RELATING TO ETHICS.

Provides for mandatory ethics training for legislators, elected members of the board of education, executive department heads and deputies, and trustees of the office of Hawaiian affairs.

RELATING TO ELECTIONS.

Places responsibility for publishing proposed constitutional amendments in the newspaper in accordance with constitutional requirements with the Legislature rather than with the Office of Elections.

RELATING TO ELECTED OFFICIALS.

Provides for forfeiture of service time benefits as an elected official for all elected officials.

RELATING TO CRIME.

Mandates forfeiture of employment benefits for elected officials convicted of a felony.

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE OFFICE OF THE LEGISLATIVE ANALYST.

Appropriates funds for the office of legislative analyst.

RELATING TO THE GENERAL EXCISE TAX.

Appropriates start-up funding for the office of the legislative analyst.

RELATING TO THE LEGISLATURE.

Repeals the office of the legislative analyst and creates, in its place, the legislative budget office. Appropriates funds.

RELATING TO LEGISLATIVE INFORMATION.

Provides that a reasonable fee may be charged by the legislature for providing "subscription service" to requestors--printed sets of bills, resolutions, committee reports, hearing notices, orders of the day, referral sheets, and other legislative records.

RELATING TO THE LEGISLATIVE JOURNALS.

Transfers the responsibility for the sale and distribution of House and Senate Journals from the lieutenant governor to the legislature.

RELATING TO STANDARDS OF CONDUCT.

Lowers the value of a gift that must be reported by a legislator or government employee, spouse or dependent child of a legislator or government employee from $200 to $100.

RELATING TO PUBLIC ACCESS.

Appropriates funds to the Legislative Reference Bureau to support a public access pilot initiative to encourage students to participate in the legislative process.

RELATING TO PUBLIC ACCESS.

Establishes a pilot project for the use of videoconferencing for legislative hearings. Requires all new state buildings to have videoconferencing capability. Makes state videoconferencing facilities available to nonprofits and community groups for a fee.

RELATING TO THE STATE CAPITOL.

Transfers management of the state capitol, from the basement up to the fifth floor to the joint legislative management committee.

RELATING TO THE LEGISLATURE.

Transfers state capitol tour service from the Office of the Governor to the Legislature; appropriates funds.

RELATING TO COURTS.

Repeals the exemption from jury service for certain individuals. Allows an elected official serving in a legislative capacity to claim an exemption only when the legislative body is in session. Allows a juror to be excused from jury duty for reason of financial hardship.

RELATING TO SCHOOL HEALTH.

Establishes a comprehensive school health system that promotes the healthy development of all students and a comprehensive school health program. Convenes a joint planning committee to coordinate a phased implementation of the program.

RELATING TO EDUCATION.

Requires the course of study for grades 1-6 to include instruction in physical education for not less than 200 minutes every 10 school days. Requires all students in grades 7-12 to attend courses in physical education for not less than 400 minutes every 10 school days.

RELATING TO PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

Establishes a 3-year school nutrition demonstration project to reduce obesity and improve the health of Hawaii's children.

HB 252

RELATING TO DRIVER EDUCATION.

Provides a tax credit for driver education programs.

RELATING TO TAXATION.

Conforms the Hawaii Revised Statutes to two recently enacted federal laws relating to a special first year depreciation allowance and a special deduction for teachers that buy materials for their classroom.

RELATING TO THE MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION.

Authorize the reimbursement of board of education members' mileage expenses while traveling to and from board meetings or while on official business as authorized by the chairperson of the board.

RELATING TO CHARTER SCHOOLS.

Requires the DOE to determine the appropriate allocation for new century charter schools and new century conversion charter schools beginning in FY 2003-2004.

RELATING TO JUVENILES.

Requires petitions filed in any juvenile court proceedings, probation officer reports, and all other documents filed in that case or made available to the probation officer in making a report, or made available to the judge, referee, or other hearing officer to be made available to school officials.

RELATING TO SCHOOL ATTENDANCE.

Establishes the truancy court program within the family court system to handle all truancy cases for the public school system.

RELATING TO SMOKING IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS BY PUBLIC EMPLOYEES.

Prohibits smoking or use of tobacco or tobacco products by public employees in all public schools, school transport, and school-sponsored functions, regardless of location. Excludes smoking in public schools as a negotiable item for all public employees.

RELATING TO SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICES.

Requires all school health rooms to be staffed at all times by qualified health personnel. Requires the DOH to provide school health aides throughout the State with dependable substitutes in order to ensure that all school health rooms are staffed at all times by qualified health personnel.

