Sponsored bills
Establishes a Hawaii Beach Preservation Special Fund. Authorizes the DLNR to expend moneys from the Special Fund to acquire lands for beach preservation with prior authorization of the Legislature. Creates a working group within the Hawaii Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Commission to determine appropriate funding mechanisms for the Special Fund. Establishes a three-year North Shore Oahu Pilot Program under DLNR to explore managed retreat options. Appropriates funds. (HB2468 HD2)
Authorizes the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to establish a housing voucher program for full-time classroom teachers employed by the Department of Education or by a public charter school. (HB2166 HD1)
Requires the Department of Education to establish a program to provide cardiopulmonary resuscitation instruction to each high school student. Requires statewide implementation by the 2023-2024 school year. Appropriates moneys.
Appropriates moneys for start-up grants to assist pre-opening public charter schools. (HB2167 HD1)
Requires landlords, who rent more than five dwelling units in a multi-family residential structure to unrelated families, to rent a minimum of twenty-five per cent of the dwelling units to extremely low-income families. Provides for exceptions.
Requires board members of condominium associations to disclose significant financial interests prior to taking action that affects both the association and a third-party provider. Prohibits board members from receiving gifts from those types of third party providers. Expands the powers of the real estate commission to enforce violations by board members of disclosure requirements and gift prohibitions.
Increases the minimum wage to $12.25 per hour in 2019 and $15 per hour in 2020. Repeals language allowing the hourly wage of a tipped employee to be increased on account of tips. Requires the department of labor and industrial relations to annually calculate the adjusted minimum wage rate to the nearest five cents using the Honolulu region CPI-W.
Requires the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to annually update the minimum wage based upon a percentage of the median hourly wage for all occupations in Hawaii.
Establishes minimum wage rates for 2019, 2020, and 2021. Repeals the tip credit. For 2020 and subsequent years, requires the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to adjust the minimum wage rate in accordance with the Honolulu region consumer price index.