SB 588

SD2

RELATING TO PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT ORGANIZATIONS.

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

SB 540

SD1

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.

SB 648

SD2 HD1

relating to taxation.

Adds new tax benefits for high tech industries and amends current benefits.

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.

SB 678

SD1 HD1

relating to technology.

Appropriates money for the New Economy Transition (NET) program; appropriates moneys to DBEDT; appropriates GO bonds to extend the community-based economic development loan and grant program for info technology in 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.

SB 1211

SD2 HD1

RELATING TO SCHOOL FACILITIES.

Establishes the school-level minor repairs and maintenance special fund to provide moneys for school-level minor repairs and maintenance. Allows an individual whose state income tax refund for any taxable year is $2 or more to designate $2 of the same to be paid over to the special fund.

SB 493

SD2 HD1

relating to public schools.

Establishes the Hawaii school repair and maintenance trust fund as a separate fund of Hawaii 3R's, a nonprofit corporation, for coordination of private and federal efforts to repair and maintain public schools. Establishes a tax credit.

SB 525

SD1 HD1

relating to textbooks.

Retains textbook replacement fees in school accounts.

SB 530

SD2 HD1

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.

SB 1212

SD1 HD1

RELATING TO EDUCATION.

Gives Hawaii Teachers Standards Board the authority to license teachers, rather than the Department of Education.

SB 1213

SD2 HD1

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT AND CONTINUATION OF PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SCHOOLS.

Appropriates funds to develop and establish professional development schools within Hawaii public schools to train preservice teachers.

SB 1214

SD2 HD1

RELATING TO NATIONAL BOARD CERTIFICATION FOR DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION TEACHERS.

Authorizes the Hawaii teacher standards board to develop, implement, and administer a support program for National Board Certification candidates in the DOE. Provides a bonus, for certified teachers, of $5,000 for each year certificate is valid.

SB 1303

SD2 HD1

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. Establishes legislative taskforce. Establishes "Best Practices" model.

SB 535

SD2 HD1

relating to education.

Clarifies that the DOE's after-school and weekend programs are for child-care and recreational purposes, and not educational purposes.

SB 1081

HD1

RELATING TO EDUCATION.

Makes numerous amendments to the charter school law.

SB 1315

SD2 HD1

relating to education.

Authorizes the Department of Education to establish custodial accounts for the deposit of annuity payments of employees.

SB 1362

SD2 HD1

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 1385

HD1

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

Requires the BOE, twenty days before the start of the 2002 legislative session, to adopt a classification and compensation structure for educational officers that more accurately reflects the level of work being performed.

SB 382

SD3 HD1

RELATING TO Education.

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.

SB 1567

SD2 HD1

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. Requires DOE to delay school complex redistricting for one year and grandfather current residents in Mauka Lani school district. Appropriates funds for a security guard at Barbers Point elementary school.

SB 670

SD1 HD1

RELATING TO THE HAWAII STATE STUDENT COUNCIL.

Establishes the Hawaii State Student Council, with 23 student representatives. Requires the council to conduct an annual conference of secondary students.

SB 865

SD1 HD1

relating to school-to-work.

Amends powers of School to Work Executive Council; administratively places Council within the Department of Education; reinstates the Director of Human Services on the Council and removes the Director of Human Resources Development.

SB 119

SD1 HD1

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; annual report to legislature. Requires the Department of Public Safety to develop and implement gender-responsive community-based programs for women offenders. Requires the Office of Youth Services to develop and implement gender-responsive community-based programs for female adjudicated youths.

SB 120

SD2 HD1

RELATING TO CORRECTIONS.

Appropriates state matching funds of $47,177 for fiscal year 2001-2002 to develop, implement, and maintain a sentencing simulation model in the State. 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.

SB 684

HD1

RELATING TO FEES OF THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE.

Increases fees charged by sheriffs and police officers for various services.

SB 704

SD1 HD1

relating to crime victim compensation.

Repeals the 7/1/01 sunset date of Act 278, Session Laws of Hawaii 1999, to permanently eliminate the 30 percent cap on operating expenses of the Crime Victim Compensation Commission. Exempts the Executive Director and administrative assistant of the commission from the civil service law. Appropriates funds to compensate crime victims and their providers. Requires a report to legislature.

SB 1188

SD2 HD1

RELATING TO SENTENCING FOR DRUGS AND INTOXICATING COMPOUNDS OFFENSES.

Mandates substance abuse assessment/treatment for offenders under the custody of the Department of Public Safety. Implements a policy shift in addressing non-violent drug possession offenses by requiring mandatory community-supervision and treatment in lieu of incarceration. Repeals mandatory minimum sentence for Class C possession of methamphetamine.

SB 1473

SD2

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.

