Amends Article III, section 14, of the Hawaii Constitution, to ensure that no bill becomes law if the legislature has so altered or amended the bill during its passage through either house that it no longer reflects its original purpose, unless the bill is approved by a two-thirds vote in both the house and senate.
Sponsored bills
Clarifies that the offense of indecent exposure includes the activity of nude sunbathing.
Reduces the minimum age from eighty to seventy-five years of age for the optional age exemption from service as a juror.
Prohibits the use or application of sunscreen or sunblock containing oxybenzone or cosmetics with sunscreen containing oxybenzone while in a marine life conservation district.
Prohibits the use or application of sunscreen or sunblock containing oxybenzone or cosmetics with sunscreen containing oxybenzone while on a beach.
Requires sellers of electronic smoking devices or eliquid to obtain a retail tobacco permit or dealer or wholesale license. Increases the license fee for wholesalers or dealers and the retail tobacco permit fee. Applies the cigarette and tobacco product excise tax to electronic smoking devices and e-liquid. (SB404 HD1)
Allows a person bitten by a dog to bring action against the dog owner after one bite.
Requires the chief election officer, with the assistance from the county clerks for elections involving county offices and countywide ballot issues, to publish and disseminate a voters' pamphlet. Appropriates moneys to allow the chief election officer to produce and distribute a voters' pamphlet for each election.
Provides state adult corrections officers the same concealed weapon exemptions allowed to state and county law enforcement officers.
Requires the department of agriculture to establish a two-year agricultural theft pilot project to focus on investigating and prosecuting agricultural theft or agricultural vandalism in the county of Hawaii. Appropriates funds as a grant-in-aid to the office of the prosecuting attorney, county of Hawaii, to assist in implementing the pilot project.