Requires the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to adopt minimum appliance efficiency standards for air purifiers, portable air conditioners, residential ventilating fans, portable electric spas, and uninterruptable power supplies sold or installed in the State that are substantially equivalent to existing appliance efficiency standards established by various states and the federal government.
Sponsored bills
Allows a defendant who has been convicted of four misdemeanors in any business district or resort zoned area to be sentenced to a probationary term of geographic restriction not exceeding an unspecified number of years during which the defendant shall be prohibited from entering the district or area in which the acts occurred. Mandates imprisonment of thirty days for violation.
Requires the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development to conduct a study examining the amount of land needed to meet the State 2050 Plan.
Requires the abolishment of any public service position that remains vacant for longer than 2 years.
Repeals the Aha Moku Advisory Committee on July 1, 2021. Effective 6/30/2021.
Provides judges with greater discretion to adjust the amount owed or financial circumstances by a person who violates certain traffic offenses based on the person's inability to pay. Decreases the imprisonment term to contumacious nonpayment ratio. Increases the amount of credit given to a person committed for contumacious nonpayment.
Prohibits the president of the university of Hawaii from serving concurrently as a campus chancellor.
Establishes the teacher salary special fund within the department of education. Requires that a portion of general excise tax revenues collected on new construction of commercial real estate projects be deposited into the state highway fund and the teacher salary special fund. Requires that a portion of conveyance tax revenues be deposited into the state highway fund and the teacher salary special fund.
Establishes a special intergovernmental task force to eradicate illegal gambling and drug activities and to establish community safe zones across the State. Requires a report to the legislature. (SD1)
Removes the monetary cap for the amount of conveyance taxes collected that can be paid into the land conservation fund.