AGR - Agriculture

HSH - Human Services and Housing

CPC - Consumer Protection and Commerce

JHA - Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs

EDB - Economic Development and

LAB - Labor and Public Employment

Business Concerns

LMG - Legislative Management

EDN - Education

PSM - Public Safety and Military Affairs

EEP - Energy and Environmental Protection

TAC - Tourism and Culture

FIN - Finance

TRN - Transportation

HED - Higher Education

WLU - Water and Land Use

HLT - Health

HOUSE BILLS

Committee

H.B. NO.

191

RELATING TO Kinship CARE.

Creates the public-private Hawaii kinship support network program within the DHS to provide services to grandparent caregivers of children of relatives to begin 7/1/2002. Appropriates $       and $       for FY 2001-2002 and FY 2002-2003, respectively.

HSH,FIN

192

Relating to campaign spending.

Deletes authorization to use surplus campaign funds for ordinary and necessary expenses.

JHA

193

RELATING TO DRUG TREATMENT.

Provides a tax credit for employers who pay and provide a drug treatment insurance plan for their employees.

LAB,FIN

194

RELATING TO THE EXCLUSION OF FOOD, RESIDENTIAL RENT, AND HEALTH CARE SERVICES FROM THE GENERAL EXCISE TAX.

Excludes proceeds from the manufacture, packaging and sale of food, residential rent, and the provision of services and products for health care from the general excise tax.

EDB,HLT/HSH,FIN

195

RELATING TO ALTERNATE TEACHER CERTIFICATION.

Requires the Hawaii teacher standards board to provide for the alternate certification of persons who do not hold licenses or credentials issued by the department of education.

EDN,FIN

196

RELATiNG TO DISASTER RELIEF.

Allows governor or mayor to grant state and county employee who is a certified American Red Cross disaster volunteer up to 30 days paid leave of absence to perform disaster relief services for the American Red Cross under certain conditions.

LAB,FIN

197

relating to public meeting notices.

Requires notice of public meetings to be posted on the internet, using the available agency's website.

JHA,FIN

198

authorizing the issuance of general obligations bonds and making an appropriation for capitol improvements projects in the 32nd representative district.

Capitol improvement projects for the benefit of the 32nd representative district.

FIN

199

relating to the long-term care trust fund.

Creates the long-term care trust fund. Requires deposit of 5% of tobacco settlement moneys for 10 years and reallocates remaining moneys. Increases state income tax by 50 cents per $100 adjusted gross income for deposit into trust fund.

HSH/HLT,FIN

200

RELATING TO THE STATE BUDGET.

Provides for operating and capital improvement appropriations and authorizations for agencies in the Executive Branch for the Fiscal Biennium 2001-2003.

FIN

201

relating to the privacy of health care information act.

Changes effective date of Act 87, Session laws of Hawaii 1999, regarding privacy of health care information from 7/1/01 to 1/1/03.

CPC/JHA

202

relating to health insurance.

Adds definition of "clean claim" to law governing reimbursement for health insurance benefits.

CPC

203

RELATING TO TRAVEL AGENTS.

Adds travel agents as a category to persons who are liable for the GET only proportional to their proportion of the commission.

CPC,FIN

204

RELATING TO PLANNED COMMUNITY ASSOCIATIONS.

Establishes requirements for voting proxies for board members for planned community associations.

CPC

205

RELATING TO FIREARMS.

Prohibits the issuance of a firearms permit unless the applicant shows proof that the applicant has obtained a gun lock for every firearm acquired. Makes permits for riffles and shotguns valid for only one purchase.

JHA

206

Relating to early childhood education.

Establishes an office of early childhood education headed by the director of early childhood education. Requires the director to develop a plan for the establishment of a system of universal access to early childhood care.

EDN/HSH,FIN

207

relating to firearms.

Requires a seller or transferor of a pistol, revolver, rifle, or shotgun to include a gun locking mechanism with every sale or transfer.

