Specifies the documentation needed for a military spouse to receive a temporary licensure by endorsement. Requires issuance of the license within 30 days of the application and supporting documents.
Allows boards to use interactive conference technology to remotely conduct public meetings under the sunshine law and outlines the requirements for such meetings. Allows boards to require information for purposes of contact tracing in times of emergency due to a contagious disease. Allows for the holding of in-person meetings at multiple sites connected by interactive conference technology. Requires that notices include the board's electronic and postal contact information.
Ensures the collection of the state general excise tax in instances in which the transportation of passengers is furnished by common carriers by the use of aircraft when the collection of the tax is not prohibited by federal law. Limits imposition of tax to flights that occur within the airspace of a single island of the State.
Establishes the office of public accountability to assume oversight and administrative responsibility for the office of the auditor, office of the ombudsman, office of information practices, Hawaii state ethics commission, and campaign spending commission. Requires the salaries of the auditor, director of LRB, executive director of the Hawaii state ethics commission, and ombudsman to be set by the legislature. Appropriates funds.
Defines "pre-contact historic property". Clarifies that the historic preservation program includes the development, publication, and distribution of materials about protections for burials, historic sites, and archaeological resources. Increases civil and administrative fines for certain violations of historic and preservation requirements and makes violators liable for costs associated with mitigation or restoration measures. Effective 7/1/2065. (HD1)
Beginning 11/1/2022, prohibits the lieutenant governor, while holding the office of the lieutenant governor, from maintaining any other employment, maintaining a controlling interest in a business, or receiving any emolument, beginning on the sixty-first calendar day after election or appointment to office.
Establishes a task force in the department of taxation to discuss the need to rebalance and repurpose the tax programs created by the general excise tax, income tax, and property tax laws.
Requires the salary of the state auditor to be fixed by the legislature.
Requires a state contract for the purchase of produce to include an option for the contractor supplying the produce to lease of state agricultural lands. Establishes a process for the college of tropical agriculture and human resources of the university of Hawaii to identify appropriate land to be leased. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
Specifies that employees' retirement system payment of refunds and benefits may be paid into individual, joint, and trust accounts of financial institutions.
