AGR - Agriculture

HSG Housing

CPC - Consumer Protection and Commerce

HUS - Human Services

EDB - Economic Development and

INT - International Affairs

Business Concerns

JUD - Judiciary

EDN - Education

LAB - Labor and Public Employment

EEP - Energy and Environmental Protection

LMG - Legislative Management

FIN - Finance

PSM - Public Safety and Military Affairs

HAW Hawaiian Affairs

TAC - Tourism and Culture

HED - Higher Education

TRN - Transportation

HLT - Health

WLO - Water, Land & Ocean Resources

HOUSE BILLS

Committee

H.B. NO.

750

RELATING TO EMPLOYMENT PRACTICES.

Includes employer's consideration of any individual's credit history in hiring and termination decisions as an offense of unlawful discriminatory practice.

LAB, JUD

751

RELATING TO UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS.

Encourages eligible claimants of unemployment insurance to seek gainful employment by permitting claimants to receive their weekly benefit amount and be employed in a part-time job that pays less than their weekly benefit amount. Allows for the use of federal Reed Act funds to offset anticipated increases in unemployment insurance claims.

LAB, FIN

752

RELATING TO NOTIFICATION OF EMPLOYMENT CHANGES.

Extends from sixty to ninety days the time before which employers must give employees and the Director of Labor and Industrial Relations (Director) prior notice of intention to close, partially close, or relocate a covered establishment. Requires employers to provide written notification of the discontinuance or termination of housing or housing assistance to employees and the Director; except when the discontinuance or termination is due to an employee's resignation or termination for cause.

LAB, JUD, FIN

753

RELATING TO EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS.

Provides that deputy directors and special assistant positions of executive departments not belonging to the Department of Education or the University of Hawaii are subject to position justification requirements and legislative review.

LAB, FIN

754

RELATING TO RESTRICTIVE EMPLOYMENT COVENANTS OR AGREEMENTS.

Voids restrictive covenants or agreements between employees and employers in cases where the employee is or will be engaged in or employed by a technology business.

EDB, LAB, CPC/JUD

755

RELATING TO WAGES.

Authorizes an employer to furnish to an employee an electronic record of an employee's total gross compensation, the amount and purpose of each deduction, total net compensation, date of payment, and pay period covered, in lieu of a printed, typewritten, or handwritten record, upon receipt of written authorization from the employee.

LAB, FIN

756

RELATING TO FORECLOSURES.

Prevents the foreclosure of liens imposed on certain dwelling units for failure to pay assessment, fee, or fines.

HSG, CPC/JUD

757

RELATING TO ELECTIONS.

Changes the age from which persons may pre-register to vote from seventeen to sixteen years of age.

JUD

758

RELATING TO EMPLOYMENT PRACTICES.

Requires the department of education to adhere to the state minimum wage law when setting wages for meal ticket and adult supervisors.

EDN/LAB, FIN

759

RELATING TO MILITARY INSTALLATIONS.

Requires notification to the commanding officer of a military installation of: (1) zoning changes; and (2) district boundary amendments for land within 3,000 feet or two miles of a military installation (depending on the size of the population of the county in question).

PSM, WLO, FIN

760

RELATING TO PUBLIC ACCESS TO BEACHES.

Appropriates funds for the department of land and natural resources to survey and map all existing public access ways to shoreline areas.

WLO, FIN

761

RELATING TO FAMILY LEAVE.

Allows an employee to use family leave during any calendar year upon the military deployment of the employee's child, spouse or reciprocal beneficiary, or parent.

LAB/PSM, FIN

762

RELATING TO HAWAII WORKSITE TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER ACT.

Establishes a mechanism for employers to obtain temporary restraining orders to protect against harassment at the worksite.

LAB, JUD

763

RELATING TO WORKERS' COMPENSATION.

Exempts persons with ownership interests in limited liability companies, partnerships, and sole proprietorships, from coverage as "employees" under the workers' compensation law, allowing them to obtain coverage for their work-related injuries and disabilities, separately.

LAB, CPC

764

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 under collective bargaining agreements for counterparts within the employer's jurisdiction.

LAB, FIN

765

RELATING TO EXPENDITURE OF PUBLIC MONEY.

Requires contractors on public works construction contracts to comply with department of labor and industrial relations specifications for staffing requirements. Clarifies that the state law requiring payment of prevailing wages applies to all labors, mechanics, required assistants, helpers, tenders, and apprentices on a public works project.

EDB, LAB, FIN

766

RELATING TO FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE STATEMENTS.

Deletes the in-state limitation for financial disclosures for elected officials, candidates for elective offices, and appointed officers and employees.

JUD

767

RELATING TO CAMPSITES.

Allows campsites in agricultural and conservation districts.

WLO/AGR

768

RELATING TO WATER.

Prohibits the addition of medicinal additives to the public water supply, but not additives commonly used to make water safe and potable. Exempts federally owned and operate water systems.

HLT, WLO/EEP, CPC, FIN

769

RELATING TO UNCLAIMED PROPERTY.

Mandates electric utility cooperative associations to issue an annual report of unclaimed property and establishes the disposition of non-escheat patronage refunds.

EEP, CPC, FIN

770

RELATING TO COMPENSATION OF PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVES.

Re-enacts the sliding fee schedule in effect prior to January 1, 1997, for personal representatives rendering trust and probate services.

JUD

771

RELATING TO SEXUAL OFFENDERS.

Provides that repeat sexual offenders who have been convicted on two prior and separate occasions for an offense under section 707-730, 707-731, 707-732, or 707-733.5 shall be placed on lifetime parole upon release from prison.

JUD

772

PROPOSING AMENDMENTS TO ARTICLE VII, SECTION 8, AND ARTICLE X, SECTION 5, OF THE HAWAII CONSTITUTION, TO PROVIDE THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII WITH COMPLETE AUTONOMY FROM THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH.

Provides complete autonomy to UH and removes UH from executive branch. Specifies that UH shall receive no general funding. Requires board of regents to submit a separate budget to legislature.

HED, JUD, FIN

773

RELATING TO PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION.

Authorizes the public utilities commission to regulate petroleum utilities and the gasoline service station industry in the State.

EEP, CPC, FIN

774

RELATING TO AQUACULTURE.

Establishes reduced rates for Hawaii enterprises engaged in aquaculture as defined in section 187A-1.

WLO, TRN, FIN

775

RELATING TO THE PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION.

Begins process of deregulating commercial trucking industry

TRN, CPC, FIN

776

RELATING TO TRAFFIC REGULATION WITHIN HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF HAWAII PROJECTS.

Repeals requirement that HCDCH needs to enter into contract with county before traffic can be regulated in HCDCH project by county.

TRN, HSG, JUD

777

RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE FORTIETH REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT.

Appropriation for capital improvement projects for the benefit of the 40th representative district.

FIN

778

RELATING TO SAFETY.

Prohibits the use of a mobile telephone while driving unless equipped with a hands-free accessory.

TRN, JUD

779

AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS AND MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR BEHAVIORIAL HEALTH AND DRUG TREATMENT CENTERS.

Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds and appropriates funds for plans, design, and construction of behavioral health and drug treatment Centers.

HUS/HLT, FIN

780

AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS AND MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR HOMELESS SHELTERS.

Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds and appropriates funds for homeless shelters.

HSG, FIN

781

RELATING TO CONDOMINIUMS.

Amends Act 164, SLH 2004, which recodifies the condominium property regimes law, by adding new provisions relating to condominium creation, alteration, and termination; registration and administration; protection of condominium purchasers; and sales to owner-occupants.

CPC, JUD, FIN

782

RELATING TO CONDOMINIUM PROPERTY REGIMES.

Establishes that non-profit corporations organized under condominium property regimes are not subject to the cumulative voting provisions and the provisions relating to removal of directors described under the Hawaii Nonprofit Corporations Act.

CPC, JUD

783

RELATING TO MORTGAGE FORECLOSURES.

Amends Chapter 667, Hawaii Revised Statutes, by repealing the provisions relating to nonjudicial foreclosure: foreclosure by power of sale, and alternate power of sale foreclosure.

CPC, JUD

784

RELATING TO CABLE TELEVISION.

Requires cable franchise fees paid in connection with the provision of cable service in Maui County to be distributed to Maui community college, DOE, Maui County, and Maui's PEG access entity.

CPC, FIN

785

RELATING TO MORTGAGE FORECLOSURES.

Adds provisions governing foreclosure by power of sale to the time share plan law.

CPC

786

RELATING TO RENEWABLE ENERGY.

Provides for the organization of renewable energy cooperatives to generate, transmit, and sell electricity to their membership; authorizes issuance of revenue bonds to finance costs related to constructing, upgrading, and acquiring transmission facilities; exempts cooperatives from the public utilities commission regulation, except for interconnection agreements.

EEP, CPC, FIN

787

RELATING TO TAX CREDITS.

Provides a food/excise tax and medical services tax credit.

EDB, HLT, FIN

788

RELATING TO GENERAL EXCISE TAX.

Excludes medical services and equipment from the general excise tax.

EDB, HLT, FIN

789

RELATING TO PENSION PLANS.

Protects 408A pension plans from attachment, execution, seizure, and operation of bankruptcy laws. Makes conforming amendments.

JUD

790

RELATING TO PAHOA HIGH AND INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL.

Authorizes the issuance of $3,650,000 in general obligation bonds for the construction of a gymnasium at Pahoa High and Intermediate School.

FIN

791

RELATING TO INTERNATIONAL MARITIME JURISDICTION.

Provides a short form vehicle relating to international maritime jurisdiction.

INT, TRN

792

RELATING TO INTERNATIONAL TRADE.

Provides a short form vehicle relating to international trade.

INT

793

RELATING TO SISTER-STATE AGREEMENTS.

Provides a short form vehicle relating to sister-state agreements.

INT

794

RELATING TO INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS.

Provides a short form vehicle relating to international affairs.

INT

795

RELATING TO COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT.

Requires that shoreline setbacks be established at a distance inland from the shoreline equal to 50 times the annual erosion rate for the area, based on historic aerial photographs or the shoreline setback line established by the county, whichever is greater. Bans the construction of new seawalls and groins except where variances allowed for DOT.

WLO, TRN

796

RELATING TO FISHING.

Prohibits fishing with gill nets throughout the State. Imposes administrative fines.

WLO, JUD

797

RELATING TO RENEWABLE ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES.

Repeals the sunset date of January 1, 2008 for the Renewable Energy Technologies Tax Credit.

EEP, CPC, FIN

798

RELATING TO PUBLIC ACCESS.

Prohibits gated communities that deny public access to any coastal shoreline or mountain or inland areas used for recreational or cultural purposes.

WLO, JUD

799

RELATING TO ELECTIONS.

Allows requests for a manual recount of any precinct election result provided that the requestor pays fees for recount. Authorizes the chief election officer to adopt rules.

JUD, FIN

800

RELATING TO SCHOOLS.

Specifies that certificates of participation for new school construction will not be paid out of the department of education's operating budget. Establishes the public school facility financing agreement special fund to finance new schools when new school construction is not fully funded.

EDN, FIN

801

RELATING TO CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES.

Requires establishment of CPS proceedings database. Defines "abuse". Requires state criminal conviction 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.

HUS, JUD, FIN

802

RELATING TO INDIVIDUAL DEVELOPMENT ACCOUNT CONTRIBUTION TAX CREDIT.

Increases the individual development account contribution tax credit from 50% of the amount contributed to 100% of the amount contributed.

HUS, FIN

803

RELATING TO THE HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF HAWAII.

Requires the auditor to do a financial, program, and management audit of the housing and community development corporation of Hawaii.

HSG, LMG, FIN

804

RELATING TO HOUSING.

Requires the HCDCH to deduct 30% of a family's earned income when calculating their rent for federal low-income housing purposes.

HSG, FIN

805

RELATING TO AUDITS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HAWAIIAN HOME LANDS.

Requires the Legislative Auditor to conduct a financial, program, and management audit of the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands.

HAW/HSG, FIN

806

RELATING TO CRIMINAL TRESPASS.

Repeals amendments to section 708-814, Hawaii Revised Statutes, made by Act 50, Session Laws of Hawaii 2004.

JUD

807

RELATING TO CHILDREN.

Requires, rather than allows, the use of an ohana conference, which is to include a discussion of the feasibility of placing the child with a member of the child's extended family, for family decision making in the preparation of a service plan before placing a child in foster care.

HUS, JUD

808

RELATING TO STATE TAX AMNESTY.

Establishes a state tax amnesty program from 10/1/05 to 12/31/05. Provides for waivers of criminal prosecution and all civil penalties that are assessed or subject to be assessed for outstanding taxable periods ending or transactions occurring on or before 12/31/04.

JUD, FIN

809

RELATING TO FOSTER CARE.

Requires foster care providers to honor a foster child's family's instruction regarding the child's religion. Prohibits foster care providers from forcing foster children to participate in the providers' religious practices.

HUS, JUD

810

RELATING TO TAX CREDITS.

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

FIN

811

RELATING TO THE HOMELESS.

Relating to the Homeless.

HSG

812

RELATING TO NATIVE HAWAIIANS.

Relating to Native Hawaiians.

HSG

813

RELATING TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING.

Short form bill relating to affordable housing.

HSG

814

RELATING TO ELDERLY HOUSING.

Amends the Hawaii Revised Statutes relating to elderly housing.

HSG

815

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE WAIANAE COST COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH CENTER.

Appropriates funds for emergency services at the Waianae Coast Comprehensive Health Center.

HLT, FIN

816

RELATING TO MANAGEMENT ZONES.

Establishes a management zone for limu harvest.

WLO/HAW, JUD

817

RELATING TO ELECTRONIC COMMERCE.

Establishes a method by which to tax electronic commerce. Directs the department of taxation to make recommendations on how to amend existing general excise tax to conform with the model streamlined sales and use tax agreement.

EDB, FIN

818

RELATING TO COURTS.

Exempts from jury service persons who live great distances from the court for which jury service is required.

JUD

819

RELATING TO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.

Establishes procedures for the designation of two renaissance zones in the State; exempts from income and general excise tax liability certain amounts of income derived by developers from renaissance zones.

EDB, FIN

820

RELATING TO AGRICULTURE.

Appropriates $200,000 to plan a terminal market pilot program on the Big Island; appropriates $50,000 for the Department of Agriculture (DOA) to hire a consultant to assist in planning terminal markets; authorizes $3,000,000 in general obligation bonds to finance construction and equipment for a terminal market and vacuum cooling plant on the island of Hawaii; requires the consultant to work with DOA to form a Committee relating to terminal markets.

AGR/EDB, FIN

821

RELATING TO LAND USE.

Short form bill relating to land use.

EDB

822

RELATING TO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.

Short form bill relating to economic development.

EDB

823

RELATING TO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.

Short form bill relating to economic development.

EDB

824

RELATING TO TELECOMMUNICATION.

Short form bill relating to telecommunication.

EDB

825

RELATING TO TELECOMMUNICATION.

Short form bill relating to telecommunication.

EDB

826

RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLE REGISTRATION.

Allows rental or U-drive companies to register their motor vehicles every two years.

TRN, CPC, FIN

827

RELATING TO BOATING.

Establishes minimum fee for commercial permit in small boat facilities; requires all fees and penalties form small boat facilities are deposited in boating special fund.

WLO/TRN, FIN

828

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR A NEW MAUI HARBOR.

Making an appropriation of $2,000,000 for plans to establish a new harbor on Maui

TRN, FIN

829

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO HALE MAHAOLU FOR PERSONAL CARE PROGRAM.

Makes a grant-in-aid appropriation to Hale Mahaolu for its personal care program.

HUS, FIN

830

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE MAUI AIDS FOUNDATION.

Appropriates funds as grant-in-aid to Maui AIDS Foundation to improve the quality of life for those affected by HIV and AIDS through comprehensive, integrative client and case management services.

HLT, FIN

831

RELATING TO IMPACT FEES.

Creates state educational facilities impact fee trust fund; authorizes the Department of Education to assess and collect impact fees by intergovernmental agreement with a count as fair share contributions by developers for the construction of state public school facilities after the preparation of a needs assessment study.

EDN, EDB/WLO, FIN

832

RELATING TO WORKERS' COMPENSATION.

Establishes criteria for evaluating and approving attorney's fees.

LAB, CPC/JUD

833

RELATING TO PROPERTY RIGHTS.

Makes owner of residential real property immune from liability for damages suffered by a person who trespasses with intent to commit a crime. Makes trespass on the premises of a dwelling a misdemeanor. Makes theft of property from the premises of a dwelling a misdemeanor.

WLO, JUD

834

RELATING TO FINANCIAL SERVICE LOAN COMPANIES.

Allows financial services loan companies to impose certain fees and charges with regard to a consumer loan unless specifically prohibited by statute or by the commissioner by rule.

CPC

835

RELATING TO TIME SHARING PLANS.

Narrows gift and prize disclosures relating to time shares. Amends content requirements and places of posting time share signs. Excludes money paid for an activity, product, or service from prohibition on developer receipt of sums from prospective purchasers.

TAC, CPC

836

RELATING TO SMALL BUSINESS.

Creates the small business advocate position within the department of business, economic development, and tourism.

EDB, FIN

837

RELATING TO TEMPORARY PARTIAL DISABILITY BENEFITS.

Authorizes temporary partial disability benefits for employees who require occasional medical treatment during working hours for a work injury for which the employees are not otherwise receiving disability benefits.

LAB, FIN

838

RELATING TO WORKERS' COMPENSATION.

Establishes factors for the appellate board or supreme court to consider in deciding whether to award attorney's fees and costs to an employee who wins on appeal. Makes the awarding of costs, together with attorney's fees and costs, discretionary.

LAB, CPC/JUD

839

RELATING TO TEMPORARY TOTAL DISABILITY BENEFITS.

Specifies that temporary total disability benefits may be terminated only upon an administrative finding that the employee may return to work or a written agreement that benefits may be terminated. Triggers an administrative hearing once the claimant does not agree with the employer that benefits should be terminated.

LAB, FIN

840

RELATING TO TEMPORARY TOTAL DISABILITY.

Eliminates the 3 day waiting period for receiving temporary total disability benefits.

LAB, FIN

841

RELATING TO EDUCATION.

Repeals the school-to-work executive council, as the program's key initiatives have been established under other public and private entities.

EDN/LAB, FIN

842

AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF BONDS FOR EDUCATION PURPOSES.

Authorizes director of finance to issue bonds to subsidize school renovation, equipment acquisition, curriculum development, and teacher training in qualified zones and schools.

EDN, FIN

843

RELATING TO SCHOOL LUNCH.

Authorizes the department of education to set school lunch prices to allow for the recovery from lunch sales of up to 1/2, rather than 1/3, of the costs of preparing the lunches.

EDN, FIN

844

RELATING TO EDUCATION.

Requires a principal to obtain the school community council's "review and recommendations" of academic and financial plans rather than its "review and approval" of those plans. Requires a council to ensure that those plans are "consistent" with educational accountability, rather than "aligned".

EDN

845

RELATING TO CRIMINAL HISTORY RECORD CHECKS.

Requires the Department of Education to conduct criminal history record checks on providers or subcontractors and institute of higher education trains who work and train in close proximity to children.

EDN/HED, JUD, FIN

846

MAKING AN EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION FOR SERVICES TO CHILDREN WITH AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER AND FOR SCHOOL-BASED BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICES.

Makes emergency appropriation for services for children with autism spectrum disorder and for school-based behavioral health services.

EDN, FIN

847

RELATING TO EDUCATION.

Establishes an advisory salary commission to make recommendations on substitute teacher compensation.

EDN/LAB, FIN

848

RELATING TO EXTERNAL REVIEW.

Amends provisions relating to external review for members of health care plans

HLT, CPC, JUD

849

RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE TWENTY-EIGHTH REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT.

Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects for the benefit of the 28th representative district.

FIN

850

RELATING TO BED AND BREAKFAST HOMES AND TRANSIENT VACATION UNITS.

Provides that bed and breakfast homes and transient vacation units are permitted residential uses and allows regulation of these facilities.

TAC/WLO, JUD, FIN

851

RELATING TO STANDARDS OF CONDUCT.

Lowers the value of a gift that must be reported by a legislator or government employee, spouse or dependent child of a legislator or government employee from $200 to $100.

LMG, JUD

852

RELATING TO PERMIT APPROVALS.

Repeals automatic permit approvals.

WLO/EDB, FIN

853

RELATING TO RESTRICTIVE COVENANTS.

Prohibits employers from requiring employees to enter into unreasonable restrictive covenants that bar a former employee from engaging in a similar working capacity within the former employee's profession.

LAB, JUD

854

RELATING TO MEDICAL LIABILITY.

Sets a cap of $250,000 on noneconomic damages that may be recovered from a physician or surgeon in a medical liability action for emergency care services provided in the emergency room of a hospital.

HLT, CPC, JUD

855

RELATING TO MUTUAL BENEFIT SOCIETIES.

Requires the administrative board of a mutual benefit society to have representatives from small businesses, provider networks, large businesses, and consumer interests. Gives the insurance commissioner increased authority to provide equitable relief and legal remedies on behalf of aggrieved members.

CPC, FIN

856

RELATING TO JURY DUTY.

Exempts persons who are 70 years of age or older from jury duty.

JUD

857

RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLES.

Requires the director of transportation to include decibel tests as part of the official motor vehicle safety inspection rules.

TRN, JUD

858

RELATING TO TAX REFUNDS.

Establishes the procedure to appeal the denial by the department of taxation of a claim for a refund of taxes.

JUD, FIN

859

RELATING TO HEARING AID DEALERS AND FITTERS.

Exempts the sale of hearing aids (and related services) from the general excise tax.

HLT/EDB, FIN

860

RELATING TO EXPERIMENTAL MODERNIZATION PROJECTS.

Repeals the authority of state and county human resource directors and the county board of water supply directors to conduct experimental modernization projects for their human resource programs.

LAB, FIN

861

RELATING TO INSURANCE.

Excludes from the definition of "employment" under workers' compensation law: (1) service performed by a sole proprietor or a partner of a partnership, as defined in the partnership law, if the partner is an individual; and (2) service performed by a member of an LLC if the member is an individual and has a distributional interest, as defined under the Uniform Limited Liability Company Act, of at least 50% in the company.

LAB, CPC/JUD

862

RELATING TO TRAFFIC OFFENSES.

Establishes the petty misdemeanor offense of excessive speeding which is defined as 30 or miles per hour over the speed limit or 90 miles per hour or more irrespective of the speed limit.

TRN, JUD

863

RELATING TO THE PETROLEUM INDUSTRY.

Establishes petroleum industry monitoring, analysis, and reporting special fund. Changes types of information the petroleum industry must submit to department of business, economic development, and tourism. Makes appropriations from the special fund to implement this Act.

EEP, CPC/JUD, FIN

864

RELATING TO COUNTIES.

Extends the several counties' authority to regulate billboards and other outdoor advertising devices to include the airspace or waters beyond the boundaries of a county that are visible from any public place within the county.

WLO, JUD

865

RELATING TO CABLE TELEVISION ACCESS ORGANIZATIONS.

Requires DCCA director to include requirements for public access to records and meetings of PEG access organizations in organization contracts.

CPC, JUD

866

RELATING TO ANIMAL CRUELTY.

Makes it a class C felony to kill, distribute, or purchase any stray or stolen dog or cat for the purpose of human consumption.

JUD

867

RELATING TO STIMULATING TECHNOLOGICAL GROWTH IN HAWAII.

Exempts the department of business, economic development, and tourism and certain administratively attached agencies from the state procurement code.

EDB, LAB/JUD, FIN

868

RELATING TO CEMETERIES.

Requires a record and the identification of the deceased interred in cemetery plots, crypts, and niches and an annual update of that record. Also prohibits disinterment of plots, crypts, or niches without prior approval and notice.

CPC, JUD

869

RELATING TO TRAFFIC FINES.

Adds a surcharge of 50% to each fine levied for a violation of any section or provision of the statewide traffic code. Requires the director of finance to distribute the amount of the surcharge to the county in which the violation occurred.

TRN, JUD, FIN

870

RELATING TO PIT BULL DOGS.

Provides that pit bull owners are strictly liable for damages suffered by any person who is bitten by the dog.

JUD

871

RELATING TO THE CHILD PROTECTIVE ACT.

Protects child from being removed from a guardianship if parent cannot show substantial change in circumstances. Allows parent the opportunity to file for dissolution of a guardianship if it is shown that a safe home can be provided.

HUS, JUD

872

RELATING TO JURORS.

Exempts emergency medical services personnel from serving as jurors.

JUD

873

RELATING TO OFFENSES AGAINST THE PERSON.

Adds violence against health care professionals to the offenses of assault in the second degree and terroristic threatening in the first degree. Defective effective date included.

HLT, JUD

874

RELATING TO CRIME VICTIM COMPENSATION COMMISSION.

Excludes the crime victim special fund from transfers from special funds for central service expenses and from responsibility for its pro rata share of administrative expenses. Allows the crime victim compensation commission to order payment or compensation for mental health services for surviving relatives. Allows garnishment moneys of a committed person to be claimed for crime victim compensation fees.

PSM, JUD, FIN

875

RELATING TO GOVERNMENT.

Short form bill relating to government.

JUD

876

RELATING TO COURTS.

Short form bill relating to courts.

JUD

877

RELATING TO CRIME.

Short form bill relating to crime.

JUD

878

RELATING TO THE JUDICIARY.

Short form bill relating to the judiciary.

JUD

879

RELATING TO THE PENAL CODE.

Short form bill relating to the penal code.

JUD

880

RELATING TO THE COUNTIES.

Establishes that counties shall not require neighborhood board approval of a church/nonprofit corporation operated after school program when considering the program for zoning or permitting approval.