HB 1114

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.

HB 1165

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RELATING TO BUSINESS REGISTRATION.

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

HB 277

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 FIREWORKS.

Decreases the fireworks permit fee from $25 to $10.

RELATING TO INDIGENT CRIMINAL DEFENDANTS.

Provides when indigent criminal defendants may request counsel, be notified of right to counsel, and what is included in the representation by counsel.

RELATING TO CHAPTER 711, HAWAII REVISED STATUTES.

Redefines the offense of disorderly conduct. Expands scope of violation of privacy to include recording or broadcasting a person's intimate area underneath clothing while in a public place, without that person's consent.

RELATING TO SEXUAL ASSAULT.

Makes permanent the offenses of sexual assault in the 1st degree and sexual assault in the 3rd degree for persons who knowingly engage in sexual penetration with minors at least 14 years old but less than 16 years old, if the offender is not less than 5 years older than and is not married to the minor.

HB 58

RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLES.

Exempts motor vehicle rental companies that periodically ship 10 or more vehicles between the islands or from the State from the requirements for removing and shipping vehicles.

RELATING TO DRIVERS' LICENSES.

Restores language regarding the illegal display or possession of a fictitious or fraudulent driver's license and language regarding use of false or fictitious names in applications for driver's licenses that was mistakenly repealed.

RELATING TO DRIVER LICENSING.

Allows a person who does not have a social security number to obtain a driver's license with adequate proof of legal presence.

RELATING TO ATTORNEY'S FEES FOR APPOINTED COUNSEL.

Increases compensation for court appointed counsel to rate used for federal District Court in Hawaii in 1990.

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 GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES.

Establishes a zero-tolerance policy for the use of controlled substances in government employment. Authorizes mandatory drug testing for new hires. Authorizes random drug testing for active employees.

RELATING TO MEDICAL SAVINGS ACCOUNTS IN THE EMPLOYER-UNION HEALTH BENEFITS TRUST FUND.

Establishes medical care savings accounts in the employer-union health benefits trust fund for health care needs for state and county employees.

RELATING TO WORKERS' COMPENSATION.

Allows employers to establish individual medical trust accounts to cover the health care expenses of employees arising from work-related injuries.

RELATING TO MEDICAL SAVINGS ACCOUNTS.

Authorizes private insurers, mutual benefit societies, and health maintenance organizations to offer high-deductible health insurance policies in conjunction with medical savings accounts in this State.

RELATING TO THE PREVENTION OF WORKPLACE VIOLENCE.

Establishes procedures to prevent workplace violence.

RELATING TO CHILD LABOR.

Amends prohibited occupations and work hour standards, and the penalty for violations of provisions relating to the employment of minors in certain types of establishments.

RELATING TO INCOME TAX.

Allows certain businesses to claim an income tax credit of up to fifteen percent of prepaid health insurance premiums paid for employees and their families.

RELATING TO THE PREPAID HEALTH CARE ADVISORY COUNCIL.

Prohibits the appointment of certain healthcare professionals to the prepaid Health Care Advisory Council.

RELATING TO CHIROPRACTIC.

Clarifies definition of "Chiropractic".

RELATING TO UNEMPLOYMENT.

Creates a program providing additional benefits to unemployed workers by extending their unemployment insurance benefits.

RELATING TO TEMPORARY HEALTH INSURANCE FOR UNEMPLOYED PERSONS.

Provides temporary health insurance for unemployed person who lost their health insurance.

RELATING TO THE EMPLOYMENT SECURITY LAW.

Conforms state statutory provisions to the Temporary Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 2002. Eliminates the fund restriction to UI administrative use only, so that monies can also be used to pay for UI benefits as well as the administration of its system of public employment offices.

RELATING TO NEW ECONOMY WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT.

Allows moneys in the employment and training fund to be used for employers to train their own employees, incentives for employers to train residents in skills in critically short supply, and incentives for employers to train workers recently unemployed or likely to be unemployed.

RELATING TO COLLECTIVE BARGAINING.

Authorizes the Legislature and the city councils to reject individual cost items agreed to during collective bargaining negotiations.

RELATING TO COLLECTIVE BARGAINING IN PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT.

Creates a collective bargaining unit for substitute teachers of the DOE, including part-time employees working less than one-half of a full-time equivalent. Allows the members of bargaining unit (14) to strike. Prohibits bargaining over wages as long as the wages of these employees are established in law.

