COMMITTEE ON CONSUMER PROTECTION & COMMERCE AND COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC SAFETY & MILITARY AFFAIRS

Wednesday, March 15, 2006

Conference Room 325; State Capitol

2:00 p.m. AGENDA:

CPC/PSM only:

SB 2239

SD2

(SSCR2905)

RELATING TO THE WIRELESS ENHANCED 911 BOARD.

Gives the Board discretion as to the allocation of reimbursements from the wireless enhanced 911 fund between the Public Safety Answering Points and wireless carriers. (SD2)

CPC/PSM, FIN

Decision making to follow.

 

COMMITTEE ON CONSUMER PROTECTION & COMMERCE

Wednesday, March 15, 2006

Conference Room 325; State Capitol

2:05 p.m. AGENDA:

CPC only:

SB 770

SD2

(SSCR768)

RELATING TO MORTGAGE BROKERS.

Transfers responsibility for oversight of the mortgage broker profession within DCCA from the professional and vocational licensing division to the division of financial institutions. (SD2)

CPC, JUD, FIN

SB 2018

SD1

(SSCR2666)

RELATING TO PUBLIC UTILITIES.

Requires a utility applicant to notify existing consumers and patrons, if any, of the rates proposed to be established by an application for a certificate of public convenience and necessity. (SD1)

CPC

SB 2092

SD1

(SSCR2039)

RELATING TO PLANNED COMMUNITY ASSOCIATIONS.

Requires association to give prior written notice of costs for providing information. (SD1)

CPC

SB 2193

SD1

(SSCR2040)

RELATING TO PLANNED COMMUNITY ASSOCIATIONS.

Requires planned community associations to maintain financial statements and other financial information at a convenient location for examination by any member for the duration that those statements and information are kept by the association. (SD1)

CPC

SB 2283

SD1

(SSCR2663)

RELATING TO INSURANCE.

Updates and conforms current statutes governing insurer examinations and commercial general liability extended reporting requirements to the changes and revisions in the most current NAIC Model Acts and Model Regulations. (SD1)

CPC

SB 3072

SD1

(SSCR2629)

RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLE INSURANCE.

Clarifies the process of payments for benefits under automobile personal injury protection coverage where the bill for medical services submitted does not conform to the fee schedule or where there is a dispute between the medical provider and insurer on compliance. (SD1)

CPC, FIN

SB 2067

SD1

(SSCR2902)

RELATING TO INSURANCE.

Appropriates funds for the loss mitigation grant program. (SD1)

CPC, FIN

SB 2282

SD2

(SSCR2907)

RELATING TO INSURANCE.

Updates and streamlines insurance statutes to conform with federal law and national standards. (SD2)

CPC, FIN

SB 2224

(SSCR2655)

RELATING TO CREDIT SALES.

Amends definition of "principal balance."

CPC

SB 2499

SD2

(SSCR2908)

RELATING TO GENERAL EXCISE TAX.

Requires an investment broker and agent who share compensation for their services to pay the general excise tax for only that portion of the compensation retained by each. (SD2)

CPC, FIN

 

SB 3065

SD1

(SSCR2654)

RELATING TO THE ONE CALL CENTER ADVISORY COMMITTEE.

Increases voting members on one call center advisory committee from fifteen to seventeen members. Includes among the voting members one person from the water utility industry and one person from the wastewater industry. (SD1)

CPC, FIN

Decision making to follow.

 

COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND COMMITTEE ON LABOR & PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT AND COMMITTEE ON HEALTH

Wednesday, March 15, 2006

2:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Conference Room 309; State Capitol

AGENDA:

SB 2887

SD1

(SSCR2647)

RELATING TO EDUCATION.

Directs the Hawaii Teachers Standards Board to create alternative criteria and other measures of qualification for highly qualified vocational education and career pathway teachers. (SD1)

EDN/LAB, FIN

SB 3197

SD2

(SSCR2900)

RELATING TO SUBSTITUTE TEACHERS.

Establishes that the compensation of substitute teachers shall be tied to the salary or wage increases provided to licensed class II teachers of the department of education. (SD2)

EDN/LAB, JUD, FIN

SB 3101

SD2

(SSCR2895)

RELATING TO EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION.

Creates early learning authority within DOE. Sets powers and duties of authority. Creates workforce and professional development institute within authority and sets duties. Allows authority to contract with nonprofit early education agency to assist authority. Appropriates funds. (SD2)

EDN/LAB, FIN

SB 3273

SD2

(SSCR2588)

RELATING TO SUBSTANCE ABUSE.

