OFFICE OF THE SPEAKER
TWENTY-EIGHTH STATE LEGISLATURE
COMMITTEE REFERRALS
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NO. 26
26TH LEGISLATIVE DAY-MARCH 10, 2016
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Committee Abbreviations:
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AGR - Agriculture |
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CPC - Consumer Protection & Commerce |
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EDB - Economic Development & Business |
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EDN - Education |
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EEP - Energy & Environmental Protection |
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FIN - Finance |
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HED - Higher Education |
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HLT - Health |
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HSG - Housing |
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HUS - Human Services |
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JUD - Judiciary |
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LAB - Labor & Public Employment |
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LMG - Legislative Management |
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OMH - Ocean, Marine Resources, & Hawaiian Affairs |
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PBS - Public Safety |
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TOU - Tourism |
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TRN - Transportation |
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VMI - Veterans, Military, & International Affairs, & Culture and the Arts |
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WAL - Water & Land |
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RELATING TO APPROPRIATIONS. Makes an appropriation from the tourism special fund for fiscal year 2016-2017 for travel expenses and subsidies incurred by the intercollegiate athletics program of the University of Hawaii. Requires the governor to determine whether the funding for the travel expenses and subsidies should continue beyond fiscal year 2016-2017. Requires, if determining that such funding should continue, the governor to take appropriate action to implement the determination. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE REGISTRY OF CLEAN AND SOBER HOMES. Provides immunity from liability to DOH and its employees, agents, and volunteers for operating the clean and sober homes registry. Takes effect on 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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HLT, JUD, FIN |
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RELATING TO EDUCATION. Requires the board of education to name the new public high school in Kihei, Maui, the "Patsy Takemoto Mink Kihei High School" in honor of the late United States Representative Patsy Takemoto Mink. (SD1)
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EDN, FIN |
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RELATING TO TECHNOLOGY. Requires a cable operator to disclose the maximum bandwidth available and a statement that outside factors may affect the actual bandwidth received for cable communication services. (SD1)
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CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO EDUCATION. Allows a licensed or credentialed educational practitioner to utilize behavior analysis principles and techniques without being licensed as a behavior analyst; provided the unlicensed individual's use of those techniques is limited to the individual's recognized scope of practice. Eff. 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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EDN, CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO HUNTING. Establishes the Hawaii apprentice hunting license program. Provides for the issuance of a Hawaii apprentice hunting license to program participants between the ages of ten and seventeen. Establishes requirements for program participation. Exempts a holder of an apprentice license from taking the required hunter education class prior to licensure under section 183D-22, Hawaii Revised Statutes. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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WAL, FIN |
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RELATING TO CAMPAIGN SPENDING. Increases the amounts of fines that may be assessed against persons other than individuals for campaign spending violations. Allows the campaign spending commission to recover its costs from violators. Directs moneys collected for costs to be deposited in the Hawaii election campaign fund.
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JUD, FIN |
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RELATING TO CAMPAIGN SPENDING. Specifies certain types of dissemination, distribution, republication, and use of campaign materials, the financing of which by any person shall not be considered a contribution to a candidate. Effective January 7, 2059. (SD1)
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JUD, FIN |
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RELATING TO HEALTH CARE. Establishes a durable medical equipment supplier license program for suppliers of durable medical equipment, prosthetics, orthotics, and related supplies through the office of health care assurance. Allows license fees to be deposited into the office of health care assurance special fund. Amends the cap on amounts of the health care assurance special fund that may be used per fiscal year. Amends the balance of the office of health care assurance special fund above which moneys are deposited into the general fund. Effective 1/21/17. (SD2)
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HLT, CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO SEPARATION BENEFITS. Authorizes public employees facing position abolishment, reduction-in-force, or workforce restructuring to opt to receive either voluntary severance benefits or a special retirement benefit in lieu of exercising any reduction-in-force rights. Effective January 7, 2059. Sunsets on July 1, 2018. (SD1)
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LAB, FIN |
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RELATING TO THE STATEWIDE TRAFFIC CODE. Prohibits smoking in a motor vehicle in which a minor is present. Requires the department of health to report on the enforceability and data collection activities of the respective law enforcement agencies. Takes effect on 1/7/2059. (SD1)
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TRN, JUD, FIN |
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RELATING TO AGING. Part I: Makes an appropriation for the kupuna care program. Part II: Makes an appropriation for the aging and disability resource center. Part III: Makes an appropriation for fall prevention and early detection services for the elderly. Part IV: Makes an appropriation for the healthy aging partnership program. Part V: Makes an appropriation for an Alzheimer's disease and related dementia services coordinator position and for an Alzheimer's disease and related dementia public awareness program. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO DISTRICT JUDGES. Increases the number of district judges in the second judicial circuit by one. (SD2)
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JUD, FIN |
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RELATING TO DISTRICT COURT SMALL CLAIMS. Establishes small claims division's exclusive jurisdiction of cases for amounts of $1,000 or less. Allows plaintiff to request removal of small claims cases to be heard in ordinary procedures of the district court when counterclaim is filed. Allows a plaintiff to file cases in either the small claims division or regular claims division of district court if the plaintiff is represented by an attorney. Prohibits the award of attorney's fees in cases for amounts of $1,000 or less exclusive of interests and costs if the plaintiff is represented by an attorney and the district court has concurrent jurisdiction with the small claims division of district court. Takes effect 1/1/2017. (SD1)
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RELATING TO SEARCH WARRANTS. Allows courts to authorize a person or entity, other than an officer of justice, to carry out a search warrant. Allows courts to authorize an officer to obtain technical assistance if the search warrant granted pertains to an electronic device or storage media and the officer submits a sworn statement. Effective 7/1/2076. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE COLLECTION OF RESTITUTION FOR CRIME VICTIMS. Creates standards and procedures for income-withholding for purposes of enforcing restitution orders. Amends the definition of "debt" relating to the recovery of money owed to the State to include court-ordered restitution subject to civil enforcement. Provides priority of income withholding orders. Extends victims' access to adult probation records to include access to payment compliance records. Requires that any bail posted by a defendant be applied toward payment of any court-ordered restitution in the same case. Makes permanent Act 119, SLH 2011, which allows certain adult probation records to be provided to certain case management, assessment, or treatment service providers upon the screening for admission, acceptance, or admittance of the defendant into a treatment program. Extends for an additional two years the increase in percentage deducted from inmates' earnings for restitution payments pursuant to Act 139, SLH 2012. Appropriates funds. Takes effect on 7/1/2076. (SD2)
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RELATING TO THE USE OF A DOG IN JUDICIAL PROCEEDINGS. Authorizes any state court to permit the use of a facility dog in a judicial proceeding involving the testimony of a vulnerable witness if the court determines that there is a compelling necessity for the use of a trained and credentialed facility dog to facilitate the testimony of a vulnerable witness. Takes effect on 1/7/2059. (SD1)
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RELATING TO ELECTIONS. Provides that the preparation of absentee ballots for counting may include opening the return envelope in which the ballot is enclosed and the validation of signatures, but shall not include opening the ballot envelope. Allows official election observers to be present during this process. Requires that, unless otherwise stated, the opening of return absentee ballot envelopes and signature validation commence the day immediately after ballots are transmitted to voters through election day. Provides that the counting of absentee ballots may begin no earlier than the fifteenth day prior to an election and establishes stages of absentee ballot counting. Prohibits persons present during the counting of absentee ballots from disclosing the results. Allows, rather than requires, observation of ballot handling by an official. Allows defective ballots to be replaced with new ballots by counting center employees without the presence of at least two official observers. Establishes a misdemeanor for any person who wilfully causes the results of any absentee ballot count to become publicly known before the polls have officially closed. (SD1)
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RELATING TO PUBLIC AGENCY MEETINGS AND RECORDS. Makes Act 221, SLH 2014, permanent, which allows county councils to hold limited meetings for the purpose of attending the meetings of other boards or community groups within the State; provided that the county council gives notice of the limited meeting, that such meetings take place no more than once per month, and that the county councils comply with other requirements under chapter 92, HRS. Requires that the county councils submit annual reports to the legislature on the effectiveness of the new procedures. Effective July 1, 2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO ZONING. Clarifies county zoning authority by distinguishing single-family residential use from single-family vacation rental use and allowing amortization by ordinance for single-family transient vacation rentals over a reasonable period. Effective July 1, 2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO ENERGY. Restores the amendments made to sections 243-1 and 243-4(a), HRS, which sunsetted on 12/31/2015. Clarifies that naphtha fuel, used in a power-generating facility, is subject to the fuel tax at a rate of 2 cents per gallon, retroactive to 1/1/2016. (SD2)
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EEP, FIN |
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RELATING TO TAXATION. Changes the tax rate on the sale of large cigars beginning 7/1/16.
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CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. Establishes an on-farm mentoring program to teach and train farmers to utilize a whole farm system approach to agriculture. Makes an appropriation to the department of agriculture to support existing on-farm mentoring programs and for a pilot on-farm mentoring program in Maui. Eff. 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO FORFEITURE. Requires the department of the attorney general to establish a working group to review and discuss Hawaii's asset forfeiture laws and make recommendations to improve these laws. Effective January 7, 2059. (SD2)
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RELATING TO ADOPTION RECORDS. Allows adopted individuals who have attained eighteen years of age, adoptive parents, and natural parents unfettered access to the adopted individual's sealed adoption records. (SD1)
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RELATING TO WILDLIFE. Authorizes the department of land and natural resources to enter into the interstate wildlife violator compact or similar agreement for mutual assistance in the enforcement of wildlife laws. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO HAWAIIAN LANGUAGE. Appropriates funds to establish long-term Hawaiian language resources for the judiciary. Effective 7/1/2076. (SD2)
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OMH, FIN |
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RELATING TO SERVICE OF PROCESS. Allows notice of a water pollution and solid waste pollution violation to be given via a posting on a searchable government website or a sign conspicuously posted on the property, if appropriate, when attempts to serve the notice in person and by mail have been unsuccessful. Takes effect on 1/7/2059. (SD2)
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RELATING TO ACCESS TO TREATMENT FOR TERMINALLY ILL PATIENTS. Beginning January 1, 2017, allows manufacturers of investigational drugs or biological products to make available such drugs and products to terminally ill patients under certain conditions. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO LAW ENFORCEMENT. Defines "person in custody" as used in the offenses of sexual assault in the second degree and third degree to mean a person who is stopped by or under the control of a law enforcement officer for official purposes. (SD2)
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RELATING TO THE LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER INDEPENDENT REVIEW BOARD. Establishes the law enforcement officer independent review board within the department of the attorney general to investigate incidents of officer-involved death or serious bodily injury. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2076. (SD2)
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RELATING TO THE NURSING FACILITY SUSTAINABILITY PROGRAM. Continues the nursing facility sustainability program for one additional year. Appropriates funds out of the nursing facility sustainability program special fund for fiscal year 2016-2017. (SD2)
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RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. Appropriates funds for the operation, repair, maintenance, and improvement of the East Kauai irrigation system by the East Kauai Water Users' Cooperative. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO AFTER-SCHOOL PROGRAMS. Establishes the R.E.A.C.H (resources for enrichment, athletics, culture, and health) program in the office of youth services to provide a standardized framework and funding for after-school programs in public middle and intermediate schools. Authorizes participating schools to collect fees.
