COMMITTEE ON ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AND COMMITTEE ON CONSUMER PROTECTION AND COMMERCE
Wednesday, February 18, 2004
1:25 p.m.
Conference Room 325; State Capitol
AGENDA:
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HB 2965 |
RELATING TO RENEWABLE ENERGY. Requires electric utility companies to establish additional renewable portfolio standard goals; requests the public utility commission to study the feasibility of implementing a rate structure to encourage the use of renewable energy and an incentives program to reward electric utility companies meeting renewable portfolio standard goals. |
EEP/CPC, FIN |
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HB 2767 |
RELATING TO CONSUMERS. Amends the proposed maximum pre-tax wholesale and retail price of regular unleaded gasoline by determining the baseline price according to the national spot price, and establishes maximum pre-tax wholesale and retail prices for mid-grade and premium gasoline. Provides tax credit for development of fuel storage terminal. |
EEP/CPC, FIN |
COMMITTEE ON CONSUMER PROTECTION AND COMMERCE AND COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY
Wednesday, February 18, 2004
1:30 p.m.
Conference Room 325; State Capitol
AGENDA:
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HB 2761 (HSCR56-04) |
RELATING TO CONSTRUCTION. Enacts a construction professional conciliation panel law.
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EDB, CPC/JUD, FIN |
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Decision making to follow. |
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Decision making only: |
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HB 2723 |
RELATING TO CONSTRUCTION. |
CPC/JUD |
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HB 1727 |
RELATING TO INSURANCE FRAUD. |
CPC/JUD |
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HB 2364 |
RELATING TO SOLICITATION OF FUNDS FOR CHARITABLE PURPOSES. |
CPC/JUD, FIN |
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HB 2409 |
RELATING TO INSURANCE. |
CPC/JUD, LAB, FIN |
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HB 2411 |
RELATING TO INSURANCE. |
CPC/JUD, FIN |
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HB 2428 |
RELATING TO REGISTRATION OF MONEY TRANSMITTERS. |
CPC/JUD, FIN |
COMMITTEE ON CONSUMER PROTECTION AND COMMERCE
Wednesday, February 18, 2004
1:45 p.m.
Conference Room 325; State Capitol
AGENDA:
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HB 1753 |
RELATING TO SECURED TRANSACTIONS. Provides that all financing statements, including fixture filings, are to be filed in the bureau of conveyances, except for fixture filings that are part of a mortgage, which will be recorded in the applicable recording office for the mortgage. |
CPC, FIN |
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HB 1816 HD1 (HSCR149-04) |
RELATING TO WORKERS' COMPENSATION. Requires the director of labor and industrial relations to establish a program that authorizes a private third-party workers' compensation drug card system that allows injured workers to receive prescription drugs promptly at no cost; program administrator to be selected pursuant to chapter 103D. (HB1816 HD1) |
LAB, CPC, FIN |
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HB 1902 HD1 (HSCR121-04) |
RELATING TO CHILDREN'S PRODUCT SAFETY. Prohibits the use of unsafe children's products. Prohibits child care facilities from using or having on the facility premises unsafe children's products. (HB1902 HD1) |
HSH, CPC, JUD |
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HB 2071 (HSCR26-04) |
RELATING TO THE HAWAII EMPLOYERS' MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY. Requires the oversight council of the Hawaii Employers' Mutual Insurance Company to use the state auditor to report on whether the company is fulfilling its express statutory purposes. |
LMG, CPC, FIN |
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HB 1759 (HSCR10-04) |
RELATING TO WORKERS' COMPENSATION INSURANCE. Authorizes workers' compensation insurers to place surcharges on the costs of their policies under specified circumstances. |
LAB, CPC, FIN |
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HB 2161 (HSCR139-04) |
RELATING TO PRESCRIPTION DRUG REFUNDABLE TAX CREDITS. Establishes a refundable income tax credit of 10% of the cost of prescription drugs for residents whose income is 200% of the federal poverty level or less. |
HSH/HLT, CPC, FIN |
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HB 2710 (HSCR158-04) |
RELATING TO HEALTH CARE INSURANCE TAX CREDIT. Grants tax credit to employers who provide health care coverage for part-time employees at the lesser of 50% of premiums paid or $ per part-time employee. Defines "part-time employee" and "health care coverage". Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2004. |
LAB/HLT, CPC, FIN |
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HB 2408 HD1 (HSCR159-04) |
RELATING TO INSURANCE. Allows health insurers to treat a trade association and its members as a single group for the purpose of issuing a health insurance policy, while allowing members of the trade association to opt out and obtain their own insurance. Prohibits the health insurer from requiring the association to offer only that insurer's plan. |
LAB/HLT, CPC, FIN |
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HB 2415 (HSCR73-04) |
