Sen. Rachele Lamosao

Requires the department of land and natural resources to establish a green user fee program to collect user fees for certain parks. Requires the department of land and natural resources to develop a mobile application for the green user fee program. Exempts certain individuals from the green user fee program. Appropriates funds. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)

Requires the board of education to adopt rules to expand the jurisdiction of all public schools under the purview of the department of education to include a quarter-mile radius surrounding each public school.

Requires the Commission on Water Resource Management to conduct an audit of the State's surface water transmission systems.

Establishes the position of the Tourism Liaison Officer within the Office of the Governor. Makes an appropriation. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)

Requires the department of transportation to perform routine inspections of highways in the state highway system that are at risk of rockslides every five years and after major rainfall events. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)

Adds a new chapter to the HRS to establish a system of regulatory controls for shopping carts and similar devices to prevent unauthorized removal from business establishments; provide for prompt retrieval when lost, stolen, or abandoned; require business owners to take certain specified actions to deter, prevent, or mitigate the removal of these devices from their premises and to retrieve any removed devices; and to prevent the continued possession of unlawfully removed shopping carts and similar devices and the accumulation of these devices on publicly or privately owned property.

Prohibits the department of health from requiring an applicant, operator, employee, or adult volunteer at a healthcare facility or, in the case of a healthcare facility operated in a private residence, any adult living in the home other than the client, to consent to fingerprinting except in connection with the initial licensing or certification of the individual or healthcare facility. In the case of a healthcare facility operated in a private residence, any adult living in the home other than the client, who was not living in the home at the time of initial licensing of certification, shall not be required to be fingerprinted more than once. Resets initial fingerprinting and background check requirements if the licensee terminates the license and later applies for a new license. Provides that the department of human services shall not require service providers who have direct contact with individuals receiving adult services to be fingerprinted as part of the criminal history record check process more than once.

Requires that a written disclaimer be provided by sellers or providers of emotional support animals or certificates or identification tags for emotional support animals that the animal is not a service animal or the item does not qualify as an item for a service animal. Establishes penalties. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)

Requires the animal industry division of the department of agriculture to administer an assessment and approval process to import and move aquatic livestock in the State. Allows the animal industry division to issue permits for such purposes. Requires the animal industry division to develop a risk-based framework for the aquatic livestock assessment and approval process and to undertake certain activities to develop and expand the aquaculture industry. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)

Requires the department of human services to develop a preschool child care worker subsidy pilot program to assist in retaining qualified child care workers in licensed child care facilities for preschool children aged two through five. Sunsets 6/30/2026. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)