Rep. Terez Amato

Primary HB 2573

In committee · Hawaii House · Lead sponsor

RELATING TO NEIGHBORHOOD SECURITY WATCH PROGRAMS.

Requires planned community associations to either develop and adopt program rules for a neighborhood security watch program within the association's planned community or allocate a portion of the association's regular assessments to fund a neighborhood security watch program offered by a qualified third-party organization, no later than one year after the effective date of this Act.

In committee Jan 26, 2024 0 co-sponsors Track

Primary HB 2624

In committee · Hawaii House · Lead sponsor

RELATING TO THE LIQUOR TAX LAW.

Establishes a substance abuse treatment special fund. Increases liquor tax rates to unspecified amounts. Allocates increased liquor tax revenues to the substance abuse treatment special fund.

In committee Jan 26, 2024 0 co-sponsors Track

Primary HB 2600

In committee · Hawaii House · Lead sponsor

RELATING TO CANNABIS.

Establishes the Hawaiʻi Cannabis Authority and Cannabis Control Board within the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs to regulate all aspects of the cannabis plant. Beginning January 1, 2026, legalizes the personal adult use of cannabis. Establishes taxes for adult-use cannabis sales. Transfers the personnel and assets of the Department of Health and assets Department of Agriculture to the Hawaiʻi Cannabis Authority. Appropriates funds.

In committee Jan 26, 2024 0 co-sponsors Track

Primary HB 2706

In committee · Hawaii House · Lead sponsor

RELATING TO FIREWORKS.

Establishes fines for any person who sets off fireworks without a valid permit and while a red flag warning is in effect.

In committee Jan 26, 2024 0 co-sponsors Track

Primary HB 2588

In committee · Hawaii House · Lead sponsor

RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE ELEVENTH REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT.

Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the eleventh representative district.

In committee Jan 26, 2024 0 co-sponsors Track

Primary HB 2283

In committee · Hawaii House · Lead sponsor

RELATING TO HEALTH CARE WORKERS.

Establishes heightened penalties for the assault and terroristic threatening of health care workers. Clarifies the definition of "terroristic threatening" to include the methods of contact.

In committee Jan 26, 2024 0 co-sponsors Track

Primary HB 2726

In committee · Hawaii House · Lead sponsor

RELATING TO THE RESIDENTIAL LANDLORD-TENANT CODE.

Allows tenants who prevail in a lawsuit for a violation of the Residential Landlord-Tenant Code to be awarded reasonable attorney's fees and costs and threefold damages.

In committee Jan 26, 2024 0 co-sponsors Track

Co-sponsor HB 2273

In committee · Hawaii House · Co-sponsor

RELATING TO CRIME.

Requires special sentencing of habitual violent felons. Requires the Department of Law enforcement, in collaboration with the Statewide Office on Homelessness and Housing Solutions, to work with Weed & Seed Hawaiʻi, Inc., to expand Weed & Seed Hawaiʻi, Inc.'s site programs statewide, beginning with the Waianae Coast of Oahu.

In committee Jan 26, 2024 1 co-sponsor Track

Primary HB 2510

In committee · Hawaii House · Lead sponsor

RELATING TO EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT.

Excludes from the definition of "laws" in section 127A-2, Hawaiʻi Revised Statutes, county charter provisions pertaining to executive, legislative, and administrative structure and organization are excluded.

In committee Jan 26, 2024 0 co-sponsors Track

Primary HB 2592

In committee · Hawaii House · Lead sponsor

RELATING TO GRAFFITI.

Allows the counties to impose, by ordinance, enhanced penalties for graffiti in certain designated zones and supersede graffiti sentencing requirements under the Penal Code.

In committee Jan 26, 2024 0 co-sponsors Track