HREF 01-18-08 1

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		HOUSE BILLS
			Committee
H.B. NO.			REFERRAL

2215	AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS AND MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR BALL FIELD AND RECREATIONAL FACILITY LIGHT SYSTEM RETRO-FIT, HABITAT CONSERVATION PLAN, AND WAILUA WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT UPGRADES FOR THE COUNTY OF KAUAI. Appropriates $2,460,000 for CIP projects on Kauai for ball field and recreational facility light system retrofit, habitat conservation plan, and Wailua wastewater treatment plant upgrades.		FIN
2216	RELATING TO PUBLIC AGENCY MEETINGS. Allows two or more members of a board to discuss official board business to enable them to perform their duties.		JUD
2217	RELATING TO THE OFFICE OF INFORMATION PRACTICES. Requires the office of information practices to provide a written opinion within 60 days of a written request for an advisory opinion.		JUD
2218	RELATING TO HOUSING. Extends the period of review for a legislative body from 45 days to 90 days when examining affordable housing projects.		HSH, WLH
2219	RELATING TO THE HAWAII PUBLIC PROCUREMENT CODE. Repeals requirement that county cooperative purchases adhere to administrative rules adopted by the state procurement policy board.		EDB, FIN
2220	RELATING TO PUBLIC LAND. Protects counties from liability as a result of natural conditions on or near a public beach park.		WLH, JUD
2221	RELATING TO TRAFFIC INFRACTIONS. Transfers a percentage of uncontested traffic fines and forfeitures to the county in which the violation occurred.		TRN, JUD, FIN
2222	RELATING TO SAILBOARDS. Prohibits operators of sailboards from approaching within 200 feet of a swimmer or surfer in the ocean.		WLH, JUD
2223	RELATING TO PUBLIC HEALTH. Requires employers to educate employees regarding seizure first aid using information provided by the department of labor and industrial relations.		HLT, LAB
2224	RELATING TO INSURANCE. Requires insurers that offer health care coverage to the regular employees of any group or association to offer the same coverage to part-time employees working at least 15 hours per week; insurance commissioner to report on Act's cost-benefit to the 2010 legislature; sunsets July 1, 2010.		HLT, EDB, CPC
2225	RELATING TO INSURANCE. Requires insurers that offer health care coverage to the regular employees of any group or association to offer the same coverage to part-time employees of that group or association; insurance commissioner to report on Act's cost-benefit to the 2010 legislature; sunsets July 1, 2010.		HLT, EDB, CPC
2226	RELATING TO TAXATION. Amends the definition of "person totally disabled" for tax purposes, by deleting the requirement that the disability results in the person's inability to engage in any substantial gainful business or occupation.		HSH, FIN
2227	RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT. Clarifies disciplinary actions against public employees by requiring evidence to support probable cause for serious offense and documentation showing progressive disciplinary actions. Authorizes suspension with pay pending investigation of charge.		LAB, FIN
2228	MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR COMMUNITY-BASED ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. Appropriates $500,000 into the Hawaii community-based economic development revolving fund to financially assist qualifying community-based organizations statewide.		EDB, FIN
2229	RELATING TO MOPEDS. Specifies when a moped must use a bicycle lane and clarifies the speed limit applicable to a moped.		TRN, JUD
2230	RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL IRRIGATION. Expressly authorizes the board of agriculture to acquire irrigation systems by negotiated purchase, exchange, or gift. Requires agricultural lands served by irrigation systems acquired by the board of agriculture to be used by landowners for agriculture or leased to others for agricultural use. Provides regulations for gifts of irrigation systems from private landowners to the State.		AGR/WLH, FIN
2231	RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. Requires the department of land and natural resources and the department of agriculture to collaborate to identify public lands that should be designated important agricultural lands. Beginning 01/01/10, requires the land use commission to designate the identified public lands as important agricultural lands and transfers the authority to manage those public lands from the department of land and natural resources to the department of agriculture.		AGR/WLH, FIN
2232	RELATING TO MEDICAL TORTS. Establishes special medical tort reform provisions for health professional shortage areas.		HLT, CPC, JUD
