THE TWENTY-SIXTH LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2012
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Senator David Y. Ige, Chair |
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Senator Michelle N. Kidani, Vice Chair |
NOTICE OF DECISION MAKING
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DATE: |
Tuesday, February 28, 2012 |
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TIME: |
9:00 a.m. |
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PLACE: |
Conference Room 211 State Capitol 415 South Beretania Street |
A G E N D A
Decision making meeting only, no public testimony will be accepted.
Persons wishing to offer comments may do so 24 hours prior to the hearing.
See submittal instructions below.
The following measure(s) were previously heard in their respective Standing Committees:
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RELATING TO URBAN ART. Establishes a pilot program pilot program for the creation of urban art under the direction of the state foundation on culture and the arts; repeals 6/30/2015; requires report to 2015 legislature. (SD1)
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EDT/PGM, WAM |
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RELATING TO CHARTER SCHOOLS. Establishes a new chapter governing charter schools based on the recommendations of the charter school governance, accountability, and authority task force established by Act 130, Session Laws of Hawaii 2011, effective 7/1/2013. Repeals chapter 302B, HRS, on 7/1/2013. Makes housekeeping amendments. Authorizes use of charter schools account funds to hire implementation and transition coordinator and for other purposes, effective upon approval date of Act. (SD1)
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EDU, WAM |
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RELATING TO CHARTER SCHOOLS. Requires the Board of Education to contract for an implementation and transition coordinator to assist with the implementation of S.B. No. 2115 (2012). Makes an appropriation. (SD1)
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EDU, WAM |
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RELATING TO THE STATE EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES IMPROVEMENT SPECIAL FUND. Requires the budget and supplemental budget submitted pursuant to sections 37-71 and 37-72, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to include financial requirements for general funds or general obligation bonds for projects authorized by the state educational facilities improvement special fund. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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EDU, WAM |
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RELATING TO TECHNOLOGY. Places the Hawaii 3Ts school technology laboratories fund under the department of business, economic development, and tourism. Repeals section 302A-1314, Hawaii Revised Statutes. (SD1)
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EDU/EDT, WAM |
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RELATING TO INSTRUCTIONAL TIME. Requires the department of education to devise four bell schedules for elementary, middle, and high schools to standardize instructional periods across all schools, with the exception of charter schools and multi-track public schools. Requires each school to choose one of the available bell schedules for each grade level. Amends the definition of "student instructional hours" for elementary and secondary schools. (SD1)
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EDU, WAM |
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RELATING TO CONCUSSIONS. Requires the DOE and the Hawaii High School Athletic Association to develop a concussion awareness program to provide guidelines for public and private schools.
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EDU/HTH, WAM |
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PROPOSING AMENDMENTS TO THE HAWAII STATE CONSTITUTION RELATING TO THE ISSUANCE OF SPECIAL PURPOSE REVENUE BONDS. Proposes a constitutional amendment to authorize the State to issue special purpose revenue bonds to assist charter schools, not-for-profit corporations that support charter schools, and community development financial institutions that support charter schools.
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EDU/JDL, WAM |
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RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII BOARD OF REGENTS. Abolishes the regents candidate advisory council for the board of regents of the University of Hawaii. (SD1)
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EDU, WAM |
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RELATING TO EDUCATION. Repeals minimum hourly and per diem rates for substitute teachers. Repeals substitute teacher wage adjustments based upon teacher pay. (SD1)
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EDU, WAM |
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RELATING TO EDUCATION. Amends section 37-74(d), Hawaii Revised Statutes, to specify that appropriations to the EDN 100 school-based budgeting program identifier shall not be transferred to any other program identifier of the department of education. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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EDU, WAM |
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RELATING TO EDUCATION. Provides flexibility to Department of Education to implement student health programs by deleting certain operational requirements established by law and deletes the requirement to adopt rules. (SD1)
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EDU, WAM |
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RELATING TO EDUCATION. Requires, beginning with contracts negotiated for the contract period beginning July 1, 2013, that teachers be employed by the department of education for three years before being eligible for tenure. Provides the department the directive, means and flexibility to establish a performance management system that cultivates and supports highly effective educators and that implements our State's race to the top commitments. Effective July 1, 2050. (SD1)
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EDU/JDL, WAM |
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RELATING TO EARLY LEARNING. Requires the department of taxation to allow a taxpayer to designate (or "check off") that a specified amount of the taxpayer's income tax refund be paid to the early learning trust fund.
