HREF 03-09-07 1

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		SENATE BILLS
			Committee
S.B. NO.			REFERRAL

11, SD3	RELATING TO EXCISE TAX ON HEALTH CARE. Exempts physician, osteopath, and dentist services, hospital and medical clinic charges, and rehabilitation services from the county surcharge on state tax. (SD3)		HLT, FIN
12, SD2	RELATING TO HEALTH INSURANCE RATE REGULATION. Prohibits health insurance rates that are excessive, inadequate or unfairly discriminatory. Requires health care insurers to submit rate filings for approval by the insurance commissioner. Establishes penalties and appeal procedures. (SD2)		HLT, CPC, FIN
17, SD2	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. Effective July 1, 2059. (SD2)		EDB, JUD, FIN
31, SD1	RELATING TO VETERAN BURIAL GRANTS. Requires office of veterans' services to pay directly to a mortuary for services and to transport the remains of a deceased veteran who joined the New Filipino Scouts between 10/6/1945, and 6/30/1947, and died after 6/30/1994, to the Philippines upon submission of an unpaid invoice. Appropriates $ . (SD1)		PSM, FIN
46, SD1	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
49, SD1	RELATING TO NATUROPATHY. Requires the board of examiners in naturopathy to adopt a formulary and qualifications for administering natural medicines by injection, and to grant the authority to qualified naturopaths. Amends the definition of naturopathy accordingly. Establishes a temporary advisory committee to recommend a formulary and qualifications. Eff. 7/1/2050. (SD1)		HLT, CPC
50, SD1	RELATING TO AIDS RESEARCH. Makes an appropriation for the Hawaii AIDS clinical research program. (SD1)		HED/HLT, FIN
51, SD2	RELATING TO HOME CARE. Establishes home care agency licensing requirements. Repealed on June 30, 2012. (SD2)		HLT/HSH, FIN
53	RELATING TO MARRIAGE AND FAMILY THERAPISTS. Includes marriage and family therapy among the mental illness and alcohol and drug dependence benefits required within the hospital and medical coverage offered under accident and sickness insurance policies and similar insurance products.		HLT, CPC, FIN
55, SD1	RELATING TO DENTISTRY. Repeals temporary provisions relating to regional examinations for dentists. (SD1)		HLT, CPC
56, SD1	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
58, SD2	RELATING TO DENTISTS. Exempts executors and administrators of a deceased dentist's estate, as well as the legal guardian or authorized representative of an incapacitated dentist from the requirements of chapter 448 related to the practice of dentistry. Effective July 1, 2050. (SD2)		HLT, CPC, JUD
60, SD1	RELATING TO FOREIGN TIME SHARE PLANS. Requires disclosure that operation of a foreign time share plan is exempt from regulation under Hawaii law. Provides for loss of exemption for failure to abide by requirements. (SD1)		CPC
69, SD2	RELATING TO HEALTH CARE. Establishes a statewide comprehensive health care workforce map and database to compile and analyze data on the supply and distribution of all health care workers by specialty and practice location. Appropriates funds. (SD2)		HLT, LAB, FIN
76, SD2	RELATING TO PUBLIC SCHOOL FACILITIES. Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds and appropriates funds to the department of education to develop a plan to provide temperature reduction measures in public school facilities, which incorporates energy conservation initiatives. (SD2)		EDN, EEP, FIN
79, SD2	RELATING TO EDUCATION. Amends Act 51, Session Laws of Hawaii 2004, to repeal the transfer of certain fiscal functions from the department of budget and finance to the department of education. (SD2)		EDN, FIN
80, SD2	RELATING TO EDUCATION. Creates a revolving fund for the collection of stipend repayments for University of Hawaii students in breach of the Felix consent decree recruitment and retention program and provides funding for stipends for other students under the recruitment and retention program. (SD2)		EDN/HED, FIN
94, SD2	RELATING TO EDUCATION. Establishes a revolving fund for the department of education in order for it to disburse revenue in support of its food distribution program. (SD2)		EDN, FIN
96, SD3	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)		EDN/LAB, JUD, FIN
98, SD1	RELATING TO EDUCATION. Repeals the transfer of the public health nurses who supervise school health aides from the department of health to the department of education; establishes the school health services program in chapter 302A, HRS; repeals the school health services program in chapter 321, HRS. (SD1)		EDN/HLT, LAB, FIN
100, SD1	RELATING TO EDUCATION. Authorizes the Hawaii teacher standards board to suspend its rules, in cases where extenuating circumstances exist, and to amend licensing-related fees and charges relating to the performance of the board's duties. (SD1)		EDN, LAB, JUD
138, SD1	RELATING TO DIAMOND HEAD STATE MONUMENT. Establishes a sub-account under the state parks special fund into which fifty-five per cent of the proceeds collected from the admission fees charged at the Diamond Head state monument will be deposited and used to cover the costs of repair, maintenance, and operations at the Diamond Head state monument. (SD1)		WLH, FIN
148, SD2	RELATING TO INCOME TAX CREDIT. Provides a mandatory tax credit to taxpayers pursuant to article VII, section 6 of the Constitution of the State of Hawaii. (SD2)		FIN
152, SD2	RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION. Clarifies use of moneys in state highway fund for bicycle lanes, bicycle paths, bicycle routes, and bikeways. Requires department of transportation to involve representatives of the bicycle community in decision making process. (SD2)		TRN, FIN
153, SD1	RELATING TO NATURAL DISASTER PREPAREDNESS IN HEALTH CARE FACILITIES. Makes appropriations to the department of health to assess the structural integrity of all hospitals and nursing homes in Hawaii to determine their ability to withstand different types of natural disasters. (SD1)		HLT/PSM, FIN
156, SD2	RELATING TO VOTING. Authorizes an election by mail voting system for federal, state, and county elections. Requires elections to be conducted by mail when chief election officer, in consultation with county clerks, determines an election by mail is economically and administratively feasible. Makes appropriations. (SD2)		JUD, FIN
162, SD1	RELATING TO IOLANI PALACE. Exempts the State of Hawaii Museum of Monarchy History from the standards and conditions related to the receipt of funds contained in chapter 42F, Hawaii Revised Statutes. (SD1)		WLH, FIN
163, SD1	RELATING TO CONTRACTORS. Specifies that responsible managing employees of a contracting entity are not exempt from the requirements of chapter 444, Hawaii Revised Statues. Authorizes the contractors licensing board to award reasonable attorneys fees for violations of chapter 444, Hawaii Revised Statutes. (SD1)		CPC, JUD
170, SD1	RELATING TO CAPTIVE INSURANCE COMPANIES. Allows captive insurance companies to be formed as limited liability companies. Clarifies minimum capital and surplus requirements. Increases investment flexibility for pure captives. (SD1)		CPC
188, SD2	RELATING TO THE SMALL BUSINESS REGULATORY FLEXIBILITY ACT. Amends the Small Business Regulatory Flexibility Act; provides that a small business impact statement will be prepared and submitted to the small business regulatory review board as early as practicable in the rule drafting process; provides that adopted rules affecting small business will be reviewed to determine if they are still appropriate within five years after adoption; requires selected information to be sent to the ombudsman; makes changes to chapter 201M to clarify the definition of a rule and to remove outdated sections. (SD2)		EDB, CPC/JUD