2233	RELATING TO MEDICAL TORTS. Requires a claimant who rejects the decision of a medical claim conciliation panel and subsequently institutes litigation to pay a fee of $10,000 to the court.		HLT, CPC, JUD
2234	AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS AND MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE PURCHASE OF CERTAIN LANDS ON THE ISLAND OF OAHU. Authorizes issue of $ in general obligation bonds to purchase the Kunia lands owned by the Campbell Estate on the island of Oahu identified as Lot M-8-B (commonly known as parcel 2), portion of TMK 1-9-02-004:005 consisting of 854.23 acres.		AGR, FIN
2235	RELATING TO THE DEPOSIT BEVERAGE CONTAINER PROGRAM. Authorizes the use of moneys in the deposit beverage container deposit special fund to acquire real property for redemption centers.		EEP, FIN
2236	RELATING TO DNA. Requires collection of DNA sample from all adults arrested for a felony offense.		JUD
2237	RELATING TO EDUCATION. Allows the department of education to provide stipends to educational assistants to pursue teaching credentials; provided principals are not required to submit recommendations on behalf of educational assistant applicants.		EDN/LAB, FIN
2238	RELATING TO PUBLIC HOUSING. Requires public housing projects and affordable housing funded by county or state funds to remain affordable in perpetuity.		HSH, FIN
2239	RELATING TO THE KALOKO HOUSING PROGRAM. Appropriates funds for the Kaloko Housing Program.		HSH, FIN
2240	RELATING TO PUBLIC HOUSING. Allows public housing tenants with excessive incomes more time to relocate, an opportunity to open individual development accounts, and to purchase their units if provided by law.		HSH, FIN
2241	RELATING TO REAL PROPERTY. Enables an owner to convey an interest in real property that does not vest until the death of the owner, at which time the interest transfers to the designated beneficiary.		JUD
2242	RELATING TO COUNTIES. Authorizes each county to impose upon certain subdividers or developers an affordable housing requirement as a condition for approval of a subdivision or issuance of a building permit.		HSH, EDB
2243	RELATING TO LAND USE. Provides that a zoning ordinance adopted by a county shall not be invalidated by a reclassification of land; provided that the uses allowed under the zoning ordinance are permissible uses under the new classification.		WLH
2244	RELATING TO TAXATION. Exempts real property rental transactions between related entities from the general excise tax.		EDB, FIN
2245	RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII. Authorizes the transfer of all university funds, with the exception of general funds, into the University of Hawaii commercial enterprises revolving fund.		HED, FIN
2246	RELATING TO HEALTH. Authorizes pharmacies that dispense medications pursuant to section 340B of the United States Public Health Service Act to engage in telepharmacy dispensing of medication subject to rules created by the Board of Pharmacy.		HLT/HSH, CPC
2247	RELATING TO HISTORIC PRESERVATION. Extends the time allowed to acquire the lands designated as part of the South Kona Wilderness Area on the island of Hawaii .		WLH, FIN
2248	RELATING TO INSURANCE. Provides that a reciprocal insurer and its attorney-in-fact are considered a single entity for general excise tax purposes.		CPC, FIN
2249	RELATING TO INSURANCE FRAUD. Expands the authority of the Insurance Division over insurance fraud beyond motor vehicle insurance cases to all lines of insurance except workers' compensation.		CPC/JUD, FIN
2250	RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION. Establishes a statutory scheme for the regulation of Hawaii inter-island air carriers; provided that federal legislation is enacted to permit implementation. Repealed on 6/30/2015.		TRN/CPC, FIN
2251	RELATING TO REAL PROPERTY. Requires any residential real property equity purchaser to provide homeowner with certain disclosures. Requires notices and sales contracts to be in writing, and provides cooling off period for homeowner to cancel sale contract.		CPC, JUD
2252	RELATING TO INSURANCE. Replaces the property and liability insurance guaranty association act with the National Conference of Insurance Legislators post-assessment property liability insurance guaranty association model act, which provides among other things expanded provisions on "covered claims" and replaces the association's power to cancel policies issued by insolvent insurers with immunity from pre-liquidation settlements of the insurer.		CPC/JUD, FIN
2253	RELATING TO AMENDING OR REPEALING VARIOUS PROVISIONS OF CHAPTER 281, HAWAII REVISED STATUTES, INTOXICATING LIQUOR, FOR THE PURPOSE OF CLARIFYING LANGUAGE, CORRECTING ERRORS, AND DELETING UNNECESSARY AND OBSOLETE PROVISIONS. Amends sections of chapter 281 to update the liquor laws.		EDB, CPC/JUD
