SB 1455

SD1

RELATING TO THE CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY PROGRAM.

Renames the children's advocacy program to the children's justice program; requires the program to coordinate information sharing among participating agencies; raises the maximum age to 18 in the definition of child sexual abuse; adds serious physical child abuse to investigative duties.

SB 1195

SD1

RELATING TO TAXPAYER COMMUNICATION CONFIDENTIALITY PRIVILEGES.

Extends confidentiality privileges for certain taxpayer communications to all taxes administered under title 14, Hawaii Revised Statutes.

SB 1296

SD2

relating to attorney's fees for appointed counsel.

Increases compensation for court appointed counsel.

SB 1460

SD1

relating to the intermediate appellate court.

Increases the number of judges on the intermediate appellate court.

SB 423

SD1

(SSCR 824)

RELATING TO Civil Proceedings.

Amends government garnishment law.

SB 905

RELATING TO THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LOBBYIST LAW.

Decriminalizes violations of the lobbyist law. Removes requirement that a contested case hearing precede the imposition of an administrative fine.

SB 951

SD1

relating to hate crimes.

Qualifies for extended term sentencing criminal offenders who select their victims because of hostility to their race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, gender, transgender, sexual orientation, age or disability; provides a reporting mechanism to compile, track, and analyze hate crimes data.

SB 224

SD1

(SSCR 942)

(Related measure: HB 215)

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR PINEAPPLE RESEARCH.

Appropriates funds for pineapple research.

SB 984

(SSCR 586)

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.

SB 986

SD1

(SSCR 587)

(Companion measure: HB 510)

RELATING TO AQUACULTURE.

Amends the definition of "aquaculture" to reflect the long-term trends in the industry.

SB 1400

SD1

(SSCR 777)

(Related measure: HB 1556)

RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL LOANS.

Increases the ceiling on classes A and C state farm loans.

SB 204

SD2

(SSCR 991)

relating to animal QUARANTINE.

Appropriates general funds for deposit into the animal quarantine special fund to reduce quarantine user fees; waives repayment to general fund of revenues used to establish animal quarantine special fund.

SB 221

SD1

(SSCR 716)

relating to agriculture.

Extends the transition period before the members of the board of agriculture take the place of the existing members of the Board of Directors of the agribusiness development corporation.

Makes appropriations for agricultural projects.

SB 369

SD3

(SSCR 717)

RELATING TO Agriculture.

Provides a tax credit of an unspecified percentage of the cost of agriculture infrastructure improvements made by the taxpayer for the taxable year in which the improvements were made.

SB 1264

SD2

(SSCR 853)

(Related measures: HB 925 HD1 and HB 1091)

relating to aquaculture.

Expands the "wholesaler" definition under the general excise tax law to include sales to a commercial aquaculture producer or cooperative of materials, supplies, or commodities, or the rental or leasing of equipment, used by the commercial aquaculture producer or cooperative in the production of aquaculture products for sale. Appropriates $5 million to assists agriculture and aquaculture enterprises on Kauai.

SB 45

SD1

Amends definition of "farming operation" to include silviculture; provides that a farming operation is not a nuisance if it complies with generally accepted agricultural and management practices; establishes a rebuttable presumption that a farming operation is not a nuisance.

SB 640

SD1

(SSCR 680)

relating to agriculture.

Criminalizes the destruction of crops; creates a civil liability for destruction of crops.

SB 1052

RELATING TO THE EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM.

Changes the salary growth assumption rate to ___ per cent effective _______.

SB 1038

SD2

RELATING TO THE EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM.

Transfers the Deferred Compensation program to the Employees' Retirement System. Requires the Employees' Retirement System to pay interest on pensions that are not processed and issued within ninety days of a member's retirement.

SB 1039

RELATING TO THE EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM.

Clarifies forfeiture provisions for retirees who return to work after receiving the special retirement incentive benefit under workforce reduction.

SB 1040

SD1

RELATING TO THE EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM.

Clarifies that there are four different options in the Noncontributory Plan.

SB 1044

SD1

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.

SB 1058

SD1

RELATING TO THE PUBLIC EMPLOYEES HEALTH FUND.

Specifies 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 and employee organizations. Sets forth other administrative and operational changes.

SB 244

SD1

RELATING TO LONG-TERM CARE BENEFITS.

Extends long term care insurance for public sector employees to an employee's children and the employee's brothers and sisters as well as their spouses.

SB 1145

RELATING TO EMPLOYMENT SECURITY.

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

SB 1146

RELATING TO THE HOISTING MACHINE OPERATORS ADVISORY BOARD.

Places the Hoisting Machine Operators Advisory Board within the department and authorize the hiring of an executive director exempt from civil service.

SB 1151

RELATING TO OCCUPATIONAL AND CAREER INFORMATION.

Abolishes the Hawaii State Occupational Information Coordinating Committee

SB 733

SD1

RELATING TO EMPLOYMENT SECURITY.

Amends the formula that determines the amount to be assessed against employers for deposit in the Employment and Training Fund by making the .05% assessment rate permanent effective January 1, 2002.

