OFFICE OF THE SPEAKER
TWENTY-FIRST STATE LEGISLATURE
COMMITTEE REFERRALS
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NO. 3
6th LEGISLATIVE DAY-JANUARY 25, 2001
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Committee Abbreviations:
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AGR - Agriculture |
HSH - Human Services and Housing |
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CPC - Consumer Protection and Commerce |
JHA - Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs |
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EDB - Economic Development and |
LAB - Labor and Public Employment |
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Business Concerns |
LMG - Legislative Management |
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EDN - Education |
PSM - Public Safety and Military Affairs |
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EEP - Energy and Environmental Protection |
TAC - Tourism and Culture |
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FIN - Finance |
TRN - Transportation |
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HED - Higher Education |
WLU - Water and Land Use |
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HLT - Health |
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HOUSE BILLS |
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Committee |
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H.B. NO. |
REFERRAL |
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312 |
RELATING TO THE EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING FUND. Repeals the employment and training fund and related assessments. |
LAB,FIN |
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313 |
RELATING TO THE PROTECTION AGAINST INTERRUPTION OF COMMERCE. Mandates the governor to intervene where furnishing of services by the stevedoring industry is disrupted. Includes a 10 day limit after a finding of a danger to public safety to minimize disruption of flow of vital goods. |
EDB,LAB,JHA |
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314 |
RELATING TO TAX CREDITS FOR BUSINESSES OFFERING DRUG TREATMENT TO EMPLOYEES. Allows tax credit to businesses that offer drug treatment to their employees for tax years after 12/31/2000. Makes credit equal to 50% of any additional cost to the health insurance premium. |
HLT,EDB,FIN |
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315 |
RELATING TO ZERO-BASED BUDGETING FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION. Requires the proposed executive budgets for the DOE, commencing with FB 2003-2005 and continuing thereafter through FB 2007-2009, to be prepared in accordance with zero-based budgeting principles. |
EDN,FIN |
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316 |
RELATING TO EXEMPTIONS FROM THE CAPITAL GAINS TAX. Waives capital gains tax on investments made in Hawaii between 7/1/01 and 6/30/02, if the investment is held for more than two years. |
EDB,FIN |
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317 |
PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE VIII, SECTION 3, OF THE HAWAII CONSTITUTION TO REQUIRE THE APPROVAL OF TWO-THIRDS OF THE LEGISLATURE TO LEVY OR INCREASE TAXES OR TO REPEAL A TAX EXEMPTION OR CREDIT. Proposes an amendment to article VIII, section 3 of the Hawaii Constitution to require approval of two-thirds of the members of the legislature to increase taxes, levy new taxes, or repeal a tax exemption or credit. |
JHA,FIN |
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318 |
PROPOSING AMENDMENTS TO ARTICLES II, III, AND XVII OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF HAWAII TO PROVIDE FOR INITIATIVE, REFERENDUM, AND RECALL. Amends articles II, III, and XVII of the state constitution to provide for initiative, referendum, and recall. Requires an initiative to embrace only one subject and be void if the legislature enacts any law which is same or similar (accomplishing the same purpose), if so determined by the attorney general. Prohibits initiative to be used to: (a) make, or repeal appropriation of public funds; (b) make, amend, or repeal levy of taxes; and (c) for issues affecting land use. Provides for referendum to approve or reject statutes except for the amending or repeal of (a) appropriation of public funds; (b) levy of taxes; and (c) any matter governed by collective bargaining contracts. Sets requirements and procedures for voter referendum. Establishes the procedures to be followed to require a recall election. |
LMG,JHA,FIN |
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319 |
RELATING TO MINIMUM WAGES. Amends the current minimum wage law applicable to tipped employees in the food and beverage industry in order to bring the State's tip credit to a level consistent with federal law. Also changes the tip credit from 20 cents to a percentage of the State's minimum wage so that the credit realistically reflects the level of tips received by tipped employees in the food and beverage industry. |
LAB,FIN |
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320 |
RELATING TO THE INCREASE OF THE AGE OF CONSENT FROM FOURTEEN TO sixTEEN. This Act seeks to increase the age of consent from the current age of fourteen to sixteen. Includes a provision that the actor must be at least 4 years older than the victim in order to be charged with first degree and third degree sexual assault. |
JHA |
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321 |
relating to controlled substances. Allows the administrator of the narcotics enforcement division to share information from the electronic prescription accountability system with "dispensers" (practitioners who dispense controlled substances) if the information relates to the dispenser's own patients. |