2254	RELATING TO BANKS AND FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS. Prohibits the deceptive use of the name or trademark of a financial institution or its affiliates or subsidiaries. Establishes $10,000 fine for violations.		CPC, JUD
2255	RELATING TO LIFE INSURANCE. Eliminates insured employees as a source of funding the premiums for employee group life insurance policies. Eliminates requirement that the employee group life insurance policies must cover at least 10 employees at date of issue. Eliminates policy limits against loss due to death of a dependent other than the spouse of the insured employee under an employee group life insurance policy. Excludes the exercise of among corporate affiliates of a term conversion privilege from the applicability of laws relating to the replacement of life insurance policies and annuities.		CPC, LAB
2256	RELATING TO INSURANCE. Clarifies that it is not an unfair method of competition or an unfair or deceptive act or practice for an insurer with a less than 10% market share to refuse to issue or renew a policy with a prospective insured unless the prospective insured contracts for another class or an additional policy of the same class of insurance with the same insurer.		CPC, JUD
2257	RELATING TO PUBLIC ACCOUNTANCY. Requires peer review as a condition for the renewal of a permit to practice public accountancy. Applies to both persons and firms. Exempts certain firms from the requirements.		CPC
2258	RELATING TO PUBLIC ACCOUNTANCY. Authorizes out-of-state certified public accountants to practice temporarily in the State without a license.		CPC
2259	RELATING TO AEROSPACE DEVELOPMENT. Makes an appropriation for costs associated with applying for a spaceport license from the Federal Aviation Administration.		EDB, FIN
2260	MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE HAWAII ASSOCIATION OF CONSERVATION DISTRICTS. Appropriates funds for the Hawaii association of conservation districts to assist with its staffing and operating costs.		AGR/WLH, FIN
2261	RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL LOANS. Establishes a loan program to provide financial assistance to farm producers involved in sustainable energy production.		AGR/EEP, FIN
2262	RELATING TO DISORDERLY CONDUCT. Amends the crime of disorderly conduct to include impeding or obstructing the use of or access to a bus stop by laying across any bench or more than one seat provided at the bus stop or sleeping on the ground within or abutting any bus stop shelter or other bus stop structure. Effective 01/01/2009.		TRN, JUD
2263	RELATING TO HARBORS. Allows the director of transportation to adopt rules that regulate harbor noise.		TRN, EEP
2264	RELATING TO MORTGAGES. Amends the definition of mortgage loan to clarify that the mortgage brokerage statute is intended to protect consumers.		CPC
2265	RELATING TO THE TRAFFIC CODE. Requires turning driver to yield right-of-way to pedestrian in a crosswalk even if the pedestrian enters the crosswalk after the vehicle begins its turn.		TRN, JUD
2266	RELATING TO TAX CREDITS. Requires 75% local hire to qualify for the motion picture, digital media, and film production tax credit and excludes media productions from the definition of "qualified high technology business".		TAC/EDB, FIN
2267	RELATING TO PROCUREMENT. Prohibits the chief procurement officer from delegating its authority to resolve protested awards; allows reimbursement of attorney's fees for protesting parties that prevail; transfers the review function of state procurement determinations to the office of the ombudsman.		EDB, LMG, FIN
2268	RELATING TO STATEWIDE TRAFFIC CODE. Increases the fine for speeding in a construction area to double the amount prescribed by law for the same offense outside of a construction area or $250, whichever is greater.		TRN, JUD
2269	RELATING TO TRAFFIC INFRACTIONS. Prohibits district court from disclosing, other than to law enforcement or licensee, dispositions of traffic infractions that precede the date of the request for disclosure by more than 3 years. Does not apply to criminal convictions.		TRN, JUD
2270	RELATING TO PRESCRIPTIONS. Authorizes refills for prescriptions during disasters. Directs the director of health to convene a work group to establish an online emergency prescription database. Appropriation.		HLT/CPC, FIN
2271	RELATING TO THE ISSUANCE OF SPECIAL PURPOSE REVENUE BONDS TO ASSIST CASTLE MEDICAL CENTER AND ITS AFFILIATES. Authorizes special purpose revenue bonds to assist Castle Medical Center.		HLT, FIN
2272	RELATING TO QUALIFIED COMMUNITY REHABILITATION PROGRAMS. Exempts positions and personal services contracts with a qualified community rehabilitation program, which last for no more than one year, from county civil service law regardless of the cost.		LAB, FIN
