COMMITTEE ON FINANCE

Wednesday, April 2, 2003

Conference Room 308; State Capitol

2:30 p.m. AGENDA #1:

SB 254

SD2

(SSCR873)

RELATING TO AGRICULTURE.

Amends an existing appropriation of capital improvement funds to provide for the demolition of the bridge in the Puukapu Homesteads, Second Series Puukapu, South Kohala, Island of Hawaii, and the construction of a new bridge.

FIN

SB 745

SD2, HD1

(HSCR1073)

RELATING TO EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES.

Requires the Department of Health to integrate emergency aeromedical services into statewide emergency medical services. Appropriates funds for aeromedical services for Maui county, ambulance services for Waianae, and advance life support ambulance services for parts of Maui and Hawaii.

HLT, FIN

SB 975

HD1

(HSCR1119)

RELATING TO GOVERNMENT.

Establishes limited liability for the State and counties from tort liability arising out of use of skateboard parks.

TAC, JUD, FIN

SB 1647

SD2, HD1

(HSCR947)

RELATING TO SERVICES FOR INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE BLIND OR VISUALLY IMPAIRED.

Authorizes the Public Utilities to collect fees to fund telecommunications services for the blind and visually impaired.

HSH, FIN

SB 528

SD2, HD1

(HSCR980)

RELATING TO THE TRANSFER OF COUNTY LANDS AND IMPROVEMENTS.

Transfers lands and improvements utilized by the department of education in the county of Hawaii to the State.

WLH, FIN

Decision making to follow.

 

 

 

 

3:00 p.m. AGENDA #2:

THE PROPOSED HOUSE DRAFTS ARE AVAILABLE IN ROOM 306 OF THE STATE CAPITOL.

SB 325

 

PROPOSED HD1

RELATING TO SPECIAL PURPOSE REVENUE BONDS.

PROPOSED HD1:

Authorizes the issuance of SPRBs for the planning, design, construction, and equipping of, and the acquisition of lands for, a plasma municipal solid waste processing system to convert solid wastes into electricity, and chemically and biologically inert slag, on the island of Oahu.

HLT, FIN

SB 1675

 

 

PROPOSED HD3

RELATING TO HEALTH.

Transfers the Executive Office on Aging from Office of the Governor to the Department of Health.

PROPOSED HD3:

Adds provisions to require a management audit of the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation.

HLT, JUD, FIN

SB 610

SD2, HD2

PROPOSED HD3

RELATING TO INDIVIDUAL CLAIMS RESOLUTION UNDER THE HAWAIIAN HOME LANDS TRUST.

PROPOSED HD3:

Replaces the individual claims review panel with a court-appointed special master to expedite the settlement of the remaining Hawaiian Home Lands trust claims; appropriates a blank amount for payments to claimants awarded damages by the Hawaiian home lands trust individual claims review panel and for claims to be adjudicated by the Special Master.

WLH, JUD, FIN

SB 1151

HD1

PROPOSED HD2

RELATING TO THE OFFICE OF HAWAIIAN AFFAIRS.

PROPOSED HD2:

Clarifies the lands comprising and the revenues derived from, the public land trust under the State Constitution; excludes revenues derived from improvements to the land and by undertakings by the Housing and Community Development Corporation of Hawaii, Agribusiness Development Corporation, and High Technology Development Corporation.

WLH, FIN

Decision making to follow.

 

5:00 p.m. AGENDA #3:

Decision making only (heard on March 26, 2003):

SB 248

SD3

(HSCR920)

RELATING TO THE CONVENTION CENTER.

Raises limit on amount of revenues that may be deposited into the Convention Center Enterprise Special Fund.

TAC, FIN

SB 919

SD1, HD1

(HSCR1113)

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR BIOREMEDIATION RESEARCH.

Appropriates funds for biotreatability evaluation, additional research, and small-scale testing of bioremediating contaminated sediments in statewide waterways by the University of Hawaii, college of tropical agriculture and human resources (CTAHR).

 

HED, FIN

(heard on March 31, 2003):

SB 855

SD1, HD2

(HSCR1151)

RELATING TO ENERGY.

