Requires the department of labor and industrial relations to report U-6 figures alongside U-3 figures in the main text of reports and press releases related to the State's unemployment rate.
Appropriates funds to support the Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program on Oahu by establishing one full-time equivalent (1.00 FTE) permanent program specialist IV position for the City and County of Honolulu and for contracted services through the Office of the Long-Term Care Ombudsman in the counties of Hawaii, Kauai, and Maui. (SB530 HD1)
Requires that a defendant be denied bail when the charge is for a violent crime or the defendant has been previously convicted of a violent crime. Distinguishes between a serious crime for which the judge has the discretion to grant bail and a violent crime for which bail must be denied.
Repeals the confidentiality protection afforded under the Uniform Information Practices Act for certain information regarding misconduct of police officers that results in discharge. Requires that names of discharged or suspended police officers be disclosed in the annual report submitted by each county's police chief to the legislature.
Appropriates funds for the Aging and Disability Resource Center. (SB533 HD1)
Prohibits the courts from deferring the acceptance of guilty or no contest pleas that could result in the expungement of the offense from the criminal record of state or county law enforcement officers for felonies, misdemeanors, or petty misdemeanors that the officers are alleged to have committed while in the performance of the duties of an officer.
Requires the department of taxation to manage a public database of all registered transient accommodation and resort time share vacation plan businesses. Makes failure to register as a business of furnishing transient accommodations a class C felony rather than a misdemeanor. Requires filers of transient accommodations tax to include the amount of transient accommodations tax revenues collected by zip code on tax return form. Requires filers of transient accommodations tax to include certificate of registration number on annual tax return. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/16.
Designates the ohia lehua tree as the official tree of the State.
Appropriates funds to DOH and DHS, including the office of youth services, to provide homeless outreach services. (SD1)
Excludes any advertisement by a candidate or candidate committee from the reporting requirements for electioneering communications; provided that the advertisement is in compliance with the law regarding advertisements.
