OFFICE OF THE SPEAKER
THIRTY-FIRST STATE LEGISLATURE
COMMITTEE REFERRALS
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NO. 24
27TH LEGISLATIVE DAY-MARCH 10, 2022
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Committee Abbreviations:
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CAI - Culture, Arts, & International Affairs |
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CMV - Corrections, Military, & Veterans |
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CPC - Consumer Protection & Commerce |
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ECD - Economic Development |
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EDN - Education |
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EEP - Energy & Environmental Protection |
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FIN - Finance |
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GVR - Government Reform |
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HET - Higher Education & Technology |
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HHH - Health, Human Services, & Homelessness |
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HSG - Housing |
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JHA - Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs |
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LAT - Labor & Tourism |
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LMG - Legislative Management |
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PDP - Pandemic & Disaster Preparedness |
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TRN - Transportation |
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WAL - Water & Land |
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RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII. Requires the Special Funds of the University of Hawaii and the Hawaii Cancer Research Special Fund to submit annual detailed reports to the Legislature. (SD3)
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HET, FIN |
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RELATING TO CHILD PASSENGER RESTRAINTS. Amends requirements for the restraint of child passengers. Requires rear facing child safety seats for children under two years of age. Repeals exceptions for compliance. Raises certain fines for violations.
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TRN, FIN |
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RELATING TO CAMPAIGN FINANCE. Prohibits foreign nationals and foreign-influenced corporations from making independent expenditures, electioneering communications, or contributions to candidates or committees. Requires every corporation that contributes or expends funds of more than $1,000 in an election cycle in a state election to file a statement of certification regarding foreign influence. Requires recipients of corporate donations from expending funds for certain purposes unless the contributing corporation has certified that the corporation is not foreign-influenced. Requires noncandidate committees making only independent expenditures to obtain a statement of certification from each top contributor required to be listed in an advertisement. (SD1)
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GVR, JHA |
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RELATING TO AQUATIC RESOURCES. Authorizes the department of land and natural resources to use in-lieu fee mitigation to restore, create, enhance, preserve, or any combination thereof aquatic habitats or resources as compensatory mitigation. (SD1)
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WAL, JHA, FIN |
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RELATING TO RENTAL DISCRIMINATION. Prohibits discrimination, including in advertisements for available real property, based on participation in a housing assistance program or requirements related to participation in housing assistance programs, in real estate transactions and requirements. (SD2)
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HSG, CPC, FIN |
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RELATED TO CAMPAIGN FINANCE. Increases the amount of fines that may be assessed against a noncandidate committee for violations of organizational report requirements. Increases the amount of fines that may be assessed against noncandidate committees for violations of advertisement disclosure requirements. Increases the fines for advertisements paid by noncandidate committees making only independent expenditures. Takes effect 7/30/2050. (SD1)
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GVR, JHA, FIN |
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PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO THE HAWAII CONSTITUTION REGARDING THE FREEDOM OF SPEECH. Proposes a symbolic constitutional amendment to provide that freedom of speech protected under the Hawaii State Constitution does not include the expenditure of money to influence elections. (SD1)
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GVR, JHA, FIN |
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RELATING TO LEAD-BASED PAINT. Prohibits the use of lead-based paint on outdoor structures after 12/31/2022. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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HHH, CPC |
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RELATING TO CESSPOOL CONVERSION. Removes the limitation on specific types of wastewater systems to which cesspools must be upgraded or converted, and instead requires a cesspool be upgraded or converted to a wastewater system approved by the Department of Health, prior to 1/1/2050. Requires that cesspools within 500 feet of certain bodies of water be upgraded, converted, or connected if they are sold or transferred on or after 1/1/2024. (SD2)
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EEP/HHH, CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO WITNESS FEES AND REIMBURSEMENTS IN CRIMINAL CASES. Clarifies applicable reimbursement to the State or defendant for expert witness fees, as it pertains to testimony, preparation, and in-court attendance in state court criminal proceedings. Increases per diem payments for all witnesses. (SD1)
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JHA, FIN |
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RELATING TO PUBLIC SAFETY. Repeals section 46-19.8, Hawaii Revised Statutes, and Act 53, Session Laws of Hawaii 2017, which prohibited the counties from adopting codes and regulations that would require the installation or retrofitting of residential fire sprinklers in one- and two-family dwellings and other types of structures. Effective July 30, 2075. (SD1)
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CPC, JHA |
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RELATING TO PUBLIC SAFETY. Requires sellers of residential buildings or structures to provide approved smoke alarms in accordance with current state or county building or residential codes.
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HSG, CPC |
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RELATING TO CAMPAIGN FUNDRAISING. Prohibits legislators and employees and persons acting on behalf of legislators from holding any fundraiser during a regular legislative session or special session. (SD1)
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GVR/JHA |
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RELATING TO HISTORIC PRESERVATION. Amends the definition of "historic property" under the Historic Preservation Law. Takes effect 07/30/2075. (SD1)
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WAL, JHA, FIN |
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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. Takes effect 7/30/2050. (SD1)
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WAL, JHA, FIN |
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RELATING TO RESTRAINING ORDER VIOLATIONS. Requires a court to sentence a person convicted of violating a temporary restraining order, injunction or restraining order, or order of protection during the term of a stay-at-home order imposed by the State or a county in which the violation occurred to a mandatory minimum jail sentence of not less than thirty days and fined no less than $500 and no more than $3,000. Takes effect 7/30/2075. (SD1)
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JHA, FIN |
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RELATING TO MEDICAL CANNABIS. Allows primary caregivers, qualifying out-of-state patients, and caregivers of a qualifying out-of-state patient to access the waiting room within a medical cannabis retail dispensary. Clarifies violations related to medical cannabis dispensaries. (SD2)
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HHH, CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO VIOLATIONS OF CAMPAIGN FINANCE LAW. Establishes that knowingly or intentionally providing false information concerning the name or address of a person paying for a campaign advertisement is a class C felony. Repeals certain exemptions from criminal prosecution for campaign finance violations. Increases from four years to ten years the period from which a person convicted for a criminal violation of campaign finance law shall be disqualified from holding elective office. Establishes that the exercise of enforcement authority by the attorney general or prosecuting attorney may be the basis for prosecution of campaign finance law violations. (SD1)
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GVR, JHA |
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RELATING TO ELECTIONS. Requires an elector to vote for the candidates whose names appeared on the presidential general election ballot and who are of the political party or group they represent and invalidates an elector's vote for failure to vote accordingly. Requires an alternate to vote in place of the original elector if the original elector fails to vote for the proper candidate. Requires an alternate elector to vote for the candidates whose names appeared on the presidential general election ballot and who are of the political party or group that the alternate elector represents and invalidates an alternate elector's vote for failure to vote accordingly. (SD1)
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GVR, JHA |
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RELATING TO THE CRIMINAL DESTRUCTION OF TREES. Establishes a criminal statute for the criminal destruction of a tree on state or county property punishable as a misdemeanor. Effective 7/30/2050. (SD2)
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EEP, JHA |
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RELATING TO VICTIM-COUNSELOR PRIVILEGE. Expands the victim-counselor privilege under Rule 505.5 of the Hawaii Rules of Evidence to include confidential advocates employed by the University of Hawaii. (SD1)
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HET, JHA, FIN |
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RELATING TO THE COMMISSION ON WATER RESOURCE MANAGEMENT. Adds the chairperson of the Hawaiian Homes Commission or the chairperson's designee to serve as an ex officio, voting member on the Commission on Water Resource Management. Takes effect 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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WAL, JHA |
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RELATING TO COUNTIES. Gives counties jurisdiction over the infrastructure of the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands housing developments in their boundaries under specific conditions. Requires counties, under specific conditions, to commence maintenance on that certain infrastructure within sixty days. (SD1)
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HSG, JHA, FIN |
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RELATING TO THE COMPOSITION OF THE STATE COUNCIL ON MENTAL HEALTH. Requires that members of the State Council on Mental Health receive annual training that includes topics such as cultural awareness and loss of ethnic identity, as well as other topics that address Native Hawaiian healing and health practices. (SD2)
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HHH, JHA, CPC |
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RELATING TO SPECIAL NUMBER PLATES. Authorizes the issuance of special number plates to commemorate Duke Kahanamoku. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD2)
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CAI, FIN |
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RELATING TO LABOR. Establishes clear guidelines for unpaid internships under the state wage and hour law. (SD1)
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LAT, CPC |
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RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF ACCOUNTING AND GENERAL SERVICES. Requires the office of enterprise technology services to establish policies, in collaboration with departments and agencies to, provide infrastructure and resources to permit authorized employees to securely access remote computing services. (SD1)
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LAT, CPC |
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RELATING TO LAW ENFORCEMENT. Clarifies membership and certain powers and duties of the Law Enforcement Standards Board. Repeals the 12/31/2021 deadline for the completion of board standards and certification processes. Appropriates funds for resources to enable the Board to accomplish the Board's mission. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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JHA, FIN |
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RELATING TO HAWAII CRIMINAL JUSTICE DATA CENTER FEES. Provides authority for the Hawaii criminal justice data center to set and collect fees for services provided. (SD1)
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JHA, FIN |
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RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, AND TOURISM. Includes best practice destination management and regenerative tourism under the scope and responsibilities of the Hawaii Tourism Authority (HTA). Requires HTA to develop a tourism management plan that includes tourism marketing, best practice destination management, and regenerative tourism. Appropriates moneys to HTA to carry out the actions in the county destination management action plans. (SD3)
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LAT, CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO THE MORTGAGE LOAN RECOVERY FUND. Allows a person aggrieved by the fraud, misrepresentation, or deceit of a mortgage loan originator company licensee to receive restitution payment upon a final court order. Repeals fees paid by mortgage loan originator companies and their branch office locations to the Mortgage Loan Recovery Fund. Provides the Commissioner of Financial Institutions with the authority to consider applications to recover from the fund. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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CPC, FIN |
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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. (SD2)
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HHH, CPC, 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. (SD1)
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HHH, FIN |
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RELATING TO MOTOR CARRIERS. Repeals the law relating to exemption for vehicles designated as vehicles used by farmers as set forth in section 286-208, Hawaii Revised Statutes. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD2)
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CPC, JHA |
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RELATING TO MEDICAID BENEFITS. Appropriates funds to reinstate the basic package of diagnostic, preventive, and restorative dental benefits to adult medicaid enrollees. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD2)
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HHH, FIN |
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RELATING TO JUROR COMPENSATION. Increases compensation for a juror or a prospective juror from $30 to $50 for each day of attendance at court. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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JHA, FIN |
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RELATING TO SEX TRAFFICKING PREVENTION. Requires the department of education to offer training for teachers, educational officers, school-based behavioral health specialists, security, custodial, and support staff on sex trafficking prevention and response. Takes effect 7/30/2075. (SD1)
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RELATING TO HISTORIC PRESERVATION. Defines "pre-contact historic property". Clarifies that the historic preservation program includes providing consultation to counties and public and private agencies involved in historic preservation and the development, publication, and distribution of materials about protections for burials, historic sites, and archaeological resources. Amends the composition and duties of the Hawaii historic places review board. Increases civil and administrative fines for certain violations of historic and preservation requirements and makes violators liable for costs associated with mitigation or restoration measures. Takes effect 7/30/2075. (SD2)
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WAL, JHA, FIN |
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RELATING TO FAIR HOUSING REASONABLE ACCOMMODATIONS. Defines "assistance animal" in the context of Hawaii law prohibiting discrimination in real property transactions. Codifies the administrative process in verifying that a person requesting a reasonable accommodation that include the use of an assistance animal has a disability and the assistance animal is needed to alleviate one or more symptoms of the person's disability. Specifies that possession of a vest or other distinguishing animal garment, tag, or registration document commonly purchased online and purporting to identify an animal as a service animal or assistance animal does not constitute valid verification of a disability-related need for an assistance animal. (SD2)
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HSG, JHA |
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RELATING TO HIGHWAYS. Repeals the three-year limit on the exemption of the State and counties from the requirement to maintain or improve any condemned roads. Allows the State and counties to apply flexibility in highway design. Abolishes joint and several liability of the State and counties for any condemned roads except for negligence by the State or county after condemnation. Effective 7/30/2075. (SD1)
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TRN, JHA, FIN |
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RELATING TO EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES. Repeals section 453-34(d), Hawaii Revised Statutes, which limits licensure as an emergency medical technician 1 to individuals whose practice is performed in a county with a population of 500,000 or greater. (SD1)
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HHH, CPC |
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RELATING TO MINIMUM WAGE. Increases the minimum wage for certain employees incrementally to $12.00 per hour beginning 10/1/2022, $15.00 per hour beginning 1/1/2024, and $18.00 per hour beginning 1/1/26.
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LAT, FIN |
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RELATING TO THE GENERAL EXCISE TAX. Clarifies that, under the general excise tax law, sales to a licensed retail merchant, jobber, or other licensed seller for resale are only eligible for the wholesale tax rate if the resale is subject to the highest general excise tax rate. Adds a similar requirement for sales of tangible personal property to a service provider or for the purpose of providing transient accommodations. (SD1)
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ECD, FIN |
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RELATING TO INCREASING THE PAYMENT AMOUNT FOR THE OFFICE OF HAWAIIAN AFFAIRS' PRO RATA SHARE OF THE PUBLIC LAND TRUST. Establishes the Office of Hawaiian Affairs' pro rata share of the moneys derived from the public land trust. Transfers moneys to the OHA for income and proceeds due from the use of the public land trust lands between July 1, 2012, and June 30, 2022, that was misallocated, underreported, or underpaid to the OHA. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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JHA, FIN |
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RELATING TO NEWBORN HEARING SCREENING. Requires diagnostic audiologic evaluation results of newborn hearing screening evaluations, and infants whose hearing status changes, to be provided to the Department of Health. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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HHH, CPC |
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RELATING TO MURDER. Amends provisions relating to first degree murder. Adds a person commits the offense of first degree murder if the person knowingly or intentionally causes the death of another person that is less than ten years old or pregnant. Adds a person commits the offense of first degree murder if the murder was especially heinous, atrocious, or cruel manifesting exceptional depravity. Takes effect 7/30/2075. (SD1)
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JHA |
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RELATING TO PRESCRIPTION DRUGS. Requires a prescriber to offer a prescription of certain drugs under certain circumstances related to opioid overdose. Requires a prescriber to offer patient education under certain circumstances related to opioid overdose. Exempts veterinarians or prescriptions for animals. Requires a pharmacist who dispenses a prescription order for an opioid to notify the individual of the potential dangers of a high dose of an opioid and to offer to dispense to the individual an opioid antagonist; provided that the individual is prescribed specific opioids at specified doses. Exempts patients in hospice or palliative care, residents of veterans community living centers, patients in inpatient or outpatient care. Requires a pharmacist to notify an individual receiving an opioid antagonist of the availability of generic and brand-name opiate antagonists. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD2)
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HHH, CPC |
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RELATING TO GENETIC INFORMATION PRIVACY. Establishes the Hawaii Genetic Information Privacy Act. Requires direct-to-consumer genetic testing companies to adhere to certain requirements pertaining to the collection, use, and disclosure of genetic data. Provides that any violation of the Act is deemed to be an unfair or deceptive trade practice in accordance with section 480-2, Hawaii Revised Statutes. (SD2)
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RELATING TO HEALTH. Requires assessment of patients who are subject to emergency hospitalization, diagnosed with a mental illness or severe substance use disorder, and found to be lacking decisional capacity to determine if a surrogate or guardian needs to be appointed to make appropriate health care decisions for the patient. Authorizes certain health care providers to make determinations on the presence of mental illness, substance abuse disorder, and decisional capacity of the patient. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD1)
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HHH, JHA |
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RELATING TO REGENERATIVE TOURISM. Incorporates a regenerative framework into the State Planning Act by expanding objectives and policies for the visitor industry. Requires an update to the State Tourism Functional Plan to be submitted to the Legislature no later than 20 days prior to the convening of the Regular Session of 2023. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO REPORTS FILED WITH THE CAMPAIGN SPENDING COMMISSION. Housekeeping measure that provides that candidates are not required to file preliminary general reports if they are either unsuccessful or are elected to office in the primary election. Amends subsections (b) and (c) of section 11-339, HRS, to make them consistent with subsection (a) by aggregating contributions and expenditures in determining whether a committee need only file the final election period report.
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GVR, JHA |
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RELATING TO CANDIDATE COMMITTEE AND NONCANDIDATE COMMITTEE ORGANIZATIONAL REPORTS. Housekeeping measure that repeals references in sections 11‑322(b) and 11‑323(b), HRS, to paragraphs in subsection (a) of those statutes that have been repealed.
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GVR, JHA, FIN |
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RELATING TO VIOLATIONS OF CAMPAIGN FINANCE LAW. Increases from $1,000 to $5,000 the fine that may be assessed for campaign spending law violations against a noncandidate committee making only independent expenditures and that has received at least one contribution of more than $10,000, or spent more than $10,000 in an election period. Allows the Campaign Spending Commission to order that the fine be up to three times the amount of the unlawful contribution or expenditure, and that the payment of the fine assessed against a noncandidate committee, or any portion thereof, be paid from the personal funds of an officer of the noncandidate committee.
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GVR, JHA, FIN |
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RELATING TO POLITICAL PARTIES. Amends provisions relating to dates and deadlines in statutory provisions governing political parties.