SB 1115

SD1

RELATING TO HUMAN RESOURCES.

Requests an appropriation of $600,000 out of the Human Resources Development Special Fund for fiscal year 2001-2002 so the department can carry out the purposes of the fund.

SB 59

SD1

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.

SB 23

SD2

RELATING TO DISASTER RELIEF.

Authorizes paid leave for state and county employees responding to disasters for the American Red Cross.

SB 1385

(SSCR 727)

(Companion measure:

relating to the salary structure of educational officers in the department of education.

Requires the BOE, before 7/1/2002, to adopt a classification and compensation structure for educational officers that more accurately reflects the level of work being performed.

SB 821

SD2

(SSCR 917)

(Companion measure:

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR LAPTOPS FOR LEARNING.

Makes an appropriation for the laptops for learning program and expands the program to include loaners. Requires the DOE to report on the success of the program.

SB 582

SD1

(SSCR 995)

(Companion measure:

HB 1230)

relating to cyberspace entrepreneurs academies.

Appropriates funds to the Department of Education to establish an academy relating to cyberspace entrepreneurs in the public school system.

SB 132

SD1

(SSCR 860)

making an appropriation for the peer education program.

Appropriates funds to maintain and expand the services provided by the Department of Education's Peer Education Program.

SB 197

SD2

RELATING TO JUVENILES.

Allows the family court to provide written notice to the district superintendent or chief administrator when a minor enrolled in a public or private school, K-12, has been adjudicated to have committed a felony for the limited purpose of rehabilitating the minor or protecting students and staff.

SB 535

SD2

(SSCR 728)

(Companion measure:

relating to education.

Requires the Department of Education to establish risk management and related programs for school administrators, teachers, and other school personnel to mitigate the potential for liability in the performance of their jobs; makes appropriation.

SB 823

SD1

RELATED TO LIMITED LIABILITY.

Limits liability of educational officers and teachers against any claims related to the Felix-Cayetano consent decree and to services for exceptional children.

SB 525

SD1

relating to textbooks.

Retains textbook replacement fees in school accounts.

SB 584

SD2

(SSCR 653)

(Companion measure:

relating to DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION PERSONNEL.

Allows the DOE to hire former teachers, principals, or vice principals who have been retired from state service for not less than two years for hard-to-fill positions, allowing them to continue to receive retirement benefits, but not accrue additional retirement benefits based on post-retirement employment.

SB 530

SD2

relating to school administrators.

Provides incentives to keep exemplary principals and vice-principals (VPs) at the school level; encourage exemplary principals and VPs to accept long-term assignments to hard-to-staff schools, special needs schools, and schools with high teacher turnover; encourage exemplary teachers to become VPs.

SB 1362

SD2

Relating to coaches.

Requires coaches coaching for the DOE to be paid on an allocation basis. Requires coaches to receive allocation increases commensurate to those collectively bargained for teachers. Appropriates funds to increase the base allocations of coaches who are employed by the DOE in other capacities by one hundred per cent and coaches who are not employed by the DOE in other capacities by fifty per cent.

SB 670

SD1

(SSCR 916)

(Companion measure:

RELATING TO THE HAWAII STATE STUDENT COUNCIL.

Establishes the Hawaii State Student Council, with student representatives from each departmental school district; requires the council to conduct an annual conference of secondary students; and requires the council to determine whether to select the student member of the BOE or to run an election to select the individual.

SB 1577

SD2

RELATING TO SCHOOL FACILITIEs.

Creates the state educational facilities repair and maintenance special fund and the school physical plant operations and maintenance special fund for school repair and maintenance projects.

SB 1567

SD2

relating to school complexes.

Requires DOE to offer students eligible for free or reduced cost school lunch a subsidized school bus fare to their new school for a period not to exceed one year when they are forced to transfer schools because of redistricting. Appropriates money to pay for the subsidized bus fares.

SB 678

SD1

relating to technology.

Appropriates money for the New Economy Transition (NET) program; appropriates moneys to DBEDT; requires all infrastructure at all existing technology parks be completed before the governor may allocate funds for construction; appropriates GO bonds to extend the community-based economic development loan and grant program to info technology for distressed rural areas; creates a high technology task force to develop goals and an implementation plan to improve Hawaii's high technology industry; requires conversion of legislative documents and reports received by the legislature to electronic copy; requires administration to process bill payments electronically.

EDB, WLU, FIN

SB 926

SD2

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.

EDB, FIN

SB 1292

SD2

relating to technology.

Amends technology scholarship program to eliminate onerous conditions such as the work, internship, and incumbent worker category requirements to increase participation in the program. Extends sunset date to June 30, 2006; appropriates funds.

EDB, EDN, FIN

SB 1314

SD2

RELATING TO the economy.

Creates an economic task force to develop clear goals and an implementation plan to improve Hawaii's economic diversity; makes appropriations to attract investment from Pacific Rim countries; for planning, design, and construction of a strategic action planning process; and the marketing of Hawaii's products and services; and authorizes issuance of bonds and appropriates funds to extend the community-based economic development loan and grant program to information technology for rural areas.