HB 317

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RELATING TO THE EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM.

Allows a faculty member or administrative, professional, or technical employee of UH with multiple part-time faculty appointments to meet eligibility requirements for membership in the ERS; allows faculty, lecturers, or administrative, professional, or technical staff employed at UH who hold multiple part-time appointments which together aggregate to at least one-half full-time equivalent position to become ERS members.

RELATING TO THE EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM.

Requires ERS to review its investment managers through a formalized request for proposal process conducted every four years.

RELATING TO THE EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM.

Restores the method used to calculate a member's average final compensation.

RELATING TO PENSION AND RETIREMENT SYSTEMS.

Requires spousal or reciprocal beneficiary consent to any retirement benefit option selected by a member. Designates option as the retirement benefit option when a spouse or reciprocal beneficiary refuses to consent to a member's election of a benefit option, but entitles the spouse or reciprocal beneficiary to an annuity of % of the allowance received by the member before death.

RELATING TO THE EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM.

Minimizes the administrative processing of refunding contributions for the employees excluded from Social Security.

RELATING TO THE EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM.

Requires the ERS to pay interest on the retroactive amount due retirees whose pensions are not finalized within six calendar months following the month of retirement. Authorizes the ERS to assess the employing agency a late fee for each month of delay in reporting unused sick leave balances, lump sum vacation payments and other pertinent information (e.g., breakdown of retroactive payments) needed to finalize a retiree's pension.

RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYEES.

Provides that a public employee who has been convicted of a felony that took place within the course and scope of the employee's duties must forfeit the employee's benefits starting from the date of the act constituting the felony of which the employee was convicted.

RELATING TO CONFLICTS OF INTERESTS.

Prohibits a public employee from taking official action directly affecting a brother, sister, parent, emancipated child, or household member.

HB 507

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RELATING TO EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIANS.

Allows a licensed emergency medical technician to receive a state retirement pension after twenty-five years of service.

RELATING TO THE EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM.

Allows contributory members of the ERS to withdraw, on a one-time basis, part or all of the member's contributions under certain conditions of economic hardship.

RELATING TO THE EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM.

Allows contributory members of the ERS to withdraw, for one time only, part or all of the member's contributions under certain conditions of economic hardship.

RELATING TO DEATH BENEFITS OF SURVIVING CHILDREN OF PUBLIC EMPLOYEES.

Allows surviving dependent children to receive ERS death benefits after age 18 while a full-time student or until reaching age 24, whichever occurs first, there is no surviving spouse of employee who qualified for but had not yet retired.

RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYEES.

Establishes a deferred option retirement plan for firefighters.

RELATING TO LEAVES OF ABSENCE.

Reenacts leaves of absence law relating to the pay of officers and employees on active military service and nonforfeiture for absence.

RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYEES.

Sets forth leave of absence provisions for permanent full-time employees of the State or one of its political subdivisions who are exempt from chapters 76 and 89, but are not considered to be an "excluded employee" as defined in section 89C-1.5.

RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYEES.

Requires the proposed adjustments to compensation and benefit packages for excluded civil service employees to be at least equivalent to the adjustments provided within the employer's jurisdiction.

RELATING TO PROCUREMENT.

Establishes reverse auction and electronic bidding method as alternative methods for bidding on public procurement contracts.

RELATING TO THE OBSTRUCTION OF AN INGRESS OR EGRESS.

Provides for penalties for the obstruction of an ingress or egress.

RELATING TO UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS.

Reduces the offset amount of an individual's weekly unemployment benefits.

RELATING TO CRIMINAL LAW.

Establishes penalties for employees of procurement organizations who fail to perform their statutory duties.

HB 21

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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.

HB 319

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RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII.

Removes the statutory limitation preventing the University of Hawaii from implementing an optional retirement plan and clarifies that part-time and temporary University of Hawaii employees are not eligible for membership in the University's optional retirement plan.

HB 322

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RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII.

Establishes a University of Hawaii retirement system, to be administered by the board of regents, for permanent employees of UH or the community college system who are excluded from bargaining unit 7 pursuant to chapter 89.

HB 1303

RELATING TO THE OFFICE OF HAWAIIAN AFFAIRS.

Specifies that OHA is to be included with other state agencies as an agency required to reimburse the State for contributions to the employer-union health benefits trust fund.

RELATING TO PESTICIDES.

Establishes integrated pest management policies to prohibit the use of toxicity category I pesticides.

