SENATE COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND HOUSING AND HOUSE COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION
Friday, January 29, 2010
1:30 p.m.
Conference Room 309; State Capitol
AGENDA:
The purpose of this joint informational briefing is to receive and review the reports requested by the Hawaii State Legislature, pursuant to Act 2, First Special Session of 2009, regarding the Hawaii Teacher Standards Board. The following have been invited to participate:
1) Legislative Reference Bureau
2) Dean of the College of Education, University of Hawaii
3) Hawaii Teacher Standards Board
COMMITTEE ON HUMAN SERVICES
Monday, February 1, 2010
Conference Room 329; State Capitol
8:30 a.m. AGENDA:
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RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES CONTRACTS. Requires department of human services to report to legislature prior to 2011 regular session information relating to contract award process; list of contract awardees and contract amounts; and number of victims served and types of services provided by nonprofit organizations for the period from 1/1/2007 to 6/30/2010.
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RELATING TO ASSET BUILDING. Establishes a refundable state earned income tax credit. Requires the Department of Human Services to provide financial education to applicants for and recipients of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families. Amends provisions of 257, HRS, regarding Individual Development Accounts.
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RELATING TO CHILDREN. Provides that in child custody proceedings, courts shall not give undue weight to a parent's absence away from the child, when such absence is due to service in the military or duties as a public official. Requires courts to make a reasonable effort to expedite proceedings or use electronic communication systems to facilitate a parent's participation in a proceeding when the parent is a substantial distance away from the court.
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RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES. Requires the department of human services to notify clients of the transfer of the client from one case worker to another.
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RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES. Requires department of human services to develop grant programs to prevent and respond to domestic violence using federal stimulus funds, private foundation grants, and other funds.
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RELATING TO VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION. Establishes a vocational rehabilitation division within the department of human services. Places services for blind persons and deaf services under the vocational rehabilitation division. Clarifies services for the deaf. Requires the department of human services to develop a strategic plan to restructure services to the deaf, hard of hearing, or deaf-blind through a comprehensive service center.
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RELATING TO THE COMMISSION ON FATHERHOOD. Increases the length of terms of members of the Commission on Fatherhood from two to four years.
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RELATING TO FAMILY COURTS. Amends custody and visitation criteria and procedure to specify what courts shall consider in determining the best interest of the child.
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RELATING TO DOMESTIC ABUSE ORDERS. Authorizes a temporary restraining order to remain in effect for 90 days or until service of a protection order, whichever occurs first. Provides for protective orders issued orally in court to be effective upon service of the respondent.
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RELATING TO CHILD SUPPORT ENFORCEMENT. Authorizes the child support enforcement agency to receive and investigate complaints of the misuse of child support. Provides that complaints may be filed by the child for whom child support is ordered or by a guardian ad litem. Provides that child support payments shall be held by the agency during an investigation.
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Decision making to follow.
10:30 a.m. AGENDA:
The following bill(s) is for decision-making purposes only to insert substantive provisions into the short form bill. A public hearing will be scheduled at a later date, at which time testimony will be accepted.
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RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES. Short form bill relating to human services.
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RELATING TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE. Short form bill relating to domestic violence.
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10:45 a.m. AGENDA:
Decision making only (heard on 1/28/10):
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RELATING TO THE UNIFORM CHILD ABDUCTION PREVENTION ACT. Establishes comprehensive child abduction prevention law. Lists factors to determine risk of abduction, and establishes measures courts may include in order to prevent abduction both before and after issuance of child custody decrees.
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RELATING TO CHILD CARE. Imposes a maximum child care subsidy of $500 per month per child and authorizes the department of human services to amend its guidelines for determining eligibility for child care subsidies.
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COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION
Monday, February 1, 2010
9:00 a.m.
Conference Room 309; State Capitol
AGENDA:
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RELATING TO DRIVER LICENSING. Makes the statutory requirements for provisional driver's licenses for persons under the age of eighteen permanent.
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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 occurrence of the lifetime revocation. Requires driver to have had no arrests or convictions for driving while license revoked and to be free from dependency or abuse of alcohol and drugs. Effective 7/1/11.
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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.
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RELATING TO HIGHWAY SAFETY. Enacts the recommendations of the Ignition Interlock Implementation Task Force made pursuant to Act 171, Session Laws of Hawaii 2008.
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RELATING TO OPERATING A VEHICLE WHILE INTOXICATED. Requires the impoundment of the vehicle used by the defendant for highly intoxicated drivers and repeat offenders. Institutes a one-year mandatory prison for offenders who have two prior convictions for DUI. Requires alcohol treatment for repeat offenders.
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RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION. Prohibits motorcycle, motor scooter, and moped mufflers from emitting a noise level above an unspecified decibel level. Provides a graduated schedule of fines for first, second, and subsequent violations.
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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.
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RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLE SUN SCREENING DEVICES. Allows the use of sun screening materials that are applied to a certain portion of motor vehicle windshields and are in compliance with federal law.
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RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION. Exempts from county approval state department of transportation development and construction of highways and airports.
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RELATING TO MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS. Makes it unlawful to use a mobile communication device while operating a vehicle with exceptions for emergency responders, two-way radios used for work-related purposes, and licensed radio operators.
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RELATING TO MOTOR CARRIERS. Repeals the exemption from the Motor Carrier Law for persons transporting garbage or refuse.
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RELATING TO COST SHARING IN THE RELOCATION AND UNDERGROUNDING OF UTILITY FACILITIES. Require any utility owners whose facility occupies State Highway right-of-way to provide their share of relocation costs up front to the affected state agency for encumbrance of funds in related contracts.
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RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION. Establishes Pearl Harbor special fund into which shall be deposited impact fees collected from development in west Oahu to fund a feasibility study and planning for a Pearl Harbor underwater transportation tunnel.
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Decision making to follow.
COMMITTEE ON WATER, LAND, & OCEAN RESOURCES
Monday, February 1, 2010
Conference Room 325; State Capitol
9:30 a.m. AGENDA:
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RELATING TO IMPOUNDED VESSELS. Clarifies that all costs and expenses associated with the disposal of an impounded unauthorized vessel by the Department of Land and Natural Resources shall be borne by the vessel owner.
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RELATING TO CONVEYANCE TAX. Requires the director of taxation to provide the administrator of each county's real property assessment division with an image of all certificates of conveyances filed with the bureau of conveyances.
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RELATING TO LANDS CONTROLLED BY THE STATE. Restores the law with regard to non-ceded lands controlled by the State, to what it was prior to the passage of Act 176, Session Laws of Hawaii 2009.
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RELATING TO PUBLIC LANDS. Authorizes the board of land and natural resources to extend a lease of public lands for commercial, hotel, resort, or industrial uses for 55 years upon a development agreement to improve the land.
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RELATING TO COUNTY GENERAL PLANS. Prohibits the use of county general and development plans from serving as, or replacing the county regulatory powers.
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RELATING TO WALU. Prohibits the catching, selling, or possession of walu in Hawaii.
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Decision making to follow.
10:00 a.m. AGENDA:
WLO/EEP only:
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RELATING TO LAND USE. Streamlines the boundary amendment process for petitions submitted by the counties which are consistent with adopted county plans.
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RELATING TO RENEWABLE ENERGY. Authorizes DLNR rules to allow renewable energy facilities in state conservation districts.
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Decision making to follow.