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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.

(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.

The Kona Soil and Water Conservation District and seven partners were awarded $2,028,572 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to boost biodiversity and support wildlife habitat for a variety of Hawaiian forest birds, including the ʻakiapōlāʻau, Hawaiʻi ʻākepa and Hawaiʻi creeper. The forest restoration efforts resulting from this project, titled “Innovation in Kona’s Upland Forests,” are estimated to sequester 30,000 tons of carbon over 20 years.

Sens. Mazie Hirono, Patty Murray, and eight of their US Senate colleagues introduced legislation last Thursday that aims to close the digital gap facing communities across the country. The Digital Equity Act of 2019 would establish two federal grant programs that would support projects at the state and local level to promote digital equity. The […]

Hirono today supported the bipartisan omnibus package, a $1.1 trillion bill that funds the government, including a number of programs that will help Hawaii families, through September.

Sen. Mazie K. Hirono will welcome Hawaiʻi businesses to the US Capitol this week for the second annual Hawaiʻi on the Hill. Hosted by Chamber of Commerce Hawaiʻi, the event consists of the Hawaiʻi on the Hill Policy Summit and Taste of Hawaiʻi on Capitol Hill reception