RELATING TO THE WEED AND SEED STRATEGY.

Makes an appropriation for the Weed and Seed Strategy.

RELATING TO JUDGES.

Establishes requirements for per diem judges, including for their nomination, prerequisites, term of office, discipline, minimum days of service, and reappointment.

RELATING TO DISPOSITION OF CONVICTED DEFENDANTS.

Authorizes a three-year pilot project that allows the judiciary to assume supervision and control over inmates in correctional facilities who qualify for the track IV phase of a drug court program.

RELATING TO FORFEITURES.

Requires moneys from the criminal forfeiture revolving fund to be used for drug treatment programs.

RELATING TO PUBLIC SAFETY.

Appropriates funds to the department of public safety for the expansion of work furlough programs and facilities.

RELATING TO THE COURTS.

Requires that the circuit and district courts be open to conduct judicial business during extended hours. Appropriates funds.

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO REPLACE THE OAHU COMMUNITY CORRECTIONAL CENTER.

Appropriates funds to replace the Oahu Community Correctional Center.

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO HIRE MONITORS FOR OUT-OF-STATE CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES THAT HOUSE HAWAII INMATES.

Appropriates funds to hire monitors for out-of-state correctional facilities housing Hawaii inmates.

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR A WOMEN'S CORRECTIONAL CENTER AND FACILITY.

Appropriates funds to the department of public safety for the construction of an additional women's correctional center and facility.

RELATING TO CORRECTIONS.

Establishes criteria for contracts with respect to the transfer of inmates to out-of-state correctional facilities.

RELATING TO PUBLIC SAFETY.

Creates an office of the ombudsman for prisons and probation to be administratively attached to DPS to investigate prisoner complaints, deaths, and riots.

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR COMMUNITY PLACEMENT PROGRAMS FOR FEMALE OFFENDERS TRANSITIONING FROM PRISON TO THE COMMUNITY.

Appropriates funds for community placement programs for female offenders transitioning from prison back into the community.

RELATING TO ELECTRONIC COURT RECORDS, DOCUMENTS, PROCESSES, AND CERTIFICATES.

Clarifies that court process records or documents may be created, retained and stored electronically and converted to electronic form; clarifies the requirements for court seals; and allows court documents and records to be electronically signed and sealed.

RELATING TO ADULT PROBATION RECORDS.

Adds persons and entities that are allowed access to adult probation records.

RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLE INSURANCE.

Provides district court judges with discretion to impose a term of imprisonment for first offenses of motor vehicle insurance laws.

RELATING TO BAIL.

Deposits unclaimed bail money to the director of finance of the State.

RELATING TO VEXATIOUS LITIGANTS.

Expands scope of vexatious litigants law to prohibit and sanction the vexatious conduct of all parties.