Transfers responsibility for inspection, quarantine, and approval 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.
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)
Provides an income tax credit for wages paid by a technology business owner to employees who were formerly in the custody of the department of public safety. (SD1)
Creates the offense of resisting an order to stop a motor vehicle under unauthorized control. Makes new offense a class B felony. Makes it a class B felony to exert unauthorized control of a propelled vehicle.
Adopts the Uniform Regulation of Virtual Currency Businesses Act and codifies the Act into law.
Establishes an income tax credit for energy storage.
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.
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.
Requires the Department of Transportation to work in conjunction with the Department of Land and Natural Resources, the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology of the University of Hawaii, the county of Maui and federal agencies to develop a strategic plan to protect coastal highways from the effects of coastal erosion and update the plan as needed every five years. Requires a report to the legislature. Appropriates funds.
