Hse Referral sheet template, revision no. 00002

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		REFERRAL

HB2150	RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL LANDS. Authorizes the use of photovoltaic systems producing energy solely for use by the agricultural activities of the fee or leasehold owner of the property in agricultural districts.	AGR, WLO/EEP
HB2151	RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL-BASED COMMERCIAL OPERATIONS. Defines agricultural-based commercial operations and authorizes agricultural-based commercial operations in agricultural districts.	AGR/ERB, WLO
HB2152	RELATING TO WORKERS' COMPENSATION. Increases the fee schedule of compensation for medical care, services, and supplies in workers' compensation cases from 110 percent to 130 percent of the Medicare Resource Based Relative Value Scale applicable to Hawaii as prepared by the United States Department of Health and Human Services.	LAB, ERB, FIN
HB2153	RELATING TO TOLL ROADS. Authorizes director of transportation to impose toll charges on existing highways or construct new toll roads. Provides for agreement with private entities to construct, operate, and maintain toll roads. Requires prior feasibility study.	TRN, FIN
HB2154	RELATING TO SPECIAL MANAGEMENT AREA USE PERMITS. Adds an exception to the Special Management Area Use permit requirement for development by excluding airports pursuant to chapter 261 when complying with Federal Aviation Administration regulations.	TRN, WLO/EEP, FIN
HB2155	RELATING TO JUDICIAL NOMINEES. Requires the judicial selection commission to release the commission's list of judicial nominees at the time it submits the list to the governor or chief justice.	JUD
HB2156	RELATING TO PUBLIC LAND DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION. Repeals chapter 171C, HRS, relating to the public land development corporation.	WLO, FIN
HB2157	RELATING TO PUBLIC OFFICERS. Deems elected state or county officers to have resigned from office upon registering with the campaign spending commission as a candidate for another elective state, county, or federal office with a term that begins during the term of the office currently held.	JUD
HB2158	RELATING TO PLANNED COMMUNITY ASSOCIATIONS. Provides for remedies in the event of the discovery of an error in any proxy.	HSG, CPC
HB2159	RELATING TO CONDOMINIUMS. Provides for remedies in the event of the discovery of an error in any proxy.	HSG, CPC
HB2160	RELATING TO PROCUREMENT. Upon the acceptance of a conceptual design fee from a procurement officer, any non-selected offeror shall agree to waive the right to protest. Makes permanent the increased dollar amounts of small purchases whose procurement is subject to the policy board's rules. Effective June 30, 2012.	ERB, FIN
HB2161	RELATING TO DOGS. Requires dog sellers to provide certain information to purchasers at the time of purchase. Provides for remedies in case the dog purchased is unfit for purchase. Establishes duties for both sellers and purchasers.	ERB, CPC/JUD, FIN
HB2162	RELATING TO UNIFORM COMMERCIAL CODE ARTICLE 9. Implements the amendments to Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code, relating to secured transactions, set forth by the Uniform Law Commission.	CPC/JUD, FIN
HB2163	RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE FIFTIETH REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT. Appropriates funds to install photovoltaic systems in public schools situated in the 50th representative district.	FIN
HB2164	RELATING TO THE PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION. Requires the PUC to adopt rules to require that the area circuit threshold for distributed generation be no less than 50%.	EEP, CPC, FIN
HB2165	RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLE REGISTRATION. Decreases the state motor vehicle registration fee and amounts deposited to the State Highway Fund.	TRN, FIN
HB2166	RELATING TO ELECTRONIC WASTE. Requires electronic device manufacturers to: (1) provide for either monthly collection events or regular collection sites within 60 miles of high population density areas; and (2) report weight of electronic devices recycled by county and type of device.	EEP, ERB, FIN
HB2167	RELATING TO GREEN WASTE RECYCLING. Requires the office of solid waste management to host a symposium to develop initiatives for improved reuse and recycling of green waste. Requires a report to the legislature.	EEP, FIN
HB2168	RELATING TO PUBLIC SAFETY. Requires the Hawaii paroling authority to establish a program for the medical release from prison of ill, disabled, and geriatric inmates.	PBM/HLT, JUD, FIN
HB2169	RELATING TO PUBLIC ACCOUNTANCY. Establishes a peer review process for public accounting firms that engage in attest work.	ERB, CPC, FIN
HB2170	RELATING TO HEALTH CARE. Adds representatives of health care provider organizations to the prepaid health care advisory council. Increases maximum membership from 7 to 9.	HLT, CPC, FIN
HB2171	RELATING TO PHYSICIANS. Establishes a tax credit for physicians who provide on-call services to hospital emergency rooms.	HLT, FIN
HB2172	RELATING TO HEALTH. Mandates department of health to adopt federal guidelines for the regulation of all freestanding surgical outpatient facilities.	HLT, FIN
HB2173	RELATING TO HEALTH. Establishes the Hawaii health corps program. Establishes a recruitment program and a loan repayment program to attract and retain qualified health professionals in medically underserved areas of the State. Makes an appropriation.	HLT, ERB, FIN
HB2174	RELATING TO CAMPAIGN SPENDING. Requires the Campaign Spending Commission to maintain public records in a searchable database. Amends reporting requirements by, amongst other things, requiring corporations and noncandidate committees to disclose the name of a candidate identified in any advertisement or electioneering communication which they have funded directly or indirectly. Penalizes all persons failing to report to the Commission. Mandates that the Commission implement rules for campaign spending consistent with Hawaii Revised Statutes within 360 days of the effective date of this Act.	JUD, FIN
