Creates a legislative check on the emergency powers of a governor during a declared state of emergency.
Lowers the state barrel tax from $1.05 to $.20.
Provides students access to nonpublic schools through school choice scholarship program, which provides grants to eligible entities to allocate funds to eligible students for enrollment in nonpublic schools based upon financial need.
Proposing amendments to articles viii of the constitution of the state of hawaii to authorize the legislature to freeze any increase in state residential property tax.
Adds the Hawaii Tourism Authority president and chief executive officer as an ex officio member of the Board of Land and Natural Resources and Land Use Commission.
Requires the Hawaii Tourism Authority to offer performance-based incentives in all of its professional services contracts.
Specifies additional exceptions under child labor laws to include work-based learning programs with employers.
Repeals election days as designated state holidays. Provides up to 8 hours of paid leave on even-numbered years for public employees whose contract terms extend beyond 6/30/2022, and include election days as paid holidays.
Amends the criteria and procedures used by family courts in determining child custody and visitation rights. Addresses the considerations and factors a family court shall consider in determining custody or visitation if one parent has a felony conviction for a violent or sexual offense in which the victim was a minor, is required to register as a sex offender, or has been convicted of murdering the other parent. Requires the family court to state its reasons in writing or on the record when it finds there is no risk to the child's health, safety, and welfare. Prohibits the family court from disclosing the custodial parent's place of residence, place of employment, or the child's school unless disclosure is in the child's best interests.
MANDATES THAT MAIL-IN BALLOTS BE DISTRIBUTED NO EARLIER THAN FIFTEEN DAYS AND NO LATER THAN EIGHT DAYS PRIOR TO ELECTION DAY.