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EDU, WAM |
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RELATING TO STATE LIBRARIES. Requires the head librarian of each library branch in the Hawaii state public library system, with the approval of the state librarian, to issue licenses, revocable permits, concessions, or rights of entry for the use of facilities and grounds of that library branch to the Friends of the Library of Hawaii and any 501(c)(3) corporation that exists for the purpose of supporting a library within the Hawaii State Public Library System. Effective 6/1/2030. (SD1)
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EDU, WAM |
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MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR KIHEI HIGH SCHOOL. Authorizes the issuance of $20,000,000 in general obligation bonds and makes an appropriation for planning, design, and construction for Kihei High School, a new high school in Kihei, Maui.
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EDU, WAM |
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RELATING TO SUSTAINABILITY. Increases the amount of the per-barrel allocation of the barrel tax to the energy security special fund and the agricultural development and food security special fund from 15 cents to 45 cents. Renames the Hawaii economic development task force the Hawaii food and energy security council and extends the sunset date of the council to June 30, 2014. Extends the repeal date of certain amendments to the barrel tax to June 30, 2017. Appropriates funds from the energy security special fund and the agricultural development and food security special fund to DBEDT and DOA, respectively. (SD1)
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ENE/EDT/AGL, WAM |
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RELATING TO ENERGY. Creates an income tax credit for development and construction costs for qualifying biofuel production facilities. Repeals 1/1/2029. Defines "oil refinery". Clarifies that an environmental assessment is required for an action proposing the expansion of an existing oil refinery. Takes effect on 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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ENE/EDT, WAM |
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RELATING TO RECYCLING. Creates the Hawaii electric device recycling task force; dissolves on 06/30/2013. (SD1)
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ENE, WAM |
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RELATING TO SOLID WASTE. Increases the solid waste management surcharge to $1.25 per ton of solid waste disposed of in landfills or shipped out-of-state; increases the solid waste management surcharge to 60 cents per ton of solid waste disposed of at waste-to-energy facilities that accept 150,000 tons or more of solid waste annually; provides for no surcharges to waste-to-energy facilities that accept less than 150,000 tons of solid waste annually and for ash disposed of in landfills that originates from a waste-to-energy facility, and defines "waste-to-energy facility".
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ENE, WAM |
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RELATING TO HEALTH. Appropriates funds to the department of human services to match the federal medicaid disproportionate share hospital allowance allocated to the State. Effective July 1, 2050. (SD1)
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HMS/HTH, WAM |
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RELATING TO MEDICAID. Establishes the Health Insurance Waste, Fraud, and Abuse Task force to detect fraud and abuse before payments of illegitimate claims are made under the medicaid managed care, medicaid, and children's health insurance programs. Requires task force to report to 2013 legislature. (SD1)
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HMS, WAM |
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RELATING TO LONG-TERM CARE. Establishes and directs a long-term care task force to coordinate and consolidate state long-term care programs and services. Establishes the position of deputy healthcare transformation coordinator. Appropriates funds. (SD1)
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HMS/HTH, WAM |
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RELATING TO LONG TERM CARE. Requests the executive office on aging of the department of health to conduct an education and awareness campaign on long term care and have the campaign evaluated. Appropriates funds for the long term care education and awareness campaign and an evaluation of the campaign. (SD1)
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HMS, WAM |
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RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES. Appropriates funds to the department of human services to match federal funds allocated to the State for medicaid benefits dedicated to adult vision services.
