RELATING TO FUNCTIONAL PLANS.

Transfers the responsibility for preparing guidelines for the preparation of state functional plans from the Department of Budget and Finance to the Office of Planning.

RELATING TO UNCLAIMED PROPERTY.

Allows purchasers of Hawaii State and county issued bonds to claim money such as interest payments and redemption proceeds from the State's Unclaimed Property Program in perpetuity.

RELATING TO THE SHORT-TERM INVESTMENT OF STATE MONEYS.

Clarifies and makes technical changes regarding short-term investment of State moneys. Provides additional investment options for the state treasury.

RELATING TO THE REPEAL OF OUTSTANDING AUTHORIZED BUT UNISSUED SPECIAL PURPOSE REVENUE BONDS.

Repeals issuances of special purpose revenue bonds, as of June 30, 2001, which do not provide for lapsing dates and for which there has been no action taken in at least eight years.

RELATING TO THE AUTHORIZATION OF SPECIAL PURPOSE REVENUE BONDS.

Requires authorizations to issue special purpose revenue bonds to lapse three years after the authorization date.

RELATING TO THE INCOME TAX CREDIT.

Provides the mechanism for the legislature to authorize a tax refund under Article VII, section 6, of the State Constitution.

RELATING TO THE INTEGRATED TAX INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS ACQUISITION BY THE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION.

Appropriates funds to assist the department in its efforts to meet the obligations of the integrated tax information management systems performance-based contract.

RELATING TO GENERAL EXCISE TAX ON NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS.

Simplifies the application process for nonprofit organizations seeking exemption from the payment of GE taxes and reduce the filing burden for these organizations.

RELATING TO THE PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY TAX.

Provides for a sharing of the public service company tax revenues with those counties that establish an exemption from real property tax for public service companies.

RELATING TO THE GENERAL EXCISE TAX.

Requires the Department of Taxation to work with the United States government and develop a system to enforce the collection of GET from U.S. mainland contractors working in Hawaii on federal projects requiring the payment of GET. Requires report to the legislature on necessary proposed legislation.

RELATING TO REPORTS.

Deletes unnecessary statutory requirements for the maintenance and reporting of records of procurements.

RELATING TO PROCUREMENT.

Allows design-build construction proposals to be submitted. Requires development of a short list of offerors from whom proposals will be requested. Requires purchasing agency to pay unsuccessful offerors $5,000 plus 1% of the project construction cost to allow the State to use certain designs submitted in a technically responsive proposal.

RELATING TO COUNTY CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS.

Requires a semiannual report from each county listing every change order, contract modification, or other contract price adjustment which causes the county's expenditure for a county construction project assisted by the State to increase by either: (1) 5% of the original contract amount; or (2) $50,000.

RELATING TO PROFESSIONAL SERVICE CONTRACTS.

Requires purchasing agencies to use nongovernmental employee reviewers in reviewing the procurement of design professional services.

RELATING TO CYBERSQUATTING.

Prohibits cybersquatting (the bad faith registration of domain names on the internet). Establishes penalties.

RELATING TO CONDOMINIUMS.

Permits a condo association to have the right to access other apartments necessary to make repairs to that or other apartments or to the common elements.

RELATING TO THE REVISED UNIFORM COMMERCIAL CODE ARTICLE 9 – SECURED TRANSACTIONS.

Amends UCC article 9, secured transactions.

RELATING TO STATE AND LOCAL TAXATION OF MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICES.

Provides regulation and taxing of state and local telecommunications services.

RELATING TO THE ENVIRONMENT.

Repeals the Hawaii Environmental Disclosure Law which was passed in 1982 to alert the public to major corporate changes, particularly in the case of the agricultural industry, that may affect Hawaii's environment, land use, jobs, and economy.

RELATING TO TIME SHARING PLANS.

Exempts time shares offered for sale outside of the State from the requirements of section 514E-8 (mutual right to cancel) and section 514E-9 (disclosure statement).

HB 20

HD1

RELATING TO SALES AGENTS OF TIME SHARE UNITS.

Removes requirement that time share sales agents be registered with the Director of Commerce and Consumer Affairs. Eliminates requirement that time share acquisition agents be registered with the department if they are currently licensed as real estate brokers pursuant to Chapter 467.

RELATING TO TIME SHARING PLANS.

Repeals requirement that timeshare agents wear identification badge.

HB 740

HD1

RELATING TO PUBLIC UTILITIES.

Requires the establishment of a consumer disclosure standard under which retail suppliers of electricity disclose information on the fuel mix of the electricity products they sell.

