OFFICE OF THE SPEAKER

TWENTY-FOURTH STATE LEGISLATURE

 

COMMITTEE REFERRALS

 

 

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NO. 1

1st LEGISLATIVE DAY-JANUARY 16, 2008

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Committee Abbreviations:

 


AGR -  Agriculture

CPC -   Consumer Protection & Commerce

EDB -  Economic Development & Business Concerns

EDN -  Education

EEP -   Energy & Environmental Protection

FIN -    Finance

HED -  Higher Education

HLT -   Health

HSH -  Human Services & Housing

INT -    International Affairs

JUD -   Judiciary

LAB -  Labor & Public Employment

LMG -  Legislative Management

PSM -   Public Safety & Military Affairs

TAC -  Tourism & Culture

TRN -  Transportation

WLH - Water, Land, Ocean Resources & Hawaiian Affairs


 

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HOUSE BILLS

 

 

 

Committee

H.B. NO.

 

REFERRAL

 

 

 

 

1968

RELATING TO PUBLIC MEETINGS.

Permits board members, numbering less than quorum, to:  (1) discuss their individual positions related to official board business at other board meetings and legislative public hearings; (2) attend and participate in discussions at presentations, such as community meetings; and (3) discuss membership to a board's committees in private.  Requires a quorum for discussion prior and related to voting and for voting to validate board actions.

 

JUD

1969

RELATING TO WORKERS' COMPENSATION.

Excludes services for a limited liability company or limited liability partnership from the definition of "employment" if the person performing services has a fifty per cent or higher transferable interest in the limited liability company or limited liability partnership.

 

LAB, CPC

1970

RELATING TO PREPAID CALLING CARDS.

Requires companies selling prepaid calling cards to disclose the terms and services of the cards.  Makes a violation of disclosure requirement an unfair or deceptive act or practice.

 

CPC

1971

RELATING TO VACCINATIONS.

Makes all vaccinations in the State non-compulsory but only recommended unless there is danger of an epidemic from any communicable disease.  Allows exemptions from vaccinations on any grounds.

 

HLT, EDN

1972

RELATING TO TRAFFIC.

Requires DOT to establish and operate a county-wide highway traffic advisory radio system to advise motorists of updated current traffic conditions in any county having a population of greater than 300,000.  Appropriation.

 

TRN, FIN

1973

RELATING TO AN ENVIRONMENTAL COURT.

Establishes environmental courts as divisions within the circuit court to handle complaints, administrative appeals, and certain other judicial proceedings of an environmental nature.

 

EEP, JUD, FIN

1974

RELATING TO INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS.

Amends the Hawaii Revised Statutes with regard to international affairs.

 

INT

1975

RELATING TO INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS.

Amends the Hawaii Revised Statutes with regard to international affairs.

 

INT

1976

RELATING TO CONSTRUCTION OF LAWS.

Repeals law providing that each of the terms "or" and "and" has the meaning of the other or both.

 

JUD

1977

RELATING TO TRAFFIC VIOLATIONS.

Establishes a $150 fine for running a red light.

 

TRN, JUD

1978

RELATING TO PUBLIC ORDER.

Makes permanent the prohibition against urinating or defecating in public or within the boundaries of downtown Honolulu.

 

JUD

1979

RELATING TO STATE SALARIES.

Establishes a 3 year statute of limitation for recovering the overpayment of state salaries.

 

LAB, FIN

1980

RELATING TO TRAFFIC INFRACTIONS.

Requires district court to delete from a driver's traffic abstract any violation which the driver is found not to have committed.

 

TRN, JUD

1981

RELATING TO WASTE PREVENTION.

Prohibits publishers of telephone directories from distributing directories without first obtaining prior authorization from intended recipients in the form of an affirmative confirmation expressing the recipient's willingness to accept delivery.  Defines "telephone directory".  Requires department of health to adopt rules.

 

EEP, CPC

1982

RELATING TO CUSTOMER SERVICE.

Appropriates funds for the ombudsman to develop and implement a pilot program using informed customers to investigate customer service at state agencies.

 

LAB, LMG, FIN

1983

RELATING TO LIQUOR LICENSES.

Extends the period of time, from 1 to 3 years, that an applicant who has been denied or refused a liquor license must wait before becoming eligible to submit another application.

 

CPC, JUD

1984

RELATING TO PUBLIC HOUSING.

Prohibits the consumption of any liquor on any public sidewalk or common area within a public housing project.

 

HSH, JUD

1985

RELATING TO PUBLIC HOUSING.

Amends criminal trespass in the first degree to include a person who enters or remains unlawfully in or upon the premises of a public housing project after reasonable request or warning to leave by housing authorities or a police officer.  Excludes an invited guest.

 

HSH, JUD

1986

RELATING TO NEWS MEDIA PRIVILEGE.

Provides a news media privilege to allow reporters to protect their sources of information.

 

JUD

1987

RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLES.

Prohibits young drivers from using a telephone while operating a motor vehicle.

 

TRN, JUD

1988

RELATING TO MACADAMIA NUTS.

Establishes a macadamia nut commission to develop marketing and promotional programs for the macadamia nut industry in the State.  Appropriation.

 

AGR/CPC, FIN

1989

RELATING TO VETERANS.

Requires director of office of veterans' services to deposit gifts into an account in the state treasury to be known as the veterans' gift trust fund.

 

PSM, FIN

1990

RELATING TO ENERGY RESOURCES.

Prohibits condominium associations and like entities from preventing homeowners of single-family residential dwellings or townhouses from installing a solar energy device that meets engineered designed systems.