Makes permanent provisions allowing a child who violates the zero tolerance policy for drugs and alcohol in public schools to return to school earlier than indicated in the original disciplinary determination following the completion of a substance abuse assessment and related treatment or counseling. Requires public schools to screen students facing substance abuse-related discipline to determine if there is a need for a substance abuse assessment referral. Requires the parent or legal guardian of a child facing discipline but who has been assessed as not needing treatment to consent to follow-up counseling for the child's family. Requires school administrators to review and determine the nature and severity of the child's offense, its impact on others, the offender's age, and whether the child is a repeat offender. Allows certified substance abuse counselors to conduct substance abuse assessments qualifying individuals for substance abuse-related insurance benefits. Requires assessments to be completed within ten days for children facing substance abuse-related school discipline. (SD2)

EDN/HLT, JUD, FIN

SB 2704

SD2

(SSCR2876)

RELATING TO EDUCATION.

Repeals one of the school-level minor repairs and maintenance accounts and the annual report of expenditures from the accounts, and clarifies that the remaining account is not funded by general funds. (SD2)

EDN, FIN

SB 2708

SD2

(SSCR2879)

RELATING TO SCHOOL FACILITIES.

Extends work of school impact fee working group established by Act 246, SLH 2005, one more year to 7/30/07; makes an appropriation. (SD2)

EDN, FIN

SB 2718

SD1

(SSCR2880)

RELATING TO EDUCATION.

Caps the maximum annual contribution from a nonprofit organization that creates a charter school. (SD1)

EDN, FIN

SB 2720

SD2

(SSCR2882)

RELATING TO EDUCATION.

Repeals transfer of functions from DHS and the AG's office to DOE required by Reinventing Education Act of 2004. Delays transfer of functions from B&F to DOE and transfer of school health aides and public health nurses from DOH to DOE for one year. (SD2)

EDN, FIN

SB 2721

(SSCR2646)

RELATING TO EDUCATION.

Repeals requirement that the superintendent of education provide an annual report to the board of education of principal transactions within the department.

EDN

SB 2836

SD2

(SSCR2886)

RELATING TO THE STATE EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES IMPROVEMENT FUND.

Changes to an unspecified amount the base figure used to determine the amount of general excise tax revenues deposited into the state educational facilities improvement special fund. (SD2)

EDN, FIN

SB 2956

SD2

(SSCR2890)

RELATING TO EDUCATION.

Creates new school construction special fund; makes appropriations for DOE operations, repair, and maintenance; allows DOE to use certificates of participation to finance the construction of new schools; requires new schools to meet energy-efficient standards. (SD2)

EDN, FIN

HR 31 / HCR 45

REQUESTING THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION TO ASSIST IN DEVELOPING COMMUNITY-BASED PROGRAMS ON THE BIG ISLAND THAT ENCOURAGE POSITIVE YOUTH OUTCOMES, INCLUDING LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT.

EDN

HR 32 / HCR 46

URGING THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, UNITED STATES CONGRESS, AND UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION TO SUPPORT THE GOALS OF THE NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND ACT (NCLB) BY INCREASING FUNDS FOR FEDERAL EDUCATION INITIATIVES AND AFFORDING MORE FLEXIBILITY TO STATES IN RELATION TO NCLB.

EDN

HR 33 / HCR 47

URGING THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES AND THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS TO SUPPORT IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF THE NATION'S PUBLIC SCHOOLS BY SUBSTANTIALLY INCREASING EDUCATION FUNDING.

EDN

Decision making to follow.

 

 

COMMITTEE ON LEGISLATIVE MANAGEMENT

Wednesday, March 15, 2006

2:00 p.m.

Conference Room 423; State Capitol

AGENDA:

SB 2806

SD2

(SSCR2709)

RELATING TO LEGISLATIVE PROCEEDINGS ON THE INTERNET.

Appropriates funds for video archived and indexed audio streams of legislative proceedings over the Internet. (SD2)

LMG, FIN

SB 2156

SD2

(SSCR2794)

RELATING TO THE AUDITOR.

Provides explicit authority to the auditor to inspect all accounts, books, records, files, papers, and documents and all financial affairs of the department of taxation. (SD2)

LMG, JUD, FIN

Decision making to follow.

