HB 508

RELATING TO IRRIGATION PROJECTS.

Allows the Department to determine irrigation system expenses and revenues in June of each year. Would allow user notices to be sent through various means in lieu of costly registered mail.

HB 869

RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL LOANS.

Amends the definition of "qualified farmer" under the agricultural loans law. Repeals the residence requirement for partnerships and corporations with regard to agricultural loan eligibility.

HB 925

HD 1

RELATING TO LOANS.

Authorizes loans up to $5,000,000 to provide financial assistance to agriculture and aquaculture enterprises on Kauai.

HB 540

HD 1

RELATING TO THE HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF HAWAII.

Adds at least one resident who is directly assisted by HCDCH to the board of directors.

HB 545

RELATING TO THE RENTAL HOUSING TRUST FUND.

Authorizes the issuance of $30,000,000 in revenue bonds to be deposited into the Rental Housing Trust Fund and to appropriate funds to carry out the purposes of the RHTF.

HB 583

HD 1, SD 1

RELATING TO THE CODE OF FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS.

Establishes expedited emergency application procedures and record search fees. Clarifies commissioner's subpoena power, foreign bank requirements, and grounds for suspension or revocation of charter or license. Lifts restriction on investments in State obligations.

HB 584

HD 2, SD 1

RELATING TO ESCROW DEPOSITORIES.

Codifies confidentiality requirements for applications and records. Conforms voluntary termination procedures. Establishes procedures for branch closings and termination of operations. Authorizes fees for examinations and record searches and permits fee changes by rule.

HB 594

HD 2, SD 1

RELATING TO CONTINUING EDUCATION COURSES AND COURSE PROVIDERS FOR INSURANCE LICENSEES.

Authorizes assessment of fees by Insurance Division and DCCA for certification of continuing education providers and courses and for related services. Requires course providers to electronically submit course completion information to division within 45 days of course completion or exam scoring.

HB 596

HD 2, SD 1

RELATING TO THE HAWAII HURRICANE RELIEF FUND.

Expands powers of HHRF to include suspension or reactivation of special mortgage recording fee. Suspends special mortgage recording fee from July 1, 2001, to December 31, 2001. Extends reimbursable general obligation bonds authorization for an additional fiscal year.

HB 1156

RELATING TO THE HAWAII HURRICANE RELIEF FUND.

Establishes hazard mitigation grant program. Prohibits dissolution of HHRF except by legislative repeal. Allocates Fund's investment income among grant program, reinvestments, and general fund.

HB 175

RELATING TO TAXATION.

Adds new tax benefits for high tech industries and amends current benefits to improve them.

HB 11

HD 2, SD 1

RELATING TO EDUCATION.

Establishes education research and development revolving fund; funded by revenues from commercial exploitation of products/services developed by DOE.

HB 94

HD 1

RELATING TO PARENT-COMMUNITY NETWORKING CENTER PROGRAMS.

Appropriates funds for the establishment of new parent-community networking centers and for the further development of existing centers.

HB 469

RELATING TO SCHOOL PERSONNEL.

Requires principals to meet the department of education's (DOE) certification requirements and have not less than five years of appropriate school-level experience of which at least three years have been as a teacher. Requires vice-principals to meet the DOE's certification requirements and have appropriate school-level experience as determined by the department of education (DOE). Authorizes the DOE, on a case-by-case basis, to waive the certification requirements and school-level experience for vice-principal candidates with appropriate administrative experience.

HB 611

HD 1

RELATING TO CONCESSIONS AT PUBLIC LIBRARY FACILITIES.

Allows the Hawaii Library Foundation and the Friends of the Library of Hawaii to conduct for-profit enterprises at state library facilities, and to deposit the net proceeds of those enterprises to their respective trust funds.

HB 612

HD 1

RELATING TO THE LIBRARY ENHANCED SERVICES PROGRAM.

Makes permanent the Enhanced Services Program.

HB 613

SD 1

RELATING TO REALLOCATION OF VACANT LIBRARY POSITIONS.

Makes permanent the authority of the State Librarian to administratively reallocate vacant positions and establish temporary positions.

HB 730

HD 1

RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII.

Provides flexibility in allocating portions of the indirect overhead revenues generated by the University from research and training programs.

HB 731

HD 1, SD 1

RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII.

Authorizes the transfer of all University funds, with the exception of general funds, into the University of Hawaii Commercial Enterprises Revolving Fund to finance the establishment of new enterprises.

HB 735

SD 1

RELATING TO THE RESEARCH CORPORATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII.

