Appropriates funds to DBEDT to provide additional resources for the small business regulatory review board.
Requires the Hawaii Health Authority (HHA) to submit an updated comprehensive health plan to the Legislature. Appropriates funds for the hiring of an executive director and other staff and other expenses necessary for HHA to carry out its duties and responsibilities.
Requires health care facilities to use transport services from an air ambulance that is contracted with the patient's health carrier when transferring the patient to another health care facility via air ambulance, except under certain conditions. Requires notification if a non-contracted air ambulance service is utilized. (SD1)
Authorizes allocation of supplemental categorical funding to remote schools, subject to legislative appropriation. Appropriates funds. (SB553 HD1)
Creates an exclusion from income tax for the first $50,000 of income earned by farmers whose gross income is $200,000 or less. (SD1)
Prohibits the remote sale and shipment of cigarettes and tobacco products, including electronic smoking devices, to consumers except to licensed wholesalers or dealers and permit-holding retailers. Makes violation of the prohibition a class C felony subject to a maximum fine of $5,000. (SD1)
Requires DOH to develop guidelines for the mandatory disclosure of cesspools on real property.
Provides an exemption from school impact fees for housing developments constructed by nonprofit housing organizations in which the units are rented or sold to persons or families earning between thirty and eighty per cent of the area median income.
Appropriates funds for certification of a reforestation carbon project at Haleakala, Maui, operated by DLNR, under an established forest carbon standard certification system. Requires DLNR to submit an annual report on the project certification to the governor and legislature. Effective 7/1/2050. (SB1088 HD1)
Extends the time period in which the department of agriculture may certify important agricultural lands qualified agricultural cost tax credit.
