THE THIRTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2022
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Senator Donovan M. Dela Cruz, Chair |
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Senator Gilbert S.C. Keith-Agaran, Vice Chair |
NOTICE OF DECISION MAKING
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DATE: |
Tuesday, February 22, 2022 |
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TIME: |
10:00 A.M. |
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PLACE: |
Conference Room 211 & Videoconference |
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A G E N D A
The following measure(s) were previously heard in their respective subject matter committees:
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RELATING TO JUROR COMPENSATION. Increases compensation for a juror or a prospective juror from $30 to $50 for each day of attendance at court. (SD1)
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JDC, WAM |
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RELATING TO INCREASING THE PAYMENT AMOUNT FOR THE OFFICE OF HAWAIIAN AFFAIRS' PRO RATA SHARE OF THE PUBLIC LAND TRUST. Requires agencies that collect receipts for any disposition of the public land trust to each fiscal quarter transfer to 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 exempted from part I of chapter 92, Hawaii Revised Statutes.
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HWN, WAM |
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RELATING TO REGENERATIVE TOURISM. Incorporates a regenerative framework into the State Planning Act by expanding objectives and policies for the visitor industry. Requires an update to the State Tourism Functional Plan to be submitted to the Legislature no later than twenty days prior to the convening of the regular session of 2023. (SD1)
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EET/HWN, WAM |
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RELATING TO THE HAWAII TOURISM AUTHORITY. Requires the Hawaii Tourism Authority to offer performance-based incentives in all of its professional services contracts.
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EET, WAM |
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RELATING TO THE HAWAII TOURISM AUTHORITY. Adds the Director of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism; Director of Transportation; Chairperson of the Board of Land and Natural Resources; Director of Agriculture; and the Executive Director of the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts as ex officio nonvoting members of the Hawaii Tourism Authority board of directors. Clarifies the authority and responsibility of the Hawaii Tourism Authority Board of Directors. Renames the Tourism Marketing Plan to the Tourism Branding Plan. Repeals the Hawaii Tourism Authority Advisory Board. (SD1)
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EET/GVO, WAM |
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RELATING TO COMPUTER SCIENCE. Allows Department of Education students to fulfill world language, fine arts, or career and technical education graduation requirements with computer science. Establishes a scholarship at the University of Hawaii to encourage students majoring in education to take a computer science course. Requires the University of Hawaii to establish computer science pathways for students majoring in education. Requires teacher licensing and certification to include computer science. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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EDU/HRE, WAM |
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RELATING TO FOOD ASSISTANCE. Appropriates funds to fund the operating expenses of the four Hawaii food banks contracted by the Office of Community Services to administer The Emergency Food Assistance Program in each of the State's counties. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD1)
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HMS, WAM |
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RELATING TO SCHOOLS. Establishes a workforce readiness diploma program within the Department of Education's Community School for Adults program. Appropriates an unspecified amount of funds. (SD1)
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EDU, WAM |
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RELATING TO SUICIDE PREVENTION. Creates a task force to develop and implement a plan to utilize the 9-8-8 calling code of the National Suicide and Mental Health Lifeline. Makes an appropriation. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD1)
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HTH, WAM |
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RELATING TO ELECTIONS. Requires the Chief Election Officer, with assistance from the county clerks for elections that involve county offices and countywide ballot issues, to publish and distribute a voters' pamphlet. Takes effect 7/30/75. (SD1)
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JDC, WAM |
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RELATING TO DIGITAL LITERACY. Establishes a digital literacy program to be overseen by the Board of Education and implemented by the State Librarian to promote digital literacy through programmatic activities, including making digital technology accessible to individuals with disabilities. Appropriates funds. (SD1)
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EDU, WAM |
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RELATING TO PROCUREMENT. Allows purchasing agencies to use the median bid method of procurement. (SD1)
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GVO, WAM |
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RELATING TO OFFENDER REENTRY. Appropriates funds for a program named Project Reset which will help prisoners with reentry, rehabilitation, employment, and housing post-sentence.
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PSM, WAM |
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RELATING TO PROCUREMENT. Requires departments to publicly post the justification for cancelling an invitation for bid or request for proposal for a minimum of ten business days on an electronic notification system.
