COMMITTEE ON CONSUMER PROTECTION & COMMERCE
Monday, March 21, 2005
1:45 p.m.
Conference Room 325; State Capitol
AGENDA:
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SB 1695 SD2 (HSCR1036) |
RELATING TO CAPITAL INVESTMENTS. Authorizes $120,000,000 in tax credits that the Hawaii strategic development corporation may issue for the purposes of Act 215, SLH 2004. (SD2) |
EDB, CPC, FIN |
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SB 1223 SD2 (SSCR775) |
RELATING TO NEGOTIABLE INSTRUMENTS. Allows the holder of a dishonored check to raise the service charge to not more than $ ." (SD2) |
CPC, FIN |
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SB 1557 SD2, HD1 (HSCR1066) |
RELATING TO RENEWABLE ENERGY. Makes permanent the renewable energy technologies tax credit established under Act 207, SLH 2003. (HD1) |
EEP, CPC, FIN |
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SB 1453 SD2 (HSCR1053) |
RELATING TO PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY TAX. Imposes the public service company tax on the gross income of a private sewer company or facility. (SD2) |
EEP, CPC, FIN |
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SB 1209 SD2, HD1 (HSCR1074) |
RELATING TO PRESCRIPTION DRUGS. Establishes a pharmaceutical cost management council to consider strategies to manage increasing costs of prescription drugs and appropriates funds to assist Federally Qualified Health Centers in procuring prescription drugs in the most cost efficient manner to increase access to prescription drugs for all Hawaii residents. (SB1209 HD1) |
HLT, CPC, FIN |
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SB 756 SD1, HD1 (HSCR1028) |
RELATING TO INSURANCE. Authorizes the insurance commissioner to waive certain filing requirements for an out-of-state health maintenance organization to expedite the certification process. (SB756 SD1 HD1) |
HLT, CPC, FIN |
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SB 122 SD1, HD1 (HSCR1073) |
RELATING TO PATIENT SAFETY. Defines and adds "case review forum" to the proceedings designed to review cases and reduce medical errors that are protected from discovery. (SB122 HD1) |
HLT, CPC, JUD |
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SB 625 SD1 (HSCR1051) |
RELATING TO CABLE TELEVISION ACCESS ORGANIZATIONS. Requires DCCA director to include requirements for public access to meetings and meeting records of PEG access organizations in organization contracts. (SD1) |
LMG, CPC, JUD |
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SB 1347 SD2 (SSCR945) |
RELATING TO REAL PROPERTY. Authorizes tax collector to foreclose on real property on which tax lien has existed for at least 18 months or on which are owed fines exceeding $25,000 due to egregious zoning or building code violations. (SD2) |
CPC, FIN |
Decision making to follow.
COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND COMMITTEE ON HUMAN SERVICES
Monday, March 21, 2005
Conference Room 309; State Capitol
2:00 p.m. AGENDA:
EDN/HUS only:
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SB 35 SD2 (SSCR947) |
RELATING TO EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION. Creates a two-year 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. (SD2) |
EDN/HUS, FIN |
Decision making to follow.
2:15 p.m. AGENDA:
EDN only:
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SB 950 SD1 (SSCR949) |
RELATING TO CHARTER SCHOOLS. Clarifies that new century charter schools are subject to state land use laws and county zoning laws; requires audit and inspection by the charter school administrative office. (SD1) |
EDN, WLO, FIN
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SB 1698 SD2 (HSCR1035) |
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. (SD2) |
EDB, EDN, FIN |
Decision making to follow.
COMMITTEE ON LABOR & PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT
Tuesday, March 22, 2005
8:30 a.m.
