OFFICE OF THE SPEAKER
THIRTY-SECOND STATE LEGISLATURE
COMMITTEE REFERRALS
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NO. 17
27th LEGISLATIVE DAY-MARCH 9, 2023
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Committee Abbreviations:
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AGR - Agriculture & Food Systems |
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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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HET - Higher Education & Technology |
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HLT - Health & Homelessness |
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HSG - Housing |
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HUS - Human Services |
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JHA - Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs |
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LGO - Labor & Government Operations |
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LMG - Legislative Management |
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TOU - Tourism |
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TRN - Transportation |
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WAL - Water & Land |
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RELATING TO HEALTH CARE. Allows licensed physician assistants to perform certain abortions. Repeals the requirement that abortions be performed at certain locations. Clarifies that the State shall not deny or interfere with a pregnant person's right to choose to (1) obtain an abortion or (2) if necessary to protect the life or health of the patient terminate the pregnancy. Defines "abortion" and "nonviable fetus". Prohibits a covered entity from disclosing information relating to reproductive health care services. Prohibits the issuance of a subpoena in connection with an out-of-state or interstate proceeding relating to reproductive health care services legally performed in the State. Prohibits agencies from providing information or expending resources in the furtherance of out-of-state or interstate investigations or proceedings relating to reproductive health care services. Prohibits the State from taking adverse action based on pregnancy outcomes or for aiding or assisting a pregnant individual with accessing reproductive health care services. Requires the Governor to deny any demand for surrender of a person charged with a crime involving reproductive health care services unless the conduct constitutes a |
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crime in the State or is made under Article IV, section 2, of the U.S. Constitution. Enumerates laws contrary to public policy and prohibits their application. Prohibits the issuance of a summons for persons to testify in another state with regard to lawful reproductive health care services. Clarifies under various licensing statutes that the provision or assistance in receipt or provision of certain services related to the human reproductive system cannot form a basis for disciplinary action. Prohibits the enforcement of a judgment or order arising from a foreign penal civil action or other penal law with respect to reproductive health care services. Amends the definition of "medical care and services" so that a minor may...(see document for full description) (SD2)
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RELATING TO THE SCHOOL FACILITIES AUTHORITY. Makes necessary amendments to clarify certain references to the School Facilities Authority used in section 302A-1151.1, Hawaii Revised Statutes.
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RELATING TO HAWAIIAN AS AN OFFICIAL LANGUAGE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII. Requires that the Hawaiian version of a law be held binding if the law in question was originally drafted in Hawaiian and then translated into English.
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RELATING TO CORPORATIONS. Requires domestic and foreign corporations to provide their shareholders with reports of independent expenditures and political contributions. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO BED BUGS. Prohibits landlords, including those operating in public housing and educational dorm settings, from renting a dwelling unit that the landlord knows has a current bed bug infestation. Establishes procedures that landlords shall take upon receiving notice of an actual or suspected bed bug infestation. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE LANDLORD-TENANT CODE. Prohibits a landlord from recovering possession of a dwelling unit from a tenant if the habitability of the premises is significantly impaired. Caps a tenant's liability for rent if the habitability of the premises is significantly impaired. Provides remedies for retaliatory evictions. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO CIVIL LEGAL SERVICES. Appropriates funds 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 DISCRIMINATION. Establishes provisions relating to civil remedies for discriminatory reporting to a law enforcement officer. Provides that a person who contacts a law enforcement officer to come to a location to contact a person on the basis of the person's actual or perceived race, color, ancestry, ethnicity, national origin, place of birth, sex, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, or gender identity with the specific intent to infringe upon the person's rights under the Hawaii State Constitution or United State Constitution; discriminate against the person; cause the person to feel harassed, humiliated, or embarrassed; cause the person to be expelled from a place that the person is lawfully located; damage the person's reputation or standing within the community; or damage the person's financial, economic, consumer, or business prospects or interest shall be civilly liable. Requires the Department of the Attorney General, in consultation with the Hawaii Civil Rights Commission, to provide guidance to the public on the enactment of this Act. Effective January 1, 2024, requires the Department of Law Enforcement to also provide guidance on this Act. (SD1)
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RELATING TO STATE WATER CODE PENALTIES. Creates a minimum penalty of $50 for every violation of the State Water Code. Raises the maximum penalty to $25,000 for every violation of the State Water Code. Clarifies that each day a violation exists or continues is a separate offense. Requires the Commission on Water Resource Management to determine the amount of the penalty based on the circumstances of the violation. Appropriates funds for two-full-time equivalent (2.0 FTE) general professional positions in the Commission on Water Resource Management. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO MINORS. Allows a school counselor, domestic violence victim advocate, or other mental health professional licensed by the State to petition for a protective order on a minor's behalf when the minor's parent or guardian is unable to submit a petition. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO ARRANGEMENT OF CANDIDATE NAMES ON BALLOTS. Requires candidate names to be randomized on individual ballots and randomly rotated across precincts. Requires the Office of Elections to inform voters and candidates, by a method suited for the voting system, that the names of candidates may not be in alphabetical order. Requires that any new contract entered into by the Office of Elections for equipment or services relating to preparing ballots or counting votes include the capability to randomize the names of candidates appearing on the ballot if technologically possible.
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RELATING 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. (SD1)
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RELATING TO GASOLINE-POWERED LEAF BLOWERS. Prohibits the operation of gasoline-powered leaf blowers in any urban land use districts. Increases the amounts of fines for offenses of leaf blower restrictions and provides for the forfeiture of gasoline-powered leaf blowers upon a third violation. Removes the exemption on leaf blower restrictions for government agencies. Takes effect 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO TAX CREDITS. Increases the income thresholds and credit amounts of the income tax credit for low-income household renters by using tax brackets for individuals and different categories of households. Annually adjusts the income thresholds and credit amounts for inflation, based on the consumer price index. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO AUDIBLE VEHICLE REVERSE WARNING SYSTEMS. Requires the use of broadband audible reverse warning systems (back-up beepers) on state and county-owned vehicles purchased on or after 1/1/2026. Authorizes the Director of Transportation to provide an exemption in the event broadband sirens are unavailable. (SD2)
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RELATING TO THE JUDICIARY'S `OLELO HAWAI`I INITIATIVES. Appropriates funds to the Judiciary to support the `Olelo Hawai`i Initiatives. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO MEDICAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING. Reestablishes the Hawaii medical education 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 the John A. Burns School of Medicine for graduate medical education and training programs. 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 moneys 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 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO NURSES. Allows the Board of Nursing to issue temporary permits for six-month periods to registered nurses and practical nurses licensed in another jurisdiction under certain circumstances, and excepts from license requirements nurses who are licensed in another state, territory, or country accompanying a patient from out-of-state for a period of less than two weeks and not employed or affiliated with a health care facility in the State. Allows an out-of-state registered nurse or licensed practical nurse to simultaneously apply for a license to practice and a temporary permit, and in such circumstances, extends the validity of a temporary permit until the Board of Nursing approves the application to practice. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO MEDICARE SUPPLEMENT INSURANCE. Requires issuers of Medigap insurance in the State to accept an eligible individual's application for coverage at any time throughout the year and prohibits issuers from denying the applicant a Medigap policy or certificate or making any premium rate distinctions due to various reasons, including health status. Requires the Insurance Commissioner to amend or adopt rules accordingly. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO COMMERCIAL ACTIVITIES ON BEACHES. Prohibits any commercial vendor from presetting commercial beach equipment on any public beach under the jurisdiction of the Department of Land and Natural Resources, unless the customer is physically present. Requires commercial vendors to expeditiously remove commercial beach equipment after the customer has finished using it. Allows the Department of Land and Natural Resources to grant exemptions through rules. Establishes administrative fines for violations. Pertains only to public beaches and does not include private lands such as accreted lands. 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 funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO RENEWABLE ENERGY. For applications filed on or after July 1, 2023, requires the Public Utilities Commission to render decisions on certain renewable projects, power purchase agreements, and cost recovery applications within one hundred eighty days of the filing of the application and establishes procedures and requirements for the applications. Exempts certain power purchase agreement amendments from the Public Utilities Commission review and approval process in certain circumstances. Requires a public utility requesting an amendment to a power purchase agreement to submit an informational filing to the Public Utilities Commission. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL PARK LEASES. Allows the Department of Agriculture to extend the agricultural park lease of any lessee who holds a lease with a remaining term of 15 years or less; provided that the land covered by the lease is 25 acres or less and located in a county with a population of less than 500,000. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO SPECIAL MANAGEMENT AREAS. Establishes additional 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. Repeals the 7,500 square foot threshold for single-family residence and authorizes the counties to further define single-family residence by ordinance for purposes of "development". Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO HISTORIC PRESERVATION. Appropriates funds to the Department of Land and Natural Resources to inventory historic properties and burial sites in the State, collect data on burial site locations, and conduct an archaeological surface survey. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO THE TRANSFER OF NON-AGRICULTURAL PARK LANDS. Before the transfer of non-agricultural park lands, authorizes the Department of Agriculture to request information from the Department of Land and Natural Resources related to the establishment of necessary and reasonable easements upon the lands. Amends legislative findings regarding non-agricultural park lands. Requires the Department of Agriculture to accept the transfer of and manage certain qualifying non-agricultural park lands. 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. Continue to require the lessee to maintain a conservation plan. 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. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT. Clarifies that the Board of Land and Natural Resources' authority shall supersede the Mauna Kea Stewardship and Oversight Authority for all lands designated under the state conservation district. Specifying that the Chairperson of the University of Hawaii Board of Regents, with approval of the Board of Regents subject to quorum and majority requirements, may designate a member of the Board of Regents or past member of the Board of Regents with experience with Mauna Kea, to serve as the Chairperson of the University of Hawaii Board of Regents' Designee. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO FOOD SUSTAINABILITY. Requires the Department of Agriculture, in coordination with the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development, to update the State Agriculture Functional Plan to include other agricultural economic updates that expand the State's priority on food by increasing local food self-sufficiency and exports. Requires the Governor to submit the updated plan to the Legislature prior to the Regular Session of 2025. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO MARINE MANAGEMENT AREAS. Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to comply with Chapter 91, Hawaii Revised Statutes, when designating marine management areas. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO REUSE ZONES. Requires nonpotable water users and developers of real property located within a certain distance of wastewater treatment plants to use R-1 water. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO SPECIAL ACTIVITY PERMITS. Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to approve or deny an application for a special activity permit for aquatic research within ninety days from the date that it was submitted. Appropriates an unspecified amount of funds for the establishment of two full-time equivalent (2.0 FTE) positions within the Division of Aquatic Resources to support the special activity permit review process. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT. Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources' Division of Aquatic Resources to submit an annual report to the Legislature, beginning in 2025, summarizing the Division's expenditure of funds received from the federal Wildlife and Sport Fish Restoration program for the preceding year and providing the recipient and purpose of each expenditure. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO MEAT AND POULTRY INSPECTION. Requires the Department of Agriculture to establish, implement, and administer a meat and poultry inspection program. Appropriates funds for the establishment, implementation, and administration of the program. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO EDUCATION. Changes the Department of Education's quarterly report requirement on autism spectrum disorder to an annual report.
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RELATING TO EDUCATION. Authorizes the Department of Health to require the Department of Education to report coronavirus disease 2019 potential outbreaks and other related information in a manner most appropriate to public health and safety, as determined by the Department of Health. Repeals the requirement to publish the report on the Department of Education's website. (SD2)
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RELATING TO THE BOARD OF EDUCATION. Authorizes a majority of the members of the Board of Education to elect a chairperson from among the members of the Board. Allows the members to annually elect a chairperson upon the start of the next confirmed term for members. Removes the requirement that the chairperson be an at-large member. (SD1)
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RELATING TO GENDER-NEUTRAL TERMINOLOGY. Replaces gender-specific terminology used in adoption and divorce matters with gender-neutral terminology. Takes effect 03/22/2075. (SD1)
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RELATING TO GENDER-NEUTRAL TERMINOLOGY. Requires gender-specific terminology used in adoption and divorce matters to be construed in a gender-neutral manner. Effective 3/22/2075. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE LABELING OF PRODUCTS. Clarifies that calculations to determine whether an item labeled "Hawaii Made" or "Made in Hawaii" has met the requirement that at least 51% of the wholesale value of the product is added by production within the State include operating and overhead expenses incurred and spent within the State. Appropriates funds to promote and develop the "Made in Hawaii" brand. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO SPECIAL NUMBER PLATES. Authorizes the issuance of special number plates to commemorate Duke Kahanamoku. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO MINORS. Requires providers of no-cost emergency shelter and related services to maintain separation for unrelated adults and minor children. Makes permanent the amendments to the definition of "provider" to include organizations that are not child placing organizations or child caring institutions that meet certain criteria. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE UNIFORM CHILD-CUSTODY JURISDICTION AND ENFORCEMENT ACT. Allows state courts discretion to not enforce a child-custody determination of a foreign country if the child-custody law of the foreign country imposes capital punishment for apostasy, religious or political beliefs, or homosexuality, and a parent or child demonstrates risk of being subject to the law. Defines "apostasy". Takes effect 03/22/2075. (SD1)
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RELATING TO IMPORTANT HOUSING LANDS. Requires the Hawaii Public Housing Authority to conduct a study identifying certain state-owned lands located within a one-half mile radius of any rail mass transit station, excluding lands under the jurisdiction of the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands, that are most suitable for constructing at least one hundred thousand housing units. Appropriates funds to the Hawaii Public Housing Authority to conduct the study, or contract services to conduct the study. Effective 7/1/2050 and 7/1/2051. (SD2)
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RELATING TO ELECTIONS. Requires presidential electors to take a pledge that they will vote for their party's nominee. Invalidates the vote of any faithless elector. Removes any faithless elector from the position of elector. Provides procedures for the replacement of electors. Updates rules for certification of electors and their votes to be in full compliance with federal law. (SD1)
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RELATING TO LAW ENFORCEMENT REFORM. Requires any department or agency employing a law enforcement officer to maintain a publicly available policy that provides a minimum standard on the use of force. Allows use of force policies and training to be considered in legal proceedings involving a law enforcement officer's use of force. Requires a law enforcement officer who observes the use of excessive force by another law enforcement officer to report the use of excessive force. Requires that law enforcement officers receive training designed to minimize the use of force. Takes effect 1/1/2024. (SD2)
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RELATING TO EDUCATION. Requires the Department of Education to develop and implement a School Meal Subsidy Program to provide school lunch subsidies to children whose families do not otherwise qualify for free lunch under the federal Free and Reduced Price Lunch Program, subject to income eligibility. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII. Establishes, and appropriates funds for, a Network Improvement Community Task Force to develop a K-12 science, technology, engineering, and mathematics teacher education degree for the University of Hawaii and report to the Legislature. Appropriates funds for the establishment of a Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Entrepreneur-Resident at the University of Hawaii Maui College. Appropriates funds for the University of Hawaii Maui College's Office of International and Regional Partnerships for study abroad programs. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE BOARD OF EDUCATION. Requires the Board of Education to hold not less than six community forums annually, with at least one community forum in each county. Requires the Board to include an open forum for public comments on non-agenda items. Requires a report to the Legislature on implementing open forums. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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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 consumer commodity or consumer package to a consumer in Hawaii constitutes an unfair and deceptive practice. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE USE OF INTOXICANTS WHILE OPERATING A VEHICLE. Lowers the threshold blood alcohol concentration for the offense of operating a vehicle while under the influence of an intoxicant.
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RELATING TO DENTISTRY LICENSES. Allows the Board of Dentistry to issue without examination, a community service license to practice dental hygiene in the employment of a community health center and allows eligible candidates to submit as documentation and credentials, diplomas and certificates of graduation from a dental hygiene college or dental college that has a reciprocal agreement with the American Dental Association Commission on Dental Accreditation, recognized and approved by the Board. Allows an applicant for a license as a dentist to submit a certificate or other evidence satisfactory to the Board of Dentistry that the applicant has passed the Integrated National Board Dental Examination. Allows the Board to issue without examination, a community service license to practice dentistry in the employment of a community health center and allows eligible candidates to submit as documentation and credentials, diplomas and certificates of graduation from a dental hygiene college or dental college that has a reciprocal agreement with the American Dental Association Commission on Dental Accreditation, recognized and approved by the Board, and certificates or other evidence satisfactory to the Board of having passed the Integrated National Board Dental Examination. Allows the Board to issue without examination, a temporary license to practice dentistry exclusively under the auspices of a dental residency program, to graduates from a dental college that has a reciprocal agreement with the American Dental Association Commission on Dental Accreditation, recognized and approved by the Board. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO HEALTH. Appropriates funds to be expended by the Executive Office on Aging for an Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias Public Health Campaign. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO LOAN REPAYMENT FOR HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS. Appropriates funds to the Department of Health for the Hawaii State Loan Repayment Program for health care professionals. Requires funds to be expended in coordination with the John A. Burns School of Medicine of the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Requires matching funds. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO ADVISORY COMMITTEES. Renames the statewide and county-level voters with special needs advisory committees to elections accessibility needs advisory committees. Recognizes that voting accessibility needs may arise from disabilities other than those of a physical nature.
