HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

THE TWENTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2006

COMMITTEE ON CONSUMER PROTECTION & COMMERCE

Rep. Robert N. Herkes, Chair

Rep. Brian Schatz, Vice Chair

Rep. Kirk Caldwell

Rep. Alex M. Sonson

Rep. Ken Ito

Rep. Joseph M. Souki

Rep. Ezra R. Kanoho

Rep. Barbara C. Marumoto

Rep. Jon Riki Karamatsu

Rep. Bud Stonebraker

Rep. Hermina M. Morita

 

NOTICE OF HEARING

DATE:

Wednesday, March 15, 2006

TIME:

2:05 PM

PLACE:

Conference Room 325

State Capitol

415 South Beretania Street

A G E N D A

SB 770

SD2

(SSCR768)

RELATING TO MORTGAGE BROKERS.

Transfers responsibility for oversight of the mortgage broker profession within DCCA from the professional and vocational licensing division to the division of financial institutions. (SD2)

CPC, JUD, FIN

SB 2018

SD1

(SSCR2666)

RELATING TO PUBLIC UTILITIES.

Requires a utility applicant to notify existing consumers and patrons, if any, of the rates proposed to be established by an application for a certificate of public convenience and necessity. (SD1)

CPC

SB 2092

SD1

(SSCR2039)

RELATING TO PLANNED COMMUNITY ASSOCIATIONS.

Requires association to give prior written notice of costs for providing information. (SD1)

CPC

SB 2193

SD1

(SSCR2040)

RELATING TO PLANNED COMMUNITY ASSOCIATIONS.

Requires planned community associations to maintain financial statements and other financial information at a convenient location for examination by any member for the duration that those statements and information are kept by the association. (SD1)

CPC

SB 2283

SD1

(SSCR2663)

RELATING TO INSURANCE.

Updates and conforms current statutes governing insurer examinations and commercial general liability extended reporting requirements to the changes and revisions in the most current NAIC Model Acts and Model Regulations. (SD1)

CPC

SB 3072

SD1

(SSCR2629)

RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLE INSURANCE.

Clarifies the process of payments for benefits under automobile personal injury protection coverage where the bill for medical services submitted does not conform to the fee schedule or where there is a dispute between the medical provider and insurer on compliance. (SD1)

CPC, FIN

SB 2067

SD1

(SSCR2902)

RELATING TO INSURANCE.

Appropriates funds for the loss mitigation grant program. (SD1)

CPC, FIN

SB 2282

SD2

(SSCR2907)

RELATING TO INSURANCE.

Updates and streamlines insurance statutes to conform with federal law and national standards. (SD2)

CPC, FIN

SB 2224

(SSCR2655)

RELATING TO CREDIT SALES.

Amends definition of "principal balance."

CPC

SB 2499

SD2

(SSCR2908)

RELATING TO GENERAL EXCISE TAX.

Requires an investment broker and agent who share compensation for their services to pay the general excise tax for only that portion of the compensation retained by each. (SD2)

CPC, FIN

SB 3065

SD1

(SSCR2654)

RELATING TO THE ONE CALL CENTER ADVISORY COMMITTEE.

Increases voting members on one call center advisory committee from fifteen to seventeen members. Includes among the voting members one person from the water utility industry and one person from the wastewater industry. (SD1)

CPC, FIN

DECISION MAKING TO FOLLOW

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Rep. Robert N. Herkes

Chair