HB2175	RELATING TO ETHICS. Exempts a person serving on a task force or working group established by the legislature for the purpose of recommending possible legislation from the conflict of interest law under the state ethics code and clarifies that an employee, as defined in the ethics code, does not include such persons.	LMG, JUD
HB2176	RELATING TO EFFICIENCY IN GOVERNMENT. Creates a Lean Six Sigma task force to make recommendations for improving state government efficiency.	FIN
HB2177	RELATING TO LIQUOR. Prohibits the issuance of a liquor license to retailers whose premises at a single location where the liquor would be sold or stored is 100,000 square feet or more. Effective July 1, 2012.	ERB, CPC/JUD
HB2178	RELATING TO THE PROCUREMENT CODE. Makes permanent procurement code exemptions relating to certain sole source vendors and to small purchases.	ERB, FIN
HB2179	RELATING TO THE AUDITOR. Allows the diminishment of the auditor's salary during the auditor's term of office by general law applicable to all salaried officers.	LMG, FIN
HB2180	RELATING TO SMOKING. Prohibits smoking at bus stops and on lanais of multi-family residential dwellings.	HLT, TRN, JUD
HB2181	RELATING TO VACANCIES. Amends the deadline to file nomination papers associated with filling a vacancy in the membership of the board of trustees of OHA, to ensure compliance with provisions of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010, P.L. 111-84, mandating the mailing of absentee ballots to uniformed and overseas voters no later than forty-five days prior to an election.	HAW, JUD, FIN
HB2182	RELATING TO EMERGENCY SHELTERS. Requires a county that is relocating a homeless person or family from public property, to provide access to a temporary emergency shelter and notify the person or family of the location of the emergency shelter.	HSG, HUS, FIN
HB2183	RELATING TO THE CONVENTION CENTER. Establishes the convention center district to develop uses and activities to promote use of the convention center. Establishes policies to guide development within the district.	TOU/WLO, FIN
HB2184	RELATING TO MANAGEMENT OF STATE FUNDS. Updates deadlines for the director of finance to establish accessible searchable websites and implement pilot program on data collection and subawards reporting.	FIN
HB2185	RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLE WEIGHT TAX. Decreases the state motor vehicle weight tax.	TRN, FIN
HB2186	RELATING TO CEMETERY AND FUNERAL TRUSTS. Requires a mortuary, cemetery, or other such funeral authority to provide the current address, telephone number, and electronic mail address for the regulated industries complaints office in the disclosures of the written contract and in a written notice provided at the time that merchandise or services are delivered. Effective 8/15/2012.	CPC, FIN
HB2187	RELATING TO THE HOMELESS. Appropriates funds to the homeless programs office of the department of human services and the rental housing trust fund. Appropriates funds to the department of health for substance abuse treatment, mental health support services, and clean and sober housing services and the department of human services for a homeless prevention program, rental assistance program, and matching funds for shelter plus care grants.	HSG, HUS/HLT, FIN
HB2188	RELATING TO TAXATION. Establishes three new tax credits for caregivers: small business caregiver leave tax credit; caregiver tax credit based on a percentage of adjusted gross income; caregiver educational cost tax credit.	HLT/HUS/ERB, HED, FIN
HB2189	RELATING TO MEDICAID. Requires medicaid home and community-based waiver programs to allow family members hired and directed by the waiver program individual to provide specific approved in-home care services to the individual.	HUS/HLT, FIN
HB2190	RELATING TO MANDATORY REPORTING. Requires suspected financial abuse of an elder to be reported to local law enforcement and DHS. Mandates sharing of records between DHS and local law enforcement.	HUS, JUD/CPC, FIN
HB2191	RELATING TO POWERS OF ATTORNEY. Requires that a power of attorney be witnessed by two witnesses who are not related to the attorney-in-fact and be acknowledged by a notary public. Establishes qualifications for witnesses to execution of a power of attorney.	JUD
HB2192	RELATING TO THE ELDERLY. Creates the crime of financial exploitation of dependent elder and provides enhanced penalties. Requires financial institutions to report suspected financial abuse to the adult protective services and the county police. Requires two signatures of unrelated persons as witnesses to the execution of a power of attorney for health care.	HUS, JUD/CPC, FIN
HB2193	RELATING TO ADULT GUARDIANSHIP AND PROTECTIVE PROCEEDINGS JURISDICTION. Adopts the Uniform Adult Guardianship and Protective Proceedings Jurisdiction Act, to ensure that only one state has jurisdiction at any one time. Contains specific guidelines to specify which court has jurisdiction to appoint a guardian or conservator for an incapacitated adult. Prioritizes the states that may claim jurisdiction.	HUS, JUD, FIN
HB2194	RELATING TO LONG TERM CARE. Requests the executive office on aging of the department of health to conduct an education and awareness campaign on long term care and have the campaign evaluated. Appropriates funds for the long term care education and awareness campaign and an evaluation of the campaign.	HLT/HUS, FIN
HB2195	RELATING TO BACKGROUND CHECKS. Requires the department of human services to allow persons to conduct child and vulnerable adult abuse perpetrator checks on the department's website as part of background checks for employment, volunteer, licensure, or certification purposes.	HUS, JUD, FIN
HB2196	RELATING TO AGING. Establishes the aging and disability resource center in the executive office on aging. Appropriates funds for the aging and disability resource center, kupuna care program, healthy aging partnership program, senior centers, and elder registration services.	HLT/HUS, FIN
HB2197	RELATING TO EDUCATION. Authorizes certain caregivers to execute an affidavit for caregiver consent on behalf of a minor to allow the minor to participate fully in programs and services under the Individuals with Disabilities Act and section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.	HUS, JUD
HB2198	RELATING TO KUPUNA CARE. Appropriates funds for the kupuna care program. Requires executive office on aging to establish a sliding fee schedule for the kupuna care program.	HLT/HUS, FIN
