THE TWENTY-SIXTH LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2011
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Senator David Y. Ige, Chair |
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Senator Michelle Kidani, Vice Chair |
AMENDED NOTICE OF DECISION MAKING
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DATE: |
Thursday, February 24, 2011 |
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TIME: |
9:00am |
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PLACE: |
Conference Room 211 State Capitol 415 South Beretania Street |
A G E N D A
The following measure(s) were previously heard in their respective Subject Matter Committee's:
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RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT. Expands the authorized uses of the agricultural development and food security special fund to include the improvement and investigative studies of dams and reservoirs. Authorizes director of finance to issue general obligation bonds for the special fund. (SD1)
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AGL, WAM |
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RELATING TO IRRIGATION. Authorizes the director of finance to issue general obligation bonds in the sum of $9,960,000, and appropriates the same sum for fiscal year 2011–2012 to make capital improvements to various irrigation systems. Authorizes the director of finance to issue general obligation bonds in the sum of $9,900,000, and appropriates the same sum for fiscal year 2012-2013 to make capital improvements to various irrigation systems. (SD1)
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AGL/WLH, WAM |
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RELATING TO ANIMAL INDUSTRY. Authorizes the use or rental of animal quarantine property or facilities for commercial purposes. Establishes the animal industry special fund. Makes an appropriation. (SD1)
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AGL, WAM |
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RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL LOANS. Reduces the new farmer program loan interest rate; increases the loan limits; reduces the number of credit denials required to qualify for the program; appropriates funds.
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AGL, WAM |
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RELATING TO LIVESTOCK. Provides a grant pursuant to chapter 42F, HRS, to the Hawaii Livestock Cooperative to stabilize operations at the cooperative's slaughter facility. (SD1)
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AGL, WAM |
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RELATING TO ADVANCED PRACTICE REGISTERED NURSE FEES. Eliminates some fees for licensure, renewal of license, and prescriptive authority of advanced practice registered nurses. (SD1)
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CPN, WAM |
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RELATING TO UNIFORM REAL PROPERTY TRANSFER ON DEATH. Adopts Uniform Real Property Transfer on Death Act; allows owner of real property to designate beneficiaries to receive real property upon death of owner without requirements of probate or formalities of wills. Effective July 1, 2011. (SD1)
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CPN, WAM |
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RELATING TO ATHLETIC TRAINERS. Creates registration requirements and qualifications for athletic trainers in this State; provides exemptions; prescribes penalties. (SD1)
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CPN, WAM |
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RELATING TO MORTGAGE FORECLOSURES. Requires foreclosing mortgagees to engage in a dispute resolution process at the election of a mortgagor before carrying out a judicial or nonjudicial power of sale foreclosure; authorizes the supreme court to adopt rules for dispute resolution; establishes a special fund for foreclosure dispute resolution to be expended by the judiciary; makes appropriation. (SD1)
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CPN, WAM |
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RELATING TO MORTGAGE FORECLOSURES. Implements recommendations of the mortgage foreclosure task force relating to service of notice, conversion from nonjudicial to judicial foreclosure, the bar against deficiency judgments, notice of pendency of action, and extinguishment of the mortgagor's interest pursuant to the old nonjudicial foreclosure law. Requires a 21 day notice of foreclosure to insurers of the subject property. Requires public sale of property after a nonjudicial power of sale foreclosure to be held at the state building in the county seat of the county where the property is located or, for the city and county of Honolulu, at the state building designated by the department of accountings and general services. (SD1)
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CPN, WAM |
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RELATING TO GASOLINE. Repeals the ten per cent ethanol by volume requirement for gasoline sold in Hawaii for use in motor vehicles.
