COMMITTEE ON TOURISM AND CULTURE AND COMMITTEE ON WATER, LAND & OCEAN RESOURCES
Friday, February 4, 2005
1:30 p.m.
Conference Room 329; State Capitol
AGENDA:
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HB 916 |
RELATING TO BED AND BREAKFAST HOMES AND TRANSIENT VACATION UNITS. Provides for the regulation of bed and breakfast establishments to be administered by the counties. |
TAC/WLO, JUD, FIN |
Decision making to follow.
COMMITTEE ON WATER, LAND & OCEAN RESOURCES AND COMMITTEE ON TOURISM AND CULTURE
Friday, February 4, 2005
1:45 p.m.
Conference Room 329; State Capitol
AGENDA:
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HB 994 |
RELATING TO TAXATION. Establishes an investment tax credit for qualified investments in the motor sports facility to be developed at Kalaeloa, parcel 9. |
WLO/TAC, FIN |
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HB 1440 |
RELATING TO TAXATION. Establishes an investment tax credit for qualified investments in the roadway safety facility to be developed at Kalaeloa, parcel 9; allows taxpayers to claim the tax credit only upon declaration of the Governor after certain fiscal conditions are met. |
WLO/TAC, FIN |
Decision making to follow.
COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY AND COMMITTEE ON LABOR AND PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT
Friday, February 4, 2005
Conference Room 325; State Capitol
2:00 p.m. AGENDA:
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HB 460 |
RELATING TO THE CIVIL SERVICE. Changes the employment status of office of elections and campaign spending commission employees from exempt to civil service. |
JUD/LAB, FIN |
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HB 545 |
RELATING TO FORFEITURE OF BENEFITS FOR CONVICTED FELONS. Requires an employee convicted of a felony in violation of his/her duties as a public servant to forfeit most future benefits set forth in chapters 87A and 88. Establishes a hearing process unless the grounds for the forfeiture are established by the court in which the employee was convicted. |
JUD/LAB, FIN |
Decision making to follow.
2:15 p.m. AGENDA:
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HB 626 |
RELATING TO UNCLAIMED PROPERTY. Repeals the permanent escheatment of unclaimed property to the State. |
JUD, FIN |
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HB 858 |
RELATING TO TAX REFUNDS. Establishes the procedure to appeal the denial by the department of taxation of a claim for a refund of taxes. |
JUD, FIN |
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HB 1191 |
RELATING TO COURT INTERPRETERS. Requires the judiciary to certify court interpreters and to appoint and use certified court interpreters in legal proceedings. |
JUD, FIN |
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HB 1221 |
RELATING TO STATUTORY REVISION: AMENDING, REENACTING, OR REPEALING VARIOUS PROVISIONS OF THE HAWAII REVISED STATUTES AND THE SESSION LAWS OF HAWAII FOR THE PURPOSE OF CORRECTING ERRORS AND REFERENCES, CLARIFYING LANGUAGE, AND DELETING OBSOLETE OR UNNECESSARY PROVISIONS. Amends, reenacts, or repeals various provisions of the Hawaii Revised Statutes and the Session Laws of Hawaii for the purpose of correcting errors and references, clarifying language, and deleting obsolete or unnecessary provisions. |
JUD |
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HB 1492 |
RELATING TO CONFIDENTIALITY. Establishes address confidentiality program for victims of domestic abuse and sexual assault. |
JUD |
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HB 1529 |
RELATING TO GOVERNMENT. Requires the state agency to specify its authority to adopt rules, comply with additional procedural requirements, and provide a copy to the office of the auditor. Requires the office of the auditor to determine whether the rule is adopted within the rulemaking authority of the agency and report to the legislature. Requires the governor to send a copy of all executive orders to the legislature. Establishes an administrative process for challenging the validity of a rule. Awards fees and costs to a petitioner who prevails on an action for declaratory judgment. |
JUD |
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HB 1745 |
RELATING TO REPORTS TO THE LEGISLATURE. Repeals or exempts the Judiciary from various reporting requirements relating to administratively established accounts or funds, uncollectible delinquent fines and restitution, monitoring programs and services for parental preferences, the Judiciary's computer system, the Spouse and Child Abuse Special Account, the Parent Education Special Fund, applications for government wiretaps, outsourcing of services, and statements of goals and policies. Repeals the reporting requirement for activities and expenses of the State Council for Interstate Adult Offender Supervision. |
JUD, LMG, FIN |
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HB 1756 |
RELATING TO PROBATE. Requires an attorney preparing a will or trust who has been named to serve as a personal representative or a trustee to provide, for the testator's or trustor's approval, a written estimate of their amount of compensation. Prohibits such attorneys from using estate or trust moneys for the attorney's defense against a lawsuit. |
JUD, CPC |
Decision making to follow.
COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND COMMITTEE ON HUMAN SERVICES
Friday, February 4, 2005
Conference Room 309; State Capitol
2:00 p.m. AGENDA:
EDN/HUS only:
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HB 222 |
MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE PRESCHOOLS OPEN DOORS PROGRAM. Appropriates funds for the Preschools Open Doors Program. |
EDN/HUS, FIN |
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HB 365 |
RELATING TO EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION. Creates a pilot program for universal access to early childhood education for children age 5 or younger whose families are unable to afford quality early childhood education. Makes appropriations. |
EDN/HUS, FIN |
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HB 1300 |
RELATING TO EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION. improves early childhood education in the state by establishing a quality ratings committee and appropriating funds to allow the committee to develop a quality ratings system for early childhood education. Makes early childhood education more accessible to all children by increasing the number of childcare subsidies available through the preschools open doors program. |
EDN/HUS, FIN |
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HB 1582 |
RELATING TO SCHOOLS. Exempts private preschools and its programs that are part of a licensed elementary school from the licensing requirements imposed by the department of human services. |
EDN/HUS, JUD |
Decision making to follow.
2:30 p.m. AGENDA:
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HB 800 |
RELATING TO SCHOOLS. Specifies that certificates of participation for new school construction will not be paid out of the department of education's operating budget. Establishes the public school facility financing agreement special fund to finance new schools when new school construction is not fully funded. |
EDN, FIN |
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HB 842 |
AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF BONDS FOR EDUCATION PURPOSES. Authorizes director of finance to issue bonds to subsidize school renovation, equipment acquisition, curriculum development, and teacher training in qualified zones and schools. |
EDN, FIN |
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HB 843 |
RELATING TO SCHOOL LUNCH. Authorizes the department of education to set school lunch prices to allow for the recovery from lunch sales of up to 1/2, rather than 1/3, of the costs of preparing the lunches. |
EDN, FIN |
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HB 844 |
RELATING TO EDUCATION. Requires a principal to obtain the school community council's "review and recommendations" of academic and financial plans rather than its "review and approval" of those plans. Requires a council to ensure that those plans are "consistent" with educational accountability, rather than "aligned". |
EDN |
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HB 903 |
RELATING TO SCHOOLS. Requires the department of education to establish a priority list of public schools with the greatest need for air conditioning and to install, based on the priority list, air conditioning in schools on the priority list by set time intervals. |
EDN, FIN |
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HB 1132 |
RELATING TO EDUCATION. Creates an education design and construction project assessment fund within the DOE. Broadens DOE authority over capital improvement projects. |
EDN, FIN |
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HB 1140 |
RELATING TO EDUCATION. Authorizes the DOE to request the land use commission and the counties to impose conditions on developers for contributions of land or fees for construction of public school facilities. |
EDN, WLO, FIN |
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HB 1605 |
RELATING TO SCHOOLS. Appropriates funds for the Hawaii 3R's school repair and maintenance fund and the Hawaii 3R's coordinator position. |
EDN, FIN |
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HB 1613 |
RELATING TO EDUCATION. Increases the funds deposited to the state educational facilities improvement special fund. |
EDN, FIN |
Decision making to follow.
Decision making only (heard on January 31, 2005):
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HB 695 |
RELATING TO FEDERAL REVENUE MAXIMIZATION. Requires the DOE to establish and implement a federal revenue maximization program for all medicaid-eligible claims for school health services. |
EDN, HLT/HUS, FIN |
COMMITTEE ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND BUSINESS CONCERNS AND COMMITTEE ON TOURISM AND CULTURE AND COMMITTEE ON WATER, LAND & OCEAN RESOURCES
Friday, February 4, 2005
2:15 p.m.
Conference Room 329; State Capitol
AGENDA:
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HB 1226 |
RELATING TO COUNTY TAXES. Authorizes a county to impose the general excise tax. |
EDB/TAC/WLO, FIN |
Decision making to follow.
COMMITTEE ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND BUSINESS CONCERNS AND COMMITTEE ON TOURISM AND CULTURE
Friday, February 4, 2005
2:45 p.m.
Conference Room 329; State Capitol
AGENDA:
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HB 1096 |
RELATING TO THE ALOHA TOWER COMPLEX Requires the Aloha Tower Development Corporation to conduct a study to determine the feasibility of establishing a gathering place for visitors and residents at the Aloha Tower Marketplace. |
EDB/TAC, FIN |
Decision making to follow.
COMMITTEE ON WATER, LAND & OCEAN RESOURCES AND COMMITTEE ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND BUSINESS CONCERNS
Saturday, February 5, 2005
Conference Room 325; State Capitol
8:25 a.m. AGENDA:
WLO/EDB only:
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HB 852 |
RELATING TO PERMIT APPROVALS. Repeals automatic permit approvals. |
WLO/EDB, FIN |
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HB 991 |
RELATING TO THE ALOHA TOWER COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT. Consolidates the Aloha Tower development corporation into the Hawaii community development authority. |
WLO/EDB, JUD, FIN |
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HB 1069 |
RELATING TO LAND USE. Separate applications for reclassification of contiguous lands owned by the same landowner shall be deemed one application where the applications are separated because they contain different uses, or are phased to be developed sequentially, or are separated to avoid the requirements of chapter 205, Hawaii Revised Statues. |
WLO/EDB, FIN |
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HB 1321 |
RELATING TO THE LAND USE COMMISSION. Allows counties to file boundary amendment petitions for multi-parcel petition area to conform land use designations to county general plans or county development or community plans. |
WLO/EDB, FIN |
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HB 1369 |
RELATING TO LAND USE. Authorizes counties to request or petition the office of planning to review land use classifications and districts. |
WLO/EDB, FIN |
Decision making to follow.
