Requires candidates for President and Vice President of the United States to disclose their federal income tax returns in order for their names to appear on a Hawaii ballot. (HB1581 HD1)
Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to include in its annual report the impacts of incidental take license issuances on the status and likelihood of survival of the individual species and the cumulative impacts on the full range of species of the specific island for which incidental take licenses have been issued. Appropriates funds to the department to assess the cumulative effects and detail them in its annual report.
Substitutes the rulemaking requirements of Chapter 91, HRS, for the adoption of certain University of Hawaii policies with the open public meeting requirements of chapter 92, HRS. (HD1)
Establishes a working group to address and provide findings and recommendations regarding issues that beneficiaries of the department of Hawaiian home lands on Hawaii island face relating to the financing and insuring of homes. Appropriates funds.
Establishes and funds a two-year pilot school sidewalk maintenance and repair program that requires counties to maintain and repair sidewalks in school zones or other areas of significant school related pedestrian traffic. Requires each county to report on the status of the pilot program.
Appropriates funds for county drought mitigation projects and measures. Appropriates funds for one full-time equivalent permanent planner IV position within the Commission on Water Resource Management to update the Hawaii drought plan. Effective 3/15/2099. (SD1)
Establishes an undergraduate health sciences academy at the University of Hawaii to increase recruitment and retention of Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander, and first generation college students. Makes an appropriation.
Requires the Department of Agriculture to establish a pilot pesticide treatment coupon project for the county of Hawaii. Requires report to the Legislature on project implementation. Appropriates funds. Takes effect 1/28/2081. (SD1)
Requires every retail dealer to conspicuously post a tax rate decal on each pump owned or leased by the retail dealer that displays the current federal fuel tax, state fuel tax, each county's fuel tax, and state license tax assessed on a gallon of gasoline and other liquid fuel sold at the pump. Establishes the tax rate decal special fund to be administered by the department of agriculture. Provides a penalty. Makes appropriation. Takes effect on January 1, 2018.
Requires DOT to contract for a study on the feasibility of establishing a harbor or port at Kapoho bay on the island of Hawaii.
