THE TWENTY-SEVENTH LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2013
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COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC SAFETY, INTERGOVERNMENTAL AND MILITARY AFFAIRS |
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Senator Will Espero, Chair |
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Senator Rosalyn H. Baker, Vice Chair |
NOTICE OF HEARING
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DATE: |
Thursday, February 7, 2013 |
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TIME: |
3:00 p.m. |
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PLACE: |
Conference Room 224 State Capitol 415 South Beretania Street |
A G E N D A
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RELATING TO PUBLIC SAFETY. Requires businesses located in tsunami evacuation areas to close at an unspecified period of time following first sounding of tidal wave or tsunami warning sirens until further notice. Makes qualifications for gas stations, businesses that sell staple goods, and health care providers.
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PSM, CPN |
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RELATING TO CIVIL AIR PATROL. Appropriates funds to the DOD for the civil air patrol.
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PSM, WAM |
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RELATING TO THE MILITIA. Establishes an employer income tax credit for taxpayers who maintain employee insurance coverage for national guard members for the duration of the national guard members' active duty. Expands the powers of the governor and governor's designee in calling the national guard into active duty. Allows the adjutant general to order the national guard into active service for nonemergency purposes that are necessary and attendant to the mission of the department of defense. Expands the rights granted to national guard members to incorporate rights granted under the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act and the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act.
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PSM, WAM |
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RELATING TO THE STATE BUILDING CODE. Allows the counties six years to adopt their amendments to the state building code and permits the counties to apply their most recently adopted building code until the new amendments are adopted; the state building code may be used as a reference during this time frame.
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PSM |
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RELATING TO THE STATE BUILDING CODE COUNCIL. Reconfigures the membership of the state building code council by eliminating members from the department of health and department of labor and industrial relations, and adding members from the Building Industry Association, General Contractors' Association, Hawaii Construction Alliance, and Subcontractors' Association of Hawaii. Changes the requirements for a quorum from six to seven. Eliminates the council's obligation to consult with private sector representatives regarding construction practices and training.
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RELATING TO PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS. Creates the state building code special fund into which is deposited one quarter of one per cent of all state fund appropriations for capital improvement projects designated for the construction management cost element. Makes appropriation from the hurricane relief fund for deposit into the state building code special fund. Clarifies authority of Hurricane relief fund to make the appropriation.
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PSM, WAM |
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RELATING TO LAND USE. Requires the counties to allow the construction of accessory dwelling units on lots where a residential dwelling unit is permitted.
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PSM, EGH |
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RELATING TO IDENTIFICATION. Establishes acceptable forms of identification for merchants if required for purchases or returns. Requires merchants to post their identification policies, if any, and list acceptable forms of identification. Adds government-issued work identification to "proper identification" requirement when a practitioner or pharmacist dispenses a controlled substance to any individual not known to the practitioner or pharmacist.
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PSM, CPN |
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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.
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PSM, JDL |
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RELATING TO EMERGENCY SCHEDULING OF CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES. Requires the Department of Public Safety to post a public notice thirty days prior to the effective date of the emergency scheduling action, at the State Capitol, in the Office of the Lieutenant Governor, and on the department's website for public inspection.
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PSM, JDL |
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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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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CALL THE COMMITTEE CLERK AT (808)586-6360.
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_____________________________________ Senator Will Espero Chair |
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