216, SD1	RELATING TO CAPITAL GOODS EXCISE TAX CREDIT. Amends the definition of "cost" with regard to the capital goods excise tax credit. (SD1)		EDB, FIN
227, SD1	RELATING TO THE ISSUANCE OF SPECIAL PURPOSE REVENUE BONDS FOR HANALANI SCHOOLS. Authorizes the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds for Hanalani Schools. (SD1)		EDN, FIN
228, SD1	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
230, SD1	RELATING TO SCRAP METAL. Adds additional requirements for the purchase of copper by scrap dealers and holds scrap dealers accountable for violations. (SD1)		CPC, JUD
238, SD2	RELATING TO MENTAL HEALTH. Increases the reimbursement rate for medicaid and QUEST psychiatric services according to county population. Requires notice to HMOs and prepaid health plans of any rate adjustments. Requires annual report to legislature. Appropriates $ for the reimbursement rate increase. (SD2)		HSH/HLT, FIN
247, SD1	RELATING TO ASIAN LUNAR NEW YEAR COMMEMORATION. Establishes the Asian lunar new year commemoration week. (SD1)		TAC/INT
248, SD2	RELATING TO THE STATE COMMISSION ON FATHERHOOD. Appropriates funds for staffing of state commission on fatherhood. Extends sunset to 6/30/09. (SD2)		HSH, FIN
249	RELATING TO THE COMMISSION ON FATHERHOOD. Makes the state commission on fatherhood permanent by repealing the sunset date on the law that established it.		HSH, FIN
257, SD1	RELATING TO CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES. Prohibits pre-signed and predated prescriptions. Clarifies how the narcotic enforcement division administrator shall conduct inspections at pharmacies. (SD1)		HLT/PSM, CPC/JUD
260	RELATING TO HOLIDAYS. Establishes September 21 of each year as Peace Day to promote peace programs, improve international relations, and increase educational awareness of peace. Encourages citizens to observe and celebrate the blessings of peace and endeavor to create peace on the holiday		TAC
323, SD2	RELATING TO HIGH TECHNOLOGY. Provides that the high technology special fund shall not be used to fund general administrative and fiscal positions; clarifies that the high technology innovation corporation is authorized to operate bank accounts that are necessary for the conduct of its business at both in-state and out-of-state bank locations; appropriates funds for the Hawaii small business innovation research grant program and the Hawaii small business technology transfer program. (SD2)		EDB, FIN
331, SD3	RELATING TO ELECTRONIC DATA AND INFORMATION. Appropriates funds to the office of the auditor for research and support services necessary to develop additional deterrents for identity theft, and in particular, those related to the compromise of electronic data and information, and social security numbers in public records. (SD3)		LMG/JUD, FIN
424, SD2	RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES. Expands the bridge to hope program to enable heads of households receiving financial assistance and participating in the first-to-work programs to pursue educational activities beyond the new two‑year federal limit. (SD2)		HSH, FIN
427, SD2	RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES. Increases state supplemental payments for certain domiciliary care and requires a portion of the payment to be retained by the recipient for personal use. (SD2)		HLT/HSH, FIN
523, SD2	RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION. Requires the department of transportation to include biofuel storage and transmission structures in all harbor improvement master plans. (SD2)		TRN/EEP, EDB, FIN
546, SD2	RELATING TO LAND USE. Makes several amendments to the land use laws relating to agricultural districts and rural districts to protect and maintain viable agricultural productivity (SD2)		WLH/AGR
586, SD1	RELATING TO STATE FUNDS. Appropriates funds to staff and operate the office of the legislative analyst.		LMG, FIN
597, SD2	RELATING TO THE ISSUANCE OF SPECIAL PURPOSE REVENUE BONDS TO ASSIST SOPOGY INC., IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF RENEWABLE ENERGY. Authorizes the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds in an amount not exceeding $10,000,000 to assist Sopogy, Inc. with planning, designing, construction, equipping, and operating a solar farm power plant at the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority to produce electricity from solar power. (SD2)		EDB/EEP, FIN
600	RELATING TO LEASEHOLD CONVERSION. Exempts from taxation 100% of capital gains realized during taxable years 2008-2012 from sale of leased fee interest in condominium units to association of apartment owners or residential cooperative corporations.		HSH, CPC, FIN
603, SD2	RELATING TO EDUCATION. Expands the duties of the charter school review panel; clarifies the manner in which the executive director of the charter school administrative office is appointed and evaluated; updates the charter school funding formula; requires the charter school administrative office to provide staff and resources for the charter school review panel; and increases the membership of the charter school review panel. (SD2)		EDN, FIN
608, SD2	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
610, SD1	RELATING TO CLAIMS AGAINST THE STATE. Makes an appropriation to the department of education to settle pending class action lawsuits brought by part-time and substitute teachers against the department of education of unpaid wages. (SD1)		JUD, FIN
613, SD2	RELATING TO EDUCATION. Provides funds to achieve a maximum student-to-teacher ratio in certain schools. Requires the department of education to identify unused public school land and facilities. (SD2)		EDN, FIN
620, SD1	RELATING TO THE ISSUANCE OF SPECIAL PURPOSE REVENUE BONDS FOR HAWAII PREPARATORY ACADEMY. Appropriates $50,000,000 in special purpose revenue bonds to assist Hawaii Preparatory Academy to finance the construction of its educational facilities. (SD1)		EDN, FIN
625, SD2	RELATING TO COURT INTERPRETERS. Requires the judiciary to certify court interpreters and to appoint and use certified court interpreters in legal proceedings.		JUD, FIN
639, SD2	RELATING TO INVASIVE SPECIES. Prohibits the sale of plants designated as noxious weeds. Requires the department of agriculture to review the noxious weed list annually and update the list, as necessary. Appropriates funds for the revision and review of the list of noxious weeds. (SD2)		AGR, FIN
642, SD2	RELATING TO SUPPLEMENTAL ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENTS. Requires the preparation of a supplemental environmental impact statement where appropriate and directs the council to develop rules for supplemental statements. (SD2)		EEP, WLH, JUD
644, SD3	RELATING TO ENERGY RESOURCES. Requires the installation of solar energy or comparable renewable energy devices to heat water in newly constructed residential properties. Increases limits for renewable energy income tax credit to systems installed and placed in service, in single family and multi-family residential properties constructed prior to 1/1/09. Eff 7/1/2050. (SD3)		HSH/EEP, EDB, FIN
646	RELATING TO PROPERTY LEFT IN A DANGEROUS CONDITION. Establishes civil penalties for property owners who fail to make reasonable efforts to repair properties left in a dangerous condition. Authorizes counties to place a lien on the property for costs incurred.		WLH/PSM, JUD, FIN
651, SD2	RELATING TO RECYCLING. Requires recycling receptacles to be housed in all state offices and buildings.		EEP, FIN
662, SD2	RELATING TO IMPORTANT AGRICULTURAL LANDS LOAN GUARANTY. Allows the Chairperson of the Board of Agriculture to guarantee loans made to agricultural producers for agricultural projects on important agricultural lands. (SD2)		AGR, FIN
