THE SENATE

THE TWENTY-SIXTH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2012

 

COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY AND LABOR

Senator Clayton Hee, Chair

Senator Maile S.L. Shimabukuro, Vice Chair

 

NOTICE OF HEARING

 

 

DATE:

Thursday, February 2, 2012

TIME:

9:30 A.M.

PLACE:

Conference Room 016

State Capitol

415 South Beretania Street

 

A G E N D A

 

SB 2508

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO CAMPAIGN REPORTING LAWS.

Amends filing deadlines for preliminary and supplemental disclosure reports.

 

JDL

SB 2493

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO CAMPAIGN SPENDING.

Adds a new definition for matching payment period; changes report filing deadlines; requires the identification of the candidate supported or opposed by an independent expenditure; and increases the amount of expenditures a publicly financed candidate for the office of the prosecuting attorney can make.

 

JDL, WAM

SB 2858

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO OPEN GOVERNMENT.

Creates a process for an agency to obtain judicial review of Office of Information Practices decisions made under either part I of chapter 92 or chapter 92F, Hawaii Revised Statutes, and clarifies standard of review.

 

JDL

SB 2859

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO OPEN GOVERNMENT.

Allows board members to hear testimony for a meeting canceled for lack of quorum, to attend informational meetings, and to discuss board business via social media; provides for electronic meeting notices.

 

JDL

SB 2495

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO THE PENAL CODE.

Establishes the offense of maintaining a property nuisance as a misdemeanor.  Specifies conditions that constitute maintaining a property nuisance.

 

JDL

SB 2496

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO LANDOWNER LIABILITY.

Creates a cause of action against any person who maintains a property nuisance that causes injury or damage to the person or property of another person.

 

JDL

SB 2497

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO THE UNIFORM INTERSTATE DEPOSITIONS AND DISCOVERY ACT.

Enacts the Uniform Interstate Depositions and Discovery Act.

 

JDL

HB 461, HD1

      (HSCR764)

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO THE UNIFORM MILITARY AND OVERSEAS VOTERS ACT.

Enacts Uniform Military and Overseas Voters Act to ensure ability of members of the military and others eligible voters who are overseas to participate in all elections for federal, state, and local offices.  Authorizes ballots and balloting materials to be transmitted by facsimile or electronic mail.  Effective July 1, 2020.  (HB461 HD1)

 

JDL

SB 2498

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO CLAIMS AGAINST THE STATE.

Allows interest to be collected on unfunded settlements against the State, its officers, or its employees.

 

JDL, WAM

SB 2491

      Status & Testimony

MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR CLAIMS AGAINST THE STATE, ITS OFFICERS, OR ITS EMPLOYEES.

Makes appropriations for claims against the State, its officers, and its employees.

 

JDL, WAM

 

 

 

 

Decision Making to follow, if time permits.

 

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FOR AMENDED NOTICES:  Measures that have been deleted are stricken through and measures that have been added are underscored.  If a measure is both underscored and stricken through, that measure has been deleted from the agenda.

 

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Senator Clayton Hee

Chair