Community Collab Top Bill Ideas

In October 2024,  CSC hosted a Bill-Outlining Collab for its members and community partners. We identified some new bill ideas, and some past bills that many would like to support this session.

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Agriculture and Food Systems

  • Increase funding

  • Requires the department of education to establish rules for the procurement of goods and services related to the administration of food programs at public schools that incorporate a geographic preference for unprocessed locally grown and locally raised food products

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  • HOAs and AOAOs cannot ban home gardens

Climate, Energy and Carbon Reduction

  • Establishes a carbon emissions tax credit. Expands the environmental response, energy, and food security tax to include carbon emissions. Requires the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development, in consultation with the Department of Taxation, to recommend updates to the tax per fuel and corresponding tax credits.Item description

  • Mandate for new construction, include in affordable housing

  • Provides rebates to low to moderate income families towards purchasing EVs

  • Develop a statewide climate adaptation and resilience implementation plan

Environmental Protection

  • PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE I OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF HAWAII TO RECOGNIZE AND PROTECT THE INHERENT AND INALIENABLE RIGHT OF ALL PEOPLE TO CLEAN WATER AND AIR, A HEALTHFUL ENVIRONMENT AND CLIMATE, HEALTHY NATIVE ECOSYSTEMS, AND BEACHES.

  • Requiring priority level 1 cesspools to be upgraded, converted, or connected before 1/1/2030, and priority level 2 cesspools to be upgraded, converted, or connected before 1/1/2035, rather than before 1/1/2050.

Good Governance

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Education

  • Establish working group to support Free Community College for Hawaii Residents

Health and Human Services

  • All businesses and employees covered; 16 weeks of leave; Workers restored to the same position; Progressive wage replacement: Those who earn less than half of the average weekly wage would receive 90% of their weekly earnings, while middle-income to higher-income workers would receive 50-75% of their weekly earnings, with a weekly cap.

Transportation

Water and Land