RELATING TO THE PATIENTS' BILL OF RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES ACT. Authorizes the payment of a flat fee of $400 to a physician member of an external review panel. |
HLT, CPC, FIN |
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HB 2482 (HSCR57-04) |
RELATING TO HOSPITAL AND PROFESSIONAL LIABILITY RISK FINANCING. Requires the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation to organize a domestic captive insurance company to provide malpractice coverage to the Department of Health, the John A. Burns School of Medicine, and other governmental entities or quasi-governmental entities of the State involved in the provision of health care. |
HLT, CPC, FIN |
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HB 2542 (HSCR82-04) |
RELATING TO ADULT RESIDENTIAL CARE HOMES. Changes level of care payments for types I and II adult residential care homes from a maximum of $521.90 and $629.90, respectively, to unspecified amounts. Appropriates $ in FY 2004-2005 to the DHS for level of care payments for ARCHs. |
HSH/HLT, CPC, FIN |
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HB 2435 HD1 (HSCR87-04) |
RELATING TO AN EXEMPTION FOR NON-FACILITIES BASED COMPETITIVE LOCAL EXCHANGE TELECOMMUNICATIONS PROVIDERS FROM STATUTORY FINANCING REQUIREMENTS. Exempts non-facilities based resellers of telecommunications services from the prior PUC approval process for long-term financing. (HB2435 HD1) |
EDB, CPC, FIN |
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HB 2437 HD1 (HSCR95-04) |
RELATING TO CABLE TELEVISION. Authorizes DCCA to implement a 3-year pilot program to provide additional funding to support community access media facilities, equipment, and operations in underserved areas. Appropriates $800,000 for the initial year of the pilot program. (HB2437 HD1) |
EDB, CPC, FIN |
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HB 2883 HD1 (HSCR167-04) |
RELATING TO WIRELESS ENHANCED 911 SERVICE. Establishes a monthly surcharge on mobile phone connections to fund implementation of wireless enhanced 911 by wireless providers and county public safety agencies. Creates wireless enhanced 911 board to oversee collection and distribution of surcharge funds. Requires reports to the legislature, protection of proprietary provider information, and regular audits of the fund. (HB2883 HD1) |
TRN, CPC, FIN |
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Decision making to follow. |
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Decision making only: |
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HB 2973 |
RELATING TO LICENSING OF MORTGAGE BROKERS AND SOLICITORS. |
CPC, FIN |
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HB 2064 |
RELATING TO EXEMPTING ROTH INDIVIDUAL RETIREMENT ACCOUNTS FROM ATTACHMENT OR SEIZURE. |
CPC |
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HB 2558 |
RELATING TO PENSION PLANS. |
CPC |
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HB 1259 |
RELATING TO THE UNIFORM COMMERCIAL CODE. |
CPC |
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HB 2762 |
RELATING TO CHARITABLE ANNUITIES. |
CPC, FIN |
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HB 2172 |
RELATING TO TELECOMMUNICATIONS. |
CPC, FIN |
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HB 1071 |
RELATING TO THE PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION. |
CPC, FIN |
COMMITTEE ON FINANCE
Wednesday, February 18, 2004
Conference Room 308; State Capitol
2:00 p.m. AGENDA:
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HB 1712 |
RELATING TO WITHHOLDING TAX. Provides a blank percentage for the maximum percentage allowed by law for withholding income taxes. |
FIN |
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HB 1784 |
RELATING TO INCOME TAX. Raises the income tax standard deduction and personal exemption amounts to 80% of the federal amount for 2004, 90% for 2005 and 100% for 2006 and thereafter. |
FIN |
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HB 1911 |
RELATING TO INDIVIDUAL INCOME TAX. Repeals income tax for taxpayers at lower income brackets. |
FIN |
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HB 2511 |
RELATING TO INCOME TAX WITHHOLDING. Conforms the state withholding tax remittance date for employers with an annual state withholding tax liability exceeding $40,000 to the remittance date required under the federal employment tax provisions. Changes the state remittance date from monthly to "semi-weekly". |
FIN |
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HB 2596 |
RELATING TO TAXATION. Provides for a state earned income tax credit. |
FIN |
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HB 2604 |
RELATING TO TAXATION. Provides for a state earned income tax credit for individual taxpayers filing individual income tax returns for taxable years beginning after December 31, 2003. |
FIN |
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HB 2808 |
RELATING TO USE TAX OVERPAYMENT. Extends statute of limitations where use tax duplicative payment was induced by department of taxation. |
FIN |
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HB 2929 |
RELATING TO THE ESTATE AND TRANSFER TAX. Retains the State's ability to "pick-up" the state death tax credit as it existed in the Internal Revenue Code before the enactment of the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001. |
FIN |
Decision making to follow.
