COMMITTEE ON HIGHER EDUCATION AND COMMITTEE ON HEALTH
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
2:00 p.m.
Conference Room 309; State Capitol
AGENDA:
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SB 1283 SD2 (SSCR771) |
RELATING TO THE HAWAII TOBACCO SETTLEMENT SPECIAL FUND. Allows University of Hawaii to use its allotment of moneys from the Hawaii tobacco settlement special fund to pay for operating expenses of the new medical school in addition to paying debt service. (SD2)
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HED/HLT, FIN |
Decision making to follow.
COMMITTEE ON HIGHER EDUCATION AND COMMITTEE ON INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
2:20 p.m.
Conference Room 309; State Capitol
AGENDA:
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SB 1177 SD2 (SSCR966) |
MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR A GLOBAL YOUTH CENTER IN HAWAII. Appropriates funds to the University of Hawaii to establish a global youth center in Hawaii. (SD2)
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HED/INT, FIN |
Decision making to follow.
COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
2:00 p.m.
Conference Room 325; State Capitol
AGENDA:
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SB 1779 HD1 (HSCR1268) |
RELATING TO CHILDREN. Establishes and appropriates funds for a two-year statewide task force to evaluate and make recommendations on the State's system responses to cases of child sexual assault and exploitation. Specifies that when the family court determines that the child's parents cannot provide the child with a safe family home, the Department of Human Services may submit a permanent plan with a goal of guardianship and the court may award guardianship to an appropriate entity without termination of parental rights. (SB1779 HD1)
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HSH, JUD, FIN |
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SB 1184 SD2, HD1 (HSCR1267) |
RELATING TO ADULT PROTECTION. Expands the adult protective services law by extending protections to vulnerable adults. Enables the Department of Human Services to investigate and the court to have jurisdiction when reason exists to believe that a vulnerable adult has been abused or is threatened with imminent abuse. (SB1184 HD1)
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HSH, JUD, FIN |
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SB 959 SD2, HD1 (HSCR1265) |
RELATING TO CRIMINAL PROCEDURE. Appropriates funds to establish an automated and centralized warrant management system that can be accessed by all law enforcement personnel. Appropriates funds for additional sheriff positions and vehicles to be exclusively dedicated to the service and execution of warrants. (SB959 HD1)
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PSM, JUD, FIN |
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SB 948 SD1 (SSCR425) |
PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO THE HAWAII CONSTITUTION TO REDUCE THE NUMBER OF NOMINEES FOR JUDICIAL VACANCIES. Reduces the number of nominees presented to the governor and chief justice for various judicial vacancies from four to six nominees to three nominees.
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JUD, FIN |
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SB 966 (SSCR655) |
PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE V, SECTION 1, OF THE HAWAII CONSTITUTION, TO CHANGE THE AGE QUALIFICATION FOR THE OFFICES OF GOVERNOR AND LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR FROM THE AGE OF THIRTY YEARS TO THE AGE OF TWENTY‑FIVE YEARS. Amends the constitution to change the age qualification for the offices of governor and lieutenant governor from the age of thirty years to the age of twenty‑five years.
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JUD, FIN |
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SB 1499 SD2 (SSCR717) |
RELATING TO TAX ADMINISTRATION. Conforms Hawaii tax law to federal tax law relating to tax administration and criminal tax enforcement. (SD2)
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JUD, FIN |
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SB 1412 SD2 (SSCR792) |
RELATING TO INSURANCE FRAUD. Establishes the insurance fraud investigations branch to replace the existing insurance fraud investigations unit to prevent, investigate, and prosecute (both civilly and criminally) insurance fraud relating to all lines of insurance, except workers' compensation insurance. (SD2)
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JUD, FIN |
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SB 1672 SD2, HD1 (HSCR1249) |
RELATING TO HEALTH. Amends medicaid fee schedule to set the rate of payment at one hundred per cent of the Medicare fee schedule. Appropriates $9,800,000 to retroactively adjust for payments made to fee-for-service providers for fiscal biennium 2005-2007, $17,600,000 for fiscal biennium 2007-2009 to increase the Medicaid fee schedule, and $8,000,000 for the state portion of the Medicaid federal disproportionate share hospital allowance. (SB1672 HD1)
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HSH/HLT, JUD, FIN |
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SB 1804 SD2 (HSCR1241) |
RELATING TO THE TRAUMA SYSTEM SPECIAL FUND. Establishes additional funding mechanisms for the trauma system special fund. Makes appropriations. (SD2)
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HLT/TRN, JUD, FIN |
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SB 96 SD3 (HSCR1273) |
RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. Requires reasonable suspicion drug testing of public school employees, teachers, and public library employees; requires department of education to adopt rules to determine sanctions for positive drug tests. Requires the department of education to develop procedures for obtaining the criminal history of certain persons who are seeking to serve as providers or subcontractors and trainees from an institution of higher education. Allows the department to pass on fees charged by the Hawaii criminal justice data center. Repeals the authority of the department to refuse to issue or to revoke a teaching or other educational certificate. Makes appropriation. (SD3)
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EDN/LAB, JUD, FIN |
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SB 17 SD2, HD1 (HSCR1243) |
RELATING TO PROCUREMENT. Contracts less than $5,000,000 between a governmental body and professional architects, landscape architects, engineers, and surveyors, shall not require defense of a governmental body. Contracts may require indemnification and holding harmless of the governmental body. (SB17 HD1)
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EDB, JUD, FIN |
Decision making to follow.
