OFFICE OF THE SPEAKER

TWENTY-FIRST STATE LEGISLATURE

COMMITTEE REFERRALS

 

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NO. 8

12th LEGISLATIVE DAY-FEBRUARY 4, 2002

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Committee Abbreviations:

AGR - Agriculture

HSH - Human Services and Housing

CPC - Consumer Protection and Commerce

JHA - Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs

EDB - Economic Development and

LAB - Labor and Public Employment

Business Concerns

LMG - Legislative Management

EDN - Education

PSM - Public Safety and Military Affairs

EEP - Energy and Environmental Protection

TAC - Tourism and Culture

FIN - Finance

TRN - Transportation

HED - Higher Education

WLU - Water and Land Use

HLT - Health

  

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HOUSE BILLS

  
   

Committee

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RE-REFERRAL

1810

RELATING TO GOVERNMENT.

Short form bill relating to Government.

JHA, FIN

2132

RELATING TO CORRECTIONS.

Requires adult women charged with or convicted of crimes and juvenile females adjudicated for offenses that would be crimes if committed by an adult or who are adjudicated delinquents, to be provided a range and quality of programming substantially equivalent to the range and quality offered to males; annual report to legislature. Requires the department of public safety to develop and implement gender-responsive community-based programs for women offenders. Requires the office of youth services to develop and implement gender-responsive community-based programs for female adjudicated youths. Appropriates money.

PSM, FIN

2249

RELATING TO NORTH KOHALA.

Preserves a cluster of historical sites in North Kohala on the island of Hawaii by authorizing the department of land and natural resources to condemn the land adjacent to the Kohala Historical Sites State Monument. Allows the Mo`okini Luakini Corporation to protect and care for the Mo`okini Heiau.

WLU, FIN

2281

RELATING TO EDUCATION.

Transfers funds from the DOE to the UOH to allow the university to provide administrative, professional, and technical services through the Hawaiian language to new century charter schools participating in the laboratory school program of the college of Hawaiian language.

EDN/HED, FIN

2501

RELATING TO THE APPROPRIATION FOR STATE EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PROGRAMS.

Provides continued funding for the state's workers' compensation program for fiscal year 2001-2002.

FIN

2531

RELATING TO TEMPORARY HEALTH INSURANCE FOR UNEMPLOYED PERSONS.

Clarifies Act 6, Third Special Session Laws of Hawaii 2001, regarding reimbursement of payments. Specifically provides that the expenditure of money appropriated shall be for the period beginning after September 11, 2001 and ending on June 30, 2002 or when the money runs out, whichever is sooner.

LAB, FIN

2593

RELATING TO EDUCATION.

Allows the board of regents of the UOH to operate new century charter schools that use the Hawaiian language as their primary medium of education in order to establish the basis for a laboratory school program in the college of Hawaiian language.

EDN/HED, FIN

2645

RELATING TO YOUTH.

Transfers various current youth services to the office of youth services; establishes a blue ribbon panel of representatives of the departments of health, human services, and education, office of youth services, and the judiciary to study and recommend the consolidation of all youth services into the OYS; recommend legislation to the 2003 Session.

HSH/HLT/EDN, JHA, FIN

2743

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR NATIVE HAWAIIAN HEALTH.

Appropriates $500,000 to establish a department of Native Hawaiian health in the UH school of medicine.

HED, FIN

2836

RELATING TO ENERGY.

Implements the recommendations of the Energy Efficiency Policy Task Force.

EEP/CPC, FIN

2847

RELATING TO HAWAIIAN EDUCATION.

Establishes a noncontiguous Hawaiian Charter School District under the Department of Education to be governed by a Hawaiian school board.

EDN, FIN