| Issue |
Bill Number (Description) |
Testimony |
| Pregnant Women Protection |
HB 2334 (Status)
Relating to Crime
Establishes mandatory minimum prison terms for certain offenses against pregnant women. |
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| Adoption / Foster Care |
HB 2043 HD1 (Status)
Relating to Higher Education Board Allowance
Allows a former foster youth to be eligible for higher education board allowance until the age of twenty-one and for a period of five and one-half years. Makes an appropriation for this purpose.
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SB 2246 (Status)
Relating to Higher Education Board Allowance
Allows a former foster youth to be eligible for higher education board allowance until the age of twenty-one and for a period of five and one-half years. Makes an appropriation for this purpose.
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HB 523 HD1
Relating to Children
Establishes guiding principles for foster children. (HB523 HD1)
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| Education (Abstinence) |
HB 464 HD1 HD2 (Status)
Relating to Health
Requires recipients of state funding that provide sexual health education to provide medically accurate, factual information that is age-appropriate and includes education on both abstinence and contraception. Provides exemption to programs receiving federal funds that would lose those funds by complying with state requirement.
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SB 2775 (Status)
Relating to Education
Mandates a sex education curriculum that includes the concepts of abstinence, contraception, and sexually-transmitted disease prevention, and is required for graduation from public secondary schools in Hawaii. |
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Emergency
Contraceptives / Rights of Conscience |
HB 466 HD1 (Status)
Relating to Health
Requires a hospital, including a public health facility, to provide information and emergency contraception to a sexual assault victim; requires training; includes penalties. (HB466 HD1) |
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SB 2928 (Status)
Relating to the Rights of Conscience
Establishes a right of conscience for healthcare providers, institutions, and payers who do not want to participate, provide, or pay for medical services that violate their conscience, including abortions, artificial birth control, artificial insemination, assisted reproduction, human cloning, euthanasia, human embryonic stem cell research, fetal experimentation, physician assisted suicide, and sterilization.
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| Housing |
SB 2187 (Status)
Making an Appropriation for West Hawaii Housing
Appropriates funds to help with construction of a facility that will provide housing and services for individuals and families that are successfully transitioning through the homeless continuum on the island of Hawaii.
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SB 2225 SD1 SD2 (Status)
Relating to Housing
Appropriates funds for various homeless and housing programs and projects. Repeals sunset date for allocation of conveyance tax to the rental housing trust fund. Provides funding for various public housing and homeless programs. Eff. 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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HB 2514 (Status)
Relating to the Conveyance Tax
Extends the sunset date for the allocation of 50% of the conveyance tax to the rental housing trust fund from 6/30/08 to 6/30/13. |
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| Human Trafficking |
HB 2765 HD1 (Status)
Relating to Crime
Enables prosecution of human trafficking under Hawaii law by creating new offense of sexual exploitation of a minor, amending existing kidnapping, extortion, and prostitution offenses, and including sexual exploitation of a minor in definition of racketeering. Eliminates distinction between minors under 18 and minors under 16 for purposes of promoting prostitution. Makes victims of sexual exploitation of a minor and promoting prostitution in the first degree eligible for crime victim compensation.
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- HSH/LAB hearing on 02./07/08
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SB 2212 (Status)
Relating to Crime
Enables prosecution of human trafficking under Hawaii law by creating new offense of sexual exploitation of a minor, amending existing kidnapping, extortion, and prostitution offenses, and including sexual exploitation of a minor in definition of racketeering. Eliminates distinction between minors under 18 and minors under 16 for purposes of promoting prostitution. Makes victims of sexual exploitation of a minor and promoting prostitution in the first degree eligible for crime victim compensation. |
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| Pain Management |
SB 2157 (Status)
Relating to Health
Clarifies the prescribing of opiates for pain treatment. Extends the time limit in which scheduled II controlled substances prescriptions must be filled.
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HB 3242 (Status)
Relating to Health
Clarifies the prescribing of opiates for pain treatment. Extends the time limit in which scheduled II controlled substances prescriptions must be filled.
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| Women's Issues / Domestic Violence |
HB 2128 (Status)
Relating to the Penal Code
Amends the offenses of assault in the second degree and terroristic threatening in the first degree to include conduct committed against victims who the courts and police are attempting to keep safe with protective orders. |
- HSH/HLT hearing on 01/29/08
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SB 2086 (Status)
Relating to Child Welfare
Authorizes the department of human services to engage the services of a qualified individual or organization to investigate the whereabouts of missing and exploited children. Requires the department of human services to convene a task force to coordinate the development of a state corps of retired federal, state, and local law enforcement professionals who are willing to volunteer their expertise in investigating missing, abducted, and exploited children. |
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HB 2761 HD1 (Status)
Relating to Women's Health
Requires at least 6 months post-partum and interconception care for women of childbearing age who are participants in the Hawaii QUEST health insurance program. (HB2761 HD1) |
- HSH/HLT hearing on 01/29/08
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HB 3040 (Status)
Relating to Public Safety
Revamps Hawaii's sex offender registry laws so as to provide more up-to-date and more useful information about registered sex offenders to the public; strengthens some criminal laws, including relating to electronic enticement of a child; and makes other criminal law changes. |
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