COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY
Tuesday, February 4, 2003
Conference Room 325; State Capitol
2:00 p.m. AGENDA:
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HB 808 |
RELATING TO THE JUDICIARY. Provides the Judiciary budget for the 2003-2005 biennium. |
JUD, FIN |
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HB 736 |
RELATING TO PROFESSIONAL AND VOCATIONAL LICENSES. Prohibits a governmental entity that administers student loans from certifying to a professional or vocational licensing board that a person is in default of a student loan unless the governmental entity obtains a judgment from a court that specifies the exact amount of the default. |
CPC, JUD |
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HB 1023 |
RELATING TO TRAFFIC FINES. Establishes a drug court program special fund where the funds are used for the various drug courts as directed by the chief justice of the supreme court. Directs $5,000,000 in fiscal years 2003-2004 and 2004-2005 of fines, forfeitures, assessments, and penalties for traffic infractions collected between July 1, 2003, and June 30, 2005, to the judiciary computer system special fund and deposits the excess fines, forfeitures, assessments, and penalties for traffic infractions collected between July 1, 2003, and June 30, 2005, grants, donations, and other funding sources into the drug court program special fund. Repeals the redirection of traffic infraction fines, forfeitures, assessments, and penalties provided in this measure on July 1, 2005. |
JUD, FIN |
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HB 815 |
RELATING TO THE COURTS. Allows use of debit cards to pay for court costs except bail postings and driver's license and vehicle registration clearances, which must be paid in cash only. |
JUD, FIN |
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HB 814 |
RELATING TO TRAFFIC INFRACTIONS. Repeals the requirement that an envelope directed to the traffic violations bureau of a district court for the purpose of answering a notice of traffic infraction include prepaid postage. |
JUD, FIN |
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HB 818 |
RELATING TO ADMINISTRATIVE DRIVER'S LICENSE REVOCATION. Removes law enforcement mileage fees from the costs covered by administrative hearing processing fees. |
JUD, FIN |
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HB 817 |
RELATING TO THE JUDICIARY. Repeals the interstate parole and probation compact. |
JUD |
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HB 1010 |
RELATING TO THE USE OF INTOXICANTS. Establishes that the refusal of an individual, including persons under the age of twenty-one, legally arrested for driving while intoxicated to submit to a breath, blood, or urine test may be admissible in any criminal or civil proceeding. |
JUD |
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HB 1022 |
RELATING TO EXPUNGEMENT. Authorizes the expungement of a juvenile arrest record if the juvenile was counseled and released by the police once the juvenile has become an adult. |
JUD |
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HB 1008 |
RELATING TO THE INTERSTATE COMPACT ON JUVENILES. Repeals chapter 582; adopts model code interstate compact for juveniles. |
JUD, FIN |
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HB 859 |
RELATING TO ATTORNEY'S FEES FOR APPOINTED COUNSEL. Increases compensation for court appointed counsel to rate used for federal District Court in Hawaii in 1990. |
JUD, FIN |
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HB 1111 |
MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR CLAIMS AGAINST THE STATE, ITS OFFICERS, OR ITS EMPLOYEES. Provides for the authorization and payment of claims against the State for refunds of taxes, for judgments and settlements, and for other miscellaneous payments. |
JUD, FIN |
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HB 563 |
RELATING TO THE ATTORNEY GENERAL. Establishes a nuisance abatement unit within the department of the attorney general to provide for the enforcement and prosecution of violations of nuisance abatement laws in the penal code. Appropriates funds. |
JUD, FIN |
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HB 983 |
RELATING TO THE ATTORNEY GENERAL. Requires the attorney general's office to represent an educational worker in any action brought against that educational worker for acts done in the performance of the educational worker's duty. |
JUD, FIN |
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HB 297 |
RELATING TO DRUGS. Establishes the Drug Busters Program within the Department of the Attorney General to aggressively combat the sale and distribution of illegal drugs. Provides funding for drug prevention, enforcement, and treatment. |
JUD, FIN |
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HB 1112 |
RELATING TO CHAPTER 846E, HAWAII REVISED STATUTES. Clarifies that hearings related to the release of sex offender information are civil in nature and that the State is represented by the prosecuting attorney in these hearings. Repeals the process for reevaluating court orders granting public access to information regarding sex offenders. Specifies that the sex offender must give appropriate notifications whenever any of the sex offender's registration information changes. |
JUD, FIN |
Decision making to follow.