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GVO, WAM |
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RELATING TO CIVIL LEGAL SERVICES. Appropriates funds for the Judiciary to purchase civil legal services for low and moderate income persons. (SD1)
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JDC, WAM |
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RELATING TO CHILD CUSTODY. Requires certain individuals attempting to serve as child custody evaluators to complete a training course on domestic violence issues every three years. Requires that the training course be one approved for professional credit by the evaluator's or fact-finding investigator's professional accreditation body or as recommended by any state domestic violence services provider on their respective websites. Requires individuals to submit a letter or certificate of completion to the Family Court. Takes effect 7/30/2075. (SD1)
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JDC, WAM |
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RELATING TO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. Transfers the administrative attachment of the Agribusiness Development Corporation from the Department of Agriculture to the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism. (SD1)
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EET/AEN, WAM |
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RELATING TO TAXATION. Reinstates the renewable fuels production tax credit. (SD1)
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EET, WAM |
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RELATING TO ENERGY. Includes as an objective in energy-related planning for the State's facility systems that all new utility scale electricity generation projects be renewable. Includes state policies that ensure short- and long-term provision of adequate, reasonably priced, and dependable renewable energy services, prioritizing the dispatch of renewable energy generation. Updates the State's policies to ensure that all new utility scale electricity generation projects are renewable, prioritize renewable energy generation, and include the use of non-fossil fuel sources in the development or expansion of energy systems. Earmarks moneys from the portion of the environmental response, energy, and food security tax that is deposited into the energy systems development special fund. (SD1)
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EET/GVO, WAM |
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RELATING TO TAXATION. Expands the renewable energy technologies income tax credit to include firm renewable energy systems. Caps the total amount of tax credits for each firm renewable energy system at $750,000. (SD1)
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EET, WAM |
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RELATING TO RENEWABLE ENERGY. Requires the Public Utilities Commission to have electric utilities separately issue requests for proposals for firm renewable energy generation and requests for proposals for intermittent renewable energy generation. Prohibits the Public Utilities Commission from approving any new or renewed utility‑owned generation project by a public utility or any new or renewed power purchase agreement for electricity generation with affiliated interests with a public utility. Appropriates moneys to the Hawaii State Energy Office to conduct a study. Effective 7/31/2050. (SD1)
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CPN/EET, WAM |
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RELATING TO BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICES. Appropriates funds for fiscal year 2022-2023 to accommodate the anticipated increase in the volume of calls to Hawaii CARES Crisis Helpline following the transition of the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline's dial code to "9‑8‑8" on July 16, 2022. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD1)
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HTH, WAM |
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RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. Appropriates funds to the Department of Agriculture to establish bovine tuberculosis control operations on Molokai, including staff, facility, and equipment.
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AEN, WAM |
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RELATING TO BIOFUELS. Establishes and appropriates moneys for a 2-year pilot project to grow biodiesel crops on the island of Molokai. Requires a report to the Legislature.
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AEN, WAM |
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RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCES. Appropriates funds to the Department of Land and Natural Resources Division of State Parks, Maui Parks Section for the purchase of additional vehicles. Takes effect 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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WTL, WAM |
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RELATING TO PUBLIC SAFETY. Mandates that there be a community-based work furlough program for all incarcerated women in the State. Appropriates funds.
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PSM, WAM |
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RELATING TO THE JUDICIARY. Appropriates moneys for residential programs that allow minor children to remain with their mothers, to reduce the risk of trauma and multigenerational incarceration, including community‑based furlough programs, residential drug treatment programs, therapeutic community programs, and mental health programs. (SD1)
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JDC, WAM |
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RELATING TO THE DIVISION OF CONSERVATION AND RESOURCES ENFORCEMENT. Appropriates moneys to the Division of Conservation and Resources Enforcement of the Department of Land and Natural Resources for purchasing equipment, funding training, and establishing 20.0 FTE positions. Takes effect 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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WTL, WAM |
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RELATING TO ABANDONED WELLS. Establishes an income tax credit for qualified taxpayers who are required to fill and seal abandoned wells on their real property. Clarifies the definition of the term "abandoned well". Requires sellers of real property to disclose the existence of wells on the property. Requires an owner or prior owner of an abandoned well to seal the well at the owner's or prior owner's expense. Appropriates funds for three full-time equivalent ground surveyor positions under the Commission on Water Resource Management. Takes effect 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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WTL, WAM |
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RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT COST ITEMS. Appropriates and authorizes funds for collective bargaining cost items for the members of Unit (1) and their excluded counterparts, including the cost of salary adjustments negotiated between the State and the bargaining unit representative for fiscal biennium 2021-2023.
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LCA, WAM |
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RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT COST ITEMS. Appropriates and authorizes funds for collective bargaining cost items for the members of Unit (5) and their excluded counterparts, including the cost of salary adjustments negotiated between the State and the bargaining unit representative for fiscal biennium 2021-2023.
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LCA, WAM |
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RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT COST ITEMS. Appropriates and authorizes funds for collective bargaining cost items for the members of Unit (7) and their excluded counterparts, including the cost of salary adjustments negotiated between the State and the bargaining unit representative for fiscal biennium 2021-2023.
