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State (Hawaii)
Hawaii 2024 Regular Session

Relating To Driving While Intoxicated. [HB-1934]
Requires the Director of Transportation to convene an intoxicated driving reduction working group, under the leadership of Hawaii's strategic highway safety plan, to make recommendations for amendments to existing laws to reduce incidents of intoxicated driving. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Della au Belatti Report Adopted; Passed Second Reading And Referred To Wam. on 03/22/2024

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State (Hawaii)
Hawaii 2024 Regular Session

Related To Toxic Chemicals. [SB-2369]
Establishes a working group to investigate the existence and environmental dangers of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances and related chemicals. Requires reports to the Legislature. (SD1)

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Jarrett Keohokalole Reported From Aen/hhs (stand. Com. Rep. No. 2728) With Recommendation Of Passage On Second Reading, As Amended (sd 1) And Referral To Cpn/wam. on 02/16/2024

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State (Hawaii)
Hawaii 2024 Regular Session

Relating To Community College. [HB-1795]
Establishes a working group within the University of Hawaii to evaluate possibilities for making community college free for Hawaii residents. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Daynette Morikawa Reported From Het (stand. Com. Rep. No. 356-24) As Amended In Hd 1, Recommending Passage On Second Reading And Referral To Fin. on 02/14/2024

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State (Hawaii)
Hawaii 2024 Regular Session

Relating To School Psychology. [HB-1648]
Creates a School Psychologists Working Group to recommend actionable steps or propose legislation for an immediate pathway to licensure for school psychologists that can be acted upon in 2025. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Della au Belatti The Committee(s) On Cpc Recommend(s) That The Measure Be Deferred. on 02/13/2024

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State (Hawaii)
Hawaii 2024 Regular Session

Relating To Child Welfare Services. [HB-1365]
Establishes the Malama Ohana working group within the office of wellness and resilience to seek, design, and recommend transformative changes to the State's child welfare system. Requires a report to the legislature. Appropriates funds to the department of human services for various support and resources for the child welfare services branch and the families they serve. Appropriates funds to the office of wellness and resilience for the working group. Effective 7/30/3000. (HD1)

Sponsored by: Rep. Amy Perruso Carried Over To 2024 Regular Session. on 12/11/2023

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State (Hawaii)
Hawaii 2024 Regular Session

Relating To Human Services. [HB-780]
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.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Bertrand Kobayashi Carried Over To 2024 Regular Session. on 12/11/2023

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State (Hawaii)
Hawaii 2024 Regular Session

Relating To Health. [HB-322]
Establishes the Alzheimer's working group to create a public health campaign for awareness of Alzheimer's disease and other related dementia. Appropriates funds.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Gregg Takayama Carried Over To 2024 Regular Session. on 12/11/2023

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State (Hawaii)
Hawaii 2024 Regular Session

Relating To Limited-profit Housing Associations. [SB-1462]
Establishes a limited-profit housing associations working group. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)

Sponsored by: Sen. Stanley Chang Carried Over To 2024 Regular Session. on 12/11/2023

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State (Hawaii)
Hawaii 2024 Regular Session

Relating To Broadband. [SB-1317]
Transfers the Hawaii broadband and digital equity office from the department of business, economic development, and tourism to the office of the lieutenant governor on a temporary, four-year basis. Appropriates general funds to provide required matching funds for the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment Program. Appropriates funds received by the State from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act for the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment Program. Requires the office of the lieutenant governor to convene and lead the working group established (continued...)

Sponsored by: Sen. Ronald Kouchi Received Notice Of Discharge Of All Conferees (hse. Com. No. 457). on 03/25/2024

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State (Hawaii)
Hawaii 2024 Regular Session

Relating To Criminal Justice Data Sharing. [HB-100]
Establishes a criminal justice data sharing working group to make recommendations for a statewide criminal justice data repository. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)

Sponsored by: Rep. Scott Saiki Carried Over To 2024 Regular Session. on 12/11/2023

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State (Hawaii)
Hawaii 2024 Regular Session

Relating To A Department Of Environmental Protection. [HB-196]
Establishes a department of environmental protection on July 1, 2027. Creates a department of environmental protection working group to address the logistics required for the State to establish a department of environmental protection. Requires the working group to submit a report to the legislature prior to the 2026 regular session.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Nicole Lowen Carried Over To 2024 Regular Session. on 12/11/2023

