OFFICE OF THE SPEAKER
TWENTY-SEVENTH STATE LEGISLATURE
COMMITTEE REFERRALS
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NO. 3
FOURTH LEGISLATIVE DAY-TUESDAY, JANUARY 22, 2013
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Committee Abbreviations:
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AGR - Agriculture |
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CPC - Consumer Protection & Commerce |
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EDB - Economic Development & Business |
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EDN - Education |
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EEP - Energy & Environmental Protection |
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FIN - Finance |
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HED - Higher Education |
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HLT - Health |
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HSG - Housing |
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HUS - Human Services |
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JUD - Judiciary |
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LAB - Labor & Public Employment |
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LMG - Legislative Management |
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OMH - Ocean, Marine Resources, & Hawaiian Affairs |
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PBS - Public Safety |
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TOU - Tourism |
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TRN - Transportation |
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VMI - Veterans, Military, & International Affairs, & Culture and the Arts |
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WAL - Water & Land |
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RELATING TO NATIVE HAWAIIANS. Establishes a $1 fee for certified copies of birth, marriage, divorce, or death certificates when required to verify qualified Native Hawaiian status for the Native Hawaiian roll. Requires Director of Health to deposit fee into the State's general fund.
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OMH, HLT, FIN |
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RELATING TO GOVERNMENT. Requires annual reports from the Native Hawaiian Roll Commission. Amends the definition of "qualified Native Hawaiian" to include individuals who meet certain expanded ancestry requirements and require permanent residency or voter registration in the State. Clarifies that the roll of qualified Native Hawaiians is confidential and requires an authorization for the release of information. Repeals directive to amend the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act.
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OMH, JUD |
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RELATING TO EDUCATION. Establishes the instructional office of Hawaiian studies for the purpose of providing instruction to public school students on Hawaiian history, culture, arts, and language. Makes an appropriation for the instructional office of Hawaiian studies.
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OMH, EDN, FIN |
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RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE TWENTY-SIXTH REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT. Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects for the benefit of the 26th Representative District. Effective July 1, 2013.
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FIN |
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RELATING TO PUBLIC SAFETY. Requires the department of public safety to assess and refer inmates to the Hawaii paroling authority (HPA) for possible medical release. Allows an inmate to be considered for medical release at the request of the director, the inmate, or the inmate's representative, if the inmate meets specified criteria. Requires the HPA to grant or deny the request after a hearing, to set reasonable conditions on an inmate's medical release, and to promptly order an inmate returned to custody to await a revocation hearing if the HPA receives credible information that an inmate has failed to comply with any reasonable conditions of medical release.
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PBS, JUD, FIN |
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RELATING TO PAROLE. Establishes maximum periods of incarceration for felons who are granted parole.
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PBS, JUD |
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RELATING TO PAROLE. Establishes an earned-time program under which a person may be eligible for parole prior to the expiration of the person's minimum term of incarceration. The person must show progress toward rehabilitation with improved social skills or participation in educational, occupational, or counseling programs. Requires the department to review each person's performance annually to determine if the person merits an earned-time deduction.
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PBS, JUD |
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RELATING TO PUBLIC SAFETY. Amends the Hawaii Revised Statutes relating to public safety.
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PBS |
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RELATING TO PUBLIC SAFETY. Amends the Hawaii Revised Statutes relating to public safety.
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PBS |
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RELATING TO PUBLIC SAFETY. Amends the Hawaii Revised Statutes relating to public safety.
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PBS |
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RELATING TO PUBLIC SAFETY. Amends the Hawaii Revised Statutes relating to public safety.
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PBS |
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RELATING TO PUBLIC SAFETY. Amends the Hawaii Revised Statutes relating to public safety.
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PBS |
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RELATING TO MEDICAID. Requires the Department of Human Services and Department of Health to collaborate with private entities to develop a revised methodology for determining the level of acuity of nursing facility residents who are Medicaid recipients to set reimbursements at levels that are fair and equitable. Requires the Department of Human Services and Department of Health to develop an equitable referral system relating to the discharge of all patients based on the patient's acuity level.
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HUS/HLT, FIN |
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RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES. Requires training programs, the recertification process, and continuing education for nurse aides to include multicultural health awareness and education. Effective July 1, 2013.
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HLT, FIN |
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RELATING TO COMMUNITY CARE FOSTER FAMILY HOMES. Allows a community care foster family home to remain open temporarily upon losing its only medicaid patient provided certain requirements are met. Reduces the mandatory age of substitute caregivers under the jurisdiction of the Department of Human Services and the Department of Health upon consolidation. Effective June 29, 2013.
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HUS |
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RELATING TO LANGUAGE ACCESS. Establishes and provides appropriations for a statewide language access resource center and multilingual website pilot project to be administered by the office of language access.
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HLT, FIN |
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RELATING TO DOMESTIC ABUSE. Authorizes the establishment of a Domestic Abuse Court Pilot Program. Appropriates funds. Effective July 1, 2013, and repeals on June 30, 2016.
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JUD, FIN |
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RELATING TO COMMUNITY CARE FOSTER FAMILY HOMES. Amends the minimum continuing education and minimum age requirements for primary and substitute caregivers caring for clients in community care foster family homes. Effective June 30, 2013, and repealed on June 30, 2016; provided that section 1 shall be repealed on July 1, 2014.
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HUS, CPC |
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PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF HAWAII RELATING TO RESIDENCY REQUIREMENTS FOR MEMBERS OF THE LEGISLATURE. Amends the state constitution to require candidates for the state senate or house of representatives to be a resident of the State for not less than five years and a resident of the legislative district from which the person is a candidate for not less than twelve consecutive months prior to the general election.
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JUD, FIN |
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RELATING TO FLUORIDATION. Requires the boards of water supply to fluoridate public water systems with 1,000 or more service connections. Requires DOH and the boards of water supply to submit a plan to the legislature to implement this Act.
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HLT, FIN |
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RELATING TO THE EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM. Requires the State and the counties to repay the pension accumulation fund over a twenty-year period for the total sum of moneys that were used by the State and the counties to fund retroactive cost items for HGEA and UPW contracts pursuant to Act 100, Session Laws of Hawaii 1999.
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LAB, FIN |
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RELATING TO WORKPLACE PRACTICES. Makes abusive conduct against a public employee a workplace safety and health violation.
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LAB, JUD, FIN |
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RELATING TO WRONGFUL IMPRISONMENT. Provides compensation and services to persons who can demonstrate they were wrongfully convicted of a crime and imprisoned.
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PBS, JUD, FIN |
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RELATING TO CRIMINAL PROCEDURE. Creates procedural and administrative requirements for law enforcement agencies for eyewitness identifications of suspects in criminal investigations. Grants a defendant the right to challenge any eyewitness identification to be used at trial in a pretrial evidentiary hearing. Takes effect 1/1/2014.
