COMMITTEE ON FINANCE
Monday, April 6, 2009
Conference Room 308; State Capitol
2:00 p.m. AGENDA:
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RELATING TO NOISE. Requires the department of health to add the dBC decibel weighting system to the current dBA decibel weighting system for purposes of community noise control. Sets permissible maximum sound levels for nighttime and grants the DOH and the county liquor commission the authority to enforce these limits. Directs DOH, DLIR, and the county liquor commission to develop recommendations for a permanent maximum sound level, in decibels.
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EEP, CPC/JUD, FIN |
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RELATING TO AIR POLLUTION FEES. Removes the exemption from fees for air pollution emissions in excess of 4,000 tons annually from covered sources.
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EEP, FIN |
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RELATING TO WATER QUALITY STANDARDS. Amends state water quality standards for marine waters to conform to federal standards.
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EEP/WLO, FIN |
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MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE EMERGENCY ENVIRONMENTAL WORKFORCE. Appropriates funds to continue the Emergency Environmental Workforce Program.
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EEP, HED, FIN |
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RELATING TO HOUSEHOLD ENERGY DEMAND. Allows the use of clotheslines on any privately owned single-family residential dwelling or townhouse.
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EEP/HSG, FIN |
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RELATING TO FOSSIL FUELS. Prohibits the construction or operation of any new electricity generating facility using fossil fuel, except under extraordinary circumstances, as determined by the PUC, or when the electric generation unit has rated capacity of less than 2 megawatts and is used primarily to serve a facility's own internal operation.
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EEP, CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO RENEWABLE ENERGY. Makes various revisions to renewable energy and net energy metering provisions. Encourages the development of renewable energy in Hawaii.
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EEP, CPC, FIN |
Decision making to follow.
3:00 p.m. AGENDA:
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RELATING TO ENERGY RESOURCES. Addresses deficiencies in Hawaii's energy resources coordination statutes. Provides policy guidance to ensure adequate detail on the nature and relationship of the energy data analysis functions of the state energy resources coordinator and energy program.
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EEP, CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO ENERGY EFFICIENCY. Establishes energy-efficiency initiatives necessary for and contributing to the transition of Hawaii's energy sector to non‑petroleum energy sources. Effective 01/01/90.
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EEP/WLO, CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION ENERGY INITIATIVES. Establishes the development of non-fossil fuel transportation as a state policy goal. Requires the designation of parking spaces for electric vehicles and provides penalties for parking a non-electric vehicle in reserved spaces. Requires state and county agencies to follow a priority list when purchasing energy-efficient vehicles, including electric vehicles. Includes requirements for developing an electric vehicle infrastructure. Establishes the Transportation Energy Transformation Grant Fund Program.
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EEP, FIN |
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RELATING TO RENEWABLE ENERGY PRODUCERS. Sets terms and conditions for leases of public lands to renewable energy producers, including requiring a public hearing, project completion, design, and financing documentation, and limitations on terminating or altering existing leases of public lands affected.
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WLO/EEP, FIN |
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RELATING TO THE HAWAII COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY. Requires the Hawaii community development authority to collaborate with and consider the recommendations of the Kakaako Makai Community Planning Advisory Council in developing, accepting, and implementing plans for the development of Kakaako makai. Requires continued participation of CPAC in Kakaako makai property transferred to county or state agency.
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WLO, FIN |
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RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. Provides for fair compensation, including an automatic lease extension, when leased public land for agricultural or pastoral uses is withdrawn, condemned, or taken for public purposes. Effective 07/01/20.
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WLO/AGR, FIN |
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RELATING TO BUREAU OF CONVEYANCES. Transfers fee time share interest from the land court system to the regular system. Establishes a working group to resolve implementation issues. Establishes a pilot program to implement electronic recording of fee time share interests. Allows bureau of conveyances to charge a fee for deregistration of a fee time share interest.
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WLO, JUD, FIN |
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RELATING TO LAND COURT. Requires the assistant registrar of the land court to provide an image and index of all instruments that contain real property transactions to the county designated as a central clearinghouse under a memorandum of understanding agreement agreed upon by the counties.
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WLO, FIN |
Decision making to follow.
4:00 p.m. AGENDA:
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RELATING TO REAL PROPERTY. Requires the registrar of the bureau of conveyances to provide, within 10 days after each week and free of charge, an image and index of all documents and instruments have been recorded in the registrar's office that week relating to regular system land in all the counties, to the county designated in a memorandum of understanding agreed upon by the counties to act as a central clearinghouse.
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WLO, FIN |
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RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCES. Fortifies the recreational renaissance program of the department of land and natural resources through various amendments to state law.
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WLO, FIN |
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RELATING TO FISHING. Requires DLNR to continue to hold public informational meetings to hear concerns and suggestions from the public regarding the taking and protection of uhu, weke/moana kali, and ulua/papio. Requires DLNR to use and present all available data to support the basis for any rule proposed based on public input, and if no data is available, use all available means to gather the necessary data. Requires DLNR to develop a monitoring and evaluation program to determine the effects that runoff, sedimentation, pollution, lack or profusion of fresh water intrusion into the marine ecosystem, and the introduction of invasive species have on the ecosystem that affects the habitat and forage of uhu, weke/moana kali, and ulua/papio. Requires DLNR to develop a monitoring and evaluation program to determine the outcomes to be achieved by the implementation of any proposed rule and estimate the timeframes through which the outcomes will be achieved.
