HOD 03-15-07 HEARING

SENATE COMMITTEE ON HUMAN SERVICES AND PUBLIC HOUSING AND HOUSE COMMITTEE ON HUMAN SERVICES & HOUSING AND SENATE COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC SAFETY AND HOUSE COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC SAFETY & MILITARY AFFAIRS AND SENATE COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY AND LABOR AND HOUSE COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY

Thursday, March 15, 2007

1:15 p.m.

Conference Room 016; State Capitol

AGENDA:

The purpose of the informational briefing is to receive testimony from the Office of Youth Services regarding the status of the Hawaii Youth Correctional Facility.

Presenters include:

Office of Youth Services:

Martha Torney, Acting Executive Director

Kaleve Tufono-Iosefa, Youth Facility Administrator

Alex Escarcega, Technical Advisor

Department of Education:

August Suehiro, Olomana School Principal (tentative)

Department of Health:

Rachel Guay, Family Court Liaison Branch Administrator (tentative)

American Civil Liberties Union:

Lois Perrin, Staff Attorney

Materials covered:

Settlement Agreement-Related Documents

1) 10/2005 Department of Justice Investigative Findings

2) 2/2006 Department of Justice Settlement Agreement

3) 7/2006 Federal Monitor's Report

4) 11/2006 Federal Monitor's Report

5) 3/2007 Federal Monitor's Report (tentative)

Legislative Auditor's Management Audit of HYCF

Legislative Auditor's Financial Audit of HYCF

Department of Public Safety's Security Audit of HYCF

COMMITTEE ON HIGHER EDUCATION AND COMMITTEE ON LABOR & PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT

Thursday, March 15, 2007

2:00 p.m.

Conference Room 309; State Capitol

AGENDA:

SB 46

SD1

(SSCR656)

RELATING TO GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS.

Requires disclosure of proposed compensation or change in compensation for certain University of Hawaii employees exempt from civil service for purposes of public for purposes of public comment. (SD1)

HED/LAB

SB 608

SD2

(SSCR796)

RELATING TO EDUCATION.

Provides funding to the University of Hawaii to design, research, and develop an interactive searchable web-based database. (SD2)

HED/LAB, FIN

Decision making to follow.

COMMITTEE ON HIGHER EDUCATION AND COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION

Thursday, March 15, 2007

2:20 p.m.

Conference Room 309; State Capitol

AGENDA:

SB 14

SD1

(SSCR317)

RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII.

Establishes the candidate advisory council to screen and propose candidates for appointment to the board of regents of the University of Hawaii. Increases the board of regents membership to fifteen members with a specified number of members representing different geographic areas. Prohibits a board of regents member from serving more than two consecutive five-year terms. Requires the senate to consider the question of an incumbent member's confirmation for a second term at least 120 days prior to the conclusion of the member's first term. Allows a board of regents member to continue to serve until the member's successor has been appointed and confirmed by the senate. (SD1)

HED

SB 1154

SD2

(SSCR902)

RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII.

Enacts a new part in chapter 304A, University of Hawaii, to provide for facilities improvement and university development; repeals existing University of Hawaii facilities improvement and university development law. (SD2)

HED, FIN

SB 1481

SD2

(SSCR767)

RELATING TO INTERVENTION FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSE.

Establishes a two-year pilot program for screening, brief intervention, and referral to substance abuse treatment facilities. Appropriation. (SD2)

HED, FIN

SB 1922

SD2

(SSCR668)

RELATING TO CREATIVE MEDIA.

Creates financial incentives for and appropriates funds to the academy for creative media at the University of Hawaii to develop plans for a permanent facility in Hawaii; appropriates funds for a digital media incubator facility; establishes and appropriates funds for the music and enterprise learning experience program at the University of Hawaii-Honolulu Community College to develop the technical business skills required by Hawaii's music artists and music industry. (SD2)

HED, EDB/TAC, FIN

SB 688

SD2

(SSCR721)

RELATING TO EDUCATION.

Appropriates funds in each year of the fiscal biennium to the P-20 Initiative for the initiation and development of plans for education in Hawaii in the twenty-first century. (SD2)

HED/EDN, FIN

SB 1931

SD2

(SSCR718)

RELATING TO EDUCATION.

Establishes an educational workforce working group to report to the legislature and appropriates funds therefor. Requires the department of education to create a five-year plan to ensure optimal use of technology for administration, data collection, and data sharing related to educational and workforce needs, and to create personalized student learning plans that will have a direct link to economic and workforce needs. Requires the university to report on current workforce development programs and plans for current and future workforce demands. Appropriates funds for workforce development liaisons and support staff. (SD2)

EDN/HED, LAB/EDB, FIN

SB 1932

SD2

(SSCR1008)

RELATING TO EDUCATION.

Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds and general revenue appropriations for department of education and University of Hawaii repair and maintenance projects. Provides public land and facilities for early childhood education programs. Appropriates funds for early childhood education facilities. (SD2)

EDN/HED, HSH, FIN

SB 1933

SD2

(SSCR984)

RELATING TO EDUCATION.

Provides for academic and fiscal accountability in education by addressing: (1) funding for fiscal and academic accountability and the creation of district level business and educational services centers; (2) appropriates funds for specialized high schools linked to Hawaii's workforce development needs; (3) enhancing the role of the college of education and the University of Hawaii in Hawaii's educational research and policy development; and (4) creating an early education initiative designed to attract and retain more early education teachers and to provide public land and facilities for early education programs. Appropriates funds for mathematics textbooks and other mathematics learning materials, professional development for teachers of mathematics, mathematics coaching, and the use of assessments to provide appropriate mathematics interventions for individual students. (SD2)

EDN/HED, LAB, FIN

Decision making to follow.

COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY

Thursday, March 15, 2007

4:00 p.m.

Conference Room 325; State Capitol

AGENDA:

SB 56

SD1

(SSCR884)

RELATING TO JURY SERVICE.

Allows endodontists, oral surgeons, and periodontists throughout the state and dentists who reside on an island with a population under 500,000 to claim an exemption from jury service. (SD1)

JUD

SB 228

SD1

(SSCR878)

RELATING TO GRAFFITI.

Requires minors who commit graffiti to remove their graffiti from the affected property and to perform community service to remove graffiti from other properties. Creates a new penalty for property damage that involves graffiti by requiring the defendant to remove their graffiti from the affected property and to perform community service to remove graffiti from other properties. (SD1)

JUD

SB 755

SD1

(SSCR782)

RELATING TO COUNTY ETHICS COMMISSIONS.

Provides standards for the selection of county ethics commission members to ensure their impartiality and independence. (SD1)

JUD

SB 945

(SSCR263)

RELATING TO ETHICS.

Extends the requirements of financial disclosures to justices and judges.

JUD

SB 1063

SD1

(SSCR657)

RELATING TO LEGISLATIVE VACANCIES.

Requires the governor, in filling vacancies in the state senate, state house of representatives, and United States Senate, to select from a list of three prospective appointees nominated by the political party of the prior incumbent; requires prospective appointees to be registered members of nominating political parties at the time of submission of their names to the governor; effective on approval.

JUD

SB 1068

SD1

(SSCR817)

RELATING TO CAMPAIGN SPENDING.

Increases amount that may be spent per voter for state and county elections. (SD1)

JUD, FIN

SB 677

SD2

(SSCR786)

RELATING TO WITNESSES.

Amends the reimbursable fees and costs for witnesses in criminal cases. Appropriates funds. (SD2)

JUD, FIN

SB 1113

SD1

(SSCR882)

RELATING TO MISSING PERSONS.

Improves the capacity of law enforcement agencies to locate and return missing persons by adopting new procedures and by using technology and databases. (SD1)

JUD, FIN

Decision making to follow.

COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND COMMITTEE ON HUMAN SERVICES & HOUSING

Friday, March 16, 2007

8:30 a.m.

Conference Room 329; State Capitol

AGENDA:

SB 51

SD2

(SSCR768)

RELATING TO HOME CARE.

Establishes home care agency licensing requirements. Repealed on June 30, 2012. (SD2)

HLT/HSH, FIN

SB 139

SD1

(SSCR10)

RELATING TO CIGARETTE TAX.

Clarifies that the cigarette tax money earmarked to fund the cancer research center of Hawaii, emergency medical services, trauma care, and community health centers shall be calculated on a per cigarette basis. (SD1)

HLT, FIN

SB 667

SD3

(SSCR957)

RELATING TO MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELORS.

Amends the mental health counselor licensure application date to include counselors who have completed or are in the process of completing the requirements for licensure before July 1, 2007. Makes the regulation of mental health counselors permanent by repealing its sunset date in section 26H-4, HRS. (SD3)

HLT, CPC

SB 1346

(SSCR970)

RELATING TO SENTENCING.

Restores a statutory provision which allows presentence mental or medical examinations of defendants for purposes of sentencing.

HLT, JUD

SB 1454

(SSCR712)

RELATING TO THE HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL FACILITIES SPECIAL FUND.

Renames the special fund to reflect the current name of the Office of Health Care Assurance (OHCA). Requires that all moneys collected by OHCA in the form of fees and fines be deposited into this account. Allows the moneys deposited into the special fund to be used to offset OHCA's operational expenses.