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RELATING TO EDUCATION. Creates and appropriates funds for the Erin's Law task force to guide the establishment of a program to educate public school students on sexual abuse prevention through use of age appropriate curricula; provide relevant training to school teachers and staff; and inform parents about important child sexual abuse topics. Sets out guidelines of instruction. Modeled after Erin's Law. Takes effect on 1/7/2059. (SD2)
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MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH TO REESTABLISH A VECTOR CONTROL BRANCH. Makes an appropriation to the department of health to hire more vector control employees and reestablish a vector control branch. (SD1)
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HLT, FIN |
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RELATING TO RETIREMENT. Provides that a member of the employees' retirement system who first earned credited service as a judge after June 30, 2016, and has at least twelve years of credited service and attained age sixty, or has at least twenty-five years of credited service and has attained age fifty-five is eligible to receive a pension after retirement. Reduces the retirement allowance for a member who first earned credited service as a judge after June 30, 2016, to two per cent of the member's average final compensation, reduced for each month the member's age at the date of retirement is below age sixty. (SD1)
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RELATING TO TESTING FOR INTOXICANTS. Repeals section 291E-68, Hawaii Revised Statutes, regarding refusing to submit to a breath, blood, or urine test for those arrested for the use of intoxicants while operating a vehicle. Makes conforming amendments to section 291E-15, Hawaii Revised Statutes.
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RELATING TO SENTENCING. Provides that the commission of certain offenses of assault, sexual assault, and abuse of a family of household member in the presence of a minor is an aggravating factor in the sentencing of the defendant convicted of the offense. Takes effect on 1/7/2059. (SD1)
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RELATING TO WAILUKU PROPERTIES. Requires the department of accounting and general services to develop a Wailuku state office master plan to address the shortage of space in the Wailuku state office building and old courthouse building. Makes an appropriation for the master plan. Makes an appropriation for the purchase of certain other properties in Wailuku. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO THE ENVIRONMENT. Makes eligible for membership on a county arborist advisory committee certified arborists, horticulturists with specialization in trees, and persons who have received a master's degree in botany. (SD1)
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RELATING TO ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION. Appropriates funds to the department of land and natural resources for research and mitigation efforts relating to the rapid ohia death disease in the State. Requires the department to submit a report to the legislature. Makes an appropriation. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO THE ISSUANCE OF SPECIAL PURPOSE REVENUE BONDS FOR GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF HAWAII, INC. Authorizes the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds to assist Goodwill Industries of Hawaii, Inc.
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HUS, FIN |
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RELATING TO GOVERNMENT RECORDS. Requires each unit of government of the State and its political subdivisions to exercise reasonable care in the maintenance of all government records under its control that are required to be made available for public inspection. Effective 7/1/2017. (SD2)
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RELATING TO THE ISSUANCE OF SPECIAL PURPOSE REVENUE BONDS TO ASSIST KEAHOLE MANAGEMENT GROUP LLC. Authorizes the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds to assist Keahole Management Group LLC with planning, designing, constructing, and equipping facilities for the manufacturing and processing of products. (SD1)
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RELATING TO DARK SKIES PROTECTION. Establishes an advisory committee to assist the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism in developing and implementing a statewide dark skies protection strategy. Sunsets 6/30/2021. (SD1)
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RELATING TO SEXUAL ASSAULT. Establishes the sexual assault kit tracking program. Requires a law enforcement agency to submit sexual assault kits obtained in connection to a criminal investigation to an authorized laboratory within 10 days, the laboratory to complete analysis within 6 months, and results to be uploaded to the state DNA database and data bank identification program and the Federal Bureau of Investigation Combined DNA Index System. Requires each law enforcement agency that obtains a sexual assault kit in connection to a criminal investigation to report to the department of the attorney general annually on the number of sexual assault kits in the custody of HPD that have not been submitted for analysis. Requires the prosecuting attorney of each county to submit a report to the legislature prior to the convening of the regular session 2017 on the number of untested kits and any progress on reducing the backlog. Requires the legislative reports to be made available to the public. Appropriates moneys. (SD2)
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RELATING TO EQUAL PAY. Clarifies affirmative defenses that an employer may use in a pay differential case. Prohibits employer actions regarding wage disclosure. Prohibits an employer from discriminating between employees because of sex by paying wages to employees at a rate less than the rate at which the employer pays wages to employees of the opposite sex for substantially similar work and under similar working conditions, with certain exceptions. Prohibits prospective employers from requesting or considering a job applicant's wage or salary history as part of the employment application process. Effective January 7, 2059. (SD2)
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RELATING TO JURY DUTY. Exempts from jury duty mothers who breastfeed or express breast milk; provided that this exemption shall end when a mother is no longer breastfeeding or expressing breast milk. Takes effect on 1/7/2059. (SD2)
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RELATING TO HEALTH. Appropriates funds to the department of health to conduct child death reviews and implement a program to perform maternal death reviews. Requires the department of health to submit an annual report to the legislature relating to child and maternal deaths and death reviews in the State. Requires any person, hospital, sanitorium, nursing or rest home, or other similar medical facility to provide information or other materials relating to the condition and treatment of any person to the maternal and perinatal mortality study committee of the Hawaii Medical Association, any in-hospital staff committee, or the Department of Health for studies to reduce morbidity or mortality. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO ADDRESS CONFIDENTIALITY. Establishes the address confidentiality program to help survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking to relocate and keep their addresses confidential. Appropriates funds. Effective 1/1/2017. (SD2)
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RELATING TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE. Requires any state or county agency who employs personnel whose job duties require or may require intervention in a domestic violence situation to provide such employees with a minimum of eight hours of domestic violence intervention training. Makes an appropriation. Takes effect on 1/7/2059. (SD2)
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RELATING TO INSURANCE COVERAGE OF HEALTH SCREENINGS. Ensures insurance coverage for sexually transmitted disease testing in accordance with national professional guidelines, such as those of the United States Preventive Services Task Force and the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Applies to health insurance policies, contracts, and plans issued or renewed after 1/1/2017. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO REAL ESTATE LICENSEE ADVERTISING. Provides definitions of "advertising" and "solicitation materials" as they apply to the regulation of real estate brokers and salespersons. Specifies information that must be included on advertising and solicitation materials. (SD1)
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RELATING TO SECURITY INTERESTS IN REAL PROPERTY. Requires a mortgagee or record assignee to provide to a mortgagor or borrower, upon full satisfaction of the mortgage and discharge of the secured debt, a reassignment or release of security interests in leases and rents that served as additional security for the mortgage. Authorizes title insurers or underwritten title companies to make demands on mortgagees and, in the absence of compliance, to reassign or release mortgagees' security interests in leases and rents on behalf of the mortgagee or record assignee, under certain conditions. Authorizes certain entities to institute an action in any circuit court to obtain the release or reassignment instrument in the absence of compliance of a mortgagee or record assignee. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE HOSPITAL SUSTAINABILITY PROGRAM. Continues the hospital sustainability program for one year. Appropriates funds out of the hospital sustainability program special fund for fiscal year 2016-2017. Amends various reimbursement rates under the program to certain private hospitals through medicaid managed care health plans, and uncompensated care and disproportionate share hospital payments. (SD2)
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RELATING TO PUBLIC HOUSING. Prohibits any county and the Hawaii public housing authority from disqualifying a legal nonconforming dwelling unit from the housing choice voucher program if the unit meets zoning and building code requirements and other program standards for health and safety. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM. Expands the types of investment personnel that may be appointed by the ERS. Beginning on 1/1/2018, requires ERS to make direct payments to a spouse of a system member or retirant pursuant to a Hawaii domestic relations order. (SD2)
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RELATING TO THE LAND USE COMMISSION. Authorizes the land use commission to amend, modify, or vacate boundary amendment approvals, special permit approvals, and conditions of direct state concern granted pursuant to chapter 205, Hawaii Revised Statutes, by motion of the commission or of any interested party. Allows the land use commission to fine parties who fail to comply with conditions of direct state concern after they have been notified of violations of the conditions. Adds a definition for "substantial commencement" in section 205-4(g), HRS. Effective January 7, 2059. (SD2)
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RELATING TO SEXUAL ASSAULT EVIDENCE. Requires law enforcement agencies and departments to compile information on untested sexual assault collection kits and transmit the information to the department of the attorney general. Requires the department of the attorney general to transmit that information to the president of the senate and the speaker of the house. (SD1)
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RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION. Establishes a speed limit of sixty miles per hour for the Daniel K. Inouye highway beginning at mile marker 19. Clarifies that the speed limit beginning at the Pohakuloa training area and ending one-half mile east of the Mauna Kea county park entrance, shall be forty-five miles per hour or any other speed limit determined by law. (SD1)
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RELATING TO PRESCRIPTION DRUG BENEFITS. Authorizes a beneficiary of a prescription drug benefit plan to obtain a prescription without penalty from a non-network retail community pharmacy located within ten miles of the beneficiary's residence, if the nearest network retail community pharmacy is located ten or more miles away. Requires reimbursement to non-network retail community pharmacist to include a $15 dispensing fee plus the product cost at the higher rate of reimbursement. (SD1)
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RELATING TO LICENSING INSPECTIONS. Requires the department of health to conduct unannounced visits and relicensing or recertification inspections for state-licensed care facilities and unannounced inspections for license renewals for medical marijuana dispensaries. (SD1)
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RELATING TO BEVERAGES FOR CHILDREN. Establishes restrictions on sugar-sweetened beverages and certain other beverages served in child care facilities. Takes effect on 7/1/2017. (SD1)
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RELATING TO PHYSICAL EXAMINATIONS. Beginning with the 2017-2018 school year, requires a child to provide written documentation of a physical examination performed within twelve months prior to attending seventh grade at a public school. Requires DOH to provide information to assist students who do not complete the physical exam before December 31 of the seventh grade year and also requires DOH to provide consultations with those students' parents and guardians about health lifestyles and obtaining health insurance. Appropriates funds. (SD2)
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RELATING TO THE JOHN A. BURNS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE SPECIAL FUND. Permits moneys in the John A. Burns school of medicine special fund to be used for loan repayment for certain health care professionals. Removes the cap on expenditures from the special fund. Removes the sunset date from the physician workforce assessment fee and related requirements for use of moneys in the John A. Burns school of medicine special fund.
