Limits liability for volunteers maintaining or repairing cemetery grounds. Requires the director of commerce and consumer affairs, in consultation with the comptroller, to develop strategies for the upkeep, repair, and maintenance of Sunset Memorial Park in Pearl City, Oahu. Requires report to Legislature. (SD1)
Requires the State to encourage people to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions through the installation of on-site renewable energy systems, energy efficiency systems, and energy storage systems. (SD1)
Establishes a new child tax credit of $1,000 and changes percentages of costs for household and dependent care services that may be claimed as tax credits by families in certain income brackets. (SD1)
Adopts the Uniform Regulation of Virtual Currency Businesses Act and codifies the Act into law.
Limits liability for volunteers and certain entities that provide volunteers to maintain or repair cemetery grounds. Requires the director of commerce and consumer affairs, in consultation with the comptroller, to develop strategies for repair and maintenance of Sunset Memorial Park in Pearl City, Oahu. Requires report to Legislature.
Establishes the Office of Affordable Housing Finance and Development for the purpose of facilitating the financing, planning, permitting, designing, and construction of affordable housing. Establishes an affordable housing development loan program to provide financing for private developers who develop affordable housing projects. Appropriates moneys for personnel and operating costs of the Office of Affordable Housing Finance and Development and to fund affordable housing development loans.
Permits qualifying patients to be reimbursed by health insurers, mutual benefit societies, and health maintenance organizations for amounts spent on medical cannabis and manufactured cannabis products. Limits the monthly amount of reimbursement.
Provides that persons authorized to use medical cannabis in other states and territories of the United States shall be recognized as qualifying patients for medical cannabis use in this State upon verification. Requires the Department of Health to consider authorizing similar recognition for persons authorized to use medical cannabis in another country.
Limits the Director of Public Safety's ability to transfer convicted felons to any federal correctional institution or a correctional institution in another state to only those felons incarcerated for violent crimes under HRS section 351-32. Requires that all felons incarcerated in an out-of-state correctional institution or an out-of-state federal correctional institution for a crime that is not a violent crime under HRS section 351-32 be returned to Hawaii no later than July 1, 2020. Repeals the Governor's authority to negotiate or contract for expansion or construction of private correctional facilities.
Bans import, use, manufacture, sale, and storage of chlorpyrifos in the State.
