RELATING TO REAL ESTATE.

Assigns the encroachment tolerance of the classified property to the encroaching unclassified property, when the unclassified property is owned or leased in common by an owner's association.

RELATING TO THE PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION.

Excludes from the jurisdiction of the public utilities commission wireless communication services.

RELATING TO CHECK CASHING.

Lengthens the time check cashers may defer check deposits from 31 to 32 days; increases the maximum fee for personal check deferred deposits from 15 to 20 percent; authorizes concurrent, multiple transactions with one customer where checks aggregate $600 or less; increases the fee allowed for dishonored checks from $20 to $25.

RELATING TO CREDIT CARDS.

Prohibits as an unfair method of competition and unfair or deceptive act or practice in the conduct of any trade or commerce, increasing the credit limit of a state resident credit card holder without first obtaining the holder's consent.

RELATING TO PROFESSIONAL AND VOCATIONAL LICENSES.

Prohibits a governmental entity that administers student loans from certifying to a professional or vocational licensing board that a person is in default of a student loan unless the governmental entity obtains a judgment from a court that specifies the exact amount of the default.

RELATING TO CONDOMINIUM PROPERTY REGIMES.

Establishes the time in which a nonjudicial foreclosure of a condominium unit is effective for the purposes of having the new owner pay the owner's share of common assessments and expenses.

RELATING TO CONDOMINIUM PROPERTY REGIMES.

Extends sunset date for provision making subsequent purchasers of a condominium responsible for delinquent common assessments. Allows notice of the amount, rather than a lien for the amount, to be provided.

RELATING TO CIGARETTE RETAILERS AND MANUFACTURERS.

Prohibits contracts or agreements between cigarette manufacturers and retailers that require retailers to allocate or allot display, signage, or other advertising space to the manufacturer as condition of participating in promotions and discounts.

RELATING TO THE UNIFORM INFORMATION PRACTICES ACT.

Requires the redaction of social security numbers from certified payroll records prior to their disclosure.

RELATING TO THE UNIFORM INFORMATION PRACTICES ACT.

Adds social security numbers to the non-exhaustive list of examples of information in which an individual has a significant privacy interest.

RELATING TO THE UNIFORM INFORMATION PRACTICES ACT.

Adds a definition for the term "accessible" found in section 92F-21, to clarify the extent of the agency's records disclosure duties.

RELATING TO PROCUREMENT CARD PAYMENTS.

Allows purchases of goods and services to be made through the use of State-approved procurement cards.

RELATING TO PROCUREMENT.

Establishes contracting preferences to enhance competition and promote the growth and development of small businesses. Section 5 requires the adoption of procurement rules and procedures to identify and set aside contracts suited for performance by small businesses that otherwise would not be able to obtain government contracts. Section 2 also requires that solicitations for certain large contracts include evaluation criteria that will encourage prime contractors to subcontract and maximize the involvement of Hawaii small businesses. Establishes a Procurement Institute to improve and enhance the efficiency, integrity and transparency of the State procurement process. Makes technical amendments to the sealed bidding provisions of the Procurement Code. Requires that an independent selection committee rank the applying professional service providers according to relevant criteria. And requires the awarding procurement official to negotiate award of the contract with the providers in the rank order set by the committee. Establishes contracting preferences to promote training and employment opportunities for disabled persons. Will allow agencies to make non-competitive awards of contracts for construction valued at $500,000 or less to organization serving disabled people.

RELATING TO TOBACCO.

Refines the enforcement responsibilities of the Department of the Attorney General regarding enforcement of the tobacco master settlement agreement, cigarette tax stamping requirements, the "gray market" enforcement requirements, and tobacco reporting requirements.

RELATING TO THE EXAMINATION FOR LICENSURE AS A CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT.

Authorizes the Board of Public Accountancy to utilize computer-based testing.

RELATING TO PSYCHOLOGIST LICENSING REQUIREMENTS.

Provides for acceptance of the Certificate of Professional Qualification in Psychology issued by the Association of State and Provincial Psychology Boards, or the credential issued by the National Register of Health Service Provides in Psychology as evidence of meeting minimum qualifications for licensure in this State.

RELATING TO INSURANCE FRAUD.

Authorizes the Insurance Fraud Investigative Unit to retain the services of auditors, accountants, paralegals, and other professionals. Clarifies that the Unit's focus on prevention of insurance fraud includes an educational component.

RELATING TO DENTAL INSURANCE.

Allows the Insurance Division to continue its work on the liquidation of The Hawaii Dental Health Plan, and to protect the public from the risks associated with the financial failure of dental service organizations and corporations.

RELATING TO BUSINESS REGISTRATION.

Updates and clarifies Hawaii's business registration laws to reflect modern business practices and department filing procedures.

RELATING TO THE UNIFORM LIMITED PARTNERSHIP ACT.

Updates Hawaii's Limited Partnership Act.

RELATING TO CONCILIATION PANELS.

Requires a claimant or the claimant's attorney to have the claim evaluated by a qualified physician, or make a good faith effort to consult with a qualified physician before claim can be filed with the Medical Claims Conciliation Panel. Provides options for parties who prefer to utilize forums other than the MCCP to evaluate their cases, while still requiring that the claim be evaluated by a qualified physician, or that a good faith effort made to consult with a qualified physician before a lawsuit based on the claim can be filed with the courts. Amends the tolling provision of the statute of limitations when claims are filed with the court-approved programs, and reduces the processing time from 18 months to 12 months.

RELATING TO THE UNIFORM SECURITIES ACT.

Updates and clarifies Hawaii's securities laws by exempting banks, saving institution, and trust companies from dealer registration requirements.

RELATING TO THE UNIFORM COMMERCIAL CODE.

Replaces article 1 of Uniform Commercial Code with a new article 1; makes conforming amendments.