HB2199	RELATING TO HEALTH CARE. Consolidates the authority, duties, responsibilities, and jurisdiction of the department of human services and the department of health, as they relate to various health care services; transfers the programs of the department of human services relating to home and community-based case management, community care foster family homes, and adult day care to the department of health on July 1, 2014.	HLT/HUS, JUD, FIN
HB2200	RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES. Appropriates funds to the department of human services to match federal funds allocated to the State for medicaid benefits dedicated to adult vision services.	HUS, FIN
HB2201	RELATING TO LONG-TERM CARE. Establishes and directs a task force to coordinate and consolidate state long-term care programs and services. Establishes the position of deputy healthcare transformation coordinator. Appropriates funds.	HLT/HUS, FIN
HB2202	RELATING TO HEALTH. Establishes the aging and disability resource center program in the executive office on aging. Appropriates funds for the further development and expansion of the aging and disability resource center program statewide.	HLT/HUS, FIN
HB2203	RELATING TO JOB CREATION. Provides for a job creation income tax credit for each new full time employee hired after April 30, 2012 and before May 1, 2013.	ERB, LAB, FIN
HB2204	RELATING TO FISCAL NOTES. Requires fiscal note for each bill that affects state funds. Informs legislators of all costs associated with a particular bill and requires a reliable estimate of the cost of any proposed legislation.	LMG, FIN
HB2205	PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE III, SECTION 15, OF THE HAWAII STATE CONSTITUTION TO ENACT A SUPERMAJORITY VOTING REQUIREMENT FOR PASSAGE OF LEGISLATION PROPOSING TO RAISE OR CREATE TAXES OR FEES. Proposes a constitutional amendment to include a two-thirds supermajority voting requirement for the legislature to pass laws that increase or create taxes and fees.	JUD, FIN
HB2206	RELATING TO COMPUTER FRAUD. Amends sections 708-891 and 708-891.5 to include computer fraud that occurs when accessing a computer system or computer network; increases the penalties for computer fraud in the first and second degrees to class A and B felonies, respectively; creates new offense of computer fraud in the third degree.	JUD
HB2207	RELATING TO RECORDKEEPING. Requires electronic communication service providers to retain subscriber/user records and internet destination history information for at least 2 years.	ERB, CPC/JUD, FIN
HB2208	RELATING TO PRODUCTION OF RECORDS. Adds a new chapter allowing Hawaii courts in all criminal cases to order the production of records by persons/entities located outside Hawaii; requires that anyone in Hawaii served with criminal process from another jurisdiction must comply with such criminal process.	JUD, FIN
HB2209	RELATING TO UNAUTHORIZED COMPUTER ACCESS. Increases the penalties for unauthorized computer access in the first, second, and third degrees to class A, B, and C felonies, respectively; raises the minimum monetary value to $20,000 when unauthorized computer access in the first degree is based on monetary value of the information obtained.	JUD
HB2210	RELATING TO RENEWABLE FUELS. Amends the existing ethanol facility income tax credit to include other bioenergy production and to enable larger facilities to be eligible for the tax incentive.	EEP/AGR, FIN
HB2211	RELATING TO NON-GENERAL FUNDS. Requires a review of special funds. Provides for the automatic repeal of all non-general funds that are recommended for termination by the auditor.	LMG, FIN
HB2212	RELATING TO CLEAN ENERGY BONDS. Establishes a clean energy bond loan program for renewable energy systems and energy efficiency improvements on properties; authorizes the issuance of revenue bonds to finance the program; establishes laws to implement the program which shall be repealed upon the adoption of administrative rules.	EEP/ERB, FIN
HB2213	PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE VI, SECTION 3 OF THE HAWAII CONSTITUTION REQUIRING THAT THE GOVERNOR AND CHIEF JUSTICE DISCLOSE NAMES OF JUDICIAL NOMINEES IMMEDIATELY UPON RECEIPT OF THOSE NAMES FROM THE JUDICIAL SELECTION COMMISSION. Proposes amending article VI, section 3 of the State Constitution to require that the governor and chief justice disclose names of judicial nominees immediately upon receipt of those names from the judicial selection commission.	JUD, FIN
HB2214	PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE V, SECTION 6 OF THE HAWAII CONSTITUTION REQUIRING THAT THE GOVERNOR DISCLOSE, AT THE TIME OF EACH NOMINATION, NAMES OF ALL PERSONS NOMINATED TO SERVE IN EXECUTIVE AND ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICES AND DEPARTMENTS. Proposes amending article V, section 6 of the State Constitution to require that the governor disclose, at the time of each nomination, the names of all persons nominated to serve in executive and administrative offices and departments, regardless of whether the nominee is ultimately appointed.	JUD, FIN
HB2215	RELATING TO THE UNIFORM INFORMATION PRACTICES ACT. Amends sections 92F-12 and 92F-14 to reflect that names of persons nominated for appointment to the judiciary or to executive and administrative offices and departments must be publicly disclosed, and that such disclosure does not constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy.	JUD
HB2216	RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION. Prohibits motor vehicle mufflers from emitting a noise level above ninety-five decibels. Authorizes law enforcement officers to issue traffic citations for violations that are correctable. Establishes a penalty for failure to provide proof of correction.	TRN, JUD
HB2217	RELATING TO EMPLOYMENT VACANCIES. Requires State agencies to fill job positions within ten years after a vacancy; requires the automatic removal of funds for positions vacant longer than ten years.	LAB, FIN
HB2218	RELATING TO TAXATION. Provides qualified homeowners temporary tax credits for purchases of new residential properties and for new construction and remodeling projects on residential properties.	HSG, ERB, FIN
