Sen. Brian T. Taniguchi

Requires assessment of patients who are subject to emergency hospitalization, diagnosed with a mental illness or severe substance use disorder, and found to be lacking decisional capacity to determine if a surrogate or guardian needs to be appointed to make appropriate health care decisions for the patient. Authorizes certain health care providers to make determinations on the presence of mental illness, substance abuse disorder, and decisional capacity of the patient. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD1)

Requires the Department of Agriculture, in consultation with the Department of Health, to develop and implement a one-time pesticide disposal collection program, for a duration to be determined by the department. Requires the Advisory Committee on Pesticides to serve as a steering committee to guide and monitor the pesticide disposal collection program. Makes an appropriation. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)

Clarifies that a licensed specialty contractor may perform incidental and supplement work in crafts or trades other than in which the specialty contractor is licensed when there are more than two specialty contractors involved; provided that, when measured by the cost and extent of work involved in performing the specialty contract's work, the unlicensed work is limited to five per cent and is only incidental and supplemental to the performance of the work in the craft for which the specialty contractor is licensed. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)

Amends the definition of "employee-beneficiary" to include the surviving unmarried adult child of a deceased retired member if the child is incapable of self-support due to a mental or physical incapacity that existed prior to the unmarried child's reaching the age of nineteen years.

Specifies additional exceptions under child labor laws to include certain work-based learning programs. Defines youth vocational training program or internship. Allows employment in youth vocational training programs or internships under chapter 390, Hawaii Revised Statutes. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)

Provides employed individuals with up to 8 weeks of paid family leave during the first year after birth of the individual's child, adoption of a child by the individual, or placement of a child with the individual through foster care, and 8 weeks of paid family leave to care for the individual's family member having a serious health condition during any benefit year, paid through an employer-based private insurance program currently used to provide for temporary disability benefits. Repeals chapter 398, HRS. Appropriates moneys to the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations. Sections 1-28 effective 7/1/2024. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)

Increases the minimum wage for certain employees incrementally to $12.00 per hour beginning 10/1/2022, $15.00 per hour beginning 1/1/2024, and $18.00 per hour beginning 1/1/26.

Appropriates moneys to fund the operating expenses of the four Hawaii food banks contracted by the Office of Community Services to administer The Emergency Food Assistance Program in each of the State's counties. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD1)

Prohibits commercial vehicles from making pickups from, or deliveries to, business establishments during certain times of the day and within a certain proximity of single-family residences in the performance of the vehicles' pickup or delivery. Exempts commercial vehicles operating in response to an emergency. Establishes fines. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD1)

Requires government entities to seek reimbursement for search and rescue expenses for persons who require rescue after leaving a hiking trail to enter a prohibited area or hiking on a trail closed to the public. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)