Revises the content requirements of the RCUH Annual Report.

HB 1028

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR A MODEL UNITED NATIONS PROGRAM FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS.

Appropriates funds for a Model United Nations program for high school students.

HB 1048

RELATING TO THE STATE LIBRARIAN.

Provides that the salary of the state librarian shall be set by the board of education at a rate no greater than $120,000.

HB 1216

RELATING TO THE KOREAN CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION COMMISSION.

Appropriates funds to the Korean centennial celebration commission for the Korean centennial celebration.

RELATING TO SECONDARY MARKET SERVICES CORP.--HAWAII.

Authorizes Secondary Market Services Corp.--Hawaii, the state-designated student loan secondary market, to purchase student loan notes held by mainland financial institutions.

HB 1667

RELATING TO STUDENT LOANS FOR TEACHERS.

Establishes the Hawaii education loan program and special fund for the purpose of providing financial support to students who are enrolled in a program that culminates in the awarding of a teaching license, and who agree to teach in the Hawaii public school system. Appropriates funds.

HB 1668

RELATING TO REHIRING RETIRED TEACHERS IN THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION.

Allows DOE to rehire retired teachers in areas of Hawaii where there is a teacher shortage.

RELATING TO KAHO`OLAWE ISLAND RESERVE.

Authorizes the Kaho`olawe Island Reserve Commission (Commission) to solicit and accept grants, donations, and contributions. Renames the Rehabilitation Trust Fund to the Kaho`olawe Rehabilitation Trust Fund (Trust Fund). Requires the deposit of grants, donations, and contributions into the Trust Fund. Deletes the repeal date of the Trust Fund. Requires the Commission to submit annual reports on the Trust Fund to the Legislature.

HB 444

RELATING TO BURIAL SITES.

Authorizes the DLNR to execute mitigation plans for the landowner, permittee, or developer, on request, for inadvertent discovery of burial sites.

HB 1026

RELATING TO KIKALA-KEOKEA.

Provides for the development of infrastructure, including water infrastructure, at the Kikala-Keokea homestead area of the island of Hawaii. Establishes the infrastructure development fund and Kikala-Keokea housing revolving fund and appropriates moneys from these funds to carry out their respective purposes.

HB 47

RELATING TO PRESCRIPTION DRUGS.

Establishes the Hawaii Rx Program to make prescription drugs more affordable to all residents of the State.

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR BLINDNESS SKILL TRAINING.

Makes $25,000 appropriation to obtain a $225,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Education for teachers to teach blindness skills to individuals age fifty-five or older with severe visual impairment or blindness.

HB 636

HD 1, SD 1

RELATING TO REIMBURSEMENT FOR NONINSTITUTIONAL PROVIDERS OF MEDICAL CARE FOR SERVICES.

Allows the Department of Human Services to change its current method of reimbursement to noninstitutional providers of medical care by creating a fee schedule based on services provided, rather than on specialty of practice.

HB 647

HD 2

RELATING TO THE DISABILITY AND COMMUNICATION ACCESS BOARD.

Allows the Disability and Communication Access Board to assess applicant fees for sign language interpreter credentialing, and to retain the fees in a special fund to offset the cost of the credentialing.

HB 702

HD 2, SD 1

RELATING TO CORRECTIONAL HEALTH CARE.

Establishes the correctional health care program (Program) within the Department of Public Safety (PSD); exempts the administrator, physicians from civil service. Gives physicians already working in the Program under PSD the option of remaining under civil service.

HB 1111

RELATING TO SPECIAL PURPOSE REVENUE BONDS FOR AN INTERGENERATIONAL CARE CENTER AT EWA VILLAGES.

Authorization for special purpose revenue bonds for the intergenerational care center at Ewa Villages.

HB 152

HD 1, SD 1

RELATING TO THE JUDICIARY.

Makes permanent the expedited sentencing program's pilot project; repeals the annual reporting requirement, and prevents inadvertent repeal of probation laws.

HB 168

RELATING TO ELECTIONS.

Establishes a temporary task force to comprehensively review, evaluate, and recommend changes to Hawaii's election laws regarding vote counting, particularly consideration of automatic recount and contesting procedures, to ensure the integrity and certainty of the State's electoral process.

HB 533

HD 2

RELATING TO ANTITRUST.

Establishes the Antitrust Trust Fund. Authorizes the deposit of 10 per cent of all antitrust judgments and settlements received by the State into the Trust Fund, and the deposit of up to $150,000 from the Attorney General's general fund appropriation to capitalize the Trust Fund.

