OFFICE OF THE SPEAKER
THIRTIETH STATE LEGISLATURE
COMMITTEE REFERRALS
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NO. 5
6TH LEGISLATIVE DAY-JANUARY 27, 2020
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Committee Abbreviations:
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AGR - Agriculture |
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CPC - Consumer Protection & Commerce |
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EDB - Economic Development & Business |
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EEP - Energy & Environmental Protection |
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FIN - Finance |
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HLT - Health |
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HSG - Housing |
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HSH - Human Services & Homelessness |
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IAC - Intrastate Commerce |
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JUD - Judiciary |
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LAB - Labor & Public Employment |
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LHE - Lower & Higher Education |
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LMG - Legislative Management |
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PVM - Public Safety, Veterans, & Military Affairs |
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TIA - Tourism & International Affairs |
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TRN - Transportation |
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WLH - Water, Land, & Hawaiian Affairs |
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REFERRAL
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RELATING TO THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE. Limits DOH commitment to 180-days for those defendants charged with a non-violent class C felony and found to be unfit to proceed under chapter 704, HRS. Limits to 180-days the period of conditional release granted to defendants charged with a non-violent class C felony.
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HLT, JUD, FIN |
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RELATING TO PROPERTY FORFEITURE. Prohibits civil asset forfeiture unless the covered offense is a felony for which the property owner has been convicted. Excludes the forfeiture proceedings for an animal pending criminal charges. Requires the Attorney General to deposit the net proceeds of the forfeited property to the credit of the state general fund.
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JUD, FIN |
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RELATING TO LAND. Requires counties to develop procedures to accept donations of private land that is damaged or likely to be damaged by natural disasters or climate change. Authorizes taxpayers to receive a nonrefundable, charitable income tax deduction for the donations.
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WLH, FIN |
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RELATING TO FISCAL IMPACT STATEMENTS. Requires the office of the legislative analyst to create fiscal impact statements for certain bills that have a fiscal impact. Makes an appropriation to the office of the legislative analyst.
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LMG, FIN |
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PROPOSING AMENDMENTS TO ARTICLES II, III, AND XVII OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF HAWAII TO PROVIDE FOR INITIATIVE, REFERENDUM, AND RECALL. Amends the state constitution to provide for direct initiative, popular referendum, and recall.
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JUD, FIN |
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RELATING TO AFFORDABLE TEMPORARY HOUSING. Allows property owners to temporarily lease space to individuals to camp or otherwise occupy space on the property, so long as no health and safety ordinances are violated.
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HSH/HSG, WLH, JUD |
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RELATING TO TAXATION. Provides a tax credit to department of defense high technology contractors that hire workers who are residents of the State.
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LAB, EDB, FIN |
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RELATING TO FILM TAX CREDIT. Increases the annual rolling cap for the Motion Picture, Digital media and Film Production Income Tax Credit.
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FIN |
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RELATING TO VESSELS. Makes clarifications regarding removal of unauthorized vessels on state property. Makes clarifications regarding the definition of an abandoned vessel. Changes the time limit to claim an unauthorized vessel that is impounded by the department of land and natural resources from thirty days to ten working days. Changes the time limit to claim an abandoned vessel that is impounded by a state or county agency from twenty days to ten working days. Makes abandonment of a vessel on waters of the State or public property a petty misdemeanor. Makes clarifications to auction requirements regarding abandoned vessels. Sets the time limit for a vessel owner or operator to remove unauthorized, abandoned, and grounded vessels at twenty-four hours. Allows DLNR to charge an impound storage fee.
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WLH, JUD, FIN |
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RELATING TO BUSINESS. Establishes the position of chief entrepreneurial advisor to the governor.
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EDB, FIN |
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RELATING TO THE SMALL BUSINESS REGULATORY FLEXIBILITY ACT. Entitles the small business regulatory review board to a separate line item within the budget of the department of business, economic development, and tourism.
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EDB, FIN |
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RELATING TO RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY. Excepts from the definition of historic property any private residence that has not been entered or nominated by the owner of the residence for entry, onto the Hawaii register of historic places. Clarifies that nothing in chapter 6E, Hawaii Revised Statutes, shall be construed to require review by the Department of Land and Natural Resources for a private residence fifty or more years old that has not been entered, or nominated by the owner of the residence for entry, onto the Hawaii register of historic places.
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WLH, FIN |
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RELATING TO TAXATION. Establishes an income tax credit for taxpayers who incur certain expenses for manufacturing products in Hawaii. Appropriates funds for DBEDT to certify claims for the tax credit.
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EDB, FIN |
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RELATING TO PUBLIC WORKS ON HAWAIIAN HOME LANDS. Exempts DHHL projects from the Davis Bacon Act.
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LAB, WLH, FIN |
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RELATING TO MARIJUANA OFFENSES. Reinstates the protection for the public by repealing the decriminalization of the possession of three grams or less of marijuana and re-establishes the classification of a petty misdemeanor to deter the harm marijuana causes.
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JUD, FIN |
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RELATING TO EDUCATION. Short form bill relating to education.
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LHE |
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RELATING TO LEARNING CENTERS. Short form bill relating to learning centers.
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LHE |
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RELATING TO EDUCATION. Short form bill relating to education.
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LHE |
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RELATING TO HIGHER EDUCATION. Short form bill relating to higher education.
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LHE |
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RELATING TO HIGHER EDUCATION. Short form bill relating to higher education.
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LHE |
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RELATING TO EDUCATION. Establishes a working group to create a state plan to make FAFSA completion a statewide graduation requirement and an opt-out waiver for FAFSA completion by the 2022-2023 school year. Appropriates funds.
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LHE, FIN |
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RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII. Appropriates funds to increase access to mental health services across the University of Hawaii system.
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LHE, HLT, FIN |
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RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII. Removes the sunset provision of Act 39, Session Laws of Hawaii 2017, making permanent the innovation and commercialization initiative program.
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LHE, JUD, FIN |
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RELATING TO CRIMINAL HISTORY RECORD CHECKS. Adds the University of Hawaii to the list of agencies authorized to conduct criminal history record checks on current or prospective employees, and contractors and their employees, whose duties include ensuring security of campus facilities and persons.
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LHE/LAB, JUD, FIN |
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RELATING TO SCHOOLS. Establishes within the DOE the workforce readiness program within the adult community schools program. Appropriates funds.
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LHE, LAB, FIN |
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RELATING TO EDUCATION DATA. Requires the Department of Education to establish a standardized data collection process; collect and analyze data relating to, among other things, student discipline, school climate, and student achievement; and annually report certain information to the Board of Education, Legislature, and the public.
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LHE, FIN |
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RELATING TO EARLY LEARNING. Establishes an early childhood educator stipend program to be administered by the Executive Office on Early Learning to address the shortage of qualified early childhood educators in Hawaii. Appropriates funds.
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LHE, FIN |
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RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE NINTH REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT. Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the ninth representative district.
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FIN |
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RELATING TO HEALTH. Requires all cannabidiol products sold in the State to be tested by an independent testing laboratory for contaminants unsafe for human consumption and THC levels. Requires the packaging on all cannabidiol products to contain information concerning THC levels and other product safety requirements.
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RELATING TO MEDICAL CANNABIS. Allows for a process to remediate any batch of cannabis that fails laboratory testing standards so long as any final product passes all such laboratory standards. Authorizes licensed retail dispensaries to sell edible cannabis products, under certain conditions, and circulate, sponsor, and promote educational and scientific information and events related to cannabis.
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RELATING TO HEALTH. Requires the Department of Human Services to establish and implement a program for providing additional home- and community-based services to at-risk individuals with autism, intellectual disabilities, or developmental disabilities who meet certain criteria and who do not meet Medicaid's criteria for treatment at an intermediate care facility. Requires the department to seek a section 1115 waiver to amend the state Medicaid plan to cover home- and community-based services for individuals with autism, intellectual disabilities, or developmental disabilities. Appropriates funds.
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HSH, CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO THE EXECUTIVE OFFICE ON AGING. Amends the description for the appropriation for the Alzheimer's disease and related dementia services coordinator in Act 127, SLH 2019.
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HLT/HSH, FIN |
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RELATING TO HEALTH. Establishes the dental assistant task force within DCCA. Requires a report to the legislature.
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RELATING TO MINORS. Requires circuit courts to apply special sentencing considerations when sentencing a minor for a non-violent offense. Allows the courts, in their discretion, to impose a sentence up to 50% shorter than the mandatory minimum or to decline to impose a mandatory enhanced sentence in certain circumstances.
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HSH, JUD |
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RELATING TO HEMP PRODUCTS. Requires labels on hemp products. Prohibits unwarranted health-related statements about hemp products. Establishes standards for hemp food product manufacturers. Establishes that a product shall not be considered adulterated or misbranded solely by the inclusion of hemp. Clarifies that a licensed medical cannabis dispensary is not prohibited from manufacturing, distributing, or selling products that contain hemp, or cannabinoids, extracts, or derivatives from hemp.
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CPC, FIN |
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MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO THE HURRICANE RESERVE TRUST FUND. Makes an appropriation to the Hurricane Reserve Trust Fund.
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RELATING TO AN ADVISORY REFERENDUM ON CANNABIS IN HAWAII. Requires an advisory referendum consisting of a question to be placed on the ballot for the general election of 2020 on whether the electorate wishes the State to legalize the sale and use of recreational cannabis in Hawaii.
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JUD, FIN |
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RELATING TO COLLECTIVE MEDIATION BY PHYSICIANS. Authorizes physicians to engage in collective mediation with health benefit plans.
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HLT, CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO HEALTH. Establishes a pilot program for an economically feasible solution for the conversion of cesspools in Hawaii. Appropriates funds.
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HLT, EEP, FIN |
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MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO THE EMERGENCY AND BUDGET RESERVE FUND. Makes an appropriation to the Emergency and Budget Reserve Fund.
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RELATING TO HEALTH CARE. Requires the Hawaii Health Authority to establish a five-year all-payer health care pilot program in a county with a population greater than 500,000. Requires certain payers to deposit contributions into the all-payer health care pilot program revolving fund, to be distributed to provider hospitals participating in the pilot program. Specifies budgetary requirements and calculation of fees for the pilot program. Requires reports to the legislature. Appropriates funds.
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RELATING TO CRIMINAL PENALTIES. Increases certain penalties for the crimes of assault, burglary, criminal property damage, and theft by one grade.
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RELATING TO HEALTH. Requires DOH to investigate care facilities reportedly operating without an appropriate certificate or license, and to take action on confirmed findings of uncertified or unlicensed operation. Includes social workers, navigators, and individual discharge planners in the group of professionals prohibited from knowingly referring or transferring patients to an uncertified or unlicensed facility. Repeals landlord exclusion.
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RELATING TO CHILDREN AND FAMILY OF INCARCERATED INDIVIDUALS. Requires the department of human services to work with the department of public safety to establish a pilot visitation and family resource center at Wahiawa correctional facility. Makes an appropriation.
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RELATING TO HOMELESSNESS. Establishes the kauhale pilot program to provide shelter and certain services to homeless individuals. Appropriates funds for the kauhale pilot program.
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RELATING TO HEALTH. Prohibits medically unnecessary treatment or intervention on the sex characteristics of persons born with variations in their physical sex characteristics who are under the age of 18. Requires the Hawaii Medical Board to adopt rules to determine which treatments and interventions are medically necessary.
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HLT, JUD, FIN |
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RELATING TO PESTICIDES. Requires the Department of Agriculture to prepare and submit an annual report concerning pesticide use. Increases fines for pesticide use violations.
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AGR, JUD, FIN |
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RELATING TO RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY. Requires each county to establish a procedure to ensure that an asbestos survey and any necessary abatement are performed prior to the issuance of any permit for the renovation or demolition of a residential property.
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WLH, CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO THE LANDLORD-TENANT CODE. Specifies that the amount of damages recoverable by a tenant subjected to an unlawful retaliatory eviction is equal to 2 months' rent.
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RELATING TO HOMELESSNESS. Establishes a 3-year homeless employment grant program that provides homeless individuals with work opportunities and connects them with service providers. Requires the Department of Human Services to submit a report to the Legislature prior to the 2021 Regular Session. Appropriates funds.
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HSH, JUD, FIN |
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RELATING TO ANTITRUST. Clarifies that the corporation counsel or county attorney of a county may file suit to recover damages under Hawaii's antitrust laws or any comparable provisions of federal law.
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JUD, FIN |
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RELATING TO VOTING. Requires that any person who is eligible to vote and applies for a new or renewal motor vehicle driver's license, provisional license, or instruction permit, or a new, renewal, or duplicate identification card be automatically registered to vote if that person is not already registered to vote unless the applicant affirmatively declines to be registered to vote. Authorizes access to and electronic transmission of databases maintained or operated by the counties or the department of transportation containing driver's license or identification card information to election officials and the statewide voter registration system. Effective 1/1/2021.
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RELATING TO THE STATE ETHICS CODE. Amends the certain parts of the conflicts of interests provision of the State Ethics Code to include members of the legislature, delegates to the constitutional convention, and justices and judges of all state courts.
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LAB, JUD |
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RELATING TO RANKED CHOICE VOTING. Establishes ranked choice voting for special federal elections and special elections of vacant county council seats.
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JUD, FIN |
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RELATING TO SEX OFFENSES. Imposes a criminal penalty on any parent, guardian, or person having custody or control of a minor that offers or agrees for consideration for the purpose of another person having sexual conduct with the minor. Imposes a criminal penalty on any person that entices a parent, guardian, or person having custody or control of a minor by electronic means for the purposes of having sexual conduct with the minor.
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JUD, FIN |
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RELATING TO SEXUAL HARASSMENT. Requires employers that employee 50 or more employees to file regular electronic reports with the Hawaii Civil Rights Commission (HCRC) on legal settlements regarding sexual harassment. Requires HCRC to publish and make accessible to the public on the commission's website quantitative information about such legal settlements.
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JUD, FIN |
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RELATING TO THE CODE OF ETHICS. Prohibits certain state officials and employees from representing certain interests before the State for 12 months after termination from their respective positions.
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LAB, JUD |
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RELATING TO THE STATE ETHICS CODE. Makes various amendments to the State Ethics Code. Repeals exemption from certain financial disclosure requirements granted to members of the Hawaii Correctional System Oversight Commission.
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LAB, JUD |
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RELATING TO VOTER REGISTRATION. Establishes a process, beginning on January 1, 2021, for preregistering or registering public school- and charter school-enrolled students to vote.
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JUD, FIN |
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RELATING TO LICENSING. Authorizes the issuance of a temporary license to solemnize marriage and allows solemnization by any individual at least eighteen years of age.
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RELATING TO ELECTIONS. Makes housekeeping amendments to Hawaii's elections laws to clarify and improve the administration of elections by mail.
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JUD, FIN |
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RELATING TO THE ENVIRONMENT. Authorizes the agricultural development and food security special fund to be used to award grants to individuals proposing to engage in afforestation, reforestation, soil carbon sequestration, or local organic plant food production in the State. Requires the department of agriculture to submit a listing of grants and amounts granted to persons who engaged in afforestation, reforestation, soil carbon sequestration, or local organic plant food production in the State.
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RELATING TO VETERINARIANS. Provides veterinarians who provide emergency care to an animal immunity from civil liability in the absence of gross negligence. Provides veterinarians who render emergency treatment when there is no veterinarian-client-patient relationship, immunity from civil liability in the absence of gross negligence. Requires veterinarians to report to law enforcement events of animal injury, death, or abuse where there is reasonable cause to believe that it relates to dog fighting or animal abuse and gives veterinarians immunity for civil liability for making the reports.
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RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL LANDS. Prohibits community associations from adapting any rule over residential agricultural lands that restricts the use of that land for agricultural purposes.
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RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCES. Establishes a water sports equipment decal program within the Department of Land and Natural Resources. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2020.
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WLH, CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO ECONOMIC DIVERSIFICATION. Short form bill relating to economic diversification.
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RELATING TO CYBERSECURITY. Short form bill relating to cybersecurity.
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RELATING TO JOB CREATION. Short form bill relating to job creation.
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RELATING TO INVESTMENT. Short form bill relating to investment.
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RELATING TO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. Short form bill relating to economic development.
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RELATING TO TAX CREDITS. Increases the aggregate cap amount of the tax credit for research activities from $5,000,000 to $25,000,000. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2020.
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EDB, FIN |
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RELATING TO HAWAII TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION. Appropriates funds to support the programs of the Hawaii Technology Development Corporation.
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EDB, FIN |
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RELATING TO INVESTMENT IN INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES. Requires the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to develop and implement an investment in innovative technologies plan to support the advancement of innovative technologies in the areas of energy, transportation, agriculture, and water. Appropriates funds.
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RELATING TO PARKING FOR DISABLED PERSONS. Requires private businesses selling goods and services to the public, including retail malls and shopping centers, to provide a minimum of 6 per cent of its parking spaces for persons with disabilities. Imposes a penalty for failure to comply.
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HSH, JUD, FIN |
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RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION. Limits the square footage occupied at any state airport by permitted tour aircraft not in flight to an unspecified number of square feet.
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RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION. Prohibits tour aircraft operations from taking off or landing within this State, except at an airport under the State's control and with a permit, or as necessary for any emergency.
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RELATING TO EDUCATION FUNDING. Establishes the quality education special fund to supplement education programs and to be funded by increases to the income tax of corporations and high earning taxpayers.
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LHE, FIN |
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RELATING TO SPECIAL EDUCATION. Requires the Board of Education to consider the severity of the disability of each student in the weighted student formula for determining the allocation of funds and staff positions.
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LHE, FIN |
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RELATING TO EDUCATION. Establishes limits on class sizes for public elementary and secondary schools, excluding charter schools and classes for instruction in band, choir, orchestra, or theater.
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RELATING TO STANDARDIZED TESTING. Limits DOE to administering only those standardized tests required by federal law. Requires DOE to provide notice to students and parents or guardians of the opportunity to opt out of standardized tests.
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RELATING TO FAMILY LEAVE. Extends Hawaii family leave to include care for employees' grandchildren.
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RELATING TO INDIVIDUAL SPORTS. Allows home-schooled, high school-age students to participate as unattached competitors in individual sports available to the public school that the student would otherwise be required to attend.
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LHE, FIN |
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RELATING TO EDUCATION. Requires the DOE to employ at least one full-time equivalent teacher for each grade level in grades kindergarten through six in each public school with a student enrollment of one hundred fifty or less students, excluding charter schools, beginning with the 2020-2021 school year. Appropriates funds.
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RELATING TO CESSPOOL CONVERSION. Establishes a cesspool conversion pilot grant project to assist low- and moderate-income property owners with the costs of upgrading or converting a cesspool. Applies to cesspools identified as failing by the Department of Health. Appropriates funds.
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EEP, FIN |
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RELATING TO TRAFFIC VIOLATIONS. Requires additional circumstances under which every vehicle, including motor vehicles, motorcycles, motor scooters, and motorized bicycles, moving on any public highway in the State must display its lighted head lamps.
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RELATING TO PHASING OUT FOSSIL FUELS. Requires electric utility companies to have a greenhouse gas neutral electricity portfolio by 12/31/2029. Requires the public utilities commission to evaluate the progress of achieving greenhouse gas neutrality and impose penalties for failure to meet the portfolio standard.
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RELATING TO ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION. Prohibits all harvesting of aquatic life for commercial aquarium purposes, regardless of the method of collection.
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RELATING TO SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT. Requires residential and commercial solid waste be separated by source to be processed at appropriate facilities. Establishes a 2030 waste stream reduction goal. Appropriates funds to the counties for solid waste management programs.
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EEP, FIN |
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RELATING TO TAXATION OF LOCALLY PRODUCED, ORGANIC FOOD. Establishes an income tax credit for locally produced, organic food. Exempts locally produced, organic food from the general excise tax.
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RELATING TO PENAL LIABILITY FOR BUSINESS ENTITIES. Requires a court to order the charter of a corporation forfeited and the certificate authorizing a foreign corporation to do business in the State revoked upon a felony or misdemeanor conviction of the corporation or its high managerial agent that is related to its business affairs. Repeals the requirement for findings for a court to order forfeiture of a charter or revocation of a certificate. Requires similar penalties for various partnership entities and limited liability companies and their foreign counterparts convicted of a felony or misdemeanor. Permits the winding up of the business.
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RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. Appropriates funds to establish 1 permanent FTE extension agent at the University of Hawaii College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources.
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RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. Makes an appropriation to the University of Hawaii College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources for research and prevention of the spread of ornamental ginger pathogens.
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LHE, FIN |
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RELATING TO FORESTRY. Establishes a fund to increase the existing plant stocks, invest in public outreach and renovate the equipment and facilities of the state tree nursery.