JHA

208

relating to reimbursement for medicaid covered dental services.

Increases the reimbursement rate to dentists providing Medicaid-covered dental services to    % of the 75^th percentile of the 1991 fee profile. Appropriates $       for FY 2001-2002 and $       for FY 2002-2003 to pay for the rate increase, to be expended by the department of human services.

HSH,FIN

209

RELATING TO DENTISTRY.

Requires the board of dental examiners to adopt rules to license dentists to practice as employees of, or volunteers for, safety net dental providers without having to pass the Hawaii dental licensing examination.

HSH,CPC

210

Relating to Agriculture.

Appropriates funds for fiscal years 2001-2002 and 2002-2003 for agricultural development to be performed by the Hawaii Agriculture Research Center.

AGR,FIN

211

relating to fireweed.

Appropriates funds for research, education, and development of short-term control methods to stop the spread of fireweed.

AGR,FIN

212

RELATING TO THE STATE WATER CODE.

Appropriates funds to implement the agricultural water use and development plan.

AGR,FIN

213

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.

AGR,FIN

214

RELATING TO AGRICULTURE.

Establishes a tax credit against income tax liability for farmer or rancher taxpayers who install agricultural water storage facilities.

AGR,FIN

215

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR PINEAPPLE RESEARCH.

Appropriates funds for pineapple research.

AGR,FIN

216

RELATING TO HARBORS.

Temporarily exempts the leasing of facilities at Nawiliwili harbor from the public notice requirements for negotiating the lease.

TRN,WLU,FIN

217

RELATING TO INCOME TAX CREDITS FOR ELDERLY AT-HOME CARE.

Provides a $300 income tax credit to any taxpayer who cares for an elderly relative under certain conditions. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2000.

HSH/HLT,FIN

218

RELATING TO JUDICIAL ELECTIONS.

Amends the elections law to provide for fairness in judicial campaigns.

JHA,FIN

219

PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE VI, SECTION 3, OF THE HAWAII CONSTITUTION, RELATING TO JUDICIAL REAPPOINTMENT.

Proposes an amendment to article VI, section 3 of the Hawaii Constitution to require that if the judicial selection commission recommends that a justice or judge be reappointed that the justice or judge is then subject to a retention vote by the electorate.

JHA,FIN

220

RELATING TO THE MANUAL AUDIT OF CLOSE ELECTIONS.

Requires automatic manual audit by the office of elections of any election contest that is won by a margin of 1% or less.

JHA,FIN

221

RELATING TO ELECTIONS.

Requires chief election officer to inform voters of the consequences of a blank ballot on questions to the electorate.

JHA,FIN

222

RELATING TO A VOLUNTARY SUBSTANCE ABUSE REHABILITATION SCHOOL.

Creates a voluntary substance abuse rehabilitation school as an alternative public or charter school to address drug and alcohol abuse in schools. Establishes the school structure, including eligibility requirements, program content, and operational parameters.

EDN,JHA,FIN

223

RELATING TO OPTOMETRY.

Allows optometrists to prescribe all pharmaceutical agents allowed by the board of optometry, not just those that are topically applied. Repeals joint formulary advisory committee.

HLT,CPC

224

relating to the board of education.

Requires the BOE to be composed of 17 voting members elected in a nonpartisan manner by the qualified voters of the respective school board districts, as provided by law. Requires each school board district to be composed of not less than 3 and not more than 4 representative districts.

EDN,JHA,FIN

225

RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLES.

Prohibits the operator of a motor vehicle from using a cellular phone unless the phone can be operated without the use of the driver's hands. Imposes penalties.

TRN,JHA

226

RELATING TO THE LEGISLATURE.

Transfers the responsibility for the sale and distribution of legislative publications from the lieutenant governor to the legislature.

LMG,FIN

227

RELATING TO THE HAWAII PENAL CODE.

Establishes the offense of ticket scalping as a misdemeanor.

CPC/JHA

228

relating to transportation.

