Establishes a family leave insurance program, which requires employees and employers to make contributions into an insurance fund to be used to provide employees with family leave insurance benefits in order to care for a designated person. Appropriates funds to implement the program.
Appropriates funds for infrastructure costs, the rental or lease of charter school facilities, and the repair and maintenance of network infrastructure of charter schools. Appropriates funds for meal services and student transportation at charter schools. (HB2509 HD1)
Requires a wind energy facility owner, the owner of the land, or the department of land and natural resources to be responsible for facility decommissioning and provides for recovery of costs.
Requires the Department of Health to hire a third-party consultant to conduct a study on the upgrade, conversion, or connection of cesspools statewide, including financing issues and financing mechanisms. Establishes a working group. Requires a report to the Legislature. Appropriates funds.
Requires the Director of Public Safety to submit an annual public report of information, statistics, and Department procedures on inmate deaths and serious or violent incidents involving inmates. Specifies that any inmate transferred to any out-of-state correctional institution shall remain subject to continuing Hawaii jurisdiction and may be removed from the institution pursuant to Hawaii law. (HB1993 HD1)
Requires the Legislative Reference Bureau to conduct a study on the costs and effects in the State of implementing a single-payer health care system similar to that which is proposed in the federal Medicare for All Act of 2017. Appropriates funds to conduct the study. (HB1717 HD1)
Requires the return of all out-of-state inmates by 12/31/20 if adequate bed space exists in Hawaii's prisons and correctional facilities. Provides that no more than 500 Hawaii inmates shall be detained in out-of-state prisons by 12/31/19. Requires the Department of Public Safety to plan, design, and construct sufficient facilities to house inmates in Hawaii and to pursue alternatives to incarceration for returning inmates. Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds.
Requires courts to order any person charged with a criminal offense to be released on personal recognizance pending trial, unless the person is a flight risk, unlikely to appear for trial, or a danger to others. Requires the Judiciary to establish and maintain a Pretrial Services Program to conduct pretrial risk assessments. Repeals state laws relating to bail.
Transfers administrative authority, personnel, and facilities for the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy currently located at the University of Hawaii at Manoa to the University of Hawaii at Hilo.
Authorizes expending agencies of grants, subsidies, and capital improvement project funds to delegate their expending authority to a different agency, subject to approval of the grantee and the Governor.
