HREF 01-22-08 1

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		HOUSE BILLS
			Committee
H.B. NO.			REFERRAL
2371	RELATING TO DISASTER PREPAREDNESS. Requires developers to install siren warning devices in development. Provides an income tax credit for the installation of wind resistive devices. Transfers investment earnings of the Hawaii hurricane relief fund to the loss mitigation grant fund for the next fiscal year. Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds to fund the retrofitting of public school buildings for use as emergency shelters. Appropriates funds to retrofit existing and construct new emergency shelters.		PSM, CPC, FIN
2372	RELATING TO TIME SHARE PLANS. Exempts the offer or sale of a time share interest from the time share law if the offer or sale is for an additional interest in the same time share plan to an existing owner. Exempts a time share developer or an affiliated entity under common ownership from registration if they are selling a time share interest in a time share plan located outside of Hawaii to an individual who currently owns a time share interest that was purchased from that developer or affiliated entity.		TAC, CPC
2373	MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR MOOKINI HEIAU. Appropriates $150,000 to install a full sprinkler system to cover the grassy area of the Mookini Heiau, and the nearby Kamehameha birthsite, that are used for education and cultural practices.		TAC, FIN
2374	RELATING TO THE STADIUM AUTHORITY. Short form bill.		TAC, FIN
2375	RELATING TO ALOHA STADIUM. Short form bill relating to Aloha Stadium.		TAC, FIN
2376	RELATING TO THE STATE FIRE COUNCIL. Requires the State Fire Council to develop a statewide brushfire mitigation plan and appropriates funds.		PSM, FIN
2377	RELATING TO STATE VEHICLE WEIGHT TAX. Provides an exemption to the state vehicle weight tax for the private vehicles owned by qualified volunteer civil defense workers who are required to use their vehicles during state emergencies.		TRN/PSM, FIN
2378	RELATING TO COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT. Requires affected agencies to account for sea-level rise and minimize risks from coastal hazards such as erosion, storm inundation, hurricanes, and tsunamis. Preserves public access and public shoreline access. Extends shoreline setback to not less than 40 feet inland from the shoreline and requires counties to account for annual erosion rates.		WLH/EEP, FIN
2379	RELATING TO TAXATION. Creates a refundable state earned income tax credit for individual taxpayers' which is equal to 20% of the federal earned income tax credit.		HSH, FIN
2380	RELATING TO HOMELESSNESS. Appropriates funds to the Hawaii Public Housing Authority to provide alternative shelter for the homeless and acquire land.		HSH, FIN
2381	RELATING TO THE HAIKU DISTRICT OF THE COUNTY OF MAUI. Requires the attorney general to assist in resolving ownership issues relating to Ulalena Loop road of the Haiku district in Maui county. Requires the department of transportation to determine the costs of repaving Ulalena Loop road. Effective on approval.		TRN/WLH, JUD, FIN
2382	MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR AMBULANCE SERVICE FOR THE HAIKU REGION OF MAUI. Appropriates $1 in FY 2008-2009 for ambulance service in the Haiku region of Maui.		HLT, FIN
2383	RELATING TO CIRCUIT COURTS. Establishes a position for a fifth judge in the second judicial circuit court. Requires circuit court sessions in Kaunakakai when one party is a Molokai resident. Appropriates funds for position of fifth judge and to secure location on Molokai for circuit court sessions.		JUD, FIN
2384	RELATING TO THE ISLAND OF KAHO'OLAWE. Directs the Auditor to conduct an audit to determine the feasibility of deploying alternative energy resources to meet the energy needs of the island of Kaho'olawe and submit a report of findings and recommendations to the Legislature and Governor before the 2009 Regular Session.		WLH/EEP, LMG, FIN
2385	RELATING TO JURIES. Adds a jury service exemption for actively practicing psychologists.		HLT, JUD
2386	RELATING TO WORKERS' COMPENSATION. Requires an employer to pay temporary total disability benefits regardless of whether the employer controverts the right to benefits. Specifies that the employee's ability to return to work is to be decided by the employee's treating physician.		LAB, FIN
2387	RELATING TO WORKERS' COMPENSATION. Requires the department of labor and industrial relations to appoint impartial physicians to examine injured employees. Authorizes payment of the examinations from the special compensation fund. Appropriates funds.		LAB, FIN
