relating to liquor license applications.

As to liquor law, clarifies what items shall be included in the investigator's report and to whom a copy of that report shall be furnished. Clarifies procedures for protests concerning applications for liquor licenses.

RELATING TO CONDOMINIUMS.

Requires mediation for certain condo disputes.

relating to collection agencies.

Amends collection agency disclosure requirements consistent with federal standards, by allowing agencies to disclose to the debtor in the initial, as opposed to all communications with a debtor, that the agency is attempting to collect a claim and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

RELATING TO STATEMENTS OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES OF HAWAII FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS.

Generally requires financial institutions, instead of publishing a statement of assets and liabilities, to file them with the commissioner of financial institutions.

RELATING TO CONSUMER COOPERATIVES.

Requires consumer cooperatives to establish their membership prior to the commencement of business in the State. Requires the board to seek approval by members of major undertakings.

relating to pest control licensees.

Requires pest control licensees who install, inspect, or monitor bait station termite systems to be bonded if system developer requires licensee to be authorized or certified by the developer; party aggrieved by licensee unsatisfactory performance may bring action on the bond.

relating to public accountancy.

Amends chapter on public accountants to include among other things, continuing education requirement, peer review, peer review oversight body confidential client communications. Describes action on licensing application, criminal conviction, denial of license.

RELATING TO INTOXICATING LIQUORS.

Authorizes reciprocal shipping of intoxicating liquor under specified conditions.

RELATING TO THE PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION.

Provides for greater allocation of the Public Utilities Commission special fund to Commission work by requiring that the greater of $1,000,000, or four-fifths of the moneys in the special fund, shall remain in the special fund, with the excess lapsing into the general fund.

relating to the public utilities commission.

Requires the Auditor to conduct a management audit of the Public Utilities Commission and submit a report to the legislature and governor before convening of Regular Session of 2002.

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 graduate with a bachelor's degree in education and who agree to teach in the Hawaii public school system.

relating to students.

Requires the social science research institute of UH to monitor and assess special education, health, and mental health services provided to students in Hawaii's public schools. Provides for a special fund.

Relating to early childhood education.

Establishes an office of early childhood education headed by the director of early childhood education. Requires the director to develop a plan for the establishment of a system of universal access to early childhood care.

RELATING TO EARLY CHILDHOOD.

Provides a means for early childhood screening when a child reaches the age of three.

relating to education.

Requires the incorporation of braille training into the individual education program of blind or visually impaired students.

relating to health.

Transfers the early intervention section and the child and mental health division from the department of health to the department of education.

relating to education.

Defines the class of children eligible for special education programs and services. Establishes a voucher program allowing parents of special education children to obtain special education services from private organizations.

relating to school health.

Establishes a comprehensive school health system that promotes the healthy development of all students and a comprehensive school health program. Convenes a joint planning committee to coordinate a phased implementation of the program.

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE COMPREHENSIVE SCHOOL SUPPORT PROGRAM.

Appropriates $________ for positions in the comprehensive school support system.

RELATING TO ADOLESCENCE SCHOOL-BASED SUBSTANCE ABUSE TREATMENT.

Appropriates funds for statewide adolescence school-based treatment programs.

RELATING TO SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT.

Imposes beverage container requirements and fees. Requires beverage distributors to register with the State. Establishes the beverage container deposit special fund. Provides for the redemption of empty beverage containers. Provides requirements for recycling facilities and redemption centers.

RELATING TO THE STATE COUNCIL ON DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES.

Makes various amendments and name changes to the State's developmental disabilities law.

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/screening.

RELATING TO PARKING FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES.

Amends and adds regulations for parking for persons with disabilities; adds provisions relating to fraudulent verification of disability, replacement of identification card, fraudulent manufacture of placards and identification cards, issuance of identification card, and requirements to provide parking for disabled persons.

RELATING TO OVER-THE- COUNTER DRUGS.

Creates a special fund to provide supplemental funding for the Hawaii State Primary Care Association Medicine Bank from taxes collected from over-the-counter drug sales.

RELATING TO ADVANCE DIRECTIVES FOR PSYCHIATRIC CARE.

Establishes a mechanism to allow individuals to make known their mental health treatment preferences at a time when the individual is able to make informed decisions about treatment.

RELATING TO TATTOOS.

Requires minors to inform tattoo artists to their minority status and provide parental consent for application of any permanent tattoos. Requires tattoo artists to notify all prospective clients of need of parental consent if client is a minor and to obtain such written parental consent if client is a minor.

RELATING TO BODY PIERCING.

Requires minors to inform ear and body piercers of their minor status and provide parental consent for any ear or body piercing. Requires all body piercers to notify all prospective clients of need for parental consent if client is a minor and to obtain such written parental consent if client is a minor.

RELATING TO THE SALE OF STERILE SYRINGES FOR THE PREVENTION OF DISEASE.

Decriminalizes the sale of sterile syringes to persons who may use them for injection of illicit drugs.

RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT.

Repeals mandatory arbitration provisions and restores the right to strike to public employees.

RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT.

Clarifies scope of negotiations and consultation relating to policies, procedures, practices, and the collective bargaining agreement. Implements and maintains the classification system covering civil service positions. Implements a non-judicial process for addressing management complaints against the exclusive representative.

RELATING TO COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENTS, FINANCIAL ABILITY OF THE EMPLOYER IN IMPASSE PROCEEDINGS AND TRANSFER OF THE OFFICE OF COLLECTIVE BARGAINING.

Proposal to limit the duration of any public sector collective bargaining agreement to two years; to require any fact-finding panel, arbitrator or arbitration panel to consider the impact of any recommendation or award of cost items upon pending collective bargaining negotiations and to take these costs into consideration, along with costs of collective bargaining agreements already agreed to, in determining the employers' financial ability to pay; and to administratively attach the Office of Collective Bargaining to the Department of Human Resources Development.

RELATING TO THE MERIT APPEALS BOARD.

Allow the Hawaii Labor Relations Board to handle for the State, the merit appeals from employment actions under chapter 76 taken against civil service employees.

RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYEES.

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

RELATING TO RETIREMENT BENEFITS.

Eliminates overtime compensation, differentials, and supplementary pay from the calculation of retirement benefits for all employees after 6/30/00. Clarifies that for purposes of determining the amount of a member's contribution to the annuity savings fund, a member's compensation does not include payments for overtime, differentials, and supplementary pay.

RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT.

Prohibits the excessive assignment of overtime for the sole purpose of increasing an employee's average final compensation under Section

88-21, HRS.

MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR STATE OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES EXCLUDED FROM COLLECTIVE BARGAINING.

Provide fund authorizations and appropriations for State officers and employees excluded from collective bargaining. The appropriations cover the fiscal biennium 2001-2003.

RELATING PUBLIC EMPLOYEES.

Requires the proposed adjustments to compensation and benefit packages for excluded civil service employees to be at least equivalent to the adjustments provided in other jurisdictions.

RELATING TO THE COMPENSATION OF PUBLIC OFFICERS.

Increase the compensation of department directors and/deputies and the administrative director of the State.

RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT.

Provides for wage and salary adjustments for public sector managers excluded from collective bargaining that are on par with their civil service counterparts.

RELATING TO TOURISM.

Converts the non-voting members of the Hawaii tourism authority into voting members.

relating to the hawaii tourism authority.

Requires the Hawaii Tourism Authority to establish a registry of groups of Hawaii residents traveling to out-of-state destinations to promote and market Hawaii as a tourist destination. Allows the authority to enter into agreements with and award grants to these groups.

RELATING TO TOURISM.

Increases the membership of the Hawaii Tourism Authority, and assigns the responsibility to market, operate, manage, and maintain the Hawaii convention center facility to the HTA. Increases, the transient accommodation tax rate by 1 per cent for every increase of 500,000 visitors over 7,500,000 until the tax rate is 10.25 per cent.

RELATING TO TOURISM MARKETING.

Proposes to dedicate a portion of the Hawaii Tourism Special Fund to market Hawaii as a place where business can take place, particularly in areas where Hawaii is globally competitive.

RELATING TO LEI DAY.

Officially recognizes May 1 as "Lei Day In Hawai'i".

ADOPTING AN OFFICIAL STATE TARTAN.

Adopts an official tartan for the State. Directs the state foundation on culture and the arts to register the tartan in Scotland.

relating to time sharing.

Excludes time share plans from definition of "planned community" and "door-to-door sale"; provides that interest and usury law does not apply to a lien or security interest in time share interest.

relating to transient accommodations tax.

Amends the definitions of "gross rental" or "gross rental proceeds" and "operator".

RELATING TO PUBLIC UTILITIES.

Expands the exemption from Public Utilities Commission regulations to include public utilities owned and not operated by the State or its political subdivisions, provided that the State or its political subdivisions shall not use fees generated by the operation of utilities owned but not operated by the State or its political subdivisions for general funded operations or non-utility related expenses or projects.

RELATING TO TAXATION.

Exempts public utilities owned by the State or political subdivisions of the State from the public service company tax.

RELATING TO COUNTIES.

Requires that existing collective bargaining agreements that are in effect at the time an electrical generation and distribution operation is purchased or acquired shall remain in effect until the agreement expires.

RELATING TO PUBLIC UTILITIES.

Exempts electric cooperatives from the general excise tax and public service company tax laws. Defines "electric cooperative".

RELATING TO ELECTRICAL COOPERATIVES.

Allows the Public Utilities Commission to regulate electric cooperatives in Hawaii. Allows electric cooperatives to opt out of the commission's regulation by allowing the member-consumers of the electric cooperative to exempt themselves from regulation under certain conditions. Defines "electric cooperative."

RELATING TO UNDERGROUND UTILITY LINES.

Establishes an advisory committee to be appointed by the governor to develop a comprehensive statewide plan for underground utility lines; committee to submit report before convening of 2003 regular session of legislature.