HUS, JUD

881

RELATING TO HAZARDOUS LAND.

Requires each county to identify hazardous land areas; adopt standards for building in hazardous land areas, and enact ordinances to implement standards.

WLO, JUD, FIN

882

RELATING TO ZONING.

Requires each county to enact zoning ordinances to protect against land slides and rock slides.

WLO, JUD, FIN

883

RELATING TO LANDLORD LIABILITY.

Extends liability to landlord for unlawful acts of a tenant if landlord had actual or constructive notice of tenant's unlawful conduct.

HSG, JUD

884

RELATING TO CONDOMINIUMS AND COOPERATIVE HOUSING CORPORATIONS.

Grants right of first refusal of fee interest in a leasehold condominium or cooperative housing corporation to a non-offering co-owner or co-lessor before lessees.

CPC, JUD

885

RELATING TO CHILD SUPPORT.

Repeals requirement that child support be paid for adult child enrolled in an institution of higher education. Permits court to order such support if parties agree.

JUD

886

PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE VI, SECTION 4 OF THE HAWAII STATE CONSTITUTION, TO CLARIFY THE COMPOSITION OF THE JUDICIAL SELECTION COMMISSION.

Proposes a constitutional amendment to provide that no member of the judicial selection commission shall receive any compensation from any party to 5 or more lawsuits pending in the state courts.

JUD, FIN

887

RELATING TO LEGISLATIVE INQUIRIES.

Assists the Legislature in its fact-finding and promotes complete and truthful disclosure by prohibiting the payment of salaries of state employees who coerce, intimidate, or otherwise prevent subordinates from sharing public information at legislative hearings or in response to other legislative functions.

LAB, JUD

888

RELATING TO LICENSING FEES.

Requires the Director of the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs to waive the licensing fees for any social worker employed by the State or county government.

CPC/HUS, FIN

889

RELATING TO HIGHWAY SAFETY.

Requires truck drivers to report recapped tire blowouts occurring on the highway to the highways division of the department of transportation within one hour of the blowout; imposes fine for failure to report blowout within one hour.

TRN, JUD

890

RELATING TO THE HAWAII NATIONAL GUARD.

Provides reimbursement for law and medical school tuition paid retroactive to the 2001-2002 school year. Limits reimbursement to guardsmen that have been deployed on active duty to a combat zone.

PSM, HED, FIN

891

RELATING TO PUBLIC CONTRACTS.

Requires contractors on public works construction contracts to comply with department of labor and industrial relations specifications for staffing requirements.

EDB, LAB, FIN

892

RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLES.

Aims to relieve morning traffic congestion and lessen the number of accidents by prohibiting the operation of certain commercial and other large motor vehicles on public streets and highways between the hours of 5 a.m. to 9 a.m.

TRN/EDB, CPC/JUD

893

RELATING TO STATE PARKS.

Appropriates moneys to fund lifeguard services at Makena State beach park.

FIN

894

RELATING TO ELECTIONS.

Removes the requirement that the precinct chair be of the same political party as the governor.

JUD

895

RELATING TO COASTAL LIGHT POLLUTION.

Prohibits in a special management area artificial lights that are positioned toward or directly illuminate the ocean, unless such light is authorized and required for public safety or safe ocean navigation.

EEP/WLO, JUD

896

RELATING TO EDUCATION.

Amends article X, section 6 of the Hawaii Constitution to allow modifications to the UH board of regents appointment process and establishes the candidate advisory council to screen and propose candidates for the board.

HED, JUD, FIN

897

RELATING TO EDUCATION.

Modifies the UH board of regents appointment process and establishes the candidate advisory council to screen and propose candidates for the board in order to conform with constitutional amendments.

HED, JUD, FIN

898

PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE XI, SECTION 1 OF THE HAWAII CONSTITUTION, TO REQUIRE USE AND PROTECTION OF HAWAII'S NATURAL RESOURCES IN A MANNER CONSISTENT WITH THEIR SUSTAINABILITY.

Proposing an amendment to article XI, section 1, of the Hawaii constitution, to require use and protection of Hawaii's natural resources in a manner consistent with their sustainability.

WLO, JUD, FIN

899

RELATING TO THE LEGISLATURE.

Amends article III of the state constitution to prohibit a legislator with a personal, private, or professional interest in a measure from voting on the measure. Amends the law to conform with the proposed constitutional amendment.

LMG, JUD, FIN

900

RELATING TO WAGES AND HOURS OF EMPLOYEES.

Redefines "public work" to include any private project receiving over $1,000,000 in public subsidies, including tax credits, in order to require payment of prevailing wages to employees working on the project.

LAB/EDB, FIN

901

RELATING TO PUBLIC ACCOUNTANCY.

Establishes reciprocity for public accountants.

CPC, JUD

902

RELATING TO ETHICS.

Requires the Senate and the House of Representatives to establish a standing committee on ethics.

LMG, JUD, FIN

903

RELATING TO SCHOOLS.

Requires the department of education to establish a priority list of public schools with the greatest need for air conditioning and to install, based on the priority list, air conditioning in schools on the priority list by set time intervals.

EDN, FIN

904

RELATING TO AIR TRANSPORTATION.

Allows the department of business, economic development, and tourism to guarantee loans made to a Hawaii air carrier who operates within the State or between points within the State.

TRN/EDB, JUD, FIN

905

RELATING TO COUNTY LIQUOR COMMISSIONS.

Allows counties to regulate the liquor commissions within their own jurisdiction. Allows the counties to adopt ordinances that are consistent with, or more stringent than, with the intoxicating liquor statutes.

JUD

906

RELATING TO LEGISLATIVE PROCEEDINGS ON THE INTERNET.

Appropriates funds for legislative media streaming to provide audio and video streaming of legislative proceedings over the internet.

LMG, FIN

907

RELATING TO THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE STATE ETHICS COMMISSION.

Authorizes the ethics commission to determine the salary of executive director without statutory restraints.

LMG, JUD, FIN

908

RELATING TO EDUCATION.

Grants school credit to students serving on state boards, councils, and associations.

EDN, JUD

909

RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLES.

Requires the Department of Transportation to adopt rules implementing the vehicle emission standards of California and rules for inspection of vehicle emission systems.

EEP, TRN, CPC

910

RELATING TO EDUCATION.

Appropriates funds for community-based youth leadership development camps on all islands in the State. Appoints the state student council to oversee the planning, implementation, and evaluation of these camps.

EDN, FIN

911

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE "ROADS IN LIMBO" PROGRAM IN HAWAII COUNTY.

Appropriates $2,000,000 to maintain and repair roads in the "roads in limbo" program in Hawaii county.

TRN, FIN

912

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR SMALL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT.

Appropriates funds to support the statewide economic development program of the Hawaii Small Business Development Center Network.

EDB, FIN

913

RELATING TO THE HAWAII COUNTY BOARD OF WATER SUPPLY.

Amends the number of members on the board of water supply and the method of appointment. Allows the vice-chairperson to execute contracts, documents of transfer, and vouchers for money disbursements. Allows the board to acquire property in its name.

WLO, JUD, FIN

914

RELATING TO DIGITAL MEDIA.

Changes the motion picture and film production income tax credit to an unspecified amount against a taxpayer's income tax and transient accommodations tax liability.

TAC/EDB, FIN

915

AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS AND MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE STATE ART GALLERY.

Authorizes issuance of general obligation bonds in the sum of $300,000 for renovations to the State Art Gallery.

TAC, FIN

916

RELATING TO BED AND BREAKFAST HOMES AND TRANSIENT VACATION UNITS.

Provides for the regulation of bed and breakfast establishments to be administered by the counties.

TAC/WLO, JUD, FIN

917

RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLES.

Exempts disabled veterans, prisoners of war, and Congressional Medal of Honor recipients from state and county vehicular weight taxes.

PSM/TRN, FIN

918

RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLES.

Requires the state director of finance to transmit revenues received from all traffic violations or infractions to the police department of the county in which the traffic infraction occurred to recruit and retain qualified police officers and establish satellite police stations

TRN, JUD, FIN

919

RELATING TO USE OF INTOXICANTS.

Permits the forfeiture of a vehicle for conviction of operating a vehicle under the influence of an intoxicant within 5 years of 2 prior convictions or conviction of habitually operating a vehicle under the influence of an intoxicant.

TRN, JUD

920

RELATING TO REVENUE BONDS FOR MAUI MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER.

Authorizes issuance of revenue bonds in a principal amount not to exceed $22,000,000 to finance construction of a parking structure at Maui Memorial Medical Center.

FIN

921

RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE NINTH REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT.

Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects for the benefit of the 9th Representative District.

FIN

922

RELATING TO THE HAWAII HEALTH SYSTEMS CORPORATION.

Alters HHSC board membership by having governor appoint 10 members, 5 each from house speaker and senate president nominees (3 nominees per position). Increases physician member term from 2 to 4 years; alters manner of appointment. Restricts advisory capacity of regional committee to the CEO of the HHSC only.

HLT, FIN

923

RELATING TO COUNTY TAXES.

Authorizes a county to impose the general excise tax.

EDB, FIN

924

AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS AND MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE FORTY-SECOND REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT.

Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds and appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the 42nd representative district.

FIN

925

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO STUDY THE FEASIBILITY OF BUILDING A MOTOR VEHICLE AND RAILWAY TUNNEL UNDER HONOLULU HARBOR.

Appropriates funds to update study of the feasibility of building a tunnel under Honolulu harbor. Requires feasibility study to consider expansion of tunnel to include railway technology. Requires identification of available sources of federal funding. Appropriates funds.

TRN, FIN

926

RELATING TO SPECIAL ELECTIONS.

Changes manner of filling vacancy in the state house of representatives. Requires central committee of party of person to be replaced to submit to governor three nominees to fill vacancy and governor appoints replacement from those nominees. Establishes notice requirements; provides that special election to fill house vacancy shall use instant runoff voting system; directs chief election officer to develop an instant runoff voting system.

LMG, JUD, FIN

927

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO ENSURE QUALITY STAFFING AND FACILITIES AT MILILANI MIDDLE SCHOOL UNDER THE MULTI-TRACK SCHOOL SYSTEM.

Provides funding for staff and facilities funding to ensure that the intent of multi-track schooling does not result in a lower quality education for Mililani middle school.

EDN, FIN

928

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR MILILANI HIGH SCHOOL.

Appropriates funds for a new telephone system at Mililani high school.

FIN

929

RELATING TO THE CAPITOL.

Prohibits any decrease in the number of public parking spaces in the state capitol underground parking facility during the first 6 months of each calendar year.

LMG, FIN

930

RELATING TO PREVAILING WAGES.

Appropriates funds for Hawaii's contribution to the costs of the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws and for related registration and travel expenses.

EDB/LAB, FIN

931

RELATING TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING.

Creates an exemption for the development of workforce housing and affordable housing on leased residential lots.

WLO/HSG, FIN

932

RELATING TO SUBSTANCE ABUSE.

Allows a court, in its discretion, to order 14 days of inpatient treatment in civil commitment proceedings.

JUD

933

RELATING TO INSURANCE PRODUCERS.

Eliminates retesting and renewal requirements for insurance producers.

CPC, JUD

934

RELATING TO ELDERLY HOUSING.

Short form bill.

HSG

935

RELATING TO HOUSING.

Short form bill.

HSG

936

RELATING TO TRANSITIONAL HOUSING.

Short form bill.

HSG

937

RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES.

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

HUS, FIN

938

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 by the child's family and makes decision available to court in any subsequent proceedings. Adds persons who represents family interest to those who may be appointed to review panel.

HUS, JUD

939

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR EMERGENCY SOCIAL WORK AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE INTERVENTION.

Appropriates $    and $     to DOH and DHS, respectively, to fund emergency intervention by substance abuse employees and social workers for ice-affected families on a 24-hour basis, 7 days a week.

HLT/HUS, FIN

940

RELATING TO CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES.

Establishes restrictions on purchases or ephedrine or pseudoephedrine; limits purchases to no more than 9 grams of ephedrine or pseudoephedrine, unless the product is pursuant to a valid prescription.

HLT, JUD

941

RELATING TO TRADITIONAL HAWAIIAN HEALING PRACTICES.

Changes "panel" to "kupuna council" in relation to regulating traditional native Hawaii healing practices. Makes the kupuna council independent from the State and authorizes any individual regardless of race or ethnic origin to be certified by the kupuna council as a traditional Hawaiian healer.

HAW/HLT, CPC/JUD

942

RELATING TO PAHOA HIGH AND INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL.

Authorizes the issuance of $3,650,000 in general obligation bonds for the construction of a gymnasium at Pahoa High and Intermediate School.

EDN, FIN

943

RELATING TO VOTING.

Allows voters to vote for declared candidates other than those listed on the preprinted ballot through a write-in voting procedure.

JUD, FIN

944

RELATING TO ETHICS.

Lowers threshold for reporting requirement from $200 to $100. Clarifies that receipt of gifts is controlled by section 84-11, Hawaii Revised Statutes, exclusively.

LMG, JUD

945

RELATING TO ELECTIONS.

Provides for ranked choice voting in all state and county elections; establishes the process and procedures for counting votes and certifying election results using the ranked choice methodology.

JUD, FIN

946

RELATING TO COLLECTIVE BARGAINING IN PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT.

Creates a collective bargaining unit for lecturers at the University of Hawaii. Allows the members of bargaining unit (14) to strike.

HED, LAB, FIN

947

RELATING TO TOBACCO.

Requires license for retail sales of tobacco. Sets license fee of $5,000. Triples fines for sales of tobacco to minors from $500 to $1,500 for a 1st offense.

HLT, JUD, FIN

948

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

Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects for the benefit of the 39th District.

FIN

949

RELATING TO THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE DEFERRED COMPENSATION PLAN.

Increases from 3 to 5 the number of members of the board of trustees of the state deferred compensation plan who must be public employees. Requires that the public employees be elected by the plan members.

LAB, FIN

950

RELATING TO MOTION PICTURE AND FILM PRODUCTION.

Increases the motion picture and film production tax credit from 4% to 15% (20% on neighbor islands) and provides minimum qualification to obtain tax credit.

TAC, EDB, FIN

951

RELATING TO FIREARMS.

Specifies that lawfully acquired rifles or shotguns and suitable ammunition may be carried and used while actually engaged in lawful hunting or lawful target shooting.

PSM/WLO, JUD

952

RELATING TO REAL PROPERTY TAX.

Requires lands subject to substantial agricultural activities to be assessed at agricultural value and taxed at agricultural rate. Defines "substantial agricultural activities".

WLO/AGR, FIN

953

RELATING TO DROUGHT.

Requires the Commission on Water Resource Management of the Department of Land and Natural Resources to establish a Hawaii drought preparedness plan to be included in the Hawaii Water Plan to improve state drought monitoring, planning, mitigation, and response efforts.

WLO, FIN

954

MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR AGRICULTURAL INFRASTRUCTURE.

Appropriates $200,000 for planning and construction of the Honomalino Irrigation System and $500,000 to prepare the Agricultural Water Use and Development Plan.

AGR, FIN

955

RELATING TO DROUGHT MITIGATING FACILITIES.

Promotes the construction of drought mitigating water storage facilities by increasing the amount of the Drought Mitigating Water Storage Facilities Tax Credit to 20 percent, repealing the date after which the Tax Credit is no longer available, and including costs for ancillary structures as qualifying costs for the Tax Credit.

WLO/AGR, FIN

956

RELATING TO MILITARY SERVICE.

Recognition of and appreciation for Hawaii residents who serve on active duty in Iraq or Afghanistan.

PSM, LMG, FIN

957

RELATING TO TAXATION.

Provides for a state earned income tax credit.

FIN

958

RELATING TO INFRASTRUCTURE.

Establishes impact fees for roads, community health centers and hospitals, and public school improvements.

EDB, TRN/HLT, EDN, FIN

959

RELATING TO CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES.

Establishes community inpatient drug treatment centers in each state senatorial district by 2010. Requires certain parolees to give lectures on the dangers of methamphetamine at high schools. Adds substances used to produce methamphetamine to the list of controlled substances. Appropriates funds for county detectives investigating methamphetamine cases.

HLT/PSM, JUD, FIN

960

RELATING TO THE BATOIDEA ORDER THAT INCLUDES MANTA RAYS.

Protects manta rays from poaching and commercial fishing by making it illegal to knowingly capture or kill a manta ray in state waters.

WLO, JUD

961

RELATING TO HEALTHCARE.

Requires the Department of Health to ensure the establishment of community health centers and satellite community health centers throughout the state.

HLT, FIN

962

RELATING TO VOTER REGISTRATION.

Appropriates $200,000 for a pilot project that provides for the automatic voter registration of newly licensed drivers who qualify for voter registration but have never registered to vote.

JUD, FIN

963

RELATING TO RURAL HEALTH CARE.

Establishes the Hawaii Health Corps Program to provide health care to underserved areas of the state.

HLT, FIN

964

RELATING TO THE IMPLEMENTATION OF QUALIFYING MEDICAL INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY.

Provides a general excise tax exemption for qualifying medical information technology costs to physicians.

HLT/EDB, FIN

965

RELATING TO RETIREMENT BENEFITS.

Increases the percentage by which the Employees Retirement System allowance on service retirement is calculated, by adding .125 per cent for every year served as a teacher, nurse, or legislative employee, to a maximum of 2.5 per cent.

LAB, FIN

966

RELATING TO ELECTRONIC VOTING.

Requires the generation of a paper ballot for the use of electronic voting systems. Authorizes reliance on electronic voting system vote tallies under certain conditions. Makes it election fraud to tamper with an electronic voting system to cause an inaccurate tally.

JUD, FIN

967

RELATING TO HEALTH.

Requires DOH to publish food establishment violations on its web site each month. Requires a food establishment, upon request, to permit a customer to view a copy of the current inspection report, including inspection findings, any violation found, and any penalty. Imposes a fine for noncompliance.

HLT, FIN

968

RELATING TO OFFENSES AGAINST THE PERSON.

Adds violence against health care professionals to the offenses of assault in the second degree and terroristic threatening in the first degree. Defective effective date included.

HLT, JUD

969

RELATING TO NEW CENTURY CONVERSION CHARTER SCHOOLS.

Prohibits the DOE from using the minimum annual contribution by a nonprofit organization to reduce, suspend, or offset its normal budgetary allocation to a new century conversion charter school.

EDN, FIN

970

RELATING TO EMERGENCY RELIEF FOR NATURAL DISASTERS.

Authorizes the governor to order the release of up to ten per cent of moneys in the emergency and budget reserve fund for emergency assistance to residents and businesses sustaining damage from natural disasters; makes an appropriation for emergency assistance.

PSM, FIN

971

RELATING TO FAMILY COURT.

Redefines joint custody as shared parenting or equal parenting time as developed in a parenting plan. Creates a rebuttable presumption in favor of shared parenting in all custody actions involving children.

HUS, JUD

972

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII.

Appropriates funds for the University of Hawaii legislative internship program to raise stipends for student participants to $3,000; applies retroactively to the interns participating in the 2005 Legislative Session.

HED, LMG, FIN

973

RELATING TO CONDOMINIUMS.

Requires a managing agent wishing to lease part of the managed property to obtain a third party appraisal and prohibits its co-employment of an AOAO employee. Requires the consideration of a minimum of 2 bids for the property management contract.

CPC

974

RELATING TO SEX OFFENDER REGISTRATION.

Clarifies the manner and extent of public access to registration information; and the procedure for terminating public release of sex offender registration information.

JUD

975

RELATING TO GENETICALLY ENGINEERED CROPS.

Prohibits genetically engineered food crops or feed crops from being planted in the open for purposes of testing and production of pharmaceutical and industrial chemicals to prevent the food supply from becoming contaminated by pharmaceutical drugs and industrial chemicals. Allows production and testing of these crops in facilities that are environmentally controlled against the release of pollen into the air.

EDB/AGR, JUD

976

RELATING TO WORKERS' COMPENSATION.

Places restrictions on acceptable vocational rehabilitation plans. Specifies conditions under which the director shall approve rehabilitation plans. Subjects plans to performance reviews.

LAB, CPC

977

RELATING TO WORKERS' COMPENSATION.

Authorizes an employer to mandate that an injured employee whose injury is compensable under workers' compensation to select from an employer designated healthcare provider list.

LAB, CPC

978

RELATING TO WORKERS' COMPENSATION.

Specifies further conditions under which temporary total disability benefits for workers' compensation may be terminated. Authorizes continuation of benefits upon a finding that maximum medical improvement has not been achieved or that the injury is deteriorating.

LAB, CPC

979

RELATING TO WORKERS' COMPENSATION.

Establishes a definition for the term "attending physician". Excludes from the definition of "employment" service performed by a member of a limited liability company, a partner of a partnership, a partner of a limited liability partnership, and a sole proprietor. Establishes a definition for the term "maximum medical improvement". Establishes a definition for the term "palliative care".

LAB, CPC, FIN

980

RELATING TO STRESS CLAIMS UNDER THE STATE'S WORKERS' COMPENSATION LAW.

Expands prohibition of stress-related claims for workers' compensation to include all lawful personnel actions.

LAB, CPC, JUD

981

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR A STUDY ON 24-HOUR COVERAGE.

Funds a study group to address 24-hour coverage.

HLT/LAB, CPC, FIN

982

RELATING TO THE DETERMINATION OF PERMANENT IMPAIRMENT UNDER THE STATE'S WORKERS' COMPENSATION LAW.

Requires employer-requested medical examinations for workers' compensation cases involving the determination of permanent impairment to be performed by a physician selected by mutual agreement of the parties, or if no agreement, by a physician appointed by the director of the department of labor and industrial relations.

LAB, CPC, FIN

983

RELATING TO THE SPECIAL COMPENSATION FUND.

Authorizes the department of labor and industrial relations to utilize funds from the special compensation fund to contract personnel to monitor vocational rehabilitation recipients compensable under workers' compensation. Requires an injured employee's employer to approve the employee's choice of vocational rehabilitation program prior to enrollment.

LAB, CPC, FIN

984

RELATING TO WORKERS' COMPENSATION REFORM.

Establishes loss of workers' compensation benefits for substantial noncompliance with recommended treatment plan. Exempts noncompliance with treatment plan for good cause from loss of benefits penalty. Establishes a limit of 24 visits per year to chiropractor or massage therapy for a work-related injury. Provides process to streamline medical information release as it relates to work-related injuries.

LAB, CPC, FIN

985

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 a regents selection committee. Requires a portion of the board membership to consist of nonresidents.

HED, JUD, FIN

986

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

987

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, JUD, FIN

988

RELATING TO PROCUREMENT.

Requires public agencies to promptly pay for procured goods and services. Reduces time period public agencies have to pay for goods and services from 30 to 15 calendar days. Changes interest rate to be paid by public agencies for failure to promptly pay for goods or services to an unspecified amount. Provides a procurement preference to small businesses located in the State.

EDB, FIN

989

RELATING TO TAX CREDITS.

Provides a tax credit not to exceed $250 for donations made to public schools.

EDN, FIN

990

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR DEVELOPMENT OF A NON-EMERGENCY REPORT SYSTEM, KNOWN AS 3-1-1.

Appropriates funds to the Honolulu Police Department for development costs for a 3-1-1 Non-Emergency Report System.

PSM, FIN

991

RELATING TO THE ALOHA TOWER COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT.

Consolidates the Aloha Tower development corporation into the Hawaii community development authority.

WLO/EDB, JUD, FIN

992

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

Capital Improvement projects for the 32nd Representative District.

FIN

993

RELATING TO HUNTING.

Prohibits the use of snares or poison to capture or kill game birds of mammals. Also provides a misdemeanor penalty.

WLO, JUD

994

RELATING TO TAXATION.

Establishes an investment tax credit for qualified investments in the motor sports facility to be developed at Kalaeloa, parcel 9.

WLO/TAC, FIN

995

RELATING TO CHARTER SCHOOLS.

Clarifies that new century charter schools are subject to state land use laws and county zoning laws; requires audit and inspection by the charter school administrative office.

EDN, WLO, FIN

996

RELATING TO PUBLIC CONTRACTS.

Prohibits State from entering into security contracts with foreign owned or controlled companies.

EDB, PSM, FIN

997

RELATING TO TRANSIENT ACCOMMODATIONS TAX.

Repeals the TAT trust fund. Increases the ceiling amount that may be transferred from the TAT to the convention center enterprise special fund. Readjusts TAT fund percentages earmarked for specific purposes.

TAC, FIN

998

RELATING TO HOTEL CONSTRUCTION AND REMODELING TAX CREDIT.

Adjusts the hotel construction and remodeling tax credit to 8% on 7/1/05, 4% on 7/1/09 and repeals the tax credit on 7/1/12.

TAC/EDB, FIN

999

RELATING TO HAWAIIAN LANGUAGE MEDIUM EDUCATION.

Involves the University of Hawaii at Manoa Kualii Council in the determination of necessary qualifications of personnel of the office of Hawaiian language medium education, and in the addressing of Hawaiian language medium education through Hawaiian immersion teacher education and curriculum development.

EDN/HED, HAW, FIN

1000

RELATING TO CHARTER SCHOOLS.

Modifies the cap on the number of new century charter schools in the state by limiting the number of new schools that can be established each year. Requires that priority in establishing these schools be given as follows: 1) first, new century charter schools in those districts where no new century charter schools exist; and 2) intermediate or high school-level new century charter schools in those districts where only elementary-level new century charter schools exist.

EDN, FIN

1001

RELATING TO MEDICAL RESEARCH.

Requires medical research subject to chapter 324, HRS, that includes prescription drugs as part of a clinical trial, research, or experimental treatment for serious or life-threatening diseases to register the study with a public registry; public registry information shall include potential benefit and harm.

HLT, CPC, FIN

1002

RELATING TO PUBLIC INTEREST ATTORNEYS.