 

COMMITTEE ON ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

Thursday, March 16, 2006

8:30 a.m.

Conference Room 312; State Capitol

AGENDA:

 

SB 2145 SD2

RELATING TO THE ENVIRONMENT.

Requires OEQC to contract with the UH environmental center to perform a comprehensive review of the EIS process. Appropriates money to DOH to fund the contract. Appropriates money for the environmental council to hire a program director to coordinate the State's environmental justice activities. (SD2)

EEP, JUD, FIN

SB 3181 SD2

Proposed HD1

(Copies available in Room 314)

RELATING TO SOLID WASTE.

Establishes penalties for violation of the deposit beverage container program. (HD1)

EEP, FIN

SB 3105 SD2

RELATING TO THE DEPOSIT BEVERAGE CONTAINER PROGRAM.

Extends reverse vending machine rebate program to persons who are not dealers or recyclers. Extends time for new rebate. Extends sunset date of Act 228, SLH 2005, to June 30, 2010. (SD2)

EEP, CPC, FIN

Decision making to follow.

 

COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC SAFETY & MILITARY AFFAIRS AND COMMITTEE ON LEGISLATIVE MANAGEMENT

Thursday, March 16, 2006

Conference Room 309; State Capitol

8:30 a.m. AGENDA:

PSM/LMG only:

SB 2949

SD2

(SSCR2735)

RELATING TO PUBLIC SAFETY.

Gives the Office of the Ombudsman authority to investigate acts of private, out-of-state, or federal correctional facilities with which the Department of Public Safety has contracted to house persons committed to the custody of the Director of Public Safety. (SD1)

PSM/LMG, JUD, FIN

Decision making to follow.

 

8:45 a.m. AGENDA:

PSM only:

SB 2074

SD1

(SSCR2718)

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR DEVELOPMENT OF A NON-EMERGENCY REPORTING SYSTEM, KNOWN AS 3-1-1.

Appropriates funds to the Honolulu police department for the development costs of a 311 non-emergency reporting system. (SD1)

PSM, FIN

SB 600

(SSCR627)

RELATING TO FIREARMS, AMMUNITION, AND DANGEROUS WEAPONS.

Proposed HD1: Repeals prohibition against manufacture, possession, sale, barter, trade, gift, transfer, or acquisition of detachable ammunition magazines with a capacity in excess of ten rounds.

Copies of the Proposed HD1 are available in the Chair's Office, Room 420.

PSM, JUD

SB 2263

SD1

(SSCR2571)

RELATING TO CHAPTER 134.

Amends chapter 134 to comply with certain provisions of the federal law contained in the "Brady Bill" by: (1) reflecting the current federal requirement that state firearms registration records include place of birth, country of citizenship, and for non-citizens, an alien or admission number; (2) reflecting the federal mandate that the national instant criminal background check system and the immigration and customs enforcement databases be checked prior to the issuance of firearms permits; (3) prohibiting a person's possession of firearms under state law if the person is prohibited from possessing firearms under federal law. (SD1)

PSM, JUD

SB 2243

SD1

(SSCR2632)

RELATING TO BIOLOGICAL EVIDENCE.

Provides for the immediate DNA testing of all felons who are currently incarcerated. Allows for post conviction DNA testing for those who were not convicted but were acquitted of a crime on the ground of physical or mental disease, disorder, or defect. (SD1)

PSM, JUD, FIN

SB 2581

SD1

(SSCR2568)

RELATING TO THE BACKLOG IN UNSERVED ARREST WARRANTS.

Authorizes service of warrants by retired police and public safety officers to assist in reducing the backlog of unserved arrest warrants. Provides for a sunset date of July 1, 2011. (SD1)

PSM, JUD

SB 1311

SD2

(SSCR2723)

RELATING TO DISPOSITION OF CONVICTED DEFENDANTS.

Authorizes a three-year pilot project that allows the judiciary to assume supervision and control over inmates in correctional facilities who qualify for a drug court program. (SD2)

PSM, JUD, FIN

SB 2946

SD1

(SSCR2550)

RELATING TO THE CORRECTIONS POPULATION MANAGEMENT COMMISSION.

Specifies the commission's recommendation-making responsibility. (SD1)

PSM, FIN

SB 2926

SD1

(SSCR2729)

RELATING TO PUBLIC SAFETY.

Appropriates funds to the department of public safety for the expansion of work furlough programs and facilities.