2388	RELATING TO WORKERS' COMPENSATION. Requires the employer to continue medical services to an injured employee despite disputes over whether treatment should be continued, until the director of labor and industrial relations decides whether treatment should be continued.		LAB, FIN
2389	RELATING TO WORKERS' COMPENSATION. Prohibits claimant attorneys from entering into agreements with claimants to obtain fees that are higher than those approved by the director of labor and industrial relations.		LAB, FIN
2390	RELATING TO WORKERS' COMPENSATION. Requires the employer's carrier to submit annual reports to the director of labor and industrial relations on the costs of its policies.		LAB, CPC, FIN
2391	RELATING TO LEGAL SERVICE. Permits a deputy attorney general, except for the attorney general's first deputy, to provide pro bono legal service if the pro bono legal service does not conflict with the duties of the deputy's office.		JUD
2392	RELATING TO AMMUNITION. Requires all ammunition of a specified caliber manufactured or sold in Hawaii that is capable of use in handguns, including assault pistols, to be coded to assist law enforcement in identifying and prosecuting gun crime offenders. Requires attorney general to establish a statewide database to track coded ammunition. Effective 7/1/2008.		JUD, FIN
2393	RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII. Establishes loan repayment program for University of Hawaii medical school graduates working in rural areas of the State.		HLT, HED, FIN
2394	RELATING TO TAXATION. Provides for an additional county surcharge on state tax of up to 1% for counties with populations that exceed 500,000. The tax replaces the real property tax collected by participating counties. Reduces rental rates in participating counties to offset reduction in the real property taxes paid by landlords.		HSH, LAB, FIN
2395	RELATING TO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. Establishes the Hawaii innovation development corporation to promote the development and exploitation of innovations and inventions that have direct economic benefits for Hawaii.		EDB, FIN
2396	RELATING TO TARO. Changes effective date of Act 36, Session Laws of Hawaii 2007, which makes kalo the official plant of the State from 1/1/25 to 7/1/08.		TAC/WLH, JUD
2397	RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE FOURTH REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT. Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects for the benefit of the 4th representative district.		FIN
2398	RELATING TO GAMING. Establishes the Hawaii Gambling Commission to study the feasibility of instituting a limited lottery in Hawaii.		EDB, JUD, FIN
2399	RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE FIFTIETH REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT. Capital Improvements for the 50th District		FIN
2400	RELATING TO PHOTOGRAPHY. Requires model photographers to be licensed by the State.		CPC, FIN
2401	AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF SPECIAL PURPOSE REVENUE BONDS TO ASSIST OCEANLINX HAWAII LLC. Authorizes the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds for planning, designing, and constructing a wave or hydrokinetic power facility on Maui.		EEP, FIN
2402	RELATING TO REPORTS OF PERSONS WITH A DEMENTING ILLNESS. Requires physicians to report to county examiners of drivers the name of every patient diagnosed as having a dementing illness, including Alzheimer's disease.		HLT, TRN, JUD
2403	MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR AUTOMATED EXTERNAL DEFIBRILLATORS AT THE STATE CAPITOL. Appropriates funds for automated external defibrillators to be made available at the State Capitol building.		HLT, FIN
2404	RELATING TO NURSES. Revises licensing renewal requirements for nurses.		HLT, CPC
2405	RELATING TO MEDICAL MALPRACTICE COURTS. Establishes a medical malpractice court pilot project within the State and assigns jurisdiction over civil actions arising from medical malpractice.		HLT, CPC/JUD, FIN
2406	RELATING TO SCHOOL BUSES. Requires large school buses to have an operable seat belt assembly at all designated seating positions and seat backs that are a minimum height by 1/1/11, in order to pass inspection. Requires the department of education to adopt rules requiring the use of seat belt assemblies by pupils and school discipline for a pupil in violation. Requires the State to purchase and lease large school buses in compliance with the new inspection requirements.		TRN/EDB, EDN, FIN