Creates a loan repayment assistance program for licensed attorneys who practice law in the public interest in Hawaii.

HED, JUD, FIN

1003

RELATING TO STUDENT HEALTH.

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

HLT/HUS, EDN, FIN

1004

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/HUS, JUD

1005

RELATING TO PUBLIC SAFETY.

Establishes a task force to develop programs and support services for children of incarcerated parents, as well as programs to strengthen the family bond. Requires the Department of Public Safety to implement the task force's recommendations.

PSM, HUS, FIN

1006

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-operated or funded psychiatric facility in order to alleviate mental illness and restore competency while protecting the rights of patients.

HLT, CPC/JUD

1007

RELATING TO MARRIAGE AND FAMILY THERAPISTS.

Includes marriage and family therapy among the mental illness, alcohol and drug dependence benefits required within the hospital and medical coverage offered under accident and sickness insurance policies and similar insurance products.

HLT, CPC, FIN

1008

RELATING TO SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICES PROGRAM.

Emphasizes that health aides shall be provided for all public schools, including all new century charter schools and new century conversion charter schools.

HLT, EDN, FIN

1009

RELATING TO THE AT-HOME INFANT CHILD CARE PROGRAM.

Establishes the At-Home Infant Child Care Program for the State.

HUS, FIN

1010

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR FUNDING AND POSITIONS TO EXPAND ETHNIC STUDIES, LABOR HISTORY, AND DIVERSITY CURRICULUM AT ALL UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII CAMPUSES.

Appropriates moneys for funds and positions to expand the curriculum for all UH campuses in ethnic studies, labor history, and diversity in Hawaii.

HED, FIN

1011

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR FUNDING AND FACULTY POSITIONS FOR ILOKANO, FILIPINO, AND PHILIPPINE STUDIES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII AT MANOA.

Appropriates moneys for funding and for faculty positions for Ilokano, Filipino, and Philippine studies at UH Manoa.

HED, FIN

1012

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOR STUDENT SUPPORT SERVICES FOR NON-TRADITIONAL STUDENTS.

Appropriates funds and positions for systemwide and campus programs to promote diversity, including programs for underrepresented groups, students with disabilities, and other under-served student groups to support UH's policy on non-discrimination and affirmative action.

HED, FIN

1013

RELATING TO MEDICAL SCHOOL FACULTY.

Defines certain members of bargaining unit (7), faculty of the University of Hawaii or the community college system who are clinical faculty at the school of medicine and are responsible for supervising residents, as essential to public health and prohibits them from striking.

HED/LAB, FIN

1014

RELATING TO NURSES.

Establishes a nursing scholars program to attract nurses with a bachelor's degree in nursing into a master's or doctoral program to prepare them for academic careers.

HED/HLT, FIN

1015

RELATING TO THE DEPOSIT BEVERAGE CONTAINER PROGRAM.

Exempts passenger vessels from the requirements of the State's deposit beverage container program. Defines passenger vessel as any domestic- or foreign-flagged marine vessel or air carrier used primarily for transporting persons to, from, or within the State.

EEP, TRN

1016

RELATING TO THE OFFICE OF PLANNING.

Clarifies that DBEDT has sole responsibility over land use and state planning functions and that the office of planning shall report to DBEDT and no other executive department. Requires that appointment of director of planning be with advice and consent of the Senate.

EDB/WLO, JUD

1017

RELATING TO SOLAR ENERGY.

Allows for the installation of solar energy devices on any privately owned single-family residential dwelling or townhouse, with limited restrictions. Requires that all new dwelling units be equipped with a conventional solar panel hot water system or its equivalent in energy efficiency.

EEP, CPC/JUD, FIN

1018

RELATING TO NET ENERGY METERING.

Increases the capacity amount of an "eligible customer-generator" from not more than 50 kilowatts to not more than 500 kilowatts. Amends the billing period for net energy metering from monthly to annually.

EEP, CPC

1019

RELATING TO GREEN BUILDING.

Requires the incorporation of Leadership in Energy in Environmental Design gold standards for buildings constructed or substantially renovated with funding consisting of fifty per cent or more in state funds.

EEP/EDB, CPC, FIN

1020

RELATING TO COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT.

Clarifies the definition of "shoreline". Prohibits shoreline planting to establish the shoreline and for certification purposes. Authorizes the state land surveyor to rescind a shoreline certification based on a misrepresentation in the application.

WLO, JUD, FIN

1021

RELATING TO PUBLIC UTILITIES.

Requires the public utilities commission to monetize external costs, e.g. environmental costs, associated with electricity generation. Requires the use of external costs when evaluating resource options and public need and necessity in commission proceedings.

EEP, CPC

1022

RELATING TO GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISMS.

Assigns liability for injury caused by genetically modified organisms.

AGR, HLT, CPC/JUD

1023

RELATING TO GENETICALY ENGINEERED CROPS.

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

AGR, HLT, CPC/JUD, FIN

1024

RELATING TO THE REGULATION OF CROPS.

Requires life science companies that operate as crop producers to make public disclosure of locations of crop fields and test sites of genetically modified crops and to specify the types of genetic tests conducted.

AGR/EDB, CPC/JUD

1025

RELATING TO PROCUREMENT.

Requires that documents provided by an offeror to demonstrate procurement compliance are valid for one year. Requires offerors of contracts less than $5,000 to submit only tax clearance.

EDB, FIN

1026

RELATING TO TAXATION.

Changes the rate amount of taxable income.

FIN

1027

RELATING TO RENEWABLE ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES.

Increases the amount of the renewable energy technologies tax credit a taxpayer can claim for solar thermal, wind-powered, and photovoltaic energy systems for single-family residential properties.

EEP, CPC, FIN

1028

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII'S DISTANCE LEARNING PROGRAM.

Appropriates $450,000 for FY 2005-2006 for the University of Hawaii's Distance Learning Program.

HED, FIN

1029

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE.

Appropriates funds for the office of veterans' services to publish a Hawaii Veterans' newsletter.

PSM, FIN

1030

RELATING TO THE HAWAII MARINE HIGHWAY SYSTEM.

Creates the Hawaii marine highway system to be administered by the DOT. Creates Hawaii marine highway system fund. Requires DOT to adopt rules.

TRN/WLO, FIN

1031

RELATING TO STATE GOVERNMENT.

Requires the governor and legislature to ensure public access to information, services, and proceedings of the executive and legislative branches. Authorizes the governor to convene a fair access commission to review public access issues for the neighbor islands and rural Oahu.

LMG, JUD, FIN

1032

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR DRUG TREATMENT, COUNSELING, AND INTERVENTION SERVICES AT RADFORD HIGH SCHOOL.

Appropriates funding for substance abuse treatment, counseling, and intervention services at Radford high school.

EDN, FIN

1033

RELATING TO INCOME TAX.

Establishes an income tax credit for farmers who are forced to purchase water at higher rates from county water boards rather than at lower state irrigation system rates. Establishes the amount of the credit as the difference in the cost of water at the rates charged by the county board of water supply and the state irrigation system. Defines "farmer" as one who derives at least 50% of gross income from farming.

AGR/WLO, FIN

1034

AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS AND MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE AGRICULTURAL WATER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM, UPCOUNTRY KULA, MAUI WATERSHED.

Authorizes the issuance of general obligations bonds and appropriates funds for the final phase of the upcountry Maui watershed project to build a pipeline from Omaopio Tank to Keokea.

AGR/WLO, FIN

1035

RELATING TO SAFE DRINKING WATER.

Reduces acceptable levels of heterotrophic bacteria in surface water systems from 500/ml to 100/ml.

HLT, WLO, CPC/JUD

1036

RELATING TO SAFE DRINKING WATER.

Reduces acceptable levels of heterotrophic bacteria in surface water systems from 500/ml to 100/ml.

HLT, WLO, CPC/JUD

1037

RELATING TO THE LICENSING OF DENTAL HYGIENISTS.

Authorizes the board of dental examiners to grant licenses without examination to dental hygienists who are already licensed in other states.

HLT, CPC

1038

RELATING TO THE BOARD OF DENTAL EXAMINERS EXAMINATIONS.

Requires the board of dental examiners to accept the results of regional examinations for the licensure of dental hygienists and dentists. Requires that the national examination will supersede the regional examinations.

HLT, CPC

1039

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR DENTAL SERVICES.

Appropriates funds to provide basic dental services for adults enrolled under medicaid and QUEST on a fee-for-service basis; caps coverage at $500 per adult per year.

HUS/HLT, FIN

1040

RELATING TO DENTAL INSURANCE.

Extends the sunset date of Act 132, SLH 2001, as amended, that exempt dental service corporations and dental service organizations from health insurer assessments.

HLT, CPC

1041

RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES.

Appropriates funds to restore basic dental services for adults covered by MedQUEST medical assistance programs.

HUS/HLT, FIN

1042

RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES.

Abolishes the enrollment cap in the QUEST program.

HUS/HLT, FIN

1043

RELATING TO CAREGIVER COORDINATOR POSITION.

Establishes a caregiver coordinator position in the executive office on aging.

HLT/HUS, FIN

1044

RELATING TO CAREGIVER SUPPORT SERVICES.

Requires department of health to provide caregiver support services. Specifies services that may be included.

HLT/HUS, FIN

1045

RELATING TO HEALTH.

Appropriates funds for a study of the feasibility of establishing rural Programs for All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly in outlying areas of Oahu and on the neighbor islands.

HLT/HUS, FIN

1046

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.

HLT/PSM, JUD, FIN

1047

RELATING TO THE CIGARETTE AND TOBACCO TAX.

Raises the excise tax on tobacco products to 9.00 cents per cigarette after September 30, 2005, and 10.00 cents per cigarette after June 30, 2006. Raises the excise tax on other tobacco products from forty to fifty per cent. Establishes the Substance Abuse and Tobacco Cessation Special Fund.

HLT, FIN

1048

RELATING TO THE REGULATION OF TOBACCO PRODUCTS.

Requires tobacco manufacturers to report annually to the Department of Health (DOH) on added constituents and nicotine in tobacco products. Requires DOH to investigate public health risks and develop standards to reduce risks associated with exposure to these constituents. Includes tobacco products in the definition of "consumer commodity" in chapter 328.

HLT, CPC, FIN

1049

RELATING TO CIGARETTE TAX.

Increases tax per cigarette to $ , $ , and $ on 9/30/2005, 6/30/2006, and 6/30/2007, respectively (amounting to $ , $ , and $ per pack of 20 cigarettes). Earmarks    %,    %, and    % of tax for general fund, DOH health promotion programs, and smoking cessation programs, respectively.

HLT, FIN

1050

RELATING TO TELEHEALTH.

Requires DHS, Maui memorial medical center, & Maui community college nursing program to conduct a 2-year study of in-home telehealth monitoring services to high-risk/high-cost medicaid patients with frequent hospitalizations. Requires interim and final report. Appropriates $     for FY 2005-2006 & 2006-2007.

HLT/HUS, HED, FIN

1051

RELATING TO PRESCRIPTION DRUGS.

Makes clarifying amendments to the return for credit and reuse procedures for unused prescription drugs within health care institutions, and drug repositories.

HLT, CPC

1052

RELATING TO PRESCRIPTION DRUGS.

Establishes a pharmaceutical cost management council to consider strategies to manage increasing costs of prescription drugs and increase access to prescription drugs for all Hawaii residents.

HLT, CPC, FIN

1053

RELATING TO HEALTH.

Establishes a statewide program to enable federally qualified community health centers to obtain state resources for adequate facilities, information systems, and safe and appropriate patient care.

HLT/HUS, FIN

1054

RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES.

Appropriates moneys for developmental disabilities residential service providers.

HLT/HUS, FIN

1055

RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES.

Authorizes the department of health to reimburse developmental disabilities residential services for individuals with developmental disabilities or mental retardation.

HLT/HUS, FIN

1056

RELATING TO DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES.

Provides that the plans of care for developmentally disabled persons provide for "support," and not training, of persons in the licensed developmental disabilities domiciliary homes. Requires DOH to determine the rate of payment for residents in licensed homes without specifying the methodology.

HLT/HUS, FIN

1057

RELATING TO PATIENT SAFETY.

Deletes certain provisions regarding records made in the regular course of business and statements made by persons in attendance at the meeting that were previously exempt from the prohibition relating to discovery.

HLT, CPC/JUD

1058

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR PHARMACY SERVICES AND SUPPLIES.

Appropriates funds to the DOH for federally qualified health centers and the Medicine Bank to provide pharmacy services and supplies to low-income patients.

HLT, FIN

1059

RELATING TO THE HAWAII HEALTH SYSTEMS CORPORATION.

Authorizes and funds creation of captive insurance company by HHSC to provide medical malpractice and hospital professional and general liability coverage to HHSC, DOH, UH medical school, and their physicians.

CPC, HLT/HED, FIN

1060

RELATING TO MEDICAID.

Requires legislative approval before the department of human services can seek a medicaid waiver from the federal government.

HUS, LMG, FIN

1061

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR QUEST AND MEDICAID COVERAGE FOR ALIENS RESIDING IN HAWAII UNDER THE COMPACT OF FREE ASSOCIATION.

Appropriates funds for QUEST and medicaid coverage for aged, blind, and disabled Compact of Free Association residing in Hawaii.

HUS/INT, FIN

1062

RELATING TO HEALTH INSURANCE.

Requires health insurance plans to cover screening for colorectal cancer by colonoscopy every ten years, beginning at age fifty.

HLT, CPC, FIN

1063

RELATING TO HEALTH INSURANCE.

Prohibits inclusion of clause that allows an insurer, mutual benefit society, or HMO full discretionary authority to set type and scope of medical coverage to be provided in health insurance contracts with employers issued after 12/31/2005.

HLT, CPC

1064

RELATING TO INSURANCE.

Amends external review procedure in the patients' bill of rights and responsibilities act.

CPC, JUD, FIN

1065

RELATING TO HEALTH INSURANCE.

Provides parity by removing all rates, terms, or conditions, including service limits and financial requirements, on mental health benefits coverage. Provides employers a tax credit of 50 per cent or $500 of the premiums for mental health coverage. Requires the Insurance Commissioner to submit a report no later than January 15, 2006.

HLT, CPC, FIN

1066

RELATING TO HEALTH CARE INSURANCE TAX CREDIT.

Provides a tax credit to employers who provide health care coverage for their part-time employees at the lesser of 50% of premiums paid or $     per part-time employee. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2005.

EDB/HLT, CPC, FIN

1067

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE KING KAMEHAMEHA CELEBRATION FLORAL PARADE.

Provides funds for the King Kamehameha celebration floral parade.

TAC/HAW, FIN

1068

RELATING TO DISPOSITION OF PUBLIC LANDS.

Allows the disposition of public lands used for agricultural operations to be determined by negotiation without regard to certain limitations, including public notice requirements.

WLO/AGR, JUD, FIN

1069

RELATING TO LAND USE.

Separate applications for reclassification of contiguous lands owned by the same landowner shall be deemed one application where the applications are separated because they contain different uses, or are phased to be developed sequentially, or are separated to avoid the requirements of chapter 205, Hawaii Revised Statues.

WLO, EDB, FIN

1070

RELATING TO STATE PARKS.

Authorizes the use of moneys from the state parks special fund to pay debt service on revenue bonds issued for construction, repairs, replacement, additions, and extensions to parks facilities.

WLO, FIN

1071

RELATING TO SALARY PERIODS.

Repeals the public employees' payroll lag, returning paydays to the first and fifteenth of every month.

LAB, FIN

1072

MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR COLLECTIVE BARGAINING COST ITEMS.

Provides fund authorizations and appropriations for collective bargaining cost items for bargaining unit 11, firefighters, and its excluded counterpart.

FIN

1073

RELATING TO MEDICAL REPORTING.

Requires Department of Health to: (1) Gather mortality rates of individuals who die as a result of an infection acquired during medical treatment or care at a health care facility; and (2) Make such information available to the public.

HLT, CPC/JUD, FIN

1074

RELATING TO TOWING.

Requires towing companies to make automated teller machines available when total charges exceed $100.

TRN, CPC

1075

RELATING TO TUITION WAIVERS.

Re-establishes the tuition waiver program at University of Hawaii for veterans of the Vietnam conflict.

PSM, HED, FIN

1076

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

Appropriates funds to improve safety and security measures on the University of Hawaii campuses.

HED, FIN

1077

RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII.

Appropriates funds for the University of Hawaii Student Caucus.

HED, FIN

1078

RELATING TO EDUCATION.

Includes teacher educators in the university of Hawaii system under the teacher national board certification incentive program.

EDN/HED, FIN

1079

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII COMMUNITY COLLEGES.

Appropriates funds for the University of Hawaii community college system to pay for electricity costs.

HED, FIN

1080

RELATING TO ANIMAL CRUELTY.

Establishes class C felony offense for aggravated cruelty to animals. Requires a person convicted of these offenses to undergo counseling. Makes places used to commit cruelty to animal offenses subject to nuisance abatement law.

JUD

1081

RELATING TO POAMOHO TRAIL.

Preserves access to the Poamoho ridge trail by authorizing the department of land and natural resources to condemn the land for the trail and for the adjacent hunting area C access roads.

WLO, FIN

1082

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO ABATE AGRICULTURAL THEFT.

Appropriates funds to establish an interagency task force to develop means to abate agricultural theft and funding therefor. Appropriates funds.

AGR, JUD, FIN

1083

RELATING TO FIREWORKS.

Bans the use of fireworks except for religious or ceremonial purposes. Increases penalties for use of aerial fireworks.

TAC, JUD, FIN

1084

RELATING TO RESORT TIME SHARE VACATION TAX.

Establishes a resort time share vacation tax based on the assessed value of the time share unit.

TAC, EDB, JUD, FIN

1085

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

Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects for the benefit of the 21st representative district.

FIN

1086

RELATING TO ENERGY PROJECTORIES.

Requires the department of health to investigate, assess, develop standards, and adopt rules regarding energy projectories.

HLT/EEP, FIN

1087

RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES.

Requires Med-QUEST and Medicaid coverage for chiropractic care.

HUS/HLT, FIN

1088

RELATING TO DISORDERLY CONDUCT.

Prohibits public drunkenness.

JUD

1089

RELATING TO HEALTH BENEFITS.

Provides instructors on contract with the University of Hawaii's outreach college with health benefits.

HED, LAB, FIN

1090

RELATING TO MOPEDS.

Requires mopeds to be inspected annually, to display a certificate of inspection, and to be operated only with an exhaust system that meets original manufacturer specifications.

TRN, JUD

1091

RELATING TO JURY DUTY.

Exempts persons who are 75 years of age or older from jury duty.

JUD

1092

RELATING TO WORKERS' COMPENSATION.

Establishes multiple chemical sensitivity disorder as a compensable injury under workers' compensation.

LAB, CPC, FIN

1093

RELATING TO HOUSING.

Provides tax credits for renovating existing apartments and developing housing for persons in the middle-income. Also requires an unspecified percentage of new condominiums be dedicated to rental use.

HSG, CPC, FIN

1094

RELATING TO ELECTIONS.

Directs the chief election officer to develop and implement a method of manual counting of votes casts; requires manual count of votes for elections after January 1, 2006.

JUD, FIN

1095

RELATING TO SUBSTANCE ABUSE TESTING.

Requires elected state officials to submit to random and post-election substance abuse tests. Makes refusal to submit to, or failure to undergo, a substance abuse test and refusal or failure to provide written consent to publicly release the results of a substance abuse test, a government record. Implements a new program of drug testing for public safety-sensitive positions. Requires that prospective employees for safety-sensitive positions be subject to substance abuse testing. Authorizes the Hawaii labor relations board to review appeals of employer-related substance abuse testing decisions. Excludes drug testing, drug testing procedures, and positive drug testing sanctions from collective bargaining negotiations.

LAB/PSM, LMG, JUD, FIN

1096

RELATING TO THE ALOHA TOWER COMPLEX

Requires the Aloha Tower Development Corporation to conduct a study to determine the feasibility of establishing a gathering place for visitors and residents at the Aloha Tower Marketplace.

EDB/TAC, FIN

1097

RELATING TO SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT.

Requires the Department of Agriculture to establish a Round Table Discussion Panel to pursue various objectives related to sustainable development.

AGR/EDB/WLO, FIN

1098

RELATING TO THE HAWAII STATE PLANNING ACT.

Incorporates the concepts of sustainable development and self-sustainability into the Hawaii State Planning Act.

EDB/WLO, FIN

1099

RELATING TO THE BOARD OF EDUCATION.

Changes the requirement from board of education members to "be elected by registered voters of 2 at-large school board districts" to require those members to "be elected by registered voters of the departmental school district where the member resides". In the implementation of a new apportionment plan, requires the chief election officer to designate the representative districts that comprise the departmental school districts only, instead of both the latter and the school board districts described in section 13-1.

EDN, JUD, FIN

1100

RELATING TO PRECINCT OFFICIALS.

Requires that the chairperson of the precinct officials be selected in the same manner as all other precinct officials and repeals the requirement that the chairperson be of the same political party as the governor.

JUD

1101

RELATING TO EDUCATION.

Establishes a grant program in the department of education to develop K-12 lesson plans, curriculum, and other educational materials for civic responsibility. Appropriates funds to DOE for social studies textbooks to support civic responsibility, science textbooks, and to the grant program.

EDN, FIN

1102

RELATING TO EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION AND CARE SYSTEM.

Creates temporary working committee in DOE to fulfill the task of developing policy recommendations for a coordinated early childhood education and care system in Hawaii. Appropriates $50,000 in FY 2005-2006 to the working group. Requires report by 12/01/05.

EDN, HUS, FIN

1103

RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE EIGHTEENTH REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT.

Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects for the 18th representative district.

FIN

1104

RELATING TO NIU VALLEY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL.

Establishes the Niu Valley Community and Youth Task Force to develop a master plan for improvements to Niu Valley Intermediate School, including the construction of a gymnasium and swimming pool.

EDN, FIN

1105

RELATING TO THE EMPLOYER-UNION HEALTH BENEFITS TRUST FUND.

Enables public employees that were hired prior to 7/1/96, and who suffered a break in service prior to vesting to receive the same health benefits as those employees hired prior to the same date that did not suffer a break in service.

LAB, FIN

1106

RELATING TO TRAFFIC.

Directs the department of transportation to study the capacity of Castle Junction to handle traffic and submit findings and recommendations to the governor and legislature by 12/31/2005. Appropriates funds.

TRN, FIN

1107

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR SECURITY AIDES FOR KAILUA HIGH SCHOOL.

Makes appropriation for 2 security aides for Kailua high school.

EDN, FIN

1108

RELATING TO THE HAWAII NATIONAL GUARD.

Provides for reimbursement for travel expenses to National Guard members reporting for drill or exercises. Makes an appropriation for reimbursements.

PSM, FIN

1109

RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII.

Requires the University of Hawaii at Manoa to open its offices for the transaction of public business from 9:00 a.m.

HED/LAB, FIN

1110

RELATING TO NURSING.

Re-establishes a two-year Operation Nightingale program to help nurses review for the state Board of Nursing examination.

HLT, CPC, FIN

1111

RELATING TO THE HAWAII CATASTROPHIC RELIEF FUND.

Establishes a Hawaii catastrophic relief fund (HCRF) to provide reinsurance for the risks of catastrophic events in Hawaii and to mitigate the impact of a catastrophic or emergency condition in Hawaii; repeals the Hawaii Hurricane Relief Fund (HHRF); transfers monies from HHRF to HCRF.

CPC, FIN

1112

RELATING TO MILOLI'I FISHERIES MANAGEMENT AREA.

Designates the Miloli'i fisheries management area in South Kona as a community-based subsistence fishing area to preserve and maintain its legacy as a traditional Hawaiian fishing village.

WLO/HAW, FIN

1113

RELATING TO STATE AND COUNTY TORT LIABILITY.

Repeals sunset date for public land liability immunity established by Act 190, SLH 1999, and sunset date for state and county tort liability relating to lifeguard services established by Act 170, SLH 2002.

WLO, JUD

1114

RELATING TO THE ALOHA TOWER DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION.

Authorizes the Aloha Tower Development Corporation (ATDC) to become part of a limited liability company (LLC) with developers of ATDC projects. Provides that the LLC may hold and expend public moneys for the project without regard to chapter 103D, and that state employees hired by the LLC retain state employment benefits and classification. Allows ATDC to sell fact or submerged lands of the Aloha Tower Complex.

WLO/EDB, LAB, JUD, FIN

1115

RELATING TO ELECTRONIC COMMERCE.

Establishes the crime of abuse of commercial electronic mail, provides penalties, civil remedies, and a defense to the offense. Permits forfeiture of proceeds of computer crime.

CPC, JUD

1116

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; clarifies that long-term care taxes are not state funds; makes appropriations.

HLT/HUS, CPC, FIN

1117

RELATING TO COLLECTIVE BARGAINING IN PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT.

Creates a collective bargaining unit for substitute teachers of the Department of Education, including part-time substitute teachers working less than one-half of a full-time equivalent.

LAB/EDN, FIN

1118

RELATING TO NURSES.

Clarifies the law authorizing prescriptive authority to qualified advanced practice registered nurses.

HLT, CPC

1119

RELATING TO LONG-TERM CARE.

Establishes a Long-term Care Resource Program Initiative at Kapiolani Community College. Appropriates funds.

HUS/HLT, HED, FIN

1120

RELATING TO THE DEPOSIT BEVERAGE CONTAINER PROGRAM.

Requires retailers to show the beverage product price and the deposit beverage container deposit amount separately so that the consumer can determine that the general excise tax is imposed only upon the beverage product and not the deposit on sales receipt. Makes a violation an unfair trade practice.

EEP/EDB, CPC/JUD, FIN

1121

RELATING TO CORRECTIONS.

