Requires the Agribusiness Development Corporation to plan, design, construct, and operate a new animal slaughterhouse on the island of Oahu. Appropriates moneys.
Appropriates funds to the Hawaiʻi Public Housing Authority for the rehabilitation, remodeling, renovation, and repair of housing units without regard to civil service law. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
Authorizes the department of education to stock bronchodilators for emergency use during respiratory distress and authorize department employees to volunteer to administer bronchodilators.
Requires the Department of Education to develop and implement a School Meal Subsidy Program to provide school lunch subsidies to children whose families do not otherwise qualify for free lunch under the federal Free and Reduced Price Lunch Program, subject to income eligibility. Appropriates funds. Effective 3/30/3000. (HD1)
Creates within the Department of Health's wastewater branch a cesspool conversion section, which will be responsible for facilitating the conversion of cesspools within the State. Establishes and appropriates funds for three full-time equivalent positions within the cesspool conversion section in fiscal years 2023-2024 and 2024-2025 and three additional full-time equivalent positions within the section in fiscal year 2024-2025. Establishes a three-year New Wastewater System Demonstration Pilot Program within the University of Hawaiʻi Water Resources Research Center to examine and demonstrate new wastewater technology systems; implement those technologies in demonstration projects in areas across the State that are identified as Priority Level 1; and establish a similar ranking system for prioritization levels for the islands of Molokai, Lanai, and Niihau. Requires the University of Hawaiʻi Water Resources Research Center to submit reports to the Legislature. Appropriates funds for the pilot program. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD2)
Authorizes the Department of Health to approve in-vehicle receipt of medical cannabis and medical cannabis products on the premises of dispensaries subject to Administrative Rules adopted by the Department of Health. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD1)
Allows the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to issue interim rules exempt from the public hearing and gubernatorial approval requirements of chapter 91, Hawaiʻi Revised Statutes, after beneficiary consultation is conducted by the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands and upon approval by the Hawaiian Homes Commission. Requires that the interim rules shall be effective for not more than eighteen months. (SD1)
Establishes a three-year New Waste Management Solution and Cesspool System Demonstration Pilot Program within the University of Hawaiʻi Water Resources Research Center to examine and demonstrate new wastewater and cesspool technology systems; implement those technologies in demonstration projects in areas across the State that are identified as Priority Level 1 in the 2021 Hawaiʻi Cesspool Hazard Assessment and Prioritization Tool Report; and establish a similar ranking system for prioritization levels for the islands of Molokai, Lanai, and Niihau. Requires the University of Hawaiʻi Water Resources Research Center to submit reports to the Legislature. Appropriates funds for the pilot program.
Requires that appropriations allocated to Department of Education programs that provide instructional services directly to students shall remain within the budget of the program to which the funds were originally allocated and that the retention of an appropriation shall not be used by the Department as a basis for reducing a program's future budget requirements. Requires the Department of Education to report the creation of temporary positions to the Legislature. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
Requires self-service stations to put labels on gas dispensing equipment that advise consumers on the effects of fossil fuel consumption to human health and the environment.