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PBS, JUD, FIN |
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PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE VI, SECTION 3, OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF HAWAII AUTHORIZING THE CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE STATE SUPREME COURT TO APPOINT RETIRED JUDGES TO SERVE AS EMERITUS JUDGES. Proposes a constitutional amendment authorizing the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court to appoint judges who have retired upon attaining the age of seventy years as emeritus judges, permitting the appointed judges to serve as temporary judges in courts no higher than the court level they reached prior to retirement and for terms not to exceed three months.
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JUD, FIN |
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RELATING TO THE SENIOR RESIDENCE AT PIIKOI, OAHU. Authorizes the director of finance to issue general obligation bonds for the construction of the Senior Residence at Piikoi, an affordable senior rental housing project on Oahu.
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HSG, FIN |
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RELATING TO HEALTH. Requires all food establishment inspections to be performed only by registered sanitarians or food and drug inspectors. Requires the department of health to post monthly on its website each food establishment inspection report that includes a violation of the sanitation rules established by the department; appropriates funds for at least ten new sanitarian positions; appropriates funds for the enhancement of the environmental health services division information management system.
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HLT, CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO PUBLIC SCHOOL LANDS. Establishes a three-year pilot program to generate revenue for the use of public school land. Specifies that the lieutenant governor, in consultation with the department of education, board of education, and other appropriate agencies, shall be the facilitator of the pilot program. Authorizes the lease of certain public school lands for public purposes, including but not limited to the development of workforce housing rental units, under specified conditions. Establishes the school facilities special fund within chapter 302A, HRS. Repeals the schools facilities special fund in chapter 171C, HRS. Requires the lieutenant governor to submit a report to the legislature. Makes an appropriation for the pilot program. Pilot program repeals 6/30/2016.
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EDN, WAL, FIN |
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RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. Establishes the Food Safety Task Force within the Department of Agriculture to study and recommend methods to prepare for compliance with the federal Food Safety Modernization Act, and food safety management practices within the State.
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AGR, FIN |
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RELATING TO PUBLIC LANDS. Provides for fair compensation when a withdrawal or taking of leased public land renders the land unusable for the lessees' original intended purpose.
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AGR/WAL, JUD, FIN |
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RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. Appropriates funds to the counties for drought mitigation purposes.
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AGR/WAL, FIN |
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RELATING TO TOURISM. Short form bill relating to tourism.
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TOU |
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RELATING TO TOURISM. Short form bill relating to tourism.
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TOU |
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RELATING TO TOURISM. Short form bill relating to tourism.
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TOU |
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RELATING TO TOURISM. Short form bill relating to tourism.
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TOU |
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RELATING TO TOURISM. Short form bill relating to tourism.
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TOU |
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RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES. Amends the Hawaii Revised Statutes relating to human services.
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HUS |
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RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES. Amends the Hawaii Revised Statutes relating to human services.
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HUS |
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RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES. Amends the Hawaii Revised Statutes relating to human services.
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HUS |
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RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES. Amends the Hawaii Revised Statutes relating to human services.
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HUS |
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RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES. Amends the Hawaii Revised Statutes relating to human services.
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HUS |
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RELATING TO SOCIAL SERVICES. Requires certain applicants for temporary assistance for needy families benefits to undergo drug testing.
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HUS, JUD, FIN |
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RELATING TO THE STATE MICROBE. Establishes and designates Flavobacterium a‘ki‘ a‘.in‘ viv.ens (akiainvivens) as the official microbe of the State.
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VMI |
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RELATING TO HOUSING. Short form bill relating to housing.
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HSG |
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RELATING TO HOUSING. Short form bill relating to housing.
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HSG |
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RELATING TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING. Short form bill relating to affordable housing.
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HSG |
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RELATING TO HOMELESSNESS. Short form bill relating to homelessness.
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HSG |
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RELATING TO HOMELESSNESS. Short form bill relating to homelessness.
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HSG |
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RELATING TO EDUCATION. Appropriates funds to repair the roof of the Farrington High School auditorium.
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EDN, FIN |
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RELATING TO INFORMED VOTING. Requires the publication of information on the proposed constitutional or proposed charter amendments that appear on an election ballot.
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JUD, FIN |
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RELATING TO SCHOOL SAFETY. Requires, by July 1, 2015, the department of education to install classroom doors that lock and unlock under certain circumstances. Allows school principals or their designees to lock classroom doors when doing so is necessary to ensure safety.
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EDN |
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RELATING TO HEAD INJURIES. Amends Act 197, Session Laws of Hawaii 2012, to expand the concussion education program to include all head injuries, extend the head injury education program to certain public and private school students, and provide immunity to those who comply with program protocols.
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EDN, HLT, FIN |
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RELATING TO THE ELDERLY. Creates offense of financial exploitation of an elder and provides enhanced penalties. Requires financial institutions to report suspected financial abuse of an elder to the appropriate police department and allows suspected financial abuse to be reported to the Department of Human Services. Requires the Department of Human Services to share records with police department or office of the prosecuting attorney.
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HUS, JUD, FIN |
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RELATING TO LONG-TERM CARE INSURANCE. Provides tax credit to resident taxpayers for long-term care insurance premiums at 10% of the amount of the insurance premium paid. Prohibits a medical expense deduction for long-term care insurance cost if long-term care tax credit is claimed.
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CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO FAMILY LEAVE. Amends chapter 398, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to provide additional support to women and family caregivers by expanding the law to apply to the provision of long-term care services to family members with a physical, sensory, cognitive or self-care disability.
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LAB, HLT |
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RELATING TO HUMAN TRAFFICKING. Amends the uses of the trauma system special fund and the community health centers special fund to include funding for the treatment of human trafficking victims.
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HLT, JUD, FIN |
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RELATING TO BREASTFEEDING. Amends section 612-6, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to expand the exemption from jury service to include breastfeeding mothers.
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JUD |
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RELATING TO A TREATMENT COURT FOR VETERANS AND ACTIVE DUTY SERVICE MEMBERS. Establishes the Temporary Hawaii Veterans and Active Duty Military Treatment Court within the First Judicial Circuit Court. Appropriates funds.
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VMI, JUD, FIN |
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RELATING TO CRITICAL ACCESS AND RURAL HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS. Appropriates funds to subsidize critical access and rural health care providers.
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HLT, FIN |
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RELATING TO DEPOSITS SUBMITTED TO THE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION. Implements a streamlined process by which a taxpayer may make a cash deposit with the department of taxation, which may be used by the department to pay any current or anticipated future tax liability imposed under law.
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FIN |
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RELATING TO RURAL PRIMARY HEALTH CARE TRAINING. Appropriates funds to support and expand the family medicine residency program of the University of Hawaii John A. Burns school of medicine to provide rural primary health care services and develop a statewide rural primary health care training program.