HB2219	RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. Mandates the creation and maintenance of monthly online financial information.	EDN, FIN
HB2220	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
HB2221	RELATING TO VOTING. Requires a precinct official to request photo identification from persons signing a poll book, and verify information contained in the poll book.	JUD
HB2222	RELATING TO A SILVER ALERT. Creates and implements a silver alert program to alert the public of any missing senior citizen with an impaired mental condition to be operated concurrently with the Maile Amber Alert program.	HUS, PBM, FIN
HB2223	RELATING TO STATE FINANCES. Mandates the creation and maintenance of monthly online financial information.	FIN
HB2224	RELATING TO EMPLOYMENT SECURITY. Sets, for calendar year 2012, the wage base at 90% of the average annual wage. Sets, for calendar year 2012, the employer contribution rate at schedule F. Establishes the maximum weekly benefit rate at 75% of the average weekly wage until December 31, 2012.	LAB, FIN
HB2225	RELATING TO MOTION PICTURES, DIGITAL MEDIA, AND FILM PRODUCTION. Extends the repeal date of Act 88, Session Laws of Hawaii 2006, from January 1, 2016 to January 1, 2021. Extends tax credits for qualified film production costs incurred before January 1, 2021.	ERB, FIN
HB2226	RELATING TO AN AUTOMATED VICTIM NOTIFICATION SYSTEM. Establishes the crime victim notification special fund. Requires a 4% surcharge on all inmate commissary purchases, to be deposited into the fund. Requires commission revenue on inmate telephone usage to be deposited into the fund.	PBM, JUD, FIN
HB2227	RELATING TO BIRTH CERTIFICATES. Provides amended birth certificates for persons who have undergone a gender transition.	HLT, FIN
HB2228	RELATING TO BREASTFEEDING IN THE WORKPLACE. Requires an employer with twenty or more employees to make reasonable efforts to provide a clean location for breastfeeding employees to express breast milk in privacy. Requires covered employers to post a notice pertaining to this provision in a conspicuous location. Establishes a civil fine for the failure of an employer to provide a location or post notice.	LAB, ERB, JUD
HB2229	RELATING TO BIRTH DEFECTS WARNINGS. Requires establishments that serve alcoholic beverages to display notification to warn customers of the risk of consuming alcohol during pregnancy. Establishes penalties.	HLT, ERB, CPC/JUD
HB2230	RELATING TO CANCER. Appropriates funds for the comprehensive breast and cervical cancer control program.	HUS/HLT, FIN
HB2231	RELATING TO COMMUNITY PLACEMENT PROGRAMS FOR FEMALE OFFENDERS TRANSITIONING FROM INCARCERATION TO THE COMMUNITY. Requires the department of public safety to establish a community placement program for female offenders transitioning from incarceration back into the community.	PBM, FIN
HB2232	RELATING TO HEALTH. Prohibits a physician, osteopathic physician, surgeon, or medical student from performing a pelvic examination on an anesthetized or unconscious female patient unless specific informed consent was obtained, the pelvic examination is within the specified scope of care, or the pelvic examination is required for diagnostic purposes on an unconscious patient.	HLT, JUD
HB2233	RELATING TO MANDATORY REPORTING REQUIREMENTS. Amends the definition of child abuse or neglect to include acts or omissions of any person or legal entity. Requires mandatory reporting when there is reasonable suspicion of child abuse or neglect. Expands medical personnel's duty to report wounds to include injuries suffered by a victim of labor trafficking or injuries that result from prostitution. Subjects a person who reports wounds to physician-patient privilege regarding patient communications for the diagnosis or treatment of the patient but not regarding physician's observations of patient.	HUS/HLT, JUD, FIN
HB2234	RELATING TO MINORS. Establishes the minor victims of prostitution special fund. Amends the definition of child abuse or neglect to include acts or omissions of any person or legal entity. Requires mandatory reporting when there is reasonable suspicion of child abuse or neglect. Requires law enforcement to immediately report incidents of child prostitution to DHS. Grants the family court exclusive jurisdiction over any person under eighteen who is charged with an offense of prostitution. Amends the statute of limitations under the prostitution coercion liability act. Establishes that a person who is under eighteen and suspected of or charged with an offense of prostitution shall be granted immunity from prosecution, and shall be subject to the child protective provisions of chapter 587A. Establishes a two-year victim services pilot program to address the needs of minor victims of prostitution.	HUS, JUD, FIN
HB2235	RELATING TO PROSTITUTION. Authorizes a person convicted of committing the offense of prostitution to file a motion to vacate the judgment under certain circumstances; establishes procedures for the motion to vacate.	HUS, JUD, FIN
HB2236	RELATING TO ELECTIONS. Authorizes the governor or chief election officer to designate alternate methods of handling federal absentee ballots during periods of declared emergency.	PBM, JUD, FIN
HB2237	RELATING TO EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT. Establishes a task force within the legislative reference bureau to review and update chapters 127 and 128, HRS, pertaining to disaster relief and civil defense, to be consistent with national guidelines for emergency management and homeland security.	PBM, LMG, FIN
HB2238	RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLES. Authorizes the issuance of a driver's license for operation of autonomous motor vehicles. Requires the DOT to adopt rules for the operation of autonomous motor vehicles.	TRN, JUD, FIN
HB2239	RELATING TO TAXATION. Establishes a tax credit for certain investments in small business enterprises.	ERB, FIN
HB2240	RELATING TO TAXATION. Establishes a tax credit for certain businesses that relocate their headquarters to Hawaii.	ERB/INT, FIN
HB2241	RELATING TO ANTIQUE GAMBLING DEVICES. Defines "antique slot machine". Clarifies that the possession of an antique slot machine is not unlawful where the device is not used or intended for use in any gambling activity that is not social gambling.	JUD
