Allows telecommunications and emergency dispatchers and employees who perform similar functions employed by the State and counties to collectively bargain. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
Appropriates funds for the small business innovation research program under the Hawaiʻi technology development corporation. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
Amends the adjusted gross income brackets and credit amounts of the refundable food/excise tax credit. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD2)
Authorizes wages of other employees in comparable employment to be considered when computing the average weekly wages of an injured public board member, reserve police officer, police chaplain, reserve public safety law enforcement officer, sheriffs' chaplain, volunteer firefighter, volunteer boating enforcement officer, or volunteer conservation and resources enforcement officer. Clarifies computation of average weekly wages of an injured volunteer firefighter for workers' compensation benefits purposes. Effective 6/30/3000.
Requires each county police department to collect, report, and publicly publish certain data regarding police stops, arrests, uses of force, and trends. Effective 12/1/23. (HD1)
Exempts certain projects for the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands from general excise taxes. Makes permanent the exemption of certain housing developed by the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands from school impact fee requirements. Ensures that the $600,000,000 appropriated to the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands in Act 279, Session Laws of Hawaiʻi 2022, is available for expenditure until June 30, 2025. Makes permanent the issuance of county affordable housing credits to the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands. Effective 1/1/2024. (SD1)
Provides a process for school placement for a child whose parent has transferred or is pending transfer from another state to a military installation in Hawaiʻi while on active military duty pursuant to an official military order. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
Appropriates moneys to the City and County of Honolulu Board of Water Supply to create a pilot program that incentivizes residential homeowners in certain dry areas to replace landscaping and irrigation with alternatives that reduce water use. Requires report to the Legislature. Effective 6/30/3000. (SD1)
Recognizes American Sign Language as a fully developed, autonomous, natural language with its own grammar, syntax, vocabulary, and cultural heritage. (SD1)
Appropriates funds to the University of Hawaii for statewide research into ornamental ginger pathogens, prevention of the spread of ornamental ginger pathogens, production and distribution of pathogen-free ornamental ginger plants, and outreach to ornamental ginger producers. (CD1)
