Allows counties to enact a zoning ordinance to amortize or phase out nonconforming single-family transient vacation rental units over a reasonable period of time.
Sen. Troy Hashimoto
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Establishes a Homeland Security and Resiliency Council to identify electric grid and other critical infrastructure needs and provide recommendations for enhancing the State's grid and critical infrastructure resiliency. Appropriates funds.
Makes completion of a voter registration application affidavit a mandatory part of all driver's license and identification card applications. Automatically registers each applicant for voting unless the applicant affirmatively declines to register. Requires sharing of information among the counties, Department of Transportation, and election personnel.
Allows authorized emergency vehicles, including fire department vehicles, discretion to use either authorized audible or visual signals when responding to an emergency. Requires vehicles to yield to an authorized emergency vehicle using either an audible or visual signal.
Allows counties to regulate transient accommodations hosting platforms.
Prohibits any person, including a hotel guest, from storing, keeping, carrying, or possessing any firearm or ammunition in any hotel room assigned to a guest with certain exceptions.
Extends the amount of time from the date an act of child sexual abuse occurred for a victim to bring a civil cause of action.
Proposes amendments to the Constitution of the State of Hawaii to expressly provide that the legislature may authorize the counties to issue tax increment bonds and to exclude tax increment bonds in determining the funded debt of the counties.