HLT, FIN

SB 1456

SD1

(SSCR986)

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

Authorizes an emergency appropriation for FY 2006-2007 ($7,542,043) from general funds to the Department of Health, for ongoing services provided by the adult mental health division. (SD1)

HLT, FIN

SB 1457

SD2

(SSCR764)

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

Appropriates general fund revenues as an emergency appropriation to enable the Developmental Disabilities Division to meet state-approved target numbers under the current Medicaid home and community-based service. (SD2)

HLT, FIN

SB 1458

SD1

(SSCR1001)

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

Makes an emergency appropriation of $439,684 in general funds to reimburse costs incurred by the Hawaii Army National Guard or other provider for furnishing helicopter medical transport services on Oahu that were previously provided by the United States Army. (SD1)

HLT, FIN

SB 1459

SD1

(SSCR987)

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

Makes an emergency appropriation of $4,419,644 in general funds for FY 2006-2007, for early intervention services for infants and children from birth to three years of age with developmental delay or at biological or environmental risk for developmental delay. (SD1)

HLT, FIN

SB 1463

(SSCR804)

MAKING AN EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION TO THE HAWAII HEALTH SYSTEMS CORPORATION.

Increases the expenditure ceiling of the Health Systems special fund to pay for operational costs, and appropriates additional moneys out of the special fund.

HLT, FIN

SB 1629

SD2

(SSCR917)

RELATING TO THE ISSUANCE OF REVENUE BONDS TO ASSIST HAWAII HEALTH SYSTEMS CORPORATION OR ANY OF ITS REGIONAL SUBSIDIARY CORPORATIONS.

Authorizes revenue bonds to assist Hawaii health systems corporation for construction, improvement, and equipment of a new heart, brain, and spine center on Maui. (SD2)

HLT, FIN

SB 1674

SD1

(SSCR699)

RELATING TO HEALTH.

Permits a radiologist licensed to practice in another state to provide radiology services by telemedicine while in Hawaii to a patient who is located in the state that the radiologist is licensed to practice radiology. (SD1)

HLT, CPC

SB 1728

SD1

(SSCR940)

RELATING TO A TWO-YEAR HEPATITIS C DEMONSTRATION PROJECT.

Appropriates funds to establish a two-year Hepatitis C demonstration project at the Waikiki health center and the west Hawaii community center to provide testing, case management, treatment, surveillance, research, and outcome. (SD1)

HLT, FIN

SB 1802

(SSCR968)

RELATING TO MENTAL HEALTH.

Provides an exception to the confidentiality of mental health records and allows disclosure if it is made by the person's healthcare provider to another health care provider for the purpose of continued care or treatment.

HLT, JUD

SB 1803

SD1

(SSCR857)

RELATING TO HEALTH INSURANCE.

Enables small insurers that occupy less than ten per cent of the health insurance market to provide the broadest healthcare coverage at the lowest possible rates by permitting different types of insurance to be combined into a single unified policy; encourages broader coverage of sole proprietors and other employer groups with only one employee. (SD1)

HLT, CPC

SB 1750

SD1

(SSCR807)

RELATING TO HEALTH.

Allows a hospital, including a public health facility, to provide information regarding shaken baby syndrome to the parents of all newborns under its care. (SD1)

HLT

SB 50

SD1

(SSCR709)

RELATING TO AIDS RESEARCH.

Makes an appropriation for the Hawaii AIDS clinical research program. (SD1)

HLT, FIN

Decision making to follow.

COMMITTEE ON LABOR & PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT AND COMMITTEE ON HUMAN SERVICES & HOUSING

Friday, March 16, 2007

8:30 a.m.

Conference Room 309; State Capitol

AGENDA:

SB 1780

SD2

(SSCR1024)

RELATING TO EMPLOYMENT.

Exempts recipients of social service payments from the scope of employment related laws; defines "recipients of social service payments" as it relates to chapters 383, 386, 392, and 393, Hawaii Revised Statutes. (SD2)

LAB/HSH, FIN

Decision making to follow.

COMMITTEE ON LABOR & PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT

Friday, March 16, 2007

9:00 a.m.

Conference Room 309; State Capitol

AGENDA:

SB 1380

(SSCR926)

RELATING TO THE HAWAII EMPLOYER-UNION HEALTH BENEFITS TRUST FUND.

Provides an appropriate, cost-neutral adjustment of the base monthly contributions for retiree benefit plans, in the event the EUTF Board of Trustees adopts a revised rate structure for its retiree benefit plans.

LAB, FIN

SB 1950

SD2

(SSCR678)

RELATING TO THE RE-EMPLOYMENT OF RETIREES.

Authorizes the rehiring of state or county employees who have been retired for at least an unspecified number of consecutive calendar years without affecting the receipt of retirement benefits and without accruing additional credit or benefits.

LAB, FIN

SB 1833

SD1

(SSCR676)

RELATING TO FAMILY LEAVE.

Requires that only an employee can 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. (SD1)

LAB, FIN

SB 1642

SD1

(SSCR889)

RELATING TO LABOR.

Amending section 89-9(d), Hawaii Revised Statutes, by clarifying that certain statutory actions shall not be used to invalidate collective bargaining agreements in effect on and after June 30, 2007, and such actions may be included in collective bargaining agreements.

LAB, FIN

SB 1381

SD1

(SSCR821)