HB2242	RELATING TO CONTINUING EDUCATION FOR VETERINARIANS. Establishes veterinary license renewal requirement of twenty continuing education credit hours, beginning with renewals for the licensing biennium commencing on July 1, 2014.	CPC, FIN
HB2243	RELATING TO BAIL. Requires law enforcement agencies to accept cash bail, certified copies of pre-filed bail bonds, and original bail bonds when the court is closed, including nights, weekends, and holidays. Specifies from whom bail may be accepted. Requires prompt release after acceptance of bail.	JUD, FIN
HB2244	RELATING TO AGRICULTURE INSPECTORS. Requires the DOA to establish a licensure program to deputize private inspectors for the purpose of conducting inspections on other parts of the United States. Authorizes the DOA to assess fees for licensure and inspections.	AGR, FIN
HB2245	RELATING TO HAWAII-GROWN PRODUCE. Establishes the farm-to-school program in the department of agriculture to increase the procurement of locally-grown fruits and vegetables. Establishes a task force within the Department of Agriculture to examine the feasibility of establishing school gardens and creating a Hawaii-grown Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program; and to advise the Department of Agriculture in the creation and implementation of the Farm-to-School Program. Adds an appropriation section to be expended by the Department of Agriculture. Effective July 1, 2050.	AGR, EDN, FIN
HB2246	RELATING TO HAIKU VALLEY. Establishes the Haiku Valley cultural preserve commission to provide policy and management oversight of the Haiku Valley cultural preserve. Initiates process of conveying Haiku valley in fee simple to the department of land and natural resouces.	WLO/HAW, FIN
HB2247	RELATING TO PROCUREMENT. Provides a bidder on construction contracts 2 additional days after the closing of bids to provide the names of each person or firm to be engaged by the bidder as a joint contractor or subcontractor. Provides for bids to be opened only after the close of the 2-day period.	ERB, FIN
HB2248	RELATING TO THE ISSUANCE OF SPECIAL PURPOSE REVENUE BONDS FOR HAWAII PACIFIC UNIVERSITY. Authorizes the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds to Hawaii Pacific University.	HED, FIN
HB2249	RELATING TO LANDFILLS. Requires permitted landfills to track and report the types of alternate daily covers used. Places a preference on the disposal of residual recycling waste in landfills and incinerators and requires state and county agencies to accept such disposals.	EEP, FIN
HB2250	RELATING TO THE EMERGENCY ENVIRONMENTAL WORKFORCE. Establishes the emergency environmental workforce. Makes appropriations.	WLO/EEP, FIN
HB2251	RELATING TO ELECTIONS. Authorizes the county clerk of a county with a population of less than 100,000 to mail an absentee ballot to all properly registered voters on an island of the county that is not contiguous with the county seat of government.	JUD, FIN
HB2252	RELATING TO TRAFFIC SAFETY. Provides that violations for speeding in construction areas are only applicable when construction is actively occurring in the construction area.	TRN, JUD
HB2253	RELATING TO PUBLIC ORDER. Makes it a Class C felony to fail to obey a law enforcement officer's direction to stop a motor vehicle, resulting in serious bodily injury or death to another person.	TRN, JUD
HB2254	RELATING TO THE PRETAX TRANSPORTATION BENEFIT. Makes permanent the pretax transportation benefit pilot program and requires the Director of Human Resources Development to expand program to all islands having a public transit system and to employees of the legislature residing in counties having a population of over five hundred thousand persons.	LAB/TRN, FIN
HB2255	RELATING TO PUBLIC SAFETY. Requires the Hawaii paroling authority to establish a medical release program for inmates who are permanently and totally disabled, terminally ill, or geriatric and pose no public safety risk. Request the department of public safety to assess and refer inmates to the Hawaii paroling authority. Sets conditions for medical release.	PBM, JUD, FIN
HB2256	RELATING TO FIREWORKS. Imposes a statewide ban on consumer fireworks, except by permit for religious and cultural events.	PBM/CUA, JUD, FIN
HB2257	RELATING TO PROFESSIONAL AND VOCATIONAL LICENSING. Requires licensing boards to: (1) allow applicants to demonstrate competency in lieu of work experience required; and (2) establish procedures to expedite the issuance of licenses, certifications, or permits to military spouses.	PBM, CPC, FIN
HB2258	RELATING TO PROFESSIONAL AND VOCATIONAL LICENSING. Requires professional and vocational licensing boards to accept military education, training, and service towards the qualifications of a license. Requires the boards to adopt rules.	PBM, CPC, FIN
HB2259	RELATING TO ENERGY. Applies the National Fire Protection Association's Hydrogen Technologies Code to hydrogen production, storage, use, and handling for stationary and portable applications in the State and establishes the state hydrogen permitting authority. Contains appropriation. Effective July 1, 2012.	PBM, HLT, FIN
HB2260	RELATING TO ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION. Requires businesses in the State to collect a fee for single-use checkout bags provided to a customer. Allows businesses to keep twenty per cent of the fees for the first year of the program and ten per cent of the fees thereafter, subject to income and general excises taxes. Requires fees to be collected on single-use checkout bags not prohibited by county ordinance. Deposits $800,000 annually of fees into a special account in the general fund for costs relating to the single-use checkout buy fee, $11,000,000 into the natural area reserves fund, and the remainder into the general fund. Requires reports to the legislature.	EEP, ERB, FIN
HB2261	RELATING TO THE ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSE, ENERGY, AND FOOD SECURITY TAX. Increases the amount of the barrel tax to be deposited into the environmental response revolving fund and the energy security special fund. Requires that an unspecified sum be expended each year on researching viable geothermal resource subzone locations.	EEP/AGR, FIN
