COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND COMMITTEE ON HUMAN SERVICES & HOUSING
Thursday, February 1, 2007
2:00 p.m.
Conference Room 309; State Capitol
AGENDA:
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HB 599 |
RELATING TO TEACHER HOUSING. Establishes an affordable housing program for public school teachers and a second mortgage revolving fund. Appropriates funds for: (1) the repair and maintenance of teacher housing; and (2) second mortgage loans for public school teachers. Provides for a report on the effectiveness of housing availability in increasing teacher recruitment.
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EDN/HSH, FIN |
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HB 955 |
RELATING TO TEACHER HOUSING. Creates an affordable housing program for active full-time public school teachers to purchase an interest in residential properties.
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EDN/HSH, FIN |
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HB 414 |
PROPOSING A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT TO HAWAII CONSTITUTION RELATING TO EDUCATION. Allows the student member of the board of education to vote on all matters.
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EDN, JUD, FIN |
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HB 564 |
RELATING TO EDUCATION. Allows the principal of each public school to establish and use a debit card system based at the individual school level for the purpose of purchasing school supplies and other related curriculum support supplies.
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EDN, FIN |
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HB 595 |
RELATING TO EDUCATION. Appropriates moneys to the office of information technology services for the continued implementation of student information systems, student support systems, additional program requirements, and infrastructure enhancements for fiscal years 2008 and 2009.
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EDN, FIN
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HB 596 |
RELATING TO SCHOOLS. Decentralizes authority and responsibility to the school level and appropriates funding for each year of the fiscal biennium for arts, physical education and learning materials, business services, and for business managers and trainers.
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EDN, FIN
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HB 1506 |
RELATING TO SCHOOL IMPACT FEES. Establishes a new part for determining school impact fees for financing new or expanding existing department of education schools or facilities by utilizing the student generation rates developed in the Ewa case study in establishing a uniform statewide approach for school land dedication of construction impact fee requirements.
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EDN, WLH, FIN |
Decision making to follow.
COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY
Thursday, February 1, 2007
2:00 p.m.
Conference Room 325; State Capitol
AGENDA:
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HB 1129 |
RELATING TO ANTITRUST. Allows a defendant who obtains a judgment as a prevailing party in an antitrust suit to recover attorney's fees together with the costs of the suit.
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JUD |
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HB 1177 |
MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR A COMMUNITY ANTI-DRUG FUND. Appropriates funds to the county of Hawaii to implement grass roots community involvement through the community anti-drug fund.
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JUD, FIN |
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HB 1204 |
RELATING TO CRIMINAL PROCEDURE. Eliminates requirement that arrest citations contain an offender's full social security number. Authorizes verification of arrest citation and traffic crime complaint by declaration in accordance with rules of court.
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JUD |
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HB 1231 |
MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR CLAIMS AGAINST THE STATE, ITS OFFICERS, OR ITS EMPLOYEES. Provides for the authorization and payment of claims against the State for refunds of taxes, for judgments and settlements, and for other miscellaneous payments.
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JUD, FIN |
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HB 1234 |
RELATING TO TESTIMONY. Adopts a uniform standard based on the Federal Rules of Evidence for ensuring the admissibility of reliable, trustworthy, and relevant lay and expert testimony in a judicial proceeding.
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JUD |
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HB 1235 |
RELATING TO APPELLATE JURISDICTION. Authorizes immediate appeals from orders regarding preliminary injunctions and from denials of sovereign, absolute or qualified immunity.
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JUD |
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HB 1239 |
RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL. Provides the AG with 33% of the proceeds or settlement from a false claim prosecution where the AG initiates or assumes control of the action.
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JUD, FIN |
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HB 1241 |
RELATING TO INFORMATION CHARGING. Adds Methamphetamine trafficking in the second degree to those class B felonies that may be initiated by information charging. Provides that all class C felony offenses for failure to comply with covered offender registration requirements may be initiated by information charging.