 

EEP, CPC

1991

RELATING TO THE STATE PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM.

Appropriates funds for the state public library system to establish an outreach program, including personnel and supplies, to identify, develop, and implement programs for underserved areas in Hawaii.

 

EDN, FIN

1992

RELATING TO MEDICAL LIABILITY.

Limits noneconomic damages that may be recovered in medical tort actions.  Limits the amount of attorney's fees that may be collected in connection with a medical tort action.  Amends the definition of "health care provider" and "medical tort".

 

HLT, CPC, JUD

1993

RELATING TO HEALTH.

Appropriates funds to provide care for uninsured Hawaii residents.

 

HLT, FIN

1994

RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE SIXTH REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT.

Appropriates funds for district CIP for the Sixth Representative District.

 

FIN

1995

RELATING TO TORTS.

Limits noneconomic damages in medical tort actions to $500,000.

 

HLT, CPC, JUD

1996

RELATING TO HEALTH CARE.

Establishes Health Enterprise Zones in the state to provide incentives for health care providers to serve in health professional shortage areas of the state.

 

HLT, FIN

1997

RELATING TO ENERGY EFFICIENCY.

Requires the use of compact fluorescent light bulbs in all state and county facilities.

 

EEP, LAB, FIN

1998

RELATING TO THE NUMBER OF BLIND, DEAF, AND DEAF-BLIND PERSONS IN THE STATE OF HAWAII.

Appropriates funds for a survey of the number of blind, deaf, and deaf-blind persons in the State of Hawaii.

 

HSH, FIN

1999

RELATING TO HEALTH.

Appropriates funds for hearing and vision screening for newborns, children, and teenagers.

 

HSH/HLT, FIN

2000

RELATING TO HEALTH INSURANCE.

Requires that hearing aid devices be included in mandatory insurance coverage for medicaid and private health insurance.

 

HSH, CPC, FIN

2001

RELATING TO TELEPHARMACY.

Requires board of pharmacy to allow telepharmacy by certain federally qualified health centers participating in the federal 340B Pharmaceutical Purchasing Program administered by the United States Department of Health and Human Services.  Defines "telepharmacy" to limit dispensing to only acute medications.

 

HLT/HSH, CPC

2002

RELATING TO DEPOSIT BEVERAGE CONTAINERS.

Requires the refund value of a deposit beverage container to be marked directly on the container.

 

EEP, EDB

2003

RELATING TO THE HAWAII ENERGY POLICY FORUM.

Makes an appropriation for the continuation of the Hawaii Energy Policy Forum.

 

EEP, FIN

2004

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR A STUDY ON ENERGY EFFICIENT TRANSPORTATION STRATEGIES.

Appropriates funds to collect and analyze data and to develop a plan for developing, using, and maintaining a statewide transportation energy information and monitoring system.

 

EEP, TRN, FIN

2005

RELATING TO RENEWABLE ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES.

Expands the renewable energy technologies tax credit to include solar electric energy systems.

 

EEP, FIN

2006

RELATING TO ATTACHMENT AND EXECUTION.

Increases the real property exemption to $650,000 with respect to attachments and executions.

 

JUD, FIN

2007

RELATING TO CORRECTIONS.

Requires the auditor to conduct a financial and management audit of each commissary located in a Hawaii correctional facility, as well as commissaries located at out-of-state contracted correctional facilities where Hawaii inmates are confined.

 

PSM, LMG, FIN

2008

RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY.

Repeals section 353-32, Hawaii Revised Statutes, which provides that gifts of money or property donated to the department of public safety must be deposited in the state treasury and reported to the legislature by the department annually.

 

PSM, FIN

2009

RELATING TO CORRECTIONS.

Repeals section 353-33, Hawaii Revised Statutes, which establishes the correctional program revolving fund for the purpose of offsetting the cost of providing programs for inmates.

 

PSM, FIN

2010

RELATING TO ANATOMICAL GIFTS.

Enacts the Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act.

 

HLT, JUD

2011

RELATING TO BREAST CANCER.

Requires insurers, mutual benefit societies, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage for hospital stays of at least forty-eight hours in connection with mastectomies.

 

HLT, CPC

2012

RELATING TO HEALTH INSURANCE REIMBURSEMENTS.

Ensures physicians are reimbursed for services at a rate of not less than one hundred twenty-five per cent of medicare reimbursement rates.

 

HLT, CPC, FIN

2013

RELATING TO CANCER.

Requires insurers, mutual benefit societies, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage for oral chemotherapy.

 

HLT, CPC

2014

RELATING TO HEALTH INSURANCE.

Requires DOH, in collaboration with DCCA's Insurance Division, to develop and implement a health insurance plan for part-time workers and the uninsured.

 

HLT/EDB, CPC, FIN

2015

RELATING TO HEALTH.

Prohibits health plans from requiring prior authorization for persons before receiving general Obstetric/Gynecological services or treatment for Hepatitis C.

 

HLT, CPC

2016

RELATING TO HEALTH INSURANCE.

Includes methods of oral chemotherapy treatment in health insurances coverage.

 

HLT, CPC

2017

RELATING TO VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION.

Amends workers' compensation law to require that, as part of the process for returning an injured worker to suitable gainful employment, a vocational rehabilitation provider examine the feasibility of modified or other work at the employee's same employer.

 

LAB

2018

RELATING TO WORKERS' COMPENSATION.

Establishes a workers' compensation advisory council in the department of labor and industrial relations.

 

LAB, FIN

2019

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING AND A VETERANS CENTER.

