OFFICE OF THE SPEAKER
THIRTY-FIRST STATE LEGISLATURE
COMMITTEE REFERRALS
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NO. 3
7TH LEGISLATIVE DAY - FEBRUARY 1, 2021
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Committee Abbreviations:
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AGR - Agriculture |
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CAI - Culture, Arts, & International Affairs |
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CMV - Corrections, Military, & Veterans |
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CPC - Consumer Protection & Commerce |
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ECD - Economic Development |
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EDN - Education |
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EEP - Energy & Environmental Protection |
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FIN - Finance |
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GVR - Government Reform |
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HET - Higher Education & Technology |
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HHH - Health, Human Services, & Homelessness |
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HSG - Housing |
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JHA - Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs |
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LAT - Labor & Tourism |
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LMG - Legislative Management |
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PDP - Pandemic & Disaster Preparedness |
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TRN - Transportation |
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WAL - Water & Land |
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RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION. Short form bill.
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TRN |
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RELATING TO COMMERCIAL DRIVER'S LICENSES. Adds a requirement for certain commercial driver's license applicants to complete an entry-level driver training course before taking a skills test for licensure.
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CPC, JHA |
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RELATING TO THE STATE HIGHWAY SAFETY COUNCIL. Reduces the membership of the State Highway Safety Council appointed by the Governor from twenty to ten.
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TRN, FIN |
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RELATING TO TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER AT THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII. Removes the sunset provision in Act 38, Session Laws of Hawaii 2017.
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HET, FIN |
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RELATING TO UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII RESEARCH. Removes the sunset provision in Act 39, Session Laws of Hawaii 2017.
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HET, FIN |
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RELATING TO CRIMINAL HISTORY RECORD CHECKS. Adds the University of Hawaii to the list of agencies that are authorized to conduct criminal history record checks on current or prospective employees, including student employees and contractors and their employees, whose positions or duties are related to public safety.
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LAT, JHA |
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RELATING TO PROCUREMENT FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII. Removes the sunset provision in Act 42, Session Laws of Hawaii 2018.
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HET, GVR, FIN |
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RELATING TO THE CONFERENCE CENTER REVOLVING FUND. Broadens the scope of the Conference Center Revolving Fund for the University of Hawaii at Hilo.
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HET, FIN |
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RELATING TO THE HAWAII CANCER RESEARCH SPECIAL FUND. Amends the reporting requirement on the Hawaii cancer research special fund from semi-annually to annually.
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HET, FIN |
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RELATING TO UNIVERSITY DISTRICTS. Provide a framework that supports consistent land use planning and development across the University of Hawaii System and allows project partnerships with qualified persons.
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HET, WAL, FIN |
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RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII BOARD OF REGENTS INDEPENDENT AUDIT COMMITTEE. Allows the chair of the Independent Audit Committee of the University of Hawaii Board of Regents to be selected in a manner consistent with its bylaws and makes other clarifying amendments.
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HET, JHA |
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RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII TUITION AND FEES SPECIAL FUND. Repeals the requirement that each University of Hawaii campus prepare an operations plan, to be reviewed by the President and the Vice President for Budget and Finance and the Chief Financial Officer of the University of Hawaii, for each fiscal year. Repeals the requirement that the moneys in the University of Hawaii Tuition and Fees Special Fund for each University of Hawaii campus to lapse to the credit of Program ID No. UOH900 (University of Hawaii, system wide support).
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HET, FIN |
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RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII. Short form bill relating to the University of Hawaii.
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HET |
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RELATING TO THE COMMISSION FOR NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE. Transfers for administrative purposes only the Commission for National and Community Service from the University of Hawaii to the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism. Adds a representative from each county mayor?s office to the commission and a representative of the volunteer sector. Also changes meeting requirements from quarterly to twice annually.
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ECD, JHA |
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RELATING TO EMOLUMENTS. Beginning 11/1/2022, prohibits the lieutenant governor, while holding the office of the lieutenant governor, from maintaining any other employment, maintaining a controlling interest in a business, or receiving any emolument, beginning on the sixty-first calendar day after election or appointment to office.
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JHA |
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RELATING TO PROFESSIONAL AND VOCATIONAL LICENSURE. Specifies the documentation needed for a military spouse to receive a temporary licensure by endorsement. Requires issuance of the license within 30 days of the application and supporting documents.
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CMV, CPC |
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RELATING TO EQUITABLE GENDER REPRESENTATION ON CORPORATE BOARDS. Requires publicly held domestic corporations to include non‑male and non‑female individuals among the directors of their corporate board. Establishes reporting requirements for the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs and penalties.
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ECD, CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO THE HAWAII SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF AND BLIND. Requires the department of education to develop a plan to transition the Hawaii School for the Deaf and Blind to a conversion charter school.
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HHH, EDN, FIN |
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RELATING TO THE MODERNIZATION OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE. Eliminates the use of monetary bail, with certain exceptions, and requires defendants to be released on their own recognizance for traffic offenses, violations, non-violent petty misdemeanor offenses, and non-violent misdemeanor offenses. Creates a rebuttable presumption regarding both release and detention for certain offenses and specifies circumstances in which these presumptions apply. Requires the judicial council to appoint a committee to review and recommend changes to the Hawaii penal code.
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JHA, FIN |
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RELATING TO THE PHASEOUT OF PRIVATE CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES. Requires the State to phase out the use of private correctional facilities to incarcerate Hawaii inmates. Prohibits the construction of new correctional facilities or the expansion of existing correctional facilities without the approval of the Hawaii correctional system oversight commission.
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CMV, JHA, FIN |
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RELATING TO SIDEWALKS. Requires the department of transportation and each county's transportation department to create and maintain a priority list of sidewalk installation and improvement projects and to publish the priority list on their respective websites.
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TRN, FIN |
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RELATING TO CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES. Establishes a moratorium on the construction of any new correctional facilities in the State on or after 7/1/2021, including the planned construction of a new facility to replace the existing Oahu community correctional center. Prohibits the construction of new correctional facilities or the expansion of existing correctional facilities without the approval of the Hawaii correctional system oversight commission.
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CMV, JHA, FIN |
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RELATING TO THE LAW OF THE SPLINTERED PADDLE. Prohibits a county from enacting any ordinance that prohibits a person from lying by the roadside in safety in accordance with the law of the splintered paddle.
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CAI, JHA |
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RELATING TO ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION. Prohibits the harvesting of aquatic life for commercial aquarium purposes, regardless of the method of collection.
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WAL, CPC |
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RELATING TO SEXUAL ASSAULT OF AN ANIMAL. Establishes the crime of bestiality. Provides that the bestiality is a class C felony or a class B felony if the offense subjects a minor to sexual contact with an animal or is committed in the presence of a minor.
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AGR, JHA |
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RELATING TO VETERINARIANS. Provides veterinarians who provide emergency care to an animal immunity from civil liability in the absence of gross negligence. Provides veterinarians who render emergency treatment when there is no veterinarian-client-patient relationship immunity from civil liability in the absence of gross negligence. Requires veterinarians to report events of animal injury, death, or abuse to law enforcement where there is reasonable cause to believe that it relates to dog fighting or animal abuse and gives veterinarians immunity for civil liability for making the reports.
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CPC, JHA |
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RELATING TO ANIMAL CRUELTY. Prohibits specified trolleys, trolleys with swivels, pulleys, cables, or running lines designed to attach a dog to two stationary objects in a configuration that endangers the dog, including by depriving the dog of sustenance. Prohibits tethering or restraining a dog under the age of six months unless the dog is engaged in an activity supervised by its owner or an agent of its owner. Prohibits tethering or restraining a dog with a tow or log chain. Prohibits tethering or restraining a dog with a choke collar, pinch collar, or prong collar unless the dog is engaged in an activity supervised by its owner or an agent of its owner.
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AGR, JHA |
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RELATING TO COSMETICS. Bans the import for profit, sale, and offer for sale of any cosmetic in the State if the final product or any component of the final product was developed or manufactured using animal testing performed on or after 1/1/2022. Effective 1/1/2022.
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AGR, CPC, JHA |
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RELATING TO FISHING. Prohibits fishing at any time in the Waikiki-Diamond Head shoreline fisheries management area or the area between the Waikiki War Memorial Natatorium and the Diamond Head Lighthouse. Effective 10/1/2021.
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WAL, JHA |
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RELATING TO CHILD PASSENGER RESTRAINTS. Amends requirements for child passengers. Requires rear facing child safety seats for children less than 2 years of age. Requires the use of child safety seats or booster seats for certain children less than 10 years of age. Raises certain fines for violations.
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JHA, FIN |
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RELATING TO THEFT. Establishes the offense of theft of catalytic converter as a class C felony. Defines "catalytic converter." Requires scrap dealers to follow the same requirements regarding a written statement for the purchase of palladium, platinum, rhodium, and a scrap catalytic converter from which some or all of the catalyst metals have been removed as is required for the purchase of copper, beer kegs, and urns.
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CPC, JHA |
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RELATING TO CARBON OFFSETS. Establishes procedures for the department of transportation to assist and enable a person to voluntarily purchase a verified carbon offset for carbon dioxide emissions resulting from the person's air travel to or from an airport in the State.
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EEP, CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION. Authorizes the director of transportation to transfer funding between program identification numbers within the harbors division; provided that the aggregate amount transferred in a fiscal year does not exceed an unspecified amount.
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TRN, FIN |
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RELATING TO CONCESSIONS. Provides the department of transportation with more flexibility and discretion to address substantial hardship situations that impact airport concession contracts.
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TRN, CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO FERAL CHICKENS. Appropriates funds for the department of land and natural resources division of state parks to establish a program to eradicate feral chickens in state parks.
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WAL, FIN |
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RELATING TO PARENTAGE. Amends the Uniform Parentage Act to allow non-gestational partners to voluntarily establish parentage of a child during the period immediately prior to or following the birth of the child. Requires the State to recognize parentage determinations from other states and territories.
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JHA, FIN |
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RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND CONSUMER AFFAIRS. Amends the name of the certificate of good standing issued by the department of commerce and consumer affairs to "certificate of registration."
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ECD, CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO EMPLOYMENT SECURITY. Sets the employer contribution rate for small business employers for calendar years 2021 and 2022 at an unspecified schedule. Defines "small business employer". Applies retroactively to 01/01/21.
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LAT/PDP, CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO LITTERING. Increases from $1,000 to $2,000 the maximum fine for the petty misdemeanor offense of criminal littering.
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JHA, FIN |
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RELATING TO YOUTH MENTORSHIP. Requires the office of youth services to establish a pilot program to offer mentorship services to Pacific Islander students in high school and college. Establishes 1 FTE position for a youth pilot program coordinator. Requires a report to the legislature. Appropriates moneys.
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HHH, FIN |
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RELATING TO THE HAWAII CIVIL RIGHTS COMMISSION. Clarifies the meaning of "program or activity receiving state financial assistance". Includes eligible student with disabilities complaints within the scope of the Hawaii civil rights commission.
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LAT, JHA, FIN |
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RELATING TO LITTER CONTROL. Prohibits the intentional release of balloons inflated with a gas that is lighter than air.
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EEP, JHA |
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RELATING TO PUBLIC BANKING. Establishes an implementation board to review, investigate, and study the feasibility of establishing a state-owned bank. Requires a report to the legislature prior to the regular session of 2022.
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ECD, CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO GAMBLING. Includes under the offense of promoting gambling in the first degree the act of hosting activities that advance gambling activity on real property. Permits the forfeiture of real property to the State if the real property was used to promote gambling in the first degree by a person in at least three separate incidents and the person was convicted for at least three of those incidents.
