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.

1233

RELATING TO IMPACT FEES.

Authorizes the counties to assess impact fees, and transfers revenues to a new state special fund, to help pay for state highway improvements that serve new or more intensive development.

TRN, FIN

1897

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

Proposes a constitutional amendment providing that BOE members must be at least sixteen years of age.

EDN/JUD

2142

RELATING TO BUSINESS PRACTICES.

Implements short form bill relating to business practices.

EDB, JUD

2570

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHER BONUSES.

Provides a bonus for public school teachers if state revenues exceed an unspecified amount.

EDN/LAB, FIN

2593

RELATING TO WEST HAWAII.

Establishes an advisory referendum on the question of whether West Hawaii should be established as a separate county with the proposed division between the counties as a straight line running from Upolu Point in the north to South Point in the south.

LMG, WLH, JUD, FIN

2620

RELATING TO NOISE ABATEMENT.

Directs the director of health to adopt administrative rules for noise abatement. Appropriates funds for enforcement by health authorities and appropriate law enforcement officers, as well as for decibel meters, to ensure that the administrative rules are effectively executed and enforced.

EEP, JUD, FIN

2687

RELATING TO SUMMONS AND CITATIONS.

Allows for copies of summons and citations to be electronically recorded, maintained, and transmitted.

JUD, FIN

2889

RELATING TO NOISE.

Prohibits leaf blower manufacturers from causing to be sold in the State leaf blowers whose sound levels have not been tested and lowered under standards of the American National Standards Institute. Appropriates funds for the director of health to establish a buyback program for noncompliant models of leaf blowers. Expands unreasonable noise category of the crime of disorderly conduct to include noise from motorized apparatus.

EEP, JUD, FIN