HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

THE TWENTY-SEVENTH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2014

 

COMMITTEE ON CONSUMER PROTECTION AND COMMERCE

Rep. Angus L.K. McKelvey, Chair

Rep. Derek S.K. Kawakami, Vice Chair

 

Rep. Della Au Belatti

Rep. Chris Lee

Rep. Tom Brower

Rep. Mark M. Nakashima

Rep. Romy M. Cachola

Rep. Marcus R. Oshiro

Rep. Richard Creagan

Rep. Clift Tsuji

Rep. Cindy Evans

Rep. Ryan I. Yamane

Rep. Sharon E. Har

Rep. Bob McDermott

Rep. Ken Ito

Rep. Cynthia Thielen

 

NOTICE OF DECISION MAKING

 

DATE:

Wednesday, January 29, 2014

TIME:

2:00 pm

PLACE:

Conference Room 325

State Capitol

415 South Beretania Street

 

A G E N D A

 

The following measure(s) were previously heard on January 22, 2014.

 

HB 474

Status

RELATING TO TRANSIENT ACCOMMODATIONS.

Clarifies that an association's duty to report to the department of taxation is limited to the relevant information an association actually receives from a transient accommodation operator.  Limits the fines imposed on an association while also holding an owner or operator of a transient accommodation accountable for failure to report.

 

CPC

The following measure(s) were previously heard on January 27, 2014.

 

HB 1998

Status

RELATING TO CABLE TELEVISION SYSTEMS.

Requires the director of commerce and consumer affairs to order cable franchise applicants to provide equipment and maintenance sufficient to ensure that cable subscribers in the franchise area are able to receive public, educational, and governmental access channels equivalent in quality to local full-power broadcast signals carried on the cable system.

 

CPC, FIN

HB 2004

Status

RELATING TO CABLE TELEVISION SYSTEMS.

Removes the sunset provision in Act 19, Session Laws of Hawaii 2011, thereby permanently allowing the director of commerce and consumer affairs to designate an access organization to oversee public, educational, and governmental channels

 

CPC, JUD

HB 2003

Status

RELATING TO CYBERSECURITY.

Establishes the Hawaii cybersecurity, economic, education, and infrastructure security council to develop methods to improve the State's cybersecurity.

 

CPC, FIN

HB 1715

Status

RELATING TO THE INVESTOR EDUCATION PROGRAM.

Appropriates funds for the continued operation of the investor education program, targeted to kupuna, within the department of commerce and consumer affairs office of the securities commissioner.

 

CPC, FIN

HB 1888

Status

RELATING TO FISH LABELING.

Establishes a violation and penalties for the misbranding of fish or fish products that result in consumer illness.  Creates the fish misbranding special fund.

 

CPC, FIN

HB 2048

Status

RELATING TO INSURANCE CONTRACTS.

Makes clarifying amendments to the laws on general rules governing insurance contracts with respect to excepted lines of insurance and the conditions under which attorney's fees and costs of suit may be awarded.

 

CPC, JUD

HB 1639

Status

RELATING TO UNLICENSED CONTRACTOR FRAUD.

Clarifies the offense of unlicensed contractor fraud by specifying that the "intent to deprive" may be formed before or after the person obtains or exerts control over the property of another.

 

CPC, JUD

HB 1763

Status

RELATING TO PRESCRIPTION DRUGS.

Mandates insurance commissioner to assess a fine of up to $10,000 for each violation by a pharmacy benefit manager or prescription drug benefit plan provider.

 

CPC, JUD

HB 2047

Status

RELATING TO PROCUREMENT.

Prohibits governmental procurement contracts of any amount that are exclusively for the services of contractors, engineers, architects, surveyors, or landscape architects, from requiring the person to defend the governmental body against liability not arising from the contractor's own negligence or fault.  Provides that the contractor may still be required to indemnify and hold harmless the governmental body from claims arising out of or resulting from the negligent, reckless, or wrongful acts, errors, or omissions of the contractor.

 

CPC, JUD

HB 1950

Status

RELATING TO SEAWATER AIR CONDITIONING.

Enables the production of air conditioning in an area or district from a seawater air conditioning cooling system to benefit as an "eligible business activity" under the State's enterprise zones program.

 

CPC, FIN

HB 1951

Status

RELATING TO SPECIAL PURPOSE REVENUE BONDS TO ASSIST SEAWATER AIR CONDITIONING PROJECTS ON OAHU.

Extends the authorization of the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds to Honolulu Seawater Air Conditioning, LLC, for the purpose of design and construction of a seawater air conditioning district cooling system in downtown Honolulu, for an additional five years.  Effective June 30, 2014.

 

CPC, FIN

 

 

As this is a decision making meeting only, no public testimony will be accepted.

 

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Rep. Angus L.K. McKelvey

Chair