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RELATING TO HEALTH. Broadens the scope of health and health care data and other information submitted to the state health planning and development agency. Takes effect on 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO HEALTH. Authorizes a pharmacy to provide a customized patient medication package to any patient of an institutional facility or any member of the general public, subject to certain conditions. (SD1)
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RELATING TO OPIOID ANTAGONISTS. Creates immunity for health care professionals and pharmacists who prescribe, dispense, or administer an opioid antagonist such as naloxone hydrochloride to assist an individual at risk of experiencing an opioid-related drug overdose or to a harm reduction organization. Creates immunity for first responders, harm reduction organizations, and individuals who administer opioid antagonists to persons believed to be suffering an opioid-related drug overdose. Authorizes emergency personnel to administer an opioid antagonist. Requires medicaid coverage for opioid antagonists for outpatient use. Authorizes certain persons or organizations acting under standing orders issued by a licensed health care professional to store opioid antagonists without being subject to the Hawaii Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, except the portion regarding the storage of wholesale prescription drugs, and to distribute opioid antagonists without charge or compensation. (SD2)
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RELATING TO INFLUENZA IMMUNIZATION. Requires annual influenza vaccinations for health care workers. Establishes exemptions for influenza vaccination requirement under certain conditions.
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RELATING TO LONG-TERM CARE FACILITIES. Appropriates funds for an inflationary adjustment to reimbursement of facilities for the long-term care of medicaid recipients. Effective 7/1/2050, and repealed on 6/30/17. (SD2)
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RELATING TO DISCHARGE PLANNING. Requires hospitals to adopt and maintain discharge policies, consistent with recent updates to federal regulations, to ensure that patients continue to receive necessary care after leaving the hospital. Effective July 1, 2017. (SD1)
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RELATING TO COLLECTIVE BARGAINING. Establishes a collective bargaining unit for graduate student assistants employed by the University of Hawaii. Delays formation of the graduate student assistant collective bargaining unit until 7/1/2017. Effective January 7, 2059. (SD2)
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RELATING TO PARTITION OF HEIRS PROPERTY. Adopts Uniform Partition of Heirs Property Act. Establishes procedures and remedies for use in actions for partition of real property involving heirs property (real property held in tenancy in common that meets certain requirements). Effective 1/7/2059. (SD1)
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RELATING TO LAW ENFORCEMENT CAMERAS. Establishes requirements for body-worn cameras and vehicle cameras for county police departments. Establishes policy guidelines for the use and discontinuance of use of body-worn cameras by police officers. Establishes certain restrictions on the use of body-worn cameras by on-duty police officers. Adds retention and deletion requirements for body-worn camera footage. Prohibits certain uses of body-worn camera video footage. Establishes violations of recording and retention requirements. Appropriates funds as a grant-in-aid to each county for the purchase of body-worn video cameras and law enforcement vehicle cameras; provided that no funds appropriated to a county shall be expended unless matched dollar-for-dollar by the county. Requires the county police departments to report costs of implementing and maintaining the body-worn camera and vehicle camera program to the legislature. Effective January 7, 2059. (SD2)
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PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE V, SECTION 2, OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF HAWAII. Proposes a constitutional amendment to allow each gubernatorial nominee to appoint a person from the same political party as a running mate for lieutenant governor in the general election.
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RELATING TO ETHICS. Exempts extracurricular service of employees from the state ethics code if certain conditions are met. Defines detached remuneration and extracurricular service. Takes effect on 1/7/2059. (SD2)
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RELATING TO STUDENT MEALS. Prohibits denying a student a meal for the first: (1) thirty days of a semester while the student's application for free or reduced lunch is being processed; or (2) week the student's meal fund balance is zero or negative. Authorizes DOE to adopt rules or policies on the collection of funds for negative student meal balances.
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RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYEES. Requires public retiree contributions to the EUTF to be paid through withholdings of retirement benefit amounts from the ERS. Beginning after January 1, 2017, requires the EUTF to authorize automatic electronic payments in lieu of withholdings. Effective 7/1/2076. (SD2)
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RELATING TO CAMPAIGN FINANCE. Replaces the Hawaii election campaign fund with the general revenues of the State as the funding source for the operating expenses of the campaign spending commission. Appropriates moneys to the commission for operating expenses. (SD2)
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RELATING TO LAW ENFORCEMENT. Establishes exceptions to the offense of obstructing government operations and the offense of violation of privacy in the second degree for a person making a video or audio recording or photograph of a law enforcement officer while the officer is in the performance of duties in a public place or under circumstances in which the officer has no reasonable expectation of privacy; provided that the officer may take reasonable action to maintain safety and control, secure crime scenes and accident sites, protect the integrity and confidentiality of investigations, and protect the public safety and order. Takes effect on 1/7/2059. (SD1)
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RELATING TO CHILDREN AND YOUTH DAY. Recognizes activities of Children and Youth Day as an official state event. (SD1)
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RELATING TO ELECTIONS. Authorizes the electronic transmission of databases containing driver's license and civil identification card information to election officials and the statewide voter registration system. Requires the Office of Elections to join the Electronic Registration Information Center and share information with counties to encourage voter participation and ensure integrity of voter registration rolls. Appropriates moneys. Effective 1/7/2059. (SD2)
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RELATING TO NOTARY PUBLIC FEES. Increases notary public fees. Effective 1/1/2017. (SD1)
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RELATING TO INVASIVE SPECIES. Makes an appropriation to the department of land and natural resources division of forestry and wildlife for use by the Big Island invasive species committee for the immediate coordinated management of albizia trees on the island of Hawaii. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO CHAPTER 183, HAWAII REVISED STATUTES. Amends fines for the destroying or harvesting of koa trees and other trees and plants on state lands to an amount up to the current market value of each tree or plant at that location and the cost of restoration or replacement of the habitat. Clarifies that any person that violates a provision of part II of chapter 183, HRS, (forest reserves) or any rule adopted pursuant thereto, other than section 183-17, HRS, shall be guilty of a petty misdemeanor. Repeals the general penalty provision of chapter 183, HRS. (SD2)
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RELATING TO TAXATION. Changes income tax rates after 12/31/2015. (SD1)
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RELATING TO HONOKOHAU SMALL BOAT HARBOR. Authorizes the board of land and natural resources to transfer the operation, administration, management, and maintenance of Honokohau small boat harbor to a public-private partnership or a private organization. Appropriates funds for repairs and maintenance of the harbor. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO HEALTH. Establishes the early language acquisition program to assess and track language development for children who are deaf, hard of hearing, or deaf-blind. Establishes a working group for the purposes of investigating issues related to resources and tools for parents of children who are deaf, hard of hearing, or deaf-blind and improvements to the statewide system of services that support age-appropriate language development for children from birth to age five who are deaf, hard of hearing, or deaf-blind. Requires working group to report to legislature. Appropriates funds for various positions to support the early language acquisition program and children from birth to age five who are deaf, hard of hearing, or deaf-blind. Eff. 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO FIREWORKS. Imposes requirements upon shippers of fireworks. Expands exceptions to the general prohibitions on fireworks. Amends certain fireworks' label size requirements. (SD2)
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RELATING TO PROCUREMENT. Requires the state procurement policy board to annually review and examine procurement contracts of at least two executive department, division, or agency contracts that are over $50,000. Requires the state procurement policy board to randomly perform compliance examinations of government purchasing agencies and examinations of agencies selected based on a pattern of agency noncompliance. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO PROCUREMENT. Requires the state procurement office to establish a database of all government procurement contracts, accessible to each governmental body. Requires each governmental body to provide to the state procurement office all data relating to any procurement contract of the governmental body; provided that the chief procurement officer of each jurisdiction shall be responsible for the collection and transmittal of data to the state procurement office. Appropriates funds to establish the database. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO PROCUREMENT. Requires every government procurement officer to attend initial training by the state procurement office and the procurement workforce of any governmental body to attend follow-up training as determined by the state procurement office. Requires the chief procurement officer to submit a list of the jurisdiction's procurement officers and which procurement officers, if any, have failed to comply with training requirements; provided that a procurement officer who fails to submit the officer's name and evidence of training compliance to the State Procurement Office shall no longer have the authority to procure. Appropriates funds to the state procurement office. (SD2)
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RELATING TO ELECTIONS. Beginning with the primary election in 2018, requires the office of elections to implement election by mail in a county with a population of fewer than 100,000 and beginning with the 2020 primary election, implement election by mail in each of the other counties for all elections. Establishes an elections by mail system, including requirements for ballots, replacement ballots, deficient return of ballots, ballot counting, voter service centers, places of deposit, and election expenses and responsibilities. Establishes procedures for postponed elections. Makes conforming amendments to provide for an elections by mail system. Allows for the electronic transmission of mail-in ballots. Appropriates funds for the implementation and administration of the elections by mail program. Requires the office of elections to submit annual reports to the legislature from 2017 to 2023 regarding implementing the elections by mail program. Effective 7/1/2076. (SD2)
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PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE VI, SECTION 3, OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF HAWAII. Proposes a constitutional amendment to: (1) require written notice of an appointment to the senate for advice and consent concurrent with the governor, judicial selection commission, or chief justice's making of the appointment; and (2) clarify that the senate's thirty-day period to reject a judicial appointment begins on the senate's receipt of written notice of the governor's, chief justice's, or judicial selection commission's appointment.
