Requires health care facilities to use transport services from an air ambulance that is contracted with the patient's health carrier when transferring the patient to another health care facility via air ambulance, except under certain conditions. Requires notification if a non-contracted air ambulance service is utilized. (SD1)
Requires the Hawaii housing finance and development corporation to coordinate with other state agencies to develop lands owned or administered by the State within one mile of transit station sites. Requires that developments on parcels or groups of contiguous parcels of state land with an area of at least ten acres include a certain percentage of affordable housing units reserved for residents or families at specific income levels. (SD1)
Improves access for firefighters and former firefighters to comprehensive medical coverage and retirement benefits for hazardous duty related diseases that are presumed to arise out of and in the course of employment. (SD1)
Adopts the National Conference of Insurance Legislators' Model Unclaimed Life Insurance Benefits Act, which requires life insurers to conduct database searches using the federal Social Security Administration's death master file or similar database to determine whether an insured has died. Requires life insurers to use good faith efforts to locate any beneficiaries to a policy, contract, or retained asset account. Authorizes the insurance commissioner to use discretion to limit, exempt, or phase-in compliance with requirements under certain circumstances. Effective January 1, 2018. (SD1)
Appropriates funds for two full-time equivalent (2.00 FTE) enforcement specialist IV positions to be primarily responsible for the enforcement of Hawaii’s workers' compensation, temporary disability insurance, and prepaid health care laws.
Authorizes the department of land and natural resources and the Hawaii community development authority to negotiate and execute ninety-nine year leases on the department's and authority's lands located within one mile of the city and county of Honolulu's planned rail transit stations, provided that all housing in the mixed-use development for the lands to be leased is reserved for residents and families earning up to sixty per cent of the area median income. Effective 3/15/2050. Sunsets on 6/30/2050. (SD1)
Amends the membership of the commission on water resource management to add the chairperson of the Hawaiian homes commission or the chairperson's designee to serve as an ex officio voting member.
Specifies that certain provisions of the Internal Revenue Code related to at-risk rules and deductions and to passive activity loss do not apply with respect to claims for the state low-income housing tax credit. Appropriates funds to establish one position in the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to oversee the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Program.
Appropriates $75,000 to DAGS for the State Building Code Council to update the state building code. Requires the reimbursement from the Federal Emergency Management Agency hazard mitigation grant for the appropriated funds. (SD1)
Amends various provisions related to the aha moku advisory committee, including budgetary requirements. Appropriates funds for expenses of the aha moku advisory committee and the annual puwalu. (SD1)
