Rep. Elle Cochran

Amends the qualifications for food hubs located in agricultural districts.

Amends the dispensary program licensing fee structure. Adds or clarifies signage, manufactured cannabis product, packaging, escort, and background check requirements for the medical cannabis dispensary program. Establishes annual reporting requirements to increase public transparency regarding the medical cannabis registry program. Makes various housekeeping amendments.

Allows employers to obtain a tax credit for offering positions to qualified interns in work-based learning programs that have been approved by the department of education or University of Hawaii.

Establishes system access and system integration requirements for the computer software tracking system for medical cannabis dispensaries. Requires the department of health to submit an annual report to the legislature on data captured using the computer software tracking system.

Allows health care facilities to permit terminally ill patients to use medical cannabis under certain conditions.

Proposes a constitutional amendment to ensure that the inherent and inalienable right of the people, including future generations, to clean water and air, a healthful environment and climate, healthy native ecosystems, and beaches shall be protected and shall not be infringed. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)

Requires each county to submit to the Legislature a comprehensive integrated wastewater management plan report that addresses and identifies the county's wastewater management needs, including financial needs. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)

Requires government entities in the State that issue building permits to implement SolarAPP+ or a functionally equivalent online automated permitting platform that verifies code compliance and issues permits to licensed contractors for solar distributed energy resource systems in real time by 1/1/2024. Requires government entities in the State that issue building permits to adopt self-certification for solar distributed energy resource systems of 250 kilowatts or less that are not SolarAPP+ compatible. Makes the professional engineers, architects, surveyors, and landscape architects licensure law inapplicable to work with respect to residential distributed energy resource systems and increases the estimated cost of work on certain structures below which that licensure law is inapplicable. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)

Authorizes advanced practice registered nurses to certify whether a person is totally disabled under the income tax code. Adds advanced practice registered nurses as primary providers in advance mental health care directives. Authorizes advanced practice registered nurses to make capacity determinations for purposes of advance mental health care directives. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)

Requires the department of health to establish a reverse vending machine pilot program to provide grants to deploy reverse vending machines in the State. Allows moneys from the deposit beverage container deposit special fund to be used for grants to deploy reverse vending machines. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)