3:00 p.m. AGENDA:
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HB 1938 |
RELATING TO CREDIT CARD OR DEBIT CARD REMITTANCES. Permits any department, agency, board, or commission to accept credit or debit cards for any remittance in excess of $10 to that department, agency, board, or commission. |
FIN |
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HB 2907 |
RELATING TO PUBLIC PROCUREMENT. Includes certificated cost engineers in the public procurement of professional services for asbestos abatement projects. |
FIN |
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HB 2718 |
RELATING TO PUBLIC CONTRACTS. Requires the comptroller to adopt rules to implement a public contractor's duty to make prompt payment to its subcontractors. |
FIN |
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HB 2283 |
RELATING TO PROCUREMENT. Amends the public procurement code to prohibit a governmental body from requiring a contractor for construction design professional services to indemnify the governmental body for the governmental body's negligence, but allows the governmental body to require the contractor to indemnify the State for the person's negligence. |
FIN |
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HB 2185 |
RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF ACCOUNTING AND GENERAL SERVICES AND THE COMPTROLLER. Delineates the responsibilities of the Department of Accounting and General Services and the duties of the Comptroller. |
FIN |
Decision making to follow.
COMMITTEE ON ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
Thursday, February 19, 2004
9:00 a.m.
Conference Room 312; State Capitol
AGENDA:
Decision making only:
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HB 1914 |
RELATING TO SOLID WASTE. Requires large retailers and wholesalers to backhaul their shipping materials and pallets. |
EEP, FIN |
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HB 2182 |
RELATING TO WASTE MANAGEMENT. Makes the penalty for illegal dumping a class C felony. Authorizes citizen suits for solid waste pollution offenses. |
EEP, JUD |
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HB 2375 |
RELATING TO SOLID WASTE CONTROL. Creates a felony charge for the disposal of solid waste. |
EEP, JUD |
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HB 2925 |
RELATING TO REFUSE. Removes the exemption for persons transporting their own property in the furtherance of a primary business purpose or enterprise from the motor carrier law; exempts private persons operating motor vehicles in the transportation of garbage or refuse, including yard clippings and old furniture to a dump or transfer station. Allows citizens to report any illegal dumping activity, and if, as a result of the report, the case ends with a conviction, the citizen receives 50% of the fines collected for that conviction. Requires solid waste haulers to maintain trip records. |
EEP, JUD |
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HB 2189 |
RELATING TO CORPORATIONS. Prohibits incorporation and requires dissolution of corporate repeat environmental offenders; prohibits issuance and requires revocation of certificate of authority of foreign corporate repeat environmental offender; requires attorney general and director of commerce and consumer affairs to act. |
EEP, CPC/JUD |
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HB 2969 |
RELATING TO SOLAR ENERGY DEVICES. Allows for the installation of solar energy devices on any single-family residential dwelling or townhouse owned by an individual. Provides for limited restrictions. |
EEP, CPC |
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HB 2966 HD1 (HSCR88-04) |
RELATING TO ELECTRICITY. Allows government agencies to engage in wheeling, a concept in which electricity generated by a non-utility producer is transmitted over electric public utility transmission lines to another location. (HB2966 HD1) |
EDB, EEP, CPC |
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HB 2924 |
RELATING TO CLEAN WATER. Increases from $25,000 to $40,000 the fine for violating the water pollution law. Enacts provisions relating to muddy water. Allows citizen suits relating to water pollution. |
EEP/WLH, JUD |
COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC SAFETY AND MILITARY AFFAIRS AND COMMITTEE ON LABOR AND PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT
Thursday February 19, 2004
9:00 a.m.
