COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC SAFETY & MILITARY AFFAIRS
Monday, January 29, 2007
1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Conference Room 423; State Capitol
The purpose of the informational briefing is to discuss "how can the state civil defense improve communication with general public when a man-made or natural disaster occurs."
Representatives of the governors task force on emergency communications, National Weather Service, Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Services (RACES), Public Utilities Commission (PUC), Mayors or office representative for the counties of Oahu, Kauai, Maui and Big Island, Hawaii Hotel Association, Department of Education, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Federal Communication Commission (FCC), Cox Radio (KSSK and KRATER), all major television stations and public testimony.
COMMITTEE ON FINANCE
Monday, January 29, 2007
1:30 p.m.
Conference Room 308; State Capitol
AGENDA:
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SB 638 SD1 (SSCR1) |
MAKING APPROPRIATIONS TO PROVIDE FOR THE EXPENSES OF THE LEGISLATURE, THE AUDITOR, THE LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE BUREAU, AND THE OMBUDSMAN. Appropriates funds to provide for the expenses of the legislature, the auditor, the legislative reference bureau, and the ombudsman.
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FIN Pending Referral |
Decision making to follow.
COMMITTEE ON CONSUMER PROTECTION & COMMERCE
Monday, January 29, 2007
2:00 p.m.
Conference Room 325; State Capitol
AGENDA:
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HB 74 |
RELATING TO PROPERTY INSURANCE. Requires the renewal of property insurance at least once following the loss or damage of any covered property of the insured resulting from a catastrophe.
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CPC, PSM |
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HB 358 |
RELATING TO INSURANCE. Prohibits homeowner's insurers from raising rates or refusing coverage to homeowners who own or harbor a dog, unless the dog has been found to have unjustifiably bitten a human being on at least two separate occasions.
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CPC |
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HB 88 |
RELATING TO INSURANCE FRAUD. Provides funds for the insurance fraud investigations unit to increase staff to prosecute insurance fraud more effectively.
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CPC, FIN |
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HB 90 |
RELATING TO INSURANCE. Enacts the National Conference of Insurance Legislators market conduct surveillance model law, which requires the insurance commissioner to conduct market conduct examinations of domestic and foreign insurers.
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CPC, FIN |
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HB 83 |
RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLE INSURANCE. Prohibits uninsured motorists from recovering noneconomic damages.
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CPC, JUD |
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HB 86 |
RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLE INSURANCE. Makes health insurance primary to personal injury protection benefit component of no-fault insurance. Authorizes health insurers to recover their costs from the personal injury protection insurers.
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CPC, JUD |
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HB 87 |
RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLE INSURANCE. Shortens notice period for reporting accident to insurer.
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CPC |
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HB 89 |
RELATING TO ATTORNEYS' FEES. Eliminates or limits payment of attorneys' fees when personal injury protection benefits are paid late.
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CPC, JUD |
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HB 181 |
RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLE INSURANCE. Makes health insurance primary to personal injury protection benefit component of no-fault insurance.
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CPC |
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HB 276 |
RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLE INSURANCE. Authorizes insureds to choose between no-fault and no-fault with a threshold for uncompensated economic loss.
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CPC, JUD |
Decision making to follow.
COMMITTEE ON ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AND COMMITTEE ON CONSUMER PROTECTION & COMMERCE
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
8:15 a.m.
Conference Room 325; State Capitol
AGENDA:
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The purpose of this informational briefing is to provide a policymaker level overview of Hawaii's Energy Emergency Preparedness (EEP) Program and Plan Update Project. The objectives include an overview of Hawaii's Updated EEP Plan, EEP Reference Book, and Action Plan, including Key Recommendations and explain the underlying rationale and necessity for DBEDT's proposed legislative measure to address EEP issues. |
COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND COMMITTEE ON HUMAN SERVICES & HOUSING
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
8:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Conference Room 329; State Capitol
AGENDA:
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HB 1008 |
RELATING TO CHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE. Creates a three-year pilot program in which the Department of Human Services pays half of the premiums for the health care provided by a mutual benefit society to uninsured children who are thirty-one days to eighteen years old and are ineligible for other state or federal health care coverage. Provides children, of families whose income is at or below three hundred per cent of the federal poverty level, access to medical care free of charge by expanding the State's QUEST-Net eligibility requirements. Appropriates funds. Sunsets June 30, 2010.
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HLT/HSH, FIN |
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HB 220 |
RELATING TO TORTS. Limits non-economic damages in medical tort actions contingent on compliance with premium rate caps by insurers providing professional liability insurance in Hawaii. Sunsets on the earlier of the date on which an insurer does not comply with the premium rate caps, or July 1, 2015.
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HLT, CPC, JUD |
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HB 1331 |
RELATING TO TORTS.
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HLT, JUD |
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HB 1325 |
RELATING TO TORTS.
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HLT, CPC, JUD |
Decision making to follow.
COMMITTEE ON LABOR & PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
9:00 a.m.
Conference Room 309; State Capitol
AGENDA:
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HB 863 |
RELATING TO PUBLIC WORK PROJECTS. Clarifies that a construction contract between private parties is a public work under certain conditions, that include state or county use of more than half the project. Requires construction project owner to sign a lease agreement that complies with state prevailing wage law. Requires that copies of the lease agreement be filed with the departments of labor and industrial relations and accounting and general services.
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LAB, EDB, FIN |
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HB 861 |
RELATING TO PUBLIC WORKS. Requires that, for public works projects that are not directly caused by a governmental contracting agency, the department of labor and industrial relations be the responsible agency for ensuring compliance with the State's prevailing wage law. Requires the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds for these projects to be promptly reported to the department of labor and industrial relations.
