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HB2590 - Relating To Food Security.
Terez Amato, Della au Belatti, Elle Cochran
Last updated 7 months ago
19 Co-Sponsors
Appropriates funds for food bank purchases from local farmers, to be expended by the Department of Agriculture via requests for proposals. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
STATUS
Engrossed
HB2616 - Relating To Electric Vehicles.
Nicole E. Lowen, Chris Todd
Last updated 8 months ago
2 Co-Sponsors
Establishes a funding program that incentivizes electric vehicle charging systems and infrastructure development and allows the Electric Vehicle Charging System Subaccount to expend funds for this program. Increases the amount of petroleum tax to be deposited into the electric vehicle charging system subaccount. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
STATUS
Introduced
HB2198 - Relating To Public Employment.
Andrew Takuya Garrett, Terez Amato, Della au Belatti
Last updated 19 days ago
12 Co-Sponsors
Allows public employee organizations to negotiate retirement benefits.
STATUS
Tentative
HB2648 - Relating To Neonicotinoids.
Elle Cochran, Terez Amato, Nicole E. Lowen
Last updated 19 days ago
5 Co-Sponsors
Amends the definition of "restricted use pesticide" to include neonicotinoid pesticides.
STATUS
Tentative
HB69 - Relating To After-school Programs.
Scot Z. Matayoshi, Ernesto M. Ganaden, Natalia Hussey-Burdick
Last updated over 1 year ago
19 Co-Sponsors
Appropriates funds for the Department of Education's Resources for Enrichment, Athletics/Academics, Culture, and Health program. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
STATUS
Engrossed
HB248 - Relating To Education.
Amy A. Perruso, Terez Amato, Elle Cochran
Last updated over 1 year ago
18 Co-Sponsors
Requires the department of education to fully implement the farm to school program and farm to school meals program by the 20242025 school year. Provides that complex area superintendents have the authority to implement the farm to school and farm to school meals programs. Requires certain school cafeteria supervisors to report directly to complex area superintendents. Establishes school cafeteria supervisor positions. Requires the office of talent management of the department of education to conduct a compensation review of school cafeteria supervisor positions. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
STATUS
Engrossed
HB147 - Relating To Vehicle Weight Taxes.
Amy A. Perruso, Terez Amato, Linda E. Ichiyama
Last updated over 1 year ago
10 Co-Sponsors
Amends the vehicle weight tax exemption for noncommercial vehicles by removing the exemption for military reserves and other active duty military personnel and adding an exemption for certain veterans.
STATUS
Introduced
HB2511 - Relating To Cancer.
Tyson Miyake, Terez Amato, Della au Belatti
Last updated 19 days ago
26 Co-Sponsors
Appropriates funds to the University of Hawaii Cancer Center to conduct a multiethnic cohort study focusing on the social determinants of health, lifestyles, environmental exposures, and resilience factors of Native Hawaiians, Pacific Islanders, and Filipinos. Requires the Cancer Center to seek federal funding to complete the study.
STATUS
Tentative
HB2688 - Relating To Carbon Emissions Reduction.
Scott K. Saiki, Nicole E. Lowen
Last updated 8 months ago
2 Co-Sponsors
Establishes a clean vehicle special fund to incentivize the purchase of vehicles that produce less carbon emissions by providing a rebate. Creates a gasoline-powered vehicle tax, graduated based on fuel efficiency, to be paid by purchasers of certain passenger cars and pickup trucks that are powered solely by gasoline.
STATUS
Introduced
HB780 - Relating To Human Services.
May Besario Mizuno, Terez Amato, Elle Cochran
Last updated over 1 year ago
16 Co-Sponsors
Requires the office of the lieutenant governor to convene a working group to examine the feasibility of establishing and implementing a kauhale pilot program based on specified criteria to provide shelter and other services to homeless individuals in the State and to submit a report of the working group's findings and recommendations, including any proposed legislation, to the legislature prior to the regular session of 2024.
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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