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CPN/ENE, WAM |
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RELATING TO CONSTRUCTION SITES. Reauthorizes the construction site task force and narrows its focus to unlicensed activity; establishes a fee to offset the costs of task force activities to be added to license application and renewal fees; requires report; appropriates funds from the compliance resolution fund. (SD1)
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CPN/EDT, WAM |
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RELATING TO INFORMATION ACCESS. Directs the vocational rehabilitation and services for the blind division of the department of human services to contract for a telephone-based service to provide access to timely print media; makes appropriation. (SD1)
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CPN, WAM |
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RELATING TO THE SOLICITATION OF FUNDS FROM THE PUBLIC. Amends chapter 467B, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to allow service of process by substitute service, allows the Attorney General to accept assurances of discontinuance and to issue cease and desist orders for violations of the law, amends and clarifies the charity registration exemptions, and clarifies the time period for the filing of a charity's annual financial report. (SD1)
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CPN/JDL, WAM |
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RELATING TO THE HAWAII HURRICANE RELIEF FUND. Appropriates funds from the Hawaii hurricane relief fund to the general fund for the purpose of balancing the state budget in fiscal year 2011-2012; requires reimbursement to the Hawaii hurricane relief fund beginning in fiscal year 2013-2014. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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CPN, WAM |
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RELATING TO INSURANCE. Updates the Insurance Code to adopt revisions to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners model laws and regulations for risk-based capital trend test for property and casualty insurers as required for National Association of Insurance Commissioners accreditation. (SD1)
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CPN, WAM |
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RELATING TO HEALTH INSURANCE. Provides uniform standards for external review procedures based on the National Association of Insurance Commissioners Uniform Health Carrier External Review Model Act, in order to comply with the requirements of the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010. (SD1)
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CPN/HTH, WAM |
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RELATING TO INSURANCE. Updates the Insurance Code and related provisions. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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CPN, WAM |
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RELATING TO CONSUMER PROTECTION. Updates regulation of legal service plans; updates fees charged to insurers by the department of commerce and consumer affairs. (SD1)
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CPN/JDL, WAM |
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RELATING TO RENTAL MOTOR VEHICLE SURCHARGE TAX. Extends the $3 per day surcharge on rental motor vehicles beyond August 31, 2011, and deposits the money into the state highway fund; makes appropriation from the state highway fund. (SD1)
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CPN, WAM |
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RELATING TO THE HAWAII HEALTH INSURANCE EXCHANGE. Establishes the Hawaii health connector to create a health insurance exchange pursuant to the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010; creates Hawaii health insurance exchange council under a board of directors; creates board of directors; creates task force to recommend policies and procedures to implement the governance of the health insurance exchange. (SD1)
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CPN/HTH, WAM |
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RELATING TO PRESCRIPTION MEDICATIONS. Authorizes a working group composed of stakeholders and convened by the Healthcare Association of Hawaii to consider issues relating to prior authorization for prescription medication and to make recommendations for future legislation. (SD1)
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CPN/HTH, WAM |
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RELATING TO MORTGAGE LOAN ORIGINATORS. Amends the secure and fair enforcement for mortgage licensing act to require all mortgage loan originators to work under the sponsorship of a registered entity; specifies standards for processing denied, abandoned, and withdrawn applications; specifies additional prohibited practices and prohibited loan terms; specifies duties and qualifications for supervisory staff of sponsoring entities; restricts fees payable to a licensee; clarifies confidentiality provisions for applications; establishes licensing fees for sponsoring entities; makes conforming amendments. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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CPN, WAM |
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RELATING TO HISTORIC PRESERVATION. Requires one per cent of all state fund appropriations designated for the construction and renovation of state buildings to be deposited into the Hawaii historic preservation special fund; adds the costs related to site modifications, display, and interpretive work necessary to enhance the visitor experience for the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Iolani Palace, and Washington Place to the uses of the fund; requires reports to the governor and legislature. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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EDT, WAM |
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RELATING TO THE WIRELESS ENHANCED 911 FUND. Requires the independent audit of the wireless enhanced 911 fund to be conducted annually rather than biannually. Requires that information on the status of projects undertaken or planned by public safety answering points, and the results of the annual audit, to be included in the wireless enhanced 911 board's annual report to the legislature. Requires the initial annual audit to be conducted in 2011 and its results to be reported to the legislature in 2012.