Establishes renewable energy tax credit for systems installed after June 30, 2003.

EDB, EEP, FIN

SB 354

SD2, HD1

(HSCR1146)

RELATING TO ENERGY.

Extends heat pump and ice storage systems tax credits to 2007; Specifies tax credit amounts for heat pumps and ice storage systems.

EEP, FIN

SB 1621

(SSCR832)

RELATING TO STANDARD DEDUCTION AMOUNT.

Changes standard deduction amounts.

FIN

SB 1399

SD2, HD1

(HSCR1135)

RELATING TO A LONG-TERM CARE TAX CREDIT.

Provides tax credit to resident taxpayers for long-term care insurance premiums at lesser of $2,500 or 50 per cent of the amount of the insurance premium paid.

HSH/HLT, FIN

SB 1088

SD2, HD1

(HSCR1142)

RELATING TO LONG-TERM CARE.

Establishes a long-term care income tax to pay for long-term care benefits. Establishes long-term care income tax credit for amounts paid for purchase of long-term care insurance.

HLT/HSH, FIN

SB 1629

SD1, HD1

(HSCR999)

RELATING TO THE GENERAL EXCISE TAX.

Exempts from the general excise tax amounts received by: (1) A submanager of an association of apartment owners of a condominium or a nonprofit homeowners or community association in reimbursement of sums paid for common expenses; (2) An operator of a hotel from a timeshare association equal to and which are disbursed by the operator for employee wages, salaries, payroll taxes, insurance premiums, and benefits; (3) A suboperator of a hotel from the owner of the hotel, operator of the hotel, or a timeshare association equal to and which are disbursed by the suboperator for employee wages, salaries, payroll taxes, insurance premiums, and benefits.

TAC, CPC, FIN

SB 359

SD2, HD1

(HSCR1023)

RELATING TO FILM INDUSTRY.

Increases the motion picture and television production tax credit up to 8 percent for costs incurred in counties with a population over 700,000, and up to 10 percent for costs incurred in counties with a population of 700,000 or less; includes commercials; requires the Hawaii television and film development board to review tax incentives for the purchase, utilization, and sale of television and motion picture production equipment in the State.

TAC/EDB, FIN

SB 377

SD1, HD1

(HSCR1059)

RELATING TO TAXATION.

Establishes a tax credit for qualified costs at Ko Olina Resort and Marina.

TAC/EDB, FIN

 

(heard on March 27, 2003):

SB 1241

HD1

(HSCR1074)

RELATING TO CANCER EXAMINATIONS.

Repeals requirement for hospitals to offer a uterine cytologic examination for cancer to every female in-patient 20 years of age or older unless the exam is contraindicated by attending physician or was performed within the previous year.

HLT, FIN

SB 1661

SD2

(HSCR938)

RELATING TO THE HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF HAWAII.

Requires the Housing and Community Development Corporation of Hawaii to complete the construction of the Villages of Kapolei within five years of effective date of this Act.

HSH, FIN

SB 945

SD1

(HSCR1115)

RELATING TO CHILDREN AND YOUTH.

Allocates moneys from Tobacco Settlement Special Fund to Office of Youth Services, DOE, and counties to establish dedicated source of funding for nonschool-hour youth programs.

HSH/HLT, EDN, FIN

SB 1332

SD2, HD1

(HSCR1082)

RELATING TO THE COMPENSATION OF OFFICIALS IN THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH OF STATE GOVERNMENT.

Establishes an executive salary commission to review and recommend the salaries of the Governor, the Lieutenant Governor, the department heads of the Executive Branch, executive officers, and the deputy department heads. Provides that commission convene in the month of November 2003, and convene every eight years thereafter and that recommendations be made to the legislature.

LAB, FIN

SB 1333

SD1, HD1

(HSCR1083)

RELATING TO THE COMPENSATION OF OFFICIALS IN THE JUDICIAL BRANCH OF STATE GOVERNMENT.

Authorizes the judicial salary commission to determine salaries for justices, judges, and appointed administrative judiciary officers effective July 1, 2004, and every eight years thereafter, subject to legislative and gubernatorial approval.

