SB 180

HD1

relating to time sharing plans.

Requires all time share contracts to contain a notice that the purchaser has 7 days to rescind. Removes statutory requirement of contents of disclosures on promotional materials and gives the director the discretion to prescribe disclosure by rule.

SB 173

HD1

relating to time sharing plans.

Excludes persons employed by or under contract to licensed real estate brokers or registered acquisition agents from definition of "acquisition agent" in time share law. Clarifies that sales agents and acquisition agents are responsible for actions of their Outside Public Contacts.

SB 174

RELATING TO TIME SHARING PLANS.

Exempts mutual right to cancel within seven calendar days and disclosure statement requirements on offers and sales outside of Hawaii of time share units located in Hawaii.

SB 175

SD2

RELATING TO TIME SHARING PLANS.

Eliminates requirement that a sales agent register regarding the time sharing plan the agent is selling; eliminates requirement that an acquisition agent licensed under chapter 467, HRS, register under the time share chapter.

SB 176

RELATING TO TIME SHARING PLANS.

Repeals requirement that a time sharing plan agent wear an identification badge while off-premises and engaging in acquisition or sales agent activity.

SB 178

SD2 HD1

relating to condominium property regimes.

Exempts time share plans registered under the time share law and required to provide disclosure to consumers under that law, from duplicative condo disclosure requirements. Requires time share developers, prior to offering apartments for sale to the public for the first time, to register with the real estate commission.

SB 257

SD2 HD1

rELATING TO THE Return of prescription drugs.

Limits return of prescription drugs to acute care hospitals; repeals the act on June 30, 2003 or the day before the Department of Human Services promulgates rules on the returns for other facilities; reinstates the Act 461-11(c), as it was the day before the effective date of this act.

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.

REQUESTING THE AUDITOR TO ASSESS THE SOCIAL AND FINANCIAL EFFECTS OF REQUIRING HEALTH INSURERS TO OFFER COVERAGE FOR SOCIAL ANXIETY DISORDER SERVICES.

SB 1349

SD1

relating to mutual benefit societies.

Deletes obsolete statutory references from mutual benefit societies law relating to incorporation.

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 749

SD2 HD1

relating to the hawaii public procurement code.

Defines "state resident", "state contractor", and "state subcontractor"; increases bid preference for state contractors and subcontractors.

SB 28

HD1

RELATING TO DISLOCATED WORKERS.

Extends employer notification of a closing, partial closing, or relocation from forty-five to sixty days.

SB 932

SD2 HD2

relating to government.

Requires the elimination of preferences in government contracts, programs, services, and workforce policies that affect parental roles in children's health, welfare, and education, that favor one parent over another. Prohibits those preferences after 06/30/03.

SB 1144

SD2 HD1

RELATING TO MINIMUM WAGE.

Increases minimum wage to $5.50 per hour beginning 07/01/02; and to $6.00 per hour beginning 07/01/03. Amends tip credit.

SB 1115

SD1

RELATING TO HUMAN RESOURCES.

Requests $600,000 out of the Human Resources Development Special Fund to support entrepreneurial initiatives, training, activities, and programs. Makes clarifying amendments to Act 253, SLH 2000.

SB 24

SD2 HD1

RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT.

Enables public agencies to conduct experimental modernization projects this year instead of waiting for the Civil Service Reform Act (Act 253, SLH 2000) to take effect.

SB 849

SD1 HD1

relating to collective bargaining.

Restricts an arbitration panel's ability to factor in certain sources of revenue when determining salary and wage adjustments in collective bargaining agreements.

SB 850

relating to collective bargaining.

Repeals mandatory arbitration for all collective bargaining units except firefighters and police officers. Restores right to strike for those units.

SB 706

SD1

relating to state government.

Extends the sunset date of Act 230, Session Laws of Hawaii 1998, relating to the exemption from Konno v. County of Hawaii, from 6/30/01 to 6/30/03.

SB 1096

SD1

RELATING TO GOVERNMENT.

Gives state and county agencies the discretion to determine whether or not it is in the public's interest to allow a private contractor to provide necessary services.

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 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 1377

SD1

relating to civil service.