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HMS, WAM |
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RELATING TO THE HOMELESS. Appropriates funds to the homeless programs office of the department of human services and the rental housing trust fund. Appropriates funds to the department of health for substance abuse treatment, mental health support services, and clean and sober housing services and the department of human services for a homeless prevention program, rental assistance program, and matching funds for shelter plus care grants. Effective July 1, 2050. (SD1)
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HMS/HTH, WAM |
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RELATING TO AGING. Appropriates funds for the kupuna care program, healthy aging partnership program, senior centers, and elder registration services. (SD1)
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HMS, WAM |
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RELATING TO INFORMATION ACCESS. Appropriates funds for 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.
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HMS, WAM |
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RELATING TO LONG-TERM CARE FACILITIES. Establishes the nursing facility sustainability program special fund into which nursing facility sustainability fees shall be deposited. Requires the department of human services to charge and collect a provider fee on health care items or services provided by nursing facilities. Effective July 1, 2050. (SD1)
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HMS, WAM |
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RELATING TO HOSPITALS. Establishes the Hospital Sustainability Program into which hospital sustainability fees shall be deposited. Requires the Department of Human Services to charge and collect a provider fee on health care items or services provided by hospitals. Effective July 1, 2050. (SD1)
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HMS/HTH, WAM |
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RELATING TO MINORS. Establishes a new chapter for the safe harbor of sexually exploited children. Establishes the minor victims of prostitution special fund. Grants the family court exclusive jurisdiction over any person under eighteen who is charged with certain offenses of prostitution. Amends the statute of limitations under the prostitution coercion liability act. Establishes that a person who is under eighteen and suspected of or charged with a certain offense of prostitution shall be not be prosecuted, and shall be subject to the provisions of the safe harbor for sexually exploited children chapter. Effective July 1, 2050. (SD1)
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HMS/JDL, WAM |
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RELATING TO FOSTER YOUTH. Requires the department of human services to automatically enroll former foster youth in an appropriate medical assistance program and automatically re-enroll former foster youth until they reach age twenty-six.
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HMS, WAM |
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RELATING TO CHILD PROTECTION. Gives preference to allowing a child who has been or is at risk of being abused to remain in a safe family home, in court proceedings to determine appropriate placement of the child, and requiring the perpetrator of the abuse to leave the home, in certain cases of reported or suspected child abuse or neglect. (SD1)
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HMS/JDL, WAM |
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RELATING TO CHILDREN AND YOUTH. Requires public events celebrating Children and Youth Day to be held on state capitol grounds on the first Sunday in October, and public events such as the Children and Youth Summit to be held in the month of October, if the Children and Youth Day planning committee so chooses, unless otherwise determined by the governor. (SD1)
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HMS, WAM |
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RELATING TO EARLY INTERVENTION SERVICES. Requires the department of health to hold the eligibility criteria or scope of covered services to at least the same level that was in effect on January 1, 2012. Allows previously eligible children to remain eligible for early intervention services. Allows the department to establish a family cost participation schedule for early intervention services. Allows the department to include in its contracts with early intervention service providers a provision that requires the provider to provide early intervention services to individuals who are ineligible under part C of IDEA on a fee-for-service basis and charge fees no more than the State's reimbursement rate. (SD1)
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HMS, WAM |
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RELATING TO THE AGING AND DISABILITY RESOURCE CENTERS. Establishes and appropriates funds for aging and disability resource centers in each county to streamline access to long-term supports and services for older adults, persons with disabilities, and family caregivers. (SD1)
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HMS, WAM |
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RELATING TO DEATH BENEFITS. Makes permanent the decreased funeral benefit for medical and financial assistance recipients, establishes that the Department of Human Services may bear the cost for crematory and mortuary services for unclaimed dead human bodies and that the Department of Human Services may approve a determination that a dead human body is unclaimed.
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HMS, WAM |
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RELATING TO THE HAWAII INTERAGENCY COUNCIL ON HOMELESSNESS. Establishes the Hawaii interagency council on homelessness to be administratively placed within the department of human services. Makes an appropriation for administrative expenses. Repeals 6/30/22. (SD1)
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HMS, WAM |
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RELATING TO PUBLIC HOUSING. Authorizes the Board of Directors of the Hawaii Public Housing Authority to set the executive director's compensation based on a comparability analysis, and other factors.