Makes a grant to the Hawaii Island Veterans' Memorial, Inc. for plans, design, and construction of infrastructure to build affordable housing and a center for Hawaii's veterans.

 

FIN

2020

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR SMALL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT.

Appropriates funds to support the statewide economic development program of the Hawaii Small Business Development Center Network hosted by the University of Hawaii at Hilo.

 

HED/EDB, FIN

2021

RELATING TO SOLAR ENERGY.

Requires community and condominium associations and cooperatives to adopt rules regarding the placement of clotheslines by 12/31/09.  Requires community and condominium associations and cooperatives to enforce rules regarding placement of clotheslines on 01/01/10, and thereafter.

 

EEP, CPC

2022

RELATING TO CHILDREN'S HEALTH.

Provides a means for childhood screening required for entry into school, from birth to eight years of age, and establishes the Hawaii Childhood Screening Initiative Advisory Committee.

 

HLT, FIN

2023

RELATING TO DRUG ADDICTION TREATMENT.

Establishes a pilot project at Hina Mauka to treat crystal methamphetamine ("ice") addiction using Vivitrol (long-acting, injectable form of naltrexone).

 

HLT, HED, FIN

2024

RELATING TO CRIMINAL PROCEDURE.

Requires electronic monitoring of probationers and parolees convicted of offenses related to criminal street gangs.

 

PSM, JUD, FIN

2025

RELATING TO TOBACCO.

Prohibits the sale and distribution of flavored tobacco products.

 

HLT, JUD

2026

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO HIRE TEACHERS THROUGH THE TEACH FOR AMERICA PROGRAM.

Makes an appropriation to hire 10 teachers from the Teach for America Program to teach in high needs schools in Hawaii.

 

EDN, FIN

2027

RELATING TO CHILDREN.

Requires the Department of Human Services to establish a pilot project to develop or contract to develop and operate programs to provide services and support for at-risk children from low-income families.

 

HSH, FIN

2028

RELATING TO THE INTERNET.

Creates a cyber safety pilot project in the department of the attorney general aimed to protect school children by educating students, teachers, and parents about how to avoid dangers on the Internet.

 

JUD, FIN

2029

RELATING TO EDUCATION.

Establishes special education advisory council in chapter 302A, HRS, relating to education.

 

EDN, HLT, FIN

2030

RELATING TO SCHOOL-AGE CHILDREN.

Appropriates funds to non-school hour programs for youth enrolled in school.

 

HSH/EDN, FIN

2031

RELATING TO EDUCATION.

Appropriates moneys for the development, renewal, and maintenance of fine arts classes in secondary schools.

 

EDN, FIN

2032

RELATING TO THE EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM.

Prohibits the employees' retirement system from acquiring securities of companies that have active business operations with Uganda.

 

INT, LAB, FIN

2033

RELATING TO CRIME.

Creates a new criminal offense of unlawful distribution of adware or spyware if a person knowingly transmits prohibited computer software, adware, or spyware to a computer to obtain the owner's personally identifiable information or control the computer, and makes the offense a class B felony.

 

CPC, JUD

2034

RELATING TO UNATTENDED CHILDREN IN MOTOR VEHICLES.

Makes it a violation of the statewide traffic code to leave a child unattended in a motor vehicle.  Effective on approval.  Requires the examiner of drivers to test driver's license applicants for knowledge of this offense.  Requires notice of law in rental cars.  Effective on 10/1/2008.

 

TRN, JUD

2035

RELATING TO MINORS.

Requires the Board of Education to establish an Internet safety policy for minors with respect to the use of computers that have Internet access in public schools and libraries.

 

EDN, FIN

2036

RELATING TO INTOXICATING LIQUOR.

Changes the classification of the offense of promoting intoxicating liquor to a minor from a misdemeanor to a petty misdemeanor.  Allows the courts to impose a jail sentence for those convicted of the offense.

 

HSH, JUD

2037

RELATING TO FAMILY COURT.

Establishes the procedures and requirements for child custody evaluator training and certification.

 

HSH, JUD, FIN

2038

RELATING TO EDUCATION.

Allows the department of education to hire its own attorneys independent of the attorney general.

 

EDN, JUD, FIN

2039

RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES.

Requires the department of human services to disregard specified assets for purposes of determining eligibility for certain public assistance benefits.

 

HSH, FIN

2040

RELATING TO HAWAII'S ECONOMY.

Authorizes an independent study and analysis of Hawaii's economy, including recommendations for public policy changes that will begin to address the cost of living, affordability, and quality of life issues that Hawaii residents face.

 

EDB, FIN

2041

RELATING TO THE PUBLIC FINANCIAL EDUCATION AND ASSET BUILDING TASK FORCE.

Establishes the public financial education and asset building task force to develop standards for the financial education of state employees.  Makes an appropriation for this purpose.

 

LAB, FIN

2042

RELATING TO FAMILY COURT.

Amends custody and visitation criteria and procedures to specify what factors the courts shall consider in determining the best interest of the child.

 

HSH, JUD

2043

RELATING TO HIGHER EDUCATION BOARD ALLOWANCE FOR FORMER FOSTER YOUTH.

Allows a former foster youth to be eligible for higher education board allowance until the age of twenty-one and for a period of five and one-half years.  Makes an appropriation for this purpose.

 

HSH, HED, FIN

2044

RELATING TO ENERGY EFFICIENCY.

Appropriates funds to replace all incandescent lighting with compact fluorescent lighting in public schools.

 

EEP/EDN, FIN

2045

RELATING TO ESTABLISHING A GLOBAL YOUTH CENTER.

Establishes a global youth center under the University of Hawaii.