Grants civil service status to the employees of the support services office, the program development staff, and the nursing home without walls program under the department of human services' social services division.

SB 1113

HD1

RELATING TO PUBLIC ASSISTANCE.

Clarifies the distinction between the department's authority to require an agreement that future grants of assistance will constitute an agreement or lien against a claimant's interest in real property, and the agreement or lien against real property where a claimant is an inpatient. Makes an appropriation for respite care services. Establishes a welfare safety net program called, "Keeping Hope Alive."

SB 911

SD1 HD1

Relating to quest.

Removes financial disincentives for health plans and providers to actively reach out to high-risk populations. Extends coverage of the Children's Health Insurance Program. Restores QUEST benefits to income-eligible immigrants and migrants during and up to three months after pregnancy.

SB 1111

SD1

RELATING TO REIMBURSEMENT FOR NONINSTITUTIONAL PROVIDERS OF MEDICAL CARE FOR SERVICES.

Allows DHS to change its current method of reimbursement to noninstitutional providers of medical care from the customary methodology based on the charges of providers in a specialty to rates established by a fee schedule.

SB 654

SD2 HD1

RELATING TO MEDICAID.

Sets Medicaid payments within limits of appropriations at a level that more fairly compensates providers, bringing payments closer to a level that covers the actual costs of quality care offered by providers.

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 1109

RELATING TO MEDICAL ASSISTANCE RECOVERY.

Expands the scope of the notice requirements to require that all parties make reasonable inquiry as to whether a claimant has received or is receiving medical assistance, and give timely written notice of any claim or action to DHS.

SB 1108

SD2

RELATING TO FUNERAL ASSISTANCE PAYMENTS.

Allows the respective county medical examiner or coroner to submit an application for funeral payments under the department's funeral payment program on behalf of an unclaimed corpse more than sixty days after the date of death of the deceased.

SB 1110

SD2 HD2

RELATING TO CHILD CARE.

Requires child abuse checks of licensed child care providers and staff.

SB 1017

RELATING TO RESIDENTIAL LEASEHOLDS.

Places direct responsibility of payment of lessor's costs upon the lessees when an abandonment of eminent domain proceedings by the Housing and Community Development Corporation of Hawaii is due to a lessee's inability, failure, or refusal to comply with statutory provisions or to purchase the leased fee interest condemned.

SB 1018

SD1

RELATING TO THE FEE SIMPLE RESIDENTIAL REVOLVING FUND.

Limits the liability of lessees who fail to purchase the leased fee interest from HCDCH to the prorated share of the direct costs of acquisition. Authorizes use of the Fee Simple Residential Revolving Fund for indirect costs.

SB 1325

SD2 HD1

relating to conveyance tax.

Provides that fifteen per cent from the taxes collected from the conveyance tax be used for the homeless assistance program under the housing and community development corporation of Hawaii. Adjusts amounts allocated to the rental housing trust fund, the natural area reserve fund, and the general fund.

SB 123

SD1 HD1

RELATING TO HOUSING.

Makes appropriations for homeless assistance. Makes appropriations for the Kikala-Keokea subdivision on the island of Hawaii. Repeals the "Hale Kokua Program".

SB 48

SD1 HD1

Relating to Public lands.

Directs DLNR to continue discussions with ranchers in developing an acceptable compensation package for the withdrawal of leased lands.

SB 755

SD2 HD1

RELATING TO HARBORS.

Allows DOT and BLNR to enter into capital advancement contracts with private developers for harbor facility public improvements that cost up to $2,000,000 without legislative approval. Allows DOT and BLNR to enter into such contracts exceeding $2,000,000 and up to $5,000,000 with legislative approval.

SB 1060

SD1 HD1

RELATING TO ESCROW DEPOSITORIES.

Codifies confidentiality requirements for applications and records. Conforms voluntary termination procedures. Establishes procedures for branch closings and termination of operations. Authorizes fee changes by rule.

SB 591

SD2 HD1

relating to occupational therapists.

Adds temporary permit to the occupational therapist law for persons who have not yet passed the national examination. Establishes that occupational therapists registered under chapter 457G shall be similarly regarded as an occupational therapist that holds a license.

