THE SENATE

THE TWENTY-EIGHTH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2015

 

COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS

Senator Jill N. Tokuda, Chair

Senator Ronald D. Kouchi, Vice Chair

 

NOTICE OF DECISION MAKING

 

 

DATE:

Tuesday, March 31, 2015

TIME:

9:00 AM

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 1360, HD1, SD1

      (SSCR924)

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION.

Authorizes issuance of general obligation bonds for relocation of the Clear Channel antenna, including design and construction, equipment and appurtenances, and ground and site improvements.  (SD1)

 

TRA, WAM

HB 562, HD2, SD1

      (SSCR965)

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO CROSSWALKS.

Requires installation of a marked crosswalk with adequate lighting at newly constructed, reconstructed, resurfaced, or renovated intersection of two arterial streets.  Effective 7/1/2050.  (SD1)

 

TRA/PSM, WAM

HB 444, HD3, SD1

      (SSCR1062)

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO BEACH PROTECTION.

Expands the scope of the department of land and natural resources' beach restoration plans and beach restoration special fund to include beach conservation.  Allocates funds from the transient accommodations tax for beach restoration and conservation.  (SD1)

 

TSI/WTL, WAM

HB 716, HD2, SD1

      (SSCR1053)

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO INNOVATIVE BUSINESS INTERACTION.

Establishes an innovative business interaction program under DBEDT, with the assistance of the Hawaii Tourism Authority.  Allocates a portion of transient accommodations tax revenues for the program.  Appropriates funds.  Takes effect on 2/19/2025.  (SD1)

 

TSI/EDT, WAM

HB 775, HD1, SD1

      (SSCR1141)

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO EDUCATION.

Appropriates funds to the department of business, economic development, and tourism for marketing Hawaii and Hawaii's higher education institutions to international students.  Takes effect 7/1/2030.  (SD1)

 

TSI, WAM

HB 169, HD1

      (SSCR951)

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO TAXATION.

Amends the definition of fair market rental value.  Increases the transient accommodations tax imposed on resort time share vacation units by 1 per cent each year to gradually achieve a rate of 9.25 per cent of the fair market rental value.  (HB169 HD1)

 

TSI, WAM

HB 1440, HD1

      (SSCR1007)

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO EDUCATION.

Appropriates funds for the Hawaii Keiki: Healthy and Ready to Learn program.  Requires matching funds.  (HB1440 HD1)

 

EDU/HTH, WAM

HB 174, HD2

      (SSCR1050)

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO HEALTH.

Requires health insurance coverage of orthodontic treatment for orofacial anomalies.  (HB174 HD2)

 

HTH/CPN, WAM

HB 589, HD1, SD1

      (SSCR1033)

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO STROKE CARE.

Requires DOH to participate in a stroke system of care.  Requires certain acute care hospitals to report data for the stroke database and requires DOH to participate in the stroke database.  (SD1)

 

HTH, WAM

HB 782, HD1, SD1

      (SSCR1041)

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO THE CYTOMEGALOVIRUS.

Requires the DOH to establish a public education program to inform and educate pregnant women and women who may become pregnant about cytomegalovirus.  Requires the responsible physician of a newborn infant identified as or suspected of having a hearing impairment to test the newborn infant for the cytomegalovirus.  Requires DOH to convene a working group comprising various stakeholders to participate in the development of the public education program.  Appropriates funds.  Takes effect on 7/1/2050.  (SD1)

 

HTH, WAM

HB 1377, HD1

      (SSCR1030)

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO CHILD HEALTH.

Makes an appropriation to develop the specifications and pricing, as well as an implementation plan, for a web-based data system in the early intervention section of the Department of Health.  Makes an appropriation for operating expenses and to establish one permanent coordinator position in the Children with Special Health Needs Branch of the Department of Health to improve social-emotional and behavioral outcomes for children from birth to age five.  (HB1377 HD1)

 

HTH/HSH, WAM

HB 581, HD1, SD1

      (SSCR1029)

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO THE HOSPITAL SUSTAINABILITY PROGRAM.

Continues the Hospital Sustainability Program for one year.  Appropriates funds out of the Hospital Sustainability Program Special Fund for fiscal year 2015-2016.  Amends various reimbursement rates under the program to certain private hospitals for uncompensated care and upper limit payments.  (SD1)

 

HTH/HSH, WAM

HB 582, HD1, SD1

      (SSCR1120)

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO THE NURSING FACILITY SUSTAINABILITY PROGRAM.

Continues the Nursing Facility Sustainability Program for one additional year.  Appropriates funds out of the Nursing Facility Sustainability Program Special Fund for Fiscal Year 2015-2016.  Takes effect on 7/1/2050.  (SD1)

 

HSH/HTH, WAM

HB 119, HD2

      (SSCR979)

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO HEALTH.

Establishes the Hawaii ABLE Savings Program by authorizing the Director of Finance to establish savings accounts that empower individuals with a disability and their families to save private funds to support the individual with a disability.  Creates the Hawaii ABLE Savings Program Trust Fund.  (HB119 HD2)

 

HSH, WAM

 

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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 Jill N. Tokuda

Chair