OFFICE OF THE SPEAKER

TWENTY-SECOND STATE LEGISLATURE

COMMITTEE REFERRALS

 

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NO. 27

32nd LEGISLATIVE DAY-MARCH 13, 2003

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Committee Abbreviations:

AGR - Agriculture

HSH - Human Services and Housing

CPC - Consumer Protection and Commerce

INT - International Affairs

EDB - Economic Development and

JUD - Judiciary

Business Concerns

LAB - Labor and Public Employment

EDN - Education

LMG - Legislative Management

EEP - Energy and Environmental Protection

PSM - Public Safety and Military Affairs

FIN - Finance

TAC - Tourism and Culture

HED - Higher Education

TRN - Transportation

HLT - Health

WLH - Water, Land Use & Hawaiian Affairs

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SENATE BILLS

  
   

Committee

S.B. NO.

  

RE-REFERRAL
     

14, SD1

RELATING TO REHIRING RETIRED SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS.

Allows the rehiring of retired school administrators as principals or vice principals without penalty to retirement benefits. Requires retirees to have been retired for at least one year before reemployment. (SD1)

LAB, FIN

24, SD2

RELATING TO EDUCATION.

Provides that the salary schedules of principals and vice-principals and of all other educational officers shall be based on a twelve-month term of service. Provides retention bonuses for principals and vice-principals. (SB24 SD2)

LAB, FIN

44, SD2

RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION.

Provides further economic relief for airport concessionaires. (SB44 SD2)

TRN, FIN

209, SD3

RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT.

Appropriating $        for the conversion of 10-month certificated positions to 12-month positions, as needed, for multi-track schools for fiscal years 2003-2004 and 2004-2005. (SD3)

LAB, FIN

296, SD1

RELATING TO ETHICS.

Provides for mandatory ethics training for legislators, elected members of the board of education, executive department heads and deputies, and trustees of the office of Hawaiian affairs.

LMG, JUD

363

RELATING TO EXPERIMENTAL MODERNIZATION PROJECTS FOR COUNTY BOARDS OF WATER SUPPLY.

Authorizes any county Board of Water Supply serving a population of 500,000 or more persons, to establish an experimental modernization project to determine whether specific changes in its human resource program are desirable.

LAB, JUD, FIN

374, SD1

RELATING TO REAL ESTATE.

Defines "de minimis structure position discrepancies", and clarifies that the tolerance used to determine whether or not an encroachment falls within the statute is determined by the use of the affected abutting lot. (SD1)

CPC

528, SD2

RELATING TO THE TRANSFER OF COUNTY LANDS AND IMPROVEMENTS.

Transfers lands and improvements utilized by the department of education, in the county of Hawaii, to the State. Appropriates funds. (SD2)

WLH, FIN

534, SD2

RELATING TO AGRICULTURE.

Appropriates funds to the College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources at the University of Hawaii at Manoa for various agricultural research and outreach programs. (SB534 SD2)

HED, FIN

550, SD1

RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES.

Includes silvicultural products in the definition of agricultural products, and removes the monetary value and weight requirements that trigger the need for a certificate of ownership for the sale or resale of agricultural products. (SD1)

AGR, FIN

614, SD1

RELATING TO HEALTH INSURANCE.

Establishes a health insurance fraud investigations unit within the insurance division. Provides immunity from civil liability for the reporting of insurance fraud, except in the case of malicious reporting or perjury. Appropriates funds. (SD1)

CPC, JUD

684, SD2

RELATING TO PARKING FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES.

Amends various definitions within the Hawaii Revised Statutes relating to parking for persons with disabilities, to include "vascular" and extreme colitis as qualifying conditions, to include access aisles as part of parking spaces for persons with disabilities, authorizes replacement of stolen placards through the same procedure as replacement of lost or mutilated placards; clarifies that parking privileges for persons with disabilities apply to public spaces; lowers the penalty for failure to display the proper permit or identification card; and provides penalties for illegally parking in an access aisle adjacent to a parking space for a person with a disability. (SD2)

TRN, JUD, FIN

739

RELATING TO ANATOMICAL GIFTS.

Repeals sunset provision of Act 88, Session Laws of Hawaii 1999, relating to anatomical gifts, making permanent the enactments for organ and tissue education fee and Hawaii organ and tissue education special fund.

HLT, CPC, JUD

931, SD2

RELATING TO HAWAII VICTIMS LEAVE ACT.

Entitles domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking victims to paid or unpaid employment leave. (SD2)

LAB, FIN

1152, SD1

RELATING TO THE REPRESENTATION OF THE OFFICE OF HAWAIIAN AFFAIRS ON BOARDS, COMMISSIONS, AND ADVISORY BODIES.

Installs a trustee or designee of the office of Hawaiian affairs on the state land use commission and the public advisory body for coastal zone management. (SD1)

WLH, FIN

1134, SD1

RELATING TO COURT COSTS.

Establishes new court administrative costs associated with the processing of certain civil filings, which are to be deposited into the judiciary computer system special fund. (SD1)

FIN

1135, SD1

RELATING TO COURT FEES.

Provides that certain district court fees for administrative costs are deposited into the judiciary computer system special fund. (SD1)

FIN

1367, SD2

RELATING TO THE HAWAII HEALTH SYSTEMS CORPORATION.

Allows the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation to obtain criminal history information on persons who are seeking employment in any of the corporation's facilities; allows Corporation to refuse to employ an applicant under certain circumstances. (SB1367 SD2)

HLT, LAB, JUD

1411, SD1

RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII RISK MANAGEMENT SPECIAL FUND.

Establishes the University of Hawaii Risk Management Special Fund; allows the university to assess risk management fees and to purchase insurance. (SD1)

HED, JUD, FIN