SB 623

SD1 HD1

RELATING TO PUBLIC LANDS.

Provides guidelines for the Department of Land and Natural Resources to renegotiate and extend agricultural leases.

SB 483

relating to restraint of trade.

Clarifies that attorneys fees and costs may not be awarded to the plaintiff in an unfair trade practice suit brought by the State or a county; allows threefold compensatory damages for injuries sustained to property from unfair or deceptive trade practices; requires that consent decrees entered into before the filing of an action do not become final until 60 days from the filing of the consent judgment or decree or until final determination of exceptions.

SB 99

relating to the liquor commission.

Removes prohibition against liquor commission employees from engaging in election activities.

SB 64

SD1

RELATING TO CRIME.

Establishes preventing the reporting of a crime or an emergency as a misdemeanor.

SB 67

SD1

RELATING TO DOMESTIC ABUSE PROTECTIVE ORDERS.

Authorizes the court to deny certain motions to modify terms of existing protective orders, and deny motions to dismiss those orders.

SB 69

SD1

RELATING TO protective order.

Allows a court to fix the time period for the initial protective order and to order an extension of time on the initial protective order to a fixed period of time as the court deems appropriate; repeals three year time of initial protective order.

SB 643

SD2

RELATING TO DOGS.

Authorizes counties to enact and enforce ordinances relating to vicious animals.

SB 805

SD1

relating to controlled substances.

Allows the narcotics enforcement division to disclose investigative information to pharmacists for purposes of investigating violations of controlled substances law.

SB 1178

SD2

RELATING TO CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES.

Revises the statutory listing of controlled substances.

SB 1229

SD1

relating to the penal code.

Provides stiffer mandatory penalties for motor vehicle-related theft.

JHA

SB 1508

SD1

(SSCR 829)

RELATING TO OFFENSES AGAINST THE PERSON.

Amends definition of "substantial bodily injury".

SB 1509

RELATING TO OFFENSES AGAINST PROPERTY RIGHTS.

Establishes the "legal owner" as the owner of a vehicle that has no registered owner under section 708-836 relating to unauthorized control of a propelled vehicle. Also includes photocopies and printed register receipts as prima facie evidence to establish value and ownership in theft cases.

SB 1512

RELATING TO THE PENAL CODE.

Replaces the term "law enforcement officer" for "peace officer".

requesting the departmentS OF AGRICULTURE AND land and natural resources to address the disrepair of kailua reservoir.

REQUESTING THE DETERMINATION OF A state lead agency on alien species to deal with the problem of alien species invasions and their impact on hawaii's native ecosystems.

SB 1101

RELATING TO THE HAWAIIAN HOMES COMMISSION ACT, 1920, AS AMENDED.

Authorizes the department to require a successor or successors who receives a homestead lease due to the death of a lessee leaving no qualified successor, or the cancellation of a lease by the department, or the surrender of a lease by the lessee, to secure private financing to repay any advances made from the Hawaiian home loan fund or Hawaiian home general loan fund.

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 264

SD1

RELATING TO CERTIFICATION FOR TAX EXEMPTION.

Redefines "deaf" for state income tax purposes, allowing licensed audiologists to certify impairment of deafness.

SB 992

SD2 HD1

RELATING TO TOBACCO.

Prohibits the resale of cigarettes purchased at Armed Services sales outlets. Creates a presumption that all cigarettes are subject to the cigarette tax. Establishes the cigarette tax stamp enforcement special fund and the cigarette tax stamp administrative special fund. Allows licensee stamp affixation cost recovery.

SB 1264

SD2 HD1

relating to aquaculture.

Includes wholesale transaction of aquaculture production in the definition of "sale at wholesale" under the general excise tax law.

SB 369

SD3 HD1

RELATING TO Agriculture.

Allows an income tax credit of 4 per cent for construction of a new drought mitigating water storage facility, or repair or reconstruction of existing water storage facility.

SB 204

SD2 HD1

relating to animal QUARANTINE.

Reduces quarantine user fees. Waives repayment to general fund of revenues used to establish the animal quarantine special fund. Exempts animal quarantine special fund from special fund assessments.

SB 221

SD1 HD1

relating to agriculture.

Extends the composition of the current agribusiness development corporation's board of directors for an additional four years.

SB 224

SD1 HD1

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR PINEAPPLE RESEARCH.

Appropriates funds for pineapple research.

SB 905

HD1

RELATING TO THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LOBBYIST LAW.

Decriminalizes violations of the lobbyist law. Expands the statute of limitations for Commission actions to enforce the law from one year to three years. Requires all fines collected to be deposited into the general fund. Provides that no fine shall be assessed unless the commission first conducts a public hearing and renders a decision.

SB 1207

SD1 HD1

RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII.

