RELATING TO CONTINUING EDUCATION FOR INSURANCE LICENSEES.

Establishes a certification process requirements for providers of continuing education courses for insurance licensees. Establishes requirements relating to courses offered.

RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLE INSURANCE.

Appropriates general funds for the insurance commissioner and the department of commerce and consumer affairs to develop and operate an electronic database to receive insurance coverage data from insurers and accessible by law enforcement officers in their efforts to verify a driver's insurance coverage.

RELATING TO FORCE-PLACED INSURANCE.

Prevents exorbitant and arbitrary markups of insurance rates by lenders to their borrowers. Eliminates rules of 78 calculations that are excessively and unfairly profitable at the borrower's expense.

RELATING TO ATTACHMENT AND EXECUTION.

Amends the attachment and execution law to increase real property and alternative real property exemptions and the motor vehicle exemption; provide for separate individual exemptions for spouses and reciprocal beneficiaries; and add a "wild card" exemption for personal property that is not otherwise exempt.

RELATING TO PAWNBROKERS AND SECONDHAND DEALERS.

Prohibits pawnbrokers and secondhand dealers from accepting pledged goods or buying merchandise from a person unable to supply proof of ownership of the goods or merchandise, when the fair market value of the goods or merchandise to be pledged or bought is greater than $100.

RELATING TO POLITICAL SPEECH.

Regulates the use of personal covenants under the landlord-tenant code so that tenants may exercise reasonable political speech.

RELATING TO CONDOMINIUMS.

Adds trash chutes and elevator telephones to list of limited common elements. Redefines limited common elements.

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR PLAYGROUND EQUIPMENT.

Appropriates $800,000 to the DOE so that all elementary schools in the State will finally have playground equipment that meets the requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act, the standards of the American Society for Testing and Materials, and the guidelines of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission.

RELATING TO STATE EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES REPAIR AND MAINTENANCE.

Transfers control of management and funding for school repair and maintenance to the Department of Education.

RELATING TO THE SCHOOL PRIORITY FUND.

Creates the school priority special fund to enable principals at public schools to have a source of discretionary funding.

RELATING TO PRINCIPALS AND VICE-PRINCIPALS.

Requires all principals and vice-principals employed after 6/30/03 to be 12-month employees. Allows principals and vice-principals employed as 10-month employees to convert to 12-month employees by 12/30/03. Appropriates funds.

RELATING TO EDUCATION.

Allows an administrative hearings officer to impose administrative penalties and fines on a truant child, and the father or mother, guardian, or other person having charge of the truant child.

RELATING TO EDUCATION.

Requires a child to be at least 5 years old on or before 12/31 of the school year in order to attend kindergarten, regardless of when the school convenes. Changes minimum age requirement for kindergarten entrance to October 1 for 2006-2007 school year and July 1 for 2007-2008 school year.

RELATING TO EDUCATION.

Requires public high schools to begin classes at a later starting time.

RELATING TO EDUCATION.

Authorizes the Superintendent of Education to create complex areas and advisory boards for each complex area.

RELATING TO EDUCATION.

Authorizes the Superintendent of Education to create complex areas and advisory boards for each complex area.

RELATING TO EDUCATION.

Repeals the reporting and testing requirements of H.C.R. No. 163, H.D. 1, that are inconsistent or redundant, or both, with the requirements of the "No Child Left Behind Act of 2001".

RELATING TO INTERSCHOLASTIC ATHLETICS.

Requires Hawaii athletic conferences, associations, and leagues to adopt and enforce uniform rules and regulations prohibiting the use of drugs, medications, and nutritional supplements by participants in interscholastic sports, without a prescription from a licensed physician.

RELATING TO FAMILY LEAVE BENEFITS INSURANCE.

Establishes a family leave benefits insurance program to provide income support to those on family leave.

RELATING TO SICK LEAVE.

Allows an employee to substitute any of their accrued paid leaves such as sick, vacation, or personal leave for any part of the four week family leave an employee is entitled to.

RELATING TO TEMPORARY DISABILITY INSURANCE.

Provides up to six weeks of paid family leave as temporary disability benefits for an employee to care for a family member with a serious health condition or to care for a child upon the birth or adoption of a child. The temporary disability benefits for family leave shall be financed through employee contributions.

RELATING TO SICK LEAVE FOR PUBLIC EMPLOYEES.

Requires state and county employers who provide sick leave to permit employees to use sick leave to care for designated family members who have a serious health condition.

RELATING TO SICK LEAVE FOR EMPLOYEES IN THE PRIVATE SECTOR.

Requires private employers who provide sick leave to permit employees to use sick leave to care for the employee's child, spouse or reciprocal beneficiary, or parent with a serious health condition.

RELATING TO TEMPORARY DISABILITY BENEFITS TO CARE FOR FAMILY MEMBERS WITH A SERIOUS HEALTH CONDITION.

Expands temporary disability benefits to provide up to six weeks of wage replacement benefits to employees who leave work to care for family members with a serious health condition.

RELATING TO FAMILY LEAVE.

Requires an employer who provides sick leave for employees to use up to ten days of the employee's accrued and available sick leave for family leave purposes in a single calendar year, except when the use of sick leave for family leave purposes is subject to a valid collective bargaining agreement. Defines "sick leave" under the Family Leave Law (Chapter 398, Hawaii Revised Statutes).

RELATING TO MEAL BREAKS.

Requires employers to provide meal breaks after 5 hours of work.

RELATING TO LABOR.

Requires employers to provide employees with at least a 30-minute break for 8 hours of work, unless a collective bargaining agreement otherwise contains a provision for employee meal breaks, or provisions allowing public transit employees to select work assignments through a bidding system based on seniority.

Establishes a prescription drug cost control education program to provide physicians with unbiased information on cost-effective use of prescription drugs.

Establishes duties and obligations for pharmaceutical benefit management companies who administer or manage prescription drug benefit coverage to their clients.

Requires pharmaceutical manufacturing companies to disclose to the board of pharmacy the value, nature and purpose of any gift, payment or other economic benefit worth $25 or more provided with promotional or other marketing activities to physicians, hospitals, nursing homes and pharmacists.

Mandates coverage of examination for sexually transmitted diseases for all policies and contracts, hospital and medical service plan contracts, medical service corporation contracts and HMO plans and contracts issued after 12/31/2003. Effective 7/1/2003.

Authorizes hospitals to provide emergency contraception to sexual assault survivors.

Make permanent amendments made in Act 243, SLH 2000, relating to nondiscrimination in premium rates by removing the sunset date.

Establishes the Hawaii Health Alliance to reduce health care cost increases, provide the widest choice of health care options and plans possible for consumers and to investigate and implement other measures to control cost increases.

Prohibits nurses from being required to work overtime.

Prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability in services, programs and activities provided by the counties or by private entities on behalf of the State or counties.

Allows an emergency medical technician to receive a state retirement pension after ten years of service – five years prior to retirement were served as an emergency medical technician – after June 30, 2003. Clarifies that after twenty-five years of service, the emergency medical technician's pension shall not be reduced.

Repeals the sunset date of Act 88, Session Laws of Hawaii 1999.