Hawaii 2023 Regular Session All Bills (Page 45)

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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session

Hawaii Senate Bill SB1550

Introduced
1/25/23  
Refer
1/30/23  
Allows telecommunications and emergency dispatchers and employees who perform similar functions employed by the State and counties to collectively bargain.
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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session

Hawaii House Bill HB1404

Introduced
1/25/23  
Refer
1/30/23  
Report Pass
2/9/23  
Makes the community court outreach project permanent. Amends the project to address homeless defendants and expand the opportunities for eligible defendants to participate. Appropriates funds for additional personnel and enhanced security services. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session

Hawaii Senate Bill SB1554

Introduced
1/25/23  
Authorizes the director of finance to issue general obligation bonds to finance capital improvements to various irrigation systems.
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Hawaii House Bill HB1423

Introduced
1/25/23  
Refer
1/30/23  
Includes electronic smoking devices within the definition of "tobacco products", as used in the cigarette tax and tobacco tax law. Establishes a tax of ten per cent for the wholesale price for electronic smoking devices. Allocates a portion of funds collected on excise taxes on electronic smoking devices to the trauma system special fund, community health centers special fund, emergency medical services special fund, and tobacco enforcement special fund. Permits funds in the tobacco enforcement special fund to be used to enforce provisions prohibiting the sale and distribution of electronic smoking devices to, and possession or use of electronic smoking devices by, persons under the age of twenty-one.
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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session

Hawaii House Bill HB1381

Introduced
1/25/23  
Requires the legislative reference bureau to conduct a study that identifies and analyzes alternative tourism governance systems. Requires the study to include a solicitation of input from certain stakeholder groups. Requires a final report to be submitted to the legislature prior to the convening of the Regular Session of 2025. Appropriates moneys.
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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session

Hawaii Senate Bill SB1587

Introduced
1/25/23  
Establishes the Affordable Housing Land Inventory Task Force to update the maps, tier tables, and inventories of State lands suitable and available for affordable housing development in the Affordable Rental Housing Report and Ten-Year Plan. Requires a report to the Legislature.
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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session

Hawaii Senate Bill SB1546

Introduced
1/25/23  
Refer
1/30/23  
Establishes the Institute of Indigenous Education, Science, and Outreach within the University of Hawaii at Hilo.
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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session

Hawaii House Bill HB1369

Introduced
1/25/23  
Refer
1/30/23  
Report Pass
2/14/23  
Refer
2/14/23  
Report Pass
3/3/23  
Engrossed
3/3/23  
Refer
3/9/23  
Report Pass
3/16/23  
Refer
3/16/23  
Report Pass
4/6/23  
Report Pass
4/28/23  
Report Pass
4/28/23  
Enrolled
5/4/23  
Chaptered
6/22/23  
Repeals the sunset dates of Act 156, SLH 2012, and Act 124, SLH 2014, to make the nursing facility sustainability program permanent and permanently exempt the nursing sustainability program special fund from the central service and administrative expenses assessments. Makes various amendments to the nursing facility sustainability program and nursing facility sustainability special fund. Repeals the nursing facility tax. Appropriates funds out of the nursing facility sustainability program special fund. (CD1)
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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session

Hawaii House Bill HB1360

Introduced
1/25/23  
Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the fifteenth and seventeenth representative districts.
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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session

Hawaii House Bill HB1332

Introduced
1/25/23  
Prohibits the abortion of a fetus that is capable of feeling pain. Prohibits abortions by dismemberment. Provides certain exceptions. Establishes penalties.
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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session

Hawaii Senate Bill SB1591

Introduced
1/25/23  
Creates a Public Places Special Fund to fund hiring private security to work with county law enforcement to enforce state or county laws, rules, ordinances, or regulations prohibiting camping, loitering, nuisance, or other violations in public places. Allocates .005 per cent of the transient accommodations tax to the Public Places Special Fund to be allocated to the counties in proportion to the amount of tax collected in each county.
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Hawaii House Bill HB1390

Introduced
1/25/23  
Enables the director of commerce and consumer affairs to license counselors from states which participate in the Counseling Compact.
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Hawaii House Bill HB1437

Introduced
1/25/23  
Refer
1/30/23  
Report Pass
2/9/23  
Specifies that the penalty for sex trafficking is to be a fine of no less than $200,000 but no more than $500,000, and a term of imprisonment of up to twenty years without the possibility of a suspended sentence, probation, or parole. Exempts from criminal liability for certain offenses involving sex trafficking or prostitution a victim of sex trafficking who reports the trafficking to law enforcement. Provides that consent to sexual conduct, as defined, is not a defense for the offense of sex trafficking. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session

Hawaii House Bill HB1429

Introduced
1/25/23  
Gradually reduces the general excise tax rate imposed on the retail sale of groceries and nonprescription medication over a period of four years until eliminated in calendar year 2027. Preserves the county surcharge on tax and the general excise tax on wholesales of groceries and nonprescription medication. Effective 1/1/2024.
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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session

Hawaii Senate Bill SB1612

Introduced
1/25/23  
Authorizes each county director of finance to waive certain abandoned vehicle tow, storage, and other charges, fees, and fines owed to the county.