 

HED/INT, FIN

2046

RELATING TO INDIVIDUAL DEVELOPMENT ACCOUNTS.

Expands the provisions of individual development accounts.

 

HSH, FIN

2047

RELATING TO INDIVIDUAL DEVELOPMENT ACCOUNTS.

Appropriates funds for the individual development account program, instead of making grants.  Requires the department of human services to provide technical and administrative assistance to entities seeking to become fiduciary organizations.  Prohibits fiduciary organizations from using more than 25% of state funds per year for operating costs.

 

HSH, FIN

2048

RELATING TO EDUCATION.

Appropriates funds for incorporating peace education in the current public school curriculum, including funding for counselor training, expansion of the peer education program, and the hiring of additional substance abuse counselors.

 

EDN, FIN

2049

RELATING TO INSURANCE.

Expands the power of the insurance commissioner to include regulating the rates of dental insurance providers.

 

HLT, CPC, FIN

2050

RELATING TO HOUSING.

Appropriates funds for various homeless and housing programs and projects.  Extends sunset date for allocation of conveyance tax to the rental housing trust fund to June 30, 2013.  Makes appropriation to assist developers in contracting for third party review and certification to expedite the processing and issuance of building permits for affordable housing projects.  Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds for the planning, development, and construction of affordable housing in cooperation with nonprofit and private developers and for other purposes relating to public and affordable housing.

 

HSH/WLH, FIN

2051

RELATING TO EDUCATION FOR FOSTER CHILDREN.

Establishes rules for school placement and transportation for foster children.

 

HSH, EDN, FIN

2052

RELATING TO HIGHWAY SAFETY.

Establishes the photo red light imaging detector system program.  Authorizes counties to implement the program.  Increases the time to mail a citation to the owner of the vehicle that used a high occupancy lane illegally.

 

TRN, JUD, FIN

2053

RELATING TO CRIME.

Provides a system of bonding that will allow for the conditional early release of nonviolent criminal offenders.

 

PSM, JUD, FIN

2054

RELATING TO HEALTH.

Mandating progressive disclosure of costs of medical procedures.

 

HLT, CPC

2055

APPROPRIATING FUNDS FOR A PILOT PROJECT TO INCREASE BUS RIDERSHIP.

Appropriates funds for a pilot program to encourage ridership on buses by offering free ridership for 6 months.

 

TRN, FIN

2056

RELATING TO PEDESTRIAN SAFETY.

Appropriates funds for pedestrian safety improvements by the State and counties.

 

TRN, FIN

2057

RELATING TO VETERANS.

Directs the Department of Health to establish a comprehensive suicide prevention program for veterans in Hawaii.

 

PSM/HLT, FIN

2058

RELATING TO FINES FOR DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF AN INTOXICANT.

Increases fines for driving after license suspended or denied for noncompliance with an order of support.  Increases the fine for first time DUI offenders.  Requires the state director of finance to pay fines received from DUI offenders to the county in which the offense occurred for use in road design, construction, maintenance, and repair.

 

TRN, JUD, FIN

2059

RELATING TO CIGARETTES.

Prohibits sale of cigarettes in Hawaii that are not reduced ignition propensity "fire-safe" beginning 7/1/2009.  Sets civil fines and requires attorney general to adopt rules to enforce law.

 

HLT, CPC/JUD, FIN

2060

RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION.

Allows courts the option of imposing the penalty of vehicle forfeiture of a vehicle used by a defendant in the commission of the offense of street racing if a person is convicted for a first offense.

 

TRN, JUD

2061

RELATING TO VETERANS.

Provides access for Hawaii national guard veterans to information on health screening tests for exposure to depleted uranium.  Establishes a task force to study the health effects of depleted uranium exposure.

 

PSM/HLT, FIN

2062

RELATING TO LONG-TERM CARE.

Allows persons eligible to receive Medicaid funds for care at nursing home facilities to remain at home and receive home and community-based long-term care.

 

HSH/HLT, FIN

2063

RELATING TO EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES.

Requires department of health to establish a 2-year pilot project on Oahu to equip paramedics to transmit electrocardiogram data in the field or in ambulances directly to a hospital's emergency room or to a cardiologist prior a cardiac patient's arrival at an emergency room.  Makes appropriation from the emergency medical services special fund.

 

HLT, FIN

2064

RELATING TO THE BUDGET.

Clarifies that the joint legislative budget committee may hold public hearings on gubernatorial budget restrictions and funds withholding.  Requires prior written notice to the joint legislative budget committee of any intent to restrict or withhold any funds.  Requires executive agency allotment estimates to include all amounts appropriated by the legislature.

 

LMG, FIN

2065

RELATING TO OSTEOPOROSIS.

Requires insurers, mutual benefit societies, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage for bone mass measurements for the diagnosis of osteoporosis.

 

HLT, CPC

2066

RELATING TO PUBLIC SAFETY.

Repeals exemption from civil service of the first and second deputy sheriff; requires the deputy director for law enforcement and the sheriff to be graduates of a law enforcement academy.

 

PSM/LAB, FIN

2067

RELATING TO HEALTH.

Establishes a committee that may add other medical conditions to the definition of "debilitating medical condition" for the purpose of medical marijuana use; amends the definitions of "primary caregiver" and "written certification"; defines "adequate supply" to include seven plants and three ounces of usable marijuana; adds definition for "registration" and amends the registration requirements.

 

HLT/PSM, JUD, FIN

2068

RELATING TO OFFENDER REENTRY.

Makes clarifying amendments to chapter 353H, Hawaii Revised Statutes, relating to the offender reentry program.