2:45 p.m. AGENDA:
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HB 1600 |
RELATING TO VOTER EDUCATION MONTH. Declares every September as voter education month. |
JUD |
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HB 1255 |
MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE OFFICE OF ELECTIONS. Appropriates funds for the office of elections to meet the 5% matching funds requirement of the federal Help America Vote Act of 2002. |
JUD, FIN |
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HB 754 |
RELATING TO ELECTIONS BY MAIL. Allows any federal, state, or county election other than a regularly scheduled primary or general election to be conducted by mail. |
JUD, FIN |
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HB 1011 |
RELATING TO PERMANENT ABSENTEE VOTING. Allows voters to apply for permanent absentee voter status. Appropriates funds to be expended and dispensed to the counties by the chief election officer. |
JUD, FIN |
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HB 756 |
RELATING TO ELECTIONS. Requires the chief election officer or county clerk, in the case of a county election, to order a recount of all ballots cast when a small vote difference exists. Changes the date of primary elections to the second Saturday in August. |
JUD, FIN |
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HB 762 |
RELATING TO ELECTION HEARINGS. Allows the chief election officer to establish procedures for receiving and processing complaints and conducting investigations. |
JUD |
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HB 1547 |
RELATING TO ELECTIONS. Amends campaign spending laws to provide alternative public funding for state house of representatives candidates who voluntarily abide by certain contribution and expenditure limits. Appropriates $150,000 to the campaign spending commission for additional clean elections support staff. |
JUD, FIN |
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HB 1513 |
RELATING TO ELECTION OFFENSES. Provides civil penalties for violations of rules adopted by the chief election officer. Requires the attorney general to prosecute violations of election law upon written request from the chief election officer. |
JUD |
Decision making to follow.
COMMITTEE ON LABOR AND PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT
Tuesday, February 4, 2003
Conference Room 312; State Capitol
2:00 p.m. AGENDA:
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HB 317 HD 1 |
RELATING TO THE EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM. Allows a faculty member of UH with multiple part-time faculty appointments to meet eligibility requirements for membership in the ERS; exempts faculty or lecturers employed at UH who hold multiple part-time appointments which together aggregate to at least one-half full-time equivalent positions from provisions allowing the ERS board of trustees to deny membership to part-time or temporary employees. |
HED, LAB, FIN |
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HB 388 |
RELATING TO THE EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM. Requires ERS to review its investment managers through a formalized request for proposal process conducted every four years. |
LAB, FIN |
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HB 553 |
RELATING TO THE EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM. Restores the method used to calculate a member's average final compensation. |
LAB, FIN |
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HB 130 |
RELATING TO PENSION AND RETIREMENT SYSTEMS. Requires spousal or reciprocal beneficiary consent to any retirement benefit option selected by a member. Designates option as the retirement benefit option when a spouse or reciprocal beneficiary refuses to consent to a member's election of a benefit option, but entitles the spouse or reciprocal beneficiary to an annuity of % of the allowance received by the member before death. |
LAB, FIN |
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HB 1157 |
RELATING TO THE EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM. Minimizes the administrative processing of refunding contributions for the employees excluded from Social Security.
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LAB, FIN |
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HB 1159 |
RELATING TO THE EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM. Requires the ERS to pay interest on the retroactive amount due retirees whose pensions are not finalized within six calendar months following the month of retirement. Authorizes the ERS to assess the employing agency a late fee for each month of delay in reporting unused sick leave balances, lump sum vacation payments and other pertinent information (e.g., breakdown of retroactive payments) needed to finalize a retiree's pension.
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LAB, FIN |
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HB 287 |
RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYEES. Provides that a public employee who has been convicted of a felony that took place within the course and scope of the employee's duties must forfeit the employee's benefits starting from the date of the act constituting the felony of which the employee was convicted. |
LAB, FIN |
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HB 865 |
RELATING TO CONFLICTS OF INTERESTS. Prohibits a public employee from taking official action directly affecting a brother, sister, parent, emancipated child, or household member. |
LAB, JUD |
Decision making to follow.
