THE SENATE
THE TWENTY-SEVENTH LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2013

COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS
Senator David Y. Ige, Chair
Senator Michelle N. Kidani, Vice-Chair

MEASURES DEFERRED TO MONDAY, APRIL 01, 2013

DATE:

Monday, April 01, 2013

TIME:

10:05 AM

PLACE:

Conference Room 211
State Capitol
415 South Beretania Street

DECISION MAKING ON THE FOLLOWING MEASURE(S):

HB799 SD1
(SSCR1037)

Status and Testimony

RELATING TO CREATIVE MEDIA DEVELOPMENT.
Establishes a Workforce Development Training Program that provides wage reimbursement for on-the-job training by entities who receive a Motion Picture, Digital Media, and Film Production Tax Credit.  Deletes Internet-only distribution exclusion for advertising; clarifies definitions of qualified production costs; and extends the sunset date of the Tax Credit to January 1, 2025.  Appropriates funds for the Training Program.  (SD1)

EGH, WAM

HB114 SD1
(SSCR1042)

Status and Testimony

RELATING TO HIGHER EDUCATION.
Amends section 304A-105(b), HRS, to require all University of Hawaii procurements for construction, including consultant services necessary for construction, to be subject to the control of, and performed by, the department of accounting and general services on behalf of the University, subject to certain requirements.  Requires a report on the impacts of and compliance with the amendments to section 304A-105(b), HRS, to the legislature.  Repeals the amendments to section 304A-105(b), HRS, on July 1, 2015.  Establishes an independent audit committee within the board of regents of the University of Hawaii.  (SD1)

HRE/EGH, WAM

HB909 SD1
(SSCR993)

Status and Testimony

RELATING TO INFANT MORTALITY PROGRAM.
Creates the Comprehensive Infant Mortality Reduction Program.  Clarifies the role of the Department of Health in establishing, administering, and maintaining a statewide, comprehensive infant mortality reduction program.  Addresses departmental duty to provide information to facilities, and provides duty to provide patients and report to departments, certain birth information.  Appropriates unspecified funds.  Creates a task force that is to be convened by the department of health to study and make recommendations on elective pre-term deliveries and point of care newborn screening.  Takes effect January 1, 2050.  Parts I through IV of the Act take effect January 1, 2015.  (SD1)

HTH, WAM

HB1133 SD1
(SSCR1025)

Status and Testimony

RELATING TO PUBLIC LAND.
Repeals the Public Land Development Corporation.  Transfers certain assets to the Department of Land and Natural Resources.  (SD1)

WTL, WAM

No testimony will be accepted.

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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