PSM,CPC |
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322 |
MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERVICES. Appropriates funds within family court to establish a pilot dedicated domestic violence court and to provide related domestic violence services. |
JHA,FIN |
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323 |
relating to penal responsibilty. Amends definition of "physical or mental disease, disorder, or defect" to exclude abnormalities that are attributable to the voluntary ingestion of alcohol or any other psychoactive substance. |
JHA |
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324 |
PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE I OF THE HAWAII CONSTITUTION, TO ADD A SECTION ON CRIME VICTIMS' RIGHTS. Proposes an amendment to the state constitution to give crime victims constitutionally recognized and protected rights. |
JHA,FIN |
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325 |
RELATING TO THE PENAL CODE. Creates a class C felony offense for the manufacture or sale of false identification to a person under the age of 21. |
JHA |
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326 |
RELATING TO THE JUDICIARY. Establishes a permanent drug court for the second circuit. |
JHA,FIN |
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327 |
RELATING TO DISPOSITION OF CONVICTED DEFENDANTS. Provides for enhanced sentencing of a defendant who uses a controlled substance to facilitate the commission or attempted commission of a felony sexual assault. |
JHA |
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328 |
RELATING TO ELECTIONS. Requires filing a bank statement with final and supplemental campaign spending reports. |
JHA,FIN |
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329 |
RELATING TO CRIMINAL PROCEDURE. Prohibits deferred acceptance of guilty and nolo contendere pleas for assault 3rd convictions involving family or household members |
JHA |
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330 |
RELATING TO CHILDREN. Toughens Hawaii's criminal laws for perpetrators of child abuse. |
JHA |
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331 |
relating to nonimmigrant students. Prohibits the DOE from awarding a high school diploma, or its adult equivalent, to a nonimmigrant alien unless the alien has reimbursed the DOE for the full, unsubsidized per capita cost of providing the alien with a public education, for the period of the alien's attendance in a public school. |
EDN,JHA,FIN |
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332 |
RELATING TO RETIREMENT BENEFITS. Eliminates overtime compensation, differentials, and supplementary pay from the calculation of retirement benefits for all employees after 6/30/00. Clarifies that for purposes of determining the amount of a member's contribution to the annuity savings fund, a member's compensation does not include payments for overtime, differentials, and supplementary pay. |
LAB,FIN |
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333 |
RELATING TO A CONSTITUTION REVISION COMMISSION. Establishes a constitution revision commission within the office of the attorney general to examine the state constitution and develop prospective changes for public ratification. Establishes a procedure for the appointment of members. Appropriates funds. Effective 12/1/02. |
JHA,FIN |
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334 |
PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO THE HAWAII CONSTITUTION TO ESTABLISH A COMMISSION ON GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION AND EFFICIENCY. Proposes a constitutional amendment to require the convening of a government organization and efficiency commission every ten years to review state government operations and make recommendations to enable state government to conduct its operations in a more cost-effective manner. |
LAB,JHA,FIN |
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335 |
PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO THE HAWAII CONSTITUTION TO ESTABLISH A COMMISSION ON GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION AND EFFICIENCY. Proposes a constitutional amendment to require the convening of a government organization and efficiency commission every ten years to review state government operations and make recommendations to enable state government to conduct its operations in a more cost-effective manner |
LMG,JHA,FIN |
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336 |
RELATING TO INDIVIDUAL DEVELOPMENT ACCOUNT CONTRIBUTION TAX CREDIT. Provides that the individual development account contribution tax credit shall be equal to 100% of the amount contributed. |
HSH,FIN |
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337 |
MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE CONTINUUM OF CARE PLAN. Appropriates funds for the office of youth services to implement its continuum of care plan. |
HSH,FIN |
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338 |
MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR FUNDING A SECOND AMBULANCE TO SERVICE THE WAIANAE COAST. Appropriates $1 to fund a second ambulance for Waianae Coast area. |
HLT,FIN |
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339 |
MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE WAIANAE COAST COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH CENTER. Makes appropriation to the Waianae Coast Comprehensive Health Center for emergency services. |