8:30 a.m. AGENDA:
WLO/AGR only:
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HB 1033 |
RELATING TO INCOME TAX. Establishes an income tax credit for farmers who are forced to purchase water at higher rates from county water boards rather than at lower state irrigation system rates. Establishes the amount of the credit as the difference in the cost of water at the rates charged by the county board of water supply and the state irrigation system. Defines "farmer" as one who derives at least 50% of gross income from farming. |
AGR/WLO, FIN |
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HB 1034 |
AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS AND MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE AGRICULTURAL WATER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM, UPCOUNTRY KULA, MAUI WATERSHED. Authorizes the issuance of general obligations bonds and appropriates funds for the final phase of the upcountry Maui watershed project to build a pipeline from Omaopio Tank to Keokea. |
AGR/WLO, FIN |
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HB 1641 |
RELATING TO NON-AGRICULTURAL PARK LANDS. Establishes the Non-Agricultural Park Land Special Fund to pay for costs incurred in managing, administering, and overseeing non-agricultural park lands that are transferred, or in the process of being transferred, to the department of agriculture. |
AGR/WLO, EDB, FIN |
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HB 1667 |
RELATING TO HOME OCCUPATIONS IN AGRICULTURAL DISTRICTS. Allows counties to permit home occupations in agricultural districts without requiring a special permit. |
AGR/WLO, FIN |
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HB 955 |
RELATING TO DROUGHT MITIGATING FACILITIES. Promotes the construction of drought mitigating water storage facilities by increasing the amount of the Drought Mitigating Water Storage Facilities Tax Credit to 20 percent, repealing the date after which the Tax Credit is no longer available, and including costs for ancillary structures as qualifying costs for the Tax Credit. |
WLO/AGR, FIN |
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HB 952 |
RELATING TO REAL PROPERTY TAX. Requires lands subject to substantial agricultural activities to be assessed at agricultural value and taxed at agricultural rate. Defines "substantial agricultural activities". |
WLO/AGR, FIN |
|
HB 1368 |
RELATING TO LAND USE. Authorizes each county to establish an advisory group to assist the county planning department to identify land use policies and development standards and to identify lands suitable for reclassification into the rural district. Requires office of planning to assist counties in coordinating meetings and provide technical assistance. |
WLO/AGR, EDB, FIN |
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HB 1418 |
RELATING TO LAND USE. Redesignates certain residential subdivisions in the land use agricultural district into the rural district, subject to certain criteria. |
WLO/AGR, EDB, JUD |
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HB 1572 |
RELATING TO THE LAND USE COMMISSION. Grants authority to make land use district boundary amendment to appropriate county land use decision-making authority; provides appeal process of county land use decision-making authority decision to the land use commission; grants authority over agricultural district to the department of agriculture; repeals special permit; strengthens land use decision-making criteria to protect agriculture; requires periodic 5-year boundary reviews of all the land in the State by land use commission. |
WLO/AGR, EDB, FIN |
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HB 1640 |
RELATING TO IMPORTANT AGRICULTURAL LANDS. Establishes important agricultural lands (IAL) identification process. Requires an incentives study. Prohibits IAL designation without landowner petition until July 1, 2011. Provides an agricultural infrastructure improvement tax credit and IAL leasehold subdivisions. Makes identification of IAL contingent on enactment of legislative incentives. Makes appropriations. |
WLO/AGR, EDB, FIN |
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HB 1553 |
RELATING TO IMPORTANT AGRICULTURAL LANDS. Establishes important agricultural lands (IAL) identification process; prohibits IAL designation without landowner petition before 7/1/2011; provides agricultural infrastructure improvement tax credit; provides for IAL leasehold subdivision; makes identification of IAL contingent on enactment of legislative incentives; and makes 2 appropriations to DBED&T and to Department of Agriculture for purposes of this Act. |
WLO/AGR, EDB, FIN |
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HB 1501 |
RELATING TO IMPORTANT AGRICULTURAL LANDS; LAND USE. Establishes qualification criteria, designation, and permitted uses of important agricultural lands; provides for dedication of important agricultural lands for transferable development credits; amends water code to ensure protection of water for irrigation of important agricultural lands; collapses 4 major land use districts into 3 districts-agricultural, conservation, and other lands; places urban and rural districts under other lands land use district; allows petitions for designation of agricultural lands with land study bureau classification other than A or B as important agricultural lands; permits issuance of special permit by land use commission for agricultural tourism or educational ecotourism. |