2407	RELATING TO WORKERS' COMPENSATION. Requires professional employment organizations providing workers' compensation to assigned employees to register with the insurance commission, and premiums for this insurance to be based on the experience rating of the client company.		LAB, CPC
2408	RELATING TO MORTGAGE BROKERS. Revises the law regulating mortgage brokers.		CPC, JUD
2409	RELATING TO AUTOMATED TELLER MACHINES. Requires that an agreement to operate or share an automated teller machine may not prohibit, limit, or restrict the right of the owner or operator of the automated teller machine to charge a customer transaction fee.		CPC
2410	RELATING TO TRAFFIC SAFETY. Establishes an ignition interlock program that permits court to require use of the system as part of the sentence for driving under the influence of an intoxicant. Requires department of transportation to monitor program. Appropriates funds.		TRN, JUD, FIN
2411	RELATING TO HEALTH. Authorizes prescriptive authority for qualified psychologists who practice at a federally qualified health center.		HLT, CPC
2412	RELATING TO HEALTH. Appropriates funds to match federal funding for the disproportionate share hospital allowance.		HLT/HSH, FIN
2413	RELATING TO INCOME TAXATION. Allows an income tax credit to physicians practicing in medically underserved areas for a portion of the amount of medical malpractice premiums.		HLT, FIN
2414	RELATING TO HEALTH. Provides a good Samaritan exemption from civil damages for physicians practicing medicine in health professional shortage areas and rural areas of the state.		HLT, JUD/CPC, FIN
2415	RELATING TO HIGH TECHNOLOGY. Removes the $25,000 limit on HTDC grants to recipients of federal Small Business Innovation Research Phase I awards or contracts, or federal Small Business Technology Transfer Program awards; retains limit of 50 percent of the federal award or contract.		EDB, FIN
2416	RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL COOPERATIVES. Appropriates funds to contract for the planning and implementation of a statewide agricultural cooperative.		EDB/AGR, FIN
2417	RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL COOPERATIVES. Establishes a process for the planning and establishment of a statewide agricultural cooperative.		EDB/AGR, FIN
2418	RELATING TO HIGHWAYS. Permits a person to petition the department of commerce and consumer affairs for a hearing and decision and order regarding whether a public highway or trail is under the jurisdiction of the state or a county whenever the issue is contested.		TRN/WLH, JUD, FIN
2419	RELATING TO HOSPITALS. Requires Hawaii health systems corporation to develop a plan to establish a hospital in South Maui and in Lahaina, Maui. Requires corporation to submit plan to legislature by 12/31/2008.		HLT, FIN
2420	RELATING TO LITTER CONTROL. Authorizes the director of health to delegate responsibilities for anti-litter and recycling education projects. Creates the anti-litter and recycling education demonstration project special fund. Provides for grant-in-aid to Community Work Day program. Appropriates funds.		EEP, LAB, FIN
2421	RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION. Amends the definition of bicycle to include a bicycle powered by an electric motor.		TRN, JUD
2422	RELATING TO SERVICES FOR THE DISABLED. Establishes Internet access for the disabled program to offer free Internet access to individuals who are disabled; makes appropriation.		HLT, FIN
2423	RELATING TO HEALTH. Requires health insurance providers to cover treatments for cancer.		HLT, CPC, FIN
2424	RELATING TO EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICES. Adopts the Uniform Emergency Volunteer Health Practitioners Act, which limits the civil liability of volunteer health practitioners providing health or veterinary services during an emergency.		HLT/LAB, JUD, FIN
2425	RELATING TO SENIOR CENTERS. Makes appropriation for certain senior centers on Oahu.		HSH, FIN
2426	RELATING TO CANCER TREATMENT. Requires the department of human services to develop a program to provide cancer treatment to uninsured cancer patients in Hawaii. Effective 7/1/08.		HLT/HSH, FIN
2427	RELATING TO TEMPORARY ASSISTANCE FOR NEEDY FAMILIES. Directs the Department of Human Services to establish a three-year pilot project, beginning with fiscal year 2008-2009, to conduct and expand asset building classes statewide to serve individuals with disabilities and parents of children with a disability in developing skills.		HSH, FIN