PSM, FIN

SB 2295

(SSCR2656)

RELATING TO PRINCIPAL PRIVATE DETECTIVES AND GUARDS.

Repeals the requirement that principal detectives and principal guards must be residents of the State to qualify for licensure. Codifies the policy of allowing out-of-state principal detectives and principal guards to be licensed, provided they are fully responsible for the direct management and control of the agency and the agency's employees when detective services are being provided in the State. Allows an agency to emply more than one principal detective or principal guard.

PSM, CPC

SB 2214

SD2

(SSCR2795)

RELATING TO DISASTER PREPAREDNESS.

Establishes Civil Defense Disaster Preparedness Special Fund and makes appropriation to the fund; requires Department of Defense to develop disaster preparedness emergency shelter plan and to report to Legislature; requires hospitals, nursing homes, and hotels to develop disaster preparedness plans; requires Department of Health to conduct a study of the structural integrity of hospitals and nursing homes in Hawaii; requires counties to locate, designate, and maintain areas to provide emergency shelter for homeless; establishes rebuttable presumption in favor of undergrounding electric utilities in tsunami-prone areas; authorizes Governor to expend funds from the emergency and budget reserve fund to provide emergency assistance to residents and businesses of the State after natural disaster; establishes the Residential Disaster Special Assistance Fund; limits the percentage of National Guard that can be activated by Governor for purposes other than disaster relief; establishes class C felony and misdemeanor offenses for price gouging and profiteering after natural disaster. (SD2)

PSM, JUD, FIN

SB 2305

SD2

(SSCR2871)

RELATING TO VETERANS' SERVICES.

Increases membership of the policy advisory board on veterans' services, and places the board within the office of the veterans' services in the department of defense. (SD2)

PSM, FIN

SB 2651

SD1

(SSCR2708)

WAIPAHU CENTENNIAL MEMORIAL.

Appropriates funds for the construction of a Waipahu centennial memorial. (SD1)

PSM, FIN

Decision making to follow.

 

11:00 a.m. AGENDA:

PSM/LAB only:

SB 824

(SSCR838)

RELATING TO THE HAWAII PAROLING AUTHORITY.

To increase the level of service of members of the Hawaii Paroling Authority from part-time to full-time.

PSM/LAB, FIN

Decision making to follow.

 

COMMITTEE ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT & BUSINESS CONCERNS

Thursday, March 16, 2006

9:00 a.m.

Conference Room 325; State Capitol

AGENDA:

SB 2493

SD1

(SSCR2827)

RELATING TO STATE PLANNING.

Extends the deadline for the auditor to submit the Hawaii 2050 Sustainability Plan for an additional year and extends the authority of the Hawaii 2050 task force to 6/30/08. (SD1)

EDB, FIN

SB 3138

(SSCR2840)

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE PREPARATION OF THE 2050 SUSTAINABILITY PLAN.

Makes an appropriation for the auditor to prepare the 2050 sustainability plan.

EDB, FIN

SB 2909

SD1

(SSCR2573)

RELATING TO PERMIT APPROVALS.

Allows a county to opt out of the automatic permit approval law by adopting an ordinance to exempt the county as a whole or any county agency from the law. (SD1)

EDB, JUD, FIN

SB 2406

SD1

(SSCR2679)

RELATING TO PERMIT APPROVALS.

Provides that automatic approval of applications for business-or development-related permits, licenses, or approvals will not occur when the board or commission's decision is delayed by a tie vote or other vote with less than a majority of the members of the commission or board. (SD1)

EDB, JUD, FIN

SB 2897

SD2

(SSCR2803)

RELATING TO PROCUREMENT.

Raises small purchases limit from $25,000 to $50,000; requires small purchases to be transacted over the Internet; requires selection of bidders from pre-qualified lists of vendors. Restores exemptions for special purpose revenue bonds from procurement code. (SD2)

EDB, LMG, FIN

Decision making to follow.

 

COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND COMMITTEE ON HUMAN SERVICES

Thursday, March 16,2006

9:00 a.m.

Conference Room 329; State Capitol

AGENDA:

HLT/HMS only:

SB 2227

SD2

RELATING TO HEALTH INSURANCE.

Establishes conditions for reimbursement of telehealth services. (SD2)

HLT/HUS, CPC, FIN

SB 2563

SD1

RELATING TO SAGE PLUS.

