Allows home schooled students to participate in extracurricular activities offered at the public school that they would otherwise be required to attend. (SD1)
Requires DLNR to consider the conclusions and recommendations of the Kaua‘i Feral Cat Task Force when setting department policy regarding feral cats. (SD1)
Establishes the special operations K9 unit special fund. Requires the auditor to conduct an annual audit of the special fund and submit an annual report to the legislature. Appropriates money to the fund for deputy canines and full-time equivalent (FTE) permanent canine handler positions within the department of public safety. (SD1)
Amends the membership of the commission on water resource management to add the chairperson of the Hawaiian homes commission or the chairperson's designee to serve as an ex officio voting member.
Specifies that certain provisions of the Internal Revenue Code related to at-risk rules and deductions and to passive activity loss do not apply with respect to claims for the state low-income housing tax credit. Appropriates funds to establish one position in the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to oversee the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Program.
Makes physical abuse consisting of intentionally or knowingly impeding normal breathing or circulation of blood of a family or household member by any means a class C felony. Takes effect on 01/07/2059. (SD1)
Appropriates funds to DHS for the housing first program and the rapid re-housing program to assist chronically homeless individuals and individuals who require financial assistance to avoid homelessness. Appropriates funds to the Hawaii Public Housing Authority for the state rent supplement program to assist homeless individuals or families and those at imminent risk of homelessness.
Adds a new definition of parked lunch wagons or food trucks to apply in special management areas. Amends the definition of development in a special management area to include placement of any structure. Amends the definition of structure in relation to shoreline setbacks to include parked lunch wagons or food trucks.
Establishes the multinational lunar architecture alliance to be administratively attached to the office of aerospace development in the department of business, economic development, and tourism to guide the development and implementation of a prototype lunar architecture in the county of Hawaii. Requires the alliance to conduct its first teleconference by 8/1/17. Requires the alliance to stage a lunar development summit in Hawaii county in October 2017.
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)
