Exempts certain foods, medical services, and feminine hygiene products from the general excise tax.
Establishes a 5-year career technical education pilot program within the Department of Education to encourage students to study career technical education.
Establishes the Hawaii Vocational Training in Schools Task Force in the Department of Education to study the feasibility of creating vocational training programs in the department's middle schools and high schools.
Provides that a minor may consent to emergency shelter if a provider of no cost emergency shelter and services is coordinating with child welfare service.
Appropriates funds to provide additional rent supplement subsidies to eligible individuals and families.
Requires the Department of Human Services and the Department of Health to disperse grant-in-aid funds to recipient organizations within ninety days of the effective date of the legislation awarding the grant. Allows the Department of Human Services and the Department of Health to disperse the total amount awarded to recipient organizations before contract execution.
Requires the University of Hawaii to study the feasibility of adopting an open educational resources initiative. Requires the University to report to the Legislature its findings and recommendations, including the cost to implement the initiative and any projected cost savings.
Requires the Department of Education to reduce class sizes over a period of four years.
Allows a transient accommodations broker to register as a tax collection agent for its operators and plan managers. Requires operators and plan managers to provide a statement to the transient accommodations broker confirming compliance with all applicable land use and tax laws. Requires the operator or plan manager to provide verification of compliance with state and county land use laws. Requires an operator or plan manager to remove a transient accommodation advertisement upon notice that the property is not in compliance with state law or county ordinance. Establishes a 1-time amnesty program for certain delinquent transient accommodations and general excise tax obligations. Authorizes counties to require the disgorgement of profits obtained through unlawful actions. Authorizes counties to adopt ordinances to amortize or phase out transient accommodations. Allocates up to $1,000,000 of TAT revenues to each county, contingent upon the county establishing a process to provide verification of compliance by an operator or plan manager with county land use laws. Makes it unlawful for transient accommodations brokers to engage in business with operators or plan managers or property managers or activity providers that are not in compliance with all state laws and county ordinances. Makes it unlawful for a hosting platform to provide, and collect a fee for, booking services regarding transient accommodations that are not lawfully certified, registered, or permitted under applicable county ordinance.
Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to conduct a ten-year study of Maunalua Bay.
