Provides a bidder of a public works construction project with two working days after the closing of bids to provide the name of each joint contractor or subcontractor and the nature and scope of the work to be performed by each joint contractor or subcontractor.
Requires the department of business, economic development, and tourism to conduct a feasibility study on the viability of an integrated, multi-crop production system for palm-based vegetable oil for producing raw vegetable oil that can be refined into biofuel and to submit a report on the department's findings and recommendations to the legislature. Appropriates funds.
Requires the legislative broadcast program to make an audio or audiovisual recording of all public hearings and informational briefings held at the State Capitol, and maintain an archive of the recordings to be made available to the public. Appropriates moneys.
Requires the strategic plan developed by the Hawaii Interagency Council for Transit-oriented Development to require that every development or redevelopment plan for any state property within one-half mile of the Honolulu rail transit system evaluate the suitability for affordable housing based on certain specifications, unless the council determines that housing is not feasible or desirable on a particular property. Allows a developer to build fewer housing units than required at one state parcel if the developer builds additional housing at another state parcel within one-half mile of a rail station to offset the reduction. (SB1147 HD1)
Prohibits the sale, offering for sale, or distribution of any sunscreen containing oxybenzone in the State, unless the sunscreen label contains a warning that the use of oxybenzone in nearshore waters poses serious hazards to coral and reef health.
Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds for construction and infrastructure development projects to provide affordable housing units for middle class and low income residents. Allows moneys from the conveyance tax and the county surcharge on state tax to be used to repay the bonds.
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.
Requires the department of health to establish a comprehensive and coordinated continuum of treatment services for substance abuse and co-occurring mental health disorders that includes certain goals and benefits, and submit progress reports to the legislature. Establishes a task force to address health care and payment reform steps through the implementation of an effective addiction treatment system. Appropriate funds for substance abuse and addiction treatment. Sunsets on 6/30/19.
Appropriates funds to the department of land and natural resources to conduct a feasibility study to determine the best means to provide a Pohoiki swimming area and develop plans, in cooperation with the United States Army Corps of Engineers, county of Hawaii, and any stakeholders, for a safe swim area.
Phases in a prohibition on the manufacture and sale of personal care products containing synthetic plastic microbeads.