Requires UH general counsel to advise clients on how to avoid future claims and request clients to take remedial action. Includes a reporting requirement to the Legislature. Clarifies that UH's immunity from suit under the 11^th Amendment was not abrogated by Act 115, SLH 1998.

SB 1208

SD1 HD2

RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII.

Provides that service of process upon the university shall be made by delivering the complaint and the summons to the university's general counsel or to any attorney in the Office of the University General Counsel.

SB 336

SD3 HD1

RELATING TO Tourism.

Repeals the Hawaii Tourism Authority effective 6/30/2003.

SB 1029

SD3 HD1

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 HD1

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 and appropriates $4,000,000 for the purpose of the state parks special fund.

SB 838

SD2

relating to hawaii hurricane relief fund.

Prohibits escheat of funds to the State from the hurricane reserve trust fund; prohibits repeal of fund except by enactment of law; clarifies investments to maximize corpus.

SB 840

SD1

RELATING TO FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS.

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

SB 630

SD1

RELATING TO INTOXICATING LIQUORS.

Authorizes reciprocal shipping of wine under specified conditions.

SB 1119

SD2 HD1

RELATING TO PRESCRIPTION DRUGS.

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

SB 1068

SD1 HD1

RELATING TO PRODUCER LICENSING.

Adopts the National Association of Insurance Commissioners' Producer Licensing Model Act.

SB 1073

SD1

RELATING TO TRAVEL SERVICES.

Specifies grounds for registration denial; establishes record keeping standards for client trust accounts; prohibits specific consumer harms; authorizes action against a registration, and establishes legal remedies.

SB 45

SD1

RELATING TO FARMING.

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 HD1

relating to agriculture.

Provides that any person who willfully or knowingly damages any crop, including silvicultural crops or agricultural commodities that is known to be intended for personal, commercial, or research and development purposes shall be liable for twice the market value of the crop damaged or destroyed.

SB 212

SD1

relating to temporary instruction permit.

Extends validity of temporary instruction permit from 180 days to one year; requires permit holders to take the skill test within a year.

SB 1341

SD1 HD1

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. Requires the county examiner of drivers and Attorney General to forward applicant's information to the Selective Service System.

SB 448

HD1

Relating to employment practices.

Eliminates exemption of individuals employed under contract with another person as a domestic in the home, from definition of "employment" in law regarding discriminatory employment practices.

SB 449

SD2 HD1

RELATING TO EMPLOYMENT PRACTICES.

Amends the whistleblowers' protection act by increasing the statute of limitations period from 90 days to 180 days.

SB 797

RELATING TO PUBLIC SERVICE.

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

SB 996

PROPOSING AMENDMENTS TO ARTICLE I, SECTION 10, OF THE HAWAII CONSTITUTION.

Allows for felony prosecution via information in addition to grand jury indictments and preliminary hearings. Proposes to amend section 10 of Article 10 of the Hawaii Constitution.

SB 997

RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES.

Sets forth a procedure for the prosecution of felonies via information in addition to grand jury indictments and preliminary heartings.

SB 1102

SD2

RELATING TO THE HAWAIIAN HOMES COMMISSION ACT, 1920, AS AMENDED.

Exempts the descendants of Native Hawaiian individuals who received a homestead lease pursuant to the Acts of 1934 and 1952 referenced in section 209(a) from the blood requirements to succeed to homestead lease in the same manner that non-native Hawaiians are currently exempt. Authorizes community-based self determination on Hawaiian home lands.

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 thein-hue of the socialist republic of vietnam.

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 department of transportation to study the feasibility of establishing an inter-island ferry system between all of the islands.

requesting the department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to REPORT ON THE ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES of privatizing the honolulu international airport.

Requesting the establishment of new design guidelines for state road and bridge projects.

SUPPORTING the kamehameha highway BEAUTIFICATION project.

Requesting the Department of Transportation to examine the feasibility of using state highway revenue bonds to finance the planning, design, and construction of either an overseas bridge or an UNDERSEA tunnel from iroquois point to Hickam Airforce Base, in order to link Kalaeloa, Kapolei, Ewa, and Ewa Beach to Honolulu.

REQUESTING THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION TO ADOPT A PRACTICE OR RULES CALLING FOR THE INCLUSION OF EARLY COMPLETION INCENTIVES IN MAJOR CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS WHICH IMPEDE TRAFFIC FLOW AND REDUCE CAPACITY ON MAJOR THOROUGHFARES FOR AN EXTENDED PERIOD OF TIME.

Requesting the department of transportation to determine the revenues required to meet its obligations for all harbors, wharves, and its other properties, and to adjust wharfage rates whereby the same wharfage rates will apply to interisland and intraisland cargoes that cross over wharves the same number of times.