663, SD1	RELATING TO OCEAN RESOURCES. Authorizes administrative inspections of bags and containers used to carry aquatic life, or vehicles or conveyances to transport aquatic life; repeals the probable cause requirement; directs the department of land and natural resources to create an administrative search scheme. (SD1)		WLH, JUD
664, SD1	RELATING TO SPECIAL PURPOSE REVENUE BONDS FOR SACRED HEARTS ACADEMY. Authorizes the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds for the construction and improvement of Sacred Hearts Academy, a not‑for-profit private sectarian school. (SD1)		EDN, FIN
667, SD3	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
675	PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE VII, SECTION 3, OF THE HAWAII CONSTITUTION, TO CHANGE THE APPOINTMENT OF THE TAX REVIEW COMMISSION TO EVERY TEN YEARS. Proposes constitutional amendment to require tax review commission to meet every ten years instead of five.		JUD, FIN
676, SD1	RELATING TO CRIMINAL PROPERTY DAMAGE. Mandates certain penalties, including graffiti eradication, for persons convicted of aggravated criminal property damage. Holds persons legally accountable for a minor liable for aggravated criminal property damage committed by the minor. (SD1)		JUD
677, SD2	RELATING TO WITNESSES. Amends the reimbursable fees and costs for witnesses in criminal cases. Appropriates funds. (SD2)		JUD, FIN
678, SD1	RELATING TO GENERAL EXCISE TAX. Exempts from the general excise tax amounts received by the operator of the Hawaii convention center for reimbursement of costs or advances made pursuant to contract with the Hawaii tourism authority. (SD1)		TAC, FIN
679, SD2	RELATING TO EMERGENCIES. Allows the Hawaii tourism authority to request that the governor declare that a tourism emergency exists. Authorizes the tourism authority to implement emergency measures to respond to an emergency. Establishes the Hawaii tourism emergency trust fund. (SD2)		TAC/PSM, FIN
683, SD2	RELATING TO THE RUNNING START PROGRAM FOR COLLEGE PREPARATION. Appropriates $ for each year of the fiscal biennium to the University of Hawaii scholarship and assistance special fund for scholarships to students in underrepresented populations in higher education for tuition at the University of Hawaii to participate in the running start college preparatory program and ensures credit for both high school and college degrees is granted for courses taken while in the program. (SD2)		HED/EDN, FIN
686, SD1	RELATING TO EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANTS. Requires the department of education to report to the legislature on class levels and other career ladder enhancements, the number of affected individuals, and the cost impact of implementing a career ladder for educational assistants. Appropriates funds to the department of education for an educational assistants' career ladder program. (SD1)		EDN/LAB, FIN
688, SD2	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
691, SD2	RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION OF SCHOOL CHILDREN. Requires the department of education to provide procedures for amending policies or procedures regarding the suitable transportation to and from school and for educational field trips for all children in grades kindergarten to twelve and in special education classes. (SD2)		EDN, FIN
696, SD2	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 requiring each school impact district to determine the appropriate student generation rates for the area. (SD2)		EDN, WLH, FIN
704	RELATING TO TAXATION. Exempts amounts received by trusts whose sole beneficiaries are blind, deaf, or disabled from up to $2,000 in income. Limits general excise tax amounts collected from the trusts to one-half per cent.		HLT, FIN
707, SD2	RELATING TO A NEW MARKETS TAX CREDIT. Provides a new markets tax credit of one hundred per cent of the amount paid to a qualified community development entity located in Hawaii for a qualified equity investment; requires taxpayer to have received an allowance of credit under section 45D of the Internal Revenue Code, the federal new markets tax credit. (SD2)		HSH/EDB, FIN
709, SD2	RELATING TO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. Requires the department of business, economic development, and tourism to investigate, collect, analyze, and publish research and data to track economic progress and aid in the development and economic health of growth industries; appropriates unspecified amount. (SD2)		EDB, FIN
711	RELATING TO TAXATION. Establishes a ten-year statute of limitations on tax collections. Clarifies that the three-year statute of limitations on tax assessments for the general excise tax, use tax, and other period taxes begins running from the filing of each periodic return.		JUD, FIN
713, SD2	RELATING TO NURSE AIDES. Establishes certification procedures for nurse aides employed in state licensed or state certified health care settings and medicare or medicaid facilities. (SD2)		HLT/HSH, CPC
718, SD2	RELATING TO THE PROCUREMENT CODE. Amends the procurement code to establish a preference for agricultural products raised or grown in Hawaii and the purchase of flowers grown in Hawaii. (SD2)		AGR/EDB, FIN
732, SD2	MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR STATE LIFEGUARDS. Appropriates funds for salaries and benefits for lifeguards for the islands of Kauai and Maui in areas under the jurisdiction of the department of land and natural resources, subject to county matching funds. (SD2)		WLH, FIN
733, SD1	RELATING TO VETERANS. Appropriates funds to the department of defense for veterans' newsletters to inform returning veterans of benefit changes and the availability of supportive services and programs. (SD1)		PSM, FIN
750, SD3	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)		TAC/EDB, FIN
755, SD1	RELATING TO COUNTY ETHICS COMMISSIONS. Provides standards for the selection of county ethics commission members to ensure their impartiality and independence. (SD1)		JUD
768, SD1	RELATING TO EMERGENCY VEHICLES. Designates vehicles of the division of conservation and resources enforcement as authorized emergency vehicles. Authorizes emergency vehicles used by conservation and resources officers to have blue and red lights affixed to them. (SD1)		TRN, JUD
769	RELATING TO SHORT TERM INVESTMENT OF COUNTY MONEYS. Expands short term investment of county moneys to include commercial paper and bankers' acceptances.		FIN
781, SD2	RELATING TO PUBLIC SAFETY. Appropriates funds to plan a Hawaii state fire and emergency training facility and for a public education campaign on natural disaster preparedness. (SD2)		PSM, FIN
784, SD1	RELATING TO DRIVER LICENSING. Provides that conviction or license revocation for violation of provisional driver licensing law does not give rise to requirement that person provide proof of financial responsibility.		TRN, JUD
795, SD2	RELATING TO BUILDING CODES. Requires the department of accounting and general services to establish a state building code that includes hurricane resistive standards. (SD2)		CPC, FIN
796, SD2	RELATING TO CIVIL DEFENSE. Authorizes general obligations bonds to fund the installation of additional sirens to the state civil defense warning system and allows the governor to order the release of up to ten per cent of moneys appropriated from interest earnings in the emergency and budget reserve fund to provide grants of emergency assistance for uninsured damages after a natural disaster. Appropriates funds for emergency supply caches, the state civil defense major disaster fund, the non-declared disaster activation and response, the state civil defense emergency supply program, and funds for the Ethnic Education Foundation of Hawaii to assist them in disseminating information in the event of a disaster. (SD2)		PSM, FIN
