THE SENATE
                THE TWENTIETH LEGISLATURE
                 REGULAR SESSION OF 2000

       MEASURES DEFERRED TO FRIDAY, APRIL 7, 2000


               COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS
                        9:30 A.M.
                   Conference Room 211


        DECISION MAKING ON THE FOLLOWING MEASURES
              (Deferred from April 6, 2000)

H.B. 2171   RELATING TO MEAL BREAKS                      LRE, WAM
HD1, SD1   Requires employers to provide meal breaks.

H.B. 564   RELATING TO THE EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM  CPN, WAM
HD2, SD1   Allows   qualified   members   of   the  Employees'
           Retirement System (ERS)  to purchase their military
           service credit.   Allows  a  surviving  spouse of a
           member of  the  ERS  to  remarry  and still receive
           retirement  benefits  arising   from  their  former
           spouse's employment.  

H.B. 2521   RELATING TO SCHOOL HEALTH REQUIREMENTS       EDU, WAM
SD1        Requires the DOH to be responsible for occupational
           and  physical  therapy  for  exceptional  children;
           clarifies   required   immunization  documentation;
           changes health  certificate  form  to health record
           form; adds physical  examination  and standards for
           documentation  of  compliance  with  school  health
           requirements.

H.B. 2277   RELATING TO THE HAWAII TOBACCO SETTLEMENT    HHS, WAM
HD1        SPECIAL FUND

           Provides that  the  funds  received  by  the Health
           Department from the  Tobacco  Settlement for health
           promotion and disease prevention programs shall not
           supplant  or  diminish   the  funding  of  existing
           tobacco  prevention  and  control  programs  or any
           health related programs funded  in whole or in part
           by the State.

H.B. 2392   RELATING TO HEALTH                       HHS/CPN, WAM
HD2, SD1   Clarifies deposit of  assessment with the Insurance
           Commissioner for  health  insurers; requires health
           insurance   policies   to   cover   diabetes  self-
           management  training,   education,  equipment,  and
           supplies; transfers Hawaii mental health task force
           from  DOH   to   insurance   division  and  revises
           composition of membership.  

 


 
H.B. 2513   RELATING TO UNCLAIMED CORPSES                HHS, WAM
HD1        Requires  cremation  of  unclaimed  corpses; limits
           liability  arising   therefrom;  defines  unclaimed
           corpse; conforms other provisions of Hawaii Revised
           Statutes.  

H.B. 2514   RELATING TO PUBLIC ASSISTANCE                HHS, WAM
SD1        Clarifies classification of  claims  by  the DHS in
           the probate code.  

H.B. 179   RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL LANDS           WLH/ECD, WAM
HD2, SD1   Creates  a   commission   compromised  of  thirteen
           members to  update  and  reevaluate  the  1986 LESA
           report and other related issues. 

H.B. 2901   RELATING TO THE NEW ECONOMY              EDU/CPN/ECD,
HD2, SD1                                                        WAM
           Allows qualified high technology businesses to sell
           their   unused   ganization   net   operating  loss
           carryover  to  any  other  taxpayer.    Expands the
           income tax exclusion for royalties and other income
           from   high   technology    businesses.      Allows
           partnership investors the flexibility of allocating
           the high technology  business investment tax credit
           among   partners    without    regard    to   their
           proportionate   interests   in   their  partnership
           investment  vehicle.    Makes  the  high-technology
           business investment tax  credit  and the tax credit
           for increasing  research  activities  refundable to
           the taxpayer or  allowing  the  credits  to be used
           against  the  taxpayer's  income  tax  liability in
           subsequent years  until  exhausted.    Conforms the
           state tax credit for increasing research activities
           with the federal tax  credit.   Allows the board of
           trustees of the  employees' retirement system (ERS)
           to invest ten  percent  of  ERS  funds in qualified
           high technology businesses.  Appropriates funds for
           education, workforce development, and University of
           Hawaii research  and  training.    Promotes Hawaii,
           through  a  coordinated  statewide  effort,  as  an
           Internet  and  server-friendly   place  to  conduct
           electronic   commerce,   including   entering  into
           appropriate    public-private    sector    business
           partnerships.   Creates  the maka`ainana technology
           program for small individual investors. 



                No testimony will be accepted.


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