Allows a motor or other vehicle to be towed away at the expense of its registered owner if: (1) the motor or other vehicle's certificate of registration or certificate of inspection; or (2) the driver's license of the motor vehicle's operator, has been expired for more than 12 months.

TRN,JHA,FIN

229

RELATING TO MENTAL HEALTH BENEFITS COVERAGE FOR SOCIAL ANXIETY DISORDER.

Requires insurers, mutual benefit societies, and HMOs that provide mental health benefits coverage, to provide additional coverage for social anxiety disorder.

CPC,FIN

230

relating to artificial turf.

Prohibits the installation of artificial turf on state-owned or -maintained playing fields.

TAC, HED/EDN, FIN

231

relating to the public employees health fund.

Adds chiropractic services to public employees health fund benefits plan.

LAB,FIN

232

RELATING TO FIREWORKS.

Bans the use of fireworks except for religious or ceremonial purposes. Increases penalties for use of aerial fireworks.

JHA,FIN

233

RELATING TO THE HAWAII WHISTLEBLOWERs' PROTECTION ACT.

Amends current law to increase statute of limitations on injunctive relief.

LAB,JHA

234

RELATING TO PROHIBITION OF DISCRIMINATION BY PUBLIC ENTITIES TOWARDS INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES.

Expands the protection against discrimination by the State against a person with disabilities and expands the coverage to include counties.

JHA,FIN

235

making an appropriation for the continued services of the domestic violence clearinghouse and legal hotline.

Appropriates money for services provided by the Domestic Violence Clearinghouse and Legal Hotline.

JHA,FIN

236

RELATING TO SEXUAL ASSAULT.

Provides that minor cannot legally consent to having sex with an adult who is 5 years or more older than the minor and the actor is not legally married to the minor.

JHA

237

RELATING TO MANDATED HEALTH COVERAGE REVIEW.

Creates mandated health insurance service review panel to assess social, medical, and financial impacts of mandated health insurance coverage and recommend cap on cost of mandated health insurance coverage in terms of percentage of average annual state wage. Repeals auditor's duty to review such proposals.

CPC,FIN

238

relating to nurses.

Places regulation over prescriptive authority of advanced practice registered nurses in board of nursing instead of DCCA; places formulary designation with board of nursing instead of board of medical examiners; deletes outdated language regarding interim 1994 report on drug formularies.

HLT,CPC

239

PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE X, SECTION 2 OF THE STATE CONSTITUTION RELATING TO THE BOARD OF EDUCATION.

Proposes constitutional amendment to divide State into 8 local school board districts, with board members to be elected by voters within the district. Makes existing board of education an appointed board, with members appointed by the governor from the local school boards.

EDN,JHA,FIN

240

RELATING TO CHECK CASHING.

Removes the 7/1/01 sunset date from the check cashing act.

CPC

241

RELATING TO CHECK CASHING.

Reduces fees under the check cashing law and repeals sunset.

CPC

242

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.

LAB,JHA

243

relating to indemnity.

Includes members who work in collaboration with other licensed health professions in cooperative corporation contracts that solely indemnify in respect to malpractice claims against such members.

CPC

244

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.

LAB,JHA

245

RELATING TO FIREARMS.

Prohibits the transfer of firearms without trigger locks. Authorizes the use of trigger locks in storing firearms near minors.

JHA

246

making an appropriation for the state rent supplement program.

Appropriates $1,300,000 in FY 2001-2002 and $1,500,000 in FY 2002-2003 to be expended by the housing and community development corporation of Hawaii to fund the state rent supplement program for low-income renters.

HSH,FIN

247

relating to the state rent supplement program.

Allows persons receiving welfare to be qualified tenants so that HCDA can make state rent supplement payments to housing owners on behalf of qualified tenants. Appropriates $        for FY 2001-2002 and $        for FY 2002-2003 to HCDA to fund the state rent supplement program.