RELATING TO BROWN TREE SNAKES.

Allows the Department of Agriculture to bring 4 live, sterile brown tree snakes into the State for the purposes of research and training of snake detector dogs.

RELATING TO INVASIVE SPECIES.

Provides a two-year ban on all plants shipped into the State that may contain the Coqui frog or fire ants.

Decision making to follow.

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE CONTROL OF INVASIVE SPECIES.

Appropriates funds to control invasive species, including fireweed.

HB 158

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RELATING TO THE CONTROL OF AXIS DEER IN MAUI COUNTY.

Appropriates funds to develop a master plan to control the Axis Deer population on the islands of Maui, Molokai, and Lanai.

HB 161

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MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE OF THE EAST KAUAI IRRIGATION SYSTEM.

Appropriates funds for operation and maintenance of the East Kauai Irrigation System to be expended by the Agribusiness Development Corporation.

RELATING TO IRRIGATION SYSTEMS.

Appropriates funds for agricultural irrigation projects statewide.

RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL PROJECTS.

Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds and appropriates funds to acquire land to expand the Kahuku agricultural park, establish an agricultural dual line water system in upcountry Kula, and fund capital improvement to the Molokai irrigation system.

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR TARO RESEARCH.

Appropriates an unspecified amount for research on taro disease and related problems.

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT.

Appropriates $2,500,000 for fiscal year 2004 and $2,500,000 for fiscal year 2005 for the Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation to fund agricultural research and market development.

RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL LOANS.

Amends the agricultural loan law to establish a new class of loan for the growing of crops for use as animal feed. Appropriates funds.

RELATING TO AGRICULTURE.

Extends the authorization to issue SPRBs on behalf of Hawaii Gold Cacao Tree, Inc., from 6/30/03 to 6/30/05.

RELATING TO THE ISSUANCE OF SPECIAL PURPOSE REVENUE BONDS TO ASSIST PROCESSING ENTERPRISES.

Facilitates the processing of cacao beans from Keaau, the maintenance of fields, and construction of required facilities for the growth, harvest, and processing of cacao beans and the sale and export of cocoa products through an on-site visitor center. Issues special purpose revenue bonds for this purpose.

RELATING TO THE AGRIBUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION.

Makes permanent the current composition of the Agribusiness Development Corporation Board.

RELATING TO ORGANIC LABELING.

Prohibits the labeling of agricultural products as "organic" unless the method of production has been so certified. Requires certifying agents to register and be accredited by the USDA. Establishes administrative penalties.

RELATING TO ANIMAL QUARANTINE.

Establishes procedures and requirements for the entry of dogs, cats, and other carnivores into the State without the need for quarantine.

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR PINEAPPLE RESEARCH.

Appropriates funds for pineapple research.

RELATING TO AGRICULTURE.

Appropriates funds to plan a terminal market pilot program on the Big Island. Appropriates funds to hire a consultant to assist in planning terminal markets. Appropriates funds for construction and equipment for a terminal market and vacuum cooling plant on the Big Island. Authorizes general obligation bonds to finance capital projects.

RELATING TO AGRICULTURE.

Creates an agricultural zone program.

PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE X, SECTION 2, OF THE HAWAII CONSTITUTION, TO ALLOW THE STUDENT MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION TO VOTE.

Proposes an amendment to the state constitution to allow the student member of the board of education to vote, except on issues pertaining to personnel or fiscal matters.

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR SCHOOL SECURITY GUARDS.

Appropriates funds for a mandatory basic training program for secondary school security guards.

RELATING TO DRIVERS EDUCATION.

Appropriates funds to provide teachers and instructors to teach driver and traffic safety education for credit, subsidize the cost of private drivers education instruction for students who qualify for free or reduced priced meals, and provide certain high schools with certified drivers education instructors.

RELATING TO AFTER-SCHOOL PROGRAMS.

Appropriates funds for an after-school program at Keaau Middle School.

RELATING TO EDUCATION.

Appropriates funds for clerical positions to assist public school teachers; designates one clerical staff person per grade level in elementary schools and one per department in intermediate and high schools; requires department to allocate temporary positions according to teacher need.

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR ISPED CLERK TYPISTS.

Appropriates funds to allow the department of education to pay for three hundred thirteen positions of ISPED clerk typists.

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.

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE BLUEPRINT FOR CHANGE PROJECT.

Appropriates funds for DHS's Blue Print for Change program to fund diversion services and child protective services.

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR FOSTER CHILDREN.

