Authorizes the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds to assist Keahole Hotel & Suites LLC with planning, designing, constructing, and equipping facilities for a hotel at the Ellison Onizuka Kona International Airport at Keahole.
Enacts various technical, housekeeping, and other amendments to further Hawaii's transition to elections by mail.
Authorizes the designation of areas or regions of public lands classified as commercial, industrial, resort and hotel, and the establishment and implementation of guidelines for the redevelopment of the areas or regions that will: (1) modernize the policies for the management of public lands in the designated area; (2) establish a plan for the designated area, including district-wide improvements, that is coordinated with state and county land use and planning policies; and (3) implement asset and property management concepts that can optimize income from the properties and evolve in response to changing principles of property administration. Designates the public lands on the Waiakea peninsula on the island of Hawaii as the Waiakea peninsula redevelopment district. Allows the department of land and natural resources to issue a rent reduction or waiver for certain lessee's expenses for demolition or provision of basic infrastructure. Authorizes a local redevelopment agency to contract with a developer for construction of non-residential projects on public land within a redevelopment area. Exempts the costs of construction of work or improvements of a redevelopment project from general excise and use taxes. Effective 1/1/2050. (HD1)
Amends certain parts of the conflicts of interests law in the state ethics code to include members of the legislature. Clarifies that the conflicts of interests law does not prohibit legislators from introducing legislation, serving on a committee, making statements, or taking action in the exercise of their legislative functions. Effective 7/1/2112. (HD1)
Recognizes La Ku‘oko‘a, Hawaiian Recognition Day, as an official state holiday. Effective 7/1/2065. (HD1)
Expands the victim-counselor privilege under Rule 505.5 of the Hawaii Rules of Evidence to include victims of dating violence, stalking, and sexual harassment and confidential advocates employed by the University of Hawaii. Effective 7/1/2060. (HD2)
Amends the offense of burglary in the second degree to include intentionally entering or remaining unlawfully on a critical electrical infrastructure. (HD2)
Restricts civil asset forfeiture to cases involving the commission of a felony offense where the property owner has been convicted of an underlying felony offense. Directs any forfeiture proceeds to the general fund.
Requires the board of education to invite the exclusive representative for bargaining unit (5) (teachers and other personnel of the department of education) to appoint a nonvoting public school teacher representative to the board and the exclusive representative for bargaining unit (6) (educational officers) to appoint a nonvoting public school administrator representative to the board. Effective 7/1/2050. (HD1)
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.