HB2262	RELATING TO ENERGY. Amends the ethanol facility income tax credit to apply to several types of renewable fuel and reduces the aggregate dollar cap for the credit. Establishes a tax credit for the growing of feedstock to be used in renewable fuel production and establishes an aggregate cap. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/12.	EEP/AGR, FIN
HB2263	RELATING TO THE CODE OF ETHICS. Allows the financial disclosure statements of the members of state boards and commissions holding official authority over permitting or licensing of land use and water use related matters to be public documents and available for public inspection.	WLO, JUD
HB2264	RELATING TO EMPLOYMENT SECURITY. Sets the unemployment insurance contribution rate schedule at "schedule F" for calendar years 2012 and 2013. Retains the maximum weekly benefit rate for unemployment at 75% of the average weekly wage until 12/31/13, and returns the rate to 70% on 01/01/14. Increases the maximum contribution rate, effective 1/1/13.	LAB, FIN
HB2265	RELATING TO THE STATE PROCUREMENT CODE. Makes permanent the amendments made to section 103D-305, Hawaii Revised Statutes, by Act 175, Session Laws of Hawaii 2009, that increase the limits on procurements qualifying for certain small purchase procedures to $100,000 for goods or services and $250,000 for construction; require procurements greater than $50,000 for construction to require performance bonds, and require procurements of $25,000 to less than $100,000 to be made in accordance with small purchase procedures. Removes the requirement from section 103D-305 that procurements of $25,000 to less than $100,000 be done through an electronic system.	ERB, FIN
HB2266	RELATING TO INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY. Clarifies that the information technology steering committee shall consist of thirteen members: four members to be selected by the senate president, four members to be selected by the speaker of the house of representatives, and four members to be selected by the chief information officer, with the chief information officer to serve as the chair.	ERB, FIN
HB2267	RELATING TO THE ISSUANCE OF SPECIAL PURPOSE REVENUE BONDS TO ASSIST CLEARCOM, INC., IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF BROADBAND INFRASTRUCTURE IN HAWAII. Authorizes the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds to assist Clearcom, Inc., or a partnership headed by Clearcom, Inc., with the planning, permitting, design, construction, equipping, and operating broadband infrastructure throughout the State. Effective 7/1/12.	ERB, FIN
HB2268	RELATING TO SMALL BUSINESS. Requires the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to convene a working group, administratively attached to the Small Business Regulatory Review Board, to identify redundant and obsolete state and county laws related to small business. Requires reports to the Legislature.	ERB, FIN
HB2269	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
HB2270	RELATING TO FIREARMS. Allows retired state and county law enforcement officers to continue to carry concealed weapons if in compliance with the Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act.	PBM, JUD
HB2271	RELATING TO CRIMES. Creates process for obtaining out-of-state records in criminal cases. Amends computer fraud statute and penalties. Amends unauthorized computer access statute and penalties.	JUD, FIN
HB2272	RELATING TO PROFESSIONS AND VOCATIONS. Clarifies the definition of "landscape architect". Replaces the existing definition of "surveyor" or "land surveyor" with definitions for "land surveying" and "professional surveyor", "professional land surveyor", or "land surveyor".	ERB, CPC
HB2273	RELATING TO CONCUSSIONS. Requires the DOE and the Hawaii High School Athletic Association to develop a concussion awareness program to provide guidelines for public and private schools.	HLT, EDN, FIN
HB2274	RELATING TO LONG-TERM CARE FACILITIES. Establishes the Nursing Facility Sustainability Program Special fund into which nursing facility sustainability fees shall be deposited. Requires the department of human services to charge and collect a provider fee on health care items or services provided by nursing facilities. Effective July 1, 2012, and repealed on June 30, 2013.	HLT/HUS, FIN
HB2275	RELATING TO HOSPITALS. Establishes the Hospital Sustainability Program into which hospital sustainability fees shall be deposited. Requires the Department of Human Services to charge and collect a provider fee on health care items or services provided by hospitals. Effective July 1, 2012, and repealed on June 30, 2013.	HLT/HUS, FIN
HB2276	RELATING TO SKATEBOARDS. Requires any person under the age of sixteen to wear a helmet while operating a skateboard. Establishes a fine.	HLT, JUD
HB2277	RELATING TO ALL-TERRAIN VEHICLES. Prohibits minors from using all-terrain vehicles. Prohibits the use of all-terrain vehicles on public roadways. Prohibits passengers from riding on all-terrain vehicles. Prohibits the use of all-terrain vehicles between sunset and sunrise. Prohibits the use of all-terrain vehicles without a helmet.	TRN, JUD
HB2278	RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE THIRTY-FIRST REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT. Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects for schools in the Thirty-first Representative District. Effective July 1, 2012.	FIN
HB2279	RELATING TO CONTRACTORS. Requires the contractors license board to accept in lieu of a specific experience requirement for licensure, equivalent knowledge, training, or experience, including self-employed or unlicensed experience, if the board investigates and makes a detailed written finding to that effect and the finding is available for public inspection.	ERB, CPC
HB2280	RELATING TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE. Prohibits landlords from terminating the tenancy of tenants who are victims of domestic abuse.	HUS/HSG, JUD
HB2281	RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES. Requires the Department of Human Services to establish an access plan that includes medical care providers' efforts to address the needs of individuals with limited English proficiency. Stipulates that managed care plans shall include an access plan that contains medical care providers' efforts to address the needs of enrollees with limited English proficiency.	HUS/HLT, CPC, FIN
