AGR - Agriculture

HSH - Human Services and Housing

CPC - Consumer Protection and Commerce

INT - International Affairs

EDB - Economic Development and

JUD - Judiciary

Business Concerns

LAB - Labor and Public Employment

EDN - Education

LMG - Legislative Management

EEP - Energy and Environmental Protection

PSM - Public Safety and Military Affairs

FIN - Finance

TAC - Tourism and Culture

HED - Higher Education

TRN - Transportation

HLT - Health

WLH - Water, Land Use & Hawaiian Affairs

HOUSE BILLS

Committee

H.B. NO.

1743

RELATING TO LIGHT POLLUTION.

Prohibits residential properties within the coastal areas of the conservation district from shining lights onto the ocean.

EEP/WLH, JUD

1796

RELATING TO PRIVACY.

Amends definition of "record" to include digital recordings for purposes of privacy violations; includes use of any device for recordings that constitute privacy violations.

JUD

1797

RELATING TO OPTOMETRY.

Allows therapeutically certified optometrists to prescribe and use, under certain restrictions, pharmaceuticals approved by the optometry board; continues to prohibit the use of controlled substances.

HLT, CPC

1798

RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII.

Appropriates funding to the college of tropical agriculture and human resources at the University of Hawaii for various programs.

HED, FIN

1799

RELATING TO PUBLIC SCHOOL NUTRITION.

Requires food and drink items in public school vending machines to comply with the nutritional standards established by the board of education and provides minimum standards for food and drink items sold in vending machines.

HLT, EDN

1800

RELATING TO THE STATE BUDGET.

Supplemental Operating Budget.

FIN

1801

AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS AND MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE SECOND REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT.

Issues general obligation bonds and makes an appropriation for CIP projects in the 2nd Representative District.

FIN

1802

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR PAHOA HIGH AND INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL GYM.

Appropriation for Pahoa school gymnasium.

FIN

1803

RELATING TO TRAFFIC.

Prohibits driving in the left-hand lane of a freeway or highway unless an enumerated condition exists.

TRN, JUD

1804

RELATING TO THE COLLECTION OF DEOXYRIBONUCLEIC ACID FOR THE DNA REGISTRY.

Expands scope of DNA registration law to mandate collection of DNA samples from all convicted felons. Allows DNA samples to be collected by buccal swabs.

JUD

1805

RELATING TO THE STATE PLAN.

Clarifies the policy of the State to actively encourage the maintenance and expansion of federal investment in military facilities in the State.

PSM, WLH, FIN

1806

RELATING TO MILITARY INSTALLATIONS.

Requires notification to the commanding officer of the military installation of: (1) zoning changes and (2) district boundary amendments for land within 3,000 feet of a military installation.

PSM, WLH, JUD, FIN

1807

RELATING TO THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT LAW.

Requires an environmental assessment for any actions that propose any county general plan amendment or state land use commission petition to classify lands within 3,000 feet of any military installation.

PSM, WLH, FIN

1808

RELATING TO UNCLAIMED PROPERTY.

Exempts member owned utility consumer cooperatives from unclaimed property law.

CPC, FIN

1809

RELATING TO CHILDREN.

Severs immunity protections for violation of the child protective act.

HSH, JUD

1810

RELATING TO FAMILIES.

Permits families subject to child protective act proceedings to use an independent advocate to assist them in dealing with the State and with the family court without fear of retaliation. Requires State and family court to permit advocate to assist family that seeks independent advocate's assistance.

HSH, JUD, FIN

1811

RELATING TO CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES.

Requires establishment of CPS proceedings database. Defines "abuse". Requires criminal history record checks for people who report child abuse. Requires law enforcement authority to conduct initial investigation. Requires police to consult with CPS worker before assuming custody. Requires probable cause to believe child subject to imminent harm.

HSH, JUD, FIN

1812

RELATING TO SOCIAL WORKERS CODE OF ETHICS.

Creates code of ethics for child protective services social caseworkers, adopted from the National Association of Social Workers Code of Ethics.

HSH, JUD

1813

RELATING TO FAMILY COURT.

Requires guardians ad litem to undergo background check and drug testing; requires the judiciary to establish a system to monitor and evaluate the performance of guardians ad litem to ensure accountability; requires the auditor to perform a management and performance audit of the judiciary's guardian ad litem program.

HSH, JUD, FIN

1814

RELATING TO MEDICAID REIMBURSEMENT.

Delays to 07/01/2008 removal of distinction between hospital- and nonhospital-based reimbursement rates for institutionalized long-term care under medicaid. Makes permanent definition of "critical access hospital", payment methodology, and exemption from medicaid reimbursement equity.

HLT/HSH, FIN

1815

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR A SECURE, SIX HUNDRED TO SEVEN HUNDRED BED SUBSTANCE ABUSE TREATMENT FACILITY TO BE RUN BY THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY.

Appropriates funds from the Hurricane Relief Fund for a 600-700 secure bed facility for convicted drug offenders. Requires that the facility be run by the department of public safety and provide clinical and psychiatric substance abuse treatment, education, job development, job-training, and associated services for participants who are convicted drug offenders or on probation for a drug offense.

PSM, FIN

1816

RELATING TO WORKERS' COMPENSATION.

Requires the director of labor and industrial relations to establish a program that authorizes a private third-party workers' compensation drug card system that allows injured workers to receive prescription drugs promptly at no cost; program administrator to be selected pursuant to chapter 103D.

LAB, CPC, FIN

1817

RELATING TO CONDOMINIUMS.

Repeals condominium property regimes law; recodifies condominium law; makes conforming amendments to existing HRS sections.

CPC/JUD

1818

RELATING TO THE LANDLORD TENANT CODE.

Amends definition of "tenant" to include guests. Prohibits tenants from possessing, manufacturing, selling, or distributing dangerous or harmful drugs or drug paraphernalia. Authorizes landlord to rely upon notice or reports issued by law enforcement in termination proceedings.

CPC/JUD

1819

RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLE INSURANCE.

Requires certain military-related member owned reciprocal insurers and their wholly owned insurer subsidiaries in the motor vehicle insurance business to provide a complete sales and claims service office in the State but removes that duty from the commissioner's licensing oversight.

CPC

1820

RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLE INSURANCE.

Shortens from 30 days to 15 days both the length of time that a motor vehicle insurer must continue coverage after the insurer cancels a motor vehicle insurance policy and the notice period that the insurer must provide an insured before the insurer may cancel the policy. Specifies that cancellations are for nonpayments of premiums.

CPC

1821

RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLE INSURANCE.

Authorizes motor vehicle insurers to cancel or not renew any motor vehicle insurance policy that has been in effect for 60 days or less.

CPC

1822

RELATING TO INSURANCE.

Reduces reimbursement amount for grants for wind resistive devices to 35% of costs. Deletes reimbursements for inspections under the loss mitigation grant program. Appropriates $1,000,000 for the program.

EEP, FIN

1823

RELATING TO THE BUSINESS CORPORATION ACT.

Provides for up to four groups of directors, each group with different staggered terms.

CPC

1824

RELATING TO ELECTRICIANS AND PLUMBERS.

Requires all licensed plumbers to attend continuing education courses related to updates of the Uniform Plumbing Code.

CPC

1825

RELATING TO CONSUMERS.

Implements short form bill relating to consumers.

CPC

1826

RELATING TO CONSUMERS.

Implements short form bill relating to consumers.

CPC

1827

RELATING TO CONSUMERS.

Implements short form bill relating to consumers.

CPC

1828

RELATING TO PUBLIC ORDER.

Prohibits urinating and defecating in public places.

JUD

1829

RELATING TO THE MOLOKAI IRRIGATION SYSTEM.

Amends an existing appropriation of capital improvement funds to provide for improvements to the Molokai Irrigation System.

AGR/WLH, FIN

1830

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE CONTROL OF INVASIVE SPECIES.

Appropriates funds for the control of invasive species.

EEP/AGR, FIN

1831

RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL USE OF WATER.

Clarifies state water code policy to ensure an adequate supply of water for agricultural use.

AGR/WLH

1832

RELATING TO CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES.

Requires that the child protective review panel review proceedings taken prior to the issuance of a court order upon the request of the child's family who believe that the child was wrongfully removed from the family home.

HSH, JUD

1833

RELATING TO STUDENT HEALTH.

Requires the DOE to permit the self-administration of medication by a student for asthma or other potentially life-threatening illnesses. Allows a student who is permitted to self-administer medication to carry an inhaler at all times if the student does not endanger the student's person or other persons.

HLT, EDN

1834

RELATING TO COMMERCIAL ELECTRONIC MAIL.

Establishes that unpermitted or misleading electronic mail is prohibited and constitutes an unfair trade practice; provides for damages; establishes immunity from liability for interactive computer services.

CPC

1835

RELATING TO FAMILY COURTS.

Requires a minor adjudicated of actions that would constitute selling or distributing drugs to choose imprisonment or drug counseling in the company of the minor's parents or guardians.

JUD, FIN

1836

RELATING TO HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS.

Prohibits health care professionals from attempting to collect from the uninsured or medically needy patient more than the cost of providing services.

HSH, CPC

1837

RELATING TO INSURANCE.

Makes it an unfair practice to impose waiting periods of over a month under dental insurance policies.

CPC

1838

RELATING TO GEOGRAPHIC EXCEPTIONS.