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CPC/JHA, FIN |
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RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII BOARD OF REGENTS CANDIDATE ADVISORY COUNCIL. Requires the candidate advisory council for the board of regents of the University of Hawaii to present candidates for the board regents who reflect the diverse student population, counties, and higher education-related stakeholders. Amends the various appointing authorities of members of the candidate advisory council. Amends the terms of members of the candidate advisory council.
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HET, JHA |
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RELATING TO HEALTH. Requires all health care and wellness service providers to submit health information to a health information exchange, to be operated and maintained by a state designated entity, for the purposes of facilitating the use and movement of health information among organizations.
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HHH, JHA, FIN |
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RELATING TO COMPUTER CRIME. Adds aggravated harassment by stalking to the list of offenses upon which the offense of use of a computer in the commission of a separate crime may be based. Specifies that property used in computer crimes shall be forfeited even when the perpetrator was a person under the age of 18 who did not have ownership of the property.
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JHA |
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RELATING TO GIFTS. Authorizes legislators and legislative employees to accept gifts of aloha from lobbyists or their clients. Defines "gifts of aloha" as anything of value, including a meal, whose fair market value is $25 or less.
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GVR, JHA, FIN |
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RELATING TO ADMINISTRATIVE RULE MAKING. Requires that prior to the adoption or repeal of a rule, electronic notice of the proposed rulemaking be provided to all persons who have made a timely written request of the adopting agency for advance notice of its rulemaking proceedings.
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JHA, FIN |
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RELATING TO THE HAWAII CORRECTIONAL SYSTEM OVERSIGHT COMMISSION. Appropriates funds for an oversight coordinator position and necessary staff support positions for the Hawaii correctional system oversight commission.
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CMV, JHA, FIN |
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RELATING TO CRIMINAL PRETRIAL REFORM. Eliminates the use of monetary bail and requires defendants to be released on their own recognizance for traffic offenses, violations, and nonviolent petty misdemeanor and misdemeanor offenses, with certain exceptions. Creates rebuttable presumptions regarding release and detention for certain offenses and specifies circumstances in which these presumptions apply.
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JHA, FIN |
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RELATING TO THE VENDING FACILITIES PROGRAM. Allows persons with a mental illness to participate in the vending facilities program. Limits vending facilities owned or operated by persons with mental health disorders to only those state or county public buildings not currently occupied by blind or visually handicapped vendors.
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HHH, CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO NON-GENERAL FUNDS. Repeals or reclassifies certain non-general funds administered by the department of human services as recommended by the auditor in auditor report no. 21-02.
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HHH, FIN |
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RELATING TO NON-GENERAL FUNDS. Repeals or reclassifies certain non-general funds of the Hawaii public housing authority pursuant to the recommendations of the auditor in auditor report no. 21-02.
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HSG, FIN |
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RELATING TO THE STATE FUNDS. Provides for the deposit into the emergency and budget reserve fund of moneys received by the State through a civil action in which the State is a party and no other law or court order specifically provides for the deposit elsewhere of moneys received through the action.
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JHA, FIN |
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RELATING TO TAX CONFORMITY. Requires the State to conform to those provisions of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021 relating to taxable income and deductible expenses.
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FIN |
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RELATING TO VACANCIES. Requires vacancies in the offices of United States Senator, State Senator, and State Representative to be filled by special election.
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JHA, FIN |
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RELATING TO CAMPAIGN SPENDING. Amends the definition of noncandidate committee and the contents required in noncandidate committee reports filed with the campaign spending commission.
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GVR, JHA |
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RELATING TO CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS. Clarifies that social welfare organizations granted tax exempt status under 501(c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code are subject to the same requirements of other charitable organizations that solicit funds from the public.
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FIN |
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RELATING TO TELEHEALTH. Allows for standard telephone contacts for telehealth purposes.
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HHH, CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE FORTY-THIRD REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT. Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the forty-third representative district.
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FIN |
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RELATING TO THE HAWAIIAN HOMES COMMISSION ACT. Defines "beneficiary consultation". Prohibits the department of Hawaiian home lands from disposing or extending a general lease to non-beneficiaries, unless there are no applicants seeking to enter into a general lease to the use and occupancy of a tract of Hawaiian home lands. Requires the department to notify beneficiaries through beneficiary consultation prior to the disposition of Hawaiian home lands. Adds language to require Section 204 lessees mandate Homestead Beneficiary Agreements. Prohibits the department from establishing additional criteria to enter into a general lease with an applicant, under certain conditions. Specifies that the department may grant a license or enter into a general lease, under certain conditions. Allocates the interest or other earnings from the Hawaiian home loan fund and Hawaiian home general loan fund into their respective funds, under certain conditions. Requires the department to submit a quarterly report to the legislature and beneficiaries. Authorizes the department to negotiate with homestead association governed water agencies to maintain water systems prior to other service providers, under certain conditions.
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WAL, JHA, FIN |
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RELATING TO THE HAWAIIAN HOMES COMMISSION ACT. Requires that a majority of the members of the Hawaiian Homes Commission be beneficiaries and on the waitlist. Requires quarterly reporting to the legislature and beneficiaries on land dispositions made during the quarter. Authorizes the governor to establish an inter-agency council. Requires a full accounting of Act 14, Special Session Laws of Hawaii 1995, expenditures within one year. Allows the Hawaiian Homes Commission to retain separate counsel from the attorney general to provide service to the Commission and beneficiaries. Requires the Legislative Reference Bureau to conduct a study on the implications of creating a position for the director of the department of Hawaiian home lands that is separate from the chairperson of the Hawaiian Homes Commission.
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JHA, FIN |
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RELATING TO THE HAWAIIAN HOMES COMMISSION ACT. Amends the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act to require appraisals of improvements to identify the replacement cost or the leasehold market value. Grants authority to DHHL, to authorize second position loans on homestead leases by approved lenders. Requires DHHL to develop and implement a loan servicing manual, subject to commission approval, to standardize loan loss mitigation policies, procedures, and methods. Clarifies that DHHL shall not cancel a lease solely based on a loan default or delinquency unless all loan loss mitigation procedures are exhausted pursuant to the loan services manual.
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WAL, JHA, FIN |
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RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT COST ITEMS. Provides appropriations for collective bargaining cost items for the members of bargaining unit (9) and their excluded counterparts, including the cost of salary adjustments and Hawaii employer-union health benefits trust fund costs negotiated between the State and the bargaining unit representative for fiscal biennium 2021-2023.
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LAT, FIN |
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RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT COST ITEMS. Provides appropriations for collective bargaining cost items for the members of bargaining unit (13) and their excluded counterparts, including the cost of salary adjustments and Hawaii employer-union health benefits trust fund costs negotiated between the State and the bargaining unit representative for fiscal biennium 2021-2023.
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LAT, FIN |
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RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT COST ITEMS. Provides appropriations for collective bargaining cost items for the members of bargaining unit (14) and their excluded counterparts, including the cost of salary adjustments and Hawaii employer-union health benefits trust fund costs negotiated between the State and the bargaining unit representative for fiscal biennium 2021-2023.
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LAT, FIN |
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RELATING TO EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT. During a state of emergency or local state of emergency, provides parameters for delegation of powers and scope and duration of suspension of laws. Provides an advise and consent process for an emergency proclamation to extend beyond one hundred twenty days. Provides a legislative means for an emergency proclamation to be terminated.
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PDP, JHA, FIN |
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RELATING TO WATER CARRIERS. Establishes the maritime commission to oversee the regulation of water carriers in the State. Transfers the oversight of water carriers by the public utilities commission to the maritime commission and makes associated conforming amendments. Establishes the maritime commission special fund. Makes an appropriation. Effective 7/1/2022.
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TRN, CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO TRANSIT-ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT. Requires the office of planning to hire a contractor to, among other things, identify and assess alternative financing, project delivery, and cost recovery mechanisms to recapture the State's upfront investment in transit-oriented development infrastructure. Requires the contractor to consult with representatives of certain government entities. Requires the office of planning to report its findings to the legislature. Appropriates funds.
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TRN/HSG, WAL, FIN |
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RELATING TO THE STATE BUILDING CODE COUNCIL. Requires the state building code council to: consider the impact of building codes and standards on the cost of single- and multi-family homes built in the State when considering whether to adopt a code or standard; and include with its annual written report to the governor a financial impact assessment on each code and standard adopted by the council.
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CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO HOUSING. Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds to be appropriated into and out of the rental housing revolving fund for construction of phase I of a senior affordable housing project on Hawaii public housing authority property on School street, Oahu.
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HSG, FIN |
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RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. Establishes 2 new positions on the board of agriculture and specifies that 1 shall be a resident of the island of Molokai and 1 shall be a resident of the island of Lanai.
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AGR, FIN |
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RELATING TO PHARMACY AUDITS. Establishes procedures for audits of pharmacies conducted by a health care provider, insurance company, third-party payor, sickness insurance provider, mutual benefit society, dental service corporation, health maintenance organization, or any entity that represents such companies or groups.
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HHH, CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE FOURTH REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT. Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the fourth representative district.
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FIN |
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RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCES. Requires the department of land and natural resources, in conjunction with the counties, to develop an invasive species flood control plan to prevent, contain, and mitigate hazardous tree growth impacting streams and waterways. Requires submittal of the plan to the legislature prior to the 2022 regular session.
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WAL, JHA, FIN |
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RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCES. Requires the department of land and natural resources, in conjunction with the county of Hawaii, to develop an invasive species flood control plan to prevent, contain, and mitigate hazardous tree growth impacting streams and waterways in Puna. Requires submittal of the plan to the legislature prior to the 2022 regular session.
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WAL, JHA, FIN |
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RELATING TO ABUSE. Changes the age for minors who are in the presence of abuse of family or household member offenses from less than fourteen to less than eighteen years of age.
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RELATING TO HAWAII HOUSING FINANCE AND DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION. Requires the Hawaii housing finance and development corporation to award funds no later than an unspecified number of days after the deadline to file a consolidated application or no later than an unspecified number of days after the filing of a duly submitted consolidated application if no deadline has been established by the corporation.
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HSG, FIN |
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RELATING TO ELECTRIC VEHICLES. Prohibits the issuance of certain new residential multi-family and commercial building application permits and new state building application permits initiated on or after January 1, 2022, unless the building's parking stalls are electric vehicle charger ready. Allows such buildings to implement an electric vehicle energy management system.
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EEP, CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO ZERO-EMISSION VEHICLES. Requires certain rental motor vehicle lessors to expedite the incorporation of one hundred per cent zero-emission vehicles into the lessor's fleet by 7/1/2035. Requires motor vehicle lessors to certify their compliance to the director of commerce and consumer affairs. Beginning 1/1/2022, establishes a rental motor vehicle emissions surcharge tax on certain rental motor vehicles with internal combustion engines.
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EEP, CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO ENERGY. Establishes a surcharge on the sale of high-end gasoline-powered vehicles to fund the installation of electric vehicle charging systems. Establishes electric vehicle charging system subaccount within the public utilities commission special fund. Sunsets 6/30/2030.
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EEP, CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO RENEWABLE ENERGY. Amends the definition of renewable portfolio standard for electric utility companies to be a percentage of electrical energy generation, rather than sales. Defines a renewable portfolio standard for gas utility companies. Requires gas utility companies to establish renewable energy portfolio standards and provides a means for gas utility companies to achieve the renewable energy portfolio standards.
