COMMITTEE ON INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS AND COMMITTEE ON HUMAN SERVICES AND HOUSING

Monday, February 3, 2003

1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.

Conference Room 329; State Capitol

AGENDA:

HB1062 RELATING TO LANGUAGE ACCESS FOR PERSONS INT/HSH

WITH LIMITED ENGLISH PROFIENCY. JUD,FIN

Establishes commission on language access. Appropriates

Unspecified funds to establish the commission and for DOH

and DHS to develop and implement systems by which limited

English speaking persons can access services, activities and

Programs within the department.

Decision making to follow.

 

COMMITTEE ON ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AND COMMITTEE ON CONSUMER PROTECTION AND COMMERCE

Monday, February 3, 2003

1:30 p.m.

Conference Room 325; State Capitol

AGENDA:

HB 206

RELATING TO THE ISSUANCE OF SPECIAL PURPOSE REVENUE BONDS TO ASSIST INDUSTRIAL ENTERPRISES.

Authorizes issuance of up to $25,000,000 in special purpose revenue bonds to assist Barlow Projects Hawaii LLC, a subsidiary of Barlow Projects, Inc., an individual enterprise for a project on Maui.

EEP,CPC,FIN

HB 215

RELATING TO THE ISSUANCE OF SPECIAL PURPOSE REVENUE BONDS TO ASSIST INDUSTRIAL ENTERPRISES.

Authorizes issuance of up to $25,000,000 in special purpose revenue bonds to assist Barlow Projects Hawaii, LLC, a subsidiary of Barlow Projects, Inc., an individual enterprise.

EEP,CPC,FIN

HB 471

RELATING TO ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENTS.

Authorizes OEQC to review and override the determination of an agency's determination of whether its proposed action requires an environmental impact statement. Requires an environmental assessment for proposed wastewater facilities, waste-to-energy facilities, landfills, oil refineries, and power generating facilities.

EEP,CPC,FIN

HB 1539

RELATING TO TAXATION OF ALTERNATIVE FUELS.

Taxes renewable alternative fuels at an effective rate of one-quarter that of diesel fuel on an energy content basis.

EEP,CPC,FIN

HB 1127

RELATING TO ENERGY RESOURCES.

Extends the time for the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to complete the comprehensive review and analysis of the price cap mechanism and policy options to lower Hawaii's gasoline prices.

EEP,CPC,FIN

HB 473

RELATING TO THE PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION.

Requires the public utilities commission to maintain a web site that includes all decisions and orders, and listings of open dockets, upcoming meetings, and pending deadlines. Requires applicants to provide the commission with PDF-formatted compact discs or other electronic format prescribed by the commission, for all filed documents. Provides that the time period within which commission action is due starts to run upon the posting of a substantially complete filing on the web site.

EEP,CPC,FIN

HB 1250

RELATING TO RENEWABLE ENERGY TAX CREDITS.

Implements recommendations of the energy-efficiency policy task force, including continuation of energy-efficiency policy review and evaluation; establishment of renewable energy technologies tax credit; collection of detailed data on tax credits.

EEP,CPC,FIN

HB 532

RELATING TO ENERGY.

Authorizes the issuance of revenue bonds to finance the acquisition, construction, rehabilitation, installation, and improvement of solar energy, energy conservation, and renewable energy facilities and equipment for various agencies, departments, and enterprises of the State.

EEP,CPC,FIN

HB 288

RELATING TO ENERGY CONSERVATION INITIATIVES.

Provides for solar general obligation bonds to finance solar facilities and equipment for state facilities; geothermal royalties for hydrogen research and development; statewide energy audit; and two-year extension of the energy conservation tax credit.

EEP,CPC,FIN

HB 1676

RELATING TO NET ENERGY METERING.

Increases allowed capacity of energy generating facilities that may be used by an eligible customer-generator engaged in net energy metering; increases the allowed total energy generating capacity produced by eligible customer-generators; requires net energy metering to be billed and compensated quarterly after the first year of a customer's operation.

EEP,CPC,FIN

HB 1493

RELATING TO RENEWABLE ENERGY.