HLT,FIN |
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340 |
relating to human services. Requires the department of human services to abolish the cap on enrollment in the QUEST program. |
HSH,FIN |
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341 |
relating to mutual benefit societies. Removes reference to statutes that have been repealed. |
CPC |
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342 |
RELATING TO SCHOOLS. Appropriates funds for the planning, design, and implementation of new century charter schools. |
EDN,FIN |
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343 |
Relating to education. Establishes a merit pay program under which principals are awarded additional pay if their school improves in measurable areas of performance. |
EDN,LAB,FIN |
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344 |
Relating to education. Requires the annual collection and dissemination of information on every public school regarding the performance of each school, broken down by gender and ethnicity. |
EDN,FIN |
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345 |
relating to education. Requires public schools to collect information for, and distribute, an annual school report card. |
EDN,FIN |
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346 |
RELATING TO ELECTIONS. Reduces the amount of campaign contributions to a candidate seeking a two-year, four-year statewide, and a four-year nonstatewide office to $500, $1,500, and $1,000, respectively, and $250 to a noncandidate committee. |
JHA |
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347 |
Requires the department of health to contract with a private vendor to study alternative means of disposing of used motor vehicle tires and financing their disposal. Appropriates funds to the department. |
EEP,FIN |
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348 |
relating to gasoline dealers. Amends the law relating to gasoline dealers to exempt, from 7/1/01 to 6/30/06, dealer-initiated sales of retail service stations to manufacturers or jobbers from the requirement that the manufacturer or jobber find a replacement dealer for the service station within 24 months. |
EEP,CPC |
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349 |
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. |
PSM,JHA,FIN |
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350 |
Relating to homeless youths. Appropriates funds for the transitional living program for unserved street youth. |
HSH,FIN |
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351 |
RELATING TO SEXUAL ASSAULT. Changes statutory rape law by covering 14 and 15 year olds if the other participant is, for 2nd degree sexual assault, 21 or older, and for 3rd degree sexual assault, is 18 or more. |
JHA |
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352 |
relating to professional counselors. Establishes a professional counselor licensing program. |
HLT,CPC,FIN |
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353 |
RELATING TO CRUELTY TO ANIMALS. Prohibits DLNR, unless public hunting has demonstrably failed to achieve the desired animal control, from using poisons, snares, or traps that are unattended or designed to injure, to capture or kill game animals and makes use of those devices and methods a misdemeanor offense under the Penal Code. |
WLU,JHA |
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354 |
MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR SIGN LANGUAGE INTERPRETERS. Appropriates funds for sign language interpreters to the department of human services, the legislature, the University of Hawaii, and the department of health. |
HSH/HED, LMG,FIN |
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355 |
RELATING TO WORKERS' COMPENSATION. Disallows compensation for physical or mental injury resulting from a disciplinary or other personnel action taken in good faith by the employer. |
LAB,CPC,FIN |
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356 |
relating to minimum wages. Increases the tip credit to a blank percentage beginning 1/1/ . |
LAB,FIN |
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357 |
relating to pensioners' special compensation. Amends the employees' retirement system law to provide for special compensation to pensioners. |
LAB,FIN |
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358 |
RELATING TO CHECK CASHING. Removes 07/01/01 sunset from the check cashing law. |
CPC |
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359 |
RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLE EQUIPMENT. Requires motor vehicles to use headlights when operating windshield wipers. |
TRN,JHA |
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360 |
relating to public utilities. Requires the establishment of a consumer disclosure standard under which retail suppliers of electricity disclose information on the fuel mix of the electricity products they sell. |
EEP,CPC,FIN |
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361 |
RELATING TO RESTRICTIONS ON THE USE OF SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS. Prohibits the use of social security numbers for recordkeeping, identification, or informational purposes on a variety of state and county government documents, records and forms. Provides transition to new forms and identification numbers. |
JHA,FIN |
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362 |
relating to the hawaii tourism authority. Requires the Hawaii tourism authority to establish a registry of groups of Hawaii residents traveling to out-of-state destinations to promote and market Hawaii as a tourist destination. Allows the authority to enter into agreements with and award grants to these groups. |