2428	RELATING TO HIGHWAYS. Exempts state highways projects from county subdivision approvals regarding highway projects that involve acquisitions.		TRN, WLH
2429	RELATING TO RECREATION. Creates the University of Hawaii stadium corporation and transfers jurisdiction over Aloha Stadium to the corporation.		WLH/HED/TAC, FIN
2430	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
2431	RELATING TO THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII. Exempts board of regents of the University of Hawaii from Hawaii public procurement code requirements.		HED/EDB, FIN
2432	RELATING TO EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION. Requires the department of education to plan, design, and implement a pre-kindergarten academy for four-year-old children and an educational resource program for parents of newborn children. Appropriates funds.		EDN, FIN
2433	RELATING TO ADULT RESIDENTIAL CARE HOMES. Requires a type II adult residential care home in a residential area applying for a license to give notice of its application. Requires applicant to notify DOH if also applying for county permits. Requires DOH to hold a hearing in the district where the proposed home is to be located and invite county attendance.		HSH/HLT, JUD
2434	RELATING TO ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION. Requires retailers in the State to distribute only recyclable, reusable, or compostable checkout bags.		EEP,EDB, FIN
2435	RELATING TO EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION. Requires the department of education to increase opportunities for special needs preschoolers to interact with their non-disabled peers. Appropriates funds.		EDN, HSH, FIN
2436	RELATING TO FIREWORKS. Amends the definition of "display fireworks"; clarifies that fireworks may not be used within 500 feet of a hotel unless permitted; and clarifies that minors are prohibited from selling fireworks.		PSM, JUD
2437	RELATING TO TRAFFIC. Requires department of transportation to recommend improvements to traffic in Central Oahu corridor. Requires studying regional connectivity and travel time mitigation and reviewing past traffic flow studies in Central Oahu, including any proposals to extend contra-flow lanes to Mililani. Appropriates funds.		TRN, FIN
2438	RELATING TO CIGARETTES. Prohibits sale of cigarettes in Hawaii that are not reduced ignition propensity "fire-safe" beginning 07/01/09. Sets civil fines and requires state fire council to adopt rules to enforce law.		HLT, CPC/JUD, FIN
2439	RELATING TO COUNTY FEES. Allows a county to impose a service fee on a cruise ship owner if the county provides direct services to a cruise ship passenger while the passenger is in the county.		TAC, FIN
2440	RELATING TO THE TRANSIENT ACCOMMODATIONS TAX. Requires that all transient accommodations tax revenues transferred to the counties be used for maintaining and upgrading police and fire protection, parks, beaches, roads, water and sewage systems, and other tourism impacted infrastructure.		TAC, FIN
2441	RELATING TO WORKERS' COMPENSATION. Provides for workers' compensation coverage for students participating in school-approved work-based learning programs sponsored by the department of education or the University of Hawaii.		LAB, EDN, FIN
2442	RELATING TO PUBLIC PROCUREMENT. Establishes procedures and criteria and appropriates funds to prevent state or county purchases from businesses that operate sweatshops.		EDB, LAB, FIN
2443	RELATING TO PHTHALATES. Prohibits the manufacturing, sale, or distribution of toys and child care articles containing phthalates and requires manufacturers to use the least toxic alternative.		HLT, CPC
2444	MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII. Appropriates funds for an office of school redesign in the college of education at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.		HED/EDN, FIN
2445	RELATING TO ADVERTISING BY MANUFACTURERS OF PRESCRIPTION DRUGS AND DISCLOSURE OF CLINICAL TRIALS. Requires prescription drug ads to meet federal standards, public disclosure of clinical trial information, and drug manufacturers to pay fees to department of health to fund a public education initiative on clinical trials and drug safety. Establishes special fund.		HLT, CPC, FIN
2446	MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A STATEWIDE LANGUAGE ACCESS BANK. Appropriates funds to establish a statewide language access bank to help state agencies and other covered entities provide meaningful access to essential government services to limited English proficient persons.		LAB, HSH, FIN
