HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
THE THIRTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2024
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Rep. Kyle T. Yamashita, Chair |
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Rep. Lisa Kitagawa, Vice Chair |
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Rep. Micah P.K. Aiu |
Rep. Rachele F. Lamosao |
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Rep. Cory M. Chun |
Rep. Dee Morikawa |
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Rep. Elle Cochran |
Rep. Scott Y. Nishimoto |
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Rep. Andrew Takuya Garrett |
Rep. Mahina Poepoe |
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Rep. Kirstin Kahaloa |
Rep. Jenna Takenouchi |
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Rep. Darius K. Kila |
Rep. David Alcos III |
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Rep. Bertrand Kobayashi |
Rep. Gene Ward |
NOTICE OF HEARING
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DATE: |
Tuesday, February 27, 2024 |
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12:00 p.m. |
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VIA VIDEOCONFERENCE Conference Room 308 State Capitol 415 South Beretania Street |
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A G E N D A #2
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RELATING TO PRIVATE SECURITY CONTRACTS. Effective January 1, 2024, transfers the responsibility and management of certain private security contracts from the Department of Law Enforcement to the Department of Health, Department of Human Services, and Department of Defense for their respective facilities. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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JHA, FIN |
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RELATING TO FIRE PROTECTION. Authorizes moneys in the reduced ignition propensity cigarette program special fund to be used to defray the cost of statewide fire prevention, education, life safety, and preparedness programs, including the hiring of administrative personnel. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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JHA, FIN |
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RELATING TO THE OFFICE OF ELECTIONS. Requires the Office of Elections to annually request funding for the Statewide Elections Accessibility Needs Advisory Committee. Appropriates funds to the Office of Elections Statewide Elections Accessibility Needs Advisory Committee to gather information and provide outreach and voter education services for individuals with accessibility needs. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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JHA, FIN |
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RELATING TO PARTIAL PUBLIC FINANCING OF ELECTIONS. Increases the amount of partial public campaign financing available for all elective offices. Adjusts the minimum amount of qualifying contributions certain candidates must receive to participate in the program. Increases the matching fund payments for excess qualifying contributions. Appropriates funds for the program and staff. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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JHA, FIN |
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RELATING TO CAMPAIGN FINANCE. Authorizes candidates and their candidate committees to donate residual campaign funds to the general fund of the State or to the real property tax general fund of any county of the State. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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JHA, FIN |
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RELATING TO CRIMINAL HISTORY RECORD CHECKS. Authorizes the Department of Health to conduct criminal history record checks of applicants for permits to operate as a hemp processor. Effective 7/1/3000. Sunsets 7/1/2027. (HD1)
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JHA/AGR, CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO MEDICAL CANNABIS. Repeals the sunset date of the authorization for primary caregivers to cultivate medical cannabis for qualifying patients. Clarifies that primary caregivers may continue to cultivate medical cannabis for qualifying patients subject to certain restrictions. (HD1)
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JHA/AGR, HLT, FIN |
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RELATING TO SEXUAL ABUSE OF MINORS. Expands the time period by which a civil action for childhood sexual abuse committed on or after July 1, 2024, may be initiated. Authorizes a court to require personnel of legal entities to undergo training on trauma-informed response. (HD1)
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JHA, FIN |
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RELATING TO THE CHILD ABUSE AND NEGLECT CENTRAL REGISTRY. Clarifies that a confirmed report of child abuse or neglect, harm, or threatened harm will result in the perpetrator's name being maintained in the central registry. Clarifies when a person's name may be expunged from the central registry and establishes a process for expungement upon request. Effective 7/1/2025. (HD1)
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JHA, FIN |
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RELATING TO ABUSIVE LITIGATION. Establishes judicial procedures to prevent and remedy abusive litigation. Effective 1/1/3000. (HD1)
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JHA, FIN |
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RELATING TO FIREARMS. Appropriates funds to the Department of Law Enforcement for the State's gun buyback program. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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JHA, FIN |
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RELATING TO DANGEROUS DOGS. Establishes requirements and penalties for owners of dangerous dogs. Allows for impounding of dangerous dogs under certain conditions. Effective 1/1/3000. (HD1)
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JHA, FIN |
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RELATING TO THE ENVIRONMENT. Requires newly installed or modified individual wastewater systems that are near the shoreline, or likely to pollute groundwater, to include denitrification capacity. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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EEP/WAL, FIN |
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RELATING TO CESSPOOLS. Requires cesspools attached to or used by housing or lodging that provides transient accommodations to be upgraded, converted, or connected before 1/1/2035 for priority level 1 cesspools and before 1/1/2040 for priority level 2 cesspools. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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EEP/WAL, FIN |
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RELATING TO CESSPOOLS. Establishes a three-year new wastewater system demonstration and implementation pilot program within the University of Hawaii Sea Grant College Program. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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EEP/WAL, FIN |
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RELATING TO CESSPOOLS. Part II: Requires certain priority level 1 cesspools to be upgraded, converted, or connected before 1/1/2035, and priority level 2 cesspools to be upgraded, converted, or connected before 1/1/2040, rather than before 1/1/2050. Part III: Authorizes and appropriates funds to the Department of Health to retain qualified consultants as necessary to identify necessary public outreach and education resources and tools and develop a comprehensive public outreach strategy and website to educate homeowners and wastewater industry professionals about information and resources regarding the State's cesspool upgrade, conversion, and connection requirements and deadlines. Part IV: Appropriates funds and establishes positions for the implementation of the cesspool compliance pilot grant project. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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EEP/WAL, FIN |
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RELATING TO WASTEWATER. Requires each county to develop and maintain a wastewater management plan. Authorizes the Director of Health to exempt a county from creating a wastewater management plan under certain conditions. Requires the counties to identify specific priority areas in which the county sewer system or other centralized treatment system will be expanded or constructed to reduce or eliminate cesspools before 1/1/2050. Provides for the designation of these priority areas as sewer improvement districts. Authorizes each county to assess a monthly cesspool pollution fee beginning in 7/1/2025 on real properties containing a cesspool. Authorizes the counties to use fee revenues for certain activities that eliminate, reduce, or mitigate the impacts of cesspools, including the expansion of county sewer systems and the issuance of grants and low-interest loans to property owners. Makes appropriations. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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EEP/WAL, FIN |
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________________________________________ Rep. Kyle T. Yamashita Chair |
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