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JHA |
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RELATING TO UNLAWFUL CHOP SHOP ACTIVITY. Establishes the criminal offense of unlawful chop shop activity. Provides for the forfeiture of property connected with chop shop activity. Defines "chop shop." Takes effect July 30, 2075. (SD1)
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CPC, JHA |
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RELATING TO SOIL CLASSIFICATIONS. Requires the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development to conduct a study of the suitability of the State's current soil overall (master) productivity rating system classified by the Land Study Bureau's detailed land classification. Requires a report to the Legislature. Appropriates moneys. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO STATE SYMBOLS. Designates the ‘ohi‘a lehua as the state endemic tree. (SD1)
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CAI, JHA |
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RELATING TO FISHING. Prohibits the possession or use of unmanned aerial vehicles in state waters for purposes of fishing. (SD2)
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WAL, JHA |
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RELATING TO LAND MANAGEMENT. Repeals certain board approval requirements for transfers of certain public lands classified for agricultural use by the Department of Land and Natural Resources to the Department of Agriculture. Clarifies that lands classified for agricultural use to include intensive agricultural, special livestock, and pasture uses. Requires the Department of Agriculture to accept the transfer of lands in pasture use by the Department of Agriculture. Requires the Department of Agriculture, prior to offering a lease, to inquire with the Department of Land and Natural Resources regarding any easements required for access to landlocked forest reserves or other assets on the lands subject to the lease. Requires approval from the Board of Land and Natural Resources and the Board of Agriculture before removing pasture lands for reforestation, or other public purposes. Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources Division of Forestry and Wildlife to submit a realistic and funded action plan for reforestation on current pasture lands. Requires a 1‑year notice to land lessees or permittees prior to approved withdrawal. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO SPECIAL PURPOSE REVENUE BONDS TO ASSIST THE HAWAIIAN LEGACY REFORESTATION INITIATIVE TO RESTORE HAWAII'S FORESTS AND NATURAL RESOURCES. Authorizes the Department of Budget and Finance to issue special purpose revenue bonds to assist Hawaiian Legacy Reforestation Initiative, LLC in its mission to proliferate a sustainable model of endemic reforestation, ecosystem revitalization, endangered species recovery, and carbon credit sequestering. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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EEP, CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO HEALTH. Requires all principals, guidance counselors, and teachers to perform self-review of seizure safety materials annually. Requires a seizure action plan for every diagnosed student and distribution of the plan to employees charged with supervising the student. Requires public schools, private schools, and public charter schools to have an employee trained to administer seizure disorder rescue medication. Exempts schools that do not have a student with a seizure disorder. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO COURT-APPOINTED ATTORNEYS. Requires the court to appoint counsel to indigent parents upon the filing of a petition for custody or family supervision and make every effort to do so at the first hearing attended by the parents. (SD1)
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RELATING TO TELEHEALTH. Clarifies reimbursement for services provided through telehealth via an interactive telecommunications system. Defines "interactive telecommunications system". Clarifies that, for services furnished for purposes of diagnosis, evaluation, or treatment of a mental health disorder to a patient in their home, interactive telecommunications may include audio-only communication in certain circumstances. Repeals 07/01/2027. Effective 01/01/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO THE HAWAII TOURISM AUTHORITY. Requires the Hawaii Tourism Authority to include performance-based incentives in all of its professional services contracts. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO BROADBAND SERVICE INFRASTRUCTURE. Defines broadband equity. Clarifies the Hawaii Broadband and Digital Equity Office's duties to promote and support digital equity and broadband deployment. Appropriates funds to the Hawaii Broadband and Digital Equity Office for FTE positions. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO THE HAWAII TOURISM AUTHORITY. Adds the Director of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism as an ex officio voting member of the Hawaii Tourism Authority board of directors. Adds the Director of Transportation; Chairperson of the Board of Land and Natural Resources; Chairperson of the Board of Agriculture; and the Executive Director of the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts as ex officio nonvoting members of the Hawaii Tourism Authority board of directors. Clarifies the authority and responsibility of the Hawaii Tourism Authority board of directors. Renames the tourism marketing plan to the tourism branding plan. Repeals the Hawaii Tourism Authority advisory group. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION COMMERCIAL ENTERPRISES REVOLVING FUND. Establishes the Department of Education Commercial Enterprises Revolving Fund for funds to be expended in the operation of commercial enterprises by the Department of Education. Makes an appropriation into the revolving fund. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO ABUSE OF FAMILY OR HOUSEHOLD MEMBERS. Adds abuse of family or household members to those felonies that qualify for repeat offender sentencing.
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MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE VICTIM WITNESS ASSISTANCE PROGRAM. Appropriates funds to the Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu as a grant-in-aid for the victim witness assistance program. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE CAREER CRIMINAL PROSECUTION UNIT. Appropriates funds to the Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu as a grant-in-aid for the career criminal prosecution unit. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE I, SECTION 25, OF THE HAWAII CONSTITUTION REGARDING CRIMES AGAINST MINORS. Proposes an amendment to Article I, section 25, of the Hawaii Constitution to expand the legislature's present power to define the elements and jury unanimity requirements of the crime of continuous sexual assault of a minor, to include minors who are younger than 16 years of age, rather than only those who are younger than 14 years of age. (SD2)
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RELATING TO EXECUTIVE PARDONS. Establishes a comprehensive application process for executive pardons. Takes effect 7/30/2075. (SD1)
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CMV, JHA |
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RELATING TO CHILD TORTURE. Adds a new section to Chapter 709, HRS, to establish the class A felony offense of child torture. (SD1)
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RELATING TO FIREARMS. Amends prohibition against certain individuals possessing or owning firearms to clarify that all individuals charged with a felony offense or convicted of certain offenses are prohibited from possessing a firearm.
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JHA |
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RELATING TO THE USE OF INTOXICANTS WHILE OPERATING A VEHICLE. Lowers the threshold blood alcohol content for the offense of operating a vehicle while under the influence of an intoxicant. (SD1)
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JHA |
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RELATING TO PUBLIC NOTICES. Allows government agencies under certain circumstances to publish public notices on an official website as an alternative to a newspaper. (SD2)
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RELATING TO THE CHILDREN'S JUSTICE PROGRAM. Updates the purpose of the children's justice program to include investigation and management of cases involving suspected or confirmed child sex trafficking, commercial sexual exploitation of children, other child maltreatment, and child witnesses to crime or violence. Makes conforming amendments.
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JHA, FIN |
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RELATING TO THE ROOM CONFINEMENT OF MINORS. Establishes conditions and time limits for placing a minor in room confinement at a detention or shelter facility. (SD1)
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HHH, JHA, FIN |
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RELATING TO TRAFFIC VIOLATIONS. Requires the driver of a moped to be in immediate possession of a valid driver's license or instruction permit at all times. (SD1)
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TRN, JHA |
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RELATING TO ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW. Requires environmental impact statements to consider whether the proposed action will exacerbate socioeconomic disparities. Takes effect 7/30/2075. (SD1)
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EEP, JHA, FIN |
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RELATING TO NOISE CONTROL. Enhances the control of low-frequency noise emitted from establishments regulated by county liquor commissions by setting a maximum permissible noise level in dBC measurements. Clarifies that emission of noise that exceeds the maximum permissible noise level constitutes a noise violation. Allows noise violations to be enforced by summons or citation issued by law enforcement officers. Allows county liquor commissions to adopt rules to issue fines for noise violation. Allows county liquor commissions to revoke or suspend a liquor license; deny the application, renewal, or transfer of a license; or withhold issuance of a license when the licensee or applicant fails to take corrective action to address noise complaints or violations. (SD2)
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HHH, CPC |
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RELATING TO LIQUOR LICENSES. Increases the maximum allowable fine for violation of liquor control laws by a licensee from $2,000 to $5,000.
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RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION. Increases the minimum and potential maximum fine for violating certain provisions relating to the installation of a noisy muffler.
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HHH, JHA |
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RELATING TO ADULT MENTAL HEALTH. Restores Department of Health Adult Mental Health Division funding and permanent positions cut during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic. Appropriates moneys. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO JURY SERVICE. Prohibits juror exclusion based on gender identity or expression.
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JHA, FIN |
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RELATING TO TRANSITIONAL HOUSING. Requires the Department of Health and pertinent county agencies to work together to resolve problems and complaints regarding clean and sober homes. Requires the Department of Health to educate the public on certain matters related to clean and sober homes. (SD2)
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RELATING TO STATE EMPLOYEES. Subjects interns who work for the State to the provisions of chapter 84, Hawaii Revised Statutes, otherwise known as the State Ethics Code, by defining and including the term "intern" in the definition of employees, who are subject to the provisions of the Code. (SD1)
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RELATING TO COMPUTER SCIENCE. Allows Department of Education students to fulfill world language, fine arts, or career and technical education graduation requirements with computer science. Establishes a scholarship at the University of Hawaii to encourage students majoring in education to take a computer science course. Requires the University of Hawaii to establish computer science pathways for students majoring in education. Requires teacher licensing and certification to include computer science. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO BOARD MEETINGS. Defines "board packet" and requires each state board to make its board packets publicly available at least forty-eight hours prior to the board meeting, but only if the board uses board packets. (SD2)
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RELATING TO ELECTRONIC INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ACCESSIBILITY FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES. Requires that all electronic information technology developed, purchased, used, or provided by a state entity be made accessible to persons with disabilities. Requires the Office of Enterprise Technology Services, in consultation with the Disability and Communication Access Board and a working group comprising stakeholders, to develop and publish electronic information technology accessibility standards to be implemented by all state entities. Requires review and amendment of the standards every 3 years after the date of publication, or as needed, to reflect advances or changes in information technology. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO NOMINATION PAPERS. Extends by one month the deadline by which nomination papers for candidates for elected office shall be made available. Repeals on the same date of the repeal of section 4 of Act 14, Session Laws of Hawaii 2021. Takes effect 7/30/2075. (SD1)
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RELATING TO TEMPORARY ASSISTANCE FOR NEEDY FAMILIES. Authorizes the Department of Human Services to provide housing assistance subsidies of up to $500 per month to Temporary Assistance for Needy Families and Temporary Assistance for Other Needy Families participants who are participating in the First-To-Work program. Appropriates funds. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO THE USE OF SIRENS BY EMERGENCY VEHICLES. Allows emergency response vehicles to not use sirens if the siren is not reasonably necessary under the circumstances.
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RELATING TO LEAF BLOWERS. Clarifies that the residential zone restriction on the use of leaf blowers at certain hours includes residential districts, apartment districts, and business mixed use districts. Removes the exemption on leaf blower restrictions for government agencies except in cases of emergency. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO ELECTIONS. Requires the exterior of the envelope containing the ballot package to include instructions on how to obtain language translation services in Hawaiian and certain foreign languages. (SD1)
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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. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO NEGLIGENT HOMICIDE. Makes it a class A felony for a person to cause the death of another while operating a vehicle in a negligent manner and under the influence of an intoxicant if the person has one or more convictions for operating a vehicle under the influence of an intoxicant within twenty years of the instant offense, a suspended and revoked license and privilege to operate a vehicle due to driving while under the influence of an intoxicant, or the person is a highly intoxicated driver.
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RELATING TO THE LOW-INCOME HOUSEHOLD RENTERS TAX CREDIT. Increases the credit amount and the income eligibility cap thresholds for the income tax credit for low-income household renters by using tax brackets. Provides for inflation increases every 3 years based on the urban Hawaii consumer price index. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO FILM INFRASTRUCTURE TAX CREDIT. Establishes a film infrastructure income tax credit. Requires that the film infrastructure project spend at least $3,000,000 on buildings, facilities, or installations. Sets an aggregate cap amount for the credit of $10,000,000 per year. Appropriates moneys to the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism's Creative Industries Division for two full-time equivalent (2.0 FTE) positions. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO FOOD ASSISTANCE. Appropriates moneys to fund the operating expenses of the four Hawaii food banks contracted by the Office of Community Services to administer The Emergency Food Assistance Program in each of the State's counties. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO UNDERGROUND FUEL STORAGE TANKS. Prohibits issuance of future large capacity underground storage tank systems mauka of the underground injection control line beginning July 1, 2022. Prohibits operation of and renewal of large capacity underground storage tank system permits located mauka of the underground injection control line beginning January 1, 2023. Defines large capacity underground storage tank system and underground injection control line. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE II, SECTION 1, OF THE HAWAII STATE CONSTITUTION TO CHANGE THE AGE QUALIFICATION FOR VOTING IN STATE OR LOCAL ELECTIONS. Proposes a constitutional amendment to authorize individuals who are seventeen years of age but will be eighteen years of age by a state or local general election to vote at the state or local primary election immediately preceding the state or local general election, and at any co-occurring or subsequent special election. Effective 7/1/2050, upon compliance with article XVII, section 3, of the state constitution. (SD1)
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RELATING TO EDUCATION. Requires the Governor to nominate members for reappointment at least one hundred fifty days before the expiration of the member's term. Requires the Senate to consider the reconfirmation of the member at least sixty days before the member's term expires. Clarifies that holdover members shall not serve as members of the Board of Education beyond the end of the first Regular Session of the Legislature following the expiration of the member's term unless duly appointed by the Governor and confirmed by the Senate. Immediately disqualifies from service any holdover member whose nomination is withdrawn by the Governor prior to the holdover member's confirmation by the Senate. Requires the Governor to submit to the Senate, no later than twenty days prior to the convening of each Regular Session of the Legislature, a list of the names of any vacancies filled by interim appointment and the number of any vacancies on the Board. Takes effect 7/30/2075. (SD1)
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RELATING TO SCHOOLS. Requires certain unlicensed but accredited private schools to annually submit health and safety documentation to the Hawaii Council of Private Schools, or Catholic Schools Hawaii, as the case may be, to meet the definition of "private schools" under the compulsory attendance law. (SD1)
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RELATING TO SCHOOL GARDENS. Establishes a School Garden Coordinator position within the Department of Education. Makes an appropriation to fund the position and related expenses. (SD1)
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RELATING TO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION RESIDENCY REQUIREMENTS. Exempts certain Department of Education employees from state residency requirement under certain circumstances. Takes effect 7/30/2075. (SD2)
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RELATING TO DIGITAL LEARNING. Establishes a digital learning center within the Department of Education. Appropriates funds to staff and administer the digital learning center. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO FIREWORKS. Requires the auditor of fireworks and articles pyrotechnic records for each county fire department to submit an annual report to the Legislature detailing inventory, recordkeeping, and sales of fireworks to license or permit holders. Makes a grant-in-aid to the counties to cover costs associated with reporting the information to the Legislature. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD3)
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RELATING TO PUBLIC SCHOOL LAND TRANSFER. Directs the conveyance to the Department of Education of certain lands used for public schools and held by the counties of Kauai and Maui, the State, and the Department of Land and Natural Resources. Requires legislative approval prior to the sale, gift, or alienation of the fee simple title to lands held by the Department of Education. Appropriates funds to the Department of Education to effectuate conveyances and manage real property. (SD2)
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RELATING TO SCHOOL-BASED HEALTH SERVICES. Includes advanced practice registered nurses with prescriptive authority in the list of health care professionals authorized to administer medication to public school students. Requires administration of the medication to be approved by the Department of Health or other complex area or school-based health care provider pursuant to a written agreement with the Department of Education. (SD2)
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RELATING TO SCHOOLS. Establishes a workforce readiness diploma program within the Department of Education's Community School for Adults program. Appropriates moneys. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO THE BOARD OF EDUCATION. Removes the governor's authority to select the chairperson of the board of education. Authorizes a majority of the members of the board to elect a chairperson from among the members of the board. Removes requirement that the chairperson be an at-large member.
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RELATING TO FOWL. Establishes a 5-year pilot program within the Department of Health to eradicate feral chickens in the State. Requires the Department of Agriculture to submit a special local need registration to the United States Environmental Protection Agency. Makes an appropriation. Repeals 6/30/2028. (SD2)
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RELATING TO ELECTRIC VEHICLE CHARGING STATIONS. Requires cooperative housing corporations, homeowners associations, planned community associations, and condominium associations to develop plans to incorporate zero-emissions fueling stations, including electric vehicle charging stations, onto any of its residential properties that are constructed after January 1, 2023. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO VOLUNTEER MONTH. Designates the month of April as Volunteer Month; provided that the month is not construed as a state holiday.
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RELATING TO SUICIDE PREVENTION. Creates a task force to develop an implementation plan to utilize the 9-8-8 calling code of the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. Makes an appropriation. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO THE HAWAII INTERAGENCY COUNCIL ON HOMELESSNESS. Adds a representative of a LGBTQ+ focused organization to be included as a member on the Hawaii Interagency Council on Homelessness. (SD1)
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RELATING TO ELECTIONS. Requires the Chief Election Officer, with assistance from the county clerks for elections that involve county offices and countywide ballot issues, to publish and distribute a voters' pamphlet. Effective 7/30/2075. (SD2)
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RELATING TO ROBOCALLS. Holds telecommunication service providers and third-party spoofing providers accountable by making certain robocalls and spoofing unlawful. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO DIGITAL LITERACY. Establishes a digital literacy program to be overseen by the Board of Education and implemented by the State Librarian to promote digital literacy through programmatic activities, including making digital technology accessible to individuals with disabilities. Appropriates moneys. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO A FOOD HUB PILOT PROGRAM. Requires the Department of Agriculture to establish a five-year food hub pilot program to increase access to local food. Provides for the award of grant funding to qualified applicants wishing to establish or expand a food hub. Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds for the Honalo Marshalling Yard. Requires reports to the Legislature. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO MEDICAL CARE FOR MINORS. Permits minors to consent to medical care related to the diagnosis or treatment of HIV or the prevention of HIV. Provides that a minor, under certain circumstances, shall not be liable for payment for treatment or prevention of HIV. Provides that a health insurer of a minor's parent, guardian, custodian, or spouse shall not notify the parent guardian, custodian, or spouse of the minor's treatment or prevention of HIV. Authorizes physician assistants, in addition to physicians and advanced practice registered nurses, to render medical care and services to minors. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE PUBLIC HOUSING AUTHORITY. Allows the Hawaii Public Housing Authority to develop mixed-income and mixed-financed housing projects. Prohibits the development or construction of housing projects on ceded land that is vacant on or after 1/1/2022. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES. Repeals the authorization for the Governor to negotiate with any person for the development or expansion of private in-state correctional facilities. Prohibits the establishment of private correctional facilities within the State. Allows the Governor to enter into a contract with a private entity to construct correctional facilities on public or private lands for the benefit of the State if the facilities are owned and operated by the Department of Public Safety. Repeals the authorization of the Governor to enter into a contract with a private entity for the lease or purchase of correctional facilities the entity constructs. Effective 7/30/2075. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE CENTER FOR NURSING. Requires all nursing license applicants to respond to the center for nursing workforce supply survey in conjunction with license renewal; provided that the license renewal shall not be contingent upon responding to the workforce supply survey and failure to respond to the workforce supply survey shall not result in encumbrance of the nurse's license. Increases the additional center for nursing fee from $40 to $60 per licensing biennium. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION NETWORK COMPANIES. Establishes requirements and permitting procedures for transportation network companies and transportation network drivers. Makes permanent the motor vehicle insurance requirements for transportation network companies and transportation network company drivers. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO ACUPUNCTURE. Makes comprehensive updates to chapter 436E, Hawaii Revised Statutes, regarding acupuncture practitioners to reflect modernized scopes of practice, titles, and licensing and renewal requirements. Beginning with the renewal for the licensing biennium commencing July 1, 2025, requires licensees to obtain thirty hours of continuing education per licensing biennium. Allows the Board of Acupuncture to issue licenses by reciprocity. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO CONTRACTOR PRACTICES. Prohibits contractors from offering to pay or rebate, or promising to pay or rebate, an insured's property or casualty insurance deductible. Prohibits contractors from representing or negotiating, or offering or advertising to do so, on behalf of an insured in an insurance claim. Specifies violations are unfair methods of competition and unfair or deceptive acts or practices. Allows insureds to rescind contracts with the contractors within five business days after the date the contract is executed. Requires contractors to provide certain forms to an insured, prior to entering into a contract. Takes effect 7/30/2075. (SD2)
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RELATING TO CATALYTIC CONVERTERS. Requires used motor vehicle parts dealers to obtain a written statement that the seller has the lawful right to sell and dispose of the catalytic converter. Requires certain sellers to provide copies of receipts or a notarized declaration that contains specific information regarding the purchase or acquisition of the catalytic converter. Requires dealers to keep records of purchases and sales of catalytic converters, report purchases to the police department database, and tag and hold the catalytic converter for sixty days before selling or otherwise disposing of the catalytic converter. Requires dealers to pay for catalytic converters by check. Establishes the offense of theft of catalytic converter and makes it a class C felony. Requires scrap dealers to keep records of purchases and sales of palladium, platinum, and rhodium. Requires scrap dealers to pay for palladium, platinum, and rhodium by check. Establishes that a person who violates certain scrap dealer requirements shall be guilty of a class C felony. Requires each county police department to establish a database to collect and maintain information reported by used motor vehicle parts licensees regarding purchased catalytic converters and to initiate education programs to encourage residents to take personal measures to prevent catalytic converter thefts. (SD2)
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RELATING TO DENTAL ASSISTANTS. Allows dental assistants to perform limited duties under the general supervision of a dentist in public health settings. Effective 1/1/2023. (SD2)
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RELATING TO PSYCHOLOGY. Establishes interim licensure requirements for school psychologists to be administered by the Board of Psychology. Requires all school psychologists to be licensed by January 1, 2023. Increases the composition of the Board of Psychology to include two school psychologists. Requires the Board of Psychology and the Department of Education to collaborate to determine a permanent licensing scheme for school psychologists in the State and to submit a report of their findings and recommendations to the Legislature. (SD2)
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RELATING TO ABORTION CARE. Clarifies that access to abortion care is inclusive of all pregnant people in the State. Repeals a criminal penalty for violations of certain abortion provisions. Clarifies that advanced practice registered nurses may provide abortion care. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE HAWAII HYDROGEN STRATEGIC PLAN. Requires the Hawaii Natural Energy Institute to conduct a study to examine the State's ability to advance hydrogen production from local renewable energy resources and to use the results of its study to develop the Hawaii Hydrogen Strategic Plan. Requires the plan to be reviewed and updated every four years. Requires reports to the Legislature. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO AQUACULTURE. Establishes provisions relating to the Department of Agriculture's governing of the business of aquaculture. Grants exclusive property rights to persons who lawfully obtain the cultured progeny of wild plants and animals by brood stock acquisition. Authorizes the Department of Agriculture to regulate the transportation, purchase, possession, and sale of specific aquaculture products as may be necessary to protect indigenous species. Requires the Department of Agriculture to prepare programmatic environmental impact reports and acquire land for aquacultural purposes. Makes an appropriation. Takes effect 7/30/2075. (SD2)
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RELATING TO COMPOSTING. Establishes a compost reimbursement program within the Department of Agriculture to provide reimbursements to farmers, ranchers, and landscapers when purchasing compost from a certified processor, dealer, retailer, or wholesaler licensed to do business in the State. Establishes a compost reimbursement program manager position. Appropriates moneys. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO MICROBEADS. Beginning 7/1/2022, bans the manufacture of a personal care product, except a non-prescription drug, that contains plastic microbeads. Beginning 7/1/2023, bans the sale or offer for sale of a personal care product, except a non-prescription drug, that contains plastic microbeads. Beginning 7/1/2024, bans the sale or offer for sale of a non-prescription drug that contains plastic microbeads. Specifically exempts rinse-off cosmetics that are also non-prescription drugs regulated by the federal Microbead-Free Waters Act of 2015. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO ELECTRONIC EAVESDROPPING. Amends provisions relating to electronic eavesdropping. Requires law enforcement entities to obtain a search warrant before accessing a person's electronic communications in certain circumstances. Amends notification requirements of a law enforcement entity's access to electronic communications to allow for discovery in criminal cases.
