RELATING TO A STATE CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER.

Establishes and appropriates funds for a chief information officer for the State.

RELATING TO PUBLIC ACCESS.

Establishes a pilot project for the use of videoconferencing for legislative hearings. Requires all new state buildings to have videoconferencing capability. Makes state videoconferencing facilities available to nonprofits and community groups for a fee.

RELATING TO PUBLIC ACCESS.

Appropriates funds to the Legislative Reference Bureau to support a public access pilot initiative to encourage students to participate in the legislative process.

RELATING TO ELECTRONIC PROCUREMENT.

Allows purchase of goods, services, and construction to be made through online electronic procurement.

RELATING TO CONTRACTORS.

Establishes complaints database on contractors; authorizes contractors license board to award attorneys fees in proceedings for violation of chapter 444, HRS, the law regulating contractors; requires board to revoke a license for certain violations of chapter 444, HRS; requires license revocation for a contractor's failure to properly supervise employees and subcontractors and for gross negligence; doubles amount that may be recovered from a licensed contractor.

RELATING TO WORKS OF ART.

Defines "works of art" for purposes of the "art in public places" program to include aesthetic art objects, including digital media.

RELATING TO ART.

Permits resident artists to display and sell their work in state offices.

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE JAPANESE AMERICAN CITIZENS LEAGUE 75TH ANNIVERSARY NATIONAL CONVENTION.

Appropriates funds for the Japanese American Citizens League 75th Anniversary National Convention.

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO THE FRIENDS OF WAIPAHU CULTURAL GARDEN PARK.

Provides matching funds up to $75,000 for the plantation village programs through the Friends of Waipahu Cultural Garden Park.

RELATING TO CONGRESSWOMAN PATSY T. MINK.

Directs the state foundation on culture and the arts to commission a work of art honoring Congresswoman Patsy Mink.

RELATING TO HAWAIIAN LANGUAGE.

Requires that all state documents and any new or replaced state sign to include the accurate, appropriate, and authentic Hawaiian language.

RELATING TO HAWAIIAN LANGUAGE.

Requires that all new and replaced letterheads and documents of the State and other political subdivisions include both state languages, with the Hawaiian language placed first.

RELATING TO THE HAWAIIAN LANGUAGE.

Requires the use of macrons and glottal stops in spelling words in the Hawaiian language to be used in county and state government documents.