Conference Room 309; State Capitol
AGENDA:
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HB 2823 |
AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS AND MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE MAINTENANCE OF THE WEST HAWAII VETERANS CEMETERY IN THE COUNTY OF HAWAII. Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds and appropriates funds for the maintenance of the west Hawaii veterans cemetery in the county of Hawaii. |
PSM, FIN |
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HB 2501 |
MAKING AN EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY. Appropriates emergency funds ($2,001,986) to the Department of Public Safety for the purpose of transferring additional inmates to the Federal Detention Center or Mainland facilities. |
PSM, FIN |
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HB 1772 |
RELATING TO CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES. Directs the executive branch to consider the undeveloped portion on the existing Halawa correctional facility as one of the possible sites for replacing the Oahu community correctional center. |
PSM, FIN |
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HB 2507 |
RELATING TO DRUG PARAPHERNALIA. Expands the definition of "drug paraphernalia" to include items that are distributed in reckless disregard of the risk that they will be used primarily for the use of controlled substances. |
PSM, JUD |
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HB 2499 |
RELATING TO CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES. Creates a tracking procedure for the retail sale of lab items and regulated chemicals. Enhances penalties when the unlawful manufacturing of a controlled substance occurs when a child is present, or when a child is injured in a structure where manufacturing is taking place. Updates the controlled substance list. Allows PSD by rule to temporarily revise or amend the regulated list 1 or 2 of chemicals temporarily pending a subsequent legislative session. Establishes new felonies to curtail the use of goods or chemical substances to unlawfully manufacture controlled substances. |
PSM, JUD |
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HB 2805 |
RELATING TO THE CRIME VICTIM COMPENSATION FEE. Requires written findings of fact justifying waiver of the crime victim compensation fee by the court; provides that defendant's incarceration does not by itself support a finding of inability to pay the fee; specifies the ranking of the fee in the order of priority of defendant's court-ordered payments. |
PSM, JUD |
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HB 2076 |
RELATING TO LAW ENFORCEMENT. Authorizes issuance of $1.25 million in GO bonds to expand HPD's crime laboratory; appropriates $ for HPD's hiring of additional crime laboratory technicians for statewide criminal investigations. |
PSM, FIN |
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HB 2255 |
RELATING TO SEXUAL ASSAULT. Includes a person committed to the director of public safety subjected to sexual penetration as a victim of sexual assault in the 2nd degree. Adds a law enforcement officer to list of persons who can commit sexual assault in the 3rd degree by knowing sexual contact and adds person confined to a detention facility or in custody as victims. |
PSM, JUD |
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HB 2444 |
RELATING TO THE MILITIA. Allows the Adjutant General to appoint and Assistant Adjutant General of the Army and Air component and the joint headquarters, in a federally recognized grade no higher than major general of the joint command. |
PSM/LAB, FIN |
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HB 2438 |
RELATING TO CIVIL DEFENSE. Allows the use of deadly force by law enforcement officers when they are engaged in civil defense functions protecting vital facilities, critical infrastructure, or public properties from a potential or actual terrorist threat or act; assisting in operations, or actual terrorist threat or act. |
PSM, JUD |
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HB 2549 |
RELATING TO THE HAWAII CATASTROPHIC RELIEF FUND. Establishes a Hawaii catastrophic relief fund (HCRF) to provide reinsurance for the risks of catastrophic events in Hawaii and to mitigate the impact of a catastrophic or emergency condition in Hawaii; repeals the Hawaii Hurricane Relief Fund (HHRF); transfers monies from HHRF to HCRF. |
PSM, FIN |
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HB 2684 |
RELATING TO ABUSE OF FAMILY OR HOUSEHOLD MEMBERS. Authorizes the police to take action if there are reasonable grounds to believe that abuse of a household member is about to occur. |
PSM, JUD |
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HB 2440 |
RELATING TO GOVERNMENT RECORDS. Exempts most government records or information relating to measures designed to protect the security or safety or persons or property, whether public or private, from attacks or acts of terrorism from disclosure under the Hawaii Uniform Information Practices Act. |
PSM, JUD |
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HB 2439 |
RELATING TO CIVIL DEFENSE SIRENS. Expedites the construction, installation, maintenance, repair, and replacement of civil defense warning or signal devices and sirens by exempting these items from the definition of "development" for purposes of coastal zone management. |
PSM, WLH |
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HB 2668 |
RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY. Establishes a statewide fire academy to be located on the Big Island. |
PSM, FIN |
Decision making to follow.
COMMITTEE ON HEALTH
Thursday, February 19, 2004
9:00 a.m.
