THE SENATE

THE THIRTIETH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2019

 

COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS

Senator Donovan M. Dela Cruz, Chair

Senator Gilbert S.C. Keith-Agaran, Vice Chair

 

NOTICE OF DECISION MAKING

 

 

DATE:

Thursday, February 14, 2019

TIME:

10:00 AM

PLACE:

Conference Room 211

State Capitol

415 South Beretania Street

 

A G E N D A

 

The following measure(s) were previously heard in their respective subject matter committees:

 

SB 1351

      (SSCR141)

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO HEMP.

Authorizes the department of agriculture to allow temporary inspectors to perform industrial hemp inspections and to deposit fees from inspections by temporary inspectors into the certification services revolving fund.  Authorizes the department of agriculture to adopt an alternative method of sampling industrial hemp plants.

 

AEN, WAM

SB 1359, SD1

      (SSCR166)

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO THE AGRIBUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION.

Requires the Department of Agriculture to conduct a management and financial audit of the Agribusiness Development Corporation.  Appropriates funds.  (SD1)

 

AEN, WAM

SB 19, SD1

      (SSCR148)

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO SURPLUS LINES.

Amends the calculation of surplus lines insurance premium tax to tax the entirety of the premium using the rate established by Hawaii statute regardless of location of risk.  Takes effect on 10/1/2019.  (SD1)

 

CPH, WAM

SB 1213

      (SSCR96)

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO PROCUREMENT FILING FEE.

Requires a party initiating a bid challenge to pay the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs a non-refundable filing fee for contracts with an estimated value of $500,000 or more.

 

CPH, WAM

SB 978

      (SSCR133)

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO STATE LIBRARY SYSTEM.

Specifies that unclaimed funds of $10 or less in the unclaimed property trust fund, upon the expiration of a ten-year time limitation, shall escheat to the State and transferred to the libraries special fund.  Specifies that unclaimed funds of more than $10 but less than $250 in the unclaimed property trust fund, upon expiration of the ten-year time limitation, shall escheat to the State and be transferred to the general fund.

 

EDU, WAM

SB 1158, SD1

      (SSCR161)

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO SCHOOL SUPPLIES.

Establishes a general excise tax holiday for consumers and businesses for school supplies sold during the weekend two weeks prior to the start of the school year on condition that businesses pass the savings on to consumers.  (SD1)

 

EDU, WAM

SB 371, SD1

      (SSCR127)

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO SCHOOLS.

Establishes a Workforce Readiness Program within the Department of Education to allow students to graduate from an extended high school enrollment with an industry-recognized associate's degree to complement the student's high school diploma.  Appropriates moneys to develop and implement the program.  (SD1)

 

EDU, WAM

SB 373

      (SSCR128)

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO EDUCATION.

Requires the Department of Education to develop and implement a K-12 curriculum-to-career-pipeline initiative to ensure that the State's public school students are adequately trained and prepared to enter the State's workforce upon graduation from high school.  Appropriates funds.

 

EDU, WAM

SB 391, SD1

      (SSCR130)

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS.

Appropriates funds to the Department of Education for behavior analysis services performed by licensed behavior analysts for public school students.  (SD1)

 

EDU, WAM

SB 392, SD1

      (SSCR131)

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO SPECIAL EDUCATION.

Appropriates funds to the Department of Education to provide up to $1,690 to each special education classroom teacher for instructional materials and equipment.  (SD1)

 

EDU, WAM

SB 388, SD1

      (SSCR129)

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO EDUCATION.

Authorizes parents and guardians of vulnerable students and students exhibiting behavioral issues to request a clinical or psychoeducational evaluation.  Requires the Department of Education, after expelling a student, to provide an assessment to receive special education services.  (SD1)

 

EDU, WAM

SB 592

      (SSCR64)

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO THE SALARY OF THE STATE LIBRARIAN.

Limits the state librarian's salary to ninety per cent of the superintendent of education's salary.

 

EDU, WAM

SB 533, SD1

      (SSCR122)

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO STATE BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS.

Clarifies that any member of a state board or commission, whose nomination for appointment or reappointment is withdrawn by the governor for cause prior to the senate's action to advise and consent or not advise and consent, shall be considered disqualified, and in the case of the nomination for reappointment, be ineligible to continue to serve as a holdover member beyond the member's most recent term of appointment.  (SD1)

 

GVO, WAM

SB 757, SD1

      (SSCR124)

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURE.

Requires agencies to maintain a website with a list of open non-confidential contested cases.  Effective 7/1/2025.  (SD1)

 

GVO, WAM

SB 330

      (SSCR103)

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO AN EARNED INCOME DISREGARD PROGRAM.

Requires the Department of Human Services to implement an earned income disregard program as an intermediate step to implementing a medicaid buy-in program.  Requires reports to the legislature.  Takes effect upon approval by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

 

HMS, WAM

SB 470

      (SSCR104)

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO HOMELESSNESS.

Extends the deadline for the department of human services to submit its report regarding the emergency homelessness assessment pilot program to twenty days prior to the convening of the regular session of 2020.  Extends the expiration of the emergency homelessness assessment pilot program to June 30, 2020.  Extends the deadline for the department of human services to submit its report regarding the medical respite pilot program to twenty days prior to the convening of the regular session of 2020.  Extends the expiration of the medical respite pilot program to June 30, 2020.  Takes effect 6/29/2019.

 

HMS, WAM

SB 1022, SD1

      (SSCR178)

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO CHILD WELFARE SERVICES.

Establishes a Child Welfare Services Task Force to review the Child Welfare Services Branch and examine best practices that will help to improve child care safety through the Branch.  (SD1)

 

HMS, WAM

SB 390, SD1

      (SSCR180)

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM INCENTIVES.

Requires the Department of Agriculture to create a dollar-for-dollar matching program for beneficiaries of the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program to purchase Hawaii-grown produce.  Appropriates funds.  (SD1)

 

HMS/AEN, WAM

SB 105

      (SSCR168)

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO JURY DUTY.

Clarifies that jurors are entitled to reimbursement for reasonable transportation costs to and from the court.  Includes rail fare, bicycle rental, or taxi costs or other hired car service up to a specified maximum amount.

 

JDC, WAM

SB 852, SD1

      (SSCR171)

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO RESTITUTION FOR VICTIMS OF CRIME.

Clarifies that reimbursement to crime victims includes lost earnings, mental health treatment, counseling, and therapy.  Takes effect 7/1/2019.  (SD1)

 

JDC, WAM

SB 303

      (SSCR20)

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO GARDENS.

Authorizes the department of education and Hawaii community development authority to develop programs that provide incentives to establish gardens on school campuses and within housing projects and communities.

 

HOU/EDU, WAM

SB 565

      (SSCR114)

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO VISION ZERO.

Requires the Department of Transportation to implement a vision zero program in Hawaii by 7/1/2020.  Establishes a goal of no traffic fatalities or serious injuries by 2030.

 

TRS, WAM

 

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

 

Persons wishing to submit written testimony may do so up to 24 hours prior to the hearing.

 

Click here to submit written testimony to the Senate Committee on 586-6800.

 

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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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CALL THE COMMITTEE CLERK AT (808) 586-6800.

 

 

 

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Senator Donovan M. Dela Cruz

Chair