Rep. Nicole Lowen

Requires the auditor to conduct an impact assessment report on the social and financial impacts of prohibiting health insurance companies from denying coverage for certain types of health care on the basis of gender identity if the policy, contract, plan, or agreement covers those treatments for purposes other than gender transition. Effective 7/1/2060. (HD1)

Establishes a statewide coordinator and program overseen by the department of the attorney general to provide services and assistance to commercially sexually exploited children and victims of human trafficking. Requires the attorney general to submit annual reports to the legislature. Requires the children's justice program to coordinate the investigation and case management of child human trafficking cases, including cases involving the commercial sexual exploitation of children. Effective 5/6/2137. (SD2)

Requires the Department of Education to establish a legacy tree planting pilot program for certain public school students for graduation credit. Appropriates funds for the pilot program. Effective 7/1/2050. (HD1)

Changes the renewal period for driver licenses from every two years to every four years for persons 72 years of age or older.

Establishes freedom of press protections for student journalists producing school-sponsored media or university-sponsored media unless subject to certain exceptions.

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.

Excludes from any waiting list maintained by the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands any lessee or successor who sells or transfers their lease on a tract of Hawaiian home lands.

Requires drug manufacturers to establish and implement drug take-back programs or join drug take-back organizations for purposes of collecting and disposing of various types of prescription and nonprescription drugs. Specifies requirements for the department of public safety, covered manufacturers, drug take-back program operators, authorized collectors, and other entities who establish or participate in drug take-back programs.

Requires the employees' retirement system to reevaluate its investments in coal, oil, natural gas, oil or natural gas services, and pipeline companies and over the next five years, divest of holdings in any companies that have a majority of its holdings invested in fossil fuels, rather than clean renewable energy sources. Effective 7/1/2050. (HD1)

Beginning 7/1/2022, establishes an air cargo pest inspection, quarantine, and eradication fee, to be assessed on each air carrier delivering air cargo into the State. Establishes the air cargo pest inspection, quarantine, and eradication fund, to be used solely by the department of agriculture's air cargo inspection program. Increases the inspection, quarantine, and eradication service fee and charge from 75 cents to an unspecified amount for every 1,000 pounds of freight or part thereof brought into the State. Requires the auditor to conduct an analysis on the air cargo pest inspection, quarantine, and eradication fee. (HD1)