COMMITTEE ON CONSUMER PROTECTION AND COMMERCE
Monday, March 1, 2004
3:00 p.m.
Conference Room 325; State Capitol
AGENDA:
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HB 2143 |
RELATING TO BUSINESS REGULATION. Expands the definition of gift certificate to reflect changes in retail industry technology; extends the minimum life of certificates to seven years; provides that consumers may obtain cash after utilizing 90 percent of the value of the certificate; prohibits service charges or dormancy fees; no longer requires issuers to report unclaimed amounts under the Unclaimed Property Act (HB2143 HD1). |
CPC |
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HB 648 |
RELATING TO REAL PROPERTY LEASE CONTRACTS. Requires, in leasehold renegotiations, that a rent based on fair market value shall apply even if the value is lower than existing rent and the lease contract bars the lowering of rent upon renegotiation. Allows a one-time rent adjustment to reflect fair market value for any existing lease renegotiated after January 1, 1990. |
CPC |
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Decision making to follow.
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Decision making only: |
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HB 1259 |
RELATING TO THE UNIFORM COMMERCIAL CODE. |
CPC |
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HB 2974 |
RELATING TO PEST CONTROL. |
CPC |
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HB 1762 |
RELATING TO INSURANCE. |
CPC |
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HB 2773 |
RELATING TO CONDOMINIUM PROPERTY REGIMES. |
CPC |
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HB 2774 |
RELATING TO SUBDIVISIONS. |
CPC |
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HB 1729 |
RELATING TO CONDOMINIUM PROPERTY REGIMES. |
CPC |
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HB 2634 (HSCR341-04) |
RELATING TO SECURITIES FOR THE PROTECTION OF PUBLIC FUNDS. |
EDB, CPC |
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HB 2966 HD2 (HSCR396-04) |
RELATING TO ELECTRICITY.
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EDB, EEP, CPC |
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HB 2969 HD1 (HSCR440-04) |
RELATING TO SOLAR ENERGY DEVICES.
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EEP, CPC |
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HB 2048 HD1 (HSCR7-04) |
RELATING TO NET ENERGY METERING.
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EEP, CPC |
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HB 2981 (HSCR186-04) |
RELATING TO NURSES. |
HLT, CPC |
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HB 2093 (HSCR400-04) |
RELATING TO DENTAL PROFESSIONAL LICENSING. |
HLT, CPC |
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HB 2798 (HSCR336-04) |
RELATING TO THE PRACTICE OF PHARMACY.
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HLT, CPC |
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HB 2092 HD1 (HSCR270-04) |
RELATING TO MEDICINE AND SURGERY. |
HLT, CPC |
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HB 2539 HD1 (HSCR258-04) |
RELATING TO HOSPITALS. |
HLT, CPC |
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HB 1472 Proposed HD1 (Available for review in Room 320) |
RELATING TO TIME SHARES. This carryover bill from 2003 will be used as a vehicle to address issues relating to the resale of timeshare units. |
CPC |
COMMITTEE ON CONSUMER PROTECTION AND COMMERCE AND COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY
Monday, March 1, 2004
3:15 p.m.
Conference Room 325; State Capitol
AGENDA:
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HB 1839 HD1 (HSCR284-04) |
RELATING TO PAIN PATIENT'S BILL OF RIGHTS. Gives rights to pain patients. Authorizes doctors to prescribe medically necessary dose of controlled substance to treat intractable pain. Protects doctor from disciplinary action. Allows refusal to so prescribe but requires informing patient of other doctors who use opiates to treat chronic intractable pain. (HB1839 HD1) |
HLT, CPC/JUD |
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HB 2130 (HSCR335-04) |
RELATING TO MEDICAL RECORDS. Amends the confidentiality provisions of the mental health, mental illness, drug addiction, and alcoholism law by changing "insurer" to "provider" to indicate that the provider may inform the patient of a reimbursement claim. |
HLT, CPC/JUD |
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HB 2098 (HSCR274-04) |
RELATING TO MEDICAL RECORDS. Provides for the release of medical records of a deceased person to next of kin. |
HLT, CPC/JUD |
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Decision making to follow.
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Decision making only: |
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HB 1987 (HSCR30-04) |
RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLES.
