Requires all facilities that provide mental health treatment to provide one-on-one suicide counseling services to patients who have attempted or threatened suicide. Specifies the health care providers who may provide suicide counseling services.
Establishes the hike safe card program and search and rescue special fund to be administered by the department of land and natural resources. Requires government entities to seek reimbursement for all or a portion of search and rescue expenses for persons who require rescue after leaving a hiking trail to enter a prohibited area or hiking on a trail closed to the public and persons who acted recklessly. Exempts persons who possess a hike safe card from search and rescue cost reimbursement, unless a search and rescue response is required due to a reckless act or omission. Repeals on 6/30/2025.
Permits counties to adopt ordinances permitting developers to make a cash payment of fifteen per cent of the gross revenue of the development in lieu of providing the required reserved housing under the county's affordable housing program. Specifies the HCDA may permit cash payments of fifteen per cent of the gross revenue of the development project in lieu of providing reserved housing.
Requires state departments and agencies to establish hiring and promotion goals for position-qualified transgender and non-binary persons and develop transgender employment policies addressing specified areas by 1/1/2023. Requires annual reports to the Legislature.
Requires coffee blend labels to disclose geographic and regional origins and per cent by weight of the blended coffees. Prohibits using geographic origins of coffee in labeling or advertising for roasted or instant coffee that contains less than a designated percentage of coffee by weight from that geographic origin, phased in to a minimum of fifty-one per cent by 1/1/2025. Prohibits use of the term "All Hawaiian" in labeling or advertising for roasted or instant coffee not produced entirely from green coffee beans grown and processed in Hawaii.
Incorporates a regenerative framework into the State Planning Act by expanding objectives and policies for the visitor industry.
Defines broadband equity. Clarifies the Hawaii Broadband and Digital Equity Office's duties to promote and support digital equity and broadband deployment.
Authorizes the counties to reclassify lands fifteen to one hundred acres in certain rural, urban, and agricultural districts in which at least fifty per cent of the housing units on the land sought to be reclassified are set aside for persons and families with incomes at or below one hundred forty per cent of the area median income.
Amends the existing expungement process to an automatic process, rather than requiring persons to petition the court or attorney general.
Amends the subsidy program originally created by Act 105, Session Laws of Hawaii 2014, to allow coffee growers to use subsidies from the program to offset the costs of purchasing fertilizer to strengthen tree immunity against coffee leaf rust.
