COMMITTEE ON FINANCE
Friday, April 1, 2005
Conference Room 308; State Capitol
2:00 p.m. AGENDA:
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SB 55 SD1, HD1 (HSCR1181) |
RELATING TO MEAL BREAKS. Requires the provision of rest or meal break periods of at least thirty consecutive minutes for employees who work five or more continuous hours unless a collective bargaining agreement provides an express provision for meal breaks or an employee waives the requirement for a rest of meal period. Excludes an employer who is the operator of a continuously operating facility regulated by an environmental permit. Allows employers to apply for exemptions from meal break requirements subject to the approval of the director of labor. |
LAB, FIN |
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SB 61 SD1 (HSCR1179) |
RELATING TO WAGES. Authorizes an employer to furnish to an employee an electronic record of the employee's total gross and net compensation, deductions, 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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SB 294 SD3, HD1 (HSCR1182) |
RELATING TO EMPLOYMENT. Raises the minimum wage to $6.75 effective January 1, 2006, and to $7.25 effective January 1, 2007. |
LAB, FIN |
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SB 813 SD2, HD1 (HSCR1221) |
RELATING TO EMPLOYMENT SECURITY. Appropriates $20 million in Reed Act funds for services of the unemployment insurance and workforce development divisions. Provides additional funding to the local workforce investment boards for employer outreach and services, labor force pool expansion and capacity building. |
LAB, FIN |
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SB 1193 SD1, HD1 (HSCR1185) |
RELATING TO CIVIL SERVICE LAW. Establishes that department of education civil service employees shall have the same benefits and rights of civil service employees employed in executive departments. |
LAB, FIN |
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SB 807 SD1, HD1 (HSCR1184) |
RELATING TO SALARIES. Adjusts the salaries of certain department head positions, including: the auditor, legislative reference bureau, Hawaii labor relations board, ombudsman, state procurement office, the stadium authority, civil defense, commission on water resource management, the housing and community development corporation of Hawaii, the public utilities commission, the Hawaii paroling authority, the labor and industrial relations appeals board, commissioner of financial institutions and the office of the state public defender, the office of solid waste management, the executive office on aging, the office of veterans' services, and the office of community services. |
LAB, FIN |
Decision making to follow.
3:30 p.m. AGENDA:
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SB 698 (SSCR188) |
RELATING TO THE HAWAII CRIMINAL JUSTICE DATA CENTER. Requires the Hawaii Criminal Justice Data Center to take a full frontal photograph of an applicant's face for a Hawaii state identification card. |
FIN |
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SB 1478 SD1 (SSCR832) |
RELATING TO THE STATE FIRE COUNCIL. Provides the authority to the state fire council to expend federal grant funds for the purpose of firefighting training. |
FIN |
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SB 1872 (SSCR829) |
RELATING TO THE ISSUANCE OF SPECIAL PURPOSE REVENUE BONDS TO ASSIST PALOLO CHINESE HOME AND ITS SUBSIDIARIES. Authorizes the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds to assist Palolo Chinese Home in financing the capital costs related to the expansion, construction, and rebuilding of its facilities. |
FIN |
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SB 1127 SD1 (HSCR1205) |
RELATING TO THE PUBLIC PROCUREMENT CODE. Provides that small purchase contracts awarded pursuant to section 103D-305 no longer require offerors to produce documentation to the procuring officer to demonstrate compliance. |
EDB, FIN |
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SB 1038 SD2 (HSCR1233) |
RELATING TO THE HAWAII PROCUREMENT INSTITUTE. Removes state procurement office's oversight of the procurement institute. Establishes the institute under the UH. Appropriates funds for the institute. |
EDB, HED, FIN |
Decision making to follow.
5:30 p.m. AGENDA:
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SB 639 SD2 (HSCR1200) |
RELATING TO EDUCATION. Removes HCDCH from managing DOE teacher housing and authorizes DOE to manage DOE teacher housing. |
EDN, HSG, FIN |
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SB 873 SD2, HD1 (HSCR1174) |
RELATING TO EDUCATION. Requires the department of education to staff junior kindergartens with qualified pre-school teachers and pre-school teacher aides, beginning with the 2007-2008 school year. Requires the Hawaii Teacher Standards Board to develop standards for teachers and teacher aides assigned to junior kindergarten classrooms. |
EDN, FIN |
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SB 1221 SD2, HD1 (HSCR1175) |
RELATING TO STUDENTS. Requires DOE to reduce class sizes from kindergarten to the fifth grade. Appropriates funds for the reduction of class sizes, for part-time teachers and tutors in public elementary and intermediate schools that need them, and for part-time teachers and aides when the student-to-teacher ratio is exceeded in grades three to five. |
EDN, FIN |
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SB 1660 SD2, HD1 (HSCR1086) |
RELATING TO EDUCATION. Creates the Education Design and Construction Project Assessment Fund within the Department of Education (DOE). Broadens DOE's authority over capital improvement projects. Appropriates funds. |
EDN, FIN |
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SB 1814 SD2, HD1 (HSCR1217) |
RELATING TO IMPACT FEES. Authorizes the department of education to assess and collect impact fees as fair share contributions of developers for state public school facilities construction. |
EDN, EDB/HSG, FIN |
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SB 1889 SD1, HD1 (HSCR1085) |
RELATING TO APPRENTICESHIPS. Amends the standards for apprenticeship agreements to include assurances of qualified training personnel, adequate job supervision, and the requisite licenses. Requires the director of DLIR to establish an apprenticeship council whose purpose is to promote and approve apprenticeship programs. Provides that these changes are only effective upon written approval by the OATELS. |
LAB, FIN |
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SB 1808 SD1, HD1 (HSCR1263) |
RELATING TO WORKERS' COMPENSATION LAW. Amends workers' compensation law, including but not limited to mandating further requirements for vocational rehabilitation providers, limiting the director's rulemaking authority, and specifying procedures for filing of claims. Reinstates the rulemaking authority of the director on July 1, 2007. |
LAB, FIN |
Decision making to follow.