Directs the department of public safety to house pretrial detainees separate from inmates in correctional facilities on Maui.

PSM, FIN

1122

RELATING TO CORRECTIONS.

Establishes the work furlough and work release programs, and appropriates funds to expand the programs in areas such as providing opportunities to female inmates. Also, provides that both programs shall seek opportunities for participating inmates to work on affordable housing projects.

PSM, FIN

1123

RELATING TO CORRECTIONS.

Appropriates funds to enable the work release program to provide more opportunities for qualifying inmates to work on county projects. Requires each county to match state funding for all work performed on its projects by the work release program.

PSM, FIN

1124

RELATING TO TRANSFERRING JURISDICTION OF STATE HIGHWAYS TO THE COUNTIES.

Transfers all state highway functions and funding to the counties. Creates a task force to oversee transfer. Gives each county jurisdiction over all state highways in that county.

TRN/WLO/LAB, JUD, FIN

1125

RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE FORTY-FIFTH REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT.

Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects for the benefit of the 45th representative district.

FIN

1126

RELATING TO FAMILY COURT.

Allows the family court to utilize alternative dispute resolution in family court proceedings, upon a motion by a party or in the court's discretion.

JUD

1127

RELATING TO MARRIAGE.

Requires the department of health to distribute brochures on parenting and divorce to all marriage license applicants.

HLT, JUD, FIN

1128

RELATING TO EDUCATION.

Requires parenting and communication skills to be part of DOE high school education curriculum.

EDN, FIN

1129

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR HUMAN SERVICES.

Appropriates funds for Bay Clinic Inc. for the construction of a new medical building and repairs and renovations to reopen an existing building.

HLT/HUS, FIN

1130

RELATING TO FAMILY LEAVE.

Amends family leave law definition of "sick leave" to: (1) include benefits provided under employee welfare benefit plans and benefits not payable by the employer; and (2) specify that it shall not include unemployment compensation due to illness. Allows use of sick leave in excess of the statutory minimum for temporary disability benefits for purposes of family leave.

LAB, FIN

1131

RELATING TO MOTION PICTURE AND FILM PRODUCTION.

Increases the motion picture and film production tax credit from 4% to 15% (20% on neighbor islands) and provides minimum qualification to obtain tax credit.

TAC/EDB, FIN

1132

RELATING TO EDUCATION.

Creates an education design and construction project assessment fund within the DOE. Broadens DOE authority over capital improvement projects.

EDN, FIN

1133

RELATING TO THE BOARD OF EDUCATION.

Establishes salaries for the members of the board of education. Establishes a board of education salary commission to periodically review and recommend adjustments to board members' salaries.

EDN, FIN

1134

RELATING TO MINIMUM WAGES.

Raises the minimum wage.

LAB, FIN

1135

RELATING TO UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS.

Encourages eligible claimants of unemployment insurance to seek gainful employment by permitting claimants to receive their weekly benefit amount without regard to earnings received from employment. Allows for the use of federal Reed Act funds to offset anticipated increases in unemployment insurance claims

LAB, FIN

1136

RELATING TO EDUCATION.

Short form bill.

EDN

1137

RELATING TO EDUCATION.

Short form bill.

EDN

1138

RELATING TO EDUCATION.

Short form bill.

EDN

1139

RELATING VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION.

Prohibits time limits for vocational rehabilitation plans under workers' compensation. Authorizes the use of self-employment plans as vocational rehabilitation plans.

LAB, CPC, FIN

1140

RELATING TO EDUCATION.

Authorizes the DOE to request the land use commission and the counties to impose conditions on developers for contributions of land or fees for construction of public school facilities.

EDN, WLO, FIN

1141

RELATING TO WAIMANO RIDGE.

Prohibits development of state-owned land on Waimano ridge until an updated master plan is developed. Requires community approval of master plan.

HLT, WLO, FIN

1142

RELATING TO APPROVAL OF REQUESTS FOR MEDICAL CARE.

Establishes that technical deficiencies in requests for approval for medical care by providers shall not be a basis for denial of the care if the medical care provider substantially complies with workers' compensation administrative rules.

LAB, CPC, FIN

1143

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE THIRTY-SEVENTH REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT.

Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the 37th representative district.

FIN

1144

RELATING TO SOCIAL WORKERS.

Establishes a student loan repayment program for social workers in the departments of health, human services, and labor and industrial relations.

HLT/HUS, LAB, FIN

1145

RELATING TO SOCIAL WORKERS.

Prohibits elimination of any social worker position in all classifications throughout all jurisdictions of the civil service through attrition or any other reason, except by direct act of the legislature. Restores positions eliminated before 7/1/05.

LAB, FIN

1146

RELATING TO CIVIL SERVICE.

Prohibits department of human resources development from eliminating the social worker series classifications. Restores social worker class if eliminated before the effective date of this Act.

HLT/HUS, LAB, FIN

1147

RELATING TO VETERANS.

Appropriates funds to DOD for eight newsletters.

PSM, FIN

1148

RELATING TO THE PATIENTS' BILL OF RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES ACT.

Amends the review procedure process under the patients' bill of rights and responsibilities act. Preserves commissioner's discretion to convene panel to hear cases for consumers in non-ERISA plans. Requires the commissioner to determine whether requests for external review concerns an ERISA plan and to direct all requests for review of ERISA plan benefits to an independent review organization selected by the commissioner.

HLT, CPC/JUD, FIN

1149

RELATING TO UNFAIR PRACTICES IN THE INSURANCE BUSINESS.

Makes reimbursement for accident and health or sickness insurance benefits final and irrevocable. Allows an entity to seek a refund of any reimbursement within certain time limitations and upon the satisfaction of certain criteria. Limits the return of any refund by offsetting it against amounts owed to the provider for unpaid claims.

CPC, JUD

1150

RELATING TO THE PENAL CODE.

Requires sentence for murder or attempted murder to run consecutive to any other sentence imposed in the same case when the victim is an on-duty police officer.

PSM, JUD

1151

RELATING TO PROCUREMENT.

Requires the procurement office to establish a standardized contractor performance checklist to evaluate quality of goods and services provided by contractors.

EDB, FIN

1152

RELATING TO TRAFFIC.

Requires the department of transportation to conduct a comprehensive review of past studies of traffic flow in the corridor from Central Oahu to the H-1 freeway, including any proposals to extend contra-flow lanes to Mililani. Appropriates funds.

TRN, FIN

1153

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO STUDY EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES FOR MILILANI AND WAIPIO GENTRY AREAS.

Appropriates funds to study the need, cost, and placement site for a permanent emergency medical services hub in the Mililani and Waipio Gentry areas.

HLT, FIN

1154

RELATING TO AGRICULTURE.

Exempts from processed food requirements and restrictions home-based agricultural producers of honey who sell less than 50 gallons of honey, sell directly to the consumer, and label their product as home-produced and processed.

AGR, CPC

1155

RELATING TO NATUROPATHY.

Amends definition of "natural medicine" to allow injections of natural medicines by a naturopathic physician.

HLT, CPC

1156

RELATING TO LICENSED MARRIAGE AND FAMILY THERAPISTS.

Adds licensed marriage and family therapists to the list of qualified practitioners in chapter 431M, Hawaii Revised Statues, Mental Health and Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment Insurance Benefits.

HLT, CPC, FIN

1157

RELATING TO TOBACCO.

Prohibits persons under age 18 (minors), from purchasing, possessing, or attempting to purchase or possess tobacco products. Exempts minors when lawfully delivering tobacco products or participating in a law enforcement activity.

HLT, JUD

1158

RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE THIRD REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT.

Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects for the benefit of the 3rd representative district.

FIN

1159

RELATING TO COQUI FROGS.

Appropriates funds for statewide outreach and eradication efforts relating to the Coqui frog.

AGR/EEP, FIN

1160

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO ESTABLISH A COQUI FROG ERADICATION PROGRAM ON THE ISLAND OF HAWAII.

Appropriates funds to establish a coqui frog eradication program on the island of Hawaii.

AGR/EEP, FIN

1161

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

Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects for the benefit of the 41st Representative District.

FIN

1162

RELATING TO LIQUOR TAX.

Amends the definition of "cooler beverage" to mean any liquor containing less than 7% alcohol by volume to which non-beverage flavorings, juices, water (plain, carbonated, or sparkling), colorings, or preservatives are added.

FIN

1163

RELATING TO DEPOSIT BEVERAGES.

Deletes "mixed spirits" and "mixed wine" from the definition of "deposit beverage" in the deposit beverage container program law.

EEP/EDB, FIN

1164

RELATING TO HARASSMENT.

Provides that harassment includes all computer communications.

JUD

1165

RELATING TO HARASSMENT.

Adds computer communication as a form of nonconsensual contact in the offense of harassment by stalking.

JUD

1166

RELATING TO MECHANIC'S LIENS.

Grants contractors additional time to file a mechanic's lien if they have previously given the owner a conditional lien release but have not subsequently received full payment.

EDB, CPC

1167

RELATING TO EXPIRED DRIVER'S LICENSE.

Repeals the 30 day prison term for driving without a license for drivers whose license to operate mopeds, motor scooters, motorcycles, passenger cars, and trucks or vans having a gross vehicle weight rating of 15,000 pounds or less expired within the 90 days preceding the violation and imposes a maximum $1,000 fine instead.

TRN, JUD

1168

RELATING TO ANIMALS.

Creates the offense of aggravated animal cruelty, a class C felony.

JUD

1169

RELATING TO SEXUAL ASSAULT.

Clarifies that a person commits the offense of sexual assault in the 3rd degree when the person causes another person under 14 years old to have sexual contact with the person under circumstances in which the actor's conduct is likely to put the other person in fear of bodily injury.

JUD

1170

RELATING TO SEXUAL ASSAULT.

Clarifies that a person commits sexual assault in the 4th degree when the person causes another person to have sexual contact with the actor by compulsion under circumstances where the actor's conduct is likely to put the other person in fear of bodily injury.

JUD

1171

RELATING TO CRIMINAL IMPERSONATION.

Establishes the offense of criminal impersonation, making it a misdemeanor to impersonate another person or place the person at risk of bodily injury.

JUD

1172

RELATING TO COORDINATED CARE ORGANIZATIONS.

Regulates coordinated care organizations in the treatment of workers' compensation injuries.

LAB, CPC, FIN

1173

RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLE NOISE.

Amends motor vehicle muffler noise law to provide a schedule of increased fines for the second, third, and subsequent violations.

TRN, JUD

1174

RELATING TO MINORS.

Prohibits minors (persons under age 18), from possessing or using tobacco products. Exempts minors when lawfully delivering tobacco products or participating in a law enforcement activity. Requires minor to take smoking cessation program on 1st offense and repeat the program on subsequent offenses.

HLT, JUD

1175

RELATING TO EMPLOYMENT CONTRACTS FOR BROADCAST INDUSTRY EMPLOYEES.

Makes it unlawful for a broadcast employer to include in any employment contract with a current or prospective broadcast employee a provision that prevents the employee for seeking and commencing employment with another employer after termination of the contract.

LAB, JUD

1176

RELATING TO DRIVER'S LICENSING.

Requires that applicants for renewal of a driver's license who have been found guilty of committing three moving violations within a one year period be given a driver's license examination.

TRN, JUD

1177

RELATING TO DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES.

Requires community residential alternatives for persons with developmental disabilities or mental retardation to be in a setting of the person's choice if the person or the person's family and friends determine that the person can be sustained with supports, and the supports are attached to the person.

HLT/HUS, FIN

1178

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES.

Appropriates $         for FY 2005-2006 as grant-in-aid for emergency medical services in the Waianae-Nanakuli, Kahaluu-Kaaawa, and urban Honolulu areas.

HLT, FIN

1179

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE HAWAII COMMISSION FOR NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE.

Appropriates $142,000 in state matching funds to the Hawaii commission for national and community service.

HED, FIN

1180

RELATING TO MUTUAL BENEFIT SOCIETIES.

Requires the administrative board of a mutual benefit society to have representatives from small businesses, provider networks, large businesses, and consumer interests. Gives the insurance commissioner increased authority to provide equitable relief and legal remedies on behalf of aggrieved members.

EDB, CPC, FIN

1181

RELATING TO HIV/AIDS ASSISTANCE.

Appropriates funds to the department of health for food, housing, and transportation assistance for HIV/AIDS patients.

HLT, FIN

1182

RELATING TO ATHLETIC CONTEST OFFICIALS.

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

EDN/HED, JUD

1183

RELATING TO SEXUAL VIOLENCE.

Requires the Attorney General to administer programs for the prevention of sexual violence and the protection and treatment of victims of sexual violence.

JUD, FIN

1184

RELATING TO THE ILLEGAL USE OF CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES.

Appropriates funds for state agencies and the counties for crystal methamphetamine (ice) treatment, prevention, rehabilitation, education, environmental damage assessments, and program monitoring initiatives.

HLT/PSM, JUD, FIN

1185

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR SEXUAL ASSAULT SERVICES.

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

HLT, FIN

1186

RELATING TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE.

Changes name of department of health's domestic violence prevention special fund to domestic violence and sexual assault special fund. Allocates a percentage of the fund for domestic violence and for sexual assault services and programs. Requires a report to the legislature on expenses and improvements that can be made and on a strategic plan to improve support services.

HLT, FIN

1187

RELATING TO MENTAL HEALTH.

Creates Department of Health treatment review panel

HLT, JUD

1188

RELATING TO MENTAL HEALTH.

Exempts, from liability, contracted mental health providers that render services to certain conditionally released persons pursuant to statutory provisions relating to fitness to proceed and penal responsibility.

HLT, JUD

1189

RELATING TO HEALTH.

Allows individuals with developmental disabilities to receive unlicensed home and community based services.

HLT/HUS, FIN

1190

RELATING TO THE ADMINISTRATION OF PARKING FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES.

Establishes the parking for persons with disabilities special fund funded by a 70 cent increase in the state vehicle registration fee. Mandates that fund moneys be used to administer the state disabled parking program and to reimburse the counties for administrative costs of issuing disabled parking permits and operating a volunteer parking enforcement program. Appropriates $600,000 from the fund.

TRN/HLT, FIN

1191

RELATING TO COURT INTERPRETERS.

Requires the judiciary to certify court interpreters and to appoint and use certified court interpreters in legal proceedings.

JUD, FIN

1192

RELATING TO THE LYON ARBORETUM.

Appropriates funds to the University of Hawaii for repair, maintenance, and operation of the Harold L. Lyon Arboretum.

HED, FIN

1193

RELATING TO TRAFFIC SAFETY.

Requires a driver to yield the right of way to a pedestrian in a crosswalk until the pedestrian has completed crossing the road. Requires the driver to yield even if the pedestrian is on the opposite side of the road when the driver approaches, unless the pedestrian is on the opposite side of a divided roadway.

TRN, JUD

1194

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. Clarifies that negligent homicide in the second degree may also apply to a person who operates a vehicle less than thirty miles per hour over the maximum speed limit in a negligent manner.

TRN, JUD

1195

RELATING TO NOISE.

Prohibits as disorderly conduct, the operation of motorized equipment with noise levels exceeding 120 decibels, including lawn mowers, leaf blowers, and other grounds maintenance or construction equipment, between 6:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m., any day of the week.

HLT/EEP, JUD

1196

RELATING TO RELIEF FOR MANOA FLOOD VICTIMS.

Provides a one-time non-refundable tax credit to victims of the Manoa flood of October 2004.

WLO/PSM, FIN

1197

RELATING TO ADMINISTRATIVE LICENSE REVOCATION.

Permits driver whose license has been administratively revoked for life to seek reinstatement of the license after 10 years have passed since the lifetime revocation. Requires driver to have had no arrests or convictions for driving while license revoked and be free from dependency or abuse of alcohol and drugs.

TRN, JUD

1198

RELATING TO EXEMPT EMPLOYEES.

Places limits on the total number of positions exempt from civil service. Requires annual reports on the number and percentage of civil service and exempt positions.

LAB, FIN

1199

RELATING TO THE FILIPINO CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION COMMISSION.

Appropriates funds to the Filipino centennial celebration commission for the celebration of the Filipino centennial anniversary of their arrival in Hawaii.

TAC, FIN

1200

RELATING TO STATE ENTERPRISE ZONES.

Establishes that agricultural businesses shall remain eligible for tax incentives in the event of force majeure; allows agricultural businesses to meet annual gross revenue requirements if the businesses are unable to meet annual full-time employee requirements.

AGR/EDB, FIN

1201

RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL THEFT.

Establishes that the fact that a person is in possession of agricultural commodities without an agricultural certificate is prima facie evidence that the person knows the character, nature, and value of the agricultural commodities; establishes that the fact that a person is in possession of livestock without a livestock certificate is prima facie evidence that the person knows the character, nature, and value of the livestock.

AGR, JUD

1202

RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL TRESPASSING.

AGR, JUD

1203

RELATING TO ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES.

Lowers legal drinking age from 21 to 18 years of age.

TRN, JUD, FIN

1204

RELATING TO VETERANS.

Gives military veterans that served in the Iraq or Afghanistan conflicts priority to housing developed under chapter 201G.

PSM, HSG, FIN

1205

AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS.

Authorizes the issuance of general obligations bonds to fund upgrading and installation of the tsunami siren warning system

PSM, FIN

1206

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR CIVIL DEFENSE.

Authorizes the issuance of general obligations bonds to fund review and redrafting of tsunami inundation maps in two-dimensional format.

PSM, FIN

1207

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR EMERGENCY SHELTER RETROFITTING.

Appropriates $2,000,000 for FY 2005-2006 and $2,000,000 for FY 2006-2007 for emergency shelter retrofitting.

PSM, FIN

1208

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR CIVIL DEFENSE.

Appropriates funds for a 24-hour emergency operation center in the department of defense.

PSM, FIN

1209

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR A TSUNAMI PUBLIC AWARENESS CAMPAIGN.

Appropriates funds for a tsunami public awareness campaign.

PSM, FIN

1210

RELATING TO INSURANCE.

Permits an insured to assign reimbursement for dental services to the dentist.

HLT, CPC, FIN

1211

RELATING TO QUEST.

Amends the Hawaii Revised Statutes relating to the QUEST program.

PSM

1212

RELATING TO COMMERCIAL PASSENGER VESSEL POLLUTION.

Prohibits commercial passenger vessels from releasing specified substances into the marine waters of the state.

TRN, EEP/WLO, FIN

1213

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR PORT SECURITY.

Appropriates funds and authorizes implementation of a new port security system for the Port of Honolulu.

TRN/PSM, FIN

1214

RELATING TO PREVAILING WAGES.

Provides for the manner in which the prevailing wages for laborers and mechanics on public work projects and certain private work projects is to be established. Allows all individuals to bring suit for injunctive relief for violations of chapter 104.

LAB, JUD, FIN

1215

RELATING TO A STATE PUBLIC MARKET.

Creates a permanent venue for local vendors and artists to showcase their products that are made within the State and their talents to promote locally-owned businesses and artists. Creates an employment training program for local residents.

EDB/AGR/TAC, WLO, FIN

1216

RELATING TO AN ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEM TAX CREDIT.

Provides a tax credit for the cost of energy storage systems installed for the storage of electricity or another useful energy product created by electricity in order to shift electric load to off-peak periods.

EEP, FIN

1217

RELATING TO HOUSING.

Amends section 201G-118 to limit its application to lower cost housing projects; defines lower cost housing projects.

HSG, FIN

1218

RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE.

Authorizes the department of defense to provide tuition assistance to graduate or professional students at the University of Hawaii retroactive to 2001.

PSM, HED, FIN

1219

RELATING TO SPORTS FACILITIES.

Repeals the stadium authority and transfers jurisdiction over stadiums and related facilities and the Kapolei recreational sports complex to the University of Hawaii.

TAC/WLO, HED, FIN

1220

PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE X, SECTION 6 OF THE HAWAII CONSTITUTION TO ESTABLISH AN ELECTED UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII BOARD OF REGENTS.

Proposes a constitutional amendment to elect instead of appoint the University of Hawaii Board of Regents and to ensure that each county will be represented on the Board.

HED, JUD, FIN

1221

RELATING TO STATUTORY REVISION: AMENDING, REENACTING, OR REPEALING VARIOUS PROVISIONS OF THE HAWAII REVISED STATUTES AND THE SESSION LAWS OF HAWAII FOR THE PURPOSE OF CORRECTING ERRORS AND REFERENCES, CLARIFYING LANGUAGE, AND DELETING OBSOLETE OR UNNECESSARY PROVISIONS.

Amends, reenacts, or repeals various provisions of the Hawaii Revised Statutes and the Session Laws of Hawaii for the purpose of correcting errors and references, clarifying language, and deleting obsolete or unnecessary provisions.

JUD

1222

RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYEES.

Broadens the grounds for appeal to the merit appeals board by repealing the listed acts that are subject to appeal.

LAB

1223

RELATING TO DAIRY PRODUCTS.

Defines "raw milk," "raw colostrum," "raw-milk products", and "raw-colostrum products" and permits their sale to final consumers. Requires board of agriculture to adopt rules.

AGR, CPC

1224

RELATING TO TAXATION.

Requires the department of taxation not to collect or refund amounts of less than $1.

FIN

1225

RELATING TO ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION.

Provides a stable funding mechanism to provide for the natural area reserves system.

WLO, FIN

1226

RELATING TO COUNTY TAXES.

Authorizes a county to impose the general excise tax.

EDB/TAC/WLO, FIN

1227

RELATING TO PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY TAX.

Imposes the public service company tax on the gross income of a private sewer company or private sewer facility.

EEP, CPC, FIN

1228

RELATING TO EDUCATION.

Establishes in the department of education the content oriented language arts program for kindergarten through grade 6.

EDN, FIN

1229

RELATING TO HARBOR FACILITIES.

Short form bill.

TRN

1230

RELATING TO REVENUE BONDS FOR HARBOR FACILITIES.

Short form bill.

TRN

1231

RELATING TO CIVIL UNIONS.

Establishes civil unions. Allows 2 persons who live together, consider themselves to be members of each other's immediate family, agree to be jointly responsible for each other's basic living expenses, are not married, are not related by blood, and are at least 18 years old to file a declaration of civil union with the director of health. Extends same rights and obligations as spouses in a marital relationship to civil union partners. Prohibits discrimination because of civil union partnership status.

JUD

1232

RELATING TO CIVIL RIGHTS.

Prohibits discrimination in real property transactions on the basis of gender identity or expression, or sexual orientation.

JUD

1233

RELATING TO CIVIL RIGHTS.

Prohibits discrimination in public accommodations on the basis of gender identity or expression, or sexual orientation.

JUD

1234

RELATING TO CIVIL RIGHTS.

Prohibits discrimination on the basis of gender identity and expression in employment, housing, public accommodations, or access to services receiving state financial assistance. Prohibits discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation in public accommodations.

JUD

1235

RELATING TO TRAVEL ALLOWANCES.

Limits the amount of allowable travel allowance for a legislator to no more than the maximum amount allowed any federal or state public officer or employee.

FIN

1236

RELATING TO THE LEGISLATURE.

Supports legislator/constituent communication by increasing the legislative allowance from $5,000 to $7,500. Allows the allowance to be regularly adjusted to account for inflation by increasing the allowance by the same amount and at the same time that the legislative salary is increased.

FIN

1237

RELATING TO INVASIVE SPECIES.

Allows private and public landowners to remove noxious trees within a conservation district by applying for a site plan approval permit with the DLNR; exempts this activity from the requirements of chapter 343 where DLNR determines that there is no significant effect on the environment.

WLO/EEP

1238

RELATING TO THE ISSUANCE OF SPECIAL PURPOSE REVENUE BONDS TO ASSIST SEAWATER AIR CONDITIONING PROJECTS ON THE ISLAND OF OAHU.

Authorizes issuance of special purpose revenue bonds to Honolulu Seawater Air Conditioning LLC for the purpose of design and construction of the chilled water distribution system and balance-of-system components and structures of a district cooling system in downtown Honolulu.

EEP, CPC, FIN

1239

RELATING TO HIGHWAY DESIGN.

Directs the department of transportation to establish new guidelines that take into account the need for flexibility in highway design.

TRN, FIN

1240

RELATING TO EMERGENCY CONTRACEPTIVES FOR SEXUAL ASSAULT SURVIVORS IN EMERGENCY ROOMS.

Requires hospitals to provide information on emergency contraception to sexual assault victims and 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

1241

RELATING TO REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM.

Prohibits state interference with the right to abortion prior to viability of the fetus or when abortion is necessary to protect the life or health of the female. Defines unauthorized abortion.

HLT, JUD

1242

RELATING TO SECTION 453-16, HAWAII REVISED STATUTES.

Clarifies definition of abortion, repeals unconstitutional residency requirement, and permits abortions to be performed in clinics and physician's offices.

JUD

1243

RELATING TO ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION.

Changes the conveyance tax rate to an unspecified rate; establishes that projects undertaken in accordance with management of the natural area reserves system are included in the list of priorities for funds disbursed from the natural area reserve fund.

WLO, FIN

1244

RELATING TO ENERGY EFFICIENCY IN STATE FACILITIES.

Amends the definition of "renewable energy" to include seawater air conditioning/thermal energy storage(SWAC) district cooling. Requires the use of SWAC district cooling in state facilities located in areas where this technology is feasible and available. Requires state agencies to include provisions for the purchase of SWAC district cooling systems as a component of their requests for bids whenever procuring construction or renovation of such facilities.

EEP, CPC, FIN

1245

RELATING TO BROWN TREE SNAKES.

Authorizes the Department of Agriculture to handle and take appropriate action on containers that may contain items originating from Guam that are not documented as having been inspected by an approved agency to be apparently free of brown tree snakes.

AGR, JUD, FIN

1246

RELATING TO GENERAL EXCISE TAX.