LAB, FIN

SB 830

SD1, HD2

(HSCR1122)

RELATING TO CRIMINAL HISTORY RECORD CHECKS.

Implements the recommendations of the criminal history record check working group established pursuant to Act 263, SLH 2001, to address inconsistencies and duplicative statutory language authorizing record checks for employment background checks, certifications, and licensing of individuals.

LAB, JUD, FIN

SB 635

SD2, HD1

(HSCR1093)

RELATING TO TRAFFIC FINES.

Establishes a problem solving courts special fund for various treatment programs as directed by the chief justice of the judiciary. Directs $_____ in fiscal years 2003-2004 and 2004-2005 from uncontested fines, forfeitures, assessments, and penalties for traffic infractions to the judiciary computer system special fund, and deposits the excess uncontested fines, forfeitures, assessments, and penalties for traffic infractions, grants, donations, and other funding sources into the problem solving courts special fund.

JUD, FIN

SB 1393

SD2, HD1

(HSCR1120)

RELATING TO THE EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS OF STATE GOVERNMENT.

Establishes a new department of corrections, transfers correctional programs from the department of public safety to the department of corrections, and changes the name of the department of public safety to the department of law enforcement to more accurately reflect its mission.

PSM/LAB, JUD, FIN

(heard on March 28, 2003):

SB 1446

SD2, HD1

(HSCR1068)

RELATING TO TECHNOLOGY.

Creates a revolving fund for developing and assisting the development of healthcare and biomedical technology to detect cancer, including cervical cancer, in its early stages.

EDB/HLT, FIN

SB 426

SD1, HD1

(HSCR1064)

RELATING TO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.

Extends the authority of the Hawaii community development authority to issue special facility revenue bonds to the fiscal biennium 2003-2005 for construction of an ocean science center in Kakaako; increases special facility revenue bond authorization to $40,000,000; amends definition of "special facility".

EDB, FIN

SB 58

SD1, HD1

(HSCR1046)

RELATING TO SCHOOL REPAIR AND MAINTENANCE.

Appropriates funds for a grant to Hawaii 3R's for the school repair and maintenance fund. Appropriates funds for a position with the DAGS to coordinate the public and private efforts to repair and maintain public schools.

EDN, FIN

SB 420

SD1

(SSCR835)

RELATING TO STATE FINANCES.

Eliminates certain funds that do not meet the criteria for continuation, and transfers excess balances from these special and revolving funds to the general fund.

FIN

SB 1305

SD1

(SSCR827)

RELATING TO STATE FUNDS.

Transfers the excess balances in special and revolving funds to the state general fund.

FIN

SB 1311

SD1

(SSCR912)

RELATING TO SPECIAL FUNDS.

Repeals the exemption of certain special funds from the assessment of central services expenses and pro rata share of departmental administrative expenses.

FIN

SB 1061

SD1, HD1

(HSCR936)

RELATING TO ADULT RESIDENTIAL CARE HOMES.

Creates a new Type IA Adult Residential Care Home (ARCH) category. Allows various announced and unannounced inspections and visits to ARCHs during or outside normal business hours. Creates an ARCH liability insurance assigned risk pool.

HLT/HSH, FIN

 

 

COMMITTEE ON HEALTH

Thursday, April 3, 2003

8:30 a.m. to 9:00 a.m.

Conference Room 329; State Capitol

AGENDA:

HCR 82/HR 81

URGING HAWAII HEALTH SYSTEMS CORPORATION AND ST. FRANCIS HEALTHCARE SYSTEM TO CONTINUE THEIR PARTNERSHIP IN SERVING THE NEEDS OF DIALYSIS PATIENTS IN HAWAII.

HLT

 

St. Francis Healthcare Systems; Dialysis

 

HCR 148/HR 119

STRONGLY URGING THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH TO REQUIRE THE FULL IMMUNIZATION AGAINST THE HEPATITIS B VIRUS OF ALL PERSONS IN THE STATE WHO ATTEND ANY INSTITUTION OF HIGHER EDUCATION.

HLT, FIN

 

DOH; Hepatitis V immunization for All Up to Age Eighteen.