798, SD3	RELATING TO DISASTER RELIEF. Creates a one-time tax credit for victims of the October 15, 2006 earthquakes. (SD3)		PSM, FIN
810, SD2	RELATING TO WAIMANO RIDGE. Authorizes issuance of general obligations bonds for capital improvements to the Waimano ridge facilities and lands. Appropriates funds to support the Waimano ridge task force for operating expenses and for a comprehensive master plan. (SD2)		HLT, WLH, FIN
813, SD1	RELATING TO MEDICAL LIABILITY. Makes expressions of sympathy or benevolence made to a patient or family member of the patient inadmissible as evidence of an admission of liability in civil proceedings brought against a health care provider. Effective July 1, 2059. (SD1)		JUD
816, SD2	RELATING TO PRESCRIPTION DRUG COST CONTAINMENT AND AFFORDABLE ACCESS. Creates a Hawaii state pharmacy assistance program by merging the current state pharmacy assistance program which coordinates the medicare part D drug benefit and the Hawaii Rx plus program under a single comprehensive Hawaii state pharmacy assistance program umbrella. (SD2)		HLT/HSH, FIN
820, SD1	RELATING TO DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES. Extends the repeal date of Act 303, Session Laws of Hawaii 2006, relating to community residential alternatives for persons with developmental disabilities, from June 30, 2008, to June 30, 2009. (SD1)		HLT, FIN
823, SD1	RELATING TO SPECIAL PURPOSE REVENUE BONDS. Authorizes the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds to build infrastructure for low- and moderate-income housing projects. (SD1)		HSH, FIN
835, SD1	RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. Appropriates funds to the college of tropical agriculture and human resources to develop a long range plan for a food innovation and security center for the development and promotion of safe, high-quality, and high-value agricultural products. (SD1)		AGR, HED, FIN
837, SD2	RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. Authorizes the agribusiness development corporation to issue revenue bonds to purchase agricultural land in Kunia from private entities. Appropriates funds to purchase the lands. Enables the agribusiness development corporation to contract with banks to provide lease management services. Allows corporation to lease agricultural lands in Kunia for up to 55 years. (SD2)		AGR, FIN
851, SD1	RELATING TO SHORELINE SETBACKS AND HISTORIC AND CULTURAL SITES IN THE DISTRICT OF KOOLAULOA. Requires a new historic and cultural assessment and a minimum shoreline setback of seven hundred fifty feet for any development in the Ko‘olauloa district on Oahu. (SD1)		WLH, JUD
856, SD1	RELATING TO THE NATURAL ENERGY LABORATORY OF HAWAII AUTHORITY. Specifically excludes hotel construction and development from the natural energy laboratory of Hawaii authority's control. (SD1)		EDB, WLH/EEP
866, SD1	RELATING TO TOURISM. Requires that Hawaii visitors and convention bureau board members wait at least two years after that directorship has expired before serving on the Hawaii tourism authority's board of directors. (SD1)		TAC, JUD
867, SD1	RELATING TO EDUCATION. Directs the department of education to conduct a study of converting hard cover textbooks to e-books. Report to 2008 legislature. (SD1)		EDN, FIN
870, SD1	RELATING TO THE DESIGNATION OF A HAWAII ARCHAEOLOGICAL DATA SURVEY. Establishes and designates an archaeological data survey as an on-line database program of the State of Hawaii museum of natural and cultural history, beginning with the collections of Bishop Museum; authorizes the museum, in consultation with the office of Hawaiian affairs, to withhold from the database, either temporarily or permanently, information that may pose a threat to the protection of valuable archaeological sites and artifacts. (SD1)		WLH, FIN
871, SD2	RELATING TO FOOD WASTE RECYCLING. Requires the department of education, in a partnership with the department of health, to establish a three-year food waste recycling pilot project within public school districts. Makes an appropriation from the environmental management special fund for this purpose. (SD2)		EDN, EEP, FIN
880, SD2	RELATING TO THE MUSEUM OF HAWAIIAN MUSIC AND DANCE. Establishes the museum of Hawaiian music and dance committee to determine the appropriate type of institution that should be established, its location, possible financing mechanisms, and to complete an initial business plan for the museum of Hawaiian music and dance; appropriates an unspecified amount to the Hawaii tourism authority to assist the committee. (SD2)		TAC, FIN
885, SD2	RELATING TO EDUCATION. Establishes an agricultural and culinary education program to encourage farming, diversified agriculture, and related industries as long-term career goals, teach students healthy eating habits, and address Hawaii's long-term food sustainability needs. Expands the scope of the agriculture education program in the public schools. Makes appropriations. (SD2)		EDN, AGR/EDB, FIN
890, SD1	RELATING TO INTEGRATED STRATEGIES FOR STATEWIDE FOOD AND ENERGY CROP PRODUCTION. Appropriates funds for the center for conservation research and training at UH to develop best practices consistent with comprehensive agricultural management strategies to facilitate sustainable production of crops through long-term enhancement of soil quality using ecologically responsible means. Implements a pilot project demonstrating integrated strategies to enhance soil fertility for the production of clean energy feedstocks (agricultural crops used as the raw materials for biofuels or biomass-to-electricity production) and food crops. Establishes mechanisms by which stakeholders can work collaboratively in the development of best practices and to educate the public about sustainable agriculture issues faced by the state. (SD1)		AGR/EEP, FIN
891	MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR COLLECTIVE BARGAINING COST ITEMS. Appropriates funds to pay for collective bargaining cost items relating to contributions to the Hawaii employer-union health benefits trust fund for state employees in units 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 9, and 13, and for officers and employees excluded from collective bargaining.		FIN
892	MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR SALARY INCREASES FOR PUBLIC EMPLOYEES. Appropriates funds to pay for salary increases and collective bargaining cost items for employees in units 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 9, and 13, and for officers and employees excluded from collective bargaining.		FIN
896, SD1	RELATING TO HIGH TECHNOLOGY. Appropriates an unspecified amount in FY 2007-2008 and FY 2008-2009, to the high technology development corporation to negotiate a ten-year lease guaranty to support the planning and development of a life sciences research complex in Kakaako. (SD1)		EDB/WLH, FIN
897, SD2	RELATING TO TECHNOLOGY TRAINING. Appropriates funds into the Hawaii 3Ts school technology laboratories fund for the economic development alliance of Hawaii to expand project EAST programs to public schools. (SD2)		EDN, FIN
898, SD1	RELATING TO HIGH TECHNOLOGY TAX INCENTIVES. Requires the department of taxation to report annually on information collected from July 1, 2004, and thereafter on qualified high technology businesses and related tax incentives to properly evaluate their effectiveness; appropriates unspecified amounts for the department to initiate and begin implementation. (SD1)		EDB, FIN