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RELATING TO DISCLOSURES OF FINANCIAL INTERESTS. Establishes that certain candidates shall file disclosures of financial interests no later than ten days after the nomination filing deadline. Establishes that the unauthorized release of confidential financial disclosure information is subject to chapter 84, Hawaii Revised Statutes. Amends the fines imposed and procedures relating to disclosures of financial interests. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE STATE FIRE COUNCIL. Adds to the membership of the State Fire Council, and to the membership of advisory committees that the Council may appoint, representatives from the Hawaii State Aircraft Rescue Fire Fighting Unit and the Division of Forestry and Wildlife of the Department of Land and Natural Resources to reflect all non‑federal fire fighting agencies in the State. (SD1)
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RELATING TO VIOLATIONS OF CAMPAIGN FINANCE LAW. Increases the amount of fine from $1,000 to $5,000 that may be assessed against a noncandidate committee making only independent expenditures that has received at least one contribution of more than $10,000, or spent more than $10,000 in an election period, for campaign spending law violations. Allows the Campaign Spending Commission to order the fine be up to three times the amount of the unlawful contribution or expenditure, and to order that the payment of the fine assessed against a noncandidate committee, or any portion thereof, be paid from the noncandidate committee or if the noncandidate committee cannot pay, the personal funds of the candidate or officers of the noncandidate committee. (SD1)
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RELATING TO CONTRIBUTIONS BY STATE AND COUNTY CONTRACTORS AND GRANTEES OF THE STATE. Extends the ban on campaign contributions from state and county contractors to grantees of the State under chapter 42F, Hawaii Revised Statutes, and to the owners, officers, and immediate family of the government contractor or state grantee. (SD1)
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RELATING TO COMPLAINTS ALLEGING VIOLATIONS OF CAMPAIGN SPENDING LAWS. Allows the Campaign Spending Commission to treat a respondent's failure to explain or otherwise respond to a complaint alleging a violation of campaign spending laws as a presumption that a violation has occurred. Provides that the respondent shall have thirty days from the mailing of the complaint to respond before the presumption takes effect. (SD1)
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RELATING TO CRIMINAL JUSTICE DATA SHARING. Establishes a Criminal Justice Data Sharing Working Group to make recommendations for a statewide criminal justice data repository. Takes effect 3/22/2075. (SD2)
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RELATING TO THE EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM. Ensures that employment, work, and pay eligible for the purpose of calculating retirement benefits includes retroactive reinstatement, retroactive recission of suspension, retroactive pay differential, and back pay that are restored to an employee as part of an administrative, arbitral, or judicial proceeding. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO PUBLIC TRANSIT. Establishes the offense of interference with the operation of a public transit vehicle. Takes effect 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO THE DEPARTMENT OF THE PROSECUTING ATTORNEY OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF HONOLULU. Appropriates funds as a grant-in-aid to the Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu for the Victim Witness Assistance Program. Takes effect 01/01/3000. (SD1)
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MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO THE DEPARTMENT OF THE PROSECUTING ATTORNEY OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF HONOLULU. Appropriates funds as a grant-in-aid to the Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu for the career criminal prosecution unit. Takes effect 01/01/3000. (SD1)
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RELATING TO NOISE CONTROL. Allows for noise control infractions to be processed under the traffic and emergency period infractions adjudication process. Grants the district court concurrent jurisdiction over noise control infractions committed by minors. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO FRAUD. Establishes the offense of fraud as a class B felony. Establishes the offense of making a false, fictitious, or fraudulent claim against the State or a county as a class C felony. Establishes the offense of the use of false statements or entries in matters within the jurisdiction of the executive, legislative, or judicial branches of the State as a class C felony. (SD1)
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RELATING TO HUMAN TRAFFICKING. Establishes a statewide prevention program overseen by the Department of the Attorney General to provide services and assistance to commercially sexually exploited children and to victims of human trafficking. Requires reports to the Legislature. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO VICTIM-COUNSELOR PRIVILEGE. Expands the victim-counselor privilege under the Hawaii Rules of Evidence to include confidential advocates employed by the University of Hawaii. Increases the minimum number of hours of training a domestic violence victims' counselor must complete to be considered a victim counselor.
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RELATING TO EARLY LEARNING ACCREDITATION. Establishes within the Department of Human Services' Child Care Subsidy Program Office, a Child Care Accreditation Program to support licensed or registered child care providers to obtain accreditation from a national early learning accrediting organization or an accrediting organization approved by the Director of Human Services. Extends the deadline by which unaccredited service providers of the Preschool Open Doors Program must commence the accreditation process and obtain accreditation. Appropriates funds. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO THE HAWAIIAN HOMES COMMISSION ACT. Requires the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to provide to beneficiaries of the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act, 1920, monthly accountability reports that contain certain information on leases and fiscal matters. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO MEDICAL RESIDENCY PROGRAMS. Appropriates moneys to support and expand physician residency training programs in state teaching hospitals. Requires dollar‑for-dollar matching funds from private funding sources. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO INCOME. Requires the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to submit an annual report on the enforcement of the wage and hour law in the State to the Legislature. Requires the Director of Labor and Industrial Relations to establish: (1) investigation standards that protect the identity of an employee who files a complaint with the Wage Standards Division to report any wage and hour violations by their employer; and (2) an education program for employees and employers on federal and state wage and hour laws, including tip credit and prohibitions against employer retaliation. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO PRINCE JONAH KUHIO KALANIANAOLE. Requires certain public buildings near mass transit projects and on Hawaiian home lands to display portraits of Prince Jonah Kuhio Kalanianaole. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO THE COLLEGE SAVINGS PROGRAM. Establishes a state income tax deduction for eligible contributions made to any college savings program established under section 529 of the Internal Revenue Code. Effective 7/1/2050. Applies to taxable years beginning after an unspecified date. (SD2)
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RELATING TO PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL PER-PUPIL FUNDING. Excludes from the charter school per-pupil funding calculation all amounts relating to programs that provide comparable benefits for all public school students regardless of whether the student is a Department of Education school student or a public charter school student.
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RELATING TO INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY. Requires the technology services consolidation working group to decommission the Office of Enterprise Technology Services' data center located in the Kalanimoku Building; relocate the entire Office of Enterprise Technology Services data center to an interim primary, secure, and resilient facility; and implement the use of cloud computing with consideration of latency‑sensitive systems that may require local presence or hybrid‑cloud design and cloud or remote physical storage for all consolidated state information technology data. Extends to 6/30/28 the dissolution date of the technology services consolidation working group. Establishes requirements for procurement contracts for information technology-related projects. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO WASTEWATER SYSTEMS. Establishes a 3-year New Wastewater System Demonstration Pilot Program within the University of Hawaii Water Resources Research Center to examine and demonstrate new wastewater technology systems; implement those technologies in demonstration projects in areas across the State that are identified as Priority Level 1 in the 2021 Hawaii Cesspool Hazard Assessment and Prioritization Tool Report; and establish a similar ranking system for prioritization levels for the islands of Molokai, Lanai, and Niihau. Requires the University of Hawaii Water Resources Research Center to submit reports to the Legislature. Appropriates funds for the pilot program. Appropriates funds for 1 full-time equivalent (1.0 FTE) engineer position and 1 full-time equivalent (1.0 FTE) planner position within the Department of Health's Wastewater Branch to support approval of individual wastewater systems applications. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL DISTRICTS. For condominium property regimes, authorizes counties to require its approval of the subdivision of land greater than ten acres prior to the effective date of the condominium property regime. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO DIRECT INSTRUCTIONAL SERVICES TO STUDENTS. Requires that appropriations allocated to Department of Education programs that provide instructional services directly to students shall remain within the budget of the program to which the funds were originally allocated and that the retention of an appropriation shall not be used by the Department as a basis for reducing a program's future budget requirements. Requires the Department of Education to report the creation of temporary positions to the Legislature. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO BUDGET-RELATED REPORTS. Requires the Governor to ensure that the Governor's program memoranda and variance reports accurately reflect the current responsibilities of certain state programs, address the current and future needs of the State, and align with budget-related submittals. (SD2)
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RELATING TO BUDGET-RELATED REPORTS. Requires the Governor to ensure that the Governor's variance reports accurately reflect the current responsibilities of certain state programs, address the current and future needs of the State, and align with budget-related submittals. (SD2)
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RELATING TO BUDGET-RELATED REPORTS. Requires the Governor to ensure that the Governor's program memoranda accurately reflect the current responsibilities of certain state programs, address the current and future needs of the State, and align with budget-related submittals. (SD2)
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RELATING TO THE CHILD WELFARE SERVICES. Establishes within the Office of Wellness and Resilience, the Malama Ohana Working Group to seek, design, and recommend transformative changes to the State's existing child welfare system. Allows the Office of Wellness and Resilience to contract with an administrative facilitator to provide necessary support for the Malama Ohana Working Group in carrying out its duties. Requires the Malama Ohana Working Group to report to the Legislature prior to the Regular Session of 2025 and be dissolved upon the adjournment thereof. Appropriates funds. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO SUBMISSION DEADLINES. Establishes a submission deadline for various reports to the Legislature that currently do not have a deadline. (SD2)
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RELATING TO GRANTS-IN-AID. Requires organizations to obtain legislative approval prior to the disposition of land that was acquired using state grants, but only if the land was acquired after the enactment of this Act. (SD2)
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RELATING TO THE HAWAII EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY. Authorizes the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency to acquire any real, personal, or mixed property for immediate or future use; own, hold, improve, rehabilitate, sell, assign, exchange, transfer, convey, lease, or dispose of any real, personal, or mixed property acquired; and acquire by condemnation real property for immediate or future use. Amends the definition of "public lands" to exclude lands to which the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency holds title. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO BUDGET-RELATED SUBMISSIONS TO THE LEGISLATURE. Authorizes the Legislature to specify the form in which the proposed budgets of the executive branch, judiciary branch, and Office of Hawaiian Affairs are submitted to the Legislature. Requires the executive branch, judiciary branch, and Office of Hawaiian Affairs to conform no later than 12/1/2023. (SD2)
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RELATING TO THE EXPENDITURE OF PUBLIC FUNDS FOR LAND IMPROVEMENTS. Prohibits the expenditure of public moneys for any land improvement if the land is not owned or leased by the State, unless the moneys are appropriated by the Legislature and the Legislature makes a declaration of public purpose regarding the appropriation of the public moneys. Exempts state grants and expenditures for certain projects. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO TAXATION. Temporarily reinstates the technology infrastructure renovation tax credit. Expands the definition of "technology-enabled infrastructure" to include data servers. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO THE FUNDING OF GRANTS PURSUANT TO CHAPTER 42F, HAWAII REVISED STATUTES. Appropriates operating and capital improvement grants for fiscal year 2023-2024. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO VISITOR IMPACT FEES. Establishes the Visitor Impact Fee Program within the Department of Land and Natural Resources, through which the department will collect a fee from visitors for a license to visit a state park, forest, hiking trail, or other state natural area. Establishes, and appropriates moneys into and out of, the Visitor Impact Fee Special Fund. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO PUBLIC INFORMATION. Requires all state agencies adopting, amending, or repealing a rule to make the full text of the rules of the agency available on the Office of the Lieutenant Governor's internet website in a digitally accessible and searchable format. Requires a report to the Legislature. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2112. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE STATE REHABILITATION COUNCIL. Reduces the number of members on the State Rehabilitation Council from twenty-one to fifteen. Authorizes the State Rehabilitation Council to establish a quorum and conduct business without regard to vacancies.
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RELATING TO NURSING FACILITIES. Makes permanent and amends the Nursing Facility Sustainability Program. Makes certain assessment exemptions permanent as to the Nursing Facility Sustainability Program Special Fund. Repeals chapter 346E, HRS, relating to the Nursing Facility Tax. Appropriates funds from the Nursing Facility Sustainability Program Special Fund. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO DOGS. Establishes additional penalties for dog owners whose dog destroys property while on land zoned for agricultural use.
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RELATING TO FETAL ALCOHOL SPECTRUM DISORDERS. Requires the Department of Health to establish and administer a 5-year pilot program to implement a co-management system of care for the diagnosis and treatment of persons with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO THE RECOGNITION OF EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES PERSONNEL LICENSURE INTERSTATE COMPACT. Establishes a working group to study the feasibility and effects of the State adopting the Recognition of Emergency Medical Services Personnel Licensure Interstate Compact. Requires a report to the Legislature. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE PSYCHOLOGY INTERJURISDICTIONAL COMPACT. Establishes a working group to study the feasibility and effects of the State adopting the Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact. Requires a report to the Legislature. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE ADVANCED PRACTICE REGISTERED NURSE COMPACT. Establishes a working group to study the feasibility and effects of the State adopting the Advanced Practice Registered Nurse Compact. Requires a report to the Legislature. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO HOUSING DISCRIMINATION. Allows counties to prohibit discrimination against renters based on their source of income. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE HAWAII HOUSING FINANCE AND DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION. Authorizes the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation the right of first refusal for the development of property for all development on state lands, excluding the Stadium Development District and lands under Hawaii Public Housing Authority and Department of Hawaiian Home Land lands, that are 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, which shall be triggered by a proposed development or proposed transfer of fee simple or leasehold property interest. Requires state departments or agencies to provide sixty days advance written notice of any approval of a proposed development or proposed transfer of such lands. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO HOUSING. Appropriates funds to the Hawaii Public Housing Authority for the rehabilitation, remodeling, renovation, and repair of housing units without regard to civil service law. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO EMERGENCY VEHICLES. Makes it discretionary for authorized emergency vehicles to use sirens when responding to an emergency or in other specified situations if the siren is not reasonably necessary under the circumstances. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE UNIFORM COMMERCIAL CODE. Implements amendments to the Uniform Commercial Code set forth by the Uniform Law Commission. (SD2)
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RELATING TO TRESPASS. Clarifies that when trespass involves public land, all state and county law enforcement officers are authorized to and shall enforce trespass laws, without regard to whether the land is owned by the State or by a county. (SD2)
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RELATING TO FAMILY LEAVE. Requires the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations, in consultation with the Insurance Commissioner, to develop a procedural manual to implement a family leave insurance program that pays family leave insurance benefits. Appropriates funds. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO THE CONVEYANCE TAX. Increases the rate of conveyance tax for condominiums and single family residences for which the purchaser is ineligible for a county homeowner's exemption with a value of at least $2,000,000. Exempts from the conveyance tax documents and instruments conveying real property subject to a government assistance program qualified by the Hawaii housing finance and development corporation. Exempts from the conveyance tax documents and instruments conveying real property to owner-occupants or renter-occupants who own no other real property. Removes the maximum dollar amount of conveyance tax revenues that are to be paid into the rental housing revolving fund each fiscal year. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO NUMBER PLATES. Establishes penalties for the failure to comply with a County Director of Finance's request that a vehicle number plate or special number plate be returned. Effective 3/22/2075. (SD1)
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RELATING TO GOVERNMENT SERVICES RELATING TO THE LAW. 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. Takes effect 1/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE ENVIRONMENT. Prohibits the mining, extraction, and removal of minerals from the seabed in all state marine waters. Prohibits the issuance of any permit for or in connection with the development or operation of any facility or infrastructure associated with the mining, extraction, or removal of minerals from the seabed within state marine waters. (SD2)
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RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLES. Prohibits motor vehicle manufacturers from charging subscription fees for certain services that employ equipment already installed in the motor vehicle at the time of sale as a new motor vehicle. Provides that the prohibition shall not apply to entertainment streaming subscription services, vehicle navigation, traffic information, and safety-related services. Takes effect 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO VOTER REGISTRATION. Requires that any person who applies for an identification card or driver's license be automatically registered to vote. Requires that the applicant be provided the opportunity to opt-out of voter registration.
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RELATING TO ACCESS FOR DISABLED PERSONS. Authorizes each county to adopt ordinances to enforce the design, construction, and signage requirements of the federal Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, as amended; part III of chapter 291, Hawaii Revised Statutes; and any administrative rules adopted under that part, including the establishment of penalties for failure to comply with the ordinance. Clarifies that an official appointed by a county may enter property of places of public accommodation to enforce violations of the ordinances adopted by the county. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION. Establishes registration requirements and driver's licensing requirements for operation of electric rickshaws. Defines electric rickshaw. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO WASTE DISPOSAL FACILITIES. Prohibits the construction, modification, or expansion of any waste or disposal facility for hazardous waste or solid waste on land that is near or above a significant aquifer as determined by the Department of Health, in consultation with the Commission on Water Resource Management.