Requires the public utilities commission to establish a renewable energy credits trading program to ensure compliance with the State's renewable portfolio standards. Requires DBEDT to review the feasibility of the State becoming a member of the Chicago climate exchange.

EEP,CPC,FIN

HB 1399

RELATING TO UTILITY LINES.

Declares a 5-year moratorium on construction of new overhead 138 kilovolt utility lines on Oahu. Establishes an advisory committee appointed by the governor to develop a comprehensive statewide utility line undergrounding plan and report to the legislature before the 2006 regular session.

EEP,CPC,FIN

Decision making to follow.

 

 

COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION

Monday, February 3, 2003

2:00 p.m.

Conference Room 309; State Capitol

AGENDA:

HB 485

RELATING TO THE ISSUANCE OF SPECIAL PURPOSE REVENUE BONDS FOR HANAHAU`OLI SCHOOL.

Authorizes issues of SPRBs in amount not to exceed $5,000,000 to assist Hanahau`oli School finance the construction and improvement of its educational facilities and to acquire land.

EDN, FIN

HB 488

RELATING TO THE ISSUANCE OF SPECIAL PURPOSE REVENUE BONDS FOR MID-PACIFIC INSTITUTE.

Authorizes the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds to assist Mid-Pacific Institute.

EDN, FIN

HB 939

RELATING TO THE ISSUANCE OF SPECIAL PURPOSE REVENUE BONDS FOR HOALA SCHOOL.

Authorizes issues of SPRBs in amount not to exceed $5,000,000 to assist Hoala School finance or refinance the planning, acquisition, construction, or improvement of its educational facilities.

EDN, FIN

HB 1362

RELATING TO THE ISSUANCE OF SPECIAL PURPOSE REVENUE BONDS FOR ST. PATRICK SCHOOL.

Authorizes the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds for the purpose of assisting St. Patrick School in financing or refinancing the planning, acquisition, construction, or improvement of its educational facilities.

EDN, FIN

HB 1092

RELATING TO EDUCATION.

Allows home-schooled students to participate in extracurricular and co-curricular activities of the public school to which the home-school student would be assigned.

EDN, JUD, FIN

HB 421

RELATING TO CHARTER SCHOOLS.

Prohibits a student, other than a student who is a resident of the State, from enrolling in a new century charter school or new century conversion charter school.

EDN, JUD, FIN

Decision making to follow.

 

Decision making only:

HB 32

RELATING TO EDUCATION.

Short form bill relating to education.

EDN

COMMITTEE ON CONSUMER PROTECTION AND COMMERCE

Monday, February 3, 2003

2:30 p.m.

Conference Room 325; State Capitol

AGENDA:

HB 1072

RELATING TO CONDOMINIUMS.

Expands start date for transfer of condominium unit that triggers ownership and liability for the unit's share of common expenses and assessments to include recordation of the mortgagee's affidavit of non-judicial foreclosure.

CPC, JUD

HB 1615

RELATING TO TAXATION.

Requires excise tax exemption on assessments by condominium associations and other homeowner associations to also apply to time share associations.

CPC, FIN

HB 1164

RELATING TO INSURANCE.

Makes technical amendments to insurance statutes, and conforms insurance and other statutes to the producer license model act.

CPC, FIN

HB 1328

RELATING TO THE CONSUMER ADVOCATE.

Broadens role of consumer advocate by providing that consumer advocate consider the benefits of renewable resources.

CPC, EEP

HB 478

PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE V OF THE STATE CONSTITUTION TO MAKE THE INSURANCE COMMISSIONER AN ELECTED OFFICIAL.

Proposes a constitutional amendment to make the insurance commissioner an elected official.

CPC, JUD, FIN

Decision making to follow.

 

Decision making only:

HB 93: Relating to Continuing Education of Design Professionals (heard 1/24)

HB 430: Relating to Motor Vehicle Insurance (heard 1/27)

HB 527: Relating to Attachment and Execution (heard 1/27)

HB 373: Relating to Political Speech (heard 1/27)

HB 594: Relating to the Public Utilities Commission (heard 1/29)

HB 929: Relating to Condominium Property Regimes (heard 1/29)

 

COMMITTEE ON TOURISM AND CULTURE AND COMMITTEE ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND BUSINESS CONCERNS

Tuesday, February 4, 2003

8:30 a.m.

