THE TWENTY-NINTH LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2018
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Senator Donovan M. Dela Cruz, Chair |
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Senator Gilbert S.C. Keith-Agaran, Vice Chair |
NOTICE OF DECISION MAKING
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DATE: |
Wednesday, April 4, 2018 |
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10:30 A.M. |
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PLACE: |
Conference Room 211 State Capitol 415 South Beretania Street |
A M E N D E D A G E N D A
The following measure(s) were previously heard in their respective subject matter committees:
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RELATING TO INVASIVE SPECIES. Appropriates funds to the Department of Agriculture for outreach and education efforts in West Hawaii county regarding the detection and treatment of little fire ants. Appropriates funds to the Hawaii ant lab for personnel and equipment to support mitigation of the little fire ant. (SD1)
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AEN, WAM |
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RELATING TO TAX EXEMPTION. Exempts gross proceeds arising from sales of farm equipment and machinery to certain producers of agricultural products from the general excise tax. (SD1)
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AEN, WAM |
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RELATING TO THE SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM. Requires and appropriates funds for the Department of Agriculture to create a local produce dollar-for-dollar matching program for beneficiaries of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. (SD1)
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AEN/HMS, WAM |
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RELATING TO INSURANCE. Delays the implementation of the producer licensing requirements amended by Act 152, Session Laws of Hawaii 2017, until January 1, 2020. (SD1)
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CPH, WAM |
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RELATING TO CONDOMINIUMS. Expands the scope of the condominium education trust fund to cover voluntary binding arbitration between interested parties. Amends the conditions that mandate mediation and exceptions to mandatory mediation. Makes conforming amendments. Sunsets 6/30/2023. (SD1)
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CPH, WAM |
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RELATING TO HEALTH. Establishes positions and appropriates funds to assist in the review, certification, and recertification of dialysis centers and other health care facilities under the purview of DOH. (HB1895 HD1)
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CPH, WAM |
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RELATING TO HEALTH. Requires the executive office on aging to biennially update the state plan on Alzheimer's disease and related dementias, include an implementation work plan for each goal in the state plan, and include information on progress made toward the goals of the state plan on Alzheimer's disease and related dementias in its annual report to the legislature. Appropriates funds. (SD1)
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CPH, WAM |
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RELATING TO LANGUAGE ACCESS. Appropriates funds for the establishment of two full-time equivalent (2.00 FTE) permanent program specialist positions within the office of language access to assist state agencies and state-funded agencies in implementing the requirements of Hawaii's language access law. Effective 7/1/3000. (SD1)
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CPH, WAM |
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RELATING TO CONSUMER PROTECTION. Transitions from lump sum deferred deposit transactions to installment-based small dollar loan transactions. Specifies various consumer protection requirements for small dollar loans. Beginning January 1, 2019, requires licensure for small dollar lenders that offer small dollar loans to consumers. Specifies licensing requirements for small dollar lenders. Authorizes the division of financial institutions to appoint 1.0 FTE examiner position, funded via the compliance resolution fund, to carry out the purposes of the small dollar installment loan program. (SD1)
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CPH, WAM [Measure added on 04-02-18] |
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RELATING TO MEDICAL CANNABIS. Establishes the medical cannabis insurance reimbursement working group to address the complexities surrounding the topic of making medical cannabis reimbursable by health insurance. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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CPH, WAM |
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RELATING TO MEDICAL CANNABIS. Establishes the Office of Medical Cannabis Control and Regulation in the Department of Health to regulate and administer the registration of qualifying patients and primary caregivers and medical cannabis dispensaries. Extends civil service exemptions for persons in civil service exempt positions prior to enactment of this measure who will transfer into the office due to this measure. Extends interim rulemaking authority. Appropriates moneys for operations and staff of the office. Effective 7/1/3000. (SD1)
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CPH, WAM |
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RELATING TO EDUCATION. Appropriates funds for laptop computers or tablets to be used by teachers and students for digital teaching and learning. Appropriates funds for after-school programs at Kalanianaole Elementary and Intermediate School, Kapaa Middle School, Konawaena Middle School, and Waimea Canyon Middle School. Takes effect 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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EDU, WAM |
