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US Rep. Jill Tokuda (HI-02) testified before the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs Subcommittee on Health, which held a legislative hearing Wednesday on her bill, H.R. 8562. The Parity for Native Hawaiian Veterans Act of 2024 is a bill to improve healthcare access and affordability for Native Hawaiian veterans.

Senator Mazie K. Hirono secures over $6.6 million in federal funding for the University of Hawaiʻi to enhance child care programs and services statewide.

The new Kapapahuliau Climate Resilience Program aims to enhance climate change mitigation efforts for the Native Hawaiian community.

US Senators Mazie K. Hirono and Cory Booker have reintroduced the Real Education and Access for Healthy Youth Act, aiming to improve access to sex education and sexual health services for young adults.

US Sen. Mazie K. Hirono has put forth the Stop Mental Health Stigma in Our Communities Act, a groundbreaking piece of legislation aimed at addressing mental health stigma in Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander communities.

For nearly three years, the COVID-19 pandemic forced the Hawaiʻi State House and Senate to operate solemnly online, but Wednesday the public was back and the mood was festive.

US Sen. Mazie K. Hirono of Hawai’i and four other Senate Democrats introduced the Let Doctors Provide Reproductive Health Care Act, which would protect doctors against attacks and ensure they can safely provide abortion care in states like Hawai’i where it is still legal.

(D-Hawaiʻi), a member of the Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, introduced S. 2761, the Every Veteran Counts Act, legislation that directs the Department of Veterans Affairs to establish and regularly update a database of veterans’ demographic data.

Senator Mazie K. Hirono, D-Hawaiʻi, Chair of the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Seapower, successfully included new provisions in the FY 2022 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that would strengthen window safety protections for children living in military housing.

The funding is part of a competitive grant program for Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian-Serving Institutions to promote educational equity for underrepresented students, expand education programs, and provide job training in these fields.

Senator Mazie K. Hirono (D-Hawaii) cosponsored the Public Health Emergency Privacy Act, legislation that Senators Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and Mark Warner (D-Va.) introduced that creates strong, enforceable privacy and data security rights for health information.

Deadline is tomorrow, Wednesday, April 22 at 6 a.m. Hawaiʻi Time.

Sen. Hirono and her colleagues wrote a letter urging the administration to help ensure that domestic violence victims and survivors receive the resources they need during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The senator says the bill “provides a $500 billion slush fund for huge corporations with little transparency or oversight.”

Hirono applauds the US House of Representatives for passing landmark, progressive labor law reforms in the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act.

The bill creates a foundation to respond to debris, a prize for innovation, enhances international cooperation on marine debris, boosts domestic infrastructure to prevent debris from entering the environment, and authorizes studies on waste management and mitigation.

Today, Sen. Mazie K. Hirono introduced legislation that lays out a 10-year investment in federal housing and homelessness programs.

An investigation is looking into the “potential suppression and alteration of scientific reports, documents, and communications by political employees” at the US Department of Agriculture, Sen. Mazie Hirono announced on Tuesday. 

Sen. Mazie K. Hirono, the only immigrant currently serving in the U.S. Senate, is advocating to restore the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.

The request comes in response to new information that was reported in the New York Times.