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RELATING TO EQUITY. Requires all places of public accommodation and state building construction constructed after 12/31/23 to provide universal changing accommodations that are equally accessible to men and women. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES. Repeals the sunset date of section 2 of Act 119, Session Laws of Hawaii 2021, making permanent the requirement that the Hawaii Medical Board issue licenses in four levels of emergency response practice in counties with a population of five hundred thousand or greater and the creation of an additional licensure category for emergency medical technicians 1 who are certified at a higher practice level than emergency medical technicians but do not provide ambulance services. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII COMMUNITY COLLEGE WORKFORCE TRAINING. Appropriates funds for the University of Hawaii Community Colleges' workforce development programs. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO THE LANDLORD-TENANT CODE. Until 12/31/2024, extends the period for a notice of termination of the rental agreement from 5 business days to 15 calendar days; requires landlords to engage in mediation and delay filing an action for summary possession if a tenant schedules or attempts to schedule a mediation; requires landlords to include specific information in the fifteen-calendar day notice provided to tenants and certain mediation centers. Appropriates moneys. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO REAL PROPERTY TRANSACTIONS. Requires a seller or its agent in a residential real property transaction to disclose that the United States Postal Service cannot deliver mail or packages to the residential real property being offered for sale. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO PROFESSIONAL MEDICAID SERVICES. Appropriates funds to increase Medicaid reimbursements to eligible health care professionals in the State by up to one hundred per cent of the current Medicare rates. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO CHILD WELFARE. Requires the Department of Human Services to collect and analyze data to determine the impact of expanding post-permanency services to families receiving benefits from the adoption assistance program and report to the Legislature before the 2025 Regular Session. Appropriates funds. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO CORAL. Repeals the designation of black coral as the official gem of the State. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE HOSPITAL SUSTAINABILITY PROGRAM. Modifies the Hospital Sustainability Program, including: expanding the definition of "private hospitals" subject to the program; increasing the fee cap on various hospital sustainability fees; requiring the Department of Human Services to consult and negotiate with the hospital trade association located in Hawaii regarding fee participation and rates; requiring the hospital sustainability fee to be discontinued under certain circumstances and providing guidelines for the distribution of remaining funds. Makes the Hospital Sustainability Program permanent. Makes exemptions of the Hospital Sustainability Program Special Fund from the central service expenses assessment and administrative expenses assessment permanent. Appropriates funds out of the Hospital Sustainability Program Special Fund. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO CHILD VISITATION. Allows the court to award reasonable visitation rights to a petitioning grandparent of a minor child when the child's parent is unable to exercise parental visitation due to death or incarceration and denial of reasonable grandparent visitation rights would cause significant harm to the child. Sets forth procedures, considerations, and standards for the court to grant grandparent visitation rights. Specifies that any person who violates the terms and conditions of a court order granting reasonable grandparent visitation rights may be held in contempt of court. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO FIRE PREVENTION. Appropriates funds to the Department of Land and Natural Resources for the Community Fuels Reduction Project. Beginning with fiscal year 2025-2026, and each fiscal year thereafter, requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to establish the Community Fuels Reduction Project as a separate line item within the Department's budget. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO EXPUNGEMENT. Requires the Judiciary and the Examiner of Drivers to no longer include dismissed traffic citations on a person's record, including the traffic abstract and the Judiciary's publicly accessible electronic databases. Requires the Court to automatically seal or remove from the Judiciary's publicly accessible database any information relevant to the arrest or case of a person for whom an expungement order has been entered. Takes effect 07/01/2024. (SD1)
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RELATING TO WAGES. Makes general contractors entering into or under contracts in the State for work on buildings, structures, or other private works liable for debt incurred by subcontractors for wages due to claimants for performance of labor in the contract between the general contractor and owner. Effective 7/1/2112. (SD2)
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RELATING TO CARBON SEQUESTRATION. Appropriates funds for the Hawaii carbon smart land management assistance pilot program. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO SUSTAINABLE FOOD SYSTEMS. Establishes the sustainable food systems working group within the Department of Agriculture. Requires the working group to submit an interagency food systems plan, any recommendations for implementing the plan, and any proposed legislation to the Legislature. Appropriates funds to establish the working group and develop the plan and for an unspecified number of sustainability specialist positions within the Department of Agriculture. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO THE ENVIRONMENTAL ADVISORY COUNCIL. Makes a housekeeping amendment to section 341-6, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to delete a reference to a repealed section. (SD1)
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RELATING TO CESSPOOLS. Implements the recommendation of the cesspool conversion working group to accelerate the dates for required upgrades, conversions, or connections of priority level 1 cesspools and priority level 2 cesspools by requiring priority level 1 cesspools to be upgraded, converted, or connected before 1/1/2030, with certain exceptions, and priority level 2 cesspools to be upgraded, converted, or connected before 1/1/2035, rather than before 1/1/2050. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO CESSPOOLS. Requires each county to develop a comprehensive integrated wastewater management plan and financial strategy. Requires each county to submit its respective plan and financial strategy to the Legislature. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE HAWAII FARM TO FOOD BANK PROGRAM. Establishes the Hawaii Farm to Food Bank Program and Hawaii food assistance program special fund to alleviate food shortages in the State. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO INSURANCE. Requires sponsored captive insurance companies to maintain separate protected cells for separate participant contracts. Except for risk retention captive insurance companies, authorizes captive insurance companies to apply for an exemption from examination from the Insurance Commissioner, provided certain conditions are met. Requires protected cells established by sponsored captive insurance companies to be approved by the Insurance Commissioner. Authorizes sponsored captive insurance companies to establish and maintain protected cells to insure risks of parties unaffiliated with a participant under certain circumstances. Requires a participant, through a sponsored captive insurance company, to insure only risks approved by the Insurance Commissioner. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO PUBLIC WORKS. Imposes the penalty on both the person and the firm upon the finding of repeat violations of the state law governing wages and hours of employees on public works. Requires each notice of violation to contain the names of the person and the firm. Makes conforming amendments. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO PROFESSIONAL AND VOCATIONAL LICENSING. Reduces the period for which an application shall be considered abandoned from two years to one year. Specifies the conditions under which applications for licenses and examinations will be deemed abandoned. Provides that the one-year period after which an application is considered abandoned cannot be extended. Provides that a licensing authority shall not be required to act on any abandoned application and that the licensing authority may destroy abandoned applications. Clarifies that an application submitted after an abandoned application shall be treated as a new application and that the applicant shall comply with any new licensing requirements in effect at the time of the new application.
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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 psychiatric mental health nurse practitioners, in addition to psychiatrists, psychologists, and clinical social workers, to provide counseling to a qualified patient. Reduces the mandatory waiting period between oral requests from twenty days to five days. Waives the mandatory waiting period for those terminally ill individuals not expected to survive the mandatory waiting period, under certain conditions. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO POLLUTION ABATEMENT. Increases civil penalties for the violation of various pollution provisions. Establishes and appropriates funds for one full-time equivalent (1.0 FTE) environmental health specialist position. Takes effect 3/22/2075. (SD2)
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RELATING TO THE FESTIVAL OF PACIFIC ARTS. Appropriates funds to the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism for the Commission on the 13th Festival of Pacific Arts and Culture to plan for the Festival of Pacific Arts and Culture to be held in Honolulu from 6/06 to 6/16/2024. Requires the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to submit, prior to the release of the funds appropriated by this Act, a report detailing how previous state funds that were appropriated for the festival were expended and, no later than 20 days prior to each Regular Session until the funds appropriated by this Act are fully expended or lapse, a report on the Commission's expenses for the preceding year. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO THE HAWAII CORRECTIONAL SYSTEM OVERSIGHT COMMISSION. Extends the term of the Oversight Coordinator for the Hawaii Correctional System Oversight Commission and requires the Oversight Coordinator be subject to the advice and consent of the Senate. Specifies that the Commission shall take measures as necessary to maintain confidentiality in investigations. Broadens the Oversight Coordinator's power to make inquiries, obtain information, and inspect the premises of agencies and correctional facilities. Takes effect 1/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO GEOTHERMAL ROYALTIES. Establishes the renewable energy resources development special fund. Requires annual reports to the Legislature. Requires that, for royalties from geothermal resources, ten per cent be paid to the county where the geothermal mining operations are situated, fifty per cent be paid to the Department of Land and Natural Resources, twenty per cent be paid to the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, and twenty per cent be deposited into the renewable energy resources development special fund. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO THE HYDROGEN FUELING SYSTEM SUBACCOUNT. Appropriates funds from the Hydrogen Fueling System Subaccount within the Public Utilities Commission Special Fund for the Zero-Emission Vehicle Fueling System Rebate Program. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO FOOD BANKS. Appropriates funds to the Office of Community Services of the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to fund the purchase, storage, and transportation costs of food for distribution to food banks in the State. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO PROPERTY DEVELOPMENT. Requires each county to adopt, no later than June 30, 2024, ordinances applicable to subdivisions not approved by July 1, 2024, requiring as a condition of approval, the subdivider or developer to obtain a street address and install a mailbox for lots, parcels, structures, or units of a structure within the subdivision before the sale or lease thereof. Requires condominium maps recorded in the Bureau of Conveyances or registered in the Land Court after June 30, 2024, to include a mailbox plan for the condominium property regime, showing the location of all mailboxes for all units in the regime. Defines approval, mail, mailbox, street address, subdivider, and subdivision. Requires, prior to the sale of residential real property, the disclosure as to the existence of a United States Postal Service deliverable mailbox for the property. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO MEDICAL CANNABIS. Authorizes qualifying patients and qualifying out-of-state patients to transport cannabis between islands of the State for personal medical use; provided that no individual or entity shall be required to violate federal law with regard to the interstate transport of cannabis. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO CAMPAIGN FINANCE. Prohibits noncandidate committees from making expenditures or contributions or disseminating any advertisements on the day of any election and the two-week period preceding any election. (SD1)
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PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE II OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF HAWAII. Proposes an amendment to the Hawaii State Constitution to allow the Legislature to enact laws establishing limitations on moneys expended by any noncandidate committee making only independent expenditures to influence the outcome of a state election. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE PRACTICE OF PHARMACY. Exempts drug manufacturers, wholesale prescription drug distributors, and third-party logistics providers of home dialysis drugs, supplies, and devices from the license, registration, and permit requirements for pharmacies; provided that certain conditions are met. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION. Exempts a public utility from the required public utilities commission authorization when disposing at a loss or donating a fully depreciated asset or property with a zero net book value that is no longer used or useful. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION. Requires the Public Utilities Commission to make every effort to complete its review and issue a decision within nine months from the date that a public utility, other than an investor-owned electric utility company, files its completed application seeking approval for a merger, consolidation, acquisition, or other change of control and within twelve months from the date of the application for an investor-owned electric utility company. Requires the Public Utilities Commission to, if a decision is rendered after the relevant nine- or twelve-month period, submit a report in writing, on paper or electronically, detailing the reasons therefore to the Legislature within thirty days after rendering the decision. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND CABLE INDUSTRY INFORMATION REPORTING. Repeals chapter 440J, Hawaii Revised Statutes (HRS), relating to telecommunications and cable industry information reporting requirements for broadband service providers. Amends the definitions of "broadband infrastructure" and "broadband service" under chapter 206R, HRS, relating to the Broadband Infrastructure Grant Program. Amends the definitions of "broadband infrastructure" and "broadband service" under section 356D-11.5, HRS, relating to broadband infrastructure under the Hawaii Public Housing Authority. Requires the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs to make available for public inspection all informational reports that providers previously filed pursuant to chapter 440J, HRS. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO THE PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION. Exempts from the requirement that a water common carrier secure the prior approval of the Public Utilities Commission to issue stocks and stock certificates and enter long-term leases of more than three years and leverage leases: (1) land leases from a governmental entity; provided that either the water common carrier or governmental entity provides a letter to the commission outlining terms of the lease agreement in a reasonable timeframe after the agreement is executed; and (2) leases of any equipment of which the annual cost of the lease is below a threshold as determined by the commission in the most recently approved rate case or other ratemaking proceeding. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO EDUCATION. Requires the Department of Education to submit annual reports. Repeals standardized assessment requirements for students entering kindergarten. Effective 7/1/3000. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE UNIFORM PROBATE CODE. Updates articles I through IV of the Uniform Probate Code to adjust for inflation, provide additional clarity, resolve issues that have arisen in probate practice, and address societal changes in familial relations. Takes effect 03/22/2075. (SD1)
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RELATING TO JUDGES FOR THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE FIRST CIRCUIT. Establishes 1 additional district court judgeship in the First Circuit. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO STATUTORY REVISION: AMENDING OR REPEALING VARIOUS PROVISIONS OF THE HAWAII REVISED STATUTES OR THE SESSION LAWS OF HAWAII FOR THE PURPOSES OF CORRECTING ERRORS AND REFERENCES, CLARIFYING LANGUAGE, OR DELETING OBSOLETE OR UNNECESSARY PROVISIONS. Amends or repeals various provisions of the Hawaii Revised Statutes or the Session Laws of Hawaii for the purposes of correcting errors and references, clarifying language, or deleting obsolete or unnecessary provisions.
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RELATING TO COMPLIANCE ON HAWAIIAN HOME LANDS. Appropriates funds to the Department of Law Enforcement to hire law enforcement officers dedicated to investigating complaints, conducting investigations, and cooperating with enforcement authorities to ensure compliance with state laws and rules, county ordinances, including the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act, 1920, as amended, and the rules adopted thereunder, on Hawaiian home lands; provided that the law enforcement officers hired for this purpose shall not be prohibited from exercising their law enforcement authority outside of the Hawaiian home lands. Takes effect 03/22/2075. (SD2)
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RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLE INSPECTIONS. For a period of 3 years, provides that no new vehicle needs a safety inspection until 3 years after the date the vehicle was first sold; provides that electric vehicles shall require a safety inspection every 24 months; and provides that electric vehicles participating in a road usage charge fee program shall pay a road usage charge fee based on a self-reported photo odometer reading. Effective 7/1/2050. Repeals 6/30/2026. (SD2)
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RELATING TO VACANT AND ABANDONED RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY. Requires counties to establish expedited procedures to approve demolition permits for vacant and abandoned residential properties. Allows the Department of Taxation to satisfy certain tax liens through the nonjudicial foreclosure of vacant and abandoned residential properties at any time after establishing vacancy and abandonment. Appropriates moneys. Effective 3/22/2075. (SD2)
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RELATING TO COMMERCIAL VEHICLES. Prohibits commercial vehicles weighing ten thousand pounds or more from driving in the left lane on all roadways with two lanes unless the commercial vehicle is able to maintain speed with existing traffic flow and is in the process of passing another vehicle. Provides exceptions for commercial vehicles turning or exiting left, or preparing to turn or exit left. Prohibits commercial vehicles weighing ten thousand pounds or more from driving in the left lane on all roadways with three or more lanes. Exempts buses and van pools operated by the counties. Takes effect 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO FIREWORKS. Establishes the Shipping Container Inspection Program and shipping container inspection program special fund. Amends the definitions of "aerial devices" and "fireworks" within state fireworks law. Requires reports to the Legislature on implementation of the Shipping Container Inspection Program. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO MENTAL HEALTH AT THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII. Appropriates funds to the University of Hawaii at Manoa to establish three additional permanent mental health practitioner positions within the Division of Student Success' Counseling and Student Development Center. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION. Beginning 12/31/2026, prohibits the manufacture, sale, offer for sale, distribution for sale, and distribution for use of any food packaging, food service ware, cosmetic, or personal care product that contains perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO CONSUMER PROTECTION. Requires self-service stations to put labels on gas dispensing equipment that advise consumers on the effects of fossil fuel consumption to human health and the environment. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO WETLAND PRESERVATION. Adds definitions for "floodway", "natural stormwater infrastructure", and "wetlands" to section 343-2, Hawaii Revised Statutes. Requires a proposed housing project of the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation that is exempt from all statutes, ordinances, charter provisions, and rules of any government agency relating to planning, zoning, and construction standards to ensure that the proposed housing project does not have a significant adverse impact on wetlands or natural stormwater infrastructure. Requires an environmental assessment for actions under the environmental impact statements law that propose any development that would impact wetlands or natural stormwater infrastructure. Takes effect 3/22/2075. (SD1)
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RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. Appropriates funds to establish a foreign agriculture small equipment pilot program to identify efficient agriculture equipment and retrofit engines to meet the United States Environmental Protection Agency's standards. Requires a report to the Legislature. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO HEMP. Requires that the identity statement used for labeling or advertising hemp products identify the percentage of Hawaii-grown hemp and hemp of other origins contained in hemp products. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. Establishes the Farm Succession Pilot Program under Leeward Community College. Requires a report to the Legislature. Appropriates funds for the pilot program and for the Department of Agriculture's Farmer Apprentice Mentoring Program. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO MILITARY LAND USE. Establishes a Surplus Military Land Task Force within the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development to plan for the remediation and restoration of lands currently under federal control that are anticipated to be returned to the State, consider potential alternative uses, and identify any lands that should continue under federal control for the next ten years. Effective 3/22/2075. (SD2)
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RELATING TO EDUCATION. Authorizes the School Facilities Authority Board to appoint an Executive Director of the School Facilities Authority. (SD2)
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RELATING TO THE BOARD OF REGENTS. Requires the University of Hawaii's Board of Regents to approve by majority vote any designee selected to serve or participate for the chairperson as a voting or nonvoting member of any legislatively established board, commission, working group, or task force. (SD1)
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RELATING TO HOUSING. Clarifies that certain housing projects developed by the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation on lands that are not within a Special Flood Hazard Area as identified on the current Federal Emergency Management Agency's Flood Insurance Rate Maps shall be exempt from all statutes, ordinances, charter provisions, and rules relating to planning, zoning, and other certain standards, provided that certain conditions are met. Effective 03/22/2075. (SD3)
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RELATING TO GOVERNMENT. Requires reports of official out-of-state and intra-state travel by state employees, officers, or other representatives of state departments or agencies, including the Judiciary and University of Hawaii, to be made available for public review on the Comptroller's website. Appropriates moneys. Effective 7/1/2112. (SD3)
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RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION. Specifies that a certificate of inspection shall be issued if a vehicle is not equipped with a noisy muffler or exhaust system. Requires rules regarding safety check inspections to ensure that a motorcycle, moped, or motor vehicle is not equipped with a noisy muffler or exhaust system. Suspends, revokes, or refuses renewal of a permit for an official inspection station upon a third or subsequent wilful violation of any rule regarding inspecting a noisy muffler or exhaust system. Makes violating the noisy muffler laws a petty misdemeanor. Includes repairing or installing a noisy muffler or exhaust system as a prohibited practice for motor vehicle repair regulations. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION. Increases the minimum and maximum fines for violating provisions relating to the installation of noisy mufflers. Authorizes police officers with probable cause to stop vehicles with noisy mufflers to inspect their mufflers. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO EXCESSIVE NOISE. Requires and appropriates funds for the Department of Transportation, in conjunction with counties having a population greater than 500,000, to develop and implement a pilot program to use noise detection traffic cameras to address excessive traffic noise in urban areas in each participating county. Requires the Department of Transportation to submit a report to the Legislature. Sunsets 12/31/2025. Takes effect 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO GAMBLING. Establishes the operation of an illegal gambling business as a class C felony. Takes effect 03/22/2075. (SD1)
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RELATING TO TAXATION. Excludes income received from deferred compensation retirement plans from the state income tax for taxpayers who meet certain income requirements. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO HEALTH. Allows certain physician assistants to sign orders for respiratory therapy and plans of care. Expands the class of health care providers under whom respiratory therapists may practice respiratory care to include physician assistants and advanced practice registered nurses. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO HEALTH. Establishes permitting and education requirements for pharmacists ordering or collecting specimens for certain diagnostic tests or tests waived pursuant to the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA). Expands the definition of "practice of pharmacy" to include the ordering of certain tests and collecting specimens for certain diagnostic or CLIA-waived tests. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO HEARING AIDS. Exempts from the general excise tax, gross receipts received by a hospital, infirmary, medical clinic, health care facility, pharmacy, or a practitioner licensed to administer drugs to an individual, from the sale of hearing aids. Effective 12/31/2050. Sunsets 1/1/2026. (SD2)
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RELATING TO PRESCRIPTION DRUGS. Requires pharmacies to provide accessible prescription drug label information to individuals who have difficulty seeing or reading standard printed prescription drug container labels and inform the public that prescription drug label information is available in alternate accessible formats for individuals who have difficulty seeing or reading prescription drug container labels. Requires the Board of Pharmacy to adopt certain rules by December 31, 2023. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO HEARING AIDS. Requires health insurance policies and contracts issued on or after 01/01/2024 to provide coverage for the cost of hearing aids at a minimum of an unspecified amount per hearing aid for each hearing-impaired ear every thirty-six months. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE. Recognizes American Sign Language as a fully developed, autonomous, natural language with its own grammar, syntax, vocabulary, and cultural heritage.