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[Measure deleted on 04-02-18] |
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RELATING TO EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS. Establishes the safe keiki grant program to award funds to qualified DOE schools to purchase supplies for students to remain at school shelters for 48 hours in the event of an emergency. Appropriates funds. (HB2238 HD1)
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EDU/PSM, WAM |
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RELATING THE TRANSFER OF LANDS. Requires the City and County of Honolulu to transfer to the Department of Education all property upon which a public elementary or intermediate school is situated. Gives the Department of Education power to acquire and hold title to real, personal, or mixed property for use for public educational purposes. Requires legislative approval prior to the sale or gift of lands to which the Department of Education holds title. Appropriates funds. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD1)
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EDU/WTL, WAM |
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RELATING TO THE HAWAII TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION. Authorizes HTDC to issue grants to phase III federal grant awardees of up to fifty percent of the amount of the award or contract funded by the private sector or government sources outside of the program. Appropriates moneys. (HB1958 HD1)
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ETT, WAM |
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RELATING TO ENERGY. Authorizes the Hawaii Technology Development Corporation to provide fifty per cent matching grants to Hawaii awardees of alternative energy research grants from the United States Department of Defense, Office of Naval Research. Makes appropriations. Takes effect on 7/1/2112. (SD1)
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ETT, WAM |
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RELATING TO TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT. Appropriates funds for grants to participants in software application challenges so that the proofs of concept created during the challenges can be developed into prototypes suitable for local and state government. Appropriates funds. Requires matching funds. Takes effect on 7/1/2112. (SD1)
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ETT, WAM |
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RELATING TO THE HAWAII TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION. Requires HTDC to report on outreach and mentorship assistance to neighbor island innovative small businesses. Appropriates funds for the neighbor island innovation initiative program. Takes effect on 7/1/2112. (SD1)
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ETT, WAM |
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RELATING TO THE HAWAII COMMUNITY-BASED ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT TECHNICAL AND FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM. Authorizes the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to deposit moneys it receives from the repayments of loans and payments of interest or fees from the Hawaii capital loan program in chapter 210, the Hawaii large fishing vessel purchase, construction, renovation, maintenance, and repair loan program in chapter 189, and the Hawaii small fishing vessel loan program in chapter 189, into the Hawaii community-based economic development (CBED) revolving fund. Moneys from the CBED revolving fund will be used to make loans and grants to small businesses. (HB2333 HD1)
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ETT, WAM |
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RELATING TO INNOVATION BUSINESS. Establishes the research and development program in the Hawaii technology development corporation to help Hawaii-based small businesses collaborate with commercial partners to further refine and optimize research and development performed in Hawaii. Establishes the research and development special fund. Appropriates funds for the purposes of the research and development program. Takes effect on 7/1/2112. (SD1)
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ETT, WAM |
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RELATING TO THE PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL SPACE CENTER FOR EXPLORATION SYSTEMS. Appropriates moneys to the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to support the internship and economic development programs of the Pacific International Space Center for Exploration Systems. Inserts a ceiling of $1,000,000 for the pacific international space center for exploration systems special fund. Takes effect on 7/1/2112. (SD1)
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ETT, WAM |
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RELATING TO THE HAWAII TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION. Appropriates funds for the Hawaii Technology Development Corporation's manufacturing grant program. (HB2610 HD2)
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ETT, WAM |
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RELATING TO THE TRANSIENT ACCOMMODATIONS TAX. Allocates funds from transient accommodations tax revenues to the Hawaii Tourism Authority (HTA) to implement initiatives, in conjunction with the Hawaii Lodging and Tourism Association, to address homelessness in tourist and resort areas, as designated by each county; provided that the funds be used to provide social services. Requires HTA to report to the Legislature. Requires the data collected from the initiatives to be entered into the Homeless Management Information System. Takes effect on 7/1/3000. (SD1)