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EEP, CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. Exempts from general excise tax law amounts received from the interisland transportation and related loading and unloading of livestock. Requires the public utilities commission to authorize preferential water carrier service rates by tariff for ratepayers that operate farms or ranches located in any county with a population equal to or less than 500,000.
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WAL, CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO TAX CREDITS. Requires that new income tax credits include a 5-year sunset or a gradual reduction.
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ECD, FIN |
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RELATING TO TAXATION. Extends the period in which a county may adopt a surcharge on state tax, under certain conditions, from 3/31/2019 to 12/31/2021. Authorizes the use of county surcharge revenues for affordable and workforce housing infrastructure.
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ECD/HSG, FIN |
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RELATING TO THE STATE BUDGET. Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects for fiscal biennium 2021–2023.
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FIN |
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RELATING TO LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCES. Authorizes the board of land and natural resources to adopt, amend, and repeal administrative fee schedules without regard to chapter 91, Hawaii Revised Statutes. Establishes a process for the board to adopt, amend, and repeal administrative fee schedules, including public notice and meeting requirements.
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WAL, FIN |
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RELATING TO LAND USE. Reorganizes and integrates the land use commission within a modified office of planning, which is renamed as the office of planning and sustainable development. Reclassifies the coastal zone management program and statewide sustainability branch as divisions within the office of planning and sustainable development.
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WAL, FIN |
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RELATING TO FISHING. Requires the department of land and natural resources to license non-commercial marine fishing along with freshwater fishing, engage in public outreach prior to implementing the combined non-commercial freshwater and marine fishing license, and submit reports to the legislature. Prohibits enforcement of requirement to obtain a license to catch marine life for non-commercial purposes until 6/1/2022.
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WAL, JHA |
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RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. Requires the agribusiness development corporation to lease agricultural land under its control at the rate of $1 per year until use of the land has resulted in a profit, at which time an annual supplemental lease rent equivalent to an unspecified percentage of the net profit derived from sales of agricultural products produced on the leased land becomes applicable. Exempts a producer of agricultural products from payment of excise tax on the amounts received from sales of agricultural products produced on the leased land.
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AGR, FIN |
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RELATING TO MEDICAL EXAMINERS. Requires the counties to have medical examiners who are licensed physicians and certified anatomic or forensic pathologists. Repeals section providing for coroners.
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HHH, CPC |
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RELATING TO BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT AT BARBERS POINT. Authorizes a GET exemption for businesses investing more than $500,000 over a 10-year period and creating a minimum of 50 job positions for the purpose of business development at Barbers Point in the Kalaeloa opportunity zone. Establishes a tax credit for upgrading infrastructure at Barbers Point.
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ECD, FIN |
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RELATING TO TOWING. Requires towing companies to release vehicles, without a fee, to an authorized driver if the authorized driver appears at the scene of the towing. Defines "authorized driver."
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CPC, JHA |
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RELATING TO COFFEE. Requires and appropriates funds to the department of agriculture to apply to register the term "Kona Coffee Blend" as a geographical indication or a similar intellectual property registration with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Establishes a surcharge on the sale of certain coffee commodifies to reimburse the general funds appropriated. Requires a roasted coffee or instant coffee to contain at least fifteen per cent coffee by weight from a geographic origin to use that geographic origin in labeling or advertising.
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AGR, ECD, FIN |
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RELATING TO FILM CREDIT CAP REMOVAL. Removes the cap on the amount that may be claimed per qualified production. Removes the limit for the total amount of tax credits allowed per year for the motion picture, digital media, and film production income tax credit.
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ECD, FIN |
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RELATING TO AIRFIELDS. Authorizes the department of business, economic development, and tourism to maintain airfields. Requires the department of transportation to transfer the lease of Kawaihapai Airfield to the department of business, economic development, and tourism.
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RELATING TO AIRFIELDS. Requires the Department of Transportation to allow its lease with the U.S. Department of the Army to expire on its agreed upon termination date and to not terminate the agreement prior to that date.
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RELATING TO EDUCATION. Requires the department of education to establish and administer a career and technology program that will provide aviation and aviation mechanics education and training to high school students.
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EDN, FIN |
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RELATING TO AIRFIELDS. Prohibits the eviction of any tenant of Kawaihapai Airfield from being evicted from the airfield until the expiration of the department of transportation and the U.S. Department of the Army's lease, so long as the tenant remains in good standing. Requires the department of transportation to cooperate with any private entity performing an economic feasibility study of Kawaihapai Airfield.
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TRN, CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO CHARTER SCHOOLS. Repeals the state public charter school commission. Transfers the duties of the state public charter school commission to public charter school authorizers. Transfers appropriations from the state public charter school commission to the board of education to be used by public charter school authorizers.
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EDN, FIN |
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RELATING TO HAWAIIAN HOME LANDS. Authorizes the department of Hawaiian home lands to sell tracts of Hawaiian home lands to native Hawaiians in fee simple. Provides the department with the first right of purchase if a subsequent purchaser of the land is not native Hawaiian. Effective 7/1/2050.
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RELATING TO ETHICS. Prohibits legislators from soliciting, accepting, or receiving, directly or indirectly, any individual gift in the form of hospitality exceeding a value of twenty-five dollars. Reduces the aggregate value of a gift that must be reported by a legislator or government employee, or spouse or dependent child of a legislator or government employee.
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GVR, JHA, FIN |
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RELATING TO THE BERNICE PAUAHI BISHOP MUSEUM. Appropriates funds to support the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, including the hiring of necessary staff.
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CAI, FIN |
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RELATING TO TAXATION. Specifies that the $1,000,000 of transient accommodations tax revenues currently allocated to operate a Hawaiian center and the museum of Hawaiian music and dance may also be used to plan, design, and construct these facilities at an unspecified location.
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LAT, FIN |
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RELATING TO GAMBLING. Requires the prosecuting attorney to initiate forfeiture proceedings against real property used in promoting gambling in the first degree when any owner of the real property has been convicted of 3 or more separate incidents of promoting gambling in the first degree.
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JHA/CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO BUSINESS. Short form bill relating to business.
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RELATING TO THE ECONOMY. Short form bill relating to the economy.
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ECD |
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RELATING TO TECHNOLOGY. Short form bill relating to technology.
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ECD |
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RELATING TO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. Short form bill relating to economic development.
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ECD |
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RELATING TO TAXATION. Short form bill relating to taxation.
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ECD |
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RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, AND TOURISM. Part I: Establishes the clean energy and energy efficiency revolving loan fund. Repeals the building energy efficiency revolving loan fund. Authorizes moneys in the green infrastructure special fund to be used to finance the option to purchase solar systems and other clean energy equipment, including the purchase or lease of electric vehicles. Appropriates funds out of the clean energy and energy efficiency revolving loan fund. Part II: Replaces the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism with the Hawaii Green Infrastructure Authority as the administering agency for the motion picture, digital media, and film production income tax credit.
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ECD/EEP, CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO TAXATION. Reduces the cap amounts of the renewable energy technologies income tax credit.
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EEP, FIN |
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RELATING TO TAXATION. Amends the motion picture, digital media, and film production income tax credit by: (1) Reducing the cap amount and aggregate cap amount of the credit; (2) Establishing a maximum amount of above-the-line costs that may be used to claim the credit; (3) Reducing the minimum amount of qualified productions costs needed to claim the credit; (4) Requiring qualified production costs to be incurred through a qualified vendor; (5) Requiring at least 75% of a qualified production to be filmed in the State if the taxpayer claims a credit in excess of $5,000,000 in a single taxable year; and (6) Requiring that the State receive a percentage of the worldwide gross revenues of a qualified production if the taxpayer claims credits in excess of $15,000,000 in 2 taxable years. Defines "above-the-line costs" and "qualified vendor". Extends the repeal date of the tax credit from 1/1/2026 to 1/1/2033.
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ECD, FIN |
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RELATING TO THE COMMUNITY-BASED ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM. Establishes the micro enterprise assistance program on Hawaiian home lands revolving fund to provide grants and loans through the implementation of the micro enterprise assistance program to qualified native Hawaiians, native Hawaiian-controlled homestead associations, and homestead association community development corporations. Appropriates funds.
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ECD, JHA, FIN |
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RELATING TO A JOB CORPS PROGRAM. Establishes a state job corps program within the department of business, economic development, and tourism to help address unemployment impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and support economic diversification. Appropriates funds for this purpose.
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ECD, FIN |
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RELATING TO TAX CREDITS. Increases the amount of tax credit allowable for household and dependent care services from $2,400 to $4,800 for a qualifying individual and from $4,800 to $9,600 for two or more qualifying individuals.
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ECD, FIN |
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RELATING TO TAX CREDITS. Establishes a refundable income tax credit equal to twenty per cent of the federal child tax credit allowed and properly claimed on a taxpayer's federal tax return. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2020.
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HHH, FIN |
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RELATING TO INVASIVE SPECIES. Establishes a pilot program within the Aina Mauna legacy program of the department of Hawaiian home lands to remove and harvest gorse from Mauna Kea and develop it as a marketable product to expand economic opportunities for native Hawaiians. Requires reports to the legislature. Appropriates funds. Sunsets 6/30/2025.
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AGR, JHA, FIN |
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RELATING TO TAXATION. Amends the rate of the environmental response, energy, and food security tax imposed on petroleum products. Amends the portion of environmental response, energy, and food security tax revenues deposited into the energy security special fund.
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EEP, FIN |
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RELATING TO EVIDENCE. Limits compelled disclosure of sources or unpublished information for journalists, newscasters and persons participating in collection or dissemination of news or information of substantial public interest. Establishes exceptions.
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JHA |
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RELATING TO EMPLOYMENT SECURITY. Temporarily reduces employer contribution rates for unemployment insurance. Repeals 1/1/2024.
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LAT, CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO STATE HOLIDAYS. Repeals election days as designated state holidays. Provides up to 8 hours of paid leave on even-numbered years for public employees whose contract terms extend beyond 6/30/2022, and include election days as paid holidays.
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JHA, FIN |
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RELATING TO TAXATION. Exempts the sale of precious metal bullion from the general excise tax.
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JHA, FIN |
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RELATING TO THE DISTRIBUTION OF LEASES UNDER THE HAWAIIAN HOMES COMMISSION ACT, 1920, AS AMENDED. Requires Hawaiian Homes Commission to distribute leases to all beneficiaries within 10 years. Removes financial consideration in obtaining a lease. Requires the construction of pu'uhonuas or communal living arrangements by the department.
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ECD, FIN |
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RELATING TO CORONAVIRUS DATA. Requires the department of health to disclose the exact location where covid-19 cluster cases have originated in each county, including the name and address of each establishment, and the number of individuals involved in each case.
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HSG, JHA, FIN |
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RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR KAISER COMPLEX SCHOOLS IN THE SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICTS. Appropriates funds for a capital improvement project to provide the remaining Kaiser Complex schools air conditioning for the 17th and 18th Representative Districts.
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PDP/HHH, JHA |
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RELATING TO GENERAL EXCISE TAX. Provides a one-year exemption to any business demonstrating they were dependent on county, state, or federal funding to sustain them during state mandated closures. Business may only qualify for this exemption once.
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FIN |
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RELATING TO CORONAVIRUS TESTING AT AIRPORTS. Requires the department of transportation, in collaboration with the department of health, to establish covid-19 testing sites and conduct rapid testing at all airports operated by the department of transportation with flights arriving from the continental United States and internationally. Appropriates funds.
