SB 1010

(SSCR 752)

(Companion measure:

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.

SB 1048

SD1

(SSCR 790)

(Companion measure:

RELATING TO THE PUBLIC EMPLOYEES HEALTH FUND.

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

SB 1049

SD1

(SSCR 648)

(Companion measure:

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, and in some cases, over seventeen years.

SB 1050

SD1

(SSCR 649)

(Companion measure:

HB 574)

RELATING TO THE AUTHORIZATION OF SPECIAL PURPOSE REVENUE BONDS.

Requires authorizations to issue special purpose revenue bonds, that are not timely issued, to lapse seven years after the authorization date.

SB 716

SD2

(SSCR867)

(Companion measure:

RELATING TO THE ISSUANCE OF SPECIAL PURPOSE REVENUE BONDS TO ASSIST NOT-FOR-PROFIT CORPORATIONS THAT PROVIDE HEALTH CARE FACILITIES.

Authorizes $142,000,000 in SPRB for the Kahala Senior Living Community.

SB 1047

(SSCR 647)

(Companion Measure:

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

SB 1054

SD2

RELATING TO THE MANAGEMENT OF FINANCING AGREEMENTS.

Establishes a centralized master lease financing program, to include a line of credit financing option, for the purchase of equipment.

SB 1042

RELATING TO REORGANIZATION OF STATE GOVERNMENT.

Consolidates the pre-audit and accounting functions of DAGS with the budget and finance functions of B&F.

SB 1171

(SSCR 593)

(Companion Measure:

HB 696)

RELATING TO REPORTS.

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

SB 896

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.

SB 982

(SSCR 776)

(Companion measure:

HB 506 HD1)

MAKING AN EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION FOR THE STATE IRRIGATION PROGRAM.

Requests emergency funding to cover the decline in revenues from the State's irrigation systems.

SB 1045

(SSCR 881)

(Companion measure:

HB 569 HD1)

MAKING AN EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION FOR HEALTH FUND PREMIUMS.

Requests emergency funding to pay for the State's employer portion of health fund premiums.

SB 1114

MAKING AN EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES.

Provides an emergency appropriation to allow the department to meet its state and federal mandates to provide foster board and board-related costs, permanency assistance, and difficulty-of-care payments for foster and adoptive parents, permanent custodians, and guardians of children with special needs.

SB 1106

SD1

MAKING AN EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES.

Extends sunset of child welfare services demonstration project established in Act 116, SLH 1999, from 6/28/01 to 7/1/01. Requests $1,800,000 in emergency funds to DHS to hire additional personnel and expand child welfare services; to meet FELIX consent decree requirements.

SB 1084

SD2

(SSCR 604)

(Companion measure:

HB 608 HD1)

MAKING AN EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION FOR EDUCATION.

Authorizes an emergency appropriation to DOE for FELIX consent decree requirements.

SB 1127

SD1

MAKING AN EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION TO THE CHILD AND ADOLESCENT MENTAL HEALTH DIVISION.

Authorizes an emergency appropriation of general and special funds to the DOH for services provided by the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Division; to meet FELIX consent decree requirements.

SB 1142

MAKING AN EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION FOR EARLY INTERVENTION SERVICES.

Authorizes an emergency appropriation to DOH to supplement the existing budget to provide early intervention services mandated by the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act; as required to meet FELIX consent decree requirements.

SB 499

SD1

(SSCR 876)

relating to leave sharing.

Enables the legislature to establish a leave-sharing program.

SB 1635

relating to the employees' retirement system.

Directs Senate and House to work with DAGS to ensure that full-time legislative employees who work during the legislative session are covered by the ERS as provided by law. Applies retroactively to unspecified date.

SB 1317

relating to the filing date of annual financial interests disclosure statements.

Advances the deadline for the annual filing of financial interests disclosure statements by public officers and employees from May thirty-first to May fifteenth.

SB 1430

PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE III, SECTION 6, OF THE HAWAII CONSTITUTION, TO CHANGE THE ELIGIBILITY TO SERVE AS A MEMBER OF THE SENATE OR HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

Requires senatorial or representative candidate to be a qualified voter in the district prior to filing primary election nomination papers except in the case of an incumbent senator when displaced by reapportionment.

SB 797

RELATING TO PUBLIC SERVICE.

Deletes language that has been interpreted as limiting legislative bodies' subpoena power; deletes obsolete reference.

SB 813

RELATING TO REPORTS.

Requires a government agency to make reports available in printed form and posted on the agency's website or posted on the Internet in an easily-located manner.

SB 621

SD2

RELATING TO LEGISLATIVE PROCEEDINGS ON THE INTERNET.

Appropriates funds for a legislative media streaming project over the internet.

SB 944

RELATING TO public meetings.

Enables public agencies to use any type of interactive multimedia method at public meetings.

SB 589

SD1

relating to dental insurance.

Regulates dental health insurers under the Insurance Code. Phases in capital and surplus requirements for dental insurers. Repeals Dental Service Corporations Act and Dental Service Organizations Act.

SB 1065

RELATING TO ARCHITECTS.

Proposes revisions to applicant testing and licensure.

SB 1079

SD1

RELATING TO LIMITED LIABILITY PARTNERSHIPS.