 

PSM/LAB, JUD, FIN

2069

RELATING TO THE NATURAL ENERGY LABORATORY OF HAWAII AUTHORITY.

Creates a protocol account to be used at the discretion of the executive director of the natural energy laboratory of Hawaii authority for the purposes of marketing and promotion.

 

EDB, FIN

2070

RELATING TO CHILDREN.

Requires the court or other designated agency to review the juvenile justice information system when determining whether a child is a first-time offender and whether mental health services for the child are appropriate.

 

PSM/HSH, JUD, FIN

2071

RELATING TO INSURANCE.

Establishes the Hawaii medical malpractice insurance relief fund to offer policies of medical malpractice insurance to physicians in the State.  Repeals Hawaii medical malpractice underwriting plan (chapter 435C, HRS).  Appropriates funds to the medical malpractice insurance reserve trust fund.

 

HLT, CPC, FIN

2072

RELATING TO VETERANS.

Requires office of veterans services to help inform certain members of the Hawaii national guard of federal services for depleted uranium exposure.  Prohibits state funds use.  Requires office to implement outreach.  Requires adjutant general to certify annually that the Hawaii national guard members are informed.

 

PSM/HLT, FIN

2073

RELATING TO LAND USE.

Directs the office of planning to petition the land use commission to reclassify certain land in Hawaii county from the agricultural district to the conservation district.

 

WLH/AGR

2074

RELATING TO WATERCRAFT SAFETY.

Creates a recreational vessel safety education program.  Provides for issuance of permits to persons who complete the program.

 

WLH, FIN

2075

RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLE INSURANCE RATE FILINGS.

Requires insurers to file rates that provide for an appropriate reduction in premium charges for insureds who are 65 years of age and older after successfully completing a motor vehicle accident prevention course.  Requires the department of transportation to develop the motor vehicle accident prevention course.

 

TRN, CPC

2076

RELATING TO DEPLETED URANIUM.

Requires the department of health to establish air sampling stations to monitor for levels of depleted uranium.

 

PSM, EEP/HLT, FIN

2077

RELATING TO HEALTH INSURANCE.

Requires that mutual benefit societies annually spend on health community benefit programs no less than 50 percent of the savings that they receive annually from their general excise tax exemption as nonprofit organizations.

 

HLT, CPC

2078

RELATING TO HOUSING.

Short form bill relating to housing.

 

HSH

2079

RELATING TO HOUSING.

Short form bill relating to housing.

 

HSH

2080

RELATING TO HOUSING.

Short form bill relating to housing.

 

HSH

2081

RELATING TO HOUSING.

Short form bill relating to housing.

 

HSH

2082

RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES.

Short form bill relating to human services.

 

HSH

2083

RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL PROCESSING FACILITIES.

Appropriates funds to establish a state agricultural processing facility.

 

AGR, FIN

2084

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII.

Appropriates funds for 2 full-time executive-level positions at the University of Hawaii college of engineering.

 

HED, FIN

2085

RELATING TO THE AGRIBUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION.

Makes the Agribusiness Development Corporation an attached agency of the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism, instead of the Department of Agriculture.  Requires DBEDT to provide its expertise to ADC.  Requires the composition of the Board of ADC to include certain secondary industries related to agriculture.

 

AGR/EDB, FIN

2086

RELATING TO TECHNOLOGY.

Short form bill relating to technology.

 

EDB

2087

RELATING TO TAXATION.

Short form bill relating to taxation.

 

EDB

2088

RELATING TO THE ECONOMY.

Short form bill relating to the economy.

 

EDB

2089

RELATING TO THE INNOVATION ECONOMY.

Amends the Hawaii Revised Statutes relating to the innovation economy.

 

EDB

2090

RELATING TO THE ECONOMY.

Short form bill relating to the economy.

 

EDB

2091

RELATING TO LANDFILLS.

Transfers regulation of private landfills from the counties to the department of health.

 

EEP, FIN

2092

RELATING TO INCOME TAXATION.

Increases the renewable energy technologies tax credit for wind-powered energy systems for commercial properties from 20% to 35% of the actual cost of the system up to $500,000.

 

EEP, FIN

2093

RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLE INSURANCE.

Requires motor vehicle insurers to reduce the rates of senior citizens who successfully complete a driver improvement course.

 

TRN, CPC

2094

RELATING TO PROCUREMENT.

Requires that moneys received pursuant to a solicitation of funds by a government body to cover costs and expenses of state-sponsored trips and endeavors to generate business opportunities and goodwill be deposited into the general fund and disbursed pursuant to legislative appropriation.  Appropriates funds.

 

EDB, FIN

2095

RELATING TO THE STATE BUDGET.

Makes technical amendment to budget allotment modification law.

 

FIN

2096

RELATING TO STATE FINANCES.

Makes technical amendment to transfer of nongeneral funds to general funds law.

 

FIN

2097

RELATING TO THE STATE OF HAWAII.

Makes a technical amendment to the state budget laws relating to the deposit of state funds into the state treasury.

 

FIN

2098

RELATING TO STATE FUNDS.

Makes a technical amendment to the state budget law relating to the deposit of state funds into the state treasury.

 

FIN

2099

RELATING TO INCOME TAX CREDIT.

Provides a mandatory tax credit to taxpayers pursuant to article VII, section 6 of the Constitution of the State of Hawaii.

 

FIN

2100

RELATING TO STATE BONDS.

Authorizes issuance of general obligation bonds.  Makes findings required by Article XII, Section 13 of the State Constitution to declare that issuance of authorized bonds will not cause the debt limit to be exceeded.