2273	RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES. Appropriates funds to the department of human services for independent living skills training for foster children and children being released from foster care. Authorizes general obligation bonds for transitional housing for foster children and children being released from foster care.		HSH, FIN
2274	MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO PROVIDE FOR EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANTS. Appropriates funds to provide one educational assistant for every public school class in grades K-3.		EDN, FIN
2275	RELATING TO EDUCATION. Appropriates funds for special education and early intervention services provided by private sector or county programs through a grant pursuant to chapter 42F, HRS.		EDN, HLT, FIN
2276	RELATING TO THE STUDENT TO TEACHER RATIO IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Appropriates funds for decreasing the student to teacher ratio in Hawaii public schools.		EDN, FIN
2277	RELATING TO INVASIVE SPECIES. Appropriates funds to eradicate invasive species and protect native species.		AGR, EEP, FIN
2278	RELATING TO EDUCATION. Provides tuition and fee waivers for children of military personnel disabled, killed in the line of duty, or declared Prisoners of War or Missing in Action.		PSM, HED, FIN
2279	MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE HAWAII TEACHER CADET PROGRAM. Appropriates funds for the Hawaii teacher cadet program to address the teacher shortage.		EDN, FIN
2280	RELATING TO FINANCIAL EDUCATION. Establishes a public financial education and asset building task force; makes an appropriation.		HSH/LAB, LMG, FIN
2281	RELATING TO ALTERNATIVE ENERGY. Appropriates funds for grants for alternative energy utilities on public school campuses.		EDN, EEP, FIN
2282	RELATING TO TAXATION. Eliminates the assessment and collection of the state general excise tax and state fuel tax on gasoline and diesel fuel used for motor vehicles.		TRN, EEP, FIN
2283	RELATING TO TATTOO ARTISTS. Allows department of health to issue temporary 14-calendar-day certificates of registration to tattoo artists for educational, trade show, or product demonstration purposes only.		HLT, CPC, FIN
2284	RELATING TO NONECONOMIC DAMAGES. Limits noneconomic damages in an action for a medical tort. Includes dentists.		HLT, CPC, JUD
2285	RELATING TO ELECTRONIC MONITORING. Requires electronic monitoring of persons convicted of violating a domestic abuse temporary restraining order or protective order.		PSM, JUD
2286	RELATING TO EPILEPSY DISEASE ASSISTANCE. Creates epilepsy treatment and education grants-in-aid fund to help epilepsy victims and families. Creates advisory committee to recommend to DOH the creation of treatment and education programs. Exempts fund from transfers for central service expenses and pro rata administrative expenses. Appropriation.		HLT, FIN
2287	RELATING TO HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS. Provides for the resident tuition rates repayment of tuition for five nonresident students of the medical education program at the John A. Burns School of Medicine to encourage nonresident medical school graduates to remain in Hawaii.		HLT, HED, FIN
2288	RELATING TO GENERAL EXCISE TAX. Requires general excise tax on health services and health products to be deposited into the long-term care benefits fund.		HLT/HSH, FIN
2289	RELATING TO LONG-TERM CARE OMBUDSMAN. Expands the long-term care ombudsman program by adding three additional ombudsman positions, one for each neighboring county.		HLT/HSH, FIN
2290	RELATING TO VACCINATIONS. Provides free influenza vaccinations to certain individuals statewide to reduce mortality. Requires consent forms. Requires DOH to seek federal funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Appropriates $ to DOH for FY 2008-2009. Repealed 6/30/2009.		HLT, FIN
2291	RELATING TO HEALTH INSURANCE. Establishes the state health authority to propose a plan to provide medical assistance for all citizens of Hawaii.		HLT, CPC, FIN
2292	RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. Enables the agribusiness development corporation to contract with banks to provide lease management services. Allows corporation to lease agricultural lands for up to 55 years. Authorizes the corporation to purchase agricultural lands owned by the Galbraith Estate. Makes an appropriation to acquire Galbraith Estate Lands.		AGR/WLH, FIN
2293	RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. Authorizes issuance of revenue bonds to purchase land in central Oahu from the Galbraith Estate; appropriates funds to purchase the lands; enables the Agribusiness Development Corporation to contract with lending institutions to provide lease management services.		AGR/WLH, FIN
2294	RELATING TO LAND ACQUISITION. Directs the Department of Land and Natural Resources or any appropriate entity of the State to acquire lands situated in central Oahu owned by the Galbraith Estate by negotiation or condemnation.		WLH, FIN