905, SD1	RELATING TO HEALTH. Establishes a committee that may add other medical conditions to the definition of "debilitating medical condition" for the purpose of medical marijuana use; amends the definitions of "primary caregiver" and "written certification"; defines "adequate supply" to include seven plants and three ounces of usable marijuana; adds definition for "registration" and amends the registration requirements. (SD1)		HLT/PSM, JUD, FIN
907, SD2	RELATING TO AEROSPACE DEVELOPMENT. Creates the office of aerospace development within the department of business, economic development, and tourism. Appropriates funds. (SD2)		EDB, FIN
914, SD2	RELATING TO MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES OF COMMITTED PERSONS. Appropriates $ , for each year of the fiscal biennium to the department of public safety to improve mental health services for committed persons in Hawaii prisons. Requires two reports to the legislature. (SD2)		PSM/HLT, FIN
917, SD1	RELATING TO PUBLIC SAFETY. Appropriates funds to the department of public safety to develop a plan by January 1, 2008, to return all female Hawaii prisoners incarcerated in mainland prisons back to Oahu by July 1, 2009. Requires department of public safety to: (1) conduct study to identify three sites in State for minimum security prison; (2) conduct study on the possible sale of the Oahu community correction center site; and (3) submit quarterly reports relating to Hawaii prisoners incarcerated in mainland prisons. (SD1)		PSM, FIN
920, SD1	RELATING TO CONDOMINIUMS. Limits the use of the condominium association member lists by the managing agent. (SD1)		CPC
921, SD1	RELATING TO CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION RECORDS. Limits the costs the association can charge to members for association records to reasonable costs. Clarifies that reasonable costs include administrative and duplicating costs. (SD1)		CPC
923	RELATING TO CONDOMINIUMS. Amends section 35 of Act 164 SLH 2004 to remove sunset and reenactment of section 514B-146, HRS, relating to assessments and liens with respect condominiums.		CPC, JUD
932, SD2	RELATING TO A COMPREHENSIVE OFFENDER REENTRY SYSTEM. Establishes offender reentry system to help adult offenders prepare for release and reintegration back to the community. Establishes a stakeholder committee and appropriates funds for demonstration projects. Establishes a one-year pilot day reporting center administered by the department of public safety and appropriates funds. Appropriates funds for the expansion of the restorative circles pilot program to other correctional facilities statewide. Authorizes the Hawaii paroling authority to parole committed persons to any county in the State where they will receive the greatest support to successfully reintegrate into the community. Appropriates funds for a grant to Maui Economic Opportunity, Inc., for the administration of community-based reintegration programs. Appropriates funds to the department of public safety to provide a cognitive restructuring and transition program in the county of Hawaii. (SD2		PSM/LAB, FIN
933, SD1	RELATING TO LAND ACQUISITIONS. Permits the board of land and natural resources to appraise land having value as a resource to the State before acquiring the land. Requires the board to submit the appraisal to the attorney general for review and approval. (SD1)		WLH, JUD, FIN
938, SD1	RELATING TO THE HAWAIIAN HOMES COMMISSION ACT. Provides for consultation with beneficiaries when a project includes commercial development. (SD1)		WLH
939, SD2	RELATING TO THE HAWAIIAN HOMES COMMISSION ACT, 1920, AS AMENDED. Establishes the Hawaiian home lands community development fund with revenue-sharing from commercial development projects in order to fund community and cultural programming for beneficiaries of the trust in the Hawaiian homestead communities. Effective date 7/1/50 (SD2)		WLH, FIN
940, SD1	RELATING TO HAWAIIAN HOMES COMMISSION ACT 1920, AS AMENDED. Requires the department of Hawaiian home lands to consult with the beneficiaries of the trust before agreeing to lower allowable loan amounts. (SD1)		WLH, FIN
942	RELATING TO ELECTIONS. Prohibits candidates for public office from appearing in public service announcements from the time of filing nomination papers until the time the person is no longer a candidate.		JUD
946, SD2	RELATING TO ADMINISTRATIVE LICENSE REVOCATION. Permits driver whose license has been administratively revoked for life to seek reinstatement of the license after 10 years have passed since the occurrence of the lifetime revocation. Requires driver to have had no arrests or convictions for driving while license revoked and to be free from dependency or abuse of alcohol and drugs. Remove reissuance of lifetime revocation. (SD2)		TRN, JUD
952, SD2	RELATING TO KAHUKU HOSPITAL. Authorizes 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. Makes an appropriation. (SD2)		HLT, FIN
957	RELATING TO PUBLIC WORK PROJECTS. Clarifies that a single violation refers to each separate project where the department of labor and industrial relations finds a contractor has failed to comply with chapter 104.		LAB, EDB, FIN
959, SD2	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. (SD2)		PSM, JUD, FIN
961, SD1	RELATING TO THE HAWAII RULES OF EVIDENCE. Provides that if evidence of an alleged victim's character for aggressiveness or violence is offered by an accused and admitted under rule 404(a)(2), evidence of the same trait of character of the accused offered by the prosecution may be admissible.		JUD
966	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.		JUD, FIN
967, SD2	RELATING TO HEALTH. Provides a tax deduction for individuals who donate organs. (SD2)		HLT, FIN
970, SD2	RELATING TO DENTAL HEALTH. Makes appropriations to establish or expand community‑based dental health clinics that are operated by federally-qualified health centers to provide a continuum of dental care to QUEST‑eligible adults and children, the developmentally disabled, and the uninsured. (SD2)		HLT, FIN
971, SD1	RELATING TO SPECIAL PURPOSE REVENUE BONDS FOR NOT-FOR-PROFIT CORPORATIONS THAT PROVIDE HEALTH CARE FACILITIES TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC. Extends the sunset date for the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds for The Queen's Health Systems, a not-for-profit corporation, to assist with financing costs of construction, improvements, and equipment of health care facilities from June 30, 2008, to June 30, 2013. Effective 6/29/2008. (SD1)		HLT, FIN
973, SD2	RELATING TO PUBLIC HEALTH. Ensures the community health care system remains financially viable in the face of population growth, uninsured, and under-insured. (SD2)		HLT/HSH, FIN
979, SD1	RELATING TO SUICIDE PREVENTION. Establishes a youth suicide early intervention and prevention program. Makes appropriations. (SD1)		HLT/HSH, FIN
987, SD1	RELATING TO RENEWABLE ENERGY. Clarifies definition of "renewable energy producer" to include thermal energy sold to customers of district cooling systems, for purposes of leasing public lands; allows a county to grant, sell or otherwise dispose of easements for chilled water and seawater distribution systems for renewable energy seawater air conditioning district cooling systems by negotiation without public auction. (SD1)		EEP, WLH
988, SD2	RELATING TO PHOTOVOLTAIC ENERGY. Establishes a photovoltaic rebate program to all grid-connected residential, community-center, and small business utility customers within electric utility service areas. (SD2)		EEP, CPC, FIN