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HED, FIN |
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RELATING TO WORKERS' COMPENSATION LAW. Amends the definition of "employment" under workers' compensation law to exclude service performed by an individual in the employ of the individual's spouse from mandated coverage.
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LAB, CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO VETERAN-OWNED BUSINESSES. Establishes the goal that at least three per cent of the State's annual purchasing expenditures be awarded to veteran-owned businesses. Creates government contract preferences for veteran-owned businesses. Requires the comptroller to prepare a report to the legislature concerning the progress of the Act.
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VMI, EDB, FIN |
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RELATING TO FUNDING. Creates a state crowdfunding website, which allows members of the public to donate their own money toward the funding of specific public capital improvement projects and monitor the progress of those projects as they near completion.
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FIN |
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RELATING TO ABSENTEE VOTING. Requires all poll books to accurately reflect whether absentee voters have submitted ballots before election day.
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JUD, FIN |
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RELATING TO ELECTIONS. Expands the responsibilities of the elections commission to more closely monitor the chief election officer. Clarifies the duties of the chief election officer in monitoring elections.
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JUD |
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RELATING TO THE PUBLIC LAND DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION. Repeals chapter 171C, HRS, relating to the public land development corporation.
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RELATING TO AUDITING THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. Mandates a periodic financial and management audit of the administration of the department of education.
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EDN, LMG, FIN |
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RELATING TO THE LEGISLATURE. Requires the office of the legislative analyst to create fiscal impact statements for certain bills that have a fiscal impact. Makes an appropriation to the office of the legislative analyst.
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FIN |
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RELATING TO INFORMATION. Mandates the creation and maintenance of periodically updated information about state finances and capital improvement projects.
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FIN |
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RELATING TO ELECTIONS. Provides a process for voter registration on election day at polling places.
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JUD |
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RELATING TO HAWAII GOOD AGRICULTURAL PRACTICES. Establishes the Hawaii good agricultural practices program. Makes an appropriation. Effective July 1, 2013.
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RELATING TO PROFESSIONAL AND VOCATIONAL LICENSING. Clarifies that licensing authorities shall consider relevant education, training, or service completed by service members. Specifies which service members are subject to these provisions. Permits licensure by endorsement or licensure by reciprocity in certain situations for service members. Establishes procedures for service members to receive a license by endorsement or license by reciprocity. Permits issuance of a temporary license if certain requirements are met. Requires the licensing authority to expedite consideration of the application and issuance of a license by endorsement, license by reciprocity, or temporary license to a qualified service member.
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VMI, CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO PROCUREMENT. Requires solicitations for procurement of construction to require offerors to list subcontractors if the value of the contract is in excess of $500,000 and the work to be performed by the subcontractor is in excess of $25,000. Allows substitution of subcontractors if 75% of savings resulting from the substitution are refunded to the purchasing agency.
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CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO SMOKING. Prohibits smoking on all public beaches.
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WAL/OMH, JUD |
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RELATING TO TAXATION. Requires professional architects, engineers, land surveyors, and landscape architects to present a tax clearance certificate to licensing agency prior to issuance or renewal of the license.
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CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO EDUCATION. Directs the University of Hawaii at Hilo College of Continuing Education and Community Service to establish a three-year pilot project that implements a comprehensive assessment program for certain students in grades seven, eight, and nine. Requires a study on current programs used to enhance educational delivery. Appropriation. Effective July 1, 2013.
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RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII. Authorizes the issuance of GO bonds to retire the debt incurred by the previous issuance of revenue bonds to fund the UH Manoa Campus Center renovation and addition project.
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HED, FIN |
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RELATING TO THE GENERAL EXCISE TAX. Narrows the scope of gross proceeds to which the general excise tax exemption for certain scientific contracts with the United States applies.
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EDB, CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO PUBLIC AGENCY MEETINGS. Requires public notices to provide a contact person, including contact information, to whom requests for accommodations for individuals with disabilities may be made. Requires notices that are posted electronically to conform to the applicable provisions under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.
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HUS, JUD, FIN |
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RELATING TO STATE HOLIDAYS. Eliminates election day as a state holiday if the office of elections establishes an election by mail process for all registered voters of the State.
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JUD, FIN |
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RELATING TO THE HAWAII TOURISM AUTHORITY. Authorizes the Hawaii Tourism Authority to make grants through an agreement for the development of visitor industry products and programs, rather than through a contract.
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TOU, FIN |
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RELATING TO THE GENERAL EXCISE TAX. Repeals the general excise tax exemption on income derived by fraternal benefit, religious, charitable, scientific, and educational nonprofit organizations from fees for convention, conference, or trade show exhibits or display spaces. Specifies that representatives authorized or employed by an unlicensed seller through the use of exhibit or display space at a conference, convention, or trade show is subject to the general excise tax.
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RELATING TO TAXATION. Makes permanent the exemption from general excise taxes for amounts received by hotel operators and suboperators from hotel owners and timeshare associations, and in the case of suboperators, amounts received from operators, that were disbursed by the operator and suboperator for employee costs. Effective July 1, 2013.
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TOU, FIN |
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RELATING TO EMERGENCY VEHICLES. Allows emergency vehicles discretion to use either authorized audible or visual signals when responding to an emergency. Requires vehicles to yield to emergency vehicles using either an audible or visual signal.
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TRN, JUD |
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RELATING TO THE MOTOR VEHICLE RENTAL INDUSTRY. Requires lessors of rental vehicles to provide lessees with warnings reminding the lessees not to leave valuables in rented vehicles. Requires lessors to provide rental vehicle theft statistics to the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs.
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RELATING TO MOPEDS. Requires annual moped inspections to start on January 1, 2014. Appropriates funds to implement county safety inspections for mopeds on all counties. Effective July 1, 2013.
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RELATING TO THE ISSUANCE OF SPECIAL PURPOSE REVENUE BONDS TO ASSIST A SEAWATER AIR CONDITIONING PROJECT IN WAIKIKI. Authorizes the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds of up to $200,000,000, for Kaiuli Energy LLC for the planning, design, and construction of its seawater air conditioning district cooling system in and around Waikiki, Oahu. Effective July 1, 2013.
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EEP/EDB, FIN |
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RELATING TO CONTRACTORS. Allows the contractors license board to accept in lieu of a specific experience requirement for licensure, equivalent knowledge, training, or experience, including self-employed or unlicensed experience, if the board investigates and makes a detailed written finding to that effect and the finding is made available for public inspection.
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RELATING TO CHILD SUPPORT. Requires the parents of a minor mother or minor father to contribute to the support of their grandchild.
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HUS, JUD |
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RELATING TO ELECTIONS. Requires any candidate for state or county office to have resided within the district of the office sought for at least 6 months prior to the availability of nomination papers. Applies to candidates for elections held after 07/01/14.
