HB 2718

RELATING TO GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII.

Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds for the University of Hawaii to improve its physical facilities.

HB 2235

HD1

(HSCR 202-02)

RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII.

Creates Pacific Center for Ecosystem Science.

HB 2848

HD1

PROPOSING AMENDMENTS TO ARTICLE VII, SECTION 12, AND ARTICLE X, SECTION 1, OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF HAWAII TO AUTHORIZE THE STATE TO ISSUE SPECIAL PURPOSE REVENUE BONDS AND USE THE PROCEEDS FROM THE BONDS TO ASSIST NOT-FOR-PROFIT PRIVATE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS, SECONDARY SCHOOLS, COLLEGES, AND UNIVERSITIES.

Proposes constitutional amendments to authorize the State to issue special purpose revenue bonds and use the proceeds from the bonds to assist not-for-profit private elementary schools, secondary schools, colleges, and universities.

HB 2166

RELATING TO EDUCATION.

Assists not-for-profit private elementary schools, secondary schools, colleges, and universities that serve the general public through the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds for their benefit.

HB 2033

HD2

RELATING TO EDUCATION.

Proposes amendments to the state constitution to abolish the state board of education; requires the governor to appoint a state superintendent of education; requires the superintendent to establish statewide educational policy; and requires the internal organization of the statewide system of public education to be as provided by law.

HB 2037

HD1

RELATING TO EDUCATION REFORM.

Implements decentralization of education governance and management to the school-community level and other aspects of full education reform.

HB 2014

HD1

RELATING TO NEW CENTURY CONVERSION CHARTER SCHOOLS.

Allows a nonprofit organization to manage and operate a new century conversion charter school as a division of the nonprofit organization, in which the charter school's local school board would consist of the board of directors of the nonprofit organization.

HB 1761

HD1

RELATING TO INSURANCE.

Gives insurance commissioner power to regulate health insurance rates.

HB 2834

RELATING TO PRESCRIPTION DRUGS.

Establishes the Hawaii Rx Program to make prescription drugs more affordable to all residents of the State.

HB 2835

RELATING TO MANDATED HEALTH COVERAGE REVIEW.

Creates a mandated health insurance service review panel to assess social, medical, and financial impacts of mandated health insurance coverage. Repeals the state auditor's duty to review such proposals.

HB 2750

HD1

RELATING TO HEALTH INSURANCE PREMIUM CONTRIBUTIONS.

Provides direct temporary economic relief for a period of two years by allowing private employers the flexibility to implement up to a 60/40 cost sharing for their employees’ health insurance premiums. Sets the maximum employee contribution at forty per cent of the total premium.

HB 1770

HD1

(HSCR 296-02)

RELATING TO PUBLIC UTILITIES.

HB 2198

HD1

RELATING TO GASOLINE.

Requires DBEDT to establish quarterly, maximum wholesale gasoline price for Hawaii based on the average price of crude oil prices in four markets; prohibits oil companies from charging more than the maximum price to retailers; establishes civil penalties.

HB 2638

HD1

RELATING TO THE HAWAII LONG-TERM CARE FINANCING ACT.

Enacts the Hawaii long-term care financing Act; creates a blue ribbon panel to administer the long-term care program; creates a mandatory assessment system to collect premiums from employee paychecks; establishes an initial premium amount of $10 per month and an initial benefit payment of $70 per day for 365 days; creates the Hawaii Long-Term Care Benefits Fund to hold the premiums and to pay benefits.

HB 2741

HD1

RELATING TO THE CIGARETTE AND TOBACCO TAX.

Increases the excise tax paid by wholesalers or dealers on cigarettes and tobacco products sold or used after June 30, 2002, to 10 cents per cigarette, and to fifty percent of the wholesale price of the tobacco product. Allocates $5,000,000 annually from the excise tax collected from cigarettes and tobacco products to the Hawaii Tobacco Prevention and Control Trust Fund. Allocates an undetermined amount annually to DOH to startup and maintain the tobacco regulation process proposed in HB2219.

