HB 16

HD1

RELATING TO REAL ESTATE BROKERS AND SALESPERSONS.

Exempts an owner of a time share interest from the requirement of being a licensed real estate broker or salesperson when the owner refers a prospective buyer to a developer, sales agent, or resales agent of a time share plan and receives a fee of not more than $1,000.

HB 17

HD1

RELATING TO TIME SHARE PROJECTS.

Exempts time share units from specified condo disclosure requirements. Requires a developer to register with the real estate commission prior to the time when the developer offers or proposes to offer for sale a time share plan located in a condominium project where apartments are being offered or proposed to be offered for sale for the first time.

HB 22

HD1

RELATING TO TIME SHARING PLANS.

Redefines "acquisition agent" to exclude employees or contractors of licensed real estate brokers, and employees or contractors of acquisition agents who are not licensed real estate brokers. Stipulates that acquisition agents and sales agents are responsible for the actions of their employees or contractors.

HB 1274

HD1

RELATING TO PILOTS.

Statutorily requires the Director of Commerce and Consumer Affairs to maintain an adequate supply of pilots based on consultation with certain interested parties, and to grant licenses as the need arises.

HB 1268

RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLE SAFETY INSPECTIONS.

Raises the age at which rental and U-drive motor vehicles must undergo a biannual vehicle safety inspection from 1 year of age to 2 years of age.

HB 954

HD1

RELATING TO REGULATORY PROCESSES.

Amends the automatic approval law by amending the definition of "application for a business or development-related permit, license, or approval" and extending the deadline for agency rulemaking. Failure to adopt rules by the new deadline will result in a one-year statutory maximum time period.

EDB/WLU/EEP,

HB 549

RELATING TO STATE ENTERPRISE ZONES.

Amends the Enterprise Zones (EZ) Partnership offer statutory provision which state and county tax and other incentives to certain types of businesses which increase their hiring in zones selected by the counties and approved by the Governor.

EDB/EEP,CPC,

HB 1385

HD1

RELATING TO NET ENERGY METERING.

Provides net energy metering for eligible customer-generators.

HB 1386

HD1

RELATING TO DISTRIBUTED ELECTRIC GENERATION.

Requires the Public Utilities Commission to lift regulatory barriers to interconnection with the existing electric grid, and encourages the establishment of new electric generation facilities, including renewable facilities, by adopting and implementing uniform technical standards, standard interconnection agreement practices and terminology, and standard conditions for interconnection.

HB 435

HD1

RELATING TO PUBLIC UTILITIES.

Exempts from PUC regulations, public utilities owned or operated by the state or counties; provided that any moneys received by the government from the operation of the utility shall be used for utility related expenses or projects not normally funded by general revenues. Creates a GET exemption.

HB 118

HD1

RELATING TO FAMILY CHILD CARE.

Makes general amendments to the family child care home law, including setting a $1 million insurance policy limit per provider and indemnifying townhome associations from liability.

HB 917

RELATING TO CLINICAL SOCIAL WORKERS.

Requires licensing of independent clinical social workers; protects practice of independent clinical social work; protects title of licensed clinical social workers and clinical social workers; creates board; establishes license application requirements; requires continuing education before renewal of license; exempts employed clinical social worker employed by federal, state, or county government.

HLT,CPC/JHA,

RELATING TO PUBLIC ASSISTANCE.

Creates welfare safety net program called "Keeping Hope Alive" in DHS to issue vouchers for children in families that will be coming off welfare after the maximum 5 years for housing, child care, clothing, and school supplies. Makes appropriation. Requires case management for such families.

RELATING TO THE ELDERLY.

Appropriates funds to the Executive Office on Aging for collaborative programs with private agencies relating to elder wellness and to contract an independent evaluation of these elder wellness programs.

RELATING TO CANCER.

Establishes a breast and cervical cancer treatment program for individuals who are diagnosed by the Hawaii breast and cervical cancer control program who are not eligible to receive Medicaid benefits for treatment, and for other uninsured with breast or cervical cancer, or both. Appropriates funds for the program.

