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HB2703 - Relating To The Administration Of The Commission On Water Resource Management.
Mahina M. Poepoe, Terez Amato, Della au Belatti
Last updated 8 months ago
14 Co-Sponsors
Replaces the position of Deputy to the Chairperson of the Commission on Water Resource Management with the position of Executive Officer, who shall be appointed and managed by the Commission. Authorizes the Commission on Water Resource Management to retain independent legal counsel. Makes the Chairperson of the Board of Land and Natural Resources an ex officio member of the Commission on Water Resource Management and provides that the Commission shall elect a chairperson from among its non ex officio members. Requires the Commission on Water Resource Management and Department of Land and Natural Resources to establish procedures and safeguards to avoid conflicts of interest. Effective 6/29/3000. (HD1)
STATUS
Introduced
HB2606 - Relating To Transient Accommodations.
Adrian Tam, Terez Amato, Della au Belatti
Last updated 8 months ago
11 Co-Sponsors
Requires transient accommodations brokers and any other persons or entities to offer, list, advertise, or display a transient accommodations rental rate that includes all resort fees required for the furnishing of transient accommodations. Requires transient accommodations brokers and any other persons or entities to include all applicable taxes and fees imposed by a government on the stay in the total price to be paid before the consumer reserves the furnishing of transient accommodations. Establishes penalties. Effective 1/1/3000. (HD1)
STATUS
Introduced
HB492 - Relating To Taxation.
Rachele Fernandez Lamosao, Terez Amato, Cory M. Chun
Last updated over 1 year ago
22 Co-Sponsors
Increases the state earned income tax credit from twenty to twenty-five percent of the federal earned income tax credit.
STATUS
Introduced
HB2615 - Relating To Public Utilities.
Nicole E. Lowen, Amy A. Perruso
Last updated 19 days ago
2 Co-Sponsors
Requires the PUC to solicit competitive offers from an entity operating under a non-investor-owned utilities ownership model before approving the sale of a public utility, in whole or in part, to a private entity.
STATUS
Tentative
HB2683 - Relating To Access To Learning.
Scott K. Saiki, Greggor Ilagan, Kirstin Ak Kahaloa
Last updated 7 months ago
9 Co-Sponsors
Makes permanent the exemption of laboratory school programs of the Hawaiian language college at the University of Hawaii at Hilo from state English-medium standards, assessments, performance ratings, staff qualifications, and staff training requirements. Takes effect 7/1/3000. (SD1)
STATUS
Engrossed
HB1530 - Relating To Fire Protection.
Mahina M. Poepoe, Terez Amato, Cory M. Chun
Last updated 7 months ago
10 Co-Sponsors
Notwithstanding a collective bargaining agreement or executive policy in effect on and after 7/1/2028, requires that an employer of firefighters maintains its fire staffing service at a level of not less than four on-duty firefighters in each company. Takes effect 7/1/2050. (SD1)
STATUS
Engrossed
HB389 - Relating To Taxation.
Justin H. Woodson, Terez Amato, Elle Cochran
Last updated over 1 year ago
11 Co-Sponsors
Establishes a carbon sequestration income tax credit. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
STATUS
Introduced
HB195 - Relating To Renewable Energy.
Nicole E. Lowen, Terez Amato, Elle Cochran
Last updated over 1 year ago
18 Co-Sponsors
Requires government entities in the State that issue building permits to implement SolarAPP+ or a functionally equivalent online automated permitting platform that verifies code compliance and issues permits to licensed contractors for solar distributed energy resource systems in real time by 1/1/2024. Requires government entities in the State that issue building permits to adopt self-certification for solar distributed energy resource systems of 250 kilowatts or less that are not SolarAPP+ compatible. Makes the professional engineers, architects, surveyors, and landscape architects licensure law inapplicable to work with respect to residential distributed energy resource systems and increases the estimated cost of work on certain structures below which that licensure law is inapplicable. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
STATUS
Introduced
HB1277 - Relating To Consumer Protection.
Lisa Marten, Terez Amato, Della au Belatti
Last updated over 1 year ago
11 Co-Sponsors
Requires self-service stations to put labels on gas dispensing equipment that advise consumers on the effects of fossil fuel consumption to human health and the environment.
STATUS
Introduced
HB908 - Relating To The Land Conservation Fund.
Mahina M. Poepoe, Terez Amato, Ernesto M. Ganaden
Last updated over 1 year ago
12 Co-Sponsors
Amends the maximum amount of conveyance tax revenues allocated to the Land Conservation Fund. Effective 6/30/3000. (SD1)
STATUS
Engrossed
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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