Requires the DOE to give 2nd priority in the granting of geographic exceptions to students who physically reside in the geographic attendance area of new century conversion charter schools. Gives public school choice, including the unsafe school choice option, the 1st priority in accordance with NCLB.

EDN, FIN

1839

RELATING TO PAIN PATIENT'S BILL OF RIGHTS.

Gives rights to pain patients. Authorizes doctors to prescribe medically necessary dose of controlled substance to treat intractable pain. Protects doctor from disciplinary action. Allows refusal to so prescribe but requires informing patient of other doctors who use opiates to treat chronic intractable pain.

HLT, CPC/JUD

1840

RELATING TO AIR POLLUTION CONTROL.

Authorizes the Director of Health to regulate the discharge of fugitive dust both within and beyond a property lot line.

EEP

1841

RELATING TO WATER QUALITY.

Requires applicants for a special management area permit for a major development to have a water quality monitoring program similar to monitoring protocol guidelines developed by West Hawaii Coastal Monitoring Task Force.

EDB, WLH/EEP, FIN

1842

RELATING TO CHRONIC INTRACTABLE PAIN TREATMENT.

Allows licensed physicians to prescribe controlled substances to treat chronic intractable pain, and prohibits board of medical examiners from taking disciplinary action against physician for such action.

HLT, CPC

1843

RELATING TO NEGLIGENT HOMICIDE.

Amends definition of negligent homicide in the second degree to include death caused by driving more than thirty miles per hour over the speed limit.

TRN, JUD

1844

RELATING TO DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF AN INTOXICANT.

Allows forfeiture of motor vehicle if driver's alcohol level is .20 or greater.

TRN, JUD

1845

RELATING TO TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT.

Authorizes forfeiture of motor vehicle if operated 30 miles per hour or more in excess of speed; provided that court may not order forfeiture if vehicle was stolen.

TRN, JUD

1846

RELATING TO WAIKIKI RESORT FACILITY TAX CREDIT.

Provides a tax credit for new resort facilities in Waikiki and renovations to existing resort facilities to correct a county building code violation that was previously waived by the county.

TAC, FIN

1847

RELATING TO WAIKIKI SPECIAL DISTRICT TAX CREDIT.

Provides a tax credit for resort facilities in Waikiki that comply with the provisions of the Waikiki Special District.

TAC, FIN

1848

RELATING TO EXCEPTIONAL TREES.

Establishes a tax deduction for exceptional trees.

EEP, FIN

1849

RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII BOARD OF REGENTS.

Expands membership of University of Hawaii Board of Regents to 30. Requires some members to be appointed by the governor and others by the University of Hawaii Foundation. Requires a portion of the board membership to consist of nonresidents.

HED, JUD, FIN

1850

PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE X, SECTION 6, OF THE HAWAII CONSTITUTION, TO AUTHORIZE THE LEGISLATURE TO MODIFY THE APPOINTMENT PROCESS OF MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII.

Amends state constitution to authorize the legislature to split the appointment of members of the board of regents of the University of Hawaii between the governor and the University of Hawaii Foundation board.

HED, JUD, FIN

1851

RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII.

Creates a separate budget preparation and submission process for the University of Hawaii. Recognizes the University of Hawaii as a state agency apart from the executive branch. Removes University of Hawaii employees from the state civil service system.

HED, LAB, FIN

1852

RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE THIRTY-THIRD, THIRTY-FOURTH, AND THIRTY-SIXTH REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICTS.

Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects for the benefit of the 33rd, 34th, and 36th representative districts.

FIN

1853

RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII.

Appropriates CIP funds to construct a multi-purpose building at the Urban Garden Center.

HED, FIN

1854

RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII.

Appropriates $750,000 for the UH School of Social Work to establish a distance-learning master of social work program.

HED, FIN

1855

RELATING TO UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII.

Establishes the office of public policy coordination and support to provide support for various existing policy centers of the University of Hawaii. Makes an appropriation to establish the office and to support specific policy center activities.

HED, FIN

1856

RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII.

Appropriates funds for the University of Hawaii Student Caucus.

HED, FIN

1857

RELATING TO THE EDUCATION OF FOSTER YOUTH.

Changes eligibility requirements to receive higher education board allowances for foster children attending college from a maximum age requirement (less than age 22) to a maximum time period (5½ years). Prohibits the use of federal funds to pay for the allowance if the former foster child is 21 years old or older.

HSH/HED, FIN

1858

RELATING TO CHILD ABUSE AND PROTECTION.

Requires the department of human services to implement a program to conform to the federal Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act to provide drug affected newborns and their families with referral services, safe care, and triage procedures; requires DHS to seek federal grants; allows DHS to adopt necessary rules to obtain federal grants.

HSH, FIN

1859

RELATING TO CHILD ABUSE.

Requires members of the clergy to report cases of child abuse to the police or the department of human services; exempts confidential clergy communications.

HSH, JUD

1860

RELATING TO CHILD ABUSE AND NEGLECT.

Authorizes an income tax return check-off with funds going into the Hawaii children's trust fund, domestic violence prevention special fund, and spouse and child abuse special accounts.

HSH, FIN

1861

RELATING TO CHILD ENDANGERMENT.

Establishes the offense of endangering the welfare of a child in a motor vehicle.

HSH, JUD

1862

RELATING TO CHILD SUPPORT ENFORCEMENT.

Allows filing civil action in court to require child support enforcement agency to enforce support orders and comply with state and federal laws regarding disbursement and notification regarding child support accounts. Pays reasonable attorney's fees and litigation costs if successful.

JUD

1863

RELATING TO FAMILIES.

Expands jurisdiction of family court. Requires use of ohana conferences. Encourages use of voluntary service plans. Protects parents' rights. Requires necessary services to be provided to children placed in permanent custody of department of human services. Appropriates funds.

HSH, JUD, FIN

1864

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE EARLY INTERVENTION SECTION.

Appropriates funds for early intervention services for infants and toddlers from birth to three years of age with special needs.

HSH, FIN

1865

RELATING TO THE RESTORATION OF FULL FUNDING FOR HEALTHY HAWAII INITIATIVE FROM THE TOBACCO SETTLEMENT FUNDS AND APPROPRIATING FUNDS FOR HEALTHY START HAWAII.

Restores full funding for the healthy Hawaii initiative for FY2004-2005 from the tobacco settlement fund. Authorizes the appropriation of funds for healthy start Hawaii from general funds.

HLT, FIN

1866

RELATING TO HEALTH.

Increases eligibility for the State Children's Health Insurance Program to 300% of the federal poverty level. Appropriates funds.

HLT, FIN

1867

RELATING TO HEALTH.

Reinstates original allocation of funds to twenty five per cent to Hawaii tobacco prevention and control trust fund and reduces University of Hawaii allocation to 15 1/2%.

HLT, FIN

1868

RELATING TO CAREGIVER CONSENT.

Authorizes a minor's caregiver to consent to health care services for the minor. Establishes requirements for caregiver consent affidavit.

HSH/HLT, JUD

1869

RELATING TO HEALTH INSURANCE.

Provides for parity of insurance payments for mental health and substance abuse benefits as for treatment of physical conditions.

CPC/HLT, FIN

1870

RELATING TO SUBSTANCE ABUSE.

Appropriates funds to the department of health to fund evidence-based substance abuse prevention programs.

HLT, FIN

1871

RELATING TO SUBSTANCE ABUSE.

Identifies presently funded high school and middle/intermediate school programs for substance prevention and treatment services. Appropriates funds for high schools, middle/intermediate, and elementary schools still in need of such programs.

EDN, HLT, FIN

1872

RELATING TO SUBSTANCE ABUSE TREATMENT.

Appropriates funds to the alcohol and drug abuse division of DOH to expand their funding base to ensure that parents with children under the age of nineteen are allowed the option to participate in residential substance abuse treatment.

HLT, FIN

1873

RELATING TO MEDICAL RECORDS.

Allows all licensed health care providers to share medical information with other licensed health care providers of children under the child protective services system.

HLT/HSH, CPC

1874

RELATING TO THE HAWAII TOBACCO SETTLEMENT SPECIAL FUND.

Exempts the Hawaii tobacco settlement special fund from the assessment of central services and administrative expenses.

HLT, FIN

1875

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR TEXTBOOKS FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

Appropriates $1,800,000 for the DOE to purchase more new and recently published textbooks in order to update the textbooks periodically and to provide a sufficient number of textbooks for every student enrolled in the public schools.

EDN, FIN

1876

RELATING TO STUDENT TRANSPORTATION.

Establishes the special school pass program in the Department of Education. Appropriates funding to provide activity transportation services and special school passes for public school students to attend non-school hour programs.

EDN, FIN

1877

RELATING TO THE USE OF SAFETY HELMETS BY MINORS.

Mandates safety helmet use for motorcycle, motor scooter, and moped operators and bicycle riders under the age of 18 years.

TRN, JUD

1878

RELATING TO CRIB SAFETY.

Establishes a used crib safety program for children under the age of three; establishes standards; provides penalties and remedies.

HLT, CPC/JUD

1879

RELATING TO FIREARMS.

Prohibits sale of ammunition unless purchaser shows registration for the firearm for which the ammunition is to be purchased.

PSM, JUD

1880

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR FULL-TIME STUDENT ACTIVITIES COORDINATORS.

Appropriates funds for full-time student activities coordinators in all public high schools.

EDN, FIN

1881

RELATING TO MINIMUM WAGES.

