Requires all arbitrators to disclose known, direct, and material financial or personal interests. Authorizes a court to vacate an arbitration award if that arbitrator failed to make a proper disclosure.
Adds a new part to Chapter 134, HRS, to establish a detailed process allowing law enforcement officers and family or household members to obtain a court order to prevent a person from accessing firearms and ammunition where the person poses a danger of causing bodily injury to the person or another.
Establishes and designates Flavobacterium akiainvivens as the official microbe of the State.
Authorizes the issuance of GO bonds and appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the 43rd representative district.
Retains an unspecified portion of the county allocation of transient accommodations tax revenues to fund an income tax credit for residential property owners in the State.
Establishes a Kalaeloa airport tenant advisory board.
Appropriates funds for grants-in-aid to the counties for assistance with identifying and mapping important agricultural lands.
Establishes that the offense of abuse of a family or household member is a petty misdemeanor with a jail sentence of no less than forty-eight hours and no more than thirty days. Establishes that for a second offense that occurs within five years of the first conviction of the offense of abuse of a family or household member is a misdemeanor and the person shall be termed a "repeat offender". Establishes that a third or subsequent offense that occurs within five, rather than two, years of a second or subsequent conviction of the offense is a class C felony. Allows the prosecution to use prior convictions of the offense of abuse of a family or household member as evidence in the instant offense committed by a repeat offender. Requires that court ordered domestic violence intervention programs include anger management training. Requires the judiciary, in cooperation with the prosecutor of each county and police department of each county, to annually compile and report on statistics regarding arrests, charges, and convictions based on the offense of abuse of a family or household member. Repeals and reenacts the offense of abuse of a family or household member on 06/30/20.
Establishes a mandatory minimum sentence of twenty years for class A felony of first degree sexual assault of a minor who is less than fourteen years of age.
Replaces the Hawaii election campaign fund with the general revenues of the State as the funding source for the operating expenses of the campaign spending commission. Appropriates general revenues to the commission for operating expenses.
Exempts remote schools from the weighted student formula. Provides that remote schools will be funded based on categorical allotments that guarantee the funding of a minimum number of instructional and support staff positions to ensure that at least minimum course requirements are maintained. Defines "remote school." Makes appropriations.
Allows computer science to replace either one math or one science class to count towards graduation requirements for high school students.
