Authorizes agencies to adopt specified emergency rules to lessen disruptions to prior practices caused from changes to federal law, Hawaii legislation, or court decisions.
Repeals exemption authorizing compensation of impaired individuals at less than minimum wage.
Requires merchants to refund shipping and handling charges paid by the consumer when the consumer returns a damaged or defective good and requests a refund.
Requires the court and the prosecution to take appropriate action to ensure a prompt trial in order to minimize the length of time a child victim or witness must endure the stress of the child's involvement in the proceedings. Establishes in the department of the attorney general a child abuse investigation unit. Allows the department of the attorney general to intervene in adjudications in family court.
Codifies the option of the courts to sentence defendants to probation under the H.O.P.E. program. Authorizes current impaired offenders to convert the remainder of their terms to the H.O.P.E. program. Authorizes courts to seal the criminal records of impaired offenders who complete various alternative programs to sentencing. Authorizes impaired offenders who have completed their sentences to have their criminal records sealed in exchange for completing a course of treatment and rehabilitative endeavors. Requires that an impaired offender's sealed criminal record be unsealed upon conviction of a subsequent offense.
Increases the fine to not more than $1,000 for passing or overtaking a school bus on a state highway while the bus is stopped and its visual signals are turned on.
Prohibits an operator of any pickup truck from operating the vehicle with a passenger seated in the bed or load-carrying area of the vehicle unless an emergency exists that threatens the life of the passenger being transported in the bed or load-carrying area of the vehicle or the vehicle is being operated in parades, caravans, or exhibitions that are permitted by law.
Increases the license fee for wholesalers or dealers of cigarettes and tobacco products. Increases the taxes on cigarettes and tobacco products.
Repeals the statutory cap on the disposition of conveyance taxes dedicated for deposit into the rental housing revolving fund for the financing of affordable rental housing development.
Establishes a single-payer universal health care insurance system to provide the same high-quality level of medically necessary health care to all Hawaii residents. Prohibits private health care insurers from duplicating the coverages provided by the system. Establishes the state health care insurance planning and financing authority within the department of health to operate the system. Provides the structure and duties of the authority. Requires that the functions, rights, powers, duties, and appropriations of the Hawaii health authority, DLIR as they relate to the Hawaii Prepaid Health Care Act, and Hawaii employer union health benefits trust fund be transferred to the state health care insurance planning and financing authority. Repeals the Hawaii health authority. Appropriates funds to the state health care insurance planning and financing authority to establish and operate the single-payer universal health care insurance system.