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RELATING TO PRIVACY. Modernizes the definition of "personal information" for the purposes of notifying affected persons of data and security breaches. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION. Requires the Department of Transportation to plan for a certain amount of sea level rise in all future or amended transportation projects. Requires all Department of Transportation projects to conform to certain carbon concrete standards except in certain circumstances. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO DISPOSAL OF SOLID WASTE. Adds the forfeiture of a vehicle as a punishment for any vehicle used in the commission of illegal disposal of solid waste. (SD1)
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RELATING TO WAGES. Increases the penalty for employers who fail to pay the wages of their employees in accordance with the State's wage and hour law and payment of wages and other compensation law, to a class C felony. Adds a minimum penalty of $500 per violation. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO CAMPAIGN FINANCE. Allows candidates seeking election to use campaign funds for child care and vital household dependent care costs under certain conditions.
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RELATING TO CHIEF PROCUREMENT OFFICERS. Designates the Vice President for Budget and Finance and Chief Financial Officer of the University of Hawaii as the chief procurement officer for the university. Appropriates moneys for repair and maintenance of campus buildings and infrastructure. (SD2)
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RELATING TO THE GENERAL EXCISE TAX. Authorizes the Director of Taxation to exempt a taxpayer whose annual general excise tax liability does not exceed $100 from monthly, quarterly, or semiannual general excise tax filing requirements; provided that the taxpayer files an annual return. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2022.
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RELATING TO THE RESEARCH CORPORATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII. Clarifies that the purpose of the Research Corporation of the University of Hawaii is to promote educational, scientific, and literary pursuits through research, training of research personnel, and dissemination of knowledge by publication of research findings; and its undertakings shall be limited to acts that are reasonably necessary to carry out this purpose. Requires revolving accounts to follow Corporation policies. Grandfathers existing Research Corporation of the University of Hawaii contracts and requires new contracts be subject to new limitations following enactment of this measure. Defines minor renovation projects permissible in support of research and training. Requires biannual reports to the Legislature regarding internal service orders and revolving accounts of the Research Corporation of the University of Hawaii that utilize University of Hawaii intramural funds for financial and mission compliance. Authorizes the Research Corporation of the University of Hawaii to conduct minor renovation projects at costs of $2 million or less. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO THE COMPREHENSIVE OFFENDER REENTRY SYSTEM. Clarifies that the comprehensive offender reentry system provides programs and services that result in the timely release of inmates on parole when the minimum term, rather than the maximum term, has been served by the inmate.
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RELATING TO DECEPTIVE TRADE PRACTICES. Establishes that charging shipping and delivery charges that exceed the actual cost charged to the seller to ship or deliver a commodity to a consumer in Hawaii constitutes an unfair and deceptive practice. (SD1)
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RELATING TO ALCOHOL. Expands the definition of "beer" to specify an alcohol by volume of no less than 0.5 per cent and to include alcohol seltzer beverages. Takes effect 1/1/2023.
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RELATING TO THE BOARD OF EDUCATION. Requires the Board to include an open forum for public comments on non-agenda items at the end of board meetings. Requires the Board of Education to hold not less than six community forums annually, with at least one forum in each county. Requires a report to the Legislature on implementing open forums. Effective 07/01/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO PROCUREMENT. Allows purchasing agencies to use the median bid method of procurement. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO THE FAMILY COURT. Allows cases within the jurisdiction of the Intermediate Court of Appeals involving a judgment, order, or decree of a family court that affect the custody of a child or minor, including involuntary termination of parental rights, to be transferred to the Supreme Court. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD2)
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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 to the extent practicable. 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 supreme court to provide a written opinion within one week of receipt of the request. Requires, for any written opinion by the supreme 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. Takes effect 7/30/2075. (SD1)
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RELATING TO FARMS. Creates an exclusion from income tax for the lesser of a percentage of federal adjusted gross income or an amount of federal adjusted gross income earned by a farmer from farming activities. Disallows the deduction of ordinary and necessary business expenses incurred in producing the excluded income. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE ISSUANCE OF SPECIAL PURPOSE REVENUE BONDS TO ASSIST MAUIGROWN COFFEE, INC. Extends the authorization to issue special purpose revenue bonds to assist MauiGrown Coffee, Inc., with the operation and expansion of its farm and mill. Effective 6/29/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII. Requires the University of Hawaii to establish in each county, K-12 expanded teaching cohort programs for students who are pursuing undergraduate degrees in education. Requires interim reports to the Legislature prior to the Regular Sessions of 2023, 2024, and 2025, and a final report prior to the Regular Session of 2026. Repeals 12/31/2026. (SD1)
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RELATING TO HOMELESSNESS. Establishes the Office of Homelessness and Housing Solutions within the Department of Human Services to be headed by the Governor's Coordinator on Homelessness. Establishes the Homelessness and Housing Solutions Special Fund and appropriates moneys into and out of the special fund, to be expended by the Department of Human Services for the administration of the Office of Homelessness and Housing Solutions. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO HOMELESSNESS. Establishes a statewide homelessness information system working group to assess the feasibility of establishing a statewide information system to collect and track real-time data related to homelessness in the State, including availability of services, shelters, and low-cost housing in various regions of the State, and that may be utilized by various government agencies to provide efficient and effective assistance to individuals experiencing, or at risk of experiencing, homelessness. Appropriates moneys. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING. Requires the Governor's Coordinator on Homelessness to review the Affordable Rental Housing Report and Ten-Year Plan issued by the Special Action Team on Affordable Rental Housing in July 2018; determine whether any of the lands identified in the report are suitable for development of temporary housing for the ohana zones pilot program or other forms of affordable housing; determine the actions required to develop the lands into temporary housing for the ohana zones pilot program or other forms of affordable housing; and submit a report to the Legislature before the Regular Session of 2023. Requires the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to establish a 5-year dwelling unit revolving fund equity pilot program. Appropriates moneys. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO OFFENDER REENTRY. Establishes and appropriates funds for a program named Project Reset to help inmates secure post-release housing, in support of reentry, rehabilitation, and employment prospects. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO SOCIAL WORK. Requires the Department of Public Safety, in collaboration with the Department of Human Services, to develop and establish a program to train incarcerated nonviolent individuals in the area of social work. Requires progress reports on the program to the Legislature. Appropriates moneys. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO TOBACCO TAXES. Repeals and eliminates the deferred payment purchase option for cigarette tax stamps. Requires licensees to pay for stamps at the time of purchase using cash, certified check, or bank transfer. Effective 1/1/2023. (SD1)
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RELATING TO STATE TAX EXAMINATIONS. Establishes a penalty for failure to respond to an inquiry or request during a state tax examination. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE TAXATION BOARD OF REVIEW. Adjusts membership of the State Taxation Board of Review to 3 paid, full-time members, and sets a 2-member quorum. Establishes a compensation schedule for board members. Authorizes board members to validate board actions by a majority of the members who heard the appeal. Clarifies that board meetings are contested case hearings and provides notice requirements. Clarifies the legal and evidentiary framework the board may use in reaching its decisions. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE SPECIAL ENFORCEMENT SECTION. Authorizes the Special Enforcement Section of the Department of Taxation to examine any sector of Hawaii's economy, initiate civil investigations, and refer and recommend cases or examinations of segments of the economy to the auditors within the Department for auditing. (SD2)
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RELATING TO CABARET LICENSES. Prohibits the issuance of cabaret licenses to premises located within an apartment mixed use subprecinct within a special improvement or special district in which the economy is primarily based on tourism. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE STATE PROCUREMENT POLICY BOARD. Repeals the Procurement Policy Board Nominating Committee. Requires the Governor to appoint four members to the State Procurement Policy Board. Requires the President of the Senate to appoint one member to the State Procurement Policy Board. Requires the Speaker of the House of Representatives to appoint one member to the State Procurement Policy Board. Takes effect 7/30/2075. (SD2)
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RELATING TO HAWAII PRODUCTS PREFERENCE. Amends the procurement preference for Hawaii products to only apply to agricultural goods, value-added products, and commodities. (SD2)
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RELATING TO PROCUREMENT. Allows agencies procuring professional services to request an exemption from Chapter 103D, HRS, if fewer than 3 qualified persons submit statements of qualifications. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO PROCUREMENT. Requires agencies to publicly post the justification for cancelling an invitation for bids or request for proposals; provided that the posting shall be for a minimum of ten business days a purchasing agency or provider internet site or by any other method the procurement officer deems effective for publicizing the cancellation notice. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO ELECTIONEERING COMMUNICATIONS. Requires disclosure of electioneering communications to occur on the date of any subsequent expenditures for electioneering communications. Increases the monetary threshold that triggers disclosure of electioneering communications. Repeals the exception to the definition of electioneering communication those communications that constitute actual expenditures by the expending organization. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE JUDICIARY. Increases the number of associate judges on the Intermediate Court of Appeals from 5 to 6. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO CIVIL LEGAL SERVICES. Appropriates moneys for the Judiciary to purchase civil legal services for low- and moderate- income persons. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO THE UNIFORM RECOGNITION AND ENFORCEMENT OF CANADIAN DOMESTIC-VIOLENCE PROTECTION ORDERS ACT. Enacts the Uniform Recognition and Enforcement of Canadian Domestic-Violence Protection Orders Act. Effective 1/1/2023. (SD1)
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RELATING TO COERCIVE CONTROL. Adds coercive control and litigation abuse by a parent of a child to the list of factors to be considered by the court in determining what constitutes the best interest of the child when awarding custody and visitation rights to individuals in actions for divorce, separation, annulment, separate maintenance, or any other proceeding where there is at issue a dispute as to the custody of a minor child. Defines "coercive control" and "litigation abuse". (SD1)
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RELATING TO DOMESTIC ABUSE. Clarifies that a minor who resides in the same household as the victim of domestic abuse can be included on the victim's petition for an order of protection or temporary restraining order. (SD1)
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RELATING TO CHILD CUSTODY. Requires certain individuals attempting to serve as child custody evaluators to complete a training course on domestic violence issues every three years. Requires that the training course be one that is developed and facilitated by the Hawaii State Coalition Against Domestic Violence. Requires individuals to submit a letter or certificate of completion to the Family Court. Effective 7/30/2075. (SD2)
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RELATING TO THE HAWAII COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY. Creates the Pulehunui Community Development District to allow for planning, development, and maintenance of public lands in Pulehunui, Maui. Amends the Hawaii Community Development Authority membership to include the Director of the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism and the Director of the Office of Planning and Permitting of each county, or their designee, in which a community development district is located. Amends community representatives on each board from 3 to 2 at-large members. Establishes membership for quorum on matters related to the Pulehunui Community Development District. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO TRANSIENT ACCOMMODATIONS HOSTING PLATFORMS. Creates a five-year pilot project for counties with a population less than 200,000 to regulate the operation of hosting platforms that provide booking services for transient accommodation operators. Requires a report to the Legislature. Effective 7/1/2050. Repeals on 6/30/2028. (SD1)
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RELATING TO FAMILY COURT. Requires certain persons to immediately submit a declaration attached to a motion to the court if the person has reason to believe that a child in foster custody has suffered an injury that may arise to a tort claim. Establishes procedures for Family Court upon receipt of the written report, including required contents of an order appointing a master. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/30/2075. (SD2)
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RELATING TO THE ELECTRONIC PRESCRIPTION ACCOUNTABILITY SYSTEM. Updates chapter 329, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to clarify who may access information stored in the electronic prescription accountability system.
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RELATING TO MARRIAGE OF MINORS. Requires the written consent of Family Court for a marriage when one of the parties to the marriage is a minor at the time of contracting the marriage and the other party is more than five years older than the minor. Provides that when the Department of Health receives an application for a license to marry where one of the parties is a minor and the other party is more than five years older than the minor, the Department of Health shall inform the parties that written consent of the Family Court is required. Requires the Department of Health to provide written notification of the application for a license to marry to the Child Protective Services Unit of the Department of Human Services which shall investigate all parties involved in the marriage, including the prospective spouse and any person giving written consent to the minor's marriage. Requires the Child Protective Services to submit a report of its findings to the Family Court within a reasonable period of not more than two weeks from the date of the application for the license to marry. Provides that upon receipt of written consent of the Family Court, the Department of Health may issue a license to marry. Takes effect 7/30/2075. (SD2)
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RELATING TO OFFENDER REENTRY PROGRAMS. Requires the Department of Public Safety to expand existing model programs to make more quality correctional education courses available to interested inmates. Requires the Department of Public Safety to reward inmates who participate in or complete correctional education programs while incarcerated with subsidized health insurance, housing, or tuition after release. Expands existing vocational and work furlough programs and establishes earn and learn apprenticeships which allow eligible inmates to work towards licensure under supervised apprenticeships while getting paid. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/30/2075. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE IMPORTANT AGRICULTURAL LAND QUALIFIED AGRICULTURAL COST TAX CREDIT. Extends the time that the Department of Agriculture may certify the important agricultural land qualified agricultural cost tax credit from 12/31/2021 to 12/31/2031. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE NEIGHBOR ISLANDS BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED SERVICE PILOT PROGRAM. Requires the Department of Human Services to establish a neighbor islands blind and visually impaired service pilot program that provides training and other services to blind or visually impaired individuals residing on the neighbor islands. Requires the department to report to the Legislature before the Regular Session of 2025. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. Repeals 6/30/2025. (SD2)
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RELATING TO HEARING AIDS. Requires health insurance policies and contracts issued on or after 01/01/2023 to provide coverage for the cost of hearing aids at a minimum of $1,500 per hearing aid for each hearing-impaired ear every thirty-six months. Effective 01/01/2023. (SD2)
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RELATING TO PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS. Streamlines the records review process for physician assistants by including review of physician assistants' prescriptions for controlled substances. (SD2)
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RELATING TO PHARMACY BENEFIT MANAGERS. Addresses and defines pharmacy benefit manager practices. Creates enforcement authority by the Insurance Commissioner to suspend or revoke a pharmacy benefit manager's registration and impose fines. Repeals the requirement for the Department of Health to enforce the terms of private contracts pertaining to pharmacy benefit managers. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO PEER-TO-PEER CAR-SHARING INSURANCE REQUIREMENTS. Establishes peer-to-peer car-sharing insurance requirements. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS. Expands the authorized scope of practice for physician assistants. Effective 1/1/2023. (SD2)
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RELATING TO IDENTIFICATION CARDS. Authorizes the issuance of limited purpose identification cards for certain residents. Takes effect 7/30/2075. (SD2)
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RELATING TO IMMIGRANT RESOURCE CENTERS. Appropriates moneys to the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations, Office of Community Services to restore funding for immigrant resource centers. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO LEGAL SERVICES FOR LOW-INCOME IMMIGRANTS. Appropriates moneys to the Judiciary to contract with nonprofit organizations to provide legal counsel and assistance to low‑income immigrants. Defines "low-income" to mean a person whose family income is no more than the federal poverty level. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO LANGUAGE ACCESS. Requires the Executive Director of the Office of Language Access to submit an annual report to the Governor and Legislature on compliance, complaints, resolution of complaints, and recommendations to enhance and promote language access. Appropriates moneys to establish limited English proficiency language coordinator positions in the departments of Commerce and Consumer Affairs, Health, and Agriculture; and the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO NURSES. Allows for temporary permits to be issued to registered nurses and licensed practical nurses from a territory or foreign country who are seeking a state license by endorsement. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD2)
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MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO THE HAWAII HEALTHY AGING PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM. Appropriates funds for the Hawaii Healthy Aging Partnership program to further the program's role in improving the health and well-being of Hawaii's kupuna. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO MENTAL HEALTH SCREENINGS. Requires that one annual mental health screening be included in health insurance coverage for diagnosis of mental disorders. Effective 1/1/2023. (SD2)
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RELATING TO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. Amends the focus, scope, responsibilities, and powers of the Agribusiness Development Corporation. Amends the definition of the term "agriculture" as the term relates to the Agribusiness Development Corporation. Transfers the administrative attachment of the Agribusiness Development Corporation from the Department of Agriculture to the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism. Amends the requirements and responsibilities of the Board of Directors of the Agribusiness Development Corporation. Amends the required contents of the Hawaii agribusiness plan. Appropriates moneys. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO RENEWABLE ENERGY. Requires the Public Utilities Commission to establish reliability standards and interconnection requirements for renewable energy projects. Requires implementation of the Hawaii Electricity Reliability Administrator Law. (SD2)
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RELATING TO TAXATION. Clarifies that amounts received or accrued for wharfage and demurrage services are exempt under the general excise tax law. Clarifies that amounts received for the transportation or storage of cargo are not exempt under the general excise tax law. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO TAXATION. Reinstates the renewable fuels production tax credit. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO BROADBAND INFRASTRUCTURE. Requires each public housing project, dwelling unit, and state low-income housing project that is built, renovated, or reconstructed after 1/1/2023, to include all necessary broadband infrastructure necessary for tenants to have access to broadband service.
