Brian Taniguchi
Brian T. Taniguchi (born November 7, 1951 in Honolulu, Hawaii) is an American politician and a Democratic member of the Hawaii Senate since January 16, 2013 representing District 10. Taniguchi served consecutively from 1995 until 2013 in the District 10 and District 11 seats, having served consecutively in the Hawaii State Legislature from 1981 until 1995 in the Hawaii House of Representatives. Taniguchi intends to retire at the end of his current term in office, and will not seek re-election in 2022. Education. Taniguchi attended University of Hawaii at Manoa and earned his JD from its William  S. Richardson School of Law. State microbe legislation. In 2017 Taniguchi submitted legislation in the Hawaii Senate to make "Flavobacterium akiainvivens" the state microbe. This was mirrored by Isaac Choy in the Hawaii House of Representatives. This continues an effort started by James Tokioka in 2013, and later contested in 2014 by Senator Glenn Wakai's SB3124 bill proposing "Aliivibrio fischeri" instead. , Hawaii has no official state microbe.