Requires the Department of Education to establish a tiered student bus fare rate system to include free bus passes for students and households that qualify for free or reduced lunch under the free and reduced price lunch program. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
Appropriates funds to the University of Hawaii for the college of tropical agriculture and human resources to establish one full-time agriculture education coordinator position. Effective 7/1/2050. (HD2)
Appropriates an unspecified amount of funds for five full-time equivalent (5.0 FTE) Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program Specialist positions within the Office of the Long-Term Care Ombudsman, assigned to each county as follows: one for the City and County of Honolulu, one for the County of Maui, two for the County of Hawaii, and one for the County of Kauai. (SD1)
Appropriates funds for two positions in the executive office on early learning to enhance capacity and resources of the office. Effective 7/1/2051. (SD1)
Requires the state building code council to consult with building industry trade associations to gather cost data on the implementation of certain building codes or standards and calculate the financial impact of those codes and standards, including amortized utility costs, on the cost of single-family and multi-family homes built in the State. Requires the annual report to the governor to include the cost provided by building industry trade associations on certain codes and standards adopted by the council. Effective 1/1/2050. (HD2)
Requires authorizers to timely provide certain information received from the Department of Education to charter schools. Amends the manner in which per-pupil funds are disbursed to public charter schools. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
Appropriates funds to the State of Hawaii Museum of Monarchy History (Iolani Palace) and the State of Hawaii Museum of Natural and Cultural History (Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum), to be expended by the Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
Adds the director of Hawaii P-20 Partnerships for Education as an ex officio, nonvoting member to the early learning board. Effective 7/1/2051. (SD1)
Codifies the Prevent Suicide Hawaii Task Force and requires it to develop annual recommendations to the Legislature to reduce suicide by twenty-five per cent by 2025. Dissolves the task force on 1/1/2026. (SD1)
Appropriates an unspecified amount of funds to restore diagnostic, preventive, and restorative dental benefits to adult medicaid enrollees; provided that the department of human services obtains maximum federal matching funds available and pursues all funding sources, including private grants, prior to expending any general fund appropriations. (SD1)
