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HB1775 - Relating To Education.
Scot Z. Matayoshi, Terez Amato, Cory M. Chun
Last updated 9 months ago
28 Co-Sponsors
Beginning with the 2024-2025 school year, requires the Department of Education to provide free breakfast and lunch to all students enrolled in department schools. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
STATUS
Engrossed
HB1798 - Relating To Minimum Wage.
Jeanne Kapela, Terez Amato, Ernesto M. Ganaden
Last updated 10 months ago
8 Co-Sponsors
Beginning September 30, 2028, requires the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to annually calculate an adjusted minimum wage rate to within the nearest twenty-five cents using the Urban Hawaii Consumer Price index to take effect on January 1 of the following year.
STATUS
Introduced
HB1796 - Relating To Climate Resilience.
Jeanne Kapela, Terez Amato, Elle Cochran
Last updated 10 months ago
13 Co-Sponsors
Requires the Hawaii clean energy initiative program to design and implement a plan to increase jobs that strengthen emergency preparedness and climate resilience. Authorizes the use of the energy security special fund to advance the State's goals of strengthening emergency preparedness and climate mitigation.
STATUS
Introduced
HB1203 - Relating To Taxation.
Scot Z. Matayoshi, Terez Amato, Della au Belatti
Last updated over 1 year ago
30 Co-Sponsors
Establishes an employer child care tax credit for employers who provide or sponsor approved child care. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD2)
STATUS
Engrossed
HB1199 - Relating To Domestic Violence.
May Besario Mizuno, Terez Amato, Ernesto M. Ganaden
Last updated almost 2 years ago
7 Co-Sponsors
Requires law enforcement agencies to adopt and implement a written policy on domestic violence committed or allegedly committed by a law enforcement officer. Establishes standards, training deadlines, administrative procedures, and reporting requirements.
STATUS
Introduced
HB1506 - Relating To The Employees' Retirement System Of The State Of Hawaii.
Scott K. Saiki, Terez Amato, Della au Belatti
Last updated over 1 year ago
30 Co-Sponsors
Encourages the employees' retirement system, in evaluating venture capital investments, to consider opportunities in industries that will sustain Hawaii's natural environment or produce economic opportunities for its residents, including renewable energy businesses and businesses that use the investment capital to acquire the infrastructure and services needed to become energy sustainable. If the employees' retirement system board of trustees determines that it is not prudent to invest in any Hawaii venture capital meeting this description, requires the board to report the rationale for the decision in its annual report to the legislature. Appropriates funds. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
STATUS
Engrossed
HB1235 - Relating To Corrections.
Natalia Hussey-Burdick, Terez Amato, Elle Cochran
Last updated over 1 year ago
9 Co-Sponsors
Appropriates funds for purchasing digital cameras for all adult correctional officer control rooms at state correctional facilities and body cameras for adult correctional officers to wear while on duty at state correctional facilities. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD2)
STATUS
Engrossed
HB1661 - Relating To The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
Jeanne Kapela, Terez Amato, Elle Cochran
Last updated 10 months ago
14 Co-Sponsors
Expands eligibility for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program to include any individual or household whose monthly income is equal to or less than three hundred per cent of the federal poverty level. Appropriates funds.
STATUS
Introduced
HB1890 - Relating To Noise Pollution.
Nicole E. Lowen, Terez Amato, Natalia Hussey-Burdick
Last updated 10 months ago
14 Co-Sponsors
Prohibits retailers from selling or offering for sale certain combustion engine-powered mopeds beginning 1/1/2026.
STATUS
Introduced
HB665 - Relating To The Uniform Parentage Act.
Della au Belatti, Terez Amato, Jeanne Kapela
Last updated almost 2 years ago
9 Co-Sponsors
Extends and modifies the task force established to recommend amendments to update existing parentage laws that reflect outdated, cisheteronormative concepts of families, parenthood, and parental rights to December 31, 2024.
STATUS
Introduced
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Representative from Hawaii district HD-005
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