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RELATING TO CONDOMINIUMS. Clarifies that all condominiums may amend their declarations by the vote or written consent of owners representing at least sixty-seven per cent of the common interest, unless amended by the unit owners to require a higher percentage. Clarifies the definition of "tenant" as it relates to those qualified to serve as a member of the board in the event a unit is owned by a corporation, partnership, or limited liability company. Limits defamation actions against an association, board of directors, association director, officer, attorney, or other association representative. Clarifies provisions concerning the installation of solar energy devices on common elements or limited common elements.
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RELATING TO TOWING. Clarifies meaning of existing statute relating to towing of abandoned vehicles by adding definitions; requires tow and storage companies to accept credit cards; includes penalties consistent with unfair practices per Section , Hawaii Revised Statutes.
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RELATING TO VETERINARY MEDICINE. Prohibit an animal's owner, and the owner's employees, from performing any surgical procedure, including surgical birth, ear cropping, tail docking, or debarking, without being licensed as a veterinarian. Makes it a class C felony to intentionally or knowingly perform any surgical procedure, including surgical birth, ear cropping, tail docking, or debarking, on a pet animal by any person who is not licensed as a veterinarian. Specifies that accepted veterinary practices and cropping or docking as customarily practiced shall not be considered cruelty to animals in the first degree if performed by a licensed veterinarian. Adds the use of castration bands to neuter pet animals to the offense of cruelty to animals in the second degree.
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RELATING TO CONDOMINIUMS. Makes violations of voting requirements for elections of a condominium association subject to the enforcement powers of the Real Estate Commission.
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CPC, JUD |
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RELATING TO CONDOMINIUMS. Requires managing agents of condominiums to confirm the eligibility of candidates for board elections and the authority of proxy assignments.
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RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY LABORATORY SCHOOL. Makes permanent the law exempting the University Laboratory School from the public charter school enrollment policy so that it may conform its student enrollment profile to the standard prescribed by the University of Hawaii college of education in order to meet college's research requirements.
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LHE, FIN |
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RELATING TO SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE. Establishes a cover crop reimbursement pilot program to provide up to 100% cost reimbursement to farming operations in the State for acquiring cover crop seeds or green manure. Establishes a cover crop reimbursement pilot program manager position within the Department of Agriculture to administer the program. Requires a report to the Legislature. Appropriates funds.
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RELATING TO THE HAWAII NATIONAL GUARD. Prohibits the Hawaii National Guard from being released from the State into active duty combat unless the United States Congress passes an official declaration of war or takes an official action pursuant to its constitutional powers to call the National Guard to execute the laws of the union, repel an invasion, or suppress an insurrection. Requires the Governor to take any action necessary to comply with those requirements.
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RELATING TO THE REGENTS CANDIDATE ADVISORY COUNCIL. Transfers the candidate advisory council for the board of regents of the University of Hawaii from the University of Hawaii to the office of the governor. Amends other provisions relating to the candidate advisory council. Sunsets 6/30/2024.
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RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII BOARD OF REGENTS. Requires all public meetings of the Board of Regents to be recorded in digital video format, webcast live, and archived and made available to the public.
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LHE, JUD, FIN |
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RELATING TO ELECTRIC FOOT SCOOTERS. Establishes a framework for the regulation of electric foot scooters by the State and counties. Amends definitions of "moped" to exclude electric foot scooters.
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RELATING TO COMMERCIAL DRIVER'S LICENSE QUALIFICATION STANDARDS. Conforms Hawaii law relating to commercial driver's licenses with federal regulations by removing the provision requiring the Director of Transportation to adopt rules to establish a screening process for granting intrastate waivers to persons who are not physically qualified to drive a commercial motor vehicle due to a medical history or clinical diagnosis of diabetes mellitus. Corrects certain citations to federal regulations.
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RELATING TO IGNITION INTERLOCK DEVICES. Requires consecutive terms of imprisonment for anyone convicted as a repeat or habitual offender if arising from same conduct as conviction for operating a vehicle without an ignition interlock device. Requires any person operating a vehicle with an ignition interlock to have government issued identification in their immediate possession. Expands the lookback period under provisions relating to ignition interlock requirements from five to ten years. Expands the offense of circumventing or tampering with an ignition interlock to include obscuring the camera lens.
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RELATING TO OPERATING A VEHICLE UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF AN INTOXICANT. Establishes penalties for and defines "highly intoxicated operator". Increases license revocation periods and lookback periods for offenses of operating a vehicle under the influence of an intoxicant. Increases penalties for repeat offenders, habitual offenders, and persons driving on a suspended or revoked license for offenses of operating a vehicle under the influence of an intoxicant.
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RELATING TO AUTOMATED SPEED ENFORCEMENT SYSTEMS. Establishes an automated speed enforcement task force. Establishes the automated speed enforcement systems program, effective 7/1/2021. Authorizes the State or counties to administer the program. Requires fines collected for violations on a county highway to be expended for the operation of the program. Appropriates funds.
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RELATING TO SAND ISLAND. Requires DLNR to conduct shoreline remediation at the Sand Island state recreation area. Appropriates funds.
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RELATING TO CHILDHOOD SEXUAL ABUSE. Amends statutory limitations on the time period in which a survivor of childhood sexual abuse may file a civil suit. Provides that the monetary relief under this section shall not include punitive damages. Permits the court to order restorative justice measures, if deemed appropriate.
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RELATING TO NOISE CONTROL. Prohibits the playing of music above a certain decibel level on public property or from certain vehicles on a public street, highway, or public space. Increases penalties for noisy muffler or exhaust system violations for motorcycles, mopeds, and motor vehicles.
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RELATING TO CHILD CUSTODY. Amends provisions relating to the award of child custody to ensure the maximum inclusion of both parents in the raising of the child, unless not in the child's best interests.
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RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII COLLEGE OF TROPICAL AGRICULTURE AND HUMAN RESOURCES. Makes an appropriation to the University of Hawaii College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources for ornamental and landscaping entomologist specialist, plant pathologist extension agent, and pesticide specialist positions.
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RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. Appropriates funds to the Department of Agriculture to establish a foreign agriculture small equipment pilot program. Requires a report to the Legislature.
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RELATING TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING. Allows the HHFDC to enter into public private partnerships with private sector entities to build affordable housing and reserves a portion of the housing units for the exclusive use of the employees of the private sector entity partner.
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RELATING TO THE HOUSING LOAN AND MORTGAGE PROGRAM. Increases the Hula Mae Multifamily Revenue Bond authorization ceiling amount to continue financing affordable rental housing statewide.
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RELATING TO HISTORIC PRESERVATION. Amends the threshold for when a building, structure, object, district, area, or site, including heiau and underwater site, is considered historic property from over fifty years old to seventy-five years or older.
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RELATING TO SCHOOL IMPACT FEES. Requires school impact fees proposed by the department of education to first be adopted by concurrent resolution.
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RELATING TO THE UNDERGROUND CONSTRUCTION OF HIGH-VOLTAGE ELECTRIC TRANSMISSION LINES. Eliminates the requirement for a public utility to seek PUC approval for the underground construction of high-voltage electric transmission lines if certain conditions are met.
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RELATING TO THE RESIDENTIAL LANDLORD-TENANT CODE. Allows a court to order a tenant to deposit the amount of claimed damages into the court at the request of the landlord or landlord's agent in certain court proceedings. Distributes funds consistent with a judgment.
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RELATING TO WIND ENERGY FACILITIES. Establishes a one-mile setback from the nearest existing farm dwelling or residential dwelling unit for wind energy facilities in agricultural districts.
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RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. Establishes the agricultural theft enforcement program and agricultural theft enforcement special fund within the Department of Agriculture. Authorizes the Board of Agriculture and agricultural theft enforcement officers to exercise police powers. Extends to the agricultural theft enforcement program the applicability of certain statutory provisions relating to the law enforcement officer independent review board; possession of electric guns; the law enforcement standards board; emergency vehicles; and worker's compensation for volunteer emergency response personnel. Authorizes the use of funds in the agricultural development and food security special fund for protection of agricultural resources. Appropriates funds.
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RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL ENTERPRISES. Authorizes the Department of Agriculture to plan, design, construct, operate, manage, maintain, repair, demolish, and remove infrastructure on any lands under the jurisdiction of the department, to support and promote agriculture. Establishes the agricultural enterprise program. Establishes the Agricultural Enterprise Special Fund. Makes an appropriation. Effective 7/1/2020.
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RELATING TO LEASE EXTENSIONS ON PUBLIC LAND. Authorizes the Board of Land and Natural Resources to extend certain leases of public lands for commercial, industrial, resort, or government use upon approval of a proposed development agreement to make substantial improvements to the existing improvements. Sunsets on 6/30/2025.
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RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL BUILDINGS. Increases the maximum area for each agricultural shade cloth structure, cold frame, and greenhouse that could qualify the structure for an exemption from building permit and building code requirements.
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RELATING TO WILDLIFE. Requires all habitat conservation plans to include an agreement for plan participants to enter into and maintain an annual service contract with a stand-by and response facility available to provide emergency medical and rehabilitation services to native wildlife affected by activities undertaken within the plan area.
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RELATING TO COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT. Defines "coastal hazards" and "beaches" and includes specific references to "coastal dunes" to clarify CZM policies in chapter 205A, HRS, including special management areas, shoreline setbacks, and variances.
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RELATING TO CONDOMINIUMS. Provides that any unit in a development that consists of not more than 2 units and occupied for 1 year by the developer, its successor, or assign as the principal place of residence shall be considered sold for purposes of satisfying a developer's annual report requirement.
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RELATING TO WATER QUALITY. Establishes reporting requirements for onsite sewage disposal system (OSDS) servicers. Appropriates funds for DOH to conduct outreach regarding OSDS. Requires and appropriates funds for the cesspool conversion working group to compile an updated database of OSDS statewide.
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RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. Establishes a glyphosate task force to assess the impact of glyphosate on Hawaii's natural environment, human health, and agriculture.
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RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL LANDS. Allows bed and breakfast accommodations on class C, D, E, or U agricultural lands in a county with an area greater than 4,000 square miles.
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RELATING TO HIGHWAYS. Establishes an old government roads commission to address the issue of jurisdiction between the State and the counties over disputed roads. Appropriates funds.
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RELATING TO THE STATE BUDGET. To adjust and request appropriations for Fiscal Biennium 2019‑21 funding requirements for operations and capital improvement projects of Executive Branch agencies and programs and to include appropriations from other departmental budget acts deemed necessary for program operations and capital improvements.
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RELATING TO MASSAGE THERAPISTS. Requires the Board of Massage Therapy to adopt rules to set qualifications for license and licensure renewal. Prohibits advertising as a massage therapist without a valid massage therapy license or from using advertisements on the internet and social media platforms that depict the human form other than hands, wrists, and forearms.
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RELATING TO CEMETERIES. Allows any cemetery authority to be exempted from licensing, bonding, and fee requirements when selling or offering use of its property or portion thereof for the inurnment of cremated remains of its members, adherents, and their families.
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RELATING TO DISCIPLINARY ACTIONS IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Requires the Department of Education to track and publish the use of all exclusionary discipline disaggregated by student subgroup. Restricts the use of out-of-school and in-school suspensions among students in grades 6 through 12. Eliminates the use of out-of-school suspensions for students in prekindergarten through grade 5.
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RELATING TO SAFETY EQUIPMENT. Requires Department of Education school football programs to ensure that each non-new football helmet used in a football program is reconditioned and recertified at least once every 2 years. Establishes fines and other penalties for failure to properly recertify football helmets. Establishes the football helmet recertification special fund.
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RELATING TO REFORESTATION. Amends and clarifies "renewable feedstocks" to conform with federal statutes and the Environmental Protection Agency's directive.
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RELATING TO LICENSING. Clarifies that a motor vehicle dealer or salesperson license may be suspended, revoked, or denied if the dealer or salesperson withholds the return of a buyer's downpayment or trade-in when the buyer's motor vehicle purchase or lease agreement is contingent upon financing of the purchase, and pursuant to the financing or credit application signed at the time of purchase, the buyer was unable to qualify.
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RELATING TO LAND USE. Authorizes the office of planning to conduct a land use study for Hauula, Oahu, that assesses the viability and cost of maintaining the transit corridor. Appropriates funds.
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RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HAWAIIAN HOME LANDS. Appropriates funds to DHHL for the acquisition of land to be developed by DHHL for affordable housing units.
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RELATING TO IOLANI PALACE. Appropriates funds for repair, restoration, and maintenance of Iolani Palace. Requires DLNR to conduct a structural and electrical survey of Iolani Place and submit to the legislature a five- to ten-year working plan for Iolani Palace to proceed with repair, restoration, and maintenance work on the property.
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RELATING TO THE OFFICE OF PLANNING. Appropriates funds for the Office of Planning to conduct a business climate report.
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RELATING TO COMMERCIAL MARINE LICENSES. Requires the DLNR to issue commercial marine licenses. Provides that a commercial marine vessel license satisfies an individual's licensure requirement if aboard a licensed vessel. Requires any person who provides fishing charter services to obtain a commercial marine license.
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RELATING TO SUSTAINABILITY. Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to: (1) recognize that game mammals and game birds are a sustainable food source and that the State's unique relationship with the ocean provides the opportunity to integrate the local fish and game industry into the State's food security profile; and (2) establish and maintain fish propagating facilities. Requires each department, office, or agency of the state to update its rules and policies to integrate the local hunting and fishing industries into any food security or sustainability strategies that department, office, or agency employs. Requires reports to Legislature.
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RELATING TO STATE PLANNING. Requires the Office of Planning to review and propose updates to the State Planning Act. Appropriates moneys.
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RELATING TO RAW MILK. Authorizes the sale of raw milk and raw milk products with restrictions.
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RELATING TO WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT. Establishes within the Department of Agriculture the Workforce Development Coordinator position. Specifies duties of the Coordinator and P-20 Agriculture Education Working Group. Appropriates funds.
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RELATING TO HAWAIIAN HOME LANDS. Requires at least 5 Hawaiian Homes Commission members to be native Hawaiian or current Hawaiian homestead lessees; and at least 2 of those 5 to be on the waitlist for Hawaiian home lands. Authorizes commission members to elect a chairperson and vice chairperson. Creates the position of Director of Hawaiian Home Lands and separates the Director's responsibilities from those of the Chairperson of the Commission.
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RELATING TO THE STADIUM AUTHORITY. Adds two more members to the Stadium Authority that shall consist of a resident of Aiea or Halawa and a resident of Foster Village, Crosspointe, or Alii Plantation.
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RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE THIRTY-FIRST REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT. Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the thirty-first representative district.
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RELATING TO FAMILY LEAVE. Provides family leave insurance benefits and extends period of family leave to sixteen weeks for businesses that employs one or more employees who meet the hourly qualifications.
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RELATING TO THE ELDERLY. Establishes the offense of financial exploitation of an elder and provides enhanced penalties. Amends mandatory reporting requirements for suspected financial abuse of an elder. Requires DHS to share records with the appropriate county police departments or offices of the prosecuting attorney.
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RELATING TO GOVERNMENT. Short form bill relating to government.
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RELATING TO TIME SHARING. Provides purchasers of time shares with rescission rights if there is a material change to the information contained in the disclosure statement. Requires developers to provide notice to the purchaser regarding any pertinent or material change made to the disclosure statement.
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RELATING TO TIME SHARING. Amends the information required to be in a time share disclosure statement, under certain circumstances. Amends the information required to be on a developer registration renewal application. Expands the information developers are not required to include on a developer registration renewal application. Limits the copies of documents developers are required to submit in a developer registration renewal application. Requires developers to submit copies of supplementary plan documents of the time share plan. Allows for submission of certain document in electronic form.
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RELATING TO SEX OFFENDERS. Establishes a definition for "sex offender against minors". Amends the definition of "covered offender" to include a sex offender against minors. Prohibits a sex offender against minors, for whom registration with the attorney general is required, from residing, permanently or temporarily, within one thousand feet of any public or private school.
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RELATING TO CHILDREN. Establishes in the department of the attorney general a child abuse investigation unit. Allows the department of the attorney general to intervene in adjudications in family court. Enacts the Uniform Child Witness Testimony by Alternative Methods Act, which authorizes courts to allow for children to testify in a place other than an open forum or away from the finder of fact, court, or parties. Requires the court and the prosecution to take appropriate action to ensure a prompt trial to minimize the length of time a child abuse victim or minor witness must endure due to the stress of the child's involvement in the proceedings.
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RELATING TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING. Limits monthly rent increases for certain dwelling units to 30 per cent for the term of the rental agreement or every 12 months, whichever period is longer. Prohibits rent increases due to the landlord's negative cash flow resulting from refinancing or purchasing the rental dwelling unit. Establishes a rent stabilization advisory working group to advise on matters relating to the stabilization of certain dwelling unit rental amounts.
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RELATING TO ENERGY EFFICIENCY. Authorizes the Chief Energy Officer of the Hawaii State Energy Office to adopt rules to enforce minimum efficiency standards for certain products and establish or amend appliance efficiency standards in certain situations. Regulates the appliance efficiency standards for air purifiers and portable electric spas.
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RELATING TO THE GENERAL EXCISE TAX EXEMPTIONS. Beginning July 1, 2020, provides a general excise tax exemption for medical services by physicians and advanced practice registered nurses acting in the capacity as a primary care provider.
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RELATED TO CONCEALED CARRY REFORM. Amends concealed carry statute to align with constitutional law. Add more rigorous training measures for licensed concealed carry residents.
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RELATING TO DISABLED VETERANS. Amends Hawaii Revised Statutes to waive the annual vehicle weight tax for qualified disabled veterans.
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RELATING TO ABORTION. Requires that a mother be informed of whether her fetus has a detectable heartbeat prior to consenting to an abortion. Provides for criminal penalties against a physician or surgeon who performs an abortion without obtaining informed consent relating to fetal heartbeat.
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RELATING TO FIREARMS. Prohibits certain individuals who, as a minor, were diagnosed with behavioral, emotional, or mental disorders or adjudicated by the family court to have committed a certain number of crimes of violence from owning firearms unless the person has been medically documented to be no longer either adversely affected by the behavioral, emotional, or mental disorder or deemed a danger to themselves or others. Requires records of these diagnoses or adjudications to be made available to law enforcement officials.
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RELATING TO MEDICAL EXAMINERS. Requires the counties to have medical examiners who are licensed physicians and certified anatomic or forensic pathologists. Repeals section providing for coroners.
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RELATING TO FOOD DONATION. Clarifies and expands exceptions for good-faith food donations to needy persons. Allows for the donation of expired food when the donor makes a good-faith judgment that the food is unspoiled. Requires DOH to provide educational materials about food donation to establishments as part of the health inspection process.
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RELATING TO TAXATION. Establishes a tax credit for qualified physicians who accept patients who receive Medicaid or Medicare benefits.
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RELATING TO EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES. Requires and appropriates funds for the department of health to conduct comprehensive workforce and cost analysis reviews with federal partners to improve efficiency, quality, and cost-effectiveness. Appropriates funds for collective bargaining increases and other current expenses.
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RELATING TO DRUG DISPOSAL. Establishes the Drug Disposal Program, administered by the Department of the Attorney General, to dispose of prescription and over-the-counter drugs in a safe, secure, and environmentally friendly manner. Establishes the Drug Disposal Special Fund and appropriates funds.
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RELATING TO FAMILY COURTS. Requires that a child consult with legal counsel or with a parent, guardian, or legal custodian prior to any custodial interrogation and prior to waiving any rights against self-incrimination. Provides that statements obtained in violation of this section may be admissible if the information sought was narrowly tailored and reasonably necessary to address an imminent threat.
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RELATING TO DEPENDENT CARE FLEXIBLE SPENDING ACCOUNTS. Establishes Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts for all working taxpayers. Defines qualifying individuals and eligible expenses. Outlines the requirements and limitations of the accounts. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2020.
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RELATING TO INDIVIDUAL INCOME TAX REDUCTIONS. Eliminates the individual income tax for single filers and heads of households making less than $20,000 or joint filers making less than $40,000 and increases the income tax rate more slowly for low and medium-income filers.
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RELATING TO GENERAL EXCISE TAX EXEMPTIONS. Exempts certain foods, medical services, and feminine hygiene products from the general excise tax.
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RELATING TO TAXATION. Establishes a nonrefundable state child tax credit.
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RELATING TO EDUCATION. Expands the certification incentive program to include speech pathologists. Clarifies school eligibility requirements. Adds an additional temporary bonus for teachers and speech pathologists who continue to be employed at a school that has transitioned out of the incentive program's eligibility criteria. Appropriates funds.
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RELATING TO INDIVIDUAL DEVELOPMENT ACCOUNTS. Reactivates the individual development account contribution income tax credit for the five-year period from 2021 through 2025. Amends provisions regarding state-funded individual development accounts. Appropriates funds to the department of human services.
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RELATING TO PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS. Establishes a sidewalk installation grant program to be administered by the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations Office of Community Services. Appropriates funds.