2295	RELATING TO SOLAR ENERGY. Requires community and condominium associations and cooperatives to adopt rules regarding the placement of clotheslines by 12/31/09. Requires community and condominium associations and cooperatives to enforce rules regarding placement of clotheslines on 01/01/10, and thereafter. Clarifies that clotheslines are not included in the definition of "solar energy device" for purposes of claiming the solar energy device income tax credit.		EEP, CPC
2296	RELATING TO ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION. Establishes statutory categorical exemptions from chapter 343, Hawaii Revised Statutes. Requires agencies and applicants for a proposed action to apply to the director of the office of environmental quality control for a categorical exemption. Provides that approval of the application for a categorical exemption requires the director's discretionary consent. Repeals office of environmental quality control's authority to establish categorical exemptions pursuant to administrative rulemaking. Clarifies that the director's approval of a categorical exemption be construed as prima facie evidence of due care in the execution of a statute or rule under the State Tort Liability Act.		EEP, JUD
2297	RELATING TO COUNTIES. Establishes a blue ribbon committee to plan the reorganization of the city and county of Honolulu into two separate counties; appropriates funds to cover the committee's administrative expenses.		LAB, FIN
2298	RELATING TO DENTISTS. Authorizes the board of dental examiners to sanction licensees for false or misleading advertising.		HLT, CPC
2299	RELATING TO TRAFFIC VIOLATIONS. Prohibits text messaging while operating a motor vehicle. Provides fine for violation of the prohibition.		TRN, JUD
2300	RELATING TO RENEWABLE ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES. Increases the tax credit for the installation of residential photovoltaic energy systems.		EEP, FIN
2301	RELATING TO DENTISTRY. Prohibits interference by an unlicensed person or entity in the practice of dentistry. Prohibits the practice of dentistry in a commercial or mercantile establishment		HLT, CPC
2302	RELATING TO REAL PROPERTY. Permits the registrar of the bureau of conveyances to accept electronic documents with electronic signatures for recording. Requires the judiciary to study what effect electronic recording may have on the adjudication of land court applications, determine permissible uses for electronic recording, and report its findings to the legislature prior to 2009 regular session.		WLH, CPC/JUD
2303	RELATING TO REAL PROPERTY. Transfers responsibility for bureau of conveyances from department of land and natural resources to department of commerce and consumer affairs. Provides for transfer of records, files, etc. Appropriates funds to the judiciary to co‑locate land court upon transfer of bureau of conveyances. Requires the judiciary and the department of commerce and consumer affairs to identify, and recommend ways to remedy, redundancy between the functions of the land court and the bureau of conveyances.		WLH, CPC/JUD, FIN
2304	RELATING TO EXEMPTION FROM GENERAL EXCISE TAX. Exempts from the general excise tax, amounts received for selling assistive devices. Defines assistive devices.		HLT, FIN
2305	RELATING TO SMOKING. Prohibits smoking on public beaches and parks and certain recreational areas. Prohibits disposal of smoking waste in any place where smoking is prohibited, except in designated waste disposal container. Subjects violators to $250 fine.		WLH, HLT, JUD
2306	RELATING TO GENERAL EXCISE TAXATION. Exempts from the general excise tax amounts received by managed care support contractors as reimbursements of costs or advances made pursuant to a contract for the administration of the federal TRICARE program.		PSM, FIN
2307	RELATING TO LAND COURT. Abolishes land court and integrates the records of land court with records of bureau of conveyances. Repeals sections of land court law including repeal of section 501‑87, HRS, that prohibits adverse possession or prescription of registered land. Provides mechanism for registered land and associated documents to be transferred to bureau of conveyances by 01/01/09, or as soon thereafter as is practicable. Prohibits any additional registration applications after effective date of Act. Prohibits any additional land court registration after 12/31/08. Requires that any registration application still pending as of 12/31/08 be transferred to circuit court to proceed as quiet title action. Establishes clerk of the tax appeal court. Makes bureau of conveyance law apply to all leasehold time share interests. Provides for transfer of records, files, etc. to bureau of conveyances, or circuit court, as appropriate. Makes only those conforming amendments that require substantive changes or that contain substantial technical amendments. Requires legislative reference bureau to prepare proposed conforming legislation to make any additional necessary amendments to statutes affected by Act.		WLH, CPC/JUD, FIN
