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		SENATE BILLS
			Committee
S.B. NO.			REFERRAL

1805, SD1	RELATING TO GENETIC COUNSELORS. Establishes a licensure program for genetic counselors. Effective July 1, 2008. (SD1)		HLT, CPC, FIN
1816, SD1	RELATING TO HISTORIC PRESERVATION. Requires consultation with the kahuna nui of the Mo‘okini Heiau on all matters pertaining to the Heiau. (SD1)		TAC, WLH
1818, SD1	RELATING TO COUNTY CONCESSIONS. Provides an exemption to nonprofit corporations from the fifteen-year limit on the grant of county concessions or concession space. (SD1)		WLH, FIN
1820, SD1	RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. Authorizes the department of education to enter into financing agreements with the concurrence of the director of finance and without the approval of the comptroller. Creates a separate account within the state education facilities improvement special fund to be called the lease payments for schools account. (SD1)		EDN, FIN
1823, SD1	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)		TAC, FIN
1833, SD1	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
1837, SD1	RELATING TO CONDOMINIUMS. Establishes requirements regarding property management agreements. Clarifies various condominium provisions. (SD1)		CPC/JUD, FIN
1838, SD2	RELATING TO KAKAAKO. Establishes Kakaako central small business district. Requires the authority to confer and obtain consensus from real property owners within and adjacent to a proposed public facility prior to undertaking any public facility as part of the district-wide improvement program. Requires that the dedication for public school facilities be on a fair-share basis, as determined by the department of education, and agreed to in writing by the department of education and the developer. Transfers $ from the Hawaii community development revolving fund to the department of education. (SD2)		WLH, EDN, FIN
1839, SD2	RELATING TO TAX SYSTEMS. Establishes integrated tax services and management special fund to receive revenues from the integrated tax services and management systems post-implementation revenue-generating initiatives; provides that moneys in the fund will be used to pay for the integrated tax information management systems. (SD2)		FIN
1840, SD1	RELATING TO TAXATION. Adopts amendments to Hawaii tax laws to implement the streamlined sales and use tax agreement. (SD1)		EDB, CPC/JUD, FIN
1848, SD2	RELATING TO CABLE TELEVISION. Allows the department of commerce and consumer affairs to provide additional funding to support public, educational, and governmental cable television access. (SD2)		CPC, FIN
1853, SD2	RELATING TO NATIVE HAWAIIANS. Establishes an aha moku council system advisory committee to provide a framework on the formation of an aha moku council commission that shall serve as in an advisory capacity on all matters regarding the management of the State's natural resources. Requires governor to select two advisory committee members from list provided by Association of Hawaiian Civic Clubs; two members from list provided by office of Hawaiian affairs, and one member from list provided by department of Hawaiian home lands. Appropriates funds for the advisory committee to carry out its duties. (SD2)		WLH, FIN
1877, SD2	RELATING TO IMPORTANT AGRICULTURAL LANDS. Establishes a reimbursable real property tax credit for 100% of the actual amount of real property tax paid by taxpayers real property tax assessed on lands designated as important agricultural lands. Provides farmer and employee housing on lands designated as important agricultural lands. (SD2)		WLH/AGR, FIN
1882, SD2	RELATING TO TAXATION. Establishes a food tax credit to be claimed against a resident taxpayer's income tax liability for the amount of $ multiplied by the number of qualified exemptions to which the taxpayer is entitled. (SD2)		FIN
1891, SD1	RELATING TO PUBLIC LANDS. Makes violation of chapter 171, relating to public lands and rules adopted thereunder a petty misdemeanor. (SD1)		WLH, JUD
1916, SD2	RELATING TO CAREGIVING. Strengthens support of family caregivers by, among other things: extending the joint legislative committee on family caregiving; requiring the executive office on aging to conduct a comprehensive assessment of care recipients' needs and the needs of their family caregivers; and appropriating funds to expand services for care recipients and their family caregivers. (SD2)		HLT/HSH, LMG, FIN
1917, SD3	RELATING TO HOUSING. Extends the sunset date for the allocation of conveyance tax revenues to the rental housing trust fund and changes the allocation to an unspecified percentage; requires the Hawaii finance and development corporation to create an affordable housing inventory registry; and appropriates funds for various homeless and housing programs and projects. (SD3)		HSH/WLH, FIN
1918, SD2	RELATING TO THE HAWAII CHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE PROGRAM. Creates a three-year pilot program to expand health care coverage for children in Hawaii; and appropriates funds. (SD2)		HLT/HSH, FIN
1919, SD2	RELATING TO ASSET BUILDING. Provides a comprehensive set of asset building opportunities for Hawaii's low- and moderate-income families by establishing a self‑sufficiency standard that will determine the assistance allowance; establishing a refundable state earned income tax credit; providing financial education to TANF applicants and recipients; expanding the provision of individual development accounts; and appropriating funds. (SD2)		HSH, FIN
