Establishes a family leave insurance program, which requires employees and employers to make contributions into an insurance fund to be used to provide employees with family leave insurance benefits in order to care for a designated person. Appropriates funds to implement the program.
Supports the sustainability of the Hawaii virtual dental home pilot projects by ensuring providers who use certain telehealth procedures and apply caries arresting medications are reimbursed for doing so and clarifying that, for purposes of billing and payment, procedures performed using certain telehealth technologies are equivalent to those procedures performed in person.
Establishes the department of airports. Transfers the airport and aeronautics functions of DOT to the department of airports by the established transfer completion date agreed upon by the director of airports, the director of transportation, and the governor. Appropriates funds.
Appropriates funds for implementation of the kupuna caregivers program.
Establishes an application screening fee that a landlord may charge an applicant to obtain information about the applicant and establishes the applicant's right to review the credit report obtained by the landlord if the applicant paid the application screening fee.
Establishes the Hawaii innovation and technology authority within the department of business, economic development, and tourism. Appropriates funds.
Amends the offense of theft in the first degree, second degree, and third degree to include reckless disregard of risk for the value of the stolen property or services.
Requires the office of information practices to resolve all public complaints about noncompliance with chapter 92F and part I of chapter 92 within six months from the date the office of information practices receives the complaint.
Provides an income tax credit for qualified taxpayers, with incomes of not more than eighty per cent of the area median income, for qualified costs of an automatic fire sprinkler system installed and placed into any apartment or condominium built before 1975.
Extends the duration of an existing temporary tax credit for cesspool replacement from December 2020 to December 2025.
