Sen. Gilbert S.C. Keith-Agaran

Requires the department of education to provide training on social and emotional learning to all youth-serving educators, health care professionals and counselors, and agencies and programs, as well as parents of students enrolled in public schools or public charter schools. Appropriates funds to the department of education to conduct training on social and emotional learning.

Appropriates general funds for 6.0 FTE positions for the UH Pamantasan Council to promote access and diversity, including for programs and policies related to Philippine courses and Filipino students.

Exempts the development of affordable housing projects developed in the urban core by the Hawaii housing finance and development corporation from environmental assessment and environmental impact statement requirements.

Exempts housing projects where at least a portion of the units are set aside for persons and families with incomes at or below one hundred forty per cent of the area median income from county, highway, and school impact fees.

Makes an appropriation for the Alzheimer's disease and related dementia services coordinator position. (SD1)

Expands the qualifying age for the preschool open doors program to children four years old and younger.

Requires weigh-in of commercial maritime cargo vehicles with cargo of 55,000 pounds or more immediately upon departing a commercial harbor. Requires report to Department of Transportation on every container or load of such poundage that arrived in a State harbor for transport on state highways.

Alters the definition of "business" or "engaging" in business under the general excise tax laws to exclude casual sales and businesses that have a worldwide web site as a third-party content provider on a computer physically located in the State but owned by a non-affiliated person; use non-affiliated third-party call centers that accept and process telephone or electronic orders of tangible personal property or licenses primarily from non-Hawaii buyers, which orders are forwarded to a location outside of Hawaii for filing, or to provide services primarily to non-Hawaii customers; and activities of a person without physical presence in the State if the person and the person's affiliates have less than $100,000 of gross receipts in the State based on receipts from the prior calendar year.

Requires by the end of the 2017-2018 school year, that all public schools, public charter schools, and the University of Hawaii and its divisions, campuses, and institutions have automated external defibrillators situated in a permanent location on campus. Requires the University of Hawaii and public and charter schools that have an athletic trainer to have an automated external defibrillator available at each sporting event. Requires the automated external defibrillators to be maintained and tested regularly. Clarifies that an athletic trainer or faculty member who administers an automated external defibrillator shall be considered to be doing so without remuneration or expectation of remuneration for purposes of immunity from civil liability.

Requires at least one of the three PUC commissioners to be a resident of a county other than the city and county of Honolulu and to receive per diem compensation.