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Bill Number (Description) |
Testimony |
Physician-Assisted Suicide |
HB 806 Death with Dignity
Allows a terminally ill, competent adult to get lethal dose of medication to end life. Prohibits mercy killings, lethal injections, and active euthanasia. Requires informed consent. Allows alternate doctor to replace attending doctor if latter declines to prescribe. Requires monitor at time of taking dose. |
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Civil Unions |
HB 444 HD1 Civil Unions
Extends the same rights, benefits, protections, and responsibilities of spouses in a marriage to partners in a civil union. |
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Education (Abstinence) |
HB 329 HD 1
Relating to Health
Requires the State to reject all Title V federal funding for mandated abstinence-only-until-marriage programs. (HB329 HD1) |
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HB 330 HD 1
Medically Accurate Sex Education
Requires any recipient of state funding specifically for sexuality health education programs to provide comprehensive medically accurate sexuality education. (HB330 HD1)
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SB 777 SD1
Comprehensive Sexuality Health Education
Requires any recipient of state funding to provide medically accurate sexuality education. |
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Emergency
Contraceptives |
HB 423 HD 2
Emergency Contraceptives
Requires hospitals to provide information about emergency contraception to women who are sexually assaulted and to provide emergency contraception when requested. Provides for administrative penalties for noncompliance. |
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SB 604 Emergency Contraceptives
Requires hospitals to provide information about emergency contraception to women who are sexually assaulted and to provide emergency contraception when requested. Provides for administrative penalties for noncompliance. |
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Gambling
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SB 260
Amends definition of gambling to clarify that purchase of sweepstakes entry that also provides nominal non-gambling value constitutes gambling even if sweepstakes entry can be obtained without payment of consideration. Eliminates free play as a defense under certain circumstances. |
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Housing |
HB 1221 Housing
Appropriates $50,000,000 in general obligation bond funds for affordable housing projects. Allows the appropriation to be used to match federal funds that may be appropriated under any federal fiscal stimulus legislation. |
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HB 1692 HD1
HD2
Housing
Restricts state low-income housing leases in certain cases, to no more than 5 years. Effective 07/01/2020. (HB1692 HD2) |
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HB 1694 HD 1
HD2
Public Housing
Requires the Hawaii public housing authority to establish a minimum rent schedule. Requires a minimum monthly rent for state public housing units and annual Consumer Price Index adjustment of minimum rent. Prohibits preferences for tenant selection. (HB1694 HD2) |
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HB 1741 Conveyance Tax
Suspends temporarily the distribution of a portion of the conveyance tax to the land conservation fund. Reduces temporarily the portions transmitted to the natural area reserve fund and rental housing trust fund. |
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HR 18 / HCR 14
REQUESTING PUBLIC AND PRIVATE AGENCIES TO MAKE APPROPRIATE EXEMPTIONS FOR GRANDPARENTS CARING FOR GRANDCHILDREN TO REMAIN IN SENIOR HOUSING UNTIL SUITABLE HOUSING IS OBTAINED. |
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SB 188 SD1
Housing
Requires a percentage of state conveyance and excise taxes to be paid into the rental housing trust fund; requires a percentage of state conveyance taxes to be paid into the Hawaiian home lands trust fund. (SD1) |
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SB 729 Housing
Increases permanently the percentage of the conveyance tax paid into the rental housing trust fund from the current allocation of thirty per cent to sixty-five per cent. |
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SB 773 SD1 Housing
Appropriates funds for various homeless and housing programs and projects. Reestablishes the 50 percent allocation of conveyance tax to the rental housing trust fund to June 30, 2013. Makes appropriation to assist developers in contracting for third party review and certification to expedite the processing and issuance of building permits for affordable housing projects. Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds for the planning, development, and construction of affordable housing in cooperation with nonprofit and private developers and for other purposes relating to public and affordable housing. |
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SB 910
Improves the coordination of homeless programs and services within the Department of Human Services by relocating the state homeless programs from the Hawaii Public Housing Authority to the Benefit, Employment, and Support Services Division. |
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SB 1666 TANF
SD2
Details how the legislature will spend TANF funds, emphasizing child care services, work program contracts and related support services, the prevention of out-of-wedlock pregnancies, the purchase of service contracts for child protective services, information system maintenance, and administration costs. Transfers portions of TANF funds to the social services block grant and child care development fund. (SD2) |
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Other Issues |
HB 1742 Taxation
Repeals certain general excise and use tax excise exemptions and exclusions, but retains the exemption for nonprofit religious organizations. Reduces the tax rate on sales to the final consumer from 4% to 3.5%. Reduces also the public service company tax rate and repeals certain public service company tax exemptions. Subjects to the general excise tax certain sales of real property and sales of securities, commodity futures, and bonds. Makes conforming amendments to other laws. |
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SB 1679 SD2
Emergency & Budget Reserve Fund
Appropriates moneys from the emergency budget and reserve fund to maintain levels of programs for education, human services, and health. (SD1) |
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Mental Health Services
This joint legislative informational briefing is a follow up to the March 2, 2009 agenda with the Committee on Health and Committee on Human Services regarding the reduction in services to people with serious and persistent mental illness by the Department of Health. The committee will hear testimony from the Department of Health in response to the questions posed at the first informational briefing and will also take comments from invited organizations, individuals, and stakeholders. |
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