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EDT/PGM, WAM |
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RELATING TO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. Amends the uses of the Hawaii community-based economic development revolving fund to include operational and certain personnel funding for the community-based economic development program and its advisory council and the enterprise zone program; appropriates funds. (SD1)
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EDT, WAM |
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RELATING TO HIGH TECHNOLOGY. Adds reporting requirements to measure the effectiveness of the state research and development tax credit; extends the tax credit for five years. (SD1)
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EDT, WAM |
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RELATING TO TAXATION. Establishes the integrated tax services and management special fund to receive revenues from the integrated tax services and management system's post-implementation revenue-generating initiatives; provides that moneys in the fund will be used to pay for the integrated tax services and management system; requires the department of taxation to establish a system to allow taxpayers to file all tax returns, applications, reports, and other documents electronically, telephonically, or by optical means, with no additional cost to the taxpayer; lowers the threshold for any taxpayer required to remit taxes by one of the means of electronic funds transfer from $100,000 to $50,000 in tax liability; reestablishes the last day of the month as the deadline for filing and payment of miscellaneous taxes and quarterly filing and payment of periodic insurance premium taxes. (SD1)
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EDT, WAM |
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RELATING TO BIOFUEL FACILITIES. Expands the ethanol facility tax credit to include various biofuels; renames the tax credit as the biofuel production facility tax credit; changes the determination of the biofuel production facility tax credit from thirty percent of nameplate capacity to 30 cents per gallon of production; requires a qualifying facility to be located within the State and to utilize locally grown feedstock for at least seventy-five per cent of its production output; replaces the amount of certified credits from $12 million with an unspecified amount; amends a reporting requirement by a taxpayer claiming the tax credit; and removes the 40 million gallon production per year cap. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD1)
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EDT/ENE, WAM |
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RELATING TO INFORMATION. Requires a business that maintains personal information about residents of Hawaii to implement a comprehensive written information security program; exempts financial institutions subject to certain federal guidelines; requires that a consumer credit reporting agency not charge a victim of identity theft or a security breach a fee for placing, lifting, or removing a security freeze on a credit report. (SD1)
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EDT/CPN/JDL, WAM |
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RELATING TO TAXATION. Establishes a new markets tax credit for a taxpayer that holds a qualified equity investment on a credit allowance date and provides an exemption from the requirements of section 704(b)(2) of the Internal Revenue Code; restricts community development entity investments to low-income communities in Hawaii; includes franchise taxes under chapter 241, Hawaii Revised Statutes, and insurance premium taxes under chapter 431, Hawaii Revised Statutes, as eligible for the tax credit. (SD1)
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EDT, WAM |
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RELATED TO THE ECONOMY. Appropriates funds to implement the requirements of sections 304A-1861, 304A-1862, and 304A-1863, Hawaii Revised Statutes; appropriates funds for the STEMworks project-based, service learning model; appropriates funds for projects demonstrating cost-effective outcomes in conjunction with improved student performance in STEM and creative media experiential learning programs; requires annual reports by the University of Hawaii, department of education, Economic Development Alliance of Hawaii, Inc., and department of business, economic development, and tourism. (SD1)
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EDT/EDU, WAM |
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RELATING TO ENTERPRISE ZONES. Amends the definition of "eligible business activity" in Hawaii's enterprise zone program to include the production of certain electric power from renewable energy, and owning, controlling, operating, or managing a seawater air conditioning district cooling project. (SD1)
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EDT/ENE, WAM |
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RELATING TO CAPITAL INVESTMENTS. Amends chapter 37, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to include agency-wide technology and computer systems with an estimated useful life of greater than seven years as capital investments to allow all costs to be financed with bond funds and depreciated as capital investments. (SD1)
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EDT, WAM |
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RELATING TO TAXATION. Adopts amendments to Hawaii tax laws to implement the streamlined sales and use tax agreement; takes effect when the State becomes a party to the streamlined sales and use tax agreement; with section 32, creating a committee to oversee the department of taxation's implementation and administration of, and compliance with the streamlined sales and use tax agreement, to take effect on approval.