Provides a general excise tax exemption for income received as an adult residential care home operator, a group child care home operator, or a group child care center operator.

HLT/HUS, FIN

1247

RELATING TO CARE HOMES.

Creates the Liability Insurance Premium and Claims Payment Special Fund for the Department of Health and the Foster Family Home Liability Insurance Premium and Claims Payment Special Fund for the Department of Human Services to pay premiums for liability insurance for care home operators who cannot afford insurance.

HLT/HUS, CPC, FIN

1248

RELATING TO ADULT RESIDENTIAL CARE HOMES.

Changes level of care payments for types I and II adult residential care homes from a maximum of $521.90 and $629.90, respectively, to unspecified amounts. Appropriates funds.

HLT/HUS, FIN

1249

RELATING TO LONG-TERM CARE.

Appropriates funds to DOH and DHS to reimburse family caregivers who provide at-home care to qualified relatives. Sets eligibility and uses of reimbursement. Requires DHS and DOH to adopt rules.

HLT/HUS, FIN

1250

RELATING TO LONG-TERM CARE.

Provides a tax credit to resident taxpayers, regardless of adjusted gross income, for long-term care insurance premiums at the lesser of $2,500 or 50 percent 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.

HLT/HUS, FIN

1251

RELATING TO CAREGIVER TAX CREDIT.

Provides a $500 tax credit for caregivers of "eligible care recipients", requires annual report to the legislature, repeals Act after five years, and imposes criminal sanctions for falsifying tax status.

HLT/HUS, JUD, FIN

1252

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.

HLT/HUS, FIN

1253

RELATING TO HAWAII HEALTH SYSTEMS CORPORATION.

Exempts HHSC from requirements applicable to all procurement contracts and all contracts made by state agencies to provide health or human services.

EDB/HLT, FIN

1254

RELATING TO KALAUPAPA.

Establishes protections for residents at Kalaupapa.

HLT, JUD

1255

RELATING TO HOMELESS SHELTERS.

Requires HCHCH to fully reimburse provider agencies operating homeless shelters or transitional shelters.

HSG, FIN

1256

RELATING TO CONVEYANCE TAX.

Provides for a sliding conveyance tax rate scale on conveyances of realty by maintaining the 10 cents per $100 rate for property conveyed at up to $500,000; and adding the rates of 20 cents per $100 for property conveyed at $500,001 to $1,000,000; and 50 cents per $100 for property conveyed at over $1,000,000. Repeals Act (sliding scale) after 5 years.

WLO/HSG, FIN

1257

RELATING TO HAWAIIAN HOMELANDS.

Short form relating to Hawaiian Homelands.

HSG

1258

RELATING TO THE HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF HAWAII.

Short form relating to the Housing and Community Development Corporation of Hawaii.

HSG

1259

RELATING TO TAXATION.

Eliminates the premium tax on health insurers, except on health care services furnished through the QUEST medical assistance program.

HLT, CPC, FIN

1260

RELATING TO ELDERLY CARE.

Extends the Program for All-inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) to June 30, 2007.

HLT/HUS, FIN

1261

RELATING TO HEPATITIS.

Appropriates funds for a case manager to assist individuals with viral hepatitis.

HLT, FIN

1262

RELATING TO PSYCHOTROPIC MEDICATION.

Prohibits the department of social services from restricting payment for or a recipient's access to psychotropic medication.

HLT/HUS, JUD, FIN

1263

RELATING TO WORKERS' COMPENSATION.

Allows a workers' compensation claimant and the claimant's attorney to negotiate the attorney's fees.

LAB, CPC/JUD

1264

RELATING TO UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS.

Provides that weekly unemployment benefit payments shall not be reduced as a result of the receipt of pension payments under the Social Security Act or Railroad Retirement Act of 1974.

LAB, FIN

1265

RELATING TO THE COMPENSATION OF OFFICIALS IN THE LEGISLATIVE SERVICE AGENCIES.

Increases the salaries of officials in the legislative service agencies.

LMG, FIN

1266

RELATING TO PREVAILING WAGES.

Clarifies that the state law requiring payment of prevailing wages applies to all laborers, mechanics, required assistants, helpers, tenders, and apprentices on a public works project, and not only those on the job site.

EDB, LAB, FIN

1267

RELATING TO THE EXPENDITURE OF PUBLIC MONEY.

Requires contractors on public works construction contracts to comply with DLIR specifications for staffing requirements.

EDB, LAB, FIN

1268

RELATING TO THE EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM.

Authorizes the employees' retirement system to employ or retain attorneys independent of the attorney general to provide legal services for the employees' retirement system.

LAB, JUD, FIN

1269

RELATING TO WORKERS' COMPENSATION.

Ensures that the adoption of treatment guidelines will not be presumed to be the only effective and appropriate prescription for treating injured workers.

LAB, CPC

1270

RELATING TO THE CIVIL RIGHTS COMMISSION.

Grants the civil rights commission the power to decide petitions for declaratory relief filed by its executive director on legal issues arising in the course of the investigation of complaints of discrimination.

JUD

1271

RELATING TO THE CIVIL RIGHTS COMMISSION.

Allows the director of the HCRC to disclose information to a complainant or respondent obtained during an investigation of a complaint filed with the HCRC to assist the director in conducting a conciliation, conference, or persuasion process designed to eliminate the discriminatory practice.

JUD

1272

RELATING TO DEPENDENT-BENEFICIARIES OF THE HAWAII EMPLOYER-UNION HEALTH BENEFITS TRUST FUND.

Enables children in a parent-child relationship with an employee-beneficiary and who qualifies as a dependent of the employee-beneficiary for federal tax purposes to receive health benefits under the employee-beneficiary's health plan.

LAB, FIN

1273

RELATING VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION.

Prohibits time limits for vocational rehabilitation plans under workers' compensation. Authorizes the use of self-employment plans as vocational rehabilitation plans.

LAB, CPC, FIN

1274

RELATING TO GOVERNMENT.

Provides civil service employees transferred by Act 51, Session Laws of Hawaii 2004, with the right to apply for intra- and inter-departmental transfer and promotional opportunities within the executive branch.

EDN, LAB, FIN

1275

RELATING TO THE HAWAII LIVING WAGE LAW.

Requires private firms contracted by state government to pay covered workers a Hawaii living wage of $9.43 an hour, to begin on 7/1/05 and adjusted thereafter. Requires DLIR to implement living wage. Establishes temporary living wage advisory committee to evaluate law.

EDB, LAB, FIN

1276

RELATING TO PUBLIC ACCESS.

Allows the department of land and natural resources to enter into indemnity and defense agreements to protect landowners and persons associated with landowners to further the purposes of chapter 198D. Appropriates funds to conduct a metes and bounds survey and acquire a public right of way for a public access to the Ewa Forest Reserve and the Poamoho Trail.

WLO, JUD, FIN

1277

RELATING TO THE STATE BUDGET.

Declares that legislatively authorized transfers or changes between state programs and agencies shall not be put into effect unless approved by the legislature.

FIN

1278

RELATING TO IMPROVING WATER QUALITY.

Appropriates funds to develop and demonstrate comprehensive watershed management measures to improve water quality of Lake Wilson and reduce contaminated sediments in statewide waterways.

WLO, HED, FIN

1279

RELATING TO ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURE.

Requires administrative rules to conform to their enabling statutes; allows legislature to hear petitions for rulemaking under 91-6, HRS; automatically repeals certain administrative rules 180 days after the repeal of its enabling statute; expands the scope of the small business regulatory review board's biannual evaluation report.

EDB, JUD/CPC

1280

RELATING TO FLOOD CONTROL.

Appropriates $250,000 for fiscal year 2005-2006 and $500,000 for fiscal year 2006-2007 for the Center for Conservation and Research Training to develop and coordinate the implementations of watershed management strategies to control flooding in two of Hawaii's most severely flood-impacted watersheds as identified by the Center.

WLO, FIN

1281

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

Appropriate funds for capital improvement projects for the benefit of the 38th representative district.

FIN

1282

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

Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects for the 35th representative district.

FIN

1283

RELATING TO MARRIAGE.

Requires an applicant for a marriage license to provide a certificate of completion of a premarital preparation course. Requires the course instructor to register with the department of health.

HLT, JUD, FIN

1284

RELATING TO OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH.

Provides sanctions for arbitrary or capricious action or conduct by the department of labor and industrial relations with regard to occupational safety and health violations. Creates a special fund for occupational safety and health training and assistance.

LAB/EDB, JUD, FIN

1285

RELATING TO FIREARMS.

Authorizes chiefs of police to issue licenses to carry a concealed firearm. Details processes for license applications, renewals, and record keeping. Strictly prohibits carrying concealed firearms under certain circumstances.

PSM, JUD

1286

RELATING TO COMMUNITY CORRECTIONAL CENTERS.

Requires community correctional centers to provide timely alcohol and substance education, treatment programs, and other relevant support to all persons detained in community correctional centers; appropriates funds.

PSM, JUD, FIN

1287

RELATING TO WORKERS' COMPENSATION.

Extends workers' compensation insurance exemption to employers having distributional interest of at least 50% of a limited liability company or having transferable interest of at least 50% of a limited liability partnership.

LAB, CPC, FIN

1288

RELATING TO PARENTAL CONSENT BEFORE AN ABORTION MAY BE PERFORMED ON A MINOR.

Prohibits physician from performing an abortion on a minor unless: (1) the minor's parents or guardian consent; (2) a family court authorizes the minor to consent, either by issuing an appropriate order or by failing to do so; or (3) the physician concludes that a medical emergency exists and there is insufficient time to obtain consent. Prescribes procedure for obtaining judicial approval.

HLT, JUD

1289

RELATING TO ABORTION.

Prohibits partial birth abortion. Defines "abortion", "fetus", and "partial birth abortion".

HLT, JUD

1290

RELATING TO BOATING.

Requires an owner of a commercial vessel moored in a state small boat harbor to pay a fee of at least three percent of gross revenues derived from the use of the vessel; requires fees and penalties established through rules relating to harbors to be deposited into the Boating Special Fund.

WLO, FIN

1291

RELATING TO THE HAWAII RULES OF EVIDENCE.

Establishes requirements to admit into evidence, the testimony of a witness who has previously undergone hypnosis.

JUD

1292

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR BUILDING F PARTITION FOR SALT LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.

Appropriates funds for a partition for building F at Salt Lake elementary school.

EDN, FIN

1293

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR A GRANT-IN-AID TO THE CITY AND COUNTY OF HONOLULU TO CLEAN THE SALT LAKE WATERWAY.

Appropriates funds for a grant-in-aid to city and county of Honolulu to clean-up Salt Lake waterway.

WLO, FIN

1294

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR FULL-TIME STUDENT ACTIVITY COORDINATORS FOR INTERMEDIATE SCHOOLS.

Appropriates funds for one full-time student activities coordinator for each intermediate public school, except for charter schools.

EDN, FIN

1295

RELATING TO SCHOOLS.

Requires the department of education to conduct asbestos tests prior to renovations or painting of school facilities at King intermediate. Appropriates funds for asbestos testing of King intermediate school students.

EDN, FIN

1296

RELATING TO SCHOOL ATTENDANCE.

Prohibits a person under 15 years and 6 months from obtaining a driver's permit and a person who is 16-17 years of age from obtaining a driver's license unless the person obtains a driving eligibility certificate. Requires the department of education and private schools to establish requirements for issuance of and to issue the certificate.

EDN/TRN, JUD, FIN

1297

RELATING TO FAMILY COURT.

Requires the family court to provide notice of child custody proceeding to a pro se litigant before an order for an award of custody is entered.

JUD

1298

RELATING TO FAMILY COURT.

Replaces custody evaluators with court-appointed fact finders; establishes the family first revolving fund to pay the fees of court-appointed experts; establishes a family court review commission.

JUD, FIN

1299

RELATING TO FAMILY COURT.

Establishes a fee schedule for court-appointed fact finders to assist family court judges in determining child custody and visitation arrangements.

JUD, FIN

1300

RELATING TO EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION.

improves early childhood education in the state by establishing a quality ratings committee and appropriating funds to allow the committee to develop a quality ratings system for early childhood education. Makes early childhood education more accessible to all children by increasing the number of childcare subsidies available through the preschools open doors program.

EDN/HUS, FIN

1301

RELATING TO INVASIVE SPECIES.

Appropriates funds for statewide outreach and eradication efforts relating to the Coqui frog.

EEP/AGR, FIN

1302

RELATING TO BUSINESS FEES.

Reduces filing, service, copying, and other business fees charged by the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs.

CPC, FIN

1303

RELATING TO HOUSING.

Creates more affordable rental housing. Establishes homeless programs. Allows more individuals to qualify for lower cost housing. Makes administrative changes to various state housing programs. Establishes a legislative Affordable Rental Housing and Homeless Task Force.

HSG/WLO, LAB, FIN

1304

RELATING TO HEALTH.

Establishes a temporary Healthcare Task Force to develop a plan for implementing health care for all the residents of Hawaii. Appropriates funds.

HLT/HUS, CPC, FIN

1305

RELATING TO EQUAL PAY.

Establishes a pay equity task force to review any relevant information and make recommendations for funds and specific actions to correct any gender-based pay inequities. Prohibits employers from wage discrimination on the basis of gender.

LAB, JUD

1306

RELATING TO EMPLOYMENT PRACTICES.

Prohibits an employer or labor organization from discriminating against an employee who uses accrued and available sick leave in accordance with a valid collective bargaining agreement or valid employment policy; clarifies that the term "employee" includes an employee with a nonchronic condition of a short-term nature.

LAB, JUD

1307

RELATING TO WORKERS' COMPENSATION.

Authorizes recovery of attorney's fees and costs under law administered by the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations by any person who successfully defends any charge of workers' compensation insurance fraud, except criminal cases, against the person who initiates and prosecutes the action. Authorizes the insurance commissioner to investigate complaints and prosecute cases of workers' compensation fraud, provided that the complaint is against an insurance carrier, a self-insured employer, or a full-insured employer.

LAB, CPC/JUD

1308

RELATING TO LAND CONSERVATION.

Requires 25% of real estate conveyance tax collected be deposited into the land conservation fund. Allows grants to state agencies, counties, and nonprofit land conservation organizations to acquire interest in lands having a value as a resource to the State.

WLO, FIN

1309

RELATING TO TAXATION.

Authorizes counties to levy a county surcharge on State tax to fund public transit in the counties.

TRN, FIN

1310

RELATING TO SWEEPSTAKES.

Establishes a new chapter administered by DoTax. Requires persons conducting sweepstakes to obtain a permit and pay a sweepstakes tax based on the type of sweepstakes conducted, and provides penalties. Creates a Child Protective Services Foster Child Special Fund to receive the tax and penalties.

JUD/HUS, FIN

1311

RELATING TO RENEWABLE ENERGY.

Allows a renewable energy producer to acquire an option to lease a parcel of public land from the Board of Land and Natural Resources.

EEP/WLO, FIN

1312

RELATING TO PUBLIC ACCOUNTANCY.

Establishes reciprocity for public accountants.

CPC, JUD

1313

RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE TWENTY-FIFTH REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT.

Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects for the benefit of the 25th Representative District.

FIN

1314

RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE SECOND REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT.

Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects for the 2nd representative district.

FIN

1315

RELATING TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING.

Exempts affordable housing projects from the GET; streamlines the review and approval of affordable housing projects; increases portion of the conveyance tax dedicated to the rental housing trust fund from 25% to 50%; repeals rental housing trust fund advisory commission.

HSG, WLO, FIN

1316

RELATING TO THE HAWAIIAN HOMES COMMISSION ACT, 1920, AS AMENDED.

Authorizes the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands (DHHL) to enter into business relationships that support DHHL programs and operations with additional revenue.

HAW, EDB, FIN

1317

RELATING TO MEDICAID.

Prohibits the Department of Human Services from taking any action or expending state resources in any effort to remove prescription drug benefits from managed care plans that provide health care coverage for Medicaid beneficiaries.

HUS/HLT, CPC, FIN

1318

RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYEES.

Requires state employees up to 7 days of paid leave each calendar year to serve as a bone marrow donor and up to 30 days of paid leave each calendar year to serve as an organ donor.

LAB/HLT, FIN

1319

RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE SIXTH REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT.

Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects for the benefit of the 6th representative district.

FIN

1320

RELATING TO EMERGENCY 911.

Requires the chief of police of each county to retain the dispatch tape recordings of all emergency 911 calls for a period of at least 3 years.

PSM, JUD, FIN

1321

RELATING TO THE LAND USE COMMISSION.

Allows counties to file boundary amendment petitions for multi-parcel petition area to conform land use designations to county general plans or county development or community plans.

WLO/EDB, FIN

1322

RELATING TO EDUCATION.

Requires DOE to adopt rule relating to the imposition of impact fees for facilities development.

EDN, WLO, FIN

1323

RELATING TO VEHICLES.

Requires an advance disposal fee for new motor vehicles.

EEP, CPC, FIN

1324

RELATING TO HIGHWAY SAFETY.

Establishes the photo red light imaging systems program. Authorizes counties to administer the program.

TRN, JUD/CPC, FIN

1325

RELATING TO HIGHWAY SAFETY.

Establishes the photo speed imaging detector systems program. Authorizes counties to administer the program. Permits counties to retain revenues.

TRN, JUD/CPC, FIN

1326

RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS TO WELLS PARK, WAILUKU, MAUI.

Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds for capital improvements to Wells Park in Wailuku, Maui. Requires matching funds from the county of Maui and private funding sources.

FIN

1327

Appropriates a blank amount to fund lifeguard services at Makena State park.

FIN

1328

RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE EIGHTH REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT.

Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects for the benefit of the 8th representative district.

FIN

1329

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE NISEI VETERANS MEMORIAL CENTER.

Makes a grant-in-aid appropriation to the intergenerational center: Nisei Veterans Memorial Center to complete phase II of the intergenerational center for preschoolers and an adult day care center.

PSM/LAB, FIN

1330

RELATING TO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.

Authorizes casino gaming on Oahu and establishes the Hawaii Gaming Control Commission.

EDB/TAC, LAB/JUD, FIN

1331

RELATING TO THE ISSUANCE OF SPECIAL PURPOSE REVENUE BONDS FOR JACOBY DEVELOPMENT INC.

Authorizes the issuance of SPRBs for the planning, design, construction, and equipping of, and the acquisition of lands for, a plasma municipal solid waste processing system to convert solid wastes into electricity, and chemically and biologically inert slag, on the island of Oahu.

EEP, HLT, FIN

1332

RELATING TO HEALTH CARE DECISIONS.

Prohibits any person to decide for a person legally incapable of making health care decisions to withhold or withdraw hydration or nutrition by way of gastrointestinal tract, except under certain conditions.

HLT, JUD

1333

RELATING TO CRIMINAL TRESPASS IN THE SECOND DEGREE.

Makes trespass committed on public housing grounds punishable as criminal trespass in the second degree.

HSG, JUD

1334

RELATING TO LONG-TERM CARE.

Establishes a long-term care mandatory premium 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.

HLT/HUS, CPC, FIN

1335

RELATING TO LONG-TERM CARE.

Establishes the temporary Long-term Care Commission within the Department of Health. Appropriates funds. Scheduled for repeal on December 31, 2009.

HLT/HUS, FIN

1336

RELATING TO ADULT RESIDENTIAL CARE HOMES.

Alters the maximum rate of payment of domiciliary care provided to recipients eligible for Federal Supplementary Security Income or public assistance. Appropriates funds to the department of human services.

HLT/HUS, FIN

1337

RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS PERTAINING TO HUMAN SERVICES.

Appropriates $500,000 of TANF funds to the Waipahu Community Association for construction of the Waipahu Festival Market/Business Incubator and Business and Employment Training Center.

FIN

1338

RELATING TO THE AUDITOR.

Appropriates funds to the auditor to fund performance and management audits of all state spending.

LMG, FIN

1339

RELATING TO HIGHWAYS.

Requires the DOT to use federal alternative standards that take into account environmental, scenic, aesthetic, historic, and other impacts when repairing or reconstructing a scenic highway in the state highway system. Limits state liability. Establishes advisory commission. Appropriates funds for commission.

TRN, JUD, FIN

1340

RELATING TO THE PATIENTS' BILL OF RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES ACT.

Amends the review procedure process under the patients' bill of rights and responsibilities act. Preserves commissioner's discretion to convene panel to hear cases for consumers in non-ERISA plans. Requires the commissioner to determine whether requests for external review concerns an ERISA plan and to direct all requests for review of ERISA plan benefits to an independent review organization selected by the commissioner.

HLT, CPC/JUD, FIN

1341

RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE FOURTEENTH, FIFTEENTH, AND SIXTEENTH REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICTS.

Appropriate funds for capital improvement projects for the benefit of the 14th, 15th, and 16th representative districts.

FIN

1342

RELATING TO MOTORCYCLE AND MOTOR SCOOTER SAFETY.

Adds motorcycle education courses approved by the Department of Defense to those approved by the department of transportation as meeting the prerequisite requirement for obtaining insurance coverage.

TRN, JUD

1343

RELATING TO THE OAHU VETERANS CENTER.

Appropriates funds for the construction of phase II of the Oahu Veterans Center.

PSM, FIN

1344

RELATING TO SALARY AND PAY PERIODS FOR PUBLIC EMPLOYEES.

Repeals provisions that allow the State to delay payroll to some employees by a full pay period in addition to the payroll lag of 5 days. Requires all public employees, except those in bargaining unit 7, to be paid 5 days after the close of the pay period for which the paycheck is being issued.

LAB, FIN

1345

RELATING TO ELECTIONS.

Requires office of elections to prepare a sample ballot to be mailed to each registered voter 21 days prior to an election. Requires sample ballots to include description of all ballot measures.

JUD, FIN

1346

RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLE INSURANCE.

Provides motor vehicle insurance premium discounts to those who complete an accident prevention course.

CPC, FIN

1347

RELATING TO PSEUDOEPHEDRINE.

Requires that any material, compound, mixture, or preparation that contains any quantity of pseudoephedrine be dispensed by a licensed pharmacist. Requires a person to show identification to acquire any such material, and requires a pharmacy to keep a record.

HLT, CPC/JUD

1348

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR HUI NO`EAU VISUAL ARTS CENTER.

Appropriates funds for Hui No`eau Visual Arts Center.

TAC, FIN

1349

RELATING TO THE WAIKIKI WAR MEMORIAL NATATORIUM.

Makes and appropriation to fund a study to restore and expand the beach area of the Waikiki

TAC, WLO, FIN

1350

RELATING TO DIAMOND HEAD VISITOR ORIENTATION CENTER.

Provides funding to establish a visitor orientation center for Diamond Head state monument.

TAC, WLO, FIN

1351

RELATING TO INCOME TAX CREDITS.

Allows income tax credits for contributions to a school tuition organization.

EDN, EDB, FIN

1352

RELATING TO PARTIAL BIRTH ABORTION.

Prohibits partial birth abortions except to save life of the mother. Provides criminal penalties.

HLT, JUD

1353

RELATING TO PUBLIC, EDUCATION, AND GOVERNMENT ACCESS ORGANIZATIONS.

Requires the auditor to perform a financial and managerial audit of the PEG access organizations.

CPC, FIN

1354

RELATING TO SIGNS.

Requires street name signs for all city streets.

TRN, FIN

1355

RELATING TO TAX CREDITS.

Provides an income tax credit for school tuition.

EDN, FIN

1356

RELATING TO TRAFFIC.

Prohibits commercial vehicles from driving in the left lane of a multi-lane roadway or street except when turning or passing.

TRN, CPC/JUD

1357

RELATING TO TRAFFIC.

Increases penalties for traffic offenses in school zones.

TRN, JUD

1358

RELATING TO STREET SIGNS.

Require posting of warning signs for all crosswalks in school zones.

TRN, FIN

1359

RELATING TO THE TRAFFIC CODE.

Enacts various safety measures to the traffic code.

TRN, CPC/JUD, FIN

1360

RELATING TO THE WAIALUA AGRIBUSINESS INCUBATOR.

Authorizes the issuance of GO bonds for the University of Hawaii for the planning, design, and construction of an agribusiness incubator in the Waialua District.

AGR, HED, FIN

1361

RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE FORTY-SIXTH REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT.

Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects for the benefit of the 46th representative district.

FIN

1362

RELATING TO PROCUREMENT.

Amends the public procurement code to prohibit a governmental body from requiring a contractor for construction design professional services to indemnify the governmental body for the governmental body's negligence, but allows the governmental body to require the contractor to indemnify the State for the person's negligence.

EDB, JUD, FIN

1363

RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION.

Establishes the mass transit special fund. Requires funds in the state highway fund in excess of 135% to be transferred to the mass transit special fund. Authorizes transfer of $10,000,000 from state highway fund to mass transit special fund on 7/1/05.

TRN, FIN

1364

RELATING TO JURY SERVICE.

Conforms State law to federal practice of granting a permanent exemption from jury service for persons more than 70 years of age.

JUD

1365

RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE TWENTY-NINTH REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT.

Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects for the benefit of the 29th representative district.

FIN

1366

RELATING TO PARKING FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES.

Amends the requirements for parking for disabled persons to include a definition for law enforcement officers; modifies replacement procedures; modifies penalties for violations; modifies requirements for displaying placards; and clarifies parking requirements.

HLT, JUD, FIN

1367

RELATING TO LAND USE.

Provides for a one-time review and proposed boundary amendment to reclassify agricultural district lands that are principally rural subdivisions; makes an appropriation to office of planning to provide technical assistance to counties.

WLO/AGR/EDB, JUD, FIN

1368

RELATING TO LAND USE.

Authorizes each county to establish an advisory group to assist the county planning department to identify land use policies and development standards and to identify lands suitable for reclassification into the rural district. Requires office of planning to assist counties in coordinating meetings and provide technical assistance.