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RELATING TO THE WAHIAWA IRRIGATION SYSTEM. Requires the Office of the Governor to negotiate the State's fee simple acquisition of the Wahiawa Irrigation System on the island of Oahu. Authorizes and appropriates moneys for the Department of Agriculture, Agribusiness Development Corporation, and Department of Land and Natural Resources to purchase, repair, and maintain the Wahiawa Irrigation System and an associated spillway. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO YOUTH CRISIS CENTERS. Establishes the Youth Crisis Center Branch within the Office of Youth Services and the position of Administrator of the Youth Crisis Branch to head the Office of Youth Services. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO WELLNESS. Establishes a temporary Office of Wellness and Resilience within the Office of the Governor. Authorizes the Office to address issues and implement solutions to improve wellness and resilience, including issues and solutions identified by the Trauma-Informed Care Task Force. Appropriates moneys. Sunsets on an unspecified date. Effective 7/1/2050.
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RELATING TO ENERGY. Includes as an objective in energy-related planning for the State's facility systems that all new utility scale electricity generation projects be renewable. Includes state policies that ensure short- and long-term provision of adequate, reasonably priced, and dependable renewable energy services, prioritizing the dispatch of renewable energy generation. Updates the State's policies to ensure that all new utility scale electricity generation projects are renewable, prioritize renewable energy generation, and include the use of non-fossil fuel sources in the development or expansion of energy systems. Appropriates moneys. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO THE RESIDENTIAL LANDLORD-TENANT CODE. Prohibits landlords from recovering possession of a dwelling unit from tenants if habitability of the dwelling unit is significantly impaired. Sets a tenant's liability for rent if habitability of the dwelling unit is significantly impaired. Provides remedies for retaliatory evictions. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE HAWAII PUBLIC HOUSING AUTHORITY. Establishes the landlord incentive program special fund to reimburse land owners who participate in certain housing voucher programs for repair costs of tenant-caused property damage when the repair costs exceed the tenant's security deposit. Makes an appropriation. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO RENEWABLE ENERGY. Establishes firm renewable energy generation policy in the Hawaii State Planning Act to ensure the reliable one hundred per cent replacement of fossil fuel electricity generation to increase the sustainability and energy self-sufficiency of the State to improve the quality of life for residents and visitors. Includes exceptions for fossil fuel generation during emergency circumstances. Appropriates moneys. Takes effect 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO TAXATION. Expands the renewable energy technologies income tax credit to include firm renewable energy systems. Caps the total amount of tax credits for each firm renewable energy system at $750,000. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICES. Appropriates funds for fiscal year 2022-2023 to accommodate the anticipated increase in the volume of calls to Hawaii CARES Crisis Helpline following the transition of the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline's dial code to "9‑8‑8" on July 16, 2022. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO PRISONS. Requires the Department of Public Safety to establish a working group to create a pilot program designed to reduce recidivism by providing business education to inmates. Requires a report to the Legislature. Appropriates moneys. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO ENERGY. Establishes the number of miles from the shore of a main Hawaiian island where offshore wind turbines may be sited. Takes effect 7/30/2075. (SD2)
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RELATING TO MILK PRODUCTION. Repeals Chapter 157, Hawaii Revised Statutes, commonly referred to as the Milk Control Act. Requires any funds remaining in the Milk Control Special Fund to be used to reimburse fees paid by licensees within the past two years and to promote dairy cooperatives to continue local milk production in the State. (SD1)
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RELATING TO AFTER-SCHOOL PROGRAMS. Appropriates moneys for the Department of Education's Resources for Enrichment, Athletics, Culture, and Health Program to match federal dollars that the State receives for the federal Nita M. Lowey 21st Century Community Learning Centers Grant Program. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO NATIVE HAWAIIAN BENEFICIARIES. Requires the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to digitize its applicant, beneficiary, and lessee records by creating an interactive digital database software program to be completed and available for use no later than 7/1/2023. Appropriates moneys. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO ZERO EMISSION VEHICLE FUELING REBATES. Adds the installation and upgrade of hydrogen refueling stations to the Electric Vehicle Charging System Rebate Program. Establishes the rebate amount for the installation or upgrade of a hydrogen refueling station at $200,000. Limits the rebate to hydrogen refueling stations that do not store and dispense hydrogen fuel produced using fossil fuels. Renames Hawaii's Electric Vehicle Charging System Rebate Program to the Zero-Emission Vehicle Infrastructure Rebate Program. Increases the spending cap of the Zero-Emission Vehicle Infrastructure Rebate Program. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING. Establishes as a priority guideline for the provision of affordable housing the use of lands leased to the federal government or under federal government control and that are to be returned to the State, including lands that have been used to house former military facilities, for affordable housing. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO PUBLIC LANDS. Exempts lands set aside by the Governor to the Hawaii Housing and Finance Development Corporation from classification as public land subject to Department of Land and Natural Resources management; provided that the lands are not ceded lands. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO THE YOUTH COMMISSION. Requires the Youth Commission to appoint an Executive Director. Takes effect 7/30/2075. (SD1)
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RELATING TO HOUSING. Appropriates funds to the Hawaii Public Housing Authority for the rehabilitation of housing units. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO HEALTH. Defines "clinical laboratory director" to include certain physicians, or advanced practice registered nurses, licensed clinical laboratory scientists, or pharmacists for the purpose of certain tests or examinations. Amends the definition of "practice of pharmacy" to include the ordering and performing of certain Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments-waived tests. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO LOAN REPAYMENT FOR HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS. Appropriates funds for the Hawaii state loan repayment program administered through the John A. Burns School of Medicine, subject to a matching funds requirement. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE TAX CREDIT FOR RESEARCH ACTIVITIES. Adds a cap for the amount of tax credits for research activities that an eligible taxpayer and the taxpayer's related entities may receive per taxable year. Consolidates the survey and certification requirements for tax credits for research activities. Amends the annual aggregate cap on tax credits for research activities that the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism may certify. Requires certification of the tax credits for research activities on a first-come, first-served basis to be based on the date that a complete application is received, subject to certain conditions. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO UNDERGROUND STORAGE TANKS. Prohibits issuance of permits for future large capacity underground storage tank systems mauka of the underground injection control line beginning July 1, 2022. Prohibits operation of and renewal of large capacity underground storage tank system permits located mauka of the underground injection control line beginning January 1, 2023. (SD2)
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RELATING TO INDEPENDENT LEGAL COUNSEL. Allows the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to retain independent legal counsel as needed. Authorizes the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to use the services of the Attorney General as needed and when the interests of the State and the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands are aligned. Provides that funds owed to independent legal counsel shall be paid by the State. Takes effect 7/30/2075. (SD1)
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RELATING TO SPECIAL PURPOSE REVENUE BONDS FOR NONPROFIT CORPORATIONS THAT PROVIDE HEALTH CARE FACILITIES TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC. Authorizes the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds to finance the construction of and improvements to health care facilities of The Queen's Health Systems and its nonprofit affiliates. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY. Establishes a reusable utensil pilot project in Department of Education schools on Molokai. Requires the Department of Education to submit an interim report and a final report to the Legislature on the feasibility of statewide implementation. Appropriates moneys. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO THE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. Amends the composition of the Board of Agriculture by providing representation from the islands of Molokai and Lanai. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO SEARCH AND RESCUE. Requires government entities to seek reimbursement for search and rescue expenses for persons who require rescue after leaving a hiking trail to enter a prohibited area or hiking on a trail closed to the public. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL. Establishes and funds an environmental investigative hotline pilot project through the Department of the Attorney General, Investigations Division, that will implement and manage an investigative hotline for Molokai residents to report environmental concerns on Molokai and have one full time investigator on the island of Molokai to investigate environmental concerns. Takes effect 7/30/2075. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. Appropriates moneys to the Department of Agriculture to establish bovine tuberculosis control operations on Molokai, including staff, land, and equipment. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO BIOFUELS. Establishes and appropriates moneys for a 2-year pilot project to grow biodiesel crops on the island of Molokai. Requires a report to the Legislature. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE HAWAIIAN HOMES COMMISSION ACT. Excludes from any waiting list maintained by the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands any lessee or successor who sells or transfers their lease on a tract of Hawaiian home lands. (SD2)
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RELATING TO HEALTH. Requires the Department of Health to implement a telehealth pilot project and publish an evaluation report on the telehealth pilot project outcomes. Exempts the telehealth pilot project from the Hawaii Public Procurement Code for a period of 12 months. Clarifies that the period of performance of all procurements made during this temporary exemption shall not exceed the term of the telehealth pilot project. Requires the department to implement and administer a rural health care pilot project to provide physicians and nurse practitioners serving selected rural areas with an availability fee and reimbursements for certain expenses. Requires the department to submit to the Legislature an evaluation report on the rural health care pilot project outcomes. Appropriates moneys to support the pilot projects. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCES. Appropriates funds to the Department of Land and Natural Resources Division of State Parks, Maui Parks Section for the purchase of additional vehicles. Takes effect 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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MAKING AN EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION TO THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION. Makes an emergency appropriation to the Department of Transportation for construction of a new perimeter fence at Kahului Airport in response to the overpopulation of axis deer in the county of Maui. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO PESTICIDES. Requires the Department of Agriculture, in consultation with the Department of Health, to develop and implement a one-time pesticide disposal collection program, for a duration to be determined by the department. Requires the Advisory Committee on Pesticides to serve as a steering committee to guide and monitor the pesticide disposal collection program. Makes an appropriation. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO HEALTH. Appropriates moneys to extend Medicaid postpartum coverage to twelve months following the end of pregnancy. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO COVERAGE FOR MAMMOGRAPHY. Requires insurers and mutual benefit societies to cover mandated services for mammography at least as favorably as coverage for other radiological examinations. Effective 1/1/2023. (SD2)
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RELATING TO PUBLIC SAFETY. Mandates that there be a community-based work furlough program for all incarcerated women in the State. Appropriates moneys. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE COMMERCIAL SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN. Requires the Department of the Attorney General to provide annual reports to the Legislature on available data pertaining to the commercial sexual exploitation of children. Appropriates moneys. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO THE COMPREHENSIVE OFFENDER REENTRY SYSTEM. Requires the Offender Reentry Office of the Department of Public Safety to develop and implement a risk needs assessment tool that is specifically intended to assess the needs of female offenders. Requires a report to the Legislature.
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RELATING TO INCARCERATED WOMEN. Appropriates moneys for the second year of the program that trains incarcerated women to be general education development tutors for their peers, provides college correspondence courses for women in the Women's Community Correctional Center, and provides reentry and transition services for women wanting to continue their education post-incarceration. Authorizes partnerships between the Department of Education, University of Hawaii, and Department of Public Safety. Appropriates moneys. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO THE JUDICIARY. Appropriates moneys for residential programs that allow minor children to remain with their mothers while the mothers participate in the program, to reduce the risk of trauma and multigenerational incarceration, including community‑based furlough programs, residential drug treatment programs, therapeutic community programs, and mental health programs. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO FAMILY. Establishes an exemption from mediation in paternity proceedings where there are allegations of domestic abuse if the party alleging domestic abuse does not wish to participate. Prohibits a mediator from engaging in mediation where there are allegations of domestic violence unless certain requisites are met. Prohibits a court from requiring mediation in paternity proceedings if there is a temporary restraining order or protective order in effect if the party alleging domestic abuse does not wish to participate. Allows the court to order mediation in paternity proceedings where there are allegations of domestic abuse if there is no temporary restraining or protective order under certain circumstances. Amends the term family violence to domestic abuse in section 480-41.5, Hawaii Revised Statutes. Takes effect 7/30/2075. (SD1)
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RELATING TO ELECTRICAL CONTRACTORS. Extends until 2033 Act 65, Session Laws of Hawaii 2013, which provides a limited exemption to the licensing requirements for certain individuals in situations when an electric utility must retain qualified individuals to work with high voltage (six hundred volts or higher) who are not licensed in the State but are otherwise deemed qualified by the electric utility, provided that the public utility certifies to the Director of Labor and Industrial Relations and to the Board of Electricians and Plumbers that, after a hiring call, no electrician sufficiently qualified and licensed in the State to perform high voltage electrical work applied to timely perform or complete the necessary job or task before the public utility recruited outside the State. Makes permanent the requirement for the Board of Electricians and Plumbers to submit to the Legislature annual reports regarding high voltage electrical contractors. Effective 7/1/2030. (SD2)
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RELATING TO ACCESS TO BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICES. Allows for standard telephone contacts for telehealth purposes related to behavior health services. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO FETAL ALCOHOL SPECTRUM DISORDERS. Establishes a temporary fetal alcohol spectrum disorders task force within the Department of Health for administrative purposes. Requires a report to the Legislature. Appropriates moneys to establish and support the work of the task force. Authorizes the Department of Health to contract with a third party to assist the task force. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO WATER RATIONING. Establishes an income tax credit for water rationing systems. Effective 7/1/2050. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO MEDICAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING. Reestablishes the Hawaii medical education council special fund to enable the John A. Burns School of Medicine, in consultation with the Hawaii Medical Education Council, to provide funding for medical education and training in Hawaii, with an emphasis on supporting residency training in medically underserved areas. Appropriates moneys to create more residencies and training opportunities in medically underserved areas for medical students at the University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine. Appropriates funds to the John A. Burns School of Medicine to create further medical residency and training opportunities through a partnership between the John A. Burns School of Medicine and the United States Department of Veterans Affairs. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO THE DIVISION OF CONSERVATION AND RESOURCES ENFORCEMENT. Appropriates moneys to the Division of Conservation and Resources Enforcement of the Department of Land and Natural Resources for purchasing equipment, funding training, and establishing 20.0 FTE positions. Takes effect 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO PROSTITUTION. Allows defendants who enter a deferred acceptance of nolo contendere plea or deferred acceptance of a guilty plea to have the plea vacated if conditions are met. Amends the statute to specify that the three-year period begins after the original deferral of the nolo contendere plea. Effective 7/30/2075. (SD1)
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RELATING TO CONSTRUCTION WASTE. Requires state building codes to incorporate the international green construction code. Sets specific targets for the recycling, reuse, donation, and resale of non-hazardous construction waste. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO FILING FEES. Changes the filing fee schedule for paternity actions by establishing an initial filing fee of $100 and eliminating fees to file motions. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE PROTECTION OF TARO. Creates a classification of agricultural public lands entitled "taro lands". Appropriates funds to the Land Use Commission to create an inventory of lands classified as taro lands. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO THE PROTECTION OF TARO. Prohibits the Board of Land and Natural Resources, in declaring residential development areas and acquiring lands therein, from disturbing certain wetland taro lands and infrastructure on undeveloped lands within the conservation district established pursuant to Chapter 205, Hawaii Revised Statutes. Establishes a fourth class--taro lands classification for public lands. Permits structures for lo‘i taro fields in the agricultural district. Establishes growth and perpetuation of traditional Hawaiian crops as a goal of the State Planning Act. Authorizes the Land Use Commission, with the Taro Security and Purity Task Force, to create an inventory of taro lands. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING. Extends the deadline for the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to renegotiate an existing, or issue a new, ground lease for the Front Street Apartments affordable housing project before the corporation's requirement to initiate condemnation proceedings is triggered by five years. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE HAWAII STATE LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENDER, QUEER, PLUS COMMISSION. Establishes the Hawaii State Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Plus (LGBTQ+) Commission. Requires each county mayor to appoint a county committee on the status of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, plus affairs. Makes an appropriation. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE. Establishes a 3-year cover crop reimbursement pilot program to provide reimbursements to farming operations in the State for costs related to cover cropping. Establishes a cover crop reimbursement pilot program manager position within the Department of Agriculture to administer the program. Requires an annual report to the Legislature. Appropriates moneys. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO HOMELESSNESS. Establishes the long-term rental assistance pilot program to be administered by the Hawaii Public Housing Authority for individuals sixty-two years of age or older who are homeless or at imminent risk of becoming homeless. Appropriates funds. Repeals 6/30/2025. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE HAWAII STATE HEALTH INSURANCE ASSISTANCE PROGRAM. Appropriates funds to expand the Hawaii State Health Insurance Assistance Program by: (1) contracting with third-party service providers and staffing consultants and (2) recruiting more volunteers. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO DRIVER'S LICENSES. Extends the renewal period from two years to four years for licensees who are seventy-two years of age or older but younger than eighty years of age. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO HEALTH. 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. Authorizes licensed psychiatric mental health nurse practitioners, clinical nurse specialists, and marriage and family therapists, in addition to psychiatrists, psychologists, and clinical social workers, to provide counseling to a qualified patient. Strengthens nondisclosure protections. Reduces the mandatory waiting period between oral requests from twenty days to fifteen days. Waives the mandatory waiting period for those terminally ill individuals not expected to survive the mandatory waiting period. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO PROCUREMENT. Allows bidders for construction contracts to clarify or correct immaterial or technical information required as part of a bid submission for up to 24 hours after the bid submission deadline. Requires that bids for construction be opened no sooner than 24 hours after the deadline for the submission of bids. Defines "immaterial or technical information". Effective 7/1/2050. Repeals 7/1/2024. (SD2)
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RELATING TO PLANNED COMMUNITY ASSOCIATIONS. Establishes requirements for cumulative voting and the removal of directors of 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. (SD2)
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RELATING TO CRYPTOCURRENCY. Establishes a Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Task Force. (SD2)
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RELATING TO THE EARLY CHILDHOOD REGISTRY. Requires the staff of licensed and registered early childhood programs to annually provide specific information to the Department of Human Services' early childhood workforce registry. Requires a report to the Legislature. Makes an appropriation. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO EARLY EDUCATION. Establishes a 1-year child care worker subsidy pilot program to assist in retaining the existing child care workforce. Appropriates moneys for the pilot program to be expended by the Department of Human Services. Appropriates moneys to be deposited into the early learning special fund and expended by the Executive Office on Early Learning for the Hawaii early childhood educator stipend program. Repeals the pilot program on 7/1/2023. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO COLLECTIVE BARGAINING. Requires the employer to initiate negotiations on repricing of classes within a bargaining unit within thirty days of its receipt of the exclusive representative's written request to negotiate. Establishes that the employer's failure to initiate the negotiation within such time frame and the parties' failure to reach an agreement within ninety day of the exclusive representative's written request to negotiate or by January 31 of a year in which the collective bargaining agreement is due to expire, whichever is earlier, constitute an impasse to which the impasse procedures in section 89-11, Hawaii Revised Statutes, shall apply. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE HAWAII EMPLOYER-UNION HEALTH BENEFITS TRUST FUND. Amends the definition of "employee-beneficiary" to include the surviving unmarried adult child of a deceased retired member if the child is incapable of self-support due to a mental or physical incapacity that existed prior to the unmarried child's reaching the age of nineteen years.
