Former Chair, Consumer Protection and Commerce Committee, Hawaii State House of Representatives
Former Chair, Economic Revitalization Task Force, Hawaii State Legislature
Former Member, House Agriculture Committee, Hawaii State House of Representatives
Former Chair, House Business and Military Affairs Committee, Hawaii State House of Representatives
Former Member, House Committee on Judiciary, Hawaii State House of Representatives
Former Chair, House Consumer Protection and Commerce Committee, Hawaii State House of Representatives
Former Member, House Tourism, Culture and International Affairs Committee, Hawaii State House of Representatives
Former Member, Interim Task Force on Smart Growth Committee, Hawaii State Legislature
Former Member, Joint Task Force to Conduct a Review of the State Highway, Hawaii State Legislature
Former Member, Maui County Cost of Government Commission
Chair, Economic Development and Business Committee
Member, Judiciary Committee
Member, Labor and Public Employment Committee
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Hobbies or Special Talents:
Surfing and Fantasy Football
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Priority Issues:
Representative McKelvey would like to encourage the use of more innovative ways to keep our economy strong, particularly in the area of clean, high-tech jobs to continue to provide opportunities for our college graduates entering the job market, and our service men and women returning home. Providing incentives for companies to invest in Hawaii and our people will keep our economy moving forward. He is also a strong supporter of renewable energy programs, high-tech, agriculture and sustainability programs.
1. Abortions should always be illegal.
- No Answer
2. Abortions should always be legal.
- No Answer
3. Abortions should be legal only within the first trimester of pregnancy.
- X
4. Abortions should be legal when the pregnancy resulted from incest or rape.
- X
5. Abortions should be legal when the life of the woman is endangered.
- X
6. Abortions should be subject to a mandatory waiting period.
- No Answer
7. Require clinics to give parental notification before performing abortions on minors.
- X
8. Other or expanded principles
- I support the parameters set down in Roe v Wade
1. Education (Higher)
- Slightly Increase
2. Education (K-12)
- Greatly Increase
3. Emergency preparedness
- Greatly Increase
4. Environment
- Maintain Status
5. Health care
- Greatly Increase
6. Law enforcement
- Maintain Status
7. Transportation and Highway infrastructure
- Greatly Increase
8. Welfare
- Maintain Status
9. Other or expanded categories
- No Answer
1. Alcohol taxes
- Greatly Increase
2. Cigarette taxes
- Slightly Increase
3. Corporate taxes
- Slightly Decrease
4. Gasoline taxes
- Maintain Status
5. Income taxes (incomes below $75,000)
- Greatly Decrease
6. Income taxes (incomes above $75,000)
- Greatly Increase
7. Sales taxes
- Maintain Status
8. Vehicle taxes
- Slightly Increase
9. Other or expanded categories
- No Answer
10. Should state sales taxes be extended to Internet sales?
- Yes
11. Should accounts such as a "rainy day" fund be used to balance the state budget?
- Undecided
12. Should fee increases be used to balance the state budget?
- Undecided
13. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Do you support the current limit of terms for Hawaii governors?
- Yes
2. Do you support limiting the number of terms for Hawaii state senators and representatives?
- No
1. Individual
- No
2. PAC
- Yes
3. Corporate
- Yes
4. Political Parties
- No
5. Do you support requiring full and timely disclosure of campaign finance information?
- Yes
6. Do you support imposing spending limits on state-level political campaigns?
- No
7. Should Hawaii participate in the federal REAL ID program?
- No
8. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Increase state funds for construction of state prisons and hiring of additional prison staff.
- X
2. Establish the death penalty in Hawaii.
- No Answer
3. Support programs to provide prison inmates with vocational and job-related skills and job-placement assistance when released.
- X
4. Implement penalties other than incarceration for certain non-violent offenders.
- X
5. Decriminalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana.
- X
6. Minors accused of a violent crime should be prosecuted as adults.
- X
7. Support state and local law enforcement officials enforcing federal immigration laws.
- X
8. Support hate crime legislation.
- X
9. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Support state funding of universal pre-K programs.
- X
2. Support federal education standards and testing requirements for K-12 students (No Child Left Behind).
- No Answer
3. Support state education standards and testing requirements for K-12 students.
- No Answer
4. Support requiring public schools to administer high school exit exams.
- X
5. Allow parents to use vouchers to send their children to any public school.
- X
6. Allow parents to use vouchers to send their children to any private or religious school.
- No Answer
7. Provide state funding to increase teacher salaries.
- X
8. Support using a merit pay system for teachers.
- X
9. Provide state funding for tax incentives and financial aid to help make college more affordable.
- No Answer
10. Support allowing illegal immigrant high school graduates of Hawaii to pay in-state tuition at public universities.
- No Answer
11. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Increase funding for state job-training programs that re-train displaced workers and teach skills needed in today's job market.
