HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

THE TWENTY-SEVENTH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2013

 

COMMITTEE ON FINANCE

Rep. Sylvia Luke, Chair

Rep. Scott Y. Nishimoto, Vice Chair

Rep. Aaron Ling Johanson, Vice Chair

 

Rep. Ty J.K. Cullen

Rep. Richard H.K. Onishi

Rep. Mark J. Hashem

Rep. Gregg Takayama

Rep. Kaniela Ing

Rep. James Kunane Tokioka

Rep. Jo Jordan

Rep. Justin H. Woodson

Rep. Bertrand Kobayashi

Rep. Kyle T. Yamashita

Rep. Nicole E. Lowen

Rep. Beth Fukumoto

Rep. Dee Morikawa

Rep. Gene Ward

 

CORRECTED NOTICE OF HEARING

 

To reflect the correct TIME:  11:00 A.M.

 

DATE:

Thursday, February 21, 2013

TIME:

11:00 P.M. A.M.

PLACE:

Conference Room 308

State Capitol

415 South Beretania Street

 

A G E N D A #  1

 

HB 1430, HD1

(HSCR474)

Status

RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES.

Appropriates funds to establish and operate a comprehensive service center for deaf, hard of hearing, and deaf-blind individuals.  Effective July 1, 2013.

 

HUS, FIN

HB 385, HD1

(HSCR310)

Status

RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES.

Establishes a refundable State Earned Income Tax Credit.  Requires the Department of Human Services to provide financial education to applicants for and recipients of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families.  Appropriates funds.

 

HUS, FIN

HB 395, HD1

(HSCR25)

Status

RELATING TO YOUTH.

Requires the Office of Youth Services to coordinate a Safe Places for Youth Pilot Program that will coordinate a network of safe places that youth can access for safety and where they may obtain advice, guidance, programs, and services.  Establishes the Safe Places for Youth Pilot Program coordinator.  Appropriates funds.  Effective July 1, 2013.

 

HUS, FIN

HB 401, HD1

(HSCR312)

Status

RELATING TO SOCIAL SERVICES.

Appropriates funds for certain social services programs formerly funded under the temporary assistance for needy families program. Effective July 1, 2050.

 

HUS, FIN

HB 643, HD1

(HSCR313)

Status

RELATING TO YOUTH GANGS.

Appropriates funds for the Youth Gang Response System.  Effective July 1, 2050.

 

HUS, FIN

HB 661, HD1

(HSCR341)

Status

RELATING TO THE EMERGENCY AND BUDGET RESERVE FUND.

Appropriates moneys from the emergency and budget reserve fund to DHS for child abuse and neglect social services.  Effective July 1, 2050.

 

HUS, FIN

HB 986, HD1

(HSCR472)

Status

RELATING TO FOSTER CARE SERVICES.

Increases the monthly board rate distributed by the Department of Human Services for foster care services for children.  Effective July 1, 2050.

 

HUS, FIN

HB 1188

(HSCR315)

Status

RELATING TO THE ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY POVERTY REDUCTION TASK FORCE.

Establishes the economic opportunity poverty reduction task force to develop a strategic, integrated, and comprehensive plan to expand economic opportunities in Hawaii to reduce, by at least 50 per cent by 2023, the number of Hawaii residents, including children and families, living in poverty.

 

HUS, FIN

HB 2

(HSCR236)

Status

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 independently evaluated.  Appropriates funds.

 

HLT/HUS, FIN

HB 407, HD1

(HSCR427)

Status

RELATING TO CANCER.

Appropriates funds to the Department of Health for the Comprehensive Breast and Cervical Cancer Control Program.  Effective July 1, 2050. 

 

HLT, FIN

HB 417, HD1

(HSCR373)

Status

RELATING TO THE HAWAII HEALTH SYSTEMS CORPORATION.

Appropriates $2,800,000 for each year of the 2013-2015 fiscal biennium to the interdisciplinary Hawaii health systems corporation primary care training program at Hilo Medical Center.  Effective July 1, 2050.

 

HLT, FIN

HB 653

(HSCR54)

Status

RELATING TO THE ISSUANCE OF SPECIAL PURPOSE REVENUE BONDS FOR HAWAI‘I PACIFIC HEALTH.

Authorizes the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds for Hawai‘i Pacific Health.

 

HLT, FIN

HB 658, HD1

(HSCR503)

Status

RELATING TO DENTAL HEALTH.

Allows the application of dental sealants in any school-based dental sealant program; provided a dentist is available for consultation.  Establishes a school-based dental sealant program in a high-need demonstration school.  Appropriates funds.  Effective July 1, 2013.

 

HLT, FIN

HB 908, HD1

(HSCR374)

Status

RELATING TO THE HAWAII HOME VISITING PROGRAM.

Establishes the Hawaii Home Visiting Program, a statewide hospital-based early identification and home visiting system.  Appropriates funds.

 

HLT/HUS, FIN

HB 914, HD1

(HSCR500)

Status

RELATING TO OBESITY PREVENTION.

Establishes the Hawaii Interagency Obesity Prevention Council. Appropriates funds from the Obesity Prevention Special Fund to support child and adult obesity prevention programs.  Effective July 1, 2050.

 

HLT, FIN

HB 1, HD1

(HSCR358)

Status

RELATING TO LONG TERM CARE.

Requires the director of the executive office on aging to contract for the performance of a policy analysis and an actuarial analysis for a limited, mandatory, public long term care insurance program for the State's working population.  Requires reports to the legislature.  Appropriates funds for the analyses.  Effective July 1, 2013.

 

CPC, FIN

HB 424, HD1

(HSCR359)

Status

RELATING TO TIMESHARE CONVEYANCES.

Authorizes the Governor to appoint Commissioners of Deeds to take acknowledgments, proofs of execution, or oaths in specified jurisdictions related to the conveyance of timeshare properties located within the State.  Effective July 1, 2112.

 

CPC, FIN

HB 120, HD2

(HSCR542)

Status

RELATING TO HEALTH.

Allows the Department of Health and the Department of Human Services to post on their respective websites information of all inspections in which major patient care violations were discovered at certain care facilities and the order specifying the violation is final.  Effective July 1, 2050.

 

HLT/HUS, CPC, FIN

HB 191

(HSCR448)

Status

RELATING TO SMALL BOAT HARBORS.

Authorizes the BLNR to consult with and receive assistance from the HCDA with regards to planning, developing, operating, administering, and maintaining small boat harbors.

 

WAL, FIN

HB 429, HD1

(HSCR206)

Status

RELATING TO THE HAWAII COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY.

Requires legislative approval by simple majority vote of a concurrent resolution by both houses for any amendment or exception to the Kakaako final mauka area plan and makai area plan adopted by the Hawaii Community Development Authority.  Effective July 1, 2020.

 

WAL, FIN

HB 1330

(HSCR307)

Status

RELATING TO THE DIVISION OF CONSERVATION AND RESOURCES ENFORCEMENT.

Restores funds cut from the DOCARE budget over the past 4 years. Appropriates funds.

 

WAL, FIN

HB 1292

(HSCR78)

Status

RELATING TO PUBLIC LAND.

Requires legislative approval of any sale, exchange, gift, or transfer of public land.

 

WAL/OMH, FIN

 

 

 

DECISION MAKING TO FOLLOW

 

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Rep. Sylvia Luke

Chair