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PDP/ECD, FIN |
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RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE THIRTY-FIRST REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT. Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the thirty-first representative district.
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PDP/TRN, FIN |
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RELATING TO BROADBAND SERVICE INFRASTRUCTURE. Establishes the broadband infrastructure grant program to award grants to applicants to extend deployment of infrastructure used to provide broadband service to unserved areas of the State. Amends the Hawaii technology loan revolving fund to change it to the Hawaii broadband infrastructure fund, including the types of funds deposited into the fund. Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds for the broadband infrastructure grant program.
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ECD, CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO CONSUMER PROTECTION. Transitions from lump sum deferred deposit transactions to installment-based small dollar loan transactions. Specifies various consumer protection requirements for small dollar loans. Beginning 1/1/2023, requires licensure for small dollar lenders that offer small dollar loans to consumers. Specifies licensing requirements for small dollar lenders. Authorizes the division of financial institutions to appoint 2.0 FTE examiner positions, funded via the compliance resolution fund, to carry out the purposes of the small dollar installment loan program. Requires check cashers to be registered with DCCA and to offer a voluntary payment plan to customers under certain circumstances. Establishes the terms of voluntary payment plans. Clarifies that a customer may only have one outstanding deferred deposit transaction from any source. Amends notices to customers required of check cashers. Removes the exemption for persons engaged in the bona fide retail sale of goods or services. Requires the division of financial institutions of the DCCA to conduct an analysis of the regulation of payday lenders and deferred deposit agreements in the State. Effective 7/1/2022.
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CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE STATE. Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects relating to the state archives and Iolani Palace.
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CAI, FIN |
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RELATING TO THE STATEWIDE TRAFFIC CODE. Prohibits drivers from operating vehicles with more than four wheels and high-passenger cars in the left lane, or close to the left-hand curb or left-hand edge, of a state or county roadway. Exempts drivers operating public transportation vehicles in a zipper lane or diamond lane.
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RELATING TO HIGHWAYS. Requires the department of transportation, in collaboration with the department of Hawaiian home lands, to develop plans for the construction of secondary access roads for the Waianae district of leeward Oahu. Appropriates funds to develop the construction plans.
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TRN, JHA, FIN |
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RELATING TO LABOR. Establishes clear guidelines for unpaid internships under the state wage and hour law.
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LAT, ECD, FIN |
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RELATING TO EMERGENCY RULES. Allows for lesser emergency period penalties to be adopted and promulgated by the governor or a mayor. Authorizes the county prosecutors to exercise discretion with the offense charged and the penalty sought for certain first-time violations of COVID-19 emergency orders incurred since March 4, 2019.
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PDP, JHA |
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RELATING TO THE WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL. Replaces the Director of Human Services with the Administrator of the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation, Department of Human Services, as an ex officio, voting member on the Workforce Development Council.
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LAT, JHA |
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RELATING TO THE DISPOSITION OF TAXES. Suspends the requirement for disposition of the conveyance tax to the land conservation fund and the rental housing revolving fund for fiscal year 2021-2022 and fiscal year 2022-2023.
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WAL, HSG, FIN |
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RELATING TO GOVERNMENT. Prohibits the appointment of state officers and employees to boards and commissions unless otherwise provided.
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JHA |
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RELATING TO ESSENTIAL WAGES FOR ESSENTIAL WORKERS. Requires the department of taxation to share information with the department of labor and industrial relations for the purposes of enforcing the tip credit. Requires the department of taxation to provide an online tool or program to employers to determine compliance with the tip credit. Increases the minimum wage to $15.00 per hour by 2024 and indexes future annual increases to the median wage for all occupations in the State. Beginning 01/01/2022, adjusts the tip credit to 50 cents for every dollar above a certain amount. Requires written notice to an affected tipped employee.
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LAT, FIN |
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RELATING TO CANNABIS. Legalizes, regulates, and taxes cannabis and manufactured cannabis products for responsible, adult use. Exempts sales of cannabis and manufactured cannabis products for medical use from the general excise tax. Clarifies that qualifying out-of-state patients have the same rights and privileges under the medical cannabis law. Allows qualifying out-of-state patients to cultivate medical cannabis.
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HHH, JHA/CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO TAXATION OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS CARRIERS. Requires DOTAX to audit telecommunications companies operating in Hawaii to identify past underpayments of gross receipts taxes and property taxes, if any, dating back to January 1, 1990. Requires all telecommunications carriers that operate in Hawaii to use generally accepted accounting principles in calculating their tax liabilities to the State and counties.
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CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES. Requires state and county officials, officers, and employees, whenever answering a telephone call, video call, or other form of interactive telecommunication in the performance of their official duties, to identify themselves by first name and offer a polite salutation, consistent with the aloha spirit.
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CAI, JHA |
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RELATING TO SUSTAINABLE INVESTING. Requires a public investment fund to develop, publish, and implement socially responsible investment policies applicable to the management of all public funds under the public investment fund's control and submit an annual report to the legislature on disclosing its investments in accord with environmental, social, and governance investing and socially responsible investment policies.
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ECD, CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO FOOD SECURITY. Initiates reporting requirements and safeguards to prevent anti-competitive practices in the meat processing industry.
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AGR, CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSE. Renames the environmental response, energy, and food security tax the environmental response tax. Repeals the deposit of taxes collected on barrels of petroleum products into the energy security special fund, energy systems development special fund, and agricultural development and food security special fund. Requires all taxes collected on each one million British thermal units of fossil fuels to be deposited into the general fund.
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EEP, FIN |
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PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE VIII, SECTION 3 OF THE HAWAII CONSTITUTION RELATING TO THE FUNCTIONS, POWERS, AND DUTIES OF REAL PROPERTY TAXATION. Proposes an amendment to the Hawaii State Constitution to repeal the exclusive power of the counties as to the functions, powers, and duties relating to the taxation of real property and authorize the State to also exercise those functions, powers, and duties.
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ECD, JHA, FIN |
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RELATING TO TAXATION. By 1/1/2026, requires the department of taxation to suspend and refunds certain income tax amounts received or withheld upon the enactment of a state law specifying real property tax amounts. Takes effect upon the ratification of a constitutional amendment authorizing the State to have additional real property taxing authority.
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ECD, JHA, FIN |
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RELATING TO PROCUREMENT. Requires procurement officers to complete periodic performance evaluations of certain contractors. Establishes factors to be included in any evaluation, consideration, or review of past performance, and ratings standards for those factors. Requires past performance to be factored into future bid selection of contractors for certain contracts. Requires past performance to be considered in all sole source procurement and any competitive sealed contracts that exceeds the small purchase threshold. Requires the state procurement office to submit preliminary and final reports to the legislature. Repeals 6/30/2026.
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GVR, CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO PROCUREMENT. Establishes the subcontractor listing pilot program to be conducted by the department of accounting and general services. Requires a report to the legislature.
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GVR, CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS. Establishes the office of public-private partnerships and the position of state public-private partnerships coordinator. Adds design-build-operate-maintain and design-build-finance-operate-maintain project delivery methods to the Procurement Code and related conditions and requirements. Appropriates funds.
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GVR, CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING. Requires that Hawaii housing finance and development corporation housing projects, in a county having a population of more than 100,000 but less than 1,000,000, include a restrictive covenant that the percentage of units of the housing project that are designated as affordable housing, as described in the submitted housing project application, shall be affordable housing in perpetuity.
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HSG, JHA, FIN |
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RELATING TO PROCUREMENT. Allows a bidder of a public works construction project to clarify and correct certain information regarding subcontractors for up to two hours after bid closing. Mandates a two hour waiting period after bid closing before construction bids can be opened. Prohibits bid shopping and bid peddling for the competitive sealed bidding process. Requires public procurement construction bids to list subcontractors and joint contractors only for contracts with an unspecified total value; provided that bids lacking this list may be accepted if in the State's best interest and the value of the work to be performed by the joint contractor or subcontractor is equal to or less than an unspecified percent of the total bid amount. Repeals 7/1/2023.
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GVR, CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO FEES FOR BIRTH CERTIFICATES. Extends by three years the requirement that the department of health furnish, free of charge, certified copies of birth certificates for any individual who is homeless, provided the individual's homeless status is corroborated by a verification letter issued by a homeless service provider. Repeals June 30, 2024.
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HHH, FIN |
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RELATING TO PLANNED COMMUNITY ASSOCIATIONS. Requires that any budget increases to members of a planned community association be approved by at least sixty per cent of the board membership.
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CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO PLANNED COMMUNITY ASSOCIATIONS. Prohibits any planned community association from assessing a fine or requiring an architectural review for construction or installation work to the exterior of a member's or tenant's unit if performed more than three or more years ago or if performed by a previous member of tenant of the unit, regardless of when the previous member or tenant performed the construction or installation work on the unit.
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CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO HOME-BASED BUSINESSES. Prohibits planned community associations and condominium associations from banning home-based businesses, with certain exceptions.
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ECD, CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE FORTY-FIRST REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT. Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the forty-first representative district.
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FIN |
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RELATING TO CHARTER SCHOOLS. Amends the appointing authority for members to the charter school commission board to consist of the governor, the senate president, the senate minority leader, the speaker of the house of representatives, and the minority leader of the house of representatives. Permits governing boards of postsecondary institutions and county and state agencies to authorize public charter schools. Clarifies charter application notice requirements. Clarifies authorizer compliance requirements in cases of an appeal.
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EDN, JHA, FIN |
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RELATING TO CHARTER SCHOOLS. Requires charter school authorizers to provide a list of approved independent auditors, rather than selecting three independent auditors, from which their respective charter school is to select an independent auditor for its annual financial audit.
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EDN, FIN |
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RELATING TO EDUCATION. Requires public and charter schools to offer education in computer science. Requires annual reports.
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EDN, FIN |
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RELATING TO EDUCATION. Requires the State board for career and technical education to oversee and review annually statewide data collection processes and reporting requirements related to the student attainment of industry-recognized credentials. Requires certain agencies to collect and report disaggregated data on students' attainment of industry-recognized credentials. Requires certain agencies to pursue data-sharing agreements with credentialing entities. Requires an annual report to the governor and legislature.
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EDN, JHA, FIN |
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RELATING TO WORKERS' COMPENSATION. Creates an exception to the exclusive right to compensation under workers' compensation law where COVID-19 is contracted by an employee whose employer failed to maintain adequate workplace protections against exposure to the novel coronavirus. Creates a presumption that COVID-19 has been proximately caused by an employer's failure to maintain adequate workplace protections against exposure to the novel coronavirus.
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PDP/HET, CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO DIGITAL HEALTH RECORDS. Requires coordination to link certain information on social services, organ donor status, and immunization data to the statewide health information exchange. Makes participation in the Hawaii immunization registry mandatory for all providers of immunizations, including COVID-19 vaccines, beginning 08/01/2021.
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HHH, CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO VIOLATION OF PRIVACY. Limits the government's use of facial recognition systems, except in certain circumstances. Does not apply to personal use of a privately owned facial recognition system when acting in an unofficial capacity.
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HET, JHA, FIN |
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RELATING TO NATURAL RESOURCES. Prohibits offshore drilling for oil, natural gas, or minerals in state marine waters. Prohibits issuance of permits for or in connection with the development or operation of any facility or infrastructure associated with offshore drilling for oil, natural gas, or minerals in state waters. Provides exception for collection of sand for state beach replenishment.
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WAL, CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO MOTOR CARRIER PENALTIES. Allows a penalty of up to $5,000 for the fourth or subsequent violations of the motor carrier law within one calendar year.