RELATING TO CORPORATE DISCLOSURE.

Requires: (1) department of taxation to report on tax benefits for development assistance programs; (2) counties to disclose real property tax reductions and abatements; (3) disclosure of development assistance; (4) recapture of assistance from recipients who fail to achieve jobs, wage, and benefit goals.

RELATING TO TAXATION.

Provides for a state earned income tax credit.

RELATING TO TAXATION.

Establishes an income tax credit for revitalization of older commercial facilities, including retail, hotel, warehouse, and industrial facilities; provided that either the facility or the commercial district where the facility is located is at least twenty-five years old; projects over $2,500,000 required to pay prevailing wages under chapter 104, Hawaii Revised Statutes.

RELATING TO AN ANNUAL GENERAL EXCISE TAX HOLIDAY.

Establishes an annual general excise tax holiday for consumers and businesses that sell goods with a retail price under $100 on condition that businesses pass the savings on to consumers.

RELATING TO GENERAL EXCISE TAX.

Exempts contractors from the general excise tax for commercial construction or improvement.

RELATING TO TAXATION.

Establishes an investment and improvements income tax credit for qualifying small businesses.

RELATING TO TAXATION.

Exempts amounts received as grants in the form of reimbursements for expenditures from an economic development program sponsored by a federal, state, county, or nonprofit organization from imposition of the general excise tax. Applies to amounts received after December 31, 1999, and allows any credits to be applied to the taxpayer's general excise tax liability in subsequent years until exhausted.

RELATING TO THE TELEVISION INDUSTRY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.

Establishes a tax credit to assist qualifying local television producers in attracting advertisers.

RELATING TO INCOME TAX CREDITS.

Allows income tax credit for qualified commercial construction projects of four percent for projects costs up to $10 million, and ten per cent for project costs exceeding $10 million over a consecutive five-year period.

RELATING TO TAXATION TO STIMULATE THE ECONOMY.

Provides a tax credit for large-scale construction projects.

Prohibits smoking in restaurants and workplaces except for hotel rooms, nightclubs and certain bars.

Requires tobacco manufacturers to report yearly to DOH on added constituents and nicotine in tobacco products. Requires DOH to investigate public health risks and develop standards to reduce risks associated with exposure to these constituents. Deletes tobacco products from definition of "consumer community."

RELATING TO TOBACCO PRODUCTS.

HLT,

sales that provide for licensing retail tobacco vendors, inspectors and enforcement, adjudication of fines and penalties, training and education for retail merchants and public awareness of the state's statute governing the sale of tobacco to minors.

Requires recipients of state funding that provide information or offer programs regarding sex education to provide medically accurate, factual information, that is age-appropriate and includes education on both abstinence and contraception.

Appropriates $1,563,900 in FY 2003-2004 and $1,563,900 in FY 2004-2005 to fund registered nurses to provide school health services to public schools. Requires creation of permanent nursing positions and DOH to fund them within DOH's budget beginning 7/1/05 without use of separate appropriation.

Denies as grounds to place a child into protective custody, the refusal by a parent or guardian to administer or consent to administer psychiatric drugs to a child in school unless the refusal causes the child to be harmed or be subject to imminent harm.

Requires health insurance coverage for services and hearing aids under Chapter 451A, HRS, relating to hearing aid dealers and fitters.

Amends the definition of "medical care," "medical services" or "medical supplies" in the workers' compensation law to include services provided by occupational therapists and occupational therapy assistants, replaces reference to "masseur" with "licensed massage therapist."

Provides temporary health insurance for unemployed persons who lose their health insurance due to an economic emergency.

Expands the definition of "serious mental illness" to enable individuals afflicted with serious mental illness to access the necessary treatment by continuing the parity reimbursement and treatment requirements for serious mental illness. Adds delusional disorder, bipolar types I and II, major depression, obsessive compulsive disorder and dissociate disorder as serious mental illnesses.

Establishes a professional counselors licensing program effective 7/1/05, subject to the accumulation of a minimum $43,000 in a startup trust fund by 10/1/04. Requires DCCA to report on the fund to the 2004 Legislature.

Allows licensed medical and osteopathic physicians to be certified to practice acupuncture in Hawaii of they have completed certification courses and passed a certification examination required by the board of acupuncture.

Allows the State and counties to designate buildings that shall comply with criteria for hurricane-resistant shelters.

Appropriates $2,000,000 per year for fiscal years 2003-2004 and 2004-2005 from both the general revenues of the State of Hawaii and the interest of the Hawaii Hurricane Relief Fund to increase the number of public shelters by retrofitting public buildings with the installation of hurricane protective measures.

Appropriates funds for department of public safety's drug treatment programs statewide.

Appropriates funds for fiscal biennium 2003-2004 to 2004-2005, to continue the sentencing simulation model project.

Directs the Governor to expand the existing Halawa Correctional Facility to transfer Oahu Community Correctional Center (OCCC) inmates there and to raze and build new facilities on the OCCC property for a drug treatment center.

Establishes a pilot program for alternative incarceration and appropriates funds for puuhonua healing centers.

Provides that the development and management of in-state correctional facilities be subject to the managed competition process. Eliminates requirement for legislative approval for agreements relating to out-of-state correctional facilities to house Hawaii inmates.

Gives current deputy sheriffs of the department of public safety the option of converting from class C to class A members of the ERS. Allows deputy sheriffs to retire without penalty after 25 years of service in that capacity. Provides that all deputy sheriffs hired after 6/30/03 are designated class A members.

RELATING TO CORRECTIONS.

PSM/HSH,JUD,

to women in corrections be substantially equivalent to the range and quality of programs offered to males. Requires office of youth services to develop and implement gender-responsive community-based programs for adjudicated females. Appropriates $.