2447	RELATING TO PSYCHOTROPIC MEDICATION. Improves access to psychotropic medication for all participants in medicaid medical plans.		HSH/HLT, FIN
2448	RELATING TO EDUCATION. Appropriates funds for the Waianae Organic Agriculture Center collaborative project between Leeward Community College and Waianae Community Redevelopment Corporation to establish one full-time educational coordinator position and support operating costs.		AGR, HED, FIN
2449	PROTECTING CHILDREN FROM CERTAIN TOXIC PRODUCTS. Prohibits the manufacturing, sale, or distribution of toys and child care articles containing certain toxic chemicals and requires manufacturers to use the least toxic alternatives.		HLT, CPC
2450	RELATING TO LAND USE.		AGR/WLH
2451	RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. Directs the college of tropical agriculture and human resources of the University of Hawaii in consultation with native Hawaiian organizations and taro farmers, to establish a taro farming education and training program. Appropriates funds.		AGR, HED, FIN
2452	RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. Directs the college of tropical agriculture and human resources of the University of Hawaii, in consultation with the department of health, to establish a program for commercial taro farmers to maximize business viability and success. Makes appropriation.		AGR, HED, FIN
2453	RELATING TO TARO. Appropriates funds for a taro farming grant program to assist taro farmers in need to help preserve the cultural legacy of taro farming for future generations.		AGR, FIN
2454	RELATING TO PUBLIC LANDS. Requires the board of land and natural resources to provide reduced lease rent rates for taro farmers on state leased land.		AGR/WLH, FIN
2455	RELATING TO CAMPAIGN SPENDING. Clarifies limitations on corporate contributions to a noncandidate committee. Clarifies that retiring elected officials may contribute surplus funds to a political party without filing an organizational statement. Requires campaign spending commission to adopt rules that establish schedule of fines.		JUD
2456	RELATING TO TAXATION. Allows taxpayers who are reciprocal beneficiaries or domestic partners to elect to file as separate individuals, as married, or married filing singly. Excludes from gross income, adjusted gross income, and taxable income the value of health insurance and other direct or indirect benefits provided by an employer to reciprocal beneficiaries or domestic partners. Allows exemptions to be claimed for reciprocal beneficiaries or domestic partners.		JUD, FIN
2457	RELATING TO EDUCATION. Allows the principal of each public school to establish and use a debit card system based at the individual school level for the purpose of purchasing school supplies and other related curriculum support supplies.		EDN, FIN
2458	RELATING TO COLLEGE SAVINGS PROGRAMS. Provides an annual maximum deduction of $10,000 per individual, or $20,000 for a married couple filing jointly against their taxable income for contributions made to Hawaii's college savings program in taxable years beginning after December 31, 2007.		HED, FIN
2459	RELATING TO PENSION INCOME. Exempts the first $100,000 in pension income from state income taxes.		LAB, FIN
2460	RELATING TO CONDOMINIUMS. Allows condominium associations to invest funds in certificates of deposit through the Certificate of Deposit Account Registry Service network.		CPC
2461	RELATING TO DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE. Includes records kept by a licensed dentist's office as medical records subject to the requirements relating to documentary evidence. Requires the dentists to retain dental records.		HLT, CPC
2462	RELATING TO TRAFFIC VIOLATIONS. Prohibits cell phone use while driving except with a hands free device.		TRN, JUD
2463	RELATING TO DISASTER RELIEF. Authorizes the director of disaster relief to utilize inmate labor to assist with disaster relief efforts. Establishes the inmate disaster relief labor program within the department of public safety.		PSM, FIN
2464	RELATING TO FIRE PROTECTION. Requires a forestry and wildlife manager to declare hazardous fire areas during fire danger periods and impose restrictions on the use of certain land that the department of land and natural resources has direct fire responsibility. Establishes a task force to develop a statewide hazardous fire area program.		PSM, WLH, FIN
2465	RELATING TO THE STATE FIRE CODE. Makes state fire code, and any updates adopted as rules by the state fire council, immediately effective upon transmission by the state fire council to the county councils without the need for counties to enact ordinances.		PSM, JUD
