Rep. Darius Kila

Requires county police departments to provide training, in collaboration with the Department of Health and University of Hawaii, to officers having contact with individuals experiencing homelessness, behavioral health issues including substance use, or mental health issues. Appropriates funds for coordinated and collaborative activities including training, referrals to service providers, and technical assistance. Requires reports to the Legislature.

Requires all playgrounds located in state and county parks and on public school grounds include special needs recreational playground equipment as part of the recreational apparatuses by 6/30/2025 including at a minimum a wheelchair accessible swing set. Establishes the special needs recreational playground equipment special fund. Appropriates funds.

Exempts feminine hygiene products from the general excise tax.

Requires public high school students to complete one financial literacy class before graduation.

Beginning January 1, 2025, authorizes public schools and public charter schools to have an employee trained to administer or assist with the self-administration of seizure disorder rescue medication, with certain exemptions. Authorizes all principals, guidance counselors, and teachers to perform an annual self-review of seizure disorder materials. Allows a seizure action plan for every diagnosed student to be established and distributed to employees charged with supervising the student. Appropriates funds.

Appropriates funds for the development and maintenance of a comprehensive approach to successful prisoner reentry and integration that provides supports to inmates while incarcerated and after their release. Establishes a pilot program within the Judiciary to allow minor children to remain with their mothers while the mothers are participating in therapeutic, drug treatment, or other residential programs. Establishes within the Judiciary a 5-year recidivism prevention pilot program consisting of the housing voucher program; child care voucher program; and employer income tax credit program. Establishes within the Department of Public Safety an offender reset program to oversee development and implementation of comprehensive pre- and post-release programs to assist offenders who are transitioning back into the community. Requires reports to the Legislature. Appropriates funds to the Department of Public Safety, Judiciary, Hawaii Paroling Authority, Department of Human Services, and Department of Health.

Establishes within the department of land and natural resources a Makua valley task force to prepare for the transition of the management of the Makua military reservation from the United States Army upon the expiration of the Army's lease for the land. Requires a report to the legislature.

Expands the list of acceptable institutions or organizations that can approve the continuing education courses needed by naturopathic physicians for license renewal.

By 7/15/2024, requires the counties to adopt ordinances to establish an expedited streamlined permitting process for essential businesses to obtain the building permits needed for the installation of rooftop solar and energy storage systems. Appropriates funds.

Beginning no later than 1/1/2025: requires farm owners or operators to confine egg-laying hens in accordance with certain standards, with exceptions; prohibits a business owner or operator from selling shell eggs or egg products that are produced by egg-laying hens that were confined in a manner that violates certain standards, with exceptions; and requires the department of agriculture to certify a business owner or operator who sells shell eggs or egg products within the State.