Requires the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs to make all business registration applications available online. Requires all applications to contain certain contact information. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
Establishes a temporary Telework Working Group. Requires interim and final reports to the Legislature. Makes an appropriation. Effective 07/01/2050. (SD2)
Appropriates funds for the University of Hawaiʻi community colleges' workforce development programs. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to pursue and obtain accreditation for the Conservation and Resources Enforcement Program from the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies, Inc. Appropriates funds. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
Requires the Office of the Lieutenant Governor to establish a ballot-tracking system that allows all voters to receive alerts regarding the mailing, receipt, and counting of their ballots returned by mail. Requires the counties to immediately notify the Office of the Lieutenant Governor upon mailing and receipt of absentee ballots by mail. Appropriates funds to the counties.
Creates license plates to honor veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan Conflicts.
Establishes requirements for number plates issued for zero-emission, hybrid, and gasoline-powered vehicles beginning 1/1/2025. Requires the continued use of the rainbow number plate design for hybrid and gasoline-powered vehicles. Requires the Department of Transportation to adopt or amend its administrative rules to authorize the use of high-occupancy vehicle lanes by zero-emission vehicles and repeal on 1/1/2035 any provision authorizing the use of high-occupancy vehicle lanes by zero-emission vehicles and electric vehicles.
Expands from forty-five days to sixty days, the time within which: any agency that reviews and comments upon an application for a business or development-related permit, license, or approval for a Hawaiʻi Housing Finance and Development Corporation housing project shall respond; a county shall approve, approve with modification, or disapprove housing projects developed by the Hawaiʻi Housing Finance and Development Corporation; and the Land Use Commission shall approve, approve with modification, or disapprove a boundary change for a Hawaiʻi Housing Finance and Development Corporation housing project. Clarifies that the provisions that require agencies, counties, and the Land Use Commission to act within sixty days, or deem their failure to do so as their acceptance or approval of the application, project, or petition, do not apply to applications, projects, and petitions that have been withdrawn.
Establishes the Shipping Container Inspection Program and shipping container inspection program special fund. Amends the definitions of "aerial devices" and "fireworks" within state fireworks law. Requires reports to the Legislature on implementation of the Shipping Container Inspection Program. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
Requires the Hawaiʻi Correctional System Oversight Commission to review and recommend amendments to the Department of Public Safety's operating budget request and any capital improvement project appropriation requests prior to each legislative session. Requires the Commission to inform the Legislature if its recommendations were not accepted. Requires the Commission to advise the Governor as to whether the Department of Public Safety's expenditure plan serves to fulfil the goal of the correctional system's transition to a rehabilitative and therapeutic model. Takes effect 1/1/2050. (SD1)