COMMITTEE ON HEALTH
Monday, April 4,2005
9:00 a.m.
Conference Room 329; State Capitol
AGENDA:
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HCR 104 |
REQUESTING THE JUDICIARY TO ESTABLISH A WORKING GROUP TO EVALUATE AND RECOMMEND METHODS TO STREAMLINE COURT-ORDERED FORENSIC EVALUATIONS AND TO DELIVER APPROPRIATE MENTAL HEALTH TREATMENT TO PRETRIAL DETAINEES. |
HLT, JUD |
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HCR 157 |
CONVENING A WORKING GROUP TO DEVELOP RECOMMENDATIONS FOR CREATING A COMPREHENSIVE VOG EMISSIONS MONITORING SYSTEM FOR THE ISLAND OF HAWAII. |
HLT, FIN |
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HCR 231 |
RELATING TO THE REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS PROTECTION COMMITTEE. |
JUD/HLT, FIN |
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HCR 234 |
REQUESTING TRIPLER ARMY MEDICAL CENTER TO PROVIDE CHILD, ADOLESCENT, AND ADULT PSYCHIATRISTS TO FEDERALLY FUNDED CLINICS TO MEET THE MENTAL HEALTH CARE NEEDS OF UNDERSERVED AREAS AND POPULATIONS. |
PSM/HLT, FIN |
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HCR 235 |
REQUESTING THE CONVENING OF A TASK FORCE TO FACILITATE THE ESTABLISHMENT OF VIABLE NATURALLY OCCURRING RETIREMENT COMMUNITIES. |
HUS/HLT |
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HCR 258 |
REQUESTING THE GOVERNOR TO MOVE THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH OFFICES TO KAPOLEI. |
HLT, FIN |
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HCR 53 PROPOSED HD1
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REQUESTING THE AUDITOR TO ASSESS THE SOCIAL AND FINANCIAL EFFECTS OF REQUIRING HEALTH INSURERS TO OFFER COVERAGE FOR COGNITIVE REHABILITATION. DELETE: reference to "cognitive rehabilitation." ADD: assessment of social and financial effects of requiring health insurers to offer coverage for marriage and family therapists. |
HLT, FIN |
Decision making to follow.
Decision making only (heard on March 28, 2005):
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HCR 228/ HR 171 PROPOSED HD1 |
REQUESTING THE GOVERNOR TO ESTABLISH THE HAWAII CERVICAL CANCER ELIMINATION TASK FORCE. (Heard March 28, 2005.) DELETE: reference to "cervical cancer." ADD: redirect focus of task force to modalities of early diagnosis and treatment for cancer that would bring Hawaii to the forefront of cancer research. |
HLT, FIN |
Decision making only (heard on March 31, 2005)
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HCR 206/ HR 154 |
REQUESTING THE AUDITOR TO CONDUCT A FINANCIAL AUDIT OF THE DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES DIVISION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH. |
HLT, FIN |
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HCR 229 |
REQUESTING THE LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE BUREAU TO EVALUATE THE IMPACT OF THE PHYSICIAN "ON-CALL" CRISIS ON THE QUEEN'S MEDICAL CENTER TRAUMA CENTER TO PROVIDE EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES IN THE STATE OF HAWAII AND TO RECOMMEND APPROPRIATE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SECTOR GOVERNMENT RESPONSES TO THE "ON-CALL" CRISIS TO ENSURE CONTINUED ACCESS TO TRAUMA LEVEL CARE. |
HLT, FIN |
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HCR 140/HR 103 |
REQUESTING A TASK FORCE BE CONVENED TO CONDUCT A COST ANALYSIS ASSESSMENT OF DESIGNING AND CONSTRUCTING A STATE DNA LAB. |
HLT, LMG |
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HCR 93 |
REQUESTING THE DEPARTMENT OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL TO DRAFT PROPOSED LEGISLATION TO AMEND THE INVOLUNTARY OUTPATIENT TREATMENT LAW UNDER CHAPTER 334, HAWAII REVISED STATUTES, TO ENSURE PROPER OUTPATIENT TREATMENT OF PERSONS WITH NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS OF THE BRAIN. |
HLT, JUD |