Makes housekeeping amendments to conform limited liability partnership law to uniform laws.

SB 1119

SD2

RELATING TO PRESCRIPTION DRUGS.

Allows for electronic record keeping by drug dispensers and for electronic prescriptions from practitioners to dispensers.

SB 1333

SD1

RELATING TO FINANCIAL SERVICES LOAN COMPANIES.

Authorizes additional fees and charges that may be assessed by a financial services loan company in consumer loan transactions.

SB 840

SD1

RELATING TO FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS.

Requires financial institutions to file statement of assets and liabilities with commissioner rather than publishing statement; clarifies amount to be credited to the compliance resolution fund.

SB 606

SD1

RELATING TO RECYcLED WATER.

Promotes use of recycled water for state and county facilities and improved commercial property using potable water.

SB 1129

RELATING TO SAFE DRINKING WATER.

Extends the requirement to use "lead free" components in drinking water distribution systems.

SB 1135

RELATING TO HAZARDOUS WASTE.

Facilitates reporting requirements by making it easier for hazardous waste brokers to notify the DOH of their activities.

SB 1137

SD1

RELATING TO CRIMINAL PENALTIES.

Establishes criminal penalties for the abandonment of hazardous waste or used oil, and increases certain criminal penalties from a misdemeanor to a felony; defines "abandon".

SB 1175

RELATING TO THE SALE OF POISONS.

Makes rules concerning poisons optional, rather than mandatory.

SB 484

SD1

RELATING TO THE ISSUANCE OF SPECIAL PURPOSE REVENUE BONDS TO ASSIST INDUSTRIAL ENTERPRISES.

Authorizes issuance of up to $25,000,000 in special purpose revenue bonds to assist Hilo Coast Power Company, a division of Brewer Environmental Industries, LLC, an industrial enterprise for the construction of a waste-to-energy facility at Pepeekeo on the Big Island.

SB 1558

relating to the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds.

Authorizes issuance of $15,000,000 in special purpose revenue bonds for West Hawaii Recovery Systems, LLC.

SB 1561

SD1

relating to the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds.

Authorized issuance of $5,000,000 in special purpose revenue bonds for Central Kauai Sanitary Landfill, LLC.

SB 1435

SD1

RELATING TO HYDROGEN RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT.

Establishes a hydrogen private-public partnership within the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism, with assistance from the Hawaii Natural Energy Institute of the University of Hawaii; appropriates unspecified funds.

SB 1136

SD2

RELATING TO USED OIL.

Establishes a comprehensive used oil collection and recycling program.

SB 469

SD1

(SSCR 974)

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR PARKING FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES.

Appropriates unspecified moneys in FY 2001-2002 as grant-in-aid to counties for administration of the program to issue removable windshield placards for parking to qualified persons with disabilities.

SB 597

SD1

RELATING TO THE STATE COUNCIL ON DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES.

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

SB 1122

SD1

(SSCR 799)

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.

SB 233

SD2

RELATING TO CHIROPRACTIC.

Clarifies the practice of chiropractic to include referrals for laboratory tests, physical therapy, and massage therapy; clarifies articulations and manipulative therapies; defines "extraspinal"; clarifies the use of the title "chiropractor"; Effective 7/1/2050.

SB 735

SD1

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

Makes an appropriation for special purpose revenue bonds for the Intergenerational Care Center at Ewa Villages.

SB 138

SD2

RELATING TO CAREGIVERS.

Allows a caregiver to give medical and educational consent for a minor; provided that the consent to medical care is limited to school-related medical care. Subjects caregivers to penalties under part V, chapter 710, HRS, for making a false statement on a notarized power of attorney for caregiver consent.

SB 1121

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.

SB 447

relating to employment practices.

Makes it an unlawful discriminatory practice, for any employer to include in an employment document as a condition of hiring, any provision interfering with the protected right of an employee to file a charge in an investigation or relinquish any right or protection.

SB 448

Relating to employment practices.

Eliminates exemption of individuals employed as a domestic in the home of any other person from definition of "employment" in law regarding discriminatory employment practices.

SB 449

SD2

RELATING TO EMPLOYMENT PRACTICES.

Amends the whistleblowers' protection act by expanding protected activities, extending the limitations period, and increasing fines.

SB 1029

RELATING TO TOURISM.

Assigns responsibility to market, operate, manage, and maintain the Hawaii convention center facility to the Hawaii Tourism Authority (HTA); increases membership of the HTA board; requires legislative notice for HTA contracts over $50,000 allocates TAT moneys to state parks special fund.

SB 1169

SD2

RELATING TO STATE PARKS.

Sets forth a funding mechanism that directly links the state park system's operating and maintenance expenditures to income derived from tourists.

APPROVING AND AUTHORIZING THE ESTABLISHMENT OF state-province RELATIONS OF FRIENDSHIP between the state of hawaii OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA and the province of thua thIEn-hue of the socialist republic of vietnam.

REQUESTING THE GOVERNOR TO CONVENE A TASK FORCE TO CONSIDER HOW THE HILO AREA CAN MAXIMIZE the ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES PRESENTED BY THE CRUISE INDUSTRY.

REQUESTING the Hawaii Tourism Authority to convene a task force to study safe access to view and learn about hawaii volcanoes.