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RELATING TO TAX RETURN PREPARERS. Requires each tax return preparer to have a valid preparer tax identification number issued by the Internal Revenue Service and to furnish the preparer's tax identification number on any return or claim for refund if required by DOTAX. Establishes penalties for failure to comply. Provides that tax return preparers shall not be liable for penalties prior to January 1, 2021.
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IAC, CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO THE STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION. Changes the Board of Education from one centralized Board to a Board for each county. Gives authority to county mayors to appoint members to the Board.
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RELATING TO PRODUCTS CONTAINING SUN PROTECTION FACTOR INGREDIENTS. Requires that, beginning 1/1/2023, only sunscreen products containing active ingredients classified by the United States Food and Drug Administration as a category I, generally recognized as safe and effective, ingredient, shall be sold, offered for sale, or distributed for sale in the state.
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RELATING TO MEDICAID BENEFITS. Makes an appropriation to restore certain adult dental benefits to medicaid enrollees. Requires maximization of federal matching funds.
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RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII PROMISE PROGRAM PLUS. Establishes the University of Hawaii Promise Program Plus to provide scholarships for the unmet direct cost needs of qualified students enrolled in bachelor's degree programs in teaching, health care, social work, or engineering at the University of Hawaii who commit to work for at least three years in Hawaii. Appropriates funds to establish, implement, and manage the program.
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RELATING TO RETIREMENT SAVINGS. Establishes the Retirement Savings Task Force to secure a consultant to: assess the feasibility of a Hawaii Retirement Savings Program; research the implications of the enactment of the federal SECURE Act; draft an implementation plan for the Retirement Savings Program; and report to the Legislature. Makes an appropriation.
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RELATING TO TRANSIT-ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT. Appropriates funds for certain transit-oriented development projects.
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RELATING TO THE TRAFFIC CODE. Amends the statewide traffic code to allow for the chairperson of the BLNR and county chiefs of police to designate state or county employees or contractors to issue citations for traffic violations.
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RELATING TO LOAN REPAYMENT FOR HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS. Appropriates funds for fiscal year 2020-2021 for the Health Care Provider Loan Repayment Program administered through the John A. Burns School of Medicine of the University of Hawaii at Manoa; provided that the funds are matched on a dollar-to-dollar basis by a private or another public source.
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RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII PROMISE PROGRAM. Expands the Hawaii community college promise program to provide scholarships for the unmet direct cost needs of qualified students at any four‑year University of Hawaii campus who meet certain eligibility criteria. Appropriates funds for the program.
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LHE, FIN |
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RELATING TO TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER AT THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII. Removes the sunset provision in Act 38, Session Laws of Hawaii 2017, by making permanent certain exemptions from the Ethics Code as related to UH technology transfer.
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RELATING TO THE CONFERENCE CENTER REVOLVING FUND. Expands the scope of the University of Hawaii at Hilo conference center revolving fund to all programs conducted by the University of Hawaii at Hilo. Requires an annual report to the Legislature regarding the fund. Gives the chancellor of the University of Hawaii at Hilo, rather than the Dean of the college of continuing education and community service, authority to expend moneys from the fund.
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RELATING TO EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION. Prohibits the expulsion and establishes limitations for suspension of children participating in the Executive Office on Early Learning Public Prekindergarten Program.
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RELATING TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING. Exempts workforce development projects from paying school impact fees for the development of workforce housing if at least 90% of the residential units that are set aside for purchase or rent for residents in the low-income or moderate-income ranges are set aside specifically for public school teachers.
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RELATING TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING. Exempts certain low-density affordable housing projects from the State's land use district boundary amendment requirements.
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RELATING TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING. Makes permanent the low-income housing tax credit program administered by the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation and removes the 5-year limitation on claiming the tax credit.
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RELATING TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING. Authorizes the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to reimburse any qualified person or firm for any predevelopment costs of certain affordable rental housing projects. Includes reimbursement for predevelopment costs for certain affordable rental housing projects among the permissible uses of Dwelling Unit Revolving Fund and Rental Housing Revolving Fund moneys.
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HSG, FIN |
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RELATING TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING. Authorizes expenditures from the dwelling unit revolving fund for pre-development fees associated with affordable housing development.
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HSG, FIN |
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RELATING TO BROADBAND DEVELOPMENT. Establishes the Executive Office on Broadband Development within the Office of the Governor. Establishes the Hawaii Broadband Advisory Council. Establishes the Hawaii Broadband Advisory Council special fund. Appropriates funds.
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RELATING TO INVASIVE SPECIES. Establishes the invasive species rapid response special fund. Establishes procedures for emergency declarations and expenditures. Appropriates money.
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RELATING TO SEA LEVEL RISE. Directs the Hawaii Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Commission to address areas already impacted by sea level rise, identify vulnerable critical public infrastructure, create a plan for mitigating and adapting to sea level rise, and provide policy direction to the legislature on funding and strategies to address the impacts of climate change on the State. Appropriates funds.
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RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HAWAIIAN HOME LANDS. Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds and appropriates funds for certain Department of Hawaiian Home Lands capital improvement projects.
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WLH, FIN |
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RELATING TO CHILD VISITATION. Requires a finding that denial of reasonable grandparent visitation rights would cause significant harm to a child as a condition of awarding grandparent visitation rights. Clarifies procedures for an order awarding reasonable grandparent visitation rights. Specifies that a violation of the terms and conditions of the order is punishable as contempt of court.
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RELATING TO THE USE OF INTOXICANTS WHILE OPERATING A VEHICLE. Lowers the threshold blood alcohol concentration for the offense of operating a vehicle while under the influence of an intoxicant.
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RELATING TO SEX OFFENDERS. Classifies as first-degree sexual assault the sexual penetration of a child under 12 by a person 18 or older and mandates a 10-year minimum term of imprisonment without the possibility of parole. Establishes residency restrictions for persons who must register as a sex offender or offender against minors pursuant to Chapter 846E, HRS.
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RELATING TO HUMAN TRAFFICKING. Requires large retailers and manufacturers to provide consumers with information regarding efforts to eradicate slavery and human trafficking from their supply chains. Requires the Department of Taxation to annually submit to the Department of the Attorney General a list of retail sellers and manufacturers that are required to make disclosures.
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RELATING TO SEXUAL OFFENSES. Amends the offense of solicitation of a minor for prostitution by specifying that the act of offering or agreeing to any type of consideration, rather than payment of a fee, constitutes solicitation of a minor. Makes solicitation of a minor a class B felony. Clarifies that the offender's state of mind is not required when the person solicited is a law enforcement officer who holds themselves out as a minor.
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JUD, FIN |
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RELATING TO WAGES. Increases the penalty for violation of wages and hours laws to a class C felony.
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RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL ENTERPRISES. Establishes a new agricultural enterprise program within the Department of Agriculture to plan, design, construct, operate, manage, maintain, repair, demolish, and remove infrastructure on any lands under the jurisdiction of the department, to support and promote agriculture. Creates three new positions to implement the program. Establishes the agricultural enterprise special fund. Makes an appropriation. Effective July 1, 2020.
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RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. Establishes the Beginning Farmer and Rancher Grant Program under the Department of Agriculture. Allows the Department to make grants to start new commercial farms and ranches. Makes appropriation.
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RELATING TO THE ANIMAL INDUSTRY SPECIAL FUND. Adding new sources of revenue generated by the state veterinary laboratory and animal disease control that can be deposited into the animal Industry Special Fund.
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RELATING TO THE IMPORTANT AGRICULTURAL LAND QUALIFIED AGRICULTURAL COST TAX CREDIT. Extending through the 2030 tax year, the time that the Department of Agriculture may certify important agricultural lands qualified agricultural costs.
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RELATING TO HEMP. Establishes programs for the production and processing of hemp in Hawaii.
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RELATING TO HAWAII PRODUCTS. Exempts construction procurements from the Hawaii products preference in section 103D-1002, Hawaii Revised Statutes.
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RELATING TO THE ACCESS HAWAII COMMITTEE. Gives agencies more flexibility and online options to provide enhanced digital services to the public in order to better serve the public and businesses.
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RELATING TO INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY STEERING COMMITTEE. Preserves the continuity of the Information Technology Steering Committee to properly administer 27-43, Hawaii Revised Statutes, while redefining the composition of the committee.
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RELATING TO PROCUREMENT. Requires cost or pricing analysis for health and human services purchasing. Changes membership of the Procurement Policy Board. Authorizes purchasing agency heads to issue requests for statement of qualifications and to establish lists of qualified providers for treatment purchase of services. Increases the small purchase threshold for health and human services.
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RELATING TO THE REISSUANCE OF PAYROLL CHECKS. Amends section 40-53(a), Hawaii Revised Statutes, to all reissuance due to a non-received, lost, fraudulent, or altered payroll check to be assessed a $50 fee per check.
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RELATING TO PROCUREMENT. Authorizes the state procurement administrator to hire an exempt position and incrementally funds this position. Authorizes a three-year pilot creating an innovative project delivery partnership between the state procurement office and the office of public works under the department of accounting and general services. Requires the office to provide services to agencies state-wide on construction and innovative projects.
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RELATING TO MAKING AN EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION TO THE STADIUM AUTHORITY. Makes an emergency appropriation to provide funds for the Stadium Authority for payroll, various repair and maintenance costs, contracts for services, and operating equipment. Effective upon approval.
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RELATING TO EMERGENCY PROCUREMENT. To revise Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-307, Emergency Procurements to add equipment failures, repairs to public property to protect against further loss of, or damage to public property, to prevent or minimize serious disruption in continued functioning of government services. To replace chief procurement officer approval with an accounting report to the legislature within sixty days after the end of the fiscal year in which the procurement was made.
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RELATING TO PROCUREMENT. To revise Hawaii Revised Statutes 103D-709, Administrative proceedings for review to replace the protest bond amount for a contract with an estimated value of less than $500,000 from $1,000 to one-percent; to replace the protest bond amount for a contract with an estimated value of less than $1,000,000 from $2,000 to two and one-half percent; to replace the protest bond amount when the estimated value of the contract is $1,000,000 or more from one-half percent to four and one-half percent; to delete the $10,000 cap on the protest bond amount.
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MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR CLAIMS AGAINST THE STATE, ITS OFFICERS, OR ITS EMPLOYEES. Makes appropriations for claims against the State, its officers, and its employees.
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RELATING TO PROFESSIONALLY LICENSED OR CERTIFIED GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES. Clarifies that the State shall be exclusively liable for claims for injury or loss of property, or personal injury or death, resulting from the negligent or wrongful act or omission of any professionally licensed or certified employee of the State while acting within the course and scope of the employee's office or employment. Precludes civil actions or proceedings for money damages against the employee, except for claims based on liability other than an employee's course and scope of employment with the State or other employer. Clarifies liability when the State agrees to assume full or partial responsibility in a civil action against a professional licensed or certified employee.
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JUD, FIN |
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RELATING TO SEX TRAFFICKING. Removes the statute of limitations for sex trafficking offenses.
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RELATING TO THE LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS SAFETY ACT. Establishes in the Department of the Attorney General a program responsible for issuing firearm qualification certifications to qualified law enforcement officers pursuant to the federal Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act of 2004 (Public Law 108-277), as codified at 18 United States Code section 926C.
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PVM, JUD |
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RELATING TO ELECTRIC GUNS. Repeals section 134-16, Hawaii Revised Statutes, the current law that bans electric guns, and replaces it with a law that restricts the use, storage, transfer, and disposal of electric guns, regulates the sale of electric guns, requires training and education on electric guns, prohibits certain individuals from the possession and use of electric guns, and prohibits the use of electric guns in the commission of crimes.
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RELATING TO LAW ENFORCEMENT STANDARDS BOARD. Clarifies membership and certain powers and duties of the Law Enforcement Standards Board, establishes new deadlines for the completion of board responsibilities, and provides appropriate funds and resources to enable the board to accomplish its mission.
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JUD, FIN |
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RELATING TO NOTARIES PUBLIC. Updates the laws regarding notaries public including the following: to conform to the Revised Uniform Law on Notarial Acts (2018) (RULONA), the Hawaii Uniform Electronic Transactions Act, other state notary laws, and current notary practices.
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JUD, FIN |
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RELATING TO LAW ENFORCEMENT VEHICLES. Allows the Department of the Attorney General to have law enforcement vehicles, with colored lights, that are recognized authorized emergency vehicles.
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RELATING TO THE HOUSING LOAN AND MORTGAGE PROGRAM. Increases the Hula Mae Multifamily Revenue Bond authorization ceiling amount to continue financing affordable rental housing statewide.
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RELATING TO PUBLIC LANDS. Exempts lands set aside by the Governor to the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation for the primary purpose of developing affordable housing from classification as public land subject to Department of Land and Natural Resources management. Requires lands set aside by the Governor to the Hawaii Housing Finance Development Corporation for the primary purpose of developing affordable housing to be subject to legislative approval prior to the sale or gift of those lands.
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RELATING TO CLEAN ENERGY FINANCING. Repeals the Building Energy Efficiency Revolving Loan Fund under the State Energy Office and creates a Clean Energy Revolving Loan Fund under the administration of the Hawaii Green Infrastructure Authority.
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EEP, FIN |
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RELATING TO THE HAWAII FILM AND CREATIVE INDUSTRIES DEVELOPMENT SPECIAL FUND. Makes an appropriation out of the Hawaii Film and Creative Industries Development Special Fund. Makes a housekeeping, technical amendment to section 201-113, Hawaii Revised Statutes.
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EDB, FIN |
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RELATING TO THE BROWNFIELDS CLEANUP REVOLVING LOAN FUND. Enables use of funds for environmental site assessments and for sub-grants to eligible entities for assessment and cleanup of brownfields sites.
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RELATING TO ENERGY FINANCING FOR STATE AGENCIES. Amends and expands the purpose of the $50,000,000 revolving sub-fund for state agencies and also includes the electrification of fleet vehicles.
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EEP, TRN, FIN |
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MAKING EMERGENCY APPROPRIATIONS FOR PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT COST ITEMS. Makes emergency appropriations for collective bargaining cost items for the members of Unit (2) and their excluded counterparts, including the cost of salary adjustments negotiated between the State and the bargaining unit representative, for fiscal biennium 2019‑2021.
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MAKING EMERGENCY APPROPRIATIONS FOR PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT COST ITEMS. Makes emergency appropriations for collective bargaining cost items for the members of Unit (3) and their excluded counterparts, including the cost of salary adjustments negotiated between the State and the bargaining unit representative, for fiscal biennium 2019‑2021.
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LAB, FIN |
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RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT COST ITEMS. Provides appropriations for collective bargaining cost items for the members of Unit (4) and their excluded counterparts, including the cost of salary adjustments negotiated between the State and the bargaining unit representative, for fiscal biennium 2019‑2021.
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LAB, FIN |
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RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT COST ITEMS. Provides appropriations for collective bargaining cost items for the members of Unit (7) and their excluded counterparts, including the cost of salary adjustments negotiated between the State and the bargaining unit representative, for fiscal biennium 2019-2021.
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LAB, FIN |
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MAKING EMERGENCY APPROPRIATIONS FOR PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT COST ITEMS. Makes emergency appropriations for collective bargaining cost items for the members of Unit (8) and their excluded counterparts, including the cost of salary adjustments negotiated between the State and the bargaining unit representative, for fiscal biennium 2019‑2021
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MAKING EMERGENCY APPROPRIATIONS FOR PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT COST ITEMS. Makes emergency appropriations for collective bargaining cost items for the members of Unit (9) and their excluded counterparts, including the cost of salary adjustments negotiated between the State and the bargaining unit representative, for fiscal biennium 2019‑2021.
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MAKING EMERGENCY APPROPRIATIONS FOR PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT COST ITEMS. Makes emergency appropriations for collective bargaining cost items for the members of Unit (13) and their excluded counterparts, including the cost of salary adjustments negotiated between the State and the bargaining unit representative, for fiscal biennium 2019‑2021.
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LAB, FIN |
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RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT COST ITEMS. Provides appropriations for collective bargaining cost items for the members of Unit (14) and their excluded counterparts, including the cost of salary adjustments negotiated between the State and the bargaining unit representative, for fiscal biennium 2019‑2021.
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RELATING TO THE HAWAII EMPLOYER-UNION HEALTH BENEFITS TRUST FUND EMPLOYEE-BENEFICIARY MONTHLY CONTRIBUTIONS. Amends section 87A-40, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to mandate that new retired employees pay their share of health benefits premiums through monthly electronic deductions from their employees' retirement system pension or their financial institution.
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RELATING TO COMPENSATION FOR THE PURPOSES OF THE EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM. Amends the definition of compensation for retirement benefits.
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LAB, FIN |
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RELATING TO QUALIFIED DOMESTIC RELATIONS ORDERS. Amendments to clarify benefits to alternate payees, advisory review determinations of Hawaii Domestic Relations Orders and the priority of multiple orders.
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LAB, FIN |
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RELATING TO EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM INVESTMENTS. Exempts certain specific types of alternative investment fund information from disclosure under chapter 92F, the disclosure of which would put the system at a competitive disadvantage and frustrate its legitimate government function.
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RELATING TO EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM DISABILITY RETIREMENT. Clarifies the Employees' Retirement System's eligibility requirement definitions for service-connected disability and accidental death benefits.
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RELATING TO PROFESSIONAL AND VOCATIONAL LICENSING TRUST FUNDS. Allows the Contractors License Board and the Real Estate Commission to adjust, reduce, suspend, or cease collection of recovery fund and education fund fees when fund levels are adequate to carry out the statutory mandates for which the funds were created.
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IAC, CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO THE CONTRACTORS RECOVERY FUND. Increases the monetary amount an injured homeowner may recover from the Contractors Recovery Fund.
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CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO SECURITIES. Protects vulnerable adults from financial exploitation in relation to securities.
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HSH, CPC/JUD, FIN |
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RELATING TO HURRICANE PREPAREDNESS. Establishes the Safe Home Program to provide matching and nonmatching grants for installation of wind resistive devices to single-family, owner-occupied, residential property owners. Creates one temporary position within the Insurance Division of the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs to implement and administer the Safe Home Program.
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HSG, CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO MIXED MARTIAL ARTS. Allows mixed martial arts promoters to pay fighters with cash.
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CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO INSURANCE. Amends various portions of Hawaii Revised Statutes title 24 to update and improve existing Insurance Code provisions.
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CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELORS. Clarifies that the practicum internship experience requirement shall be included with the course work in counseling requirement for mental health counselors. Clarifies the supervision requirements of licensure for mental health counselors by permitting applicants to fulfill all or part of their face-to-face clinical supervision requirement by a videoconference service.
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IAC, CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO MASSAGE THERAPY. Authorizes the Board of Massage Therapy to promulgate and enforce sanitation rules for massage establishments. Repeals section 452-19(a), Hawaii Revised Statutes, in favor of existing statutes that already treat unlicensed activity as a misdemeanor. Increases the minimum fine from $100 to $250 and the maximum fine from $1,000 to $2,000 for each violation.
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IAC, CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO THE MORTGAGE LOAN RECOVERY FUND. Expands the pool of persons eligible to receive restitution from the Mortgage Loan Recovery Fund.
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CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO STATE SERVICE FEES. Applies section 92-28, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to all fees collected by the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs.
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CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO THE PEER REVIEW OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE. Clarifies the role of the Board of Public Accountancy in selecting members to serve on the Board's Peer Review Oversight Committee.
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CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO PORT PILOTS. Aligns the license renewal requirements with those of other professions and vocations. Removes the use of rates from comparable ports for rate increase petitions.
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IAC, CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO CEMETERY AUTHORITY EXEMPTION. Clarifies that churches granted an exemption under section 441-22.1, Hawaii Revised Statutes, are exempt from all requirements of chapter 441, Hawaii Revised Statutes, and that other exempted entities shall comply with any provision of this chapter upon order of the Director of the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs.
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IAC, CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO THE PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION SPECIAL FUND CARRYOVER BALANCE. Increases the balance that may be retained in the Public Utilities Commission Special Fund at the end of each fiscal year from $1,000,000 to $3,000,000.
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RELATING TO THE HAWAII EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY. Establishes the hazard mitigation special fund for the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency.
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PVM, FIN |
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RELATING TO HAWAII EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY. Converts the public information officer, civil defense administrative officer, branch chiefs, and emergency operations center state warning point personnel in the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency from civil service status to exempt status.
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RELATING TO EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT. Establish a Long-term Recovery Authority to work with the State Disaster Recovery Coordinator in enhancing the capacity of the government, relevant agencies, and the community to recover from the impacts of disasters and build resilience and sustainability in the State.
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PVM, FIN |
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RELATING TO STATEWIDE INTEROPERABLE PUBLIC SAFETY COMMUNICATIONS. Establishes a Statewide Interoperable Communications Executive Committee for public safety communications and the position of the Statewide Interoperable Communications Coordinator.