COMMITTEE ON TOURISM & CULTURE
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
8:30 a.m.
Conference Room 325; State Capitol
AGENDA:
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SB 1816 SD1 (SSCR734) |
RELATING TO HISTORIC PRESERVATION. Requires consultation with the kahuna nui of the Mo‘okini Heiau on all matters pertaining to the Heiau. (SD1)
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TAC, WLH |
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SB 1823 SD1 (SSCR842) |
RELATING TO THE HAWAII TOURISM AUTHORITY. Reduces the appointments made by the governor to the Hawaii tourism authority board of directors. Provides process for interim appointments when vacancy occurs. (SD1)
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TAC, FIN |
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SB 1438 SD2 (SSCR1029) |
ESTABLISHING A COMMISSION TO PLAN FOR THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF HAWAII STATEHOOD. Establishes a commission to plan and coordinate the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of Hawaii's admission to statehood. Makes appropriation. (SD2)
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TAC, FIN |
Decision making to follow.
COMMITTEE ON TOURISM & CULTURE AND COMMITTEE ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT & BUSINESS CONCERNS
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
8:45 a.m.
Conference Room 325; State Capitol
AGENDA:
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SB 1920 SD2 (SSCR716) |
RELATING TO TAXATION. Recodifies and renames existing motion picture, digital media, and film production tax provisions; increases the tax credits from fifteen and twenty per cent to twenty and twenty-five per cent; increases reporting requirements; repeals the Hawaii television and film development board; deletes references to the board from the Hawaii television and film development special fund and elsewhere. (SD2)
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TAC/EDB, FIN |
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SB 750 SD3 (SSCR728) |
RELATING TO TRANSIENT ACCOMMODATIONS TAX. Requires department of taxation to: review the forms and process for collecting the transient accommodations tax from vacation rentals and bed and breakfast establishments and report revenues received from them; work with Hawaii tourism authority and counties to identify owners operating vacation rentals and bed and breakfast establishments and enforce transient accommodations tax compliance; share location information on transient accommodations taxpayers with counties. Clarifies duties of Hawaii tourism authority. (SD3)
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TAC/EDB, FIN |
Decision making to follow.
COMMITTEE ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT & BUSINESS CONCERNS AND COMMITTEE ON TOURISM & CULTURE
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
9:30 a.m.
Conference Room 325; State Capitol
AGENDA:
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SB 1249 SD1 (SSCR702) |
RELATING TO LIQUOR. Establishes a condominium hotel class of liquor license. (SD1)
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EDB/TAC, FIN |
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SB 1922 SD2 (HSCR1263) |
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)
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HED, EDB/TAC, FIN |
Decision making to follow.
COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
8:30 a.m.
Conference Room 309; State Capitol
AGENDA:
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SB 776 (SSCR191) |
RELATING TO FIRE PROTECTION. Makes amendments to clarify the fire protection responsibilities of the State as it relates to state-owned airport facilities.
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TRN |
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SB 1509 SD1 (SSCR634) |
RELATING TO HIGH OCCUPANCY VEHICLE (HOV) LANES. Allows the Director of Transportation and highway engineers to use evaluation of traffic demand and traffic volumes to establish occupancy requirements for high occupancy vehicle lanes. (SD1)
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TRN |
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SB 1513 (SSCR192) |
RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLES. Changes the minimum headlamp height requirement from 24 inches to 22 inches. Deletes the requirement that a license plate be attached no lower than 12" above the ground.