2308	RELATING TO CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS. Requires charitable organizations to register with the attorney general.		CPC/JUD, FIN
2309	MAKING AN APPROPRIATION RELATING TO OVERSIGHT OF CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS. Appropriates funds for the attorney general to provide more rigorous monitoring of expenditures and fundraising activities of charities.		CPC/JUD, PSM
2310	RELATING TO INFORMATION PRACTICES. Removes records of complaints from the exceptions to the types of information that are not subject to disclosure as public documents.		JUD
2311	RELATING TO EMPLOYMENT. Prevents adverse action by employer against an employee who refrains from working to comply with a quarantine order to ensure the public health.		LAB, JUD
2312	RELATING TO ETHANOL FACILITY TAX CREDIT. Repeals the qualifying capacity limits of ethanol production facilities, provides a vehicle to change the total tax credits allowed per year, and repeals the sunset provision with respect to the total annual nameplate capacity for qualifying ethanol production facilities.		EEP, FIN
2313	RELATING TO ETHANOL. Creates a tax credit for retail stations for the installation of E-85 fueling facilities. Effective 12/31/08.		EEP/EDB, FIN
2314	RELATING TO INSURANCE. Permits insured patients to assign insurance reimbursement for dental services directly to their dentist of choice.		HLT, CPC
2315	RELATING TO DENTISTS. Requires rates of payment to dentists to be based on the 75th percentile of the usual, customary, and reasonable fee established by insurers for services provided by dentists. Defines the term "usual, customary, and reasonable fee".		HLT/HSH, FIN
2316	RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. Protects agricultural classified land from rezoning if the land produces at least $1,000,000 in gross income annually.		AGR/WLH
2317	RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. Authorizes the agribusiness development corporation to use revenue bonds to purchase agricultural land, including in Kunia on Oahu. Appropriates funds to purchase these lands. Enables the agribusiness development corporation to contract with banks to provide lease management services. Allows the agribusiness development corporation to lease agricultural lands in these areas for up to 55 years.		AGR/WLH, FIN
2318	RELATING TO HARASSMENT. Provides that harassment includes all computer communications.		JUD
2319	RELATING TO HARASSMENT. Adds computer communication as a form of nonconsensual contact in the offense of harassment by stalking.		JUD
2320	RELATING TO CRIMINAL IMPERSONATION. Establishes the offense of criminal impersonation, making it a petty misdemeanor to impersonate another person and place the person at risk of bodily injury.		JUD
2321	RELATING TO THE OFFICE OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS. Establishes a peace mission committee within the office of international affairs to plan and implement peace missions to other nations and organizations. Appropriates funds.		INT, FIN
2322	RELATING TO RENEWABLE ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES. Adds concentrating solar power energy systems as a new category for claiming the renewable energy technologies tax credit.		EEP, FIN
2323	RELATING TO BEACHES. Establishes visitor area beach restoration special fund; dedicates moneys in tourism special fund to visitor area beach restoration special fund for 1 year only. Appropriates moneys from the special fund to pay for visitor area beach restoration project on Waikiki beach fronting the Royal Hawaiian Hotel.		TAC/WLH, FIN
2324	RELATING TO TAXATION. Excludes the first $50,000 in deferred income retirement plans from state income taxes.		LAB, FIN
2325	RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. Authorizes the agribusiness development corporation to acquire interests in agricultural lands through lump sum purchase or installment purchase agreements. Makes an appropriation for the acquisition of certain lands in central Oahu owned by Dole Food Company of Hawaii.		AGR, FIN
2326	RELATING TO MORTGAGES. Imposes certain restrictions on foreclosure consultants. Requires foreclosure consulting contracts to be in writing containing full disclosure of nature of consulting services to be provided, along with right to cancel. Prohibits certain acts by foreclosure consultants. Requires disclosures relating to foreclosure reconveyances and right to rescind any transfer of deed or title by homeowner. Exempts measure from "Sunrise Law" review.		CPC/JUD, FIN
