Prohibits corporations from making election contributions, expenditures, or independent expenditures except in accordance with the majority vote of the corporation's shareholders. Requires corporations to provide notices to shareholders and on their publicly accessible websites within forty-eight hours of making a contribution, expenditure, or independent expenditure.
Sen. Joy San Buenaventura
Sponsored bills
Requires principal brokers to ensure associated real estate licensees are responsive to association-related requests from owners and Real Estate Commission-generated information is distributed to an association, board, or unit owner within ten days after receiving a request for information. (HB1524 HD1)
Prohibits counties from charging for automatic fire sprinkler or automatic fire sprinkler system inspections in any HHFDC housing projects. Effective July 1, 2112. (HB1461 HD1)
Requires the Hawaii Interagency Council on Homelessness, in conjunction with and with the advisement of the Department of Human Services and Department of Land and Natural Resources, to establish a working group to examine and develop recommendations related to the establishment of safe zones for persons experiencing homelessness. Requires the working group to submit a report to the Legislature. Appropriates funds. (HB83 CD1)
Updates the Downpayment Loan Program of the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation. (HB530 CD1)
Appropriates funds for the Healthy Aging Partnership Program to further the program's important role in improving the health and well-being of Hawaii's kupuna. (HB615 CD1)
Clarifies that acute care hospitals are covered under the State's clean claims statute. (SD1)
Reinstates the authority of the University of Hawaii System to maintain a separate accounting and financial management system that is compatible with the State of Hawaii accounting and financial system. (SD1)
Reduces the minimum Hawaiian blood quantum requirement of certain successors to lessees of Hawaiian home lands from one-quarter to one thirty-second. (HB451 CD1)
Extends the sunset date for the Coffee Berry Borer Pesticide Subsidy Program until June 30, 2021, for the purchase of pesticides containing Beauveria bassiana to combat the coffee berry borer. Provides that no single coffee grower shall receive more than $6,000 per year in subsidies between June 30, 2018, and July 1, 2021. (HB186 CD1)