Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds and appropriates funds to finance capital improvements to the Waiahole Irrigation System.
Establishes parental rights for blind parents or prospective blind parents in the context of child welfare, foster care, family law, and adoption.
Adopts section 199A of the Internal Revenue Code pertaining to qualified business income.
Requires the department of health to publish information that encourages food manufacturers, processors, and retailers to use standard terminology that clarifies food safety and quality dates when labeling food products.
Establishes an income tax credit for the actual costs of construction and renovation of a residential housing property or a bed and breakfast that complies with residential housing visitability standards. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2018. (SD1)
Requires the driver of any motor vehicle that is involved in an accident and in possession of a mobile electronic device at or near the time of the accident to, at the request of a police officer, submit the mobile electronic device to the police officer for the sole purpose of field testing of the device. Establishes procedures to allow police officers responding to a motor vehicle accident to field test a mobile electronic device. Imposes penalties if a driver of the motor vehicle involved in an accident fails to submit the driver's mobile electronic device for the field testing.
Permits the driver of a vehicle to safely proceed through an intersection in which a defective or malfunctioning trafficcontrol device fails to detect the vehicle and stays in the red signal stage through 2 cycles of the traffic-control device.
Requires pharmacy benefit managers to notify contracting pharmacies of changes to maximum allowable costs by the National Drug Code fifteen days prior to the change. Requires pharmacy benefit managers to disclose where an equivalent drug can be obtained at or below the maximum allowable cost, when a maximum allowable cost appeal is upheld on appeal. Requires pharmacy benefit managers to: allow contracting pharmacies to reverse and rebill claims if the pharmacy benefit manager establishes a maximum allowable cost that is denied on appeal; and pay the difference to the contracting pharmacies. Permits contracting pharmacies to decline to dispense a drug if the reimbursement is less than the acquisition cost. Permits the insurance commissioner to suspend a pharmacy benefit manager's certification if the manager does not comply with state law. Requires the Department of Health to annually report to the legislature and any other state agency on appeals and disposition.
Appropriates funds to the Hawaii emergency management agency for a hurricane shelter retrofit program for the retrofitting of emergency public shelters and residential homes and buildings.