990, SD2	RELATING TO PETROLEUM INDUSTRY MONITORING. Requires public utilities commission to report any violations of chapter 486B to attorney general. Adds new definition for "major fuel user" to and amends other definitions in section 486J-1. Clarifies and strengthens the public utilities commission's authority under the petroleum industry information and reporting act. Appropriates funds for the petroleum industry monitoring, analysis, and reporting special fund for staffing positions to carry out the purpose of the fund. (SD2)		EEP, CPC, FIN
992, SD1	RELATING TO ENERGY. Requires the energy resources coordinator to make available on the department of business, economic development, and tourism website a list of applications for ocean energy or other hydroelectric projects in and around Hawaii waters. (SD1)		EEP, EDB
993, SD1	RELATING TO THE ISSUANCE OF SPECIAL PURPOSE REVENUE BONDS TO ASSIST SEAWATER AIR CONDITIONING PROJECTS ON THE ISLAND OF OAHU. Authorizes issuance of special purpose revenue bonds to Honolulu Seawater Air Conditioning LLC for the purpose of design and construction of a seawater air conditioning district cooling system in downtown Honolulu.		EEP, FIN
994, SD1	RELATING TO SEAWATER AIR CONDITIONING DISTRICT COOLING SYSTEMS. Allows the sale of cooling from seawater air conditioning district cooling systems to qualify for state enterprise zone benefits. (SD1)		EEP/EDB, FIN
1003, SD1	RELATING TO CONTRACTORS. Modifies the composition of the contractors license board. Requires at least 3 members of the contractors license board to be appointed from a list of nominees submitted from the speaker of the house of representatives and at least 3 from a list submitted by the president of the senate. (SD1)		CPC, FIN
1004, SD2	RELATING TO PSYCHOLOGISTS. Authorizes prescriptive authority for qualified psychologists who practice at a federally qualified health center. (SD2)		HLT, CPC
1006, SD1	RELATING TO MORTGAGE BROKERS AND SOLICITORS. Exempts bank operating subsidiaries from mortgage broker and solicitor licensing requirements. (SD1)		CPC
1007, SD2	RELATING TO THE GENERAL EXCISE TAX. Requires an investment broker and agent who share compensation for their services to pay the general excise tax on only that portion of the compensation retained by each. (SD2)		CPC, FIN
1008, SD1	RELATING TO ANNUITIES. Enacts a new part in insurance code to provide for sales and solicitations of annuities. (SD1)		CPC, FIN
1010, SD1	RELATING TO CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS. Removes private or governmental accounting experience as meeting the required professional experience for a license in public accountancy. Removes public accountant examination requirement that baccalaureate degree be in accounting. (SD1)		CPC
1011, SD1	RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLE KEY INFORMATION ACCESS. Requires motor vehicle manufacturers to allow registered owners through a registered locksmith to access information necessary to produce replacement keys. (SD1)		CPC
1016, SD1	RELATING TO THE UNIFORM ATHLETE AGENTS ACT. Enacts the Uniform Athlete Agents Act to protect student‑athletes and educational institutions from potential harm caused by unscrupulous athlete agents. Requires athlete agents to register with department of commerce and consumer affairs.		HED, CPC/JUD, FIN
1017	RELATING TO HOUSING. Makes technical and housekeeping amendments to ensure that the Hawaii Habitat for Humanity Association's zero-interest revolving loan can continue to assist low-income families to become homeowners.		HSH, FIN
1026, SD2	RELATING TO SOLID WASTE. Increases the volume limit of deposit beverage containers from 64 to 68 fluid ounces. Requires distributors to report container numbers sold and make fee payments on that basis. Permits calculation of redemption value by container count in certain instances. Allows refusal of refund for previously processed and baled containers. (SD2)		EEP, EDB, FIN
1028	RELATING TO COUNTY REGULATION OF COMMERCIAL BICYCLE TOURS. Authorizes the counties to regulate both guided and unguided bicycle tour businesses on state and county highways.		TRN, TAC
1030, SD2	RELATING TO BURIAL SITES. Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to map burial sites that are inadvertently discovered using a global positioning system device and retain records of the location of the site and the site to which the remains are reinterred, if any, keeping the relocation site confidential except as to lineal or cultural descendants. Appropriates $ for the 2007-2008 fiscal year for staff and equipment necessary to fulfill these requirements. (SD2)		WLH, FIN
1034, SD2	RELATING TO TAXATION. Exempts from general excise and use taxes the fuel sold for intrastate air transportation by common carriers. (SD2)		EDB, TRN, FIN
1035, SD1	RELATING TO MAKAHIKI DAY COMMEMORATION. Establishes each November 20th as the Makahiki Commemoration day. (SD1)		TAC, WLH
1042, SD1	RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION. Requires the department of transportation, to the extent practicable, to comply with county outdoor lighting ordinances at airports, harbors, and highways. (SD1)		TRN, FIN
1046, SD2	RELATING TO FEES FOR WINDSHIELD PLACARDS FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES. Requires the counties to deposit all fees for temporary and replacement disabled parking placards into the state general fund. (SD2)		TRN, FIN
1047	RELATING TO HIGHWAY SAFETY. Permits drivers who are at least eighteen years of age to drive commercially.		TRN, JUD
1048, SD1	RELATING TO HIGHWAY SAFETY. Requires the State, counties, and contractors performing work on a public highway to post signs warning motorists of steel plates placed in the roadway. (SD1)		TRN
1052, SD2	RELATING TO HAWAIIAN LANGUAGE. Requires that all letterheads of the State include the correct Hawaiian spelling of Hawaiian words. Establishes a Hawaiian language interim task force. Appropriates funds. (SD2)		WLH, FIN
1053, SD1	RELATING TO EMINENT DOMAIN. Prohibits use of power of eminent domain to take and transfer private property to a private entity that had expressed interest in purchasing the same property for development purposes or other private use. (SD1)		WLH, JUD, FIN
1060, SD1	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. (SD1)		LAB, CPC, FIN
1063, SD1	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
1066, SD2	RELATING TO INVASIVE SPECIES. Establishes a fee for the inspection of invasive species at state ports of entry. Establishes the invasive species inspection, quarantine, and eradication fund. (SD2)		AGR/EEP, TRN, FIN
1068, SD1	RELATING TO CAMPAIGN SPENDING. Increases amount that may be spent per voter for state and county elections. (SD1)		JUD, FIN
1090, SD2	RELATING TO HISTORIC PRESERVATION. Appropriates funds to improve the load distribution and carrying capacity of the trail system at Diamond Head state monument. (SD2)		WLH, FIN
1092	RELATING TO EDUCATION. Amends Act 246, Session Laws of Hawaii 2006, the Fix Our Schools Act, by extending the appropriation lapse date.		EDN, FIN
1093, SD2	RELATING TO OCEAN HEALTH CONSENSUS. Appropriates funds for the center for conservation research and training at the University of Hawaii to develop and implement an ocean health consensus project to build community based consensus in Hawaii for managing ocean ecosystem resources. (SD2)		WLH, FIN
1094	RELATING TO THE LAND CONSERVATION FUND. Authorizes the use of the land conservation fund for the acquisition of agricultural easements and for the payment of debt service on bonds issued for acquisitions using the fund.		WLH/AGR, FIN
1101, SD2	RELATING TO CHILDREN. Establishes a task force to coordinate resources for homeless children; establishes and appropriates funds to a special fund; sunset date. (SD2)		HSH, FIN