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CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO THE EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM. Caps the service credit for unused sick leave for employees who become members of the employees' retirement system on or after 7/1/2021 at a maximum credit of ninety days. Specifies that any unused sick leave in excess of ninety days shall be forfeited.
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LAT, FIN |
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RELATING TO HAWAIIAN AS AN OFFICIAL LANGUAGE OF THE STATE OF HAWAI‘I. Requires that the Hawaiian version of a law be held binding if the law in question was originally drafted in Hawaiian and then translated into English.
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JHA, FIN |
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RELATING TO VITAL STATISTICS. Allows a qualified applicant to change their sex designation on their own birth certificate.
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HHH, JHA, FIN |
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RELATING TO TRANSIENT ACCOMMODATIONS. Requires any advertisement for a transient accommodation or resort time share vacation interest, plan, or unit to include the general excise license number and short-term rental permit number of the operator or plan manager.
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LAT, CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO LOANS. Transitions from lump sum deferred deposit transactions to installment-based short-term loans. Specifies various consumer protection requirements for short-term loans, including interest and fee caps, allowable outstanding loans, a cooling-off period, and the right to rescind. Beginning 1/1/2022, requires persons operating as short-term loan companies to be licensed. Specifies licensing requirements for short-term loan companies.
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CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO THE ENVIRONMENT. Requires the chairperson of the board of land and natural resources to establish a task force to make recommendations on how to allow public and private employees to work at least one day a week to protect the environment, reduce wear on infrastructure, decrease traffic congestion, and reduce motor vehicle accidents.
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LAT, JHA, FIN |
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RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES. Authorizes health care providers, nonprofit organizations, businesses, and faith-based organizations to distribute supplemental nutrition assistance program applications to prospective applicants.
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HHH, FIN |
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RELATING TO THE TRANSITION OF THE OAHU REGIONAL HEALTH CARE SYSTEM FROM THE HAWAII HEALTH SYSTEMS CORPORATION INTO THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH. Commences the transfer of the Oahu regional health care system in its entirety from the Hawaii health systems corporation to the department of health, beginning with the transfer of the Oahu regional health care system's budget and position count into the department of health. Enables the Oahu regional health care system, department of health, Hawaii health systems corporation, and other state agencies to manage and implement the processes required to effectuate the completion of such transition. Part II takes effect on 6/30/2021.
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HHH, LAT, FIN |
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RELATING TO THE JUDICIARY. Clarifies that the effective period of a temporary restraining order, protective order, or injunction for a minor may extend to a reasonable date after the minor has reached the age of eighteen.
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JHA |
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RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE TWENTY-SECOND REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT. Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the twenty-second representative district.
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FIN |
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RELATING TO LAW ENFORCEMENT. Amends the law enforcement officer independent review board to include review of any specific incident of alleged misconduct recommended by certain officials and make it a permanent board. Amends the membership of the law enforcement standards board. Amends the term for members of each board to four years.
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JHA, FIN |
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RELATING TO LAW ENFORCEMENT. Authorizes forfeiture of certain employees' retirement system benefits for law enforcement officers who are convicted of an employment-related crime. Requires law enforcement officers under investigation for a felony offense to be placed on unpaid administrative leave, and if convicted, be permanently barred from employment as a law enforcement officer, private detective, or guard.
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LAT, JHA, FIN |
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RELATING TO TAXATION. Amends the important agricultural land qualified agricultural cost tax credit by repealing the cap amount of the tax credit. Extends by nine years the time period that the department of agriculture may certify important agricultural lands qualified agricultural costs.
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AGR, FIN |
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RELATING TO ANIMAL SEXUAL ABUSE. Establishes the criminal offense of sexual assault of an animal. Provides for impoundment and forfeiture of a sexually assaulted animal.
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AGR, JHA |
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RELATING TO HEMP. Amends Act 14, Session Laws of Hawaii 2020, to require hemp product labels to include the product name; ingredients; the name and business address of the help processor; and a warning that the product has not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. Prohibits the sale, offer, or distribution for sale of hemp products to any individual under 21 years of age.
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AGR, CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO ETHICS. Exempts from the fair treatment provisions of the Ethics Code, the mere reuse of an image documenting a historical, governmental event.
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GVR, JHA |
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RELATING TO FIREWORKS INFRACTIONS. Establishes an expeditious adjudication system for the processing of fireworks infractions.
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CPC/JHA, FIN |
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RELATING TO FIREWORKS. Specifies that certain violations of the fireworks control law shall be considered an activity that causes air pollution, which may subject the violator to a citation under the air pollution control law and shall be considered a violation of noise control rules, which may subject the violator to a citation under the noise pollution law.
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CPC, JHA |
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RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL DISTRICTS. Authorizes recreational athletic venues and cultural activities on existing golf courses within agricultural districts.
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AGR, WAL, FIN |
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RELATING TO MENTAL HEALTH. Amends the criteria used for admitting an individual for evaluation and care by a psychiatric facility to include individuals having a mental illness that prevents them from seeking adequate shelter. Allows psychiatric facilities to transfer homeless individuals admitted for psychiatric care to homeless facilities under certain circumstances.
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HHH, JHA, FIN |
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RELATING TO CRIME. Establishes a special intergovernmental task force to eradicate illegal gambling and drug activities and to establish community safe zones across the State. Requires a report to the legislature.
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JHA, FIN |
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RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE SEVENTH REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT. Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the seventh representative district.
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FIN |
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RELATING TO A BROADBAND AND DIGITAL EQUITY OFFICE. Establishes the Hawaii broadband and digital equity office within the Governor's office. Appropriates funds for the establishment and staffing for the Hawaii broadband and digital equity office.
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CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO STATE IDENTIFICATION CARDS. Exempts individuals sixty-five years or older from the requirement to renew state identification cards.
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JHA, FIN |
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RELATING TO EMPLOYMENT PRACTICES. Prohibits an employer from: (1) requiring an employee to download a mobile application to the employee's personal communication device that enables the employee's location to be tracked or their personal information revealed; (2) terminating or otherwise discriminating against an employee for refusing to download a mobile application on their personal device; or (3) discharging or discriminating against an employee for filing a complaint concerning these unlawful practices.
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CPC, JHA |
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RELATING TO DISABLED VETERANS. Establishes a special number plate for veterans with service-connected disabilities that are rated at one hundred per cent by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs.
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CMV, FIN |
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RELATING TO EMERGENCY FOOD MANAGEMENT. Creates the Hawaii emergency food assistance program special fund to be administered by the department of agriculture and appropriates moneys into the fund to feed Hawaii's needy population when a state of emergency has been declared.
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PDP, AGR, FIN |
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RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE EIGHTEENTH REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT. Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the eighteenth representative district.
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FIN |
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RELATING TO THE INVASIVE SPECIES COUNCIL. Transfers the invasive species council from the department of land and natural resources to the department of agriculture for administrative purposes.
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WAL, JHA, FIN |
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RELATING TO HAWAIIAN HOME LANDS. Makes technical nonsubstantive amendments to the application requirements for water use permits.
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RELATING TO VACANCIES. Requires vacancies in the offices of state senator and state representative to be filled by special election.
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RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE FIRST REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT. Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds and appropriates funds for capital improvement projects for the benefit of the 1st Representative District.
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RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCES. Requires DLNR to lease to the Wailea Village Historic Preservation Community the property located at 29-169 Kulaiwi road in south Hilo on Hawaii island for twenty years for $100 per year.
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RELATING TO ELECTIONS. Enacts various technical, housekeeping, and other amendments to further Hawaii's transition to elections by mail.
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RELATING TO IGNITION INTERLOCK DEVICES. Establishes penalties for violations of the ignition interlock law. Requires proof of compliance with the ignition interlock law to be eligible to apply for a driver's license. Effective 1/1/2022.
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RELATING TO HAWAII COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY. Authorizes the Office of Hawaiian Affairs to seek construction of hotels in Kakaako Community Development District owned by the Office of Hawaiian Affairs. Requires a public hearing prior to submission by the Office of Hawaiian Affairs to the Hawaii Community Development Authority of any plan or proposal for any hotel.
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RELATING TO INCREASING THE OFFICE OF HAWAIIAN AFFAIRS' PRO RATA SHARE OF FUNDS DERIVED FROM THE PUBLIC LAND TRUST. Establishes the office of Hawaiian affairs' pro rata share of the funds derived from the public land trust. Requires the department of land and natural resources to provide an annual accounting of receipts from public land trust lands.
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RELATING TO PUBLIC LAND TRUST FUNDS. Requires agencies that collect receipts for any disposition of the public land trust shall each fiscal quarter transfer to the department of Hawaiian home lands or the Office of Hawaiian Affairs twenty per cent of each receipt from the disposition. Returns to the Office of Hawaiian Affairs certain moneys previously claimed as public land trust overpayments to the office. Establishes a public land trust revenues negotiating committee.
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RELATING TO THE HAWAII COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY. Allows the raising of the building height limit for two of the six parcels owned by the office of Hawaiian affairs in the Kakaako makai area to four hundred feet. Lifts the current restriction against residential development in Kakaako makai to allow residential development by the office of Hawaiian affairs or by third parties to which the office of Hawaiian affairs conveys the parcels.
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RELATING TO INCOME TAX. Raises the state income tax rate by five per cent for taxpayers in the highest income bracket for six years.
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ECD, FIN |
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RELATING TO WAGE GARNISHMENT. Allows cost of living expenses, as determined by the self-sufficiency standard for Hawaii, to be included in the calculation when determining disposable earnings as it relates to wage garnishment.
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LAT, FIN |
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RELATING TO TAXATION. Suspends temporarily the exemptions for certain persons and certain amounts of gross income or proceeds from the general excise tax and requires the payment of both taxes at a four per cent rate. Specifies that the transient accommodations tax collected on resort time share vacation units shall be on the gross rental or gross rental proceeds. Part I effective 7/1/2022, and sunsets on 6/30/2026. Part II effective 7/1/2021.
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RELATING TO THE AGRIBUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION. Dissolves the agribusiness development corporation and transfers all lands and staff, except for the executive director, to the department of agriculture.
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RELATING TO PAID FAMILY LEAVE. By 1/1/2023, requires the department of labor and industrial relations to establish a family and medical leave insurance program and begin collecting payroll contributions to finance payment of benefits. By 1/1/2024, requires the department to start receiving claims and paying benefits under the program. Specifies eligibility requirements and employee protections under the program.
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RELATING TO TAX CREDITS. Requires the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to make a public disclosure identifying the names of the taxpayers who are receiving certain tax credits and the total amount of tax credit received for specific economic activities.
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RELATING TO SPORT FISH. Requires the department of agriculture to allow for the permitted importation of northern largemouth bass and butterfly peacock bass into Hawaii. Requires the division of aquatic resources to establish a pilot project to restock the Wahiawa public fishing area with northern largemouth bass, butterfly peacock bass, or both.
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RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE FOURTEENTH, FIFTEENTH, AND SIXTEENTH REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICTS. Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth representative districts.
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RELATING TO STATE PARKS. Allows the board of land and natural resources to adopt, amend, or repeal administrative fee schedules for certain activities related to state parks through regular or special board meetings rather than through administrative rulemaking. Appropriates funds out of the state parks special fund to raise the expenditure ceiling of the special fund.
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RELATING TO AN OFFICE OF THE HOUSING ADVOCATE. Establishes an office of the housing advocate within the office of the governor.