TAC,FIN |
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363 |
relating to liability. Provides immunity from liability to county lifeguard and the employing county for the lifeguard's rescue, resuscitative, or other emergency service. |
WLU,JHA |
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364 |
RELATING TO county CONSTRUCTION projects. Requires a semiannual report from each county listing every change order, contract modification, or other contract price adjustment which causes the county's expenditure for a county construction project assisted by the State to increase by either: (1) 5% of the original contract amount; or (2) $50,000. |
FIN |
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365 |
relating to agricultural commodity damage. Establishes that any person who intentionally damages an agricultural commodity known to be part of a product development program shall be liable to damages in the amount of twice the actual damage costs. |
AGR/HED,JHA,FIN |
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366 |
Relating to Macadamia nut research. Appropriates funds for macadamia nut research. |
AGR,FIN |
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367 |
MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR a BILINGUAL CITIZENSHIP project. Appropriates funds for bilingual education classes, conducting bilingual outreach programs on the benefits of naturalization, and preparing eligible immigrants for the naturalization exam. |
LAB/EDN,FIN |
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368 |
relating to the environment. Short form bill relating to the environment. |
EEP |
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369 |
relating to recycling. Short form bill relating to recycling. |
EEP |
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370 |
relating to energy. Short form bill relating to energy. |
EEP |
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371 |
relating to energy. Short form bill relating to energy. |
EEP |
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372 |
relating to the environment. Short form bill relating to the environment. |
EEP |
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373 |
MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE HANA COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER. Appropriates $836,400 in FY 2001-2002 and FY 2002-2003 to the Hana Community Health Center to allow the center to continue its current level of operations. |
HLT,FIN |
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374 |
relating to EDucation. Changes the cutoff date for kindergarten entrance to October 1 beginning with the 2002-2003 school year, and to July 1 beginning with the 2003-2004 school year. Requires the DOE to establish pre-kindergartens, and to reduce the student:teacher ratio in kindergarten to third grade to not more than 20:1. |
EDN,FIN |
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375 |
RELATING TO THE HAWAII CAVES TASK FORCE. Establishes a Hawaii caves task force. Appropriates funds for task force. |
WLU,FIN |
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HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTIONS |
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H.C.R. NO. |
REFERRAL |
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9 |
REQUESTING THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION TO CREATE AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL-LEVEL PHYSICAL EDUCATION PROGRAM. |
EDN,FIN |
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HOUSE RESOLUTIONS |
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Committee |
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H.R. NO. |
REFERRAL |
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REQUESTING THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION TO CREATE AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL-LEVEL PHYSICAL EDUCATION PROGRAM. |
EDN,FIN |
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HOUSE BILLS |
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Committee |
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H.B. NO. |
RE-REFERRAL |
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63 |
RELATING TO ENERGY CONSERVATION. Specifies that Model Energy Code standards for residential buildings shall apply to previously unoccupied new residential real property sold after 07/01/02. |
EEP,CPC |
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87 |
Relating to Family Support Centers. Re-establishes the family center demonstration project. |
HLT/HSH,FIN |
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104 |
relating to education. Requires children to have a dental examination to be admitted to any school for the first time. |
EDN,HLT,FIN |
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154 |
relating to electronic commerce security. Adds new provisions to the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act (UETA) on electronic commerce security. |
CPC/JHA |
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173 |
RELATING TO RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES. Requires qualified electric utilities to implement renewables portfolio standards, which requires these utilities to possess a minimum percentage of renewable energy resources within their overall resource portfolio. Provides for the issuance of renewable energy credits to renewable energy generators. |
EEP,CPC/JHA |
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