HSH,FIN

248

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR FAMILIES FOR R.E.A.L. (RESOURCES FOR EARLY ACCESS TO LEARNING).

Appropriates funds to establish Families for R.E.A.L. programs in 4 departmental school districts: Honolulu, central, Kauai, and Hawaii and for research and development of the program.

EDN,FIN

249

relating to human services.

Appropriates $      and $      for FY 2001-2002 and FY 2002-2003, respectively, to provide basic dental services for adults covered under Medicaid or QUEST on a fee-for-service basis. Imposes service cap of $500 per enrollee per year. DHS to expend.

HSH/HLT,FIN

250

relating to criminal history record checks.

Implements certain LRB study recommendations concerning access and use of criminal history record information to conduct criminal history record checks for noncriminal justice employment and licensing screening; creates working group to make recommendations on policy issues raised by study.

JHA,FIN

251

relating to acupuncture PRACTITIONERS.

Allows physicians and osteopaths with two hundred hours of training in acupuncture to be licensed in acupuncture and places these practitioners under the jurisdiction of the board of medical examiners.

CPC

252

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR BASIC DENTAL SERVICES FOR ADULTS.

Appropriates funds to the department of health for start-up costs and dental services for indigent adults. Appropriates funds to the department of human services to reinstate basic dental services for adults in the State's medicaid and QUEST programs.

HSH/HLT,FIN

253

making an appropriation for textbooks.

Appropriates $6,042,330 to the DOE to purchase textbooks.

EDN,FIN

254

relating to principals of the public school system.

Removes principals of elementary and secondary public schools from collective bargaining. Allows the department of education to negotiate limited term contracts with principals including performance goals in accordance with department standards.

EDN/LAB,FIN

255

PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE X, SECTIONS 2 AND 3 OF THE HAWAII CONSTITUION RELATING TO THE BOARD OF EDUCATON.

Proposes a constitutional amendment that provides for the elimination of the constitutional provision for a statewide board of education, and providing for eight local boards elected by the people.

EDN,JHA,FIN

256

RELATING TO BOARD OF EDUCATION.

Gives elected local school boards of education control of schools at the district level, including budgetary and personnel authority; provides for incremental dismantling of central DOE with personnel returned to district offices and classrooms. Creates a state school board to oversee programs of education throughout the state comprised of a representative from each of the local school boards and an elected state superintendent.

EDN,LAB,FIN

257

RELATING TO THE EXCLUSION OF proceeds FROM THE manufacture, packaging, and sale of food from GENERAL EXCISE TAX liability.

This Act seeks to exclude proceeds from the manufacture, packaging, and sale of food from general excise tax liability.

EDB,FIN

258

RELATING TO THE EXCLUSION OF PROCEEDS FROM THE PROVISION OF MEDICAL SERVICES AND MEDICAL PRODUCTS FROM THE GENERAL EXCISE TAX.

This Act seeks to exclude proceeds from the provision of medical services and medical products from general excise tax liability.

HLT,FIN

259

RElating to the exclusion of residential rent from general excise tax liability.

Excludes proceeds from residential rent from general excise tax liability. Effective from January 1, 2003.

HSH,FIN

260

relating to civil service reform.

Grants the appointing authority and the director of personnel services discretion in filling vacant civil services positions vacated due to retirement or resignation. Mandates the appointing authority and the director of personnel services to leave forty two percent of civil service positions vacated in a fiscal year vacant. Repealed after one year.

LAB,FIN

261

RELATING TO drug prevention and treatment.

Provides specifically for the funding of drug treatment and prevention programs from tobacco settlement funds.

HLT,FIN

262

RELATING TO CORRECTIONAL TREATMENT FACILITIES.

Allows governor to contract for operation of a correctional treatment facility. Establishes criteria for acceptable contracts for operation of a correctional treatment facility.

PSM/LAB,FIN

263

RELATING TO COLLECTIVE BARGAINING.

Provides for the University of Hawaii, hospitals, and the individual counties to collectively bargain contracts independent of the State.