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PVM, FIN |
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RELATING TO HOMELAND SECURITY. Establishes the Hawaii State Fusion Center as a program under the Office of Homeland Security and establishes the position of Hawaii State Fusion Center Director who shall be state-funded, responsible to the Director of Homeland Security, and accountable to manage the operations of the Center.
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RELATING TO LICENSING. Allows a person who: is married to an active duty member in the military; accompanies his or her spouse on a permanent change of station to Hawaii; and holds a current, unencumbered license in another jurisdiction in specific professions to apply for licensure on an expedited basis in the State of Hawaii.
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RELATING TO OFFICE OF YOUTH SERVICES. Permits individual vocational programs within the purview of the Office of Youth Services to engage in commercial enterprises, including the sale of goods and services, for self-sustainability purposes, for young adults only. Establishes the Office of Youth Services Revolving Fund. Appropriates funds.
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HSH, FIN |
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RELATING TO REPORTS OF CHILD ABUSE. Adds immunity from civil and criminal liability for individuals who provide information or assistance in child abuse investigations.
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HSH, JUD, FIN |
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RELATING TO CHRONICALLY HOMELESS. Amends the definition of "chronically homeless" to provide clarity and improve the delivery and development of homeless services.
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HSH, FIN |
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RELATING TO CHILD CARE. Clarifies the allowable relationships the caregiver must have to be considered related to a child in care; clarifies that a program that provides exclusively for a specialized training or skill development shall be for children who are eligible pupils in grades kindergarten through twelve in public or private schools; clarifies that minimum health and safety requirements or standards as required by federal law may be imposed on any of the groups in section 346-152, Hawaii Revised Statutes, that provide child care for a child whose family receives a child care subsidy from the department; clarifies that the burden of proof is upon the caregiver or facility to provide verification of meeting a declared exemption under section 346-152, Hawaii Revised Statutes; clarifies that the information that may be investigated by the department to determine violations of part VIII of chapter 346, Hawaii Revised Statutes, occurred or is occurring; clarifies that the department may file a petition for a search warrant with the district court; clarifies that a search warrant may be issued to the department and the appropriate law enforcement agency to conduct an investigation; and renumbers the exemptions to appear as they were prior to Act 276, Session Laws of Hawaii 2019.
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HSH, CPC/JUD, FIN |
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RELATING TO RESIDENCY REQUIREMENTS IN STATE HIRING. Exempts dependents of military servicemembers from state residency requirement for employment with state or county government if the military servicemember is in Hawaii on bona fide military orders.
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RELATING TO DEAD BODIES. Amends chapter 327, Hawaii Revised Statutes, relating to the medical and research use of bodies, and chapter 711, Hawaii Revised Statutes, relating to offenses against the public order, to clarify prohibited actions related to anatomical gifts.
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RELATING TO MARRIAGE LICENSE FEES. Amends the marriage license statute to support the Hawaii Birth Defects Program, modernization of the vital statistics system, and operating costs of marriage license agents.
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HLT, FIN |
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RELATING TO PUBLIC NOTICES. Allows government agencies to publish public notice on their official website as an alternative to the newspaper.
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RELATING TO THE MEDICARE CIVIL MONETARY PENALTY SPECIAL FUND. Repeals the ceiling for using moneys in the civil monetary penalty special fund for use by the Department of Health for CMS-approved compliance activities.
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RELATING TO NEWBORN HEARING SCREENING. Amends the newborn hearing screening statute to mandate reporting of diagnostic audiologic evaluation results to improve hearing follow-up of infants. Updates definitions and terminology.
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HLT, FIN |
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RELATING TO HEARING AND VISION PROGRAM. Amends the hearing and vision program statute to increase the early identification of children with hearing or vision loss, by establishing consistent protocols for hearing and vision screening and follow-up, screener training, and data collection for quality improvement.
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HLT, FIN |
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RELATING TO TOBACCO PRODUCTS. Establishes the offense of unlawful shipment of tobacco products. Includes e-liquid and electronic smoking devices within the definition of "tobacco products", as used in the cigarette tax and tobacco tax law. Increases the license fee for persons engaged as a wholesaler or dealer of cigarettes and tobacco products. Increases the retail tobacco permit fee for retailers engaged in the retail sale of cigarettes and tobacco products. Allocates a portion of funds collected from excise taxes on tobacco products to health education and prevention programs about the risks and dangers of the use of electronic smoking devices for youth. Repeals certain provisions of the Hawaii Revised Statutes relating to electronic smoking devices. Effective January 1, 2021.
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CPC, JUD, FIN |
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RELATING TO FLAVORED TOBACCO PRODUCTS. Bans the sale of flavored tobacco products. Effective January 1, 2021.
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HLT, CPC/JUD, FIN |
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RELATING TO THE SALE OF TOBACCO PRODUCTS. Establishes a schedule of penalties for employees and holders of retail tobacco permits or persons registered to sell electronic cigarette smoking devices who illegally sell tobacco products and electronic smoking devices to persons under 21. Effective January 1, 2021.
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HLT, CPC/JUD, FIN |
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RELATING TO MENTAL HEALTH AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE SPECIAL FUND. Authorizes expenditures from the mental health and substance abuse special fund to be used for capital improvement projects.
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HLT, FIN |
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RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS. Updates various assessments and penalties under the jurisdiction of the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations by revising the monetary assessments according to changes in the Consumer Price Index.
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RELATING TO THE BOILER AND ELEVATOR SAFETY LAW. Authorizes the Director of Labor and Industrial Relations to allow third-party inspectors and third-party inspection companies to conduct certain types of elevator inspections; effective July 1, 2020, repealed June 30, 2025.
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LAB, CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO THE PAYMENT OF DEBT SERVICE ON THE TURTLE BAY REIMBURSABLE GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS. Streamlines the process for completing the Department of Land and Natural Resources' required annual payment of debt service on the reimbursable general obligation bonds for Turtle Bay.
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WLH, FIN |
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RELATING TO STATE BOATING FACILITIES. Authorizes the Board of Land and Natural Resources to lease any existing state boating facility in part or in its entirety, and fast lands and submerged lands within any existing state boating facility, by public auction, request for proposals, or direct negotiation for private development, management, and operation. Clarifies that legislative approval is not required to award a lease. Repeals fast lands and submerged lands lease authorization for Ala Wai Boat Harbor under section 200-2.6, Hawaii Revised Statutes.
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RELATING TO STATE SMALL BOAT HARBOR FEES. Amends the various fees the Department of Land and Natural Resources may charge for the usage of state small boat harbors. Amends the manner in which those fees are applied.
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WLH, FIN |
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RELATING TO BOATING REPORTS. Requires the fire chief and the ocean safety director of each county, in addition to the Director of Public Safety and the police chief of each county, to transmit to the Department of Land and Natural Resources a copy of every report relating to boating accidents or the theft, loss, or recovery of vessels. Requires all reports submitted pursuant to section 200-27, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to be unredacted.
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TRN, FIN |
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RELATING TO OCEAN RECREATION COMMERCIAL PERMITS. Authorizes the Department of Land and Natural Resources to issue new ocean recreation commercial permits by public auction.
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RELATING TO DISPOSITION OF WATER LICENSES BY THE BOARD OF LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCES. Clarifies the conditions and manner in which the Board of Land and Natural Resources may dispose water by license.
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RELATING TO AUTHORIZING THE DEPARTMENT OF LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCES TO LEASE PASTURE LANDS ON TERMS THAT PROMOTE COLLABORATIVE BENEFICIAL USE FOR FORESTRY, WILDLIFE, RECREATIONAL, AND FOOD PRODUCTION PURPOSES. Authorizes the Board of Land and Natural Resources to amend and extend existing pasture leases and to issue new pasture leases by negotiation in furtherance of public purposes the Department of Land and Natural Resources is responsible for promoting.
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RELATING TO LIFEGUARD SERVICES AT STATE PARK BEACHES. Allocates Transient Accommodations Tax revenues to the Department of Land and Natural Resources to cover lifeguard service expenses incurred at state park beaches.
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RELATING TO THE UNIFORM CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES ACT. Updates chapter 329, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to make it consistent with amendments in the federal controlled substances law as required under section 329-11.
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JUD, FIN |
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RELATING TO THE ELECTRONIC PRESCRIPTION ACCOUNTABILITY SYSTEM. Updates section 329-104(c), Hawaii Revised Statutes, to clarify who may access information stored in the electronic prescription accountability system.
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RELATING TO PUBLIC SAFETY. Appropriates funds to purchase the Honolulu Federal Detention Center.
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PVM, JUD, FIN |
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RELATING TO THE ELECTRONIC PRESCRIPTION ACCOUNTABILITY SYSTEM. Amends section 329-101(b) and (d), Hawaii Revised Statutes, to require that the dispensing of a pharmacist-prescribed opioid antagonist be reported to the State's Electronic Prescription Accountability System.
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HLT, CPC/JUD, FIN |
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RELATING TO CONFORMITY TO THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE. Conforms Hawaii income and estate and generation-skipping transfer tax laws to the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended as of December 31, 2019.
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FIN |
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RELATING TO WITHHOLDING TAX. Amends the due date for employers to file the wage and tax statement from the last day of February to January 31 following the close of the calendar year. Imposes a penalty on employers that fail to timely furnish and file the wage and tax statement.
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LAB, FIN |
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RELATING TO TRANSIENT ACCOMMODATIONS TAX. Amends chapter 237D, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to repeal the misdemeanor for failing to register under chapter 237D and replacing it with a fine structure and to make various technical amendments.
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TIA, FIN |
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RELATING TO TAX ADMINISTRATION. Allows the Department of Taxation to mandate the electronic filing of partnership and S-corporation returns if the taxpayer's gross receipts exceed $250,000. Requires certain tax return preparers to file returns electronically. Amends the rules for electronic funds transfer to remove the authorization to require electronic funds transfer or electronic filing if the federal government required that person to file or pay electronically. Removes the timeliness requirement from the electronic funds transfer penalty. Removes the authority of the department to charge for certified copies of tax clearances. Amends the statute that mandates tax clearances for liquor license holders. Clarifies the interest rate for payments made to taxpayers out of the litigated claims fund.
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RELATING TO RENTAL MOTOR VEHICLE MARKETPLACE FACILITATORS. Deems rental motor vehicle marketplace facilitators to be the lessors and operators for purposes of rental motor vehicle and tour vehicle surcharge tax under chapter 251, Hawaii Revised Statutes.
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CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO PAYMENT FOR AIRPORT CHARGES. Amends the law relating to use of credit cards to pay for airport charges to add the use of debit cards and online electronic payments; allows the airports to pay for processing fees and charges; imposes additional processing fees or charges upon the user for online electronic payments such as Automated Clearing House (ACH) payments and for credit and debit cards; and allows the airports to have the user pay for processing fees and charges directly to the credit or debit card processor.
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RELATING TO AIRPORTS. Clarifies airport jurisdiction with respect to land use compliance and county permits.
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WLH/TRN, FIN |
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RELATING TO AIRPORT ZONING ACT. Clarifies Airport Zoning Act definitions and regulations.
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TRN/WLH, FIN |
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RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII TUITION AND FEES SPECIAL FUND. Repeal the requirement that each UH campus prepare an operations plan, to be reviewed by the President and VP for Budget and Finance and CFO of UH, for each fiscal year. Repeal the requirement that the moneys in the UH Tuition and Fees Special Fund for each UH campus to lapse to the credit of Program ID No. UOH900 (University of Hawaii, system wide support).
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LHE, FIN |
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RELATING TO TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER AT THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII. Removes the sunset provision in Act 38, Session Laws of Hawaii 2017.
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RELATING TO UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII RESEARCH. Removes the sunset provision in Act 39, Session Laws of Hawaii 2017.
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RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII PROMISE PROGRAM. Provides scholarships for the unmet financial needs of qualified students at any University of Hawaii campus who meet certain criteria.
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RELATING TO THE CONFERENCE CENTER REVOLVING FUND. Broadens the scope of the Conference Center Revolving Fund for the University of Hawaii at Hilo.
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RELATING TO CRIMINAL HISTORY RECORD CHECKS. Adds the University of Hawaii to the list of agencies that are authorized to conduct criminal history record checks on current or prospective employees, including student employees and contractors and their employees, whose positions or duties are related to public safety.
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RELATING TO VACANT AND ABANDONED RESIDENTIAL STRUCTURES. Requires counties to expedite demolition permits for vacant and abandoned residential homes. Allows the department of taxation to seek sale of the property through non-judicial foreclosure of vacant and abandoned residential properties with outstanding recorded state tax liens at any time after establishing vacancy and abandonment.
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RELATING TO DIVORCE. Grants exclusive original jurisdiction in matters of annulment, divorce, and separation and other certain cases to the family court of the circuit in which an applicant is domiciled at the time the application is filed. Repeals the requirement that a person be domiciled or physically present in the State for a continuous period of at least three months before filing for divorce. Repeals the requirement that a person be domiciled or physically present in the State for a continuous period of at least six months before completing a divorce.
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RELATING TO IMMIGRATION. Makes an appropriation to the judiciary to contract with nonprofit organizations to provide legal assistance and legal counsel to immigrants in determining legal status and citizenship, provide diversion to existing services, and otherwise provide counsel for existing rights.
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RELATING TO THE EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM. Authorizes forfeiture of certain ERS benefits, pursuant to court order, for state or county employees and designated beneficiaries who are convicted of an employment-related felony.
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RELATING TO THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT LAW. Requires a supplemental environmental assessment or supplemental environmental impact statement after the passage of 15 years from the date of the acceptance of the statement or the determination of a finding of no significant impact, if the proposed action is not completed.
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RELATING TO REAL PROPERTY TRANSACTIONS. Requires a vulnerable coastal property purchaser statement to be executed by the purchaser or transferee with the sale or transfer of vulnerable coastal real estate.
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RELATING TO REAL PROPERTY TRANSACTIONS. Requires that mandatory seller disclosures in real estate transactions include identification of residential real properties lying within the sea level rise exposure area as officially designated by the Hawaii Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Commission, subject to the availability of county maps designating the areas by tax map key. Effective 1/1/2021.
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RELATING TO TAXATION. Changes income tax rates for taxable years beginning after 12/31/2020.
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RELATING TO PROPERTY ACCESS. Extends the application of gathering rights to lands owned in fee simple and to landlords and landowners. Authorizes an action for easement by necessity for landlocked parcels not previously under a unity of title with the prospective subservient estate.
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RELATING TO THE LOW-INCOME HOUSING TAX CREDIT. Changes tax credit allocation for partnerships and corporations. Makes inoperative at risk and passive activity loss rules with respect to certain low-income building.
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RELATING TO THE TRANSIENT ACCOMMODATIONS TAX. Authorizes counties to levy a county surcharge on transient accommodations tax in their respective counties pursuant to certain conditions. Sunsets on 12/31/2036.
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RELATING TO UNFUNDED LIABILITIES. Converts the State's employee health care plan from fully‑insured to self-insured or self-funded. Establishes the rate stabilization reserve fund. Establishes a reserve of $2,000,000,000 within EUTF. Transfers excess funds, earnings, and any pay-as-you-go employee premiums not spent from the EUTF reserve and OPEB to the rate stabilization reserve fund. Continues to provide for the use of a portion of TAT revenues to supplement deficient county public employer contribution amounts.
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RELATING TO THE ESTABLISHMENT OF AN ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION COMMISSION. Establishes an ecosystem restoration commission to identify lands for environmental remediation and return ownership and control of those lands to the State, a county, or other entity.
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RELATING TO REDUCING PLASTIC PACKAGING WASTE. Requires all retail food establishments using any food service ware for any food prepared or packaged on premises to use biodegradable, compostable, recyclable, or reusable food service ware.
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RELATING TO ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENTS. Adds definitions of "biomass" and "fossil fuels", and amends the definition of "power generating facility".
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RELATING TO PUBLIC LANDS. Prohibits the board of land and natural resources from approving the disposition of public land to the United States military that would allow for or facilitate any military training.
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RELATING TO COMPOSTING. Establishes a class of artisan-scale composting operations exempt from department of health regulations to divert organic materials from Hawai‘i's landfills.
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RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. Requires the college of tropical agriculture and human resources cooperative extension division to develop a strategic plan for promoting and supporting the development of small scale certified organic family farms. Appropriates money for organic family farm plan development.
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RELATING TO CLIMATE CONTROL. Prohibits new fossil fuel vehicles to be used for transportation effective 2025.
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RELATING TO ELECTRIC VEHICLES. Repeals the annual vehicle registration surcharge fee for electric vehicles and alternative fuel vehicles.
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RELATING TO ELECTRIC VEHICLES. Establishes an income tax credit of $2,000 for each electric vehicle purchased by the taxpayer. Requires each state agency to purchase electric vehicles to replace existing vehicles as needed. Requires all vehicles used by state agencies to be electric vehicles by 2030.
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RELATING TO THE MANAGEMENT OF STATE FUNDS. Establishes the State Funds Investment Board to oversee the short-term investment of state moneys. Authorizes the State Funds Investment Board to employ investment officers and other employees. Prohibits board members and employees of the State Funds Investment Board from having a direct interest in the gains or profits of the board's investments. Requires the State Funds Investment Board to invest, through a private financial services firm, any State moneys that are in excess of the amounts necessary for meeting the immediate requirements of the State. Amends other provisions relating to the short-term investment of state moneys, including the types of financial instruments in which state moneys may be invested. Appropriates funds.
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RELATING TO ENERGY EFFICIENCY. Requires grid interactive water heater systems to be an alternative to solar water heaters for required installation in new single residential family homes on or after 1/1/2021.
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RELATING TO ENERGY. Establishes renewable energy portfolio standards for gas utility companies.
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RELATING TO STATE HOLIDAYS. Repeals the provision making election days state holidays and provides 8 hours of paid leave during normal business hours on the anniversary of an employee's date of birth on even-numbered years.
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RELATING TO STATE HOLIDAYS. Repeals the provision making election days state holidays and provides employees with 8 hours of paid leave every even-numbered year during normal business hours on a day previously agreed upon with their employer.
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RELATING TO GRANTS FOR LOCAL RECYCLING FACILITIES. Requires the office of solid waste management to establish a recycling facility grant program to incentivize recycling in the State. Appropriates funds.
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RELATING TO SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE INVESTING. Incorporates socially responsible investing in the investment decision-making of endowment, trust, or investment funds established by statute or maintained by state agencies or offices.
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RELATING TO ENERGY PROJECTS NEAR RESIDENTIAL AREAS. Prohibits utility-scale energy projects from being constructed or located within half a mile from the boundary of any residential area.
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RELATING TO STATEWIDE COMPOSTING. Requires DOH to periodically update its co-composting rules. Requires DOH to establish a multi-tiered registration and permitting system for composting facilities. Allows composting and co-composting in agricultural districts.
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RELATING TO EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT. Improves the State's preparedness and response to disasters. Requires statewide inventories of hospitals, dialysis centers, and medical facilities; satellite phones; and generators to provide backup power. Appropriates funds for positions related to emergency response planning and allocation of resources and for non-perishable food in natural disasters.
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RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE TWENTY-FOURTH REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT. Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the twenty-fourth representative district.
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RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE FORTY-EIGHTH REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT. Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the forty-eighth representative district.
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RELATING TO HOUSING ASSISTANCE. Appropriates funds to the Hawaii Public Housing Authority for rent subsidy payments and additional staff.
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RELATING TO TRAUMA-INFORMED EDUCATION. Requires DOE to establish a three-year pilot program for the development and implementation of a trauma-informed education program in the Castle, Kailua, and Kalaheo complexes, based on the Nanakuli-Waianae complex area trauma-informed education programs and report to the legislature. Appropriates funds.
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RELATING TO ENERGY. Requires the Hawaii State Energy Office, in consultation with DOH, to conduct a comprehensive study of the disposal and recycling of solar panels. Requires an interim report and a final report to the legislature. Appropriates funds for study.
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RELATING TO SHARK PROTECTION. Prohibits and establishes fines and penalties for knowingly capturing, taking, possessing, abusing, entangling, or killing any shark within state marine waters. Provides certain exemptions.
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RELATING TO PERSONAL PROPERTY STORED ON PUBLIC LAND. Prohibits the storing of personal property on public land without a permit or other approval from the State or a county.
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RELATING TO KANEOHE BAY. Appropriates funds to create a full-time internship coordinator and cultural resource specialist positions with the Hawaii institute of marine biology at the Heeia estuarine research reserve.
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RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES. Requires DHS to establish a neighbor islands blind and visually impaired service pilot program to provide services and training for blind and visually impaired neighbor island residents. Appropriates funds. Repeals 06/30/2021.
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RELATING TO LEGISLATIVE TESTIMONY. Requires the house and senate to permit remote testimony, via telephone, at public hearings.