Provides for an annual adjustment to the state minimum wage based upon federal cost of living allowance increases, beginning January 1, 2005.

LAB, FIN

1882

RELATING TO SCHOOL PERSONNEL.

Appropriates funding to hire additional career counselors for each department of education high school, based on school enrollment.

EDN, FIN

1883

RELATING TO SMOKING IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS BY PUBLIC EMPLOYEES.

Prohibits smoking by public employees in public schools, on school transport, and at school-sponsored functions anywhere, except if at school function in an enclosed room not located on school premises and no student is present. Excludes smoking in public schools as a negotiable item for all public employees.

HLT/LAB, EDN, FIN

1884

RELATING TO EMERGENCY SERVICES.

Appropriates $200,000 to DOH for a 24-hour Hawaii poison hotline.

HLT, FIN

1885

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR A YOUTH SUMMIT.

Appropriates funds for a youth summit to address ideas and concerns of interest to Hawaii's youth.

HSH, FIN

1886

RELATING TO YOUTH INVOLVEMENT.

Establishes the last week and the last Thursday in March as Youth Involvement Recognition Week and Day to honor youth development programs and the youth who participate in and contribute to the success of such programs.

HSH/LMG, EDN

1887

RELATING TO CHILDREN AND YOUTH.

Appropriates $12 million to nonschool-hour programs for children or youth enrolled in school.

EDN, FIN

1888

RELATING TO PHYSICAL EDUCATION.

Directs the UH college of education, department of kinesiology and leisure science, to review the physical education programs in Hawaii's public schools to determine what needs to be improved in order to ensure that all children in grades kindergarten through twelve have meaningful physical education programs.

HED/EDN, FIN

1889

RELATING TO PHYSICAL EDUCATION.

Appropriates funds to provide full-time physical education positions in the DOE.

EDN, FIN

1890

RELATING TO PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

Requires food and drink items in public school vending machines to comply with the nutritional standards established by the board of education and provides minimum standards for food and drink items sold in vending machines.

EDN

1891

RELATING TO EDUCATION.

Establishes nutrition standards for food and beverages sold to students in public and private elementary, middle, and intermediate schools; establishes school nutrition advisory council.

EDN, FIN

1892

RELATING TO EDUCATION.

Prohibits exclusion from athletics and any educational or recreational program or activity based on sexual orientation.

EDN, JUD

1893

RELATING TO EDUCATION.

Creates a trust fund to fund scholarships as a requirement of the State's participation in the federal Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Program.

HED/EDN, FIN

1894

RELATING TO STUDENT HEALTH.

Establishes a school-based student health services program that promotes a comprehensive approach to healthy development of all students through an student health system that is integrated with and complements school and community programs and resources. Convenes a joint planning committee to develop and plan for the implementation of the program.

EDN, HLT, FIN

1895

RELATING TO EDUCATION.

Proposes to amend Article X, section 2 of the Hawaii Constitution to provide for election of Board of Education members from school districts as provided by law; upon passage of the constitutional amendment, requires 17 BOE members, with one member per district to be elected out of 17 school districts; requires residency in the school district; creates a temporary School District Commission modeled on the Reapportionment Commission to establish 17 school districts each comprised of 3 representative districts, that to the extent possible preserve school complex and community boundaries; provides that thereafter the Reapportionment Commission shall in a reapportionment year redraw school district boundaries consistent with statutory criteria and reapportioned districts.

EDN, JUD

1896

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR SAFETY AND SECURITY IMPROVEMENTS FOR UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII CAMPUSES.

Makes an appropriation to improve safety and security measures on the University of Hawaii campuses.

HED, FIN

1897

PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE X, SECTION 2, OF THE HAWAII CONSTITUTION, TO CHANGE MEMBERSHIP QUALIFICATIONS FOR THE BOARD OF EDUCATION.

EDN, JUD

1898

RELATING TO FINANCIAL LITERACY FOR YOUTH MONTH.

Establishes April as Financial Literacy for Youth Month in Hawaii.

EDN, LMG

1899

RELATING TO ALCOHOL AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE.

Establishes an alcohol and substance abuse multi-agency coordinating council within the department of health to develop statewide policy regarding education, prevention, and treatment programs. Provides funding sources and mechanisms.

HLT, FIN

1900

RELATING TO ALCOHOL AND DRUG DEPENDENCE BENEFITS.

Prohibits insurance policies from limiting treatment episodes for drug and alcohol dependence unless treatment is determined to be not medically necessary. Prohibits limitation of lifetime treatment episodes if treatment is determined to be medically necessary.

HLT, CPC

1901

RELATING TO CHILD PROTECTION.

Provides immunity from prosecution for leaving an unharmed newborn at a hospital, fire station or police station within 72 hours of birth. Provides immunity from liability for hospitals, fire stations, and police stations and their personnel for receiving a newborn.

HLT/HSH, JUD

1902

RELATING TO CHILDREN'S PRODUCT SAFETY.

Prohibits the use of unsafe children's products. Prohibits child care facilities from using or having on the facility premises unsafe children's products.

HSH, CPC, JUD

1903

RELATING TO TAXATION.

Establishes a 5% income tax credit for employers that hire members of the national guard. Establishes that the maximum tax credit per national guard/employee shall be $1,000.

PSM, FIN

1904

RELATING TO TAXATION.

Increases the allowable income tax deduction for national guard members and reservists called up to active duty from $1,750 to $5,000.

PSM, FIN

1905

RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYEES.

Establishes that if a public employee's active military pay is less than the public employee's nonmilitary pay, then the public employer shall pay the public employee the difference while on active military duty; provided that the active military duty deployment extends beyond 30 days.

PSM/LAB, FIN

1906

RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII.

Requires a full tuition refund for Hawaii national guard or military reservists who are ordered to active duty for more than 60 days during a school semester.

HED, PSM, FIN

1907

RELATING TO TUITION ASSISTANCE.

Makes a $1,000,000 appropriation for tuition assistance for national guard and military reservists enrolled in degree programs at the University of Hawaii.

HED, PSM, FIN

1908

RELATING TO EDUCATION.

Sets aside $1 million in federal impact aid for the establishment of a military liaison position within the department of education and to provide funding for the joint venture education forum and the Hawaii 3R's program.

EDN, PSM, FIN

1909

RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLE LICENSE PLATES.

Authorizes the issuance of special motor vehicle license plates for members of the Hawaii national guard.

TRN/PSM, FIN

1910

RELATING TO COMMERCIAL ELECTRONIC MAIL.

Establishes that unpermitted or misleading electronic mail is prohibited and constitutes an unfair trade practice; provides for damages; establishes immunity from liability for interactive computer services.

CPC/JUD

1911

RELATING TO INDIVIDUAL INCOME TAX.

Repeals income tax for taxpayers at lower income brackets.

FIN

1912

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR TRAFFIC LIGHT CAMERAS.

Appropriates funds to install traffic light cameras along the Waianae coast to monitor traffic flow and adjust traffic lights.

TRN, JUD, FIN

1913

RELATING TO THE COQUI FROG.

Appropriates money to eradicate the coqui frog on the Big Island.

EEP, FIN

1914

RELATING TO SOLID WASTE.

Requires large retailers and wholesalers to backhaul their shipping materials and pallets.

EDB, EEP, FIN

1915

RELATING TO VEHICLES.

Requires an advance disposal fee for new motor vehicles.

TRN, EEP, FIN

1916

RELATING TO FIREARMS.

Provides that the State and the counties shall not be absolutely liable for personal injury or property damage caused by the discharge of a firearm owned by the State or a county.

JUD

1917

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR FAMILIES FOR RESOURCES FOR EARLY ACCESS TO LEARNING.

Appropriates funds to expand the Families for R.E.A.L. program.

EDN, FIN

1918

RELATING TO PARENT-COMMUNITY NETWORKING CENTER PROGRAMS.

Makes a $2,288,900 appropriation to establish new parent community networking centers and for further development of existing centers.

EDN, FIN

1919

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.

LAB, FIN

1920

RELATING TO ETHICAL MARKETING OF PRESCRIPTION DRUGS.

Establishes ethical marketing requirement for prescription drugs. Requires manufacturers and labelers who sell prescription drugs in Hawaii to disclose the value, nature, and purpose of gifts and other economic benefits given doctors and other health care providers in connection with detailing, marketing, or promotions.

CPC, FIN

1921

RELATING TO PRESCRIPTION DRUGS.

Directs the governor, in consultation with department of human services, the department of health, and others, to develop, operate, and maintain a website to assist Hawaii residents in purchasing prescription drugs from Canada.

CPC, FIN

1922

RELATING TO CONSUMER PROTECTION.

Requires public contracts for telemarketing services to be performed in the United States. Gives consumers right to know the location of a call center.

CPC, JUD

1923

RELATING TO EDUCATION.

Appropriates $125,000 to the DOE to enable the parents of strong-willed or out-of-control adolescents to change their childrens' destructive behavior through effective prevention and intervention techniques. Requires this activity (named the "parent project") to be administered by the PCNC program.

EDN, FIN

1924

RELATING TO TEACHER COMPENSATION.

Requires teachers to receive their normal annual increment or longevity increase, as the case may be, for a year's satisfactory service in any fiscal year that an increase in the appropriate salary schedule is effected, except as provided by law.

EDN, LAB, FIN

1925

RELATING TO EDUCATIONAL ACCOUNTABILITY.