 

HCR 103/SCR 16

REQUESTING THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH TO DEVELOP PUBLIC HEALTH STRATEGIES TO ADDRESS THE HEPATITIS C PROBLEM.

HLT, FIN

 

Hepatitis C; Public Health Strategies.

 

HCR 73/HR 71

SUPPORTING THE TURNING POINT INITIATIVE PARTNERSHIPS WORKING TO IMPROVE PUBLIC HEALTH SYSTEMS AND REQUESTING THE GOVERNOR AND THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH TO EXPLORE HAWAII'S PARTICIPATION IN TURNING POINT.

HLT, FIN

 

Turning Point Public Health Initiatives.

 

HR 122

REQUESTING THE LEGISLATURE REFERENCE BUREAU TO CONDUCT A STUDY ON THE PROVISIONS OF THE MEDICAL MARIJUANA LAW.

HLT, JUD, FIN

 

Medical Marijuana.

 

 

 

HCR 65/HR 66

STRONGLY URGING THE GLAXOSMITHKLINE CORPORATION TO IMMEDIATELY RESUME PRESCRIPTION DRUG DELIVERIES TO CANADIAN BASED MAIL-ORDER PHARMACIES.

INT, HLT

 

GlaxoSmithKline; Resume Pharmaceutical Deliveries to Canadian Pharmacies.

 

Decision making to follow.

 

COMMITTEE ON HEALTH

Thursday, April 3, 2003

9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.

Rm. 329; State Capitol

AGENDA:

TO REDUCE OR PREVENT THE SPREAD OF SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME

This informational briefing will focus on SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME (SARS), which is the deadly flu-like disease, with no known treatment, that was first identified in China. Currently, China has quarantined over 1,000 people who either have symptoms or had close contact with an active case. The United States currently has 62 cases of SARS.

This briefing will focus on local and federal efforts to identify and contain the introduction of SARS in Hawaii and the United States. Among the actions to be reviewed are: Distributing health alert notices to air travelers, working with federal and state departments to assist in the identification and investigation of suspected cases of SARS and a discussion on ways to reduce or prevent the spread of SARS in Hawaii and the United States.

Representatives from the Department of Health, Department of Transportation and other state and federal agencies have been invited to participate in this informational briefing.

 

 

COMMITTEE ON HEALTH

Thursday, April 3, 2003

10:30 a.m. – 12:00 noon

Rm. 329; State Capitol

AGENDA:

ORAL HEALTH STRATEGIC PLANNING GROUP

This informational briefing will focus on THE GOALS AND OBJECTIVES OF THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS ORAL HEALTH TASK FORCE. This briefing shall seek to establish priorities and appropriate goals to maximize oral health care in Hawaii. This review will also focus on:

Representatives from the Department of Health, Department of Human Services, University of Hawaii Dental Hygiene, Hawaii Medical Service Association, Hawaii Dental Association, Hawaii Rural health Association, Hawaii Dental Hygienists Association, Hawaii Dental Services, Hawaii (Big Island) Dental Task force, Kauai Dental Task Force, Maui Dental Alliance, Oahu Rural Health Association and Primary Care Association, Koku Kalihi Valley have been invited to participate in this informational briefing.

 

 

COMMITTEE ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND BUSINESS CONCERNS AND COMMITTEE ON ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

Thursday, April 3, 2003

9:00 a.m.

Conference Room 325; State Capitol

AGENDA:

HCR 55

REQUESTING THE DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, AND TOURISM TO ASSIST IN THE ACCOMMODATION OF A PLASMA-ARC TORCH FACILITY IN THE STATE.

EDB/EEP, FIN

Decision making to follow.

 

Decision making only (heard on March 31, 2003):

HCR 57/HR 60

ENDORSING THE SMALL BUSINESS BILL OF RIGHTS.

EDB, FIN

HCR 150/HR 121

CONVENING AN ECONOMIC SUMMIT.

EDB, FIN

HCR 156

REQUESTING THE LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE BUREAU TO CONDUCT A STUDY ON THE ABUSES OF ACT 221 SESSION LAWS OF HAWAII 2001, AND MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS TO CORRECT THOSE ABUSES.

EDB, FIN