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TRN, CPC/JUD |
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HB 2633 |
RELATING TO MONOPOLIES; RESTRAINT OF TRADE. |
CPC/JUD |
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HB 2768 |
RELATING TO TRADE REGULATION. |
CPC/JUD |
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HB 2788 |
RELATING TO MORTGAGE BROKERS AND SOLICITORS. |
CPC/JUD |
COMMITTEE ON FINANCE
Monday, March 1, 2004
Conference Room 308; State Capitol
3:30 p.m. AGENDA:
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HB 2722 |
RELATING TO THE ALA WAI WATERSHED IMPROVEMENTS. Appropriates funds for vegetative cover and construction of retention basins for discharge into Manoa and Palolo streams. |
FIN |
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HB 432 |
RELATING TO STREAM EROSION. Appropriates funds for a study to prevent erosion of the banks of Kawa Stream, Kaneohe, Oahu. |
FIN |
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HB 1956 HD1 (HSCR456-04) |
RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL LAND PRESERVATION. Provides incentives for the ownership of important agricultural lands, including exemption from county subdivision ordinances for leasehold subdivisions, transferable development credits, real property and agricultural infrastructure improvement tax credits, and exemption from the use tax. |
AGR/WLH, FIN |
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HB 2849 (HSCR351-04) |
MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR ORGANIC AGRICULTURE. Appropriates funds to support the establishment of an organic agriculture center and improve food security in Waianae. |
AGR, FIN |
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HB 2800 HD1 (HSCR455-04) |
RELATING TO IMPORTANT AGRICULTURAL LANDS. Establishes the process to identify important agricultural lands (IAL) as required by Art. XI, Section 3 of the State Constitution; requires a study to provide incentives; clarifies that the identification of IALs is not contingent upon the enactment of incentives; makes effective on 7-1-2010; appropriates funds; and provides for IAL leasehold subdivision. |
WLH/AGR, FIN |
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HB 2529 HD1 (HSCR308-04) |
RELATING TO HAZARDOUS LAND. Requires each county to identify hazardous land areas; adopt standards for building in hazardous land areas, and enact ordinances to implement standards. |
WLH, JUD, FIN |
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HB 1946 (HSCR47-04) |
RELATING TO BEACH RESTORATION AND PROTECTION. Requires DLNR to adopt rules. Allows taxpayers whose state income tax refund for any taxable year is $2 or more to designate $1 of the same to be paid into the beach restoration special fund. |
WLH, FIN |
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HB 1793 HD1 (HSCR50-04) |
RELATING TO LAND EXCHANGE. Directs the Department of Land and Natural Resources to enter into negotiations with the George Galbraith Estate for a land exchange of private agricultural lands situated north of Wahiawa, Oahu. |
WLH, FIN |
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HB 2716 (HSCR428-04) |
RELATING TO THE SOUTH KONA WILDERNESS AREA. Appropriates funds to DLNR to conduct an appraisal of private lands contained within the South Kona Wilderness Area for the purpose of purchasing the land or conducting a land exchange. |
WLH, FIN |
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HB 2528 HD1 (HSCR84-04) |
RELATING TO CONSERVATION LAND. Provides an unspecified percentage conservation land tax credit for land, not exceeding an unspecified value, donated to and accepted by the State that is situated in a conservation land use district or for a land owner who voluntarily reclassifies residentially zoned land to conservation and initiates the rezoning process. |
WLH, FIN |
Decision making to follow.
4:45 p.m. AGENDA:
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HB 1335 HD2 (HSCR542) |
RELATING TO TUITION WAIVERS. Requires all UH students of Hawaiian descent to receive partial to full tuition waivers. |
HED, WLH, FIN |
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HB 2815 (HSCR235-04) |
RELATING TO EDUCATION. Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds to take advantage of the Qualified Zone Academy Bond Program. |
EDN, FIN |
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HB 2156 HD1 (HSCR419-04) |
RELATING TO EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION. Establishes the Governor's School Readiness Commission to develop the Open Doors Expansion Program. |
HSH, FIN |
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HB 2022 HD1 (HSCR422-04) |
RELATING TO GENERAL ASSISTANCE. Requires review of medical records, prior to claim denial, if no mental, physical, or combination of disability is determined. Makes determination of no disability rebuttable. Requires DHS to give legible prompt notice of treatment recommendations, and gives treating doctors authority to determine whether the person has complied with treatment recommendations. Combines physical and mental disabilities for GA disability determinations. |
HSH/HLT, FIN |
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HB 2796 (HSCR420-04) |
RELATING TO STATE FUNDS. Appropriates funds from the emergency and budget reserve fund for various health and human services programs, including grants, for FY 2004-2005 only. |
HSH/HLT, FIN |
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HB 1860 (HSCR188-04) |
RELATING TO CHILD ABUSE AND NEGLECT. Authorizes an income tax return check-off with funds going into the Hawaii children's trust fund, domestic violence prevention special fund, and spouse and child abuse special accounts. |
HSH, FIN |
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HB 1885 (HSCR300-04) |
MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR A YOUTH SUMMIT. Appropriates funds for a youth summit to address ideas and concerns of interest to Hawaii's youth. |
HSH, FIN |
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HB 2088 HD1 (HSCR423-04) |
RELATING TO CRITICAL ACCESS HOSPITALS. Substitutes the Department of Health for Hawaii Health Systems Corporation for state matching funds for rural hospitals. Makes permanent definition of "critical access hospital", payment methodology to these hospitals using medicare reasonable cost principles, and exemption of these hospitals from medicaid reimbursement equity. |
HSH/HLT, FIN |
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HB 2662 (HSCR210-04) |
RELATING TO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. Establishes the Military Community Infrastructure Development Revolving Loan Fund to help military communities develop infrastructure to minimize the possibility of or the adverse effects of the closure or reduction in capacity of a military installation on the military community. |
PSM, FIN |
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HB 2191 (HSCR217-04) |
RELATING TO ENTERPRISE ZONES. Removes provisions that restrict telecommunications from being designated a qualified business for enterprise zone purposes. |
EDB, FIN |
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 |
COMMITTEE ON LABOR AND PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT
Tuesday, March 2, 2004
8:30 a.m.
