Requires the Hawaii technology development corporation to establish a blockchain working group to recommend a definition for blockchain technology and make recommendations for individuals, businesses, and state agencies to use blockchain technology and report to the legislature. Appropriates funds.
Includes e-liquid and electronic smoking devices within the definition of "tobacco products", as used in the cigarette tax and tobacco tax law. Repeals certain provisions of the Hawaii Revised Statutes relating to electronic smoking devices.
Prohibits certain solar energy facilities on lands with soil classified by the land study bureau's detailed land classification as overall (master) productivity rating class B.
Authorizes supplemental categorical funding for remote schools. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (HD1)
Removes the $10 per visit per day cap on the dollar-for-dollar match received by Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program beneficiaries under the Hawaii Healthy Food Incentive Program, also known as the Double Up Food Bucks Program. Specifies that healthy proteins are eligible purchases under the program. Makes an appropriation to the Department of Agriculture to expand funding for the program.
Requires the Hawaii Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Commission to further address and make recommendations regarding sea level rise. Appropriates funds.
Requires the state auditor to study the feasibility of providing health benefits to state and county employees using a self-insured model. Appropriates moneys. Establishes the rate stabilization reserve fund. Caps employer contributions to the other post-employment benefits trust fund. Provides for the use of a portion of transient accommodations tax revenues to supplement deficient county public employer contribution amounts.
Excludes a homeowner-developer from the annual requirement to file a developer's report and pay a fee if the homeowner's development consists of not more than two units, in which the developer resides in one of the units and the initial sale of the other unit has been completed. Effective 1/1/2050. (HD1)
Authorizes the issuance of special number motor vehicle license plates to commemorate the Polynesian Voyaging Society. Effective 7/1/2065. (HD1)
Establishes minimum number of district precincts per district. Prohibits campaigning or electioneering within two hundred feet of the last person in line to vote or deposit a ballot at a voter service center or place of deposit. Makes housekeeping amendments to Hawaii's elections laws to clarify and improve the administration of elections by mail.