LAB,FIN

264

RELATING TO ELECTIONS.

Provides for posting of unofficial election results immediately after close of polling place; provides for recount and audit if an election is won by one percent or less; removes requirement that precinct chair be of the same party as the governor.

JHA,FIN

265

RELATING TO ELECTIONS.

Prohibits a person making an expenditure for (not only a contribution to) any candidate committee or political party from receiving a contract from the state or county for one year from the availability of the contract, including subcontracts. Includes immediate family members under this prohibition.

JHA

266

RELATING TO GREENWAYS.

Requires DOT to establish a statewide greenways strategy. Establishes a steering committee.

TRN,WLU,FIN

267

RELATING TO WATER POLLUTION.

Requires the director of health, in controlling nonpoint source pollution, to develop measures to cope with background erosion, turbidity standards, and unusually heavy rainfall. Requires initiation of cooperative agreements to monitor effectiveness of county permits.

EEP,FIN

268

relating to graduation from high school.

Specifies the minimum course and credit requirements for graduation from high school, grades 9 to 12, beginning with the 2004-2005 school year. Requires 1.0 credits in fine arts for graduation, and 5.0 elective credits instead of 6.0 elective credits, beginning with the 2004-2005 school year.

EDN,FIN

269

RELATING TO TOURISM.

Converts the non-voting members of the Hawaii tourism authority into voting members.

TAC,FIN

270

RELATING TO FIREWORKS.

Allows counties to resume regulating or prohibiting fireworks. Removes state preemption over fireworks regulation.

JHA

271

relating to motor vehicle rental industry.

Allows the payment or receipt of indirect commissions from the sale of collision damage waivers for rental vehicles; requires lessor to report to the director on its compensation plan for employees who assist or direct the sale of collision damage waivers.

CPC

272

relating to psychologists.

Grants prescriptive authority to psychologists certified in psychopharmacology. Establishes certification criteria. Establishes a joint formulary advisory committee.

HLT,CPC

273

relating to telemarketing fraud.

Creates a criminal offense of telemarketing fraud involving use at least in part of a telephone and involving direct or implied claims of receiving anything of value or of recovering losses from a prize promotion.

CPC/JHA

274

RELATING TO INSURANCE.

Short form bill relating to insurance.

CPC

275

RELATING TO CONSUMER PROTECTION.

Short form bill relating to consumer protection.

CPC

276

RELATING TO UTILITIES.

Short form bill relating to utilities.

CPC

277

RELATING TO PRIVACY.

Short form bill relating to privacy.

CPC

278

relating to commerce.

Short form bill relating to commerce.

CPC

279

RELATING TO state and county immunity from LIABILITY.

Repeals sunset date on the temporary waiver of liability the State and counties currently have when adequate warning signs are displayed at public beach parks.

WLU,JHA

280

relating to state and countY tort liability.

Provides the State, counties, and lifeguards immunity from liability against damages arising from the operation of beach parks.

WLU,JHA

281

Relating to neurotrauma.

Establishes a neurotrauma special fund and commission.

HLT,JHA,FIN

282

RELATING TO THE STATE COUNCIL ON DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES.

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

HLT,FIN

283

RELATING TO TAXATION.

Eliminates the personal income tax beginning January 1, 2002. Exempts food and health care services from GET. Increases the GET rate from four per cent to eight per cent.

EDB,HLT/HSH,FIN

284

relating to health.

Appropriates funds to the department of health for thirty full-time registered nurses.

HLT,FIN

285

RELATING TO LONG-TERM CARE FINANCING.

Appropriates funds for a study on the feasibility and advisability of establishing a state program of long-term care that offers protective coverage to the largest number of people reasonably possible. Requires that DOH provide the 2003 legislature with findings and recommendations, and that DOH prepare legislation for introduction in the 2003 session.

HSH/HLT,FIN

286

relating to marrIage and family therapists.

Repeals sunsetting of license requirements for marriage and family therapists.