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LAB, EDB, FIN |
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HB 1080
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RELATING TO PUBLIC WORK PROJECTS. Requires a construction project owner who undertakes a construction project to be used by the State or a county to sign a lease agreement that certifies compliance with the State's public works prevailing wage law. Requires that copies of the lease agreement be filed with the departments of labor and industrial relations and accounting and general services.
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LAB, EDB, FIN |
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HB 1081 |
RELATING TO PUBLIC WORKS. Allows a joint labor‑management committee established pursuant to the federal Labor Management Cooperation Act of 1978 to institute an action for injunctive and other relief against an employer that fails to pay its employees the prevailing wage. Effective upon approval.
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LAB, EDB, FIN |
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HB 862 |
RELATING TO PREVAILING WAGES. Allows a joint labor‑management committee established pursuant to the federal Labor Management Cooperation Act of 1978 to institute an action for injunctive and other relief against an employer that fails to pay its employees the prevailing wage. Effective upon approval.
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LAB, EDB, FIN |
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HB 556 |
MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO THE EMPLOYEE RETIREMENT SYSTEM. Appropriates funds to reduce the unfunded liability of the Employee Retirement System due to previous reamortizations.
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LAB, FIN |
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HB 852 |
RELATING TO THE EMPLOYEE RETIREMENT SYSTEM. Permits all elective officers (rather than only members of the legislature) who attain the age of 65 to retire and receive a service retirement allowance while continuing to fill an elective position.
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LAB, FIN |
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HB 247 |
RELATING TO THE EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM. Allows all employees' retirement system retirants to change their pension payment option if the retirant's beneficiary dies before the retirant.
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LAB, FIN |
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HB 519 |
RELATING TO THE STATE DEFERRED COMPENSATION PLAN. Expands the definition of employee under the state deferred compensation plan to include employees who are excluded from participation in the employees' retirement system.
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LAB, FIN |
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HB 29 |
RELATING TO VOLUNTARY EMPLOYEES' BENEFICIARY ASSOCIATION TRUSTS. Makes VEBA trust law permanent.
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LAB, FIN |
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HB 388 |
RELATING TO EMPLOYEES. Requires successor employers to retain incumbent employees upon the divestiture, sale, or acquisition of a business. Enables certain successor companies that acquire a business to also acquire its predecessor's unemployment insurance contribution assessment rate through 12/31/07.
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LAB, EDB |
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HB 887 |
RELATING TO WHISTLEBLOWERS' PROTECTION. Provides additional protection to public employees who report violations of the law, waste, and gross misconduct, incompetence, or inefficiency; expands the state ombudsman's responsibilities regarding whistleblowers; and appropriates funds.
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LAB, JUD, FIN |
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HB 868 |
RELATING TO OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH. Prohibits an employer from subjecting an employee to an abusive work environment; provides legal recourse for employees who have been psychologically, physically, or economically harmed as a result of being deliberately subjected to an abusive work environment.
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LAB, EDB, JUD |
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HB 1493 |
RELATING TO THE CRIME VICTIM COMPENSATION COMMISSION. Exempts existing and new employees of the commission for crime victim compensation from civil service law as established in chapter 76.
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LAB, JUD, FIN |
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HB 1193 |
RELATING TO THE OFFICE OF HAWAIIAN AFFAIRS. Requires the salary commission for the members of the board of trustees of the office of Hawaiian affairs to meet every year to recommend salary compensation.
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LAB, WLH, FIN |
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HB 1280 |
RELATING TO INNOVATION IN WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT. Establishes a lifelong learning program and tax credit in the DLIR to support upgraded training for the incumbent workforce. Establishes a rapid response training program and revolving fund in DBEDT to facilitate rapid custom training for high priority business investments. Establishes a state level program in DBEDT to attract former residents back to Hawaii. Merges certain workforce and economic development programs of DLIR and DBEDT. These programs and changes work with other elements of the Innovation Initiative to develop a competitive workforce with the skill levels to support high skill high wage industries in the future. Without efforts to raise skill levels, increase the labor supply respond faster to the training needs and more efficiently administer state economic and workforce development efforts, Hawaii cannot maintain, much less advance its standard of living
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LAB, EDB, FIN |
Decision making to follow.
Decision making only (deferred on 1/26/07):
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HB 393 |
RELATING TO HEALTH INSURANCE. Requires the State and counties to provide health insurance to its emergency and temporary hires and part-time employees who work fewer than twenty hours a week who would otherwise not have health insurance coverage.
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LAB, FIN |
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HB 52 |
RELATING TO EMPLOYMENT PRACTICES. Prohibits employers from suspending, discharging, or discriminating against an employee for taking sick leave.
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LAB, FIN |
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HB 305 |
RELATING TO WORKERS' COMPENSATION. Authorizes recovery of attorney's fees and costs under workers' compensation law by any person who successfully defends any charge of workers' compensation insurance fraud, except criminal cases, against the person who initiates and prosecutes the action. Authorizes the insurance commissioner to investigate complaints and prosecute cases of workers' compensation fraud, provided that the complaint is against an insurance carrier, a self-insured employer, or a full-insured employer.
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LAB, CPC/JUD |
COMMITTEE ON ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AND COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
10:15 a.m.
Conference Room 325; State Capitol
AGENDA:
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Purpose of this informational briefing is to receive presentations on the Economics of Invasive Species from various organizations:
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