WLO/AGR, EDB, FIN

1369

RELATING TO LAND USE.

Authorizes counties to request or petition the office of planning to review land use classifications and districts.

WLO/EDB, FIN

1370

RELATING TO HAWAIIAN AFFAIRS.

A short form bill relating to Hawaiian Affairs.

HAW

1371

RELATING TO HAWAIIAN AFFAIRS.

A short form bill relating to Hawaiian Affairs.

HAW

1372

RELATING TO HAWAIIAN AFFAIRS.

A short form bill relating to Hawaiian Affairs.

HAW

1373

RELATING TO HAWAIIAN AFFAIRS.

A short form bill relating to Hawaiian Affairs.

HAW

1374

RELATING TO HAWAIIAN AFFAIRS.

A short form bill relating to Hawaiian Affairs.

HAW

1375

RELATING TO THE OFFICE OF HAWAIIAN AFFAIRS.

Appropriates funds from the University of Hawaii's research and training revolving fund to the public land trust proceeds trust fund of the office of Hawaiian affairs for the use of ceded lands from July 1, 1991, to June 30, 2004.

HAW/WLO, HED, FIN

1376

RELATING TO CEDED LAND REVENUES.

Establishes the airport public land trust fund into which shall be deposited an amount equal to twenty percent of the ceded land revenues derived from state airports. The trust fund shall be administered by the board of trustees of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs and used exclusively to fulfill the purposes of OHA.

HAW/WLO, TRN, FIN

1377

RELATING TO FAMILY COURT.

Makes an appropriation for the expansion of the Kids First program in the judiciary to include co-parenting classes for litigants engaged in high-conflict divorce cases.

JUD, FIN

1378

RELATING TO THE JUDICIARY.

Amends the TRO and PO process to require the disclosure of a pending family court proceeding; establishes that any findings relating to the granting or denying of a TRO or PO is not binding on a subsequent family court case. Requires newly appointed judges to attend continuing legal education classes.

JUD, FIN

1379

RELATING TO NONPROFIT CORPORATIONS.

Repeals the authorization of nonprofit corporations to adopt amendments to articles and bylaws to terminate, redeem, or cancel memberships, and indemnify officers and directors and advance funds for reimbursement of their expenses.

LAB, CPC/JUD, FIN

1380

PROPOSING AMENDMENTS TO THE HAWAII CONSTITUTION TO ESTABLISH 2006 AND EVERY TENTH YEAR THEREAFTER AS REAPPORTIONMENT YEARS AND TO REQUIRE THAT STATE LEGISLATIVE DISTRICTS BE REAPPORTIONED INTO MULTI-MEMBER DISTRICTS.

Proposes amendments to the State Constitution to establish the year 2006 and every 10th year thereafter as reapportionment years and to require that legislative districts of the State House of Representatives be reapportioned into 24 2-member districts, and 1 3-member district.

JUD, FIN

1381

RELATING TO INCOME TAX CREDIT.

Extends the claiming period for the low-income household renters tax credit from twelve to thirty-six months.

HSG, FIN

1382

RELATING TO LOW-INCOME REFUNDABLE TAX CREDIT.

Extends the claiming period for low-income refundable tax credit from twelve to thirty-six months

FIN

1383

RELATING TO GOVERNMENT REFORM.

Improves government by instituting bribery-reporting requirements.

LMG, JUD

1384

RELATING TO SPECIAL EDUCATION.

Appropriates funds to an unspecified nonprofit organization to create and facilitate a volunteer-operated Felix consent decree welcome wagon program to assist parents of Felix class children in understanding their rights, how to obtain services, and the availability of appropriate support groups.

HLT, EDN, FIN

1385

RELATING TO INTOXICATING LIQUOR.

Repeals the authority of wine manufacturers in states that allow reciprocal shipping privileges to ship wine to residents in the State.

EDB, JUD, FIN

1386

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

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

FIN

1387

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR STATE CIVIL DEFENSE POSITIONS.

Makes an appropriation to assist Civil Defense in reorganizing its operations and reconstituting an around the clock, year round emergency operating center.

PSM, FIN

1388

RELATING TO THE KING KAMEHAMEHA CELEBRATION COMMISSION FUND.

Creates a King Kamehameha commission trust fund administered by the Hawaii Community Foundation and King Kamehameha commissioners to fund the King Kamehameha parade and festivities.

TAC, FIN

1389

RELATING TO THE GENERAL EXCISE TAX.

Exempts from GET, upon governor's declaration, amounts received by: (1) A submanager of an association of apartment owners of a condominium; (2) An operator of a hotel from a timeshare association; (3) A suboperator of a hotel from the owner of the hotel, operator of the hotel, or a timeshare association.

TAC, CPC, FIN

1390

RELATING TO CULTURE AND THE ARTS.

Increases the Hawaii state foundation on culture and the arts' general fund appropriation to demonstrate strong legislative support for the importance of culture and the arts in Hawaii.

TAC, FIN

1391

RELATING TO PRIVATE ROADS.

Requires owners of private roads to maintain private roads pursuant to agreement or in absence of agreement in equal shares.

WLO, FIN

1392

RELATING TO THE STATE BUDGET.

Establishes that legislative approval is required when the executive branch executes a transfer or change of funds.

LMG, FIN

1393

RELATING TO THE COMMISSION ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN.

Requires that the 7 voting members of the commission on the status of women be appointed as follows: 3 by the governor, 2 by the president of the senate, and 2 by the speaker of the house of representatives.

JUD, FIN

1394

RELATING TO SMOKING.

Bans smoking in all areas of airports and hospitals.

HLT, TRN, JUD

1395

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS IN THE SEVENTH REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT.

Appropriates funds to finance capital improvement projects in the 7th representative district.

FIN

1396

RELATING TO PERSONAL RECORDS.

Requires police departments to provide access to statements made by requestor as a complainant in a criminal matter, whether originally made by the requestor in written, auditory, visual, electronic, or other physical form or later reduced to that form.

JUD

1397

RELATING TO BIKEWAYS.

Requires the department of transportation to build two-way bikeways on Queen Kaahumanu Highway and Waimea Bypass Road.

TRN, FIN

1398

RELATING TO ELECTIONS.

Requires the office of elections to prepare a candidate information brochure or pamphlet, and a sample ballot for mailing to all registered voters at least 30 days before an election.

JUD, FIN

1399

PROPOSING A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE X, SECTION 2, OF THE HAWAII CONSTITUTION, TO REQUIRE BOARD OF EDUCATION MEMBERS TO BE ELECTED BY QUALIFIED VOTERS IN THE DEPARTMENTAL SCHOOL DISTRICT WHERE THE MEMBER RESIDES.

Requires board of education members to be elected by qualified voters in the departmental school district where the member resides, rather than by qualified voters from 2 at-large school board districts.

EDN, JUD, FIN

1400

RELATING TO CHARTER SCHOOLS.

Subjects new century charter school accountings for goods and services expenditures to audit and inspection by the charter school administrative office. Exempts new century charter schools from compliance with state land use laws and specifically requires compliance with county health and safety and land use laws and requirements.

EDN, LAB/WLO, FIN

1401

RELATING TO EDUCATION.

Establishes a pilot program for optional, semester-long, after-school language classes for elementary school students at a selected public elementary school, to be administered by the University of Hawaii through graduate assistantships. Appropriates funds.

EDN/HED, FIN

1402

RELATING TO TEACHER LICENSING.

Allows an individual with a post-graduate degree in a field other than education to receive a teacher's license, after taking an approved semester-long course in education and passing a course examination.

EDN, FIN

1403

RELATING TO HIGH OCCUPANCY VEHICLE LANES.

Increases fine for violating HOV lane law to $1,000 for 1st and all subsequent offenses.

TRN, JUD

1404

RELATING TO EMPLOYEES.

Requires successor employers to retain incumbent employees upon the divestiture, sale, or acquisition of a business. Enables certain successor companies that acquire a business to also acquire its predecessor's unemployment insurance contribution assessment rate through 12/31/05.

EDB/LAB, JUD, FIN

1405

RELATING TO EXECUTIVE COMMUNICATIONS.

Requires a copy of all executive orders issued by the governor to be filed with the office of lieutenant governor and transmitted to the senate president, the speaker of the house of representatives, and the majority and minority leaders of each house.

LMG

1406

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO INCREASE THE NUMBER OF AGRICULTURE INSPECTORS TO STOP THE SPREAD OF INVASIVE SPECIES.

Appropriates funds to increase the number of department of agriculture inspectors to stop the spread of invasive species.

AGR/EEP, FIN

1407

RELATING TO THE MINIMUM WAGE.

Raises the minimum wage through 07/01/08.

LAB, FIN

1408

RELATING TO TAXATION.

Provides for a state earned income tax credit.

FIN

1409

RELATING TO HOMELESS SERVICES.

Allocates minimum of 20% of surplus funds from the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program for homeless services administered by the housing and community development corporation of Hawaii.

HSG, FIN

1410

RELATING TO HOMELESS SERVICES.

Earmarks an annual amount equal to $3,000 multiplied by the number of units of federally subsidized Shelter Plus Care permanent supportive units in the State in unencumbered and unexpended funds from the unclaimed property trust fund for homeless services.

HSG, FIN

1411

PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE VII, SECTION 12, OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF HAWAII TO AUTHORIZE THE STATE TO ISSUE SPECIAL PURPOSE REVENUE BONDS AND USE THE PROCEEDS FROM THE BONDS TO ASSIST WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS AND PRIVATE DRINKING WATER SYSTEMS.

Proposes an amendment to the state constitution to allow the State to issue SPRBs for wastewater treatment plants and private drinking water systems.

EEP/WLO, JUD, FIN

1412

RELATING TO SPECIAL PURPOSE REVENUE BONDS.

Authorizes the issuance of SPRBs for wastewater treatment plants and private drinking water systems.

EEP/WLO, JUD, FIN

1413

RELATING TO HAWAIIAN HOMES COMMISSION ACT, 1920, AS AMENDED.

Amends Hawaiian Homes Commission Act, 1920, as amended, to permit private mortgage insurance acceptable to commission.

HAW/HSG, FIN

1414

RELATING TO PROFESSIONAL LICENSING.

Allows out-of-state licensed dentists to obtain a license to practice dentistry in Hawaii if certain criteria are met.

HLT, CPC

1415

RELATING TO GOVERNMENT SIGNS.

Requires all state and county signs to be in English and the Hawaiian language.

TRN/HAW, JUD, FIN

1416

RELATING TO TUITION WAIVERS.

Requires all UH students of Hawaiian descent to receive partial to full tuition waivers.

HAW/HED, JUD, FIN

1417

RELATING TO DESIGN PROFESSIONALS.

Requires the filing of a certificate of merit with any complaint filed against a design professional for failure to meet the standard of care. Also, requires the filing of a preliminary expert opinion affidavit.

EDB, CPC/JUD

1418

RELATING TO LAND USE.

Redesignates certain residential subdivisions in the land use agricultural district into the rural district, subject to certain criteria.

WLO/AGR, EDB, JUD

1419

RELATING TO KA'U DISTRICT.

Establishes Ka'u conservation district along the shoreline; prohibits development until a preservation and protection plan is implemented.

WLO/EDB

1420

RELATING TO TECHNOLOGY GROWTH.

Establishes a tax credit for taxpayers that contribute in-kind services to establish or maintain technology laboratories in public schools. Appropriates funds for Project EAST expansion and for the Economic Development Alliance of Hawaii to coordinate marketing, with emphasis on representing Hawaii's technology companies and opportunities on the mainland.

EDB, FIN

1421

RELATING TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE.

Helps reduce preventable domestic violence fatalities by allowing the Department of Health to conduct multi-disciplinary and multi-agency reviews of domestic violence information, with the assistance of domestic violence fatality review teams.

HLT, JUD, FIN

1422

RELATING TO TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION INDUSTRIES.

Appropriates funds for a grant-in-aid to Enterprise Honolulu to conduct a targeted business development project.

FIN

1423

RELATING TO INVESTMENTS.

Establishing a new chapter in Hawaii revised statues that provides for a limited relaxation of the prudent investor or person rule by allowing fiduciaries to invest a small portion of their assets in Hawaii venture capital investments.

EDB, CPC, FIN

1424

RELATING TO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.

Allows for the development or operation of observatories or related observational facilities within conservation land use districts to further the science or application of astronomy. Requires the Board of Land and Natural Resources to perform county by county assessments of areas with astronomy development potential.

WLO/HED, EDB

1425

RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE FIFTH REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT.

Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects for the benefit of the 5th representative district.

FIN

1426

RELATING TO SPECIAL PURPOSE REVENUE BONDS.

Short form bill relating to special purpose revenue bonds.

TRN

1427

RELATING TO HEALTH.

Makes an appropriation for a grant-in-aid to Maui Economic Opportunity Inc., for night-time dialysis services on the island of Maui.

FIN

1428

RELATING TO THE ORAL HEALTH INSTITUTE OF THE PACIFIC.

Makes an appropriation for a grant to the Oral Health Institute of the Pacific, for continued operations of dental clinics and services on the island of Maui.

HLT, FIN

1429

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR AN AIR AMBULANCE HELICOPTER PAD FOR MAUI MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER.

Appropriates $       in FY 2005-2006 to the Hawaii health systems corporation for an air ambulance helipad at Maui memorial medical center.

HLT, FIN

1430

RELATING TO SOLID WASTE CONTROL.

Reduces volume of solid waste subject to prohibition of illegal dumping and to felony liability for illegal dumping of solid waste.

EEP

1431

RELATING TO SOLID WASTE CONTROL.

Requires award of fifty per cent of fines collected for illegal dumping in civil action to person who reports the illegal activity.

EEP, JUD, FIN

1432

RELATING TO SEAWATER AIR CONDITIONING.

Creates a streamlined application and review process for the development of seawater air conditioning (SWAC) district cooling systems.

EEP/EDB, CPC/JUD, FIN

1433

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO THE COMMISSION ON WATER RESOURCE MANAGEMENT.

Appropriates funds to the Commission on Water Resource Management to complete water management tasks.

WLO/EEP, CPC, FIN

1434

RELATING TO RENEWABLE ENERGY.

Amends the renewable portfolio standard law to clarify the events considered as outside a utility's control in meeting the standard, direct the public utilities commission to establish an intrastate renewable energy credits trading program, implement penalties and alternate compliance mechanisms, and study green power pricing.

EEP, CPC, FIN

1435

RELATING TO RENEWABLE ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES.

Increases the tax credit for solar thermal energy systems and photovoltaic energy systems. Makes credit permanent.

EEP, CPC, FIN

1436

RELATING TO ENERGY.

Appropriates funds to reconvene the Hawaii Energy Policy Forum to develop an action plan, timeline, and benchmarks, and to further engage Hawaii's leaders and stakeholders in implementing the Forum's visions, concepts, and recommendations for Hawaii's preferred energy future.

EEP, FIN

1437

RELATING TO WILLS.

Allows pour-over will to be valid if notarized.

JUD

1438

RELATING TO WATER POLLUTION.

Requires persons using mechanized equipment to move, grade, or grub soil to use precaution to prevent sediment from polluting state waters. Allows citizens to file civil action for water pollution violation. Increases fines from $25,000 to $40,000 per violation. Sets lower fine for income-producing farms.

WLO/AGR, JUD, FIN

1439

RELATING TO GENETICALLY ENGINEERED CROPS.

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

AGR, CPC/JUD, FIN

1440

RELATING TO TAXATION.

Establishes an investment tax credit for qualified investments in the roadway safety facility to be developed at Kalaeloa, parcel 9; allows taxpayers to claim the tax credit only upon declaration of the Governor after certain fiscal conditions are met.

WLO/TRN, FIN

1441

RELATING TO LAND USE.

Clarifies the process to appeal county land use decisions.

WLO, JUD

1442

RELATING TO LATERAL PUBLIC ACCESS.

Establishes an additional requirement for county ordinances to require a subdivider or developer to provide public access from a public highway or public streets to also connect existing or proposed access points with each other, so the public can easily and safely traverse shoreline areas.

WLO, JUD

1443

RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE FORTY-EIGHTH REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT.

Appropriate funds for capital improvement projects for the benefit of the 48th representative district.

FIN

1444

RELATING TO FISHING RIGHTS.

Permits fishing for akule from the shore by hook and line in the Pupukea marine life conservation area.

WLO/HAW

1445

RELATING TO FIREWORKS.

Clarifies fireworks terminology to be consistent with federal law; repeals and amends definitions.

JUD, FIN

1446

RELATING TO THE STATE FIRE COUNCIL.

Establishes administrative positions, responsibilities, and funding source; requires counties to pay fees collected from all firework licenses and one-half of firework permits to state fire council.

LAB/PSM, FIN

1447

RELATING TO FIRE FIGHTER LIABILITY.

Provides an exemption from liability for county fire fighting services.

PSM/LAB, JUD

1448

RELATING TO INCOME TAX CREDIT.

Provides an income tax credit for the installation of an automatic fire sprinkler system.

EBD/PSM, JUD

1449

RELATING TO WORKERS' COMPENSATION.

Alters the workers' compensation formula for computing average weekly wages by clarifying that any injured airline employee who is a pilot or flight attendant, whether full time or part time, shall be entitled to workers' compensation benefits based on an average of actual hours worked during the previous 52-week period or portion thereof.

LAB, CPC

1450

RELATING TO CIVIL RIGHTS.

Prohibits discrimination on the basis of gender identity and expression as a public policy matter and specifically with regard to employment.

LAB, JUD

1451

RELATING TO FIREARMS.

Separates the multiple offenses of varying severity currently found in section 134-6, HRS, relating to firearms and ammunition into separate sections to assist in accurate record keeping and setting of bail.

PSM/JUD

1452

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/JUD, FIN

1453

RELATING TO ANIMALS.

Provides validation for domestic and pet animal trusts extending beyond the death of the transferor.

JUD

1454

RELATING TO DEATH WITH DIGNITY.

Allows a terminally ill, competent adult to get lethal dose of medication to end life. Prohibits mercy killings, lethal injections, and active euthanasia. Requires informed consent. Allows alternate doctor to replace attending doctor if latter declines to prescribe. Requires monitor at time of taking dose.

HLT, JUD/CPC

1455

RELATING TO CRIMINAL TRESPASS.

Repeals amendments to section 708-814, Hawaii Revised Statutes, by Act 50, Session Laws of Hawaii 2004, and establishes a new petty misdemeanor offense of criminal trespass onto public parks and recreational grounds.

PSM, WLO, JUD

1456

RELATING TO WORKERS' COMPENSATION.

Ensures that the adoption of treatment guidelines will not be presumed to be the only effective and appropriate prescription for treating injured workers.

LAB, CPC

1457

RELATING TO VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION.

Requires rehabilitation plan to meet employee's rehabilitation needs; provides that rehabilitation plans or programs are not subject to arbitrary time limit; allows director to consider certain factors in determining whether plan is acceptable; allows self-employment plans in certain cases.

LAB, CPC

1458

RELATING TO SUBSTANCE ABUSE.

Appropriates funds for substance abuse and prevention programs, a statewide substance abuse awareness and education campaign, and operation of the drug nuisance abatement unit in the department of the attorney general.

JUD, FIN

1459

RELATING TO SPECIAL PURPOSE REVENUE BONDS FOR HEALTH CARE FACILITIES.

Clarifies that certain types of financing agreements are considered "project agreements" for the purpose of issuing special purpose revenue bonds for health care facilities. Authorizes $30,000,000 in SPRBs for Hawaii Pacific Health.

HLT, FIN

1460

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

Appropriate funds for capital improvement projects for the benefit of the 1st representative district.

FIN

1461

RELATING TO STATE FUNDS.

Makes technical amendment to transfer of nongeneral funds to general funds law.

FIN

1462

RELATING TO THE STATE OF HAWAII.

Makes a technical amendment to the state budget law relating to the deposit of state funds into the state treasury.

FIN

1463

RELATING TO STATE FINANCES.

Makes technical amendment to transfer of nongeneral funds to general funds law.

FIN

1464

RELATING TO THE STATE BUDGET.

Makes technical amendment to budget allotment modification law.

FIN

1465

RELATING TO TAXATION.

Makes a technical amendment to the jeopardy assessments under the state income tax law.

FIN

1466

RELATING TO STATE FUNDS.

Makes a technical amendment to the state budget law relating to the deposit of state funds into the state treasury.

FIN

1467

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR ATHLETIC EVENT TRANSPORTATION.

Appropriates money to the Big Island Interscholastic Federation to provide transportation for students and coaches to and from school-related athletic events on the island of Hawaii.

EDN, FIN

1468

RELATING TO FIREWORKS.

Allows a religious exemption from the $25 fireworks permit fee.

JUD, FIN

1469

RELATING TO PROCUREMENT.

Exempts small purchases from verification requirements relating to tax clearances, DCCA certificates, and DLIR certificates.

EDB, FIN

1470

RELATING TO COMMUNITY SERVICES.

Transfers the office of community services from the department of labor and industrial relations to the department of human services.

LAB/HUS, FIN

1471

RELATING TO TOTAL LOSS MOTOR VEHICLE CLAIMS.

In cases of total loss motor vehicle claims requires insurers to first offer a replacement vehicle and if refused, a cash settlement based on the retail value of the vehicle in the county in which the vehicle was registered. For cash settlements, requires insurers to pay the loan balance on the vehicle up to 110 per cent of the vehicle's retail value, if the balance is greater than the vehicle's retail value.

CPC, JUD

1472

RELATING TO TRAFFIC.

Requires department of transportation to perform a contraflow study of the Pali highway and report findings and recommendations to governor and legislature before 12/31/05.

TRN, FIN

1473

RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII.

Bases University of Hawaii general funding on a student-weighted formula.

HED, FIN

1474

RELATING TO TRAFFIC.

Requires the director of transportation to conduct a traffic light study for the intersection of Kalanianaole Highway and Ulupii Street in Kailua, Oahu.

TRN, FIN

1475

RELATING TO EDUCATION.

A Bill to obtain school credit for participation in Varsity Sports.

EDN, FIN

1476

RELATING TO NORTH KOHALA.

Preserves a cluster of historical sites in North Kohala on the island of Hawaii by requiring the department of land and natural resources to renew its efforts to acquire by exchange the land adjacent to the Kohala Historical Sites State Monument.

WLO, FIN

1477

RELATING TO HEALTH INSURANCE.

Establishes a 2.13% insurance premium tax on all health care plan premiums. Removes cap to QUEST to cover 24,458 uninsured adults. Adds dental benefits for children and adults. Raises SCHIP eligibility to 300% of poverty level to add 2,874 uninsured children. Uses premium tax to fund QUEST/SCHIP costs.

HUS/HLT, JUD, FIN

1478

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR ON-CALL EMERGENCY CARE SERVICES AT THE QUEEN'S MEDICAL CENTER.

Appropriates funds for on-call emergency care services at The Queen's Medical Center in support of its emergency department and trauma center. Requires the legislative reference bureau in partnership with the Center to study the impact of the on-call crisis center on the State's Level II Trauma Center.

HLT, LMG, FIN

1479

RELATING TO DENTISTS.

Authorizes the licensure of dental specialists who are licensed in another state with licensing standards at least equivalent to Hawaii's standards.

HLT, CPC

1480

RELATING TO HEALTH INSURANCE.

Requires mandatory coverage for annual prostate cancer screening for men aged 40 and older by insurers, mutual benefit societies, and health maintenance organizations.

HLT, CPC, FIN

1481

RELATING TO COLLECTIVE BARGAINING IN PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT.

Creates a separate collective bargaining unit for employees of the Hawaii health systems corporation.

LAB/HLT, FIN

1482

RELATING TO MEDICAL SAVINGS ACCOUNTS.

Allows insurers to offer high-deductible health insurance policies in conjunction with medical savings accounts.

HLT, CPC, FIN

1483

RELATING TO PREVIOUSLY UNDIAGNOSED CONDITIONS.

Establishes health insurance provisions for initial medical visits and psychological assessments, including previously undiagnosed medical and psychological conditions.

HLT, CPC, FIN

1484

RELATING TO ORAL HEALTH CARE.

Provides funding for basic dental services for uninsured Hawaii residents and adults covered by Medicaid or QUEST on a fee-for-service basis. Provides funding for technology, acquisition, expansion, or upgrading for facilities and equipment at federally qualified health centers that provide dental services.

HLT/HUS, FIN

1485

RELATING TO TRANSFERS FROM SPECIAL FUNDS FOR CENTRAL SERVICE EXPENSES.

Exempts the tobacco settlement fund from department of accounting and general resources charges for central services and administrative expenses.

HLT, FIN

1486

RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYEES.

Requires state employees up to 7 days of paid leave each calendar year to serve as a bone marrow donor and up to 30 days of paid leave each calendar year to serve as an organ donor.

LAB/HLT, FIN

1487

RELATING TO HEALTH COVERAGE FOR BRAIN INJURIES.

Requires insurers, hospital and medical services plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage for survivors of brain injuries including, among other things, cognitive and neurocognitive therapy, neurobehavioral and neuropsychological testing or treatment, and necessary post-acute transition services or community reintegration activities.

HLT, CPC, FIN

1488

RELATING TO LONG-TERM CARE.

Sets long-term care income tax rates, manner of payment, long-term care benefits.

HLT/HUS, FIN

1489

RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE THIRTIETH REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT.

Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects for the benefit of the 30th Representative District.

FIN

1490

RELATING TO DEFERRED DEPOSIT LOANS.

Enacts the Deferred Deposit Loan Act. Licenses and regulates persons who for a fee, accept checks: (1) dated on the date written and agree to hold it for a period of days prior to deposit; or (2) dated subsequent to date written and hold check for deposit until date of the check.