Establishes academic achievement, safety and well being, and civic responsibility as the agreed upon goals for Hawaii's public education accountability. Defines civic responsibility.

EDN

1926

RELATING TO EDUCATION.

Makes technical conforming amendments to the interstate agreement on qualifications of educational personnel.

EDN

1927

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE HAWAII TEACHER STANDARDS BOARD.

Appropriates funds to the Hawaii teacher standards board to implement and administer a support program for national board certification candidates in the DOE.

EDN, FIN

1928

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE HAWAII TEACHER STANDARDS BOARD.

Appropriates funding for the Hawaii teacher standards board.

EDN, FIN

1929

RELATING TO SCHOOL REPAIR AND MAINTENANCE.

Appropriates funding for Hawaii 3R's, a non-profit organization.

EDN, FIN

1930

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR FAMILIES FOR RESOURCES FOR EARLY ACCESS TO LEARNING.

Appropriates funding for the Families for Resources for Early Access to Learning Program (R.E.A.L.).

EDN, FIN

1931

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR FAMILIES FOR RESOURCES FOR EARLY ACCESS TO LEARNING.

Appropriates funding for the Families for Resources for Early Access to Learning Program (R.E.A.L.).

EDN, FIN

1932

RELATING TO EDUCATION.

Appropriates funding for an athletic health care trainer specialist coordinator in the department of education.

EDN, FIN

1933

RELATING TO EDUCATION.

Appropriates funding to hire additional athletic health care trainers in department of education schools.

EDN, FIN

1934

RELATING TO EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS.

Appropriates funding for equipment, supplies, and transportation for department of education athletic programs.

EDN, FIN

1935

RELATING TO THE EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM.

Enables full time employees of the legislature to claim past per diem service as credit towards retirement.

LMG, LAB, FIN

1936

RELATING TO THE MILITARY.

Allows active-duty reservists and National Guardsmen who desire to run for office to file nomination papers and take their oaths by mail.

PSM, JUD

1937

RELATING TO THE BOARD OF EDUCATION.

Requires the military representative serving on the board of education to be seated with the other members and to participate in discussions about board matters, including executive meetings.

PSM, EDN

1938

RELATING TO CREDIT CARD OR DEBIT CARD REMITTANCES.

Permits any department, agency, board, or commission to accept credit or debit cards for any remittance in excess of $10 to that department, agency, board, or commission.

FIN

1939

RELATING TO EDUCATION.

Requiring all operating vending machines in public schools to dispense only water, milk, and 100 per cent fruit juice.

EDN

1940

RELATING TO BOATING.

Limits the moorage fees based on a percentage of the gross revenues derived from the use of a commercial vessel to a maximum of 3% of gross revenues. Requires that certain fees relating to boating and established pursuant to rule be deposited in the boating special fund.

WLH, FIN

1941

RELATING TO UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII.

Establishes the center for school redesign as part of the college of education at the University of Hawaii at Manoa campus. Makes a $250,000 appropriation for the center.

HED, FIN

1942

AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS AND MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE WAIMANALO WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT.

Authorizes issue of $18,590,000 in general obligation bonds for plans, design, and construction for repairs and improvements to the Waimanalo wastewater treatment plant to render the plant in compliance with rules and to enable additional development in the Waimanalo area.

FIN

1943

RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE FIFTY-FIRST REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT.

Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects for the benefit of the 51st representative district

FIN

1944

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

Extends the authorization to issue special purpose revenue bonds on behalf of Worldwide Energy Group, Incorporated from 6/30/04 to 6/30/08.

FIN

1945

RELATING TO BEACH RESTORATION AND PRESERVATION.

Transfers the first $10,000,000 from the transient accommodations tax to the beach restoration special fund.

TAC, FIN

1946

RELATING TO BEACH RESTORATION AND PROTECTION.

Requires DLNR to adopt rules. Allows taxpayers whose state income tax refund for any taxable year is $2 or more to designate $1 of the same to be paid into the beach restoration special fund.

WLH, FIN

1947

RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLES.

Requires the state director of finance to transmit revenues received from all unadjudicated traffic violations or infractions to the police department of the county in which the traffic infraction occurred to enable each chief of police to recruit and retain qualified police officers.

TRN, JUD, FIN

1948

RELATING TO COMMUNITY LIBRARIES.

Establishes goal of funding and staffing parity for community libraries and Hawaii state library. Appropriates $5 million to implement.

EDN, FIN

1949

RELATING TO INJECTION WELLS.

Authorizes the department of health to disapprove the construction of any underground injection well or the disposal of any waste into an underground injection well if doing so will degrade the quality of coastal water.

WLH, EEP

1950

RELATING TO CONSUMER CREDIT REPORTING AGENCIES.

Requires consumer credit reporting agencies to allow consumers to inspect their files. Specifies situations under which agencies may provide reports. Allows consumers to place security alerts in and security freezes on their reports. Prohibits certain information from inclusion in the reports.

CPC/JUD

1951

RELATING TO LAND CONSERVATION.

Establishes land conservation commission and land conservation trust fund. Requires one per cent of all state fund appropriations for capital improvements designated for the construction and renovation of state buildings to be deposited into the land conservation trust fund.

WLH, FIN

1952

RELATING TO TRAFFIC INFRACTIONS.

Allows driver who has not received a traffic ticket in the preceding 2 years to plead guilty to a traffic infraction and pay a fine but have the record of the violation expunged upon successful completion of a driver's education course.

TRN, EDN, JUD

1953

RELATING TO COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT.

Increases shoreline setbacks from 40 feet to 100 feet inland from the shoreline. Bans the construction of new seawalls and groins.

EDB, WLH

1954

RELATING TO BUSINESS ENTITIES.

Prohibits a business entity from organizing under state law or doing business in the State upon the conviction, within a 10-year period, of 3 felonies that constitute a "strike".

EDB, CPC/JUD, FIN

1955

RELATING TO DRUGS.

Authorizes temporary, preliminary, and permanent injunctive relief and other remedies to abate drug nuisances; encourages owners, landlords, operators, and managers of buildings, places, or premises to take the affirmative steps necessary to prevent drug violations on their properties.

JUD

1956

RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL LAND PRESERVATION.

Designates and protects important agricultural lands. Combines and redesignates "urban" and "rural" land use classifications as "other lands".

AGR/WLH, FIN

1957

RELATING TO LICENSING.

Allows brewpubs to sell product for consumption off-premises.

EDB, JUD

1958

RELATING TO EDUCATION.

Appropriates funds for a full time registrar position at Maui, Kauai, and Kona Community School for Adults.

EDN, FIN

1959

RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLE DRIVER LICENSING.

Allows for reciprocity of motor vehicle driver licensing.

TRN, JUD

1960

RELATING TO FEES.

Requires cruise ship passenger fees collected by DLNR/DOBOR to be "earmarked" and set aside for use only by the DLNR boating facilities that provided the cruise ship services.

TAC/TRN, WLH, FIN

1961

RELATING TO EDUCATION.

Provides for random drug testing of public school students whose parents or legal guardians have consented; specifies procedural requirements.

EDN, JUD

1962

RELATING TO SUBSTANCE ABUSE TREATMENT.

Provides procedures for family members to petition the court for involuntary admission of a minor or adult family member to a drug treatment program.

JUD

1963

RELATING TO STANDARD DEDUCTION FOR INDIVIDUAL INCOME TAX.

Raises the Hawaii standard deduction over a three-year period.

FIN

1964

RELATING TO TAXATION.

Provides and income tax credit for food and medical services.

FIN

1965

RELATING TO TAXATION.

Exempts proceeds from sale of food, sale of certain additional medical services, sale and leasing of medical equipment, and proceeds from residential rent from general excise tax liability.

FIN

1966

RELATING TO A GENERAL EXCISE TAX HOLIDAY.

Establishes a general excise tax holiday for consumers and businesses for goods and services sold on condition that businesses pass the savings on to consumers.

FIN

1967

RELATING TO AN EXEMPTION FROM GENERAL EXCISE TAX LIABILITY FOR MEDICARE AND MEDICAID.

Exempts Medicare and Medicaid from general excise tax liability.

FIN

1968

RELATING TO FISCAL NOTES.

Requires preparation of a fiscal note for any bill reported from the final committee to which the bill has been referred prior to passage on third reading in either house of the legislature, to or, if no fiscal impact, a statement to that effect. Specifies fiscal note requirements. Appropriates funds.

LMG, FIN

1969

PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE VII, SECTION 6, OF THE HAWAII CONSTITUTION, TO MANDATE THE REFUNDING OF ALL EXCESS TAX REVENUES ABOVE A PERCENTAGE EXCEEDING THE INFLATION RATE AND THE PERCENTAGE GROWTH IN POPULATION OVER THE PRECEDING YEAR.

Proposes a constitutional amendment to mandate the refund or credit of tax revenues collected in excess of the inflation rate and the percentage growth in state population for the previous year.

FIN, JUD

1970

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.

EDB/LAB, CPC, FIN

1971

RELATING TO MEDICAL TORTS.

Amends the law relating to medical torts to improve patient access to health care services and provide improved medical care by reducing the burden the liability system places on the health care delivery system in Hawaii.

HLT, CPC/JUD, FIN

1972

RELATING TO UNADJUDICATED TRAFFIC FINES.

Transfers in two phases, all fines and forfeitures collected for uncontested traffic infractions to the counties – 50 per cent in fiscal year 2005-2006; and 100 per cent in fiscal year 2007-2008.