Conference Room 329; State Capitol
AGENDA:
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HB 2091 |
RELATING TO PEER REVIEW. Provides protections for physicians, hospitals, and other health care providers relating to review of medical errors. Defines "health care review organization" and "case review forum." |
HLT, JUD/CPC |
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HB 557, HD1 |
RELATING TO HEALTH. To clarify the primacy of department of health rules regarding the sale of fish. (HD1) |
HLT |
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HB 558, HD1 |
RELATING TO HEALTH. Appropriates funds to have the Hawaii health systems corporation study the feasibility of establishing the Program for All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) statewide. (HD1) |
HLT, FIN |
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HB 559, HD1 |
RELATING TO HEALTH. To prohibit the disposal of hazardous wastes from medical facilities in landfills. (HD1) |
HLT, EEP |
Decision making to follow.
Decision making only:
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HCR 4 |
REQUESTING THE AUDITOR TO ASSESS THE SOCIAL AND FINANCIAL EFFECTS OF REQUIRING HEALTH INSURERS TO OFFER COVERAGE FOR SMOKING CESSATION. |
HLT, CPC, FIN |
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HCR 5 |
REQUESTING THE AUDITOR TO ASSESS THE SOCIAL AND FINANCIAL EFFECTS OF REQUIRING HEALTH INSURERS TO OFFER COVERAGE FOR OBESITY REDUCTION PROGRAMS FOR CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS. |
HLT, CPC, FIN |
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HCR 6 |
REQUESTING THE AUDITOR TO ASSESS THE SOCIAL AND FINANCIAL EFFECTS OF REQUIRING HEALTH INSURERS TO OFFER COVERAGE FOR ORAL HEALTH AND HYGIENE |
HLT, CPC, FIN |
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HB 2204 |
RELATING TO MENTAL HEALTH. Clarifies that private pay patients are eligible to receive continuing day services from the DOH's adult mental health division on a voluntary basis if they pay in full the graduated charges established and imposed by the director of health. Appropriates $ in FY 2004-2005. |
HLT, FIN |
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HB 2481 |
RELATING TO EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES. Allows the Department to include emergency aeromedical services as part of the State comprehensive emergency medical services system subject to the availability of funding. |
HLT, FIN |
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HB 2628 |
RELATING TO BOTTLED WATER. Removes certain conditions and controls for producing bottled water, including the prohibition of transporting or storing bottled water in bulk tanks and the requirement of dedicated lines for the production of bottled water. |
HLT, CPC |
COMMITTEE ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND BUSINESS CONCERNS
Thursday, February 19, 2004
9:45 a.m.
Conference Room 325; State Capitol
AGENDA:
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HB 2210 HD1 (HSCR134-04) |
RELATING TO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. Requiring value engineering and charrette services for construction, infrastructure, and transportation projects that cost more than $2.5 million dollars. (HB2210 HD1) |
EDB, FIN |
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HB 2142 |
RELATING TO BUSINESS PRACTICES. Implements short form bill relating to business practices. |
EDB, JUD |
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Decision making to follow. |
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Decision making only: |
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HB 2396 |
RELATING TO CAPITAL INVESTMENTS. Proposes a 20% refundable tax credit for scientific research by qualified research and development companies. Clarifies the existing investment tax credit. Extends the technology infrastructure renovation tax credit. Proposes to establish a 20% business-research institute tax credit. Creates the Hawaii Private Investment Fund Program to increase the availability of equity and debt capital for the emerging, expanding, and restructuring enterprises. Appropriates $20 million from the Hawaii Strategic Development Corporation revolving fund for the operation of Program. |
EDB, FIN |
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HB 2576 |
RELATING TO CAPITAL FORMATION. Adopts new capital formation incentives. |
EDB, FIN |
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HB 2765 |
RELATING TO CORPORATE ACCOUNTABILITY. Establishes safeguards to encourage corporate accountability and provides mechanisms to ensure efficient use of state funds given to corporations in the form of economic incentives. |
EDB, JUD, FIN |
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HB 2634 |
RELATING TO SECURITIES FOR THE PROTECTION OF PUBLIC FUNDS. Authorizes the use of certificates of deposit issued through the Certificate of Deposit Account Registry Service to secure public funds. |
EDB, CPC |
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HB 2034 HD1 (HSCR33-04) |
RELATING TO BIOPROSPECTING. Prohibits the sale or transfer of biological resources or biological diversity on public lands; establishes a temporary bioprospecting advisory commission to address issues related to bioprospecting, including equitable benefit sharing, and appropriates funds to enable the commission to develop a comprehensive bioprospecting plan; to be repealed June 30, 2007. (HB2034 HD1) |
EEP/WLH, EDB, FIN |
Decision making to follow.