Clarifies that the offense of indecent exposure includes the activity of nude sunbathing.
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Reduces the minimum age from eighty to seventy-five years of age for the optional age exemption from service as a juror.
Allows disclosure of government records in cases where a police officer has been suspended or discharged in a disciplinary action.
Establishes a two-year agricultural theft and vandalism pilot project to examine the effectiveness of prosecuting agricultural theft and agricultural vandalism in the county of Hawaii. Appropriates funds.
Requires police commissions to establish and police officers to complete training programs on cultural competency and implicit bias and racial and ethnic sensitivity. Requires DPS to establish and public safety officers to complete training programs on cultural competency and implicit bias and racial and ethnic sensitivity. Requires police commissions to ensure that all full-time police officers receive crisis intervention training related to interaction with persons with mental disabilities. Requires police commissions to establish policies for officer interaction with persons with mental disabilities and homeless persons.
Requires public retiree contributions to the EUTF to be paid through withholdings of retirement benefit amounts from the ERS. Beginning after January 1, 2018, requires the EUTF to authorize automatic electronic payments in lieu of withholdings.
Allows the Office of Hawaiian Affairs Board of Trustees to appoint a deputy administrator, chief operating officer, and corporation counsel by a majority vote. Allows for their removal for cause by two-thirds vote. Clarifies that the administrator shall not employ a deputy administrator, chief operating officer, or corporation counsel.
Requires the executive officer and chief counsel of the public utilities commission to annually file a disclosure of financial interests with the state ethics commission and requires these disclosures to be public. (SD1)
Creates the class C offense of endangering public transportation for tampering with a public highway or a facility of public transportation with intent to cause any damage, malfunction, nonfunction, theft, or unauthorized removal of material which would result in the creation of a substantial risk of death or serious bodily injury to another person. Defines facility of public transportation.
Changes drug paraphernalia use, possession, and delivery offenses from felonies to civil violations.