THE SENATE

THE TWENTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2001

COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, MILITARY AFFAIRS

AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

Senator Cal Kawamoto, Chair

Senator Carol Fukunaga, Vice Chair

MEASURES DEFERRED TO THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2001

TIME:

1:00 pm

PLACE:

Conference Room 229

State Capitol

415 South Beretania Street

DECISION MAKING ON THE FOLLOWING MEASURE(S):

(Deferred from February 12, 2001)

SB 53

relating to the quest medical assistance program.

Provides for making cost-based payments to federally qualified health centers and rural health centers for services provided under the QUEST medical assistance program.

HHS/TMG, WAM

SB 594

Relating to neurotrauma.

Establishes a neurotrauma special fund and commission.

HS/TMG, WAM

SB 1019

RELATING TO HOMELESS PROGRAMS.

Removes the requirement that the housing and community development corporation of Hawaii ensure that a compliance audit by an independent auditing agency is done once each fiscal biennium period.

TMG/HHS, CPH

SB 1331

relating to veterans.

Allows a Filipino WWII veteran who currently receives Hawaii public assistance benefits for the aged, blind, and disabled to continue to receive the state benefit if the veteran returns to the Philippines to live permanently.

TMG/HHS, WAM

(Please note: The Committee on HHS held its decision making on these measures on February 12, 2001.)

 

(Deferred from February 13, 2001)

SB 1170

RELATING TO DISPLACED LESSEES.

Provides that lessees displaced from property already owned by the State or any county also qualify for a preference granting such lessees the right of first refusal for a lease at an eligible relocation site, and clarifies that the relocation sites must be in an existing or designated industrial park site.

TMG, EDT

No testimony will be accepted.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CALL THE COMMITTEE CLERK AT 586-6970.