WLO/AGR, EDB, FIN |
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HB 1499 |
RELATING TO IMPORTANT AGRICULTURAL LANDS; LAND USE. Establishes qualification criteria, designation, and permitted uses of important agricultural lands; provides for dedication of important agricultural lands for transferable development credits; income tax credit for real property taxes paid and investments in infrastructure on important agricultural land; amends water code to insure protection of water for irrigation of important agricultural lands; collapses 4 major land use districts into 3 districts-agricultural, conservation, and other lands; places urban and rural districts under other lands land use district; allows petitions for designation of agricultural lands with land study bureau classification other than A or B as important agricultural lands; permits issuance of special permit by land use commission for agricultural tourism or educational ecotourism. |
WLO/AGR, EDB, FIN |
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HB 109 |
RELATING TO LAND USE COMMISSION. Establishes a presumption that a dwelling is not a farm dwelling if certain nonagricultural features in a subdivision or development are determined to be present. |
WLO/AGR, EDB |
|
HB 123 |
RELATING TO THE LAND USE COMMISSION. Establishes a presumption that a dwelling is not a farm dwelling if certain nonagricultural features are present in a subdivision or development. |
WLO/AGR, EDB |
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HB 124 |
RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL LANDS. Provides for a one-time reclassification to rural, of lands within the agricultural district that are primarily being used for residential purposes and consist of lots less than an acre in size that are not permitted pursuant to section 205-5(b). |
WLO/AGR, EDB, FIN |
Decision making only (heard on February 2, 2005):
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HB 166 |
RELATING TO REAL PROPERTY DISCLOSURES. Require sellers of residential property to disclose to buyers the close proximity of agricultural lands by including this geographic information in the disclosure statement provided to buyers. |
AGR/WLO, FIN |
|
HB 167 |
RELATING TO STATE AGRICULTURAL LEASES. Requires lease rent appraisals for reopenings of state agricultural leases to be based on non-compounded inflation, rather than fair market value, provided that the lessees are in compliance with the terms of the lease. |
AGR/WLO, FIN |
|
HB 125 |
RELATING TO OCEAN RESOURCES. A short form bill relating to ocean resources. |
WLO |
Decision making to follow.
9:00 a.m. AGENDA:
AGR only:
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HB 1201 |
RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL THEFT. Establishes that the fact that a person is in possession of agricultural commodities without an agricultural certificate is prima facie evidence that the person knows the character, nature, and value of the agricultural commodities; establishes that the fact that a person is in possession of livestock without a livestock certificate is prima facie evidence that the person knows the character, nature, and value of the livestock. |
AGR, JUD |
|
HB 1082 |
MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO ABATE AGRICULTURAL THEFT. Appropriates funds to establish an interagency task force to develop means to abate agricultural theft and funding therefor. Appropriates funds. |
AGR, JUD, FIN |
|
HB 1245 |
RELATING TO BROWN TREE SNAKES. Authorizes the Department of Agriculture to handle and take appropriate action on containers that may contain items originating from Guam that are not documented as having been inspected by an approved agency to be apparently free of brown tree snakes. |
AGR, JUD, FIN |
|
HB 1360 |
RELATING TO THE WAIALUA AGRIBUSINESS INCUBATOR. Authorizes the issuance of GO bonds for the University of Hawaii for the planning, design, and construction of an agribusiness incubator in the Waialua District. |
AGR, HED, FIN |
|
HB 1698 |
RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL TAX CREDITS. Establishes an agricultural land use tax credit equal to the amount of county property tax paid by taxpayers use their land for commercial purposes; reduces each county's portion of the transient accommodations tax revenue by the amount of credits claimed against each county's property tax assessments. |
AGR, TAC, FIN |
Decision making to follow.
9:15 a.m. AGENDA:
WLO/EDB only:
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HB 1114 |
RELATING TO THE ALOHA TOWER DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION. Authorizes the Aloha Tower Development Corporation (ATDC) to become part of a limited liability company (LLC) with developers of ATDC projects. Provides that the LLC may hold and expend public moneys for the project without regard to chapter 103D, and that state employees hired by the LLC retain state employment benefits and classification. Allows ATDC to sell fact or submerged lands of the Aloha Tower Complex. |
WLO/EDB, LAB, JUD, FIN |
Decision making to follow.
9:30 a.m. AGENDA:
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HB 1367 |
RELATING TO LAND USE. Provides for a one-time review and proposed boundary amendment to reclassify agricultural district lands that are principally rural subdivisions; makes an appropriation to office of planning to provide technical assistance to counties. |
WLO/AGR/EDB, JUD, FIN |
Decision making to follow.
COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND COMMITTEE ON HUMAN SERVICES
Saturday, February 5, 2005
State Capitol Auditorium
8:30 a.m. AGENDA:
HLT/HUS only:
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HB 1247 |
RELATING TO CARE HOMES. Creates the Liability Insurance Premium and Claims Payment Special Fund for the Department of Health and the Foster Family Home Liability Insurance Premium and Claims Payment Special Fund for the Department of Human Services to pay premiums for liability insurance for care home operators who cannot afford insurance. |
HLT/HUS, CPC, FIN |
|
HB 728 |
RELATING TO A LONG-TERM CARE TAX CREDIT. Provides a refundable net income tax credit to encourage the purchase of long term care insurance. |
HUS/HLT, CPC, FIN |
|
HB 1119 |
RELATING TO LONG-TERM CARE. Establishes a Long-term Care Resource Program Initiative at Kapiolani Community College. Appropriates funds. |
HUS/HLT, HED, FIN |
|
HB 1317 |
RELATING TO MEDICAID. Prohibits the Department of Human Services from taking any action or expending state resources in any effort to remove prescription drug benefits from managed care plans that provide health care coverage for Medicaid beneficiaries. |
HUS/HLT, CPC, FIN |
|
HB 1477 |
RELATING TO HEALTH INSURANCE. Establishes a 2.13% insurance premium tax on all health care plan premiums. Removes cap to QUEST to cover 24,458 uninsured adults. Adds dental benefits for children and adults. Raises SCHIP eligibility to 300% of poverty level to add 2,874 uninsured children. Uses premium tax to fund QUEST/SCHIP costs. |
HUS/HLT, JUD, FIN |
|
HB 1144 |
RELATING TO SOCIAL WORKERS. Establishes a student loan repayment program for social workers in the departments of health, human services, and labor and industrial relations. |
HLT/HUS, LAB, FIN |
|
HB 1146 |
RELATING TO CIVIL SERVICE. Prohibits department of human resources development from eliminating the social worker series classifications. Restores social worker class if eliminated before the effective date of this Act. |
HLT/HUS, LAB, FIN |
Decision making to follow.
HLT only:
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HB 1482 |
RELATING TO MEDICAL SAVINGS ACCOUNTS. Allows insurers to offer high-deductible health insurance policies in conjunction with medical savings accounts. |
HLT, CPC, FIN |
|
HB 1739 |
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. |
HLT, JUD, FIN |
Decision making to follow.
9:00 a.m. AGENDA:
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HB 1454 |
RELATING TO DEATH WITH DIGNITY. Allows a terminally ill, competent adult to get lethal dose of medication to end life. Prohibits mercy killings, lethal injections, and active euthanasia. Requires informed consent. Allows alternate doctor to replace attending doctor if latter declines to prescribe. Requires monitor at time of taking dose. |
HLT, JUD/CPC |
Decision making to follow.
COMMITTEE ON HEALTH
Monday, February 7, 2005
8:30 a.m.
Conference Room 329; State Capitol
AGENDA:
|
HB 848 |
RELATING TO EXTERNAL REVIEW. Amends provisions relating to external review for members of health care plans. |
HLT, CPC, JUD |
|
HB 1065 |
RELATING TO HEALTH INSURANCE. Provides parity by removing all rates, terms, or conditions, including service limits and financial requirements, on mental health benefits coverage. Provides employers a tax credit of 50 per cent or $500 of the premiums for mental health coverage. Requires the Insurance Commissioner to submit a report no later than January 15, 2006. |
HLT, CPC, FIN |
|
HB 1259 |
RELATING TO TAXATION. Eliminates the premium tax on health insurers, except on health care services furnished through the QUEST medical assistance program. |
HLT, CPC, FIN |
|
HB 1066 |
RELATING TO HEALTH CARE INSURANCE TAX CREDIT. Provides a tax credit to employers who provide health care coverage for their part-time employees at the lesser of 50% of premiums paid or $ per part-time employee. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2005. |
HLT, CPC, FIN |
|
HB 1001 |
RELATING TO MEDICAL RESEARCH. Requires medical research subject to chapter 324, HRS, that includes prescription drugs as part of a clinical trial, research, or experimental treatment for serious or life-threatening diseases to register the study with a public registry; public registry information shall include potential benefit and harm. |
HLT, CPC, FIN |
|
HB 1048 |
RELATING TO THE REGULATION OF TOBACCO PRODUCTS. Requires tobacco manufacturers to report annually to the Department of Health (DOH) on added constituents and nicotine in tobacco products. Requires DOH to investigate public health risks and develop standards to reduce risks associated with exposure to these constituents. Includes tobacco products in the definition of "consumer commodity" in chapter 328. |
HLT, CPC, FIN |
|
HB 1052 |
RELATING TO PRESCRIPTION DRUGS. Establishes a pharmaceutical cost management council to consider strategies to manage increasing costs of prescription drugs and increase access to prescription drugs for all Hawaii residents. |
HLT, CPC, FIN |
|
HB 1110 |
RELATING TO NURSING. Re-establishes a two-year Operation Nightingale program to help nurses review for the state Board of Nursing examination. |
HLT, CPC, FIN |
|
HB 1008 |
RELATING TO SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICES PROGRAM. Emphasizes that health aides shall be provided for all public schools, including all new century charter schools and new century conversion charter schools. |
HLT, EDN, FIN |
|
HB 1579 |
RELATING TO HEALTH. Requires a franchise retail food establishment to include nutritional information about each standard menu item. |
HLT, CPC, FIN |
|
HB 646 |
RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLE INSURANCE. Includes therapeutic massage and physical therapy treatments, when prescribed by a medical doctor and limited to no more than 30 visits, as PIP benefits. Limits the combined total of chiropractic, acupuncture, naturopathic, therapeutic massage, and physical therapy treatments to no more than 30 visits. |
HLT, LAB, CPC |
|
HB 647 |
RELATING TO INSURANCE. Provides a "fast-track" certification process for foreign HMOs. |
HLT, CPC, FIN |
|
HB 654 |
RELATING TO EXTERNAL REVIEW PANELS. Authorizes the payment of a fee of $400 to each physician member of an external review panel. |
HLT, CPC, FIN |
|
HB 656 |
RELATING TO THE BOARD OF DENTAL EXAMINERS EXAMINATIONS. Accepts regional and national examinations for dentists, and the state, regional and national examinations for dental hygienists. |
HLT, CPC, FIN |
|
HB 663 |
RELATING TO THE PATIENTS' BILL OF RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES ACT. Provides for an external review process of health insurance coverage decisions that would not be pre-empted by ERISA. |
HLT, CPC, JUD |
Decision making to follow.
