Clarifies that any person that offers free or reduced rate shipping to a consumer in another state but who refuses to honor that shipping offer to a consumer in Hawaii has engaged in an act that is unfair and deceptive under certain conditions. Extends remedies.
Provides resident physicians and fellows participating in a graduate medical education program with the same incentives and protections as licensed physicians engaging in the health care peer review process.
Prohibits food service businesses from the sale and distribution of plastic straws.
Requires a fair market appraisal to be performed prior to any sale, lease, or exchange of any public land to a governmental agency without public auction.
Proposes a constitutional amendment to allow each gubernatorial nominee to appoint, prior to the primary election, a person from the same political party as a running mate for lieutenant governor in the primary election.
Authorizes the director of finance to issue general obligation bonds for the department of health to develop a secure inpatient psychiatric facility at Hawaii state hospital to serve the mentally ill who need stricter security and inmates and detainees who need a higher level of mental health care. Requires the department of health to establish a task force to study the needs of the populations to be served by the psychiatric facility and develop a coordinated interagency action plan to implement services at the new inpatient psychiatric facility.
Establishes the office of public-private partnership within DAGs. Adds design-build-finance-operate-maintain and design-build-operate-maintain project delivery methods to the types of methods that may be used in construction projects solicited through competitive sealed proposals. Requires additional forms of bid security, for projects that use the "design-build-finance-operate-maintain" or "design-build-operate-maintain" delivery methods. Appropriates funds to establish and operated the office of public-private partnership.
Expands the scope of the Hawaiian language college revolving fund to allow the deposit and expenditure of funds generated by University of Hawai‘i at Hilo's Hawaiian language college, Hawaiian language support center, and indigenous outreach program to support the Hawaiian language college and its programs and publications.
Excepts from the definition of historic property any private residence that has not been entered, or nominated by the owner of the residence for entry, onto the Hawaii register of historic places. Clarifies that nothing in section 6E-10, Hawaii Revised Statutes, shall be construed to require review by the department of land and natural resources for a project on a private residence fifty or more years old that has not been entered, or nominated by the owner of the residence for entry, onto the Hawaii register of historic places.
Appropriates funds for the research, development, marketing, and conservation of ‘ulu.