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ETT/HMS, WAM |
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RELATING TO THE ENVIRONMENT. Establishes a carbon offset program under the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism, in partnership with the Department of Land and Natural Resources. Allows the proceeds and revenue generated from forest carbon offset credits to be deposited into the forest stewardship fund, and non-forest carbon credits to be invested in projects enhancing the State's efforts to mitigate climate change, improving the State's water infrastructure, or mitigating threats to water sustainability efforts due to climate change. Appropriates funds to implement the carbon offset program. Takes effect on 1/28/2045. (SD1)
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ETT/WTL/AEN, WAM |
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RELATING TO PROCUREMENT. Appropriates funds to the State Procurement Office for two full-time construction procurement specialists to support the State Procurement Office. (HB2055 HD1)
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GVO, WAM |
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RELATING TO PROCUREMENT. Establishes that an initiating party must pay cash or protest bond equal to five per cent of the estimated value of the contract if the estimated value of the contract is $1,000,000 or more. Establishes a $10,000,000 maximum limit on a cash or protest bond that must be posted for a procurement award protest. Establishes that the prevailing party in an administrative protest hearing is entitled to attorneys' fees and costs. Takes effect on 1/1/2050. (SD1)
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GVO, WAM |
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RELATING TO EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY. Appropriates funds to the Office of the Governor; Department of Labor and Industrial Relations; Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism; Department of Human Resources Development; and Department of Agriculture to collaboratively develop and implement solutions to assist dislocated workers and address the overall continued availability of gainful employment on the island of Molokai. Requires the Office of the Governor to submit a report detailing the efforts made and expenditures of all offices and departments appropriated funds to assist dislocated workers and address the overall continued availability of gainful employment on the island of Molokai. Takes effect 1/1/2050. (SD1)
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GVO/LBR, WAM |
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RELATING TO A YOUTH COMMISSION. Establishes a youth commission within the Office of Youth Services to advise the Governor and Legislature on the effects of legislative policies, needs, assessments, priorities, programs, and budgets relating to youth. Appropriates funds. (HB1716 HD1)
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HMS, WAM |
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RELATING TO TAXATION. Provides a nonrefundable tax credit of up to $3,000 per eligible child per taxable year for eligible taxpayers for child care costs for children up to four years of age. Effective 7/1/3000. (SD1)
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HMS, WAM |
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RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES. Requires the Department of Human Services to use an integrated and multigenerational approach to delivering human services to reduce the incidence of intergenerational poverty and dependence on public benefits. (HB1926 HD1)
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HMS, WAM |
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RELATING TO HEALTH. Establishes the Health Analytics Program in the Med-QUEST Division of the Department of Human Services and authorizes the Department of Human Services to maintain an all-payers medical claims database. (HB694 HD2)
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HMS, WAM |
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RELATING TO FEES. Requires the Department of Health to furnish, free of charge, certified copies of birth certificates for any individual who is homeless, provided the individual's homeless status is corroborated by a verification letter issued by a homeless service provider. Effective 7/1/3000. Repeals 6/30/21. (SD1)
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HMS/CPH, WAM |
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RELATING TO HEALTH. Requires DHS to compile information regarding employers with employees who receive public assistance. Requires DHS to submit an annual report to legislature on the 50 employers with the highest number of employees receiving public assistance. Requires DLIR to share employment data. (HB1647 HD2)
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HMS/LBR, WAM |
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RELATING TO ADMINISTRATIVE HEARING OFFICERS. Exempts Administrative Appeals Hearing Officers in the Department of Human Services from civil service requirements. (HB2362 HD1)
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HMS/LBR, WAM |
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RELATING TO HOUSING AFFORDABILITY. Allocates a portion of the conveyance tax revenues to the rental assistance revolving fund to be used to subsidize rents for persons who meet certain income requirements. Increases the income tax credit for low-income household renters to an unspecified amount. Makes the state earned income tax credit refundable and changes the amount of the credit to an unspecified percentage of the federal earned income tax credit. Takes effect on 01/01/2050. (SD1)
