THE SENATE

THE TWENTY-SEVENTH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2013

 

COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY AND LABOR

Senator Clayton Hee, Chair

Senator Maile S.L. Shimabukuro, Vice Chair

 

NOTICE OF HEARING

 

 

 

DATE:

Friday, March 22, 2013

TIME:

10:30 a.m.

PLACE:

Conference Room 016

State Capitol

415 South Beretania Street

 

 

A G E N D A

 

 

HB 877, HD1, SD1

      (SSCR895)

      Status & Testimony

 

RELATING TO THE DESIGNEES FOR THE DIRECTORS OF THE DEPARTMENTS OF COMMERCE AND CONSUMER AFFAIRS, OF HEALTH, OF HUMAN SERVICES, AND OF LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS FOR THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE HAWAII HEALTH INSURANCE EXCHANGE.

Allows the directors of the Departments of Commerce and Consumer Affairs, Health, Human Services, and Labor and Industrial Relations to delegate voting authority to their designees for a specified meeting or meetings.  (SD1)

 

CPN, JDL

HB 423

      (SSCR859)

      Status & Testimony

 

RELATING TO BUREAU OF CONVEYANCES.

Repeals the sunset provision of section 2 in Act 120, Session Laws of Hawaii 2009, relating to deregistering land.

 

CPN, JDL

HB 1150, HD1, SD1

      (SSCR864)

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO CONTRACTS.

Exempts an owner's agreement with an attorney to file a claim as to identified property or contest the administrator's denial of a claim from the application of section 523A-25, Hawaii Revised Statutes; provided that an owner's agreement with an attorney that provides for compensation shall not exceed twenty-five per cent of the total value of the property.  Provides exception to the twenty-five per cent limit for an owner's agreement with an attorney to maintain an action in circuit court upon approval of the court.  Effective 07/01/2050.  (SD1)

 

CPN, JDL

HB 87, SD1

      (SSCR884)

      Status & Testimony

 

RELATING TO PUBLIC HOUSING.

Broadens criminal trespass in the first degree to include a person who enters or remains unlawfully in or upon the premises of a public housing project after a reasonable request or warning to leave by housing authorities or a law enforcement officer; provided that no warning or request is necessary between certain times of day and if the public housing has signs to mark the boundaries of property and notify the public that the public housing project is closed to the public during certain hours.  (SD1)

 

HMS, JDL

HB 951, HD1, SD1

      (SSCR890)

      Status & Testimony

 

RELATING TO THE SERVICE OF PROCESS.

Specifies the persons authorized to serve legal process.  Mandates the Director of Public Safety to maintain a list of independent process servers.  Shields the State and the Department of Public Safety from liability arising from the acts of independent process servers.  (SD1)

 

PSM, JDL

HB 944

      (SSCR901)

      Status & Testimony

 

RELATING TO THE UNIFORM CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES ACT.

Updates chapter 329, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to make it consistent with amendments in federal law on controlled substances; amends section 329-14 to add new controlled substances emergency scheduled by the State under section 329-11; and amends section 329-75(h) to limit the penalty to violations of section 329-75(g) relating to pseudoephedrine.

 

PSM, JDL

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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