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JUD |
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HB 1242 |
RELATING TO CHAPTER 803. Clarifies the procedure a police officer must follow whenever it is necessary to enter a house to arrest an offender, and entrance is refused. Specifically, before breaking any door, the officer must first demand entrance in a loud voice.
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JUD |
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HB 1248 |
RELATING TO NAME CHANGES. Prohibits covered offenders subject to registration requirements from petitioning for name changes.
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JUD |
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HB 1249 |
RELATING TO APPEALS. Clarifies the limited instances where a court may reverse a conviction for any alleged error in the giving or the refusal to give, or the modification of, an instruction to the jury in a criminal matter.
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JUD |
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HB 1253 |
RELATING TO THE HAWAII RULES OF EVIDENCE. Allows individuals, corporations, and government entities to offer apologies or other expressions of sympathy without fear of such gestures being used against them to establish civil liability.
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JUD |
Decision making to follow.
COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE AND COMMITTEE ON WATER, LAND, OCEAN RESOURCES & HAWAIIAN AFFAIRS
Friday, February 2, 2007
8:30 a.m.
Conference Room 325; State Capitol
AGENDA:
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HB 399 |
RELATING TO AGRICULTURE Makes an appropriation to the Hawaii Association of Conservation Districts for the operation of the soil and water conservations districts.
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AGR/WLH, FIN |
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HB 1525 |
MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR A GRANT TO WEST MAUI SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICT. Makes an appropriation for a grant to west Maui soil and water conservation district to establish a working group to support and maintain sustainable livestock agricultural production in the State.
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AGR/WLH, FIN |
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HB 1639 |
RELATING TO IMPORTANT AGRICULTURAL LANDS. Excludes rental income received as lease rents from certain leases of important agricultural lands from gross income for purposes of the income tax law, and exempts rental income received as lease rents from certain leases of important agricultural lands from the general excise tax law.
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AGR/WLH, FIN |
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HB 715 |
MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE PURCHASE OF WATER FOR AGRICULTURAL USE ON LANAI. Appropriates funds for the creation of a Lanai agriculture industry by providing funds for the purchase of water by the Lanai farmers.
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AGR/WLH, FIN |
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HB 1496 |
RELATING TO LAND USE. Prohibits counties from allowing any uses in agricultural district other than permitted uses set forth in section 205-4.5 (land use law).
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AGR/WLH, FIN |
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HB 1121 |
RELATING TO WATER RATES FOR AGRICULTURAL USES. Requires private entities that furnish water used for agricultural purposes in an area zoned for agricultural use to establish a water rate structure for agricultural water use that is comparable to the water rate structure used by the local county board of water supply.
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AGR/WLH, CPC |
Decision making to follow.
COMMITTEE ON WATER, LAND, OCEAN RESOURCES & HAWAIIAN AFFAIRS AND COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE
Friday, February 2, 2007
9:30 a.m.
Conference Room 325; State Capitol
AGENDA:
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HB 257 |
RELATING TO LAND USE. Imposes conditions on the subdivision of lands in the agricultural district. Limits county zoning power in agricultural district. Requires special permit for land in rural district to require approval of land use commission.
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WLH/AGR |
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HB 615 |
RELATING TO LAND USE. Prohibits counties from permitting uses in the agricultural district other than permissible uses pursuant to section 205-4.5 (land use law; permissible uses in agricultural district).
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WLH/AGR |
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HB 1901 |
RELATING TO LAND USE. (1) Sets forth permissible uses on important agricultural lands; (2) Requires counties to adopt by ordinance permissible uses and infrastructure standards within rural and urban districts; and (3) Makes comprehensive amendments to land use law to improve use of rural and agricultural lands.
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WLH/AGR |
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HB 1922 |
RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL LANDS. Expedites the designation of important agricultural lands by the land use commission by eliminating the landowner/farmer process and the county process, and allowing the land use commission to initiate the designation process and allowing landowners to petition the land use commission for designation. Allows the landowner petition for important agricultural land designation to take effect without the legislative enactment of incentive/protection legislation. Removes the county from the special permit process.