RELATING TO THE HAWAII HURRICANE RELIEF FUND.

Provides that HHRF, assisted by DCCA Insurance Division, shall develop a plan to establish a Hawaii-based captive insurance company to use moneys from the dissolved HHRF to reinsure the Hawaii Insurance Guaranty Fund for hurricane insurance policy claims left unpaid by insurer insolvency due to a covered event.

RELATING TO FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS.

RELATING TO AUTISM.

Establishes the Hawaii Autism Center of Excellence (center) within the University of Hawaii school of medicine; makes an appropriation.

RELATING TO FOSTER BOARD ALLOWANCES FOR STUDENTS.

Clarifies that higher education board allowances are available to eligible persons who were formerly foster children.

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO THE FUTURE FLIGHT SPACE CAMP PROGRAM.

Appropriates $150,000 for fiscal years 2001 and 2002 for the Future Flight Hawaii Space Camp Program.

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR DONATED DENTAL SERVICES.

Makes appropriation for donated dental services program for elderly persons who have a disability or mental illness, or are homeless, through the Foundation of Dentistry for the Handicapped.

RELATING TO A FLUORIDE ALTERNATIVE SOLUTION.

Requires the DOH to make available, free of charge, fluoride supplements to children age 3 and younger.

RELATING TO COMMUNITY ORAL HEALTH.

Requires fluoride supplementation of public water systems with 5,000 or more service connections.

RELATING TO WATER FLUORIDATION.

RELATING TO THE PROCESS FOR MANAGED COMPETITION SPECIFIED IN ACT 230, SESSION LAWS OF HAWAII 1998.

Establishes a process for managed competition pursuant to section 6 of Act 230, Session Laws of Hawaii 1998, to allow the State and counties to contract with private sector vendors for the provision of government services, or to allow those services to be performed in-house, as appropriate.

RELATING TO GOVERNMENT.

Responds directly to the Hawaii Supreme Court's decision in Konno v. County of Hawaii, 85 Haw. 61 (1997), and the fact that Act 230, Session Laws of Hawaii 1998, will sunset on June 30, 2001, without a managed competition process in place to facilitate government's effort to secure the services it needs or is required to perform more efficiently and economically.

RELATING TO PRIVATIZATION.

Amends the budget law with respect to new government programs by establishing criteria for contracts entered into with private vendors to perform functions that the public sector cannot implement as cost-effectively as the private sector while meeting various objectives and standards of the state.

RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYEE HEALTH BENEFITS.

Creates an employer-union trust fund as a single public employees health benefit delivery system administered by a board of trustees of the Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefit Trust authority and flexibility to carry out the purposes of the trust fund; grants certain exemptions; establishes monthly employer contributions for retirees; provides general fund appropriation; and repeals chapter 87, HRS.

RELATING TO THE PUBLIC EMPLOYEES HEALTH FUND LONG TERM CARE BENEFITS PLAN.

Requires PEHF to subsidize part of premiums for long-term care benefits plan offered by the fund at $5 per month per employee-beneficiary. Conditions subsidy on insurers offering monthly payouts in $2,000 increments and making available at least 50% of payout for home- and community-based care.

RELATING TO THE PUBLIC EMPLOYEES HEALTH FUND.

Deletes the requirement that financial audit costs be paid from trust funds of the Hawaii Public Employees Health Fund.

RELATING TO THE HAWAII PUBLIC EMPLOYEES HEALTH FUND.

Empowers the board of the public employees health fund to annually audit health benefits plans offered by employee organizations.

RELATING TO THE PUBLIC EMPLOYEES HEALTH FUND.

Establishes that the amount ported to the employee organizations for health benefit plans and group life insurance be based on a percentage of the most cost effective plan that provides the same level of benefits for participants in plans of the Public Employee Health Fund (PEHF) and employee organizations; adjust the amount ported to employee organizations; confirm the employer's authority to audit employee organization health benefits and group life insurance plans; and clarify that employee organizations that receive employer contributions are required to return the employer's share of refunds from their insurance carriers to the Health Fund.

RELATING TO THE PUBLIC EMPLOYEES' HEALTH FUND.

Requires the health fund to port to the union plans an amount based on the rate for the union's least costly benefit plan rather than on the plan with the highest enrollment in the health fund.

RELATING TO THE PUBLIC EMPLOYEES' HEALTH FUND.

Limits state and county contributions to public employees health fund by amount appropriated annually, or to the amount agreed to under collective bargaining, if collective bargaining of benefits is approved in the future.