2466	RELATING TO WILDFIRE MANAGEMENT. Allows counties to designate any geographic area receiving an average annual rainfall of less than 10 inches as a fireworks prohibited zone in which no fireworks or consumer fireworks may be used.		PSM, WLH
2467	RELATING TO FIRE PROTECTION. Amends the state fire code to include road and sign standards, minimum private water supply reserves, fuel breaks, and green belts to improve fire protection.		PSM, WLH
2468	RELATING TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING. Extends sunset of allocation of conveyance tax to the rental housing trust fund; makes appropriation in general obligation bonds for dwelling unit revolving fund; makes appropriation for expedited third party review of affordable projects.		HSH, FIN
2469	RELATING TO LAND. Appropriates funds to purchase the Kalama Village Center in order to make the site a park area to preserve open space.		WLH, FIN
2470	RELATING TO LAND. Directs the office of planning to prepare and file petition with the land use commission to reclassify TMK: 3-9-10:46 and 3-9-10:47, at Honolulu, Hawaii, from the urban district to the conservation district. Directs the City and County of Honolulu to not issue any permits allowing the development of the parcel pending the final disposition of the petition.		WLH
2471	RELATING TO LAND. Appropriates funds to acquire remaining open space in Hawaii Kai and to preserve it as such.		WLH, FIN
2472	RELATING TO COUNTY FEES. Allows counties to impose resource user fee and environmental impact fees on cruise ship owners based on $ per 500 disembarking passengers. Restricts use of fees to areas directly affected by tourism. Requires prior legislative approval before county may impose fees.		TAC/EEP, FIN
2473	RELATING TO TECHNOLOGY. Extends funding for the Hawaii broadband task force from fiscal year 2007-2008 to add fiscal year 2008-2009.		EDB, FIN
2474	RELATING TO ELECTRONIC MONITORING. Requires electronic monitoring of persons convicted of violating a domestic abuse temporary restraining order or protective order.		JUD
2475	RELATING TO ADULT ENTERTAINMENT. Requires adult entertainment businesses to pay fee of $3 for each customer who enters the business. Fee to be deposited in domestic violence and sexual assault special fund. Effective 7/1/08. Repealed effective 1/1/11.		CPC, JUD, FIN
2476	RELATING TO CRUELTY TO ANIMALS. Repeals existing prohibition against dog fighting and enacts more comprehensive prohibition of dog fighting and related conduct. Provides enhanced penalties.		JUD
2477	RELATING TO OPIHI. Prohibits the selling or offering for sale of opihi, except in certain circumstances.		WLH, JUD
2478	RELATING TO WORKERS' COMPENSATION. Allows either party to a workers' compensation dispute to decide to refer their dispute to a referee, provided the decision is made within 10 days of the filing of the claim.		LAB, JUD, FIN
2479	RELATING TO WORKERS' COMPENSATION. Expands eligibility for vocational rehabilitation to workers who are deemed unable to return to their regular jobs and are not offered work at the pre-injury earnings level.		LAB, FIN
2480	RELATING TO TEACHERS. Provides teachers receiving satisfactory service performance evaluations with annual step increases for five years. Denies public school teachers with marginal service performance evaluations from receiving annual step increases. Excludes teachers at the top salary levels from receiving annual step increases.		EDN/LAB, FIN
2481	RELATING TO HEALTH. Repeals the sunset date for voluntary employees' beneficiary association trusts pilot program established pursuant to Act 245, Session Laws of Hawaii 2005, as amended. Amends the voluntary employees' beneficiary association trust law to reflect permanent nature of the program.		LAB, FIN
2482	RELATING TO TEACHER SALARIES. Eliminates the salary differential between newly hired public school teachers with more than 6 years of experience and incumbent teachers in the department of education with the identical number of years of experience.		EDN, LAB, FIN
2483	RELATING TO EDUCATION. Establishes a task force to develop and implement a campaign to promote a culture of learning and higher education achievement in Hawaii. Appropriation.		EDN/HED, FIN
2484	RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII. Grants tuition waivers to veterans and their family members or dependents enrolled at the University of Hawaii.		PSM, HED, FIN