Prohibits the use of certain dangerous pesticides on state lands, except as needed to respond to emergencies.
Requires the Department of Education to develop and implement a statewide civil rights curricula plan for all public schools to teach students about the civil rights movement.
Establishes the Women's Corrections Implementation Commission in the Judiciary to ensure implementation of the recommendations from the final report from the House Concurrent Resolution No. 85 (2016) task force, to develop and implement an evidence-based, gender-responsive plan to divert non-violent women offenders, especially those with minor children, from the criminal justice system. Requires that the task force also consider model programs including residential, in-person and community-based rehabilitation programs, supportive and subsidized housing, restorative justice, and educational programs.
Requires any report of a study or an audit enacted with a legislative appropriation or adopted by concurrent resolution and conducted by an executive department or agency, to be submitted to the Senate President, Speaker of the House of Representatives, chairs of the appropriate subject matter committee of each house, and the Legislative Reference Bureau library. Requires a public hearing or informational briefing within one year of receipt of the report, except under certain circumstances. Exempts financial and other regularly occurring audits. Requires state departments and agencies to submit a report to the Legislature on certain information regarding funded state programs enacted into law within a year of passage.
Prohibits public employers from barring their employees from holding an elective public office unless the employer conducts a case-by-case review of the rights, duties, and obligations connected with or flowing from the employer and the elective public office, and reasonably determines that the two offices are incompatible.
Requires temporary disability insurance to provide extended coverage to an employee who has a preterm birth requiring the newborn baby to stay in a neonatal intensive care unit or birth requiring the newborn baby to stay in a neonatal intensive care unit for more than eight weeks, provided the employee provides kangaroo care to or expresses breast milk for the newborn. Requires family leave to be extended for an employee who has a preterm birth requiring the newborn baby to stay in a neonatal intensive care unit or birth requiring the newborn baby to stay in a neonatal intensive care unit for more than eight weeks, provided the employee provides kangaroo care to or expresses breast milk for the newborn. Requires the Department of Health to amend the Hawaii Administrative Rules to include neonatal care as related condition where the phrase "pregnancy, childbirth, or other related condition" is used.
Endorses the Global Commitment outlined by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation and United Nations Environment Programme and directs the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development to set targets and implement policies to achieve the goals of the Global Commitment.
Requires the department of health and county of Hawaii to conduct a feasibility study for the implementation of an ambulance service for the town of Makalei in Hawaii County.
Removes sugar and pineapple industries from the Hawaii State Planning Act.
Requires the Chief Election Officer or clerk in the case of county elections to release available initial election results no later than 8:00 p.m. with the exception of results for any contests affected by a postponement or extension of voting hours.
