KA ‘AHA KENEKOA
THE THIRTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2023
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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, March 1, 2023 |
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TIME: |
10:10 AM |
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PLACE: |
Conference Room 211 & Videoconference State Capitol 415 South Beretania Street |
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TIMESLOT: |
WAM |
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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 CIVIL LEGAL SERVICES. Appropriates funds for the Judiciary to purchase civil legal services for low- and moderate-income persons. (SD1)
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JDC, WAM |
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RELATING TO MEDICAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING. Reestablishes the Hawaii medical education special fund to enable the John A. Burns School of Medicine, in consultation with the Hawaii Medical Education Council, to provide funding for medical education and training in Hawaii, with an emphasis on supporting residency training in medically underserved areas. Appropriates moneys to create more residencies and training opportunities in medically underserved areas for medical students at the University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine. Appropriates funds to the John A. Burns School of Medicine to create further medical residency and training opportunities through a partnership between the John A. Burns School of Medicine and the United States Department of Veterans Affairs. (SD1)
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HRE/HHS, WAM |
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RELATING TO HEALTH. Appropriates funds to be expended by the Executive Office on Aging for an Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias Public Health Campaign. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD1)
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HHS, WAM |
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RELATING TO THE STATE FIRE COUNCIL. Adds to the membership of the State Fire Council, and to the membership of advisory committees that the Council may appoint, representatives from the Hawaii State Aircraft Rescue Fire Fighting Unit and the Division of Forestry and Wildlife of the Department of Land and Natural Resources to reflect all non‑federal fire fighting agencies in the State.
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PSM/WTL, WAM |
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RELATING TO EARLY LEARNING ACCREDITATION. Establishes within the Department of Human Services' Child Care Subsidy Program Office, a Child Care Accreditation Program to support licensed or registered child care providers to obtain accreditation from a national early learning accrediting organization or an accrediting organization approved by the Director of Human Services. Extends the deadline by which unaccredited service providers of the Preschool Open Doors Program must commence the accreditation process and obtain accreditation. Appropriates funds. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD1)
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HHS, WAM |
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RELATING TO MEDICAL RESIDENCY PROGRAMS. Appropriates moneys to support and expand physician residency training programs in state teaching hospitals. Requires dollar‑for-dollar matching funds from private funding sources.
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HRE/HHS, WAM |
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RELATING TO THE LANDLORD-TENANT CODE. Until 12/31/2024, extends the period for a notice of termination of the rental agreement from 5 business days to 15 calendar days; requires landlords to engage in mediation and delay filing an action for summary possession if a tenant schedules or attempts to schedule a mediation; requires landlords to include specific information in the fifteen-calendar day notice provided to tenants and certain mediation centers. Appropriates moneys. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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CPN, WAM |
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PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE II OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF HAWAII. Proposes an amendment to the Hawaii State Constitution to allow the Legislature to enact laws establishing limitations on moneys expended by any noncandidate committee making only independent expenditures to influence the outcome of a state election. (SD1)
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JDC, WAM |
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RELATING TO EDUCATION. Requires the Department of Education to submit annual reports. Repeals standardized assessment requirements for students entering kindergarten. Effective 7/1/3000. (SD1)
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EDU, WAM |
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RELATING TO JUDGES FOR THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE FIRST CIRCUIT. Establishes 1 additional district court judgeship in the First Circuit.
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JDC, WAM |
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RELATING TO THE SAFETY OF JUDICIARY PERSONNEL. Prohibits, in certain circumstances, the publication of the personal information of state and federal judges and other judicial staff whose duties put them at risk for acts of violence or threats.
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JDC, WAM |
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RELATING TO VACANT AND ABANDONED RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY. Requires counties to establish expedited procedures to approve demolition permits for vacant and abandoned residential properties. Allows the Department of Taxation to satisfy certain tax liens through the nonjudicial foreclosure of vacant and abandoned residential properties at any time after establishing vacancy and abandonment. Takes effect 03/22/2075. (SD1)
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JDC, WAM |
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RELATING TO HEARING AIDS. Exempts from the general excise tax, gross receipts received by a hospital, infirmary, medical clinic, health care facility, pharmacy, or a practitioner licensed to administer drugs to an individual, from the sale of hearing aids. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD1)
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HHS, WAM |
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RELATING TO DEMOGRAPHIC DATA. Requires state agencies to disaggregate data consistent with federal standards and requires publication of the data. Establishes a task force to assess current data collection, processing, retention, and sharing procedures; needs; and challenges. Requires a report to the Legislature. Effective 7/1/2112. (SD1)
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GVO, WAM |
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RELATING TO COURT INTERPRETERS. Requires the Judiciary to increase the hourly fees, mileage reimbursement rate, and commuter-time compensation rate for court interpreters. Appropriates funds.
