THE SENATE

THE TWENTY-EIGHTH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2015

 

COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE AND CONSUMER PROTECTION

Senator Rosalyn H. Baker, Chair

Senator Brian T. Taniguchi, Vice Chair

 

AMENDED NOTICE OF HEARING

 

DATE:

Thursday, February 05, 2015

TIME:

9:00am

PLACE:

Conference Room 229

State Capitol

415 South Beretania Street

 

A M E N D E D  A G E N D A

 

SB 234

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO RETAIL EMPLOYMENT.

Requires a retail employer to pay a retail employee who works on a state holiday at a wage rate of three times the retail employee's regular wage rate and prohibits a retail employer from taking retaliatory personnel action against a retail employee for electing to not work on a state holiday.

 

CPN, JDL

SB 355

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO RESTRAINTS OF TRADE.

Prohibits post-employment restrictive covenants or agreements executed by an employee or agent after the commencement of employment as a condition of employment or continued employment.

 

CPN, JDL

SB 467

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO FIDUCIARY ACCESS TO DIGITAL ASSETS.

Gives various types of fiduciaries access to the digital assets of the principal.

 

CPN, JDL

SB 752

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE.

Requires telecommunications carriers to release individuals from shared or family wireless plans, without charge, upon written request in documented instances of domestic violence.

 

CPN, JDL

SB 1151

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO INTOXICATING LIQUOR.

Authorizes restaurants and retail dealers with a liquor license to sell beer, malt beverages, wine, or cider for off-premises consumption, under certain conditions.  Authorizes brewpubs and small craft producer pubs with a liquor license to sell for off-premises consumption malt beverages purchased from another liquor licensee.

 

CPN, PSM

SB 745

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO THE HAWAII HEALTH CONNECTOR.

Requires health insurers with at least a 20% share of the health insurance market to submit its qualified plans for inclusion in the Hawaii health connector.

 

CPN, WAM

SB 1028

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO THE HAWAII HEALTH CONNECTOR.

Retains current financial and service benefits of the Hawaii health connector.  Enhances the availability of services through the connector.  Supports the self-sustainability of the connector by 2023 by enabling the connector to issue debentures issued in the name of the connector.

 

CPN, WAM

SB 1032

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO CHAPTER 245, HAWAII REVISED STATUTES.

Expands the definition of "tobacco products".  Increases the license fee for persons engaged as a wholesaler or dealer of cigarettes or tobacco products.  Increases the retail tobacco permit fee for retailers engaged in the retail sale of cigarettes and other tobacco products.  Specifies that revenue from the license and permit fees shall be used to support smoking cessation programs in the State.

 

CPN, WAM

SB 1220

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO CHAPTER 245, HAWAII REVISED STATUTES.

Expands the definition of "tobacco products" to include any product containing nicotine, but not containing tobacco.  Imposes an excise tax equal to 80 per cent of the wholesale price of any tobacco product, other than large cigars, sold by a wholesaler or dealer on and after January 1, 2016, whether or not sold at wholesale, or if not sold then at the same rate upon the use by the wholesaler or dealer.  Requires any increase in the excise tax rate imposed on cigarettes or little cigars on or after 1/1/2016 to trigger an automatic excise tax increase on other tobacco products on or after 1/1/2016.  Requires the additional moneys collected under the excise tax to be deposited to the credit of the Hawaii cancer research special fund.

 

Pending Re-referral to:

CPN, WAM

[Measure added on 02-02-15]

SB 1178

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO HEALTH.

Increases the authorized benefit for acupuncture treatments allowed under personal injury protection benefits provided through motor vehicle insurance.

 

Pending Re-referral to:

CPN, WAM

[Measure added on 02-02-15]

 

SB 1217

      Status & Testimony

 

RELATING TO INSURANCE.

Aligns state law with the requirements of section 2706 of the federal Public Health Service Act by prohibiting insurers from discriminating against any health care provider who is acting within the scope of that provider's license or certification.

 

 

Pending Re-referral to:

CPN, JDL

[Measure added on 02-02-15]

 

 

 

 

Decision Making to follow, if time permits.

 

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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 Rosalyn H. Baker

Chair