Appropriates funds to increase capacity to provide services for children residing in foster or group homes with social and behavioral needs and who are not eligible for department of health foster homes.

RELATING TO CHILDREN AND YOUTH.

Allocates moneys from Tobacco Settlement Special Fund to Office of Youth Services, DOE, and counties to establish dedicated source of funding for nonschool-hour youth programs. Appropriates funds.

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE PRESCHOOL OPEN DOORS PROGRAM.

Appropriates funds for the Preschool Open Doors program.

RELATING TO THE HAWAII CHILDREN'S TRUST FUND.

Appropriates funds for the Hawaii Children's Trust Fund.

RELATING TO CHILD WELFARE SERVICES.

Establishes a child welfare services reform coordinating committee, including committee members and required submission of an annual progress report to the legislature.

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR EARLY INTERVENTION SERVICES.

Appropriates funds for early intervention programs and services for infants and children from birth to three years of age with developmental delays.

RELATING TO CHILD ABUSE.

Requires mandatory physical and medical forensic examinations of children placed in protective custody pursuant to chapter 350, Hawaii Revised Statutes; appropriates funds for forensic exams.

RELATING TO HEALTH CARE.

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

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS SERVING THE MEDICALLY UNDERSERVED.

Appropriates $ in FY 2003-2004, and $ in FY 2004-2005 to Hawaii's system of nonprofit, community-based health care providers specializing in preventive care for the medically underserved.

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR SEXUAL ASSAULT SERVICES.

Makes appropriation to Department of Health for sexual assault services.

The purpose of this informational briefing is to discuss the impact a potential war would have on the State's energy needs. Representatives of the petroleum industry will be present to discuss this issue.

RELATING TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF MEDICAL FACILITIES.

Fast-tracks the development of the Pacific Health Community project, on lands identified on tax map key 9-4-6:01, by exempting the project from state and county approval processes and extending the authorization to issue special purpose revenue bonds for the project.

RELATED TO THE STATE HEALTH PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT AGENCY.

Exempts a master planned health care center and retirement community from the certificate of need process.

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO STUDY THE FEASIBILITY OF ESTABLISHING A TECHNOLOGY-FOCUSED, COMMUNITY-BASED CENTER IN WAIALUA TOWN.

Appropriates funds to study the feasibility of establishing a technology-focused, community-based center in Waialua, assess community needs, and develop and implement a plan, including the purchase of computer and telecommunications equipment necessary for center operations.

RELATING TO ENTERPRISE ZONE.

Designates the entire island of Oahu as an enterprise zone for two years from 07/01/2003 to 06/30/2005.

MAKING A MATCHING FUNDS APPROPRIATION TO SUPPORT A PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP TO MARKET AND PROMOTE INCENTIVES PROVIDED BY ACT 221, SESSION LAWS OF HAWAII 2001, FOR INVESTORS TO INVEST IN HIGH TECHNOLOGY IN HAWAII.

Creates public-private partnership to market and promote incentives provided by Act 221, SLH 2001, to invest in high technology businesses and opportunities in Hawaii.

RELATING TO ENTERPRISE ZONES.

Grants qualified business status under enterprise zone law to any lawful business that creates job opportunities within the boundaries of the Kalaeloa community development district, provided that the business is not located on lands retained by the U.S. Navy.

RELATING TO THE CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER.

Establishes a chief technology officer within the office of the governor.

RELATING TO ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURE.

Requires that every rule conforms to its related statute; provides for the automatic repeal of administrative rules on the repeal of the underlying statute or ordinance; requires the small business regulatory review board to analyze regulatory programs and provide recommendations to the legislature by June 30, 2006.

RELATING TO PROCUREMENT.

Authorizes state purchasing agencies to use design-build proposals. Requires agencies to pay 1% of project cost up to $1,000,000 for each unsuccessful proposal for design-build proposals with construction estimates greater than $5,000,000.

RELATING TO DRIVER LICENSING.

Amends the drivers' license application process for foreign students without social security numbers by requiring the submission of proof of legal presence in the United States.

RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLES.

Permits motor vehicle backup warning beepers to be disabled between 10:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. if the vehicle is equipped with a rear view camera system.

RELATING TO STATEWIDE TRAFFIC CODE.

Changes the penalty for driving a moped without a license to be consistent with the penalty for driving a motor vehicle without a license.

RELATING TO CHAPTER 291E.

Establishes offense of habitually operating a vehicle while under influence of an intoxicant. Adds certain offenses committed as a minor as "prior" offenses.

