Grants forty-year gaming license for a single integrated resort property on Hawaiian home lands designated for commercial use on the island of Oahu excluding lands west of Ko Olina. Establishes Hawaii Gaming Commission. Imposes wagering tax on gross gaming revenue. Creates State Gaming Fund. Appropriates funds.
Amends the offense of disorderly conduct to include engaging in conduct with the intent to convey certain false or misleading information.
Creates a separate offense for those who provide anything of value to engage in sexual conduct with another; adds sex trafficking to offenses that can be prosecuted at any time; makes a person strictly liable for sex trafficking of a minor in terms of the victim's age; changes the name of the crime of solicitation of a minor for prostitution to commercial sexual exploitation of a minor while closing loopholes in the law that allow offenders to escape liability, and increases the grade of offense to a class B felony; adds "anything of value" to reflect the reality of non-monetary compensation used in commercial sexual exploitation.
Authorizes the Chief Justice to designate circuit court judges, retired intermediate appellate judges, or retired supreme court justices to temporarily fill a vacancy on the Intermediate Court of Appeals.
Updates the definition of "property" to expressly include intellectual property or property stored in an electronic medium, for purposes of prosecuting property crimes.
Updates chapter 329, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to clarify who may access information stored in the electronic prescription accountability system. (SD1)
Establishes the Hawaii Broadband and Digital Equity Office within the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism.
Authorizes the Department of Land and Natural Resources to adopt rules to establish a lay net permit for the use or possession of lay nets, including reasonable permit fees and provisions for revocation, suspension, and withholding of permits for non-compliance with lay net rules.
Establishes the framework of the Hawaii state disaster recovery program, as overseen by the state disaster recovery coordinator. Effective 7/1/2050. (HD1)
Allows the head of a purchasing agency to obtain emergency procurements in certain situations that create a threat to life, public health, welfare, public property, or serous disruption to government services, including situations caused by equipment failures. Replaces Chief Procurement Officer approval with an accounting report to the Chief Procurement Officer in a timely manner and to the Legislature within sixty days after the end of the fiscal year in which the procurement was made. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
