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

SENATE BILLS

Committee

S.B. NO.

1000, SD1

RELATING TO CHILD ABUSE.

Requires child abuse reports to be made by clergy. (SD1)

HSH, JUD

2003, SD1

RELATING TO PASSENGER RESTRAINT DEVICES.

Repeals provision in seat belt law exempting vehicles based on number of seat belt assemblies. Requires persons under the age of 18 seated in the back seat to be restrained. (SD1)

TRN, JUD

2015

RELATING TO ABANDONED VEHICLES.

Amends definition of "abandoned" vehicle to add vehicles parked on public highways that are not currently registered and safety checked.

TRN, JUD

2021, SD1

RELATING TO STREET ROD VEHICLES.

Amends law to include vehicles that are replicas of vehicles manufactured before 1968 as "street rod vehicles" and requires seat belts. (SD1)

TRN, JUD

2022

RELATING TO DUNE BUGGIES.

Authorizes dune buggy replica vehicles to be licensed for use on public roadways as special interest vehicles; establishes registration standards; and requires seat belts on dune buggy vehicles.

TRN, JUD

2344, SD1

RELATING TO HIGHWAY SAFETY.

Prohibits State and counties from prohibiting military munitions transfers through interstate vehicular tunnels if the transfers adhere to safety standards. (SD1)

TRN/PSM, JUD

HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTIONS

Committee

H.C.R. NO.

39

REQUESTING THE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE TO AMEND ITS RULES TO PROHIBIT THE POSSESSION, PROPAGATION, SALE, TRANSFER, OR HARBORING OF NONHUMAN PRIMATES IN HAWAII, WITH CERTAIN EXCEPTIONS.

AGR, JUD

HOUSE RESOLUTIONS

Committee

H.R. NO.

22

REQUESTING THE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE TO AMEND ITS RULES TO PROHIBIT THE POSSESSION, PROPAGATION, SALE, TRANSFER, OR HARBORING OF NONHUMAN PRIMATES IN HAWAII, WITH CERTAIN EXCEPTIONS.

AGR, JUD

HOUSE BILLS

Committee

H.B. NO.

1906, HD1

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, FIN

1907, HD1

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, FIN

2040, HD1

RELATING TO THE STATE VETERANS' HOME.

Establishes a veterans' home account and veterans' gift account to be administered by the Hawaii health systems corporation for the state veterans' home in Hilo. Requires accounts to comply with reporting requirements for non-general fund information. (HD1)

HLT/LAB, FIN

2149

RELATING TO THE HAWAII HEALTH SYSTEMS CORPORATION.

Removes the HHSC's exemption from the state procurement code under chapter 103D.

FIN

2361

RELATING TO THE PUBLIC AGENCY MEETINGS.

Specifies that only groups expressly created by the State Constitution or a statute, charter, executive order, or ordinance, to function in a parliamentarian fashion, and which have delegated governmental authority over specific matters of public business constitute "boards" for purposes of the state Sunshine Law.

JUD

2503

RELATING TO CHILD ABUSE.

Clarifies that Department of Public Safety deputy sheriffs and narcotics enforcement officers, and Department of the Attorney General investigators are required to report child abuse cases. Allows these employees to take a child victim into protective custody.

HSH, JUD

2522

RELATING TO DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION'S ENGINEERING SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM.

Authorizes the establishment of a civil engineering scholarship program, and appropriates $100,000 for program implementation.

FIN