THE TWENTY-FIFTH LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2009
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COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS |
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Senator Donna Mercado Kim, Chair |
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Senator Shan S. Tsutsui, Vice Chair |
AMENDED NOTICE OF DECISION MAKING
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DATE: |
Wednesday February 25, 2009 |
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9:00 a.m. |
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Conference Room 211 State Capitol 415 South Beretania Street |
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CPN
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RELATING TO THE HAWAII REGISTERED AGENTS ACT. Adopts provisions of the Model Registered Agents Act, which streamlines business registration filings for registered agents who accept service of process on behalf of businesses in Hawaii, particularly commercial agents who are in the business of serving as agents. (SD1)
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CPN, WAM |
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RELATING TO REAL PROPERTY. Requires the registrar of the bureau of conveyances to provide, within 10 days and free of charge, an image and index of all instruments that contain real property transactions each week to the administrator of the city and county of Honolulu's real property assessment division. (SD1)
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CPN/JGO, WAM |
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RELATING TO CONDOMINIUMS. Merges the condominium management education fund and the condominium education trust fund. (SD1)
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CPN, WAM |
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EDH
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RELATING TO SCHOOL MEALS. Adds a definition of "school meals" to include breakfast and lunch; clarifies that the department of education shall set prices for all school meals, based on the previous year's cost. (SD1)
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EDH, WAM |
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RELATING TO EDUCATION. Repeals salary ranges for teachers in the department of education.
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EDH/LBR, WAM |
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RELATING TO EDUCATION. Repeals statute creating district business and fiscal officers within the department of education.
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EDH, WAM |
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RELATING TO THE FEDERAL GRANTS SEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, AND APPLICATION REVOLVING FUND. Expands the allowable use of the federal grants search, development, and application revolving fund to include monitoring and auditing. Changes the name of the fund to reflect the new allowable uses.
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EDH, WAM |
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RELATING TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING. Direct the legislative reference bureau to review the state and county laws related to affordable housing, to identify strategies to strengthen Hawaii's housing laws; requires report to the 2010 legislature.
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EDH, WAM |
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RELATING TO HOUSING. Enables the Hawaii housing finance and development corporation to more easily collect the value of shared appreciation equity and other restrictions when an affordable housing property is publicly sold through a foreclosure; requires written notification of intent to foreclose on properties encumbered by such priority liens. (SD1)
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EDH, WAM |
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RELATING TO THE HAWAII HOUSING FINANCE AND DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION. Makes necessary housekeeping amendments to chapter 201H, Hawaii Revised Statutes; authorizes the imposition of service fees to recoup program administrative expenses. (SD1)
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EDH, WAM |
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RELATING TO THE HAWAII TEACHER STANDARDS BOARD. Establishes an advisory committee to provide oversight of the Hawaii teacher standards board and provide the governor with lists of nominees for appointment to the board; requires annual report of the advisory committee to the board of education and the legislature; authorizes the board to hire an executive director; authorizes the Hawaii teacher standards board to suspend its policies, rules, and standards when required by extenuating circumstances, and determine how it collects license fees (part I); authorizes the Hawaii teacher standards board to coordinate an effort that creates a data interface network to promote the free interchange of information among public and private Hawaii teacher education institutions and the department of education; appropriates funds (part II). (SD1)
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EDH, WAM |
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RELATING TO TEACHERS. Provides incentives for the recruitment and retention of public school teachers. (SD1)
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EDH, WAM |
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RELATING TO EDUCATION. Clarifies the law for determining school impact fees for financing new or expanding existing DOE schools or facilities. (SD1)
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EDH, WAM |
Decision making meeting only, no public testimony will be accepted.
Persons wishing to comment should submit their comments in one of the following ways:
· By Email: Comments may be emailed if less than 5 pages in length, to the Committee at WAMTestimony@Capitol.hawaii.gov . Please indicate the measure, date and time of the hearing. Email sent to individual offices or any other Senate office will not be accepted.
· By Web: Comments may be submitted online if less than 4MB in size, at http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/emailtestimony.
· In person: 1 copy of their Comments to the committee clerk, Room 210, State Capitol.
· By fax: Comments may be faxed if less than 5 pages in length, to the Senate Sergeant-At-Arms Office at 586-6659 or 1-800-586-6659 (toll free for neighbor islands), at least 24 hours prior to the hearing. When faxing, please indicate to which committee the comments is being submitted and the date and time of the hearing.
FOR AMENDED HEARING NOTICES: If the notice is an amended notice, measures that have been deleted are stricken through and measures that have been added are underscored. If there is a measure that is both underscored and stricken through, that measure has been deleted from the agenda.
If you require special assistance or auxiliary aids or services to participate in the public hearing process (i.e., sign or foreign language interpreter or wheelchair accessibility), please contact the committee clerk 24 hours prior to the hearing so arrangements can be made.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CALL THE COMMITTEE CLERK AT 586-6800.
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________________________________________ Senator Donna Mercado Kim Chair |
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