THE SENATE
THE TWENTY-SIXTH LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2012

COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY AND LABOR
Senator Clayton Hee, Chair
Senator Maile Shimabukuro, Vice-Chair

MEASURES DEFERRED TO TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2012

DATE:

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

TIME:

10:00 AM

PLACE:

Conference Room 016
State Capitol
415 South Beretania Street

DECISION MAKING ON THE FOLLOWING MEASURE(S):

SB2923 SD1
(SSCR2386)

Status and Testimony

RELATING TO OPIHI HARVESTING AND POSSESSION RESTRICTIONS.
Establishes a ban on taking or harvesting opihi statewide, subject to open and closed sessions and traditional gathering rights and practices.  Prohibits the taking or harvesting of opihi for non-commercial purposes in an amount greater than one quart with shells attached or one half pint without shells per day.  Requires the department of land and natural resources to submit an annual report regarding effectiveness and enforcement.  Establishes until 06/30/17 a moratorium on the harvesting of opihi on Oahu.  (SD1)

WLH/HWN, JDL

SB2793 SD1
(SSCR2161)

Status and Testimony

RELATING TO THE HAWAIIAN HOMES COMMISSION ACT.
Allows the chairman, with unanimous consent of the commission, to suspend administrative rules for the purpose of awarding a lease to a native Hawaiian who has been on the waitlist for at least twenty years.  Repeals 6/30/2017.  (SD1)

HWN, JDL

SB2457 SD1
(SSCR2372)

Status and Testimony

RELATING TO PROCUREMENT.
Amends administrative review proceedings under Hawaii public procurement code.  (SD1)

PGM, JDL

SB2647 SD1
(SSCR2373)

Status and Testimony

RELATING TO FIREARMS.
Restricts hunting to places of formal hunting, defined as private or public land where the landowner has granted written permission to an individual to use the land for hunting or target shooting.  Makes it a misdemeanor to violate provisions relating to places of formal hunting.  Makes amendments to the wildlife law to accommodate hunting in a place of formal hunting to require written permission by the landowners, in addition to a hunting license.  Amends the crime of criminal trespass in the first degree to add the element of entering or remaining unlawfully on private property at night while in the possession of a firearm.  (SD1)

PGM, JDL

SB2202 SD1
(SSCR2173)

Status and Testimony

RELATING TO EMPLOYMENT PRACTICES.
Directs the legislative reference bureau to conduct a study and gather information and data on whether employers and employment agencies are engaging in employment practices that exclude the unemployed from qualified applicant pools considered for employment in Hawaii.  Requires a report to the legislature, including examples of any notices or advertisements that exclude the unemployed from consideration.  (SD1)

CPN, JDL

SB2429 SD1
(SSCR2374)

Status and Testimony

RELATING TO FORECLOSURES.
Implements the 2011 recommendations of the mortgage foreclosure task force, and other best practices, to address various issues relating to the mortgage foreclosures law and related issues affecting homeowner association liens and the collection of unpaid assessments.  Repeals the nonjudicial foreclosure process under part I of chapter 667, HRS.  Makes permanent the mortgage foreclosure dispute resolution program and the process for converting nonjudicial foreclosures of residential property into judicial foreclosures.  Repeals the provision excluding participants of the dispute resolution program from converting nonjudicial foreclosure proceedings to judicial actions. (SD1)

CPN, JDL

SB226 SD1
(SSCR2321)

Status and Testimony

RELATING TO PROSTITUTION.
Authorizes an arresting officer to place or caused to be placed at the time of the arrest a wheel clamp or wheel boot of the vehicle used by the person in the course of committing certain crimes of prostitution.  Provides for additional fine to be deposited into the domestic violence and sexual assault special fund and the county general fund.  Makes grant-in-aid to each county to purchase wheel clamps or wheel boots.  (SD1)

PGM, JDL
[Measure added on 2/24/2012]

No testimony will be accepted.

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.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT THE COMMITTEE CLERK AT 808-586-7330.