3:00 p.m. AGENDA:
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HB 507 HD1 (HSCR22-02) |
RELATING TO EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIANS. Allows a licensed emergency medical technician to receive a state retirement pension after twenty-five years of service. |
HLT, LAB, FIN |
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HB 989 |
RELATING TO THE EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM. Allows contributory members of the ERS to withdraw, on a one-time basis, part or all of the member's contributions under certain conditions of economic hardship. |
LAB, FIN |
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HB 990 |
RELATING TO THE EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM. Allows contributory members of the ERS to withdraw, for one time only, part or all of the member's contributions under certain conditions of economic hardship. |
LAB, FIN |
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HB 986 |
RELATING TO DEATH BENEFITS OF SURVIVING CHILDREN OF PUBLIC EMPLOYEES. Allows surviving dependent children to receive ERS death benefits after age 18 while a full-time student or until reaching age 24, whichever occurs first, there is no surviving spouse of employee who qualified for but had not yet retired. |
LAB, FIN |
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HB 569 |
RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYEES. Establishes a deferred option retirement plan for firefighters. |
LAB, FIN |
Decision making to follow.
COMMITTEE ON WAR PREPAREDNESS
Tuesday, February 4, 2003
4:30 p.m.
Conference Room 329; State Capitol
AGENDA:
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The purpose of this informational briefing is to discuss the impact a potential war would have on the airline industry. Representatives of the State's airline industry will be present to discuss this issue. |
COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE AND COMMITTEE ON WATER, LAND USE & HAWAIIAN AFFAIRS
Wednesday, February 5, 2003
8:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Conference Room 325; State Capitol
AGENDA:
AGR only:
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HB 965 |
RELATING TO PROCUREMENT. Requires all state schools, agencies, and prisons to procure locally produced agricultural products. |
AGR, EDN/PSM, FIN |
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HB 1105 |
RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL INSPECTIONS. Amends the Marketing Order Revolving Fund by renaming it the Certification Services Revolving Fund. Transfers the unexpended balance of moneys from the Coffee Inspection Revolving Fund to the Certification Services Revolving Fund. Authorizes the Department to conduct audits and issue certificates for agricultural safety and security. Clarifies the responsibility for conducting seed certifications. |
AGR, EEP, FIN |
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HB 1330 |
RELATING TO DIVERSIFIED AGRICULTURE. Appropriates funds for a Kauai Tropical Fruit disinfestation facility and an incubator community kitchen.
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AGR, HED, FIN |
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AGR/WLH only: |
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HB 547 |
RELATING TO OFFENSES AGAINST PROPERTY RIGHTS. Changes the penalty for criminal trespass in the first degree from a misdemeanor to a class C felony. |
AGR/WLH, JUD |
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HB 576 |
RELATING TO LAND USE. Establishes a minimum lot size for agricultural districts that are subdivided after June 30, 2003. |
AGR/WLH |
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HB 1558 |
RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL LAND PRESERVATION. Provides standards and criteria to conserve and protect agricultural lands and the purchase of development rights as an incentive for landowners to keep important agricultural lands in agricultural uses. |
AGR/WLH, FIN |
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HB 1559 |
RELATING TO STATE AGRICULTURAL LEASES. Generally, enhances the law regulating agriculture leases on state land. |
AGR/WLH, FIN |
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HB 1570 |
RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL LEASES. Ensure the long-term productive utilization of state agricultural parks and other public lands classified for agricultural use under the jurisdiction of the department of agriculture. |
AGR/WLH, FIN |
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HB 454 |
RELATING TO LAND USE. Establishes a land evaluation and site assessment rating system. Requires the land use commission to establish the boundaries of the important agricultural lands district, the conservation district, and the other lands district. Abolishes urban, rural, and agricultural districts. |
WLH/AGR, FIN |
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HB 717 |
RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL LANDS. Transfers the disposition of public lands within an agricultural district from the department of land and natural resources to the department of agriculture. |
WLH/AGR, FIN |
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HB 718 |
MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE HAWAII DROUGHT PLAN. Appropriates funds for further development and planning of the Hawaii Drought Plan. |
WLH/AGR, FIN |
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HB 845 |
RELATING TO LAND USE. Establishes standards and criteria and process for identification of important agricultural lands. Establishes process for adoption of new agricultural and rural district boundaries. Amends the permissible uses within the rural land use district. Authorizes counties to permit home occupations in the agricultural district without requiring a special permit; defines "home occupation. |
WLH/AGR, FIN |
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HB 1106 |
RELATING TO THE AGRICULTURAL WATER USE AND DEVELOPMENT PLAN. Extends the time specified for the development of the state agricultural water use plan. |
WLH/AGR, FIN |
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HB 1107 |
RELATING TO THE IRRIGATION WATER DEVELOPMENT SPECIAL FUND. Eliminates the irrigation water development special fund. |
WLH/AGR, FIN |
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HB 1109 |
RELATING TO THE DELEGATION OF ALLOCATION AUTHORITY UNDER THE STATE WATER CODE. Gives equal authority to the Board of Agriculture to that granted to the county water agencies for the allocation of the use of water for agricultural irrigation purposes. |
WLH/AGR, JUD |
Decision making to follow.