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RELATING TO SERVICE ANIMALS. Requires that a disclaimer be provided by sellers or providers of emotional support animals or certificates, identifications, tags, vests, leashes, and harnesses identifying an animal as an emotional support animal that the animal is not a service animal. Establishes penalties. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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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 THE HAWAII TOURISM AUTHORITY. Requires contracts entered into by the Hawaii Tourism Authority for management of the Hawaii Convention Center facility to include marketing for all uses of the facility. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO HEMP. Amends hemp processing rules to allow licensed hemp farmers to process hemp in agricultural structures and buildings that are permit-exempt under section 46-88, Hawaii Revised Statutes, as well as food hubs and agricultural parks, as was allowed prior to 2021. (SD1)
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RELATING TO ORNAMENTAL GINGER. Appropriates funds to the University of Hawaii for statewide research into ornamental ginger pathogens, prevention of the spread of ornamental ginger pathogens, production and distribution of pathogen-free ornamental ginger plants, and outreach to ornamental ginger producers. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. Appropriates moneys to the Department of Agriculture to mitigate and control infestations of the two-lined spittlebug, undertake recovery efforts for lands damaged by the two-lined spittlebug, and establish a five-year pilot program to mitigate and control the significant increase in the population of feral chickens, roosters, and pigs throughout the State. Requires reports to the Legislature. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO HEMP. Gives authority to the Department of Agriculture to align state hemp production administrative rules with federal law, with regard to exemptions for fiber, fuel, and seed grain hemp crops. (SD1)
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RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. Establishes the Healthy Soils program within the Department of Agriculture. Appropriates funds. Requires an annual report to the Legislature. (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. Effective 7/1/2050. Sunsets 12/31/2028. (SD2)
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RELATING TO THE PHYSICAL THERAPY COMPACT. Allows the Governor to enter the State into the multi-state Physical Therapy Licensure Compact, which will allow a physical therapist licensed by a home state to practice under a multi-state licensure privilege in each party state. Requires the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs to adopt rules to implement and administer the Compact. Requires applicants for physical therapist or physical therapist assistant licensure to submit a full set of electronic fingerprints for the purpose of obtaining federal and state criminal history record checks. Authorizes the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs to conduct criminal background checks on applicants for physical therapist or physical therapist assistant licensure. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO CANNABIS. Establishes regulations for the cultivation, manufacture, sale, and personal use of small amounts of cannabis. Decriminalizes and regulates small amounts of cannabis for personal use. Establishes taxes for cannabis sales. Takes effect 03/22/2075. (SD2)
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RELATING TO HEALTH. Excludes from the definition of drug paraphernalia, testing products utilized in determining whether a controlled substance contains chemicals, toxic substances, or hazardous compounds in quantities that can cause physical harm or death, including but not limited to fentanyl test strips. Defines fentanyl test strip. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO MEDICAL CANNABIS. Authorizes health care facilities to allow terminally ill patients to use medical cannabis under certain conditions. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE INTERSTATE MEDICAL LICENSURE COMPACT. Adopts the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact to create a comprehensive process that complements the existing licensing and regulatory authority of state medical boards and provides a streamlined process that allows physicians to become licensed in multiple states. Requires the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs to adopt rules to implement and administer the Compact. Appropriates funds for the implementation of the Compact. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO ANIMAL FUR PRODUCTS. Prohibits the sale, offer for sale, display for sale, trade, or distribution of certain animal fur products in the State. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO INTOXICATING LIQUOR. Increases the amount of malt beverages, wine, and alcohol that a small craft producer pub licensee may produce during the license year. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO ENERGY EFFICIENCY. Prohibits the sale of certain fluorescent lamps as a new manufactured product, with certain exemptions. (SD2)
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RELATING TO EFFICIENCY STANDARDS. Allows the Chief Energy Officer of the Hawaii State Energy Office to enforce minimum efficiency standards and adopt or amend efficiency standards. Sets minimum efficiency standards for air purifiers, electric vehicle supply equipment, portable electric spas, residential ventilating fans, toilets, urinals, and water coolers. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO PHARMACISTS. Mandates reimbursement for services provided by participating registered pharmacists practicing within their scope of practice by private and public health plans in the State beginning January 1, 2024. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO WORKERS' COMPENSATION. Authorizes wages of other employees in comparable employment to be considered when computing the average weekly wages of an injured public board member, reserve police officer, police chaplain, sheriffs' chaplain, volunteer firefighter, volunteer boating enforcement officer, or volunteer conservation and resources enforcement officer. Clarifies computation of average weekly wages of an injured volunteer firefighter for workers' compensation benefits purposes. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO STATE CAPITOL TOURS. Establishes a state capitol tours program within the Legislative Reference Bureau's Public Access Room. Requires the Public Access Room coordinator to administer and facilitate a Hawaii state capitol tours program. Establishes one full-time equivalent position in the Public Access Room. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2112. (SD2)
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RELATING TO INCARCERATED WOMEN. Requires the McKinley Community School for Adults to work with Hawaii Friends of Restorative Justice to provide counseling services for incarcerated women participating in the education and reentry program for incarcerated women that is developed and administered by Hawaii Friends of Restorative Justice. Appropriates moneys as a chapter 42F, Hawaii Revised Statutes, grant for the University of Hawaii Windward Community College education and reentry program for incarcerated women that is developed and administered by Hawaii Friends of Restorative Justice. Authorizes the University of Hawaii Windward Community College to award grants to private entities. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO GENDER PARITY IN PROGRAMS FOR INCARCERATED WOMEN. Appropriates funds to the Hawaii Friends of Restorative Justice as a chapter 42F, Hawaii Revised Statutes, grant to conduct a study of all programming offered to persons incarcerated at correctional facilities and convene a group of incarcerated women for the purpose of identifying gaps in programming offered to female inmates. Requires that the study be submitted to the Legislature by 12/1/2023. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO CORRECTIONS. Appropriates moneys to support a trauma-informed certification program at the Windward Community College campus of the University of Hawaii for adult corrections officers. Requires the curriculum to include a level I trauma-informed care course designed for adult corrections officers. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO HEALTH. Designates the month of September as Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Awareness Month to promote public awareness of the risks of alcohol consumption during pregnancy.
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RELATING TO ALCOHOL. Expands the definition of "beer" under the liquor regulatory laws to mean any alcoholic beverage containing no less than 0.5 per cent alcohol by volume obtained by fermentation of any infusion or decoction of malt or any substitute, including alcohol seltzer beverages and excluding sake, cooler beverages, and other distilled products. Authorizes brewpubs to sell beer they manufacture, or beer manufactured on their premises, subject to certain conditions. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH. Establishes the workforce safety and health special fund. Directs certain fees and penalties to be deposited into the special fund. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT. Appropriates funds for the enhancement of technology resources for the Department of Human Resources Development. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO TELEWORKING. Requires and appropriates moneys for the Department of Human Resources Development to submit an annual report to the Legislature on the telework policies of the executive branch. Establishes requirements and appropriates moneys for a telework monitoring system to assess the productivity of telework employees. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT. Repeals the Administrative Assistant position within the Department of Human Resources Development. Reassigns the responsibilities of the Administrative Assistant to the Director. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO BOARD MEMBERS. Establishes the Cooperative Housing Corporation Education Trust Fund and the Planned Community Association Education Trust Fund. Requires Cooperative Housing Corporations and Planned Community Associations to register with the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs. Requires members of boards of directors and officers of condominium associations, cooperative housing corporations, and planned community associations to certify the receipt and review of certain documents and complete a board leader course approved by the Real Estate Commission. Authorizes the Real Estate Commission to use funds from the Condominium Education Trust Fund, Cooperative Housing Corporation Education Trust Fund, and Planned Community Associations Education Trust Fund to finance the provision of board leader courses. Establishes that a board member's failure to certify the receipt and review of certain documents and complete a board leader course approved by the Real Estate Commission shall be grounds for disqualification from the board of directors. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO FISHPONDS. Appropriates funds to the Department of Land and Natural Resources to restore and restock fishponds by providing fingerlings and limu and establishing one full-time equivalent (1.0 FTE) aquaculture coordinator biologist VI position. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO STATE HOLIDAYS. Designates the second Monday in October of each year as Indigenous Peoples' Day. Establishes Indigenous Peoples' Day as a state holiday. Repeals the designation of election days as state holidays. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO HAWAIIAN CULTURE. Requires the Office of Hawaiian Affairs to establish and maintain Native Hawaiian cultural centers within the State. Requires the Office to submit reports to the Legislature regarding the Office's compliance with this Act. Appropriates moneys for the planning and design of the first Native Hawaiian cultural center. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO BURIAL SITES. Establishes an inter-division program between the State Historic Preservation Division, Land Division, Office of Conservation and Coastal Lands, Island Burial Councils, and the Office of Hawaiian Affairs that addresses the location, movement, and restoration of Hawaiian burial sites or ‘iwi, exposed or likely to be exposed to coastal erosion. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE DISPOSITION OF WATER RIGHTS. Establishes that the public auction requirements for the disposition of water rights shall not be required for a lease of water for commercial kalo cultivation. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HAWAIIAN HOME LANDS. Authorizes the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to administer a lease award program for beneficiaries on the homestead lease waiting list who are sixty years old or older or terminally ill, under certain conditions. Authorizes qualified successors of beneficiaries on the waiting list who died before receiving a lease to file a claim for a lease award within four years of the effective date. Requires the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to adopt rules by a certain date. Effective 3/22/2075. (SD2)
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RELATING TO DESECRATION. Reduces the requisite state of mind for the criminal offense of desecration from "intentionally" to "knowingly". Simplifies the definition of "desecrate".
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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 for personal gain. Establishes that the Hawaiian Homes Commission shall have a right of first refusal for the sale or transfer of a lessee's interest in the lease when the sale or transfer is for personal gain. Takes effect 3/22/2075. (SD2)
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RELATING TO COFFEE PEST CONTROL. Extends the sunset date for the coffee berry borer and coffee leaf rust pesticide subsidy program to 6/30/2025 and the program manager position, including the position's civil service and collective bargaining laws exemption, to 6/30/2026. Requires the Department of Agriculture to report to the Legislature. Appropriates funds for the operation and implementation of the pesticide subsidy program. Effective 7/1/2050, provided that the appropriation shall take effect on 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO INVASIVE SPECIES. Requires the Hawaii Invasive Species Council to classify the fungal pathogen that causes 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 AGRICULTURE. Extends the offense of false labeling of Hawaii-grown coffee to include roasted coffee. Imposes $10,000 fine for each separate offense of false labeling of Hawaii-grown roasted coffee. Makes an appropriation for 1.0 FTE enforcement position. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO COFFEE LABELING. Expands the coffee labeling and advertising requirements to include ready-to-drink coffee beverages and inner packages and inner wrapping labels. Requires disclosure on the label of coffee blends of the respective geographic and regional origins and per cent by weight of the blended coffees. Prohibits use of the term "All Hawaiian" in labeling or advertising for roasted coffee or instant coffee not produced entirely from green coffee beans grown and processed in Hawaii. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO TELECOMMUNICATION. Requires the Comptroller to identify state office buildings that can provide equitable telecommunication access to allow certain residents, including residents with disabilities, to participate remotely in legislative hearings. Requires a report to the Legislature. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO ACCESSIBILITY. Requires retail establishments 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. Establishes fines. Effective 12/31/2050. (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 persons in the State having developmental or intellectual disabilities to the Legislature prior to the convening of the Regular Session of 2025. Appropriates funds. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD2)
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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 July 1, 2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO HEALTH. Requires the Office of Primary Care and Rural Health to oversee and support community efforts to collaboratively address the health and wellness needs of the State's most underserved rural residents to develop plans that align with appropriate providers' goals and objectives. Requires the Office of Primary Care and Rural Health to include a one-time summary of community plans with the report that is to be submitted to the legislature prior to the regular session of 2024, pursuant to section 321‑1.5, Hawaii Revised Statutes. Appropriates funds for the establishment of one permanent full-time equivalent program specialist IV position within the Department of Health's Family Health Services Division. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING. Temporarily exempts affordable housing projects from specific state and county fees and exactions related to discretionary approval or ministerial permitting, except application fees payable to the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation and the rates and fees of the various boards of water supply; provided that the units are exclusively made available to certain qualified residents who are owner or renter occupants and own no other real property. Effective 3/22/2075. Repeals 6/30/2028. (SD2)
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RELATING TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING. Allows a bank to invest, in aggregate, up to two per cent of the bank's total assets in limited partnerships, limited liability partnerships, limited liability companies, and corporations formed to invest in affordable housing residential properties. Requires approval from the Commissioner of Financial Institutions to exceed this amount. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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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 extenuating circumstances.
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RELATING TO HUNTING GUIDES. Requires hunting guides who take their clients to hunt on private lands to first obtain written permission from the owner of the private land, or occupier or holder, where appropriate. Requires hunting guides to provide copies of the written permissions obtained to hunt on private lands as part of their annual reports to the Department of Land and Natural Resources. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO CESSPOOLS. For taxable years beginning after 12/31/2023, provides a temporary income tax credit for the cost of upgrading or converting a qualified cesspool to a wastewater system approved by the Director of Health, or connecting to a sewerage system. Effective 7/1/2050. Sunsets 12/31/2028. (SD2)
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RELATING TO RENEWABLE ENERGY. Requires government entities in the State that issue building permits to implement SolarAPP+ or a functionally equivalent online automated permitting platform that verifies code compliance and issues permits to licensed contractors for solar distributed energy resource systems in real time by 1/1/2024. Requires government entities in the State that issue building permits in territories served by an investor-owned electric utility to adopt self-certification for solar distributed energy resource systems that are not SolarAPP+ compatible. Effective 1/6/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO TARO. Appropriates funds to the Department of Agriculture to provide grants to Hawaii farming groups to be disbursed to taro farmers. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO AIRLINES. Requires the Department of Transportation to establish and implement a one-year Airline Subsidy Pilot Program at Molokai Airport to assist airlines in offsetting the costs of operation. Appropriates funds. Takes effect 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 ignoring warning signs, leaving a hiking trail to enter a prohibited area, or hiking on a trail closed to the public. Takes effect 1/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO FARM DWELLINGS. Prohibits the construction of new farm dwellings on agricultural park lots beginning 1/1/2024. Prohibits residence within an unpermitted farm dwelling. Authorizes inspections.
