Makes the registered owner of a vehicle that is in violation of stop, stand, or park requirements liable for any penalty.
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Requires the Department of Human Services to develop, and certain businesses and establishments to post, a notice containing information about the National Human Trafficking Hotline. Requires the Department of the Attorney General to establish a Statewide Coordinator on Human Trafficking and a Program within the Department to support the needs of victims of human trafficking and submit reports to the Legislature on the State's efforts to address human trafficking and the commercial sexual exploitation of children. Specifies that court-ordered restitution for a victim of labor trafficking may include the cost of necessary rehabilitation for the victim, including medical, psychiatric, and psychological care and treatment. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD1)
Establishes the noise pollution task force within the Department of Health to investigate noise pollution and provide recommendations on how to better regulate excessive noise pollution throughout the State, from both stationary and non-stationary sources. Appropriates funds. (SD1)
Requires the Department of Transportation to specify rules, procedures, standards, and enforcement for mandatory noise abatement as part of the Tour Aircraft Operators Permit.
Establishes the offense of unlawful shipment of tobacco products. Includes electronic smoking devices within the definition of "tobacco products", as used in the cigarette tax and tobacco tax law. Increases the license fee for persons engaged as a wholesaler or dealer of cigarettes and tobacco products. Increases the retail tobacco permit fee for retailers engaged in the retail sale of cigarettes and tobacco products. Repeals certain provisions of the Hawaii Revised Statutes relating to electronic smoking devices. Provides for the disposition of fines paid for the unlawful shipment of tobacco products into the Hawaii Tobacco Prevention and Control Trust Fund. Effective 1/1/2023. (SD1)
Establishes the Pulehunui Community Development District and the Pulehunui Community Development District Board. (SD1)
Requires the disposition for new leases of any public lands under the jurisdiction of the Board of Agriculture or Department of Agriculture by public auction to be open to the public. Requires the Board of Agriculture or Department of Agriculture, as applicable, to issue public advertisements for each public auction. (SD1)
Creates an exception to the statutory requirement that overtime compensation be paid for work performed for certain State public work projects on Saturdays, Sundays, and State holidays. Specifically, when an applicable collective bargaining agreement permits, overtime compensation is not required for work performed on a Saturday of a week during which a condition or circumstance beyond the control of the contractor prevented workers from working for eight hours on one or more of the regularly scheduled Monday through Friday workdays, and the total hours of work performed on the project during the workweek by the worker has not exceeded forty hours. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
Requires the Board of Land and Natural Resources to identify all public lands suitable for the planting of koa trees. Authorizes the Administrator of Forestry and Wildlife to issue licenses to plant, care for, and harvest koa trees in certain circumstances. (SD1)
Directs the Legislative Reference Bureau to conduct a study of a housing savings account system. (SD1)