- X
2. Reduce state government regulations on the private sector.
- X
3. Provide low interest loans and tax credits for starting, expanding, or relocating businesses.
- X
4. Provide tax credits for businesses that provide child care for children in low-income working families.
- X
5. Increase state funds to provide child care for children in low-income working families.
- No Answer
6. Increase the state minimum wage.
- No Answer
7. Support laws that prevent employers from dismissing employees at will.
- No Answer
8. Support financial punishments for those who knowingly employ illegal immigrants.
- X
9. Support increased work requirements for able-bodied welfare recipients.
- No Answer
10. Increase funding for employment and job training programs for welfare recipients.
- X
11. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Promote increased use of alternative fuel technology.
- X
2. Support increased production of traditional domestic energy sources (e.g. coal, natural gas, oil, etc).
- No Answer
3. Support providing financial incentives to farms that produce biofuel crops.
- X
4. Use state funds to clean up former industrial and commercial sites that are contaminated, unused, or abandoned.
- No Answer
5. Support funding for improvements to Hawaii's power generating and transmission facilities.
- X
6. Support funding for open space preservation.
- X
7. Limit carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases linked to global warming.
- X
8. Enact environmental regulations even if they are stricter than federal law.
- No Answer
9. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Should background checks be required on gun sales between private citizens at gun shows?
- Yes
2. Should citizens be allowed to carry concealed guns?
- Yes
3. Should a license be required for gun possession?
- Yes
4. Do you support current levels of enforcement of existing state restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns?
- Yes
5. Do you support current state restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns?
- No
6. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Ensure that citizens have access to basic health care through managed care, insurance reforms, or state-funded care where necessary.
- No Answer
2. Guaranteed medical care to all citizens is not a responsibility of state government.
- No Answer
3. Limit the amount of damages that can be awarded in medical malpractice lawsuits.
- X
4. Allow patients to sue their HMOs.
- No Answer
5. Require hospitals and labs to release reports on infections that are a risk to public health, while not compromising patient confidentiality.
- No Answer
6. Legalize physician assisted suicide in Hawaii.
- No Answer
7. Support allowing doctors to prescribe marijuana to their patients for medicinal purposes.
- X
8. Other or expanded principles
- Ensure that citizens have access to basic health care through public-private partnerships, insurance reforms, allowing doctors to directly negotiate with providers and by allowing bundling for health insurance only
1. Should Hawaii recognize civil unions between same-sex couples?
- No
2. Should same-sex couples be allowed to marry?
- No
3. Should Hawaii provide state-level spousal rights to same-sex couples?
- No
4. Do you support a moment of silence in public schools?
- Yes
5. Do you support voluntary prayer in public schools?
- No
6. Do you support sexual education programs that include information on abstinence, contraceptives, and HIV/STD prevention methods?
- Yes
7. Do you support abstinence-only sexual education programs?
- No
8. Should the state government consider race and gender in state government contracting and hiring decisions?
- No
9. Do you support affirmative action in public college admissions?
- Undecided
10. Should Hawaii continue affirmative action programs?
- Undecided
11. Do you support state funding of stem cell research?
- Yes
12. Do you support state funding of embryonic stem cell research?
- Yes
13. Do you support allowing pharmacists who conscientiously object to emergency contraception to refuse to dispense it?
- No
14. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Please explain in a total of 100 words or less, your top two or three priorities if elected. If they require additional funding for implementation, please explain how you would obtain this funding.
- Infrastructure: Support implementing Act 141 SLH 2007 Traffic Emergency Zone; support implementation of ITS for Maui Traffic Control center; would raise the most serious vehicular fines to pay for ITS system and to replenish...
Economy ? implement recommendations of ERTF; waive GET on export services and impose GET on imported services from outside Hawaii. Impose GET on Internet sales for companies that are not paying state GET. Drop corporate taxes to lowest tier among states that have Corporate Taxes...
Health ? Implement Tort reform in Hawaii based on MICA or Massachusetts law. Would reform C.O.N. process to develop regional boards...
Type: concurrent resolution Chamber: lower
Type: concurrent resolution Chamber: lower
Type: concurrent resolution Chamber: lower