TRN, FIN

1973

RELATING TO EDUCATION.

Allows a teacher or driver in charge to exclude from the teacher's classroom or the driver in charge's school bus any pupil who: is guilty of disorderly conduct; interferes with an orderly educational process; threatens, abuses, or intimidates a school employee; willfully disobeys a school employee; or uses abusive or profane language directed at a school employee.

LAB, EDN, JUD

1974

RELATING TO EDUCATION.

Allows home school students to participate on an equal basis in any extracurricular or interscholastic activities offered by a public school in the geographic area in which the student resides. Requires home school students to pay applicable activity participation fees.

EDN, FIN

1975

RELATING TO DRUGS.

Removes loophole in drug paraphernalia law.

JUD

1976

RELATING TO DRUG PARAPHERNALIA.

Amends definition of drug paraphernalia to include glassware used to smoke certain controlled substances.

JUD

1977

RELATING TO SENTENCING FOR DRUGS AND INTOXICATING COMPOUNDS OFFENSES.

Amends sentencing laws for drug offenders.

JUD

1978

RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES.

Allows for the prosecution of class B and C felony offenses via information in addition to grand jury indictments and preliminary hearings.

JUD

1979

RELATING TO CAMPAIGN SPENDING.

Adds senate candidates, house candidates, and OHA candidates to offices mandated to file reports electronically. Prohibits corporations and labor organizations from making contributions to or expenditures on behalf of a candidate unless through a separate segregated fund. Prohibits contributions by contractors who win state or county contracts.

JUD

1980

RELATING TO FAMILY COURT.

Eliminates closed hearings in family court. Requires the supreme court to biennially review family court judges. Requires family court judges to enforce perjury statutes.

JUD

1981

RELATING TO TAX CREDITS.

Provides a one-time tax credit for contributions made to qualified not-for-profit organizations.

FIN

1982

RELATING TO CRUISE SHIPS.

Establishes standards for the discharge of treated sewage, graywater, other wastewater, and air emissions from cruise ships and commercial passenger vessels into the marine waters of the State. Prohibits the discharge of untreated sewage from commercial passenger vessels into the marine waters of the State. Provides for recordkeeping and monitoring.

TAC, EEP, FIN

1983

RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION.

Requires the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to establish economic measures that will guarantee no less than $80 million in new, annualized income to assist with the costs of building a light rail system.

TRN, FIN

1984

AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS AND MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR BALDWIN HIGH SCHOOL, MAUI.

Authorizes the issuance of $300,000 in general obligation bonds and makes an appropriation for a science building at Baldwin high school.

FIN

1985

RELATING TO MEDICINE AND SURGERY.

Authorizes the board of medical examiners to grant medical licenses to graduates of foreign medical schools who completed residency programs accredited by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.

HLT, CPC

1986

RELATING TO HYBRID MOTOR VEHICLES.

Provides a tax credit equal to $        for ownership of a hybrid motor vehicle.

FIN

1987

RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLES.

Increases the range of fines against both motor vehicle owners of illegal sunscreens and installers of illegal sunscreens. Requires installers to reinstall legal sunscreens or reimburse the owner for the installation of legal sunscreens.

TRN, CPC/JUD

1988

RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION.

Directs the Department of Transportation, in cooperation with the Stadium Authority and the City and County of Honolulu, to establish a park and ride pilot project at the Aloha Stadium.

TRN, FIN

1989

RELATING TO DRIVERS' LICENSES.

Requires drivers age 75 and over to pass a road test in order to qualify for or renew a drivers' license.

TRN, JUD

1990

RELATING TO COLLECTIVE BARGAINING FOR SUBSTITUTE TEACHERS.

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.

EDN, LAB, FIN

1991

RELATING TO AUTOMATIC EXTERNAL DEFIBRILLATORS.

Provides immunity from liability for those who administer free AED programs; provides immunity for any person responsible for the site where an AED is located; clarifies that immunity for AED-trained individuals applies to any AED device, regardless of its location.

HLT, JUD

1992

RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE THIRTY-FIRST REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT.

Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects for the benefit of the 31st representative district.

FIN

1993

RELATING TO PAWNBROKERS AND SECONDHAND DEALERS.

Requires pawnbrokers and secondhand dealers to post pictures of merchandise received on a website developed and maintained by a computer specialist hired by the county police departments.

CPC, FIN

1994

RELATING TO THE OFFICE FEDERAL REVENUE MAXIMIZATION.

Establishes a federal revenue maximization office within the department of budget and finance to secure eligible federal funds and grants for state programs.

FIN

1995

MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE TWENTY-SECOND REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT.

Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects for the 22nd representative district.

FIN

1996

RELATING TO GIFT CERTIFICATES.

Clarify that gift certificates shall be honored for their full face value for the two-year period after the date of issuance of the certificate.

CPC

1997

RELATING TO ADMINISTRATIVE RULES.

Provides for the review of administrative agency rules by the joint legislative management committee. Prohibits agencies from exceeding the scope of substantive statutory authority conferring the power to adopt rules.

LMG, FIN

1998

RELATING TO ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURE.

JUD

1999

RELATING TO PUBLIC SAFETY.

Limits the provision of executive security officer services to the executive to be protected.

PSM, FIN

2000

RELATING TO THE OFFICE OF PLANNING.

Requires the office of planning to report to the director of the department of business, economic development, and tourism; clarifies that DBEDT has sole jurisdiction over the land use commission, office of state planning, and state functional plans.

WLH/EDB, FIN

2001

RELATING TO TEACHERS.

Expands National Board Certification support program for public school teachers.

EDN, FIN

2002

RELATING TO EDUCATION.

Implements education reform and decentralization measures; establishes a student weighted formula for providing operating moneys to individual public schools.

EDN, FIN

2003

RELATING TO THE ILLEGAL USE OF CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES.

Adds and amends various laws relating to criminal conduct for drug related offenses, amends laws relating to arrest and search warrants for drug offenses, amends laws relating to first time nonviolent drug offender diversion to substance abuse treatment, adds tort liability for drug dealers, adds new laws relating to employer sponsored substance abuse treatment and prevention programs and employer reimbursement for substance abuse treatment, amends the zero tolerance rule for public school students who are charged with drug offenses, amends existing law to provide parity in health insurance benefits for crystal methamphetamine addiction, amends the duties of the Office of Community Services to include coordination of the drug abatement efforts between public, private and community organizations, adds new law on civil commitment for substance abuse outpatient treatment, adds new laws to facilitate the development of drug rehabilitation homes for recovering addicts, and adds responsibility for methamphetamine removal to the responsibilities of the department of health.

JUD, FIN

2004

RELATING TO THE ILLEGAL USE OF CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES.

Makes appropriations for crystal methamphetamine treatment, prevention, rehabilitation, and education to department of health; makes appropriations to the judiciary to expand services provided by the drug courts; makes appropriations to the department of public safety for treatment services for first time nonviolent drug offenders and to expand canine drug interdiction efforts; makes appropriations to county government for grass root community mobilization efforts provided federal forfeiture funds are matched to state funds; makes appropriations to the office of community services to coordinate the drug abatement efforts to fight the ice epidemic; provides tax credits for drug rehabilitation homes and substance abuse prevention education and employment; establishes a substance abuse treatment monitoring program requiring state agencies to collect data and access program effectiveness; establishes a multi-agency task force to respond to the effects of ice on children and makes appropriation for expenses.

JUD, FIN

2005

RELATING TO PRESCRIPTION DRUGS.

Changes the name of the Rx program to Rx plus; adds new definitions of "covered drugs", "participating retail pharmacy", and "qualified resident"; establishes requirements to determine qualified residents; requires department of human services to conduct ongoing quality assurance activities; clarifies consequences applicable to nonparticipating manufacturers.

CPC, FIN

2006

RELATING TO SUPPLEMENTAL MENTAL ILLNESS AND ALCOHOL AND DRUG DEPENDENCE INSURANCE BENEFITS.

Requires all accident and sickness contracts and policies issued by mutual benefit societies and health maintenance organizations to include at the option of the employer mental health parity supplemental coverage; establishes an income tax credit for employers who purchase mental health parity supplemental coverage for their employees.

CPC/HLT, FIN

2007

RELATING TO EDUCATION.

Requires the lowest salary of an educational officer to be not less than 120 percent of the highest salary of a teacher.

EDN, LAB, FIN

2008

RELATING TO HEALTH.

Establishes a system of universal health care insurance in the State of Hawaii

HLT, CPC, FIN

2009

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH AND MARKET DEVELOPMENT.

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

AGR, FIN

2010

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

Appropriates funds for the operation and maintenance of the East Kauai Irrigation System.

AGR/WLH, FIN

2011

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES.

Appropriates funds to the department of human services to expand their QUEST/medicaid programs to provide dental health coverage for enrolled adults.

HSH/HLT, FIN

2012

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES.

Appropriates funds to the department of human services to expand their QUEST/medicaid programs to provide periodontal care to pregnant women.

HSH/HLT, FIN

2013

RELATING TO POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHERS.

Prohibits a person from manufacturing, processing, or distributing in commerce a product, or a flame-retarded part of a product, containing more than 0.1% pentaBDE or octaBDE on and after January 1, 2008.

CPC

2014

RELATING TO ELDERLY SERVICES.

Makes appropriations to the department of human services for home and community-based programs for the elderly.