1103, SD2	RELATING TO HOUSING. Appropriates moneys to allow Kukui Gardens to remain an affordable development. Establishes that the State shall hold title to the land and may contract the services of a private nonprofit entity to manage the property and develop additional affordable dwelling units. (SD2)		HSH, FIN
1106, SD1	MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE STATE COMMISSION ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN. Appropriates moneys for the Hawaii state commission on the status of women for programming, travel, and office expenses. (SD1)		HSH, FIN
1110, SD1	RELATING TO HEALTH. Requires a hospital, including a public health facility, to provide information and emergency contraception to a sexual assault victim; requires training; includes penalties. (SD1)		HLT, JUD
1112, SD1	RELATING TO PUBLIC SAFETY. Appropriates funds to the department of public safety and the office of youth services for the expansion of gender-responsive community based programs for women and girls. (SD1)		PSM, FIN
1113, SD1	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
1115, SD2	RELATING TO PERINATAL CARE. Appropriates funds for the pilot perinatal clinic within the UH medical school department of obstetrics, gynecology, and women's health to help women with a history of substance abuse. (SD2)		HLT/HSH, HED, FIN
1116, SD1	RELATING TO RENTAL APPLICATION FEES. Regulates the imposition of rental application fees by landlords. (SD1)		HSH, CPC/JUD
1117, SD1	RELATING TO HEALTH. Requires recipients of state funding for sexual health education to provide medically accurate, factual information that is age-appropriate and includes education on both abstinence and contraception. (SD1)		HLT, JUD
1131, SD2	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. (SD2)		EDN, FIN
1133, SD3	RELATING TO TAXATION. Increases the rental motor vehicle surcharge tax by $1; increases the tour vehicle surcharge tax by unspecified amounts. (SD3)		TRN, EDB, CPC, FIN
1136, SD2	RELATING TO EDUCATION. Appropriates funds for schools and students meeting specific criteria outside of weighted student formula allocations. Allows complex area superintendents to provide support within the complex areas and appropriates funds therefor. Appropriates funds for junior kindergarten classes with fifteen or fewer students. (SD2)		EDN, FIN
1143, SD2	RELATING TO EDUCATION. Clarifies selection of teacher and certain student representatives on school community councils. Appropriates moneys to the department of education for reduction in kindergarten and junior kindergarten class size and to establish new teacher advisors/peer assistance mentors at a certain ratio. (SD2)		EDN, FIN
1145, SD1	RELATING TO SCHOOL REPAIR AND MAINTENANCE. Appropriates funds for the Hawaii 3R's school repair and maintenance program and the Hawaii 3R's coordinator position for each year of the fiscal biennium. (SD1)		EDN, FIN
1146, SD2	RELATING TO LEGISLATIVE SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAMS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII. Establishes the Senator Hiram L. Fong and the Oren E. Long scholarship programs and endowment trusts that shall be administered by the University of Hawaii. (SD2)		HED, FIN
1152, SD2	RELATING TO EDUCATION. Provides for smaller learning communities in public schools. Prohibits the selling of school lands and buildings without consideration of using the land and buildings for small learning communities. Requires the department of education to give priority to establishing early childhood education learning facilities over closing or consolidating school facilities. (SD1		EDN, FIN
1154, SD2	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
1156, SD2	RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII. Appropriates funds for the B Plus scholarship program for fiscal years 2007-2008 and 2008-2009 and changes the program's eligibility criteria. (SD2)		HED, FIN
1158, SD2	RELATING TO FAMILY COURT. Creates a citizen's family law advisory committee to be placed, for administrative purposes, in the judiciary. (SD2)		JUD, FIN
1161, SD1	RELATING TO DOMESTIC ABUSE. Requires the department of human services to provide a written report to the court and the parties two days prior to a hearing in a case where there are allegations of domestic abuse. (SD1)		HSH, JUD
1163, SD2	RELATING TO FOSTER CHILDREN'S TRANSITION TO ADULTHOOD. Requires the permanent plan of certain foster children age fourteen and older to include an appropriate independent living program. (SD2)		HSH, JUD, FIN
1170, SD1	RELATING TO CHILDREN. Appropriates or authorizes temporary assistance for needy families funds for the healthy start program, including enhanced healthy start, hiring of additional staff, and training. (SD1)		HLT/HSH, FIN
1174, SD1	RELATING TO INCARCERATED PARENTS. Appropriates funds for the expansion of incarcerated parent-child interaction programs, such as the Strengthening Keiki of Incarcerated Parents Project, at state correctional facilities and institutions servicing other offender populations. (SD1)		PSM, FIN
1176, SD1	RELATING TO CHILDREN. Amends early intervention services law to be consistent with the reauthorized individuals with disabilities education act of 2004. (SD1)		HSH/HLT, EDN, FIN
1177, SD2	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)		HED/INT, FIN
1182, SD2	RELATING TO NEEDS ALLOWANCE. Establishes a needs allowance for residents of care homes and long-term care facilities. (SD2)		HLT/HSH, FIN
1184, SD2	RELATING TO ADULT PROTECTION. Amends dependent adult protective services law by: (1) deleting definition of "dependent adult"; (2) extending protections to persons over 18 years of age if they meet the definition of "vulnerable adult"; (3) enabling 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; (4) making conforming amendments for style, consistency, and clarity; and (5) appropriating funds to the department of human services. (SD2)		HSH, JUD, FIN
1191, SD2	RELATING TO PEDESTRIAN SAFETY. Appropriates funds to the department of transportation for a pilot study to identify state and county intersections where the time to cross the intersection is insufficient for elderly pedestrians. Appropriates funds for traffic countdown timers, signals, painting of crosswalks, a public awareness campaign, and grants-in-aid for counties for pedestrian safety. (SD2)		TRN, FIN
1203	RELATING TO SOCIAL SERVICES. Requires the department of human services to develop and implement a "cash and counseling" pilot program and appropriates funds for that purpose.		HSH, FIN
1210, SD1	RELATING TO HEALTH CARE FACILITIES. Increases authorization for special purpose revenue bonds under Act 296, SLH 1999. Extends repeal date of SPRBs for Honolulu Neighborhood Housing Services from 6/30/08 to 6/30/2011.		HSH, FIN
1214	RELATING TO THE ISSUANCE OF SPECIAL PURPOSE REVENUE BONDS FOR LE JARDIN ACADEMY. Authorizes the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds for Le Jardin Academy for the construction, improvement, and equipping of its educational facilities.		EDN, FIN
1219, SD1	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)		WLH/AGR, JUD
1221, SD2	RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL TAXATION. Establishes the important agricultural lands agricultural business tax credit. (SD2)		AGR/EDB, FIN
1222, SD3	RELATING TO INCOME TAXATION. Establishes that all energy technology systems must be installed and placed in service in the State of Hawaii to obtain the State's income tax energy tax credit. Also expands tax credits applicable to shareholder pro rata shares in S corporations. (SD3)		EEP, FIN
1228, SD1	RELATING TO HISTORICAL PRESERVATION. Establishes a process to determine the most appropriate means of memorializing the World War II Japanese internment camp experience in Hawaii; appropriates funds to the department of land and natural resources. (SD1)		TAC, FIN