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EDT, WAM |
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RELATING TO TAX CREDITS. Amends the motion picture, digital media, and film production tax credits to increase the tax credits to unspecified percentages and dollar amounts and to provide additional non-refundable tax credits for qualified media infrastructure projects in certain qualifying counties; provides an additional tax credit for qualified special or visual effects and animation production costs; raises the tax credit caps to unspecified amounts. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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EDT/TSM, WAM |
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RELATING TO HEALTH. Authorizes the Hawaii health systems corporation to lease Kula hospital's medical clinic, and any equipment, furnishings, and fixtures therein that have been agreed upon and executed by the parties through an equipment list, to Malama I Ke Ola Health Center, subject to the Hawaii public procurement code and other relevant state law. (SD1)
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HTH, WAM |
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RELATING TO LUPUS. Requires the director of health to establish a working group to develop a plan to increase education and awareness of lupus. (SD1)
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HTH, WAM |
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RELATING TO TOBACCO PRODUCTS. Imposes an excise tax on tobacco products other than cigarettes, little cigars, and large cigars that is equivalent to the tax imposed on a standard package of twenty cigarettes or little cigars; requires a portion of the tax to be expended for tobacco prevention programs and services. (SD1)
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HTH, WAM |
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RELATING TO THE HAWAII HEALTH SYSTEMS CORPORATION. Authorizes the Hawaii health systems corporation to mortgage its real property and clarifies that the dollar cap on municipal leasing authority applies to each regional system. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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HTH, WAM |
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RELATING TO PHYSICIANS. Establishes a tax credit equal to twenty-five per cent of the amount of medical malpractice insurance premium paid by a physician if at least fifteen per cent of a physician's total patient case load consists of patients on medicaid. (SD1)
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HTH, WAM |
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RELATING TO HAWAII HEALTH CORPS. Establishes the Hawaii health corps program to provide loan repayments on behalf of eligible physicians, physician assistants, and nurse practitioners in any county having a shortage of physicians, physician assistants, and nurse practitioners, with priority given to those serving in rural areas. Provides for loan repayments by the University of Hawaii John A. Burns school of medicine and the University of Hawaii at Manoa school of nursing and dental hygiene. Creates the Hawaii health corps revolving fund. Makes appropriations to support accreditation efforts and support and expand residency programs, particularly in family medicine. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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HTH/EDU, WAM |
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RELATING TO HEALTH. Requires rates for medicaid reimbursements to hospitals keeping patients in beds to be equal to rates for similarly related services. Appropriates funds for increased medicaid reimbursements. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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HTH/HMS, WAM |
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MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR HEALTH INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY. Appropriates funds to the department of health to participate in federal matching grant programs associated with the development of health information technologies.
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HTH, WAM |
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RELATING TO CHILDREN. Establishes a hospital-based screening and assessment and intensive home visitation program under the department of health; appropriates funds from the tobacco settlement special fund and from the federal appropriation of temporary assistance for needy families funds. (SD1)
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HTH/HMS, WAM |
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RELATING TO HEALTH. Promotes safety and health in Hawaii through increases in the liquor tax. (SD1)
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HTH, WAM |
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RELATING TO THE HAWAII HEALTH SYSTEMS CORPORATION. Amends corporation board composition to add an at-large member appointed by the Governor, give voting rights to the ex-officio Director of Health member, and adding community members from the respective regional system boards. (SD1)
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HTH, WAM |
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RELATING TO HEALTH. Creates three classes of medical marijuana licenses: class 1 medical marijuana compassion center license for the sale of medical marijuana to qualified patients; class 2 medical marijuana cultivation license; class 3 medical marijuana-infused products manufacturing license. Specifies requirements for each class. Makes medical marijuana sales subject to income and excise taxes. Establishes a fee for issuance and renewal of a license and a special marijuana sales tax. Takes effect 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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HTH/PGM, WAM |
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RELATING TO HEALTH. Establishes the childhood obesity pilot program and requires insurers to cover childhood obesity as a billable provider visit for services rendered by participating health care providers. Appropriates funds for the administration of the childhood obesity pilot program. Requires the childhood obesity pilot program provider participants to submit a report to the department of health and the legislature no later than twenty days prior to the convening of the 2014 regular session. (SD1)
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HTH/CPN, WAM |
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RELATING TO HEALTH. Directs the department of health and state civil defense to report to the legislature on progress in implementing the recommendations of the statewide dialysis emergency plan. Appropriates funds to upgrade dialysis facilities and implement the plan.