COMMITTEE ON HUMAN SERVICES AND HOUSING AND COMMITTEE ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND BUSINESS CONCERNS
Wednesday, February 5, 2003
8:30 a.m.
Conference Room 329; State Capitol
AGENDA:
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HB 1577 |
RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, AND TOURISM. Repeals the HCDCH. Transfers public housing and homeless programs of HCDCH to DHS. Transfers private housing development functions of HCDCH to the counties. Consolidates HTDC and HSDC into a single agency administratively attached to DBEDT. Repeals ATDC and creates a development district under HCDA. |
HSH/EDB, LAB, FIN |
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HB 1635 |
RELATING TO GOVERNMENT. Transfers the public housing and homeless programs of the housing and community development corporation of Hawaii to the department of human services. |
HSH/EDB, LAB, FIN |
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HB 1133 |
RELATING TO THE HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF HAWAII. Transfers the Housing and Community Development Corporation of Hawaii from the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to the Department of Human Services for administrative purposes. |
EDB/HSH, LAB, FIN |
Decision making to follow.
COMMITTEE ON HUMAN SERVICES AND HOUSING AND COMMITTEE ON HEALTH
Wednesday, February 5, 2003
9:00 a.m.
Conference Room 329; State Capitol
AGENDA:
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HB 665 |
RELATING TO CHILDREN. Requires, rather than allows, the use of ohana conferences for family decision making in the preparation of a service plan before placing a child in foster care, which is to include a discussion of the feasibility of placing the child with a member of the child's extended family. |
HSH, JUD, FIN |
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HB 1129 |
RELATING TO THE HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF HAWAII. Allows the Housing and Community Development Corporation of Hawaii's Board to set the salaries of the Executive Director and the Executive Assistant, subject to the approval of the Governor. |
HSH, LAB, FIN |
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HB 1130 |
RELATING TO THE HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF HAWAII. Repeals Alteration Revolving Loan Fund and The Hawaii Development Revolving Loan Fund, and transfers the balances to the general fund. |
HSH, FIN |
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HB 1409 |
RELATING TO HOUSING PRACTICES. Prohibits discrimination against prospective tenants by landlords based on source of income. Also requires the HCDCH, as a public housing agency, to partner with landlords in order to increase participation in rental assistance programs. |
HSH, JUD |
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HB 1550 |
RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES. Transfers administration of the funds received from the surcharge for indigent legal services from the administrative director of the courts to the office of community services. |
HSH, JUD, FIN |
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Note: Correction Re-Referral of Lead Committee Decision making to follow.
