THE SENATE

THE TWENTY-SEVENTH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2014

 

COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS

Senator David Y. Ige, Chair

Senator Michelle N. Kidani, Vice Chair

 

NOTICE OF DECISION MAKING

 

 

DATE:

Thursday, April 03, 2014

TIME:

10:05 a.m.

PLACE:

Conference Room 211

State Capitol

415 South Beretania Street

 

A G E N D A

 

The following measures were previously heard in their respective standing committees:

 

HB 1893, HD1, SD1

      (SSCR2913)

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO TAXATION.

Authorizes income tax return designations to the disaster response special fund.  (SD1)

 

HMS, WAM

HB 2277, HD1, SD1

      (SSCR2910)

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO HEALTH CARE TRANSFORMATION.

Establishes the Office of Health Care Transformation within the State Health Planning and Development Agency, and changes the agency's name to the Hawaii Health Care Planning and Policy Authority.  Establishes the Health Care Transformation Special Fund.  Extends from July 1, 2015, to June 30, 2017, the Health Care Transformation Program, which is temporarily placed within the Office of the Governor, and effective July 1, 2017, transfers the Health Care Transformation Program to the Hawaii Health Care Planning and Policy Authority.  Appropriates funds.  (SD1)

 

HTH, WAM

HB 2597, HD2

      (SSCR2970)

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO TEACHERS.

Authorizes under the teacher national board certification incentive program an additional per year bonus for teachers who maintain current national board certification and teach at a school in a focus, priority, or superintendent's zone.  Deletes obsolete references.  Effective July 1, 2030.  (HB2597 HD2)

 

EDU, WAM

 

 

 

 

Decision making meeting only, no oral testimony will be accepted.

 

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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 David Y. Ige

Chair