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JUD, FIN |
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RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH. Authorizes administrative review of certain actions by DOH agents and inspectors that adversely affect licenses and certifications issued by DOH.
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HLT, CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO GAMBLING OFFENSES. Amends definitions in the gambling laws to address gambling activities offered incident to the purchase of goods or services.
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JUD, FIN |
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RELATING TO CORRECTIONS. Authorizes DPS to adopt rules for submitting eligible claims for inmate health care to medicaid. Authorizes DPS to implement automated systems for billing, payment, and recovery of overpayments.
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RELATING TO FIRE PROTECTION. Authorizes the county fire chiefs to require that various types of construction comply with the fire code.
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RELATING TO ENERGY. Prohibits utilities from charging consumers a fee for interconnection studies. Requires approval of interconnection for photovoltaic systems with rated output of ten or fewer kilowatts, after necessary reviews or studies, if the total existing or planned cumulative photovolatic kilowatt output is at or below seventy-five per cent of the circuit's daily minimum load.
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RELATING TO CHARTER SCHOOLS. Requires the board of education, in consultation with the department of education and the state public charter school commission, to develop a formula to determine the amount of facilities funding for charter schools. Requires that, beginning with fiscal year 2014-2015, the general fund facilities funding request for charter schools shall be based on this formula.
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RELATING TO HEALTH. Beginning 7/1/14, requires genetically engineered food products that are sold, offered for sale, or distributed in this State to be labeled as such, with certain exceptions. Defines "genetically engineered food product." Establishes penalties for violations.
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RELATING TO HEALTH. Prohibits genetically engineered food products from being sold or distributed in the State, beginning 1/1/14.
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RELATING TO CHILDHOOD OBESITY. Restricts the sale of sweetened beverages at elementary, middle, or intermediate schools beginning 1/1/2014.
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RELATING TO HEALTH. Prohibits the manufacture, sale, or distribution of child care products and toys for young children that contain bisphenol-A or phthalates beginning 1/1/2014. Requires manufacturers to choose safe alternatives. Prohibits the use of packages and packaging containing lead, cadmium, mercury, and hexavalent chromium beginning 1/1/2014. Prohibits the Hawaii health systems corporation from purchasing and using vinyl intravenous solution bags and vinyl tubing beginning 1/1/2014.
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RELATING TO PUBLIC LAND. Repeals chapter 171C, HRS, relating to the PLDC, and the provisions of Act 282, SLH 2012.
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RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. Appropriates funds from the agricultural development and food security special fund to the DOA for the U.S. Pacific Basin Agricultural Research Center to research and develop methods for the prevention and treatment of coffee berry borer infestations. Provides a grant-in-aid from the agricultural development and food security special fund for the coffee berry borer task force for control of the coffee berry borer and mitigation of damage.
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RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. Appropriates funds as a grant-in-aid to the counties of Hawaii and Maui to facilitate the process of identifying and mapping of potential important agriculture land as required by section 205-47, HRS.
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AGR, FIN |
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RELATING TO COFFEE. Increases the minimum percentage requirement for Hawaii origin coffee blends to starting 01/01/2014 and to starting 01/01/2016.
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RELATING TO THE ENVIRONMENT. Requires certain businesses in the State to collect a 10-cent fee for each single-use checkout bag provided to customers. Allows businesses to retain ten per cent of the fees, subject to income and general excise taxes, for the first year. Directs use of fee revenues, including funding programs to mitigate the effects of single-use checkout bags. Establishes provisions relating to violations, injunctive and other relief, county ordinances, business reporting, and audit authority. Requires annual report to the legislature. Appropriates funds.
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RELATING TO THE ENVIRONMENT. Requires certain businesses in the State to collect a 10-cent fee for each single-use checkout bag provided to customers. Allows businesses to retain ten per cent of the fees, subject to income and general excise taxes, for the first year. Directs use of fee revenues to fund programs to mitigate the effects of single-use checkout bags. Establishes provisions relating to violations, injunctive and other relief, county ordinances, business reporting, and audit authority. Requires annual report to the legislature. Appropriates funds.
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EEP, CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO VIDEOCONFERENCING. Requires both chambers of the legislature to implement rules to permit residents to present testimony through audiovisual technology. Appropriates funds to establish audiovisual systems throughout the State.
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LMG, JUD, FIN |
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RELATING TO OCEAN RESOURCES. Authorizes administrative inspections within the West Hawaii regional fishery management area. Requires the DLNR to create an administrative search scheme to monitor compliance with aquatic resources management regulation.
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OMH, JUD, FIN |
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RELATING TO COMPREHENSIVE PUBLIC FUNDING FOR ELECTIONS. Changes funding formula for the comprehensive public funding pilot project to average the amount of money used by winning candidates in the last two election cycles for all county district races. Limits the number of candidates in the pilot program to twenty-five per election cycle.
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JUD, FIN |
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RELATING TO STATE GOVERNMENT. Requires the governor, legislature including the joint legislative access committee, and judiciary to ensure public access to information, services, and proceedings of the executive, legislative, and judicial branches, respectively. Authorizes the governor to convene a fair access commission to review public access issues for the neighbor islands and rural Oahu.
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LMG, JUD, FIN |
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RELATING TO EMERGENCY MEDICAL CARE. Appropriates funds to increase the on-call availability of emergency medical services and ambulance services in Ewa Beach. Effective 7/1/13.
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HLT, FIN |
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RELATING TO EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES. Appropriates funds to demolish the Ewa Beach fire station and construct a LEED certified EMS facility at the same location.
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RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION. Short form bill relating to transportation.
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TRN |
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RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION. Short form bill relating to transportation.
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TRN |
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RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION. Short form bill relating to transportation.
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TRN |
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RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION. Short form bill relating to transportation.
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TRN |
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RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION. Short form bill relating to transportation.
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TRN |
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RELATING TO FIRE SAFETY. Establishes a residential kitchen fire task force to develop plans to address the dangers of residential kitchen fires. Report to the 2014 legislature.
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RELATING TO MIXED MARTIAL ARTS. Repeals the permit requirement that an ambulance with paramedics be present at a mixed martial arts event.
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RELATING TO CLASSROOM SIZE. Creates a classroom size working group aimed at determining whether reductions in classroom sizes and student-to-teacher ratios allow for greater academic performance. Effective July 1, 2013.
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RELATING TO THE CONTRACTORS LICENSE BOARD. Increases the number of noncontractors in the contractors license board from 3 to 8. Reduces the number of contractors from 10 to 5. Ensures the presence of noncontractor members from the public with 3 members. Adds age, residence, domicile, and other requirements for board members. Gives priority to protection of the public over the board's licensing, regulatory, and disciplinary functions.
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RELATING TO MAMMOGRAPHY REPORTING. Beginning January 1, 2014, requires health care facilities performing mammography exams to provide to patients with dense breast tissue, a mammography report and notification about associated cancer risks and supplemental screening benefits.