Conference Room 309; State Capitol
AGENDA:
Decision making only (heard on February 27, 2004):
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HB 1552 |
RELATING TO THE HEALTH BENEFITS TRUST FUND. Prohibits trustees of the Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund board from serving on any other board during the trustee's term of office. |
LAB |
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HB 2463 |
RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYEES. Eliminates licensure as a performance requirement. |
LAB |
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HB 2464 |
RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYEES. Clarifies that when a civil service employee is released from a new position for inefficiency during the probationary period, that employee may be returned to a vacant comparable position, as determined by the employer, or the employee's former position as currently provided. |
LAB |
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HB 2465 |
RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYEES. Allows an employee hired through departmental internal recruitment to be subsequently appointed to the permanent position. |
LAB |
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HB 2645 HD1 (HSCR228-04) |
RELATING TO EDUCATION. Exempts retired DOE teachers holding a teaching license from any prerequisite coursework that the department requires of other substitute teachers. (HB2645 HD1) |
EDN, LAB |
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HB 2740 |
RELATING TO NOTIFICATION OF EMPLOYMENT CHANGES. Extends from sixty to ninety days the period by which employers must notify employees and the director of labor and industrial relations of its intention to close, partially close, or relocate. Requires employers to provide written notification of the discontinuance, termination, or reduction of housing or housing assistance to employees and the director of labor and industrial relations. |
LAB |
COMMITTEE ON FINANCE
Tuesday, March 2, 2004
10:00 a.m.
Conference Room 308; State Capitol
AGENDA:
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HB 1780 (HSCR22-04) |
RELATING TO EMPLOYMENT. Limits paid leave for government employees who attend parent-teacher conferences to two (2) hours, and clarifies that government employees are eligible to receive paid leave to attend the parent-teacher conferences of adult children who are attending a public or private school in grades kindergarten through twelve. |
LAB, FIN |
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HB 1924 (HSCR152-04) |
RELATING TO TEACHER COMPENSATION. Requires teachers to receive their normal annual increment or longevity increase, as the case may be, for a year's satisfactory service in any fiscal year that an increase in the appropriate salary schedule is effected, except as provided by law. |
LAB/EDN, FIN |
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HB 1778 HD1 (HSCR148-04) |
RELATING TO WAGES. Authorizes an employer to furnish to an employee an electronic record of an employee's total gross compensation, the amount and purpose of each deduction, total net compensation, date of payment, and pay period covered, in lieu of a printed, typewritten, or handwritten record, upon receipt of written authorization from the employee. |
LAB, FIN |
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HB 2025 HD2 (HSCR304-04) |
RELATING TO EQUAL PAY. Prohibits employers from discriminating on the basis of gender by paying wages to an employee at a rate less than the rate at which the employer pays wages to another employee of the opposite sex for equal work, except when the difference in compensation is based on a seniority system, a merit system, a system that measures earnings by quantity or quality of production, a bona fide occupational qualification, or a differential based on any factor other than sex. |
LAB, JUD, FIN |
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HB 2873 HD1 (HSCR282-04) |
RELATING TO HEALTH SAVINGS ACCOUNTS. Establishes a mechanism for individuals to open health savings accounts. |
LAB/HLT, FIN |
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HB 2408 HD1 (HSCR383-04) |
RELATING TO INSURANCE. Allows health insurers to treat a bona fide trade association and its members as a single group for the purpose of issuing a health insurance policy, while allowing members of the bona fide 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. Defines bona fide trade association. |
LAB/HLT, CPC, FIN |
Decision making to follow.
COMMITTEE ON HEALTH
Tuesday, March 2, 2004
10:00 a.m.
Conference Room 329; State Capitol
AGENDA:
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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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HCR 16 |
REQUESTING THE AUDITOR TO ASSESS THE SOCIAL AND FINANCIAL EFFECTS OF REQUIRING HEALTH INSURERS TO OFFER COVERAGE FOR COGNITIVE REHABILITATION. |
HLT, CPC, FIN |
Decision making to follow.
COMMITTEE ON ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
Tuesday, March 2, 2004
11:00 a.m.
Conference Room 312; State Capitol
AGENDA:
Decision making only:
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HB 1840 |
RELATING TO AIR POLLUTION CONTROL. Authorizes the Director of Health to regulate the discharge of fugitive dust both within and beyond a property lot line. |
EEP |