Decision making only:
|
HB 395 |
RELATING TO THE PATIENTS' BILL OF RIGHTS. Conforms the law to a recent Hawaii Supreme Court decision by amending the Patients' Bill of Rights external review procedure under which patients may appeal a managed care plan's final, internal decision to deny coverage of a health intervention. |
HLT, CPC/JUD, FIN |
|
HB 510 |
RELATING TO SMOKING. Prohibits smoking on public beaches and parks and certain recreational areas. Prohibits disposal of smoking waste in any place where smoking is prohibited, except in designated waste disposal container. Subjects violators to $250 fine. |
HLT, WLO, JUD |
|
HB 538 |
RELATING TO MANDATORY OVERTIME FOR NURSES. Prohibits both public and private hospitals from forcing nurses to work overtime, except in cases of a federal, state, or county declared emergency. Excludes nurse midwives and nurse anesthetists from mandatory overtime requirements. (Deferred from 2/3/05) |
HLT, LAB, FIN |
|
HB 542 |
RELATING TO HEALTH. Requires health care facilities to submit to the department of health a nurse staffing plan that was developed by a committee of nurses employed by health care facilities. (Deferred from 2/3/05) |
HLT, CPC, FIN |
|
HB 854 |
RELATING TO MEDICAL LIABILITY. Sets a cap of $250,000 on noneconomic damages that may be recovered from a physician or surgeon in a medical liability action for emergency care services provided in the emergency room of a hospital. (Deferred from 2/3/05) |
HLT, CPC, JUD |
|
HB 361 |
RELATING TO THE ILLEGAL USE OF CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES. Appropriates funds for state agencies and the counties for crystal methamphetamine (ice) treatment, prevention, rehabilitation, education, environmental damage assessments, and program monitoring initiatives. |
HLT, JUD, FIN |
|
HB 385 |
RELATING TO CRYSTAL METHAMPHETAMINE. Allocates the one-half-cent increase in the tobacco tax that took effect on 7/1/04, and an additional one-half-cent increase in the tobacco tax that proposed to take effect on 7/1/05, to prevention and treatment programs and services for crystal methamphetamine. (Deferred from 2/3/05) |
HLT, JUD, FIN |
|
HB 648 |
RELATING TO TORTS. Imposes limitations on awards of noneconomic and punitive damages and attorney's fees. Allocates damages in proportion to degree of negligence. Prohibits joint liability and allows periodic payment of future damages in medical tort actions. (Deferred from 2/3/05) |
HLT, CPC, JUD |
|
HB 662 |
RELATING TO TORTS. Exempts physicians from liability when they are in good faith rendering emergency medical care. (Deferred from 2/3/05) |
HLT, CPC, JUD |
|
HB 181 |
RELATING TO MEDICAL TORTS. Amends the law relating to medical torts to improve patient access to health care services and provide improved medical care by reducing the burden the liability system places on the health care delivery system in Hawaii. (Heard 1/31/05, Deferred from 2/3/05) |
HLT, CPC, JUD |
|
HB 237 |
RELATING TO TORTS. Shortens statute of limitations for medical malpractice action. Caps noneconomic damages and contingent attorney's fees awards. Permits evidence of collateral benefits. Disallows punitive damages claim in initial complaint. Permits periodic payments of future damages. (Heard 1/31/05, Deferred from 2/3/05) |
HLT, CPC, JUD |
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HB 102 |
RELATING TO MEDICAL RESEARCH. Requires medical research subject to chapter 324, HRS, that includes prescription drugs as part of a clinical trial, research, or experimental treatment for a serious or life-threatening diseases to register the study with a public registry; public registry information shall include potential benefit and harm. (Heard 1/31/05, Deferred from 2/3/05) |
HLT, CPC, FIN |
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HB 516 |
RELATING TO EMERGENCY HEALTH POWERS. Provides broad powers to the department of health to respond to a public health emergency. (Heard 1/31/05, Deferred from 2/3/05) |
HLT, JUD/CPC, FIN |
COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION
Monday, February 7, 2005
8:30 a.m.