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JDC, WAM |
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RELATING TO ELECTRONIC INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ACCESSIBILITY FOR PERSONS WITH LIMITED ENGLISH PROFICIENCY. Requires the Office of Enterprise Technology Services, in consultation with the Office of Language Access and a working group composed of stakeholders, to develop and publish, and periodically review and update, electronic information technology multilingual accessibility standards to be implemented by all state entities. Appropriates funds for one full-time equivalent (1.00 FTE) position. Effective 7/1/2112. (SD1)
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GVO, WAM |
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RELATING TO THE HAWAII HEALTHY AGING PARTNERSHIP. Appropriates funds to the Executive Office on Aging for the Hawaii Healthy Aging Partnership. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD1)
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HHS, WAM |
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RELATING TO LEASEHOLD CONVERSION. Excludes from taxation one hundred per cent of the gain realized by a fee simple owner from the sale of a leased fee interest in units within a condominium project, cooperative project, or planned unit development to the association of apartment owners or the residential cooperative housing corporation of the leasehold units. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2022 and ending prior to 1/1/2030. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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CPN, WAM |
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RELATING TO SPECIAL PURPOSE DIGITAL CURRENCY LICENSURE. Establishes a program for the licensure, regulation, and oversight of digital currency companies. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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CPN, WAM |
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RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII. Appropriates funds to the University of Hawaii Pamantasan Council for three full-time equivalent academic and support services specialist positions.
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HRE, WAM |
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RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION. Requires the Department of Accounting and General Services to collaborate with the Department of Transportation to enable parking stall sharing among public employees, accommodate more electric vehicle charging stations, and provide bicycle storage lockers at facilities where parking is made available to public employees. Requires new public housing developments' parking stalls to accommodate electric vehicle charging stations and bicycle storage lockers. Effective 7/1/2112. (SD1)
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GVO/TCA, WAM |
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RELATING TO STUDENT TRANSPORTATION. Requires the Department of Education to collect certain data on city bus pass usage for public high school and charter school students. Requires an annual report to the Legislature. Appropriates funds to the Department of Education to provide public high school and charter school students with bus passes.
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EDU, WAM |
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PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE VI, SECTION 3, OF THE HAWAII STATE CONSTITUTION TO INCREASE THE MANDATORY RETIREMENT AGE FOR STATE JUSTICES AND JUDGES. Proposes a constitutional amendment to increase the mandatory retirement age for justices and judges from seventy to seventy-five years of age.
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JDC, WAM |
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RELATING TO THE ELECTION OF THE PRESIDENT. Establishes presidential preference primaries. Makes an appropriation. (SD1)
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JDC, WAM |
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RELATING TO ELECTRONIC CITATIONS. Establishes statewide electronic citation program under the Judiciary. Appropriates funds.
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JDC, WAM |
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RELATING TO THE COUNTIES. Authorizes certain counties to use county surcharge on GET revenues and fuel tax revenues for the repair and maintenance of private roadways that are open to and used by the public. (SD1)
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PSM, WAM |
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RELATING TO HOUSING. Requires rental housing projects to maintain, in perpetuity, 50% of the project's units for certain low-income tenants in order to be eligible for the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation's rental assistance program.
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HOU, WAM |
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PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO THE HAWAII STATE CONSTITUTION TO PROTECT INDIVIDUAL REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS. Proposes a constitutional amendment to protect an individual's reproductive freedom in their most intimate decisions, including the right to abortion and contraceptives. (SD1)
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JDC, WAM |
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RELATING TO HEALTHCARE PRECEPTORS. Expands the definition of preceptor to allow for improved accessibility for providers to receive income tax credits. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD1)
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HHS, WAM |
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RELATING TO THE STATE LIBRARY SYSTEM. Authorizes the State Librarian, with approval from the Board of Education, to impose and collect rates, rents, fees, fines and charges for the use of state library facilities and revise rates, rents, fees, and charges as necessary.
