THE SENATE

THE THIRTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2022

 

COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE AND CONSUMER PROTECTION

Senator Rosalyn H. Baker, Chair

Senator Stanley Chang, Vice Chair

 

NOTICE OF DECISION MAKING

 

 

DATE:

Tuesday, March 29, 2022

TIME:

10:00 AM

PLACE:

Conference Room 229 & Videoconference

TIMESLOT:

CPN

 

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A G E N D A

 

The following measure(s) were previously heard in their respective subject matter committees:

 

HB 1988, HD2, SD1

      (SSCR3295)

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO CORAL.

Prohibits the sale, import, harvest, or export of coral products, with certain exceptions.  Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to amend its administrative rules accordingly no later than 12/31/2024.  Effective 7/1/2050.  (SD1)

 

AEN/WTL, CPN

HB 2280, HD2

      (SSCR3280)

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO REAL PROPERTY.

Specifies that planned community associations cannot prohibit or unreasonably restrict the use of a member's enclosed yard area for personal agriculture.  Effective 7/1/2050.  (HD2)

 

AEN, CPN

HB 2089, HD1, SD1

      (SSCR3239)

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO RENEWABLE PORTFOLIO STANDARDS.

Amends the definition of "renewable portfolio standard" to be a percentage of electrical energy generation, rather than sales, excluding customer-sited fossil fuel generation.  Expands the events or circumstances that are beyond an electric utility company's reasonable control to include non-renewable energy generated by electric generation facilities over or of which the electric utility does not have direct control or ownership.  Requires electric utility companies to track and annually report data and trends on customer retention and attrition to further inform the calculation of the renewable portfolio standards.  Effective 7/1/2100.  (SD1)

 

EET, CPN

HB 2434, HD1

      (SSCR3272)

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO WATER CARRIERS.

Requires each water carrier to file a strategic plan with the Public Utilities Committee every five years.  Effective 7/1/2050.  (HD1)

 

TRS, CPN

HB 2239, HD1

      (SSCR3247)

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO CONDOMINIUMS.

Increases the minimum number of residential units in a condominium project that must be offered for sale to prospective owner-occupants in the thirty-day period following the initial date of sale of the condominium from fifty per cent to ninety per cent.  Effective 7/1/2050.  (HD1)

 

HOU, CPN

HB 2340, HD2, SD1

      (SSCR3369)

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES.

Allows post office boxes and rural and highway contract route boxes to be permissible for a prescription to be considered valid, only if a physical address where an individual resides is on file with the dispensing pharmacy.  Effective 7/1/2050.  (SD1)

 

HTH, CPN

 

 

 

 

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FOR AMENDED NOTICES:  Measures that have been deleted are stricken through and measures that have been added are underscored.  If a measure is both underscored and stricken through, that measure has been deleted from the agenda.

 

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Senator Rosalyn H. Baker

Chair