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SB290 - Relating To Direct Instructional Services To Students.
Donovan Dela Cruz, Stanley Chang, Lorraine Rodero Inouye
Last updated over 1 year ago
6 Co-Sponsors
Requires that appropriations allocated to Department of Education programs that provide instructional services directly to students shall remain within the budget of the program to which the funds were originally allocated and that the retention of an appropriation shall not be used by the Department as a basis for reducing a program's future budget requirements. Requires the Department of Education to report the creation of temporary positions to the Legislature. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
STATUS
Engrossed
SB1030 - Relating To Conservation Mitigation Banks.
Lorraine Rodero Inouye, Stanley Chang, Gil S Coloma Keith-agaran
Last updated almost 2 years ago
7 Co-Sponsors
Authorizes the department of land and natural resources to establish and operate conservation mitigation banks to restore, create, enhance, or preserve conservation habitats or resources as compensatory mitigation. Authorizes the department to contract a third-party administrator for the operation of the mitigation banks. Clarifies the sale of credits involved in conservation mitigation banking. Defines "conservation mitigation bank". Effective 1/1/2024.
STATUS
Introduced
SB124 - Relating To Prohibition Of Firearms On School Property.
Glenn Wakai, Donovan Dela Cruz, Lorraine Rodero Inouye
Last updated almost 2 years 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
SB2025 - Relating To Housing Development.
Stanley Chang, Kurt Fevella, Troy Hashimoto
Last updated 10 months ago
7 Co-Sponsors
Eliminates certain restrictions for developing state-owned real property located within one-half mile radius of any station along the elevated mass transit system. Permits high-density development of state-owned real property located within one-half mile radius of any station along the elevated mass transit system. Prohibits each county from adopting ordinances that restrict housing density on state lands that are within 0.5 miles of an elevated mass transit station.
STATUS
Introduced
SB1037 - Relating To Limu Kala.
Maile S L Shimabukuro, Henry J.C. Aquino, Stanley Chang
Last updated almost 2 years ago
7 Co-Sponsors
Designates Limu Kala (Sargassum echinocarpum) as the official Hawaii state limu. Effective 07/01/2050. (SD1)
STATUS
Introduced
SB1033 - Relating To Aquatic Resources.
Lorraine Rodero Inouye, Angus L.K. McKelvey, Maile S L Shimabukuro
Last updated almost 2 years ago
3 Co-Sponsors
Expands the department of land and natural resources' rulemaking authority to include any rule deemed necessary to protect certain aquatic life. Expands the board of land and natural resources' authority to temporarily adopt, amend, or repeal certain natural resource rules by formal action at a publicly noticed meeting if the board finds that such adoption, amendment, or repeal is necessary to implement effective and adaptive management measures in response to new or previously benign aquatic nuisance species, in light of newly available technology, or in light of newly available data. Creates new fines for violations of rules pertaining to the department's prevention of or response to previously benign aquatic nuisance species. Authorizes the department to prevent or respond to threats from aquatic nuisance species from all discharges incidental to the normal operation of a vessel, not just ballast water and hull fouling.
STATUS
Introduced
SB37 - Relating To Fireworks.
Karl Rhoads, Stanley Chang, Lorraine Rodero Inouye
Last updated almost 2 years ago
8 Co-Sponsors
Establishes the shipping container inspection program and appropriates funds for the shipping container inspection program. Requires the Department of Public Safety to submit reports to the Legislature on implementation of the shipping container inspection program. Appropriates funds.
STATUS
Introduced
SB652 - Relating To Agriculture.
Mike Gabbard, Angus L.K. McKelvey, Karl Rhoads
Last updated over 1 year ago
5 Co-Sponsors
Appropriates funds to the department of agriculture to mitigate and control infestations of the two-lined spittlebug, undertake recovery efforts for lands damaged by the two-lined spittlebug, and establish a five-year pilot program to mitigate and control the significant increase in the population of feral chickens and pigs throughout the State. Requires reports to the Legislature. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
STATUS
Engrossed
SB2098 - Relating To Education.
Glenn Wakai, Stanley Chang, Kurt Fevella
Last updated 10 months ago
5 Co-Sponsors
Appropriates funds to the Department of Education to contract with a qualified nonprofit organization to establish an aquatic safety education program for elementary school students and to establish one full-time equivalent position (1.0 FTE) to administer the program.
STATUS
Introduced
SB138 - Relating To Education.
Stanley Chang, Henry J.C. Aquino, Lorraine Rodero Inouye
Last updated almost 2 years ago
8 Co-Sponsors
Requires the Board of Education to include in its curriculum a unit of instruction studying the events of Asian American history. Requires the Superintendent of Education to prepare and make available to all school complex areas instructional material that shall be the guidelines for development of the Asian American history education in each school and monitor compliance. Requires that each school complex area determines the minimum amount of instructional time that qualifies as a unit of instruction in Asian American history. Requires Asian American history to be taught in each public school commencing the 2023-2024 school year.
STATUS
Introduced
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Senator from Hawaii district SD-001
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