Conference Room 325; State Capitol

AGENDA:

HB 690

RELATING TO PROMOTION OF HIGH TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRIES IN HAWAII.

Requires Hawaii tourism authority to allocate a portion of its biennial budget to contract with the Hawaii Technology Trade Association to market and promote high technology industries in Hawaii.

TAC/EDB, FIN

HB 833

RELATING TO TAXATION.

Creates a tax credit against general excise tax liability for the owners or operators of hotels or time-share facilities who create new jobs within the State during the taxable year. Creates a tax credit against general excise tax liability for the owners or operators of hotels or time-share facilities who train and/or retrain employees within the state during the taxable year.

TAC/EDB, FIN

HB 1400

RELATING TO HOTEL CONSTRUCTION AND REMODELING TAX CREDIT.

Extends the hotel construction and remodeling tax credit to 6/30/2008, makes the tax credit refundable, and adds a definition of "qualified hotel facility".

TAC/EDB, FIN

HB 1395

RELATING TO SPECIAL FACILITY PROJECTS.

Extends the authority of the Hawaii community development authority to issue special facility revenue bonds to the fiscal biennium 2003-2005; amends definition of special facility.

EDB/TAC, FIN

HB 1397

RELATING TO SPECIAL FACILITY PROJECTS.

Authorizes the Hawaii community development authority to issue special facility revenue bonds in the fiscal biennium 2003-2005 for the construction, furnishing, and equipping of an ocean center in Kakaako.

EDB/TAC, FIN
 

HB 1631

RELATING TO THE GENERAL EXCISE TAX.

Extends the current GET exemptions for: (1) Condominium common expenses paid by managers and (2) Hotel employee expenses paid by hotel operators, to include expenses paid by submanagers and suboperators and to include employee expenses in timeshare projects.

TAC, CPC, FIN

HB 224

RELATING TO QUALIFIED TAX CREDITS.

Generally, substitutes and adds the definition of "Qualified hotel facility" for the definition of "Qualified resort facility". Also adds a credit percentage of 10 percent for qualified improvement costs to a qualified hotel facility totalling $1,000,000 over a three year period.

TAC, FIN

HB 448

RELATING TO TRANSIENT ACCOMMODATIONS TAX.

Provides an exception to the transient accommodations tax for dinner parties and related events held at accommodations that would otherwise be liable under the transient accommodations tax law.

TAC, FIN

HB 1279

RELATING TO TAXATION.

Establishes a tax credit for qualified costs at Ko Olina Resort and Marina; maximum tax credit of $7,500,000 in any year; maximum total tax credit of $75,000,000.

TAC, FIN

HB 1554

RELATING TO COUNTY TAXES.

Repeals the provision allowing each county to establish a one-half per cent general excise and use tax surcharge, and allows counties with populations of 200,000 or more to establish a blank per cent general excise and use tax surcharge. Changes the transient accommodations tax allocations to the counties.

TAC, FIN

HB 267

RELATING TO GOVERNMENT.

Establishes limited immunity for the State and counties from tort liability arising out of hazardous recreational activities.

TAC, JUD, FIN

HB 258

RELATING TO STATE AND COUNTY TORT LIABILITY.

Provides the State immunity from any claim of liability arising from a person participating in a hazardous recreational activity. Provides counties limited immunity.

TAC, JUD

Decision making to follow.

 

COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION

Tuesday, February 4, 2003

8:30 a.m. – 8:45 a.m.

Conference Room 329; State Capitol

AGENDA:

HB 682

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO PREVENT CRYSTAL METHAMPHETAMINE USE.

HLT/EDN, PSM, FIN
 

Makes appropriation to Department of Health to work with Department of Education and law enforcement agencies to prevent crystal meth use.

  

Decision making to follow.