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RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLE TIRES. Requires tire importers to accept, acquire, or purchase used tires in an annual amount that is not less than ninety-five percent of the number of new tires sold annually by the importer. Requires importers to keep records and report annually to the department of health.
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RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLE TIRES. Reestablishes the $1 motor vehicle tire surcharge beginning 10/1/2013 to assist the department of health in its permitting, monitoring, and enforcement activities regarding used tire management, collection, recycling, and disposal facilities.
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RELATING TO FOOD. Requires businesses with customer card programs to notify customers in the event of a class I food, product and merchandise recall; makes a violation an unfair or deceptive act or practice.
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RELATING TO THE COLORECTAL CANCER SCREENING PILOT PROGRAM. Establishes a two-year Hawaii colorectal cancer screening pilot program using the Hawaii comprehensive breast and cervical cancer control program as a model. Appropriates funds for the pilot program. Repeals on June 30, 2015.
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RELATING TO BEACH NOURISHMENT. Appropriates funds for the environmental impact statement associated with the planned beach nourishment project at Kaanapali beach on the island of Maui; provided that no funds shall be expended unless matched dollar-for-dollar with private funds.
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RELATING TO EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES. Appropriates funds out of the emergency medical services special fund to establish and fund a twenty-four-hour, seven-days-a-week, special emergency medical response vehicle unit based in the Maalaea area on Maui, including acquisition of a vehicle, equipment, and personnel costs, that is appropriately staffed at all times by a paramedic trained in advanced life support and equipped with all appropriate life-saving, emergency response equipment.
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RELATING TO GEOTHERMAL RESOURCES. Authorizes BLNR to issue exploration permits for geothermal resources and minerals on reserved lands. Authorizes BLNR to issue conservation district geothermal resource development permits. Authorizes counties to issue agricultural, rural, and urban district geothermal resource development permits.
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RELATING TO TAXATION. Removes limitations on claims for itemized tax deductions for wagering losses that are allowable deductions under the Internal Revenue Code. Effective July 1, 2013, repeals January 1, 2016.
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RELATING TO MANDATORY REPORTING. Requires financial institutions to report suspected financial abuse of an elder to an appropriate police department and allows reporting to the Department of Human Services. Mandates information sharing with the police or prosecutor.
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RELATING TO CARE HOMES. Requires all operators of adult foster homes, assisted living facilities, expanded adult residential care homes, and community care foster family homes to hold a sufficient amount of liability insurance. Expands the definition of adult residential care home to include any facility that provides accommodations to adults with intellectual disabilities.
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RELATING TO TAXATION. Reduces the tax liability for low-income persons by creating a tax credit that will reduce a person's income tax to zero if their federal adjusted gross income falls below federal poverty guidelines. Reduces a person's income tax liability by fifty per cent if the person's federal adjusted gross income falls between one hundred and one hundred twenty-five per cent of federal poverty guidelines.
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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.
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RELATING TO TAXATION. Deems transfers of controlling interest in entities holding interests in real property within the State subject to the conveyance tax. Takes effect 1/1/2014.
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RELATING TO THE SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM. Appropriates funds to the Department of Human Services to respond to the United States Department of Agriculture's mandate to amend supplemental nutrition assistance program eligibility requirements. Effective July 1, 2013.
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RELATING TO THE HOMELESS. Clarifies the scope of the state plan that the Hawaii interagency council on homelessness is required to formulate to address homelessness.
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RELATING TO INCOME TAX. Increases from $5 to $10 the amount of authorized income tax check-off that may be designated payable from an individual's state income tax refund to certain special funds or accounts. Permits designation of check-off in the amount of $5 or $10 to the special funds or accounts specified.
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RELATING TO THE HOMELESS. Establishes on a temporary basis the return-to-home program to assist homeless individuals participating in the program to return to their home states if there is a support network available to receive them. Appropriates funds. Effective July 1, 2013.
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RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES. Allows the department of human services to draw from other funds appropriated to the department of human services in the event the general assistance appropriation is insufficient to meet General Assistance benefits payments. Appropriates moneys to maintain funding levels of programs for public welfare. Creates an unspecified amount of positions under the department of human services for the supplemental nutrition assistance program. Requires financial institutions to report suspected financial abuse of an elder to appropriate law enforcement. Authorizes the department of human services to place on its public website information and printable posters on the National Human Trafficking Resource Center hotline. Creates a task force on human trafficking and specifies members. Appropriates funds to increase payments for primary care physician services provided to children and pregnant women covered under the children's health insurance program. Requires the department of human services to report to the legislature baseline medicaid and additional funds needed for fiscal years 2014-2015 and 2015-2016. Requires the department of human services to seek an appropriation in an amount equal to at least the amount appropriated in 2013-2014 for additional payments for physician services during the 2014-2016 fiscal biennium. Allows for a fair and equitable reimbursement system for all clients under the medicaid program for community based caregiver services. Allows for a fair and equitable referral system for clients transferring from hospitals to community-based care homes.
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RELATING TO MEDICAID. Requires medicaid home and community-based waiver programs to allow family members hired and directed by the waiver program individual to provide specific approved in-home care services to the individual. Effective July 1, 2013.
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RELATING TO MEDICAL AMNESTY. Establishes limited immunity for individuals who seek medical assistance for victims of drug-related overdoses.
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PBS, HLT, JUD |
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RELATING TO YOUTH AND FAMILY PROGRAMS. Establishes the interagency coordinating body for youth and family programs within the department of human services.
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RELATING TO YOUTH. Requires the office of youth services to coordinate a two-year safe places for youth pilot program, which will coordinate a network of safe places where youth can access safety and obtain advice, guidance, programs, and services. Establishes the position of safe places for youth program coordinator. Appropriates funds for the coordinator position and residential options for the pilot program.
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RELATING TO TOXIC PRODUCTS. Prohibits the manufacture, sale, or distribution of drink and food containers for young children containing bisphenol A or phthalates. Requires manufacturers to use the least toxic alternatives.
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RELATING TO EDUCATION. Requires the Department of Education, charter school governing boards, and private schools to establish, maintain, monitor, and enforce anti-bullying, anti-cyberbullying, and anti-harassment policies and procedures.
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RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES. Requires child care facilities, family child care homes, group child care centers, group child care homes, and infant and toddler child care centers that care for children one year of age or younger to develop, maintain, and implement safe sleep policies to prevent sudden unexpected infant deaths and sudden infant death syndrome. Makes certain requirements of operators.
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RELATING TO HEALTH. Specifies additional elements of Hawaii's existing sexuality health education law and its implementation. Requires the department of education to provide certain types of information to the public and to parents. Allows parents to opt out of the department of education's sexuality health education.
