THE SENATE
THE TWENTY-NINTH LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2017

COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY AND LABOR
Senator Gilbert S.C. Keith-Agaran, Chair
Senator Karl Rhoads, Vice-Chair

MEASURES DEFERRED TO TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2017

DATE:

Tuesday, February 28, 2017

TIME:

9:00 AM

PLACE:

Conference Room 016
State Capitol
415 South Beretania Street

DECISION MAKING ON THE FOLLOWING MEASURE(S):

SB150
Status and Testimony

RELATING TO ELECTIONS.
Requires candidates for president and vice president to provide a copy of each candidate's most recent income tax return, in order to be included on the state ballot.

JDL

SB645
Status and Testimony

RELATING TO SERVICE OF PROCESS.
Amends sections of title 31, Hawaii Revised Statutes, including the Administrative Process for Child Support Enforcement and the Uniform Child-Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act, to allow for service by publication or by any other manner that is reasonably calculated to give the party actual notice of proceedings and an opportunity to be heard when respondents cannot be located or personally served in all family court proceedings.

JDL
[Measure added on 2/1/2017]

SB337
Status and Testimony

RELATING TO ELECTIONS.
Provides that a candidate committee shall not be required to file a statement of information for electioneering communications made by a candidate committee that clearly identifies the communication as being paid for by the candidate committee.  Repeals the requirement that a candidate committee file a statement of information of the names and addresses of all persons who contributed to the committee or the organization for the purpose of publishing or broadcasting the electioneering communications.

JDL
[Measure added on 2/2/2017]

SB309
Status and Testimony

RELATING TO ELECTIONS.
Excludes any advertisement by a candidate or candidate committee from the reporting requirements for electioneering communications; provided that the advertisement is in compliance with the law regarding advertisements.

JDL
[Measure added on 2/2/2017]

SB1282
Status and Testimony

RELATING TO THE OFFENSE OF ABUSE OF FAMILY OR HOUSEHOLD MEMBERS.
Establishes that the offense of abuse of a family or household member is a petty misdemeanor with a jail sentence of no less than forty-eight hours and no more than thirty days.  Establishes that for a second offense that occurs within five years of the first conviction of the offense of abuse of a family or household member is a misdemeanor and the person shall be termed a "repeat offender".  Establishes that a third or subsequent offense that occurs within five, rather than two, years of a second or subsequent conviction of the offense is a class C felony.  Allows the prosecution to use prior convictions of the offense of abuse of a family or household member as evidence in the instant offense committed by a repeat offender.  Requires that court ordered domestic violence intervention programs include anger management training.  Requires the judiciary, in cooperation with the prosecutor of each county and police department of each county, to annually compile and report on statistics regarding arrests, charges, and convictions based on the offense of abuse of a family or household member.  Repeals and reenacts the offense of abuse of a family or household member on 06/30/20.

JDL
[Measure added on 2/8/2017]

SB489
Status and Testimony

RELATING TO RESPONSE TO WRIT FOR CERTIORARI.
Extends the time period for filing a response to an application for writ of certiorari with the supreme court from 15 days to 30 days.

JDL
[Measure added on 2/8/2017]

SB886
Status and Testimony

RELATING TO LEAVES OF ABSENCE.
Amend section 78-23(c), Hawaii Revised Statutes, to allow the Employee's Designation of Beneficiary form to be kept in the department where the employee is employed and also to permit the designation to be filed and maintained electronically.

JDL
[Measure added on 2/9/2017]

SB492
Status and Testimony

RELATING TO CRIMINAL TRESPASS.
Amends the conditions under which the definition of "enter or remain unlawfully" shall apply with reference to criminal trespass in the second degree.

JDL
[Measure added on 2/10/2017]

No testimony will be accepted.

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.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT THE COMMITTEE CLERK AT 808-586-7344.