 

COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC SAFETY & MILITARY AFFAIRS

Tuesday, February 4, 2003

8:45 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.

Conference Room 329; State Capitol

AGENDA:

HB 1110

RELATING TO MICROORGANISM IMPORT.

Authorizes the Department of Health and Tripler Medical

HLT/PSM, ARG, FIN
 

Center to import microorganisms for laboratory diagnostics without review and permit approval by the Department of Agriculture to prepare for bio-terrorism acts and other public health emergencies in a timely manner.

  

Decision making to follow.

 

 

COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND COMMITTEE ON HUMAN SERVICES AND HOUSING

Tuesday, February 4, 2003

9:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon

Conference Room 329; State Capitol

AGENDA:

HB 260

RELATING TO LANGUAGE ACCESS.

Establishes a commission on language access within

HLT/HSH, LAB, FIN
 

the office of community services, DLIR, to facilitate the provisions of language assistance services by state agencies to persons with limited English proficiency. Appropriates funds.

  

HB 874

RELATING TO THE EMERGENCY BUDGET AND RESERVE FUND.

HLT/HSH, PSM, FIN
 

Appropriates tobacco settlement monies to the emergency budget and reserve fund to meet increased public health, safety and welfare needs caused by an economic emergency.

  

HB 1617

RELATING TO HEALTH CARE.

Establishes the State Health Authority to provide health care

HLT/HSH, LAB, FIN
 

for all Hawaii citizens. Establishes the State Health Authority Commission to determine the costs of the Authority and to determine a financing mechanism to carry out the purpose of the Authority. Repeals the State Health Planning and Development Agency and transfers its functions to the Authority. Repeals the Prepaid health Care Act. Repeals the HAWAII Employer-union Health Benefits Trust Fund.

  

HB 1256

RELATING TO HEALTH INSURANCE.

HLT, LMG, FIN

 

Creates a mandated health care service coverage review panel to assess the social, financial and medical impacts of mandated health insurance coverage. Repeals the state auditor's duty to review such proposals.

  

HB 556

RELATING TO PEER SUPPORT COUNSELING SESSIONS.

HLT, LAB, JUD
 

Provides for the confidentiality of any communication made by a participant counselor in a peer support counseling session conducted by a law enforcement agency or by an emergency service provider.

  

HB 923

RELATING TO DENTAL HEALTH.

HLT, LAB, FIN

 

Requires DOH to contract with the private sector, including nonprofits, to carry out its statutory duties. Requires Director of Health to report annually on Legislative appropriations for dental services targeted to under served populations and remote geographic areas of the State.

  

HB 613

RELATING TO INSURANCE RATE REGULATION.

HLT, CPC, FIN
 

Prohibits medical malpractice insurers from engaging in rate discrimination against physicians or surgeons for entering into collegial agreements or collaborating with advance practice registered nurses.

  

HB 1182

RELATING TO EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES.

HLT, CPC, JUD
 

Deletes terminal condition as the sole circumstance when "comfort care only do not resuscitate" protocols may be initiated by in-the-field emergency response personnel to persons whose heart or breathing has stopped. Allows a person, a person's guardian or agent or surrogate with legal authority to make health care decisions on behalf of the person to allow the withholding of cardiac resuscitation and artificial breathing or to revoke CCO-DNR documents.

  

HB 1218

RELATING TO CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES.

HLT, CPC, FIN

 

Clarifies statutory provisions relating to the use of marijuana for medical purposes.

  

HB 97

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR EMERGENCY AMBULANCE SERVICE ON THE ISLAND OF HAWAII.

HLT, FIN
 

Appropriate funds to provide emergency advance life support ambulance service to the residents of Hawaiian Ocean View Estates in the Island of Hawaii.

  

HB 557

RELATING TO HEALTH.

HLT
 

Short form bill relating to health.

  

Decision making to follow.

 

 

COMMITTEE ON LABOR AND PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT

Tuesday, February 4, 2003

8:30 a.m.

Conference Room 309; State Capitol

AGENDA:

Decision making only (heard on January 31, 2002):

HB 957

RELATING TO GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES.