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HSG, FIN |
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RELATING TO EMPLOYMENT SECURITY. Amends the definitions of benefit year and week. Conforms the manner of filing claims for partial benefits to the same as for total or part-total benefits. Requires the director of labor and industrial relations to omit benefits charged for experience rating for employers due to the event of COVID-19 in calendar years 2021 and 2022. For calendar years 2021 and 2022, sets the employer contribution rate at schedule C and D, respectively. Makes amendments to contribution rate schedule and procedure for determination retroactive to 1/1/2021.
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RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE TWENTY-FIRST REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT. Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds and appropriates funds for capital improvement projects for the benefit of the 21st Representative District.
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RELATING TO THE NATURAL ENERGY LABORATORY OF HAWAII AUTHORITY. Transfers to the natural energy laboratory of Hawaii authority operational authority over the makai research pier located at the southeast corner of Oahu. Authorizes the director of finance to issue general obligation bonds for the natural energy laboratory of Hawaii authority to repair and upgrade the makai research pier.
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RELATING TO EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES. Transfers certain duties, functions, and powers relating to emergency medical services for the island of Oahu from the department of health to the city and county of Honolulu. Appropriates general funds to the city and county of Honolulu for emergency medical services for fiscal year 2021-2022. Appropriates half of the moneys in the emergency medical services special fund to the city and county of Honolulu for emergency medical services for fiscal years 2021-2022 to 2022-2023.
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RELATING TO THE TRANSITION OF THE OAHU REGIONAL HEALTH CARE SYSTEM FROM THE HAWAII HEALTH SYSTEMS CORPORATION INTO THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH. Commences the transfer of the Oahu regional health care system in its entirety from the Hawaii health systems corporation to the department of health, beginning with the transfer of the Oahu regional health care system's budget and position count into the department of health. Enables the Oahu regional health care system, department of health, Hawaii health systems corporation, and other state agencies to manage and implement the processes required to effectuate the completion of the transition. Authorizes the department of health to conduct long-term care and substance abuse treatment at Leahi hospital and Maluhia and to pay rent for the use of the Leahi hospital property. Requires the department of health to consult with the university of Hawaii regarding programs at Leahi hospital and Maluhia. Appropriates moneys from the mental health and substance abuse special fund. Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds.
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RELATING TO HEALTH. Requires the employers of first responders to develop and provide dementia training to first responders. Effective 12/31/2021.
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HHH, FIN |
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RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES. Reorganizes the administrative structure of the department of human services. Requires the department of human services to submit report to legislature prior to the regular session of 2022 proposing any additional legislation required to complete the reorganization.
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HHH, JHA, FIN |
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RELATING TO HEALTH CARE. Establishes the Hawaii self-insured health care system, to be developed by the Hawaii health authority, EUTF, and medicaid. Effective 5/1/2021.
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LAT, FIN |
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RELATING TO TRAVEL. Exempts any person from the post-arrival mandatory self-quarantine if the person receives a negative test result prior to arrival. Allows DOH to establish conditions for exemption. Requires certain COVID-19 tests for travelers who do not have a test result upon arrival to avoid mandatory self-quarantine. Requires any person who receives a positive test for COVID-19 post-arrival to be responsible for all costs associated with that person's mandatory self-quarantine. Repeals on 12/31/2021.
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RELATING TO MICROCHIP IDENTIFICATION. Requires dog and cat owners to microchip their pets, if the pets are not licensed.
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RELATING TO GOVERNMENT. Excludes non-voting ex-officio board members appointed by the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives to the HART Board of Directors from being counted for purposes of quorum.
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RELATING TO THE ISSUANCE OF SPECIAL PURPOSE REVENUE BONDS TO ASSIST HK MANAGEMENT, LLC. Authorizes the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds to assist HK Management, LLC, in planning, designing, constructing, reconstructing, renovating, acquiring, equipping, and improving surf industry center facilities.
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ECD, FIN |
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RELATING TO ENERGY. Authorizes government agencies to wheel electricity that is produced by their own facilities from renewable energy sources to another agency's facilities, subject to disallowance by the public utilities commission.
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EEP, CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO SCHOLARSHIPS. Allows applicants who graduated from a public high school in the State with a cumulative grade point average of 3.0 and qualified for and received special education services for two or more years during enrollment in grades kindergarten through twelve to be eligible for the Hawaii state scholars program. Allows students enrolled at a community college campus who graduated from a public high school in the State with a cumulative grade point average of 3.0 and qualified for and received special education services for two or more years during enrollment in grades kindergarten through twelve to be eligible for the Hawaii community college promise program and requires ten percent of available funds for the program to be dedicated for those students; provided that if there are no such students who meet the qualifications prior to the beginning of the school year, all funds for the program shall be made available to students who meet the other requirements of the program.
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RELATING TO HAWAII NATIONAL GUARD RETIREMENT BENEFITS. Requires the board of trustees of the employees' retirement system to conduct a study to determine and provide retirement benefits for Hawaii national guard members who are activated under state active duty orders and Hawaii national guard members who are retired, and submit findings and recommendations to the legislature prior to the regular session of 2022. Appropriates funds.
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CMV, LAT, FIN |
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RELATING TO REMOTE WORK. Establishes a remote work transition grant program within DBEDT to assist businesses in converting to virtual offices or building remote work capabilities. Appropriates funds.
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ECD, FIN |
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RELATING TO EDUCATION. The purpose of this Act is to require transfer of non-facility general fund per-pupil allocations of special education students of a department of education school to a charter school upon enrollment of the student at the charter school subject to certain conditions, including parent or guardian confirmation and notice of intent of the student's transfer to and enrollment in the charter school.
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EDN, FIN |
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RELATING TO PROBATION. Requires a court to revoke probation if the probationer has failed to strictly comply with any condition of the order, if the offense for which the probationer was sentenced was a sexual assault offense and the victim of the offense was a minor under the age of 18 when the offense was committed.
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RELATING TO STATE FUNDS. Repeals the tobacco enforcement special fund, Hawaii tobacco settlement special fund, and Hawaii tobacco prevention and control trust fund and transfers unencumbered balances to the general fund. Appropriates general funds to the university revenue‑undertakings fund.
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HHH/HET, FIN |
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RELATING TO STATE FINANCES. Makes all special funds subject to deductions for central service expenses into the general fund. Repeals the community health centers special fund and emergency medical services special fund. Beginning 7/1/2021, transfers to the credit of the general fund any amounts allocated to those special funds, including amounts allocated from the cigarette tax and tobacco tax to those special funds. Makes a general fund appropriation to the department of health for operating expenses.
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HHH, FIN |
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RELATING TO STATE FUNDS. Transfers to the general fund the unencumbered balances of various non-general funds of the department of accounting and general services; department of agriculture; department of budget and finance; department of business, economic development, and tourism; department of commerce and consumer affairs; department of defense; department of education; department of Hawaiian home lands; department of health; department of human resources development; department of human services; judiciary; department of labor and industrial relations; department of land and natural resources; office of Hawaiian affairs; department of the attorney general; office of the governor; department of public safety; department of taxation; department of transportation; and university of Hawaii.
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RELATING TO NON-GENERAL FUNDS. Repeals various non-general funds of the department of agriculture; department of business, economic development, and tourism; department of land and natural resources; department of education; university of Hawaii; department of Hawaiian home lands; judiciary; department of human services; department of labor and industrial relations; department of accounting and general services; department of the attorney general; department of budget and finance; department of human resources development; office of the governor; department commerce and consumer affairs; department of taxation; department of public safety; and office of Hawaiian affairs. Transfers unencumbered balances to the credit of the general fund.
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RELATING TO THE PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION. Requires the chairperson of the public utilities commission to appoint an administrative assistant, a research assistant, and legal counsel to assist each member of the public utilities commission with commission duties. Prohibits the chairperson from dismissing or re-assigning appointed staff members without the prior written approval of the affected commissioner.
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RELATING TO EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS. Requires the department of health to perform a community assessment for public health emergency response for each county and on a statewide level to determine emergency preparedness facets that would help articulate key vulnerabilities to aid county and state response and recovery planning.
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PDP, FIN |
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RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. Updates the laws on agricultural cooperative associations and consumer cooperative associations including operations as resale agents and conversions.
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AGR, CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO COOPERATIVES. Authorizes entities having a common interest and purpose to organize as general cooperatives.
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RELATING TO HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETICS. Prohibits biologically born males from competing in any athletic program offered by a public high school that is designated for women or girls.
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EDN, JHA |
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RELATING TO WASTE MANAGEMENT. Requires the University of Hawaii economic research organization to conduct a comprehensive study and submit a report to the legislature about a policy approach that encourages manufacturers to take on the costs of end-of-life product management.
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RELATING TO SEXUAL VIOLENCE PREVENTION EDUCATION. Establishes the Erin's law task force to review policies, programs, and curricula for educating public school students about sexual abuse and sex trafficking prevention, report recommendations for the establishment of a program to educate public school children on sexual abuse prevention through age-appropriate curricula, provide relevant training to teachers and school staff, and inform parents and guardians about important child sexual abuse topics. Requires the Department of Education to establish and implement a systemwide sexual abuse prevention education program at the conclusion of the task force.
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RELATING TO FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY. Establishes the commission on fiscal responsibility within the department of taxation to review and make recommendations on expenditures, revenue enhancements, and tax policy. Requires a report to the legislature.
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ECD, FIN |
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RELATING TO JUNETEENTH DAY. Establishes June 19 of each year as Juneteenth Day.
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CAI, JHA |
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RELATING TO HEALTH. Establishes a suicide prevention task force to examine, evaluate, and determine methods to reduce suicides within state correctional system.
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HHH, JHA |
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RELATING TO HEALTH. Requires public schools, private schools, and public charter schools to have an employee trained to administer seizure disorder rescue medication. Exempts schools that do not have a student with a seizure disorder. Requires a seizure action plan for every diagnosed student and distribution of the plan to employees charged with supervising the student. Requires all principals, guidance counselors, and teachers to perform self‑review of seizure disorder materials annually.
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RELATING TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING. Removes the construction completion deadline for the Leialii affordable housing project and Keawe Street Apartments. Exempts the project from the application of Chapter 6E, Hawaii Revised Statutes; provided that the project gives preference to Lahaina residents in its tenant placement policy.
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RELATING TO INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY. Requires the university of Hawaii to include in certain employment agreements that address intellectual property rights a condition requiring the employees to make a good faith effort to sell or license intellectual property to a farmer or agricultural producer within the State prior to attempting to sell or license the intellection property to an entity outside of the State.
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HET, CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO THE STATE FUEL TAX. Changes the assessment of the state fuel tax from a specified cents per gallon to the greater of a specified cents per gallon or a specified percentage of the wholesale price per gallon to the retailer, subject to a minimum monetary amount of tax based upon the tax paid by certain retailers. Effective 7/1/2023.
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RELATING TO TAXATION. Authorizes each county to levy a county surcharge on transient accommodations tax if the county satisfies certain real property tax requirements. Repeals the allocation of transient accommodations tax revenue to the counties and makes conforming amendments. Establishes a residential property owner tax credit and a residential circuit breaker tax credit. Beginning with taxable years after 12/31/2021, gradually implements new individual income tax and corporation income tax brackets and rates in three-year intervals.
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ECD, JHA, FIN |
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RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE SIXTH REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT. Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the sixth representative district.
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RELATING TO PACKAGING WASTE. Requires producers of packaging waste be responsible for the end-of-life management of their products in a way that ensures minimal social and environmental impacts. Allows the department of health to administratively impose civil penalties. Establishes the waste and litter management special fund.
