Requires the thirty-day lapse or termination notices for long-term care policies to be sent by certified mail, priority mail, or commercial delivery service, or other method of delivery requiring proof of delivery.
Revises county allocations of transient accommodations tax revenues to reflect the number of annual visitor arrivals for each respective county. Requires updating the number of visitor arrivals for each respective county annually from the Hawaii Tourism Authority and the State Data Book. Requires each respective county to report how it expended its allocation of the transient accommodations taxes distributed under this measure no later than twenty days prior to the convening of each regular legislative session. Effective 7/1/2021. (SD1)
Requires the Department of Defense, in coordination with the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency, Department of Health, and the Hawaii Technology Development Corporation, to identify and propose an appropriate location for the construction of a state stockpile storage facility to stockpile emergency supplies necessary for responding to natural disasters and pandemics. Appropriates moneys.
Creates the department of housing. Places the Hawaii community development authority, Hawaii housing finance and development corporation, the office of planning, and Hawaii public housing authority under the department of housing for administrative purposes.
Requires the family court to appoint counsel to indigent parents in foster care cases and make every effort to do so at the first hearing attended by the parent.
Authorizes county council members to caucus during official council meetings.
Establishes the offense of criminal trespass on critical electrical infrastructure.
Requires drug manufacturers to notify prescription drug benefit plans and pharmacy benefit managers if a proposed increase in the wholesale price of certain drugs would result in a sixteen per cent or more price increase over a twoyear period. Requires the drug manufacturer to identify and report to the insurance commissioner information on certain drugs whose wholesale acquisition cost increases by a certain amount during a specified time frame.
Requires that, beginning 1/1/2024, of the four seats on the office of Hawaiian affairs board of trustees without an island residency requirement, two shall require residency in an urban district and two shall require residency in a rural district. Requires one urban district candidate and one rural district candidate to be elected in any election cycle. Limits voting for board of trustees seats with a residency requirement to voters who have residency on the same island or in the same district. Changes the term of the member who receives the lowest number of votes in the 2022 general election to serve a term of two years and a term of four years after the general election of 2024. (SD1)
Temporarily stays nonjudicial foreclosures of owner-occupied units serving as the unit owner's primary residence by condominium associations until 6/30/22. Makes an exemption to allow associations to use nonjudicial foreclosure procedures to recover possession of rental units or abandoned units. (SD1)