1920, SD2	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)		TAC, EDB, FIN
1922, SD2	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
1923, SD2	RELATING TO LANDS CONTROLLED BY THE STATE. Requires legislative approval of any exchange of lands under the control of any state department or agency for private lands. (SD2)		WLH, LMG, FIN
1924, SD2	RELATING TO LANDS CONTROLLED BY THE STATE. Requires legislative approval of the sale of any state land under the control of any state department or agency. Makes conforming amendments to section 171-13, HRS. (SD2)		WLH, LMG, FIN
1925, SD2	RELATING TO SUSTAINABILITY. Establishes sustainable communities in Hawaii with the combined effort of state departments and agencies. (SD2)		HSH, WLH/EEP, FIN
1926, SD1	RELATING TO WHISTLEBLOWERS' PROTECTION. Provides additional protection to public employees who report violations of the law, waste, and gross misconduct, incompetence, or inefficiency; expands the state ombudsman's responsibilities regarding whistleblowers; and appropriates funds. (SD1)		LAB, JUD, FIN
1928, SD2	RELATING TO THE OFFICE OF THE AUDITOR. Authorizes the establishment of an investigative unit within the office of the auditor to conduct investigations involving alleged or suspected government waste, fraud, abuse, nonfeasance, or malfeasance at the request of the legislature or upon the auditor's initiative; expands the powers of the office of the auditor; appropriates funds for the investigative unit. (SD2)		LMG, JUD, FIN
1929, SD2	RELATING TO PUBLIC PROCUREMENT. Authorizes the procurement policy board to set administrative fines and authorizes the chief procurement officer to assess the administrative fines.		EDB/CPC, JUD, FIN
1931, SD2	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
1932, SD2	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
1933, SD2	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
1934, SD1	RELATING TO TAXATION. Allows an individual taxpayer to request that the taxpayer's refund be electronically deposited into up to three checking or savings accounts. (SD1)		CPC, FIN
1935, SD1	RELATING TO CHECK CASHING. Requires the department of commerce and consumer affairs to regulate the check cashing industry through registration requirements. Effective 7/1/50. (SD1)		CPC, JUD, FIN
1937, SD2	RELATING TO SOCIAL SERVICES. Requires the department of human services to develop and implement a micro-credit pilot program and appropriates or authorizes temporary assistance for needy families funds for that purpose. (SD2)		HSH, FIN
1943, SD2	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)		WLH/EEP, AGR
1946, SD2	RELATING TO DAM SAFETY. Adds extensive provisions to the dam safety chapter to improve safety to dams and reservoirs in the State. Makes an appropriation. (SD2)		WLH, JUD, FIN
1947, SD1	MAKING AN EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION FOR THE DEPOSIT BEVERAGE CONTAINER PROGRAM. Makes an emergency appropriation out of the deposit beverage container deposit special fund for reimbursing deposit values, paying handling fees at redemption centers, and operating and administrative costs. (SD1)		EEP, FIN
1948, SD1	RELATING TO THE ISSUANCE OF SPECIAL PURPOSE REVENUE BONDS FOR PROJECTS ON THE ISLAND OF HAWAII. Extends the authorization to issue special purpose revenue bonds to the year 2011 for the purpose of a cogeneration facility on the island of Hawaii. (SD1)		EEP, EDB, FIN
1950, SD2	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
1961, SD1	RELATING TO BAIL. Creates a licensing requirement for bail bond agents. Requires the director of commerce and consumer affairs to adopt rules for the process and procedure of obtaining a bail bond agent license. Prohibits certain acts by bail bond agents. Provides for civil and criminal penalties for violations by bail bond agents. Requires the director of commerce and consumer affairs to adopt rules regulating compensated sureties. (SD1)		CPC, JUD
1962, SD2	RELATING TO TAXATION. Provides an income tax deduction to an owner occupant of a residential or mixed use condominium constructed before December 31, 1975, for qualifying costs of installation of an automatic fire sprinkler system to serve the entire residential or mixed use condominium, and installed after December 31, 2007; sunsets June 30, 2012. (SD2)		HSH, CPC, FIN
1969, SD2	RELATING TO TUITION ASSISTANCE. Broadens the scope of the tuition assistance to Hawaii national guard members attending the University of Hawaii and appropriates funds for that purpose. (SD2)		PSM, HED, FIN
1988, SD1	RELATING TO HONEY. Adds labeling requirements for honey. Adds definitions related to honey in chapter 147, Hawaii Revised Statutes. (SD1)		AGR, CPC
1991, SD1	RELATING TO THE ISSUANCE OF SPECIAL PURPOSE REVENUE BONDS TO ASSIST NOT-FOR-PROFIT CORPORATIONS THAT PROVIDE HEALTH CARE FACILITIES. Authorizes issuance of special purpose revenue bonds for 15 Craigside, a continuing care retirement community, in Nuuanu. (SD1)		HSH, FIN

		SENATE BILLS
			Committee
S.B. NO.			RE-REFERRAL

50, SD1	RELATING TO AIDS RESEARCH. Makes an appropriation for the Hawaii AIDS clinical research program. (SD1)		HLT, 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
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, FIN