Requires each county's Director of Finance, in consultation with the County Examiner of Drivers, to establish an Interpreter Services Program to assist Compact of Free Association citizens with utilizing the services provided by the Department of Motor Vehicles of each county. Appropriates funds.
Excludes Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program-eligible grocery staples from general excise tax assessment.
Establishes a minimum wage commission to recommend the annual rate of increase for the minimum wage. Provides that recommended minimum shall go into effect unless affirmatively rejected by concurrent resolution. Makes an appropriation.
Prohibits discrimination, including in advertisements for rental property, in rental transactions based on participation in a section 8 housing choice program or any permanent supportive housing program or requirements related to participation in these housing assistance programs.
Requires the Hawaii Tourism Authority, in collaboration with the Department of Land and Natural Resources, to implement and administer tourism related initiatives that are designed to educate visitors on the State's protected areas and wildlife, including public service announcement videos to be shown by transportation companies. Requires aircraft and vessel passengers to complete "Promise to Preserve and Protect Hawaii's Environment" declaration forms. Requires transportation companies to distribute and collect declaration forms for delivery to the Department of Land and Natural Resources.
Requires the department of labor and industrial relations to establish and administer a family leave insurance program. Provides family leave insurance benefits and extends the period of family leave to 16 weeks for businesses that employ one or more employees who meet the hourly qualifications. Appropriates funds.
Appropriates funds to restore diagnostic, preventive, and restorative dental benefits to adult medicaid enrollees; provided that the department of human services obtains maximum federal matching funds available and pursues all funding sources, including private grants, prior to expending any general fund appropriations.
Subjects U-drive motor vehicles to the same motor vehicle registration fees as other motor vehicles. Authorizes the counties to use certain motor vehicle registration fees to mitigate and address the impacts of tourism-related traffic congestion.
Authorizes the issuance of bonds and appropriates funds for plans and designs of a veterans' memorial, and replicas of the memorial on each neighbor island, as recommended by the Gulf War memorial task force.
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.