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HMS, WAM |
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RELATING TO QUALIFIED COMMUNITY REHABILITATION PROGRAMS. Repeals the requirement for the Department of Human Resources Development to submit annual reports to the Legislature regarding expenditures of qualified community rehabilitation programs.
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HMS, WAM |
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RELATING TO THE DISABILITY AND COMMUNICATION ACCESS BOARD SPECIAL FUND. Amends the purpose of the Disability and Communication Access Board Special Fund to allow for the receipt of various fees, including fees from the credentialing of interpreters.
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HMS, WAM |
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MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR YOUTH SERVICES. Appropriates funds as a grant to the Kalihi YMCA, Parents and Children Together, and Susannah Wesley Community Center to support youth services.
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HMS, WAM |
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RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HAWAIIAN HOME LANDS. Authorizes DHHL to allow a Hawaiian home lands lessee to settle on a vacant homestead lot that has already been awarded to the lessee, subject to conditions. Requires DHHL to conduct a public awareness campaign to educate affected communities about the off-the-grid living program. (SD1)
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HWN/PGM, WAM |
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RELATING TO RENEWABLE ENERGY REVENUE. Identifies geothermal royalties and revenue from public land dispositions to nongeothermal renewable energy producers as supplemental sources of revenue for the Native Hawaiian Rehabilitation Fund. (SD1)
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HWN/WLH/ENE, WAM |
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RELATING TO PUBLIC SAFETY. Requires the Department of Public Safety to plan for a model wellness center that employs native Hawaiian cultural practices on state land and to submit a report to the legislature prior to the 2013 legislative session. Creates a work release pilot program on the Big Island to allow certain incarcerated individuals on the Big Island to work on community projects on the Big Island that benefit the local community and the State. Repeals pilot program on 6/30/15. (SD1)
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HWN/WLH/PGM, WAM |
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RELATING TO NATIVE HAWAIIANS. Establishes aha moku advisory committee within OHA. Establishes a quorum requirement for island burial councils. Makes an appropriation. (SD1)
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HWN/WLH, WAM |
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RELATING TO EDUCATION. Appropriates funds for three permanent positions and operating expenses for Ho‘okulaiwi: ‘Aha Ho‘ona‘auao ‘Oiwi (the center for Native Hawaiian and indigenous education) within the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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HWN/EDU, WAM |
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RELATING TO COURT FEES. Increases fees for service of civil process. Repeals authority of the sheriff or police chief to retain a percentage of service of process fees or expenses from salaried and non-salaried process servers. Effective 07/01/50. (SD1)
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JDL, WAM |
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RELATING TO THE RESIDENCY OF APPOINTIVE OFFICERS. Allows the waiver of residency requirements for the state or county department heads, deputies or assistants to a department head, when the appointed officer is required to have highly specialized or scientific knowledge or training and a qualified applicant who meets the residency requirement is not available to fill the position. Effective 07/01/50. (SD1)
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JDL, WAM |
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RELATING TO RIGHTS OF THE ACCUSED. Establishes procedures for eyewitness identification of persons in live lineups and photo lineups who are suspected of perpetrating an offense. Effective 07/01/50. (SD1)
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JDL, WAM |
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RELATING TO WORKPLACE PRACTICES. Makes abusive conduct against a public employee by another public employee a workplace safety and health violation. Effective 7/1/50. (SD1)
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JDL, WAM |
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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. (SD1)
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JDL, WAM |
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RELATING TO COLLECTIVE BARGAINING. Clarifies the Hawaii labor relations board's authority to appoint attorneys and paralegals. Authorizes attorneys employed by the board on a part-time or contract basis to represent the board in litigation, draft legal documents for the board, and provide other necessary legal services to the board. (SD1)
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JDL, WAM |
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RELATING TO EMPLOYER-UNION HEALTH BENEFITS TRUST FUND. Amends section 87A-1, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to add a new definition of "credited service" and to clarify the definitions of "employee" and "part-time, temporary, and seasonal or casual employee". (SD1)
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JDL, WAM |
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RELATING TO FALSE CLAIMS TO THE STATE. Brings the State's false claims laws, as well as similar laws that apply to the counties, in compliance with the federal False Claims Act in order to meet federal requirements that state laws provide the same or greater protections as those established under the Social Security Act. By meeting the federal requirements, the State will be able to continue to retain an additional ten percent of civil recoveries in cases brought under the false claims law that involve federal programs. (SD1)
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JDL, WAM |
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MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR CLAIMS AGAINST THE STATE, ITS OFFICERS, OR ITS EMPLOYEES. Makes appropriations for claims against the State, its officers, and its employees. (SD1)
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JDL, WAM |
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RELATING TO THE EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM. Corrects errors; harmonizes ordinary disability and ordinary death benefits for new members of the Employees' Retirement System with their service retirement benefits. (SD1)
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JDL, WAM |
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RELATING TO THE EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM. To prevent unexpected increases in pension benefits and in the unfunded actuarial accrued liability of the Employees' Retirement System by limiting the amount of compensation included in "average final compensation" and requiring employers to pay the additional costs resulting from spiking. Effective 7/1/50. (SD1)
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JDL, WAM |
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RELATING TO THE EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM. Changes one of the requirements to become a member of the Board of Trustees of the Employees' Retirement System of the State of Hawaii.