CPC, JUD

1491

RELATING TO PROCUREMENT.

Requires the department of transportation to use recycled materials in their projects, where cost effective.

EEP, TRN, FIN

1492

RELATING TO CONFIDENTIALITY.

Establishes address confidentiality program for victims of domestic abuse and sexual assault.

JUD

1493

RELATING TO DEPOSITORY FINANCIAL SERVICES LOAN COMPANIES.

Grants depository financial services loan companies all the rights, powers, and privileges of a corporation under State law.

CPC

1494

RELATING TO NON-PROFIT CORPORATIONS.

Short form bill relating to non-profit corporations.

CPC

1495

RELATING TO TRAFFIC.

Establishes the urban Honolulu regional traffic task force to identify major contributors to traffic congestion and make recommendations on traffic alleviation in areas bounded by Ward Avenue, Lunalilo H-1 Freeway, Kapahulu Avenue, Kalakaua Avenue, and Ala Moana Boulevard. Appropriates funds for the task force.

TRN, FIN

1496

RELATING TO MOTORCYCLE AND MOTOR SCOOTER SAFETY.

Adds motorcycle education courses approved by the Department of Defense to those approved by the department of transportation as meeting the prerequisite requirement for obtaining insurance coverage.

TRN, CPC

1497

RELATING TO THE DEPOSIT BEVERAGE CONTAINER PROGRAM.

Amends the state Deposit Beverage Container Program by removing the deposit and related requirements; provided that every county with a population over 500,000 has fully implemented a comprehensive residential recycling program by December 31, 2005.

EEP, FIN

1498

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR TWENTY-FOUR HOUR ADVANCED EMERGENCY AMBULANCE SERVICES FOR UPCOUNTRY MAUI.

Appropriates funds for 24-hour advanced emergency ambulance services for the upcountry area of Maui for FY 2005-2006 and 2006-2007.

FIN

1499

RELATING TO IMPORTANT AGRICULTURAL LANDS; LAND USE.

Establishes qualification criteria, designation, and permitted uses of important agricultural lands; provides for dedication of important agricultural lands for transferable development credits; income tax credit for real property taxes paid and investments in infrastructure on important agricultural land; amends water code to insure protection of water for irrigation of important agricultural lands; collapses 4 major land use districts into 3 districts-agricultural, conservation, and other lands; places urban and rural districts under other lands land use district; allows petitions for designation of agricultural lands with land study bureau classification other than A or B as important agricultural lands; permits issuance of special permit by land use commission for agricultural tourism or educational ecotourism.

WLO/AGR, EDB, FIN

1500

RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL LANDS; TAX CREDIT.

Provides tax credit for taxes imposed by chapter 235 for real property taxes paid for, or improvements made to, agricultural lands.

AGR, FIN

1501

RELATING TO IMPORTANT AGRICULTURAL LANDS; LAND USE.

Establishes qualification criteria, designation, and permitted uses of important agricultural lands; provides for dedication of important agricultural lands for transferable development credits; amends water code to ensure protection of water for irrigation of important agricultural lands; collapses 4 major land use districts into 3 districts-agricultural, conservation, and other lands; places urban and rural districts under other lands land use district; allows petitions for designation of agricultural lands with land study bureau classification other than A or B as important agricultural lands; permits issuance of special permit by land use commission for agricultural tourism or educational ecotourism.

WLO/AGR, EDB, FIN

1502

RELATING TO INVASIVE SPECIES.

Establishes a permanent invasive species council and transfers departmental authority to the council. Also makes an appropriation.

AGR/EEP, JUD, FIN

1503

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH.

Appropriates funds to the department of health for an upcountry Maui water system to mitigate health-related problems caused by microbial contamination of the water supply.

WLO, FIN

1504

RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE TWELFTH REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT.

Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects for the benefit of the 12th representative district.

FIN

1505

RELATING TO EARLY EDUCATION PLAN.

Requires the board of education to develop a graduated system for ranking of early childhood education providers.

EDN/HUS, FIN

1506

RELATING TO EDUCATION.

Requires the Hawaii teacher standards board to develop alternative standards for persons to teach vocational education.

EDN/LAB

1507

RELATING TO INTOXICATING LIQUOR.

Prohibits attempts by minor to purchase liquor or using false identification to unauthorized entry of licensed premises. Makes first and second liquor offenses by a minor between the ages of 18 and 21 punishable only by a fine. Authorizes issuance of citation in lieu of arrest, requires disposition of citations for first or second liquor violations by minor in the manner prescribed for traffic infractions. Directs 50% of the fines to the counties.

JUD, FIN

1508

RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE FORTY-THIRD REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT.

Appropriation for capital improvement projects for the benefit of the 43rd representative district.

FIN

1509

RELATING TO CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES.

Creates new offense for illegal use of controlled substances.

JUD

1510

RELATING TO FIREWORKS.

Increases amount of fireworks that a person can purchase with a permit. Require background checks for all fireworks permit purchasers. Allows counties to impose fee equal to cost of search.

JUD, FIN

1511

RELATING TO GRAFFITI.

Allows for suspension of a minor's driver's license in graffiti cases. Mandates imposition of community service if costs of damage cannot be paid by minor, parent, or legal guardians of minor.

JUD

1512

RELATING TO PROCUREMENT.

Allows offerors who enter into contracts with the State for small purchases to comply with requirements of section 103D-310(c) after the aggregate amount of contracts exceed $25,000.

EDB, FIN

1513

RELATING TO DISEASE.

Mandates the reporting of all infections contracted in-house.

HLT, CPC/JUD, FIN

1514

RELATING TO A LONG-TERM CARE TAX CREDIT.

Provides a refundable net income tax credit to individuals purchasing long-term care insurance.

HLT/HUS, FIN

1515

PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE I OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF HAWAII.

Allows prosecutors to use evidence derived from consensual conversations between law enforcement officers and other persons.

JUD

1516

RELATING TO SENTENCING.

Provides for enhanced sentencing for recidivist behavior evidenced by prior convictions for certain criminal offenses.

JUD

1517

RELATING TO TEACHERS.

Prohibits the department of education from hiring persons who pled nolo contendere to or were convicted of sex offenses against a child.

EDN, LAB, JUD

1518

RELATING TO WORKERS' COMPENSATION.

Establishes a definition for the term "attending physician". Excludes from the definition of "employment" service performed by a member of a limited liability company, a partner of a partnership, a partner of a limited liability partnership, and a sole proprietor. Disallows compensation for mental injury or illness caused by good faith personnel actions. Allows an employer to require an injured employee to select a physician from an employer designated healthcare provider list for medical service for the first 120 days of treatment. Revises provisions relating to plans of rehabilitation. Clarifies when benefits may be terminated if a false claim is filed. Validates arbitration agreements and mediation. Allows the Insurance Fraud Investigations Branch to initiate prosecutions and disciplinary actions.

LAB, CPC/JUD, FIN

1519

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO CLEAN UP GRAFFITI.

Appropriates funds to the Department of Transportation to clean up graffiti on state roadways.

TRN, JUD

1520

RELATING TO GRAFFITI.

Doubles the fine that a county may charge for graffiti.

JUD

1521

RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE SEVENTEENTH REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT.

Capital Improvement projects for the 17th Representative District.

FIN

1522

RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS PERTAINING TO WATER, LAND, AND OCEAN RESOURCES.

Capital improvements pertaining to water, land and ocean resources.

WLO, FIN

1523

RELATING TO LAND USE.

Repeals chapter 516, Hawaii Revised Statutes, relating to residential leaseholds.

WLO/HSG, CPC/JUD, FIN

1524

RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLES.

Permits motor vehicle backup warning beepers to be disabled between 10:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. if the vehicle is guided by a person other than the driver of the vehicle while reversing.

TRN, JUD

1525

RELATING TO INITIATIVE.

Amends articles II, III, and XVII of the state constitution to provide for initiative. Requires initiative to embrace only one subject; void if legislature enacts law same or similar (accomplishing same purpose), if so determined by AG. Defines "election" to expressly include determining initiative measure.

LMG, JUD, FIN

1526

RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYEES.

Extends eligibility for the Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund and State pension and retirement systems to employees who work twenty or more hours per week.

LAB, FIN

1527

RELATING TO EMINENT DOMAIN.

Establishes factors to be considered in determining value of property to be condemned.

WLO, JUD

1528

RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYEES.

Adjusts the salaries of certain department head positions, including: the auditor, legislative reference bureau, Hawaii labor relations board, ombudsman, state procurement office, the stadium authority, civil defense, commission on water resource management, the housing and community development corporation of Hawaii, the public utilities commission, the Hawaii paroling authority, the labor and industrial relations appeals board, commissioner of financial institutions and the office of the state public defender.

LAB, FIN

1529

RELATING TO GOVERNMENT.

Requires the state agency to specify its authority to adopt rules, comply with additional procedural requirements, and provide a copy to the office of the auditor. Requires the office of the auditor to determine whether the rule is adopted within the rulemaking authority of the agency and report to the legislature. Requires the governor to send a copy of all executive orders to the legislature. Establishes an administrative process for challenging the validity of a rule. Awards fees and costs to a petitioner who prevails on an action for declaratory judgment.

JUD

1530

RELATING TO THE ISSUANCE OF SPECIAL PURPOSE REVENUE BONDS TO ASSIST PALOLO CHINESE HOME AND ITS SUBSIDIARIES.

Authorizes the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds to assist Palolo Chinese Home in financing the capital costs related to the expansion, construction, and rebuilding of its facilities.

HUS, FIN

1531

RELATING TO STATE PLANNING.

Creates a task force to review the Hawaii state plan and make recommendations for a sustainability plan to the year 2050. Requires the legislative auditor to create the sustainability plan. Directs the office of planning to assist the auditor to review the sustainability plan.

EDB/WLO, FIN

1532

RELATING TO AN ENVIRONMENTAL COURT.

Establishes environmental courts as divisions within the circuit court to handle complaints, administrative appeals, and other judicial proceedings of an environmental nature.

JUD/EEP, LAB, FIN

1533

RELATING TO HAWAII HOUSING AND CONSERVATION TRUST FUND.

Establishes a Hawaii Housing and Conservation Trust Fund to finance affordable housing and conserve and protect important agricultural lands and historic properties.

HSG/WLO, FIN

1534

RELATING TO KALAUPAPA.

Recognizes and upholds the rights of Kalaupapa residents.

HLT, JUD

1535

RELATING TO THE ISSUANCE OF SPECIAL PURPOSE REVENUE BONDS TO ASSIST UTILITIES SERVING THE GENERAL PUBLIC.

Authorizes the issuance of up to $160,000,000 in special purpose revenue bonds to assist Hawaiian Electric Company, Inc., Maui Electric Company, Ltd., and Hawaiian Electric Light Company, Inc. in its multi-project programs.

EEP, CPC, FIN

1536

RELATING TO THE ALA WAI CANAL.

Appropriates state matching funds for the Ala Wai trash trap cleanup project.

WLO, FIN

1537

RELATING TO THE EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM.

Provides adult and youth corrections officers with the ability to retire without penalty upon accruing 30 years of service through 6/30/05; 29 years of service on or after 7/01/06; 28 years of service on or after 7/01/07; 27 years of service on or after 7/01/08; 26 years of service on or after 7/01/09; and 25 years of service on or after 7/01/10, regardless of age without reduced benefits.

PSM/HUS, LAB, FIN

1538

RELATING TO THE EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM.

Provides adult and youth corrections officers with the ability to retire after 25 years of credited service, regardless of age, without reduced benefits.

PSM/HUS, LAB, FIN

1539

RELATING TO CORRECTIONS OFFICERS.

Allows corrections officers to retire without penalty upon accruing 30 years of service through June 30, 2005; 29 years of service on or after July 1, 2006; 28 years of service on or after July 1, 2007; 27 years of service on or after July 1, 2008; 26 years of service on or after July 1, 2009; and 25 years of service on or after July 1, 2010.

PSM, LAB, FIN

1540

RELATING TO ELECTRICIANS.

Prohibits licensed electricians from selling electrical apparatus to non-licensed electricians.

CPC

1541

RELATING TO PUBLIC WORKS.

Requires any state funded construction projects to establish certified payroll and compliance of the Davis Bacon Act.

EDB/LAB, FIN

1542

RELATING TO CONTRACTORS.

Requires investigation of a complaint against a contractor within seven working days and completion of an investigation within twenty days. Requires investigators to issue citations for violation of sections 444-9.5 or 444-10.5, HRS, within seven working days after the completion of an investigation.

CPC

1543

RELATING TO HEALTH BENEFITS.

Provides bargaining unit (12) with a tax credit for health care benefits due to increased costs.

PSM, LAB, FIN

1544

RELATING TO TAXATION.

Provides members of bargaining unit (12) with a state income tax exemption for salaries and wages as set forth in the collective bargaining agreement for bargaining unit (12).

PSM, LAB, FIN

1545

RELATING TO THE HAWAII EMPLOYER-UNION HEALTH BENEFITS TRUST FUND.

Excludes members of collective bargaining unit (12) from the definition of "employee" under the EUTF.

PSM, LAB, FIN

1546

RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYEES.

Adjusts the salaries of certain department head positions, including: the auditor, legislative reference bureau, Hawaii labor relations board, ombudsman, state procurement office, the stadium authority, civil defense, commission on water resource management, the housing and community development corporation of Hawaii, the public utilities commission, the Hawaii paroling authority, the labor and industrial relations appeals board, commissioner of financial institutions and the office of the state public defender.

LAB, FIN

1547

RELATING TO THE EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM.

Reconstitutes the board of trustees of the Employees' Retirement System.

LAB, FIN

1548

RELATING TO THE EMPLOYER-UNION HEALTH BENEFITS TRUST FUND.

Increases the composition of the board of trustees of the employer-union health benefits trust fund from 10 to 12, 11 of whom shall be selected by the governor and 1 of whom shall be selected by the mayor of the respective counties on a rotating basis. Prohibits the governor from reducing the term of the trustee appointed by a county mayor. Permits county mayor instead of the governor to appoint replacement, in the case of a vacancy in the county trustee position.

LAB, FIN

1549

AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS TO MAINTAIN THE ALA WAI WATERSHED.

Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds to maintain the Ala Wai watershed.

WLO, FIN

1550

RELATING TO STUDENTS.

Authorizes DOE to permit its employees and agents to administer medication, excluding insulin, to diabetic students in an emergency; establishes that DOE is not liable for any injury from self-administered or emergency administered medication of students.

EDN, JUD

1551

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR KOKUA LEGAL SERVICES, INC.

Appropriates funds to Kokua Legal Services.

FIN

1552

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO NA LEI WILI AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER'S GROW OUR OWN HEALERS' PROGRAM.

Appropriates funds for Na Lei Wili Area Health Education Center's Grow Our Own Healers Youth Program and Health Corps Hawaii.

FIN

1553

RELATING TO IMPORTANT AGRICULTURAL LANDS.

Establishes important agricultural lands (IAL) identification process; prohibits IAL designation without landowner petition before 7/1/2011; provides agricultural infrastructure improvement tax credit; provides for IAL leasehold subdivision; makes identification of IAL contingent on enactment of legislative incentives; and makes 2 appropriations to DBED&T and to Department of Agriculture for purposes of this Act.

WLO/AGR, EDB, FIN

1554

RELATING TO LEASEHOLD CONVERSION.

Exempts from taxation, 50% of income received from the sale of a leased fee interest in certain residential property to a lessee.

WLO/HSG, CPC, FIN

1555

RELATING TO THE ISSUANCE OF SPECIAL PURPOSE REVENUE BONDS FOR HUALALAI ACADEMY.

Authorizes the department of budget and finance to issue special purpose revenue bonds to assist Hualalai Academy.

EDN/HED, FIN

1556

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

Authorizes special purpose revenue bonds to assist PLK Air Services Group LLC to establish a Kona coffee and macadamia manufacturing facility and air cargo logistics and fulfillment center at Kona International Airport.

TRN/AGR, FIN

1557

RELATING TO STATE BOATING FACILITY PROPERTIES.

Exempts Ala Wai boat harbor from scope of law allowing for leasing of fast lands within existing state boating facility.

WLO, FIN

1558

RELATING TO MOTORCYCLES.

Prohibits the modification of mufflers on motorcycles.

TRN, JUD

1559

RELATING TO CRIME.

Creates offenses of loitering and criminal nuisance.

JUD

1560

RELATING TO THE ALA WAI BOAT HARBOR.

Allows for the leasing of fast and submerged lands of Ala Wai boat harbor subject to certain conditions.

WLO, FIN

1561

RELATING TO INSURANCE.

Mandates that health service providers inform patients of coverage at the point of service.

HLT, CPC

1562

RELATING TO PRESCRIPTION DRUGS.

Require pharmacists to label prescription drugs with the actual expiration date.

HLT, CPC

1563

RELATING TO EMERGENCY POWERS OF THE GOVERNOR.

Expands the executive powers under chapter 486H.

LMG/PSM, CPC, JUD, FIN

1564

RELATING TO LITTERING.

Criminalizes the unauthorized removal and abandonment of shopping carts.

EDB, JUD

1565

RELATING TO TAX CREDITS.

Provides tax incentives for lease-to-fee conversions.

WLO, CPC, FIN

1566

RELATING TO CRIME.

Classifies crimes against tourists as hate crimes.

JUD

1567

RELATING TO HEALTH.

Mandates health care institutions and health care providers to present advance health care and mental health care directives to persons currently under pharmaceutical care.

HLT, CPC/JUD, FIN

1568

RELATING TO ADULT PROBATION RECORDS.

Allows records and information relating to a defendant’s risk assessment and need for treatment services or information related to the defendant’s past treatment and assessments to be provided to correctional and treatment providers after notice given to defendant.

PSM, JUD

1569

RELATING TO EDUCATION WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT PIPELINE.

Amends the composition of the workforce development council. Amends the duties of the Hawaii workforce development council to include job training program funding disbursal and a determination of the actual time required to complete these programs. Appropriates funds.

LAB, EDN/HED, FIN

1570

RELATING TO AFFORDABLE RENTAL HOUSING.

Requires DHHL and HCDCH to discuss possible ways to eliminate barriers to allowing manufactured housing on Hawaiian home lands.

HSG/HAW

1571

RELATING TO HOUSING.

Requires 25% of general excise taxes collected for rental of residential dwelling units other than transient accommodations to be deposited into the rental housing trust fund for affordable housing. Increases the percentage of the conveyance tax collected and deposited into the rental housing trust fund from 25% to 50%.

HSG/WLO, FIN

1572

RELATING TO THE LAND USE COMMISSION.

Grants authority to make land use district boundary amendment to appropriate county land use decision-making authority; provides appeal process of county land use decision-making authority decision to the land use commission; grants authority over agricultural district to the department of agriculture; repeals special permit; strengthens land use decision-making criteria to protect agriculture; requires periodic 5-year boundary reviews of all the land in the State by land use commission.

WLO/AGR, EDB, FIN

1573

RELATING TO LOW INCOME HOUSING.

Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds for the repair, renovation, and construction of low income housing. Requires the housing and community development corporation of Hawaii to repair all vacant low income housing units by December 31, 2008.

HSG, FIN

1574

RELATING TO INCOME TAX.

Enacts an anti-speculation short-term capital gains tax by increasing the capital gains tax on real property sales, based on a graduated scale of the length of time the seller held the property. Requires tax realizations to be deposited into the rental housing trust fund.

HSG, FIN

1575

APPROPRIATING FUNDS FOR HOMELESS AND TRANSITIONAL HOUSING PROJECTS.

Appropriates $      for homeless and transitional housing projects on Kauai, Hawaii, and Maui, self-help projects in all counties, and state homeless shelter program.

HSG, FIN

1576

RELATING TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING.

Establishes affordable housing coordinator in HCDCH to expedite development of affordable housing projects.

HSG, FIN

1577

RELATING TO HEALTH CARE DECISIONS.

Prohibits any person to decide for another person who is legally incapable of making health care decisions, to withhold or withdraw hydration or nutrition by way of gastrointestinal tract, except under certain conditions.

HLT, JUD

1578

RELATING TO CHILD ABUSE.

Requires members of the clergy to make child abuse reports if the clergy-communicant privilege under section 626-1, rule 506, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is not violated by making a report.

HUS, JUD

1579

RELATING TO HEALTH.

Requires a franchise retail food establishment to include nutritional information about each standard menu item.

HLT, CPC, FIN

1580

RELATING TO EDUCATION.

Requires the board of education to be composed of 17 voting members elected in a nonpartisan manner by the qualified voters of the respective school board districts, as provided by law. Requires each school board district to be composed of 3 representative districts.

EDN, CPC, FIN

1581

RELATING TO UNLAWFUL METHAMPHETAMINE TRAFFICKING.

Imposes a sentence of life imprisonment without possibility of parole for defendants convicted of unlawful methamphetamine trafficking involving eight ounces or more of methamphetamine.

JUD

1582

RELATING TO SCHOOLS.

Exempts private preschools and its programs that are part of a licensed elementary school from the licensing requirements imposed by the department of human services.

EDN/HUS, JUD

1583

RELATING TO INCOME TAX.

Exempts from income tax all military pay of active military personnel based in Hawaii but assigned outside the state by military order for the time spent outside the state.

PSM, FIN

1584

RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII SCHOOL OF MEDICINE.

Establishes the University of Hawaii medical school as a separate campus of the university system.

HED, FIN

1585

RELATING TO THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A SALARY COMMISSION.

Proposes a constitutional amendment to establish a salary commission to review and make recommendations for the salaries of justices, judges, state legislators, the governor, the lieutenant governor, and state executive branch department heads and their assistants, excluding the University of Hawaii and the Department of Education.

LMG, JUD, FIN

1586

RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII.

Allows the University of Hawaii to transfer funds from the student scholarship and assistance special fund to its tuition and fees special fund.

HED, FIN

1587

RELATING TO MINIMUM WAGES.

Raises the state minimum wage from $6.25 to $7 per hour as of 1/1/06. Changes the minimum wage formula for tipped employees.

LAB, FIN

1588

RELATING TO TRAVEL AGENCIES.

Requires travel agencies to include taxes, airport fees, and other mandatory fees in their advertised domestic airfares, excluding the Internet.

EDB, CPC/JUD

1589

RELATING TO WITNESSES.

Increases per diem payments for out-of-state witnesses in criminal cases from $110 to $130. Sets per diem payments for witnesses coming from another island and staying overnight for criminal cases to $130.

JUD, FIN

1590

RELATING TO THE HAWAII FILM AND DIGITAL MEDIA INDUSTRY.

Appropriates funds to promote film and digital media production activity in the State.

TAC/EDB, FIN

1591

RELATING TO THE HAWAII STATE UNIVERSITY.

Requires the Legislative Reference Bureau to prepare legislation that establishes the Hawaii State University; appropriates funds.

HED, FIN

1592

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII AT HILO.

Appropriates funds to the University of Hawaii at Hilo for research and equipment.

HED, FIN

1593

RELATING TO PUBLIC AGENCIES AND BOARDS.

Makes boards established by official government document subject to the open meetings law; requires actions taken in closed meetings to be announced in public; allows legislative committee chairs to attend executive meetings; authorizes the office of information practice to enforce the open meetings law.

LMG, JUD

1594

MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR COLLECTIVE BARGAINING COST ITEMS.

Provides fund authorizations and appropriations for collective bargaining cost items relating to contributions to the Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund for Unit 1 and their excluded counterparts.

LAB, FIN

1595

MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR COLLECTIVE BARGAINING COST ITEMS.

Appropriates funds to pay for collective bargaining cost items relating to contributions to the Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund for Unit (5) and for officers and employees of DOE excluded from collective bargaining.

LAB, FIN

1596

MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR COLLECTIVE BARGAINING COST ITEMS.

Provides fund authorizations and appropriations for collective bargaining cost items relating to contributions to the Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund for Unit (7) and their excluded counterparts.

LAB, FIN

1597

MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR COLLECTIVE BARGAINING COST ITEMS.

Appropriates funds for collective bargaining cost items relating to contributions to the Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund for bargaining unit (9), registered professional nurses.

LAB, FIN

1598

MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR COLLECTIVE BARGAINING COST ITEMS.

Provides fund authorizations and appropriations for collective bargaining cost items relating to contributions to the Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund for state employees in unit 10, including excluded employees.

LAB, FIN

1599

MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR COLLECTIVE BARGAINING COST ITEMS.

Appropriates funds to pay for the collective bargaining cost items relating to contributions to the Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund for HGEA bargaining units (2), (3), (4), (6), (8), and (13).

LAB, FIN

1600

RELATING TO WORKERS' COMPENSATION.

Authorizes employers to establish medical provider networks to provide medical treatment to injured workers.

LAB, CPC, FIN

1601

RELATING TO WORKERS' COMPENSATION INSURANCE.

Authorizes the insurance fraud investigations unit to investigate and prosecute workers' compensation fraud.

LAB, CPC, FIN

1602

RELATING TO WORKERS' COMPENSATION.

Defines medical care as temporary total disability.

LAB, CPC

1603

RELATING TO EMPLOYER-UNION HEALTH BENEFITS.

Changes the State's monthly contribution for husband-wife employee-beneficiaries from the same amount to 85% of the contribution for a family plan.

LAB, FIN

1604

MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR COLLECTIVE BARGAINING COST ITEMS.

Appropriates funds to pay for the collective bargaining cost items relating to contributions to the Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund for bargaining unit (11), Firefighters, and its excluded counterpart.

LAB, FIN

1605

RELATING TO SCHOOLS.

Appropriates funds for the Hawaii 3R's school repair and maintenance fund and the Hawaii 3R's coordinator position.

EDN, FIN

1606

RELATING TO TEACHERS.

Establishes annual increment salary increases for teachers and creates a comprehensive evaluation process for teachers.

EDN, LAB, FIN

1607

RELATING TO THE BOARD OF EDUCATION.