HSH/HLT, FIN

2015

RELATING TO LONG-TERM CARE.

Makes it a state objective to recognize the importance of the contributions of family caregivers and to support them, to the extent possible, in serving the long-term care needs of the State's residents.

HSH/HLT, FIN

2016

RELATING TO LONG-TERM CARE.

Makes it a state objective to recognize the importance of the contributions of family caregivers and to support them, to the extent possible, in serving the long-term care needs of the State's residents.

HSH/HLT, FIN

2017

RELATING TO SEXUAL ASSAULT.

Requires hospitals to provide information on emergency contraception to sexual assault victims; provide emergency contraception when requested; requires training on sexual assault and emergency contraceptives to those who treat survivors; provides for enforcement and penalties

HLT, JUD, FIN

2018

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR A SEXUAL ASSAULT NURSE EXAMINERS PROGRAM.

Makes appropriation for a pilot project establishing a program for sexual assault nurse examiners to be administered through the department of the attorney general and to be implemented through the county police departments.

HLT, JUD, FIN

2019

RELATING TO SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS.

Prohibits counties and county liquor commissions from issuing identification cards with the cardholder's or applicant's social security number on the card.

JUD

2020

RELATING TO PROSTITUTION.

Makes it a class C felony to sell or offer to sell travel services for the purpose of promoting prostitution; authorizes suspension or revocation of travel agency registration for engaging in these acts

JUD

2021

RELATING TO DISCRIMINATORY PRACTICES.

Prohibits discrimination against victims of domestic violence and a person's source of income in housing transactions.

JUD/CPC

2022

RELATING TO GENERAL ASSISTANCE.

Requires review of medical records, prior to claim denial, if no mental, physical, or combination of disability is determined. Makes determination of no disability rebuttable. Requires DHS to give legible prompt notice of treatment recommendations, and gives treating doctors authority to determine whether the person has complied with treatment recommendations. Combines physical and mental disabilities for GA disability determinations.

HSH/HLT, FIN

2023

RELATING TO ADMINISTRATIVE APPEALS.

Requires that administrative appeals for the Department of Human Services be heard de novo.

HSH, JUD

2024

RELATING TO TRANSFER OF OWNERSHIP OF FIREARMS AND AMMUNITION.

Prohibits person restrained by court order from transferring ownership of firearm while court order is in effect.

JUD

2025

RELATING TO EQUAL PAY.

Prohibits employers from discriminating between employees on the basis of sex by paying wages to an employee at a rate less than the rate at which the employer pays wages to another employee of the opposite sex for the same or substantially similar work.

LAB, JUD, FIN

2026

RELATING TO TAXES.

Increases allocations from conveyance tax proceeds to rental housing trust fund and natural area reserve fund.

WLH, HSH, FIN

2028

RELATING TO EDUCATION.

Directs licensing board to allow principals to determine certification compliance on a case by case basis. Amends incentive packages to allow student loan assistance. Appropriates funds for bonuses to deter teacher turnover in shortage areas and hard to staff schools.

EDN, LAB, FIN

2029

RELATING TO INSURANCE.

Establishes rate regulation for liability insurance that covers the construction industry and developers.

CPC, JUD

2030

RELATING TO HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF HAWAII.

Requires the maintenance, operation, and inspection of rental units to be conducted in a timely and professional manner.

HSH, FIN

2031

RELATING TO BED AND BREAKFAST HOMES.

Requires counties with a population of 500,000 or more to allow the operation of, and register bed and breakfast establishments that would not otherwise qualify for operation under county regulation; provided that the home is in existence as of 01/01/04; the home is registered with the county after 06/30/04, but before 10/01/04; and the owners of the homes acquire a GET license and a TAT certificate. The dedicated tax revenue would be used to assist the homeless.

WLH, JUD, FIN

2032

RELATING TO MEDICAL INSURANCE PREMIUM TAX DEDUCTION.

Provides a state tax deduction for medical insurance premium costs of up to $1,500 for a single tax payer and $3,000 for taxpayers filing jointly.

HLT, FIN

2033

RELATING TO BRIDGE TO HOPE.

Appropriates funds to the Bridge to Hope Program. Expands eligibility to include Temporary Assistance to Other Needy Families.

HED, FIN

2034

RELATING TO BIOPROSPECTING.

Prohibits the sale or transfer of biological resources and biological diversity and establishes a temporary bioprospecting advisory commission to address issues related to bioprospecting, including equitable benefit sharing. Appropriates funds to enable the temporary bioprospecting advisory commission to develop a comprehensive plan for the bioprospecting on public lands. Provides that the commission shall cease to exist on June 30, 2007. Repeal 6/30/07.

EEP/WLH, EDB, FIN

2035

RELATING TO MEDICAL SERVICES.

Exempts the purchase and sale of medical services from the general excise tax.

FIN

2036

RELATING TO HEALTH CARE FREEDOM.

Allows unlicensed practitioners of heath-related services to provide services to the public without it being considered the practice of medicine under certain circumstances.

HLT, CPC

2037

RELATING TO UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII TUITION AND FEE EXEMPTION.

Provides tuition and fee exemptions for children of law enforcement officers, firefighters, reserve police officers, emergency medical services personnel, disabled Hawaii veterans, and Hawaii veterans declared Prisoners of War or Missing in Action.

HED, FIN

2038

RELATING TO THE LAND USE COMMISSION.

Clarifies definition of "farm dwelling" for purposes of land use law.

AGR, WLH

2039

RELATING TO ANIMALS.

Permits action against dog owner after a single incident of a dog biting a human.

PSM, JUD

2040

RELATING TO THE STATE VETERANS' HOME.

Requires Hawaii health systems corporation to contract with private entity to manage day-to-day operation of the state veterans' home in Hilo.

HLT, PSM, FIN

2041

RELATING TO STATE PARKS.

Establishes the state parks repair and maintenance account which shall be used to eliminate the backlog of state parks repair and maintenance projects existing on 6/30/03. Establishes the state parks physical plant operations and maintenance account which shall be used for park repair and preventive maintenance projects existing after 6/30/04.

TAC, WLH, FIN

2042

RELATING TO A TRAINING ACADEMY WITHIN THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY.

Establishes a public safety and police training academy in the department of public safety.

PSM, FIN

2043

RELATING TO SCHOOL COMMUNITY BASED MANAGEMENT COUNCILS.

Provides school/community-based management councils with policymaking abilities and the ability to hire principals; determine budget priorities; conduct curriculum matters; and calendar matters.

EDN, FIN

2044

RELATING TO SMALL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT.

Appropriates funds to various programs through the small business development center and exempts small business investment companies from the state franchise tax.

EDB, HED, FIN

2045

RELATING TO SUBMERGED LANDS.

Permits installation and maintenance of private residential noncommercial pier subject to state submerged land lease to be without lease rent; subject to administrative charge.

WLH, FIN

2046

RELATING TO TAX CREDITS.

Provides a tax credit to taxpayers that donate money to a public school to support extracurricular activities and character education programs.

EDN, FIN

2047

RELATING TO HERBICIDE USE.

Requires the department of transportation to post notification of dates, times, and locations of herbicide use on public trails and highways.

EEP, TRN

2048

RELATING TO NET ENERGY METERING.

Increases the capacity of an "eligible customer-generator" from 10 kilowatts to 50 kilowatts for the purposes of net energy metering.

EEP, EDB, CPC

2049

RELATING TO ENERGY.

Increases the term limit of energy performance contracts from 15 to 18 years. Amends the definition of energy performance contract to include water saving technology retrofits.

EEP, CPC

2050

RELATING TO PLANT AND NON-DOMESTIC ANIMAL QUARANTINE.

Authorizes the department of agriculture to restrict the entry into the State of any articles originating from Guam that have not been certified as having been inspected by the U.S. Department of Agriculture-Wildlife Services or other approved agency prior to shipment from Guam.

AGR, EEP

2051

RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE.

Authorizes the department of agriculture to charge user fees for the inspection, permitting and other services provided by the Department.

EEP, AGR, FIN

2052

RELATING TO ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENTS.

Clarifies that the accepting agency or authority for an environmental impact statement is not required to be the approving agency for the permit or approval. Requires an environmental assessment for proposed wastewater facilities, except individual wastewater systems, waste-to-energy facilities, landfills, oil refineries, and power-generating facilities.

EEP, CPC, FIN

2053

RELATING TO GENETIC ENGINEERING.

Prohibits the use of food crops for the genetic engineering of drugs, industrial chemicals, and other non-good materials.

AGR, JUD/CPC

2054

RELATING TO GENETICALLY ENGINEERED ORGANISMS.

Assigns liability for injury caused by genetically engineered organisms.

EDB, JUD, CPC

2055

RELATING TO GENETICALLY ENGINEERED CROPS.

Regulates production of pharmaceutical crops and industrial crops. Imposes civil penalties for violations.

AGR, JUD, CPC

2056

RELATING TO COMMUNITY-BASED MARINE COMANAGEMENT.

Creates a framework for community-based marine comanagement. Authorizes the department of land and natural resources to designate community-based marine comanagement areas. Encourages the formation of community-based marine comanagement area councils and management plans. Provides for enforcement and penalties for violation of any rule or law applicable to any community-based marine comanagement area.

WLH, JUD, FIN

2057

RELATING TO THE ISSUANCE OF SPECIAL PURPOSE REVENUE BONDS FOR HPOWER PLANT BOILER ADDITION.

