Authorizes supplemental categorical funding for remote schools. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (HD1)
Beginning January 1, 2023, bans the sale, offer of sale, or distribution in the State of any sunscreen that contains avobenzone or octocrylene, or both, without a prescription issued by a licensed healthcare provider to preserve marine ecosystems. Effective 7/1/2050. (HD1)
Requires that the state building code council include voting members with experience and knowledge in building energy efficiency standards and sustainable building, design, construction, and operation. Requires that the counties amend or adopt their respective building codes and standards based upon the International Energy Conservation Code within an unspecified time frame after the adoption of the Hawaii state building energy conservation code. Effective 7/1/2050. (HD2)
Establishes an office of the housing advocate within the office of the governor.
Requires the department of the attorney general to study and submit a report to the legislature on the feasibility and cost effect of establishing an office of administrative adjudications that conducts administrative hearings for the State's executive branch agencies.
Removes acreage restrictions on leases of Hawaiian home lands for agricultural purposes. Provides that the priority of availability of the foregoing leases shall be subject to the availability of suitable tracts of land to native Hawaiians. Specifies that the foregoing leases may be for either for-profit or non-profit purposes. (HD1)
Requires public contractors to obtain insurance to cover at least half of a project's construction costs to the State to provide funds for curing construction defects discovered within ten years after the completion of the contract. Authorizes the State to institute an action against the contractor for the total costs of curing those defects. Effective 7/1/2112. (HD1)
Permits charitable organizations to hold online fundraising events, including online raffles. Excludes online fundraising by charitable organizations from the definition of "gambling" in the Hawaii penal code.
Requires certain amounts of child support moneys collected by the Department of Human Services for public assistance of a child to pass through to the family receiving public assistance. Requires the Department of Human Services to disregard passed-through child support payments when calculating the income of an applicant for or recipient of public assistance. Increases the maximum fine for an employer who discharges from employment, refuses to employ, or takes disciplinary action against any noncustodial parent subject to income withholding or who fails to comply with an order of assignment of future income to pay child support. Appropriates funds.
