Prohibits the use of pesticides containing the active ingredient chlorpyrifos. (HB253 HD1)
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Establishes the Diabetes Prevention and Management Task Force. Effective July 1, 2017.
Promotes the space industry in Hawaii by creating a Multinational Lunar Architecture Alliance to provide recommendations and guidance for the establishment of an evolvable lunar architecture on the Big Island of Hawaii and to plan a development summit.
Requires teachers and principals training to include suicide prevention. Allows the training to be conducted through self-review.
Establishes a Center for Women in Technology within the University of Hawaii, Department of Information and Computer Sciences.
Establishes the Hawaii college service corps to provide recent high school graduates with tuition waivers and college credit for participation in qualifying college service corps programs.
Defines political signs. Fines candidate committees and noncandidate committees whose political signs are found on state property or highways.
Appropriates funds to improve the health care services related to cardiac care at Kona community hospital, including the construction of a hybrid catheterization lab and operating room and funding of cardiology staff positions to alleviate the lack of care.