HB 708

RELATING TO PUBLIC SAFETY.

Establishes the Federal Reimbursement Maximization Special Fund under the Department of Public Safety, and requests an appropriation from the Federal Reimbursement Maximization Special Fund.

RELATING TO A SENTENCING SIMULATION MODEL.

Appropriates state matching funds of $47,177 for fiscal year 2001-2002 to develop, implement, and maintain a sentencing simulation model in the State.

HB 996

SD 1

RELATING TO DRUG DEMAND REDUCTION ASSESSMENTS.

Extends the sunset date of the drug demand reduction assessments special fund sunset from June 30, 2001 to June 30, 2004.

HB 171

RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT.

Repeals mandatory arbitration provisions and restores the right to strike to all public employees except firefighters and police officers.

HB 432

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE MILLENNIUM WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM.

Places the millennium workforce development training program with the University of Hawaii. Appropriates money to continue the Program.

HB 502

RELATING TO PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT ORGANIZATIONS.

Exempts amounts paid to a professional employment organization on behalf of employees hired by a client company. Ensures rights of employees.

HB 564

HD 2

RELATING TO THE EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM.

Clarifies the four different retirement options in the noncontributory plan.

HB 565

HD 1

RELATING TO THE EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM.

Requires all new pension recipients to have their payments directly deposited into an account at a financial institution.

HB 568

HD 2, SD 1

RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYEE HEALTH BENEFITS.

Establishes the Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefit Trust as a single health benefit delivery system for State and county employees and provides the necessary flexibility and authority to develop health benefit plans.

HB 576

HD 2, SD 1

RELATING TO THE EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM.

Changes the salary growth assumption rate to 4 per cent effective July 1, 2001.

HB 643

HD 2

RELATING TO THE MERIT APPEALS BOARD.

Allows the Hawaii Labor Relations Board to handle for the State, the merit appeals from employment actions taken against civil service employees.

HB 670

HD 1

RELATING TO EMPLOYMENT SECURITY.

Conforms state statutory provision with applicable federal statutes for the administration of the state's unemployment insurance program.

HB 676

HD 1

RELATING TO OCCUPATIONAL AND CAREER INFORMATION.

Abolishes the Hawaii State Occupational Information Coordinating Committee.

HB 1056

RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYEES.

Makes level and type of health benefits for public employees, as well as contributions, subject to collective bargaining.

HB 1130

RELATING TO EMPLOYMENT SECURITY.

Requires employers who use or who are assisted by programs funded through the employment and training fund to contribute up to 25% of the cost of the assistance. Makes the employment and training fund assessment permanent and sets the employment and training fund assessment rate at 0.03% of taxable wages.

HB 160

RELATING TO FRAUDULENT CLAIMS.

Broadens recovery of false claims to the State to include the counties.

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE PARKING PERMIT PROGRAM FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES.

Appropriates funds to the counties to administer the parking permit program for persons with disabilities.

HB 505

RELATING TO PUBLIC LANDS.

Requires that any transfer of the Ala Wai Golf Course lands from the City and County of Honolulu to the State by executive order shall be subject to legislative disapproval.

HB 77

HD 1

RELATING TO THE WOMEN IN MILITARY SERVICE FOR AMERICA MEMORIAL.

Appropriates funds to the department of defense to enable the State of Hawaii to make a donation on behalf of the Women in Military Service for America Memorial in Arlington National Cemetery.

HB 216

RELATING TO HARBORS.

Temporarily exempts the leasing of fuel storage facilities at Nawiliwili harbor from the requirements of chapter 171, HRS.

HB 695

HD 1, SD 1

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.

HB 860

HD 1, SD 1

RELATING TO THE EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM.

Provides a military service credit of up to 4 years to qualified retirants of the ERS.

HB 1685

RELATING TO TAXATION.

Gives taxpayers an aircraft operating lease investment income tax credit that is deductible from the net income tax liability of a lessee of an aircraft under an operating lease.

HB 666

HD 1

RELATING TO INDIVIDUAL WASTEWATER SYSTEMS.

Delegates the responsibility of regulating individual wastewater systems to the counties from the DOH.

HB 693

RELATING TO THE BUREAU OF CONVEYANCES.

Revises land recording requirements to facilitate the recording process in the Bureau of Conveyances.

HB 1309

RELATING TO SPECIAL PURPOSE REVENUE BONDS.

Authorizes up to $10,000,000 in special purpose revenue bonds for a facility.

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Senator Brian Taniguchi