RELATING TO A CENTER FOR NURSING.

Establishes the state center for nursing in the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations for administrative purposes to address issues of supply and demand for nursing, including issues of recruitment, retention, and utilization of nurse workforce resources.

RELATING TO HEALTH CARE WORKER INJURY PREVENTION.

Protects nurses and other health care workers from needlestick and other sharps-related injuries.

RELATING TO MANDATORY OVERTIME FOR REGISTERED NURSES.

Prohibits both public and private hospitals from forcing registered nurses to work overtime, except in cases of a publicly declared emergency.

RELATING TO THE DISABILITY AND COMMUNICATION ACCESS BOARD.

Provides the DCAB with the authority to assess fees for the cost of certifying and providing continued education and training in certifying sign language interpreters. Creates a special fund to cover the costs to certify sign language interpreters. Appropriates moneys to the special fund for start up purposes.

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.

RELATING TO MARRIAGE LICENSES.

Provides for the simplification of marriage process, including the reduction of fees, criteria for license, and turnaround time.

RELATING TO HEALTH.

Amends diabetes insurance coverage to include the right to access prescription drugs.

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE MILLENNIUM WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM.

Appropriates money to continue a technology workforce development program.

RELATING TO PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT ORGANIZATIONS.

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

RELATING TO HIGH TECHNOLOGY.

Clarifies tax benefits or incentives available to qualified high technology business.

RELATING TO CONSERVATION AND RESOURCES.

Relieves the State of the obligation to execute additional mitigation measures for the conservation of a species that was otherwise adequately covered under the terms of a habitat conservation plan, safe harbor agreement, or incidental take license, as a result of extraordinary circumstances.

RELATING TO ELECTRIC VEHICLES.

Extends incentives for the purchase of electric vehicles from 5 to 10 years.

RELATING TO ALTERNATE FUELED VEHICLES.

Encourages the use of vehicles that exclusively uses an alternate fuel by providing similar incentives that were given to electric vehicles under Act 290, Session Laws of Hawaii 1997.

RELATING TO ENERGY CONSERVATION.

Specifies that Model Energy Code standards for residential buildings shall apply to previously unoccupied new residential real property sold after 07/01/02.

RELATING TO GASOLINE DEALERS.

Creates an exception to the gasoline retail divorcement law by allowing a manufacturer or jobber to operate a former dealer operated retail service station where the current or new dealer is in agreement with such an operation and when the dealer has a contract interest in the operation.

RELATING TO RECYCLING.

Authorizes issuance of up to $2,500,000 in special purpose revenue bonds for industrial enterprises to assist Environmental Recycling Technologies, Inc.

RELATING TO PRIVATELY-OPERATED CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES.

Allows the governor to contract for private sector operation of correctional facilities. Establishes criteria necessary for an acceptable contract for privatized operation of a correctional facility.

RELATING TO CORRECTIONAL HEALTH CARE.

Exempts the position of the correctional Health Care Administrator and authorized physician positions within the department from collective bargaining provisions. Establishes a correctional health care program within the department.

RELATING TO PUBLIC SAFETY.

Transfers the rights, powers, functions, and duties of personnel assigned to the Parole Administration Division of the Hawaii Paroling Authority to the Department of Public Safety.

RELATING TO THE CRIME VICTIM COMPENSATION COMMISSION.

Exempt the executive director and administrative assistant from the requirements of civil service.

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 FISHERIES.

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

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.

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE PACIFIC BASIN ECONOMIC COUNCIL INTERNATIONAL GENERAL MEETING.

Appropriates $750,000 to the DBEDT to host the 35th International General Meeting of the Pacific Basin Economic Council.

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 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 Hawaii 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 Empoyee'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 TEACHER COMPENSATION.

Requires teachers to receive their normal annual increment or longevity increase, as the case may be, for a year's satisfactory service in any fiscal year that an increase in the appropriate salary schedule is effected, except as provided by law.

RELATING TO EDUCATIONAL ACCOUNTABILITY.

Implements an incentive system to provide awards for schools that demonstrate growth as well as interventions and sanctions for under performing schools.