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LCA, WAM |
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RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT COST ITEMS. Appropriates and authorizes funds for collective bargaining cost items for the members of Unit (10) and their excluded counterparts, including the cost of salary adjustments negotiated between the State and the bargaining unit representative for fiscal biennium 2021-2023.
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LCA, WAM |
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RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT COST ITEMS. Appropriates and authorizes funds for collective bargaining cost items for the members of Unit (11) and their excluded counterparts, including the cost of salary adjustments negotiated between the State and the bargaining unit representative for fiscal biennium 2021-2023.
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LCA, WAM |
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RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT COST ITEMS. Appropriates and authorizes funds for collective bargaining cost items for the members of Unit (12) and their excluded counterparts, including the cost of salary adjustments negotiated between the State and the bargaining unit representative for fiscal biennium 2021-2023.
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LCA, WAM |
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RELATING TO THE HAWAII TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION. Appropriates funds to the Hawaii Technology Development Corporation for the Small Business Innovation Research Program.
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EET, WAM |
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RELATING TO THE HAWAII TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION. Appropriates funds to Hawaii Technology Development Corporation for the Manufacturing Assistance Program.
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EET, WAM |
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RELATING TO THE HAWAII TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION. Appropriates funds to the Hawaii Technology Development Corporation for the State Small Business Credit Initiative Program.
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EET, WAM |
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RELATING TO FAMILY PLANNING. Requires oocyte cryopreservation to be covered by health insurance policies. Removes one-time benefit limitation for in vitro fertilization. Reduces the number of years of infertility before becoming eligible for in vitro fertilization from five to two years. (SD1)
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CPN, WAM |
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RELATING TO BEACHES. Includes in the State's policies for the physical environment under the Hawaii State Planning Act, the development of a statewide beach assessment study and a restoration and conservation plan. Takes effect 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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WTL, WAM |
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RELATING TO PROCUREMENT. Authorizes the State Procurement Administrator to develop and administer procurement automation systems and assess, charge, and collect a transaction fee from all vendors using the procurement automation systems; establish a procurement automation system special fund; and amends section 103D-1010, Hawaii Revised Statutes (HRS), to conform with the amendments made to section 103D-1001, HRS. Appropriates funds. (SD1)
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GVO, WAM |
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MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR CLAIMS AGAINST THE STATE, ITS OFFICERS, OR ITS EMPLOYEES. Makes appropriations and approves payments for claims against the State, its officers, and its employees. (SD1)
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JDC, WAM |
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RELATING TO STATE FUNDS. Authorizes the transfer of excess moneys from the rental housing revolving fund to the dwelling unit revolving fund. (SD1)
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HOU, WAM |
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RELATING TO THE EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ASSISTANCE COMPACT. Repeals chapter 128F, Hawaii Revised Statutes (HRS). Creates a new, appropriately designated chapter in the 127A series of HRS chapters to reincorporate the Emergency Management Assistance Compact.
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PSM, WAM |
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RELATING TO FEDERAL INDIRECT OVERHEAD REIMBURSEMENTS. Broadens the purposes for which indirect costs incurred by the Department of Education, State Public Charter School Commission, or a charter authorizer from federal grants may be reimbursed. (SD1)
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EDU, WAM |
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RELATING TO OPTIONS FOR STUDENTS IN DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION SCHOOLS. Broadens the scope of profit-making operations students may engage in at schools to include commercial enterprises, while ensuring that engagement in commercial enterprises shall be related to the primary educational purposes of the school, career pathway, academy, or program. Allows students to receive school credit, compensation, or both, when they engage in profit-making operations. (SD1)
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EDU, WAM |
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RELATING TO COMMERCIAL ENTERPRISES IN SCHOOLS. Deems student interns engaging in commercial enterprises to be employees of the State of Hawaii; allows the Department of Education to use revenue from commercial enterprises.
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EDU/LCA, WAM |
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MAKING AN EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION TO THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION FOR AN AGRICULTURE INNOVATION CENTER. Provides an emergency appropriation for the department of education to build an agriculture innovation center.