Establishes a zero-tolerance policy for the use of controlled substances in government employment. Authorizes mandatory drug testing for new hires. Authorizes random drug testing for active employees.

LAB, JUD, FIN

HB 641

RELATING TO CRIMINAL HISTORY RECORD CHECKS.

Implements the recommendations of the criminal history record check working group, as established pursuant to Act 263, SLH 2001, to address inconsistencies and duplicative statutory language authorizing record checks for employment background checks, certifications, and licensing of individuals.

LAB, JUD, FIN

HB 1293

RELATING TO MEDICAL SAVINGS ACCOUNTS IN THE EMPLOYER-UNION HEALTH BENEFITS TRUST FUND.

Establishes medical care savings accounts in the employer-union health benefits trust fund for health care needs for state and county employees.

LAB, FIN

HB 450

RELATING TO WORKERS' COMPENSATION.

Allows employers to establish individual medical trust accounts to cover the health care expenses of employees arising from work-related injuries.

LAB, CPC/JUD, FIN

HB 1167

RELATING TO MEDICAL SAVINGS ACCOUNTS.

Authorizes private insurers, mutual benefit societies, and health maintenance organizations to offer high-deductible health insurance policies in conjunction with medical savings accounts in this State.

LAB, CPC, FIN

HB 616

RELATING TO STRIKES.

Prohibits public employers from privatizing government services that are not being provided due to a lawful strike. Allows public employees to seek injunctive relief if a public employer violates laws relating to strikes.

LAB, JUD, FIN

Decision making only (heard on January 31, 2003):

HB 386

RELATING TO WORKERS' COMPENSATION.

Extends workers' compensation insurance exemption to employers owning 50% or more of a limited liability company or a limited liability partnership.

LAB, CPC/JUD, FIN

HB 1069

RELATING TO EMPLOYMENT SECURITY.

Provides and limits optional exemptions from the unemployment insurance law for business owners holding at least a 50% interest in their company; repeals the disqualification for unemployment benefits of an owner-employee of a corporation who voluntarily leaves employment.

LAB, CPC, FIN

HB 1249

RELATING TO THE HEALTH BENEFITS TRUST FUND.

Allows the Board of Trustees for the Health Benefits Trust Fund to hire independent legal counsel.

LAB, JUD, FIN

HB 969

RELATING TO COLLECTIVE BARGAINING.

Maintains the process of arbitration mutually agreed upon by public employers and employees.

LAB, JUD, FIN

HB 1013

RELATING TO EXAMINATIONS FOR THE DETERMINATION OF PERMANENT IMPAIRMENT.

Requires employer-requested medical examinations for workers' compensation cases involving the determination of permanent impairment to be performed by a physician selected by mutual agreement of the parties, or if no agreement, by a physician appointed by the director of the department of labor and industrial relations.

LAB, CPC, FIN

HB 474

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE EMERGENCY ENVIRONMENTAL WORKFORCE.

Appropriates funds to continue the emergency environmental workforce program.

LAB, EEP, FIN

HB 554

RELATING TO GOVERNMENT.

Authorizes a board of water supply serving a population of 500,000 or more persons, to implement an experimental civil service modernization project without the approval from the Mayor.

LAB, JUD, FIN

HB 606

RELATING TO COMMUNITY SERVICES.

Transfers the office of community services from the department of labor and industrial relations to the department of human services.

LAB, HSH, FIN

HB 1196

RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYEES.

Gives the city and county of Honolulu, the counties of Hawaii, Maui, and Kauai, the University of Hawaii, and the Hawaii health systems corporation the right to negotiate their own collective bargaining agreements for their own employees, separate and apart from the State. Authorizes the UH and the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation to establish their own personnel system, separate and apart from the State.

LAB, JUD, FIN

COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC SAFETY AND MILITARY AFFAIRS AND COMMITTEE ON LABOR AND PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT

February 4, 2003

9:00 a.m.

Conference Room 309; State Capitol

AGENDA:

Decision making only (heard on January 31, 2003):

HB 984

RELATING TO CIVIL SERVICE REFORM.

