Requires the department of health to implement the auditor's recommendations for the deposit beverage container program, including developing a risk-based selection process to select reports submitted by distributors and redemption centers for audit. Requires redemption centers to install reverse vending machines.
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Includes agents of candidates listed on ballots among the persons prohibited from providing voting assistance at voter service centers and in the use of absentee ballots.
Clarifies that work practice standards and notification requirements for the demolition and renovation of facilities containing asbestos apply to single-family residences. Requires the Department of Health to amend its administrative rules in accordance with this Act.
Establishes causes and procedures for impeachment of the governor, lieutenant governor, and appointive officers.
Requires each executive branch department to: identify existing and planned facilities that are vulnerable to sea level rise, flooding impacts, and natural hazards; assess options for mitigation impacts of sea level rise to existing and planned facilities; establish staff level points of contact to improve interagency coordination for sea level rise adaptation, flooding, and resilience; and submit annual reports to the governor, legislature, and Hawaii climate change mitigation and adaptation commission.
Requires that each state department, board, commission, or agency develop policies under which eligible employees may be authorized to telework.
Provides a limited exemption from state licensure requirements to out-of-state physicians who accompany a sports team to a specific sporting event in Hawaii or are invited to provide services at a national sport training center, event, or competition in Hawaii, if certain conditions are met. Requires out-of-state physicians to provide notice to the Hawaii medical board.
Beginning January 1, 2023, bans the sale, offer of sale, or distribution in the State of any sunscreen that contains avobenzone or octocrylene, or both, without a prescription issued by a licensed healthcare provider to preserve marine ecosystems.
Requires any person that receives state or county funding who wants to remove a beehive or swarm from the person's property to contract with a beekeeper or pest control operator for removal.
Requires the Department of Education to convene an advisory committee to make recommendations on the best practices for purposes of developing and implementing a plan to teach digital citizenship and media literacy in grades kindergarten through twelve in public schools, including charter schools and Hawaiian language immersion schools. Requires the Department of Education to develop the plan based on recommendations. Requires updated annual reports to the Legislature.