HB 2805

HD1

(HSCR 368-02)

RELATING TO GOVERNMENT.

Provides special compensation to pensioners; establishes employers' worker retention special fund.

HB 2329

RELATING TO MANAGED COMPETITION.

Adds definition of managed competition process.

HB 2167

HD1

RELATING TO TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT.

Repeals the traffic enforcement demonstration project. Enacts a new project to correct problems with the previous one, including prohibiting increases in motor vehicle insurance premiums due to a speeding citation, and requiring the vendor to be paid a flat fee rather than a percentage of revenues.

HB 1729

HD1

(HSCR 337-02)

RELATING TO THE TRAFFIC CODE.

HB 2451

RELATING TO THE CONVENTION CENTER.

Assigns the responsibility to market, operate, manage, and maintain the Hawaii Convention Center Facility to the HTA including the establishment of the Hawaii Convention Center Entreprise Special Fund and the Convention Center Facility Reserve Special Fund.

HB 2192

HD1

RELATING TO THE HAWAII TOURISM AUTHORITY.

Increases number of public, voting board members from 10 to 12 by adding one new public voting member and converting one public, nonvoting member; declares that of the 12 public, voting members, at least one representative from each county shall be included; declares that at least one public, voting member shall have expertise in Hawaiian culture; expands the areas of expertise for 6 of the 12 public, voting members; authorizes the chair of the board of land and natural resources or a designated representative to be an ex officio nonvoting member; increases voting members required for quorom.

HB 2744

RELATING TO THE FARMERS' MARKET.

Appropriates funds for an economic feasibility study relating to the establishment of a world-class farmers' market.

HB 2764

RELATING TO CONVEYANCE TAX.

Changes the percentage of the conveyance tax designated to the natural area reserve fund from 25% to 12 1/2% and designates 12 1/2% of the tax to homeless assistance programs under part IV of chapter 201G. Also establishes a homeless assistance trust fund.

HB 2609

HD1

RELATING TO STATE PARKS.

Authorizes the transfer of up to $2,000,000 annually in surplus moneys from the tourism special fund to be deposited into the state parks special fund. Appropriates an unspecified amount from both the tourism special fund and the state parks special fund to accomplish this purpose for FY 2002-2003.

HB 2599

HD1

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE EMERGENCY ENVIRONMENTAL WORKFORCE.

Appropriates money to continue the emergency environmental workforce program.

HB 1717

HD1

(HSCR 404-02)

RELATING TO ETHICS.

HB 2460

HD1

(HSCR 222-02)

RELATING TO THE EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM.

Extends the payment period to liquidate ERS's unfunded accrued liability from 15 to ___ years beginning plan year 2001.

HB 2726

Consolidates the department of human resources development with the department of labor and industrial relations. Consolidates the regulatory function of the department of agriculture with the department of commerce and consumer affairs. Consolidates the promotional function of the department of agriculture with the department of business, economic development and tourism. Consolidates the department of accounting and general services with the department of budget and finance.

HB 2821

Heard on 2/7/02 on Agenda #1

Abolishes the position of deputy and first assistant in state departments, except DOE and UH.

HB 1823

Heard on 2/7/02 on Agenda #2

Provides a general excise tax exemption for sales and services paid by the State, increases the central services fee to 7% and abolishes all central services fee exemptions.

HB 2352

HD1

RELATING TO EDUCATION.

Adds the definition of "school readiness" to Act 77, Session Laws of Hawaii 1997.

HB 1768

RELATING TO VEHICLE REGISTRATION.

Defines "vehicle identification number" in chapter 286, HRS, to mean either the federal vehicle identification number or a number assigned by the county director of finance to a custom vehicle.

HB 1725

RELATING TO DRIVER LICENSE RENEWAL BY MAIL.