 

FIN

2101

RELATING TO THE HAWAII ENERGY LOAN PROGRAM.

Establishes the Hawaii energy loan program to provide low-interest loans for energy programs that promote energy conservation and renewable energy resource development.

 

EEP, FIN

2102

RELATING TO ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION.

Establishes the Hawaii clean vehicle incentive program to encourage consumers to purchase motor vehicles with low greenhouse gas emissions.  Creates special fund to receive surcharges and fund rebates.

 

EEP, CPC, FIN

2103

RELATING TO ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENTS.

Requires environmental impact statements to address climate change.

 

EEP

2104

RELATING TO THE CONSUMER ADVOCATE.

Requires the consumer advocate to advocate for the increased use of renewable energy sources in the provision of public utilities.

 

EEP, CPC

2105

A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HIGH EFFICIENCY LIGHTING.

Establishes a preference for the purchase of high efficiency lighting by state agencies, where its use is technically feasible and the lighting is competitively priced.

 

EEP, FIN

2106

RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLES.

Provides a one-time $1,500 tax credit for the purchase of a hybrid or alternative fuel motor vehicle.

 

EEP/TRN, FIN

2107

RELATING TO COMPACT FLUORESCENT LIGHT BULBS.

Requires use of compact fluorescent light bulbs in state buildings and public education campaign to promote private use of compact fluorescent light bulbs.

 

EEP, FIN

2108

RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLES.

Provides incentives to purchase hybrid and alternative fuel motor vehicles by allowing these vehicles to travel in high-occupancy vehicle lanes.

 

EEP, TRN

2109

RELATING TO EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS.

Establishes a statewide task force to advise the Civil Defense Division of the state Department of Defense on the needs of individuals with disabilities and special health needs.

 

PSM, HLT, FIN

2110

RELATING TO AGING.

Establishes four additional full-time equivalent faculty positions at the University of Hawaii's center on aging research and education to assist in the fulfillment of its mission.  Makes an appropriation.

 

HED, HLT, FIN

2111

RELATING TO LONG-TERM CARE OMBUDSMAN.

Expands the long-term care ombudsman program by adding three additional ombudsman positions, one for each neighboring county.

 

HLT/HSH, JUD, FIN

2112

RELATING TO THE TASK FORCE ON AGING.

Establishes a task force on aging to study the need for and feasibility of establishing a department of aging.  Requires the task force on aging to submit findings and recommendations to the legislature.  Appropriates funds for the task force on aging.

 

HLT/HSH, FIN

2113

RELATING TO TAXATION.

Provides a tax credit to caregivers who care for qualified care recipients.

 

HLT/HSH, FIN

2114

RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES.

Requires Med-QUEST and Medicaid coverage for chiropractic care.  Requires the Department of Human Services to pass funding on to QUEST plans to implement the services.  Appropriates funds.

 

HSH/HLT, FIN

2115

RELATING TO ELDER AFFAIRS.

Prohibits the director of the executive office on aging from altering, editing or withholding any work product issued by policy advisory board for elder affairs because it is inconsistent with the policy of the administration.

 

HLT/HSH

2116

RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII CENTER ON AGING EDUCATION AND RESEARCH.

Appropriates funds to the University of Hawaii center on aging research and education faculty positions and program expenses.

 

HED, HLT/HSH, FIN

2117

RELATING TO HEALTH INSURANCE.

Mandates health insurance coverage to screen for colorectal cancer by colonoscopy every ten years, beginning at age fifty.

 

HLT, CPC, FIN

2118

RELATING TO TUBERCULOSIS.

Appropriates funds for tuberculosis treatment.

 

HLT, FIN

2119

RELATING TO ANATOMICAL TRANSPLANTS.

Prohibits health insurers from denying or limiting coverage for organ or tissue transplantation services on the basis that the insured, member, enrollee, or subscriber is infected with the human immunodeficiency virus.

 

HLT, CPC, FIN

2120

RELATING TO MULTI-UNIT RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS.

Requires regular surveys of residents of multi-unit residential buildings on specific needs and issues relating to medical needs, accommodations for the disabled, and other special needs for emergency preparation purposes.  Requires multi-unit residential buildings to have and inform their residents of emergency evacuation plans.

 

HSH/HLT, CPC

2121

RELATING TO FERAL PIGS.

Directs the department of land and natural resources to establish, implement, and maintain a pilot program to identify and reduce problem feral pig populations.  Program terminates on June 30, 2010.

 

WLH, FIN

2122

RELATING TO PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY.

Makes unlawful the use, setting, maintenance, or tending of any body-gripping animal trap except when used by the government to protect human health and safety, for rodent control, or using traps approved by the Department of Land and Natural Resources for feral pig control.

 

WLH, JUD

2123

RELATING TO UTILITIES.

Establishes a utilities coordinating council to coordinate the orderly planning and installation, removal, or relocation of underground facilities.

 

CPC, TRN, FIN

2124

RELATING TO TAXATION.

Exempts from the general excise tax and use tax all equipment used directly in the generation of electricity using fuel cells, wind energy, solar energy, or landfill gas.

 

EEP, FIN

2125

RELATING TO LOSS MITIGATION.

Provides a tax credit for individuals who install wind resistive devices, as defined by the director of taxation, in a noncommercial dwelling located in Hawaii that is owned by the taxpayer.  Repeals the loss mitigation grant program.  Makes an appropriation.

 

PSM, FIN

2126

RELATING TO HEALTHCARE.