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RELATING TO PROCUREMENT. Requires past performance to be factored into future bid selection of a contractor. Defines past performance. Requires past performance to be considered in sole source procurement. Requires that upon completion of a procurement contract, the department that issued the request for proposal shall evaluate the work and performance of the respective contractors and maintain the evaluations in the department's files. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO INNOVATION BUSINESS INTERACTION. Establishes a loan program in the HTDC to support high-technology small businesses. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO ANIMALS. Increases penalties and establishes a fine for animal desertion. (SD1)
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RELATING TO SEXUAL ASSAULT. Amends the offense of sexual assault in the fourth degree to include a person who engages in or causes sexual contact with a minor at least sixteen years of age and the person is contemporaneously acting in a professional capacity to instruct, advise, or supervise the minor under certain circumstances. Takes effect 1/7/2059. (SD1)
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RELATING TO MEDICAL MARIJUANA. Repeals the requirement that medical marijuana dispensary facilities, except retail dispensing locations, be enclosed indoor facilities. Allows medical marijuana production centers to be secured greenhouses or shade houses; provided that the contents of the greenhouses or shade houses are not visible from any thoroughfare. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO GEOTHERMAL. Clarifies that the regulation of geothermal resources development and geothermal resources exploration is reserved to the State unless delegated to the counties by statute. Requires the lessee of a mining lease to comply with all water and air pollution control laws, relating to building, grading, and flood control codes. Requires the rules of the board of land and natural resources regarding mining operations, geothermal resource development, and geothermal resource exploration, including drilling conditions and restrictions, to be uniform throughout the State. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO REPAIR AND MAINTENANCE. Establishes a full funding policy and budgetary procedures for routine repair and maintenance of state facilities, including judiciary-owned facilities. (SD2)
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RELATING TO PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYER ORGANIZATIONS. Establishes a tiered scale for the biennial renewal fees for professional employer organizations, based on the number of covered employees a professional employer organization reports to the department of labor and industrial relations. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO TAXATION. Requires the Auditor to periodically review certain exemptions, exclusions, and credits under the general excise and use taxes, public service company tax, and insurance premium tax. Assesses a fee on taxpayers who file returns and benefit from an exemption, exclusion, or credit. Requires the deposit of the fees collected into the audit revolving fund. Effective 1/1/2017. (SD1)
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PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE VII, SECTION 6, OF THE HAWAII CONSTITUTION, RELATING TO THE DISPOSITION OF EXCESS REVENUES. Proposes a constitutional amendment to add alternatives for the disposition of excess general fund revenues. Allows the appropriation of general funds for the pre-payment of general obligation bond debt service or pension or other post-employment benefit liabilities.
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MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE ANNUAL REQUIRED CONTRIBUTION FOR THE HAWAII EMPLOYER-UNION HEALTH BENEFITS TRUST FUND. Makes an appropriation for the payment of the annual required contribution for the Hawaii employer-union health benefits trust fund. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO CONCUSSIONS. Expands the concussion educational program established under Act 197, SLH 2012, to include youth athletic activities for participants aged 11 to 18 and incorporate additional program requirements. Appropriates funds to develop and implement the educational program, administer concussion testing to high school student athletes, and implement a concussion awareness and management program for students ages 11-13. (SD2)
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RELATING TO HOMELESSNESS. Establishes minimum requirements for emergency shelters. Requires homeless shelter stipends to be paid for achievement of performance measures. Repeals the automatic annual adjustment of homeless shelter stipend amounts. Revises existing provisions on the establishment and collection of shelter and service payments from homeless families and individuals. Requires homeless service provider agencies to submit a financial audit to the department of human services at least annually. Establishes and funds 2.0 FTE positions to assist in the implementation of the homeless shelter program. Appropriates general funds for homeless shelters and other non-recurring costs, contingent upon the reduction of an appropriation to the emergency and budget reserve fund in fiscal year 2014-2015. (SD1)
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RELATING TO MENTAL HEALTH. Requires and appropriates funds for the department of health to provide treatment and care for homeless individuals with serious and persistent mental health challenges as a part of its comprehensive mental health system. (SD2)
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RELATING TO RENTAL HOUSING. Establishes a goal of developing or vesting the development of at least 22,500 affordable rental housing units ready for occupancy between 01/01/17 and 12/31/26. Establishes a temporary special action team on rental housing to recommend actions by the governor, legislature, and other parties to achieve the goal. Places the team under the lieutenant governor's office for administrative purposes and designates the lieutenant governor as special action team chair. Makes an appropriation. (SD2)
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RELATING TO PUBLIC REAL PROPERTY. Establishes temporary programs, to be implemented beginning on January 1, 2017, in debris removal from, and trespass onto, public property to be run by DAGS and DPS in coordination and conjunction with each other. Amends and creates criminal trespass offenses relating to public property. Makes appropriations. (SD1)
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RELATING TO RENTAL HOUSING. Makes the projects of the Hawaii public housing authority eligible for grants from the rental housing revolving fund. Makes the Hawaii public housing authority eligible for the lease of land from the Hawaii housing finance and development corporation at token lease rent. Revises the preferences and priorities for the funding of projects from the rental housing revolving fund. (SD1)
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RELATING TO HOUSING. Transfers excess moneys from the rental assistance revolving fund to the rental housing revolving fund. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE COMMUNITY COURT OUTREACH PROJECT. Establishes a community court outreach project in the city and county of Honolulu that requires the judiciary to operate a mobile court that travels to community sites where defendants cited or arrested for nonviolent, nonfelony offenses live or congregate and disposes of the cases after plea agreements have been reached by the Honolulu prosecuting attorney and public defender. Appropriates general funds. Takes effect on 1/7/2059. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE RAPID RE-HOUSING ASSISTANCE PROGRAM. Requires DHS to establish a rapid re-housing assistance program to move homeless families or individuals into permanent housing as quickly as possible and achieve stability in that housing. Requires the program to be designed and operated to qualify for federal emergency shelter grants. Expands definition of "homeless" as applied to DHS' homeless programs. Appropriates general funds for fiscal year 2016-17. Effective 1/1/2017. (SD2)
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RELATING TO LIVESTOCK. Adds deer to the list of animals included in the theft of livestock offense. Requires the division of conservation and resources enforcement of the department of land and natural resources to submit a report to the legislature regarding the division's enforcement activities with respect to poaching on private lands. Takes effect on 1/7/2059. (SD1)
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MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO THE KAHO‘OLAWE ISLAND RESERVE COMMISSION. Appropriates funds to the Kaho‘olawe Island Reserve Commission for restoration and preservation projects. Requires submission of a financial self-sufficiency and sustainability plan to the legislature no later than twenty days prior to the 2017 Regular Session. Effective 7/1/2076. (SD1)
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RELATING TO COMPOSTING TOILETS. Mandates the counties to approve the installation and use of composting toilets in areas that are inaccessible to municipal wastewater systems.
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RELATING TO ETHICS. Requires state ethics commission advisory opinions to be approved and signed by a majority of the commission members. Takes effect on 1/7/2059. (SD1)
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MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR EARLY LEARNING. Makes appropriations to the Executive Office on Early Learning for staffing and for travel by the Early Learning Advisory Board. (SD1)
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RELATING TO A MICROGRID PILOT PROJECT FOR SCHOOLS. Requires the department of education to establish an off-grid microgrid pilot project through the Ka Hei program at a school of its choosing. (SD1)
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RELATING TO STUDENT DATA MANAGEMENT. Limits the ways in which the operator of a website, online service, online application, or mobile application working with the DOE can use student data. Takes effect on 1/7/2059. (SD2)
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RELATING TO EDUCATION. Appropriates funds to provide training and track data on public school pupil punishment and use of restraints restrictions established by Act 206, Session Laws of Hawaii 2014. Requires report. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO MINORS. Prohibits persons licensed to provide professional counseling from engaging in, attempting to engage in, or advertising sexual orientation change efforts on persons under eighteen years of age. Effective January 7, 2059. (SD2)
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RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION. Requires the department of transportation to conduct a feasibility study of establishing an interisland ferry system. Makes an appropriation for the study. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO PUBLIC LAND LIABILITY. Extends the conclusive presumption of signage as legally adequate warning of dangerous conditions to "non-natural" conditions on unimproved public land. Takes effect 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO TAXATION. Authorizes a state income tax credit for certain expenses paid or incurred by school teachers, special education teachers, school librarians, and counselors for supplementary materials used in the classroom as well as for student educational travel. Effective for taxable years beginning after 12/31/2017. (SD2)
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RELATING TO PUBLIC SAFETY. Requires PSD to annually report on the amount of moneys that have been deposited into the correctional industries revolving fund from the sale of products and crafts to the public through the correctional industries program. Requires PSD to annually report on the nexus between the workforce opportunities provided through the correctional industries program during incarceration and life after incarceration. Allows committed persons to create approved products and crafts that may be sold through the correctional industries program to the public. Requires that all moneys collected from the sale of products and crafts to be used for victim restitution, paying debts to PSD, deposit into the correctional industries revolving fund, deposit into PSD inmate activity fund, or deposit into the committed person's account. Repeals the prohibition of the sale of such products on the open market. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE STATE BUILDING CODE COUNCIL. Appropriates money to the state building code council. Effective 7/1/2076. (SD1)
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RELATING TO CONSERVATION DISTRICTS. Requires a ninety day extension of the conservation district permit decision deadline beyond the time necessary to complete an environmental impact statement or contested case hearing.