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RELATING TO TAXES. Requires productions to provide evidence of reasonable efforts to comply with all applicable requirements to qualify for the motion picture, digital media, and film production income tax credit. Requires taxpayers be given notice and an opportunity to cure requirements for the motion picture, digital media, and film production income tax credit. Takes effect 1/6/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO TIME SHARING PLANS. Specifies that primary and secondary plan documents be listed in the public disclosure statement of a time share plan. Clarifies the manner in which the required disclosure of liens, title defects, or encumbrances on the titles of units may be made. Provides that a review of encumbrances shall be waived upon the certification from the developer that the time share interest is free and clear of blanket liens or that identifies all blanket liens. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO TIME SHARING. Clarifies that a developer is responsible for ensuring that the use of out-of-state time share units for time sharing purposes complies with zoning and land use laws and rules of the jurisdiction where the time share units are located but is not required to submit evidence of such compliance to register in Hawaii. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO TIME SHARING PLANS. For time share plans that use title-holding trusts, requires the developer to submit a title report evidencing that the title is vested in the trustee. For time share plans that use a notice of time share plan, requires the recordation of the notice and its submission. For time share plans that use alternative arrangements, requires the recordation of any alternative arrangement documents. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO QUALIFIED INTERNSHIPS TAX CREDIT. Establishes a qualified internship income tax credit for employers of qualified interns. Requires qualified internships to fulfill requirements of the Department of Education and University of Hawaii work-based learning programs. Provides an application and certification process for claims of credits to be administered by the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations. Requires reports to the Legislature from the Department of Taxation and Department of Labor and Industrial Relations. Appropriates funds. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION. Repeals the electric bicycle and electric moped rebate program and electric bicycle and electric moped subaccount of the highway development special fund. Establishes the electric mobility rebate program and electric mobility special fund. Appropriates moneys. Effective 7/1/2050 and 7/1/2051. (SD2)
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RELATING TO DEMOGRAPHIC DATA. Requires state agencies to disaggregate data consistent with federal standards and requires publication of the data. Establishes a task force to assess demographic data collection, processing, retention, and sharing procedures, needs, and challenges. Requires a report to the Legislature. Effective 7/1/2112. (SD2)
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RELATING TO COURT INTERPRETERS. Requires the Judiciary to increase the hourly fees, mileage reimbursement rate, and commuter-time compensation rate for court interpreters. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO ELECTRONIC INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ACCESSIBILITY FOR PERSONS WITH LIMITED ENGLISH PROFICIENCY. Requires the Office of Enterprise Technology Services, in consultation with the Office of Language Access and a working group comprising stakeholders, to develop and publish, and periodically review and update, electronic information technology multilingual accessibility standards to be implemented by all state entities. Appropriates funds for one full-time equivalent (1.00 FTE) position. Effective 7/1/2112. (SD2)
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RELATING TO STATE ENTERPRISE ZONES. Amends the definition of "eligible business activity" to include the processing of value-added agricultural products grown within an enterprise zone and the development or production of renewable energy.
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RELATING TO AQUACULTURE. Transfers the aquaculture program from the Department of Agriculture to the Agribusiness Development Corporation. Appropriates moneys. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO FIREWORKS. Establishes the Illegal Fireworks Task Force within the Department of Law Enforcement to plan, coordinate, and engage in law enforcement operations to interdict illegal fireworks, develop a comprehensive strategic plan to stop the importation of illegal fireworks and explosives into the State, promote compliance with the fireworks control laws, and ensure the safety and security of airports, harbors, and other facilities and institutions in the State against the discharge of illegal fireworks and explosives. Requires a report to the Legislature. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO CREATIVE DISTRICTS. Creates a process for the establishment of a creative district. Establishes a 5-year income tax credit for creative districts. Permits counties to enact incentives for creative districts. Requires the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts to submit an annual report to the Legislature on creative districts. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLE REGISTRATION. Provides an exemption for flatbed trucks from registration renewals and initial registrations of motor carrier vehicles when used as marine terminal equipment temporarily moving in or between certain terminals. Adds new terminal locales, times, and roadways to be covered under the exemption. (SD2)
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RELATING TO MOORING LINES. Requires the securing of mooring lines from vessels requiring tug assistance to be manned by an existing, operational stevedoring company that is operating within the State, except the securing of mooring lines from vessels for purposes of shipyard or boatyard operations necessary for vessel drydocking, hauling, launching, or shifting used in conjunction with other shipyard or boatyard operations. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO THE SCHOOL FACILITIES AUTHORITY. Transfers an unspecified sum of general funds previously appropriated to the School Facilities Authority of the Department of Education to the school facilities special fund. Appropriates moneys from the school facilities special fund in fiscal year 2023-2024. Establishes an appropriation ceiling for the school facilities special fund that is equivalent to the balance of moneys available in the special fund. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE CERTIFICATION OF DOCUMENTS. Establishes a fee for the issuance of an apostille or certification. Establishes the Apostilles and Certifications Special Fund. Authorizes the Office of the Lieutenant Governor to expend moneys in the fund for operational expenses. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2112. (SD2)
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RELATING TO EMERGENCY MEDICAL RESPONSE. Requires each Department of Education school to establish a critical medical emergency response team. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. Grants the Department of Agriculture the statutory power to own land/property for immediate or future use.
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RELATING TO EDUCATION. Authorizes the counties to transfer land to the School Facilities Authority. Exempts the School Facilities Authority from taxes. Authorizes state and county agencies to render services to the School Facilities Authority upon request. Authorizes the School Facilities Authority to engage in commercial enterprise activities for the purpose of revenue generation. Authorizes the School Facilities Authority to contract to manage leasing and management of housing projects. Establishes a deadline for the transfer of properties to the Department of Education from the City and County of Honolulu required by Act 206, SLH 2017, as amended by Act 272, SLH 2019. (SD2)
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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 funds 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 the associated spillway. Appropriates funds four full-time equivalent (4.0 FTE) positions for the Department of Land and Natural Resources. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO GENERAL FUND BUDGET APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII. Repeals the requirement that the annual general fund budget appropriation for the University of Hawaii shall be 3 to 5 times the estimated regular tuition and related fee revenues for that year.
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RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, AND TOURISM. Authorizes the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to acquire real, personal, or mixed property; to clear, improve, and rehabilitate and to sell, assign, exchange, transfer, convey, lease, dispose, or encumber the property; and acquire property by condemnation. Takes effect 3/22/2075. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII COMMUNITY COLLEGES. Requires the University of Hawaii Vice President for Community Colleges to report directly to the Board of Regents. Appropriates funds to the University of Hawaii Community Colleges for the continuation of the Hawaii Community College Promise Program and to establish thirty-one full-time equivalent Security Officer positions for the community colleges. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO RENEWABLE ENERGY. Establishes the Hawaii Electricity Reliability Surcharge Special Fund. Requires the Public Utilities Commission to establish reliability standards and interconnection requirements for all users, owners, or operators of the Hawaii electric system and determine the responsibility of costs associated with any reliability standards or inter-connection requirements. Requires the Public Utilities Commission to establish: (1) the distinction between interconnection facilities and utility network upgrades; (2) that the cost of interconnection facilities shall be the responsibility of the interconnection customer; and (3) that the cost of utility network upgrades shall be the sole responsibility of the transmission provider. Establishes a timeline and requirements for interconnection procedures to be established by the Public Utilities Commission for certain utility-scale renewable energy projects. Requires implementation of the Hawaii Electricity Reliability Administrator Law upon establishment of the Hawaii Electricity Reliability Administrator Surcharge. Beginning 1/1/2024, requires the surcharge to be imposed on certain customers to cover the costs of the Administrator to be deposited into the Hawaii Electricity Reliability Surcharge Special Fund Subaccount. Requires the Public Utilities Commission to submit a report and assessment of the Hawaii Electric Reliability Administrator to the Legislature. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO SPECIAL NUMBER PLATES. Authorizes the issuance of special number plates to commemorate Malama Puuloa. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO THE HAWAII HEALTHY AGING PARTNERSHIP. Appropriates funds to the Executive Office on Aging for the Hawaii Healthy Aging Partnership. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO CONDOMINIUM RESERVE REQUIREMENTS. Authorizes a condominium association to provide a summary of the required information in its budget. Authorizes a condominium association's reserve study to forecast a loan or special assessment to fund life safety equipment or installations. Authorizes a condominium association to use a third party to conduct a reserves study on behalf of the condominium. Clarifies the information to be included in the description of how the estimated replacement reserves contributions are computed. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO HOUSING SAVINGS ACCOUNTS. Directs the Legislative Reference Bureau to propose and conduct a study of a housing savings account system. Authorizes the Legislative Reference Bureau to contract for services to develop the proposed system and program and conduct a study. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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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 Public Housing Authority to qualified residents. Provides for the disposition of lands that are acquired by the Hawaii Public Housing Authority but no longer needed for the ALOHA Homes Program. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. Repeals on 7/1/2053. (SD2)
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RELATING TO HOUSING. Clarifies that the eligibility for the general excise tax exemption includes the nonreceipt of financing from the Hawaii Housing and Finance and Development Corporation. Allows certain affordable rental housing projects to receive a waiver of various development fees from a county. Removes the limit on the type of costs eligible for exemption from the general excise tax for development of affordable rental housing certified by the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO INCLUSIONARY ZONING. Prohibits any law, ordinance, or rule from imposing an inclusionary zoning requirement on housing offered exclusively for sale in perpetuity to buyers who are residents of the State, are owner-occupants, and do not own any other real property. Requires each county to submit a report on its inclusionary zoning requirements to the Legislature every year until the Regular Session of 2028. Effective 3/22/2075. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE YOUTH COMMISSION. Clarifies that a majority of the members appointed to the Youth Commission shall constitute a quorum to do business. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO SCHOOL IMPACT FEES. Exempts certain housing developments from assessments of school impact fees. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE COUNTIES. Authorizes counties, after adoption of an ordinance, to sell private property after all notices, orders, and appeal proceedings are exhausted and to use those revenues to pay unpaid civil fines related to that property; provided that the county sells the property at not less than the market value of similarly situated properties and that all revenues received from the sale that exceed the amount of the unpaid civil fines are refunded to the property owner. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS. Appropriates funds for the retention of employees of the Unemployment Insurance Division of the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO LEASEHOLD CONVERSION. Excludes from taxation one hundred per cent of the gain realized by a fee simple owner from the sale of a leased fee interest in units within a condominium project, cooperative project, or planned unit development to the association of apartment owners or the residential cooperative housing corporation of the leasehold units. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2022 and ending prior to 1/1/2030. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE OFFICE OF WELLNESS AND RESILIENCE. Transfers the Office of Wellness and Resilience from the Office of the Governor to the Department of Human Services on 7/1/2025. Extends the Trauma-Informed Care Task Force dissolution date to 6/30/2025 and establishes the task force as an advisory board to the Office of Wellness and Resilience until its dissolution. Reconstitutes the membership of the Trauma-Informed Care Task Force into a permanent advisory board to the Office of Wellness and Resilience to be called the Wellness and Resilience Advisory Board. Effective 7/1/2112. (SD2)
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RELATING TO KUPUNA HOUSING. Temporarily expands the State Rent Supplement Program specifically for qualified persons who are sixty-two years of age or older and are homeless or at imminent risk of becoming homeless. Requires the Hawaii Public Housing Authority to submit annual reports to the Legislature. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. Repeals 6/30/2026. (SD2)
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RELATING TO THE HAWAII STATE HEALTH INSURANCE ASSISTANCE PROGRAM. Requires the Executive Office on Aging to submit to the Legislature annual progress reports on the Hawaii State Health Insurance Assistance Program. Appropriates funds for the establishment of 3 program specialist positions within the Executive Office on Aging for the Hawaii state health insurance assistance program. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO CAREGIVERS. Requires the Executive Office on Aging to establish a workforce development and support center. Appropriates funds for the center's establishment. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO INTOXICATING LIQUOR. Restricts the sale of liquor under temporary liquor licenses to confined and demarcated spaces not located on public streets, roads, sidewalks, or pedestrian walkways. Applies restrictions to temporary liquor licenses granted to nonprofit organizations. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO JURORS. Clarifies that a prospective juror is disqualified to serve as a juror if they have been convicted of a felony and have not been finally discharged, in addition to not being pardoned. Takes effect 1/1/2024. (SD1)
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PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO THE HAWAII STATE CONSTITUTION REGARDING THE FREEDOM OF SPEECH. Proposes an amendment to the Hawaii State Constitution to provide that freedom of speech protected under the Hawaii State Constitution does not include the expenditure of money to influence elections. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO LIMITATIONS OF ACTIONS. Clarifies that no statute of repose shall affect a condominium association's right of action against a condominium developer sooner than two years after the period of developer control terminates.
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RELATING TO TAXATION. Eliminates the home mortgage interest deduction for second homes under Hawaii income tax law. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO PEDESTRIANS. Authorizes pedestrians to cross a street when a reasonably careful pedestrian determines that there is no immediate danger from a collision with a vehicle. Takes effect 3/22/2075. (SD1)
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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 on the resident population, as counted in the decennial United States census for the respective reapportionment year, rather than the permanent resident population. (SD2)
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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. 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. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDERS. Allows petitioners to attend TRO hearings remotely when domestic abuse is alleged. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE LAND USE COMMISSION. Specifies that a simple majority of affirmative votes of the members of the Land Use Commission present at a meeting and qualified to vote is required for any boundary amendment. Reduces the number of days by when the Land Use Commission must act for certain actions related to amendments to district boundaries. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE SCHOOL FACILITIES AUTHORITY. Authorizes the School Facilities Authority to partner with public and private agencies to develop teacher and educator housing. Authorizes the School Facilities Authority to transfer appropriated funds to partner state agencies for the development of teacher and educator housing. Appropriates funds to the School Facilities Authority for the construction of teacher and educator housing and classrooms. Specifies Nanakuli High School, Waipahu High School, and Mililani High School as initial locations for the construction. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO THE UNIFORM PARENTAGE ACT. Establishes a task force to recommend amendments to update existing parentage laws that reflect outdated, cisheteronormative concepts of families, parenthood, and parental rights. Requires a report to the Legislature within forty days from the 2025 Regular Session. Takes effect 03/22/2075. (SD1)
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RELATING TO SPECIAL PURPOSE DIGITAL CURRENCY LICENSURE. Establishes a program for the licensure, regulation, and oversight of digital currency companies. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO INVASIVE SPECIES. Appropriates funds to allow the Division of Forestry and Wildlife of the Department of Land and Natural Resources to coordinate the removal of hazardous albizia trees that potentially threaten public and private land. Effective 7/1/2050. (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. Extends from December 31, 2024 to December 31, 2029, the sunset date for tax credits for research activities. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO MEDICAL CANNABIS. Adds or clarifies signage, manufactured cannabis product, and escort requirements for the medical cannabis dispensary program. Establishes annual reporting requirements to increase public transparency regarding the medical cannabis registry program. Makes various housekeeping amendments. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO GREEN TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE. Establishes green infrastructure objectives and policies for transportation systems, infrastructure, and projects. Establishes the green transportation infrastructure task force to examine, evaluate, and develop policies for the design, implementation, and maintenance of green transportation infrastructure. Effective 7/1/2050 and 6/30/2052. (SD2)
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RELATING TO DISPOSAL OF SOLID WASTE. Allows as punishment for felony disposal of solid waste, imprisonment of not more than five years. Allows as punishment for felony disposal of solid waste and petty misdemeanor disposal of solid waste, forfeiture of any vehicle used in the commission of the offenses.
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RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION. Requires the Department of Accounting and General Services to collaborate with the Department of Transportation to develop, implement, administer, and manage programs to enable parking stall sharing among public employees of the State, accommodate more electric vehicle charging stations, provide bicycle storage lockers at facilities where parking is made available to public employees, and ensure that all new public housing developments' parking stalls to include electric vehicle charging stations and bicycle storage lockers. Effective 7/1/2112. (SD2)
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RELATING TO STUDENT TRANSPORTATION. Requires the Department of Education to collect certain data on county bus pass usage for public high school and charter school students. Requires an annual report to the Legislature. Appropriates funds to the Department of Education to provide public high school and charter school students with bus passes. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION. Requires rental vehicle companies using state facilities to pay or reimburse the State to install new or utilize existing state electric vehicle charging infrastructure at public facilities beginning January 1, 2028. Establishes a task force to develop and implement electric vehicle charging infrastructure to support one hundred per cent electric vehicle rental car fleets in the State by 2035. Requires annual reports to the Legislature. Takes effect 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO CONSUMER DATA PROTECTION. Establishes a framework to regulate controllers and processors with access to personal consumer data. Establishes penalties. Establishes a new consumer privacy special fund. Appropriates moneys. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO HEALTH. Establishes the criminal offense of unlawful shipment of tobacco products. Amends the definition of "tobacco products" under the Cigarette Tax and Tobacco Tax Law to include electronic smoking devices and e-liquids. Increases the license fee for persons engaged as wholesalers or dealers of cigarettes and tobacco products and the retail tobacco permit fee for retailers engaged in the retail sale of cigarettes and tobacco products. Repeals state laws that establish and govern the Electronic Smoking Device Retailer Registration Unit within the Department of the Attorney General and provisions of the Cigarette Tax and Tobacco Tax Law that govern delivery sales. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO UNMANNED AIRCRAFT SYSTEMS. Prohibits trespass with an unmanned aircraft system, with exceptions. Establishes a penalty.
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RELATING TO TRAFFIC INFRACTIONS. Establishes a Traffic Fines Task Force that will examine the Finnish tiered traffic fines system, determine whether a similar system could be implemented in Hawaii, and provide recommendations as to how a system could best be implemented. Appropriates funds. Effective 3/22/2075. (SD2)
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PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE VI, SECTION 3, OF THE HAWAII STATE CONSTITUTION TO INCREASE THE MANDATORY RETIREMENT AGE FOR STATE JUSTICES AND JUDGES. Proposes a constitutional amendment to increase the mandatory retirement age for justices and judges from 70 to 75 years of age. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE ELECTION OF THE PRESIDENT. Establishes presidential preference primaries. Makes an appropriation. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO INDEPENDENT LEGAL COUNSEL. Allows the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to retain independent legal counsel where the opposing party to the reasonably anticipated litigation is the State or another state agency. Provides that fees owed to independent legal counsel shall be paid by the State. Effective 3/22/2075. (SD2)
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RELATING TO HEALTH CARE EDUCATION. Appropriates funds for the expansion of the certified nurse aide to practical nurse bridge program at the University of Hawaii Maui college, including funding for instructional costs and student aid. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS FOR THE DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE SERVICES. Beginning January 1, 2024, require the Chief Executive Officer of the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation or the Chief Executive Officer's designee to provide written comments to the Governor before the State enters into any new agreement with a private entity or modifies or terminates any existing agreement to transfer the right and responsibility to manage, operate and otherwise provide health care services at one or more facilities of the Maui Regional System. Expands the definition of "private entity" to include business organizations that are authorized to transact business in the State, including nonprofit management entities that have a certificate of need or license to operate one or more community hospitals or hospitals serving a rural population licensed under the laws of any state. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO EMERGENCY POWERS. Requires the Governor to ensure continued operation of medical facilities upon declaration of a state of emergency and during times of health or pandemic emergencies. Allows hospitals to suspend elective surgeries during the period of emergency to address the facility's bed capacity. Takes effect 1/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE EARLY LEARNING BOARD. Amends the composition and qualifications of the Early Learning Board to consist of individuals from each county, instead of from particular entities or types of providers. Establishes general qualifications for the members of the Early Learning Board appointed by the Governor.
