Requires the governor, DBEDT, and the Hawaii state energy office to develop a strategic plan that outlines benchmarks to achieve a one hundred per cent renewable energy portfolio standard. Requires DBEDT to submit the strategic plan to the legislature no later than twenty days prior to the convening of the regular session of 2018.
Appropriates funds to DBEDT to provide additional resources for the small business regulatory review board.
Appropriates moneys to the department of education to provide engineering design process training sessions to teachers.
Provides a bidder of a public works construction project with two working days after the closing of bids to provide the name of each joint contractor or subcontractor and the nature and scope of the work to be performed by each joint contractor or subcontractor.
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.
Exempts the gross proceeds of any qualified small farmer from the general excise tax. Repeals on 1/1/2023. (SD1)
Appropriates funds to the department of labor and industrial relations for the K-12 agriculture workforce development pipeline initiative.
Establishes the farm to school grant program to provide grants to farmers participating in the Hawaii farm to school program. Creates the farm to school grant program special fund. Makes appropriations. (SD1)
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)
Requires the driver of a vehicle overtaking a bicyclist to allow at least a three-foot separation between the driver's vehicle and the bicyclist. Allows a driver of a vehicle to overtake a bicyclist in a no passing zone when overtaking the bicyclist can be done safely.