Implements a new program of drug testing for public safety- sensitive positions. Requires that prospective employees for safety-sensitive positions be subject to substance abuse testing. Authorizes the Hawaii Labor Relations Board to review appeals of employer-related substance abuse testing decisions. Excludes drug testing, drug testing procedures, and positive drug testing sanctions from collective bargaining negotiations.

PSM/LAB, JUD, FIN

 

 

 

COMMITTEE ON LABOR AND PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT

Tuesday, February 4, 2003

9:15 a.m.

Conference Room 309; State Capitol

AGENDA:

HB 385

RELATING TO THE PREVENTION OF WORKPLACE VIOLENCE.

Establishes procedures to prevent workplace violence.

LAB, JUD

HB 1198

RELATING TO CHILD LABOR.

Amends prohibited occupations and work hour standards, and the penalty for violations of provisions relating to the employment of minors in certain types of establishments.

LAB, JUD

HB 725

RELATING TO INCOME TAX.

Allows certain businesses to claim an income tax credit of up to fifteen percent of prepaid health insurance premiums paid for employees and their families.

LAB, FIN

HB 1205

RELATING TO THE PREPAID HEALTH CARE ADVISORY COUNCIL.

Prohibits the appointment of certain healthcare professionals to the prepaid Health Care Advisory Council.

LAB, FIN

HB 1510

RELATING TO CHIROPRACTIC.

Clarifies definition of "Chiropractic".

LAB, CPC/JUD

Decision making to follow.

 

COMMITTEE ON LABOR AND PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT

Tuesday, February 4, 2003

10:30 a.m.

Conference Room 309; State Capitol

AGENDA:

HB 290

RELATING TO UNEMPLOYMENT.

Creates a program providing additional benefits to unemployed workers by extending their unemployment insurance benefits.

LAB, FIN

HB 294

RELATING TO TEMPORARY HEALTH INSURANCE FOR UNEMPLOYED PERSONS.

Provides temporary health insurance for unemployed person who lost their health insurance.

LAB, FIN

HB 1197

RELATING TO THE EMPLOYMENT SECURITY LAW.

Conforms state statutory provisions to the Temporary Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 2002. Eliminates the fund restriction to UI administrative use only, so that monies can also be used to pay for UI benefits as well as the administration of its system of public employment offices.

LAB, FIN

HB 1385

RELATING TO NEW ECONOMY WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT.

Allows moneys in the employment and training fund to be used for employers to train their own employees, incentives for employers to train residents in skills in critically short supply, and incentives for employers to train workers recently unemployed or likely to be unemployed.

LAB, FIN

HB 511

RELATING TO COLLECTIVE BARGAINING.

Authorizes the Legislature and the city councils to reject individual cost items agreed to during collective bargaining negotiations.

LAB, FIN

HB 509

RELATING TO COLLECTIVE BARGAINING IN PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT.

Creates a collective bargaining unit for substitute teachers of the DOE, including part-time employees working less than one-half of a full-time equivalent. Allows the members of bargaining unit (14) to strike. Prohibits bargaining over wages as long as the wages of these employees are established in law.

LAB, FIN

Decision making to follow.

 

 

COMMITTEE ON ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AND COMMITTEE ON WATER, LAND USE & HAWAIIAN AFFAIRS

Tuesday, February 4, 2003

9:00 a.m.

Conference Room 312; State Capitol

AGENDA:

HB 1621

RELATING TO SPECIAL PURPOSE REVENUE BONDS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF BLOCK J IN DOWNTOWN HONOLULU.

Authorizes the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds for the purpose of planning, designing, and constructing a low-rise cooling and parking facility on Block J in downtown Honolulu.

WLH/EEP, FIN

HB 1392

RELATING TO RENEWABLE ENERGY.

Provides tax credit for renewable energy technologies; creates a solar water heating loan revolving fund; directs DLNR to do a renewable energy land inventory; directs DBEDT to convene a biomass task force; allows renewable energy development in exclusive enterprise zones; and establishes the geothermal resources development special fund.