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RELATING TO EARLY LEARNING. Appropriates moneys for the Preschool Open Doors Program and Executive Office on Early Learning to expand access to preschool and to implement program changes required by previous acts. Expands the types of entities from which a Preschool Open Doors service provider may obtain accreditation. Authorizes the preschool open doors special fund to accept federal funds. Appropriates moneys. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION. Establishes long-term goals for zero-emissions transportation in Hawaii and abroad to reduce and eliminate transportation emissions. Establishes the clean ground transportation working group and the interisland and transpacific clean transportation working group. Requires annual reports to the Hawaii climate change mitigation and adaptation commission and the legislature. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO COMBAT SPORTS. Establishes the Combat Sports Commission of Hawaii. Provides for regulation of combat sports. Prohibits no rules combat or similar contests. Appropriates funds for an unspecified number of full-time equivalent positions within the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs for the Combat Sports Commission of Hawaii. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE GENERAL EXCISE TAX. Exempts from the general excise tax amounts received by a hospital, infirmary, medical clinic, health care facility, pharmacy, or a medical practitioner for health care related goods and services purchased under Medicaid, Medicare, or TRICARE. Effective 12/31/2050. Sunsets 1/1/2026. (SD2)
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RELATING TO TELEHEALTH. Temporarily allows for the reimbursement of services provided through telehealth via an interactive telecommunications system and two-way, real-time audio-only communications in certain circumstances. Defines "interactive telecommunications system". Effective 12/31/2050. Repeals 12/31/2025. (SD2)
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RELATING TO HOMELESSNESS. Requires the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to establish the Rent-With-Option-To-Purchase Pilot Program on the Leeward Coast of Oahu to provide rent-with-option-to-purchase individual or shared micro housing units and services to native Hawaiian beneficiaries who are homeless, or threatened with homelessness, and who are on the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands waiting list. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO MENTAL HEALTH. Appropriates funds to hire complex-based behavioral health specialists for Hawaii's rural public schools. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO VEHICLE WEIGHT TAXES. Amends the vehicle weight tax exemption for noncommercial vehicles by adding an exemption for certain veterans. Takes effect 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO SPEED LIMITS. Clarifies that the engineering study required prior to the setting of a maximum speed limit shall not apply to reductions of maximum speed limits.
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RELATING TO EMPLOYMENT EARNINGS. Requires job listings to include an hourly rate or salary range. Prohibits an employer from discriminating between employees because of any protected category established under state law, by paying wages to employees in an establishment at a rate less than the rate at which the employer pays wages to other employees in the establishment for substantially similar work on jobs the performance of which requires equal skill, effort, and responsibility, and that are performed under similar working conditions. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO DAM AND APPURTENANCE SAFETY. Establishes the dam and appurtenance improvement or removal grant program for plans, design, construction, and equipment that is used to improve or remove deficient dams and appurtenances 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 appurtenance improvement or removal grants. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO FRESH WATER SECURITY. Establishes within the Commission on Water Resource Management a water security working group to study and recommend, for legislative consideration and approval, priority capital improvement projects, including funding and financing strategies for each project, that leverage public-private investment to increase Hawaii's water security. Makes an appropriation. Effective 7/1/2050. (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 promotion of statewide beach assessments and beach and shoreline restoration and conservation and the pursuit of compatible relationships among activities, facilities, Native Hawaiian traditional practices mauka to makai, and natural resources. Appropriates funds to the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development for the development of a statewide beach assessment study and shoreline restoration and conservation plan. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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PROPOSING AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF HAWAII TO AMEND THE MANNER IN WHICH JUSTICES AND JUDGES ARE APPOINTED, CONSENTED TO, AND RETAINED. Proposes amendments to the Constitution of the State of Hawaii relating to the appointment of justices and judges. Changes from 30 to 45 days certain time periods for the appointment and consent to a justice or judge. Harmonizes the Senate consent procedures for district court judgeship nominees to mirror the Senate consent procedures for Supreme Court justices and Intermediate Court of Appeals and circuit court judges. (SD2)
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RELATING TO ELECTIONS. Requires the Office of Elections to prepare a digital voter information guide; post the guide on its website in compliance with certain accessibility standards; and mail each ballot with a notice that states a voter information guide may be found on its website. Requires the Attorney General and county corporation counsels to translate explanations of ballot questions into certain languages for purposes of the digital voter information guide. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO ELECTRONIC CITATIONS. Establishes a statewide electronic citation program under the Judiciary. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO EXPUNGEMENT. Requires courts to, upon written request, expunge records of convictions for: (1) operating a vehicle after consuming a measurable amount of alcohol while under the age of twenty-one years; and (2) certain property offenses, if the sentencing occurred prior to 1998. Takes effect 3/22/2075. (SD1)
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RELATING TO PUBLIC PARKING SPACES. Effective January 1, 2025, requires all State- and privately-owned parking lots in the State that contain public paid parking spaces to accept payment of parking fees by credit card and debit card. Requires all State- and privately-owned parking meters in the State that collect parking fees for any public paid parking space to be maintained in working order to accept payment by credit card and debit card. Requires the Department of Accounting and General Services and the counties to submit reports to the Legislature. Defines motor vehicle, public parking space, and parking meter. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION. Amends the composition and duties of the State Highway Safety Council. (SD2)
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RELATING TO THE COUNTIES. Authorizes certain counties to use county surcharge on state tax revenues and fuel tax revenues for the repair and maintenance of private roadways that are open to and used by the public. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO TAXATION. Extends the period in which a county may adopt a surcharge on state tax, under certain conditions. Authorizes the use of the surcharge revenues for affordable and workforce housing infrastructure. Allows the counties to use surcharge revenues for housing infrastructure, including roadways, water, and sewer. (SD1)
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RELATING TO TAX INCREMENT BONDS. Conforms county debt limit statements law to permit counties to exclude tax increment bonds from the debt limit of the counties if a constitutional amendment authorizing the use of tax increment bonds and excluding tax increment bonds from determinations of the Counties' funded debt is ratified. (SD1)
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RELATING TO CANNABIS FOR MEDICAL USE. Amends the definition of "cannabis" to include cannabis propagules, cuttings, and seeds. Defines "cannabis cutting" and "cannabis propagule". Allows qualifying patients and primary caregivers who are authorized to cultivate cannabis for medical use to purchase cannabis propagules, cuttings, and seeds from licensed dispensaries in the State under certain conditions. Establishes quantity limits and quality requirements for the dispensing of cannabis propagules, cuttings, and seeds. Requires the Department of Health to adopt rules regarding the dispensing of cannabis propagules, cuttings, and seeds. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO SHORT-TERM RENTALS. Prohibits bans on dwelling unit rentals having a term between one and five months for inter-island relocations and temporary workers. Authorizes county councils to adopt any ordinances necessary to implement the prohibition by 6/30/2024.
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RELATING TO THE WORKS OF ART SPECIAL FUND. Requires the State Art Museum to provide opportunities for the counties and private organizations located in Hawaii to display art through loan arrangements with the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts under the Arts in Public Places Program. Provides that art loans to a non-museum or public institution may be subject to a fee determined by the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts. Provides that artists who reside in Hawaii receive selection preference for the Arts in Public Places Program. Requires a report to the Legislature. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO THE ADVICE AND CONSENT OF THE SENATE. Requires nominees for the position of Deputy Director, First Deputy, or Deputy Chair, as the case may be, of principal departments and multiple deputy directors; first deputies; deputy chairs, as the case may be, for each department that has multiple individuals who serve in the same role to be subject to the advice and consent of the Senate. Requires a person to file a disclosure of financial interest within thirty days of a person's nomination to any state position enumerated in section 84-17(d), Hawaii Revised Statutes, that is subject to the advice and consent of the Senate. (SD1)
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RELATING TO PROCUREMENT. Raises the procurement threshold for small purchases to $50,000. Effective 7/1/2112. (SD2)
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RELATING TO ACTIVITY DESKS. Makes a principal of an activity desk, and all persons with an ownership interest in the activity desk, jointly and severally liable for any financial deficiency when the activity desk's client trust account is insufficient to pay consumers or activity providers. Clarifies that an activity desk, along with its principal and all persons with an ownership interest in the activity desk, shall be held liable for statutory violations and subsequent damages. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO TIME SHARE PLANS. Amends the definitions of "time share interest" and "time share plan" to include any fractional ownership plan for a joint homeownership limited liability company, or any other entity. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO PROCUREMENT. Requires cash or protest bonds to be returned to the initiating parties, minus administrative costs, except in cases where the appeal was frivolous or made in bad faith.
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RELATING TO STATE PARKS. Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to conduct a study of the carrying capacity of Makena State Park in the County of Maui. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO PROCUREMENT. Prohibits a procurement officer from disclosing a competing offeror's proposal or evaluation score during a debriefing requested by a non-selected offeror. Authorizes the disclosure of a competing offeror's proposal or evaluation score after a protest is resolved and the contract is executed.
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RELATING TO HOUSING. Requires rental housing projects to maintain, in perpetuity, 50% of the project's units for certain low-income tenants in order to be eligible for the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation's rental assistance program. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO WORKERS' COMPENSATION. Transfers workers' compensation for Hawaii State Public Library System and its employees from the Department of Education to the Department of Human Resources Development. Establishes a position. Appropriates funds. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING. Requires that Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation housing projects include a restrictive covenant that states that the units designated as affordable housing, as described in the submitted project application, shall remain as affordable housing in perpetuity. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO THE HAWAII COMMUNITY COLLEGE PROMISE PROGRAM. Exempts University of Hawaii Community College students who are enrolled in certificate programs from the requirement to complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid each academic year to be considered eligible for the Hawaii Community College Promise Program. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO HONOLUA BAY. Establishes the Honolua bay special fund for conservation purposes and the upkeep and maintenance of Lipoa Point. Establishes the Honolua Bay Advisory Board to administer the Honolua bay special fund and oversee the conservation of Honolua bay. Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to include and incorporate Honolua bay into the Division of State Parks' online reservation system. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO ENERGY. Authorizes government agencies to wheel electricity over the existing transmission lines of a third-party electric public utility, excluding member-owned cooperatives, that is produced by their own facilities from renewable energy sources to another government agency's facilities, subject to certain restrictions. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO THE EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM. Provides police officers who become members of the Employees' Retirement System after 6/30/2023 with retirement benefits similar to those provided for members of the Employees' Retirement System who became members before 7/1/2012, including but not limited to calculation of retirement allowance, minimum age or years of credited service requirements, and vesting period. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO ACTIVE DUTY MILITARY ENTITLEMENTS. Requires the State to pay, without delay, military personnel called to active duty at the same rate as their active duty counterparts and provide basic housing allowance. (SD1)
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RELATING TO CIVIL AIR PATROL. Appropriates funds for civilian auxiliary aviation services of the type performed by the civil air patrol. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE RENEWAL OF DRIVER'S LICENSES. Allows for the renewal of driver's licenses by mail or online. (SD2)
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PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO THE HAWAII STATE CONSTITUTION TO PROTECT INDIVIDUAL REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS. Proposes a constitutional amendment to protect an individual's reproductive freedom in their most intimate decisions, including the right to abortion and contraceptives. (SD1)
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RELATING TO VEHICLES. Prohibits a person from causing a diesel or gas-powered vehicle to discharge clearly visible smoke, soot, or other exhaust emissions onto another person or motor vehicle. Establishes a $500 fine for violators. (SD1)
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RELATING TO CAMPAIGN FINANCE. Prohibits foreign nationals, foreign-influenced business entities, and foreign corporations from making contributions, independent expenditures, or electioneering communications, or contributions or donations to third parties that are earmarked for such purposes. Requires every business entity that contributes or expends funds in a state election to file a statement of certification regarding its limited foreign influence. Requires noncandidate committees making only independent expenditures to obtain a statement of certification from each top contributor required to be listed in an advertisement. Takes effect 1/1/2026. (SD1)
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RELATING TO ETHICS. Increases the post-employment restriction for former legislators from twelve months to twenty-four months.