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HB 846 |
RELATING TO ADULT RESIDENTIAL CARE HOMES. Allows unannounced inspections of adult residential care homes and expanded adult residential care homes by department of health. Requires director of health to adopt rules. |
HLT/HSH, JUD, FIN |
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HB 906 |
RELATING TO ADULT RESIDENTIAL CARE HOMES. Creates Type IA adult residential care homes in which no more than 2 residents require nursing facility level care; allows more upon DOH discretion. Conditions issue of Type IA license on meeting training and staffing requirements and terminates license upon discharge or transfer of such residents. |
HLT/HSH, FIN |
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HB 907 |
RELATING TO ADULT RESIDENTIAL CARE HOMES. Provides that the department of health shall license and regulate community care foster family homes as of July 1, 2003. |
HSH/HLT, FIN |
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HB 914 |
RELATING TO ADULT RESIDENTIAL CARE HOMES. Creates liability and homeowner's insurance premium and claims payment special fund in DOH to pay premiums for ARCH operators who cannot afford liability or homeowners' insurance; also pays for damage caused by State clients in ARCHs without adequate insurance. Appropriates $ and $ in FY 2003-2004. |
HLT/HSH, FIN |
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HB 1402 |
RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES. Repeals the sunset provision of Act 273, Session Laws of Hawaii 2001. |
HSH/HLT, JUD, FIN |
Decision making to follow.
COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION AND COMMITTEE ON TOURISM AND CULTURE
Wednesday, February 5, 2003
8:30 a.m.
Conference Room 309; State Capitol
AGENDA:
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HB 840 |
RELATING TO AERONAUTICS. Allows the director of transportation to adopt rules to pay bonuses to airlines that increase the number of flights into and out of any county other than Honolulu. Provides for calculation based on number of flights in a given month for each county as compared to flights made during January, 2003. |
TRN/TAC, FIN |
Decision making to follow.
COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION
Wednesday, February 5, 2003
9:00 a.m.
Conference Room 309; State Capitol
AGENDA:
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HB 681 |
RELATING TO HIGHWAY SAFETY. Removes Social Security number requirement for driver's license. Authorizes the submission of identifying documents. |
TRN, CPC |
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HB 1038 |
RELATING TO ROADSIDE HERBICIDE USE. Requires or encourages state or county agencies responsible for roadside vegetation maintenance to develop and implement an integrated vegetation management (IVM) strategy to minimize the use of herbicide. Establishes a roadside vegetation committee. |
TRN, EEP, FIN |
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HB 1064 |
RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION. Appropriates funds to establish and implement a permanent intra-island water ferry transportation system through the collaborative efforts of the department of transportation, counties, federal government, and interested public and private parties. |
TRN, WLH, FIN |
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HB 1247 |
MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A CONTRAFLOW LANE ON FARRINGTON HIGHWAY ALONG THE WAIANAE COAST FROM MOHIHI STREET TO PILIOKAHI AVENUE. Appropriates funds to be expended by the department of transportation to establish a contraflow lane on Farrington Highway along the Waianae Coast from Mohihi Street to Piliokahi Avenue during morning and evening rush hours. |
TRN, FIN |
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HB 1516 |
RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION. Requires the department of transportation to conduct a feasibility study on converting freeways into intelligent highways that can automatically control movement of cars. |
TRN, FIN |
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HB 1566 |
MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE PLANNING OF AN ALTERNATE ACCESS ROAD FOR THE NORTH SHORE. Appropriates funds for the planning of an alternate access route along Drum Road. |
TRN, FIN |
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HB 1592 |
RELATING TO HIGHWAY SAFETY. Establishes a new offense of operating a vehicle with a measurable amount of illegal drugs in a person's blood or urine, without the need to show that the drug must have impaired the person's ability to operate a vehicle in a careful and prudent manner. Provides for mandatory drug testing. |
TRN, JUD |
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HB 1607 |
RELATING TO AUTHORIZED EMERGENCY VEHICLES. Amends definition of "authorized emergency vehicles" in statewide traffic code to include ocean safety vehicles, which allows operators of ocean safety vehicles to utilize emergency driving techniques and exemptions from the traffic code. |
TRN, WLH |
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HB 1625 |
RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION. Appropriates funds to the department of transportation to study the feasibility of establishing flyer stops within the right-of-way of the H-2 freeway and connecting to a park-and-ride lot. |
TRN, FIN |
Decision making to follow.
COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION AND COMMITTEE ON INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
Wednesday, February 5, 2003
11:30 a.m.
Conference Room 309; State Capitol
AGENDA:
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HB 1459 |
RELATING TO DRIVER LICENSING. Amends the drivers' license application process for foreign students without social security numbers by requiring the submission of proof of legal presence in the United States. |
TRN/INT, JUD |
Decision making to follow.