HB2282	RELATING TO THE OFFICE OF COMMUNITY SERVICES. Transfers the office of community services from the DLIR to the DHS. Authorizes DHS to establish a pilot project to assist undocumented immigrants and refugees who are victims of domestic violence.	LAB/HUS, JUD, FIN
HB2283	RELATING TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE. Prohibits employment discrimination on the basis of victim of domestic violence status.	LAB/HUS, FIN
HB2284	RELATING TO LANGUAGE ACCESS. Transfers authority over the Office of Language Access from the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to the Department of Human Services. Effective July 1, 2013.	HUS/LAB, FIN
HB2285	RELATING TO MEDICAID. Requires the auditor to conduct a management and financial audit of the services provided by Evercare and Ohana Health Plan to medicaid clients under the QUEST Expanded Access program. Effective July 1, 2012.	HUS, LMG, FIN
HB2286	RELATING TO THE SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM. Appropriates funds to the department of human services to respond to the United States Department of Agriculture's mandate to amend supplemental nutrition assistance program eligibility requirements.	HUS, FIN
HB2287	RELATING TO COMPUTER CRIME. Increases the penalties for: (1) unauthorized computer access in the 1st degree from a class B felony to a class A felony and increases the required value of information obtained from more than $5,000 to more than $20,000; (2) unauthorized computer access in the 2nd degree from a class C felony to a class B felony; and (3) unauthorized computer access in the 3rd degree from a misdemeanor to a class C felony.	JUD
HB2288	RELATING TO RECORDKEEPING. Requires internet service providers to keep consumer records for no less than 2 years.	ERB, CPC
HB2289	RELATING TO THE HAWAII PENAL CODE. Amends the use of a computer in the commission of a separate crime statute to include the offenses of theft in the third or fourth degree.	JUD
HB2290	RELATING TO CHILDREN AND YOUTH. Authorizes public events celebrating Children and Youth Day to be held on state capitol grounds on the first Sunday in October, unless otherwise determined by the governor.	HUS, FIN
HB2291	RELATING TO FALSE REPORTING TO AUTHORITIES. Broadens the definition of the offense of false reporting to include child welfare services and judicial authorities.	HUS, JUD
HB2292	RELATING TO FOSTER YOUTH. Requires the department of human services to automatically enroll former foster youth in an appropriate medical assistance program and automatically re-enroll former foster youth until they reach age twenty-six.	HUS, FIN
HB2293	RELATING TO EDUCATION. Creates the non-school-hour programs special fund as a dedicated source of funding for non-school-hour programs. Makes appropriations from the non-school-hour programs special fund and the general fund for non-school-hour programs.	ERB, EDN, FIN
HB2294	RELATING TO MEDIA PRODUCTION. Establishes a cap per taxpayer on digital media tax credits. Places a monetary amount on the contributions and workforce development efforts that are required to qualify for the tax credit. Authorizes the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to implement and operate media production training programs.	ERB, LAB, FIN
HB2295	RELATING TO CYBERBULLYING. Establishes the offense of harassment by cyberbullying. Amends the offense of use of a computer in the commission of a separate crime to include harassment by cyberbullying.	JUD
HB2296	RELATING TO ANIMAL WELFARE. Prohibits the purchase, sale, transportation, and delivery of any product, item, or substance containing, labeled, or advertised as containing bear gallbladders or bile.	AGR/INT, JUD
HB2297	RELATING TO THE PERFORMING ARTS. Allows a portion of the principal as well as the income and capital gains from the State of Hawaii Endowment Fund to be used for the operations of an Oahu-based symphony orchestra during exigent circumstances, as determined by the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts and eliminates matching conditions for those funds. Makes an appropriation for an Oahu-based symphony orchestra. Effective July 1, 2012.	CUA, FIN
HB2298	RELATING TO PRIVACY RIGHTS. Specifies that a privacy interest does not apply to information regarding complaints made against a professional or vocational licensee if the applicable licensing authority determines that the complaint was referred for legal action and the licensee was given the opportunity to respond to the complaint.	ERB, JUD/CPC
HB2299	RELATING TO THE OFFICE OF HAWAIIAN AFFAIRS. Requires OHA to establish 1 full-time equivalent permanent position for a genealogies manager. Appropriation.	HAW, FIN
HB2300	RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HAWAIIAN HOME LANDS. Requires 5% of the State's annual share of the revenues from the public land trust to be annually appropriated to DHHL.	HAW, WLO, FIN
HB2301	RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. Requires the DOA to develop a food sustainability standard to promote local food production.	AGR, FIN
HB2302	RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS. Exempts temporarily from the state and county civil service: (1) persons hired or contracted to repair and maintain vacant state or county housing units; and (2) persons hired or contracted to perform planning, design, engineering, or permit processing work for state or county capital improvement projects. Makes an appropriation out of general obligation bonds and the rental housing trust fund to the Hawaii public housing authority for the purpose of renovating uninhabitable public housing units.	HSG, ERB/LAB, FIN
HB2303	RELATING TO GENERAL ASSISTANCE. Requires that applicants for general assistance reside in the State for a period of at least six consecutive months immediately preceding their application for general assistance.	HUS, FIN
HB2304	RELATING TO REAPPORTIONMENT. Requires members of the reapportionment commission and advisory councils to receive training on chapter 92. Requires reapportionment public hearings to be broadcasted live and archived on the Internet.	JUD, FIN