Conference Room 309; State Capitol
AGENDA:
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HB 1309 |
RELATING TO TAXATION. Authorizes counties to levy a county surcharge on State tax to fund public transit in the counties. |
TRN, FIN |
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HB 422 |
RELATING TO CRUISE SHIPS. Establishes standards for the discharge of treated sewage and air emissions from cruise ships and commercial passenger vessels into the marine waters of the State. Prohibits the discharge of untreated sewage from commercial passenger vessels into the marine waters of the State. Provides for recordkeeping and monitoring. |
TRN, EEP/WLO, FIN |
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HB 415 |
RELATING TO MAUKA HIGHWAY ALONG THE WAIANAE COAST. Provides for the funding of the planning and design of the Mauka highway. |
TRN, FIN |
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HB 418 |
MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO ALLEVIATE TRAFFIC CONGESTION ON FARRINGTON HIGHWAY IN MAILI AND NANAKULI, OAHU BY ADDING AND OPERATING A CONTRA-FLOW TRAFFIC LANE. Appropriates funds to alleviate traffic congestion on Farrington Highway in Maili and Nanakuli, Oahu by adding a contra-flow traffic lane. |
TRN, FIN |
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HB 426 |
RELATING TO HIGHWAY SAFETY. Increasing the maximum fee for motor vehicle registration. |
TRN, FIN |
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HB 1645 |
RELATING TO MASS TRANSIT. Reserves a portion of state fuel tax revenues paid in Honolulu to pay for a fixed guideway mass transit system. |
TRN, FIN |
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HB 1324 |
RELATING TO HIGHWAY SAFETY. Establishes the photo red light imaging systems program. Authorizes counties to administer the program. |
TRN, JUD, FIN |
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HB 1325 |
RELATING TO HIGHWAY SAFETY. Establishes the photo speed imaging detector systems program. Authorizes counties to administer the program. Permits counties to retain revenues. |
TRN, JUD, FIN |
Decision making to follow.
COMMITTEE ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT & BUSINESS CONCERNS
Monday, February 7, 2005
9:00 a.m.
Conference Room 325; State Capitol
AGENDA:
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HB 765 |
RELATING TO EXPENDITURE OF PUBLIC MONEY. Requires contractors on public works construction contracts to comply with department of labor and industrial relations specifications for staffing requirements. Clarifies that the state law requiring payment of prevailing wages applies to all labors, mechanics, required assistants, helpers, tenders, and apprentices on a public works project. |
EDB, LAB, FIN |
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HB 817 |
RELATING TO ELECTRONIC COMMERCE. Establishes a method by which to tax electronic commerce. Directs the department of taxation to make recommendations on how to amend existing general excise tax to conform with the model streamlined sales and use tax agreement. |
EDB, FIN |
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HB 891 |
RELATING TO PUBLIC CONTRACTS. Requires contractors on public works construction contracts to comply with department of labor and industrial relations specifications for staffing requirements. |
EDB, LAB, FIN |
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HB 912 |
MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR SMALL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT. Appropriates funds to support the statewide economic development program of the Hawaii Small Business Development Center Network. |
EDB, FIN |
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HB 988 |
RELATING TO PROCUREMENT. Requires public agencies to promptly pay for procured goods and services. Reduces time period public agencies have to pay for goods and services from 30 to 15 calendar days. Changes interest rate to be paid by public agencies for failure to promptly pay for goods or services to an unspecified amount. Provides a procurement preference to small businesses located in the State. |
EDB, FIN |
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HB 996 |
RELATING TO PUBLIC CONTRACTS. Prohibits State from entering into security contracts with foreign owned or controlled companies. |
EDB, PSM, FIN |
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HB 1025 |
RELATING TO PROCUREMENT. Requires that documents provided by an offeror to demonstrate procurement compliance are valid for one year. Requires offerors of contracts less than $5,000 to submit only tax clearance. |
EDB, FIN |
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HB 1151 |
RELATING TO PROCUREMENT. Requires the procurement office to establish a standardized contractor performance checklist to evaluate quality of goods and services provided by contractors. |
EDB, FIN |
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HB 1166 |
RELATING TO MECHANIC'S LIENS. Grants contractors additional time to file a mechanic's lien if they have previously given the owner a conditional lien release but have not subsequently received full payment. |
EDB, CPC |
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HB 1266 |
RELATING TO PREVAILING WAGES. Clarifies that the state law requiring payment of prevailing wages applies to all laborers, mechanics, required assistants, helpers, tenders, and apprentices on a public works project, and not only those on the job site. |
EDB, LAB, FIN |
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HB 1279 |
RELATING TO ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURE. Requires administrative rules to conform to their enabling statutes; allows legislature to hear petitions for rulemaking under 91-6, HRS; automatically repeals certain administrative rules 180 days after the repeal of its enabling statute; expands the scope of the small business regulatory review board's biannual evaluation report. |