2327	RELATING TO FAMILY COURT. Establishes the procedures and requirements for child custody evaluator training and certification.		HSH, JUD, FIN
2328	RELATING TO PARKING FOR DISABLED PERSONS. Allows nursing facilities to apply for and receive removable windshield placards for their vehicles that are used solely for transporting nursing facility patients for the purpose of parking in spaces reserved for persons with disabilities.		HLT, TRN, JUD
2329	RELATING TO ANIMALS. Establishes a breeder permit system for cats and a spay and neuter program to control the cat population in the State.		AGR, FIN
2330	RELATING TO ELECTRIC VEHICLES. Requires the department of transportation to adopt rules for the registration of electric vehicles and to issue special license plates for electric vehicles. Waives parking fees, high occupancy vehicle restrictions, and vehicle registration fees for electric vehicles.		EEP, TRN
2331	RELATING TO COUNTY SURCHARGE ON STATE TAX. Repeals the county surcharge on state tax if the University of Hawaii at Manoa and the Honolulu International Airport are not linked under the Honolulu High Capacity Transit Corridor Project.		TRN, FIN
2332	RELATING TO PUBLIC LANDS. Prohibits a person from transiting unencumbered public lands for any commercial activity purpose without a conservation district use permit unless the unencumbered land is within an area that is regulated through a management plan that permits the commercial activity. Effective 01/01/09.		WLH, JUD
2333	RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLES. Exempts from the Motor Vehicle Industry Licensing Act the purchase by state and county governments of motor vehicles that are not 8,500 pounds or less of gross vehicle weight rating.		TRN
2334	RELATING TO CRIME. Establishes mandatory minimum prison terms for certain offenses against pregnant women.		HSH/HLT, JUD
2335	RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLES. Requires the state director of finance to transmit revenues received from all unadjudicated traffic violations or infractions to the police department of the county in which the traffic infraction occurred to enable each chief of police to recruit and retain qualified police officers.		TRN, JUD, FIN
2336	RELATING TO RETIREMENT ALLOWANCE. Increases the retirement allowance for certain public safety oriented positions under the state employees' retirement system from 2-1/2 to 3% for each year of credited service.		LAB, FIN
2337	RELATING TO FAMILY COURT. Amends custody and visitation criteria and procedures to specify what factors the courts shall consider in determining the best interest of the child.		HSH, JUD
2338	RELATING TO ELECTIONS. Short form bill relating to elections.		JUD
2339	RELATING TO SAFETY. Short form bill relating to safety.		JUD
2340	RELATING TO ABUSE. Short form bill relating to abuse.		JUD
2341	RELATING TO THE ENVIRONMENT. Short form bill relating to the environment.		JUD
2342	RELATING TO COURTS. Short form bill relating to courts.		JUD
2343	RELATING TO TRAFFIC VIOLATIONS. Authorizes a $4 administrative fee on all citations for traffic code violations to be shared by the judiciary and the counties for the establishment and maintenance of an electronic citation system. Establishes the electronic citation system special fund. Provides for the disbursement of the funds to the counties and the judiciary.		TRN, JUD, FIN
2344	PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE VI, SECTION 3, OF THE HAWAII CONSTITUTION TO EXTEND THE MANDATORY RETIREMENT AGE BY TWO YEARS FOR STATE JUSTICES AND JUDGES. Proposes a constitutional amendment to extend the mandatory retirement age of 70 for state justices and judges to 72.		JUD
2345	RELATING TO CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES. Requires pharmacies and retailers of controlled substances to record and forward information about psuedoephedrine sales to the narcotics enforcement division. Requires the division to maintain an electronic purchase logbook.		HLT, JUD
2346	RELATING TO ENDANGERING THE WELFARE OF A MINOR. Expands the crimes of endangering the welfare of a minor in the first and second degrees to include situations in which an adult causes or permits a minor to inject, ingest, or inhale any controlled substance that was not prescribed for the minor by a physician.		HSH, JUD
2347	RELATING TO METAL. Affirms that penalties in section 445-235, HRS, apply if scrap dealer violates either section 445-232 or 445-233, HRS.		CPC, JUD
2348	RELATING TO TAXATION. Imposes the state income tax on rollovers made by state and county employees from qualifying deferred compensation plans to eligible state or county retirement plans.		LAB, FIN
2349	RELATING TO CERTIFICATE OF NEED. Requires state health planning and development agency to evaluate community impacts, in addition to its current criteria, when considering for approval or denial an application for a certificate of need.		HLT, FIN