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RELATING TO THE EMPLOYMENT OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES. Establishes Employment First as a state policy for persons with disabilities. Requires state and county agencies to implement Employment First in hiring and in all programs and services administered or funded by the State or counties. Applies Employment First principles to Medicaid home- and community-based waiver programs.
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RELATING TO THE HAWAII CIVIL RIGHTS COMMISSION. Clarifies the meaning of "program or activity receiving state financial assistance". Excludes cases within the scope of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act from the jurisdiction of the Hawaii civil rights commission.
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RELATING TO THE HAWAI'I SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF AND BLIND. Creates a Board of Trustees for the Hawai‘i School for the Deaf and Blind to establish an independent governance structure for the school.
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RELATING TO THE DIVISION OF BOATING AND OCEAN RECREATION. Requires the auditor to conduct a performance and management audit of DLNR's division of boating and ocean recreation.
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RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE FORTIETH REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT. Authorizes issuance of general obligation bonds and appropriates funds for capital improvement projects for the benefit of the 40th Representative District.
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RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE SEVENTH REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT. Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the seventh representative district.
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RELATING TO DOMESTIC ABUSE. Amends the definition of domestic abuse under Hawaii's insurance laws and domestic abuse protective order statutes to include coercive control between family or household members. Defines coercive control.
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RELATING TO ATHLETICS. Requires that DOE and athletic leagues and associations allow charter school students wishing to participate in a sport for which there is no program at the charter school in the service area where the student resides, to participate in a comparable DOE school sports program in the service area where the student resides or in an adjacent service area at no additional cost to the student. Specifies that charter school students be represented by the DOE school for athletic league or association business.
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RELATING TO CHARTER SCHOOLS. Provides that if BOE grants chartering authority to an authorizer other than the State Public Charter School Commission, the Legislature must appropriate funds to the Commission and any other authorizer based on a per-pupil allocation. Beginning with FY2020-2021, requires the Legislature to make an appropriation to the Commission and any other authorizer that is separate from and in addition to any appropriation made to charter schools pursuant to sections 302D-28 and 302D-29.5, HRS. Requires the transfer of the charter contract and all applicable funding from a former authorizer to a new authorizer within 10 calendar days of board approval. Makes conforming amendments.
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RELATING TO EDUCATION. Clarifies that the department of education is responsible for providing the necessary resources for the special education of students in charter schools. Makes conforming amendments.
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RELATING TO HUMAN TRAFFICKING. Establishes training requirements for employees of transient accommodations in human trafficking awareness and response. Requires operators of transient accommodations to display National Human Trafficking Resource Center hotline information to employees, establish written human trafficking prevention policies, and implement procedures for reporting known or suspected human trafficking. Requires the Hawaii Tourism Authority to monitor compliance with this Act.
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RELATING TO FEMININE HYGIENE PRODUCTS. Promotes menstrual equity by providing an exemption from the GET, beginning October 1, 2020, for the sale of feminine hygiene products in the State. Appropriates funds to the DOE to make feminine hygiene products available to students for free on public secondary school campuses.
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RELATING TO ASSISTED LIVING FACILITIES. Requires each assisted living facility to have at least 1 registered nurse available on its premises at all times to meet the care management and monitoring needs of its residents.
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RELATING TO COLLECTIVE BARGAINING. Creates a new bargaining unit (15), exclusively for state and county ocean safety and water safety officers.
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LAB, FIN |
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RELATING TO EVIDENCE. Limits compelled disclosure of sources or unpublished information for journalists, newscasters and persons participating in collection or dissemination of news or information of substantial public interest. Establishes exceptions.
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RELATING TO TRAFFIC RULES. Requires heavy trucks having a gross vehicle weight rating of more than 10,000 pounds to drive within the right-hand lane of an interstate highway except when the heavy truck is turning left or avoiding an obstruction.
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RELATING TO LICENSURE. Permits a licensed beauty operator to apply for a barber shop license.
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RELATING TO TAXATION. Requires a certain percentage of the transient accommodations tax to be allocated to provide funding for the Bishop Museum and Iolani Palace.
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RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE TWENTY-NINTH REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT. Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the twenty-ninth representative district.
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RELATING TO THE HAWAII THEATRE CENTER. Establishes the Hawaii Theatre Center as the Hawaii State Theatre. Appropriates funds.
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RELATING TO THE ENVIRONMENT. Appropriates funds to the University of Hawaii Water Resources Research Center to research and develop specialized equipment for the removal of plastic marine debris.
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RELATING TO HOUSING. Establishes the ALOHA homes program to develop low-cost homes on state-owned and county-owned land in urban redevelopment sites to be sold in leasehold by the Hawaii housing finance and development corporation (HHFDC) to qualified residents. Exempts certain land from the definition of public lands. Requires HHFDC to develop an ALOHA homes demonstration project by July 1, 2025.
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RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE FORTY-SEVENTH REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT. Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the forty-seventh representative district.
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RELATING TO WASTE MANAGEMENT. Prohibits any waste or disposal facility from being located in a conservation district except in emergency circumstances to mitigate significant risks to public safety and health. Requires no less than a one-half mile buffer zone for the construction, operation, modification, or expansion of a municipal solid waste landfill unit.
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RELATING TO HISTORIC PRESERVATION. Makes it a civil and administrative violation for any person to engage in certain archeological activities without obtaining the required permission or approval from the department of land and natural resources.
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RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. Temporarily authorizes the Board of Agriculture to decide on a case-by-case basis which entities qualify for a non-agricultural park lease. Establishes conditions and qualifications for a lease. Sunsets 6/30/2025.
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RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII. Prohibits the University of Hawaii from prohibiting a person elected or appointed to an elective federal, state, or county office, or candidate for any of those offices, from working as a University of Hawaii faculty member, unless work schedules and time demands unreasonably conflict. Takes effect upon the ratification of a constitutional amendment that provides that article III, section 8, of the Constitution of the State of Hawaii shall not be construed to prohibit a member of the legislature from being employed in a faculty member position at the University of Hawaii solely because of the member's membership in the legislature.
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RELATING TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING. Requires the State Historic Preservation Division to contract its review of proposed state projects, projects on privately owned historic property, and projects affecting historic properties to third-party consultants if the projects involve the development of affordable housing and the division will not be able to complete its review within 60 days.
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WLH/HSG, FIN |
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RELATING TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING. Temporarily exempts affordable housing projects from all state fees related to discretionary approval or ministerial permitting. Sunsets on 1/1/2032.
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HSG, FIN |
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RELATING TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING. Provides that an exemption from the general excise tax established by section 201H-36, Hawaii Revised Statutes, that has been approved by the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation shall be provided once the qualified person or firm has received approval for project funding and begun to spend money on the project.
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RELATING TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING. Requires that when developers make cash payments in lieu of providing the required reserved housing units in the development of residential projects for the Hawaii Community Development Authority, the cash payments shall be deposited into the rental housing revolving fund.
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RELATING TO SAFETY HELMETS. Requires operators and passengers of motorcycles, motor scooters, mopeds, and bicycles to wear safety helmets.
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RELATING TO HEALTH. Explicitly authorizes advanced practice registered nurses, in addition to physicians, to practice medical aid in dying in accordance with their scope of practice and prescribing authority. Reduces the mandatory waiting period between oral requests made by a terminally ill individual to fifteen days. Allows the attending provider to waive the waiting period for terminally ill individuals not expected to survive the mandatory waiting period.
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RELATING TO THE STATE HEALTH INSURANCE ASSISTANCE PROGRAM. Appropriates funds for the state health insurance assistance program.
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RELATING TO VETERINARIANS. Provides veterinarians who provide emergency care to an animal immunity from civil liability in the absence of gross negligence. Provides veterinarians who render emergency treatment when there is no veterinarian-client-patient relationship, immunity from civil liability in the absence of gross negligence. Requires veterinarians to report to law enforcement events of animal injury, death, or abuse where there is reasonable cause to believe that it relates to dog fighting or animal abuse and gives veterinarians immunity for civil liability for making the reports.
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RELATING TO CRITICAL ELECTRICAL INFRASTRUCTURE. Establishes the offense of criminal trespass on critical electrical infrastructure.
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EEP, JUD |
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RELATING TO DEMENTIA TRAINING. Requires the departments of health and human services to develop and provide dementia training to first responders and investigators from DHS's adult protective services program.
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RELATING TO ELECTRONIC SMOKING PRODUCTS. Establishes the offense of unlawful shipment of e-liquid products. Includes e-liquid and electronic smoking devices containing e-liquid within the definition of "tobacco products", as used in the cigarette tax and tobacco tax law. Allocates a portion of funds collected from excise taxes on tobacco products to health education and prevention programs about the risks and dangers of the use of electronic smoking devices for youth. Repeals certain provisions of the Hawaii Revised Statutes relating to electronic smoking devices.
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RELATING TO THE YOUTH VAPING EPIDEMIC. Bans the sale of flavored tobacco products. Prohibits mislabeling of e-liquid products containing nicotine. Establishes fines and penalties for violations. Requires the Department of Education to establish a safe harbor program by which persons under 21 years of age may dispose of electronic cigarettes in their possession. Authorizes public school teachers to confiscate electronic cigarettes. Increases fines for the purchase or possession of tobacco products and electronic smoking devices by persons under 21 years of age. Authorizes a court to impose, as a penalty on a person 18-21 years of age who is convicted of possession of a tobacco product or electronic smoking device, the requirement to complete a tobacco education program, complete a tobacco use cessation program, or perform community service instead of paying a fine. Requires a parent or guardian of a minor to select from among the penalties for a minor convicted of possession of a tobacco product or electronic smoking device.
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RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE FORTY-NINTH REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT. Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the forty-ninth representative district.
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RELATING TO MEDICAL AUTONOMY. Authorizes conscientious beliefs as a basis for exemption from vaccination requirements. Requires that the first option for quarantine of an individual be quarantined inside that individual's residence.
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RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE TWENTY-THIRD REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT. Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects for the 23rd Representative District.
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RELATING TO TRAFFIC CONGESTION. Requires the Department of Transportation in collaboration with other public agencies, to research and develop methods to reduce traffic congestion and motor vehicle fuel emissions in the State.
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RELATING TO ELECTRIC VEHICLES. Establishes the electric vehicle rebate program of the Public Utilities Commission to award rebates for the purchase of new electric vehicles. Appropriates funds.
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RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION NETWORK COMPANIES. Requires transportation network companies to be registered with the Director of Transportation. Establishes requirements for transportation network company drivers.
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RELATING TO THE USE OF INTOXICANTS WHILE OPERATING A VEHICLE. Lowers the blood alcohol concentration threshold for the offense of operating a vehicle while under the influence of an intoxicant.
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RELATING TO FIREARMS. Authorizes county police chiefs to issue permits to acquire firearms to U.S. nationals who otherwise meet all of the applicable criteria under section 134-2, HRS.
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PVM, JUD |
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RELATING TO CAPITAL DISTRICT BUILDINGS. Establishes a pilot project for child care facilities at capital district buildings with the first facility to be established at the state capitol. Appropriates funds.
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RELATING TO TOURISM. Requires the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to study the need for a tourism information center in the Capital District. Appropriates funds.
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TIA, LMG, FIN |
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RELATING TO THE OFFICE OF HAWAIIAN AFFAIRS. Requires at least 50% of all general funds appropriated to the Office of Hawaiian Affairs each fiscal year to be distributed directly to beneficiaries. Applies to budget preparation and submissions for fiscal year 2021-2022 and subsequent fiscal years.
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RELATING TO EMPLOYMENT. Clarifies that Hawaii's anti-discrimination law does not prohibit or prevent an employer, employment agency, or labor organization from refusing to hire or refer or from discharging an individual for reasons unrelated to unlawful discriminatory practices.
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RELATING TO HOUSING. Directs the HPHA to convey a specified 15.418-acre parcel in Honokaa, Hawaii county, to HHFDC. Requires HHFDC to conduct a feasibility study to determine whether the parcel is suitable for residential development. Appropriates funds for the feasibility study.
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RELATING TO RESTRICTIONS ON AGRICULTURAL USES AND ACTIVITIES. Disallows the enforcement of a rerecorded homeowners' association restriction if the restriction prohibits bonafide agricultural uses and activities on agricultural land.
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AGR/WLH, CPC, JUD |
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RELATING TO SELF-HELP HOUSING. Establishes the self-help homeownership housing revolving fund to provide for loans and project-related technical assistance grants to nonprofit housing development organizations to support the development of affordable homeownership housing projects under a self-help housing program. Appropriates funds.
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RELATING TO COUNTIES. Makes explicit the counties' authority to enact ordinances to amortize or phase out permitted, nonconforming, or otherwise allowed short-term rentals in any zoning classification. Includes swapping, bartering, or exchange of a residential dwelling, or portion thereof, in definition of "short-term rental" for this purpose.
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TIA/WLH, FIN |
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RELATING TO EMERGENCY WORKERS. Amends the definition of "emergency worker" in the Penal Code to include communications dispatchers.
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RELATING TO CARGO CARRIERS. Authorizes the Department of Transportation to expend funds from the harbor special fund to provide subsidies to cargo carriers to offset costs incurred by the cargo carriers as a result of providing cargo carrier services to ports serving counties within the State having a population of less than 500,000 and comprising three or more populated islands. Appropriates moneys.
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RELATING TO BALLOONS. Prohibits the release, outdoors, of balloons made of electrically conductive material and filled with a gas lighter than air, as part of any public or civic event, promotional activity, or product advertisement.
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RELATING TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING. Authorizes the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to approve and certify for exemption from general excise taxes certain affordable housing projects once site control is obtained. Defines site control as the execution of any regulatory agreement between any qualified person or firm and any governmental entity for purposes of developing certain affordable housing projects.
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RELATING TO MEMORIALS. Appropriates funds for the planning and design of a memorial to honor service members of the recent conflicts in the Persian Gulf, Iraq, Afghanistan, and the various theaters of the Global War on Terrorism, to be located at the Hawaii State Veterans Cemetery in Kaneohe, on the island of Oahu, and replicas of the memorial to be located at state veterans' cemeteries statewide.
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RELATING TO CRIME. Provides reimbursement of reasonable legal costs to defendants charged with an offense under certain sections of the Penal Code if the defendant is found not guilty because the use of force upon or toward another person is justifiable because of self-protection, protection of others, or protection of property.
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RELATING TO SAFE WATER. Prohibits the introduction of fluoride to a public water system. Provides that any conflicting laws or rules are preempted.
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RELATING TO LITTERING. Increases the maximum civil fine for littering on a public highway from $500 to $1,000. Increases the maximum civil penalty for violations of litter control from $500 to $1,000. Increases the criminal fine for the offense of criminal littering from $1,000 to $5,000.
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RELATING TO QUALIFIED COMMUNITY REHABILITATION PROGRAMS. Allows community rehabilitation programs for persons with disabilities to be considered qualified under the State's procurement code without requiring federal and state certification that authorizes the payment of subminimum wage to workers in their program.
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RELATING TO BULLYING. Requires all entities that provide educational or recreational activities to youths to establish, maintain, and enforce written policies and procedures on bullying, harassment, and retaliation, and provide staff with appropriate annual training, regardless of whether the entity receives any government funding.
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RELATING TO STATE PARKS. Appropriates funds to DLNR to purchase ocean safety and rescue equipment for ocean safety officers at state parks.
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RELATING TO HAWAII NATIONAL GUARD RETIREMENT BENEFITS. Requires the board of trustees of the employees' retirement system to conduct a study and recommend state retirement benefits for Hawaii national guard members who are activated under state active duty orders. Appropriates funds.
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RELATING TO THE OFFICE OF PLANNING. Updates and reaffirms the role of the office of planning to coordinate among state agencies regarding climate change adaptation and sustainability.
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RELATING TO A HAWAII GREEN NEW DEAL. Requires the sustainability coordinator of the office of planning to complete a study on implementing a green new deal for the State. Requires the study to identify federal and international polices; review Hawaii's environmental, economic, and cultural response to the green new deal; and determine cost-effective opportunities for Hawaii to implement the green new deal.
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RELATING TO EDUCATION. Establishes the Moanalua high school performing arts center special fund for the repair and maintenance of the performing arts center.
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LHE, FIN |
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RELATING TO ASSAULT. Adds intentionally or knowingly causing bodily injury to a person sixty years of age or older to the statutory definition of assault in the second degree.
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RELATING TO INCOME. Short form bill relating to income.
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RELATING TO INCOME EQUITY. Short form bill relating to income equity.
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RELATING TO HYDROFLUOROCARBONS. Preserves preexisting federal regulations on the use of hydrofluorocarbons in state law. Phases out hydrofluorocarbons in favor of alternatives with lower global warming potential. Establishes a preference for products that do not contain hydrofluorocarbons in the state procurement code. Directs the State Energy Office and the Environmental Management Division of the Department of Health to study how to increase the use of refrigerants with low global warming potential, reduce the use of hydrofluorocarbons, and recommend how to fund, structure, and prioritize a state program that incentivizes or provides grants to support the elimination of legacy uses of hydrofluorocarbons.
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RELATING TO CARBON EMISSIONS REDUCTION. Establishes a clean vehicle special fund to incentivize the purchase of vehicles that produce less carbon emissions by providing a rebate. Creates a graduated gasoline-powered vehicle tax to be paid by purchasers of a passenger car or pickup truck that is powered solely by gasoline and obtains only a certain number of miles per gallon.
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RELATING TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING. Exempts Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation housing projects from any requirement to construct electric vehicle charging stations or infrastructure for the future construction of electric vehicle charging stations.
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RELATING TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING. Establishes that whenever the infrastructure or equipment for electric utility service is required to be installed underground for affordable housing within an area that has been designated by a county as a transit-oriented development area, it shall be the responsibility of the electric utility company to install the infrastructure or equipment.
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EEP/HSG, CPC, FIN |
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MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR SCHOOLS IN THE NANAKULI-WAIANAE COMPLEX AREA. Appropriates funds for schools in the Nanakuli-Waianae complex area for capital improvement projects to install, repair, and maintain air conditioning in those schools.
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LHE, FIN |
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RELATING TO A LIVING WAGE. Requires employers doing business with state agencies pursuant to a contract, subcontract, lease, sublease, permit, or license, to pay to each of its employees a wage of not less than $15 per hour worked, adjusted annually for any increase in the cost of living. Requires concessionaires to retain employees of prior concessionaires.
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RELATING TO ENERGY RESOURCES. Repeals authorization for agencies that perform energy efficiency retrofitting to receive budget appropriations for energy expenditures at an amount that does not fall below the pre-retrofitting energy budget or to set aside a portion of the moneys saved through efficiency and renewable energy system retrofitting to pay for any costs directly associated with administering energy efficiency and renewable energy system retrofitting programs.
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EEP, FIN |
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RELATING TO THE HAWAII HEALTH SYSTEMS CORPORATION. Amends provisions specifying the number of Maui members on the board of directors of the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation by making the number unspecified.
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HLT, FIN |
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RELATING TO THE STATE BUDGET. Adjusts and makes additional appropriations for fiscal biennium 2019-2021 to fund the operations of executive branch agencies and programs.
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FIN |
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RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE TWENTY-EIGHTH REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT. Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the twenty-eighth representative district.
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RELATING TO HEALTH. Requires the State Health Planning and Development Agency to grant an existing hospital or dialysis facility in a rural subarea a right of first refusal to expand its existing facilities or services if a competing entity files a certificate of need application to establish a new hospital or dialysis facility in the same rural subarea. Defines "rural subarea."
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RELATING TO THE HAWAII HEALTH AUTHORITY. Directs HHA to submit to the legislature a comprehensive health plan that includes an all-payer model and a funding source for the unfunded liabilities of the employer-union health benefits trust fund. Amends the requirements for appointment to HHA. Appropriates funds to HHA for the hiring of an executive director and other staff and expenses necessary for the authority.
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RELATING TO HEALTH INSURANCE. Establishes disclosure and consent requirements for nonparticipating health care providers. Prohibits nonparticipating health care providers from balance billing patients in specific circumstances. Establishes rate calculation requirements for reimbursement of nonparticipating providers.
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RELATING TO TAXATION. Requires the Director of Taxation to convene a task force to examine the income tax law to ensure that pension income is excluded from taxation.
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RELATING TO VITAL STATISTICS. Requires the department of health to issue a certificate of stillbirth issued in the case of a stillbirth, upon request of the parent or parents.
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RELATING TO HEALTH. Prohibits the sale or furnishing of tobacco and tobacco products to persons under twenty-five years of age. Increases minimum age from twenty-one years of age to twenty-five years of age for purchase and possession of tobacco and tobacco products, including electronic smoking devices and increases fines.
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RELATING TO EDUCATION. Establishes industry certificate awards and appropriates funds to the DOE to incentivize public high schools to encourage students to obtain industry-recognized certifications. Requires the DOE to submit an annual report containing specified information about the progress of the incentivization.
