Requires the board of education to hold no less than six community meetings each year; provided that at least one meeting shall be held in each county. Requires the board of education to allow public testimony on items not on a public meeting agenda if certain requirements are met. Repeals the public testimony requirement on June 30, 2024. Requires the board of education to report to the legislature.
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Repeals provision requiring light transmittance of no less than thirty-five per cent on side and rear windows of certain vehicles using sun screening devices and glazing material. Expands exemption from regulation of sun screening side windows and rear windows of certain motor vehicles, including passenger vehicles, provided that the vehicles are equipped with rearview mirrors.
Requires and appropriates funds for the climate change mitigation and adaptation commission to assist state and county agencies to develop sea level rise adaptation plans and to implement climate change mitigation efforts. Appropriates funds for one full-time equivalent climate change mitigation and adaptation coordinator position.
Appropriates funds for the Department of Land and Natural Resources to conduct, in collaboration with the University of Hawaii College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources, a statewide breeding ecology study and foraging ecology study on the pueo.
Appropriates funds for the establishment of greenhouses on each university of Hawaii community college campus.
Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the twenty-first senatorial district.
Appropriates funds for a capital improvement project for Leilehua high school.
Allows home schooled students to participate on an equal basis in extracurricular activities offered at the public school they would otherwise be required to attend.
Allows a defendant who has been convicted of three misdemeanors in Waikiki to be sentenced to a probationary term of geographic restriction not exceeding years during which the defendant shall be prohibited from entering Waikiki during the hours of 6:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. Imposes imprisonment of thirty days for violation.
Proposes an amendment to article IX, section 5, of the Constitution of the State of Hawaii, to require the Legislature to consider the effect of its actions on the price of housing in the State. (SD1)