THE SENATE

THE TWENTY-FIFTH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2009

 

COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS

Senator Donna Mercado Kim, Chair

Senator Shan S. Tsutsui, Vice Chair

 

NOTICE OF DECISION MAKING

 

 

DATE:

Wednesday April 8, 2009

TIME:

10:30 a.m.

PLACE:

Conference Room 211

State Capitol

415 South Beretania Street

 

A G E N D A

 

 

 

HB 686, HD1, SD1

        (SSCR978)

        Testimony

        Status

RELATING TO REDUCED IGNITION PROPENSITY CIGARETTES.

Delays implementation of the reduced ignition propensity cigarettes law to 09/30/2010.  Creates a special revolving fund to receive deposits of cigarette certification fees.  Authorizes the state fire council to expend moneys from the fund to cover the reduced ignition propensity cigarettes personnel and program costs.  Effective 7/1/2050.  (SD1)

 

CPN/PSM, WAM

HB 1015, HD1, SD1

        (SSCR1016)

        Testimony

        Status

RELATING TO OBLIGATIONS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HAWAIIAN HOME LANDS TRUST FUND.

Enables the department of Hawaiian home lands to begin construction on affordable housing projects without having the full and final amount of the capital costs on hand at the beginning of the project.  (SD1)

 

WTL/EDH, WAM

HB 1782, HD2, SD1

        (SSCR1062)

        Testimony

        Status

RELATING TO HEALTH INFORMATION EXCHANGE.

Creates an office of the state coordinator of health information technology and a health information exchange task force to assist in developing a health information exchange program.  Effective July 1, 2050.  (SD1)

 

HTH, 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