Rep. Kyle Yamashita

Deposits funds into the Rental Housing Revolving Fund to be used to provide loans or grants to mixed-income rental projects or units for persons and families with incomes between 60 and 100% of the median family income. Enables the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to use any unused moneys for other authorized rental housing projects. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)

Establishes the Hawaii Medical Education Special Fund to be administered by the John A. Burns School of Medicine for graduate medical education and training programs. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)

Appropriates funds to the John A. Burns School of Medicine to expand medical school and residency training through the Department of Veterans Affairs graduate medical education programs. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)

Establishes the Rural Health Task Force within the Center for Nursing to prepare and develop solutions and make recommendations on registered nurse recruitment and retention in rural areas of Maui, Molokai, and Lanai. Requires the Rural Health Task Force to submit reports of its findings, recommendations, and any proposed legislation to the Legislature prior to the Regular Session of 2023, and prior to the Regular Session of 2024. (SD2)

Exempts easements granted over public lands affecting the transfer of public lands between the Department of Land and Natural Resources and the Department of Agriculture from formal county subdivision process and approval requirements. Before the transfer of non-agricultural park lands, authorizes the Department of Agriculture to request information from the Department of Land and Natural Resources related to the establishment of necessary and reasonable easements upon the lands. Amends legislative findings regarding non-agricultural park lands. Requires the Department of Agriculture to accept the transfer of and manage certain qualifying non-agricultural park lands. Requires the Department of Agriculture, prior to offering a lease, to inquire with the Department of Land and Natural Resources regarding any easements required for access to landlocked forest reserves or other assets on the lands subject to the lease.  Requires the lessee to develop a conservation program and plan if conservation resources exist on the land. Requires approval from the Board of Land and Natural Resources and the Board of Agriculture before removing pasture lands for reforestation, or other public purposes. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)

Requires each water carrier to file a strategic plan with the Public Utilities Committee every five years. Effective 7/1/2050. (HD1)

Establishes the State self-insurance against property and casualty risks special fund to be administered by the comptroller to provide the State with self-insurance against the State's property and casualty risks, to be implemented January 1, 2030. Requires the Department of Budget and Finance to conduct an actuarial study and report to the Legislature. Appropriates funds. (SD1)

Establish an Unemployment Compensation Insolvency Special Fund to be administered by the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations and expended solely to resolve an Unemployment Compensation Trust Fund insolvency emergency declared by the Governor. Permit the Governor to declare an Unemployment Compensation Trust Fund insolvency emergency and expend moneys from the Unemployment Compensation Insolvency Special Fund if the Director of Finance determines that the trust fund balance is insufficient to meet the State's obligations. Appropriates moneys into the Unemployment Compensation Insolvency Special Fund. Effective 12/25/2040. (SD1)

Appropriates funds to the University of Hawaii to increase the State's capacity to train new nurses and project future nursing workforce needs. Provides that the nursing program at the University of Hawaii, West Oahu be reinstated as a condition to the appropriation. Effective 7/1/2055. (SD1)