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HB419 - Relating To Residential Photovoltaic Energy Generating Systems.
Greggor Ilagan, Nicole E. Lowen
Last updated over 1 year ago
2 Co-Sponsors
Requires the counties to exempt from county permitting requirements the installation of off-grid residential photovoltaic energy generating systems on the rooftops of residential properties, under certain circumstances. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
STATUS
Engrossed
HB197 - Relating To Climate Change Mitigation.
Nicole E. Lowen, Elle Cochran, Ernesto M. Ganaden
Last updated over 1 year ago
16 Co-Sponsors
Requires the Department of Health to establish a Refrigerant Management Program to reduce emissions of high global warming potential refrigerants and any refrigerant that is an ozone depleting substance from stationary, commercial, and industrial refrigeration systems and air conditioning systems and adopt rules for the regulation of the use of such refrigerants. Requires the State Building Code Council to establish codes and standards consistent with the goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions associated with hydrofluorocarbons when updating the State Building Code. Specifies that no law, rule, ordinance, or code, including the State Building Code, shall prohibit or limit the use of a refrigerant deemed acceptable under federal law. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
STATUS
Engrossed
HB652 - Relating To Caregivers.
Troy Hashimoto, Micah Pookela Kim Aiu, Terez Amato
Last updated over 1 year ago
32 Co-Sponsors
Requires the Executive Office on Aging to establish a Workforce Development and Support Center. Requires the Center to develop a Workforce Pilot Project. Requires the Workforce Pilot Project to terminate on 6/30/2026. Appropriates funds. Effective 6/30/2050. (SD1)
STATUS
Engrossed
HB235 - Relating To Paid Sick Leave.
Jeanne Kapela, Ernesto M. Ganaden, Andrew Takuya Garrett
Last updated over 1 year ago
13 Co-Sponsors
Requires certain employers to provide a minimum amount of paid sick leave to employees to be used to care for themselves or a family member who is ill or needs medical care and supplemental paid sick leave to employees under certain public health emergency conditions.
STATUS
Introduced
HB183 - Relating To Education.
Nicole E. Lowen, Elle Cochran, Ernesto M. Ganaden
Last updated over 1 year ago
17 Co-Sponsors
Requires all private schools to develop and implement comprehensive action plans for the management of anaphylaxis in their respective schools, including administration of auto-injectable epinephrine. Establishes certain immunity from liability for designated private school employees and agents who administer auto-injectable epinephrine during emergencies.
STATUS
Introduced
HB441 - Relating To Climate Equity.
Nicole E. Lowen, Ernesto M. Ganaden, Natalia Hussey-Burdick
Last updated over 1 year ago
19 Co-Sponsors
Appropriates funds for the development of a database and data portal from data sources detailed in the May 2022 report on social vulnerability to climate change in Hawaii, under certain conditions. Appropriates funds for the maintenance and updating of the data portal. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
STATUS
Engrossed
HB391 - Relating To Child Care.
Justin H. Woodson, Terez Amato, Elle Cochran
Last updated over 1 year ago
21 Co-Sponsors
Requires the department of human services to develop an infant and toddler child care worker subsidy pilot program to assist in retaining qualified child care workers in licensed infant and toddler child care centers. Appropriates funds. Sunsets 6/30/2026. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
STATUS
Introduced
HB1192 - Relating To Advancing Civic Engagement.
Amy A. Perruso, Terez Amato, Della au Belatti
Last updated over 1 year ago
13 Co-Sponsors
Requires the public access room to establish and maintain an outreach and engagement program for primary, secondary, post-secondary, and community education. Requires the department of education and university of Hawaii to assign appropriate staff to coordinate with the public access room for the outreach and engagement program. Appropriates funds for one full-time equivalent (1.0 FTE) position to assist in effectuating this requirement. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
STATUS
Engrossed
HB1343 - Relating To Reproductive Health Care Access.
Della au Belatti, Terez Amato, Elle Cochran
Last updated over 1 year ago
21 Co-Sponsors
Establishes and appropriates funds for the Office of the Reproductive Health Care Access Coordinator within the Department of Human Services for administrative purposes. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
STATUS
Introduced
HB348 - Relating To Renewable Energy.
Nicole E. Lowen
Last updated over 1 year ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Allows the counties to establish, by ordinance, an opt-in program that allows an annual payment in lieu of real property taxes on the land or improvements thereon that are actively used to produce or store renewable energy that is sold to an electric utility. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
STATUS
Introduced
BIOGRAPHY
INCUMBENT
Representative from Hawaii district HD-007
COMMITTEES
Hawaii House
BIRTH
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ABOUT
Nicole E. Lowen is a member of the Hawaii State House, representing District 6. She assumed office in 2013. Lowen's professional experience includes working as a legislative analyst for the Hawaii State Senate from 2003 to 2012. Lowen earned her BA in environmental studies and planning from the University of Hawaii at Manoa in 2001. She went on to earn her Master of Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Hawaii at Manoa in 2003.read less
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Hawaii House from Hawaii
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