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RELATING TO WATER AUDITS. Requires the commission on water resource management to establish a program to provide technical assistance to the counties and public water systems to implement standardized water audits of public water systems. Makes an appropriation. Eff. 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO TAXATION. Establishes a five-year renewable fuels production tax credit and repeals the ethanol facility tax credit. Allows qualifying taxpayers to claim an income tax credit equal to 20 cents per seventy-six thousand British thermal units of renewable fuel, capped at $3,000,000 per taxable year. Caps the credit at $3,000,000 per year in aggregate. Requires DBEDT to certify all tax credits and submit a report regarding the production and sale of renewable fuels to the governor and legislature each year. Directs DOTAX to create forms for the tax credit. Applies to taxable years beginning after December 31, 2016. Repeals the tax credit on 12/31/2021. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO INDUSTRIAL HEMP. Establishes an industrial hemp pilot program to allow the cultivation of industrial hemp and distribution of its seed in Hawaii through limited activities by the board of agriculture for purposes of agricultural or academic research. Appropriates funds for department of agriculture staff to assist in registration of industrial hemp licensees. Takes effect on 1/7/2059 and sunsets on 7/1/2021. (SD2)
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RELATING TO CONDOMINIUMS. Part I: Purpose section. Part II: Clarifies that when a unit owner and association reach a payment plan to cure a nonjudicial foreclosure, completion of the payment plan is required to cure the default; specifies that if a unit owner and an association have agreed on a payment plan to prevent a nonjudicial foreclosure from proceeding, any association fines imposed while the payment plan is in effect shall not be deemed a default under the payment plan; and clarifies the obligations of a unit owner and an association while a unit owner is not otherwise in default under a payment plan. Part III: Clarifies that the pay first, dispute later provisions in Hawaii's condominium law apply only to common expense assessments claimed by an association of apartment owners; specifies that a unit or apartment owner who disputes the amount of an assessment may request a written statement about the assessment from the association, including that a unit or apartment owner may demand mediation prior to paying contested charges, other than common expense assessments; specifies requirements for mediation on contested charges, except for common expense assessments; and repeals language that permitted associations to convert delinquent fines and late fees into delinquent common expense assessments, if certain conditions were met. Part IV: Makes conforming amendments. (SD1)
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RELATING TO INSURANCE. Prohibits all insurers in the state, including health insurers, mutual benefit societies, health maintenance organizations, and health benefits plans under chapter 87A, Hawaii Revised Statutes, from discriminating with respect to participation and coverage under a policy, contract, plan, or agreement against any person on the basis of a person's actual gender identity or perceived gender identity. Effective January 7, 2059. (SD2)
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RELATING TO INSURANCE. Requires health insurers to promptly pay clean claims for services and repeals the exemption of medicaid claims from the clean claims definition. (SD1)
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RELATING TO INSURANCE. Specifies disclosure requirements for health care providers, health care facilities, and hospitals who are nonparticipating providers in a patient's health care plan. Specifies the amount a nonparticipating provider may bill for services performed without prior or subsequent authorization from a patient's health care plan. Specifies an insured shall not be liable to a health care provider for any sums owed by an insurer. Specifies that an insured who receives emergency services from a nonparticipating provider shall not incur greater out-of-pocket costs for the emergency services than the insured would have incurred with a participating provider. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO SOCIAL WORKERS. Clarifies the supervision requirements for licensure of clinical social workers, including permitting the supervision requirements to be met through face-to-face supervision or via a video conference service that is compliant with all federal and state privacy, security, and confidentiality laws, including the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996. (SD1)
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RELATING TO ADVANCED PRACTICE REGISTERED NURSES. Amends various statutes to clarify the role of advanced practice registered nurses with regards to their authority and participation in the health care system. Amends definitions in the statutes to conform with the duties and responsibilities of advanced practice registered nurses. (SD1)
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RELATING TO TRAVEL AGENCIES. Requires a travel agency that sells activities individually or as part of a tour package to register as an activity desk. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO NURSING. Beginning with the July 1, 2017, licensing biennium, requires all new nurse licensure applicants to submit electronic fingerprints for criminal history record check purposes. Beginning with the July 1, 2019, licensing biennium, requires all nurse licensure renewal applicants to submit electronic fingerprints for criminal history record check purposes. Authorizes the state board of nursing to: develop rules necessary to implement the required criminal history record checks; reactivate licenses and conduct investigations of applicants; request, beginning July 1, 2017, criminal history records of qualified applicants; and request, no later than July 1, 2023, criminal history records required for licensees who were issued licenses prior to July 1, 2017. Takes effect on 1/7/2059. (SD2)
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RELATING TO CHECK CASHING. Specifies a customer has the right to rescind a deferred deposit by returning the principal amount used to fund the deferred deposit within a specified time frame. Permits customers to convert a deferred deposit into a loan installment plan in certain circumstances and specifies requirements for the loan installment plan. Protects against harmful collection practices. Defines annual percentage rate. Requires a check casher to provide a written agreement to a customer that clearly discloses specific information relating to the cost and fees associated with the deferred deposit, among other things. Caps the annual percentage rate at no more than thirty-six per cent for deferred deposit of a personal check. Permits prepayment of deferred deposit agreements and loan installment plans with no additional fees. (SD1)
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RELATING TO CONSUMER CREDIT REPORTING AGENCIES. Requires a consumer credit reporting agency to create a record for protected consumers, including minors under the age of sixteen and incapacitated persons, who do not have an existing credit file. Permits a representative of a protected consumer to place a security freeze on the protected consumer's credit report or any record created for the protected consumer. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLE INSURANCE. Establishes motor vehicle insurance requirements for transportation network companies and transportation network company drivers. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLE INSURANCE. Allows allow electronic insurance cards, in addition to paper insurance cards, to be used as proof of insurance for motor vehicles, motorcycles, and motor scooters. (SD2)
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RELATING TO CANCER. Creates the colorectal cancer screening and awareness program within the department of health and appropriates funds for the program. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE SALE OF E-LIQUID. Beginning January 1, 2017, prohibits the sale of an e-liquid container for an electronic smoking device unless the container is child-resistant and prohibits the sale of an e-liquid container for an e-liquid containing nicotine unless the e-liquid packaging is labeled with warning language. Establishes a violation as a penalty. Includes e-liquid under the definition of "hazardous substance" as used in the Hawaii Poison Prevention Packaging Act. Effective January 7, 2059. (SD2)
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RELATING TO CHAPTER 245, HAWAII REVISED STATUTES. Amends the definitions of "dealer", "retailer", "wholesale price" and "wholesaler" to include electronic smoking devices and e-liquid. Establishes definitions for "disposable electronic smoking device", "electronic smoking device", "e‑liquid", and "reusable electronic smoking device". Allows electronic smoking devices, packages of electronic smoking devices, containers of electronic smoking devices, e-liquid, packages of e-liquid, and containers of e-liquid to be seized and forfeited if unlawfully sold, possessed, kept, stored, acquired, distributed, or transported. Increases the license fee for persons engaged as a wholesaler or dealer. Increases the retail tobacco permit fee for retailers engaged in the retail sale of cigarettes, tobacco products, electronic smoking devices, and e-liquid. Effective January 7, 2059. (SD2)
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RELATING TO CHAPTER 245, HAWAII REVISED STATUTES. Increases the excise tax on cigarettes and little cigars sold on or after July 1, 2016, to cents per each cigarette or little cigar sold. Of the cents taxed on each cigarette or little cigar sold, allocate the cents to various funds, including cents to the Hawaii cancer research special fund and cents to the department of health chronic disease prevention and health promotion division, for smoking cessation programs and education in Hawaii. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO CHAPTER 245, HAWAII REVISED STATUTES. Defines disposable electronic smoking device, electronic smoking device, e-liquid, and reusable electronic smoking device in the State's cigarette tax and tobacco tax law. Imposes an excise tax on an e-liquid sold by a wholesaler or dealer on or after 1/1/2017, whether or not sold at wholesale, or if not sold then at the same rate upon the use by the wholesaler or dealer. Imposes an excise tax on the wholesale price of disposable electronic smoking devices sold by a wholesaler or dealer on or after January 1, 2017, whether or not sold at wholesale, or if not sold then at the same rate upon the use by the wholesaler or dealer. Establishes requirements for retailers, wholesalers, and dealers of electronic smoking devices or e-liquid related to permits, reports, and records. Takes effect on 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLE INSPECTIONS. Requires motor vehicle safety inspections to be conducted every two years rather than annually. (SD1)
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RELATING TO PREVAILING WAGES. Expands the types of projects that must comply with wage and hour requirements under chapter 104, HRS, including construction projects on public lands regardless of whether the work is paid from public funds, and projects for which public lands are used as security for financing. Exempts certain projects from chapter 104, HRS. Establishes requirements that apply in situations involving private lessees of public land who contract for certain projects on public land. Appropriates funds for enforcement of chapter 104, HRS. Effective 1/7/2059, except section 5, which takes effect 7/1/2059. (SD2)
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RELATING TO SCHOOLS. Establishes a task force to review the school impact fees law, the enforcement of the law, and recommend any necessary amendments. Appropriates funds for the administrative and operating expenses of the task force. Clarifies that developers of certain projects are subject to school impact fees, even when the Hawaii housing finance and development corporation or a corresponding county agency participates in the development of the projects. (SD1)
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RELATING TO RENEWABLE ENERGY. Replaces the current renewable energy technology systems tax credit with tax credits for solar energy property, wind energy property, and energy storage property. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2016. Effective 7/1/2076. (SD2)
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RELATING TO A LAW ENFORCEMENT EMPLOYMENT STANDARDS AND TRAINING BOARD. Establishes an advisory law enforcement employment standards and training board responsible for developing statewide employment standards and training for county and state law enforcement officers who carry firearms and wear a badge. Allows the relevant government agencies to voluntarily implement the employment standards and training recommendations. Makes an appropriation for the operation of the advisory board. Takes effect on 1/7/2059. Repeals on 6/30/2021. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII. Appropriates moneys for the University of Hawaii at Manoa to hire three psychologists and one case manager to provide student mental health services. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO THE ALOHA+ CHALLENGE. Appropriates funds for the natural resource management, clean energy, and green workforce development goals of the Aloha+ Challenge. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO THE PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION. Allows a commissioner to attend by teleconference or videoconference a public hearing of the public utilities commission, except for a contested case hearing, including allowing a commissioner who resides on an island other than Oahu to attend a public hearing of the commission held on Oahu and a commissioner residing on the island of Oahu to attend a public hearing of the commission held on an island other than Oahu, by teleconference or videoconference. Enables a member of the commission who is a resident of a county other than the city and county of Honolulu to receive per diem compensation. Enables a person's island of residence to be used as a criterion when determining the person's qualification to serve as a commissioner. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO CHARTER SCHOOLS. Establishes requirements for meeting minutes. Authorizes charter schools to assess fees and charges for co-curricular activities. Clarifies that revocation and nonrenewal proceedings shall not be subject to chapter 91, Hawaii Revised Statutes. Exempts certain adjudicatory functions of the state public charter school commission for opening meeting requirements under certain circumstances. (SD1)
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RELATING TO TEACHERS. Creates an incentive program for current educational assistants in hard-to-fill schools to attain teacher licensure if they commit to teaching for three years in a hard-to-fill school. Appropriates funds for the program and alternate teacher route contracts. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO INDUSTRIAL HEMP. Provides the authority, procedures, and licensing requirements related to the production of industrial hemp as an agricultural product. Requires the department of agriculture to promote industrial hemp research and development of markets for industrial hemp. Exempts the possession, use, sale, or transfer of industrial hemp for research and development purposes from certain criminal offenses relating to drugs and intoxicating compounds. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO THE MOLOKAI IRRIGATION SYSTEM WATER USERS ADVISORY BOARD. Authorizes Molokai irrigation system water users advisory board members to designate an agent, officer, or employee. Removes requirement that members be an active general excise tax licensee.