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HTH, WAM |
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RELATING TO TOURISM. Appropriates funds in FY 2011-2012 and FY 2012-2013 for the application of a spaceport license from the Federal Aviation Administration to establish space tourism in Hawaii.
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PGM/EDT/TSM, WAM |
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RELATING TO PUBLIC BUILDINGS. Authorizes the department of accounting and general services to sell public buildings to the public, and lease them back. (SD1)
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PGM, WAM |
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RELATING TO LAND-SECURED FINANCING. Expands the authority of counties to use land-based financing to support operating costs for certain county services provided within improvement districts and community facilities districts. Adds county maintenance of the capital improvements to be land-based financed. Authorizes counties to use up to five per cent of the assessment or tax revenues to cover administrative expenses in creating and administering the district and the associated assessments, fees, and taxes. (SD1)
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PGM, WAM |
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RELATING TO AEROSPACE DEVELOPMENT. Extends the sunset date of the starlight reserve advisory committee by one year; makes appropriations to the office of aerospace development of the department of business, economic development, and tourism. (SD1)
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PGM/EDT, WAM |
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RELATING TO CARGO INSPECTIONS. Permits the establishment of a pilot program to use dogs to inspect incoming cargo for illegal fireworks and explosives, after the cargo has been transported from the harbors. Effective 7/1/2050. Repeals on an unspecified date. (SD1)
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PGM/TIA, WAM |
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RELATING TO PUBLIC SAFETY. Establishes a reduced ignition propensity cigarette program special fund for the state fire council to administer and provide staff for the reduced ignition propensity cigarette program.
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PGM, WAM |
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RELATING TO CORRECTIONS. Establishes and appropriates funds for a program within the department of public safety that assigns select, non-violent inmates on a work detail that restores historical sites selected by the office of Hawaiian affairs. (SD1)
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PGM/HWN, WAM |
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RELATING TO COUNTY MUTUAL AID. Establishes a mutual aid agreement of assistance among the counties to provide potable water and non-potable water to another county during times of emergency. Establishes the Hawaii statewide mutual aid system to provide integrated statewide mutual aid response capability between counties in times of disaster. (SD1)
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PGM/WLH, WAM |
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RELATING TO THE LEGISLATIVE FEDERAL ECONOMIC STIMULUS PROGRAM OVERSIGHT COMMISSION. Extends the date on which the legislative federal economic stimulus program oversight commission is terminated from 06/30/11 to 12/31/11.
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PGM, WAM |
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RELATING TO THE STATE FIRE COUNCIL. Allows the state fire council to hire a full-time administrator and administrative assistant. (SD1)
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PGM, WAM |
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RELATING TO PROCUREMENT. Establishes discretionary request for competitive sealed proposal procedures using the design-build process where not more than three offerors selected on their qualifications submit proposals. Defines design-build. Authorizes the procurement officer to pay a conceptual design fee to unsuccessful offerors. Clarifies process of short-listing of offerors for purposes of non-selection. Effective 1/1/2012. (SD1)
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PGM, WAM |
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RELATING TO PROCUREMENT. Provides procurement authority to semi-autonomous county public transit agencies, thus allowing them to function as semi-autonomous agencies in their respective counties.