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RELATING TO CONTRACTORS. Clarifies that a licensed specialty contractor may perform incidental and supplement work in crafts or trades other than in which the specialty contractor is licensed when there are more than two specialty contractors involved; provided that, when measured by the cost and extent of work involved in performing the specialty contract's work, the unlicensed work is limited to five per cent and is only incidental and supplemental to the performance of the work in the craft for which the specialty contractor is licensed. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO EDUCATION. Specifies additional exceptions under child labor laws to include certain work-based learning programs. Defines youth vocational training program or internship. Allows employment in youth vocational training programs or internships under chapter 390, Hawaii Revised Statutes. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO ENERGY. Allows new electric vehicle charging stations and certain upgrades having a single port to qualify for a rebate. Removes the $500,000 cap on the electric vehicle charging station rebate program. Specifies that no rebates shall be approved after available funds are exhausted for the fiscal year. Increases flexibility of the Public Utilities Commission to administer the electric vehicle charging station rebate program. Increases the percentage of funds that the Public Utilities Commission may use for administration of the rebate program from ten per cent to fifteen per cent. Allows for marketing and outreach expenses to be included within allowable administration costs of the electric vehicle charging station rebate program. (SD2)
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RELATING TO SEA LEVEL RISE ADAPTATION. Requires the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development to establish a pilot project to develop an adaptation and resilience plan that addresses the climate change and sea level rise impacts in the Waikiki special district. Requires reports to the Legislature. Makes an appropriation. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO PARKING CONCESSIONS. Exempts parking lot operations and ground transportation services at airports and small boat harbors from the mandatory public bidding requirements under the state procurement law. (SD2)
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RELATING TO CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATIONS. Requires that the fees for attorneys retained by a condominium association be paid from an association's funds or reserves. Limits the total and final legal fees to twenty-five per cent of the original debt amount unless approved by a majority of unit owners at a regular meeting. Limits the total and final legal fees for debts less than $2,000 to twenty-five per cent. Requires attorneys retained by a condominium association to confine their communications to the condominium board, except when the attorneys must request and require materials and responses directly from owners for each matter. Prohibits attorneys retained by a condominium association from billing unit owners directly. Effective July 1, 2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE BERNICE PAUAHI BISHOP MUSEUM. Appropriates moneys to support the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CRISIS STABILIZATION BEDS. Appropriates funds to the Adult Mental Health Division of the Department of Health to support increased behavioral health crisis stabilization beds. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO CRISIS OUTREACH PROGRAMS. Appropriates funds to the Department of Health for a statewide crisis outreach program. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO A BEHAVIORAL HEALTH LONG-TERM CARE FACILITY. Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds to develop a long-term care facility at the Guensberg building on the Hawaii State Hospital campus. (SD2)
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RELATING TO GUARDIANS AD LITEM. Allows the Judiciary to compensate guardians ad litem for involuntary hospitalization and assisted community treatment petitions at a rate higher than existing statutory guidelines. Makes an appropriation. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE COMMISSION TO PROMOTE UNIFORM LEGISLATION. Provides a limited exemption for the Hawaii Commission to Promote Uniform Legislation from certain requirements of part I of chapter 92, HRS, for the purpose of allowing commissioners of the Commission to Promote Uniform Legislation to attend and participate in a full capacity in meetings hosted by the Uniform Law Commission, without any limitation on the number of participating commissioners, in furtherance of its goal of representing and promoting uniformity of legislation for the State.
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RELATING TO AIRCRAFT. Requires the Director of Transportation to adopt rules that require tour aircraft operators to have aircraft liability insurance coverage for an unspecified amount per person per incident. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE UNIFORM PARENTAGE ACT. Extends and modifies the task force established to recommend amendments to the Hawaii Revised Statutes to update existing parentage laws that reflect outdated, cisheteronormative concepts of families, parenthood, and parental rights to December 31, 2022. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES EDUCATION ACT. Requires the Department of Health to submit a request, as allowed by federal code, to the United States Department of Education to allow parents of children with a disability to continue receiving early intervention services after the child turns three years of age and until the child enters kindergarten. Appropriates funds to the Department of Health to plan, prepare, and implement the Part C option. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO NOISE. Prohibits commercial vehicles from making pickups from, or deliveries to, business establishments during certain times of the day and within a certain proximity of single-family residences in the performance of the vehicles' pickup or delivery. Exempts commercial vehicles operating in response to an emergency. Establishes fines. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO ABANDONED WELLS. Establishes an income tax credit for taxpayers who are required to seal abandoned wells on their real property. Clarifies the definition of the term "abandoned well". Requires sellers of real property to disclose the existence of wells on the property. Requires an owner or prior owner of an abandoned well to seal the well at the owner's or prior owner's expense. Appropriates funds for three full-time equivalent (3.0 FTE) positions under the Commission on Water Resource Management. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO THE BOARD OF LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCES. Requires the Board of Land and Natural Resources to approve all revoked, limited, condemned, removed, or shortened public land leases or revocable permits. Takes effect 7/30/2075. (SD1)
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RELATING TO HISTORIC PRESERVATION. Appropriates an unspecified amount of funds to the Department of Land and Natural Resources to conduct comprehensive inventories of historic properties and burial sites in the State, data collection on burial site locations, and archaeological surface surveys. Takes effect 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE DISPOSITION OF WATER RIGHTS. Exempts the instream use of water for traditional and customary kalo cultivation practices from the existing process for disposition of water rights. Recognizes, confirms, and protects traditional and customary and kuleana rights to water, including rights of use, access, delivery, and quality of water. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO SPECIAL MANAGEMENT AREAS. Expands exclusions from the definition of "development" as it applies to special management areas to reduce the need for special management area permits for certain activities. Takes effect 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO LAND USE. Requires the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development to perform a study to refine rural district policies and make recommendations to facilitate the reclassification of lands from the agricultural district to the rural district. Requires reports to the Legislature. Appropriates funds. Takes effect 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO FISH AGGREGATION DEVICES. Provides funds to the Department of Land and Natural Resources to support the deployment, replacement, and maintenance of fish aggregation devices. Takes effect 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE HAWAII YOUTH CONSERVATION CORPS. Authorizes the Governor to designate the Department of Land and Natural Resources to administer or enter into an agreement for the administration of a green jobs youth corps to provide temporary work and training opportunities in the fields of natural resource management, agriculture, or other sustainability‑related professions to young adults ages thirty‑eight and younger. Requires the Department to partner with an organization that has received accreditation from the Corps Center of Excellence Accreditation Program or has at least ten years of experience providing similar programming statewide in the State, or both. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO NATIVE HAWAIIAN REHABILITATION PROGRAMS. Requires the Department of Public Safety to create, in collaboration with the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, a Native Hawaiian rehabilitation program for prison inmates that emphasizes Native Hawaiian values and cultural practices. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO RISK AND NEEDS ASSESSMENT FOR FEMALE OFFENDERS. Requires the Department of Public Safety to conduct pretrial female risk and needs assessments to measure female offenders' risk of flight, reoffending, or harming the community, and to consider factors important to women when considering their risks of reoffending and their treatment needs. (SD1)
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RELATING TO FURLOUGH AND DRUG TREATMENT PROGRAMS. Appropriates funds to the Judiciary to create and expand new and existing community-based furlough programs and residential drug treatment, therapeutic living, and mental health programs for judiciary-involved women. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO WOMEN'S COMMUNITY CORRECTIONAL CENTER. Makes an appropriation to further the practice of huikahi restorative circles at the Women's Community Correctional Center. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO SEARCHES OF FEMALE INMATES. Requires pat downs and searches of female inmates be conducted by a female correctional facility employee unless the prisoner presents a risk of immediate harm to herself or others or risk of escape. Prohibits male correctional facility employees from entering areas where female inmates may be in a state of undress including, but not limited to, restrooms, shower areas, or medical treatment areas, unless an inmate in the area presents a risk of immediate harm to herself or others or if there is a medical emergency in the area. Requires any prohibited search, pat down, or entry by a male correctional facility employee be documented within three days of the incident, reviewed by the warden, and retained by the institution for reporting purposes. Requires the Department of Public Safety to increase its recruitment and training of female adult corrections officers to satisfy the requirements of female gender specific posts. Requires the Department of Public Safety to make every effort within the law to address the concerns of the advocates, the requirements of the Prison Rape Elimination Act, and staffing shortages of female gender specific posts, as well as the hiring and training of female adult corrections officers. Requires a report to the legislature. Effective July 1, 2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE POWER OF ARREST. Updates the list of federal agencies whose law enforcement officers may make arrests for certain offenses under state law by adding United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement-Homeland Security Investigations and deleting United States Citizenship and Immigration Services from the list. Updates references to the titles of the heads of the district offices for the listed federal agencies and the names of these agencies, including United States Customs and Border Protection.
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RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT COST ITEMS. Provides appropriations for collective bargaining cost items for the members of Unit (1) and their excluded counterparts, including the cost of salary adjustments negotiated between the State and the bargaining unit representative for fiscal biennium 2021-2023. (SD1)
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RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT COST ITEMS. Appropriates and authorizes funds 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 2021-2023. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT COST ITEMS. Appropriates and authorizes funds 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 2021-2023. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT COST ITEMS. Appropriates and authorizes funds 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 2021-2023. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT COST ITEMS. Appropriates and authorizes funds for collective bargaining cost items for the members of Unit (5) and their excluded counterparts, including the cost of salary adjustments negotiated between the State and the bargaining unit representative for fiscal biennium 2021-2023. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT COST ITEMS. Appropriates and authorizes funds for collective bargaining cost items for the members of Unit (6) and their excluded counterparts, including the cost of salary adjustments negotiated between the State and the bargaining unit representative for fiscal biennium 2021-2023. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT COST ITEMS. Appropriates and authorizes funds 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 2021-2023. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT COST ITEMS. Appropriates and authorizes funds 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 2021-2023. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT COST ITEMS. Provides 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 2021-2023. (SD1)
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RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT COST ITEMS. Appropriates and authorizes funds for collective bargaining cost items for the members of Unit (10) and their excluded counterparts, including the cost of salary adjustments negotiated between the State and the bargaining unit representative for fiscal biennium 2021-2023. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT COST ITEMS. Appropriates and authorizes funds for collective bargaining cost items for the members of Unit (11) and their excluded counterparts, including the cost of salary adjustments negotiated between the State and the bargaining unit representative for fiscal biennium 2021-2023. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT COST ITEMS. Appropriates and authorizes funds 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 2021-2023. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT COST ITEMS. Appropriates and authorizes funds 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 2021-2023. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT COST ITEMS. Appropriates and authorizes funds for collective bargaining cost items for the members of Unit (15) and their excluded counterparts, including the cost of salary adjustments negotiated between the State and the bargaining unit representative for fiscal biennium 2021-2023. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO VETERINARY MEDICINE. Authorizes the board to grant temporary courtesy and relief permits for out-of-state veterinarians. Permits licensed veterinarians to practice veterinarian telemedicine. Allows for international veterinary school graduates to qualify for the licensure examination. Effective 7/1/2024. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE KAIWI COAST. Transfers lands to the Department of Land and Natural Resources and establishes that land and adjacent state-owned lands as the Kaiwi Coast State Park. Establishes positions within the Department of Land and Natural Resources for management of the Kaiwi Coast State Park. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO LAW ENFORCEMENT. Provides that a law enforcement officer has a duty to intervene if the law enforcement officer reasonably believes that another law enforcement officer is using unnecessary or excessive force on an arrestee. Requires the law enforcement officer to report the incident to the fellow law enforcement officer's supervisor. Requires relevant departments to submit annual reports to the Legislature. (SD2)
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RELATING TO POOLS. For purposes of the Department of Health's authority to adopt rules concerning public health and safety, defines "pool" to mean a watertight artificial structure containing a body of water that does not exchange water with any other body of water either naturally or mechanically used for swimming, diving, recreational bathing, or therapy by humans. (SD2)
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RELATING TO SMALL BUSINESS LOANS. Creates the Hawaii Start-Up Business Loan Program to be administered by the Business Development and Support Division of the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism, in coordination with the Hawaii Technology Development Corporation. Establishes the Hawaii Start-up Business Loan Program Revolving Fund. Requires DBEDT to submit an annual report to the Legislature on the program's utilization and administration. Appropriates moneys. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO THE HAWAII TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION. Appropriates funds to the Hawaii Technology Development Corporation for the Small Business Innovation Research Program. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE HAWAII TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION. Appropriates funds to Hawaii Technology Development Corporation for the Manufacturing Assistance Program. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE HAWAII TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION. Appropriates funds to the Hawaii Technology Development Corporation for the State Small Business Credit Initiative Program. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO BONDS. Amends provisions governing the allocation of the State's private activity bond ceiling. Prioritizes projects of counties that assign their allocation back to the State over projects of counties with their own private activity bond issuance program. Requires counties or issuers that retain their allocation to submit quarterly reports on the status or use of any allocation. Requires a project to first apply to the county in which the project is located, if the county has a private activity bond issuance program, before applying to the State. Changes the dates for reverted or remaining allocations and requires certain reverted or remaining allocations to be allocated to the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation. Sunsets on 12/31/2027. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO EDUCATION GRANTS. Requires the Department of Education to establish and administer the Strong Students Grant Pilot Program to provide grants for eligible education expenses to eligible students. Requires the Department of Education to submit progress reports to the Legislature prior to the 2023 and 2024 regular sessions. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO EDUCATION ANNUAL REPORT REQUIREMENTS. Repeals certain Department of Education annual reporting requirements. Takes effect 7/30/2075. (SD1)
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RELATING TO SUMMER EDUCATION. Establishes the position of Summer Learning Coordinator within the Department of Education. Makes an appropriation to fund the position of Summer Learning Coordinator. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO TEACHER COMPENSATION. Makes an appropriation to fund an experimental modernization project pursuant to section 78-3.5, HRS, to make necessary discretionary salary adjustments for certain teachers. Repeals section 302A-627(a), HRS. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO TEACHER COMPENSATION. Appropriates funds for various teacher differentials to help address various labor shortages. Effective 7/1/2050 (SD2)
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RELATING TO MENSTRUAL EQUALITY. Requires the Department of Education to provide menstrual products free of charge to all students on all public school campuses. Requires the State Public Charter School Commission to provide menstrual products free of charge to all students on all public charter school campuses. Appropriates moneys. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO ASTHMA. Requires the Department of Education to offer optional asthma education instruction to students and provide mandatory asthma training to teachers and other department employees who interact with students. Effective 7/1/2023. (SD1)
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RELATING TO EDUCATION. Establishes a Nationally Certified School Psychologist incentive program. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO THE BOARD OF EDUCATION. Amends the minimum qualifications for board of education members. Effective 07/01/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO EDUCATION. Establishes a career development success program within the Department of Education to provide financial incentives for participating public high schools to encourage students enrolled in grades nine through twelve to enroll in and successfully complete qualified industry-credential programs. Establishes a similar program for public charter schools. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO HUMAN REMAINS. Includes the use of traditional native Hawaiian burial practices in the treatment and disposal of human remains, including the use of water cremation or alkaline hydrolysis. Requires alkaline hydrolysis facilities to be certified by the Department of Health. Requires alkaline hydrolysis facility operators to undergo alkaline hydrolysis operator training and comply with certain Department of Health Administrative Rules. Requires sterile wastewater to be discharged into the sewer system as approved by the appropriate county. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO MENTAL HEALTH. Establishes provisional or associate level licensure requirements for marriage and family therapists, mental health counselors, and psychologists and authorizes insurance reimbursements in certain circumstances. Allows psychologist license applicants to sit for the licensing examination before completing other requirements. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION. Renames the State Highway Safety Council the Transportation Safety and Modernization Council and amends the Council's duties to help the Department of Transportation achieve state goals and outcomes. Requires improved reporting to provide better information and transparency for elected leaders and the public. (SD2)
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RELATING TO INSURANCE. Prohibits health insurance companies from denying coverage on the basis of gender identity if the policy covers the treatment for purposes other than gender transition. Requires insurance companies to provide applicants and insured persons with clear information about the coverage of gender transition services, including the process for appealing a claim denied on the basis of medical necessity. Takes effect 7/30/2075. (SD2)
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RELATING TO JUVENILE JUSTICE. Requires the Judiciary to create a separate employment classification for juvenile probation officers. Establishes minimum procedures for the appointment of juvenile probation officers. Requires reports to the Legislature on the status of the implementation of this Act. Takes effect 7/30/2075. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE SPAYING AND NEUTERING OF ANIMALS. Establishes a spay and neuter special fund and allows funds from an income tax check-off to be deposited into the special fund. Appropriates moneys. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO CONDOMINIUMS. Requires condominium associations to allow members or their proxies to vote by mail and attend and cast votes in association meetings through the Internet, teleconference, or other electronic transmission technology. Ensures the provision of copies of printed audit trails. (SD1)
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RELATING TO PRETRIAL RELEASE. Requires the court to impose a no contact order against a pretrial detainee if the detainee is granted a motion for pretrial release; provided that the charged crime pertains to the complaining witness; provided further that the complaining witness has a protective order against the pretrial detainee and the court is aware of the protective order. (SD1)
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RELATING TO CHILD WELLNESS. Establishes within the Department of Human Services a 5-year Child Wellness Incentive Pilot Program that pays $50 to each state medicaid benefit recipient for each completed well-child examination of that recipient parent's child. Requires the Department of Human Services to adopt rules and report to the Legislature. Appropriates moneys. Repeals 6/30/2027. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO EDUCATION. Appropriates funds to the Department of Education to install air conditioning units for public school classrooms that have not received air conditioning units. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO FEMININE HYGIENE PRODUCTS. Exempts amounts received from the sale of feminine hygiene products from the general excise tax. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO THE ISSUANCE OF SPECIAL PURPOSE REVENUE BONDS TO ASSIST DIBSHAWAII LLC. Authorizes the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds to assist DIBSHawaii LLC in the construction of a net-zero carbon capture storage utilization platform that will recover vented carbon dioxide emissions and scrub and liquify the emissions into food grade liquid carbon dioxide. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO SPOUSAL SUPPORT. Allows obligees under a order solely for spousal support to elect to enforce the order pursuant to chapters 651, 652, and 653, Hawaii Revised Statutes, rather than through the clerk of the court. (SD1)
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RELATING TO DATA COLLECTION. Requires that the gender identity of persons processed for crimes be included in the systems of identification. Requires that gender identity information collected remain confidential and be used strictly for statistical research and data analysis purposes. Takes effect 7/30/2075. (SD1)
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RELATING TO COMMON INTEREST COMMUNITIES. Prohibits planned community associations, condominium associations, or their boards of directors from expending association funds to enforce de minimis violations of association bylaws, rules, or regulations that result in not more than three complaints from separate units within a calendar year or result in a fine of not more than $500 per violation pursuant to the bylaws, rules, or regulations. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE RESIDENTIAL LANDLORD-TENANT CODE. Allows a landlord or landlord's agent to charge an application screening fee at the time a rental application is processed for residential property. Caps the amount of an application screening fee at $25 and prohibits fees to be charged for each member of a household. Requires the landlord or landlord's agent to provide a receipt for payment of the application screening fee and copy of any report obtained, if requested by the applicant, and within ten days of the applicant's request. Requires the landlord or landlord's agent to return any unauthorized fee amounts to the applicant. (SD1)
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RELATING TO HOME HEALTH CARE. Prohibits any increase in the fees charged for providing home health care services during the pendency of an emergency proclamation or state of emergency concerning a public health pandemic on the sole basis that the patient receiving the services requires that the home health care service provider be vaccinated against the underlying disease causing the emergency.
