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 CONCURRENT RESOLUTIONS

Committee

H.C.R. NO.

35

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

HSH/HLT,FIN

36

REQUESTING ESTABLISHMENT OF A TASK FORCE TO assess and determine ways to reduce the paperwork AND DUPLICATIVE PROCESS requirements RELATED TO EXCEPTIONAL children and felix class children and ADOLESCENTS.

EDN/HLT,FIN

HOUSE RESOLUTIONS

Committee

H.R. NO.

21

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

HSH,FIN

22

Requesting THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION TO INCLUDE a PARENTING COMPONENT IN SCHOOL CURRICULUM.

EDN,FIN

38

requesting the United States Congress to appropriate funds for forty per cent of special education and related services for children with disabilities.

EDN/HLT,FIN

39

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

HSH/HLT,FIN

40

REQUESTING ESTABLISHMENT OF A TASK FORCE TO assess and determine ways to reduce the paperwork AND DUPLICATIVE PROCESS requirements RELATED TO EXCEPTIONAL children and felix class children and ADOLESCENTS.

EDN/HLT,FIN

SENATE BILLS

Committee

S.B. NO.

490

RELATING TO DISPOSITION OF CONVICTED DEFENDANTS.

Provides for enhanced sentencing of a defendant who uses a controlled substance to facilitate the commission or attempted commission of a felony sexual assault.

JHA

781

relating to penal responsibilIty.

Amends definition of "physical or mental disease, disorder, or defect" to exclude abnormalities that are attributable to the voluntary ingestion of alcohol or any other psychoactive substance.

JHA

805

relating to controlled substances.

Allows the narcotics enforcement division to disclose investigative information to pharmacists for purposes of investigating violations of controlled substances law. (SD1)

JHA

859

relating to parole.

Allows for earned early release from minimum term for good time credit; allows Hawaii Paroling Authority to develop alternate program for early release; requires notification to victim of early release. (SD1)

PSM,JHA

1390

relating to traditional hawaiian healing practices.

Makes licensure exemption for Hawaiian healers permanent. Adds composition requirements of the panel convened by Papa Ola Lokahi pursuant to Act 162, SLH 1998, section 4(a).

JHA/CPC