THE TWENTY-SEVENTH LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2013
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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: |
Monday, March 25, 2013 |
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9:20 a.m. |
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PLACE: |
Conference Room 211 State Capitol 415 South Beretania Street |
A G E N D A
The following measure(s) were previously heard in their respective standing committee(s):
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RELATING TO FILM AND DIGITAL MEDIA INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT. Extends the motion picture, digital media, and film production income tax credit from 01/01/2016 to 01/01/2023. Increases the credit ceiling to $12,000,000 per qualified production. Changes the credit amount from 15% to an unspecified amount in a county with a population over 700,000, and from 20% to an unspecified amount in a county with a population of 700,000 or less. Creates a tax credit for media infrastructure projects in West Oahu or the most populous island in a county with a population of 100,000 to 175,000, from 07/01/13 to 01/01/16. Provides for recapture of the media infrastructure project tax credit. Establishes a special fund for management of media infrastructure project tax credits and related programs. Requires analysis and reporting by DOTAX on the effectiveness of the media infrastructure project tax credit. Effective 07/01/2050. (SD1)
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EGH/TEC, WAM |
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RELATING TO THE HI GROWTH INITIATIVE. Appropriates funds to the Hawaii Strategic Development Corporation for the HI Growth Initiative, an investment program to develop an ecosystem to support high-growth entrepreneurial companies in the State. Appropriation. Effective July 1, 2030. (HB858 HD1)
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EGH, WAM |
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RELATING TO RECYCLING. Restores the exemption from the central services fee deduction for the deposit beverage container deposit special fund. (SD1)
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ENE, WAM |
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RELATING TO WATER POLLUTION. Establishes a separate Water Pollution Control account and authorizes the Director of Health to prescribe fees to help fund the operations of the Department of Health in managing pollution from nonpoint sources and individual wastewater systems. (SD1)
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ENE/HTH, WAM |
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RELATING TO WIND ENERGY FACILITIES. Requires a wind energy facility owner to be responsible for facility decommissioning and to provide evidence of financial security unless the owner has an existing lease or other agreement that provides for decommissioning. (SD1)
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ENE/CPN, WAM |
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RELATING TO LONG TERM CARE. Requires the Director of the Executive Office on Aging to contract for the performance of a feasibility study and an actuarial analysis for a limited, mandatory, public long term care insurance program for the State's working population. Appropriates funds. Effective July 1, 2030. (SD1)
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HMS/CPN, WAM |
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RELATING TO PUBLIC HOUSING. Authorizes the Hawaii Public Housing Authority to disqualify any applicant or tenant from state low-income housing if the applicant, tenant, or a household member owns or acquires a home within the State. Effective July 1, 2030. (SD1)
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HMS, WAM |
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RELATING TO DISPOSITION OF PERSONAL PROPERTY ON PUBLIC HOUSING PROPERTIES. Establishes a process whereby the Hawaii Public Housing Authority may dispose of abandoned or seized property that it has acquired on state low-income housing projects. (SD1)
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HMS/JDL, WAM |
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RELATING TO THE PRESERVATION OF HAWAII'S MOVING IMAGES. Appropriates funds for the ‘Ulu‘ulu: The Henry Ku‘ualoha Giugni Moving Image Archive of Hawai‘i to support the activities of the moving image archive. Effective July 1, 2050. (HB1392 HD1)
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HRE/TEC, WAM |
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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. Effective July 1, 2030. (HB908 HD2)
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HTH, WAM |
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RELATING TO ELECTIONS. Provides a process for voter registration at absentee polling places. Effective 07/01/50. (SD1)
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JDL, WAM |
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RELATING TO FEDERAL TAX QUALIFICATION OF THE EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM. Amends the employees' retirement system laws to comply with Internal Revenue Code requirements and vesting rules in order to maintain the system's status as a tax-qualified retirement plan. Effective 07/01/30. (SD1)
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JDL, WAM |
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RELATING TO THE EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING FUND. Allows employment and training fund moneys collected for the purpose of paying interest assessments on loans to the unemployment trust fund to be used for a period of one year for costs to administer, manage, report, and oversee Title I programs funded under the federal Workforce Investment Act of 1998. (SD1)
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JDL, WAM |
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RELATING TO CAMPAIGN SPENDING. Requires noncandidate committees to identify certain top contributors in advertisements. Amends reporting requirements for persons and organizations. Repeals section requiring reporting by corporations. Effective 11/05/14. (SD1)
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JDL, WAM |
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RELATING TO THE PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL SPACE CENTER FOR EXPLORATION SYSTEMS. Appropriates an unspecified amount in general funds to PISCES. Requires report to the Legislature by September 1, 2013. Effective July 1, 2030. (HB1419 HD2)
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PSM/EGH, WAM |
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RELATING TO THE JAPANESE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE IN HAWAII. Appropriates funds for the planning, design, and construction of the Nisei Veterans Legacy Center and a Honouliuli Internment Camp Educational Center, subject to matching funds. Requires reports to the legislature no later than twenty days prior to the convening of the regular session of 2014. Effective July 1, 2050. (SD1)
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TEC/WTL, WAM |
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RELATING TO THE KAHO‘OLAWE ISLAND RESERVE. Makes permanent the exemption for the procurement of food or fuel products necessary for the Kaho‘olawe island reserve commission. Effective June 30, 2013. (SD1)
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WTL/EGH, WAM |
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Decision making meeting only, no public testimony will be accepted.
Persons wishing to offer comments may do so 24 hours prior to the hearing.
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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This hearing will be on Twitter: https://twitter.com/HI_Senate_WAM.
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_____________________________________ Senator David Y. Ige Chair |
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