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EDU/AEN, WAM |
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RELATING TO THE OFFICE OF HEALTHCARE ASSURANCE SPECIAL FUND. Increases the ceiling of the Office of Healthcare Assurance Special Fund to meet expanding program needs and diminish dependence on the general fund. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD1)
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HTH, WAM |
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RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII RESIDENT TUITION FEE. Expands the criteria to qualify for resident tuition fees to include high school seniors and recent high school graduates. Requires the adult or minor student to receive their high school or diploma within twelve months of the first day of official instruction. (SD1)
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HRE, WAM |
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RELATING TO FISH HATCHERY EDUCATION. Requires the Department of Education to establish a native fish hatchery pilot program at Waianae High School. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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EDU, WAM |
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RELATING TO TEACHER PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT. Provides an appropriation for the Department of Education to provide twenty-one additional hours of professional development for teachers. (SD1)
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EDU, WAM |
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RELATING TO SAFE SPACES FOR YOUTH PILOT PROGRAM. Establishes the Safe Spaces for Youth Pilot Program within the Department of Human Services. Requires the program to collaborate with all state departments that offer services to ensure the well-being of youth in Hawaii to coordinate the identification of youth who are experiencing homeless and placement of homeless youth with a shelter for homeless youth. Allows the Department of Human Services to contract with a nonprofit organization to provide a shelter for homeless youth. Requires the Department of Human Services to report to Legislature before the Regular Session of 2025. Appropriates funds. Repeals 06/30/2025.
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HMS, WAM |
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RELATING TO MEDICAID PATIENT CARE. Appropriates an unspecified amount of funds to provide for a one-time enhanced payment equal to 15% of Medicaid patient payments of fiscal year 2022-2023 to each nursing facility, community care foster family homes, and expanded adult residential care homes that are caring for Medicaid patients, to assist with pandemic-related costs and lost revenues. (SD1)
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HMS, WAM |
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RELATING TO HAWAIIAN HOME LANDS. Requires the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to build rental units, apartments, and rent-with-option-to-buy housing units to address the housing needs of native Hawaiians on the waitlist for homestead leases. (SD1)
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HWN, WAM |
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RELATING TO THE RESEARCH CORPORATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII. Allows the University of Hawaii to enter into contracts with the Research Corporation of the University of Hawaii for the purposes of supporting or facilitating sponsored research and training activities, or for advancing innovation and entrepreneurship in the State using funds appropriated by the Legislature. Requires the university to consult with employee unions to review conformance positions with exceptions to collective bargaining for the purpose of employment of personnel only in the event a state program or employee is affected. Retains the Research Corporation of the University of Hawaii's ability to maintain contracts related to invasive species control or eradication. Takes effect 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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HRE/LCA, WAM |
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RELATING TO GOVERNMENT RECORDS. Allows the Comptroller to direct the transfer records to the State Records Center and determine the time period after which the records shall be transferred as directed. Appropriates funds to the Department of Accounting and General Services for operating costs and equipment for the State Records Center and two full-time equivalent (2.0 FTE) positions within the Hawaii State Archives.
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GVO, WAM |
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RELATING TO INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SERVICES. Establishes a Technology Services Consolidation Working Group, which shall develop a plan for the phased consolidation of all state executive branch information technology services and staff within five years, except those of the Department of Education, Hawaii Health Systems Corporation, University of Hawaii, and Office of Hawaiian Affairs under the Office of Enterprise Technology Services. Requires the working group to recommend ways to attract high quality information technology professionals to the State. Dissolves on 6/30/2023. (SD1)
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GVO, WAM |
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RELATING TO THE HAWAII STATE ENERGY OFFICE. Transfers the Hawaii State Energy Office from the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to the Department of Land and Natural Resources as an administratively attached agency. (SD1)
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EET/WTL, WAM |
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RELATING TO THE ECONOMY. Establishes a public policy framework that addresses state goals in the areas of economic disaster mitigation, economic diversification, import substitution, and community development. Appropriates moneys to the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism (DBEDT) to implement specific projects that address those goals. Identifies additional projects authorized in the executive budget to be implemented by DBEDT to further those goals. Requires DBEDT to submit annual reports to the Legislature summarizing project outcomes, including an assessment of each project's effectiveness in achieving those goals. Appropriates funds to continually staff the Hawaii Center for Advanced Transportation Technologies. (SD1)
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EET, WAM |
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RELATING TO HEALTH. Creates an early lung cancer screening task force to research what steps and resources are necessary to increase early lung cancer screening in Hawaii. Appropriates funds. (SD1)
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HTH, WAM |
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RELATING TO PROCUREMENT. Establishes a Procurement Services Consolidation Working Group, which shall develop a plan for the phased consolidation of all state executive branch procurement services and staff within five years, except those of the Department of Education, Hawaii Health Systems Corporation, University of Hawaii, and Office of Hawaiian Affairs under the State Procurement Office. Requires the working group to recommend ways to attract high quality procurement professionals to the State. Appropriates moneys. (SD1)
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GVO, WAM |
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RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII COMMUNITY COLLEGES. Appropriates funds for the University of Hawaii Workforce Development Program for administration, training, positions, and student support.
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HRE, WAM |
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_____________________________________ Senator Donovan M. Dela Cruz Chair |