Appropriates funds for operating expenses of charter schools and the state public charter school commission. (SD1)
Requires by the end of the 2020-2021 school year that all public schools; public charter schools; and University of Hawaii and its divisions, campuses, and institutions have automated external defibrillators on campus. Requires the public schools; public charter schools; and University of Hawaii divisions, campuses, and institutions that have an athletic trainer to ensure that the athletic trainer is trained and certified in the use of an automated external defibrillator. Takes effect on 7/1/2050. (SD1)
Requires the land court to accept a valid government-issued photographic identification issued by the United States, this State, or another state as evidence to prove full name. Requires land court to give full faith and credit to public acts, judgments, and orders of other states that recognize name changes by usage or other method. (SD1)
Restricts asset forfeiture to cases involving the commission of a covered criminal misdemeanor or felony offense. Requires seized property to be forfeited only when the property owner has been convicted of an underlying covered criminal misdemeanor or felony offense. Changes the standard of proof that the State must meet in order for property to be forfeited from "preponderance of the evidence" to "beyond a reasonable doubt". Requires the State to prove that owners consented to or possessed knowledge of the crime that led to the seizure of their property. Requires that the agency seizing the property pay for safe and secure storage of the seized property until the completion of the forfeiture proceeding or final disposition of the property. Directs any proceeds from a civil forfeiture to the general revenue fund for public education purposes. Repeals administrative forfeiture proceedings. (SD1)
Appropriates funds for the GoFarm Hawaii program. Requires GoFarm Hawaii to provide the chairperson of the board of agriculture with the program's annual goals and a semi-annual report outlining program outputs and outcomes.
Proposes amendments to the Constitution of the State of Hawaii to expressly provide that the legislature may authorize the counties to issue tax increment bonds. (SD1)
Appropriates funds for the department of land and natural resources to devise an appropriate plan to create a hiking trail from Malaekahana state park, along the coast, to Turtle Bay Resort passing makai of the James Campbell National Wildlife Refuge and continuing from Kawela Bay along the coast of Waialee to Sunset Beach. Takes effect 12/31/2050. (SD1)
Changes the kindergarten start age from five years of age by July 31 to five years of age by December 31.
Requires the committee on weights to report to the legislature on any recommendations to the board of education on the weighted student formula. (SD1)
Provides public school teachers and educational officers who have completed a year's satisfactory service with an annual incremental increase in salary.