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HOU, WAM |
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RELATING TO THE RENTAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM. Expands the rental assistance program by increasing the minimum percentage of affordable units a rental housing project is required to maintain for eligible tenants from twenty per cent to thirty per cent. Decreases the qualifying maximum threshold from eighty per cent to thirty per cent of the area median income for a family or individual to be an eligible tenant under the rental assistance program. Appropriates funds to be deposited into the rental assistance revolving fund to support new rental assistance program contracts. Takes effect on 01/01/2050. (SD1)
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HOU, WAM |
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RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII. Appropriates funds to UH for positions to implement capital improvement projects. Requires UH employees who hold administrative positions and earn more than $150,000 annually to be employed under an employment contract by July 1, 2018. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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HRE, WAM |
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RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII COLLEGE OF TROPICAL AGRICULTURE AND HUMAN RESOURCES COOPERATIVE EXTENSION SERVICE. Appropriates funds to the University of Hawaii College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources cooperative extension service for four full-time equivalent (4.0 FTE) ornamental plant extension agents. Takes effect 7/1/2112. (SD1)
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HRE, WAM |
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RELATING TO UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII REVENUE BONDS. Authorizes the University of Hawaii to issue revenue bonds for the purpose of financing the construction and maintenance of qualifying capital improvement projects. Takes effect on 7/1/2112. (SD1)
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HRE, WAM |
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RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII. Requires the University of Hawaii to submit a report to the Legislature within thirty days of each appropriation transfer or change between programs. (HB2300 HD1)
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HRE, WAM |
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RELATING TO RAT LUNGWORM DISEASE. Appropriates funds to the University of Hawaii at Hilo for testing, studies, outreach, research, and other activities related to the prevention and eradication of rat lungworm disease. (SD1)
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HRE/AEN, WAM |
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RELATING TO UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS. Establishes and appropriates funds for an Office of Strategic Partnerships and Development to specifically analyze, evaluate, recommend, coordinate, oversee, and manage public-private partnerships that benefit the University of Hawaii. Establishes a five-year University of Hawaii public-private partnership pilot project to allow the university to enter into public-private partnerships, under certain conditions. Takes effect 1/1/2050. (SD1)
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HRE/ETT, WAM |
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RELATING TO THE ENVIRONMENTAL COURTS. Provides that the environmental courts shall not have exclusive, original jurisdiction over any proceedings relating to parking violations under certain administrative rules and laws. (SD1)
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JDC, WAM |
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RELATING TO NON-GENERAL FUNDS. Abolishes the office of community services special fund of the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations and transfers unencumbered balance to the general fund.
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LBR, WAM |
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RELATING TO QUALIFIED DOMESTIC RELATIONS ORDERS. Amends Act 263, Session Laws of Hawaii 2016 to: allow the Employees' Retirement System to make direct payments to spouses or former spouses of ERS members or retirants to include former spouses or former members with vested benefit status when the former spouse has been awarded all or a portion of ERS retirement benefits as ordered or decreed in a domestic relations proceeding; and make the ERS benefits payable to an alternate payee. Delays implementation of Act 263, Session Laws of Hawaii 2016, to July 1, 2020. Makes an appropriation. Takes effect on 1/1/2050. (SD1)
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LBR/JDC, WAM |
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MAKING AN EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION TO THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY. Makes an emergency appropriation to provide funds for the Department of Public Safety to pay for the temporary housing of 248 inmates at a non-state facility for an additional six months, during work on capital improvements to the Halawa Correctional Facility, under DAGS Job No. Job No. 12-27-5644 – security electronics and hardware repairs and improvements. (HB2393 HD1)
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PSM, WAM |
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RELATING TO VETERANS. Requires the Office of Veterans' Services to organize, coordinate, and conduct a biennial State of Hawaii Veterans Summit. Appropriates funds. (HB2697 HD2)
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PSM, WAM |
