Requires commercial helicopter owners and operators to submit reports to the Department of Transportation about basic helicopter flight information. Requires the Department of Transportation to post reports regarding helicopters to its website.
Establishes that all state-owned lands located within one mile of any rail mass transit station shall be designated as important state lands to promote the development of homes priced below market rates for Hawaii residents who are owner-occupants and own no other real property. Requires state and county housing policies, tax policies, land use plans, ordinances, and rules to promote the long-term viability of important housing lands consistent with certain policies.
Transfers the oversight and regulation of measurement standards in the State from the department of agriculture to the department of commerce and consumer affairs.
Requires the department of education to establish food waste and zero-emission vehicle goals as part of the sustainable schools initiative. Requires an annual report to the legislature. Effective 7/1/2050. (HD1)
Requires the department of education to develop a reorganization plan to provide students and schools with centralized transportation services. Requires the department of education to develop a plan to provide students with more locally produced food. Requires the department of education to report to the legislature. Effective 7/1/2051. (HD1)
Authorizes the department of agriculture to plan, design, construct, operate, manage, maintain, repair, demolish, and remove infrastructure on any lands under the jurisdiction of the department, to support and promote agriculture. Establishes the agricultural enterprise program. Establishes the agricultural enterprise special fund. Requires the board of agriculture to annually report an accounting of non-agricultural park lessees to the legislature. (SD1)
Allows an individual who is seventeen years of age but will be eighteen years of age on or before the next general election to register and vote at the primary election immediately preceding that general election and in any co-occurring or intervening special election. Takes effect upon ratification of an appropriate constitutional amendment. Effective 7/1/2112. (HD1)
Expands the membership eligibility for the University of Hawaii's optional retirement system to athletic coaches and assistant coaches who are employed by the University on or after July 1, 2021, and are included in bargaining unit (8). Allows the Board of Regents to utilize existing alternative surrogate retirement plans already offered by State or the University as an alternative. Allows the Board of Regents to adopt rules pertaining to eligibility in the optional retirement system. Prohibits members and former members of the ERS from opting into the optional retirement system. Allows the retirement benefits of the UH optional retirement system to be subject to collective bargaining negotiations for the bargaining units (7) and (8). Effective 7/31/2050. (SD1)
Requires the department of Hawaiian home lands to digitize its applicant, beneficiary, and lessee records and make the digital database available for use no later than 7/1/2022. Effective 7/1/2060. (HD1)
Defines and recognizes rights in trust for children within the Child Protective Act. Requires family court to appoint guardian ad litem in custody cases. Provides that when a child is subject to harm or imminent harm, has been harmed, or may suffer probable harm is sufficient for police officer to take child into protective custody without court order, for department of human services to assume temporary foster custody of child, and for the department of human services to conduct an investigation.