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RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, AND TOURISM. Appropriates moneys to the department of business, economic development, and tourism for the purpose of promoting, regulating, and administering the made in Hawaii brand program. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO BROADBAND. Extends until 6/30/2023 the provisions of Act 264, SLH 2013, which requires the State and the counties to take action within sixty days for broadband-related permit applications, requires the State to take action within one hundred forty-five days for use applications for broadband facilities within the conservation district, establishes other requirements regarding broadband-related permits, and subjects weight load for utility poles to capacities established by the FCC and PUC. (SD1)
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RELATING TO CHARTER SCHOOLS. Appropriates moneys for start-up grants for newly approved pre-opening public charter schools, and requires the state public charter school commission to establish guidelines and criteria for the grants. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO INVASIVE SPECIES PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION. Restructures the Hawaii Invasive Species Council as the Hawaii Invasive Species Authority, administratively attached to the Department of Agriculture, for the enhancement of the State's invasive species prevention, early detection, rapid response, control, enforcement, and outreach programs. Establishes the Hawaii Invasive Species Authority Special Fund and appropriates moneys to that fund to implement the Authority and relevant invasive species projects. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. Establishes a grant program within chapter 163D, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to provide financial support for agriculture-related improvements to existing and emerging farms and agribusiness operations with priority given to grants related to food production. Requires the ADC to submit an annual report to the legislature on the grant program. (SD1)
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RELATING TO HUNTING ON PRIVATE LANDS. Requires hunters to obtain written permission from landowners or occupiers or holders of private lands to hunt on private lands. Takes effect on 1/7/2059. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE AGRICULTURAL LOAN REVOLVING FUND. Appropriates moneys for the agricultural loan program to increase the State's food sustainability. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF SPECIAL PURPOSE REVENUE BONDS TO ASSIST BIG ISLAND DAIRY, LLC. Authorizes the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds up to $10,000,000 to assist Big Island Dairy, LLC for the planning, design, and construction of a new milking facility. (SD2)
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RELATING TO ENHANCED 911 SERVICES. Establishes a prepaid wireless E911 surcharge of 66 cents per retail transaction of prepaid wireless telecommunications service at the point of sale. Allows sellers to deduct and retain 3 per cent of the surcharge that is collected. Requires the amounts collected by the Enhanced 911 Board to be placed in the Enhanced 911 Fund. Effective on July 1, 2017. (SD1)
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RELATING TO ENTERPRISE TECHNOLOGY SERVICES. Consolidates the Office of Information Management and Technology and the Information and Communication Services Division of the Department of Accounting and General Services, including all related information technology functions, in the Office of Enterprise Technology Services under the direction of the Chief Information Officer. Takes effect on 7/2/2016. (SD2)
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RELATING TO SERVICE BY PUBLICATION IN PATERNITY CASES. Amends the Uniform Parentage Act to allow for service by publication when defendants cannot be located or personally served. Takes effect on 1/7/2059. (SD1)
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RELATING TO PARENTAL RIGHTS. Provides that a parent's rights may be terminated if the court determines, by clear and convincing evidence, that the child was conceived during an act of rape or sexual assault. Creates a presumption that termination of parental rights is in the best interest of the child if the child was conceived as a result of the rape or sexual assault. Takes effect on 1/7/2059. (SD2)
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RELATING TO CHARITABLE SOLICITATION. Amends Hawaii's charitable solicitation law to: require affirmative disclosures to donors by professional solicitors; clarify exemptions from registration; and make other technical amendments. Effective 1/1/2017. (SD2)
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RELATING TO GUARDIANSHIP. Requires the courts to provide information relating to adult guardianships to the Hawaii criminal justice data center to disclose to the Federal Bureau of Investigation National Instant Criminal Background Check System database for gun control purposes. Requires the Hawaii criminal justice data center to maintain orders of appointment or information from orders of appointment for use in firearms permitting and registration. Takes effect January 1, 2017. (SD1)
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RELATING TO PROFESSIONALLY LICENSED OR CERTIFIED GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES. Clarifies that the State shall be exclusively liable for claims for injury or loss of property, or personal injury or death, resulting from the negligent or wrongful act or omission of any professionally licensed or certified employee of the State while acting within the scope of the employee's office or employment. Establishes that any civil action or proceeding for money damages arising out of or related to the same subject matter against the employee shall be precluded. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO CRIMINAL TRESPASS. Adds the offense of criminal trespass onto state lands to part II of chapter 708, Hawaii Revised Statutes, and amends criminal trespass in the second degree to include and apply to agricultural property owned by the government that is not fenced, enclosed or otherwise secured in a manner designed to exclude intruders but has appropriate signage giving notice that the property is government property and that trespassing is prohibited. Takes effect on 1/7/2059. Repeals on 1/1/2021. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE HAWAII HOUSING FINANCE AND DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION. Enables the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to develop mixed-use developments in partnership with state and county departments and agencies. Repeals the limitation on the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation's determination of the price of the sale or lease of commercial, industrial, or other facilities displaced by the Corporation. (SD2)
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RELATING TO STATE PLANNING. Requires the Office of Planning to review and propose updates to the State Planning Act and submit a written report to the Legislature. Makes an appropriation. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE LOW-INCOME HOUSING TAX CREDIT. Increases funding for affordable rental housing development by making the state low-income housing tax credit more valuable. Reduces state tax credit period from ten to five years. (SD2)
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RELATING TO INVESTMENTS OF THE HAWAII EMPLOYER-UNION HEALTH BENEFITS TRUST FUND. Repeals certain restrictions on investments that can be made by the Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE HAWAII EMPLOYER-UNION HEALTH BENEFITS TRUST FUND. Amends the definition of "dependent-beneficiary" as used in chapter 87A, HRS, and make housekeeping amendments. (SD2)
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RELATING TO DISPOSITION OF EXCESS REVENUES. Re-appropriates $1,000,000 in general funds to the emergency and budget reserve fund for fiscal year 2015-2016. (SD2)
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MAKING APPROPRIATIONS TO REPAY GENERAL FUND CASH ADVANCES. Makes general fund appropriations for fiscal year 20162017 to repay prior general fund cash advances of $89,900,000 for the purchase of lands of the former Kapalama Military Reservation and of $13,300,000 for the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation.
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RELATING TO MONEY TRANSMITTERS. Clarifies chapter 489D, Hawaii Revised Statutes, requirements for money transmitter licensee change in control application, including requirement for criminal background check of persons who will assume control of the licensee. Updates reference to federal Regulation E.
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RELATING TO MORTGAGE INDUSTRY REGULATION. Makes various amendments to the mortgage loan originators law, chapter 454F, Hawaii Revised Statutes, and the mortgage servicers law, chapter 454M, Hawaii Revised Statutes, by: increasing the clarity and consistency of the two chapters, which regulate related industries, including adding definitions and updating references to federal regulations; moving mortgage servicer provisions that currently appear in chapter 454F, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to chapter 454M, Hawaii Revised Statutes; and deleting the mortgage loan servicer loan modification license under chapter 454F, Hawaii Revised Statutes. (SD2)
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RELATING TO INSURANCE. Requires the Insurance Commissioner to determine whether residential property insurance is unavailable due to a moratorium on insurance policies in a lava zone during a state of emergency due to lava flow. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE INSURANCE HOLDING COMPANY SYSTEM. Adopts revisions to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners' model law on the Insurance Holding Company System Regulatory Act. (SD1)
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RELATING TO INSURANCE. Adopts the National Association of Insurance Commissioners' Risk Management and Own Risk and Solvency Assessment Model Act. Applies certain requirements for risk-based capital and severability and notice provisions to risk retention captive insurance companies. Adopts the National Association of Insurance Commissioners Model Risk Retention Act. (SD2)
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RELATING TO INSURANCE. Makes various updates to title 24, Hawaii Revised Statutes, including: requiring an insurer to file an affidavit prior to discontinuing writing property coverage; requiring insurance commissioner authorization for insurers providing residential property coverage; requiring insurers to file and pay their premium tax statements electronically beginning on 1/1/2017; requiring conspicuous disclosure of preexisting condition provisions in short-term health policies; including physician assistant-delivered services under coverage for child health supervision for accident and health or sickness policies and mutual benefit societies; requiring an entity to notify a health care provider or claim filer under certain conditions; adding flexibility to captive laws of sponsored captive insurance companies; providing mental illness benefits coverage to licensed dietitians treating eating disorders; requiring certain entities to respond to the insurance commissioner during an investigation or examination; providing visual or optometric services coverage for licensed physicians and optometrists and surgical or emergency services coverage for dentists under health plans of mutual benefit societies; providing coverage for pharmacist-delivered contraceptive services; and making other housekeeping and conforming amendments. Effective 7/1/2050, except for sections 3 and 4, which are effective 1/1/2051. (SD2)
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RELATING TO MORTGAGE RESCUE FRAUD. Makes numerous amendments to Hawaii's mortgage rescue fraud prevention act, chapter 480E, Hawaii Revised Statutes, for consistency with the federal Mortgage Assistance Relief Services Rule. (SD2)
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RELATING TO TOWING. Defines "vehicle owner", "scene", and "hooked up" for the purposes of towing unattended vehicles. Establishes a surcharge fee for a difficult hookup. Clarifies that if a vehicle is in the process of being hooked up and the vehicle owner appears on the scene, the towing company is required to release the vehicle at a location that ensures safety to all persons and property involved without a fee charged to the vehicle owner. Makes clarifying amendments. Establishes that violations of the unattended vehicle towing law are violations of the law relating to unfair methods of competition, deceptive acts, or practices. Takes effect on 1/7/2059. (SD2)
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RELATING TO CONSUMER PROTECTION. Repeals section 480‑24(b), HRS, to clarify that the State is not subject to a limitations period for claims pursuant to chapter 480, HRS. Effective January 7, 2059. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION. Amends the Public Utilities Commission Special Fund law to increase from $1,000,000 to an unspecified sum the balance that may be retained in the Public Utilities Commission Special Fund at the end of each fiscal year. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE JOINT FORMULARY ADVISORY COMMITTEE. Repeals the Joint Formulary Advisory Committee established by the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs. Allows the Board of Nursing to be the sole authority that determines the exclusionary formulary for qualified advanced practice registered nurses with prescriptive authority. (SD2)
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RELATING TO CITATIONS FOR MASSAGE THERAPY VIOLATIONS. Authorizes the issuance of a citation for specific violations of massage therapy laws or rules by licensees. Establishes a process for licensees to contest the citation. Provides for the assessment of fines for each violation. (SD2)
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RELATING TO PHYSICIAN DISCIPLINE. Authorizes the Hawaii Medical Board to impose the same disciplinary action against a licensee as was taken by another state or federal agency. Establishes conditions for the disciplinary action. Prohibits the licensee from practicing until a final order of discipline is issued if the licensee has been prohibited from practicing in another state. Takes effect 1/7/2059. (SD1)
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RELATING TO EDUCATION. Repeals annual increment and step salary increases for Department of Education teachers and educational officers.