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WLH/AGR |
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HB 1223 |
RELATING TO IMPORTANT AGRICULTURAL LANDS. Restricts the permitted uses on important agricultural lands [IAL] to: cultivation of crops; game & fish propagation; raising of livestock; farm dwellings related to farming & animal husbandry; worker housing; necessary institutions and buildings; utility lines & roadways, transformer stations, communications equipment buildings, solid waste stations, water storage tanks and appurtenant small buildings; improvements to historic, scenic or cultural sites; roadside stands; buildings directly accessory to permitted uses; Ag parks; Ag tourism activities secondary to the principal Ag use; bio-fuels processing facilities.
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WLH/AGR, FIN |
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HB 408 |
RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. Prohibits any industrial, commercial, or residential development or infrastructure serving the development within one thousand feet from the property line of any farming operation.
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WLH/AGR, JUD |
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HB 1269 |
RELATING TO LAND USE. Specifies that agricultures may be a permitted use in rural districts and that other activity and uses may be allowed including clustered development and rural towns.
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WLH/AGR |
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HB 402 |
RELATING TO THE LAND CONSERVATION FUND. Allows the Land Conservation Fund to acquire interests or rights in land having value as a resource to the State through agricultural easements. Specifies that the Land Conservation Fund can be used for the payment of debt service relating to the acquisition of interests or rights in land having value as a resource to the State.
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WLH/AGR, FIN |
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HB 407 |
RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL WATER. Incorporates into the Water Code, consideration of the water needs of Important Agricultural Lands.
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WLH/AGR, JUD |
Decision making to follow.
COMMITTEE ON HEALTH
Friday, February 2, 2007
8:30 a.m.
Conference Room 329; State Capitol
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HB 1862 |
RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION. Allows motor vehicles registered to individuals with serious skin conditions to obtain darker window sun-screening devices than currently allowed by law.
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HLT, TRN, JUD |
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HB 1699 |
RELATING TO HEALTH COVERAGE FOR BRAIN INJURIES. Requires insurers, hospital and medical services plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage for survivors of brain injuries including, among other things, cognitive and neurocognitive therapy, neurobehavioral and neuropsychological testing or treatment, and necessary post-acute transition services or community reintegration activities.
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HLT, CPC, FIN |
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HB 1378 |
MAKING AN EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH. Appropriates $950,000 in general funds for FY 2006-2007, to fund a grant to Kahuku Hospital on Oahu.
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HLT, FIN |
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HB 965 |
RELATING TO A GRANT TO KAHUKU HOSPITAL. Appropriates $950,000 as a grant to Kahuku hospital from the emergency appropriation approved by the legislature during the regular session of 2007 to permit it to maintain operations and cover costs of reorganization and to transfer to the Hawaii health systems corporation.
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HLT, FIN |
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HB 843 |
RELATING TO KAHUKU HOSPITAL. Requires the Hawaii health systems corporation to acquire Kahuku hospital on negotiated terms. Requires the director of health to assume a facilitating role during the transition period. Appropriation.
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HLT, FIN |
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HB 1047 |
RELATING TO MARRIAGE AND FAMILY THERAPISTS. Includes marriage and family therapy among the mental illness, alcohol and drug dependence benefits required within the hospital and medical coverage offered under accident and sickness insurance policies and similar insurance products
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HLT, CPC, FIN |
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HB 1477 |
RELATING TO RURAL PRIMARY HEALTH CARE TRAINING. Appropriates funds to develop a statewide rural training model to provide a pipeline of well trained family physicians to improve health care access and meet the future health needs of the people of Hawaii.
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HLT, HED, FIN |
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HB 1438 |
RELATING TO HEALTH. Enacts the Hospital Infections Disclosure Act to establish a uniform system of reporting hospital-acquired infections to the department of health and to make that information public.
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HLT, CPC, FIN |
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HB 1118 |
RELATING TO HEALTH INSURANCE. Mandates health insurance coverage for prostate cancer and colorectal cancer screening by all health and accident insurers, mutual benefit societies, and health maintenance organizations after 12/31/2007.