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RELATING TO COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS. Establishes the Community Health Worker Certification Program within the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs. Establishes the Community Health Worker Certification Special Subaccount of the Compliance Resolution Fund. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO MEDICAL FACILITIES. Creates a task force focused on the hiring and training of culturally-accepted interpreters to assist non-English speaking populations seeking care at health care facilities. Appropriates moneys. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO ADVANCING CIVIC ENGAGEMENT. Appropriates funds for one full-time equivalent (1.0 FTE) position at the Public Access Room to provide educational outreach and engagement with all schools in the State. Takes effect 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. Establishes the Access to Local Food Act to allow cottage food operations to sell cottage food products, under certain conditions, upon receiving a permit from the Department of Health. Effective 1/1/2023. (SD2)
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RELATING TO WATER CATCHMENT SYSTEMS. Requires the Department of Health to regulate water catchment systems used for business activity and provide testing to businesses that utilize water catchment systems; provided the regulations comply with the Hawaii state plumbing code, including appendix K of the state plumbing code, and Chapter 448E, Hawaii Revised Statutes. Requires the department to provide technical assistance on water catchment systems and filtration to business owners who wish to utilize captured water for business activities. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO A SCHOOL SUPPLY SUBSIDY PILOT PROGRAM. Establishes a one-year school supply subsidy pilot program at all schools composed entirely of students eligible for participation in Title I. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. Repeals on 1/1/2024. (SD1)
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RELATING TO METROPOLITAN PLANNING ORGANIZATIONS. Creates a temporary intergovernmental task force to assist in the establishment and certification of a Metropolitan Planning Organization for the County of Hawaii. Requires the Department of Transportation to provide a list of certain highway projects to the task force. Requires a report to the Legislature. Takes effect 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT. Establishes the transit-oriented development infrastructure improvement district under the Hawaii Community Development Authority. Establishes districts to comprise and include the parcels of land within county-designated transit-oriented development zones, or within a one-half mile radius of a proposed or existing transit station if the county has not designated transit-oriented development zones, as determined by the transit-oriented development infrastructure improvement district board. Requires the transit-oriented development infrastructure improvement district board to develop a transit-oriented development infrastructure improvement district program to identify necessary infrastructure improvements within the district. Establishes the transit-oriented development infrastructure improvement district special fund. (SD2)
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RELATING TO INVASIVE SPECIES. Requires the Hawaii Invasive Species Council to classify coffee leaf rust as an invasive species in its administrative rules and to direct available funding for mitigation efforts, research, and prevention or control actions for coffee leaf rust. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO ACCESSIBILITY. Requires a retail establishment with an employee toilet facility to allow a customer suffering from an eligible medical condition to use that restroom during normal business hours, under certain conditions. Exempts a retail establishment and employees from civil liability in allowing an eligible customer to use an employee toilet facility. Establishes fines. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO EMERGENCY POWERS. Prohibits the governor or a mayor from suspending requests for public records or vital statistics during a declared state of emergency. Allows for a reasonable delay in an agency's response to a request as a result of extenuated circumstances. (SD1)
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RELATING TO FAMILY PLANNING. Requires oocyte cryopreservation to be covered by health insurance policies. Removes 1-time benefit limitation for in vitro fertilization. Reduces from 5 to 2 the number of years of infertility before becoming eligible for in vitro fertilization. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO DISABILITY HEALTH DISPARITY. Requires the State Council on Developmental Disabilities to submit a report focused on the health disparities experienced by individuals with disabilities in Hawaii to the Legislature before the Regular Session of 2023. Appropriates funds. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO RURAL DISTRICTS. Authorizes the counties to adopt ordinances that allow up to one house per quarter-acre in rural districts. Requires the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development to conduct a study to refine rural district policies and make recommendations to facilitate the reclassification of lands from the agricultural district to the rural district. Requires reports to the Legislature. Appropriates moneys. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO FIREWORKS. Increases the maximum fine that may be assessed per fireworks-related violation from $2,000 to $5,000, provided that the fireworks violation does not otherwise have a specific penalty enumerated in statute.
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RELATING TO EDUCATION. Establishes an agricultural careers working group to study and prepare an implementation plan for agricultural career pathways. Requires reports to the Legislature. Makes an appropriation. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD3)
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RELATING TO GOVERNMENT. Establishes and funds two new units within the Department of the Attorney General. Appropriates funds. (SD2)
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RELATING TO GOVERNMENT. Establishes a statewide telework policy. Requires the Department of Human Resources Development to take certain actions to effectuate the State's telework policy. Requires annual reporting from the Department of Human Resources Development regarding the implementation and operation of the State's telework policy. Establishes positions within the Department of Human Resources Development and appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL LANDS. Prohibits the use of important agricultural lands and lands with class A or B productivity ratings for waste disposal. (SD1)
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RELATING TO IRRIGATION. Appropriates moneys to the Department of Agriculture for water source infrastructure and the maintenance and improvement to the Peekauai Ditch Irrigation System located on Kauai. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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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 an agricultural enterprise program. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO COMPOSTING. Requires the Department of Agriculture to establish a three-year compost reimbursement pilot program to provide reimbursements to farmers and ranchers who purchase compost from a certified processor, dealer, retailer, or wholesaler licensed to do business in the State. Establishes a temporary compost reimbursement pilot program manager position. Requires the Department to submit a report to the Legislature. Appropriates moneys. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO FOOD SAFETY. Requires the Department of Agriculture to partner with the Hawaii agricultural community to establish and implement a food safety certification training program to help small to medium sized farms comply with federal food safety certification mandates. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO ENERGY EFFICIENCY. Requires and establishes deadlines for state facilities, except smaller facilities and facilities within the stadium development district, to implement cost-effective energy efficiency measures. Allows the Department of Accounting and General Services to opt out of the cost-effective energy efficiency measures if a facility will be demolished within 5 years. Directs the Hawaii State Energy Office, in consultation with the Research and Economic Analysis Division of the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism, to collect electric utility and energy usage data for state-owned buildings and to make the data publicly available. Directs the Hawaii State Energy Office to collect water utility and water usage data for state-owned buildings and to make the data publicly available. Establishes a goal for the State to achieve at least a 25% reduction in the electricity consumption of state facilities. Provides that certain agencies that perform energy efficiency retrofitting may continue to receive appropriations for energy expenditures. Beginning 7/1/2023, where feasible and cost-effective, requires the design of all new state building construction to maximize energy and water efficiency, maximize energy generation potential, and use building materials that reduce the carbon footprint of the project. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL DISTRICTS. Authorizes recreational athletic venues and cultural activities on existing golf courses within agricultural districts. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO AN AGRICULTURAL EMERGENCY SPECIAL FUND. Establishes an agricultural emergency special fund to provide agricultural emergency loans. Makes an appropriation. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO PESTICIDES. Updates the membership of the Advisory Committee on Pesticides to replace representatives from the sugar and pineapple industries with representatives of the coffee and diversified agriculture industries. Adds a representative of the Hawaii Farmers Union United to the Advisory Committee on Pesticides. (SD1)
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RELATING TO EGG-LAYING HENS. Requires farm owners or operators to confine egg-laying hens in accordance with the standards established in this measure. Effective 6/30/27, prohibits a business owner or operator from selling shell eggs or egg products that are produced by egg-laying hens that were confined in a manner that violates best practices for humanely housing egg-laying hens to eliminate disease, increase sanitation, and to protect from predators and weather, with exceptions. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO HEMP. Removes certain duplicative regulations imposed on hemp producers in the State. Retains the requirement for hemp producers to report certain transports of hemp to the Hawaii Department of Agriculture for law enforcement purposes. Allows hemp producers to sell biomass directly to consumers. Requires that hemp produced in the State be labeled as Hawaii produced and that hemp produced outside the State be labeled with the appropriate origin. Repeals 07/01/2027. (SD1)
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RELATING TO CRIMES ON AGRICULTURAL LANDS. Imposes mandatory minimum terms of imprisonment for certain offenses against property rights committed when on agricultural land. Appropriates funds to the Department of the Attorney General to establish a Statewide Agricultural Theft Task Force. Effective 7/30/2075. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. Appropriates moneys to the Department of Agriculture for the control and mitigation of the two-lined spittlebug and for recovery efforts for lands damaged by the two-lined spittlebug. Requires a report to the Legislature. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. Requires the Department of Agriculture to establish a Healthy Soils Program. Establishes a Healthy Soils Program Special Fund. Appropriates moneys. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE. Establishes a cover crop reimbursement pilot program to provide up to 75% cost reimbursement to farming operations in the State for the acquisition of cover crop seeds, green manure, or compost. Requires the convening of a review panel to screen and rate applicants on the quality of their cover crop and green manure and composting practices. Establishes a cover crop reimbursement pilot program manager position within the Department of Agriculture to administer the program. Requires reports to the Legislature. Appropriates moneys. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. Establishes the Hawaii Agricultural Investment Program to support local agricultural producers. Requires annual reports. Appropriates moneys. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO ANTS. Appropriates an unspecified sum to the Department of Land and Natural Resources (LNR402) for research, extension, and control of the little fire ant and other harmful ants. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO RECYCLING. Requires the Department of Health to implement the Auditor's recommendations for the Deposit Beverage Container program, including developing a risk-based selection process to select reports submitted by certain distributors and redemption centers for audit. (SD1)
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RELATING TO COMPOSTING. Establishes and appropriates moneys for a compost reimbursement program within the Department of Agriculture and for one full-time permanent compost reimbursement program manager position. Requires an annual progress report to the Legislature prior to each regular session. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE CONSERVATION AND RESOURCES ENFORCEMENT PROGRAM. Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to pursue and obtain accreditation for the Conservation and Resources Enforcement Program from the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies, Inc. Appropriates moneys. Takes effect 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO REAL ESTATE BROKERS. Allows the Real Estate Commission to revoke or suspend a license, or fine a licensee, for advertising, promoting, representing, receiving any remuneration for, or offering for rent any transient vacation units and whole-home short-term rentals unless the unit or rental is permitted by the relevant county. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO DIGITAL CURRENCY LICENSING PROGRAM. Establishes a program for the licensure, regulation, and oversight of digital currency companies. Effective 7/31/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO BEACHES. Includes in the State's policies for the physical environment under the Hawaii State Planning Act, the development of a statewide beach assessment study and a beach and shoreline restoration and conservation plan. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO JOINT CONTRACTOR OR SUBCONTRACTOR LISTING. Clarifies the information concerning contractors and subcontractors required for inclusion in a competitive sealed bid. (SD2)
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RELATING TO INFORMATION PRIVACY AND SECURITY COUNCIL. Amends section 487N-5(a), Hawaii Revised Statutes, to allow for each member of the Information Privacy and Security Council to designate a designee to act on the member's behalf in order to ensure quorum.
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RELATING TO PURCHASES OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES. Requires cost or pricing analysis for purchases of health and human services. Adds definition of "policy board." Increases the small purchase threshold for purchases of health and human services. Authorizes heads of purchasing agencies to issue requests for statement of qualifications and to establish lists of qualified providers for treatment purchase of services. Abolishes the Community Council for health and human services. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO PROCUREMENT. Authorizes the State Procurement Administrator to develop and administer procurement automation systems and assess, charge, and collect a transaction fee from all vendors using the procurement automation systems. Establishes the state procurement automation system special fund. Amends section 103D-1010, HRS, to conform with the amendments made to section 103D-1001, HRS, by Act 55, SLH 2021. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR CLAIMS AGAINST THE STATE, ITS OFFICERS, OR ITS EMPLOYEES. Makes appropriations and approves payments for claims against the State, its officers, and its employees. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO TOBACCO MANUFACTURER QUALIFIED ESCROW FUNDS. Provides a mechanism to assign non-participating tobacco manufacturers' qualified escrow account balances to the State. Provides a mechanism for the financial institution acting as the escrow agent of the qualified escrow account to petition the courts to authorize transfer of funds to the State when the qualified escrow account is abandoned. (SD1)
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MAKING AN EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION TO THE DEPARTMENT OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL. Makes an emergency appropriation to the Department of the Attorney General for retention of expert witnesses and specialized legal counsel in major litigation against the State of Hawaii. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO STATE FUNDS. Authorizes the transfer of excess moneys from the rental housing revolving fund to the dwelling unit revolving fund. Provides that the rental housing revolving fund may be used for the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation's housing finance programs. Establishes one full-time equivalent (1.0 FTE) housing finance specialist position. Appropriates moneys to the Corporation for hardware, software, and digitization efforts. (SD2)
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RELATING TO THE HAWAII FILM AND CREATIVE INDUSTRIES DEVELOPMENT SPECIAL FUND. Expands the funding sources and authorized uses of the Hawaii film and creative industries development special fund. Makes an appropriation out of the special fund. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO RENEWABLE PORTFOLIO STANDARDS. Amends the definition of "renewable portfolio standard" to be a percentage of electrical energy generation, rather than sales, excluding customer-sited, grid connected generation that does not produce renewable energy. Requires electric utility companies to track and annually report data and trends on customer retention and attrition to further inform the calculation of renewable portfolio standards. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO THE HAWAII EMPLOYER-UNION HEALTH BENEFITS TRUST FUND INVESTMENTS. Exempts the Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund from disclosing certain types of alternative investment fund information under the Uniform Information Practices Act (Modified), codified at Chapter 92F, Hawaii Revised Statutes. (SD2)
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MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO THE EMERGENCY AND BUDGET RESERVE FUND. Makes a general fund appropriation for fiscal year 2021-2022 to further capitalize the Emergency and Budget Reserve Fund. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO FRANCHISE TAX. Clarifies that the Compliance Resolution Fund is to receive $2,000,000 of the revenues collected under chapter 241, Hawaii Revised Statutes; provided that, if the revenues collected are under $2,000,000, the difference shall be received from revenues collected under chapter 235, Hawaii Revised Statutes, in an amount not to exceed $2,000,000. Excess revenues collected under chapter 241, Hawaii Revised Statutes, shall be deposited into the general fund. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO THE BARBERING AND COSMETOLOGY LICENSING ACT. Adds and updates definitions to satisfy current industry practice needs. Aligns and remedies inconsistencies between chapters 438 and 439, Hawaii Revised Statutes. Removes the five-year license requirement for barber and beauty operator Board of Barbering and Cosmetology member seats. Raises fees for penalties and disciplinary actions and removes medical clearance requirements. (SD1)
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RELATING TO ADVANCE WARNING FOR EXCAVATION. Applies the existing advance warning requirements to excavators operating on residential properties and clarifies various excavation requirements and reporting procedures. (SD1)
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RELATING TO INSURANCE. Amends various portions of title 24 of the Hawaii Revised Statutes to update and improve existing provisions. (SD1)
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RELATING TO CREDIT FOR REINSURANCE. Amends various sections of article 4A of chapter 431, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to maintain accreditation with the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. (SD1)
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RELATING TO MORTGAGE RESCUE FRAUD. Amends the definitions of a "distressed property consultant" and "mortgage assistance relief service" in section 480E-2, Hawaii Revised Statutes. (SD1)
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RELATING TO MORTGAGE SERVICERS. Authorizes the Commissioner of Financial Institutions (Commissioner) to modify or waive requirements in chapter 454M, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to implement changes and improvements made to the NMLS.
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RELATING TO THE ELEVATOR MECHANICS LICENSING BOARD COMPOSITION. Amends the composition of the Elevator Mechanics Licensing Board to replace the ex-officio Department of Labor and Industrial Relations member with a licensed elevator mechanic member.