2350	RELATING TO LANDOWNER LIABILITY FOR NATURAL CONDITIONS. Codifies common law regarding non-liability of landowners regarding natural conditions on their land that cause damage outside the land and applies standard of negligence upon public landowners regarding natural conditions that cause damage on public roadways.		WLH, JUD
2351	MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE PACIFIC AVIATION MUSEUM PEARL HARBOR. Appropriates $1,000,000 for the planning, design, and construction of phase 2 of the Pacific Aviation Museum at Pearl Harbor.		TAC, FIN
2352	RELATING TO IRRIGATION. Requires the ADC to acquire, operate, and maintain certain irrigation systems in the State. Replaces the Waiahole Water System Revolving Fund with the Irrigation Water System Revolving Fund.		WLH/AGR, FIN
2353	RELATING TO WATER. Provides for the acquisition of the Wahiawa irrigation system, including Lake Wilson, under certain conditions.		WLH/AGR, FIN
2354	RELATING TO INDEMNITY. Provides that the State indemnifies the owner of an irrigation system, dam, or reservoir for tort liability under certain conditions.		WLH/AGR, JUD
2355	RELATING TO WELLS. Establishes a moratorium on the issuance of permits for well construction on certain agricultural lands.		WLH/AGR
2356	RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. Establishes maximum floor area for a farm dwelling in the agricultural district and increases the minimum lot size in the agricultural district to 5 acres.		WLH/AGR
2357	RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL LANDS. Establishes new policies for the districting and protection of land in agricultural districts designated as "important agricultural land" for the purpose of article XI, section 3, of the state constitution.		WLH/AGR
2358	RELATING TO LIABILITY. Provides that an irrigation system owner shall owe no duty of care to a trespasser who enters onto land containing or bordering an irrigation system.		WLH, JUD
2359	RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL LANDS. Requires certain lands to be placed in the agricultural districts on 7/1/10, including certain lands specifically identified, and other lands in a "relevant county agricultural zoning district". Deems those lands to be important agricultural lands. Allows those lands to be redesignated after 7/1/10 by the land use commission or the counties, as the case may be, under land use law. Allows counties to enact rezoning ordinances that, on 7/1/10 includes land in or excludes land from the "relevant county agricultural zoning district".		WLH/AGR, LMG
2360	RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. Requires subdivision or condominium property regime in agricultural district to be approved pursuant to ordinance.		WLH/AGR, CPC
2361	RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. Defines state agricultural lands and designates state agricultural lands as important agricultural lands.		WLH/AGR
2362	RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL LANDS. Allows the designation of important agricultural lands by concurrent resolution of the legislature.		WLH/AGR, LMG
2363	RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL LANDS. Amends various laws to remove exemptions for certain projects or activities on lands in the state agricultural district.		WLH/AGR, FIN
2364	RELATING TO THE SAFETY OF MINORS ON ALL-TERRAIN VEHICLES. Mandates use of safety helmets by minors when riding all terrain vehicles. Prohibits the lease, rent, loan, or sale of all terrain vehicles to minors unless safety helmet is provided to operator.		TRN, CPC
2365	RELATING TO TEACHERS. Provides an annual apportionment of funds from the general excise tax to all public school teachers for reimbursement of classroom out-of-pocket expenses		EDN, FIN
2366	RELATING TO THE ORGAN DONOR REGISTRY. Establishes a statewide organ donor registry.		HLT, FIN
2367	RELATING TO EDUCATION. Authorizes the board of education and the superintendent of education to determine the minimum amount of time that new teachers, principals, or vice-principals shall serve during their initial probationary period.		EDN, LAB
2368	RELATING TO EDUCATION. Directs the department of education and the Hawaii teacher standards board to adopt new administrative rules to align state and federal teacher licensing requirements. Reduces the number of years an individual may be employed as a teacher on an emergency basis from 4 to 3.		EDN, LAB
2369	RELATING TO THE AFTER-SCHOOL PLUS PROGRAM REVOLVING FUND. Limits the after-school plus program revolving fund revenues to participation fees and interest.		EDN, FIN
2370	RELATING TO EDUCATION. Appropriates funds for grants by the department of education for the establishment of schools within schools on certain high school campuses.		EDN, FIN