Hawaii Senate committees slashes DHHL’s $600M request to $50M
Two Senate committees moved a proposed bill forward Tuesday, but took a big cut to the DHHL’s $600 million request. The ...
US senator from Hawaii on education department’s mass layoffs: ‘The law still matters’
I think this is flatly impermissible under the statute,” he told Hawaii News Now. In a memo issued Tuesday, top officials ...
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Hawaii senators push bipartisan bill for new state holiday
The list of annual state holidays in Hawaii could grow by one under legislation that easily passed a milestone last week.
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Hawaii’s senators split as Senate passes stopgap bill
WASHINGTON >> The U.S. Senate today passed a stopgap spending bill, averting a partial government shutdown, after Democrats ...
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Senate committee advances a bill artists say would threaten arts funding
House Bill 1378 would shift some of the funding from the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, which is used to pay its ...
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Hawaii senators push bipartisan bill for new state holiday
State senators voted 25-0 to approve and send to the House of Representatives a bill that would make Nov. 28 La Ku ‘oko ‘a, or Hawaiian Independence Day, as Hawaii’s 14th official state holiday.