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WLO, FIN |
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RELATING TO CHARTER SCHOOLS. Makes various amendments to charter school administration and operations.
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EDN, FIN |
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RELATING TO CHARTER SCHOOLS. Clarifies civil service status of employees at 2 conversion charter schools, Waialae and Lanikai elementary schools.
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EDN/LAB, FIN |
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RELATING TO CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES. Directs the attorney general to coordinate a review of the impact of diverting marijuana and low-level felony drug offenders out of the criminal justice system into treatment. Establishes a task force to examine issues relating to medical marijuana patients and current medical marijuana laws. Establishes a task force to examine the effects of salvia divinorum.
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JUD/PBS, FIN |
Decision making to follow.
5:00 p.m. AGENDA:
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Copies of the proposed HD2 are available in room 306 and on the Legislature's Web site: http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov.
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RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT. Proposed HD2: Protects the rights of public employees by preserving health, retirement, leave, and other benefits if furloughs are implemented in fiscal years 2009 to 2013.
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LAB, FIN |
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Copies of the proposed HD1 are available in room 306 and on the Legislature's Web site: http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov.
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RELATING TO STATE DEPARTMENTS. Proposed HD1: Reorganizes several executive branch agencies to correspond with HB 200, H.D. 1, the General Appropriations Act of 2009.
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FIN |
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Decision making to follow.
5:15 p.m. AGENDA:
Decision making only (heard on Thursday, April 2, 2009 – AGENDA #3):
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RELATING TO THE HAWAII HEALTH SYSTEMS CORPORATION. Requires (1) Hawaii health systems corporation (HHSC) with the Department of Health's assistance to determine the current amount of all community hospital liabilities accrued up to 6/30/1996 that still exist; and (2) HHSC to assume all subsequent liabilities. Clarifies HHSC responsibility for payments into the employees' retirement system funds for its employees. Provides for an annual audit of HHSC.
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HLT, FIN |
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RELATING TO THE HAWAII HEALTH SYSTEMS CORPORATION. Transfers the community hospitals of the state government to the department of health from the Hawaii health systems corporation and abolishes the corporation and its regional boards. Provides for the repeal of the transfer provisions and enabling law for the community hospitals on June 30, 2011. Establishes a transition committee to conduct a study to determine a permanent structure for the community hospitals and requires a report before 10/1/2010.
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HLT, FIN |
5:30 p.m. AGENDA:
Decision making only (heard on Wednesday, March 25, 2009 – AGENDA #1):
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RELATING TO GOVERNMENT. Creates temporary exemptions in procurement, rule making, and public employment statutes for programs, services, and benefits using funds allocated to the State by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
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Decision making only (heard on Wednesday, March 25, 2009 – AGENDA #3):
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RELATING TO TAXATION. Requires all persons required to electronically file and pay federal taxes to electronically file and pay state taxes. Accelerates the filing and payment due dates for general excise, transient accommodations, fuel, cigarette, and rental motor vehicle and tour vehicle surcharge taxes.
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RELATING TO TAXATION. Adopts amendments to Hawaii tax laws to implement the streamlined sales and use tax agreement.
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Decision making only (heard on Wednesday, April 1, 2009 – AGENDA #1):
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RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS. Requires the Legislative Reference Bureau to review the memorandum of understanding between the Department of Education and Department of Budget and Finance for the allotment of capital improvement projects, with the goal of replicating the processes of the MOU for use by other state agencies with many capital improvement projects that are predominantly funded by general obligation bonds.
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EDN, LMG, FIN |
Decision making only (heard on Thursday, April 2, 2009 – AGENDA #3):
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RELATING TO HEALTH. Authorizes the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation to conduct criminal history record checks.
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HLT, JUD, FIN |
Decision making only (heard on Friday, April 3, 2009 – AGENDA #3):
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RELATING TO TECHNOLOGY. Implements key recommendations of the Hawaii broadband task force by establishing the Hawaii broadband commissioner (HBC) in the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs (DCCA). Transfers functions relating to telecommunications from the public utilities commission to the HBC and functions relating to cable services from DCCA to the HBC. Establishes a work group to develop procedures to streamline state and county broadband regulation, franchising, and permitting and report to the legislature. Effective July 1, 2112.
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EBM, CPC, FIN |
COMMITTEE ON ECONOMIC REVITALIZATION, BUSINESS, & MILITARY AFFAIRS
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
10:00 a.m.
Conference Room 312; State Capitol
AGENDA:
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Copies of the proposed HD1 are available in room 427 and on the Legislature's Web site: http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov.
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Proposed HD1: REQUESTING THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND CONSUMER AFFAIRS IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND TOURISM TO CONDUCT A TELECOMMUNICATIONS INFRASTRUCTURE INVENTORY STUDY
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EBM, |
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REQUESTING THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION TO ENCOURAGE EACH HOLDER OF A CONCESSION CONTRACT AT A STATE AIRPORT TO GIVE FIRST RIGHT OF REFUSAL TO LOCAL VENDORS TO SUPPLY GOODS, WARES, MERCHANDISE, AND SERVICES TO THE CONCESSION.
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TRN, EBM |
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URGING THE UNITED STATES PRESIDENT AND SENATORS AND CONGRESS MEMBERS TO ENACT LEGISLATION TO EXPEDITE IMMIGRANT VISAS FOR FAMILY REUNIFICATION OF CERTAIN FILIPINO VETERANS OF WORLD WAR II.
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HUS, EBM |
Decision making to follow.