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RELATING TO SCHOOLS. Appropriates funds for the Department of Education to install air conditioning in public schools that prioritize the project.
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RELATING TO THE BOARD OF EDUCATION. Requires the Board of Education to hold no less than six community forums annually, with at least one forum in each county. Requires the Board to include an open forum for public comments on non-agenda items at the end of each public meeting through June 30, 2025. Requires a report to the Legislature on implementing open forums.
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RELATING TO CHARTER SCHOOLS. Provides funding for the rental or lease of facilities through legislative appropriations and bond authorizations to the State Public Charter School Commission for the design, planning, construction, repair, and maintenance of public charter school improvements. Appropriates general funds for infrastructure costs, lease or rent assistance, and repair and maintenance of network infrastructure for charter schools.
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LHE, FIN |
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RELATING TO HISTORIC PRESERVATION. Authorizes DLNR to delegate to qualified archaeologists employed by the counties the authority to perform reviews of proposed projects under the historic preservation program, under certain conditions. Provides that proposed projects under the program are deemed automatically approved if the archaeological review is not completed within 30 calendar days. Provides that challenges to an archaeological review are subject to an expedited hearing before the supreme court.
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RELATING TO CONTRACTORS. Increases the minimum amount of the surety bond, from $5,000 to $25,000, that the contractors license board may require from a licensee or applicant seeking to become a specialty contractor or general contractor.
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RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE FORTY-FIRST REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT. Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the forty-first representative district.
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RELATING TO THE 1924 HANAPEPE MASSACRE. Requires the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts to erect monuments and displays on Kauai, and support other specified awareness efforts, to memorialize the 1924 Hanapepe Massacre victims and the contributions of Kauai sugar plantation laborers as a whole. Appropriates funds.
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RELATING TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING. Requires that projects under chapter 201H, HRS, in a county having a population of more than 100,000 but less than 1,000,0000 be consistent with the county general plan or require that all units of the project shall be affordable housing in perpetuity.
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RELATING TO HONOLUA BAY. Appropriates funds to the Department of Land and Natural Resources for the maintenance of Honolua Bay on the island of Maui.
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TIA, FIN |
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RELATING TO THE COUNTY OF MAUI. Authorizes the Director of Finance to issue general obligation bonds to the County of Maui for the upgrade of that county's R-1 water delivery systems and the Department of Land and Natural Resources for the upgrade of certain water reservoirs located in the forest watershed areas on Maui.
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WLH, FIN |
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RELATING TO SAFETY. Appropriates funds to provide access to state land for lifeguards at Puu Kekaa on the island of Maui, an area under the jurisdiction of Department of Land and Natural Resources.
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WLH, FIN |
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RELATING TO THE STADIUM DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT. Repeals and reestablishes the stadium development district under the jurisdiction of the stadium authority. Establishes the stadium development special fund. Expands the powers and duties of the stadium authority. Appropriates funds.
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RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR KAISER COMPLEX SCHOOLS IN THE SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICTS. Appropriates funds for a capital improvement project to provide the remaining Kaiser Complex schools air conditioning for the 17th and 18th Representative Districts.
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RELATING TO HEALTH. Requires DOH to establish short-term residential beds for the purpose of stabilization from mental health conditions or substance use and to assess patients and triage them to a clinically appropriate level of care through the Hawaii coordinated access resource entry system (CARES). Appropriates funds.
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RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE FOURTH REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT. Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the fourth representative district.
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RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY. Requires PSD to establish a mental health first aid training program that provides mandatory eight-hour sessions triennially for law enforcement, correctional officers, and other public safety officials under PSD.
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RELATING TO HOMELESSNESS. Extends the emergency department homelessness assessment pilot program and medical respite pilot program to December 31, 2021. Appropriates funds.
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HSH, FIN |
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RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES. Appropriates funds for the operating budget of the department of human services for fiscal year 2020-2021.
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HSH, FIN |
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RELATING TO THE LOW-INCOME HOUSING TAX CREDIT. Specifies that certain provisions of the Internal Revenue Code related to at-risk rules and deductions and to passive activity loss do not apply to low-income housing tax credit allocations after 12/31/2020.
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RELATING TO VETERINARIANS. Provides veterinarians who provide emergency care to an animal immunity from civil liability in the absence of gross negligence. Provides veterinarians who render emergency treatment when there is no veterinarian-client-patient relationship, immunity from civil liability in the absence of gross negligence. Requires veterinarians to report to law enforcement events of animal injury, death, or abuse where there is reasonable cause to believe that it relates to dog fighting or animal abuse and gives veterinarians immunity for civil liability for making the reports.
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RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE EIGHTEENTH REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT. Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the eighteenth representative district.
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FIN |
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RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII. Removes the $3 million cap on the amount the University of Hawaii system can expend from the University of Hawaii tuition and fees special fund for the University of Hawaii Foundation.
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LHE, FIN |
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RELATING TO THE STATE OF HAWAII MUSEUM OF MONARCHY HISTORY. Appropriates funds for the purposes of restoration, repair, maintenance, operation, and 1 permanent full-time equivalent (1.0 FTE) groundskeeper for Iolani Palace.
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RELATING TO INVASIVE SPECIES. Appropriates funds to the Department of Agriculture for its efforts to mitigate and control two-lined spittlebug infestations in the State.
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RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE STATE ARCHIVES. Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds to finance plans for a state archives master plan. Appropriates funds.
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MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO THE OFFICE OF THE PROSECUTING ATTORNEY FOR THE COUNTY OF HAWAII. Appropriates funds for the Career Criminal Prosecution Unit of the Office of the Prosecuting Attorney of the County of Hawaii.
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RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE FORTY-FOURTH REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT. Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the forty-fourth representative district.
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FIN |
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RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE TWENTY-FIRST REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT. Authorizes issuance of general obligation bonds and appropriates funds for capital improvement projects for the 21st Representative District.
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RELATING TO THE FUNDING OF GRANTS PURSUANT TO CHAPTER 42F, HAWAII REVISED STATUTES. Appropriates operating and capital improvement grants for fiscal year 2020. Effective 7/1/2020.
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RELATING TO FOOD SAFETY. Appropriates funds to the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to provide education and support to local businesses regarding the federal Food and Drug Administration's industry guidance on colored sea salt. Requires Hawaii sea salt industries to collectively pay fifty per cent of the cost to conduct and submit to the federal Food and Drug Administration any research, studies, or analysis required for federal Food and Drug Administration approval of color additives used in Hawaii sea salt.
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EDB, FIN |
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RELATING TO HEALTH. Establishes a State Lottery Commission to fund cancer research, community health centers, trauma systems, and emergency medical services. Amends disposition of funds from the State cigarette tax. Exempts the State lottery from the statutory definition of gambling.
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EDB/HLT, JUD, FIN |
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RELATING TO CIGARETTES. Bans the sale of cigarettes and electronic cigarettes progressively by raising the minimum age of persons to whom cigarettes and electronic cigarettes may be legally sold to 30 years of age in 2021, 40 years of age in 2022, 50 years of age in 2023, 60 years of age in 2024, and then 100 years of age in 2025. Effective January 1, 2021.
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HLT, CPC/JUD, FIN |
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RELATING TO HELPING WORKING FAMILIES. Makes the state earned income tax credit refundable and permanent. Increases and amends the refundable food/excise tax credit by basing the amount of the credit on a taxpayer's Hawaii earned income, rather than federal adjusted gross income. Increases minimum wage rate to $11.00 per hour beginning on 1/1/2021, $12.00 per hour beginning on 1/1/2022, $12.50 per hour beginning on 1/1/2023, and $13.00 per hour beginning on 1/1/2024.
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RELATING TO LAND DEVELOPMENT. Authorizes the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to lease real property for a period not to exceed 99 years for the development of certain projects that include affordable housing. Requires the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to submit a report to the legislature that identifies all state lands that may be developed for multi-unit dwellings. Authorizes the issuance of $200,000,000 in general obligation bonds, with the proceeds used for the establishment of infrastructure to support the development of housing on lands near the University of Hawaii West Oahu campus. Authorizes the issuance of $75,000,000 in general obligation bonds, with the proceeds used for affordable housing infrastructure in counties with a resident population of 500,000 or less. Authorizes a state or county department or agency to petition the appropriate county land use decision-making authority, rather than the Land Use Commission, for a change in the boundary of a district involving land areas between 15 acres and 25 acres where the majority of the development will be for affordable housing. Authorizes the State Historic Preservation Division to delegate the responsibility of historic preservation project reviews to the impacted county. Establishes the Office of the Housing Ombudsman. Removes the existing statutory cap on the amount of conveyance tax revenues that are deposited into the rental housing revolving fund each fiscal year.
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RELATING TO ACCESS TO LEARNING. Transfers the Executive Office on Early Learning from the Department of Education to the Department of Human Services. Renames the Office as the Learning to Grow Agency. Focuses the jurisdiction of the agency to children who are 3 to 4 years old or will be eligible for kindergarten within 2 years. Establishes the goal of providing all children who are 3 to 4 years old or will be eligible for kindergarten within 2 years with access to learning through an early learning program by the year 2030. Appropriates funds.
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RELATING TO A SCHOOL FACILITIES AGENCY. Establishes the School Facilities Agency to be responsible for all public school development, planning, and construction, related to capital improvement projects assigned by the Legislature, Governor, or Board of Education. Transfers statutes pertaining to the Hawaii 3R's and 3T's programs to a new School Facilities Agency statutory subpart. Places management of school impact fees with the agency. Appropriates funds.
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RELATING TO CONTESTED CASES. Precludes aggrieved persons from filing additional appeals with the supreme court arising in contested case hearings of the commission on water resource management, land use commission, public utilities commission, Hawaii community development authority, and those involving conservation districts regarding contested issues that those aggrieved persons knew or may have known but did not raise before the agency issued a final decision.
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JUD, FIN |
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RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE TWENTY-SIXTH REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT. Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the twenty-sixth representative district.
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RELATING TO HOUSING. Consolidates the administration of low- and moderate-income housing into a single program, to be managed by the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation. Provides that the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation may adopt rules to allow owners to obtain home equity lines of credit, refinance their units, or pay their shared equity.
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HSG, FIN |
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RELATING TO COURTS OF APPEAL. Prohibits courts of appeal from affirming, modifying, reversing, or vacating a matter on grounds other than those raised by the parties to the proceeding, unless the parties are provided the opportunity to brief the court and present oral argument on the matter.
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RELATING TO CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS. Requires the language and meaning of any proposed constitutional amendment and ratification question to be simple, concise, and direct. Allows the presiding officers of the Legislature to request a written opinion of the Supreme Court regarding the legality of a proposed amendment to the Hawaii State Constitution and the corresponding constitutional ratification question. Requires the court to provide a written opinion within 48 hours of receipt of the request. Requires, for any written opinion by the court that invalidates a constitutional ratification question, a detailed and specific explanation of the reasons for this opinion. Prohibits any appeal of a written opinion.
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RELATING TO THE FAMILY COURT. Makes decisions of the family court appealable to the supreme court instead of the intermediate court of appeals. Requires the supreme court to render a final decision on appeals from family court orders within 180 days. Encourages a reduction in the number of remands to the family court.
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JUD, FIN |
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RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, AND TOURISM. Makes an appropriation for operating expenses of DBEDT.
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EDB, FIN |
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RELATING TO INTOXICATING LIQUOR. Exempts applications for a class 1 license on land designated as agricultural by state or county zoning laws and for which the majority of the agricultural products used in the manufacturing of the liquor are grown and produced in the State by the license holder from the automatic refusal provision that may be invoked by a majority of nearby voters or real estate owners.
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CPC/JUD, FIN |
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RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE EIGHTH REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT. Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the eighth representative district.
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FIN |
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RELATING TO TEACHER EDUCATION. Establishes a network improvement community task force to develop a K-12 science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) teacher education degree for the University of Hawaii. Appropriates funds.
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LHE/EDB, FIN |
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RELATING TO THE NA WAI EHA WATERSHED. Appropriates money out of the land conservation fund for the acquisition of 11,020 acres of the Na Wai Eha watershed in Wailuku, Maui.
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WLH, FIN |
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RELATING TO VEHICLES. Authorizes the withholding and revocation of vehicle registrations and driver's licenses for those who abandon a vehicle under specified conditions. Authorizes the assessment and collection of charges relating to abandoned and derelict vehicles.
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RELATING TO COUNTIES. Makes explicit the counties' authority to regulate hosting platforms providing booking services for short-term rentals. Includes swapping, bartering, or exchange of a residential dwelling, or portion thereof, in definition of "short-term rental" for this purpose.
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TIA, JUD, FIN |
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RELATING TO ELECTRIC VEHICLES. Limits the electric vehicle parking fee exemption at airports to drivers of electric vehicles who are airline passengers, as evidenced by a valid airline ticket or boarding pass. Extends the repeal date of Act 168, Session Laws of Hawaii 2012, from 6/30/2020 to 6/30/2028.
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EEP/TRN, LMG, FIN |
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RELATING TO WAGES. Authorizes the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to issue an order of wage payment violation to an employer in violation of provisions regarding wage and hour. Establishes penalties, enforcement, and appeal procedures related to orders of wage payment violations. Amends the "wage" definition under Chapter 387, Hawaii Revised Statutes, wage and hour law, to include compensation for labor or services rendered by an employee, whether the amount is determined on a time, task, piece, commission, or other basis of calculation.
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RELATING TO WAGES. Amends the definition of "wages" in state law regarding wages and other compensation to include any paid time off or personal time off, or holiday, sick, or vacation pay earned and payable in accordance with the terms of an employer's policy or a written agreement with the employer.
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LAB, FIN |
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RELATING TO PRESCRIPTION DRUG RATE SETTING. Establishes a prescription affordability commission within the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs to review prescription drug costs and establish levels of reimbursement. Appropriates moneys.
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RELATING TO COMMON INTEREST COMMUNITIES. Specifies the manner in which a member of a board of a planned community association or condominium association may resign. Limits a planned community association board's ability to fill a vacancy. Clarifies the right to vote in planned community association matters. Requires any proposal to remove a board member of a planned community association be noticed and the proposal to remove included on the meeting notice, upon 14 days' request by an association member.
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CPC, JUD |
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RELATING TO PLANNED COMMUNITY ASSOCIATIONS. Exempts planned community associations from certain requirements regarding cumulative voting for and the removal of directors under the Hawaii Nonprofit Corporations Act.
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CPC, JUD |
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RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII. Establishes an organized research unit for cancer research within the University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine.
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RELATING TO PESTICIDES. Establishes the Restricted Use Pesticide Disposal Amnesty Program within the Department of Agriculture to provide a one-time, affordable, and environmentally accessible means for the disposal of restricted use pesticides from a bona fide agricultural entity. Convenes a Restricted Use Pesticide Disposal Amnesty Program Steering Committee to guide and monitor the program. Appropriates funds.
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RELATING TO TRAFFIC SAFETY. Requires the driver of a lead vehicle on the Hana highway between mile markers 00 and 43 to use turnouts and allow vehicles to pass under certain circumstances.
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TRN, JUD, FIN |
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RELATING TO PSILOCYBIN. Establishes temporary Medicinal Psilocybin Working Group. Requires reports to the Legislature.
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RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. Appropriates funds for the GoFarm Hawaii program. Requires GoFarm Hawaii to provide the Chairperson of the Board of Agriculture with an annual report of the program's goals and a semi-annual report outlining program outputs and outcomes.
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RELATING TO ANIMAL CRUELTY. Beginning 1/1/2021, prohibits the confinement of specified farm animals in a cruel manner and prohibits business owners and operators from selling certain products made from those animals.
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RELATING TO HERBICIDES. Requires the DOE to maintain a list of herbicides approved for procurement. Prohibits the procurement of herbicides containing glyphosate. Prohibits the use of herbicides on school campuses without the approval of the head of the Auxiliary Services Branch. Effective July 1, 2022.
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RELATING TO THEFT. Creates the offense of theft of a bicycle as a class C felony.
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JUD, FIN |
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RELATING TO PRIVACY. Short form bill relating to privacy.
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JUD |
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RELATING TO SEX TRAFFICKING. Authorizes a prosecution for sex trafficking to be commenced at any time.
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JUD, FIN |
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RELATING TO CRIME PREVENTION. Imposes a 1% crime prevention reward fee on all persons required to pay a fine for a penal offense. Establishes the crime prevention reward special fund to compensate individuals for the truthful reporting of penal offenses. Establishes the crime prevention reward task force to make recommendations on the administration of the crime prevention reward fee. Requires a report to the Legislature.
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RELATING TO ELECTIONS. Requires the office of elections to establish a pilot program requiring candidates for county election to take the civics practice test published by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services. Requires the office of elections to publish whether each candidate passes or fails the practice test.
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RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL LEASES. Gives preference rights for an agricultural park lot and a non-agricultural park land lease to lessees who have made a significant improvement. Adds the same preferences for a non-agricultural park land lease as those for an agricultural park lot lease.
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RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL LANDS. Clarifies that agriculture activities in non-agricultural park lands may include the care and production of pasture lands. Requires the transfer of certain lands from the Department of Land and Natural Resources to the Department of Agriculture. Requires reports to the Legislature on compliance with the land transfers. Appropriates funds.
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RELATING TO PUBLIC LANDS. Authorizes the designation of areas or regions of public lands classified as commercial, industrial, resort and hotel, and the establishment and implementation of guidelines for the redevelopment of the areas or regions that will: (1) modernize the policies for the management of public lands in the designated area; (2) establish a plan for the designated area, including district-wide improvements, that is coordinated with state and county land use and planning policies; and (3) implement asset and property management concepts that can optimize income from the properties and evolve in response to changing principles of property administration. Designates the public lands on the Waiakea peninsula on the island of Hawaii as the Waiakea Peninsula Redevelopment District. Allows the Department of Land and Natural Resources to issue a rent reduction or waiver for certain lessee's expenses for demolition or provision of basic infrastructure. Authorizes a local redevelopment agency to contract with a developer for construction of non-residential projects on public land within a redevelopment area. Exempts the costs of construction of work or improvements of a redevelopment project from general excise and use taxes. Takes effect upon the County of Hawaii repealing the Banyan Drive Hawaii redevelopment agency. Makes an appropriation.
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RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH. Requires certain minimum hazard threshold levels developed by the Department of Health to be peer reviewed and approved of by an independent technical advisory committee.
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RELATING TO MENTAL HEALTH. Amends emergency mental health examination procedures, creates TRO database, appropriates funds for additional mental health care facilities, appropriates funds to licensed psychiatric facilities to recruit and retain personnel and subsidize salaries.
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RELATING TO CRIME. Creates a new offense, promoting a dangerous drug in the fourth degree, for possession of any amount of any dangerous drug, as a misdemeanor. Amends promoting a dangerous drug in the third degree to possessing 1/16 ounce of specified dangerous drugs. Makes prior convictions of promoting a dangerous drug in the third degree a misdemeanor.
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RELATING TO TEMPORARY STAFF OF THE LEGISLATURE. Requires the legislature to provide overtime compensation to temporary staff for hours worked in excess of forty hours in a workweek. Outlines the available remedies for a violation.
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RELATING TO VEHICLES. Beginning January 1, 2022, requires that one hundred per cent of a state agency's light-duty motor vehicle purchases or leases be restricted to non fossil fuel powered vehicles, subject to specified exemptions. Provides for withholding of procurement funds if an agency violates this requirement. Authorizes citizen suits. Expands the State's existing electric vehicle charging infrastructure requirements for parking facilities.
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RELATING TO A STATE POKER COMMISSION. Establishes a State Poker Commission to oversee the licensing and operation of live poker rooms in the State. Designates as commissioners the respective directors of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism; Commerce and Consumer Affairs; and Taxation; or their designees. Appropriates funds.
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EDB/IAC, CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO THE OFFICE OF HAWAIIAN AFFAIRS. Requires all grants or contracts awarded by the Office of Hawaiian Affairs to be approved by its board of trustees. Establishes a public land trust revenues negotiating committee to determine the increase to the annual amount of the income and proceeds from the public land trust that the Office of Hawaiian Affairs shall receive annually under the state constitution and other state law. Requires the Department of Budget and Finance to conduct a financial review of the amounts of revenue generated from the public land trust. Appropriates funds.
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RELATING TO HAWAII COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY. Authorizes the Office of Hawaiian Affairs to seek residential development of lands in Kakaako Community Development District owned by the Office of Hawaiian Affairs. Requires a public hearing prior to submission by the Office of Hawaiian Affairs to the Hawaii Community Development Authority of any plan or proposal for any residential development.
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WLH/HSG, FIN |
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RELATING TO HAWAIIAN HOME LANDS. Establishes within the Department Hawaiian Home Lands, for administrative purposes only, a Hawaiian home lands outstanding claims task force. Requires a report to the Legislature.