HLT,CPC,FIN

287

relating to youth services.

Repeals the youth services centers and creates the school/community-based youth services center within the office of youth services to deliver comprehensive, interdisciplinary youth services.

HSH/HLT,EDN,LAB,FIN

288

relating to early childhood assessments.

Provides parents or guardians of a child access, before the child's third birthday, to screening of their child's psychological and physiological development. Requires DOH in conjunction with DOE, DHS, and UH, and the American Academy of Pediatrics, to develop a screening protocol and referral plan.

HLT,FIN

289

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR RESOURCES FOR EARLY ACCESS TO LEARNING.

Appropriates funds to establish Families for R.E.A.L. programs in 4 departmental school districts: Honolulu, central, Kauai, and Hawaii and for research and development of the program.

EDN,FIN

290

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR DENTAL SERVICES.

Appropriates funds to provide basic dental services for adults covered by medicaid and med-QUEST on a fee-for-service basis through the med-QUEST program.

HSH/HLT,FIN

291

RELATING TO QUEST MEDICAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM.

Requires DHS health plan provider to pay for QUEST services at federally qualified health centers at a rate not less than the amount paid to other providers in the same geographic area for comparable services.

HSH,FIN

292

RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES.

Restores QUEST benefits to income-eligible legal immigrants and migrants during and three months after pregnancy. Appropriates funds for this purpose.

HSH,FIN

293

relating to health care.

Appropriates funds to the department of health to provide resources to nonprofit community-based health care programs.

HLT/HSH,FIN

294

relating to dental licensing.

Provides for special licensing for dentists employed by or volunteering for safety net dental providers without taking the Hawaii examination, provided that such dentists have passed the national Board of Dental Examiners examination and a state or regional examination approved by the board of dental examiners.

CPC

295

relating to the disability and communication access board.

Provides the DCAB with the authority to assess fees for the cost of certifying and providing continued education and training in certifying sign language interpreters. Creates a special fund to cover the costs to certify sign language interpreters. Appropriates moneys to the special fund for startup purposes.

HLT,FIN

296

RELATING TO MEDICAID.

Specifies criteria that sets Medicaid payments at a level that fairly compensates providers.

HSH,FIN

297

RELATING TO TELEMARKETING.

Creates the offense of telemarketing fraud.

CPC/JHA

298

relating to procurement.

Allows design-build construction proposals to be submitted. Requires development of a short list of offerors from whom proposals will be requested. Requires purchasing agency to pay unsuccessful offerors $5,000 plus 1% of the project construction cost to allow the State to use certain designs submitted in a technically responsive proposal.

FIN

299

RELATING TO THE CHILD SUPPORT ENFORCEMENT AGENCY.

Requires the CSEA Title IV-D application form to be completed and submitted to the CSEA no later than the date on which an order for custody is entered.

JHA

300

RELATING TO MEDICAL ASSISTANCE FRAUD.

Strengthens medical assistance fraud provisions. Makes property and proceeds obtained as a result of medical assistance fraud subject to forfeiture to the State.

HSH,JHA

301

relating to public display.

Amends the inventory period for a licensee, who provides public displays of fireworks more than once a month, to import and store aerial common fireworks and special fireworks from six-months to twenty-four months. Charges a $100 license fee for public display companies, including public display companies that import and store fireworks. Repeals requirement that the fireworks permit for public display must be obtained not less than twenty days before the date of the display. Clarifies that the fee for permits for public display are in addition to any license fee and that the fee for a permit for public display shall be $110 per event and used for purposes specified in section 132D-11(a).

JHA,FIN

302

RELATING TO CHILD ABUSE.

Eliminates the requirement that a member of the staff of any public or private school, agency, or institution must immediately notify the person in charge or a designated delegate of child abuse

HSH/EDN,JHA

303

relating to secondhand dealers.

