MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR COMPENSATION OF CRIME VICTIMS.

Compensates crime victims, good Samaritans, surviving family members, and their service providers.

HB 705

RELATING TO THE CRIME VICTIM COMPENSATION SPECIAL FUND.

Exmepts the Crime Victim Compensation Special Fund from the payment of central service expense fees and administrative expense fees.

HB 1540

RELATING TO THE CRIME VICTIM COMPENSATION COMMISSION.

Repeals the sunset provision that repeals Act 278, SLH 1999, on July 1, 1999.

HB 1664

RELATING TO ACT 278, SESSION LAWS OF HAWAII 1999.

Prevents inadvertent repeal of crime victim compensation fund by adding reenactment language to law that was amended by law amending the crime victim compensation special fund, and scheduled to "drop dead".

HB 349

HD1

RELATING TO CORRECTIONS.

Establishes an earned time program providing incentives for inmate rehabilitation in which inmates may earn reductions in the minimum term of imprisonment set by the Hawaii paroling authority by making consistent progress in all of the following areas: work and vocational training, social adjustment, counseling and self-help, and therapeutic, educational, and literacy programs. (HB349 HD1)

HB 515

RELATING TO THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE TOBACCO SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT.

Establishes the Tobacco Enforcement Special Fund. Exempts the Fund from central service surcharges and the reimbursement for departmental adminsitrative expenses. Revises the disribution of the tobacco settlement moneys.

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO THE HONOLULU POLICE DEPARTMENT.

Appropriates funding to the city and county of Honolulu for the Honolulu police department to act as the state control terminal agency for the national crime information center and the national law enforcement telecommunications system.

HB 632

HD1

RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES.

Allows the department of human services to license home and community-based case management agencies. (HB632 HD1)

HB 637

RELATING TO OHANA CONFERENCING.

Encourages the consideration of "ohana conferencing" as a practice in the resolution of child protective cases.

HB 699

RELATING TO SUBSTANCE ABUSE TESTING.

Deletes the requirement that individuals who are to be tested for substance abuse be given a "medication" disclosure form.

HB 666

RELATING TO INDIVIDUAL WASTEWATER SYSTEMS.

Delegates the responsibility of regulating individual wastewater systems to the counties from the DOH.

HB 1256

HD1

RELATING TO SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT.

Imposes beverage container requirements and fees. Requires beverage distributors to register with the State. Establishes the beverage container deposit special fund. Provides for the redemption of empty beverage containers. Provides requirements for recycling facilities and redemption centers. (HB1256 HD1)

RELATING TO PUBLIC DISPLAY.

Amends the inventory period for a licensee, who provides public displays of fireworks more than once a month, to import and store aerial common fireworks and special fireworks from six-months to twenty-four months. Charges a $100 license fee for public display companies, including public display companies that import and store fireworks. Repeals requirement that the fireworks permit for public display must be obtained not less than twenty days before the date of the display. Clarifies that the fee for permits for public display are in addition to any license fee and that the fee for a permit for public display shall be $110 per event and used for purposes specified in section 132D-11(a).

HB 1529

HD1

RELATING TO WATER POLLUTION.

Authorizes citizen lawsuits to enforce chapter 42D, Hawaii Revised Statutes, that covers water pollution. (HB1529 HD1)

RELATING TO GOVERNMENT.

Establishes an impact litigation unit in the office of the attorney general.

RELATING TO JUDGMENTS.

Allows for interest to be assessed on the total amount of the judgment except for pre-judgment interest against the State.

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Rep. Nestor Garcia

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Rep. Eric G. Hamakawa