Requires hospitals to establish a policy and program that identifies, assesses, and develops strategies to control the risk of injury to patients and healthcare workers and nurses associated with lifting and moving patients.  Provides tax deduction for hospitals that purchase equipment for the moving of patients.

 

HLT, LAB, FIN

2127

RELATING TO OFFENSES AGAINST THE PERSON.

Amends the penal code definition of "person" to clarify that for the purposes of offenses against the person, the term "person" includes any infant who is born alive at any stage of development.  Defines the term "born alive".

 

HLT, JUD

2128

RELATING TO THE PENAL CODE.

Amends the offenses of assault in the second degree and terroristic threatening in the first degree to include conduct committed against victims who the courts and police are attempting to keep safe with protective orders.

 

HSH, JUD

2129

RELATING TO HEALTH.

Requires hospitals to disclose infection rates; protects patient privacy rights.

 

HLT, CPC, FIN

2130

RELATING TO CRITERIA FOR EXTENDED TERMS OF IMPRISONMENT.

Extends term of imprisonment for offenses committed against pregnant women.

 

HLT, JUD

2131

RELATING TO TERMS OF IMPRISONMENT.

Adds the acts of inflicting serious or substantial bodily injury upon a person who is pregnant in the course of committing or attempting to commit a felony to those actions for which an extended term of imprisonment may be given.  Mandates imprisonment for such actions if not subject to extended term.

 

HLT, JUD

2132

RELATING TO CRIME.

Makes it a class B felony to assault a pregnant woman if the offender intended or knew the assault would cause death or serious or substantial bodily injury to the fetus.  Requires imposition of the maximum indeterminate term of 10 years in prison on conviction.  Makes it a class C felony to assault a pregnant woman if the offender acted in reckless disregard of the risk of causing death or serious or substantial bodily injury to the fetus.

 

HLT, JUD

2133

RELATING TO NURSING.

Creates a nursing teacher loan forgiveness pilot program at the University of Hawaii.

 

HED, HLT, FIN

2134

RELATING TO THE CENTER FOR NURSING.

Makes permanent the deposit and disbursement of certain nursing fees into the compliance resolution fund for the credit of the center for nursing special fund.

 

HED, HLT, FIN

2135

RELATING TO VETERAN BURIAL GRANTS.

Provides for the burial of Filipino veterans.

 

PSM, FIN

2136

RELATING TO CARE HOMES.

Increases payments for level of care for ARCH types I and II, licensed developmental disabilities domiciliary homes, community care foster family homes, and certified adult foster homes by 7% from $641.90 to $686.83 for level I and from $749.90 to $802.39 for level II beginning on 7/1/08.  Appropriation.

 

HSH, FIN

2137

RELATING TO HEALTH.

Provides a $1,000 tax credit for expenses related to an organ donation.

 

HLT, FIN

2138

RELATING TO CAREGIVER RECOGNITION DAY.

Establishes an annual Caregiver Recognition Day on the first Saturday of November.

 

HLT, HSH

2139

RELATING TO ANATOMICAL GIFTS.

Enacts the Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act.

 

HLT, JUD

2140

RELATING TO THE VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN ACT.

Requires the Department of Human Services to establish a pilot project to assist undocumented immigrants who are victims of domestic violence.

 

HSH, JUD, FIN

2141

RELATING TO EDUCATION.

Requires the department of education, in collaboration with the department of health, to provide accurate information on human papillomavirus, the link between human papillomavirus infection and cervical cancer, and the availability of human papillomavirus immunizations to parents of female sixth graders in public schools.  Appropriations.

 

HLT, EDN, FIN

2142

RELATING TO EDUCATION.

Directs the department of education to develop and implement, in consultation with other educational and community organizations, a student and faculty exchange program between Hawaii and its sister provinces in the Philippines.  Appropriates funds.

 

INT, EDN, FIN

2143

RELATING TO PROCUREMENT.

Requires state agencies to consider biobased products in purchasing and enhances the economic development of biobased products.

 

AGR/EEP, FIN

2144

RELATING TO FIREWORKS.

Assesses a tax on the sale of fireworks instead of assessing a permit fee to discharge fireworks.

 

PSM, FIN

2145

RELATING TO UNCLAIMED PROPERTY.

Allows individuals attempting to claim unclaimed property from the State to assert ownership through affidavit.

 

CPC/JUD, FIN

2146

RELATING TO PUBLIC SAFETY.

Requires the department of public safety to establish performance indicators to ensure that the department is in compliance with the Community Safety Act of 2007.  Requires monthly reports to the legislature, using key performance indicators, such as inmate drug test failure rates, educational goals achieved, reentry plans, post-incarceration employment, victim restitution paid, and recidivism rates.

 

PSM, FIN

2147

RELATING TO PAROLE.

Establishes an earned-time program that provides incentives for inmate rehabilitation by allowing inmates to become eligible for parole when they make consistent progress in completing programs while incarcerated.  Appropriates funds.

 

PSM, JUD, FIN

2148

RELATING TO THE AUDITOR.

Requires the auditor to conduct performance audits of private prisons on the mainland that house Hawaii prisoners.  Makes appropriation.

 

PSM, LMG, FIN

2149

RELATING TO PUBLIC SAFETY.

Requires prisons holding Hawaii prisoners under a contract with the State to make public information about the operation of the prison

 

PSM, JUD

2150

RELATING TO PHARMACY.

Requires the board of pharmacy to make unannounced site visits to pharmacies at least once every 2 years.  Makes acceptance of on-site visits a condition to receiving a permit to operate a pharmacy.

 

HLT, CPC

2151

RELATING TO CAPTIVE INSURANCE.