Conference Room 309; State Capitol
AGENDA:
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SB 1773 SD2 (SSCR879)
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RELATING TO SOCIAL WORKERS. Requires a social worker/human services professional with a social work degree to be called a social worker and all others to be called human services professionals. Requires DHRD to develop a plan for separating the social worker/human services professional class into two separate classes. Requires new state social workers and all federal and county social workers to be licensed beginning 7/1/07. Prohibits DHRD from eliminating the social worker class. Exempts employees of the Hawaii paroling authority. (SD2) |
HLT/HUS, LAB, FIN |
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SB 535 SD2 (SSCR726) |
RELATING TO EMPLOYMENT PRACTICES. Prohibits an employer or labor organization from discriminating against an employee who uses accrued and available sick leave in accordance with a negotiated attendance policy. (SD2) |
LAB, JUD |
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SB 425 SD1 (SSCR850)
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RELATING TO THE EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM. Allows a surviving spouse or surviving reciprocal beneficiary of a member who is killed in the performance of the member's duty to remarry, marry, or enter into a new reciprocal beneficiary relationship and to continue to receive pension and other retirement benefits arising from their former spouse's employment. (SD1) |
LAB, FIN |
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SB 1620 SD2, HD1 (HSCR1077) |
RELATING TO STATE FUNDS. Appropriates unspecified amounts for various health and human services. (SB1620 HD1) |
HLT/HUS, LAB, FIN |
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SB 933 SD1, HD1 (HSCR1041) |
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. Makes wage rate information more accessible to workers. (SB933 HD1) |
EDB, LAB, FIN |
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SB 671 SD1, HD1 (HSCR1063) |
RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES. Enables the Certification Services Revolving Fund (Revolving Fund) to be used by DOA to support certification or audit services for all agricultural products regulated under the Grades and Standards Law, including chicken eggs, beef, pork, and poultry; makes housekeeping amendments related to regulation of certain agricultural commodities. (SB671 HD1) |
AGR, LAB, FIN |
Decision making to follow.
COMMITTEE ON HUMAN SERVICES AND COMMITTEE ON HEALTH
Tuesday, March 22, 2005
Conference Room 329; State Capitol
8:50 a.m. AGENDA:
HUS/HLT only:
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SB 802 SD2 (SSCR807) |
RELATING TO A STATE PHARMACY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM. Creates a state pharmacy assistance program to provide benefits to certain elderly and disabled individuals to assist in defraying costs for medically necessary prescriptions under the new federal medicare part D drug benefit program. (SD2) |
HUS/HLT, FIN |
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SB 1022 SD1 (SSCR824) |
RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES. Requires medical assistance programs, including Medicaid and QUEST, to provide chiropractic. (SD1) |
HUS/HLT, FIN |
Decision making to follow.
9:00 a.m. AGENDA:
HUS only:
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SB 475 SD2 (SSCR822) |
RELATING TO PUBLIC ASSISTANCE. Increases standard of need from the 1993 federal poverty level to the poverty level for an unspecified year. Includes the general assistance and aged, blind, and disabled programs for the calculation. Removes limitation on making general assistance payments only from total appropriations for that purpose. (SD2) |
HUS, FIN |
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SB 486 SD2 (SSCR823) |
RELATING TO CHILDREN AND YOUTH. Appropriates funds to nonschool-hour programs for children or youth enrolled in school. (SD2) |
HUS, FIN |
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SB 556 SD2 (SSCR746) |
RELATING TO FAMILY COURT. Requires that custody shall be awarded to assure frequent, continuing, and appropriate contact with both parents and encourages both parents to share the responsibility of raising their child; requires the submission of a parenting plan with a divorce complaint and answer. (SD2) |
HUS, JUD |
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SB 1780 SD2 (SSCR964) |
RELATING TO THE COMMISSION ON FATHERHOOD. Extends the sunset date of Act 156, SLH 2003 from 6/30/05 to 6/30/07 and provides that the commission shall be administratively attached to the department of human services. Appropriates funds for the commission. (SD2) |
HUS, FIN |
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SB 1103 SD2 (SSCR825) |
MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO HALE MAHAOLU FOR PERSONAL CARE PROGRAM. Makes an appropriation to Hale Mahaolu for its personal care program. (SD2) |
HUS, FIN |
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SB 1750 SD2 (SSCR826) |
RELATING TO LEGISLATIVE OVERSIGHT OF TEMPORARY ASSISTANCE FOR NEEDY FAMILIES PROGRAMS AND FUNDING EXPENDITURES. Authorizes senate and house fiscal and human services committees to act as legislative oversight committee to oversee and evaluate TANF program implementation and TANF fund expenditures. (SD2) |
HUS, FIN |
Decision making to follow.
