SB 1162

SD1, HD1

RELATING TO PUBLIC NOTICE REQUIREMENTS FOR PUBLIC LAND DISPOSITIONS.

Changes the public notice requirements for auctions, drawings, direct negotiation, exchanges, quitclaims, submerged and reclaimed lands, reservations, and easements from three successive weeks to once in both a statewide and local publication.

SB 1165

SD1, HD1

RELATING TO PENALTIES FOR NATURAL RESOURCES.

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

SB 1166

HD1

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 759

SD1

relating to tort actions.

Enacts a new joint tortfeasor release statute, including rights of contribution; repeals existing joint tortfeasor release statute and right of contribution statute; enacts good faith settlement law for joint tortfeasors and co-obligors.

SB 796

SD1, HD1

relating to state and county tort liability.

Provides the State, counties, and lifeguards immunity from liability against damages arising from the acts or omissions of lifeguards while performing emergency lifeguard services.

For the purpose of receiving testimony and discussion, the committee will be hearing the following bills reflecting the deletion of current contents and the insertion of new language in a proposed amended form:

relating to criminal procedure.

Prohibits deferred acceptance of guilty and nolo contendere pleas for assault third convictions involving family or household members.

SB 118

SD1 HD1

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 1123

SD1 HD1

RELATING TO VITAL RECORDS.

Allows for verification and certification of the existence of a birth, death, marriage, or divorce certificate and the essential facts of the vital event that are contained in the certificate in lieu of the issuance of a certified copy of the certificate.

SB 1535

SD2 HD1

relating to hawaii commission for national and community service.

Creates the Hawaii Commission for National and Community Service. Appropriates funds to be used as state matching funds to secure federal moneys.

HLT/HSH,EDN/

SB 1138

SD1

RELATING TO THE STATEWIDE NEWBORN HEARING SCREENING PROGRAM.

Establishes mandatory hearing impairment screening for newborn infants.

SB 469

SD1 HD1

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR PARKING FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES.

Appropriates funds as grant-in-aid to counties for administration of the program to issue removable windshield placards for parking to qualified persons with disabilities.

SB 209

SD2 HD1

RELATING TO PARKING FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES.

Prohibits fraudulent verification of applicant with a disability; establishes procedures for replacement of lost, stolen, or mutilated placard; prohibits fraudulent manufacturer or alteration of placards and identification cards.

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 1126

SD1

RELATING TO CRIMINAL HISTORY.

Continues the authorization granted to the DOH to obtain criminal history record information of persons who are seeking employment with the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Division, its providers or subcontractors in positions that place them in direct contact with clients.

SB 1133

SD1 HD1

RELATING TO HAWAII HEALTH SYSTEMS CORPORATION.

Provides the Hawaii Health Care Systems more autonomy and flexibility.

SB 854

SD1

RELATING TO TAXATION.

Provides an unspecified earned income tax credit to resident taxpayers. Amends Hawaii's income tax law to conform to changes in federal law (IRC conformity).

SB 1081

HD1

RELATING TO EDUCATION.

Makes numerous amendments to the charter school 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 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 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 1029

SD3, HD1

(HSCR 1000)

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 park 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 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 suite under the 11^th Amendment was not abrogated by Act 115, SLH 1998.

SB 1325

SD2, HD1

RELATING TO CONVEYANCE TAX.

Provides that fifteen per cent from the taxes collected form 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 755

SD2, HD1

RELATING TO HARBORS.

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

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 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 28

HD1

RELATING TO DISLOCATED WORKERS.

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

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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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.

establishing a task force to improve the EFFICIENCY of law enforcement and public safety agencies.

JHA/PSM, FIN

requesting the hawaii paroling authority to place ankle bracelet monitors on domestic violence offenders with restraining orders as a parole requirement.

REQUESTING A STUDY OF SAME-DAY VOTER REGISTRATION IN HAWAII.

REQUESTING EQUAL TREATMENT FOR JAPANESE LATIN AMERICANS INTERNED in the united states DURING WORLD WAR II.

REQUESTING FEDERAL SUPPORT OF HAWAIIAN self-governance.

REQUESTING a report on the status of the native hawaiian rehabilitation fund.

SUPPORTING PROJECT KA HALE PONO'S PETITION TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HAWAIIAN HOME LANDS FOR A PARCEL OF LAND TO BUILD A YOUTH CENTER.

requesting the Attorney General to convene a task force to engage in a comprehensive review of the issues, and the differing viewpoints, concerning the age of consent for consensual sex conduct.

RELATING TO FISHING.

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

COMMISSIONING INTERIM ACTIVITY FOR THE HOUSE COMMITTEES ON WATER AND LAND USE AND AGRICULTURE TO ADDRESS LAND USE MATTERS AS MANDATED IN ARTICLE XI, SECTION 3, OF THE CONSTITUTION ON THE STATE OF HAWAII.

REQUESTING A DELAY IN CLOSING THE HAWAII LONGLINE FISHERY ON MARCH 15, 2001, TO ENABLE THE ESTABLISHMENT OF AN EXPERIMENTAL SWORD FISHERY TO ADOPT ALTERNATIVE TURTLE MITIGATION MEASURES AND AVOID ADVERSE ECONOMIC IMPACT.

REQUESTING THE DEPARTMENT OF LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCES TO STUDY AND PLAN FOR A DEMONSTRATION PROJECT, WORKSHOP, AND COMMUNITY OUTREACH AND EDUCATION PROGRAM ON INVASIVE MACROALGAE IN THE STATE.

URGING THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO DESIGNATE A NEW NATIONAL PARK FROM KEONE'O'IO TO KANALOA POINT ON THE SOUTHEAST COAST OF MAUI.

REQUESTING A WORKING GROUP BE CONVENED TO EVALUATE AND RECOMMEND MEASURES TO ENCOURAGE THE USE OF SAFETY PROGRAMS SUCH AS THE EDDIE EAGLE PROGRAM FOR FIREARM SAFETY.

REQUESTING CONTINUED DISCUSSION FOR A COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW OF CURRENT CHILD PROTECTION LAWS.

REQUESTING THE UNITED NATIONS TO CONSIDER THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A CENTER FOR THE HEALTH, WELFARE, AND RIGHTS OF CHILDREN AND YOUTH IN HAWAII AND REQUESTING SUPPORT FOR THE CENTER FROM THE PRESIDENT AND THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES.

requesting the departments of human services, health, and labor and industrial relations to examine transitional living programs for youths in foster care.

urging the formation of a working group to develop a statewide certification program for long-term care providers.

REQUESTING THE CREATION OF A COORDINATING Committee TO OVERSEE THE CARE OF MEDICALLY fragile children.

REQUESTING THAT THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AND SENATE OF THE STATE OF hAWAII AGREE TO FACILITATE PARTNERSHIPS BETWEEN FAITH-BASED ORGANIZATIONS AND GOVERNMENT TO TACKLE SOCIAL PROBLEMS.