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			HOUSE RESOLUTIONS
					Committee
H.R. NO.					REFERRAL

44	PROCLAIMING THE MONTH OF JUNE 2008 AS FILIPINO VETERANS APPRECIATION MONTH.				INT, PSM
45	DESIGNATING MAY 5 THROUGH MAY 9, 2008, AS HAWAII TEEN DATING VIOLENCE AWARENESS AND PREVENTION WEEK.				JUD

		HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTIONS
					Committee
H.C.R. NO.					REFERRAL

44	PROCLAIMING THE MONTH OF JUNE 2008 AS FILIPINO VETERANS APPRECIATION MONTH.				INT, PSM
45	DESIGNATING MAY 5 THROUGH MAY 9, 2008, AS HAWAII TEEN DATING VIOLENCE AWARENESS AND PREVENTION WEEK.				JUD

				HOUSE BILLS
					Committee
H.B. NO.					RE-REFERRAL

2076	RELATING TO DEPLETED URANIUM. Requires the department of health to establish air sampling stations to monitor for levels of depleted uranium.				PSM/EEP/HLT, FIN
2144	RELATING TO FIREWORKS. Assesses a tax on the sale of fireworks instead of assessing a permit fee to discharge fireworks.				TAC, FIN
2520	RELATING TO CAREGIVERS. Amends the temporary disability insurance law to permit an eligible employee to collect up to 4 weeks of temporary disability insurance benefit payments to care for a family member with a qualifying disability. Effective 07/01/09.				HLT/HSH, LAB, FIN
2790	RELATING TO ADULT CORRECTIONS OFFICERS AND YOUTH CORRECTIONS OFFICERS. Provides adult corrections officers and youth corrections officers with similar retirement benefits afforded other law enforcement and safety officers by allowing retirement after 25 years of credited service, unreduced for age. Requires increased percentage of contributions to ERS for hybrid plan adult corrections officers and youth corrections officers.				PSM/LAB, FIN
2836	RELATING TO THE PATIENTS' BILL OF RIGHTS. Conforms the law to a recent Hawaii supreme court decision by amending the Patients' Bill of Rights external review procedure under which patients may appeal a managed care plan's final, internal decision denying coverage of a health intervention.				HLT, CPC/JUD, FIN
2849	RELATING TO ALLOWANCE ON SERVICE RETIREMENT. Makes police radio dispatchers class A members of the employees' retirement system. Exempts Act from prohibition against benefit enhancements, including reduction in retirement age when there is an unfunded liability established in section 88-122(e), HRS by Act 256, SLH 2007, section 3(2).				PSM/LAB, FIN
3069	RELATING TO ENERGY RESOURCES. To comprehensively address deficiencies in Hawaii's energy resources coordination statutes. Provide policy guidance needed to provide adequate detail on the nature and relationship of the energy data analyses functions required of the State Energy Resources Coordinator and Energy Program.				EEP, CPC, FIN
3091	RELATING TO LOSS MITIGATION. Repeals and replaces the loss mitigation grant program with a wind resistive devices tax credit.				CPC, FIN
3092	RELATING TO THE HAWAII HURRICANE RELIEF FUND. Increases insurance coverages available under the Hawaii Hurricane Relief Fund to reflect increases in property values.				CPC, FIN
3111	RELATING TO PRICE GOUGING DURING EMERGENCIES. Prohibits price gouging and unfair business practices during a declared State disaster by clarifying that price increases on services, rentals, and construction or repair contracts during disasters are illegal.				CPC/JUD, FIN
3157	RELATING TO DIRECT PAYMENT TO PROVIDERS Allows medical services providers to receive payment directly from health insurers, health maintenance organizations, and mutual benefit societies, rather than attempting to collect from the patient when the provider does not have a contract with the insurer.				HLT, CPC, FIN
3182	RELATING TO THE OFFICE OF INFORMATION PRACTICES. Authorizes the Office of Information Practices to conduct inquiries and provide advisory opinions on alleged Sunshine Law violations the same way the office is authorized to conduct inquires and provide opinions for violations of the Uniform Information Practices Act				JUD, FIN