Allows for the renewal of a driver's license by mail, regardless of residency. Allows an applicant who has not applied for renewal of a driver's license within 90 days after the license has expired to be treated as an applicant for reactivation under 286-107.5, HRS. Allows a driver's license to be renewed on the sixth birthday after issuance.

HB 1726

RELATING TO DRIVER'S LICENSE INSTRUCTION PERMIT.

Allows the examiner of drivers to waive the 90-day waiting period for the driver's license examination if a new driver's license instruction permit has been issued within thirty days of the expiration date of the current permit.

HB 1727

RELATING TO DRIVER'S LICENSE INSTRUCTION PERMIT RENEWAL.

Allows renewal of a driver's license instruction permit 30 days prior to the expiration date; allows renewal of driver's license instruction permit up to 90 days after expiration before applicant shall be treated as a new instruction permit applicant.

HB 1746

HD1

RELATING TO UNATTENDED VEHICLES.

Requires notices for tow away zones to be clearly visible to the driver of a vehicle approaching any marked or unmarked parking space, or within any marked or unmarked parking space, where the vehicle is subject to being towed.

HB 2030

RELATING TO TOWING.

Increases towing fees for storage from $15 to $25 per day for the first 7 days and from $10 to $20 per day thereafter.

HB 2581

RELATING TO COMMERCIAL DRIVER'S LICENSING.

Waives knowledge and skill tests for persons with valid commercial driver's licenses issued by another state or a Canadian province.

HB 2582

RELATING TO HIGHWAY SAFETY.

Modifies commercial driver licensing laws so they conform to new federal standards, regulations and penalties pertaining to railroad-highway grade crossings for commercial motor vehicles.

HB 2301

HD1

RELATING TO THE USE OF INTOXICANTS.

Applies repeat intoxicated driver provisions to persons with prior drug enforcement contacts. Clarifies that a respondent who refused to be tested or a minor respondent shall not be issued a conditional permit. Clarifies administrative hearing procedure. Providing police officers with the option of informing the arrestee of revocation sanctions under section 291E-41 or 291E-65, Hawaii Revised Statutes.

HB 2302

HD1

RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLE DRIVERS' LICENSES.

Allows judges discretion to permit individuals, excluding individuals holding Commercial Drivers Licenses (CDLs), with certain traffic and driving sentences to obtain temporary drivers' licenses where good cause is shown.

HB 2509

HD1

RELATING TO PARKING FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES.

Prohibits and establishes a penalty for parking in an access aisle adjacent to a reserved parking stall for persons with disabilities.

RELATING TO THE HIGH TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION.

Exempts lands held by HTDC from Chapter 171, HRS.

RELATING TO OCEAN RECREATION AND COASTAL AREAS.

Establishes specific time limits on the use of ocean recreation and coastal areas for commercial activities.

RELATING TO SECTION 13 OF ACT 15, THIRD SPECIAL SESSION LAWS OF HAWAII 2001.

Clarifies that section 171-13 will be reinstated in its original form at the sunset of Act 15, Third Special Session Laws of Hawaii, which authorizes the Governor to declare an economic emergency from September 11, 2001 to April 30, 2002, to suspend any statute, rule or order and to implement certain measures, and to suspend, waive, or defer any contract obligations under certain conditions.

AUTHORIZING THE LEASE OF EASEMENT COVERING PORTION OF SUBMERGED LANDS AT MAUNALUA, OAHU, HAWAII, FOR MAINTENANCE OF THE HAWAII KAI MARINA ENTRANCE CHANNEL PURPOSES.

AUTHORIZING THE LEASE OF EASEMENT COVERING PORTION OF SUBMERGED LANDS AT MAUNALUA,

HONOLULU, OAHU, FOR MAINTENANCE OF BREAKWATER PURPOSES.

AUTHORIZING THE LEASE OF EASEMENT COVERING PORTION OF SUBMERGED LANDS AT LAHAINA, MAUI, HAWAII, FOR CONCRETE PIER AND DECK PURPOSES.