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PGM/TIA, WAM |
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RELATING TO UNIFORM MAINTENANCE ALLOWANCE. Repeals the uniform maintenance allowance for enlisted personnel. Effective July 1, 2112. (SD1)
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PGM, WAM |
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RELATING TO SPECIAL NUMBER PLATES. Designates a new special design Gold Star Family plate for children, parents, grandparents, spouses, and siblings of fallen soldiers and to be provided no later than October 1, 2011. (SD1)
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PGM, WAM |
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MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR MATCHING GRANTS FOR SPACE EDUCATION PROGRAMMING SERVICES. Appropriates funds to be used by the department of education for grants to provide space education programming services at the Barbers Point elementary school for fiscal year 2011‑2012. Requires the Challenger Center of Hawaii to submit a plan to the legislature to become financially self-sufficient for fiscal year 2012-2013 and thereafter. (SD1)
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PGM/EDU, WAM |
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RELATING TO ENHANCED 911 SERVICES. Establishes a single entity to administer enhanced 911 services for the State and expands the membership and responsibilities of the Wireless Enhanced 911 Board. (SD1)
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PGM/EDT, WAM |
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RELATING TO PUBLIC FUNDS. Returns $200,000,000 from the funds generated by surcharge on state general excise tax revenues transferred to the city and county of Honolulu to the State general fund. Authorizes issuance of $300,000,000 general obligation bonds to offset loss of tax revenues to the city and county of Honolulu in fiscal year 2011-2012. Extends surcharge for two years. Requires a memorandum of understanding between the State and city and county of Honolulu to return the $200,000,000. Provides the director of finance with the discretion to use general obligation bond proceeds to make county surcharge tax payments. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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PGM, WAM |
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RELATING TO ENTERPRISE ZONES. Adds businesses engaged in the research or development of space exploration related activities to the definition of "eligible business activity" under the state enterprise zone law.
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PGM/EDT, WAM |
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RELATING TO THE PUBLIC LAND. Requires the department of land and natural resources to initiate and coordinate all efforts to establish a public lands information system. Requires all state agencies to report to the department each parcel of land to which it holds title; the disposition of each parcel to which the agency holds title or is acquiring title; and any inaccuracies in reports to the department. Requires the department to submit a progress report to the legislature. Appropriates funds to create and maintain a comprehensive statewide public land trust inventory database and to provide funding for one staff position for a database and application developer. (SD1)
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WLH, WAM |
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RELATING TO HOUSING. Creates the affordable rental housing development program; allows nonprofit organizations to acquire expiring US Department of Housing and Urban Development or US Department of Agriculture housing contracts and ensures the projects remain affordable rental housing in perpetuity.
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WLH, WAM |
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RELATING TO CONVEYANCE TAX. Repeals conveyance tax exemptions for low-income housing projects certified by the Hawaii housing finance and development corporation
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WLH, WAM |
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RELATING TO THE ALOHA TOWER DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION. Abolishes the Aloha Tower development corporation (ATDC). Transfers the ATDC assets to the department of transportation. Establishes the Aloha Tower community development district within the Kakaako community development district. Transfers the zoning and planning jurisdiction to the Hawaii community development authority. Makes appropriation. Effective on July 1, 2011. (SD1)
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WLH, WAM |
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RELATING TO FEES FOR HABITAT CONSERVATION PLANS. Authorizes the department of land and natural resources to collect fees to cover the technical assistance program costs associated with habitat conservation plans, and adopt rules for establishing such fees. (SD1)
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WLH, WAM |
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RELATING TO COSTS OF RELOCATION AND UNDERGROUNDING OF UTILITY FACILITIES. Allow any utility owners whose facility occupies state highway rights-of-way to provide their share of costs up front to the affected state agency for encumbrance of funds in related contracts by way of an agreement to pay. (SD1)
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WLH/PGM, WAM |
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RELATING TO SMALL BOAT HARBORS. Permits commercial permits in Ala Wai and Keehi small boat harbors; establishes that small boat harbor fees can be used only for the operating and maintenance of small boat the harbors; authorizes a process for a public-private partnership to develop a portion of Ala Wai small boat harbor; changes mooring fee rate process. (SD1)
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WLH, WAM |
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