Requires the Hawaii technology development corporation to establish a blockchain working group to recommend a definition for blockchain technology and make recommendations for individuals, businesses, and state agencies to use blockchain technology and report to the legislature. Appropriates funds.
Exempts the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands from permit and review fees for residential buildings for use by beneficiaries of the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act, 1920, as amended; provided that the department shall comply with applicable building, electrical, plumbing, and fire codes.
Establishes the time of transfer wastewater system inspection program in the Department of Health to oversee the inspection and repair of any individual wastewater system at the time of sale or transfer of residential real property attached to the wastewater system. Excludes certain sales or transfers.
Establishes a Hawaii community correctional center task force within the department of public safety to study and recommend to the legislature a site for a new jail to replace the correctional center's primary facility on three acres in downtown Hilo, Hawaii, and consider alternative governmental uses for the existing site. Appropriates funds for the task force.
Raises the minimum age to marry from 16 to 18 years of age. Provides that minors may not marry, even with parental or judicial consent. Requires family court judges to declare marriage contracts void on the grounds that one or both parties had not attained legal age at the time of marriage. Removes spousal cohabitation after the parties attained legal age as an exception for an annulment on the grounds that at least one of the parties was not of legal age at the time of the marriage. Allows a court to order the complete or partial emancipation of a minor under certain circumstances. Makes conforming amendments.
Establishes minimum number of district precincts per district. Prohibits campaigning or electioneering within two hundred feet of the last person in line to vote or deposit a ballot at a voter service center or place of deposit. Makes housekeeping amendments to Hawaii's elections laws to clarify and improve the administration of elections by mail.
Establishes voters with special needs advisory committees at the state and county levels to ensure equal and independent access to voter registration, casting of ballots, and all other office of elections services.
Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the second representative district.
Lowers conveyance tax rates for properties with a value under $2,000,000. Increases conveyance tax rates for investment properties. Requires a percentage of conveyance taxes collected to be deposited into the housing finance revolving fund. Effective 1/1/2022.
Removes the limitation on specific types of wastewater systems to which cesspools must be upgraded or converted, and instead requires a cesspool to be upgraded or converted to a wastewater system approved by the department of health, prior to 1/1/2050.