HB2305	RELATING TO EDUCATION. Establishes the Hawaii public schools science and technology trust fund to support the teaching and learning of science and technology in Hawaii's public schools. Authorizes income tax return designations to the trust fund.	EDN, FIN
HB2306	RELATING TO CHAPTER 328J, HAWAII REVISED STATUTES. Permits bars and nightclubs with liquor licenses to allow smoking by posting "smoking permitted" signs and provides that no county ordinance shall prohibit or restrict smoking in these establishments. Effective 1/1/13.	HLT/ERB, JUD
HB2307	RELATING TO EDUCATION. Requires the Department of Education to establish and maintain a Kupuna Program to make use of community expertise to teach Hawaiian language, culture, arts, and other skills. Permits individual schools to invite kupuna to act as cultural personnel resources on a voluntary basis.	EDN/CUA, FIN
HB2308	RELATING TO AIRLINES. Establishes and appropriates funds for a reimbursement program for airlines that add a new direct flight route to Hawaii. Sunsets 12/31/13.	TOU/ERB, FIN
HB2309	RELATING TO PERSONAL INFORMATION. Allows the scanning and retention of personal information contained in a state identification card or driver's license for only limited purposes.	TRN, JUD
HB2310	RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION. Prohibits the modification of the exhaust system of a motorcycle or moped which amplifies or increases the noise emitted by the muffler originally installed on the motorcycle or moped as indicated on the label attached to the motorcycle or moped in accordance with federal regulations.	TRN, JUD
HB2311	RELATING TO LIQUOR LICENSES. Authorizes the revocation or suspension of a liquor license for a continuing pattern of noise, disturbance, misconduct, or disorder.	ERB, CPC/JUD
HB2312	RELATING TO TORTS. Relieves good Samaritans who perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation in good faith to victims in a perceived medical emergency from civil damages. Amends definition of automated external defibrillator program to include proper maintenance of such devices. Amends definition of good faith to include a reasonably prudent person standard. Defines school and perceived medical emergency.	HLT, JUD
HB2313	RELATING TO RESISTING ARREST. Makes resisting arrest in the first degree a felony for attempting to deprive a law enforcement officer of their firearm.	PBM, JUD
HB2314	RELATING TO THE TRANSIENT ACCOMMODATIONS TAX. Provides for the allocation of transient accommodations tax revenues to the convention center enterprise special fund on a fiscal year basis.	TOU, FIN
HB2315	RELATING TO TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY. Requires the Department of Education to implement a student athlete traumatic brain injury program.	HLT, EDN, FIN
HB2316	RELATING TO A LOTTERY. Establishes the Hawaii state lottery commission and authorizes the lottery commission to establish lottery gaming.	EDN, JUD, FIN
HB2317	RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL TOURISM. Repeals the prohibition against overnight accommodations as part of agricultural tourism activities of a farming operation, and expressly allows counties to authorize these uses by ordinance.	AGR/ERB, WLO
HB2318	RELATING TO PROCUREMENT. Requires the procurement policy board to adopt rules to promote Hawaii small businesses that include a 5% preference for small businesses, a 7% preference for veterans, and a 9% preference for disabled veterans.	PBM, ERB, FIN
HB2319	RELATING TO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. Establishes a venture accelerator funding program under the Hawaii strategic development corporation to assist the State's technology businesses to compete for investment capital. Appropriates funds.	ERB, FIN

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HB1696	RELATING TO SPECIAL WASTES DISPOSAL AND RECYCLING. Requires a deposit for each new motor vehicle tire sold that is not exchanged with a used motor vehicle tire, to be refunded on exchange of a used motor vehicle tire. Does not apply to motorcycle or bicycle tires.	TRN, EEP/ERB, FIN
HB1814	RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS. Makes appropriations from general obligation bonds and certain special funds for the planning and design of future construction projects. Reduces the transfer to the works of art special fund to 2/10 of 1% until 06/30/2015. Effective 07/01/2012.	TRN, ERB/WLO, FIN
HB1896	RELATING TO INSURANCE. Temporarily establishes a higher medical loss ratio for a tax-exempt mutual benefit society's or health maintenance organization's health insurance plan than the ratio set under the federal Public Health Service Act. Requires, when reviewing rate filings, the insurance commissioner to consider the medical loss ratio of the filer. Requires the insurance commissioner to submit a report to the governor and legislature before the convening of the regular session of 2014 with information on the impacts of the Act and a recommendation on whether any provision should be made permanent. Repealed on 12/31/14.	ERB/HLT, CPC, FIN
HB1939	RELATING TO SUSTAINABILITY. Creates an agricultural development and food security program from the agricultural development and food security special fund. Repeals the sunset date of the energy security special fund. Increases barrel tax allotment to energy security special fund, energy systems development special fund, and agricultural development and food security special fund. Makes an appropriation for the agricultural development and food security program.	AGR/EEP, FIN
HB1941	MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR AGRICULTURAL INSPECTION FACILITIES AND RELATED INFRASTRUCTURE. Makes an appropriation to establish agricultural inspection biosecurity facilities and related infrastructure at the Honolulu International Airport, Kona International Airport, Kawaihae Harbor, Kamuela Vacuum Cooling Plant, and Honolulu Harbor. Effective July 1, 2012.	AGR/TRN, FIN
HB1972	RELATING TO HISTORIC PRESERVATION. Limits DLNR fees for its comprehensive historic preservation program to amounts sufficient to cover the annual operating costs of the program, taking into account all other sources of program income.	WLO/HAW, FIN
HB2054	RELATING TO TAXATION. Establishes a tax credit for the purchase of a new electric vehicle or an electric vehicle charging unit.	TRN, EEP, FIN