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JDL, WAM |
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RELATING TO THE HAWAII EMPLOYER-UNION HEALTH BENEFITS TRUST FUND. Authorizes the board of the Employer-union health benefits trust fund to create a trust fund for the purpose of receiving employer contributions that will prefund post-employment health and other benefit costs for retirees and their beneficiaries. (SD1)
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JDL, WAM |
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RELATING TO COLLECTIVE BARGAINING. Creates a new bargaining unit (14) for ocean safety officers and water safety officers employed by the State or counties. (SD1)
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JDL, WAM |
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RELATING TO WILDLIFE. Prohibits the interisland transfer, transport, or release after transport of wild or feral mammals, with certain exceptions; establishes mandatory fines. (SD1)
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JDL, WAM |
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RELATING TO FAMILY COURT. Allows impoverished family court plaintiffs and petitioners to serve notice by posting pleadings at the courthouse in lieu of notice by publication, subject to order of the court, demonstration of a diligent search, and mailing of the pleadings to the defendant's or respondent's closest known relative.
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JDL, WAM |
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RELATING TO THE AUDITOR. Allows the diminishment of the auditor's salary during the auditor's term of office by general law applicable to all salaried officers. Effective 07/01/50. (SD1)
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JDL, WAM |
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RELATING TO CORRECTIONS. Allows committed persons to create and place for sale approved products and crafts. Allocates 25% of proceeds to fund rehabilitation programs and 25% to the crime victim compensation special fund. Requires department of public safety to study other states' practices on the making and sale of arts and crafts by inmates. Report to the 2013 legislature. (SD1)
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PGM, WAM |
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RELATING TO CORRECTIONS. Establishes a two-year parole pilot program for no more than twenty inmates to be subject to high-intensity parole supervision. Makes an appropriation for the program.
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PGM/JDL, WAM |
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RELATING TO THE WEED AND SEED PROGRAM. Establishes the weed and seed program under the department of labor and industrial relations. Makes appropriation.
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PGM/JDL, WAM |
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RELATING TO THE NATIONAL GUARD. Prohibits a person from being eligible to serve as an adjutant general unless the person has held a commission of a grade 05 or above and has served as a commissioned officer in one or more of the armed forces for at least 10 years, of which five have been an active duty commissioned officer in the Hawaii National Guard, whether army, air, or both. Grandfathers sitting adjutant general. (SD1)
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PGM, WAM |
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RELATING TO DEFENDANTS COMMITTED TO THE CUSTODY OF THE DIRECTOR OF HEALTH. Allows for the transfer of persons committed to the custody of the director of health to be transferred to correctional facilities under certain conditions. (SD1)
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PGM/HTH, WAM |
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RELATING TO DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY FEDERAL REIMBURSEMENT MAXIMIZATION SPECIAL FUND. Expands the allowed use of the Federal Reimbursement Maximization Special Fund to reflect United States Department of Justice approved uses.
