HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
THE TWENTY-SIXTH LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2012
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Rep. Angus L.K. McKelvey, Chair |
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Rep. Isaac W. Choy, Vice Chair |
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Rep. Karen L. Awana |
Rep. James Kunane Tokioka |
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Rep. Tom Brower |
Rep. Clift Tsuji |
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Rep. Cindy Evans |
Rep. Barbara C. Marumoto |
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Rep. Mark J. Hashem |
Rep. Kymberly Marcos Pine |
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Rep. Scott Y. Nishimoto |
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NOTICE OF HEARING
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Tuesday, March 20, 2012 |
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8:30 a.m. |
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Conference Room 312 State Capitol 415 South Beretania Street |
A G E N D A
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RELATING TO ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION. Requires businesses in the State to collect a fee for single-use checkout bags provided to a customer. Allows businesses to keep twenty per cent of the fees for the first year of the program and ten per cent of the fees thereafter, subject to income and general excises taxes. Requires fees to be collected on single-use checkout bags not prohibited by county ordinance. Deposits all fees into a special account in the environmental management special fund. Requires first $800,000 of all fees collected to be expended by Department of Health for costs relating to administrative, education, audit, compliance, and enforcement activities associated with the fee. Requires any remaining fees collected to be deposited in the environmental response revolving fund and the natural area reserve fund. Requires reports to the legislature. Effective July 1, 2050. (SB2511 HD1)
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RELATING TO THE HAWAII PUBLIC PROCUREMENT CODE. Authorizes the chief procurement officer to establish the goal that at least three percent of the State's annual purchasing expenditures are awarded to veteran-owned businesses. Requires the procurement policy board to adopt rules for graduated price preferences for Hawaii small businesses, and businesses owned by veterans and service-disabled veterans. Effective July 1, 2112. (SB2582 HD1)
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RELATING TO MEDICAL BENEFITS UNDER THE WORKERS' COMPENSATION LAW. Allows the director of labor and industrial relations to make a decision on disputes regarding treatment plans and continued medical services without a hearing but requires a decision within thirty days of the filing of a dispute. (SB2845 HD1)
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DECISION MAKING TO FOLLOW
The following measure(s) were previously heard on March 15, 2012 at 9:45 a.m.
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RELATING TO PROCUREMENT. Allows the chief procurement officer or head of a purchasing agency to expand the scope of work in a bid for a listed subcontractor, with certain conditions, after bid opening. Effective 07/01/50. (SD2)
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RELATING TO FILM AND DIGITAL MEDIA INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT. Establishes the Hawaii film and digital media special fund; repeals part IX, chapter 201, Hawaii Revised Statutes, relating to Hawaii television and film development (part II); amends the motion picture, digital media, and film production income tax credit to add an additional credit for an unspecified per cent of the qualified production costs paid to legal residents of this State and to Hawaii vendors and Hawaii suppliers; amends the total tax credit cap to an unspecified amount; requires annual report; increases requirements for hiring of legal residents of this State; applies to qualified expenditures incurred on or after July 1, 2012, and before January 1, 2027 (part III); establishes a motion picture, digital media, and film production infrastructure tax credit of fifty per cent of qualified infrastructure costs; requires qualified expenditure of at least $10,000,000; increases requirements for hiring of legal residents of this State; requires the credit to be repaid through an annual payment to the State equal to fifteen per cent of the qualified infrastructure project's taxable income until the credit has been repaid; provides for a 100 per cent recapture of the tax credit if the facilities are no longer used for a qualified activity; requires annual report; applies to taxable years beginning after June 30, 2012 (part IV); appropriates funds for additional resource and staffing support to assist state agencies in collecting and reporting annually on estimates of the full-time equivalent positions for legal Hawaii residents by each production receiving tax credits; effective July 1, 2050; repeals on January 1, 2027. (SD2)
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Persons wishing to offer comments should submit testimony at least 24 hours prior to the hearing with a transmittal cover indicating:
· Testifier's name with position/title and organization;
· The Committee the comments are directed to;
· The date and time of the hearing;
· Measure number; and
· The number of copies the Committee is requesting.
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________________________________________ Rep. Angus L.K. McKelvey Chair |
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