RELATING TO THE HAWAII PUBLIC EMPLOYEES HEALTH FUND.

Establishes a public-private partnership that allows the Hawaii Public Employee's Health Fund to share in the cost of a single health benefit plan for those public employees who have dual health plan coverage with a private sector employer and a public employer.

RELATING TO THE PUBLIC EMPLOYEES HEALTH FUND.

Permits the Health fund to return the employees' share of insurance carrier refunds to beneficiaries based on their years of benefit plan participation.

RELATING TO THE PUBLIC EMPLOYEES HEALTH FUND.

Discontinues health fund reimbursements for Medicare B premiums to all public employees and their spouses who retire on or after 07-01-2001.

RELATING TO THE PUBLIC EMPLOYEES HEALTH FUND.

Allows the public employees health fund to enter into a cooperative purchasing agreement with the DHS Medicaid programs including QUEST, and other entities, including other similar programs of other states.

RELATING TO THE PUBLIC EMPLOYEES HEALTH FUND.

Changes membership of board of trustees of PEHF to eliminate members who are clergy, teacher, and director of finance. Changes term from 4 years to at the discretion of chief executive officer of employer.

RELATING TO THE HAWAII PUBLIC EMPLOYEES HEALTH FUND AND THE EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM OF THE STATE OF HAWAII.

Transfers functions of the public employees health fund to the employees' retirement system.

RELATING TO THE PUBLIC EMPLOYEES’ HEALTH FUND.

Allows Public Employees Health fund to offer different benefits to retirants.

RELATING TO THE PUBLIC EMPLOYEES’ HEALTH FUND.

Clarifies that the board of trustees of the public employees’ health fund owes primary fiduciary duty to public employer.

RELATING TO PLANNING.

Establishes a special advisor and smart growth advisory council to implement growth and development strategies to reduce the public costs of growth and preserve the character, livability, and economic productivity of established communities and rural areas.

RELATING TO FISHERIES.

Permits shark fins to be harvested from sharks processed on the ship if in equivalent processed portions.

RELATING TO SPECIAL PURPOSE REVENUE BONDS.

Amends Act 208, SLH 2000, to amend the amount and the effective dates.

RELATING TO UNDERGROUND STORAGE TANKS.

Allows for the transfer funds from the Capital Loan Revolving Fund to the DOH Leaking Underground Storage Tank Fund, and to expand the permissible uses of moneys in the LUST Fund.

RELATING TO ENTERPRISE ZONES.

Amends the definition of "medical and health care services" to specify that the definition means medical research, clinical trials, telemedicine, and medical treatment or services provided by a health care facility or health care provider. Defines "health care facility" and "health care provider" under the enterprise zones law.

RELATING TO HEALTH PLANNING.

Exempts economic development projects from certificate of need requirements under chapter 323D, Hawaii Revised Statutes, the health planning and resources development and health care cost control law (law). Eliminates the certificate of need requirement under the law unless specified by the state health planning and development agency.

RELATING TO THE STATE HEALTH PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT AGENCY.

Exempts economic development projects from the certificate of need requirements for projects occurring after 2001 through 2006. Creates a certificate of need study commission.

RELATING TO ENTERPRISE ZONES.

Broadens scope of the types of businesses that qualify for a "qualified business" designation within the Barbers Point/Kalaeloa enterprise zone to include any lawful business situated within the zone.

RELATING TO THE TOBACCO TAX.

Adjusts the tobacco tax rate in accordance with increases or decreases in the Consumer Price Index for the Honolulu region.

RELATING TO GENERAL EXCISE TAX.

Provides a .5% GET rate for goods that are sold by a GET licensee to another GET licensee that are not resold, consumed or used outside of the purchasing licensee's business.

RELATING TO AN ANNUAL GENERAL EXCISE TAX HOLIDAY.

Establishes an annual general excise tax holiday for consumers and businesses that sell clothing under $100 on condition that businesses pass the savings on to consumers.

RELATING TO INCOME TAX.

Increases the income tax deductions for businesses from 50% to 100% for meals and entertainment expenses. Allows business entertainment deduction for club dues.

RELATING TO TAXATION.

Establishes a tax credit for revitalization of older commercial facilities, including retail, hotel, warehouse, and industrial facilities; provided that either the facility or the commercial district where the facility is located is at least twenty-five years old; projects over $2,500,000 required to pay prevailing wages under chapter 104, Hawaii Revised Statutes.

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR COMMUNITY-BASED ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.