1229, SD2	RELATING TO SCRAP DEALERS. Requires scrap dealers to include a thumbprint of all persons redeeming copper in the required identification statement. Requires scrap dealers to maintain record of transactions in copper and immediately email or fax it to police. (SD2)		CPC, JUD
1234, SD2	RELATING TO NATIVE HAWAIIAN HEALTH. Establishes a state designation of native Hawaiian health centers that follows the mandates provided in the federal Native Hawaiian Health Care Improvement Act.		WLH/HLT, FIN
1236, SD1	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)		WLH/AGR
1237, SD1	RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLES. Permits motor vehicle backup warning beepers to be disabled between 10:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. if certain conditions are met. (SD1)		TRN, JUD
1249, SD1	RELATING TO LIQUOR. Establishes a condominium hotel class of liquor license. (SD1)		EDB/TAC, FIN
1253	RELATING TO HAWAII HEALTH SYSTEMS CORPORATION CONTRACTS. Creates an exemption for the Hawaii health systems corporation from various statutory contracting requirements imposed on state agencies.		HLT, EDB, FIN
1260, SD2	RELATING TO A GRANT TO KAHUKU HOSPITAL. Makes an emergency appropriation as a grant pursuant to chapter 42F, HRS, to Kahuku Hospital to permit it to maintain operations and cover costs of reorganization if it is transferred to the Hawaii health systems corporation. (SD2)		FIN
1276, SD3	RELATING TO THE ENVIRONMENT. Requires the preparation of an environmental impact statement for major harbor improvements for any vessel that carries passengers and vehicles between Hawaii's islands that require such improvements. Requires the department of transportation to implement all mitigative measures contained in the environmental impact statement, including amending any operating agreements. Directs the department of transportation to assess businesses or entities operating or proposing to operate such vessels for the costs of the environmental impact statement. (SD2)		TRN, EEP, FIN
1279, SD1	RELATING TO EMINENT DOMAIN. Allows plaintiff to seek a judicial review of the taking prior to a condemnation action. Requires plaintiff to offer to resell property to defendant for current appraised value or condemnation price plus and cost of environmental remediation or cleanup or other improvements if property taken in eminent domain is not used for the purpose for which it was condemned. (SD1)		WLH, JUD, FIN
1281	RELATING TO STATE OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES EXCLUDED FROM COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AND MAKING APPROPRIATIONS AND OTHER ADJUSTMENTS. Appropriates funds for salary increases and makes other cost adjustments for state officers and employees who are excluded from collective bargaining.		LAB, FIN
1282, SD2	RELATING TO HEALTH. Appropriates moneys to establish an emergency medical services training stipend program to remedy the shortage of mobile intensive care technician paramedics and assist ten paramedic students per year who do not have access to a program. (SD2)		HLT, FIN
1283, SD2	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)		HED/HLT, FIN
1284, SD2	RELATING TO THE EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM. Authorizes board of trustees of employees' retirement system to set the salary scale assumptions based on recommendations from the actuary. Increases employers' contributions to the employees' retirement system effective 2008-2009. Repeals provision allowing the employer contribution rate to be reduced if the period required to amortize the unfunded actuarial liability falls below 25 years. (SD2)		LAB, FIN
1285, SD1	RELATING TO TAX. Exempts the sale of liquid fuels and alcohol fuels from the general excise tax; increases the fuel tax by 1 cent per gallon. (SD1)		TRN/EEP, FIN
1287, SD1	RELATING TO HIGHWAY SAFETY. Clarifies the period of time for safety inspection of motor carrier vehicles. (SD1)		TRN, CPC
1307, SD3	RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. Creates a livestock revitalization and food security program. Appropriates $ in each year of the fiscal biennium. (SD3)		AGR, FIN
1308, SD1	RELATING TO LOANS FOR AGRICULTURAL AND AQUACULTURE PURPOSES. Increases aquaculture loan limits for Class A & B loans to $800,000. Makes credit denial requirements identical to the agricultural loan program by eliminating the one loan denial. Creates a "new aquaculturist program". Transfers and incorporates aquaculture funds into the agriculture funds and combines the aquaculture fund expenditure ceiling with the agriculture fund expenditure ceiling. (SD1)		AGR, FIN
1311	RELATING TO SALARY PAYMENTS. Eliminates the need for the Governor to physically sign paychecks.		FIN
1312, SD1	MAKING AN EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION FOR ELECTRICITY PAYMENTS STATEWIDE. Makes an emergency appropriation for fiscal year 2006-2007 to cover statewide budgetary shortfalls in electricity payments for facilities assigned to DAGS. (SD1)		FIN
1313, SD1	MAKING AN EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION FOR RISK MANAGEMENT. Makes emergency appropriations of $800,000 in general funds to the State Risk Management Revolving Fund for fiscal year 2006-2007. Increases the State Risk Management revolving fund spending ceiling $3,000,000. And increases by $2.93 million the special fund department's/agency's ceilings in fiscal year 2006-2007. (SD1)		FIN
1315, SD2	RELATING TO THE ACCESS HAWAII COMMITTEE. Codifies sections of Act 292, Session Laws of Hawaii 2000, to make the access Hawaii committee permanent. Requires committee to provide oversight of the internet portal manager. (SD2)		EDB, FIN
1332, SD2	RELATING TO METAL. Establishes the offense of theft of copper. Adds special requirements for the purchase of copper by scrap dealers and to hold scrap dealers accountable for violations. Eff. 7/1/50. (SD2)		CPC, JUD
1334, SD1	RELATING TO NAME CHANGES. Prohibits covered offenders subject to registration requirements from petitioning for name changes. (SD1)		JUD
1337	RELATING TO CONTEMPT OF COURT. Facilitates the enforcement of an order compelling a parent to pay child support, medical support, or other remedial care for his or her child, by providing that proof that the parent was present in court at the time the order was pronounced or that parent was served with said order, and proof that the parent did not comply with said order, constitutes prima facie evidence of a civil contempt of court.		HSH, JUD
1339, SD1	RELATING TO THE HAWAII RULES OF EVIDENCE. Renders evidence of statements or gestures expressing sympathy, commiseration, or condolence concerning consequences of an event inadmissible to establish civil liability. Statements of apology or fault remain admissible. (SD1)		JUD
1342, SD2	RELATING TO THE PERFECTION OF APPEALS TO THE TAX APPEAL COURT. Clarifies that an appeal to the tax appeal court from a board of review decision, or the decision of an equivalent county administrative body, must be served on the director of taxation or county real property assessment division within thirty days of the date of the final assessment to properly confer jurisdiction over the appeal. (SD2)		JUD, FIN
1343, SD1	RELATING TO THE PENAL CODE. Amends the offenses of Assault in the Second Degree, and Terroristic Threatening in the First Degree to include conduct committed against victims who the courts and police are attempting to keep safe with protective orders. (SD1)		HSH, JUD, FIN
1346	RELATING TO SENTENCING. Restores a statutory provision which allows presentence mental or medical examinations of defendants for purposes of sentencing.		HLT, JUD