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WLH, FIN |
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RELATING TO THE HAWAIIAN HOMES COMMISSION ACT. Prohibits lessees who sell or transfer land from obtaining subsequent leases of the same class of land unless the subsequent lease is acquired pursuant to section 209 of the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act, 1920, as amended, or the prior lease interest held by the lessee was a partial interest held with another lessee or lessees.
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WLH, JUD, FIN |
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RELATING TO TRANSIT-ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT. Appropriates funds for planning a mixed-use residential development, including 1 or more parking structures, on the land currently occupied by the Waipahu Civic Center.
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TRN/HSG, WLH, FIN |
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RELATING TO AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES. Authorizes the use of automated-driving-system-equipped vehicles, automated driving systems, driverless-capable vehicles, and on-demand driverless-capable vehicle networks in the State. Establishes requirements, restrictions, and limitations for the use of these vehicles, systems, and networks.
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TRN, JUD/CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO MARINE RESOURCES. Appropriates funds to provide DLNR with necessary resources associated with the marine 30x30 initiative, including funds for team and staff travel, strategic communication and outreach, professional facilitation, and management plan development.
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WLH, FIN |
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RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL. Appropriate funds for staff positions in the Department of the Attorney General's organized crime unit.
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RELATING TO GROUND TRANSPORTATION. Prohibits the sale of new motor vehicles that are solely powered by fossil fuels and designed for personal use beginning January 1, 2030, by motor vehicle dealers and salespersons.
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RELATING TO BLOCKCHAIN TECHNOLOGY. Requires DCCA to establish a blockchain working group to determine a recommended definition for blockchain technology and recommendations for individuals, businesses, and state agencies to use blockchain technology and report to the legislature. Appropriates funds.
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IAC, CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO CABLE TELEVISION. Amends the factors the director of commerce and consumer affairs must consider when determining whether cable service should be made available upon a new application of a cable franchise. Requires that the director require cable operators to provide cable service to residences in their service area where there is a minimum density of at least twenty-five homes per linear mile, with certain exceptions.
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IAC, CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO BROADBAND SERVICE INFRASTRUCTURE. Establishes the broadband service infrastructure grant program to award grants to applicants to extend deployment of facilities used to provide broadband service to unserved and underserved areas of the State.
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EDB/IAC, CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE TWENTY-SEVENTH REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT. Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the twenty-seventh representative district.
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RELATING TO ABANDONED AND DERELICT VEHICLES. Establishes the abandoned and derelict vehicles task force to make recommendations to ensure the proper identification and disposal of abandoned and derelict vehicles left on the State's highways. Appropriates moneys.
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TRN, FIN |
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RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. Exempts new public school construction from county permits and fees for public works infrastructure. Effective 7/1/2020.
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LHE/WLH, FIN |
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RELATING TO WATER RATES. Transfers water ratemaking authority from the county boards of water supply to the Public Utilities Commission.
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WLH, CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO OBSERVANCES. Requires the Legislative Reference Bureau to compile a report of the months and days of the year that have been designated by both chambers of the Legislature as a holiday or a period of recognition or observance within the State.
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LMG, FIN |
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RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL LANDS. Amends certain land subdivision and condominium property regime laws related to agricultural land, as recommended pursuant to Act 278, Session Laws of Hawaii 2019, to ensure agricultural lands that are organized under a condominium property regime are used for agricultural purposes.
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WLH/AGR, CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO EDUCATION. Requires the Department of Education to establish a pilot program that provides grants for high school students enrolled in a career academy program to enroll in college courses through the running start program or other similar programs that allow students to earn college credits that are applicable to the requirements for an associate degree in teaching. Expands the eligibility criteria for the Hawaii Educator Loan Program to include students who have graduated from a career academy; provided that the loan recipient agrees to teach for three years at a public school in the State. Appropriates funds into and out of the Hawaii educator loan program revolving fund. Requires reports to Legislature.
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RELATING TO CONCESSIONS. Provides state and county governments more flexibility and discretion to address substantial hardship situations that impact concession contracts.
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RELATING TO TAXATION OF REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUSTS. Disallows dividends paid deduction for real estate investment trusts. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2020. Sunsets 12/31/2023.
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RELATING TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING. Requires a county agency having jurisdiction over planning and permitting, in any county with a population of 500,000 or more, to determine whether certain affordable housing development projects shall be exempt from the State's environmental impact statement laws pursuant to chapter 11-200.1, subchapter 8, Hawaii Administrative Rules.
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EEP/WLH/HSG, JUD, FIN |
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RELATING TO PUBLIC ORDER. Establishes the offense of urinating or defecating in public within business districts.
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JUD, FIN |
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RELATING TO THE LOW-INCOME HOUSING TAX CREDIT. Amends certain requirements for the state low-income housing tax credit by: changing the tax credit allocation for partnerships; amending filing requirements for tax credit claims; and specifying that certain provisions of the Internal Revenue Code related to at-risk rules and deductions and passive activity loss do not apply with respect to claims for the credit.
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RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE TWENTY-SECOND REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT. Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the twenty-second representative district.
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RELATING TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE. Allows a narrow hearsay exception for statements made by domestic violence victims to certain government officials within 24 hours of an incident of domestic violence, even if the statement is testimonial in nature, as long as the statement bears sufficient indicia of reliability.
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JUD, FIN |
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RELATING TO FIREWORKS. Increases fees imposed upon importers, wholesalers, storage sites, and retailers for licenses on fireworks. Authorizes counties to use fees for costs related to inspecting shipped containers of aerial devices when they are opened.
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PVM/TRN, CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION. Makes an appropriation for road restoration and repair of interstate H-3 and roadways in Haiku valley on the island of Oahu as part of the department of transportation's mitigation of interstate H-3 cultural impacts.
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TRN, FIN |
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RELATING TO CAMPAIGN FINANCE. Requires the Campaign Spending Commission to conduct a study of provisions within the Hawaii Revised Statutes and the Hawaii Administrative Rules relating to campaign finance. Requires public hearings on findings and recommendations developed from the study. Requires a report to the Legislature.
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JUD, FIN |
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RELATING TO EDUCATION. Establishes within the Department of Education a Workforce Readiness Program to provide opportunities for students to earn associate degrees, workforce development diplomas, pre-apprenticeship certificates, and other industry-recognized certificates. Requires the department to designate schools, including adult community schools, to participate in the program. Appropriates funds.
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RELATING TO SOCIAL SERVICES. Increases the monthly needs allowance for individuals residing in foster homes, care homes, domiciliary homes, and other long-term care facilities.
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HSH, FIN |
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RELATING TO EDUCATIONAL BENEFITS. Establishes the teacher tuition waiver program within the University of Hawaii to provide tuition waivers to eligible students seeking to become a teacher. Appropriates funds.
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RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE FOURTEENTH, FIFTEENTH, AND SIXTEENTH REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICTS. Authorizes issuance of general obligation bonds and appropriates funds for capital improvement projects for the benefit of the 14th, 15th, and 16th Representative Districts.
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RELATING TO AGING. Appropriates funding to develop the Charles Atherton House and property into a University of Hawaii kupuna center and support the activities of the University of Hawaii UHealthy Hawaii initiative.
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RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL VILLAGES. Authorizes applicable county planning commissions to issue special permits for agricultural villages in the agricultural district, without the approval of the LUC.
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RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL LAND. Subject to certain restrictions, allows second dwellings on agricultural lands in a county with an area greater than 4,000 square miles. Takes effect 01/01/2021.
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RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. Authorizes a county with an area greater than 4,000 square miles to manage individual wastewater systems on agricultural lots greater than 40,000 square feet and located more than one mile from the coastline. Appropriates funds.
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RELATING TO VISITOR INFORMATION. Directs the department of business, economic development and tourism and the department of land and natural resources to create a Hawaii visitor information brochure containing information about protecting the environment and staying safe while visiting. Requires the brochure to be distributed with the state agricultural form.
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TIA/EEP, FIN |
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RELATING TO EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION SCHOLARSHIPS. Establishes the early childhood education scholarship program within the University of Hawaii to assist students with school tuition in return for a service commitment to teach in a preschool classroom of the executive office on early learning public prekindergarten program. Appropriates funds.
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LHE/LAB, FIN |
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RELATING TO ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENTS. Establishes the Environmental Impact Statement Hub as a hearing and notification website within the Office of Environmental Quality Control to notify the public of current and upcoming Environmental Impact Statement hearings, public comment periods, and allowing comments to be submitted online. Appropriates funds.
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EEP, FIN |
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RELATING TO EDUCATION. Requires the Department of Education to establishes within the school-level minor repairs and maintenance special fund subaccounts for each school. Authorizes principals to spend the moneys in the subaccounts for minor repairs and maintenance or minor energy efficiency measures of school facilities.
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LHE, FIN |
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RELATING TO PUBLIC ACCOUNTANCY. Establishes procedures and eligibility criteria for a privilege to practice public accountancy in the State for public accountants and certified public accountants licensed in another state with comparable education, examination, and experience requirements. Subjects all holders of a privilege to practice to the regulatory and enforcement jurisdiction of the State Board of Accountancy.
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IAC, CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO TAXATION. Provides that Chapter 1, Subchapter Z (with respect to opportunity zones), of the Internal Revenue Code shall not be operative for the purposes of state income tax law.
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RELATING TO A BANK OF THE STATE OF HAWAII. Directs the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs to conduct a comprehensive review of relevant state laws to develop legislation to establish a state-operated bank of the State of Hawaii. Appropriates funds to conduct the review.
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IAC, CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO HAWAII HOUSING FINANCE AND DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION. Requires the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to award funds no later than 60 days after the deadline to file a consolidated application or no later than 60 days after the filing of a duly submitted consolidated application if no deadline has been established by the corporation.
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HSG, FIN |
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RELATING TO THE TRANSITION OF THE OAHU REGIONAL HEALTH CARE SYSTEM FROM THE HAWAII HEALTH SYSTEMS CORPORATION INTO THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH. Sets a date for the transition of the Oahu region's health care facilities from the Hawaii health systems corporation to the department of health. Establishes a working group to develop a comprehensive plan that addresses all necessary components of such transition.
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HLT, LAB, FIN |
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RELATING TO MENTAL HEALTH. Requires the chief of police in a county issuing a firearm permit to conduct a mandatory review of an applicant's mental health records.
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PVM, JUD, FIN |
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RELATING TO FOOD SECURITY. Authorizes the Governor to issue a proclamation of pre-disaster necessity for the purpose of assisting foodbanking organizations to maintain food stocks for an emergency. Appropriates funds.
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HLT, PVM, FIN |
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RELATING TO CANNABIS FOR MEDICAL USE. Authorizes dispensaries to distribute cannabis propagules and cuttings to individuals authorized to cultivate cannabis plants for medical use, subject to quantity limits and quality requirements.
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RELATING TO THE EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM. Allows retired police officers to include their spouses in their medical coverage plans. Eliminates the minimum retirement age requirement of fifty-five years for police officers who became members after June 30, 2012.
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LAB, FIN |
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RELATING TO THE STATE PLAN. Establishes green infrastructure priority guidelines within the state plan to improve the quality of life for residents and visitors. Adds "increase outdoor public green spaces", "connect outdoor public green spaces with existing trails", and "increase urban tree canopy" as objectives and policies for the physical environment. Requires the Hawaii Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Commission to submit a report to the Legislature making recommendations for implementing the green infrastructure priority guidelines established by this measure.
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EEP/WLH, FIN |
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RELATING TO CONSERVATION. Authorizes the issuance of special license plates to support forest conservation and ocean conservation, with proceeds from the program to be used to fund conservation efforts at the State's beaches, nearshore environment, and forests.
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RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE THIRTY-THIRD REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT. Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the thirty-third representative district.
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RELATING TO CHILDREN. Requires the court and the prosecution to take appropriate action to ensure a prompt trial to minimize the length of time a child abuse victim or minor witness must endure the proceedings.
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RELATING TO ALBIZIA TREES. Requires UHERO to conduct an economic analysis of a potential restoration pilot project in Manoa valley that removes albizia trees, plants native species, and sells the albizia tree lumber for use in local architecture and furniture. Requires a report before the regular session of 2021. Appropriates funds.
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LHE/EEP/EDB, FIN |
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RELATING TO LEGALIZED GAMBLING. Establishes a task force within the department of business, economic development, and tourism to study and recommend to the legislature the feasibility of authorizing controlled legalized gambling in the State, including offshore gambling and a state lottery system, to generate revenues for pay raises for teachers and police officers. Appropriates funds for the study.
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EDB, JUD, FIN |
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RELATING TO WORKERS' COMPENSATION. Removes the guidelines for determining attorney's fees for claimants in workers' compensations claims.
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LAB, FIN |
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RELATING TO INSURANCE. Clarifies what constitutes reasonable proof for a personal injury protection benefits claim under a motor vehicle insurance policy. Blanks out amount of interest charged on unpaid personal injury protection benefits claims. Establishes a monthly penalty for unpaid personal injury protection benefits claims.
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JUD/CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL INSPECTIONS. Requires the department of agriculture to conduct preclearance quarantine inspections prior to direct travel to or from the State. Appropriates funds to implement a preclearance quarantine inspection.
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AGR, FIN |
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RELATING TO ENERGY. Establishes a zero net energy and zero net waste initiative program in the public utilities commission. Establishes a zero net energy and zero net waste advisory council. Designates property controlled by the natural energy laboratory of Hawaii authority as a microgrid demonstration project. Authorizes the transmission of electric power from one governmental agency's point of generation to another governmental agency's existing transmission lines within the boundaries of the Hawaii ocean science and technology park. Appropriates funds for the zero net energy and zero net waste initiative program.
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EEP, CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO HOUSING. Creates the housing incentive fund to be administered by the Hawaii public housing authority. Allows the fund to be seeded with general obligation bonds. Creates a tax credit for individuals or corporations who contribute to the fund.
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HSG, FIN |
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RELATING TO WATER. Specifies that fire safety use is a beneficial use of water. Requires the department of land and natural resources to work with the county governments, Hawaii emergency management agency, and owners to use reservoir water for fire safety.
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WLH, FIN |
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RELATING TO RURAL DISTRICTS. Allows one dwelling per quarter-acre in rural districts.
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HSG/WLH, FIN |
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RELATING TO TAXATION. Extends the period that a county may adopt a surcharge on state tax, under certain conditions, from March 31, 2019, to December 31, 2020. Allows a county with a population equal to or less than five hundred thousand that adopts a surcharge on state tax to use surcharge revenues for disaster relief.
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RELATING TO TAXATION. Extends the authority of a county to adopt a surcharge on state tax from March 31, 2019, to June 30, 2021.
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RELATING TO STATUTORY REVISION: AMENDING OR REPEALING VARIOUS PROVISIONS OF THE HAWAII REVISED STATUTES OR THE SESSION LAWS OF HAWAII FOR THE PURPOSES OF CORRECTING ERRORS AND REFERENCES, CLARIFYING LANGUAGE, OR DELETING OBSOLETE OR UNNECESSARY PROVISIONS. Amends or repeals various provisions of the Hawaii Revised Statutes or the Session Laws of Hawaii for the purposes of correcting errors and references, clarifying language, or deleting obsolete or unnecessary provisions.
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JUD, FIN |
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RELATING TO SHORT-TERM RENTALS. Prohibits bans on dwelling unit rentals having a term between 1 and 5 months for inter-island relocations and visiting workers. Authorizes county councils to adopt any ordinances necessary to implement the prohibition by 6/30/2021.
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HSG/WLH, JUD, FIN |
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RELATING TO SEIZURE DISORDER. Requires schools to have an employee trained to administer seizure disorder rescue medication. Exempts schools that do not have a student with a seizure disorder. Requires a seizure action plan for every diagnosed student and distribution of the plan to employees charged with supervising the student. Requires all principals, guidance counselors, and teachers to perform self-review of seizure disorder materials annually. Makes an appropriation.
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HLT, LHE, FIN |
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RELATING TO TAXATION. Replaces the environmental response, energy, and food security tax with a carbon emissions tax. Repeals state fuel taxes under the fuel tax law. Takes effect 1/1/2021; provided that repeal of the fuel tax credit for commercial fishers takes effect beginning with taxable years after 12/31/2020.
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EEP, FIN |
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RELATING TO TAXATION. Amends the environmental response, energy, and food security tax to address carbon emissions. Increases the tax rate to effectively set a price of $40 per metric ton of carbon dioxide emissions in 2021. Incrementally increases the tax rate over time so that, in 2030, the tax rate shall be equivalent to a carbon price of $80 per metric ton of carbon emissions.
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RELATING TO ECONOMIC IMPACT STATEMENTS. Requires the office of the legislative analyst to create economic impact statements for bills. Makes an appropriation to the office of the legislative analyst.
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LMG, FIN |
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RELATING TO ACCESS TO JUSTICE. Establishes the Hawaii Justice League Program to provide loan repayments on behalf of eligible lawyers that pursue public interest work in Hawaii. Provides for loan repayments by the University of Hawaii William S. Richardson School of Law. Creates the Hawaii Justice League Revolving Fund. Makes an appropriation. Effective July 1, 2020.
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LHE, JUD, FIN |
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RELATING TO A COAL-FREE HAWAII. Prohibits the issuance or renewal of covered source air permits for coal-burning electricity generation facilities after 12/31/2022. Prohibits the approval of a new, modified, or renewed power purchase agreement for electricity generated from coal after 6/30/2020.
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EEP, CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO TRANSIENT ACCOMMODATIONS HOSTING PLATFORMS. Authorizes the counties to adopt an ordinance regulating the operation of hosting platforms that provide booking services for transient accommodation operators.
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TIA, JUD, FIN |
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RELATING TO SEA LEVEL RISE. Appropriates funds for the climate change mitigation and adaptation commission and coordinator.
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EEP/WLH, FIN |
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RELATING TO APPROPRIATIONS FOR PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT COST ITEMS. Appropriates funds for public employment cost items of and cost adjustments for employees of various legislative agencies.
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MAKING APPROPRIATIONS TO PROVIDE FOR THE EXPENSES OF THE LEGISLATURE, THE AUDITOR, THE LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE BUREAU, THE OMBUDSMAN, AND THE ETHICS COMMISSION. Appropriates funds to provide for the expenses of the Legislature, Auditor, Legislative Reference Bureau, Ombudsman, and Ethics Commission.
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RELATING TO THE BOARD OF EDUCATION. Short form bill relating to the Board of Education.
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RELATING TO HISTORIC PRESERVATION. Authorizes the counties to employ qualified archaeologists to perform necessary reviews under chapter 6E, Hawaii Revised Statutes.
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RELATING TO ELECTIONS. Addresses various inconsistencies in existing elections law to clarify and improve the administration of elections by mail.
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JUD, FIN |
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RELATING TO INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETICS. Establishes the right of postsecondary student athletes in intercollegiate athletics to receive compensation for the use of their name, image, or likeness.
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RELATING TO CROSSWALKS. Requires a vehicle approaching a crosswalk from the opposite direction of another vehicle stopped at that crosswalk to yield and not proceed until a pedestrian, if any, has crossed the roadway.
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TRN, JUD |
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RELATING TO GAMING. Establishes the Hawaii lottery and gaming corporation for the purpose of conducting gambling in Hawaii. Allocates proceeds to capital improvements at public schools and the University of Hawaii system, scholarships and educational loan repayments for medical students who practice in Hawaii for ten years, support for the family practice rural residency program, watershed protection, and reduction and prevention of problem gambling.
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LHE/EDB, JUD, FIN |
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RELATING TO PUBLIC ACCESS. Provides that where public access is required as a condition of a subdivision, either the county must accept dedication of and maintain the access or identify an entity to own and maintain the access. Authorizes the county to require the subdivider to establish a stewardship fund for maintenance purposes.
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WLH, JUD, FIN |
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RELATING TO ACTIVE DUTY MILITARY ENTITLEMENTS. Requires the State to pay, without delay, military personnel called to active duty at the same rate as their active duty counterparts; provide basic housing allowance; provide service credit for time on active duty; and allow state and county employees to count the time called to active duty in the State toward retirement.
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RELATING TO CHILD SUPPORT ENFORCEMENT. Establishes that every judgment for child support is enforceable until paid in full.
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JUD, FIN |
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PROPOSING AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF HAWAII RELATING TO ALLOWING THE BOARD OF EDUCATION TO LEVY REAL PROPERTY TAXES FOR PURPOSES OF FUNDING TEACHER COMPENSATION. Proposes amendments to the Hawaii State Constitution to provide that the taxation of real property shall be under the concurrent jurisdiction of the Board of Education, for the purpose of funding teacher compensation, and counties.
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LHE, JUD, FIN |
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RELATING TO THE HAWAII COMMERCIAL HARBORS AUTHORITY. Establishes a Hawaii Commercial Harbors Authority. Appropriates funds.
