Requires any person initiating a land disturbing activity to present a conservation plan for the activity to the affected neighborhood board or equivalent body prior to initiating the activity.
Appropriates funds for the University of Hawaii Intercollegiate Athletic Program.
Amends the definition of provider agency for homelessness services to include nonprofits that accept funds without a contract. Requires annual reports of providers' effectiveness.
Reallocates $1,000,000 from the transient accommodations tax revenues for the operation of the Hawaiian center and the museum of Hawaiian music and dance at the Hawaii convention center to structural improvements to parks and public facilities to be determined with community input; provided that the improvements include creating space for health promotion activities and physical activity, and creating a Native Hawaiian sense of place.
Requires the family court to terminate parental rights if the court determines, by clear and convincing evidence, that the child was conceived during an act of sexual assault by the parent. Requires the court to accept police investigation materials as evidence of the sexual assault. For the period of time between the indictment and court determination in the case, grants the natural parent who is the victim of the sexual assault immediate temporary sole legal and physical custody of the child and prohibits visitation or allows supervised visitation of the indicted natural parent, as determined by the court.
Adjusts allocation of transient accommodations tax revenues to the tourism special fund for inflation. Adjusts allocation to the counties to equal forty-five per cent of the amount of revenues remaining after all other allocations are made.
Amends the Hawaii Constitution to make policy decisions made by the board of education subject to approval by an education advisory council.
Amends article II of the state constitution to provide for recall.
Repeals the extension of the increase in the county surcharge on the State general excise tax, and replaces financing for the Honolulu mass transit project with private funding.
Creates exceptions to the state building code and other existing infrastructure requirements for homeless settlements.
