Housing.
Luke A. Evslin, Micah Pookela Kim Aiu, Terez Amato
Last updated 4 months ago
22 Co-Sponsors
Beginning 1/1/2025, allows residential uses in areas zoned for commercial use to be considered permitted under certain circumstances. Requires, no later than 1/1/2025, each county to adopt or amend its ordinances to allow for adaptive reuse of existing commercial buildings in the county's building codes. (CD1)
STATUS
Passed
HB1834 - Relating To The Department Of Human Services.
Scott K. Saiki, Micah Pookela Kim Aiu, Terez Amato
Last updated 7 months ago
43 Co-Sponsors
Appropriates funds to increase the base budget of the Department of Human Services' Homeless Programs Office. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. (SD1)
STATUS
Engrossed
HB1960 - Relating To An Economic Development District Planning Organization.
Daniel Holt, Kirstin Ak Kahaloa, Rachele Fernandez Lamosao
Last updated 7 months ago
8 Co-Sponsors
Establishes and appropriates funds for temporary positions within OPSD to support the activities of a district organization for a statewide economic development district. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
STATUS
Engrossed
HB1688 - Relating To The Environment.
Nicole E. Lowen, Terez Amato, Elle Cochran
Last updated 7 months ago
19 Co-Sponsors
Requires the Department of Health to conduct a statewide needs assessment and establish an advisory council to determine what would be needed to transition to a more circular system with less waste generation, more reuse, and an extended producer responsibility program for packaging materials and paper products. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (SD1)
STATUS
Engrossed
HB935 - Relating To Hearing Aids.
Cory M. Chun, Terez Amato, Elle Cochran
Last updated over 1 year ago
25 Co-Sponsors
Exempts from the general excise tax, gross receipts received from the sale of hearing aids.
STATUS
Introduced
BIOGRAPHY
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Representative from Hawaii district HD-017
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Hawaii House
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Daynette Morikawa was born and raised in Makawao, Hawaii. She earned her BA in communications from Chaminade University in 2007 and her MA in communicology from University of Hawaii in 2009. Morikawa was selected from a field of three candidates by the Maui County Democratic Party to run in the special election to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Rep. Mele Carroll. She works as an instructional assistant at Makawao Elementary School.read less
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