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RELATING TO CHILD PROTECTION. Establishes a preference for allowing a child who has been or is at risk of being abused to remain in a safe family home, and requiring the alleged perpetrator of the abuse to leave the home pursuant to section 709-906, HRS, in certain cases of reported or suspected child abuse or neglect. Requires the abused child and the alleged perpetrator of the abuse to receive treatment and services as part of the service plan to return a child in foster care back to the family home. Effective July 1, 2013.
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RELATING TO SOCIAL SERVICES. Appropriates funds for the social services programs formerly funded under the temporary assistance for needy families program.
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RELATING TO PUBLIC HOUSING. Permits clotheslines in state and federal public housing projects.
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RELATING TO SPOUSAL SUPPORT. Authorizes courts to consider evidence of history of domestic violence or domestic abuse between the parties when issuing spousal support orders.
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RELATING TO WARNING SIGNS. Requires premises licensed under chapter 281, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to have a sign posted on or about the premises, including but not limited to the women's restroom, that provides customers with a warning of the risks of birth defects and fetal alcohol spectrum disorders for women drinking alcohol during pregnancy.
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RELATING TO PARENTAL RIGHTS. Prohibits family courts from awarding a person custody of or visitation with a child if the person has been convicted of rape or sexual assault and the child was conceived as a result of that violation. Authorizes the family courts to terminate parental rights, with respect to a child, of a natural father who has been convicted of rape or sexual assault and the child was conceived as a result of the rape or sexual assault.
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RELATING TO HEALTH. Requires employers to provide a minimum amount of paid sick and safe leave to employees to care for themselves or a family member who is ill, needs medical care, or is a victim of domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking. Effective 7/1/13.
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LAB, JUD, FIN |
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RELATING TO CANCER. Appropriates funds for the comprehensive breast and cervical cancer control program.
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HLT, FIN |
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RELATING TO ANIMALS. Creates registry of felony animal abusers and authorizes public access to the registry. Establishes the violation of registration requirements as a class C felony. Effective 1/1/2014.
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RELATING TO BREASTFEEDING IN THE WORKPLACE. Requires certain employers to provide reasonable time and a clean location for breastfeeding employees to express breast milk in privacy. Requires covered employers to post a notice. Establishes a civil fine.
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RELATING TO JURY DUTY. Exempts breastfeeding mothers from jury duty.
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RELATING TO HOSPITAL EMERGENCY COMPASSIONATE CARE FOR SEXUAL ASSAULT VICTIMS. Establishes a new part in chapter 321 to ensure that victims of sexual assault are provided with medically and factually unbiased information about and access to emergency contraception when receiving emergency medical care at Hawaii's hospitals for sexual assaults.
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RELATING TO CERTIFICATES OF BIRTH. Requires the DOH to establish a new certificate of birth for a person who provides a written request that DOH issue a new certificate of birth with a gender designation that differs from the gender on the original certificate of birth, a notarized statement from a licensed treating or evaluating physician, and official copy of name change if requesting a name change on the certificate of birth.
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HLT, JUD, FIN |
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RELATING TO LABOR. Establishes rights for domestic workers. Directs DLIR to report on feasibility of allowing domestic workers to organize for the purposes of collective bargaining.
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RELATING TO WAIPIO VALLEY. Establishes the Waipio valley advisory commission to advise DLNR on the development of a long term plan for ensuring the proper stewardship and maintenance of Waipio valley. Requires DLNR to conduct a flood study for Waipio valley. Appropriation. Effective 7/1/2013.
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RELATING TO THE COUNTIES. Authorizes each county to establish a land management advisory committee. Requires DLNR to receive approval from the appropriate land management advisory committee prior to adopting any county specific rule that affects the use or management of land or nearshore waters within the county.
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RELATING TO ZIPLINES. Establishes a zipline oversight board within DCCA. Creates a special fund.
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EDB, CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO THE HAWAII HEALTH SYSTEMS CORPORATION. Appropriates $2,800,000 to the Hawaii health systems corporation to implement and sustain its primary care training program at the Hilo medical center.
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HLT, FIN |
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RELATING TO THE UNIFORM MEDIATION ACT. Adopts the Uniform Mediation Act, which provides basic procedural and confidentiality rules for mediations. Provides for confidentiality, disclosure and evidentiary rules, and guidelines for mediators.
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RELATING TO THE AGREEMENT AMONG THE STATES TO ELECT THE PRESIDENT BY NATIONAL POPULAR VOTE. Repeals chapter 14D, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to remove Hawaii from the interstate compact to determine the winner of a presidential election by national popular vote.
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PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO THE HAWAII STATE CONSTITUTION TO REQUIRE DISCLOSURE OF THE NAMES OF JUDICIAL NOMINEES. Amends the Constitution of the State of Hawaii to require the judicial selection commission to publicly disclose its list of nominees for appointment to the office of the chief justice, supreme court, intermediate appellate court, circuit courts, or district courts concurrently with its presentation of that list to the governor or the chief justice.
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RELATING TO CULTURE AND ARTS. Appropriates funds as a grant pursuant to chapter 42F, Hawaii Revised Statutes, for the Ola Ka Ilima Artspace project. Effective July 1, 2013.
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FIN |
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RELATING TO TIME SHARES. Limits the financial obligation disclosure of the purchaser in any time sharing plan to the public to the obligation to pay the initial price in the purchase agreement and a list of any additional charges. Clarifies that promotional devices or instruments need not be provided prior to making a sales presentation. Repeals the prohibition on offering tourist activities, including activities at less than their actual cost, to entice potential purchasers.
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CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO BUREAU OF CONVEYANCES. Repeals the sunset provision of section 2 in Act 120, Session Laws of Hawaii 2009, relating to deregistering land.
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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 time share properties located within the State.
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CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO OFFERS IN COMPROMISE. Requires offers in compromise submitted to the Department of Taxation to be accompanied by certain payments.
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RELATING TO FIREARMS. Repeals exemption of National Rifle Association certified firearms instructors from absolute liability for injury or damage caused by discharge of their firearms during the course of providing firearms training at a firing range to persons seeking to acquire a firearms permit.
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PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE III, SECTION 15, OF THE HAWAII STATE CONSTITUTION TO ALLOW ELECTRONIC COPIES, AS AN ALTERNATIVE TO PRINTED COPIES, OF A BILL TO BE MADE AVAILABLE FOR MEMBERS OF A HOUSE IN WHICH THE BILL IS BEING VOTED UPON FOR THIRD OR FINAL READING IN FULFILLMENT OF THE FORTY-EIGHT HOUR AVAILABILITY REQUIREMENT. Allows electronic copies, as an alternative to printed copies, of a bill to be made available for members of a house in which the bill is being voted upon for third or final reading in fulfillment of the 48-hour availability requirement.
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RELATING TO THE LEGISLATIVE BROADCAST PROGRAM. Establishes that criteria for selecting proceedings to be broadcast by the legislative broadcast program shall be related to matters of public interest.