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EEP, CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT. Allows county governments to enter into private-public partnerships for the services and transferring, or joint venturing of one or more of their wastewater treatment facilities to a private entity, or its wholly owned nonprofit management entity, for the delivery of those services.
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EEP, CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO SUSTAINABILITY. Restructures the statewide sustainability branch as the sustainability and environmental review division. Transfers the environmental council from the department of health to be established in the office of planning as the environmental advisory council. Transfers the rights, powers, employees, appropriations, and other personal property from the office of environmental quality control to the sustainability and environmental review division. Amends the ability for an applicant to appeal nonacceptance of an environmental impact statement from the environmental council to the environmental advisory council.
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EEP, FIN |
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RELATING TO CARBON PRICING. Amends the environmental response, energy, and food security tax to address carbon emissions. Increases the tax rate to effectively set a price of $40 per metric ton of carbon dioxide emissions in 2022. Incrementally increases the tax rate over time so that, in 2032, the tax rate shall be equivalent to a carbon price of $80 per metric ton of carbon emissions. Establishes a refundable tax credit to mitigate the effect of a carbon emissions tax on taxpayers. Takes effect 1/1/2022. Tax credit applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2021.
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EEP, CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO ABANDONED AND DERELICT VEHICLES. Establishes the abandoned and derelict vehicles task force to make recommendations to ensure the proper identification and disposal of abandoned and derelict vehicles left on the State's highways. Appropriates moneys for the administration and operation of the abandoned and derelict vehicles task force.
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TRN, JHA, FIN |
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RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION. Requires the posting of depth gauge signs, in a manner consistent with the Federal Highway Administration's Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices, on any portion of a public highway that lies within a special flood hazard area and is prone to flooding. Appropriates funds.
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TRN, FIN |
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RELATING TO TRAUMA-INFORMED CARE. Establishes a trauma-informed care task force within the department of health to make recommendations of trauma-informed care in the State.
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HHH, CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO COMMON INTEREST AGRICULTURAL COMMUNITIES. Establishes a regulatory structure for common interest agricultural communities on lands classified as agricultural. Specifies requirements for development, creation, registration, governance, and management of common interest agricultural communities. Requires county approval of proposed common interest agricultural community projects. Prohibits approval for condominium property regimes created under chapter 514B, Hawaii Revised Statutes, on lands classified as agricultural.
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RELATING TO COMMERCIAL PROPERTY RENT RELIEF. Establishes a commercial rent relief grant program. Requires that the commercial rent relief grants be given priority for moneys received through federal funding. Appropriated funds.
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RELATING TO THE PROCUREMENT CODE. Requires public contractors to obtain insurance to cover at least half of a project's construction costs to the State, to provide funds for curing construction defects discovered within five years after the completion of the contract. Authorizes the State to institute an action against the contractor for the total costs of curing those defects.
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GVR, CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE. Allows a narrow hearsay exception for statements made by domestic violence victims to certain government officials within 24 hours of an incident of domestic violence and prior to the arrest of the defendant, even if the statement is testimonial in nature, as long as the statement bears sufficient indicia of reliability.
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RELATING TO THE YOUTH VAPING EPIDEMIC. Bans the sale of flavored tobacco products. Prohibits mislabeling of e-liquid products containing nicotine. Establishes fines and penalties for violations. Includes heated tobacco products among the electronic smoking devices that are subject to restrictions under law.
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HHH, CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO ELECTRONIC SMOKING DEVICES. Makes unlawful the sale of flavored products for electronic smoking devices, mislabeling of e-liquid products containing nicotine, and sale of tobacco products other than through retail sales via in-person exchange. Establishes penalties. Includes e-liquid and electronic smoking devices in the definition of "tobacco products" for purposes of the cigarette tax and tobacco tax law. Increases the license fee for wholesalers and dealers of tobacco products and retail tobacco permit fee. Requires retailers to pay an additional excise tax on the retail price of electronic smoking devices on and after 7/1/2021. Directs a certain percentage of moneys received from the cigarette tax and tobacco tax to the Hawaii tobacco prevention and control trust fund to establish and fund a comprehensive youth tobacco cessation program. Requires a person under twenty-one years of age who unlawfully purchases or possesses tobacco products, including electronic smoking devices, to complete a tobacco education or use cessation program or perform community service for a first offense. Repeals the electronic smoking device retailer registration unit. Repeals provisions relating to delivery of sales under the cigarette tax and tobacco tax law.
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HHH, CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO ELECTRONIC SMOKING PRODUCTS. Includes e-liquid and electronic smoking devices within the definition of "tobacco products", as used in the cigarette tax and tobacco tax law. Repeals certain provisions of the Hawaii Revised Statutes relating to electronic smoking devices.
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HHH, CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO HISTORIC PRESERVATION. Amends the definition of "historic property" to mean a building, structure, object, district, area, or site that is over 100 years old. Limits the applicability of section 6E-42, Hawaii Revised Statutes, which requires review of certain proposed projects, to privately-owned single-family detached dwelling units and townhouses that are over 100 years old and meet other statutory criteria.
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WAL, JHA, FIN |
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RELATING TO FIREWORKS. Requires the harbors division of the department of transportation to inspect shipments landing at a commercial harbor within the division's jurisdiction and originating from a geographic location that is known to manufacture, use, or export aerial fireworks. Requires the harbors division to use specialized canine units to perform these inspections. Appropriates moneys.
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TRN, CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCES. Requires the department of land and natural resources to regularly maintain trails and streams under its jurisdiction on a regular or scheduled basis.
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WAL, FIN |
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RELATING TO ENERGY. Requires the Hawaii state energy office, in consultation with the department of health, to conduct a comprehensive study to determine best practices for disposal and recycling of discarded clean energy products in the State. Appropriates funds for the study.
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EEP, JHA, FIN |
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RELATING TO CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION. Establishes a rental motor vehicle emissions surcharge and a climate change mitigation and adaptation commission special fund to support the activities of the climate change mitigation and adaptation commission.
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EEP, CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO CAREER TECHNICAL EDUCATION. Affixes a seal of career technical education to a student's high school diploma and transcript upon completion of a career technical education program approved by the Department of Education.
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EDN, FIN |
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RELATING TO THE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE THIRTY-SIXTH REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT. Authorizes issuance of general obligation bonds and appropriates moneys for capital improvement projects in the 36th representative district.
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RELATING TO ONLINE EARLY EDUCATION. Establishes the online early learning program within the Executive office on early learning. Appropriates monies.
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EDN, FIN |
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RELATING TO THE STATE ENERGY OFFICE. Transfers the Hawaii green infrastructure authority from the department of business, economic development, and tourism to the Hawaii state energy office. Clarifies the purpose, duties, and responsibilities of the Hawaii state energy office and the chief energy officer.
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EEP, FIN |
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RELATING TO IMPEACHMENT. Establishes requirements for institution of and causes for impeachment of the governor or lieutenant governor.
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RELATING TO AUDITS. Appropriates funds for the expenses of the auditor.
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RELATING TO STATE GOVERNMENT. Establishes the office of public accountability to assume oversight and administrative responsibility for the office of the auditor, office of the ombudsman, office of information practices, Hawaii state ethics commission, and campaign spending commission. Requires the salaries of the auditor, director of LRB, executive director of the Hawaii state ethics commission, and ombudsman to be set by the legislature. Appropriates funds.
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RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE THIRTEENTH REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT. Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the thirteenth representative district.
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RELATING TO FARM DWELLINGS. Prohibits the construction of new farm dwellings on agricultural park lots. Prohibits residing within an unpermitted farm dwelling. Authorizes inspections.
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RELATING TO THE HAWAIIAN HOMES COMMISSION ACT. Removes acreage restrictions on leases of Hawaiian home lands for agricultural purposes. Provides that the availability of the foregoing leases shall be subject to the availability of suitable tracts of land. Specifies that the foregoing leases may be for for-profit or non-profit purposes.
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AGR, JHA, FIN |
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RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCES. Requires the department of land and natural resources to purchase within its existing budget an Infrared Unit B2-FO for the Maui branch of the division of forestry and wildlife for game management and collecting and tracking accurate herd counts.
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WAL, FIN |
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RELATING TO FOOD SUSTAINABILITY. Requires the department of agriculture, in coordination with the appropriate departmental agency, to prepare and periodically update a functional plan for seafood sustainability that expands the State's priority on food by including wild seafood as a viable food source.
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WAL, FIN |
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RELATING TO THE ALOHA STADIUM. Provides development guidance policies for the stadium authority. Tasks the authority with seeking to promote the safety and reliability of harbor infrastructure by identifying and developing appropriate areas within the stadium development district, including stadium parking lots as appropriate, that are fortified to withstand the structural requirements of a permanent shipping container storage and lay down facility for emergency use by Pearl Harbor.
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WAL, CPC/JHA, FIN |
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RELATING TO THE STADIUM DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT. Establishes the stadium development district special fund. Revises the general development guidance policies for the stadium development district and clarifies the respective roles the stadium authority and Hawaii community development authority in the development of the stadium development district. Broadens the powers and duties of the stadium authority, including authorizing the stadium authority to acquire and hold title to real property. Exempts land to which the stadium authority holds title from the definition of "public lands." Authorizes the Hawaii community development authority, with approval from the governor, to delegate to other state agencies implementation of capital improvement projects, under certain conditions. Broadens the representation of the stadium authority by adding two members to its membership. Amends the general bond authorization made by Act 268, Session Laws of Hawaii 2019. Makes the financial disclosures of members of the stadium authority public records pursuant to section 84-17(d), Hawaii Revised Statutes.
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RELATING TO STATEWIDE COMPOSTING. Requires the department of health to establish a multi-tiered registration and permitting system for all classes of solid waste composting facilities. Requires the department of health to update its co composting rules by 1/1/2023, and every ten years thereafter. Permits composting and co-composting operations in agricultural districts.
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RELATING TO THE ENVIRONMENT. Requires the environmental council to develop a tool to identify economic justice communities. Defines "economic justice community". Appropriates moneys.
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RELATING TO CONSERVATION MITIGATION BANKS. Authorizes the department of land and natural resources to establish and operate conservation mitigation banks to restore, create, enhance, or preserve conservation habitats or resources as compensatory mitigation. Authorizes the department to contract a third-party administrator for the operation of the mitigation banks.
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RELATING TO SURPLUS MILITARY LAND. Establishes a surplus military land task force to plan for the remediation and restoration of, and alternative uses for, lands currently under federal ownership and control that are anticipated to be returned to the State.
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RELATING TO PUBLIC LANDS. Establishes a process for landowners whose real property is at risk of reasonably foreseeable flooding or whose real property has experienced a flood due to man-made alterations or natural conditions on state lands to petition the department of land and natural resources for a flood mitigation action plan. Authorizes landowners to undertake improvements to the state lands if substantial progress is not made within a certain amount of time.
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RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE FORTY-FOURTH REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT. Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the forty-fourth representative district.
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RELATING TO STATE PROCUREMENT REFORM. Requires procurement officers to document whether to pursue a design professional for damages in the event of construction cost overruns. Requires the chief procurement officer to compile a public list of construction companies or design professionals that are in noncompliance with the procurement code or owe penalties. Requires the state procurement office include training on the duty of procurement officers to hold design professionals liable for breaches of professional standards. Requires the legislative reference bureau to conduct a study on the laws and regulations relating to construction management policies and procedures applicable to the procurement code.
