Establishes the intrastate mutual aid system to allow counties to share resources in times of emergency or in preparation for emergencies.
Beginning with the 2023-2024 school year, requires the Department of Education to include the teaching of financial literacy in the personal transition plan requirement for each student.
Appropriates funds to the University of Hawaii to support three additional positions at the College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources Kauai Research and Extension Station.
Requires the school facilities authority to adopt and publish administrative rules necessary to implement Act 72, Session Laws of Hawaii 2020, as amended by Act 217, Session Laws of Hawaii 2021, by July 1, 2022. Requires the office of the governor to provide a report to the legislature regarding the process by which the school facilities authority purchases real property and executes capital improvement project contracts.
Establishes an exemption from state income tax for the first $100,000 of income derived from taro, taro products, and land used to produce taro if the total amount of land used to cultivate taro in Hawaii does not exceed thirty thousand acres at any point in the year.
Appropriates funds to extend the higher and continuing education program at women's community correctional center to support. Provides funding for incarcerated women to become general education development (GED) tutors to peers, college correspondence courses, re-entry and transitional services, and continuation of the program at Windward Community College.
Establishes the short-term rental assistance fund and short-term rental assistance program. Makes an appropriation.
Increases the cap to be paid into the Rental Housing Revolving Fund from Conveyance Tax revenues from $38,000,000 to $43,000,000.
Excludes Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program-eligible grocery staples from general excise tax assessment.
Appropriates funds to expand civic education in public schools.
