Makes explicit the counties' authority to regulate hosting platforms providing booking services for short-term rentals. Includes swapping, bartering, or exchange of a residential dwelling, or portion thereof, in definition of "short-term rental" for this purpose.
Establishes a network improvement community task force to develop a K-12 science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) teacher education degree for the University of Hawaii. Appropriates funds.
Makes explicit the counties' authority to enact ordinances to amortize or phase out permitted, nonconforming, or otherwise allowed short-term rentals in any zoning classification. Includes swapping, bartering, or exchange of a residential dwelling, or portion thereof, in definition of "short-term rental" for this purpose.
Provides for a mechanism to adjust the transient accommodations tax rate based on visitor arrivals for a calendar year. Requires the director of DBEDT to determine and publish visitor arrivals annually.
Requires the office of planning to conduct a feasibility study on assessing tourism green fees.
Appropriates funds to increase access to mental health services across the University of Hawaii system.
Authorizes advanced practice registered nurses and other licensed qualified health care providers to perform abortions.
Establishes the affordable homeownership revolving fund to be administered by HHFDC to provide loans to qualified nonprofit community development financial institutions, qualified nonprofit housing trusts, and nonprofit housing development organizations for the development of affordable homeownership housing projects. Appropriates funds for the purposes of the affordable homeownership revolving fund.
Authorizes the issuance of special number electric vehicle license plates commemorating the Polynesian Voyaging Society.
Provides Hawaii residents with the option of paying for the registration of their motor vehicles and associated taxes and fees on a biannual basis. Restricts the amount of delinquency tax due to the current tax due plus one year. Removes language allowing storage costs and costs incident to seizure of a vehicle from inclusion in the amount the owner of a vehicle must pay in order to redeem the vehicle after seizure.
