Establishes the Hawaiʻi farm to food bank program to alleviate food shortages in the State. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
Rep. Scot Matayoshi
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Appropriates funds to the University of Hawaiʻi for the College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources to establish an agriculture education coordinator position. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
By 1/1/2027, requires the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to establish a family and medical leave insurance program and begin collecting payroll contributions to finance payment of benefits. By 1/1/2028, requires the Department to start receiving claims and paying benefits under the program. Specifies eligibility requirements and employee protections under the program. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
Merges the Made in Hawaiʻi with Aloha branding program with the Hawaiʻi Made program under the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism. Specifies that the Department of the Attorney General shall be responsible for enforcement of the program. Clarifies that calculations to determine whether a non-perishable good labeled "Hawaiʻi Made" or "made in Hawaiʻi" has met the requirement that at least fifty-one per cent of the wholesale value of the product is added by production within the State include operating and overhead expenses incurred and spent within the State. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
Establishes a sobriety checkpoint special fund to provide funding to county law enforcement agencies for staffing for sobriety checks and processing of persons arrested at sobriety checkpoints. Increases the state vehicle registration fee and establishes the amount to be deposited into the sobriety checkpoint special fund. Appropriates funds into the sobriety checkpoint special fund and out of the special fund as grants-in-aid for the counties. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
Requires transient accommodations brokers and any other persons or entities to offer, list, advertise, or display a transient accommodations rental rate that includes all resort fees required for the furnishing of transient accommodations. Requires transient accommodations brokers and any other persons or entities to include all applicable taxes and fees imposed by a government on the stay in the total price to be paid before the consumer reserves the furnishing of transient accommodations. Establishes penalties. Effective 1/1/3000. (HD1)
Appropriates funds to the Department of Agriculture for its meat inspection program, including positions. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
Appropriates funds to support the Hawaiʻi ant lab in mitigating the effects of little fire ants in the State. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
Requires the Hawaiʻi Ant Lab to share data collected related to invasive ant surveys with the Department of Agriculture and Department of Land and Natural Resources. Appropriates funds for the Hawaiʻi Ant Lab to support little fire ant mitigation and eradication efforts. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
Beginning 7/1/2026, amends existing law regarding preemption of local ordinances and regulations regulating the sale of cigarettes, tobacco products, and electronic smoking devices as a matter of statewide concern to clarify that the State's preemption power extends solely to the taxation of cigarettes, tobacco products, and electronic smoking devices and allows counties to adopt ordinances and regulations that regulate smoking or the sale of cigarettes, tobacco products, and electronic smoking devices that do not conflict with and are more stringent than the state law that governs smoking. Prohibits the counties from enacting an ordinance or a regulation that imposes a fee or tax on the sale of cigarettes, tobacco products, or electronic smoking devices. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)