Rep. Scott Nishimoto

Primary HB 2252

In committee · Hawaii House · Lead sponsor

RELATING TO CRIME.

Establishes the offense of habitual violent misdemeanor crime.

In committee Jan 26, 2024 0 co-sponsors Track

Primary HB 2551

In committee · Hawaii House · Lead sponsor

RELATING TO LAW ENFORCEMENT.

Establishes the offense of unlawful assembly or disassembly of a bicycle or moped on public property.

In committee Jan 26, 2024 0 co-sponsors Track

Primary HB 2557

In committee · Hawaii House · Lead sponsor

RELATING TO EDUCATION.

Requires the Department of Education to develop and, beginning with the 2024-2025 school year, implement a financial literacy curriculum for grades kindergarten through twelfth grade.

In committee Jan 26, 2024 0 co-sponsors Track

Primary HB 2711

In committee · Hawaii House · Lead sponsor

RELATING TO CONSERVATION MITIGATION BANKS.

Authorizes the Department of Land and Natural Resources to establish and operate conservation mitigation banks to restore, create, enhance, or preserve conservation habitats or resources as compensatory mitigation. Authorizes the Department of Land and Natural Resources to contract a third-party administrator for the operation of the mitigation banks. Clarifies the sale of credits involved in conservation mitigation banking. Defines "conservation mitigation bank".

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

Primary HB 2631

In committee · Hawaii House · Lead sponsor

RELATING TO AQUACULTURE.

Appropriates funds, including for positions, equipment, and maintenance and operating costs, for mullet production for fishponds and stock enhancement.

In committee Jan 26, 2024 0 co-sponsors Track

Primary HB 2511

In committee · Hawaii House · Lead sponsor

RELATING TO CANCER.

Appropriates funds to the University of Hawaiʻi Cancer Center to conduct a multiethnic cohort study focusing on the social determinants of health, lifestyles, environmental exposures, and resilience factors of Native Hawaiians, Pacific Islanders, and Filipinos. Requires the Cancer Center to seek federal funding to complete the study.

In committee Jan 26, 2024 0 co-sponsors Track

Primary HB 2257

In committee · Hawaii House · Lead sponsor

RELATING TO PUBLIC EDUCATION.

Establishes the Public Education Scholarship Program within the University of Hawaiʻi to provide students who are residents of the State with scholarships in return for a service commitment to teach in a public school classroom of the Department of Education or Hawaiʻi public charter school, under certain conditions. Appropriates funds.

In committee Jan 26, 2024 0 co-sponsors Track

Primary HB 2245

In committee · Hawaii House · Lead sponsor

RELATING TO TECHNOLOGY.

Establishes and appropriates funds for an artificial intelligence government services pilot program to provide certain government services to the public through an internet portal that uses artificial intelligence technologies.

In committee Jan 26, 2024 0 co-sponsors Track

Primary HB 1671

In committee · Hawaii House · Lead sponsor

RELATING TO ANIMAL ENDANGERMENT.

Prohibits intentionally leaving or confining pet animals in a vehicle under conditions that endanger their health, safety, or well-being. Permits law enforcement officers, animal control officers, and firefighters to enter an unattended vehicle to protect the health, safety, or well-being of a pet animal that is endangered by being left or confined in an unattended vehicle. Allows private citizens to rescue a pet animal that has been left in an unattended vehicle under certain circumstances.

In committee Jan 24, 2024 0 co-sponsors Track