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RELATING TO ORDERS FOR IMMEDIATE PROTECTION. Amends section 346-231, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to address inconsistencies in statutory requirements regarding orders for immediate protection; and allows the Department of Human Services discretion when to seek an order for immediate protection of vulnerable adults.
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RELATING TO PUBLIC LANDS. Exempts lands to which Hawaii Public Housing Authority holds title from the definition of "public lands" in section 171-2, Hawaii Revised Statutes. (SD1)
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RELATING TO YOUTH TRANSITIONING FROM FOSTER CARE. Extends the application deadline for financial assistance for higher education available to foster or former foster youth, clarifies that financial assistance is for related higher education costs, and clarifies eligibility and program requirements of the Young Adult Voluntary Foster Care Program. (SD1)
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RELATING TO BIRTH DEFECTS. Authorizes the use of birth defects data for education of health care providers to reduce morbidity or mortality and to increase physicians' knowledge of resources available for families of persons with birth defects. (SD1)
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RELATING TO AGE OF CONSENT FOR ADOLESCENT MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES. Reduces barriers in accessing mental health care for adolescents by lowering the age of consent to receive treatment from 18 years old to 12 years old. Takes effect on 1/7/2059. (SD2)
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RELATING TO FORENSIC MENTAL HEALTH PROCEDURES. Ensures the timely administration of mental health examinations; supports the process of expedient administration of justice; and clarifies the procedure for reevaluation of fitness to proceed after a finding of unfitness and attempts at restoration. Takes effect on 1/7/2059. (SD2)
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RELATING TO HEALTH INSURANCE. Authorizes the department of human services to develop and administer outreach as required by the Affordable Care Act. Establishes a state health insurance exchange, the Hawaii health insurance programs, in the department of labor and industrial relations to conform Hawaii law to the Affordable Care Act. Appropriates funds to the department of labor and industrial relations and the department of human services. Repeals the Hawaii health insurance exchange programs on 1/1/2018. Takes effect on 1/7/2059. (SD2)
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RELATING TO THE HAWAII CIVIL RIGHTS COMMISSION. Authorizes the Hawaii civil rights commission executive director to dismiss a discrimination complaint and issue a notice of right to sue after a determination of a reasonable cause of discrimination is made and conciliation fails. Authorizes the Commission to reconsider the executive director's determination to dismiss a complaint and to issue a notice of right to sue with respect to fair housing to comply with the federal Fair Housing Act. Takes effect on 1/7/2059. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE PREVENTION OF UNFAIR LABOR PRACTICES. Allows the Hawaii Labor Relations Board the option of serving complaints and notices of hearings via first class mail and also allow service by electronic means. (SD1)
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MAKING EMERGENCY APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE STATE TO COMPLY WITH THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT. Makes an emergency appropriation for fiscal year 2015-2016 for the department of labor and industrial relations and the department of human services to cover short-term costs required to comply with the Affordable Care Act. (SD1)
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RELATING TO AQUATIC MITIGATION BANKS. Authorizes the Department of Land and Natural Resources to establish and operate aquatic mitigation banks to restore, create, enhance, or preserve aquatic habitats or resources as compensatory mitigation.
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RELATING TO SECTION 13 OF ACT 380, SESSION LAWS OF HAWAII 1997. Removes the sunset date on the use of new safe harbor agreements, habitat conservation plans, and incidental take licenses as recovery options for conserving and protecting the State's threatened and endangered species.
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RELATING TO TIME SHARE COMMISSIONERS OF DEEDS. Clarifies the Lieutenant Governor's rulemaking authority relating to commissioners of deeds. Authorizes the Lieutenant Governor to assess and collect fees and administrative fines. Clarifies that the Lieutenant Governor is responsible for the commissioners of deeds program. Increases the surety bond requirement for commissioners of deeds. Appropriates funds. (SD2)
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RELATING TO THE STATEWIDE INTEGRATED SEX OFFENDER TREATMENT PROGRAM. Amends chapter 353E, Hawaii Revised Statutes (HRS), to reflect nationally recognized best practices in the statewide, integrated program for sex offenders, and to identify the coordinating body for the sex offender treatment program as the "sex offender management team". Exempts the statewide integrated sex offender treatment program from the requirements of chapter 92, HRS. Takes effect on 1/7/2059. (SD2)
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RELATING TO COURT ORDERS TO PROVIDE MEDICAL TREATMENT IN CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES. Allows for a declaration to be filed with the petition as an alternative to an affidavit; expands the court's ability to continue the hearing on the petition for good cause; gives the court more flexibility in deciding when a guardian ad litem is necessary; changes the time requirement for filing for a court order for medical treatment from a period of within two days of an examination of the person to within five days; redefines the persons who must be notified of the petition; clarifies the effective expiration date of the order for persons who return to custody after release; and provides the ability for the department to seek an extension of an order to treat if necessary. Takes effect on 1/7/2059. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE UNIFORM CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES ACT. Updates chapter 329, Hawaii Revised Statutes (HRS), to make it consistent with amendments in federal controlled substances law as required under section 329-11, HRS; amends section 329-1, HRS, to clarify existing definitions to be consistent with federal controlled substance law; deletes definitions no longer utilized under federal law; adds new definitions to allow the use of "delegates" by practitioners and pharmacists to access the electronic prescription accountability system; clarifies that individuals storing, conducting research, reverse distribution and chemical analysis with controlled substances must register with the department of public safety and follow appropriate controlled substance statutes and rules; amends section 329-23, HRS, to take advantage of technology in the posting of updates to Hawaii's drug schedules on the department's website; amends section 329-38, HRS, to be consistent with federal limitations on the prescribing of schedule II narcotic controlled substances; mandates that the collections of fines under section 329-49, HRS, be deposited into the controlled substance registration revolving fund to support the program; deletes the requirement for a pseudoephedrine permit for transporting over 3 grams of pseudoephedrine as required under sections 329-73 and 329-74, HRS; amends chapter 329, part VIII, HRS, by adding language to mandate the requirement that all practitioners, except veterinarians, and pharmacies register to utilize the electronic prescription accountability system when they obtain a controlled substance registration; authorizes the Department of Public Safety Narcotics Enforcement Division Administrator to allow access to state, county, or federal regulatory agencies to the database when conducting joint regulatory investigations. (SD2)
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RELATING TO PUBLIC SAFETY. Includes misdemeanor offenses under chapter 134, Hawaii Revised Statutes, relating to firearms, ammunition, and dangerous weapons, to the offenses that disqualify retaken and reimprisoned parolees from provisions regarding reincarceration and credit for time served. Takes effect on 1/7/2059. (SD1)
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RELATING TO TAX ADMINISTRATION. Imposes interest on unpaid penalties and fines. Requires filing with tax appeal court a notice of transfer upon transfer of appeal to tax appeal court. Amends rate of interest on amounts paid out of litigated claims fund. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE DISCLOSURE OF TAX RETURN INFORMATION. Amends section 231-18, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to allow disclosure of tax return information to the Department of the Attorney General, federal, state, or local officials, and other persons in specified situations; and amends section 235-116, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to clarify that all information filed under chapter 235, Hawaii Revised Statutes, with any state agency is confidential. Takes effect on 1/7/2059. (SD2)
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RELATING TO TAX ADJUSTMENTS. Amends section 235-101, HRS, to specify that the untimely filing of an amended federal income tax return does not reopen the Hawaii statute of limitations for claiming a tax refund. (SD1)
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RELATING TO GENERAL EXCISE TAX REPORTING FOR SPECIAL EVENTS. Requires the department of taxation to develop an online form to be filled out by special event operators, regarding sellers engaged in business at all special events for which a person is a special event operator. Grants the department of taxation the authority to issue citations for failure to complete an accurate form. Effective 1/1/2017. (SD2)
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RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLE INSPECTIONS. Expands authority of the Director of Transportation over required motor vehicle and motor carrier vehicle inspections in the State. Reduces the amount of insurance information required on an inspection certificate. (SD1)
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RELATING TO DRIVER LICENSING. Ensures driver license procedures are compliant with the REAL ID Act. (SD2)
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RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION. Increases the state fuel tax to generate additional revenues for the state highway fund by amending section 243-4, Hawaii Revised Statutes. Allows for an increase in the state motor vehicle registration fee and increases the amount of the fee to be deposited into the state highway fund by amending section 249-31, Hawaii Revised Statutes. Increases the state motor vehicle weight tax by amending section 249-33, Hawaii Revised Statutes. (SD2)
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RELATING TO TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER AT THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII. Clarifies that certain sections of the State Ethics Code shall not apply to technology transfer activities; provided that the activities comply with the regulatory framework and research compliance program approved by the board of regents. Requires the board of regents to submit a written status report to the legislature every two years. (SD2)
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RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII RESEARCH. Provides express legal authority for the University of Hawaii to create, promote, and participate in new economic enterprises that use university research and provide workforce opportunities for affiliated university personnel. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO INDIGENOUS HAWAIIAN ARCHITECTURE. Requires the department of Hawaiian home lands to adopt rules to allow for indigenous native Hawaiian architectural practices on subsistence agricultural lots to be used for agricultural purposes, including for use as farmer housing. (SD2)
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RELATING TO FIREARMS. Authorizes the Hawaii criminal justice data center to access firearm registration data. Requires the county police departments to perform an inquiry on a firearm applicant who is bringing a firearm into the State, using the Criminal Justice Information System and the National Law Enforcement Telecommunications System, including the Immigration and Naturalization Service query therein, National Crime Information Center, National Instant Criminal Background Check System, and pursuant to section 846-2.7, HRS, before any determination to register a firearm is made. Effective January 7, 2059. (SD2)
