Amends the list of non-general funds that receive distributions from the conveyance tax by: (1) increasing the maximum dollar amount of the distribution to the land conservation fund; and (2) restoring and setting a maximum dollar amount for the distribution to the natural area reserve fund.
Sen. Chris Lee
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Amends the distribution of conveyance tax revenues to better fund programs for environmental protection and affordable housing.
Short form bill relating to energy.
Authorizes the Board of Land and Natural Resources to transfer the operation, administration, management, and maintenance of Honokohau small boat harbor to a county in which the harbor is located. Authorizes a county to operate and maintain a small boat harbor. Appropriates funds for repairs and maintenance of Honokohau small boat harbor.
Removes the sunset for the refundable food/excise tax credit.
Reallocates barrel tax revenues by increasing the distribution amounts to the environmental response revolving fund, energy security special fund, energy systems development special fund, and agricultural development and food security fund, in lieu of a distribution to the general fund.
Requires habitat conservation plans and safe harbor agreements to include the measures or actions to be undertaken to respond to individuals of the candidate species affected by take. Authorizes other funds to be deposited into the Endangered Species Trust Fund.
Authorizes the counties to adopt ordinances to legalize marijuana cultivation, possession, sale, transfer, and use, for persons over the age of twenty-one. Clarifies that penal code provisions pertaining to drug and intoxicating compounds offenses do not apply to counties that have adopted ordinances legalizing marijuana and adopted administrative rules to regulate marijuana.
Requires operators of child care facilities, including family child care homes, group child care centers, and group child care homes, and infant and toddler child care centers that care for children one year of age or younger to implement and maintain safe sleep policies to prevent sudden unexpected infant deaths and sudden infant death syndrome in accordance with rules adopted by the Department of Human Services.
Requires the driver of a slow-moving motor vehicle on a two-lane highway where passing or overtaking is unsafe or not permitted to pull over at the nearest reasonable and safe location to allow other motor vehicles to overtake the driver if 5 or more motor vehicles are immediately trailing behind the driver.