Requires the Board of Education to offer no less than three credits of professional development courses, classes, or other programs annually to each teacher at no cost to the teacher.
Requires the Department of Agriculture to adopt rules to protect the welfare of livestock transported to, from, or between any island of Hawaii. Requires the department to adopt interim rules.
Establishes the air freight inspection, quarantine, and eradication service fee and charge and corresponding fund to finance inspection, quarantine, and eradication activities relating to air freight that arrives at the State's airports. Transfers plant quarantine branch employees stationed at airports from the department of agriculture to the department of transportation.
Prohibits use, sale, alteration, or installation of motor vehicle mufflers that emit more than 95 decibels of sound.
Requires transient accommodations operators to provide training, signage, and reporting policies to employees regarding human trafficking awareness.
Establishes registration requirements and driver's licensing requirements for operation of electric rickshaws. Defines electric rickshaw.
Requires each county to establish a procedure to ensure that an asbestos survey and any necessary abatement are performed prior to the issuance of any permit for the renovation or demolition of a residential property.
Allows the usage of supplemental nutrition assistance program benefits by means of electronic benefits transfer cards in all cafeterias in four-year university and community college campuses in the University of Hawaii system.
Establishes a digital identification pilot program to be implemented by the director of transportation and administered by the examiner of drivers for each county. Requires the director of transportation to acquire or develop a mobile application that displays digital identification required for drivers' licenses and civil identification cards. Repeals on June 30, 2021.
Creates a prima facie presumption that the last legal or registered owner is responsible for the abandonment of any vehicle and requires the last legal or registered owner to pay for expenses incurred in removing, storing, and disposing of the abandoned vehicle. Requires a portion of the proceeds to be diverted to the highway beautification and disposal of abandoned or derelict vehicles revolving fund in certain circumstances.
