Extends the right to enter private property and remove or stabilize natural hazards that are at risk of harming the public or other properties to the county in which the private property is located and that county's respective mayor.
Amends the definition of "restricted use pesticide" to include neonicotinoid pesticides.
Requires monthly rather than annual reporting of restricted use pesticides. Amends the contents of reports to include specific geospatial data and information, site information, and increased detail on the amount of restricted use pesticides used. Requires the department of agriculture to develop an online reporting tool for restricted use pesticides.
Establishes the resilience hub and network grant program and a special fund in the Hawaiʻi Emergency Management Agency. Increases the environmental response, energy, and food security tax and deposits a portion of the tax into the resilience hub and network grant program special fund.
Requires the PUC to solicit competitive offers from an entity operating under a non-investor-owned utilities ownership model before approving the sale of a public utility, in whole or in part, to a private entity.
Establishes the Hawaiʻi Cannabis Authority and Cannabis Control Board within the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs to regulate all aspects of the cannabis plant. Beginning January 1, 2026, legalizes the personal adult use of cannabis. Establishes taxes for adult-use cannabis sales. Transfers the personnel and assets of the Department of Health and assets Department of Agriculture to the Hawaiʻi Cannabis Authority. Appropriates funds.
Establishes a clean vehicle special fund to incentivize the purchase of vehicles that produce less carbon emissions by providing a rebate. Creates a gasoline-powered vehicle tax, graduated based on fuel efficiency, to be paid by purchasers of certain passenger cars and pickup trucks that are powered solely by gasoline.
Appropriates funds to the University of Hawaiʻi Cancer Center to conduct a multiethnic cohort study focusing on the social determinants of health, lifestyles, environmental exposures, and resilience factors of Native Hawaiians, Pacific Islanders, and Filipinos. Requires the Cancer Center to seek federal funding to complete the study.
Establishes the Public Education Scholarship Program within the University of Hawaiʻi to provide students who are residents of the State with scholarships in return for a service commitment to teach in a public school classroom of the Department of Education or Hawaiʻi public charter school, under certain conditions. Appropriates funds.
Requires the Department of Human Resources Development to: (1) conduct a remote work study; (2) review any recent remote work studies done by the counties; (3) develop and administer a remote work program; and (4) submit the study to the Legislature prior to the convening of the Regular Session of 2025. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. Makes an appropriation.