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RELATING TO CAMPAIGN FINANCE. Requires state legislators, or the treasurer of their candidate committee, to file a preliminary report on February 28 of the year of a general election. Takes effect 01/01/2026. (SD1)
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RELATING TO TRANSIT-ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT. Appropriates funds to the Hawaii Community Development Authority for statewide planning, designing, and constructing of various transit-oriented development projects identified in the state strategic plan for transit-oriented development. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS. Clarifies that board and commission holdover members shall not hold office beyond the end of the second regular legislative session following the expiration of the member's term of office regardless of any conflicting statutes. Effective 7/1/2112. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII. 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 and appropriates funds for the transition. Appropriates general obligation bond funds to University of Hawaii, Systemwide Support (UOH900) to renew, improve, and modernize facilities. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO CONDOMINIUMS. Requires condominium associations to register on an annual basis, rather than on a biennial basis. Adds an additional annual condominium education trust fund fee to be used to support the annual registration with attached documents of the association. Amends the documents required for condominium association registration. Broadens the list of documents an association shall maintain. Amends the requirements and procedures for a condominium association to provide association documents to unit owners. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO DEPOSITS OF PUBLIC FUNDS. Authorizes the Director of Finance to exempt a depository from the requirement to pay all deposits of public funds upon demand, under the condition that the depository has provided loans with below-market interest rates and longer terms for housing projects where all dwelling units are exclusively reserved for owner-occupants who own no other real property and are residents of the State. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO CAMPAIGN FINANCE. Prohibits any campaign website for any candidate or candidate committee from containing information or manipulating content in any manner that is designed to induce a noncandidate committee to use that content to make expenditures supporting the candidate or candidate committee in a manner suggested by the candidate or candidate committee based on a reasonable person standard. Requires the Campaign Spending Commission to adopt rules. Takes effect 03/22/2075. (SD1)
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RELATING TO HEALTHCARE PRECEPTORS. Amends the preceptor tax credit law to expand access to the program and to make it easier for preceptors to access tax credits under the program. Adds the Director of Health to the preceptor credit assurance committee. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO PUBLIC OFFICE. Prohibits persons convicted of certain felony offenses against public administration from becoming a candidate for or holding public office for ten years after the person's final discharge. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE ISSUANCE OF SPECIAL PURPOSE REVENUE BONDS TO ASSIST MAUIGROWN COFFEE, INC. Authorizes a new issuance of special purpose revenue bonds in the amount of $30 million, to assist MauiGrown Coffee, Inc. with the operation and expansion of its farm and mill. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO FIREARMS. Prohibits issuing authorities from issuing permits to acquire the ownership of a firearm to any person where the issuance would not be in the interest of the public health, safety, or welfare because the person is found to be lacking the essential character or temperament necessary to be entrusted with a firearm. Requires issuing authorities to consider the risks associated with firearms in the home and consider the likelihood an applicant would bring the firearm outside of the home to engage in violence or carry unlawfully in public. Increases requirements for applicants seeking a license to carry a firearm. Sets minimum requirements for applications for a license to carry a concealed firearm. Establishes the crime of carrying a firearm in sensitive locations. Defines sensitive location. Requires licenses to carry concealed firearms be revoked if certain conditions are met. Requires the Attorney General to publish an annual report on licenses to carry firearms. Requires firearms be kept in a locked container and out of plain view when in an unattended vehicle. Defines locked container and makes conforming amendments. Amends the definition of "crime of violence" to include additional crimes. Requires a person carrying a firearm in public pursuant to a license to maintain insurance coverage. Establishes a duty to maintain possession of a license while carrying a firearm. Establishes a duty to disclose that a person is carrying a firearm when stopped by a law enforcement officer. Establishes an appeals process for the denial or revocation of an application for a permit to acquire the ownership of a firearm or to carry a concealed firearm. Allows county police departments to conduct criminal history record checks for licenses to carry a firearm. Provides qualified immunity for physician assistants and advanced practice registered nurses who provide information on permit applicants. Establishes penalties for violations. Takes effect 1/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO THE STATE LIBRARY SYSTEM. Authorizes the State Librarian, with approval from the Board of Education, to impose and collect rates, rents, fees, fines and charges for the use of state library facilities and revise rates, rents, fees, and charges as necessary. Effective 7/1/2050. Sunsets 6/30/2028. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE OFFICE OF HAWAIIAN AFFAIRS. Establishes a temporary public land trust working group within the Office of the Governor for administrative purposes only. Provides that the working group's sole purpose shall be to compile a definitive inventory of public land trust lands. Authorizes the working group to hire staff. Appropriates moneys to the Office of Hawaiian Affairs to be used for making repairs to bulkheads and revetments located in certain parcels conveyed to the Office and for certain construction costs for the development of Kukaniloko. Requires and appropriates moneys for the Office of Hawaiian Affairs to conduct a programmatic environmental impact statement for any development projects within the Kakaako Makai area of the public land trust. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO THE HAWAII FILM INDUSTRY. Establishes the Hawaii Film Commission in the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism. Amends the administration and extends the sunset date of the motion picture, digital media, and film production income tax credit to 1/1/2038. Establishes a new film studio tax credit. Requests and appropriates funds for the Auditor to conduct a performance and financial audit of the Hawaii State Film Office. Transfers all rights, powers, functions, and duties of the Hawaii State Film Office to the Hawaii Film Commission. Appropriates funds for one full‑time equivalent executive director position within the Hawaii Film Commission. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO GOVERNMENT. Specifies that a public servant convicted of the offense of bribery shall be sentenced to pay a fine of up to $250,000, in addition to a sentence of imprisonment or probation. Requires the Commission on Salaries to consider certain factors to retain qualified individuals and deter corruption and bribery. Amends the effective dates of recommended salary increases. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO WASTE-TO-ENERGY. Requires the Hawaii State Energy Office to enter into a public‑private partnership to develop a waste-to-energy generating facility. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO THE KAIWI COAST. Designates the Kaiwi State Scenic Shoreline and adjacent lands as the Kaiwi Coast State Park. Establishes protection and guidance for land management and funds 2 full-time equivalent (2.0 FTE) positions within the Department of Land and Natural Resources. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCES. Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to develop and implement a management system for the Kaena point state park, Makua, and Keawaula regions. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO COMMERCIAL FISHING. Authorizes the Department of Land and Natural Resources to establish limited entry commercial fisheries for fisheries that are not subject to federal fisheries regulations as defined in section 187A-5.5, Hawaii Revised Statutes, where appropriate or necessary to ensure certain commercial fisheries throughout the State remain healthy and sustainable while balancing the important economic role of commercial fisheries in the State. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO PROTECTIVE ORDERS. Allows nonresidents to apply for a temporary restraining order or order for protection in cases of domestic abuse. Allows nonresidents to apply for a temporary restraining order and an injunction from further harassment. (SD1)
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RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL LANDS. Makes technical changes to the statutory definitions of "agricultural enterprise lands" and "non-agricultural park lands" for clarification and consistency purposes. (SD1)
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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 FUNDING FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL TOBACCO ENFORCEMENT UNIT. Increases and stabilizes the amount of funding for the tobacco enforcement special fund within the Department of the Attorney General by: (1) increasing the amount of funds that the tobacco enforcement special fund may carry over at the end of the fiscal year; (2) increasing the cigarette tax stamp fee and concurrently increasing the percentage of the cigarette tax stamp fee deposited to the tobacco enforcement special fund; and (3) amending the amount of funds to be deposited in the tobacco enforcement special fund from the Hawaii tobacco settlement special fund. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE HAWAII COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY. Increases options to build affordable housing in Hawaii Community Development Authority districts by increasing the permissible lease term to 99 years. Prohibits the Hawaii Community Development Authority from encumbering lands that were classed as crown or government lands prior to 8/15/1895, in leases longer than 65 years. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, AND TOURISM. Makes an appropriation to the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism for expenses related to building renovations. Effective 1/6/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO SEA LEVEL RISE ADAPTATION. Requires the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development, in cooperation with each state agency having operational responsibilities over state facilities to develop a standardized process to conduct vulnerability assessments for facilities at risk from sea level rise and guidance to agencies on how to conduct the vulnerability assessments for their facilities. Makes an appropriation. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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PROPOSING AMENDMENTS TO ARTICLE VII, SECTIONS 12 AND 13, OF THE HAWAII CONSTITUTION TO EXPRESSLY PROVIDE THAT THE LEGISLATURE MAY AUTHORIZE THE COUNTIES TO ISSUE TAX INCREMENT BONDS AND TO EXCLUDE TAX INCREMENT BONDS FROM DETERMINATIONS OF THE FUNDED DEBT OF THE COUNTIES. Proposes amendments to the Constitution of the State of Hawaii to expressly provide that the Legislature may authorize political subdivisions, such as counties, to issue tax increment bonds and to exclude tax increment bonds in calculating the debt limit of the political subdivisions. (SD2)
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RELATING TO DESIGNATED ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT. Establishes the Hawaii Economic Development District Planning Organization and board within the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism. Designates the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development to organize the Hawaii Economic Development District Planning Organization. Establishes 2 full-time exempt positions. Makes an appropriation. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO THE HAWAII TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION. Establishes a public policy framework that addresses state goals in the area of economic diversification. Appropriates funds to the Hawaii Technology Development Corporation to implement specific projects that address those goals. Requires the Hawaii Technology Development Corporation to submit annual reports to the Legislature. Authorizes the Hawaii Technology Development Corporation to temporarily re-establish the Hawaii Office of Naval Research Grant Program to provide fifty per cent 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. Amends the composition of the Hawaii Technology Development Corporation Board of Directors to include the Chairperson of the Board of Regents of the University of Hawaii, unless the Chairperson, with the approval of the Board of Regents, designates another Regent to serve. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT COST ITEMS. Provides appropriations 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 2023-2025. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE REPEAL OF ACT 192, SESSION LAWS OF HAWAII 2007. Repeals Act 192, Session Laws of Hawaii 2007, which requires the Employees' Retirement System to divest itself of investments in companies that provide support for genocide in Darfur, Sudan, and provide annual reports to the Legislature on the status of divestment. (SD2)
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RELATING TO THE HAWAII EMPLOYER-UNION HEALTH BENEFITS TRUST FUND. Enables the Board of Trustees of the Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund to establish appropriate salaries for the Administrator and Chief Investment Officer of the trust fund. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE HAWAII EMPLOYER-UNION HEALTH BENEFITS TRUST FUND SPOUSAL MEDICARE PART B PREMIUM REIMBURSEMENT. Amends section 87A-23, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to exclude medicare reimbursement by the State and counties for the spouses of retired employees hired after 6/30/2023. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO THE HAWAII EMPLOYER-UNION HEALTH BENEFITS TRUST FUND MEDICARE PART B PREMIUM REIMBURSEMENT. Excludes state and county retired employees hired after June 30, 2023, and their spouses from receiving Medicare income-related monthly adjustment amounts as part of their Medicare Part B reimbursement payments. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO BROADBAND. Transfers the Hawaii Broadband and Digital Equity Office from the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to the Office of the Lieutenant Governor on a temporary, 4-year basis. Appropriates general funds to provide required matching funds for the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment Program. Appropriates from the funds received by the State of Hawaii from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act for the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment Program. Requires the Office of the Lieutenant Governor to convene and lead the working group established pursuant to Act 231, SLH 2022. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD3)
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RELATING TO MONEY TRANSMITTERS MODERNIZATION ACT. Aligns Hawaii's money transmitters law with the provisions of the Model Money Transmitters Modernization Act, thereby enabling Hawaii to work within a network of states to license, supervise, and examine transglobal money transmission companies as a multi-state system. Enables timely, coordinated, and efficient regulation of money transmission companies to achieve financial stability and economic growth, while providing consumer protection. Allows the State to share resources, data, and technology tools with other states to create a stronger multi-state system of financial regulation. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE USE OF ELECTRONIC FILING BY THE PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION. Authorizes the Public Utilities Commission to use electronic filing processes, including electronic service of documents, to conform to the provisions of chapters 269, 271, and 271G, Hawaii Revised Statutes, and current practices. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT. Clarifies the scope of the Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan; delineates allowable uses of Major Disaster Fund monies; increases the amount of the additional funds that may be made available for the purpose of matching federal disaster relief fund from $5,000,000 to $10,000,000; shortens the duration of price control periods from 96 hours to 72 hours; defines "Severe Warning"; and clarifies that entities other than the National Weather Service issue warnings that may require the activation of the emergency management system; appropriates moneys to the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency for the planning and design of a new facility in Mililani, Oahu. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE PRACTICE OF BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS. Expands the exemption from the behavior analyst licensing requirements for certain teachers working in collaboration with a licensed behavior analyst or licensed psychologist. Removes the exemption from the behavior analyst licensing requirements for direct support workers. Allows a registered behavior technician who is under the direction of a licensed psychologist to implement applied behavior analysis services. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO EDUCATIONAL HEALTH SERVICES. Allows the administration of medication to public school students by health assistants with the approval of a health care professional within the Department of Education, Department of Health, or a health care service per a written agreement with the Department of Education. Replaces the term "school health aides" with "school health assistants" to reflect recent changes to the job title. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO INFANT AND EARLY CHILDHOOD MENTAL HEALTH. Establishes the infant and early childhood mental health program within the Department of Health to provide and coordinate mental health services for children up to 5 years of age, develop and implement flexible strategies for the delivery of services and workforce training, and promote better understanding of the needs of infants and young children, the importance of positive early relationships, and the benefits of trauma-informed care. Appropriates funds for the establishment of the center, including 1 permanent full-time equivalent (1.0 FTE) position. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO HOUSING. Authorizes counties to promote certain labor standards through zoning ordinances. Includes off-site construction of a public work project under Hawaii's law on the wages and hours of employees on public works. Requires that all orders from the Governor to set aside public lands for the development of affordable housing contain a provision that the construction of the development be subject to Hawaii's law on the wages and hours of employees on public works. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO HISTORIC PRESERVATION REVIEWS. Authorizes 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 or located in a designated historic district. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING ON HAWAIIAN HOME LANDS. Makes permanent Act 141, Session Laws of Hawaii 2009, which requires the counties to issue affordable housing credits to the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands upon the Department?s request. Makes permanent Act 98, Session Laws of Hawaii 2012, which requires the counties to issue affordable housing credits for each residential unit developed by the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands. (SD1)
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RELATING TO LICENSES TO SOLEMNIZE MARRIAGES. Establishes a standard license to solemnize marriages, valid for one year from the date of issuance. Establishes a short-term license to solemnize marriages, valid for sixty days from the date of issuance. Establishes a fee of $100 per year for the issuance of a standard license. Establishes a fee of $25 per sixty-day period for a short-term license. Specifies in what amount and to which fund license fees shall be deposited. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE EXECUTIVE OFFICE ON AGING. Clarifies the definitions of "caregiver support services", "kupuna care services", and "respite care". (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE EXECUTIVE OFFICE ON AGING ADMINISTRATIVE CLAIMING SPECIAL FUND. Clarifies the allowable revenues to be deposited into the Executive Office on Aging Administrative Claiming Special Fund and the purposes for which the fund may be used. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO WATER POLLUTION CONTROL. Revises chapter 342D, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to add definitions that are consistent with federal Clean Water Act regulations. Clarifies the Director of Health's role as a certifying agency including enforcement of water quality certifications, and increases certain statutory civil penalties. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO UNLICENSED CARE HOMES. Clarifies that any person, corporation, or entity is prohibited from knowingly referring or transferring patients to an uncertified or unlicensed care facility. Repeals the landlord exclusion. (SD1)
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RELATING TO PENALTIES FOR UNLICENSED CARE HOMES. Clarifies the penalty to be assessed on any person who intentionally operates a care facility without a certificate or license. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE REPEAL OF SECTION 328-106, HAWAII REVISED STATUTES. Repeals section 328-106, Hawaii Revised Statutes. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE HAWAII EMPLOYMENT SECURITY LAW. Creates the Unemployment Insurance Technology Special Fund that will be funded by an additional assessment of .01 per cent to Unemployment Compensation Trust Fund contributions to support the information technology operating and maintenance expenses for the payment of benefits and contributions under Hawaii's Employment Security Law. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT. Amends chapter 202, Hawaii Revised Statutes (HRS), to be consistent with the General Appropriations Act of 2021, Act 88, Session Laws of Hawaii 2021. Renames "Hawaii Workforce Development Council" to "Hawaii Workforce Development Board". Requires the Hawaii Workforce Development Board and local workforce development boards to develop written conflict of interest policies consistent with federal law and regulations. Requires the Governor to select the chairperson of the board from among the seventeen private sector members. Requires the Hawaii Workforce Development Board to assist the Governor in the coordinating of local workforce development boards in improving and developing a statewide workforce development system. Repeals the requirement for the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to submit an annual report to the Legislature on the activities of the K-12 Agriculture Workforce Development Pipeline Initiative. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO THE WAGE AND HOUR LAW. Expands the coverage of employees and employers covered under the minimum wage, overtime, and recordkeeping requirements of chapter 387, Hawaii Revised Statutes, by deleting from the definition of "employee" employees guaranteed a monthly compensation of $2,000 or more. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO DECLARATION OF WATER SHORTAGE AND EMERGENCY. Clarifies the conditions, manner, and areas in which the Commission on Water Resource Management of the Department of Land and Natural Resources can declare water shortages and emergencies. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO REAL PROPERTY DISCLOSURES WITHIN SHORELINE AREAS. Requires mandatory disclosure of all existing permitted and unpermitted shoreline erosion control structures and the annual coastal erosion rates for shoreline properties in real estate transactions when publicly available. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO ADMINISTRATIVE PENALTIES ON PUBLIC LANDS. Authorizes the Board of Land and Natural Resources to place a lien on property for noncompliance with administrative enforcement action. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE UNIFORM CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES ACT. Amends section 4 of Act 153, Session Laws of Hawaii 2018, to make permanent the requirements under section 329-38.2, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to check the electronic prescription accountability system in certain situations as enumerated.