Authorizes the issuance of SPRBs for the planning, design, construction, and installation of a third boiler at the HPOWER waste-to-energy plant on the island of Oahu.

FIN

2058

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR EXPENSES OF THE 2005 NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COUNTIES MEETING IN HONOLULU.

Appropriation to city and county of Honolulu to host the 2005 National Association of Counties meeting in Honolulu.

FIN

2059

RELATING TO THE HAWAII TOURISM AUTHORITY.

Increases the percentage of tourism special funds that can be used by the Hawaii tourism authority for administrative expenses.

TAC, FIN

2060

AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF REVENUE BONDS FOR STATE PARKS CESSPOOL PROJECTS.

Authorizes the director of finance and also the department of land and natural resources to issue revenue bonds for removal of cesspools from state parks and related improvements.

WLH/TAC, FIN

2061

RELATING TO TRANSIENT ACCOMMODATIONS TAX.

Repeals the transient accommodations tax ("TAT") trust fund and the distribution of TAT revenues into the fund. Restores the TAT revenues deposited into the tourism special fund to 37.9 per cent. Removes the cap on deposits to the convention center enterprise special fund.

TAC, FIN

2062

RELATING TO TRANSIENT ACCOMMODATIONS TAX.

Repeals the limit on deposits of transient accommodations tax revenues into the convention center enterprise special fund.

TAC, FIN

2063

RELATING TO THE STATE ART MUSEUM.

Provides statutory authority for the establishment of the state art museum and continuing operational funding; conforms chapter 9, HRS, with the duties of the state foundation on culture and the arts concerning the art in public places and relocatable works of art program and the state art museum.

TAC, FIN

2064

RELATING TO EXEMPTING ROTH INDIVIDUAL RETIREMENT ACCOUNTS FROM ATTACHMENT OR SEIZURE.

Extends the same protection from creditor claims that regular IRAs have to Roth individual retirement accounts.

CPC

2065

RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYEE HEALTH BENEFITS.

Clarifies that a public employee with credited service prior to 7/1/96, that suffers a break in service before or after 7/1/96, shall qualify for the retirement health benefits plan as it existed prior to 7/1/96; provided that the public employee meets certain requirements.

LAB, FIN

2066

RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYEE HEALTH BENEFITS.

Clarifies that a public employee with credited service prior to 7/1/96, that suffers a break in service before or after 7/1/96, shall qualify for the retirement health benefits plan as it existed prior to 7/1/96; provided that the public employee meets certain requirements.

LAB, FIN

2067

RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYEES.

Repeals the public employees' payroll lag, returning paydays to the 1st and 15th of every month.

LAB, FIN

2068

RELATING TO THE EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM.

Enables full time employees of the legislature to claim past per diem service as credit towards retirement.

LMG, LAB, FIN

2069

RELATING TO SCHOOL-LEVEL MINOR REPAIRS AND MAINTENANCE SPECIAL FUND INCOME TAX CHECK-OFF.

Specifies that an income tax check-off contribution made for education-related repair and maintenance shall be distributed to the public school district where the contributor resides.

EDN, FIN

2070

RELATING TO ELECTIONS.

Establishes a comprehensive public funding program for state house of representatives candidates who agree to abide by campaign contribution and expenditure limits and meet other criteria.

LMG/JUD, FIN

2071

RELATING TO THE HAWAII EMPLOYERS' MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY.

Requires the oversight council of the Hawaii Employers' Mutual Insurance Company to use the state auditor to report on whether the company is fulfilling its express statutory purposes.

LMG, CPC, FIN

2072

RELATING TO COLLECTIVE BARGAINING.

Includes a public employer's obligation to pay normal cost and accrued unfunded liability contributions to the Employees' Retirement System as part of the arbitration criteria used to determine whether the public employer has the ability to pay for proposed cost items.

LAB, FIN

2073

RELATING TO GIFT CERTIFICATES.

Requires that gift certificates have no expiration date; provides that a fee of $1 may be deducted from the value of a gift certificate every two years.

CPC

2074

RELATING TO PENALTIES OF HEALTH, ENVIRONMENTAL, AND CULTURAL PRESERVATION LAWS.

Ensures that allowable waivers or reductions of penalties for small businesses will not apply to any laws protecting the environment or cultural resources.

EDB, EEP/TAC, JUD

2075

RELATING TO ADMINISTRATIVE RULES.

Allows a person to challenge an administrative rule as an invalid exercise of executive authority in creating policy or adopting procedures that are beyond the enable legislation; allows a declaratory judgment even if the person has not yet been aggrieved or injured.

JUD

2076

RELATING TO LAW ENFORCEMENT.

Authorizes issuance of $1.25 million in GO bonds to expand HPD's crime laboratory; appropriates $ for HPD's hiring of additional crime laboratory technicians for statewide criminal investigations.

PSM, FIN

2077

RELATING TO PAWNBROKERS AND SECONDHAND DEALERS.

Requires pawnbrokers and secondhand dealers to post pictures of merchandise received on a website developed and maintained by a computer specialist hired by the county police departments.

CPC, FIN

2078

RELATING TO STATEWIDE TRAFFIC CODE.

Allows judges to permit traffic violators to pay fines on an incremental basis if they cannot afford to pay the whole fine at once; prohibits suspension or revocation of license if the person is current with payments.

TRN, JUD, FIN

2079

PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE II, SECTION 1, OF THE HAWAII CONSTITUTION, TO CHANGE THE REQUIRED MINIMUM VOTING AGE TO SEVENTEEN.

Proposes an amendment to Article II, section 1 of the Hawaii State Constitution to lower the voting age in state elections to seventeen.

JUD, FIN

2080

RELATING TO ATHLETIC CONTEST OFFICIALS.

Makes it a crime to assault or threaten an athletic official.

JUD

2081

RELATING TO PASSENGER RESTRAINT DEVICES.

Repeals provision in seat belt law exempting vehicles based on number of seat belt assemblies.

TRN, JUD

2082

RELATING TO HAWAII HEALTH SYSTEMS CORPORATION.

Authorizes issuance of GO bonds and appropriates funds for Hawaii Health Systems Corporation.

FIN

2083

AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS AND MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE KULAMALU LONG-TERM CARE FACILITY AND ADULT DAY CARE FACILITY IN KULA, MAUI.

Authorizes the issuance of $16,250,000 in general obligation bonds for the design, construction, and equipment for the Kulamalu long-term care facility and the adult day care facility in Kula, Maui.

FIN

2084

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR SEXUAL ASSAULT SERVICES.

Makes appropriation to department of health to fund sexual assault services.

HLT, FIN

2085

RELATING TO HEALTH.

Requires that funds appropriated from the tobacco settlement special fund and earmarked for the Healthy Hawaii program be expended solely for that purpose and not supplant general fund moneys.

HLT, FIN

2086

RELATING TO EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES.

Establishes a special fund for emergency medical services to be funded by an additional fee imposed on certificates of registration for motor vehicles.

HLT/TRN, JUD, FIN

2087

RELATING TO MEDICALLY FRAGILE CHILDREN'S TRUST FUND.

Creates the medically fragile children's trust fund that helps pay for the medically fragile child's medical and caregiver's expenses.

HSH, FIN

2088

RELATING TO CRITICAL ACCESS HOSPITALS.

Substitutes DHS for Hawaii health systems corporation for state matching funds for rural hospitals. Makes permanent definition of "critical access hospital", payment methodology to these hospitals using medicare reasonable cost principles, and exemption of these hospitals from medicaid reimbursement equity.

HSH/HLT, FIN

2089

RELATING TO HEALTH INSURANCE.

Extends time frame for health insurance companies to determine the outcome of appeals not classified as expedited from 45 days to 60 days.

CPC

2090

RELATING TO EMPLOYEES.

Directs DLIR to adopt rules to clarify the definition of "eligible employee" for purposes of the prepaid health care law, as an employee who works 80 or more hours in a consecutive 4-week period, regardless of the number of hours worked in any one week of that period.

LAB, FIN

2091

RELATING TO PEER REVIEW.

Provides protections for physicians, hospitals, and other health care providers relating to review of medical errors. Defines "health care review organization" and "case review forum."

HLT, JUD/CPC

2092

RELATING TO MEDICINE AND SURGERY.

Allows licensure of applicants who served a residency in a program approved by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada; clarifies licensure requirements that foreign applicants for an MD license have at least two years of residency in a program accredited by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, or if outside of Canada, a program substantially equivalent.

HLT, CPC

2093

RELATING TO DENTAL PROFESSIONAL LICENSING.

Creates a special license for dentists and dental hygienists working a federally qualified health centers or native Hawaiian health system sites.

HLT, CPC

2094

RELATING TO DENTISTS.

Creates a loan repayment assistance program for dentists serving underserved populations.

HLT/HSH, FIN

2095

RELATING TO DENTAL SERVICES FOR PREGNANT WOMEN.

Requires QUEST program to cover certain dental services for pregnant women beginning 7/1/2004. Requires director of human services to adopt rules.

HSH/HLT, FIN

2096

RELATING TO A PRESCRIPTION DRUG REPOSITORY PROGRAM.

Establishes the prescription drug repository program to receive and dispense donated prescription drugs to needy persons.

HLT, CPC, FIN

2097

RELATING TO MEDICAL RECORDS.

Requires that the health care provider, rather than the insurer, must inform a person that a reimbursement claim will be made to the person's insurer, for purposes of release of the person's medical records to an insurer to obtain reimbursement.

