Requires grant-in-aid applications to list any potential environmental impacts of the grant. Requires grant-in-aid awards to be prioritized in relation to the grant's potential environmental impacts, with highest priority given to those grants that promote the quality of the environment.
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Establishes the position of Ka Papahana Kaiapuni program complex area superintendent in the office of the superintendent of the department of education.
Authorizes physicians to engage in collective mediation with health benefit plans.
Requires that mandatory seller disclosures in real estate transactions include identification of residential real properties lying within the sea level rise exposure area as officially designated by the Hawaii Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Commission, subject to the availability of county maps designating the areas by tax map key. Effective 11/1/2020.
Requires a retail establishment with an employee restroom to allow a customer suffering from an eligible medical condition to use that restroom during normal business hours, under certain conditions. Exempts a retail establishment and employees from civil liability in allowing a customer to use an employee restroom. Establishes fines.
Establishes the Automated Speed Enforcement Systems Program (Program). Authorizes counties to administer the Program. Requires proceeds of fines to be expended in the county from which they were collected for operation of the Program. Makes an appropriation. Establishes a Speed Committee.
Lowers the age a person can be exempt from jury duty from eighty years of age or older to seventy-five years of age or older.
Requires the department of accounting and general services to develop and implement a public transportation subsidy program for state employees. Appropriates funds for the public transportation subsidy program.
Prohibits restaurants and hotels from applying service charges for the sale of food or beverage services unless they are distributed as tip income directly to their employees.
Expands authorized expenditures from the Hawaii green infrastructure special fund to include energy-efficient air conditioning. Appropriates funds and authorizes the department of education to borrow funds from the green infrastructure loan program for heat abatement.