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RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. Clarifies that "customary and traditional subsistence farming", which is customary and traditional subsistence farming conducted by a native Hawaiian cultural practitioner in certain situations, is included as a protected activity under the Hawaii Right to Farm Act. Clarifies that the cultivation of crops and activities related to game, fish, and livestock on agricultural lands may be for economic use or customary and traditional subsistence farming. Provides that one of the State's policies under the Hawaii State Planning Act's agricultural objectives is to assure the right of native Hawaiian cultural practitioners to engage in customary and traditional subsistence farming for direct personal or family consumption. Effective 7/1/2060.
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RELATING TO THE HAWAIIAN LANGUAGE. Requires the governor, lieutenant governor, state legislators, and heads of principal departments to prominently display a Hawaiian translation of the name of their office or department at least once on the main page of their official website and in the letterhead of their stationery.
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RELATING TO HISTORIC PRESERVATION. Defines "pre-contact historic property". Clarifies that the historic preservation program includes providing consultation to counties and public and private agencies involved in historic preservation and the development, publication, and distribution of materials about protections for burials, historic sites, and archaeological resources. Amends the composition and duties of the Hawaii historic places review board. Increases civil and administrative fines for certain violations of historic and preservation requirements and makes violators liable for costs associated with mitigation or restoration measures.
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RELATING TO HIGHER EDUCATION. Establishes the cannabinoid medicine program within the school of medicine of the university of Hawaii.
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RELATING TO EARLY LEARNING. Establishes an early childhood educator stipend program to be administered by the executive office on early learning to address the shortage of qualified early childhood educators in Hawaii. Requires stipend fund repayments for the early childhood educator stipend program to be deposited into the early learning special fund.
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RELATING TO FIRE SAFETY. Establishes a working group to determine if a full-time state fire marshal's office would be more effective than the existing state fire council in planning, executing, and promoting fire safety-related programs and topics in the State. Requires the working group to submit a report to the legislature prior to the regular session of 2022.
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RELATING TO ACCESS TO LEARNING. Establishes the Hawaii early childhood educator stipend program to address shortage of early childhood education educators. Extends certain effective dates for implementation of Act 46, SLH 2020. Requires the application of a uniform assessment for public and charter school kindergarten students. Allows educational data to be shared using an existing system. Appropriates funds.
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RELATING TO SHORELINES. Authorizes the board of land and natural resources to provide shoreline encroachment easements that do not exceed 10 years to landowners having structures that encroach on the shoreline. Requires the board of land and natural resources to adopt rules that establish a policy and procedure for the granting or renewal of shoreline encroachment easements. Requires the adopted policy to consider the impact of expected sea level rise on the encroaching structures. Prohibits the granting of any new shoreline encroachment easements until the new policy is adopted.
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RELATING TO HEMP. Reduces from 500 feet to 100 feet the buffer zones for commercial hemp production and processing. Authorizes hemp to be grown at a residential property under the control of a person licensed under federal law to produce hemp. Repeals authorization from the state department of agriculture as a prerequisite to transport hemp. Authorizes commercial hemp producers to sell whole, unprocessed hemp leaves to consumers, subject to certain requirements. Requires labels that disclose that leaves and hemp products were from hemp grown in the State. Replaces the referenced testing standard authority on labels for hemp products.
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RELATING TO MARINE LIFE. Requires persons applying for a commercial marine license to appear in person before DLNR. Prohibits DLNR from issuing or renewing a commercial marine license to an alien crew member who has not been granted permission to land temporarily by federal law. Requires a DLNR permit for black coral taken within the jurisdiction of the State for commercial purposes.
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RELATING TO FIREARMS. Amends the class C felony offense of manufacturing, purchasing, or obtaining firearm parts to assemble a firearm having no serial number to also prohibit possession of those firearm parts. Amends Act 74, Session Laws of Hawaii 2020, to repeal language that specified the prospective application of that Act. Applies retroactively to 9/15/2020.
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RELATING TO THE STATE PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL COMMISSION. Amends the appointing authority of the public charter school commission members. Specifies the transition from existing members to members appointed under the new appointing authority. Requires that members of the public charter school commission possess strong experience and expertise in public and nonprofit governance, management and finance, public school leadership, assessment, curriculum, instruction, and public education law.
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RELATING TO FILM CREDIT CAP REMOVAL. Removes the cap on the amount that may be claimed per qualified production. Removes the limit for the total amount of tax credits allowed per year for the motion picture, digital media, and film production income tax credit. Deducts a percentage to be utilized for motion picture, digital media, and film education development in the State.
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RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE FORTY-FIFTH REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT. Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects for the benefit of the 45th Representative District.
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RELATING TO AN AIRFIELD AUTHORITY. Establishes an independent authority to be called the Kawaihapai Airfield Authority. The intent of this authority is to allow continued use of Kawaihapai airfield for private and commercial use by the state's residents and tourists.
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RELATING TO ENERGY USE. Requires the state energy office to conduct a study the adequacy of renewable energy infrastructure in Hawaii. Appropriates funds.
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RELATING TO AIRPORTS. Allows any county to operate or maintain an airport or airfield.
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RELATING TO COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT. Establishes the Hawaii beach preservation revolving fund within the state treasury. Establishes a low-interest contingent mortgage financing pilot program to encourage certain shoreline property owners to relocate mauka of expected sea level rise and erosion hazard zones. Amends coastal zone management laws to further protect against impacts of sea level rise and coastal erosion. Appropriates moneys.
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RELATING TO HIGHWAYS. Conveys ownership of a portion of Honoapiilani highway from the State to the county of Maui.
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RELATING TO THE ISSUANCE OF SPECIAL PURPOSE REVENUE BONDS TO ASSIST MAUIGROWN COFFEE, INC. Extends the authorization to issue special purpose revenue bonds to assist MauiGrown Coffee, Inc., with the operation and expansion of its farm and mill.
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RELATING TO THE LANDLORD-TENANT CODE. Extends the period for a notice of summary possession from five days to fifteen. Requires landlords to enter into mediation and delays when a landlord may seek possession of a dwelling unit if the tenant schedules or attempts to schedule mediation. Requires landlords to provide the notice to mediation centers that offer free mediation for residential landlord-tenant disputes. Restricts when a landlord may exercise these remedies depending on the amount of rent due. Repeals on 06/01/2022.
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RELATING TO CITATIONS. Creates an electronic citation program under the judiciary and establishes an electronic citation surcharge.
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RELATING TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING. Authorizes the Hawaii housing finance and development corporation to reimburse any qualified person or firm for any predevelopment costs of certain affordable rental housing projects. Includes reimbursement for predevelopment costs for certain affordable rental housing projects among the permissible uses of dwelling unit revolving fund and rental housing revolving fund moneys.
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RELATING TO OPERATING A VEHICLE UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF AN INTOXICANT. Clarifies implied consent law to make an exception for giving a breath, blood, or urine test pursuant to a search warrant or any other basis permissible under the Constitution of the State of Hawaii and state law.
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RELATING TO EMERGENCY POWERS. Authorizes the governor to ensure the continued operation of medical facilities during times of health or pandemic emergencies. Authorizes hospitals to suspend elective surgeries in order to address bed capacity during the period of emergency.
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RELATING TO LAW ENFORCEMENT. Prohibits police departments from acquiring certain types of military equipment and using certain types of equipment on protesters and demonstrators.
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RELATING TO POLICING. Prohibits the issuance of warrants that permit entry by an officer to a house, store, or other building without first audibly declaring the officer's office and business, including no-knock warrants. Requires law enforcement officers serving an arrest warrant at a house or a search warrant at a house, store, or other building to audibly declare the officer's office and business and wait at least thirty seconds for compliance before entry. Requires officers serving a warrant to do so in uniform.
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RELATING TO THE DIVISION OF CONSUMER ADVOCACY. Requires the auditor to conduct a comprehensive management audit of the department of commerce and consumer affairs' division of consumer advocacy.
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RELATING TO MEDICAL LOSS RATIOS. Beginning on January 1, 2022, requires each managed care organization to annually report its medical loss ratio to the department of human services.
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RELATING TO PROCUREMENT. Implements certain recommendations of the procurement policy review conducted pursuant to House Resolution No. 142, Regular Session of 2016. Requires the state procurement office to submit a report to the legislature regarding its progress in implementing the procurement policy review recommendations.
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RELATING TO ECONOMIC RECOVERY FOR RESTAURANTS. Until 7/1/2026, allows restaurants to apply a restaurant service surcharge for the sale of food or beverage services, the revenues of which shall be used exclusively by the restaurants for economic recovery from COVID-19 impacts. Authorizes establishments with a class 2 restaurant liquor license to allow the consumption of liquor anywhere on the premises, including the restaurant's outdoor property and sell liquors in their original packages for pick up, delivery, take out, or other means for off-premises consumption.
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RELATING TO PUBLIC HOUSING. Requires the Hawaii Public Housing Authority to establish a pilot program to ensure that all housing units in the Kuhio Park Terrace and Puuwai Momi public housing complexes are provided with sufficient internet speeds and connection quality. Appropriates moneys.
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RELATING TO TAXATION. Eliminates the home mortgage interest deduction for second homes under Hawaii income tax law. Requires the amount of state revenue gained by eliminating the deduction to be deposited into the rental housing revolving fund.
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RELATING TO THE HAWAII CORRECTIONAL SYSTEM OVERSIGHT COMMISSION. Transfers the administrative attachment of the Hawaii correctional system oversight commission from the department of the attorney general to the department of human services.
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RELATING TO RENTAL DISCRIMINATION. Prohibits discrimination, including in advertisements for available real property, based on participation in a housing assistance program or requirements related to participation in housing assistance programs, in real estate transactions and requirements.
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RELATING TO THE HAWAIIAN HOMES COMMISSION. Allows the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to retain independent legal counsel as needed. Authorizes the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to use the services of the Attorney General as needed and when the interests of the State and the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands are aligned. Provides that funds owed to independent legal counsel shall be paid by the State.
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RELATING TO PUBLIC WORKS PROJECTS. Creates an exemption for unpaid interns enrolled in a department of education program from the wages and hours requirements of employees on public works projects.
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RELATING TO THE STADIUM AUTHORITY. Grants the Stadium Authority the ability to sell naming rights to Aloha Stadium and its facilities.
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RELATING TO HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS. Clarifies the list of acceptable institutions or organizations that can approve the continuing education courses needed by naturopathic physicians for license renewal.
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RELATING TO CHILDREN. Makes an appropriation to the department of public safety for programs and services for children of incarcerated parents and to assist with family reunification. Requires parental parity in divorce actions.
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PROPOSING AMENDMENTS TO ARTICLE XII OF THE CONSTITUTION OF STATE OF HAWAII TO AUTHORIZE THE LEGISLATURE TO MAKE AMENDMENTS TO THE MANAGEMENT AND DISPOSITION OF THE HAWAIIAN HOME LANDS. Proposes amendments to the Constitution of the State of Hawaii to authorize the legislature to make amendments to the management of Hawaiian home lands. Prohibits the construction and operation of casino gaming and wagering on Hawaiian home lands.
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RELATING TO THE DISTRIBUTION OF LEASES UNDER THE HAWAIIAN HOMES COMMISSION ACT, 1920, AS AMENDED. Requires Hawaiian Homes Commission to distribute leases to all beneficiaries within 10 years. Removes financial consideration in obtaining a lease. Requires the construction of pu'uhonuas or communal living arrangements by the department. Requires an actuarial study. Appropriates funds for the study.
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