SEE LATEST
SPONSORED LEGISLATION
SB48 - Relating To State Lands.
Karl Rhoads, Gil S Coloma Keith-agaran
Last updated almost 2 years ago
2 Co-Sponsors
Establishes penalties for failure to comply with certain submerged land reclamation regulations. Adds requirements for presently reclaimed land to be disposed of by the Board of Land and Natural Resources, without recourse to public auction, to an abutting owner, by sale, or by lease. Provides requirements for the Board of Land and Natural Resources to lease state submerged lands and lands beneath tidal waters.
STATUS
Introduced
SB1054 - Relating To Non-compete Clauses.
Chris Kalani Lee, Stanley Chang, Gil S Coloma Keith-agaran
Last updated almost 2 years ago
8 Co-Sponsors
Prohibits non-compete and non-solicit clauses in employment contracts relating to employees of a restaurant, retail store, newspaper, magazine, news agency, press association, wire service, or radio or television transmission station or network.
STATUS
Introduced
SB39 - Relating To Recordings Of Law Enforcement Activities.
Karl Rhoads, Stanley Chang, Chris Kalani Lee
Last updated almost 2 years 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
SB982 - Relating To Assisted Community Treatment.
Karl Rhoads
Last updated almost 2 years ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Permits interested parties to request the director of health to file an assisted community treatment petition on behalf of the interested party. Requires final orders for a petition to be filed within thirty days of the date an assisted community treatment petition is filed. Permits the family court to use online hearings for assisted community treatment petitions. Permits the subject of a petition to stipulate to the proposed order and for the court to enter the stipulated order without an evidentiary hearing. Requires the department of health to report to the legislature on the number of requests for petitions submitted to the director of health.
STATUS
Introduced
SB1137 - Relating To Teacher Loans.
Angus L.K. McKelvey, Gil S Coloma Keith-agaran, Jarrett K. Keohokalole
Last updated almost 2 years ago
5 Co-Sponsors
Establishes a teacher loan program to encourage individuals to become teachers in hard-to-fill positions of Department of Education schools. Allows the loan to be forgiven after 5 years of teaching in a hard-to-fill position.
STATUS
Introduced
SB1105 - Relating To The Model State Right-to-repair Law.
Gil S Coloma Keith-agaran, Angus L.K. McKelvey, Karl Rhoads
Last updated almost 2 years ago
3 Co-Sponsors
Requires original equipment manufacturers of digital electronic equipment to make documentation, parts, and tools available to independent repair providers and owners for the purposes of diagnosis, maintenance, and repair on fair and reasonable terms. Excludes certain manufacturers, dealers, distributors, and importers of certain motor vehicles or motor vehicle equipment, all-terrain sports vehicles and motorcycles, heavy construction equipment, and medical equipment valued at or over $100,000.
STATUS
Introduced
SB870 - Relating To Health Care Providers.
Stanley Chang, Henry J.C. Aquino, Karl Rhoads
Last updated almost 2 years ago
5 Co-Sponsors
Prohibits hospitals and health care facilities to permit or require health care providers to provide services for any period after the health care provider has been on duty for sixteen consecutive hours or an aggregate of eighty hours during any period of seven consecutive days, until the health care provider takes at least ten consecutive hours of time off-duty. Clarifies that the terms and conditions of a collective bargaining agreement will prevail, if in conflict with this prohibition. Defines health care facility, health care provider, and hospital.
STATUS
Introduced
SB1004 - Relating To Taxation.
Karl Rhoads, Stanley Chang, Gil S Coloma Keith-agaran
Last updated almost 2 years ago
7 Co-Sponsors
Establishes a carbon emissions tax credit. Expands the environmental response, energy, and food security tax to include carbon emissions. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2023. Requires the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development, in consultation with the Department of Taxation, to recommend updates to the tax per fuel and corresponding tax credits.
STATUS
Introduced
SB916 - Relating To Health.
Karl Rhoads
Last updated almost 2 years ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Authorizes long-acting psychotropic medication to be provided to patients who are subject to emergency examination or hospitalization. Expands the administration of treatment over a patient's objection to include persons in director of health custody at any hospital, subject to an emergency examination, subject of an application for involuntary hospitalization, and subject to a court order regarding fitness to proceed for a criminal trial. Requires orders for treatment over objection proceedings to be expedited. Expands who may file a petition for an order to treat over objection under certain circumstances.
STATUS
Introduced
SB40 - Relating To Discrimination.
Karl Rhoads, Stanley Chang, Gil S Coloma Keith-agaran
Last updated over 1 year ago
4 Co-Sponsors
Establishes provisions relating to civil remedies for discriminatory reporting to a law enforcement officer. Provides that a person who contacts a law enforcement officer to come to a location to contact a person on the basis of the person's actual or perceived race, color, ancestry, ethnicity, national origin, place of birth, sex, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, or gender identity with the specific intent to infringe upon the person's rights under the Hawaii State Constitution or United State Constitution; discriminate against the person; cause the person to feel harassed, humiliated, or embarrassed; cause the person to be expelled from a place that the person is lawfully located; damage the person's reputation or standing within the community; or damage the person's financial, economic, consumer, or business prospects or interest shall be civilly liable. Requires the Department of the Attorney General, in consultation with the Hawaii Civil Rights Commission, to provide guidance to the public on the enactment of this Act. Effective January 1, 2024, requires the Department of Law Enforcement to also provide guidance on this Act. (SD1)
STATUS
Engrossed
BIOGRAPHY
INCUMBENT
Senator from Hawaii district SD-013
COMMITTEES
Hawaii Senate
BIRTH
--
ABOUT
--
OFFICES HELD
Hawaii Senate from Hawaii
NEXT ELECTION