Provides salaries for board of education members. Establishes a salary commission to determine salaries for the board every 4 years.

EDN, FIN

1608

RELATING TO VOLUNTARY EMPLOYEES' BENEFICIARY ASSOCIATION TRUSTS.

Authorizes and sets forth the requirements for the establishment of a VEBA trust by public employee organizations to provide health benefits for its members. Establishes a 3 year VEBA trust pilot program to allow for the analysis of the costs and benefits of a VEBA trust against those of the Hawaii EUTF.

EDN/LAB, FIN

1609

RELATING TO TOTAL DISABILITY PAYMENTS.

Restates weekly benefit rate for permanent total disability benefits to eliminate ceiling of state average weekly wage.

LAB, FIN

1610

RELATING TO EDUCATION.

Clarifies that the department of education may place new century charter school special education students in another school outside of the school complex that the new century charter school is located. Also requires the collaboration of a special education student's program team and the student's parents or legal guardians in determining the programs and services for the student.

EDN, FIN

1611

RELATING TO NEW CENTURY CHARTER SCHOOLS.

Repeals the Act 51, SLH 2004, amendment that added new century charter schools to the definition of "public schools".

EDN, FIN

1612

RELATING TO NEW CENTURY CHARTER SCHOOLS.

Clarifies the applicability to new century charter schools of specific sections in chapter 302A, Hawaii Revised Statutes.

EDN, JUD, FIN

1613

RELATING TO EDUCATION.

Increases the funds deposited to the state educational facilities improvement special fund.

EDN, FIN

1614

RELATING TO CIVIL SERVICE PERSONNEL.

Establishes that department of education civil service employees shall have the same benefits and rights of civil service employees employed in executive departments.

EDN, LAB, FIN

1615

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 33rd, 34th, and 36th Representative Districts.

FIN

1616

RELATING TO LIQUOR LICENSES.

Limits the time period in which liquor may be sold by liquor establishments that are located within 500 feet of a public or private school or public playground used extensively by minors.

EDB, JUD

1617

RELATING TO PUBLIC AGENCY MEETINGS.

Allows private discussions between board members and the governor to include elected officials. Allows discussions between board members and the board's administratively connected department head to include the board's executive secretary or director. Allows the board to consult with its executive secretary or executive director in a closed meeting.

LMG, JUD

1618

RELATING TO PRIVATE TRADE, VOCATIONAL, OR TECHNICAL SCHOOLS.

Transfers from the department of education to the department of commerce and consumer affairs regulatory jurisdiction over trade schools.

EDN/LAB, CPC, FIN

1619

RELATING TO EDUCATION.

Appropriates funds to address teacher shortage.

EDN/HED, FIN

1620

RELATING TO NEW CENTURY CHARTER SCHOOLS.

Amends the new century charter schools law to improve its effectiveness by clearly delineating lines of authority, to reduce uncertainty regarding roles and responsibilities. Provides the board of education with authority to carry out its role as authorizer and overseer of charter schools. Clarifies requirements for renewal and revocation of charters.

EDN, LAB, FIN

1621

RELATING TO HOUSING.

In an expedited proceeding, requires hearing in affected community, report containing concerns and mitigative measures; and compliance with community or development plan.

HSG, FIN

1622

RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE TENTH REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT.

Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects for the benefit of the 10th representative district.

FIN

1623

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR LAHAINALUNA HIGH SCHOOL

Appropriates funds for the 175th anniversary celebration of Lahainaluna high school.

EDN, FIN

1624

AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS AND MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR PULELEHUA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.

Authorizes the issuance of $2,000,000 in general obligation bonds and makes an appropriation for planning and design for Pulelehua Elementary School, a new elementary school in west Maui.

EDN, FIN

1625

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR A ROAMING SECURITY GUARD FOR VARIOUS SCHOOLS ON MAUI.

Appropriates funds for a roaming security guard for Kihei elementary school, Kamalii elementary school, Lokelani intermediate school, and Kihei public charter high school.

EDN, FIN

1626

RELATING TO DANGEROUS DOGS.

Prohibits the owner of a dangerous dog from allowing the dog to roam freely without supervision. Authorizes an animal control officer to investigate complaints regarding dangerous dogs, to pick up freely roaming dangerous dogs, and to issue citations. Establishes penalties for owners who fail to adequately supervise dangerous dogs. Requires owners of dangerous dogs to obtain liability insurance if the dog is found to be inadequately supervised.

JUD

1627

RELATING TO WATER CONSERVATION.

Prohibits use of potable water to irrigate golf courses by 2010 except where there is no reasonably available source of nonpotable water or use of nonpotable water poses a threat to public health and safety or other surface and ground water uses. Defines potable water. Emphasizes role of recycled water in comprehensive water resource planning and management policy.

WLO, FIN

1628

RELATING TO LIGHT POLLUTION.

Prohibits artificial lights that are positioned toward or directly illuminate the ocean, unless the light is authorized and required for public safety or safe ocean navigation. Creates exception for fixtures at hotel/hotel-condos.

EEP/WLO, JUD

1629

RELATING TO CORRECTIONS.

Requires the department of public safety to outsource food service programs at correctional facilities statewide by competitive bid meeting certain criteria, including that no state employees will be displaced.

PSM, FIN

1630

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE HAWAII CIVIL AIR PATROL.

Appropriates funds for the Hawaii civil air patrol for operational expenses.

PSM, FIN

1631

RELATING TO THE PEARL HARBOR MEMORIAL.

Authorizes the issuance of GO bonds to contribute to the funding of a new Pearl Harbor memorial museum and visitor center.

PSM, FIN

1632

RELATING TO EDUCATION.

Appropriates funds for additional funds for schools that serve larger populations of military dependent students. Requires the University of Hawaii to establish a program to allow readmission to military members who have been deployed.

PSM, EDN/HED, FIN

1633

RELATING TO THE OAHU VETERANS CENTER.

Appropriates funds for phase II of the Oahu Veteran's Center at Foster Village.

PSM, FIN

1634

RELATING TO CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES.

Directs the executive branch to prepare preliminary design and request for proposals for the design, development, and operation of a correctional facility and to consider the undeveloped portion of the existing Halawa correctional facility as one possible site for the facility.

PSM, FIN

1635

RELATING TO LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS.

Establishes the law enforcement officers' bill of rights.

PSM/LAB, JUD, FIN

1636

RELATING TO WORKERS' COMPENSATION.

Requires the State and the courts to recognize the validity of labor-management agreements that meet certain specified requirements.

LAB, CPC/JUD, FIN

1637

RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYEES.

Amends the definition of employee under the EUTF to include part-time employees working twenty or more hours per week. Clarifies that excluded from ERS membership are part-time employees working less than twenty hours per week.

LAB, FIN

1638

RELATING TO VETERAN BURIAL GRANTS.

Requires the office of veterans' services, on request of a survivor/interested party of a deceased Filipino veteran who joined the New Filipino Scouts between October 6, 1945, and June 30, 1947, to make payment directly to a mortuary/crematory for funeral/burial services and to transport the remains to the Philippines, upon submission of an unpaid invoice; appropriates moneys.

PSM, FIN

1639

RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL LIABILITY.

Exempts qualified farmers from liability when a person who trespasses or commits, or attempts to commit, theft on the farmer's agricultural land is injured.

AGR, JUD

1640

RELATING TO IMPORTANT AGRICULTURAL LANDS.

Establishes important agricultural lands (IAL) identification process. Requires an incentives study. Prohibits IAL designation without landowner petition until July 1, 2011. Provides an agricultural infrastructure improvement tax credit and IAL leasehold subdivisions. Makes identification of IAL contingent on enactment of legislative incentives. Makes appropriations.

WLO/AGR, EDB, FIN

1641

RELATING TO NON-AGRICULTURAL PARK LANDS.

Establishes the Non-Agricultural Park Land Special Fund to pay for costs incurred in managing, administering, and overseeing non-agricultural park lands that are transferred, or in the process of being transferred, to the department of agriculture.

AGR/WLO, EDB, FIN

1642

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR STUDENT EMPLOYMENT FUNDS IN SUPPORT OF UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII'S SYSTEMWIDE OPERATIONS AND PROGRAMS.

Appropriates funds for undergraduate and graduate students to be hired as student employees to support UH administrative operations, academic programs, partnership with school, community service, and student support services.

HED, FIN

1643

MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII SYSTEMWIDE STUDENT SUPPORT SERVICES.

HED, FIN

1644

RELATING TO EMINENT DOMAIN.

Amends the law relating to eminent domain.

WLO, JUD

1645

RELATING TO MASS TRANSIT.

Reserves a portion of state fuel tax revenues paid in Honolulu to pay for a fixed guideway mass transit system.

TRN, FIN

1646

RELATING TO TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT.

Permits forfeiture of the vehicle used in speeding, racing on highways, or driving under the influence of an intoxicant. Permits immobilization of the vehicle in the custody of the registered owner by use of a boot device, rather than impoundment by the police, pending outcome of the forfeiture proceeding.

TRN, JUD, FIN

1647

RELATING TO UNDERGROUNDING OF OVERHEAD UTILITIES.

Adopts a state policy of favoring underground utilities. Establishes a conversion fund for sustained incremental conversion of overhead utilities.

EEP, CPC, FIN

1648

RELATING TO STEM CELL RESEARCH.

Sets state policy for stem cell research. Requires UH to develop plan to establish an institute for regenerative medicine at school of medicine no later than 12/31/2006.

HLT/HED, JUD, FIN

1649

RELATING TO STATEWIDE TRANSIT AUTHORITY.

Creates statewide transit authority. Authorizes counties to levy a county surcharge on state tax to fund public transit in the counties. Creates a special fund to hold surcharge collections to be expended on mass transit in the counties.

TRN, FIN

1650

PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO THE HAWAII STATE CONSTITUTION TO ADD AN ARTICLE TO CREATE A STATEWIDE TRANSIT AUTHORITY.

Proposes a constitutional amendment to create a statewide transit authority with taxing powers.

TRN, JUD, FIN

1651

RELATING TO DRUGS.

Establishes programs that allow for drug sniffing dogs to patrol in public schools.

EDN, JUD, FIN

1652

RELATING TO DRUGS.

Establishes programs that allow for drug sniffing dogs to patrol in prisons.

PSM, JUD, FIN

1653

RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE NINETEENTH REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT.

Capital improvement projects for 19th representative district.

FIN

1654

RELATING TO TRANSIENT ACCOMMODATIONS TAX.

Adds transient residential vacation rentals to definition of transient accommodations to make them subject to the TAT. Creates a moratorium on TAT registration of new transient residential vacation rentals effective 6/1/06 subject to the enactment of county ordinances and/or rules specifically regulating their operation in residential areas.

TAC, FIN

1655

RELATING TO HOUSING.

Provides a tax deduction to landlords that rent to the homeless.

HSG, FIN

1656

RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE FORTY-FOURTH REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT.

Appropriation for capital improvement projects for the benefit of the 44th representative district.

FIN

1657

RELATING TO SPECIAL PURPOSE REVENUE BONDS TO ASSIST HOKU SCIENTIFIC.

Authorizes the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds to assist Hoku Scientific.

EDB, FIN

1658

RELATING TO AMMUNITION.

Prohibits sale of ammunition unless purchaser shows registration for the firearm for which the ammunition is to be purchased and photo identification proving that purchaser is the person to whom the firearm is registered.

PSM, JUD

1659

RELATING TO NONCOMMERCIAL PIERS.

Extends the amnesty program to legalize unauthorized piers in Kaneohe Bay from June 30, 2005, to June 30, 2008.

WLO

1660

RELATING TO SUBSTANCE ABUSE.

Mandates substance abuse assessment or treatment for convicted felons on probation and for offenders under the custody of the department of public safety.

PSM, JUD, FIN

1661

RELATING TO PARENTAL NOTIFICATION BEFORE AN ABORTION MAY BE PERFORMED ON CERTAIN MINORS.

Prohibits physician from performing an abortion on a minor unless: (1) the physician has given 72 hours actual notice to the minor's parents or guardian; (2) a family court or appellate court authorizes the minor to consent, either by issuing an appropriate order or by failing to do so; or (3) the physician concludes that an abortion is necessary to avoid death or a serious risk of substantial and irreversible impairment of a major bodily function. Prescribes procedure for obtaining judicial approval.

HLT, JUD

1662

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.

HUS, JUD

1663

RELATING TO PESTICIDES.

Requires the posting of signs when pesticide is applied on school grounds or a playground.

EDN, EEP, FIN

1664

RELATING TO KAHANA VALLEY.

Authorizes the leasing of available lands in Kahana valley for additional residential leases.

WLO, FIN

1665

RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE FORTY-SEVENTH REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT.

Capital improvement projects for the 47th Representative District

FIN

1666

RELATING TO STATE FUNDS.

Limits the governor's ability to restrict funds. Requires governor to release funds appropriated by the legislature unless and actual revenue shortfall will occur as a result of the funds' release.

FIN

1667

RELATING TO HOME OCCUPATIONS IN AGRICULTURAL DISTRICTS.

Allows counties to permit home occupations in agricultural districts without requiring a special permit.

AGR/WLO, FIN

1668

RELATING TO STATE BONDS.

Authorizes issuance of general obligation bonds. Makes findings required by Article XII, section 13 of state constitution to declare that issuance of authorized bonds will not cause debt limit to be exceeded.

FIN

1669

RELATING TO ANIMAL ABUSE.

Establishes the offense of companion animal abuse.

JUD

1670

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

Appropriates funds to expand the Families for Resources for Early Access Learning program.

EDN, FIN

1671

RELATING TO RETIREMENT BENEFITS.

Allows teachers hired prior to July 1, 1996 with up to a two year break in service and still retain full retirement health benefits upon accruing ten years of credited service.

EDN, LAB, FIN

1672

RELATING TO THE BUDGET.

Requires that the governor conduct a public hearing on any proposed restriction or withholding of funds budgeted and appropriated by the legislature, prior to implementing the restriction or withholding.

FIN

1673

MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR SALARY INCREASES FOR PUBLIC EMPLOYEES.

Appropriates funds to pay for the negotiated salary increases for collective bargaining unit (2). Includes appropriations for state employees assigned to the Hawaii health systems corporation and employees excluded from collective bargaining.

LAB, FIN

1674

MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR SALARY INCREASES FOR PUBLIC EMPLOYEES.

Appropriates funds to pay for the negotiated salary increases for collective bargaining unit (3). Includes appropriations for state employees assigned to the Hawaii health systems corporation and employees excluded from collective bargaining.

LAB, FIN

1675

MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR SALARY INCREASES FOR PUBLIC EMPLOYEES.

Appropriates funds to pay for the negotiated salary increases for collective bargaining unit (4). Includes appropriations for state employees assigned to the Hawaii health systems corporation and employees excluded from collective bargaining.

LAB, FIN

1676

MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR SALARY INCREASES FOR PUBLIC EMPLOYEES.

Appropriates funds to pay for the negotiated salary increases for collective bargaining unit (6). Includes appropriations for state employees assigned to the Hawaii health systems corporation and employees excluded from collective bargaining.

LAB, FIN

1677

MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR SALARY INCREASES FOR PUBLIC EMPLOYEES.

Appropriates funds to pay for the negotiated salary increases for collective bargaining unit (8). Includes appropriations for state employees assigned to the Hawaii health systems corporation and employees excluded from collective bargaining.

LAB, FIN

1678

MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR SALARY INCREASES FOR PUBLIC EMPLOYEES.

Appropriates funds to pay for the negotiated salary increases for collective bargaining unit (9). Includes appropriations for state employees assigned to the Hawaii health systems corporation and employees excluded from collective bargaining.

LAB, FIN

1679

MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR SALARY INCREASES FOR PUBLIC EMPLOYEES.

Appropriates funds to pay for the negotiated salary increases for collective bargaining unit (13). Includes appropriations for state employees assigned to the Hawaii health systems corporation and employees excluded from collective bargaining.

LAB, FIN

1680

RELATING TO AIRLINES.

Short Form.

TRN

1681

PROPOSING AMENDMENTS TO ARTICLES II, III, AND XVII OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF HAWAII TO PROVIDE FOR INITIATIVE, REFERENDUM, AND RECALL.

Amends articles II, III, and XVII of the state constitution to provide for initiative, referendum, and recall.

LMG, JUD, FIN

1682

RELATING TO TAXATION.

Conforms state standard deduction rates to federal deduction rates for income taxes.

FIN

1683

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR A GENETIC ENGINEERING ASSESSMENT.

Appropriates funds to the UH to assess the long-term effects of allowing genetic engineering to occur in the State.

HED, FIN

1684

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII.

Appropriates funds for the University of Hawaii.

HED, FIN

1685

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. Appropriates funds.

HED, FIN

1686

PROPOSING A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE X, SECTION 6, OF THE HAWAII CONSTITUTION TO MODIFY THE APPOINTMENT PROCESS FOR THE BOARD OF REGENTS.

Amends article X, section 6 of the Hawaii Constitution to modify the appointment process for the UH board of regents.

HED, JUD, FIN

1687

RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII.

Establishes the candidate advisory council to screen and propose candidates for appointment to the board of regents of the University of Hawaii.

HED, FIN

1688

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII COLLEGE OF TROPICAL AGRICULTURE AND HUMAN RESOURCES.

Appropriates $       to the UH to enable the college of tropical agriculture and human resources to conduct research and outreach to develop and promote high-value agricultural products, breeding programs, and related activities.

HED, FIN

1689

RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII.

Provides funding for faculty and student funding and support services for University of Hawaii program of tropical golf course and landscape management.

HED, FIN

1690

RELATING TO TEMPORARY FACILITIES FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII-WEST OAHU.

Authorizes capital improvement projects for temporary facilities at the University of Hawaii-West Oahu.

HED, FIN

1691

AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS AND MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII-WEST OAHU.

Appropriates general obligation bonds for site development at the University of Hawaii-West Oahu.

HED, FIN

1692

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR VARIOUS IMPROVEMENTS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII-WEST OAHU.

Appropriates funds for improvements at the University of Hawaii-West Oahu.

HED, FIN

1693

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

1694

RELATING TO CIVIL PARTICIPATION IN GOVERNMENT.

Immunizes from liability any act by a person in furtherance of the constitutional right to petition to procure governmental or electoral action. Amends SLAPP definition to add immunized act language. Allows court to decide on a motion to dispose a claim, based on the pleadings and affidavits filed.

JUD

1695

RELATING TO HYPNOTHERAPY.

Creates new chapter establishing hypnotherapy as a qualified, licensed practice in the state of Hawaii.

HLT, CPC/JUD, FIN

1696

RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLES.

Establishes a mandatory disposal fee for new motor vehicles.

EEP, CPC, FIN

1697

RELATING TO SOLID WASTE.

Amends penalties for improper disposal of solid waste.

EEP, JUD

1698

RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL TAX CREDITS.

Establishes an agricultural land use tax credit equal to the amount of county property tax paid by taxpayers use their land for commercial purposes; reduces each county's portion of the transient accommodations tax revenue by the amount of credits claimed against each county's property tax assessments.

AGR, TAC, FIN

1699

RELATING TO SPECIAL WASTES DISPOSAL AND RECYCLING.

Requires importers of new lead acid batteries and tires to pay an advance disposal fee to strengthen current disposal and recycling efforts; establishes county-used lead acid batteries and tires recovery programs.

EEP, FIN

1700

RELATING TO CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.

Prohibits DLNR, from using poisons, snares, leghold traps or traps that are unattended or designed to injure, to capture, or kill game animals except as a last resort and make the use of those devices and methods a misdemeanor offense under the penal code.

WLO, JUD, FIN

1701

RELATING TO CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.

Prohibits the public from using snares, leghold traps, or traps that are designed to injure, capture, or kill animals and make the use of those devices and methods a misdemeanor offense under the penal code.

JUD

1702

RELATING TO HOUSING.

Establishes a committee of stakeholders to develop legislation to separate the Housing and Development Corporation of Hawaii's public housing functions from the housing development functions. Requires that legislation be submitted by 2006 regular session. Requires that, if the legislation is enacted by the legislature, the separate agencies be operational by 1/1/07.

HSG, FIN

1703

RELATING TO ENVIRONMENT.

Allows county council to request an advisory opinion from the office of environmental quality control under certain conditions when the county administration issues a finding of "no significant impact."

EEP/WLO, EDB/HSG

1704

AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS AND MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE TWENTY-FOURTH REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT.

Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds and appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the 24th representative district.

FIN

1705

RELATING TO GASOLINE.

Makes the provisions of gasoline price regulations contained in section 486H-13, HRS, subject to the governor's determination whether they should be made operative or subsequently suspended.

EEP, CPC

1706

RELATING TO THE UNIFORM ENVIRONMENTAL COVENANTS ACT.

Establishes the Uniform Environmental Covenants Act.

EEP/WLO, JUD, FIN

1707

RELATING TO THE SEAWATER AIR CONDITIONING.

Exempts seawater air conditioning district cooling systems from PUC regulation, provided that at least fifty per cent of the energy required for the system is provided by a renewable energy source.

EDB, EEP, CPC

1708

RELATING TO ADJUSTING THE INCOME TAX BRACKETS.

Revises income tax brackets.

FIN

1709

RELATING TO CRIMINAL PROPERTY DAMAGE.

Creates the class C felony offense of aggravated criminal property damage for intentional damage to the property of another if the person has 2 or more convictions for criminal property damage in the 3rd or 4th degree in the preceding 5 years.

JUD

1710

RELATING TO PROPERTY DAMAGE.

Creates enhanced sentencing for repeat lower level graffiti/ property damage offenders.

JUD

1711

RELATING TO WORKERS COMPENSATION.

Requires a request for approval of attorney's fees in workers compensation proceedings to include the employee-executed engagement agreement and an itemized statement of services rendered. Allows labor and industrial relations director to approve, modify, or deny the fee upon certain findings.

LAB, JUD/CPC, FIN

1712

RELATING TO ELECTIONS.

Adds a requirement that nonprofit organizations involved in polling not be a political action committee or political in nature. Makes it unlawful to use, print, publish, or distribute any voter registration information from affidavits or lists. Requires qualified political parties to submit names for precinct officials no later than the "40th" day, instead of the "60th day", before the close of filing for any election. Adds reciprocal beneficiary of a candidate to the list of those not eligible to serve as a precinct official in a candidate's precinct. Allows the watcher of a political party to be present at any time and to review the polling book but not to record confidential information.

JUD

1713

RELATING TO CAMPAIGN SPENDING.

Establishes a comprehensive public funding program for state legislative candidates and candidates for governor and lieutenant governor who agree to abide by campaign contribution and expenditure limits and meet other criteria.

JUD, FIN

1714

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 enabling legislation. Allows a declaratory judgment even if the person has not yet been aggrieved or injured.

JUD

1715

RELATING TO CIVIL RIGHTS.

Prohibits discrimination in real property transactions on the basis of gender identity or expression, and sexual orientation. Prohibits discrimination in blockbusting on the basis of gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, and familial status.

JUD

1716

RELATING TO FOSTER CARE HOMES.

Requires DHS to increase fees paid to foster care home providers by 7%.

HUS, FIN

1717

RELATING TO CRIME STOPPERS.

Disallows compelling a crime stoppers organization from producing records of criminal acts, except by court order after in camera review of records with impeachment evidence or evidence exculpatory to the defendant. Establishes confidential and privileged communication status of reports of criminal activity to a crime stoppers organization. Allows court to arrange payment by defendant of crime stoppers award.

JUD

1718

RELATING TO CORRECTIONS.

Appropriates funds to expand use of inmate work lines for groundskeeping on state property.

PSM, FIN

1719

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS AND TECHNOLOGY INCUBATOR PROGRAM.

Appropriates funds to establish an international business and technology incubator program in Hawaii.

EDB/INT, FIN

1720

RELATING TO THE GENERAL EXCISE TAX.

Requires DBEDT and DoTax to perform biennial reviews, quantifying and reporting on the exemptions and exclusions from the general excise tax and recommending whether the benefits justify the cost. Requires disclosure of individuals and companies receiving exemptions and waives confidentiality.

FIN

1721

RELATING TO LOW-INCOME HOUSEHOLD RENTERS.

Changes the definition of "adjusted gross income" to coincide with the federal adjusted gross income and increases the qualifying adjusted gross income level from $30,000 to $35,000.

FIN

1722

RELATING TO HIGH TECHNOLOGY.

Establishes a nonprofit high technology innovation corporation attached to the high technology development corporation to assist in attracting high technology development opportunities to the State.

EDB/LAB, JUD, FIN

1723

RELATING TO CAPITAL INVESTMENTS.

Authorizes $100,000,000 in tax credits to the Hawaii strategic development corporation for the purposes of Act 215, SLH 2004.

EDB, FIN

1724

RELATING TO PENSION INCOME.

Limits exemption of pension income from state income tax liability to the first $100,000.

FIN

1725

RELATING TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF A NEW INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL FOR THE KAILUA PUBLIC SCHOOL COMPLEX.

Appropriates funds to determine the feasibility of establishing a new intermediate school in the Kailua public school complex.

EDN, FIN

1726

RELATING TO EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT.

Appropriates funds for early childhood development

EDN/HUS, FIN

1727

RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE FORTY-NINTH REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT.

Appropriate funds for CIP for the benefit of the 49th representative district.

FIN

1728

RELATING TO EDUCATION.

Provides funds for part-time teachers, tutors, or both for elementary and intermediate schools in the public school system that need them.

EDN, FIN

1729

RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION.

Allows counties with population greater than 200,000 to impose a 1% county GET tax to fund a rail transit system. Creates Honolulu rail transit authority to construct and operate a rail transit system on Oahu.

TRN, FIN

1730

RELATING TO PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

Appropriates funds for the windward school district.

EDN, FIN