RELATING TO PERSONAL TRANSPORTATION.

Amends the statewide traffic code to define and regulate the operation of electric personal assistive mobility devices.

RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION.

Requires force majeure terms in contracts with airport concessions contracts as a mechanism to provide relief for airport concessionaires in the wake of catastrophic events.

RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION.

Provides relief beyond 4/30/02, for airport concessions. Establishes a passenger facility charge to finance costs related to implementing new security measures at state airports.

RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION.

Establishes a passenger facility charge to finance costs related to implementing capital improvement program projects at state airports.

RELATING TO AIRLINES.

Provides a tax credit for landing fees for airlines that have Honolulu-based fleets.

RELATING TO HIGHWAYS.

Requires director of transportation to install underground utilities in all new highway construction; makes appropriation.

RELATING TO RECONSTRUCTED VEHICLES.

Specifies that applicability of reconstructed vehicles law is limited to counties with a population of under 500,000 that have adopted or will adopt county ordinances regulating the inspection and certification of reconstructed vehicles.

RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION.

Authorizes the Department of Transportation to collect passenger facility charges revenue. Creates a passenger facility charge special fund.

RELATING TO COMMERCIAL DRIVER LICENSING.

Deletes the requirement that commercial driver's licenses include the licensee's social security number on the license.

RELATING TO DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION'S MARITIME RELATED USES.

Expands the types of public land leases that can be issued through negotiation to include disposition of public lands for maritime-related users and uses.

RELATING TO THE LEASING OF SUBMERGED LAND.

Allows the director of transportation, with approval from the Governor, to lease submerged lands and lands beneath tidal waters under the custody of the Department of Transportation for marine activities.

RELATING TO LAND USE.

Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds for the purchase of land know as Wai Kele O Puna for possible future geothermal development.

RELATING TO PENALTIES FOR VIOLATIONS WITHIN THE CONSERVATION DISTRICT.

Clarifies that the Board of Land and Natural Resources may impose a fine for each violation within a conservation district in addition to costs associated with land and/or habitat restoration.

RELATING TO THE USE OF HERBICIDES IN PUBLIC PARKS.

Requires all State agencies to discontinue use of herbicides and to maintain public parks with non-chemical means.

RELATING TO CONDOMINIUM AND COOPERATIVE HOUSING CORPORATION LEASE-TO-FEE CONVERSION.

Establishes a fair market value standard for determining the value of the leased fee interest for condos and co-op housing corporations that must be used (1) for leases executed after the effective date of the Act and (20 for pre-existing leases that do not specify any appraisal standard.

RELATING TO FIREARMS.

Clarifies lawful possession of a rifle or shotgun for hunting or target shooting is limited to instances of lawful hunting or lawful target shooting.

RELATING TO RESIDENTIAL LEASEHOLD.

Reduces the qualifying size lots under the land reform act to 1 acre or less and requires that the lot be zoned residential.

RELATING TO THE COUNTIES' EMINENT DOMAIN POWERS.

Requires county governing authorities to make specific findings demonstrating that the exercise of the power of eminent domain is for a public purpose.

RELATING TO THE COUNTIES' EMINENT DOMAIN POWERS.

Allows the counties to exercise their powers of eminent domain for public purposes permitted under the urban renewal law.

RELATING TO PUBLIC LANDS.

Authorizes the Department of Land and Natural Resources to issue new leases to existing lessees for specific parcels on Kauai.

(Deferred from January 29, 2003)

RELATING TO MULLET FISHING.

Prohibits net fishing in Kaneohe Bay during mullet breeding season.

RELATING TO NONCOMMERCIAL PIERS.

Authorizes the BLNR to lease by direct negotiation and without recourse to public auction, State submerged lands for private nonresidential noncommercial piers.

RELATING TO LANDOWNERS' LIABILITY.

Extends limited liability to the counties for making public lands available to the public for recreational purposes.

RELATING TO LANDOWNERS' LIABILITY.

Limits county landowner liability toward persons entering county land for recreational purposes.

RELATING TO PUBLIC LAND LIABILITY.

Establishes a process in which the State and counties are provided protection from liability faced with regard to recreational activities on improved and unimproved public lands.

RELATING TO THE CONVEYANCE TAX.

Provides an exemption from the conveyance tax for disregarded entities.

RELATING TO LAND USE.

Short form bill.

RELATING TO HAWAIIAN AFFAIRS.

Short form bill.