Sen. Troy Hashimoto

Requires the house and senate to permit remote testimony, via telephone, at public hearings.

Authorizes the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to lease real property for a period not to exceed 99 years for the development of certain projects that include affordable housing. Requires the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to submit a report to the legislature that identifies all state lands that may be developed for multi-unit dwellings. Authorizes the issuance of $200,000,000 in general obligation bonds, with the proceeds used for the establishment of infrastructure to support the development of housing on lands near the University of Hawaii West Oahu campus. Authorizes the issuance of $75,000,000 in general obligation bonds, with the proceeds used for affordable housing infrastructure in counties with a resident population of 500,000 or less. Authorizes a state or county department or agency to petition the appropriate county land use decision-making authority, rather than the Land Use Commission, for a change in the boundary of a district involving land areas between 15 acres and 25 acres where the majority of the development will be for affordable housing. Authorizes the State Historic Preservation Division to delegate the responsibility of historic preservation project reviews to the impacted county. Establishes the Office of the Housing Ombudsman. Removes the existing statutory cap on the amount of conveyance tax revenues that are deposited into the rental housing revolving fund each fiscal year.

Establishes a Kauai Air Tourism Working Group to develop a pilot program and consider other actions to address excessive noise from air tourism aircraft on the island of Kauai. Requires a report to the Legislature. Makes an appropriation.

Requires helicopter owners and operators to submit reports to the department of transportation and the appropriate county advisory committee about basic helicopter flight information.

Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the eighth representative district.

Requires school impact fees proposed by the department of education to first be adopted by concurrent resolution.

Requires the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts to erect monuments and displays on Kauai, and support other specified awareness efforts, to memorialize the 1924 Hanapepe Massacre victims and the contributions of Kauai sugar plantation laborers as a whole. Appropriates funds.

Establishes a sidewalk installation grant program to be administered by the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations Office of Community Services. Appropriates funds.

Appropriates funds for the state health insurance assistance program.

Establishes the School Facilities Agency to be responsible for all public school development, planning, and construction, related to capital improvement projects assigned by the Legislature, Governor, or Board of Education. Transfers statutes pertaining to the Hawaii 3R's and 3T's programs to a new School Facilities Agency statutory subpart. Places management of school impact fees with the agency. Appropriates funds.