SB118

SD1

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 underinsured or uninsured individuals with breast or cervical cancer, or both. Appropriates funds for the program.

SB 400

SD2

RELATING TO THE ELDERLY.

Creates a criminal offense of elder and dependent adult abuse in the first, second, third, and fourth degrees; defines terms; establishes penalties.

SB 927

SD1

RELATING TO ADULT DAY HEALTH CARE CENTERS.

Allows the Governor to contract with the Research Corporation of the University of Hawaii to develop an adult day health care program and a research center and to study their effectiveness in lowering Medicaid costs for the frail and elderly.

SB 1529

RELATING TO DEPENDENT ADULTS.

Amends the dependent adult protective services law to require any family or household member who knows or has reason to know that an adult who is unable to obtain medical care is in need of such care, and is at imminent risk of death or serious bodily injury, to report the matter to DHS or county police department.

SB 1534

RELATING TO LONG-TERM CARE.

Requires State, in addressing long-term care issues, to adopt certain general principles as a matter of state policy.

SB 257

SD2

RELATING TO THE RETURN OF PRESCRIPTION DRUGS.

Amends the conditions under which returned prescription drugs may be redispensed or redistributed.

SB 598

SD1

RELATING TO BIRTH DEFECTS.

Authorizes Department of Health to establish a statewide Hawaii birth defects program.

SB 1138

SD1

RELATING TO THE STATEWIDE NEWBORN HEARING SCREENING PROGRAM.

Establishes mandatory hearing impairment screening for newborn infants.

SB 1163

RELATING TO THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF EXISTING USES UNDER THE WATER CODE.

Changes the effective date for existing water uses from July 1, 1987 to the effective date of designation of a water management area under the State Water Code.

SB 1299

RELATING TO WATER SUPPLY BOARDS.

Authorizes county water boards to assess, impose, levy and collect impact fees.

SB 1167

RELATING TO SECTION 13 OF ACT 380, SESSION LAWS OF HAWAII 1997.

Extends the sunset date of Act 380, Session Laws of Hawaii 1997, from July 1, 2002 to July 1, 2007.

SB 1166

RELATING TO PENALTIES FOR THE STATEWIDE TRAIL AND ACCESS PROGRAM.

Establishes administrative and criminal penalties for violations of statutory provisions on rules relating to the statewide trails and access program.

SB 1165

SD1

RELATING TO PENALTIES FOR NATURAL RESOURCES.

Establishes administrative penalties for violations of statutory provisions on rules relating to natural area reserves.

SB 1162

SD1

RELATING TO PUBLIC NOTICE REQUIREMENTS FOR PUBLIC LAND DISPOSITIONS.

Reduce the public notice requirements for certain dispositions of public lands.

SB 1164

SD1

RELATING TO THE FOREST STEWARDSHIP PROGRAM.

Authorize the use of a portion of the Forest Stewardship Fund to support administration of the Forest Stewardship program.

SB 1473

SD2

RELATING TO PLANNING.

Establishes a special advisor, who shall be the Director of Planning, and a smart growth advisory council to ensure state investments and action support smart growth objectives.

SB 185

SD1

RELATING TO FISHING.

Enhances net fishing at Nawiliwili harbor, Port Allen harbor, Hanalei bay, Wai'eli bay, Hanamaulu bay, and Kahului and Honolulu harbors.

SB 751

SD1

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.

SB 758

SD1

RELATING TO DRIVER'S LICENSES.

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

SB 1199

SD2

RELATING TO CONCESSIONS ON PUBLIC PROPERTY.

Amends the definition of concession to include the sale of services such as advertising, communications and telecommunications. Provides statutory authorization to enter into concessions contracts for parking lot operations by means of competitive sealed proposals.

SB 1341

SD1

RELATING TO the united states selective service system.

Requires an applicant subject to the Military Selective Service Act to be in compliance prior to obtaining or renewing a motor vehicle driver's license or instruction permit or state ID. Requires the county examiner of drivers and attorney general to forward applicant's information to the Selective Service System.

SB 1389

RELATING TO TowING.

Increases costs and fees authorized for towing companies.

SB 1397

SD1

relating to motor vehicles.

Allows a certificate of ownership reflecting a transfer of vehicle title to be filed with the director of finance within sixty days of the transfer for vehicles with lienholders without an office within the State.

SB 1514

SD2

relating to driving under the influence.

Requires the police to compel drivers to take a blood or urine test, or both, to determine a person's drug content. Amends the definition of "drug" to mean any chemical substance, natural or synthetic, that impairs the person's normal mental faculties or ability to care for the person and guard against casualty.

SB 1575

SD2

RELATING TO THE TRAFFIC CODE.

Amends Traffic Code to Increase Pedestrian Safety.

SB 1603

SD1

relating to alcohol, drugs, and highway safety.

Requires health care providers to report blood and urine test results to law enforcement authorities of indicating drug impairment following an accident.