HLT, CPC

2098

RELATING TO MEDICAL RECORDS.

Provides for the release of medical records of a deceased person to next of kin.

HLT, CPC

2099

RELATING TO EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES.

Deletes terminal condition as the sole circumstance when "comfort care only-do not resuscitate" protocols may be initiated by in-the-field emergency response personnel to persons whose heart or breathing has stopped. Allows a person, a person's guardian, agent, or surrogate with legal authority to make health-care decisions on behalf of the person to allow the withholding of cardiac resuscitation and artificial breathing or to revoke CCO DNR documents.

HLT, JUD

2100

RELATING TO INVOLUNTARY PSYCHIATRIC TREATMENT.

Authorizes DOH to adopt rules to establish an administrative process allowing involuntary medication of psychiatric patients institutionalized at the Hawaii state hospital, to alleviate mental illness and restore competency while protecting the rights of patients.

HLT, JUD

2101

RELATING TO MENTAL HEALTH INSURANCE.

Includes major depression, which involves recurring episodes, in definition of "mental illness" and "serious mental illness." Includes major depression, which may be accompanied by incidence of alcohol or drug dependence, for mental illness coverage.

HLT, CPC/JUD, FIN

2102

RELATING TO MENTAL HEALTH AND ALCOHOL AND DRUG ABUSE INSURANCE.

Prohibits any rate, term, or condition that places a greater financial burden on an insured for access to treatment for mental illness than for access to treatment for a physical health condition. Requires insurance commissioner to report on effects of prohibition by 1/15/2005.

HLT, CPC, FIN

2103

RELATING TO ALCOHOL AND DRUG ABUSE TREATMENT INSURANCE BENEFITS.

Creates parity for treatment of alcohol and drug dependence by repealing the limitation of two treatment episodes per lifetime with regard to coverage of alcohol and drug dependence benefits.

HLT, CPC, FIN

2104

RELATING TO HEALTH INSURANCE.

Requires insurers, hospital and medical services plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide smoking cessation programs to their policyholders, members, and enrollees.

HLT, CPC, FIN

2105

RELATING TO HEALTH INSURANCE.

Requires insurers, hospital and medical services plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide children and adolescent obesity reduction programs to their policyholders, members, and enrollees.

HLT, CPC, FIN

2106

RELATING TO DRUGS AND INTOXICATING COMPOUNDS.

Provides immunity from criminal prosecution for drug offenses for pregnant women seeking prenatal treatment.

HLT, JUD

2107

RELATING TO CONSUMER-DIRECTED CARE.

Requires the department of human services to establish a consumer-directed care program that allows recipients of home and community-based services to select the services they need and to choose their providers, giving consumers more choices and greater control over the purchased long-term care they receive.

HSH/HLT, FIN

2108

RELATING TO LONG-TERM CARE.

Establishes a long-term care income tax to pay for long-term care benefits; establishes long-term care income tax credit for amounts paid for purchase of long-term care insurance; appropriates funds.

HSH/HLT, FIN

2109

RELATING TO LONG-TERM CARE.

Provides a tax credit to resident taxpayers, regardless of adjusted gross income, for long-term care insurance premiums at lesser of $2,500 or a percentage of the amount of the insurance premium paid. If the tax credit is claimed, a medical expense deduction for long-term care insurance cost is prohibited.

HSH/HLT, FIN

2110

RELATING TO CAREGIVER TAX CREDIT.

Provides a $5,000 tax credit for providers of eligible care recipients.

HSH/HLT, FIN

2111

RELATING TO LONG-TERM CARE.

Establishes a long-term care income tax to pay for long-term care benefits; imposes tax on individuals earning not less than an unspecified amount of income; allows recipient of LTC benefits to transfer benefits upon death to designated person; establishes long-term care income tax credit for amounts paid for purchase of long-term care insurance; clarifies that long-term care taxes are not state funds; makes appropriations.

HSH/HLT, FIN

2112

RELATING TO ESTABLISHING A LONG-TERM CARE CAREGIVER RESOURCE CENTER AT KAPIOLANI COMMUNITY COLLEGE.

Makes appropriation to the Kapiolani community college to establish a long-term care caregiver resource center.

HED, FIN

2113

RELATING TO FAMILY CAREGIVERS.

Appropriates funds to the executive office on aging for a family caregiver services coordinator position, training for family caregivers, respite for family caregivers, and the establishment of an advisory board of family caregiving issues.

HSH/HLT, FIN

2114

RELATING TO FAMILY AND CAREGIVER SUPPORT.

Requires department of health, within limits of state and federal resources, to provide certain family and caregiver support services to persons aged 60 and older and their families and caregivers.

HSH/HLT, FIN

2115

RELATING TO QUALITY ASSURANCE.

Adds long-term care facility, home care agency, and hospice to those institutions that may establish an interdisciplinary quality assurance committee.

HSH/HLT, FIN

2116

RELATING TO HEALTH.

Amends the Hawaii Revised Statutes relating to health.

HLT

2117

RELATING TO HEALTH.

Amends the Hawaii Revised Statutes relating to health.

HLT

2118

RELATING TO HEALTH.

Amends the Hawaii Revised Statutes relating to health.

HLT

2119

RELATING TO HEALTH.

Amends the Hawaii Revised Statutes relating to health.

HLT

2120

RELATING TO HEALTH.

Amends the Hawaii Revised Statutes relating to health.

HLT

2121

RELATING TO SAFE NURSE STAFFING.

Provides for patient protection by requiring safe nurse staffing.

HLT, CPC, FIN

2122

RELATING TO DEPENDENT ADULT PROTECTIVE SERVICES.

Changes the definition of "abuse" of dependent adults to require conduct that includes gross neglect, grossly negligent treatment, or wanton acts or omissions in order to constitute abuse.

HSH, JUD

2123

RELATING TO MANDATED HEALTH BENEFITS.

Creates mandated health benefit council to advise the auditor and legislature on proposed benefits. Repeals all existing mandated benefits on 6/30/2009. Limits new mandated benefits to 5 years. Requires council to advise legislature whether to allow repeal of benefit or to renew for further 5 years.

HLT, CPC, FIN

2124

RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES.

Requires the department of human services to abolish the cap on enrollment in the QUEST program.

HSH, FIN

2125

RELATING TO HEALTH CARE.

Appropriates funds for health care services for low-income, uninsured immigrants.

HSH/HLT, FIN

2126

RELATING TO TRANSFER TRAUMA.

Recognizes transfer trauma and its impact on health care decisions. Requires the DOH to consider threats to an individual's health and safety caused by transfer trauma when considering transfer of adult residential care home residents, and license revocation, and/or closure of or reduction of beds in the facilities.

HSH/HLT, FIN

2127

RELATING TO PRETRIAL DETAINEES.

Establishes statutory deadlines for the mental examination of pretrial criminal defendants. Requires the judiciary to report to the 2005 legislature on the administration of forensic examinations and detail the number of days that pass between the order for mental evaluation and the court's ruling.

PSM, JUD, FIN

2128

RELATING TO THE ISSUANCE OF SPECIAL PURPOSE REVENUE BONDS FOR THE CONGREGATION OF CHRISTIAN BROTHERS, INC. DBA DAMIEN MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL.

Authorizes the issuance of SPRBs for Damien Memorial High School to finance or refinance the planning, acquisition, construction, or improvement of its educational facilities.

FIN

2129

RELATING TO CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES.

Transfers administration of medical marijuana program from the department of public safety to the department of health. Changes certain definitions and procedures to make the program more efficient and easier for seriously ill patients.

PSM, HLT, FIN

2130

RELATING TO MEDICAL RECORDS.

Amends the confidentiality provisions of the mental health, mental illness, drug addiction, and alcoholism law by changing "insurer" to "provider" to indicate that the provider may inform the patient of a reimbursement claim.

HLT, CPC

2131

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR DONATED DENTAL SERVICES.

Appropriates $30,765 for FY 2004-2005 for the donated dental services program for the elderly, disabled, or medically compromised, to be expended by the DOH.

HLT, FIN

2132

RELATING TO HEALTH INSURANCE.

Requires insurers, hospital and medical services plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide oral health and hygiene procedures to their policyholders, members, and enrollees.

HLT, CPC, FIN

HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTIONS

Committee

H.C.R. NO.

3

REQUESTING A REPORT ON STATE AND COUNTY COMPLIANCE WITH APPLICABLE SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT LAWS, RULES, AND REGULATIONS.

EEP/WLH, FIN

4

REQUESTING THE AUDITOR TO ASSESS THE SOCIAL AND FINANCIAL EFFECTS OF REQUIRING HEALTH INSURERS TO OFFER COVERAGE FOR SMOKING CESSATION PROGRAMS.

HLT, CPC, FIN

5

REQUESTING THE AUDITOR TO ASSESS THE SOCIAL AND FINANCIAL EFFECTS OF REQUIRING HEALTH INSURERS TO OFFER COVERAGE FOR OBESITY REDUCTION PROGRAMS FOR CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS.

HLT, CPC, FIN

6

REQUESTING THE AUDITOR TO ASSESS THE SOCIAL AND FINANCIAL EFFECTS OF REQUIRING HEALTH INSURERS TO OFFER COVERAGE FOR ORAL HEALTH AND HYGIENE PROCEDURES.

HLT, CPC, FIN