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RELATING TO FIREARMS. Allows permanent resident aliens to receive a permit to acquire a firearm. Requires the issuing authority for firearms permits to perform an inquiry on an applicant using the Criminal Justice Information System (CJIS), National Law Enforcement Telecommunications System (NLETS) including the Immigration and Customs Enforcement query in NLETS, National Crime Information Center (NCIC), and National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS). Adds permanent resident aliens to required background checks. Clarifies requirements for permanent resident aliens to obtain a firearms permit. Effective January 7, 2059. (SD1)
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RELATING TO FIREARMS. Requires firearm owners who have been disqualified from owning a firearm due to mental illness and who underwent involuntary hospitalization to immediately surrender their firearms to the chief of police upon receiving written notification and authorizes the chief of police to take possession of the firearms if the owner fails to comply. Effective January 7, 2059. (SD1)
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RELATING TO FAMILY LEAVE. Establishes a family leave insurance program, which requires employees to make contributions into a trust fund to be used to provide employees with family leave insurance benefits in order to care for a designated person. Expands the number of weeks of paid leave from four to twelve weeks of leave under the family leave law. Appropriates funds to DLIR to implement the program. Requires a study to be performed by the department of labor and industrial relations and an actuarial study to be performed by the department of budget and finance. Takes effect on 1/7/2059. (SD2)
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RELATING TO THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE. Enacts recommendations of the penal code review committee convened pursuant to HCR155 (2015). Effective 1/7/2059. (SD1)
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RELATING TO BEACH MANAGEMENT FOR THE NORTH SHORE OF OAHU. Appropriates funds to the University of Hawaii sea grant college program to create a north shore beach management plan for the north shore of Oahu stretching from the Kawailoa to Waiale‘e ahupua‘a. (SD1)
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RELATING TO LICENSING OF PRIVATE TRADE, VOCATIONAL, AND TECHNICAL SCHOOL. Transfers administration of the licensing and regulation program for private trade, vocational, and technical schools from the department of education to the department of commerce and consumer affairs. Transfer effective as of 7/1/2018. (SD2)
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RELATING TO EDUCATION. Recognizes American Sign Language as a world language, and allows public school students who pass courses in American Sign Language to receive credit toward world language graduation requirements. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE ISSUANCE OF SPECIAL PURPOSE REVENUE BONDS FOR UKUMEHAME RESERVOIRS. Authorizes the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds to provide financing to assist West Maui Investors, LLC, with 2 Ukumehame reservoirs. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE TRANSIENT ACCOMMODATIONS TAX. Makes permanent the annual $103,000,000 allocation of transient accommodations tax revenues to the counties. Requires the establishment of a state-county functions working group in 2022 to recommend the allocation of transient accommodations tax revenues between the State and counties based upon the division of duties and responsibilities for the provision of public services. Effective 7/1/2076. (SD2)
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RELATING TO PUBLIC HOUSING. Appropriates funds for plans, design, construction, equipment, and development for the renovation, improvement, upgrade, and development of the Hawaii public housing authority's facilities statewide. (SD2)
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RELATING TO THE EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM. Establishes a retirement benefit incentive for public employees, otherwise eligible to retire, whose positions are subject to layoff due to the consolidation or abolition of functions, or the privatization of the functions of the position. Effective January 7, 2059. Sunsets on July 1, 2018. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE HIGH TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION. Makes an appropriation to the high technology development corporation to fund technology internships and development of programs to support the local talent pipeline for the technology industry. Takes effect on 1/7/2059. (SD2)
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RELATING TO HEALTH. Appropriates funds to the John A. Burns School of Medicine to fund medical residency programs to help alleviate the shortage of primary care physicians in rural Oahu and neighbor island communities. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO SELF-STORAGE FACILITIES. Authorizes motor vehicle and boat towing options for self-service storage facilities after sixty days or more of delinquency; provided that an occupant is provided notice. Requires owners to notify occupants via two of the following three methods: last known telephone number, last known electronic mail address, or last known postal address. Requires owners to disseminate advertisements of sales in any commercially reasonable manner, conduct sales online, and charge late fees. Authorizes limits in rental agreements on the liability of the owner of self-service storage facilities based on the monetary value of the stored property under the rental agreement. Takes effect on 1/7/2059. (SD2)
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PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE I OF CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF HAWAII TO ESTABLISH RIGHTS FOR VICTIMS OF CRIMES. Proposes a constitutional amendment to guarantee rights to victims of crimes and a deceased crime victim's surviving immediate family members. (SD1)
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RELATING TO EMPLOYMENT. Clarifies that an employer may refuse to hire or refer, or discharge an individual for reasons relating to the ability of the individual to perform the work in question; provided that the employment policy is applied in a nondiscriminatory manner and unrelated to discriminatory practices, equal pay, criminal conviction records, or credit history. Effective January 7, 2059. (SD1)
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RELATING TO LIPOA POINT. Requires DLNR to implement a management plan for Lipoa point on Maui. Appropriates moneys. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO UNEMPLOYMENT. Creates a temporary program, limited to counties with a population under 200,000, to provide additional benefits to unemployed workers by extending their unemployment insurance benefits. Make an appropriation. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO GRANTS. Establishes legislative policies to: (1) make appropriations for grants during the regular session of each odd-numbered year for the ensuing fiscal biennium; (2) appropriate funds for not more than one grant for each grant recipient during a fiscal biennium; and (3) place a low priority on requests to fund the general and administrative expenses of a grant applicant. States that adherence to the policies shall be subject to legislative discretion and funding availability. (SD1)
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RELATING TO AN AIRPORT AUTHORITY. Authorizes the governor to establish the Hawaii airport authority. Sets out appointment of members to the board of directors of the Hawaii airport authority. Sets out powers and duties of the Hawaii airport authority. Transfers the aeronautics functions of DOT to the Hawaii airport authority upon executive order of the governor. Effective 7/1/2076. (SD2)
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RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII AT HILO. Establishes a school of aviation at University of Hawaii at Hilo to offer a bachelor of science degree in aeronautical science. Makes appropriation. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO STATEWIDE COMMUNITY PLAN. Designates the office of planning as the lead agency to coordinate and advance smart growth and transit-oriented development planning in the State. Requires that the office of planning approve all state agencies' and executive branch agencies' development plans for parcels along the rail transit corridor, including any properties that the State may obtain in the future. Appropriates funds to the office of planning. Effective 7/1/2076. (SD2)
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RELATING TO STATEWIDE COMMUNITY PLANNING. Establishes the Hawaii Interagency Council for Transit-oriented Development within DBEDT to coordinated effective and efficient transit-oriented development planning on a statewide level. Appropriates moneys. Effective 7/1/2076. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THEFT. Establishes the offense of theft of urn as a class C felony. Takes effect on 1/7/2059. (SD1)
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RELATING TO LABOR. Appropriates funds to establish, administer, and support on-the-job training for individuals who are unemployed and dislocated due to the closure of Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Company on Maui. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO CESSPOOLS. Disallows the tax credit for cesspool upgrade, conversion, or connection for taxpayers whose federal adjusted gross income exceeds certain amounts. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO HEALTH. Clarifies the requirements for an individual to become a dental hygienist. Clarifies the allowable and prohibited practices and training requirements for dental assistants. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO PROCUREMENT. Provides that a bidding contractor shall provide the name of each joint contractor or subcontractor and the nature or scope of that entity's work no later than two hours after the closing of bidding. Authorizes procurement officers to consider a previously licensed and listed subcontractor's license as valid; provided that certain conditions are satisfied. (SD2)
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RELATING TO EDUCATION. Establishes the Hawaii three to six out-of-school program for grades kindergarten through twelve. Authorizes the department of education to contract with private providers to furnish out-of-school programs for grades kindergarten through twelve, conducted during after-school hours, on weekends, and during inter-sessions on the premises of the private providers. Specifies the Hawaii three to six out-of-school program special fund is to be administered by the department of education. Makes appropriations. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS. Requires DBEDT to conduct a study on the feasibility of establishing a public-private partnership resource agency that all state departments, divisions, and agencies may utilize. Makes an appropriation. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, AND TOURISM. Requires DBEDT to develop, and state agencies to enter into, inter-agency agreements without entering into a memorandum of agreement or memorandum of understanding. Effective July 1, 2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO HEALTH CARE REFERRALS. Requires that health care providers who refer patients to facilities in which the provider has a financial interest disclose the financial incentives associated with the referral to patients, and establishes that failure to do so is an unfair or deceptive trade act or practice. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO UNDERGROUND STORAGE TANKS. Bans new underground storage tanks within one hundred yards of the shoreline, as of 7/1/2016. Prohibits operation of and renewal of a permit for an underground storage tank within one hundred yards of the shoreline, as of 1/1/2045. Takes effect on 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO MANUFACTURING. Requires that the fiscal year 2015-2016 appropriation to HTDC for the manufacturing development program shall lapse by 6/30/17 and not at the end of fiscal year 2015-2016. Takes effect on 6/29/16. (SD1)
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RELATING TO TECHNOLOGY. Requires that the fiscal year 2015-2016 appropriation to DBEDT for HTDC to provide grants to businesses with a federal small business innovation research phase II or III award shall lapse by 6/30/2017 and not at the end of fiscal year 2015-2016. Takes effect 6/29/2016. (SD1)
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RELATING TO VIETNAM WAR COMMEMORATION. Appropriates funds for programs, ceremonies, and activities commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Vietnam War. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE. Appropriates funds for the establishment of a veterans services counselor IV position within the Office of Veterans' Services to assist all veterans, with a primary focus on female veterans. Appropriates funds for military and veterans commemoration events. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Provides for air conditioning, heat abatement, and related energy efficiency measures at public schools by appropriating general funds and general obligation bond funds to the DOE for these projects. (SD2)
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