Sen. Gilbert S.C. Keith-Agaran

Establishes the rare disease advisory board within the department of health to provide education about rare diseases and encourage the funding of research in the development of new treatments for rare diseases. Describes duties of the advisory board, members of the board, and the board's obligation to coordinate with local and national groups conducting similar research and advocacy for persons with rare diseases.

Establishes the joint campus of the John A. Burns school of medicine and the University of Hawaii cancer center as the Hawaii health sciences campus at the University of Hawaii at Kakaako, to be an administratively separate branch of the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Appoints the dean of the John A. Burns school of medicine as the administrative head. Converts the bond debt service owed by the University of Hawaii cancer center to a general obligation bond and combines it with the John A. Burns school of medicine debt. Requires a five-year business plan to be submitted to the legislature by 01/01/18. Appropriates funds for the transition into a joint campus.

Allows a chief of police or police officer to be relieved of the responsibility to enforce certain department of education school and student security provisions.

Reduces repackaged, relabeled, and compounded prescription drug payments under workers' compensation from 140% to 90% of the average wholesale price. Requires physician dispensed prescription drugs to only be prescribed within 90 days of the injury.

Proposes an amendment to article V, section 6, of the Hawaii State Constitution to provide that the attorney general be elected as a nonpartisan elected official rather than appointed by the governor.

Requires the department of labor and industrial relations to report U-6 figures alongside U-3 figures in the main text of reports and press releases related to the State's unemployment rate.

Requires the driver of a slow-moving motor vehicle on a two-lane highway where passing or overtaking is unsafe or not permitted to pull over at the nearest reasonable and safe location to allow other motor vehicles to overtake the driver if five or more motor vehicles are immediately trailing behind the driver.

Expands the definition of "administrative action" in lobbyist law to include granting or denying applications for business or development-related permits, licenses, or approvals and procurement of goods and services under Hawaii public procurement code. Clarifies that lobbying laws apply to lobbying by the executive branch.

Removes agricultural buildings located in a special flood hazard area from the exemptions from building permit and building code requirements.

Establishes, beginning January 1, 2018, labeling requirements for any food or raw agricultural commodity sold in the State that contains a genetically engineered material, or was produced with a genetically engineered material; establishes exceptions; establishes violations; requires director of health to adopt rules.