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State (Hawaii)
Hawaii 2024 Regular Session

Relating To Health Data Sharing. [HB-517]
Establishes the Hawaii health data exchange framework. Establishes a working group to assist the department of health on legislation developing and implementing the framework. Requires certain health care organizations to execute a health data sharing agreement by 9/1/2032. Establishes deadlines for certain entities to begin sharing health information. Appropriates funds. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)

Sponsored by: Rep. Daynette Morikawa Carried Over To 2024 Regular Session. on 12/11/2023

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State (Hawaii)
Hawaii 2024 Regular Session

Relating To Psilocybin. [HB-1337]
Establishes the Therapeutic Psilocybin Working Group.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Amy Perruso Carried Over To 2024 Regular Session. on 12/11/2023

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State (Hawaii)
Hawaii 2024 Regular Session

Relating To School Psychology. [SB-958]
Establishes a working group to research and explore the idea of establishing a regulatory framework and licensure requirements for school psychologists. Requires a report to the Legislature. Takes effect on 12/31/2050. (SD1)

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Joy San Buenaventura Reported From Hhs (stand. Com. Rep. No. 2185) With Recommendation Of Passage On Second Reading, As Amended (sd 1) And Referral To Cpn/wam. on 02/08/2024

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State (Hawaii)
Hawaii 2024 Regular Session

Relating To The Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact. [SB-320]
Establishes a working group to study the feasibility and effects of the State adopting the Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact. Requires a report to the Legislature. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)

Sponsored by: Sen. Joy San Buenaventura Carried Over To 2024 Regular Session. on 12/11/2023

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State (Hawaii)
Hawaii 2024 Regular Session

Relating To The Neighbor Islands Blind And Visually Impaired Service Pilot Program. [SB-614]
Require the Department of Human Services to: establish a Neighbor Islands Blind and Visually Impaired Service Pilot Program that supplements existing statewide services by providing training and other services to neighbor island residents who are blind or visually impaired; establish a Neighbor Islands Blind and Visually Impaired Service Pilot Program Working group and submit a pilot program implementation plan to the Legislature before the Regular Session of 2024; and submit a report on the Neighbor Islands Blind and Visually Impaired Service Pilot (continued...)

Sponsored by: Sen. Joy San Buenaventura Carried Over To 2024 Regular Session. on 12/11/2023

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State (Hawaii)
Hawaii 2024 Regular Session

Relating To Government Records. [HB-1158]
Specifies that certain deliberative and pre-decisional government inter-agency or intra-agency records concerning an agency decision about a government action are not subject to disclosure until a decision on the action has been made or abandoned. Creates a rebuttable presumption that a matter has been abandoned three years after a prior request for such records. Allows an agency post-decision to continue to withhold directly identifying information for officials or employees lacking discretionary authority in specified circumstances. From 7/1/2023 (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Scott Saiki Carried Over To 2024 Regular Session. on 12/11/2023

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State (Hawaii)
Hawaii 2024 Regular Session

Relating To Medical Cannabis. [SB-673]
Establishes a terminally ill qualifying patient medical cannabis use working group to study the feasibility of the medical use of cannabis by terminally ill qualifying patients in health care facilities. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)

Sponsored by: Sen. Joy San Buenaventura Carried Over To 2024 Regular Session. on 12/11/2023

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State (Hawaii)
Hawaii 2024 Regular Session

Relating To The Recognition Of Emergency Medical Services Personnel Licensure Interstate Compact. [SB-319]
Establishes a working group to study the feasibility and effects of the State adopting the Recognition of Emergency Medical Services Personnel Licensure Interstate Compact. Requires a report to the Legislature. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD1)

Sponsored by: Sen. Joy San Buenaventura Carried Over To 2024 Regular Session. on 12/11/2023

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State (Hawaii)
Hawaii 2024 Regular Session

Relating To Career And Technical Education. [SB-305]
Establishes a career and technical education working group to strengthen career and technical education in the State's public schools. Makes an appropriation.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Jarrett Keohokalole Carried Over To 2024 Regular Session. on 12/11/2023

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