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HLT, CPC, FIN |
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HB 1476 |
RELATING TO INSURANCE. Authorizes the Insurance Commissioner to administer then transfer to a non-profit agency, a purchasing pool giving employers access to reduced-cost health care coverage for part-time and temporary employees, sole proprietors, and family businesses not covered under the Prepaid Health Care Act.
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HLT, CPC, FIN |
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HB 1792 |
RELATING TO DRUG ABUSE. Establishes and appropriates funds for: (1) A review of pilot studies being conducted in other states on use of the PROMETA treatment protocol to address the withdrawal cravings of crystal methamphetamine addicts; and (2) A plan to adopt the PROMETA treatment protocol, if the review is favorable, as an alternative drug abuse treatment program for persons convicted of substance abuse or related offenses.
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HLT, JUD, FIN |
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HB 1797 |
RELATING TO TRANS FAT IN FOOD SERVICE ESTABLISHMENTS. Prohibits foods containing artificial trans fat from being used in the preparation of any menu item, or served in any food service establishment. Effective July 1, 2008 for cooking oils, shortening, and margarines, and on July 1, 2009, for all other foods containing artificial trans fat
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HLT, EDB, CPC |
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HB 1798 |
RELATING TO DENTISTS. Authorizes the Board of Dental Examiners to conduct background checks on applicants for dental licenses.
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HLT, CPC, JUD |
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HB 1893 |
RELATING TO PROFESSIONAL LICENSURE. Establishes licensing requirements for genetic counselors in the State.
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HLT, CPC, FIN |
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HB 1119 |
RELATING TO RURAL PRIMARY HEALTHCARE AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT IN THE SHORT-TERM. Stabilizes the Family Medicine Residency Program and access to primary care services in Central and Northern Oahu for the next 2 years while further program transition is occurring. Develops the Hawaii Island Family Medicine Rural Training Track, which expands the number of family physicians training in the state. Appropriates funds. Effective date 7/1/2007.
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HLT, HED, FIN |
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HB 1453 |
RELATING TO GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISMS. Requires persons proposing to engage in testing, propagating, cultivating, and growing GMOs to notify DOH and obtain a certification of approval from DOH. Includes liability provisions for injury or damage resulting from such activity.
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HLT, AGR, CPC |
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HB 1454 |
RELATING TO GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISMS. Requires persons proposing to engage in testing, propagating, cultivating, and growing GMOs to notify DOH and obtain a certification of approval from DOH. Requires DOH to determine the level of risk involved before issuing certification of approval. Includes liability provisions for injury or damage resulting from such activity.
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HLT, AGR, CPC |
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HB 11 |
RELATING TO ADVERTISING BY MANUFACTURERS OF PRESCRIPTION DRUGS AND DISCLOSURE OF CLINICAL TRIALS. Requires prescription drug ads to meet federal standards, public disclosure of clinical trial information, and drug manufacturers to pay fees to department of health to fund a public education initiative on clinical trials and drug safety. Establishes special fund.
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HLT, CPC, FIN |
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HB 1474 |
RELATING TO TAXATION OF PREMIUMS. Eliminates the premium tax on health insurers of prepaid health care plan contracts.
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HLT, CPC, FIN |
Decision making to follow.
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Decision making only: |
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HB 875 |
RELATING TO HEALTH. Short form bill relating to health.
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HLT |
COMMITTEE ON LABOR & PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT AND COMMITTEE ON HUMAN SERVICES & HOUSING
Friday, February 2, 2007
8:45 a.m.
Conference Room 309; State Capitol
AGENDA:
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HB 463 |
RELATING TO STATE EMPLOYEE CHILD CARE FACILITIES AND SERVICES. Requires the State to provide state employees with child care facilities and services. Permits State to charge for cost of child care.
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LAB/HSH, FIN |
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HB 833 |
RELATING TO EMPLOYMENT. Exempts recipients of social service payments from the scope of employment related laws.
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LAB/HSH, FIN |
Decision making to follow.