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PGM, WAM |
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RELATING TO HARBORS FIREBOAT. To abolish statutory requirements to reimburse the City and County of Honolulu for the operation and maintenance of the fireboat and allow for broader flexibility in the management of fireboat operations by the Department of Transportation.
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PGM/WLH, WAM |
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RELATING TO THE PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL SPACE CENTER FOR EXPLORATION SYSTEMS. Transfers the Pacific international space center for exploration systems (PISCES) from the University of Hawaii to DBEDT's office of aerospace development. Establishes a PISCES board of directors. Appropriates funds. Authorizes GO bonds. Makes appropriation from general revenues. Effective 1/1/2020. (SD1)
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PGM/EDU/EDT, WAM |
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RELATING TO CORRECTIONS. Requires a financial and management audit of department of public safety commissary operations and out-of-state commissaries where Hawaii inmates are confined.
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PGM, WAM |
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RELATING TO LEGACY LANDS. Requires nonprofit land conservation organizations to provide, in addition to a conservation easement, a deed restriction or covenant, as a condition to the receipt of funds under the legacy land program. Requires the board of land and natural resources to be made a full or partial owner of any conservation provided by a state or county agency or nonprofit land conservation organization as a condition for receipt of funding under the legacy lands program. Allows for the exemption of the easement requirements by the board. Requires applicants for legacy land funds to submit the project's public benefit and to consult with the staff of the department of land and natural resources, the department of agriculture, the agribusiness development corporation, and the public land development corporation. (SD1)
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WLH/AGL, WAM |
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RELATING TO ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION. Appropriate funds to the department of land and natural resources for the immediate protection of priority watershed forests to replenish Hawaii's water supplies and provide many other fundamental benefits to Hawaii's environmental health. (SD1)
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WLH/ENE, WAM |
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RELATING TO AQUATIC RESOURCE VIOLATIONS. Provides for transformative administrative penalty alternatives and an enhanced collection mechanism for outstanding fines and penalties resulting from aquatic resource violations. (SD1)
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WLH/JDL, WAM |
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PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE VII, SECTION 12, OF THE HAWAII STATE CONSTITUTION TO ASSIST DAM AND RESERVOIR OWNERS. Proposes a constitutional amendment to authorize the State to issue special purpose revenue bonds and use the proceeds from the bonds to assist dam and reservoir owners.
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WLH/JDL, WAM |
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RELATING TO THE COMMERCIAL HARBORS. Amends chapter 266, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to clarify that persons cited for non-criminal violations may appeal through an administrative hearing; clarifies that enforcement agents such as the harbor master, harbor agents, facility security officer, or district manager can issue citations for non-criminal violations; provides that penalties and fines are deposited into the harbor special fund; allows the department of transportation to seek reimbursement from tenants or harbor users that violate security rules in harbor-secured areas. The issuance of citations for traffic code violations and other criminal statutes are restricted to law enforcement officers and fines and penalties remain in the jurisdiction of the District Courts. (SD1)
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WLH/TIA, WAM |
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RELATING TO OCEAN SAFETY. Requires the department of land and natural resources to adopt rules that promote greater safety of ocean users in the State's nearshore waters. Appropriates funds for swim zone buoys at Kamaole beach. Requires a report to the legislature. (SD1)
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WLH, WAM |
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RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCES. Establishes a forest carbon offsets program in the department of land and natural resources. Creates a process for local businesses, individuals, and land owners to invest in forest carbon offsets that would provide incentives for retaining conservation land or practicing carbon emission reduction activities. (SD1)
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WLH/ENE, WAM |
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RELATING TO CONSERVATION AND RESOURCES. Establishes DLNR policies regarding sandalwood and designates sandalwood as a native forest resource in need of conservation. Requires a harvest permit for commercial harvesting of native forest resources. Establishes penalties for the destruction or harvesting of sandalwood trees. (SD1)
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WLH/JDL, WAM |
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RELATING TO LAND. Transfers title to the Waiahole valley agricultural park and residential lots subdivision from the Hawaii housing finance and development corporation to the agribusiness development corporation. (SD1)
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WLH/AGL, WAM |
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_____________________________________ Senator David Y. Ige Chair |
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