Removes secondhand dealers from regulation under chapter 486M, HRS, Pawnbrokers and Secondhand Dealers. Repeals the ability of county treasurers or directors of finance to revoke county licenses of dealers and traders in secondhand articles. Exempts certain secondhand dealer purchases from recordkeeping requirements under part VII of chapter 445, HRS, Secondhand Dealers.

CPC

304

relating to criminal history record checks.

Implements certain LRB study recommendations concerning access and use of criminal history record information to conduct criminal history record checks for noncriminal justice employment and licensing screening; creates working group to make recommendations on policy issues raised by study.

JHA,FIN

305

relating to THE HAWAII RULES OF EVIDENCE.

Establishes requirements for the admissibility of testimony from a witness previously hypnotized to recall the testimony.

JHA

306

relating to privatization.

Amends the budget law with respect to new government programs by establishing criteria for contracts entered into with private vendors to perform functions that the public sector cannot implement as cost-effectively as the private sector while meeting various objectives and standards of the State.

LAB,FIN

307

RELATING TO public employment.

Prohibits the excessive assignment of overtime for the sole purpose of increasing an employee's average final compensation under §88-21, HRS.

LAB,FIN

308

relating to workers' compensation medical fees.

Returns the medical fee structure to the structure existing before Act 234, SLH 1995.

LAB,CPC,FIN

309

RELATING TO AN ANNUAL GENERAL EXCISE TAX HOLIDAY.

Establishes an annual general excise tax holiday for consumers and businesses that sell clothing and food under $100 on condition that business pass the savings on to consumers.

EDB,FIN

310

RELATING TO THE EXCLUSION OF FOOD, RESIDENTIAL RENT, AND HEALTH CARE SERVICES FROM THE GENERAL EXCISE TAX.

Excludes proceeds from the manufacture, packaging and sale of food, residential rent, and the provision of services and products for health care.

EDB,HLT/HSH,FIN

311

RELATING TO LONG-TERM CAPITAL GAINS TAX.

Exempts real property held for at least 7 years from income tax and capital gains tax.

EDB,FIN

HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTIONS

Committee

H.C.R. NO.

3

Requesting the department of business, economic development, and tourism to study the feasibility of developing wave power as a renewable energy resource for Hawaii.

EEP/WLU,FIN

4

REQUESTING THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION TO CREATE AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL-LEVEL PHYSICAL EDUCATION PROGRAM.

EDN,FIN

5

REQUESTING THE DEVELOPMENT OF A PLAN THAT ENCOURAGES PARENTS TO BECOME MORE ACTIVELY INVOLVED IN THEIR CHILDREN'S EDUCATION.

EDN,FIN

6

REQUESTING THE DEVELOPMENT OF A PLAN TO IMPROVE ORAL HEALTH FOR CHILDREN IN THE sTATE.

HLT/EDN,FIN

7

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

HSH/JHA,FIN

8

urging the identification of inappropriate and pornographic material on the internet.

JHA

HOUSE RESOLUTIONS

Committee

H.R. NO.

8

Requesting the department of business, economic development, and tourism to study the feasibility of developing wave power as a renewable energy resource for Hawaii.

EEP/WLU,FIN

9

REQUESTING THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION TO CREATE AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL-LEVEL PHYSICAL EDUCATION PROGRAM.

EDN,FIN

10

REQUESTING THE DEVELOPMENT OF A PLAN THAT ENCOURAGES PARENTS TO BECOME MORE ACTIVELY INVOLVED IN THEIR CHILDREN'S EDUCATION.

EDN,FIN

11

REQUESTING THE DEVELOPMENT OF A PLAN TO IMPROVE ORAL HEALTH FOR CHILDREN IN THE sTATE.

HLT/EDN,FIN

12

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

HSH/JHA,FIN

13

RELATING TO SUPPORT FOR INCREASED FUNDING OF DRUG TREATMENT AND PREVENTION PROGRAMS.

HLT,PSM,FIN

14

urging the identification of inappropriate and pornographic material on the internet.

JHA