Requires the Department of Agriculture's Aquaculture Development Program to conduct a feasibility study to identify potential sites in the State for restorative aquaculture activities. Makes an appropriation. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
Appropriates funds for the Hawaiʻi Emergency Management Agency to purchase a Striker fire truck to be housed on a Department of Defense facility on Maui. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
Appropriates funds to support the Hawaiʻi ant lab in mitigating the effects of little fire ants in the State. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
Establishes a fireshed partnership program within the department of land and natural resources. Makes appropriations. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
Appropriates funds to the Department of Education to contract with a qualified nonprofit organization to establish an aquatic safety education program for elementary school students and to establish one full-time equivalent position (1.0 FTE) to administer the program.
Requires the Hawaiʻi Ant Lab to share data collected related to invasive ant surveys with the Department of Agriculture and Department of Land and Natural Resources. Appropriates funds for the Hawaiʻi Ant Lab to support little fire ant mitigation and eradication efforts. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
Beginning 7/1/2026, amends existing law regarding preemption of local ordinances and regulations regulating the sale of cigarettes, tobacco products, and electronic smoking devices as a matter of statewide concern to clarify that the State's preemption power extends solely to the taxation of cigarettes, tobacco products, and electronic smoking devices and allows counties to adopt ordinances and regulations that regulate smoking or the sale of cigarettes, tobacco products, and electronic smoking devices that do not conflict with and are more stringent than the state law that governs smoking. Prohibits the counties from enacting an ordinance or a regulation that imposes a fee or tax on the sale of cigarettes, tobacco products, or electronic smoking devices. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
Specifically authorizes a medical cannabis dispensary to purchase cannabis and manufactured cannabis products from another dispensary. Requires the Department of Health to adopt rules regarding medical cannabis products within a certain time. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
Permanently establishes and appropriates funds for the Community Outreach Court as a division of the District Court of the First Circuit. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
Creates a nonrefundable water catchment income tax credit for a homeowner who installs and places into service a water catchment system meeting certain requirements on residential property in the State owned by the homeowner. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
