Requires the Director of the Department of Human Resources Development to revise rules, policies, and guidelines to limit state employees' telework to a maximum of two days per week, and set forth supervision and accountability standards to ensure appropriate state services to the public.
Amends the Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2022 to specify that the appropriation for Hawaiʻi housing finance and development corporation (BED160) is to be deposited into and expended from the affordable homeownership revolving fund for purposes of the revolving fund.
Requires the Hawaiʻi State Energy Office to enter into a publicprivate partnership to develop a waste-to-energy generating facility on land under the jurisdiction of the Department of Land and Natural Resources.
Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the thirty-second representative district.
Appropriates funds to the department of land and natural resources to address the impacts of climate change in the State. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
Specifies that a simple majority of affirmative votes of the members of the Land Use Commission present at a meeting and qualified to vote is required for any boundary amendment. Reduces the number of days within which the Land Use Commission must act for certain actions related to amendments to district boundaries. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
Appropriates funds to the Hawaiʻi public housing authority for the state rent supplement program. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
Requires the State of Hawaiʻi Plant and Animal Declaration Form to be distributed, completed, and transmitted electronically prior to the debarkation of passengers or baggage. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
Exempts affordable housing and certain qualifying housing development projects from HEPA. Establishes a definition of "program" and "project" to preempt the existing definitions under section 11-200.1-2, Hawaiʻi Administrative Rules, and narrow the existing interpretation that requires analysis of tangentially related projects. Amends the applicability and requirements section of HEPA to clarify when multiple actions must be considered in the same environmental review document for the purposes of project segmentation. Expands the requirement that project opponents must exhaust their administrative remedies as a prerequisite to litigation to apply to environmental assessments and environmental impact statements. Retroactively applies to projects that received approval for their environmental assessment or environmental impact statement on or after August 9, 2019.
Authorizes HHFDC to assist DOE in developing housing projects for teachers and other school employees and contract or sponsor an experimental or demonstration housing project with any state department or agency. Appropriates funds for deposit into the dwelling unit revolving fund. Authorizes DOE to lease land and contract with private entities for the development, management, maintenance, or revitalization of housing for teachers and other school employees. Permits a private entity to lease housing to other eligible tenants if occupancy of the housing falls below a percentage threshold as determined by DOE. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD2)