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EDU, WAM |
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RELATING TO WASTE-TO-ENERGY. Requires the Hawaii State Energy Office to enter into a public‑private partnership to develop a waste-to-energy generating facility. (SD1)
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EET/WTL, WAM |
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RELATING TO HOUSING. Creates the Rental Deposit Loan Program. Allows the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to develop certain housing projects that are exempt from laws, rules, and ordinances, including income restrictions, under certain circumstances. Creates tax incentives for the development of affordable housing. Amends the definition of "history property". Temporarily allows third-party reviews of application and notifications to the State Historic Preservation Division for five years. Authorizes counties to promote certain labor standards through zoning ordinances. Includes off-site construction of a public work project under Hawaii's law on the wages and hours of employees on public works. Requires that all orders from the Governor to set aside public lands for the development of affordable housing contain a provision that the construction of the development be subject to Hawaii's law on the wages and hours of employees on public works. Appropriates funds. Effective 01/01/2024. (SD1)
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HOU/WTL, WAM |
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RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII. Requires the University of Hawaii to submit annual reports of all University employees who performed work from a location outside of the State during the applicable year to the Legislature no later than December 31 of that year. (SD1)
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HRE/LBT, WAM |
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RELATING TO GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY. Requires any report of a study or an audit enacted with a legislative appropriation or adopted by concurrent resolution and conducted by an executive department or agency, to be submitted to the Senate President, Speaker of the House of Representatives, the chairs of the appropriate subject matter committee of each house, and the Legislative Reference Bureau library. Requires a public hearing or informational briefing within one year of receipt of the report, except under certain circumstances. Requires a public hearing or informational briefing within one year of the publication of the performance audit reports. Exempts financial and other regularly occurring audits. Requires state departments and agencies to submit a report to the Legislature on certain information regarding funded state programs enacted into law within a year of passage. Takes effect 7/1/2112. (SD1)
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GVO, WAM |
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RELATING TO PROCUREMENT. Allows agencies to rank fewer than three persons for professional services when fewer than three qualified persons respond to the solicitation or request to use alternative procurement procedures when no qualified person responds to the solicitation. Effective July 1, 2112. (SD1)
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GVO, WAM |
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RELATING TO CORRECTIONS. Requires the Department of Public Safety to install digital cameras in all guard control rooms in any correctional center housing women. Appropriates funds. (SD1)
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PSM, WAM |
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RELATING TO MEDICAID. Appropriates funds for the achievement of full funding, including estimated payment increases, of Medicaid Home- and Community-Based Services. (SD1)
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HHS, WAM |
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RELATING TO THE STATE ARCHIVES. Establishes additional funding sources for, and authorizes additional expenditures of moneys in, the state archives preservation and long-term access special fund. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2112. (SD1)
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GVO, WAM |
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RELATING TO ADDRESS CONFIDENTIALITY. Establishes the Address Confidentiality Program Governance Committee within the Department of Law Enforcement. Changes the governmental entity responsible for the administration of the Address Confidentiality Program from the Office of the Lieutenant Governor to the Department of Law Enforcement beginning 1/1/2024. Appropriates funds for full-time equivalent positions, operating costs, and equipment to support the Department of Law Enforcement's Criminal Justice Data Center in administering the Address Confidentiality Program. Takes effect 1/1/2024. (SD1)
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PSM/JDC, WAM |
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RELATING TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING. Establishes a working group within the Office of the Governor for administrative purposes to ascertain the State's available water resources and water system source capacity and streamline well permit approval processes to further plan for the development of affordable housing. Requires the working group to inventory all available water resources statewide and identify sources of aquifer replenishment in relation to affordable housing development. Requires an interim and final report to the Legislature. (SD1)
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HOU/WTL, WAM |
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RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII COLLEGE OF TROPICAL AGRICULTURE AND HUMAN RESOURCES. Appropriates funds to the University of Hawaii to establish five full-time equivalent (5.0 FTE) extension specialist agent positions at the College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources.
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HRE/AEN, WAM |
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_____________________________________ Senator Donovan M. Dela Cruz Chair |