Requires the Hawaiʻi Correctional System Oversight Commission to oversee the development or expansion of new or existing correctional facilities. Prohibits moneys for construction or other capital expenditures from being requested in the executive budget process or expended unless the Hawaiʻi Correctional System Oversight Commission has approved the project. Appropriates moneys to and authorizes staff positions for the Hawaiʻi Correctional System Oversight Commission to perform expanded oversight duties. Appropriates moneys to the Department of Public Safety to begin planning new or redeveloped correctional facilities in each county.
Rep. David Tarnas
Sponsored bills
Requires the department of human services to develop a preschool child care worker subsidy pilot program to assist in retaining qualified child care workers in licensed child care facilities for preschool children aged two through five. Sunsets 6/30/2026. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
Establishes the Hawaiʻi child nutrition programs agency in the department of human services. Establishes a grant program to support the funding of certain initiatives for the State's public schools. Establishes three permanent full-time equivalent positions (3.0 FTE). Appropriates funds. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
Requires the Department of Accounting and General Services to provide menstrual products at no cost in specified restrooms of public buildings maintained by that department. Appropriates funds.
Raises the minimum age requirement to enter into marriage from sixteen to eighteen years of age. Removes the parental consent and written approval by the family court requirements for a minor to marry. Removes spousal cohabitation after the parties attain legal age as an exception for an annulment based on nonage. Makes conforming amendments.
Establishes the Therapeutic Psilocybin Working Group.
Establishes a nonrefundable state child tax credit. Effective 6/30/2050. (SD1)
Allows bidders to clarify or correct immaterial or technical information required as part of a bid submission for up to twenty-four hours after the bid submission deadline. Requires that bids for construction be opened no sooner than twenty-four hours after the deadline for the submission of bids. Defines "immaterial or technical information". Repeals 6/30/2026. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD2)
Appropriates funds to hire school-based youth mental health specialists for department of education schools. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
For policies, contracts, plans, agreements, and plan contracts issued or renewed after 12/31/2023, requires insurers, mutual benefit societies, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage for standard fertility preservation services.