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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, 2022. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO CAPITAL ADVANCEMENT CONTRACTS. Increases the total contract value and total aggregate value of capital advancement contracts entered into by the Department of Transportation for harbor improvements. Requires reports to the Legislature. Takes effect 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO AERONAUTICS. Authorizes the Department of Transportation Airports Division to demand and collect reimbursement from any airport contractor, tenant, or user for the entire amount of fines and penalties levied for the violation of federal, state, or county laws related to environmental protection or the United States Department of Homeland Security. Allows the Department of Transportation Airports Division to enter into a capital advancement contract with a private party for certain public improvement or construction projects at Hawaii's airports under certain circumstances. Takes effect 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO COMMERCIAL MOTOR VEHICLE WEIGHT LIMITS. Requires vehicle weights to be consistent with federal weight limits with respect to legal limits for gross vehicle weight and axle loads traveling on all public roadways. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE DRUG AND ALCOHOL TOXICOLOGY TESTING LABORATORY. Amends references to amends the administration of the State Drug and Alcohol Toxicology Testing Laboratory Special Fund. Appropriates funds to the Department of Transportation Highways Division to deposit state highway funds to the Drug and Alcohol Toxicology Testing Laboratory Special Fund. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII RESIDENT TUITION FEE. Requires the University of Hawaii to grant resident tuition fees for enrollment at any University of Hawaii campus to individuals who have graduated from a Hawaii high school and are enrolling in an undergraduate degree program, under certain conditions. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII. Exempts certain University of Hawaii contracts involving research and training from the Hawaii Public Procurement Code and requires the Board of Regents to develop internal policies and procedures for those procurements. Repeals the requirement that the Board of Regents develop internal policies and procedures for the procurement of construction. Authorizes the University of Hawaii President to delegate procurement authority for research and training to the University's Vice President for Research and Innovation. Requires the Board of Regents to submit reports to the Legislature. (SD2)
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RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII. Requires the University of Hawaii to submit annual reports of all University employees who performed work from a location outside of the State during the applicable year to the Legislature no later than December 31 of that year. (SD2)
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RELATING TO GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY. Requires any report of a study or an audit enacted with a legislative appropriation or adopted by concurrent resolution to be submitted to the President of the Senate, Speaker of the House of Representatives, the chairs of the appropriate subject matter committee of each house, and the Legislative Reference Bureau library. Requires a public hearing or informational briefing within 1 year of receipt of the report, except under certain circumstances. Requires a public hearing or informational briefing within 1 year of the publication of the performance audit reports. Exempts financial and other regularly occurring audits. Requires state departments and agencies to submit a report to the Legislature containing certain information regarding new, funded state programs within 1 year of the date on which the program's enabling Act became law. Effective 7/1/2112. (SD2)
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RELATING TO CLIMATE CHANGE. Requires the Hawaii Community Development Authority to consider the impacts of climate change, sea level rise, and climate resilience development in the design and siting of buildings in the Kaka‘ako and Kalaeloa community development districts. (SD1)
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RELATING TO NOISE POLLUTION. Establishes a person's conduct that produces, or causes to be produced, noise exceeding a certain decibel level during night time hours in any area zoned as residential or mixed-use residential as unreasonable noise that constitutes the offense of disorderly conduct. Appropriates funds for enforcement. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO PASS-THROUGH ENTITY TAXATION. Authorizes certain pass-through entities to elect to pay Hawaii income tax at the entity level. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO OHANA ZONES. Appropriates funds for the ohana zones pilot program, including expenses relating to operations, upkeep of facilities, provision of services, and administrative costs. Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds for the construction of facilities for the ohana zones pilot program. Establishes one position within the Office of the Governor that is responsible for the deployment of the capital improvement funds appropriated by this Act. Specifies certain exemptions shall apply to the ohana zone construction. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO TOBACCO PRODUCTS. Repeals existing law that provides that all local ordinances or regulations that regulate the sale of cigarettes, tobacco products, and electronic smoking devices are preempted and that existing local laws and regulations conflicting with state law that governs smoking are null and void. Clarifies that counties retain the authority to adopt ordinances that regulate the sale of cigarettes, tobacco products, and electronic smoking devices, provided that the ordinances are more stringent than the provisions in state law that govern smoking. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO PSILOCYBIN. Establishes the Therapeutic Psilocybin Working Group within the Department of Health. Requires the working group to examine the medicinal and therapeutic effects of psilocybin or psilocybin‑based products on mental health, report to the Legislature before the Regular Session of 2025, and dissolve on 6/30/2025. Appropriates funds. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO THE ISSUANCE OF SPECIAL PURPOSE REVENUE BONDS TO HONOKAA LAND COMPANY, LLC. Authorizes the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds to assist Honokaa Land Company, LLC, with acquiring, developing, and renovating agricultural facilities. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE ISSUANCE OF SPECIAL PURPOSE REVENUE BONDS TO ASSIST KOHALA MOUNTAIN FISH COMPANY, LLC. Authorizes the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds to assist Kohala Mountain Fish Company, LLC, in establishing The Village project. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO LIMITED-PROFIT HOUSING ASSOCIATIONS. Establishes an organizational, tax, and regulatory framework for limited-profit housing associations. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO PROCUREMENT. Allows agencies to rank fewer than three persons for professional services when fewer than three qualified persons respond to the solicitation or request to use alternative procurement procedures when no qualified person responds to the solicitation. Effective 7/1/2112. (SD2)
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RELATING TO RIGHT OF ENTRY FOR PROFESSIONAL SURVEYORS. Authorizes professional land surveyors, and any assistant under the direct supervision of the land surveyor, to enter any private property to perform land surveying, subject to certain provisions regarding notice and identification. Shields land surveyors and their assistants from prosecution under criminal trespass laws when performing their duties. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO THE FIRST RESPONDERS TECHNOLOGY CAMPUS AND CYBERSECURITY DATA CENTER. Appropriates funds for the development of the First Responders Technology Campus and Cybersecurity Data Center. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO CORRECTIONS. Requires the Department of Public Safety to install digital cameras in all guard control rooms of any correctional center housing women. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICES. Appropriates funds for the: expansion and enhancement of the suicide crisis hotline and crisis management services provided by contracted service providers through the Hawaii Coordinated Access Resource Entry System (CARES) Crisis Helpline; expansion and enhancement of the crisis mobile outreach services provided by contracted service providers through the Hawaii CARES Crisis Helpline; expansion of licensed crisis residential shelter services provided by contracted service providers through the Hawaii CARES Crisis Helpline; and expansion of bed stabilization services provided by contracted service providers through the Hawaii CARES Crisis Helpline. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO HEALTH. Requires the Department of Health and Department of Human Services to develop and adopt rules, policies, and plan amendments necessary to ensure that the state Medicaid program covers medically necessary services, including applied behavior analysis services, for individuals aged twenty—one and older with neurodevelopmental disorders, including autism spectrum disorder. Requires the Department of Health and Department of Human Services to apply for any necessary approvals from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to amend the state Medicaid plan to provide reimbursements for medically necessary services, including applied behavior analysis services to Medicaid-eligible individuals over the age of twenty-one diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO MEDICAID. Appropriates funds to the Department of Human Services for the achievement of full funding, including estimated payment increases, of Medicaid Home- and Community-Based Services. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO SPECIAL PURPOSE REVENUE BONDS. Authorizes the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds to assist West Maui Hospital Foundation, Inc. in the construction of West Maui Hospital and Medical Center in the County of Maui, including any necessary infrastructure. Requires the County of Maui to serve as guarantor of any debt service on the special purpose revenue bonds. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO OFFENSIVE CYBERSECURITY. Establishes an offensive cybersecurity program within the Office of Enterprise Technology Services to analyze an evaluate cybersecurity threats and increase cybersecurity awareness and education. Establishes a goal for all state and county agencies to identify and address vulnerabilities having a benchmark score exceeding 3.9 on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System by January 1, 2026. Makes appropriations and authorizes the establishment of positions. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO AEROSPACE DEVELOPMENT. Establishes the Aerospace and Aeronautics Development Program within the Hawaii Technology Development Corporation. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO MEAT PROCESSING. Requires the Department of Agriculture, in collaboration with the Hawaii Interagency Council on Homelessness; Department of Land and Natural Resources, Division of Forestry and Wildlife; and Department of Health, Food Safety Branch; and in consultation with the County of Maui Axis Deer Task Force, to develop and implement a plan to expand the meat processing and distribution capacity in the State to allow for meat from axis deer and other wild game to be processed for distribution by nonprofit food distribution services by 7/1/2024. Appropriates funds. Takes effect 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO LIVESTOCK. Requires the University of Hawaii College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources, in consultation with livestock industry stakeholders, to conduct a study to assess the effects of heat stress on beef cattle during interisland ocean transportation. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO STATE EMPLOYEES. Requires the State to defend professionally licensed or certified state employees from civil actions when the employee was acting within the scope of their employment and was not grossly negligent or wanton. Requires that if the State refuses to defend a state or county employee from civil actions on certain grounds, that the State file a motion to be heard with the court. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO MENTAL HEALTH. Requires the Department of Health to track and publicly report certain data relating to crisis reports, emergency mental health transports, and court-ordered treatments. Requires the Department of Health to respond to reports about persons having severe mental illness who are in need of assistance and to assess whether those persons may fulfill the criteria for assisted community treatment. Establishes that a court's denial of a petition for involuntary commitment shall serve as notification to the Department of Health that the person should be evaluated for assisted community treatment. Requires the Department of the Attorney General to assist with the preparation and filing of petitions for assisted community treatment, unless declined by the petitioner. Appropriates funds to the Department of Health for software and data collection and publication. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO LOBBYISTS. Prohibits, during legislative sessions and shortly before and after, lobbyist contributions, and promises of contributions, to any elected official or to any candidate or candidate committee who has received contributions or made or incurred expenditures of more than $100 in the applicable election period requiring the filing of an organizational report with the Campaign Spending Commission. Takes effect 3/22/2075. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE PROTECTION OF TARO. Prohibits the Board of Land and Natural Resources from disturbing or acquiring for development certain wetland taro‑growing lands. Establishes a taro lands classification for public lands. Permits structures for loi taro fields in the agricultural district. Establishes growth and perpetuation of traditional Hawaiian crops as a goal of the Hawaii State Planning Act. Authorizes the Land Use Commission to create an inventory of taro lands and consult with former members of the Taro Security and Purity Task Force in the creation of the inventory. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION. Requires hourly peer-to-peer car sharing operators to insure the shared car with personal injury protection benefit and basic liability coverage. Authorizes the Department of Transportation to regulate peer-to-peer car share parking at state airports. Authorizes the counties to regulate peer-to-peer parking on county streets. Takes effect 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO A MODERN HAWAII HISTORY MUSEUM. Establishes a Museum of Modern Hawaii History. Establishes a task force to develop plans for the establishment, construction, and operation of the Museum of Modern Hawaii History. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION. Authorizes the Department of Transportation to delay or deny approval for port entry or departure in instances when the Department of Transportation receives notice from a federal agency or other agency that a vessel or its crew has engaged in activity that has violated any federal, state, or county law or rule pertaining to environmental protection or maritime transportation. Authorizes the Department of Transportation to grant approvals for use of any commercial harbor facility by a vessel in coordination with a federal agency or other agency. Effective 3/22/2075. (SD2)
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RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION. Establishes a safe routes for people implementation program and safe routes for people implementation committee to develop strategies and facilitate transportation-related projects that ensure the safety of keiki and kupuna using ground transportation facilities. Authorizes the safe routes for people implementation committee to develop the application process under the safe routes to school program. Renames the safe routes to school program special fund to the safe routes for people special fund and amends its purpose. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO THE STATE ARCHIVES. Establishes additional funding sources for, and authorizes additional expenditures of moneys in, the state archives preservation and long-term access special fund. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2112. (SD2)
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RELATING TO UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII ASTRONOMY ENGINEERING AND INSTRUMENTATION. Establishes a center for the design, development, and fabrication of astronomical instruments within the University of Hawaii. Appropriates funds for the center's planning and design and 10 full-time equivalent faculty positions within the center. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE RESEARCH CORPORATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII. Clarifies the purpose of the Research Corporation of the University of Hawaii and that its undertakings shall be limited to acts that are reasonably necessary to carry out its purpose. Repeals the requirement that the University of Hawaii contract with the Research Corporation when the University determines that other various agencies cannot more effectively or efficiently accomplish certain research and training activities. Grandfathers existing Research Corporation contracts and requires new contracts be subject to new limitations. Limits the scope of the special account the Research Corporation is authorized to establish. Requires revolving accounts to follow University of Hawaii Administrative Procedure 12.204. Limits internal service orders and revolving accounts of the Research Corporation that use University intramural funds to certain projects and requires biannual reports to the Legislature. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO PUBLIC AGENCY MEETINGS. Requires a Public Agency Board to report any discussion or final action taken during an executive meeting; provided that such disclosure is not inconsistent with the purpose of convening the executive meeting, but giving the Board discretion to maintain confidentiality.
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RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. Provides procurement exemptions for the Department of Education for certain goods, services, and construction. Sunsets 6/30/2026. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO THE HAWAII PACIFIC HYDROGEN HUB. Requires the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to work with the University of Hawaii on workforce development activities that support the development of the Hawaii Pacific Hydrogen Hub and other related aspects of the State's hydrogen energy industry. Appropriates funds to the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism for the Hawaii Pacific Hydrogen Hub. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO SUSTAINABLE LAND USE. Requires the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development to create an integrated land use study for the use of land within the agricultural district. Requires the Hawaii State Energy Office, Department of Agriculture, Department of Transportation, and Hawaii Tourism Authority to update various state functional plans. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. Establishes an Office of Tourism and Destination Management within the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism that encompasses regenerative tourism and best practice destination management. Transfers the functions, duties, appropriations, and positions of the Hawaii Tourism Authority to the Office of Tourism and Destination Management. Requires the Office of Tourism and Destination Management to implement certain county destination management action plans. Dissolves the Hawaii Tourism Authority and the Board of Directors for the Hawaii Tourism Authority. Appropriates funds. Takes effect 1/6/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO THE STATE BOARD OF PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS, ARCHITECTS, SURVEYORS AND LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS. Requires the State Board of Professional Engineers, Architects, Surveyors and Landscape Architects to, upon its denial of an application for licensure, provide the applicant with a written notice of denial accompanied by a written explanation describing the reasons for the Board's denial. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO ADDRESS CONFIDENTIALITY. Changes the governmental entity responsible for the administration of the Address Confidentiality Program from the Office of the Lieutenant Governor to the Department of Law Enforcement. Allows the Department of Law Enforcement to contract with a third party for the mail forwarding and acceptance of service of legal process aspects of the program. Appropriates funds for full-time equivalent positions, operating costs, and equipment to support the Department of Law Enforcement in administering the Address Confidentiality Program. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO MENTAL HEALTH. Establishes the Beneficial Treatments Advisory Council to review mental health treatment information and advise the Department of Health. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO CULTURE AND ARTS. Establishes the Hawaii Leadership Awards Program to honor persons from Hawaii who have made considerable and outstanding contributions to the State and who serve as an inspiration to others. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION. Replaces the $50 annual vehicle registration surcharge for electric vehicles with a capped mileage-based road user fee for certain electric vehicles. Establishes the Hawaii Highway Safety and Modernization Council and repeals the State Highway Safety Council, effective 7/1/2050. Provides that implementation of mileage-based road user fees take effect 1/1/2025. (SD2)
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RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION. Allows the Director of Transportation to exempt certain ground transportation facility projects from historic preservation review and the environmental impact statement law, subject to certain conditions. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE JUDICIARY. Makes appropriations to the Judiciary for capital improvement projects for the fiscal biennium beginning 7/1/2023, and ending 6/30/2025. Effective 1/7/2059. (SD2)
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RELATING TO VOTING MORE THAN ONCE DURING AN ELECTION. Specifies that Hawaii voters are prohibited from casting more than one ballot during an election, even if one of those ballots is cast in an election outside of Hawaii.
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RELATING TO PUBLIC FINANCING FOR CANDIDATES TO ELECTED OFFICE. Establishes a comprehensive system of public financing for all candidates seeking election to state and county public offices in the State of Hawaii, to begin with the 2026 general election year. Requires the Campaign Spending Commission to submit a progress and final report to the Legislature. Appropriates funds. Takes effect 03/22/2075. (SD2)
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RELATING TO VALUE-ADDED PRODUCTS. Establishes a food and product innovation network within the Agribusiness Development Corporation. Appropriates moneys for food and product innovation facilities on the islands of Molokai and Oahu. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO SUPPORTIVE HOUSING. Establishes a supportive housing pilot program in the Statewide Office on Homelessness and Housing Solutions. Appropriates funds. Requires reports to the Legislature. Effective 6/30/3000. (SD2)
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RELATING TO INVASIVE SPECIES. Appropriates funds to the Department of Land and Natural Resources to support the Hawaii Ant Lab in mitigating the effects of little fire ants in the State. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION. Authorizes the State Board for Career and Technical Education to cooperate with the Legislature to advise on provisions of all nonfederal funds received that are earmarked for career and technical education. Requires the State Board for Career and Technical Education, in collaboration with the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism and Department of Labor and Industrial Relations, to develop and implement workforce development pathways. Amends the membership composition of the Career and Technical Education Coordinating Advisory Council. Requires annual reports to the Legislature. Appropriates funds for the development and implementation of workforce development pathways and differential pay increases for career and technical education teachers. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO TAXATION. Extends the period in which a county may adopt a surcharge on state tax, under certain conditions, from 3/31/2019 to 12/31/2023. Authorizes the use of county surcharge revenues for housing infrastructure. Temporarily authorizes counties that have previously adopted a surcharge on state tax to amend the rates and uses of the surcharge. (SD2)
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RELATING TO TELEWORK. Establishes a temporary Telework Working Group. Requires interim and final reports to the Legislature. Makes an appropriation. Effective 07/01/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO COLLECTIVE BARGAINING. Creates a separate bargaining unit (16) for City and County of Honolulu Emergency Services Department employees. Recategorizes City and County of Honolulu Emergency Services Department employees from bargaining unit (10) into bargaining unit (16). Takes effect 1/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING. Establishes a working group within the Office of the Governor for administrative purposes to ascertain the State's available water resources and water system source capacity and streamline well permit approval processes to further plan for the development of affordable housing. Requires the working group to inventory all available water resources statewide and identify sources of aquifer replenishment in relation to affordable housing development. Requires an interim and final report to the Legislature. (SD2)
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RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND CONSUMER AFFAIRS. Requires the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs to make all business registration applications available online. Requires all applications to contain certain contact information. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO CABLE TELEVISION SYSTEMS. Adds additional considerations for the Director of Commerce and Consumer Affairs to take into account when ensuring that the terms and conditions required for operation of an access organization are fair to the public in its designated service area. Requires cable operators to include viewership numbers for channels designated for public, educational, and government access use in its reports to the Director of Commerce and Consumer Affairs. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII COLLEGE OF TROPICAL AGRICULTURE AND HUMAN RESOURCES. Appropriates funds to the University of Hawaii to establish five full-time equivalent (5.0 FTE) extension specialist agent positions at the College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO FOOD SAFETY. Appropriates funds to the Department of Agriculture to establish and implement a GroupGAP food safety training and certification program. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO THE SENIOR MEDICARE PATROL PROGRAM. Appropriates funds for 3 additional program specialist positions within the Executive Office on Aging for the State's Senior Medicare Patrol Program. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO CRISIS INTERVENTION. Establishes a Crisis Intervention and Diversion Program within the Department of Health to divert those with mental health issues to appropriate health care services. Defines "crisis center" and "crisis intervention officer". Authorizes a person believed to be imminently dangerous to self or others by a law enforcement officer to be assisted by a crisis intervention officer and transported to a designated crisis center. Appropriates funds for the Crisis Intervention and Diversion Program and for the Department of Health certify law enforcement officers in mental health first aid, as disseminated by the National Council for Mental Wellbeing, and the crisis intervention team model, as developed by Crisis Intervention Team International. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO SCHOOL CAMPUSES. Establishes and appropriates moneys for a Maui campus housing pilot program, to be administered by the School Facilities Authority which shall make on-campus housing available to employees at Lahainaluna and Kulanihakoi high schools on the island of Maui, which shall be administered by the Hawaii Public Housing Authority after the construction. Requires the School Facilities Authority and Department of Education to submit joint reports to the Legislature. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO WATER TESTING. Appropriates funds to the University of Hawaii Maui College to support water testing on the island of Maui, including supplies and the establishment of 2 full-time equivalent positions. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO NATIVE HAWAIIAN AFFAIRS. Appropriates funds for certain departments to provide grants to tax-exempt nonprofit organizations that have experience and expertise in supporting and advancing Native Hawaiian communities. Amends Act 195, Session Laws of Hawaii 2022, to include additional grant requirements. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO COLLECTIVE BARGAINING. Retains institutional, health, and correctional workers except for adult corrections officers of the Department of Public Safety's Corrections Division or its successor agency of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation under bargaining unit (10). Creates a separate bargaining unit (16) for adult corrections officers of the Department of Public Safety's Corrections Division or its successor agency. Takes effect 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH. Requires the Developmental Disabilities Division of the Department of Health to amend the eligibility criteria for the Home and Community-Based Services Medicaid Waiver to include individuals with an intellectual or developmental disability and a comorbid mental illness. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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