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RELATING TO THE HAWAII CODE OF MILITARY JUSTICE. Updates the Hawaii Code of Military Justice, by repealing chapter 124A, Hawaii Revised Statutes, and adding a new chapter to promote order and discipline in the State Military Forces by fostering an independent military justice system and updating nonjudicial punishment and courts-martial procedures. Effective 7/30/2075. (SD2)
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RELATING TO THE EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ASSISTANCE COMPACT. Repeals chapter 128F, Hawaii Revised Statutes (HRS). Creates a new, appropriately designated chapter in the 127 series of HRS chapters to reincorporate the Emergency Management Assistance Compact. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT. Amends chapter 127A, Hawaii Revised Statutes (HRS), to clarify State and local authority, ensure effective and adaptable emergency response, and further the goals of transparency and democratic accountability. Prohibits the Governor or mayor from suspending requests for public records or vital specifics during a state of emergency. Allows for a reasonable delay in an agency's response to a request as a result of extenuated circumstances. Clarifies that powers granted for emergency purposes shall not be construed as permitting actions inconsistent with the state constitution. Amends chapter 127A, HRS, to provide for greater clarity and specificity regarding the scope of suspensions of law. Clarifies that Hawaii's emergency management system includes coordination between State and county emergency management functions, where appropriate. Clarifies the legal framework governing the extension and termination of emergency periods. Adds the definition of the term "severe warning" as used in section 127A-30, HRS. Allows the Legislature to, by an affirmative vote of two-thirds of the members to which each house is entitled, terminate a state of emergency, in part or in whole, declared by the Governor. Allows the county council to, by an affirmative vote of two-thirds, terminate a state of emergency, in part or in whole, declared by the mayor. (SD2)
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RELATING TO FEDERAL INDIRECT OVERHEAD REIMBURSEMENTS. Broadens the purposes for which indirect costs incurred by the Department of Education, State Public Charter School Commission, or a charter authorizer from federal grants may be reimbursed. (SD1)
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RELATING TO OPTIONS FOR STUDENTS IN DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION SCHOOLS. Broadens the scope of profit-making operations students may engage in at schools to include commercial enterprises, while ensuring that engagement in commercial enterprises shall be related to the primary educational purposes of the school, career pathway, academy, or program. Allows students to receive school credit, compensation, or both, when they engage in profit-making operations. (SD2)
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RELATING TO COMMERCIAL ENTERPRISES IN SCHOOLS. Deems student interns engaging in commercial enterprises to be employees of the State of Hawaii. Allows the Department of Education to use revenue generated from commercial enterprises. (SD1)
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MAKING AN EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION TO THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION FOR A VIRTUAL SCHOOL. Provides an emergency appropriation for a Department of Education virtual school and authorizes the Director of Finance to issue general obligation bonds. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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MAKING AN EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION TO THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION FOR A MAINTENANCE BASE YARD. Provides an emergency appropriation for the Department of Education to build a new maintenance base yard. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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MAKING AN EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION TO THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION FOR AN AGRICULTURE INNOVATION CENTER. Provides an emergency appropriation for the Department of Education to build an agriculture innovation center. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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MAKING AN EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION TO THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION FOR LEAD ABATEMENT. Provides funds for lead abatement measures at Department of Education elementary schools. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO EARNED INCOME TAX CREDIT. Extends the availability of the state earned income tax credit until tax year 2028. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO TAX EXEMPTION. Exempts any homestead development for the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands from the general excise tax and use tax. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO HISTORIC PRESERVATION REVIEWS. Allows the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to assume historic preservation review of the effect of any proposed project for lands under its jurisdiction, except for projects affecting properties listed or nominated for inclusion in the Hawaii register of historic places or the national register of historic places. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO EXEMPTIONS FROM CIVIL SERVICE FOR POSITIONS IN THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES. Permanently exempts 8 positions in the Department of Human Services from civil service. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO THE RESIDENTIAL LANDLORD-TENANT CODE. Allows a landlord, when processing an application to rent residential property, to charge an application screening fee up to a maximum of $25 for the cost of requesting a tenant report or credit report for a potential tenant. Requires landlords to refund any unused amount of the application screening fee and, upon request, provide a receipt of the fee and a copy of any report obtained via the screening process to the applicant. (SD2)
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RELATING TO CHILD CARE GRANT PROGRAMS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES. Renames the preschool grant program special fund as the child care grant program special fund. Authorizes the child care grant program special fund to be used to give grants to child care facilities. Adds federal funds as 1 of the funding sources for the child care grant program special fund. Changes the legislative report due date for the preschool open doors special fund and child care grant program special fund from August 31 to 20 days prior to the convening of each regular session. Removes the authority to expend moneys without an appropriation for the preschool open doors special fund and child care grant program special fund statutes to conform to section 5 of article VII of the Hawaii State Constitution. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO FAMILY RESOURCE CENTERS. Establishes the family resource centers pilot program within the Department of Human Services. Establishes 1 full-time equivalent (1.0 FTE) family resource centers coordinator position. Requires reports to the Legislature. Appropriates moneys. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO BACKGROUND CHECKS. Authorizes the Department of Human Services to conduct comprehensive background checks on current and prospective employees, volunteers, and contractors, and a contractor's employees, agents, or volunteers, in positions that require them to be in close proximity to minors, young adults, or vulnerable adults who are receiving child welfare services, social services, or other benefits and services from the Department of Human Services intended to prevent abuse or neglect or assist youth aging out of foster care with obtaining and maintaining independent living skills. Replaces the term "foster boarding home" in sections 321-11.2(d), 571-32.1, and 846 2.7(b)(8), Hawaii Revised Statutes, with "resource family homes", to conform to Act 133, Session Laws of Hawaii 2016. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO KUPUNA CARE PROGRAM. Incorporates the kupuna caregivers program into the kupuna care program and adds services for care recipients, caregivers, and employed caregivers. (SD2)
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RELATING TO MARRIAGE LICENSES. Establishes a $25 fee for all licenses to solemnize a marriage to be deposited into the vital statistics improvement special fund. Requires the Department of Health to account for the collection and deposit of the fee into the vital statistics improvement special fund. Repeals fees related to obtaining a license to solemnize civil marriage ceremonies. (SD2)
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RELATING TO TOBACCO PRODUCTS. Bans the sale of flavored tobacco products and mislabeled e‑liquid products. Establishes fines. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO THE OFFICE OF HEALTHCARE ASSURANCE SPECIAL FUND. Repeals the ceiling of the Office of Healthcare Assurance Special Fund to meet expanding program needs and diminish dependence on the general fund. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO FUNDING FOR PARKING FOR DISABLED PERSONS. Establishes an Accessible Parking Special Account within the Disability and Communication Access Board Special Fund. Increases the state annual vehicle registration fee by $1 and requires that $1 from each annual vehicle registration fee be deposited into the Accessible Parking Special Account. Requires all costs associated with the statewide Parking for Persons with Disabilities Program to be appropriated from the Accessible Parking Special Account beginning July 1, 2023. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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MAKING AN EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH FOR COSTS RESULTING FROM THE RELEASE OF PETROLEUM FROM THE RED HILL BULK FUEL STORAGE FACILITY. Makes an emergency appropriation to the Department of Health for response activities and enforcement relating to the petroleum leaks at the Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility. (SD1)
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MAKING AN EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH FOR COVID-19 VACCINATIONS. Makes an emergency appropriation to fund coronavirus disease 2019 vaccination activities. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE BOILER AND ELEVATOR SAFETY LAW. Requires the Director of Labor and Industrial Relations to appoint a Chief Boiler and Pressure Vessel Inspector. Allows the Director of Labor and Industrial Relations to authorize qualified boiler inspectors who are in the exclusive employment of an owner-user inspection organization to perform safety inspections of pressure retaining items. Extends the time by which the Director of Labor and Industrial Relations is required to reimburse the general fund for the initial appropriation made to the Boiler and Elevator Revolving Fund from 10 to 13 years from the date that the fund was established. (SD2)
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RELATING TO THE ADEQUATE RESERVE FUND. Amends the definition of Adequate Reserve Fund for calendar years 2023 through 2030 to exclude the Benefit Cost Rate from June 2020 through August 2021. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO THE UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION TRUST FUND. Appropriates funds into the unemployment compensation trust fund. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO TRANSFERABILITY OF MOORING PERMITS. Allows a holder of a mooring permit within a state small boat harbor to transfer the mooring permit under certain conditions. (SD2)
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RELATING TO DISPOSITION OF PUBLIC LANDS BY NEGOTIATION. Includes leases for commercial, industrial, and hotel or resort purposes eligible for disposition by negotiation pursuant to section 171-59(b), Hawaii Revised Statutes. Takes effect 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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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. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO HISTORIC PRESERVATION REVIEWS. Transfers authority for certain reviews of projects in conjunction with section 6E-42, HRS, from the Department of Land and Natural Resources to the Counties. Defines the role of third-party reviewers for DLNR. Provides financial assistance to the counties to hire qualified staff to conduct the reviews. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO THE ELECTRONIC PRESCRIPTION ACCOUNTABILITY SYSTEM. Amends subsection 329-101(d), Hawaii Revised Statutes, to require that a dispenser of a controlled substance report the filling of a controlled substance prescription to the State's Electronic Prescription Accountability System in real time, or report "zero" not less than once every seven days if no controlled substances prescriptions are filled. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO PUBLIC SAFETY. Establishes a Department of Law Enforcement to consolidate and administer criminal law enforcement and investigations functions of the State. Reestablishes the Department of Public Safety as an independent Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to administer state corrections and rehabilitation, and reentry of the inmate population. Transfers the law enforcement functions of the Department of Public Safety to the Department of Law Enforcement, and the law enforcement functions of the Department of Transportation, the non-statutorily mandated functions of the Investigations Division of the Department of the Attorney General, and the Office of Homeland Security to the Department of Law Enforcement. Appropriates funds to the Department of Law Enforcement and Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO THE UNIFORM CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES ACT MANDATORY REPORTING. Requires the holder of a controlled substances registration to immediately verbally report the theft, embezzlement, fraud, or diversion of a controlled substance in the holder's inventory. Requires the submission of a written report to the administrator of the Narcotics Enforcement Division that provides all information related to the theft, embezzlement, fraud, or diversion of controlled substances in the holder's inventory, including but not limited to, records, reports, and any image, film, video, or other electronic medium. Establishes a misdemeanor penalty for a person who prevents another from reporting, or who knowingly fails to provide information as required. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE UNIFORM CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES ACT. Updates the Uniform Controlled Substances Act, chapter 329, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to make it consistent with amendments in the federal controlled substances law as required by section 329-11, Hawaii Revised Statutes. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE WORKERS' COMPENSATION LAW. Amends the title of chapter 386, part V, subpart C, Hawaii Revised Statutes (HRS), to add reserve public safety law enforcement officers, and amends section 386-181, HRS, to include reserve public safety law enforcement officers to the list of volunteer occupations covered under the workers' compensation law. Allows reserve public safety law enforcement officers who are injured under the conditions specified in section 386-3, HRS, to receive workers' compensation. Adds reserve public safety law enforcement officers to the list of volunteers who are covered under the conditions for computing average weekly wages. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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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, 2021.
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MAKING AN EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION TO THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION. Makes an emergency appropriation to authorize additional moneys for the Department of Transportation Highways Division's special maintenance program. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION. Establishes the Electric Bicycle and Electric Moped Rebate Program and special fund to encourage the purchase and use of electric bicycles and electric mopeds. Allocates a portion of the barrel tax for the rebate program. Appropriates moneys. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO PSILOCYBIN. Establishes the therapeutic psilocybin working group to examine the medicinal and therapeutic effects of psilocybin and develop a long-term strategic plan to ensure the availability of therapeutic psilocybin or psilocybin-based products that are safe, accessible, and affordable for adults twenty-one years of age or older. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO AUDIBLE VEHICLE REVERSE WARNING SYSTEMS. Requires the replacement of current audible reverse warning systems (back-up beepers) on state and county-owned vehicles purchased on or after 1/1/2025, with more effective broadband reversing alarms by 1/1/2025. Takes effect 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO CAMPAIGN FINANCE. Requires the maintenance of transfer records relating to certain campaign contributions and transfers. Requires certain covered persons to seek permission from contributors to use of transfer contributed funds for independent campaign spending. Requires certain major contributors to disclose and maintain relevant records relating to the identities of other contributors. Requires certain covered persons to file disclosure reports with the Campaign Spending Commission. Facilitates the identification of certain top contributors of funds for certain political advertisements. Prohibits structured transactions. Takes effect 7/30/2075. (SD1)
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RELATING TO OPERATING A VEHICLE UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF AN INTOXICANT. Lengthens the driver's license revocation period for first time offenders convicted of operating a vehicle under the influence of an intoxicant who do not install an ignition interlock device. Allows early termination of driver's license revocation after nine months upon showing three consecutive months of ignition interlock use without any violations. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO HOMELESSNESS. Extends the sunset date of the Ohana Zones Pilot Program from 6/30/2023 to 6/30/2028. Establishes an Ohana Zones Program within the Hawaii Public Housing Authority upon expiration of the pilot program. Appropriates moneys. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO HOMELESSNESS. Ensures the continued existence of the low-income tiny home projects developed pursuant to the Governor's 2015 or 2018 emergency proclamations related to homelessness, or any supplemental proclamations to these emergency proclamations, by exempting the projects from certain laws for the duration of the underlying state land leases. Establishes the low-income tiny home village pilot program to provide shelter and certain services to low-income and homeless individuals. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO PUBLIC AGENCY MEETINGS. Provides that any electronic audio or visual recording of a board meeting shall be maintained as public record and clarifies that complete minutes of the meetings are still required. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCES. Directs the Department of Land and Natural Resources to establish a feral herd management pilot program under the Division of Forestry and Wildlife to manage axis deer populations in Maui County. Appropriates moneys. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. Establishes a local agriculture transportation cost reimbursement incentive program to be administered by the Department of Agriculture to reimburse eligible producers for a portion of the producer's costs to transport agricultural commodities. Appropriates moneys. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO DIGITAL IDENTIFICATION. Requires the Director of Transportation to establish and implement a digital identification pilot program. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII RESIDENT TUITION FEE. Expands the criteria to qualify for resident tuition fees at University of Hawaii campuses to include persons enrolled in a high school in the State and recent graduates of high schools in the State. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE X, SECTION 6, OF THE HAWAII CONSTITUTION TO REPEAL THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII BOARD OF REGENTS CANDIDATE ADVISORY COUNCIL. Repeals the Candidate Advisory Council for the Board of Regents of the University of Hawaii. Authorizes the governor to appoint members to the board of regents of the University of Hawaii without being limited to selecting a candidate deemed qualified by the Council. Clarifies the jurisdiction of the Board of Regents over the internal structure, management, and operations of the university. Takes effect 7/30/2075. (SD2)
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RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII BOARD OF REGENTS CANDIDATE ADVISORY COUNCIL. Eliminates the University of Hawaii Board of Regents Candidate Advisory Council. Authorizes the Governor to directly appoint members to the University of Hawaii Board of Regents. Effective 7/30/2075, and upon ratification of a Constitutional amendment. (SD2)
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RELATING TO GAMBLING. Imposes a heightened penalty of a class C felony for persons who repeatedly commit the offenses of gambling, possession of gambling records in the second degree, or possession of a gambling device. Effective 7/30/2075. (SD2)
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RELATING TO FISH HATCHERY EDUCATION. Requires the Department of Education to establish a native fish hatchery pilot program at Waianae High School. Appropriates moneys. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT. Establishes within the Department of Land and Natural Resources a visitor impact fee program to collect a fee to allow visitors to visit a state park, beach, state-owned forest, hiking trail, or other state-owned natural area. Establishes the Environmental Legacy Commission to allocate the revenues from the visitor impact fee to protect and manage Hawaii's natural resources. Establishes the visitor impact fee special fund. Appropriates moneys. Takes effect 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO THE ENFORCEMENT OF LAWS. Establishes an expeditious adjudication system for the processing of fireworks infractions. Increases the fine for certain fireworks violations. Clarifies what constitutes a separate violation. Increases the penalty for removing or extracting pyrotechnic contents. Authorizes the Sheriff Division to enforce the fireworks control law. Requires the Attorney General to establish an explosion detection technology working group. Requires the Department of Public Safety to develop and implement a web-based reporting tool for illegal fireworks. Appropriates moneys. Effective 7/30/2075. (SD2)
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RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HAWAIIAN HOME LANDS. Appropriates moneys to the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands for the investigation, exploration, and identification of geothermal resources on Hawaiian home lands. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. Establishes a farmer apprentice mentoring program. Makes an appropriation to the Department of Agriculture to establish and implement the program. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS. Clarifies the application of the general excise tax law with regard to gross income derived from unrelated trade or business activities of nonprofit organizations. (SD1)
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RELATING TO ENERGY. Authorizes the Hawaii Technology Development Corporation to temporarily re-establish the Hawaii Office of Naval Research Grant Program to provide 50% matching grants to Hawaii awardees of alternative energy research grants from the Department of Defense Office of Naval Research. Establishes the alternative energy research and development revolving fund. Appropriates moneys into and out of the revolving fund. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO DATA ABOUT SNORKELS AND MASKS. Requires the first responder to record in the incident report for each water rescue event the type of snorkel and mask, if any, that were worn by the person who was rescued or recovered.
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RELATING TO HEALTHCARE PRECEPTORS. Amends the definition of "preceptor" and "volunteer-based supervised clinical training rotation" to improve accessibility for providers to receive income tax credits for acting as preceptors. Includes the Director of Health on the Preceptor Credit Assurance Committee. (SD2)
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RELATING TO TEACHER PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT. Provides an appropriation for the Department of Education to provide 21 additional hours of professional development for each teacher per calendar year. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO THE SUNSHINE LAW. Amends the sunshine law to exempt minors from being required to state their presence in public meetings.
