Establishes the long-term rental assistance pilot program for kupuna to be administered by the Hawaii public housing authority for individuals who are sixty-two years of age or older and are homeless or at imminent risk of becoming homeless. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (HD1)
Rep. Justin Woodson
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Appropriates funds for the Hawaii state loan repayment program administered through the John A. Burns school of medicine, subject to a matching funds requirement. Effective 7/1/2060. (HD1)
Appropriates funds to support international sister-state relations. Effective 7/1/2044. (HD1)
Mandates a community-based work furlough program for female offenders. Requires the expansion of community-based work furlough and reentry programs for female offenders. Requires state agencies that contract with these programs to submit an annual report to the legislature. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
Requires the department of public safety to develop a pretrial female risk and needs assessment tool and conduct internal pretrial female risk and needs assessments to measure the female offender's risk of flight, criminal conduct, or harm to the community. Requires the pretrial female risk and needs assessment tool to consider factors important to women when considering their risk to reoffend and treatment needs. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds and appropriates funds for plans and design of a veterans' memorial, and replicas of the memorial on each neighbor island, as recommended by the Gulf War memorial task force pursuant to Act 139, Session Laws of Hawaii 2013. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
Amends the age requirement for participation in the green jobs youth corps program. Appropriates funds for administration of the program. Effective 7/1/2050. (HD1)
Requires the department of public safety, in collaboration with the office of Hawaiian affairs, to create a Native Hawaiian rehabilitation program for prison inmates that puts an emphasis on preserving Native Hawaiian values and cultural practices. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
Temporarily allows licensed teachers who have retired to be employed as teachers during a state of emergency and within twelve months of their retirement. Effective 7/1/2051. Repeals on 6/30/2023. (HD2)
Requires pat downs and searches of female inmates to be conducted by a female correctional facility employee unless the inmate presents a risk of immediate harm to self or others or risk of escape. Prohibits male correctional facility employees from entering areas where female inmates may be in a state of undress for the purpose of conducting a search unless an inmate in the area presents a risk of immediate harm to self or others or if there is a medical emergency in the area. Requires any prohibited search, pat down, or entry by a male correctional facility employee to be documented within three days of the incident, reviewed by the warden, and retained by the institution for reporting purposes. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)