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TRN |
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SB 1034 SD2 (HSCR1258) |
RELATING TO TAXATION. Exempts from general excise and use taxes the fuel sold for intrastate air transportation by common carriers. (SD2)
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EDB, TRN, FIN |
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SB 1066 SD2, HD1 (HSCR1259) |
RELATING TO INVASIVE SPECIES. Requires the Department of Agriculture to collect service fees or charges for pest inspection, quarantine, and eradication services from any importer of commercial shipments. Establishes the Pest Inspection, Quarantine, and Eradication Fund. (SB1066 HD1)
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AGR/EEP, TRN, FIN |
Decision making to follow.
COMMITTEE ON INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
9:00 a.m.
Conference Room 329; State Capitol
AGENDA:
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HCR 81 HR 57 |
APPROVING AND AUTHORIZING THE ESTABLISHMENT OF STATE-PROVINCE RELATIONS OF FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN THE STATE OF HAWAII OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND THE PROVINCE OF CAGAYAN OF THE REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES.
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INT, EDB |
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HCR 84 HR 60 |
URGING ENDORSEMENT OF THE EARTH CHARTER AND ADOPTION OF ITS CENTRAL PRINCIPLES AS PART OF THE FRAMEWORK FOR SUSTAINABLE PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT.
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INT, EDB |
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HCR 87 HR 63 |
RESPECTFULLY REQUESTING THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS TO CREATE A REPLACEMENT FOR THE OUTDATED FAST TRACK TRADE AUTHORITY SYSTEM SO THAT UNITED STATES TRADE AGREEMENTS ARE DEVELOPED AND IMPLEMENTED USING A MORE DEMOCRATIC, INCLUSIVE MECHANISM THAT ENSHRINES THE PRINCIPLES OF FEDERALISM AND STATE SOVEREIGNTY.
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INT, EDB |
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HR 65 |
RESPECTFULLY CALLING UPON THE UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY TO REQUEST BY RESOLUTION THAT THE UNITED NATIONS OFFICE FOR OUTER SPACE AFFAIRS PROACTIVELY ADVANCE THE CAUSE OF WORLD PEACE AND COOPERATION BETWEEN NATIONS.
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INT, HED/PSM |
Decision making to follow.
COMMITTEE ON WATER, LAND, OCEAN RESOURCES & HAWAIIAN AFFAIRS AND COMMITTEE ON ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
10:00 a.m.
Conference Room 312; State Capitol
AGENDA:
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SB 1943 SD2 (SSCR909) |
RELATING TO ENERGY. Allows biofuel processing facilities to be a permitted use in an agriculture district. Establishes an energy feedstock program to develop a baseline percentage of energy feedstock to be grown in the State. (SD2)
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WLH/EEP, AGR |
Decision making to follow.
COMMITTEE ON WATER, LAND, OCEAN RESOURCES & HAWAIIAN AFFAIRS AND COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
11:00 a.m.
Conference Room 312; State Capitol
AGENDA:
Decision making only:
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SB 1219 SD1 (SSCR735) |
RELATING TO LAND USE. Authorizes counties to petition land use commission to reclassify agricultural lands to allow certain preexisting residential uses constructed prior to 1/1/00 to be considered a permissible use. (SD1)
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WLH/AGR, JUD |
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SB 1236 SD1 (SSCR834) |
RELATING TO LAND USE. Requires the land use commission to include the Right to Farm Act under chapter 165, Hawaii Revised Statutes, as a condition to any reclassification of land to an urban or rural district designation that is contiguous to an agricultural district. (SD1)
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WLH/AGR |
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SB 1756 SD1 (SSCR923) |
RELATING TO IMPORTANT AGRICULTURAL LANDS. Establishes a state agricultural land protection program for the voluntary acquisition of agricultural easements on lands designated as important agricultural lands. (SD1)
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WLH/AGR, FIN |
COMMITTEE ON WATER, LAND, OCEAN RESOURCES & HAWAIIAN AFFAIRS AND COMMITTEE ON ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
11:30 a.m.
Conference Room 312; State Capitol
AGENDA:
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SB 1925 SD2, HD1 (HSCR1269) |
RELATING TO SUSTAINABILITY. Establishes sustainable communities in Hawaii with the combined effort of state departments and agencies. (SB1925 HD1)
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HSH, WLH/EEP, FIN |
Decision making to follow.