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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.
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RELATING TO TAXATION. Excepts charitable deductions taken under Section 170 of the Internal Revenue Code from the temporary limit on the amount of itemized deductions claimable by certain taxpayers.
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MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR COLLECTIVE BARGAINING COST ITEMS. Provides fund appropriations and authorizations for Unit 13 collective bargaining cost items and their excluded counterparts for fiscal biennium 2013-2015, including Hawaii employer-union health benefits trust fund costs negotiated between the State and the collective bargaining unit representative. Effective July 1, 2013.
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MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR COLLECTIVE BARGAINING COST ITEMS. Provides fund appropriations and authorizations for Unit 8 collective bargaining cost items and their excluded counterparts for fiscal biennium 2013-2015, including Hawaii employer-union health benefits trust fund costs negotiated between the State and the collective bargaining unit representative. Effective July 1, 2013.
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MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR COLLECTIVE BARGAINING COST ITEMS. Provides fund appropriations and authorizations for Unit 9 collective bargaining cost items and their excluded counterparts for fiscal biennium 2013-2015, including Hawaii employer-union health benefits trust fund costs negotiated between the State and the collective bargaining unit representative. Effective July 1, 2013.
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MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR COLLECTIVE BARGAINING COST ITEMS. Provides fund appropriations and authorizations for Unit 6 collective bargaining cost items and their excluded counterparts for fiscal biennium 2013-2015, including Hawaii employer-union health benefits trust fund costs negotiated between the State and the collective bargaining unit representative. Effective July 1, 2013.
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LAB, FIN |
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RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYEES. Establishes the office of talent management within DHRD to design and facilitate state initiatives in the areas of talent administration, professional development, performance management, and leadership enterprise. Authorizes the talent management administrator to receive from any state agency, such assistance, services, facilities, and data the administrator deems necessary to carry out the duties of the office.
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RELATING TO WORKERS' COMPENSATION. Requires that a workers' compensation impartial exam be conducted by a doctor whose specialty is appropriate for the injury to be examined.
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RELATING TO WORKERS' COMPENSATION. Requires independent medical examinations and permanent impairment rating examinations for workers' compensation claims to be performed by physicians mutually agreed upon by employers and employees or appointed by the director of DLNR. Appropriates funds and positions for the DLNR disability compensation division to assist in workers' compensation claims.
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RELATING TO WORKERS' COMPENSATION. Amends the DLIR director's rulemaking authority law by making a technical amendment.
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LAB |
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RELATING TO LABOR. Makes a technical amendment to the public sector collective bargaining law on payroll deductions.
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LAB |
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RELATING TO THE HAWAII EMPLOYER-UNION HEALTH BENEFITS TRUST FUND. Makes a technical amendment to the Hawaii employer-union health benefits trust fund's health benefits plan carrier law.
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LAB |
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RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLE TIRES. Imposes a surcharge of $1 per tire on any tire retailer or wholesaler who installs a replacement tire in the State after September 30, 2013.
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TRN, HLT, FIN |
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RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. Extends the limited liability protections against trespasser lawsuits to qualifying owners of four or less acres of agricultural land.
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AGR, JUD |
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RELATING TO CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS. Prohibits a lobbyist; principal, client, or agent of lobbyist; and a political action committee on which the lobbyist sits, that lobbies the legislature from making a contribution to a member of the legislature, the governor, and lieutenant governor while the legislature is in session.
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JUD, FIN |
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RELATING TO ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION. Short form bill relating to environmental protection.
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EEP |
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RELATING TO ENERGY. Short form bill relating to energy.
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EEP |
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RELATING TO ENERGY. Short form bill relating to energy.
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EEP |
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RELATING TO ENERGY EFFICIENCY. Requires new televisions manufactured on or after July 1, 2014, with viewable screen area of 3,000 square inches or less and sold in the State to meet ENERGY STAR efficiency specifications.
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EEP, CPC |
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RELATING TO LIQUEFIED NATURAL GAS. Requires utilities importing natural gas to file annual liquefied natural gas reports with the PUC. Requires the PUC to open an investigative docket to examine the risks and benefits of liquefied natural gas.
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EEP, CPC |
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RELATING TO THE CODE OF ETHICS. Makes the financial disclosure statements of members of state boards and commissions holding official authority over permitting or licensing of land use related matters, water use related matters, or the regulation of public utilities public documents and available for public inspection and duplication.
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JUD |
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RELATING TO HYDROGEN FUELING STATIONS. Requires DBEDT to establish a hydrogen fueling station demonstration project in the counties.
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RELATING TO FOSSIL FUELS. Amends section 243-3.5, HRS, to levy the environmental response, energy, and food security tax on liquid or gaseous fossil fuels. Repeals 6/30/2015.
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EEP, FIN |
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RELATING TO ELECTION FRAUDS. Deems any person who provides false information regarding the details of voting guilty of an election fraud.
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JUD |
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RELATING TO RENEWABLE ENERGY. Exempts landlords and lessors who install renewable energy systems to their property from the definition of "public utility".
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EEP, CPC |
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RELATING TO PUBLIC LAND. Repeals the Public Land Development Corporation. Transfers certain assets to the Department of Land and Natural Resources.
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RELATING TO MARIJUANA. Decriminalizes and establishes civil adjudicatory proceedings for the possession of one ounce or less of marijuana.
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PBS, JUD |
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RELATING TO FAMILY LEAVE. Permits an employee to use family leave time to care for a sibling. Defines "sibling". Effective July 1, 2013.
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LAB, JUD, FIN |
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RELATING TO ACT 326, SESSION LAWS OF HAWAII 2012, REPORTING REQUIREMENTS. Requires any operator of a transient accommodation to furnish "relevant information" concerning the operator. Modifies the duties of nongovernment entities regarding "relevant information" pertaining to operators of transient accommodations.
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RELATING TO RANDOM DRUG TESTING. Requires the Department of Human Services to study and report to the Legislature on the costs and benefits of instituting random drug testing for recipients of public assistance program benefits. Effective July 1, 2013.
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HUS, FIN |
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RELATING TO THE STATE FOUNDATION ON CULTURE AND ARTS. Appropriations funds to DAGS for the state foundation on culture and the arts.
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VMI, FIN |
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RELATING TO CLIMATE CHANGE. Requires the Lieutenant Governor to convene and chair a climate change roundtable.
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EEP, FIN |
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RELATING TO NET ENERGY METERING. Allows an eligible customer-generator in a net energy metering agreement to donate credits for excess electricity that remain unused after each twelve-month reconciliation period to any charitable organization (as defined in section 467B-1, Hawaii Revised Statutes).
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EEP, CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO CYBERSECURITY. Establishes a statewide cybersecurity council to identify and assess critical computer infrastructure, identify cybersecurity "best practices", recommend incentives for voluntary adoption such "best practices", evaluate the efficacy of such practices, and report annually to the legislature.
