Rep. Lisa Kitagawa

Primary HB 2150

Passed · Hawaii House · Lead sponsor

RELATING TO EDUCATION.

Requires the DOE to employ at least one full-time equivalent teacher for each grade level that has five or more students in grades kindergarten through six in each public school with a student enrollment of one hundred fifty or less students, excluding charter schools, beginning with the 2020-2021 school year. Appropriates funds. Takes effect on 7/1/2050. (HD1)

Passed Mar 3, 2020 0 co-sponsors Track

Primary HB 2751

Passed · Hawaii House · Lead sponsor

RELATING TO FINANCIAL HARDSHIP.

Expands the conditions for authorizing a restricted driver's license. Provides judges with greater discretion to adjust the amount owed by a person who violates certain traffic offenses based on the person's inability to pay. Decreases the imprisonment term to contumacious nonpayment ratio. Increases the amount of credit given to a person committed for contumacious nonpayment. Provides Hawaii residents with the option of paying for the registration of their motor vehicles and associated taxes and fees on a biannual basis. Restricts the amount of delinquency tax due to the current tax due plus one year. Removes language allowing storage costs and costs incident to seizure of a vehicle from inclusion in the amount the owner of a vehicle must pay in order to redeem the vehicle after seizure. Effective 7/1/2050. (HD1)

Passed Mar 3, 2020 0 co-sponsors Track

Primary HB 2090

Passed · Hawaii House · Lead sponsor

RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII.

Removes the sunset provision of Act 39, Session Laws of Hawaii 2017, making permanent the innovation and commercialization initiative program. Effective 7/1/2050. (HD2)

Passed Mar 3, 2020 0 co-sponsors Track

Primary HB 1958

Passed · Hawaii House · Lead sponsor

RELATING TO TAXATION.

Amends the income tax credit for expenses for household and dependent care services necessary for gainful employment by changing the taxpayer's applicable percentage of employmentrelated expenses that constitutes the tax credit and cap amount. Takes effect on 12/31/2059. (HD1)

Passed Mar 3, 2020 0 co-sponsors Track

Primary HB 1980

Passed · Hawaii House · Lead sponsor

RELATING TO THE EARNED INCOME TAX CREDIT.

Requires all employers to notify their employees in writing of the availability of the federal and state earned income tax credits. Effective 1/1/2050. (HD1)

Passed Mar 3, 2020 0 co-sponsors Track

Primary HB 2509

Passed · Hawaii House · Lead sponsor

RELATING TO SCHOOLS.

Appropriates funds for the Department of Education to install air conditioning in public schools that prioritize the project. Takes effect on 7/1/2050. (HD1)

Passed Mar 3, 2020 0 co-sponsors Track

Primary HB 2140

Passed · Hawaii House · Lead sponsor

RELATING TO INVESTMENT IN INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES.

Requires the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to develop and implement an investment in innovative technologies plan to support the advancement of innovative technologies in the areas of energy, transportation, agriculture, and water. Appropriates funds. Takes effect on 7/1/2112. (HD1)

Passed Mar 3, 2020 0 co-sponsors Track

Primary HB 2254

Passed · Hawaii House · Lead sponsor

RELATING TO LOAN REPAYMENT FOR HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS.

Appropriates funds for fiscal year 2020-2021 for the health care provider loan repayment program administered through the John A. Burns School of Medicine of the University of Hawaii at Manoa; provided that the funds are matched on a dollar-to-dollar basis by a private or another public source. Effective 7/1/2050. (HD1)

Passed Mar 3, 2020 0 co-sponsors Track

Primary HB 1851

Passed · Hawaii House · Lead sponsor

RELATING TO GRID-INTERACTIVE WATER HEATER SYSTEMS.

Commencing January 1, 2022, prohibits the issuance of building permits for new multi-unit dwellings that do not include grid-interactive water heater systems. Requires the PUC to establish standards for the systems. Effective 7/1/2050. (HD2)

Passed Mar 3, 2020 0 co-sponsors Track

Primary HCR 34

Passed · Hawaii House · Lead sponsor

REQUESTING THAT THE WALL STREET JOURNAL INCLUDE HAWAIIAN AIRLINES IN THE NEWSPAPER'S FUTURE RANKINGS OF THE BEST AND WORST AIRLINES IN THE UNITED STATES.

Passed Feb 28, 2020 0 co-sponsors Track