THE SENATE

THE TWENTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2005

COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY AND HAWAIIAN AFFAIRS

Senator Colleen Hanabusa, Chair

Senator Clayton Hee, Vice Chair

NOTICE OF DECISION MAKING

DATE:

Wednesday, March 23, 2005

TIME:

9:00 a.m.

PLACE:

Conference Room 229

State Capitol

415 South Beretania Street

A G E N D A

The following measures were previously heard on Tuesday, March 22:

HB 1731

HD2

(HSCR923)

RELATING TO HOUSING.

Requires the Housing and Community Development Corporation of Hawaii to identify public lands suitable for housing projects. 20 percent of all units developed on these lands must be available for qualified Hawaiians. Scheduled for repeal on July 1, 2010. (HB1731 HD2)

CPH/JHW/WLA, WAM

HB 1

HD2

(HSCR975)

RELATING TO HIGHER EDUCATION.

Recodifies the statutes relating to higher education and the University of Hawaii. (HD2)

HRE/JHW, WAM

HB 393

HD1

(HSCR865)

RELATING TO THE COUNTIES.

Provides that unpaid civil fines and unpaid administratively imposed civil fines added by the county by ordinance to taxes, fees, or charges, shall not become a part of those taxes, fees, or charges, or constitute a lien on the debtor's real or personal property. (HB393 HD1)

IGA/JHW, WAM

HB 434

(HSCR787)

MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR CAREER CRIMINAL PROSECUTION UNITS AND VICTIM WITNESS ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS.

Appropriates grants-in-aid to the counties for career criminal prosecution units and victim witness assistance programs.

JHW/IGA, WAM

HB 1320

HD1

(HSCR898)

RELATING TO EMERGENCY 911.

Requires each county to retain the dispatch recordings of all emergency 9-1-1 calls for a period of at least one year. (HB1320 HD1)

IGA/JHW, WAM

No public testimony will be accepted.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CALL THE COMMITTEE CLERK AT 586-7793.