Appropriates funds for the planning, design, and construction of physical improvements selected as part of an existing or emerging comprehensive, regional, multi-sector community-based strategic action planning process coordinated by the Hawaii Alliance for Community-Based Economic Development.

RELATING TO REAL PROPERTY LEASES.

Gives certain lessees and sublessees the option of extending the remainder of their lease to full term, or acquiring the leased fee interest in the property from the lessor for fair market value in accordance with the uniform standards of professional appraisal practice, either by agreement or through condemnation.

RELATING TO PUBLIC UTILITIES.

Exempts from the definition of "public utility" persons with an exclusive wireless telecommunication license from the Federal Communications Commission.

RELATING TO INTOXICATING LIQUOR.

Amends state law regarding the labeling, designation, or sale of liquor to make it unlawful to use Hawaiian names, language, symbols, seals, designs, or pictures in a manner intended to lead the consumer to believe that the liquor was manufactured in the State, unless the liquor meets specific manufacturing requirements in compliance with federal law.

RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLES.

Changing the time to forward certificates of ownership to the Director of Finance from thirty to sixty days when the certificate of ownership is from a jurisdiction outside Hawaii.

RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLES.

Permits motor vehicle backup warning beepers to be disabled between 10:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. if the act of switching off the beeper activates a rear view camera system.

relating to special number plates for disabled veterans.

Provides for special number license plates for disabled veterans.

relating to towing.

Increases towing fees from $50 to $55 for a tow, from $60 to $65 for a tow using a dolly, from $25 to $30 for multi-level towing surcharge, and increases mileage charge from $5 to $6.50 per mile. Specifies the days and times when towing companies are entitled to overtime charge everyday.

RELATING TO DRIVER'S LICENSES.

Permits the use of foreign language exams by examiner of drivers.

RELATING TO HEADLIGHTS.

Requires all motor vehicles to be operated with headlights on all the time.

RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION.

Appropriates funds to establish and implement a permanent intra-island water ferry transportation system (system), provided that the department of transportation works collaboratively with the counties, the federal government, and interested public and private parties in establishing and implementing the system.

relating to driver education.

Sets new driver education fees.

RELATING TO TAXATION.

Provides an exemption to the general excise and use taxes for amounts received for the leasing of aircraft engines used in interisland transportation.

relating to the issuance of special facility revenue bonds for inter-island maritime transportation.

Authorizes issuance of special facilities revenue bonds for improvements to harbor facilities for use by Rainbow Island Express to operate an inter-island and intra-island ferry service.

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR A HOSPITAL-BASED DEMONSTRATION PROJECT.

Appropriates funds to the department of health for a hospital-based coach and athletic director health clinic demonstration project.

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR OPERATING COSTS.

Making an appropriation to the Wahiawa General Hospital for its operating costs.

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR HOSPITAL-BASED COMMUNITY HEALTH PROGRAMS.

Appropriation for hospital based community health programs.

RELATING TO HEALTH.

RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES.

Appropriates $____ and $____ for FY 2001-2002 and FY 2002-2003, respectively, to provide basic dental services for adults covered under Medicaid or QUEST on a fee-for-service basis. Imposes service cap of $500 per enrollee per year. DHS to expend.

RELATING TO THE CHILDREN'S HEALTH INSURANCE PROGRAM.

Creates a purpose and findings section setting forth the State's position on the children's health insurance program. Appropriates funding the include children whose income is at or below 300% of the federal poverty level.

Decision making to follow.

RELATING TO LONG-TERM CARE.

RELATING TO LONG-TERM CARE FINANCING.

Appropriates funds for a study on the feasibility and advisability of establishing a state program of long-term care that offers protective coverage to the largest number of people reasonably possible. Requires that DOH provide the 2003 legislature with findings and recommendations, and that DOH prepare legislation for introduction in the 2003 session.

RELATING TO CORRECTIONS.

Requires adult women charged with or convicted of crimes and juvenile females adjudicated for offenses that would be crimes if committed by an adult or who are adjudicated delinquents, to be provided a range and quality of programming substantially equivalent to the range and quality offered to males. Appropriates funds.

RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES.

Restores eligibility to state-funded QUEST medical insurance to qualified immigrants who arrived in the United States after August 22, 1996. Appropriates funds for this purpose.

RELATING TO QUEST.

Appropriates funds to provide enabling services under QUEST.

RELATING TO VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION.

Appropriates funds for four full-time equivalent (4.00 FTE) rehabilitation teacher for the blind positions and for services to assist elderly blind persons in achieving independent living.

RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES.

Allows DHS to carryover funds from general assistance.