COMMITTEE ON LABOR & PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT
Friday, February 2, 2007
9:00 a.m.
Conference Room 309; State Capitol
AGENDA:
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HB 1258 |
RELATING TO ACTIONS FOR FALSE CLAIMS TO THE STATE. Provides a cause of action for private persons who suffer retribution from employers for whistleblower activities related to the state false claims act.
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LAB, JUD |
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HB 1082 |
RELATING TO BOARDS OF WATER SUPPLY. Repeals the provision encouraging experimental modernization projects by county boards of water supply.
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LAB, FIN |
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HB 1916 |
RELATING TO THE HAWAII LABOR RELATIONS BOARD. Clarifies the procedure on how to elect members of the Hawaii labor relations board.
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LAB, FIN |
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HB 989 |
RELATING TO LEAVE SHARING. Allows employees to donate sick leave credits in addition to vacation credits to assist employees who are on extended leave due to illness.
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LAB, FIN |
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HB 1691 |
RELATING TO FAMILY LEAVE. Allows an employee to elect to use accrued paid leave, including vacation, personal, or family leave, for any part of the four-week period of family leave provided under the law.
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LAB, FIN |
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HB 1745 |
RELATING TO EMPLOYMENT. Establishes job security requirements to protect employees when the business for which the employees work is sold or transferred to another employing entity. Adds definition of "divestiture". Creates worker retention trust fund to receive moneys from penalties and to be used to compensate dislocated workers.
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LAB, EDB, FIN |
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HB 1503 |
RELATING TO EMPLOYMENT. Amends definitions of "closing", "covered establishment", and "employer". Requires employer to notify employees of divestiture. Imposes penalties for failure to notify employees of business closing.
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LAB, JUD |
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HB 760 |
RELATING TO A LIVING WAGE FOR WORKERS ON SERVICE CONTRACTS. Reduces the threshold for service contract worker wage provisions from $25,000 to $5,000; requires wages to be based on United States poverty guidelines for Hawaii; requires enforcement by the department of labor and industrial relations; extends additional rights to service contract employees.
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LAB, EDB, FIN |
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HB 859 |
RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYEES. Allows a public employer to negotiate procedures and criteria on promotions, transfers, assignments, demotions, layoffs, suspensions, terminations, discharges, or other disciplinary actions; requires negotiation over the impact of transfers, assignments, and layoffs of public employees.
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LAB, FIN |
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HB 1561 |
RELATING TO LABOR. Establishes labor representation procedures in developments in which the State or counties have an ongoing proprietary interest.
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LAB, FIN |
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HB 763 |
RELATING TO WORKERS' COMPENSATION LAW. Amends workers' compensation law, including limiting an employer's ability to terminate benefits, authorizing the recovery of attorney's fees and costs by the injured employee, specifying procedures for medical examinations by the employer's physician, establishing fines for violations, requiring the reporting of denials of claims and relevant information, and further restricting the director of labor and industrial relations' rulemaking authority.
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LAB, CPC, FIN |
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HB 964 |
RELATING TO SUBSTANCE ABUSE. Requires that substance abuse testing be conducted according to the manufacturer's rather than the federal government's package insert. Amends definition of "substance abuse on-site screening test" to include tests used for forensic testing as a workplace testing device.
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LAB, JUD |
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HB 751 |
RELATING TO EMPLOYMENT SECURITY. Clarifies the time period in which the department of labor and industrial relations may expend funds appropriated under Act 190, Session Laws of Hawaii 2006. Clarifies restrictions on the use of funds.
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LAB, FIN |
Decision making only (deferred on 1/30/07):
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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 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 |
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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, 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 |
COMMITTEE ON WATER, LAND, OCEAN RESOURCES & HAWAIIAN AFFAIRS AND COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE AND COMMITTEE ON ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
Friday, February 2, 2007
11:00 a.m.
Conference Room 325; State Capitol
AGENDA:
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HB 261 |
RELATING TO LAND USE. Establishes permitted uses on lands designated as important agricultural lands.
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WLH/AGR/EEP, FIN |
Decision making to follow.