Excludes from the definition of "drug paraphernalia", testing products utilized in determining whether a controlled substance contains chemicals, toxic substances, or hazardous compounds in quantities that can cause physical harm or death, including but not limited to fentanyl test strips. Defines "fentanyl test strip". (SD1)
Requires the commission on water resource management and division of aquatic resources of the department of land and natural resources, in partnership with the University of Hawaiʻi and department of health, to conduct research on limu to understand the impacts of groundwater use on groundwater-dependent ecosystems. Requires a joint report to legislature. Appropriates funds. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
Requires government entities in the State that issue building permits to implement SolarAPP+ or a functionally equivalent online automated permitting platform that verifies code compliance and issues permits to licensed contractors for solar distributed energy resource systems in real time by 1/1/2024. Requires government entities in the State that issue building permits to adopt self-certification for solar distributed energy resource systems of 250 kilowatts or less that are not SolarAPP+ compatible. Makes the professional engineers, architects, surveyors, and landscape architects licensure law inapplicable to work with respect to residential distributed energy resource systems and increases the estimated cost of work on certain structures below which that licensure law is inapplicable. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the thirty-first representative district.
Authorizes the department of land and natural resources, through the state historic preservation division to contract its review of proposed state projects, projects on privately owned historic property, and projects affecting historic properties to third-party consultants if the department will not be able to complete its review within sixty days. Appropriates funds. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD2)
Appropriates funds for the Hawaiʻi carbon smart land management assistance pilot program. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
Removes historic sites and the Waikiki special district from the requirement for environmental assessments under section 343-5, HRS.
Beginning with the 2023-2024 school year, requires public schools to provide free breakfast and lunch to all enrolled students. Appropriates funds.
Implements the recommendation of the cesspool conversion working group to accelerate the dates for required upgrades, conversions, or connections of priority level 1 cesspools and priority level 2 cesspools by requiring priority level 1 cesspools to be upgraded, converted, or connected before 1/1/2030, and priority level 2 cesspools to be upgraded, converted, or connected before 1/1/2035, rather than before 1/1/2050. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
Specifies that a prohibition on the increase of prices of essential commodities during a state of emergency expires 72 hours after the effective date and time of the initial declaration or any supplemental declaration, unless the governor or mayor specifically includes within a proclamation the commodities that are subject to the declaration.