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RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. Requires the Department of Agriculture to conduct a feasibility study on the establishment of ag-tech zones within the City and County of Honolulu. Appropriates funds for conducting the feasibility study. (SD1)
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PSM/AEN, WAM |
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RELATED TO MEDICAID. Requires the Department of Public Safety to inform inmates of the availability of assistance to secure or verify applicable medicaid eligibility prior to an inmate's release. (HB2144 HD1)
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PSM/HMS, WAM |
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RELATING TO FLOOD MITIGATION. Requires the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency, along with the Board of Land and Natural Resources as support, to convene a working group composed of appropriate county, state, and federal agencies to develop strategic regional flood plans. Requires the working group to submit to the legislature a written report of its progress in developing plans, including any findings, recommendations, and proposed legislation, no later than twenty days prior to the convening of the regular session of 2019. (SD1)
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PSM/WTL, WAM |
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RELATING TO ENERGY EFFICIENCY. Creates a revolving line of credit sub-fund of an unspecified amount under the umbrella of the Hawaii green infrastructure special fund for any state agency or department to finance cost-effective energy-efficiency measures. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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TRE, WAM |
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RELATING TO VEHICLE INSPECTION STATIONS. Changes the penalty for improper conduct of motor vehicle inspections at inspection stations from revocation or suspension of the station's operating permit to a fine. (SD1)
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TRE, WAM |
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RELATING TO MOTOR CARRIERS. Appropriates funds for the public utilities commission to hire additional enforcement personnel. Takes effect on 1/1/2050. (SD1)
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TRE, WAM |
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RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION. Increases the rental motor vehicle surcharge from $3 to $5 for lessees without a valid Hawaii driver's license from the rental motor vehicle surcharge. Requires that the revenues from the increase in motor vehicle surcharge tax be expended for road capacity projects in the county in which the rental motor vehicle was operated under rental or lease. Increases the tour vehicle surcharge by $1 for each category of tour vehicle. Takes effect on 1/1/2019. (SD1)
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TRE/CPH, WAM |
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RELATING TO TAXATION. Extends the period by six months that a county may adopt a surcharge on state tax, under certain conditions, from March 31, 2018, to June 30, 2018. Specifies, for a county with a population equal to or less than 500,000 that adopts a surcharge, how certain percentages of the surcharge may be used. Effective 1/1/2100. (SD1)
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TRE/PSM, WAM |
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RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCES. Transfers funds from the natural area reserve fund to the firefighter's contingency fund, to be expended for the sole purpose of upgrading firefighting equipment to be used jointly by the State and counties. (SD1)
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WTL, WAM |
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RELATING TO WATER SECURITY. Requires the commission on water resource management to conduct an update of the statewide framework for updating the Hawaii water plan to provide additional guidance for updating the Hawaii water plan. Makes an appropriation. (SD1)
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WTL, WAM |
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RELATING TO THE HAWAII ASSOCIATION OF CONSERVATION DISTRICTS. Makes an appropriation to the Department of Land and Natural Resources for the operational expenses and staffing costs of the Hawaii Association of Conservation Districts. (SD1)
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WTL, WAM |
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RELATING TO THE ROSE-RINGED PARAKEET. Appropriates funds to the Department of Land and Natural Resources to provide assistance and supplemental funding to the National Wildlife Research Center of the U.S. Department of Agriculture to conduct pilot field studies to evaluate control tools and develop a management plan to reduce the rose-ringed parakeet population on Kauai. (SD1)
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WTL/AEN, WAM |
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RELATING TO PUBLIC LANDS. Excludes from the definition of "public lands" lands set aside by the governor to the Hawaii public housing authority or lands to which the Hawaii public housing authority in its corporate capacity holds title. Requires legislative approval of the sale or gift of lands set aside by the governor to the Hawaii public housing authority or lands to which the Hawaii public housing authority in its corporate capacity holds title. Takes effect on 01/01/2050. (SD1)
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WTL/HOU, WAM |
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_____________________________________ Senator Donovan M. Dela Cruz Chair |
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