EDB, JUD/CPC |
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HB 1362 |
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. |
EDB, JUD, FIN |
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HB 1385 |
RELATING TO INTOXICATING LIQUOR. Repeals the authority of wine manufacturers in states that allow reciprocal shipping privileges to ship wine to residents in the State. |
EDB, JUD, FIN |
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HB 1417 |
RELATING TO DESIGN PROFESSIONALS. Requires the filing of a certificate of merit with any complaint filed against a design professional for failure to meet the standard of care. Also, requires the filing of a preliminary expert opinion affidavit. |
EDB, CPC/JUD |
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HB 1420 |
RELATING TO TECHNOLOGY GROWTH. Establishes a tax credit for taxpayers that contribute in-kind services to establish or maintain technology laboratories in public schools. Appropriates funds for Project EAST expansion and for the Economic Development Alliance of Hawaii to coordinate marketing, with emphasis on representing Hawaii's technology companies and opportunities on the mainland. |
EDB, FIN |
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HB 1423 |
RELATING TO INVESTMENTS. Establishing a new chapter in Hawaii revised statues that provides for a limited relaxation of the prudent investor or person rule by allowing fiduciaries to invest a small portion of their assets in Hawaii venture capital investments. |
EDB, CPC, FIN |
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HB 1432 |
RELATING TO SEAWATER AIR CONDITIONING. Creates a streamlined application and review process for the development of seawater air conditioning (SWAC) district cooling systems. |
EDB, CPC/JUD, FIN |
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HB 1469 |
RELATING TO PROCUREMENT. Exempts small purchases from verification requirements relating to tax clearances, DCCA certificates, and DLIR certificates. |
EDB, FIN |
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HB 1616 |
RELATING TO LIQUOR LICENSES. Limits the time period in which liquor may be sold by liquor establishments that are located within 500 feet of a public or private school or public playground used extensively by minors. |
EDB, JUD |
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HB 1657 |
RELATING TO SPECIAL PURPOSE REVENUE BONDS TO ASSIST HOKU SCIENTIFIC. Authorizes the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds to assist Hoku Scientific. |
EDB, FIN |
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HB 1707 |
RELATING TO THE SEAWATER AIR CONDITIONING. Exempts seawater air conditioning district cooling systems from PUC regulation, provided that at least fifty per cent of the energy required for the system is provided by a renewable energy source. |
EDB, EEP, CPC |
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HB 1723 |
RELATING TO CAPITAL INVESTMENTS. Authorizes $100,000,000 in tax credits to the Hawaii strategic development corporation for the purposes of Act 215, SLH 2004. |
EDB, FIN |
Decision making to follow.
COMMITTEE ON WATER, LAND, & OCEAN RESOURCES
Monday, February 7, 2005
9:00 a.m.
Conference Room 312; State Capitol
AGENDA:
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HB 1290 |
RELATING TO BOATING. Requires an owner of a commercial vessel moored in a state small boat harbor to pay a fee of at least three percent of gross revenues derived from the use of the vessel; requires fees and penalties established through rules relating to harbors to be deposited into the Boating Special Fund. |
WLO, FIN |
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HB 1081 |
RELATING TO POAMOHO TRAIL. Preserves access to the Poamoho ridge trail by authorizing the department of land and natural resources to condemn the land for the trail and for the adjacent hunting area C access roads. |
WLO, FIN |
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HB 1070 |
RELATING TO STATE PARKS. Authorizes the use of moneys from the state parks special fund to pay debt service on revenue bonds issued for construction, repairs, replacement, additions, and extensions to parks facilities. |
WLO, FIN |
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HB 1441 |
RELATING TO LAND USE. Clarifies the process to appeal county land use decisions. |
WLO, JUD |
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HB 1442 |
RELATING TO LATERAL PUBLIC ACCESS. Establishes an additional requirement for county ordinances to require a subdivider or developer to provide public access from a public highway or public streets to also connect existing or proposed access points with each other, so the public can easily and safely traverse shoreline areas. |
WLO, JUD |
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HB 795 |
RELATING TO COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT. Requires that shoreline setbacks be established at a distance inland from the shoreline equal to 50 times the annual erosion rate for the area, based on historic aerial photographs or the shoreline setback line established by the county, whichever is greater. Bans the construction of new seawalls and groins except where variances allowed for DOT. |
WLO, TRN |
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HB 798 |
RELATING TO PUBLIC ACCESS. Prohibits gated communities that deny public access to any coastal shoreline or mountain or inland areas used for recreational or cultural purposes. |
WLO, JUD |
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HB 1391 |
RELATING TO PRIVATE ROADS. Requires owners of private roads to maintain private roads pursuant to agreement or in absence of agreement in equal shares. |
WLO, FIN |
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HB 126 |
RELATING TO OCEAN RESOURCES. A short form bill relating to ocean resource. |
WLO |
Decision making to follow.