Sponsored bills
Converts the long-term care community living program specialist position within the executive office on aging from exempt to permanent civil service status.
Appropriates funds for the University of Hawaii Intercollegiate Athletic Program.
Transfers responsibility for approval, inspection, and quarantine of aquaculture livestock from the plant quarantine branch within the division of plant industry of the department of agriculture to the division of animal industry of the department of agriculture.
Amends Article III, section 14, of the Hawaii Constitution, to ensure that no bill becomes law if the legislature has so altered or amended the bill during its passage through either house that it no longer reflects its original purpose, unless the bill is approved by a two-thirds vote in both the house and senate.
Prohibits electric utilities from installing power connections or transferring accounts or services without owner or occupant consent.
Appropriates funds to DHS to reimburse housing first program providers that provide housing assistance services to the homeless population. (SD1)
Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds and appropriates funds from the issuance of those bonds for plans and design for a Waikiki Aquarium master plan to address public health, safety, compliance, and infrastructure issues; and repair, maintenance, improvement, and resilience needs.
Requires the department of land and natural resources to develop a department telephone hotline intake training program and upgrade its telephone hotline to enable the department to efficiently and effectively receive information and respond to information and reports relating to the department's duties and responsibilities. Requires the division of conservation and resource enforcement of the department of land and natural resources to enter into memoranda of understanding with other law enforcement agencies to provide twenty-four-hour service through an existing law enforcement dispatch center. Appropriates funds to the department of land and natural resources to upgrade its telephone hotline and establish four full-time equivalent (4.0 FTE) permanent civil service positions to provide intake services for the department of land and natural resources' telephone hotline twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.