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TRN, LAB/JUD, FIN |
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RELATING TO TARO. Bans the importation of taro corms unless dried, cooked, frozen, or peeled. Bans the importation of live taro plant material from any point of origin in the United States.
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RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLE REGISTRATION. Provides that any authorization by a county director of finance for an electronic method of motor vehicle registration, including the acceptance of any supplemental documents in electronic form, shall extend to all types of motor vehicles.
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RELATING TO THE JUDICIARY. Requires an appellate court to conduct a hearing when a conflict of interest pertaining to a judge or justice is alleged by motion of a party to any suit, action, or proceeding of the appellate court.
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RELATING TO HEALTH CARE. Requires health insurers, mutual benefit societies, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage for a comprehensive category of reproductive health services, drugs, devices, products, and procedures. Prohibits discrimination in the provision of reproductive health care services. Effective 3/15/2021.
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RELATING TO WATER RIGHTS. Clarifies the disposition of water rights made by lease.
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RELATING TO GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES. Requires forfeiture of state or county officer's or employee's compensation and fringe benefits upon felony conviction.
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RELATING TO PENALTIES. Establishes on January 1, 2021, a three-year pilot project within the traffic violations bureau of the district court of the first circuit that requires the court to adjust court-imposed monetary assessments resulting from motor vehicle moving violations. Establishes income-based adjustments for traffic fines. Appropriates funds. Repeals the pilot project on December 31, 2023.
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RELATING TO MENTAL HEALTH. Restores the categories of "gravely disabled" and "obviously ill" to the criteria for involuntary hospitalization that were deleted by Act 221, SLH 2013. Increases the maximum period of emergency hospitalization from 48 hours to 72 hours.
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RELATING TO ENERGY. Authorizes the issuance of revenue bonds pursuant to part III of chapter 39, HRS, and appropriates funds to the Hawaii Technology Development Corporation for the purpose of constructing one Oahu and one neighbor island electrolysis hydrogen production, storage, and dispensing facility to be managed by the Hawaii Center for Advanced Transportation Technologies. Appropriates funds.
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RELATING TO WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT. Establishes the agricultural technology transfer and workforce development program and provides for a coordinator position to provide support for secondary education agriculture and Future Farmers of American programs. Appropriates funds.
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RELATING TO THE OFFICE OF MAUNAKEA MANAGEMENT. Appropriates funds to add 7 full-time equivalent positions to the Office of Maunakea Management.
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RELATING TO HEALTH CARE. Authorizes advanced practice registered nurses and other licensed qualified health care providers to perform abortions.
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RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE FORTY-THIRD REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT. Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the forty-third representative district.
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RELATING TO LAND USE. Prohibits the installation and operation of windmills on or within 15 miles of any tract leased pursuant to the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act.
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RELATING TO THE DOWNPAYMENT LOAN LOSS RESERVE PROGRAM. Establishes a downpayment loan loss reserve program to address downpayment loan defaults under the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation's downpayment loan assistance program.
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RELATING TO LAND USE. Prohibits the commercial operation of a landfill on or within 15 miles of any tract leased pursuant to the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act.
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RELATING TO INDUSTRIAL HEMP. Requires DOA to establish a permanent hemp program pursuant to federal law, and a corresponding special fund. Requires DOH to adopt rules for the licensing, inspection, and regulation of industrial hemp processing facilities. Reduces or repeals certain regulatory provisions of existing hemp pilot program. Establishes authorized cultivation of hemp as affirmative defense. Excludes hemp from the definition of marijuana. Requires chairperson of board of agriculture to prepare a state plan for approval of the federal Secretary of Agriculture and report on the approval process to legislature and governor. Appropriates funds.
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RELATING TO AIR TOURISM. Establishes a Kauai Air Tourism Working Group to develop a pilot program and consider other actions to address excessive noise from air tourism aircraft on the island of Kauai. Requires a report to the Legislature. Makes an appropriation.
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RELATING TO HOSPICE. Requires that hospice care shall only be provided by a licensed hospice care facility, care home, or foster home. Requires that a guardian of a person in a hospice home shall have the legal responsibility to advocate for the person until end of the person's life.
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RELATING TO COMMUNITY CARE FOSTER FAMILY HOMES. Increases the number of hours the primary caregiver may be absent from a community care foster family home; provided that a substitute caregiver is present.
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RELATING TO WIND ENERGY. Authorizes the construction of wind machines, wind farms, and wind energy facilities in state ocean waters. Prohibits wind machines, wind farms, and wind energy facilities from being constructed or located within five miles from any airport or any residential development.
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MAKING AN EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION TO THE STATE PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL COMMISSION. Makes an emergency appropriation to provide funds for the state public charter school commission to pay the claim and settlement amount pursuant to Miller-Potter v. State of Hawaii, et al., Civil No. 16-1-0385K.
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RELATING TO CHARTER SCHOOLS. Amends the performance framework requirements for charter schools. Amends authorizers' reporting and audit requirements. Amends authorizers' responsibilities in reviewing charter applications.
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RELATING TO TEACHER COMPENSATION. Appropriates funds to DOE for an experimental modernization project to address pay compression issues amongst teachers.
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RELATING TO EDUCATION. Establishes a no time to lose commission to examine how the State's public schools can be internationally competitive. Appropriates funds.
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RELATING TO CONSTRUCTION WASTE. Requires the Department of Health to convene a construction waste reuse and recycling working group to determine how to implement a requirement for the reuse, recycling, or donation of construction waste.
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RELATING TO THE ENVIRONMENT. Establishes clean ground transportation goals for state agencies on a staggered basis until achieving a 100 per cent light-duty vehicle clean fleet by 12/31/2035, and for all light-duty vehicles in the State by 12/31/2045.
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RELATING TO GAS. Beginning January 1, 2022, requires all residential dwellings that are serviced by gas utilities to be constructed with gas detection systems installed. Requires sellers of residential real property to provide notice of the potential hazards of gas appliances.
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RELATING TO THE ENVIRONMENT. Requires agencies allotted a portion of the environmental response, energy, and food security tax to consider actions in achieving the zero emissions clean economy target and climate change resilience. Requires these agencies to report on how expenditures from these special funds support achieving the zero emissions clean economy target and climate change resilience.
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RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HAWAIIAN HOME LANDS. Appropriates funds for a study by DHHL to plan for water flooding, climate change, and redevelopment of twenty parcels of land in the Mapunapuna or Shafter Flats area.
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RELATING TO PREVENTING SCHOOL VIOLENCE. Establishes a pilot program to prevent targeted school violence. Appropriates funds to the office of homeland security for resources to prevent targeted school violence. Repeals on 6/30/2024.
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RELATING TO STATE FACILITIES. Requires DLNR and the judiciary to make improvements to state facilities to reach goals of net-zero energy and one hundred percent water reclamation by 1/1/2035 and 1/1/2045, respectively.
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RELATING TO LAND. Requires the Department of Education to convey a parcel of land to the City and County of Honolulu. Requires the Department of Education to accept a parcel of land from the Mililani Town Association that separates the grounds of Mililani High School.
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RELATING TO THE DONATION OF FOOD. Requires the Department of Health to promote food donation during normal, routine inspections of food establishments. Permits the donation of food. Expands liability protection for the donation of food. Authorizes the donation of food directly to the needy and expired food under certain circumstances.
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RELATING TO MENTAL HEALTH. Establishes the behavioral health social worker scholarship program at UH, which requires recipients of the scholarship to commit to five years of service with DHS. Appropriates funds.
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RELATING TO TAXATION. Requires the Department of Taxation to authorize certain low-income individuals to reduce the amount of tax withheld from their wages by a prorated portion of the state earned income tax credit the taxpayers would otherwise be entitled to claim on an annual basis.
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RELATING TO THE UNIFORM PROBATE CODE. Requires a personal representative of a decedent appointed under the Uniform Probate Code to notify the police department of the appropriate county of any and all firearms in an estate. Requires the police department to certify that all firearms in an estate are properly transferred or disposed of before the estate may close.
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RELATING TO PROTECTIVE ORDERS. Permits a law enforcement officer to search a person convicted of violating certain temporary restraining orders or protective orders, including the person's motor vehicle and the person's residence, for firearms without obtaining a search warrant if the law enforcement officer has reason to believe acts of abuse, malicious property damage, or harassment by the person are imminent. Specifies that a seized firearm shall not be used for a subsequent conviction if the original search lacked probable cause but authorizes law enforcement to maintain the firearm until the registered owner can prove the firearm will be safely stored.
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RELATING TO HOMEOWNERS' ASSOCIATIONS. Authorizes the creation of community associations that are not subject to the laws relating to planned community associations. Authorizes the creation of entities to collect contributions or homeowners' association dues or be responsible for the maintenance of common areas such as private roads or parks if the common-interest community subdivisions were created without those entities. Authorizes counties to hear, administer, and decide certain disputes. Appropriates funds to the counties.
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RELATING TO PHARMACY BENEFIT MANAGERS. Ensures the community health system remains financially viable in the face of healthcare value transformation; ensures access to quality and affordable prescription drugs by vulnerable populations served by community health centers, special needs clinics and other nonprofit healthcare entities covered by the federal 340B pharmacy program.
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RELATING TO HEALTH. Appropriates funds for structure improvements for Maui Memorial Medical Center. Requires matching private funds.
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RELATING TO HIGHWAYS. Conveys ownership of the Honoapiilani highway from the Department of Transportation to the county of Maui.
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RELATING TO RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY GRANTS. Establishes the research and technology grant program within the high technology development corporation to provide grants to qualified research and technology companies in Hawaii for eligible projects. Establishes program guidelines and eligibility criteria for research and technology companies. Requires eligible projects to foster science, technology, engineering, or mathematics education at the K-12 or university levels. Appropriates funds to the program.
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RELATING TO TAXATION. Establishes the ocean sciences research tax credit.
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RELATING TO THE ALTERNATIVE ENERGY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT FUND. Extends the alternative energy research and development revolving fund lapse date from 6/30/2020 to 6/30/2021. Appropriates funds into and out of the alternative energy research and development revolving fund for the provision of grants by the Hawaii Technology Development Corporation.
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RELATING TO CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION AND ADAPTATION. Establishes and appropriates funds for a climate change and human health adaptation coordinator within the department of health.
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RELATING TO GREEN FEES. Requires the office of planning to conduct a feasibility study on assessing tourism green fees.
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RELATING TO GENDER EQUITY. Requires publicly held domestic and foreign corporations to includes certain numbers of females among their boards of directors. Authorizes administrative fines for noncompliance.
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RELATING TO THE ISSUANCE OF SPECIAL PURPOSE REVENUE BONDS TO ASSIST PUEO DEVELOPMENT, LLC. Authorizes the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds for a master planned development proposed by Pueo Development, LLC.
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RELATING TO ELECTRIC VEHICLES. Clarifies that law enforcement may enter private property to enforce EV parking space violations.
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RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION. Requires the Department of Agriculture to collaborate with agricultural growers and researchers to develop and implement a program to safely distribute disease- and insect-free tropical plant materials to Hawaii farmers. Appropriates funds.
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RELATING TO A PILOT PROGRAM FOR DAILY ELECTRONIC REPORTING OF PAWNBROKER AND SECONDHAND DEALER TRANSACTIONS. Requires the Maui County Police Department to implement a 5-year pilot program for the daily electronic reporting of pawnbroker and dealer transactions. Requires interim and final reports to the Legislature. Appropriates funds.
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RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS. Appropriates funds for supplemental capital improvement projects for fiscal biennium 2019–2021.
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RELATING TO INTOXICATING LIQUOR. Includes certain spirts-based beverages in the definition of cooler beverage. Establishes a separate tax rate for qualified small brewers.
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RELATING TO PENSION AND RETIREMENT SYSTEMS. This bill allows state and county employees who served in the Peace Corps up to four years credit in service time towards state retirement and pension plans.
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RELATING TO POLICE OFFICERS. Establishes a law enforcement surcharge on overseas aircraft passenger tickets arriving and departing the state excluding inter-island for the purpose of recruiting and retaining police offices.
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RELATING TO THE SOCIAL WORKERS FOR PUBLIC SAFETY PILOT PROGRAM FOR IMPAIRED OFFENDERS. Establishes a pilot program in the department of public safety to hire five social workers to accompany officers on incidents involving persons that may suffer from substance addiction, mental illness, homelessness, or other catastrophic afflictions. Appropriates funds.
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RELATING TO MENTAL ILLNESS AND EXPANDING THE HAWAII OPPORTUNITY PROBATION WITH ENFORCEMENT PROGRAM. Codifies the courts' option to sentence defendants to probation under pilot programs, including HOPE. Authorizes current impaired offenders to convert the remainder of their terms. Authorizes courts to seal the criminal records of impaired offenders who complete alternative or pilot programs.
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RELATING TO THE DISTRIBUTION OF LEASES UNDER THE HAWAIIAN HOMES COMMISSION ACT, 1920, AS AMENDED. Requires Hawaiian Homes Commission to distribute leases to all beneficiaries within 10 years. Removes financial consideration in obtaining a lease. Requires the construction of pu'uhonuas or communal living arrangements by the department.
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RELATING TO FINANCING HOMES ON HAWAIIAN HOME LANDS. Provides that the value of the remaining term of a Hawaiian Home Lands lease can be used as an asset to help a lessee obtain a loan to build, repair, or renovate a structure on the leased lot. Clarifies that this does not constitute alienation of the land and requires strict compliance with all mortgage conditions contained in the Act.
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RELATING TO PSYCHIATRIC HEALTH FACILITIES. Provides funding for expansion of the Hawaii State Hospital and construction of new residential psychiatric facilities to add capacity and bring the state closer to minimally adequate standards.
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RELATED TO COMMERCIAL PROPERTY. Clarifies responsibility for maintenance of commercial property open to the public.
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RELATING TO ELECTIONS. Requires nomination paper filing fees to be deposited into the Hawaii election campaign fund. Increases the amount of public funds available to candidates who agree to expenditure limits. Adjusts the signature requirement and fee amount for nomination papers. Amends the deadline to file nomination papers to the first Tuesday in May.
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RELATING TO FIREARMS AMMUNITION. Requires the licensing of sellers of ammunition, and for the identification and proper permitting of purchasers or possessors of ammunition. Regulates ammunition in the same manner that firearms are regulated.
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RELATING TO FIREWORKS. Increases the fireworks display permit fee from $110 to $150 and the fine for certain fireworks violations from $2,000 per violation to $5,000 per violation. Clarifies that each aerial device, display firework, or article pyrotechnic having a total weight of 25 pounds or less that is illegally imported, transferred, or sold constitutes a separate violation. Increases the penalty for removing or extracting the pyrotechnic contents.
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RELATING TO CAMPAIGN FINANCE. Prohibits foreign nationals and foreign corporations from making independent expenditures. Requires every corporation that contributes or expends funds in a state election to file a statement of certification regarding its limited foreign influence. Requires noncandidate committees making only independent expenditures to obtain a statement of certification from each top contributor required to be listed in an advertisement.
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RELATING TO THE KA IWI COAST. Transfers lands to DLNR and establishes that land and adjacent, state-owned land as the Ka Iwi coast state park. Appropriates funds.
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RELATING TO PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Requires the Department of Education to establish food waste and plant-based alternative meal goals by 1/1/2035, as part of the Sustainable Schools Initiative.
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RELATING TO MOPEDS. Requires a transition to silent, clean electric mopeds by prohibiting a retailer from selling or offering for sale combustion engine-powered mopeds beginning January 1, 2022.
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RELATING TO THE TRANSIENT ACCOMMODATIONS TAX. Provides for a mechanism to adjust the transient accommodations tax rate based on visitor arrivals for a calendar year. Requires the director of DBEDT to determine and publish visitor arrivals annually.
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RELATING TO HELICOPTERS. Requires helicopter owners and operators to submit reports to the department of transportation and the appropriate county advisory committee about basic helicopter flight information.
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RELATING TO GUN VIOLENCE PREVENTION. Establishes the Hawaii Gun Violence Prevention Center to assist law enforcement, analyze data, and conduct research necessary to help reduce gun violence. Creates a special fund to support the Center. Appropriates funds.
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RELATING TO FACE SURVEILLANCE. Limits the government use of face surveillance except in certain circumstances. Limits the private use of face surveillance unless the subject of the face surveillance has given consent.
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RELATING TO FIREARMS. Establishes uniform firearms safety and training requirements for applicants of permits to acquire firearms, regardless of firearm type. Prohibits the issuance of permits to acquire firearms to aliens who are not state law enforcement officers.
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PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE XVI, SECTION 2, OF THE HAWAII STATE CONSTITUTION, TO AUTHORIZE THE LEGISLATURE TO REQUIRE THE FORFEITURE OR REDUCTION OF PENSION BENEFITS OF A MEMBER, FORMER MEMBER, OR RETIRANT OF THE EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM WHO IS CONVICTED OF A FELONY RELATED TO THE MEMBER'S, FORMER MEMBER'S, OR RETIRANT'S EMPLOYMENT WITH THE STATE OR ANY POLITICAL SUBDIVISION THEREOF. Proposes a constitutional amendment to article XVI, section 2, of the state constitution to authorize the legislature to require the forfeiture or reduction of benefits of any member, former member, or retirant of the employees' retirement system who is convicted of a felony related to the member's, former member's, or retirant's employment with the State or any political subdivision thereof.
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RELATING TO GOVERNMENT. Authorizes forfeiture of certain employees' retirement system benefits, pursuant to court order, for state or county employees and designated beneficiaries who are convicted of an employment-related felony. Makes ethics code violations a class A felony if the salary of the employee who commits the offense is subject to the recommendation of the Commission on Salaries. Increases the offense of bribery to a class A felony if the salary of the public servant who commits the offense to recommendation by the Commission on Salaries. Directs the Commission on Salaries to consider the deterrence of corruption and bribery by persons appointed to those positions. Creates a task force to investigate avenues to prevent corruption and bribery issues among public servants in positions of influence.
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RELATING TO PROSECUTORIAL TRANSPARENCY. Requires the offices of the prosecuting attorney of the respective counties to collect and publish certain data relating to criminal defendants and prosecutorial decision-making. Requires governor to establish a prosecutorial transparency advisory board.
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RELATING TO MONETARY OBLIGATIONS. Prohibits the imposition of restrictions on a person's ability to obtain or renew a driver's license or to register, renew the registration of, or transfer or receive title to a motor vehicle, as a consequence of unpaid monetary obligations. Does not affect driver's license suspensions related to excessive speeding, lack of motor vehicle insurance, or non-compliance with a child support order.
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RELATING TO FINANCIAL HARDSHIP. Expands the conditions for authorizing a restricted license. Provides judges with greater discretion to adjust the amount owed by a person who violates certain traffic offenses based on the person's inability to pay. Increases the amount of credit given to a contumacious person committed for nonpayment.
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RELATING TO THE BOARD OF EDUCATION. Requires the board of education to invite the exclusive representative for bargaining unit (5) (teachers and other personnel of the department of education) to appoint a nonvoting public school teacher representative to the board.
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RELATING TO WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT. Establishes the state YouthBuild Program to assist non-profit and public entities in applying and qualifying for federal YouthBuild Program grants. Authorizes DLIR to award grants to eligible non-profit or public entities to meet the matching funds requirement for federal YouthBuild grant awards. Appropriates funds.
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RELATING TO THE HAWAII EMPLOYER-UNION HEALTH BENEFITS TRUST FUND. Specifies that each EUTF trustee, in addition to the EUTF board, shall administer health and other benefit plans for the sole and exclusive benefit of EUTF beneficiaries. Repeals provisions requiring health and other benefit plans to be provided at an affordable cost to both public employers and public employees.
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RELATING TO MEDICAL CANNABIS. Requires medical cannabis dispensaries to be closed on official state and federal holidays. Prohibits the transportation of cannabis to another county or island for testing except when there is no certified laboratory located in same county or island as the dispensary. Prohibits dispensaries from being located within 750 feet of a public housing project or complex. Repeals statute allowing for the sale or transfer of dispensary licenses.
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RELATING TO HEALTH. Places a cap on the total amount that an insured is required to pay for a prescription insulin drug at $100 per thirty-day supply of that drug.
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RELATING TO NOTARIAL ACTS. Codifies into Hawaii's existing notary public law relevant portions of the Revised Uniform Law on Notarial Act, including provisions to allow notarial acts utilizing electronic documents with electronic signatures and seal, without requiring the signatory to be physically present before the notary public.
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RELATING TO USE AND EQUIPMENT OF LESS THAN LETHAL FORCE. Requires the department of public safety to review its policies and procedures governing the use of force, weapons, and equipment. Requires the law enforcement standards board to review the department's use of force training. Appropriates funds for training, equipment, and related records management for the department.
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RELATING TO TAXATION. Amends the income tax credit for expenses for household and dependent care services necessary for gainful employment by changing the taxpayer's applicable percentage of employment‑related expenses that constitutes the tax credit and cap amount.
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