Dedicates a minimum of twenty-five per cent of the State's operating budget each fiscal year beginning with the 2020-2021 fiscal year to the department of education for all K-12 education related expenses, including but not limited to payments for staff fringe benefits.
Prohibits the President of the University of Hawaii from serving concurrently as a campus chancellor.
Appropriates funds to the commission on the thirteenth festival of pacific arts to plan for the thirteenth festival of pacific arts to be held in Honolulu from June 11 through 27, 2020.
Requires the department of transportation and the county transportation departments to adopt a vision zero policy that seeks to prevent and ultimately eliminate all traffic fatalities through a combination of engineering, enforcement, education, and emergency response strategies that focus on equity. Establishes a temporary working group to develop an action plan and review certain specified traffic policies and guidelines. Reports to legislature in 2020 and 2021. Appropriates funds.
Allows discussions between members of the state legislature and one or more members of a board, under certain conditions and prohibits any contrary law or rule.
Appropriates funds for ‘Imi Ho‘ola student stipends or for other ‘Imi Ho‘ola student support programs at the discretion of the department of native Hawaiian health of the John A. Burns school of medicine.
Appropriates funds to the Department of Land and Natural Resources to procure, install, and operate a machine or system to clean trash out of the Ala Wai canal.
Prohibits certain large vehicles of more than 10,000 pounds from being driven on the far left lane of any roadway having three or more lanes, with certain exceptions. Establishes a fifty-five mile per hour speed limit for trucks having a gross vehicle weight rating in excess of 10,000 pounds.
Requires two hours of annual in-service training in suicide prevention for all teachers, principals, and school counselors.
Proposes a constitutional amendment to remove the mandatory retirement age of seventy years for justices and judges.