SB 900

SD2

relating to liquor license applications.

As to liquor law, clarifies what items shall be included in the investigator's report and to whom a copy of that report shall be furnished; clarifies procedures for protests concerning applications for liquor licenses; clarifies denials in areas near schools and playgrounds.

SB 951

SD1 HD1

relating to hate crimes.

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

URGING THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS AND THE HEALTH CARE FINANCING ADMINISTRATION TO ADJUST HAWAII'S AEROMEDICAL REIMBURSEMENT RATES BY PROVIDING FOR IMMEDIATE PHASE-IN OF THE PROPOSED MEDICARE FEE SCHEDULE.

REQUESTING A STUDY ON GRANTING LIMITED PRESCRIPTIVE AUTHORITY TO PSYCHOLOGISTS CERTIFIED IN PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY.

URGING THE DEPARTMENTS OF HEALTH, AGRICULTURE, AND EDUCATION TO FURTHER ENCOURAGE CONSUMPTION OF FIVE OR MORE DAILY SERVINGS OF FRUITS AND VEGETABLES.

RELATED TO SUPPORTING THE FUNDING OF A SECOND AMBULANCE TO SERVE THE WAIANAE COAST.

REQUESTING THE STATE HEALTH PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT AGENCY TO DEVELOP A "STATE OF HAWAII HEALTH POLICY GUIDEBOOK" BASED ON THE HAWAII HEALTH PERFORMANCE PLAN.

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.

REQUESTING THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS TO STUDY HOW TO ENSURE EQUALITY IN THE AMOUNT OF THE EMPLOYER'S SHARE OF PREPAID HEALTH CARE PREMIUMS BETWEEN THE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SECTORS.

REQUESTING THE DEPARTMENTS OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES TO DEVELOP STRATEGIES TO MEET THE ORAL HEALTH CARE NEEDS OF UNDERSERVED AREAS AND UNDERSERVED POPULATIONS, ESPECIALLY CHILDREN.

REQUESTING THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH TO CONDUCT A DEFINITIVE STUDY ON THE EFFECTIVENESS OF FLUORIDATION THAT ALSO ADDRESSES CONCERNS RELATING TO THE HEALTH AND SAFETY OF FLUORIDATING HAWAII’S DRINKING WATER.

REQUESTING THAT THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AND SENATE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII AGREE TO A MORATORIUM ON FLUORIDATION LEGISLATION UNTIL SUCH A TIME AS THE ISSUE OF FLUORIDATION, WHICH IS CURRENTLY UNDER INVESTIGATION BY CONGRESS, SHOULD BE DEBATED BY THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES AND/OR LITIGATED IN THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT, AND THOSE FINDINGS ARE PUBLISHED.

REQUESTING A HAWAII STATE LAW ON EMPLOYMENT OF SEVERELY HANDICAPPED PERSONS.

ENDORSING THE PROCLAMATION OF FEBRUARY AS NATIONAL HEART FAILURE AWARENESS MONTH.

URGING HEALTH CARE PLANS AND PROVIDERS TO PROVIDE COVERAGE FOR AND UTILIZE HEARING SCREENING IN OLDER PATIENTS

REQUESTING THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION TO JOINTLY DETERMINE WHETHER THE DIAGNOSIS OF CHILDREN WITH "ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER" OR "ATTENTION DEFICIT HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER" IN HAWAII HAS BEEN EXCESSIVE, WHETHER HAWAII'S CHILDREN ARE BEING SUBJECTED TO EXCESSIVE USE OF PSYCHIATRIC DRUGS TO MODIFY THEIR BEHAVIOR, AND TO RESEARCH, EXAMINE, AND RECOMMEND NON-DRUG ALTERNATIVES.

REQUESTING THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH TO MAINTAIN THE CRISIS SHELTER AND CRISIS TEAM ON THE GROUNDS OF THE OLD WAIMANO HOME INDEFINITELY.

REQUESTING AN AUDIT OF THE OUT-OF-STATE INMATE TRANSFER PRoGRAM.