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 CONCURRENT RESOLUTIONS

Committee

H.C.R. NO.

40

DESIGNATING THAT MISS HAWAI`I, OF THE MISS AMERICA SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM, SHALL SERVE AS THE OFFICIAL HONORARY HOSTESS OF THE STATE OF HAWAI`I DURING HER TERM AS MISS HAWAI`I.

TAC

HOUSE BILLS

Committee

H.B. NO.

2703

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.

FIN

2791

RELATING TO ANIMAL CRUELTY.

Establishes class C felony offense for aggravated cruelty to animals. Makes it a crime to manufacture, buy, sell, or possess cockfighting and related equipment. Requires a person convicted of these offenses to undergo counseling. Amends cruelty to animals law to add carrying dog in pickup bed without being cross tied. Makes places used to commit cruelty to animal offenses subject to nuisance abatement law.

JUD