Appropriates funds for the Sage PLUS program to establish four .5 FTE Sage PLUS specialist positions to expand services to the neighbor islands and to support the program's operating costs. Grandfathers in existing Sage PLUS employees into civil service. (SD1)

HLT/HUS, LAB, FIN

SB 3224

SD2

RELATING TO PSYCHOTROPIC MEDICATION.

Improves access to psychotropic medication for all participants in all medicaid medical plans. (SD2)

HLT/HUS, CPC, FIN

SB 2338

MAKING AN EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH FOR THE DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES DIVISION.

Emergency appropriation to continue the Developmental Disabilities Division's efforts to meet state approved target numbers under the current Medicaid Home & Community Based Service Waiver Program (HCBS Waiver Program), to reasonably admit individuals to fulfill obligations.

HLT/HUS, FIN

SB 2340

SD1

MAKING AN EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH FOR EARLY INTERVENTION SERVICES.

Makes emergency appropriation ($3,200,928) FY 2006, for early intervention services for infants and children from birth to 3 years of age with developmental delay or at biological or environmental risk for developmental delay. (SD1)

HLT/HUS, FIN

SB 2724

SD2

RELATING TO CHILDREN.

Directs the department of health to develop, beginning on July 1, 2007, an early intervention services program for children between age three and five with developmental delays and whose developmental age is younger than their chronological age. Allows parents the option of choosing DOE programs instead. Appropriates $       . (SD2)

HLT/HUS, EDN, FIN

SB 3277

SD2

RELATING TO NURSE AIDES.

Establishes certification procedures for nurse aides employed in State licensed or State certified health care settings and medicare/medicaid facilities. (SD2)

HLT/HUS, CPC, FIN

HLT only:

SB 2347

SD1

MAKING AN EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH FOR THE FAMILY HEALTH SERVICES DIVISION.

Emergency appropriation ($1,000,000) in Early Intervention Special Fund monies for FY 2005-2006 for the DOH Healthy Start Program. (SD1)

HLT, FIN

SB 2337

SD1

MAKING AN EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH FOR THE ADULT MENTAL HEALTH DIVISION.

Emergency appropriation for 2005-2006 ($4,724,703) general FY funds. Authorizes an increase in the expenditure ceiling of the Mental Health and Substance Abuse Special Fund by an additional $6,148,944 to DOH, adult mental health division, for ongoing services provided at Hawaii State Hospital and community-based services. (SD1)

HLT, FIN

SB 2339

SD2

MAKING AN EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH FOR THE EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES SYSTEM BRANCH.

Emergency appropriation ($7,154,735) for FY 2005-2006 to pay for ambulance services contracts and general operating costs for supplies and equipment, including negotiated collective bargaining costs. (SD2)

HLT, FIN

SB 218

SD4

RELATING TO HEALTH.

Establishes EMT training stipend program to remedy shortage of MICT paramedics and assist 10 students per year who are public or private paramedics and cannot access a program. Appropriates unspecified amount. (SD4)

HLT, LAB, FIN

Decision making only:

SB 2139

SD1

RELATING TO HEALTH.

Requires recipients of state funding that provide information or offer programs regarding sex information to provide medically accurate, factual information that is age-appropriate and includes information on both abstinence and contraception. (SD1)

HLT, JUD, FIN

SB 940

SD2

RELATING TO THE PATIENTS' BILL OF RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES ACT.

Provides for review of ERISA-covered managed care plan coverage disputes by independent review organization, and review of non-ERISA plans by external review panel. Requires Commissioner to retain nonprofit as state health consumer advocate. (SD2)

HLT, CPC/JUD, FIN

Decision making to follow.

 

11:00 a.m. AGENDA:

HLT only:

SB 2348

SD1

MAKING AN EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH FOR PANDEMIC INFLUENZA PREPAREDNESS.

Makes an emergency appropriation to prepare for a pandemic of a novel strain of influenza. (SD1)

HLT, FIN

Decision making to follow.

 

COMMITTEE ON WATER, LAND, & OCEAN RESOURCES AND COMMITTEE ON LEGISLATIVE MANAGEMENT

Thursday, March 16, 2006

10:00 a.m.

Conference Room 312; State Capitol

AGENDA:

SB 2476

SD2

(SSCR2821)

RELATING TO LANDS CONTROLLED BY THE STATE. Requires ADC, HCDA, HCDCH, HTDC, and UH to obtain legislative approval before disposing of state lands under their respective jurisdictions. (SD2)

WLO/LMG, JUD, FIN

Decision making to follow.