Forms a captive insurance company to provide medical malpractice insurance to self-employed medical doctors.

 

HLT, CPC/JUD, FIN

2152

RELATING TO DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY.

Short form bill relating to department of public safety.

 

PSM

2153

RELATING TO NARCOTICS ENFORCEMENT DIVISION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY.

Short form bill relating to narcotics enforcement division of the department of public safety.

 

PSM

2154

RELATING TO VETERANS.

Short form bill relating to veterans.

 

PSM

2155

RELATING TO CIVIL DEFENSE.

Short form bill relating to civil defense.

 

PSM

2156

RELATING TO THE OFFICE OF VETERANS' SERVICES.

Short form bill relating to the office of veterans' services.

 

PSM

2157

RELATING TO THE OFFICE OF VETERANS' SERVICES.

Transfers the office of veterans' services from the department of defense to the department of human services.

 

PSM/HSH, FIN

2158

RELATING TO CHILDREN.

Establishes a bill of rights for children of incarcerated parents.

 

PSM/HSH, JUD

2159

RELATING TO THE NATURAL ENERGY LABORATORY OF HAWAII AUTHORITY.

Provides the natural energy laboratory of Hawaii authority with funds to obtain an environmental impact statement to support rezoning of certain land from conservation to urban.

 

EEP/WLH, FIN

2160

RELATING TO EMERGENCIES.

Establishes an emergency advisory radio station pilot project on the island of Hawaii

 

PSM, FIN

2161

RELATING TO MEDICAL MALPRACTICE INSURANCE.

Establishes a medical malpractice mutual insurance company modeled upon the employers' mutual insurance company.

 

HLT, CPC/JUD, FIN

2162

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE OPIHI RESTORATION PROGRAM.

Appropriates funds to the University of Hawaii for the opihi restoration project, a hatchery-based restocking program to enhance depleted natural populations of opihi.

 

WLH, FIN

2163

RELATING TO COMPTROLLER SUPERVISION OF ACCOUNTS.

Limits the University of Hawaii duty to preaudit all proposed payments to those that amount to $10,000 or more.

 

HED, FIN

2164

RELATING TO THE CANCER RESEARCH SPECIAL FUND.

Increases the sources of revenue available to support the Cancer Research Center of Hawaii.  Allows moneys in cancer research special fund to be used for capital expenditures.

 

HED/HLT, FIN

2165

RELATING TO NURSING.

Allows a master's degree candidate in a nursing program who has completed the pre-licensure component of the program to apply for a license by examination to practice as a registered nurse.

 

HED/HLT, CPC

2166

RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII.

Appropriates funds to the University of Hawaii to finance energy conservation and renewable energy measures to make Saunders Hall at the University of Hawaii a campus and community model of sustainability and energy conservation.

 

HED/EEP, FIN

2167

RELATING TO PUBLIC UTILITIES.

Requires electric utilities to create an optional pricing program based on a percentage of renewable energy sources used to generate electricity.  Increases the total rated generating capacity produced by eligible customer-generators.  Establishes a transferable ownership interest in excess electricity credits.  Increases the maximum capacity of an eligible customer-generator.  Directs the public utilities commission to hire a consultant to perform a review of solar electric generation in the State.  Clarifies that development of solar electric resources are an acceptable use of category C and D agricultural lands.  Clarifies that persons who generate electricity from renewable sources for their own consumption are not public utilities.

 

EEP/WLH, CPC

2168

RELATING TO THE ISSUANCE OF SPECIAL PURPOSE REVENUE BONDS.

Authorizes special purpose revenue bonds to H2 Technologies, Incorporated for construction of Hydrogen Generator Appliance Laboratory and hydrogen generation and conversion facilities.

 

EEP, FIN

2169

RELATING TO HEALTH.

Short form bill relating to health.

 

HLT

2170

RELATING TO HEALTH.

Short form bill relating to health.

 

HLT

2171

RELATING TO HEALTH.

Short form bill relating to health.

 

HLT

2172

RELATING TO HEALTH.

Short form bill relating to health.

 

HLT

2173

RELATING TO HEALTH.

Short form bill relating to health.

 

HLT

2174

RELATING TO GOVERNMENT.

Requires governor to review, evaluate, and report on steps necessary to create a new department of conservation and environmental protection to encompass environmental and conservation programs now performed by the DLNR, DOH, and other state agencies.

 

WLH/EEP, HLT, FIN

2175

RELATING TO MENTAL HEALTH.

Repeals the sunset date of December 31, 2008, for Chapter 453D, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to preserve the provisions set in Hawaii's laws dealing with licensure for mental health counselors.

 

CPC, FIN

2176

RELATING TO ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION.

Bans the use of polystyrene foam containers by food vendors in the State.

 

EEP, EDB, FIN

2177

RELATING TO ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION.

Requires retailers in the State to distribute only recyclable, reusable, or compostable checkout bags.

 

EEP, EDB, FIN

2178

RELATING TO VEHICULAR EMISSIONS.

Directs the department of health to adopt rules implementing California's new vehicle emission standards.

 

EEP, TRN, FIN

2179

RELATING TO DRUGS.

Adds salvia divinorum and salvinorin A to list of Schedule I drugs

 

HLT, JUD

2180

RELATING TO GOVERNMENT LIABILITY.

Authorizes the superintendent of education to agree to indemnify the counties whenever the department of education uses county facilities for the purpose of interscholastic athletic activities.

 

EDN, JUD

2181

RELATING TO ENERGY EFFICIENCY.

Phases out the use of incandescent bulbs in state buildings by July 1, 2010.

 

EEP, LAB, FIN