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RELATING TO INTERNATIONAL SISTER-STATE RELATIONS. Appropriates moneys to support international sister-state relations. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO PUBLIC WORKS. Imposes penalty on both the person and firm upon finding of repeat violations of state law governing wages and hours of employees on public works. (SD1)
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RELATING TO DAM AND RESERVOIR SAFETY. Establishes the dam and spillway loan and grant programs for plans, design, construction, and equipment that is used to improve deficient dams and spillways as determined by the Department of Land and Natural Resources and approved by the Board of Land and Natural Resources. Specifies eligibility requirements for dam and spillway improvement grants. Establishes the dam and spillway improvement tax credit for expenditures for dam and spillway improvements that bring dams and spillways up to code. Appropriates funds. Takes effect 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO ELECTIONS. Requires the Office of Elections to prepare a digital voter registration guide to be posted on its website. Requires the Office of Election to mail a notice with each ballot notifying voters that a voter information guide may be found on its website. Requires compliance with certain accessibility standards. Makes an appropriation. Takes effect 7/30/2075. (SD2)
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RELATING TO GEOTHERMAL ROYALTIES. Caps the amount of royalties from geothermal resources that are to be paid to the State and to the county in which the geothermal resources are located. Establishes the University of Hawaii Geothermal Exploration Special Fund for the Hawaii Groundwater and Geothermal Resources Center to further the discovery and development of geothermal resources. Requires the entities that received geothermal royalties to submit an annual report to the Legislature. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO SAFE SPACES FOR YOUTH PILOT PROGRAM. Establishes the Safe Spaces for Youth Pilot Program within the Department of Human Services. Requires the program to collaborate with all state and county departments that offer services to ensure the well-being of youth in Hawaii to coordinate the identification of youth who are experiencing homelessness and placement of these youth at a shelter for homeless youth. Requires the Department of Human Services to contract with nonprofit organizations to provide shelters for homeless youth. Requires the Department of Human Services to submit a report to the Legislature before the Regular Session of 2025. Appropriates moneys. Effective 7/1/2050. Repeals 6/30/2025. (SD1)
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RELATING TO MEDICAID PATIENT CARE. Appropriates an unspecified amount of funds to provide for a one-time enhanced payment equal to 15% of Medicaid patient payments of fiscal year 2022-2023 to each nursing facility, community care foster family homes, and expanded adult residential care homes that are caring for Medicaid patients, to assist with pandemic-related costs and lost revenues. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO CHILD WELFARE SERVICES. Expands the investigative power of the Department of Human Services to include: children who have been adopted or have been placed in legal guardianship, whose adoptive families or legal guardians are receiving federal or state financial assistance; and children in the foster care system for whom there is a pending petition for adoption or for whom an adoption decree has been issued but the children have not yet been placed in the custody of the adoption petitioner. Requires the Department of Human Services to submit a report to the Legislature on the impact of expanding home visits to families receiving adoption assistance or legal guardianship assistance before the convening of the Regular Session of 2027. Establishes a two-year Crisis Mobile Outreach Team Pilot Program within the Department of Health to expand and support existing crisis response services and programs for at-risk youth. Requires the Department of Health's Child and Adolescent Mental Health Division to submit a report to the Legislature on its findings and recommendations arising from the pilot program before the Regular Session of 2024. Appropriates funds to the Department of Health and the Department of Human Services. Repeals the pilot program on 6/30/2024. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. Establishes a definition of "economic zone". Repeals the definition of "industrial park" in chapter 206M, Hawaii Revised Statutes, regarding the Hawaii Technology Development Corporation. Replaces all instances of "industrial park" with "economic zone" in that chapter. (SD1)
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RELATING TO LEGISLATIVE REAPPORTIONMENT. Repeals the definition of permanent resident for legislative reapportionment purposes. Takes effect 7/30/2075. (SD1)
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RELATING TO HAWAIIAN HOME LANDS. Requires the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to build rental units, apartments, and rent-with-option-to-buy housing units to address the housing needs of Native Hawaiians on the waitlist for homestead leases. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO AMBULANCES. Appropriates funds to the Department of Health to purchase one advanced life support ambulance to be based on the island of Molokai, and related equipment, and pay related personnel costs for state-certified emergency medical services personnel. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO HUNTING GUIDES. Requires that hunting guides obtain written permission from private landowners or other appropriate person before taking their clients to hunt on those private lands. Requires hunting guides to provide copies of those written permission documents to the Department of Land and Natural Resources. Takes effect 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO PUBLIC RECORDS. Imposes a cap on the costs charged for the reproduction of certain government records. Waives reproduction costs for the first 100 pages if disclosure is in the public interest. Waives the cost of duplication of government records in an electronic format. Imposes a cap on costs charged for searching for, reviewing, and segregating records. Provides for a waiver of fees when the public interest is served by a record's disclosure. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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PROPOSING AMENDMENTS TO ARTICLE IV, SECTIONS 4 AND 6, OF THE HAWAII STATE CONSTITUTION REGARDING REAPPORTIONMENT. Proposes a constitutional amendment to specify that reapportionment shall be based upon the resident population, as counted in the most recent decennial United States Census. (SD1)
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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 to qualified residents. Exempts certain land from the definition of "public lands." Requires the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to gain legislative approval before disposing of certain lands. Provides for the disposition of lands that are acquired by the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation but no longer needed for the ALOHA homes program. Directs the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to conduct a study of the market depth for leasehold housing. Directs the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to convene a working group to study the implementation of the ALOHA homes program. Appropriates moneys. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO THE RESEARCH CORPORATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII. Allows the University of Hawaii to enter into contracts with the Research Corporation of the University of Hawaii for the purposes of supporting or facilitating sponsored research and training activities, or for advancing innovation and entrepreneurship in the State using funds appropriated by the Legislature. Requires the university to consult with pexclusive representatives to review conformance of positions with exceptions to collective bargaining for the purpose of employment of personnel that involve a state program or state employee. Retains the Research Corporation of the University of Hawaii's ability to maintain contracts related to invasive species control or eradication. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII ATHLETICS. Authorizes the University of Hawaii Board of Regents to terminate the Athletic Director and head coaches for cause. Requires Board of Regents approval of all coaching contracts with salaries greater than $200,000, including additional private funding and bonuses. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO ACADEMIC TENURE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII. Appropriates funds to the University of Hawaii to restore personal services. Requires the UH Board of Regents and the President of UH to discuss and adopt the permitted interaction group on tenure's recommendations for tenure of UH faculty and consult with the UH faculty and the exclusive representative of each applicable collective bargaining unit in implementing the recommendations. (SD2)
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RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION. Establishes the Air Noise and Safety Task Force. Requires the Director of Transportation to adopt rules to require tour aircraft operators to report details of each flight taken by the tour aircraft operation on a monthly basis. (SD2)
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RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION. Requires the Department of Transportation to increase funding, pursue grants, and work on projects focusing on safe, low-user- cost pedestrian and bicycle infrastructure. Appropriates moneys for two grant writing positions. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO THE ISSUANCE OF SPECIAL PURPOSE REVENUE BONDS TO ASSIST SAINT JOSEPH SCHOOL. Authorizes the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds to assist Saint Joseph School in planning, designing, constructing, reconstructing, renovating, acquiring, equipping, and improving educational facilities. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO GOVERNMENT RECORDS. Allows the Comptroller to direct the transfer of records to the State Records Center and determine the time period after which the records shall be transferred as directed. Appropriates moneys from the general fund, special fund, and American Rescue Plan funds for the statewide digitization of government records through the Office of Enterprise Technology Services. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION. Makes certain no-cost organizational changes within the Department of Taxation. (SD1)
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RELATING TO INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SERVICES. Establishes a technology services consolidation working group, which shall develop a plan for the phased consolidation of all state executive branch information technology services and staff within 5 years, except those of the Department of Education, Hawaii Health Systems Corporation, University of Hawaii, and Office of Hawaiian Affairs, under the Office of Enterprise Technology Services. Requires the working group to recommend ways to attract high quality information technology professionals to the State. Dissolves the working group on 6/30/2023. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO HAWAII RETIREMENT SAVINGS. Establishes the Hawaii Retirement Savings Program, administered by the Hawaii Retirement Savings Board, in consultation with the Department of Budget and Finance and Department of Labor and Industrial Relations, to provide a state-facilitated payroll-deduction automatic enrollment individual retirement plan to private sector employees who do not have access to employer-sponsored retirement savings plans beginning 7/1/2024. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO ASSISTANCE FOR PERSONS COMPLETING A TERM OF IMPRISONMENT. Establishes within the Department of Human Services a four-year pilot program to provide housing and child care vouchers to qualified applicants who will soon complete, or have recently completed, a term of imprisonment as a sentenced offender, and who have or will have sole or primary custody of one or more children under the age of eighteen. Income tax credit to employers who employ qualified program participants for up to two years after the qualified program participant is released from a correctional facility. Requires reports to the Legislature. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/30/2075. (SD2)
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RELATING TO REENTRY PLANNING CIRCLES. Appropriates moneys to fund reentry planning circles for at least 50 incarcerated women. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO CORRECTIONS. Establishes the Women's Corrections Implementation Commission within the Department of Public Safety to provide oversight over state correctional facilities and community correctional centers that incarcerate women; receive and investigate complaints from incarcerated women; monitor the criminal justice system's progress in implementing reforms; and monitor programs and data that are important to ensuring successful outcomes for women in the correctional system. Requires annual reports to the Legislature. Appropriates moneys. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO SHOOTING FACILITIES. Establishes a working group consisting of the Chairperson of the Board of Land and Natural Resources, the Director of Public Safety, and hunters and recreational shooters to determine potential locations and requirements for a shooting facility in the County of Hawaii. Appropriates funds to establish the shooting facility in the County of Hawaii. Requires the County of Hawaii to match funds appropriated on a dollar-for-dollar basis. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO SUSTAINABILITY. Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to recognize that game mammals and game birds, managed in appropriate areas, can provide sustainable food sources that merit quality habitats with sufficient food, water, and refuge to support viable populations sufficient for hunting; provided that negative impacts to the environment are sufficiently minimized or offset through native ecosystem protections; that proper management of game populations in appropriate areas minimizes or reduces impacts to agriculture, important watershed areas, and native habitats, and provides certain benefits; and that the State's unique relationship with the ocean requires careful consideration and management of land and ocean activities that prioritize the public trust responsibilities of the State. 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 the Legislature. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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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. (SD1)
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RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION. Establishes the interisland transportation working group. Requires the Department of Transportation to prepare for and incentivize the increased adoption of electric vehicles in the State. Establishes goals. Requires annual reports to the Legislature. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO THE HAWAII STATE ENERGY OFFICE. Transfers the Hawaii State Energy Office from the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to the Department of Land and Natural Resources as an administratively attached agency. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO FAMILY LEAVE. Provides employed individuals with up to 8 weeks of paid family leave during the first year after birth of the individual's child, adoption of a child by the individual, or placement of a child with the individual through foster care, and 8 weeks of paid family leave to care for the individual's family member having a serious health condition during any benefit year, paid through an employer-based private insurance program currently used to provide for temporary disability benefits. Repeals chapter 398, HRS. Appropriates moneys to the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations. Sections 1-28 effective 7/1/2024. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO FERAL PIG CONTROL PERMITS. Codifies certain administrative rules of the Department of Land and Natural Resources regarding permits to destroy or control harmful feral pigs. Requires the authorized agent of the Department of Land and Natural Resources to issue or deny permits for complaint-based destruction or control of game mammals within one hundred eighty days. Allows applicants to appeal permit decisions if a permit is not issued within one hundred eighty days. Takes effect 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO ATTACHMENT. Increases the amount of interest in real property that is exempt from attachment and execution. Amends the value of personal property that is exempt from attachment and execution, including increasing the exemption amount for a motor vehicle. Exempts from attachment or execution, an amount equivalent to one month of child support or $5,000, whichever is lower, and one month of spousal support or $5,000, whichever is lower. (SD2)
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RELATING TO INFRASTRUCTURE MAINTENANCE IN HOUSING SUBDIVISIONS. Establishes a working group to address the problem of infrastructure repair and maintenance in planned housing subdivisions that do not have compulsory community associations. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO CARBON SEQUESTRATION INCENTIVES. Establishes the Hawaii farmland and forest soil health carbon smart incentive program to incentivize carbon sequestration activities through incentive contracts that provide compensation for eligible practices by program participants. Appropriates funds for positions and for administering the program. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO PUBLIC PARTICIPATION IN GOVERNMENT. Repeals chapter 634F, Hawaii Revised Statutes. Enacts the Uniform Public Expression Protection Act. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE PUPUKEA MARINE LIFE CONSERVATION DISTRICT. Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to establish and conduct the Pupukea Marine Life Conservation District carrying capacity pilot program. Appropriates moneys. Takes effect 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO TRANSIENT VACATION UNITS. Authorizes any person to commence a civil action in district court on that person's own behalf against any owner of a dwelling unit if the owner advertises, solicits, offers, or provides the dwelling unit as a transient vacation unit and the owner is not authorized by the applicable county to provide the unit as a transient vacation unit. Authorizes the court to order a plaintiff to pay reasonable attorney fees when it determines that a claim is fraudulent or frivolous. Takes effect 7/30/2075. (SD2)
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RELATING TO GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS. Establishes the Director of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism, or a designee of the Director, as an ex officio voting board member of the Hawaii Tourism Authority and the School Facilities Authority. Transfers the Stadium Authority and the School Facilities Authority from the Department of Accounting and General Services and Department of Education, respectively, to the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism. Increases the amount of general obligation bonds that may be issued for the Stadium Development District. Amends the Hawaii Community Development Authority membership to include the Director of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism and the Director of the Office of Planning and Permitting of each county, or their designee, in which a community development district is located. Amends community representatives on each board from three to two at-large members. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO THE CIVIL AIR PATROL. Appropriates funds for operational expenses of the Hawaii Wing of the Civil Air Patrol. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE ECONOMY. Establishes a public policy framework that addresses state goals in the areas of economic disaster mitigation and economic diversification. Appropriates moneys to the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism (DBEDT) to implement specific projects that address those goals. Requires DBEDT to submit annual reports to the Legislature summarizing project outcomes, including an assessment of each project's effectiveness in achieving those goals. Appropriates funds to staff the Hawaii Center for Advanced Transportation Technologies. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO THE KALAUPAPA MEMORIAL. Appropriates funds for the design, planning, and construction of the Kalaupapa Memorial to be expended by the Department of Health. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO FIREWORKS. Requires the counties to share certain information concerning fireworks with the Harbors Division of the Department of Transportation. Requires each county to submit a report to the Legislature. Effective date 1/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO CORRECTIONS. Restricts the use of solitary confinement in state-operated and state-contracted correctional facilities, with certain specified exceptions. Requires the Department of Public Safety to use appropriate alternatives to solitary confinement for inmates who are members of a vulnerable population. Defines "member of a vulnerable population." Requires a report to the Legislature.
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RELATING TO THE RIGHT TO EXIT THE SEX TRADE. Establishes within the Department of Human Services a 1-year pilot program to provide a basic monthly income of $2,000 for a period of up to 1 year to qualified adults who are verified victims of sex trafficking and are seeking to exit the sex trade. Requires report to the Legislature before Regular Session of 2023. Appropriates funds. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO PROCUREMENT. Requires that any procurement change order that increases the contract cost by more than fifty per cent or substantially increases the scope of work be considered a new contract for procurement purpose. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII COMMUNITY COLLEGES. Requires the Board of Regents of the University of Hawaii to establish a Standing Committee on Community Colleges. Requires the Vice President of Community Colleges to report directly to the Board of Regents Standing Committee. Appropriates funds to the Community Colleges for the Culinary Institute of the Pacific, the Early College Program, the Hawaii Promise Program, HINET Program, the Maui Food Innovation Center, workforce development programs, campus security officers, the Wahiawa Value-Added Product Development Center, the restoration of personal services to pre-pandemic levels, nursing program clinical instructors, and the Learn and Earn Program. (SD2)
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RELATING TO NATIVE HAWAIIAN AFFAIRS. Requires the Department of Agriculture; Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism; Department of Labor and Industrial Relations; and Department of Land and Natural Resources to provide grants to tax-exempt non-profit organizations that have experience and expertise in supporting and advancing Native Hawaiian communities. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HAWAIIAN HOME LANDS. Requires the Department of Hawaiian home Lands to submit certain annual reports to the Legislature regarding the native Hawaiian rehabilitation fund. Appropriates moneys into and out of the fund for Hawaiian home lands lots, related projects, and down payment assistance and mortgage payment assistance to the department's beneficiaries. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO HEALTH. Creates an early lung cancer screening task force to research the steps and resources necessary to increase early lung cancer screening in Hawaii. Appropriates moneys. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO PROCUREMENT. Establishes a procurement services consolidation working group, which shall develop a plan for the phased consolidation, under the State Procurement Office, of all state executive branch procurement services and staff within 5 years, except those of the Department of Education, Hawaii Health Systems Corporation, University of Hawaii, and Office of Hawaiian Affairs. Requires the working group to recommend ways to attract high-quality procurement professionals to the State. Appropriates moneys. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO PUBLIC PROCUREMENT. Authorizes, where it is determined that a solicitation or award of a contract is in violation of law, government contract to be rescinded and awarded to the next lowest responsive, responsible bidder to whom the contract would have been awarded were it not for the violation of law, as applicable or as directed by the office of administrative hearings. (SD1)
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RELATING TO PUBLIC PROCUREMENT. Clarifies the deadline for submitting written protests that are based on the content of a solicitation. Takes effect 7/30/2075. (SD2)
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RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII COMMUNITY COLLEGES. Appropriates moneys for the University of Hawaii Community Colleges' workforce development programs to fund administration, training, positions, and student support. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO COMMERCIAL ACTIVITIES ON BEACHES. Prohibits any person from presetting commercial beach equipment on beaches encumbered with easements in favor of the public unless the customer is present. Pertains only to public beaches and does not include private lands such as accreted lands. Takes effect 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO BIOSECURITY. Appropriates moneys for a ports-of-entry biosecurity program. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO PRESCRIPTIONS. Allows the utilization of post office boxes, rural route boxes, and highway contract route boxes for controlled substances prescriptions by amending the definition of "address" for purposes of the Uniform Controlled Substances Act. Effective 1/1/2023. (SD2)
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REQUESTING THE STATE AND CITY AND COUNTY OF HONOLULU TO CONVENE A WORKING GROUP TO COLLABORATE ON MULTI-JURISDICTIONAL STREAM MAINTENANCE.
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URGING THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION TO INCORPORATE MEDIA LITERACY INTO THE EXISTING STATE PUBLIC SCHOOL CURRICULUM.
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REQUESTING THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH TO CONDUCT A STUDY INTO THE FEASIBILITY OF PERMITTING MINORS SIXTEEN YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER TO CONSENT TO RECEIVE A COVID-19 VACCINATION WITHOUT CONSENT FROM THE MINOR'S PARENT OR GUARDIAN.
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REQUESTING THE AUDITOR TO CONDUCT AN AUDIT OF HARBOR INSPECTION PROCEDURES OF STATE DEPARTMENTS AND FEDERAL AGENCIES FOR SHIPPING CONTAINERS TO PREVENT THE IMPORTATION OF ILLEGAL FIREWORKS INTO THE STATE.
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REQUESTING HAWAIIAN ELECTRIC COMPANY TO CONDUCT A STUDY TO IDENTIFY AND REMOVE ANY REDUNDANT UTILITY POLES ON OAHU.
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REQUESTING THE HAWAII HOUSING FINANCE AND DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION TO CONDUCT AN ANALYSIS ON THE FEASIBILITY OF FACTORY-BUILT HOUSING AS A COST-EFFECTIVE AND PRACTICAL ANSWER TO ADDRESS THE STATE'S HOUSING SHORTAGE.
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ENCOURAGING ALL COUNTIES OF HAWAII TO CREATE A SPECIAL NUMBER PLATE DESIGN FOR MOTOR VEHICLES TO COMMEMORATE THE ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF CARISSA KAINANI MOORE.
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REQUESTING THE STATE AND CITY AND COUNTY OF HONOLULU TO CONVENE A WORKING GROUP TO COLLABORATE ON MULTI-JURISDICTIONAL STREAM MAINTENANCE.
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URGING THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION TO INCORPORATE MEDIA LITERACY INTO THE EXISTING STATE PUBLIC SCHOOL CURRICULUM.
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REQUESTING THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH TO CONDUCT A STUDY INTO THE FEASIBILITY OF PERMITTING MINORS SIXTEEN YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER TO CONSENT TO RECEIVE A COVID-19 VACCINATION WITHOUT CONSENT FROM THE MINOR'S PARENT OR GUARDIAN.
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REQUESTING THE AUDITOR TO CONDUCT AN AUDIT OF HARBOR INSPECTION PROCEDURES OF STATE DEPARTMENTS AND FEDERAL AGENCIES FOR SHIPPING CONTAINERS TO PREVENT THE IMPORTATION OF ILLEGAL FIREWORKS INTO THE STATE.
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REQUESTING HAWAIIAN ELECTRIC COMPANY TO CONDUCT A STUDY TO IDENTIFY AND REMOVE ANY REDUNDANT UTILITY POLES ON OAHU.
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REQUESTING THE HAWAII HOUSING FINANCE AND DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION TO CONDUCT AN ANALYSIS ON THE FEASIBILITY OF FACTORY-BUILT HOUSING AS A COST-EFFECTIVE AND PRACTICAL ANSWER TO ADDRESS THE STATE'S HOUSING SHORTAGE.
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ENCOURAGING ALL COUNTIES OF HAWAII TO CREATE A SPECIAL NUMBER PLATE DESIGN FOR MOTOR VEHICLES TO COMMEMORATE THE ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF CARISSA KAINANI MOORE.
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