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HB1419 - Relating To Transportation.
Chris Todd, Elle Cochran, Troy Hashimoto
Last updated over 1 year ago
9 Co-Sponsors
Requires the Department of Accounting and General Services to enable parking stall sharing among public employees, accommodate more electric vehicle charging stations, and provide bicycle storage lockers at facilities where parking is made available to public employees. Requires new public housing developments' parking stalls to accommodate electric vehicle charging stations and bicycle storage lockers.
STATUS
Introduced
HB58 - Relating To Compensation Benefits.
Chris Todd, Kirstin Ak Kahaloa, Jeanne Kapela
Last updated over 1 year ago
6 Co-Sponsors
Requires compensation benefits for volunteer firefighters who are injured or killed in the line of duty to be determined based on equivalent firefighter pay based on years of service and rank, rather than on a rate of $18 per week.
STATUS
Introduced
HB1396 - Relating To Cesspools.
Nadine K. Nakamura, Cory M. Chun, Elle Cochran
Last updated over 1 year ago
11 Co-Sponsors
Part I: Establishes and appropriates funds for a county cesspool pilot program in the Department of Health to work with each county to identify a priority area to expand the county sewage system or other centralized treatment system to connect individual properties in the priority area and reduce or eliminate cesspools in the identified area. Part II: Creates a cesspool conversion section in the Department of Health to facilitate the conversion of cesspools within the State. Establishes and appropriates funds for positions. Part III: Requires the Department of Health to retain qualified consultants to identify necessary public outreach and education resources and tools, and develop a comprehensive public outreach strategy and educate homeowners regarding the State's cesspool upgrade, conversion, and connection requirements and deadlines. Part IV: Establishes, for all taxable years after December 31, 2023, an income tax credit for the cost of upgrading or converting a qualified cesspool to a Director of Health-approved wastewater system or connecting to a sewerage system. Requires that, effective 11/1/23, certain information regarding cesspools on real property be included in seller mandatory disclosures for real property transactions. Effective 6/30/3000. (SD2)
STATUS
Engrossed
HB438 - Relating To Youth Programs.
Ernesto M. Ganaden, Terez Amato, Cory M. Chun
Last updated over 1 year ago
22 Co-Sponsors
Appropriates funds and establishes one Pacific youth programs coordinator position within the Department of Human Services Office of Youth Services. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
STATUS
Introduced
HB259 - Relating To Consumer Protection.
Kirstin Ak Kahaloa, Cory M. Chun, Andrew Takuya Garrett
Last updated over 1 year ago
11 Co-Sponsors
Prohibits using geographic origins of coffee in labeling or advertising for roasted or instant coffee that contains less than a certain percentage of coffee by weight from that geographic origin, phased in to a minimum of fifty-one per cent on or after 7/1/2026. Excludes roasted or instant coffee produced in whole or in part from Hawaii-grown green coffee beans that are not offered for retail sale directly to consumers from labeling requirements. Prohibits use of the term "All Hawaiian" in labeling or advertising for roasted or instant coffee not produced entirely from green coffee beans grown and processed in the State. Authorizes retailers who, by 6/30/2024, purchase roasted or instant coffee blends that use a geographic origin in labeling or advertising containing less than twenty per cent Hawaii-grown coffee by weight to sell-off coffee inventory until 12/31/2024. Effective 6/30/3000. (SD1)
STATUS
Engrossed
HB1387 - Relating To The Hawaii Health Systems Corporation.
Richard H K Onishi, Kirstin Ak Kahaloa, May Besario Mizuno
Last updated over 1 year ago
8 Co-Sponsors
Clarifies that the appointment and removal of the chief executive officer of the Hawaii health systems corporation requires a majority vote by the voting members of the corporation board, rather than by the entire membership of the board.
STATUS
Introduced
HB57 - Relating To Workers' Compensation.
Chris Todd, Kirstin Ak Kahaloa, Jeanne Kapela
Last updated over 1 year ago
6 Co-Sponsors
Authorizes wages of other employees in comparable employment to be considered when computing the average weekly wages of an injured public board member, reserve police officer, police chaplain, reserve public safety law enforcement officer, sheriffs' chaplain, volunteer firefighter, volunteer boating enforcement officer, or volunteer conservation and resources enforcement officer. Clarifies computation of average weekly wages of an injured volunteer firefighter for workers' compensation benefits purposes. Effective 6/30/3000.
STATUS
Engrossed
HB1269 - Relating To Agricultural Districts.
Cedric Asuega Gates, Elle Cochran, Daniel Holt
Last updated over 1 year ago
10 Co-Sponsors
Amends the qualifications for food hubs located in agricultural districts.
STATUS
Introduced
HB1374 - Relating To The Counties.
Sean Quinlan, Cedric Asuega Gates, Troy Hashimoto
Last updated over 1 year ago
14 Co-Sponsors
Makes explicit the counties' authority to regulate hosting platforms providing booking services for short-term rentals. Includes swapping, bartering, or exchange of a residential dwelling, or portion thereof, in the definition of "short-term rental". Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
STATUS
Introduced
HB740 - Relating To The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
Natalia Hussey-Burdick, Terez Amato, Ernesto M. Ganaden
Last updated over 1 year ago
12 Co-Sponsors
Establishes an additional minimum supplemental nutrition assistance program (SNAP) benefit of $250 per month per person for SNAP-eligible households whose income is below two hundred per cent of the federal poverty level, as established by the United States Department of Agriculture. Requires that SNAP-eligible households whose monthly income exceeds two hundred per cent of the federal poverty level receive a graduated decline of additional SNAP benefits. Requires state general funds to be used to supplement the cost of the additional benefits. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/30/3000. (HD1)
STATUS
Introduced
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