Requires the Department of Education to provide school meals to all public charter schools.
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Establishes a family self-sufficiency program to provide matching funds to enable tenants of certain public housing dwelling units to purchase housing units. Authorizes the Hawaii public housing authority to impose maximum rental periods and conditions of tenancy for tenants participating in the family self-sufficiency program. Amends general tenancy termination requirements, selection priorities, and minimum rents for HPHA housing projects. Appropriates funds.
Requires the department of health to publish information that encourages food manufacturers, processors, and retailers to use standard terminology that clarifies food safety and quality dates when labeling food products.
Requires the department of health to create and maintain an online information portal making available to the public by January 1, 2019, the information published annually in the Healthcare-Associated Infections in Hawaii report. Requires the department to update the portal annually.
Requires the driver of any motor vehicle that is involved in an accident and in possession of a mobile electronic device at or near the time of the accident to, at the request of a police officer, submit the mobile electronic device to the police officer for the sole purpose of field testing of the device. Establishes procedures to allow police officers responding to a motor vehicle accident to field test a mobile electronic device. Imposes penalties if a driver of the motor vehicle involved in an accident fails to submit the driver's mobile electronic device for the field testing.
Transfers all upkeep and maintenance responsibilities for the state capitol and its grounds and facilities, including all full-time equivalent positions and funding necessary for salaries and maintenance, to the sergeant-at-arms of the senate and house of representatives, respectively.
Appropriates funds for drug treatment, including polydrug abuse treatment, for opioid abuse, methamphetamine abuse, heroin abuse, prescription drug abuse, and other drug abuse. (SD1)
Transfers responsibility for inspection, quarantine, and approval of aquaculture livestock from the plant quarantine branch within the division of plant industry of the department of agriculture to the division of animal industry of the department of agriculture.
Establishes procedures for the use of administrative and disciplinary segregation in correctional institutions. Takes effect 1/1/2025. (SD1)