COMMITTEE ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT & BUSINESS CONCERNS AND COMMITTEE ON TOURISM & CULTURE
Tuesday, March 22, 2005
Conference Room 325; State Capitol
9:00 a.m. AGENDA:
EDB/TAC only:
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HCR 5 |
REQUESTING THE GOVERNOR, THE LEGISLATURE, AND HAWAII BUSINESS LEADERS TO DISCUSS WITH HAWAII'S CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION THE POSSIBILITY OF EXPANDING AND ENHANCING HAWAII'S FREE TRADE ZONE PROGRAM. |
EDB/TAC |
Decision making to follow.
9:15 a.m. AGENDA:
TAC/EDB only:
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HR 29 |
REQUESTING THE DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, AND TOURISM TO DETERMINE THE FEASIBILITY AND ECONOMIC IMPACT OF RE-ESTABLISHING A WINTER BASEBALL LEAGUE IN HAWAII. |
TAC/EDB |
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HCR 33 |
REQUESTING THE DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, AND TOURISM TO DETERMINE THE FEASIBILITY AND ECONOMIC IMPACT OF RE-ESTABLISHING A WINTER BASEBALL LEAGUE IN HAWAII. |
TAC/EDB |
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HR 96 |
REQUESTING THE COUNTIES TO DETERMINE THE FEASIBILITY OF REGULATING AND LICENSING BED AND BREAKFAST HOMES AND TRANSIENT VACATION UNITS. |
TAC |
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HCR 127 |
REQUESTING THE COUNTIES TO DETERMINE THE FEASIBILITY OF REGULATING AND LICENSING BED AND BREAKFAST HOMES AND TRANSIENT VACATION UNITS. |
TAC |
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HR 97 |
REQUESTING THAT THE HAWAII VISITORS AND CONVENTIONS BUREAU AMEND ITS VISITOR SURVEY TO CLARIFY THAT VISITORS MAY TAKE HOME CERTAIN PLANTS OBTAINED IN HAWAII. |
TAC |
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HCR 128 |
REQUESTING THAT THE HAWAII VISITORS AND CONVENTIONS BUREAU AMEND ITS VISITOR SURVEY TO CLARIFY THAT VISITORS MAY TAKE HOME CERTAIN PLANTS OBTAINED IN HAWAII.
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TAC |
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Decision making only: |
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SB 541 SD2 (SSCR881) |
RELATING TO DIGITAL MEDIA. Increases the existing 4% tax credit on Hawaii production expenditures up to 15% for productions on Oahu and 20% for productions on the Neighbor Islands. Expands the definition of qualified productions to include commercials and digital media productions. Prohibits qualification for both the production expenditure tax credit and the investment tax credit. Caps claims at $1 per production. (SD2) |
TAC/EDB, FIN |
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SB 967 SD1 (SSCR885) |
RELATING TO THE MUSEUM OF HAWAIIAN MUSIC AND DANCE. Establishes the museum of Hawaiian music and dance committee to conduct a comprehensive assessment to determine the feasibility of a museum of Hawaiian music and dance. (SD1) |
TAC, FIN |
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SB 1141 SD1 (SSCR670) |
RELATING TO TIME SHARE PLANS. Redefines "developer" in time sharing plan law to exclude a person owning not more than 12 time share interests who did not create the plan and offers it for resale, and an association employing a third party, to sell its time share interests acquired for non-payment of assessments. (SD1) |
TAC, CPC |
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SB 768 SD1 (SSCR655) |
RELATING TO CONTESTS INVOLVING NO RULES COMBAT, EXTREME OR ULTIMATE FIGHTING, AND OTHER SIMILAR COMPETITIONS. Clarifies the ban on "no rules combat" or "extreme or ultimate fighting". |
TAC, JUD |
Decision making to follow.
COMMITTEE ON ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
Tuesday, March 22, 2005
Conference Room 312; State Capitol
9:00 a.m. AGENDA:
EEP only:
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SB 1903 SD1 |
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. (SD1) |
EDB, EEP, CPC |
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SB 1262 SD1 |
RELATING TO THE WAIANAE COAST. Appropriates funds to conduct a baseline study of environmental impacts for the Waianae coast. (SD1) |
EEP, FIN |
Decision making to follow.
EEP/WLO only:
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SB 1002 SD2 HD1 |
RELATING TO CRUISE SHIPS. Establishes standards for the discharge of treated sewage and air emissions from 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. (SB1002 HD1) |
TRN, EEP/WLO, FIN |
Decision making to follow.