EEP/WLH, EDB, FIN

HB 216

RELATING TO TRAUMA SCENE AND INFECTIOUS WASTE MANAGEMENT.

Regulates the management of trauma scene and infectious waste.

EEP, FIN

HCR 16

REQUESTING THE AUDITOR TO CONDUCT A SUNRISE REVIEW OF THE REGULATION OF TRAUMA SCENE WASTE MANAGEMENT PRACTITIONERS.

EEP, LMG, FIN

HB 1634

RELATING TO SPECIAL PURPOSE REVENUE BONDS.

Authorizes the issuance of SPRBs for the planning, design, construction, and equipping of, and the acquisition of lands for, a plasma municipal solid waste processing system to convert solid wastes into electricity, and chemically and biologically inert slag, on the island of Oahu.

EEP, FIN

HB 605

RELATING TO CLOSURE OF MUNICIPAL FACILITIES.

Expands the definition of "pollution control project" to include the closure of the project so that such closures will qualify for special purpose revenue bond funding.

EEP, FIN

HB 744

RELATING TO FUEL.

Prohibits methyl tertiary-butyl ether (MTBE) as a gasoline additive in Hawaii after 12/31/03. Imposes penalties for violations.

EEP, FIN

HB 11

RELATING TO ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH.

Prohibits (within 1 year after its effective date) a person from using, selling, offering for sale, distributing, blending, or manufacturing methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE) as a motor fuel additive in this State, except in "trace amounts" (i.e., not greater than 0.5 per cent by volume of the motor fuel).

EEP, CPC

HB 1137

RELATING TO PRODUCT PROCUREMENT PREFERENCES BY STATE AGENCIES.

Encourages all agencies to purchase locally made recycled-content products and provides procurement preferences to bidders on state agency contracts.

EEP, JUD, FIN

HB 580

RELATING TO NOISE.

Prohibits as disorderly conduct punishable as a misdemeanor or a violation, the operation of gas or electric lawn mowers or other grounds maintenance equipment that can be heard beyond the premises upon which it is operated, and that is operated after 9:00 p.m and before 7:00 a.m.

EEP, JUD

HB 1371

RELATING TO NOISE.

Prohibits leaf blower manufacturers from causing to be sold in the State leaf blowers whose sound levels have not been tested and lowered under standards of the American National Standards Institute. Appropriates funds for the director of health to establish a buyback program for noncompliant models of leaf blowers. Expands unreasonable noise category of the crime of disorderly conduct to include noise from motorized apparatus.

EEP, JUD, FIN

HB 1372

RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLE ALARM SYSTEMS.

Prohibits the car alarm manufacturers from causing to be sold in the State alarm systems that cannot electronically notify the car owner that the alarm is being activated. Prohibits car owners from operating a vehicle that lacks electronic notification capability. Subjects violators to traffic code penalties.

EEP, JUD, FIN

Decision making to follow.

 

Decision making only:

HB 737

RELATING TO CLEAN WATER.

Increases, from $25,000 to $40,000, the fine for each violation of the water pollution law, or any rule, permit, or variance issued under that law. Enacts provisions relating to muddy water, underground injection, and nutrients. Allows citizen suits.

EEP, JUD, FIN

HB 1032

RELATING TO RENEWABLE ENERGY.

Requires the public utilities commission to develop and adopt a standard power purchase contract for the purchase of electricity by public utilities from nonfossil fuel producers.

EEP, CPC/JUD, FIN

HB 476

RELATING TO CONSERVATION OF AQUATIC LIFE, WILDLIFE, AND LAND PLANTS.

Allows state and county agencies to enter into habitat conservation plans and safe harbor agreements. Requires legislative approval of certain plans and agreements. Provides for the enforcement of habitat conservation plans and safe harbor agreements through citizen lawsuits.

WLH/EEP, JUD, FIN

HB 1213

RELATING TO ENDANGERED SPECIES.

Expands the definition of landowners eligible for coverage under safe harbor agreements and habitat conservation plans to all state and county lands and private lease lands.

WLH/EEP, JUD, FIN