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RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII. Requires the UOH to offer online courses sufficient to allow a student to obtain an undergraduate or graduate degree entirely online.
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HED, FIN |
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RELATING TO NAMES. Offers persons the option of posting notices of a name change on an internet website maintained by the lieutenant governor. Appropriates funds for the lieutenant governor, with the assistance of the chief information officer, to develop and maintain the website.
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JUD, FIN |
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RELATING TO EVIDENCE. Makes permanent the limited news media privilege against the compelled disclosure of sources and unpublished information.
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JUD |
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RELATING TO GOVERNMENT TRANSPARENCY. Requires all items to be voted on in a public meeting to be posted online on a government website at least seventy-two hours prior to the vote.
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JUD |
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RELATING TO TAXATION. Establishes a tax exemption for certain businesses that relocate their corporate or regional headquarters to Hawaii.
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EDB, FIN |
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RELATING TO JOB CREATION. Provides for a job creation income tax credit for each new full time employee hired after 04/30/2013 and before 05/01/2014.
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EDB, FIN |
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RELATING TO MOTION PICTURES, DIGITAL MEDIA, AND FILM PRODUCTION. Extends the repeal date of Act 88, SLH 2006, from 01/01/2016, to 01/01/2021. Extends tax credits for qualified film production costs incurred before 01/01/2021.
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EDB, FIN |
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RELATING TO TAXATION. Provides income tax credit (50% of qualified wages for first 6 months) for taxpayer who hires a person 65 years of age or older.
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FIN |
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RELATING TO STARLIGHT RESERVE. Extends termination date of temporary advisory committee relating to the statewide starlight reserve strategy from June 30, 2013, to June 30, 2015. Effective June 29, 2013.
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EDB, FIN |
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RELATING TO THE NATURAL ENERGY LABORATORY OF HAWAII AUTHORITY. Designates the chairperson of BLNR as an ex officio, nonvoting member of the board of directors of NELHA. Reduces the number of board members from 13 to 9. Eliminates one tenant position, a member of the board of the Hawaii strategic development corporation, and the secretary of the research advisory committee from the board. Limits board membership for tenant members to 8 consecutive years. Effective 07/01/13.
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EDB, CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO THE NATURAL ENERGY LABORATORY OF HAWAII AUTHORITY. Authorizes businesses operating within a research and technology park, in an existing enterprise zone, to receive same benefits available to other businesses in the same enterprise zone. Authorizes the projects of the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority, conducted within state enterprise zones, to receive the same benefits available to other businesses in the same enterprise zone.
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EDB, FIN |
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RELATING TO TRANSIENT ACCOMMODATIONS. Clarifies that an association's duty to report to the department of taxation is limited to the relevant information an association actually receives from a transient accommodation operator. Limits the fines imposed on an association while also holding an owner or operator of a transient accommodation accountable for failure to report.
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RELATING TO PLANNED COMMUNITY ASSOCIATIONS. Creates notice requirements for meetings of a planned community association or its board of directors.
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HSG, CPC |
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RELATING TO THE HAWAII COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY. Limits the prohibition on the sale of Kakaako community development district lands by HCDA to Kakaako makai lands. Requires the HCDA to determine the costs and benefits of selling and purchasing certain properties, except makai lands, within the Kakaako community development district and report to the legislature.
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WAL, FIN |
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RELATING TO CHILD CUSTODY. Provides that in awarding custody and visitation of a minor child, the court shall award custody to both parents to ensure maximum continuing physical, emotional, and meaningful contact with both parents.
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RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. Authorizes schools to grow food in school gardens for consumption in the school lunch program; provided that the food is inspected and certified as safe by the Department of Agriculture. Allows nonprofit organizations to establish and administer fresh food distribution services. Effective July 1, 2013.
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RELATING TO ENTERPRISE ZONES. Repeals certain enterprise zone tax incentives for businesses engaged in the research, development, sale or production of genetically-engineered products. Effective July 1, 2013, and shall apply to taxable years beginning after December 31, 2012.
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RELATING TO LAND USE. Assesses a surcharge on any land reclassified equal to any increase in the assessed value of the land resulting from the reclassification.
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WAL, FIN |
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RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL LAND USE. Allows for the construction of certain traditional Hawaiian hale on land that is used for farming operations without a building permit. Effective July 1, 2013.
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RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. Repeals the ability to claim expenditures for regulatory processing, studies, and legal and other consultant services under the important agricultural land qualified agricultural cost tax credit. This bill shall be effective July 1, 2013, and shall apply to taxable years beginning after December 31, 2013.
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RELATING TO TARO LANDS. Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources and the Department of Agriculture to work with the Taro Security and Purity Task Force to identify taro lands, adjust lease rents, and modify lease qualification criteria. Effective July 1, 2013.
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RELATING TO THE PROTECTION OF TARO. Includes taro lands and taro-growing structures as special agricultural lands to be protected from development. Effective July 1, 2013.
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RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. Authorizes the director of finance to issue general obligation bonds to fund capital improvements for the former Galbraith estate property.
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RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. Appropriates funds to operate and implement the Future Farmers of America and 4-H programs.
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RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. Expands livestock feed subsidies to include sheep, lamb, fish and crustaceans. Appropriates funds.
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RELATING TO APPRAISALS. Requires valuation of public agricultural or aquacultural land to be based on the land's agricultural or aquacultural use, economic considerations, relevant risk factors, and societal benefits. In the case of disinterested appraisals, requires that costs greater than one year's existing rent shall be borne by DLNR.
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RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL BUILDING PERMITS. Provides, under certain circumstances, an exemption from building code and permit requirements for nonresidential buildings or structures on commercial farms and ranches located outside the urban district.
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RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. Short form bill Relating to Agriculture.
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RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. Short form bill Relating to Agriculture.
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RELATING TO ANIMAL CRUELTY. Requires dogs or cats that are captured or killed in a snare or trap to be reported to a county animal control officer. Establishes an animal cruelty offense for the use of steel-jawed leg-hold traps, snares, conibear, or foot- or leg-hold traps in residential or other prohibited areas. Provides exemptions for activities carried out by state and federal agencies. Establishes the offense as a misdemeanor.
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RELATING TO URBAN ART. Establishes a pilot program for the creation of urban art under the direction of the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, to be repealed on June 30, 2016.
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RELATING TO HOURS OF WORK. Allows state and county employees to request modified office hours. Mandates that the chief executive bargain in good faith with the employees' exclusive representative.
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RELATING TO JOB-SHARING FOR PUBLIC EMPLOYEES. Authorizes agencies of the Executive, Judiciary, and Legislature to establish a voluntary job-sharing program.
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RELATING TO RENEWABLE ENERGY. Amends the tax credit for solar energy systems. Defines certain types of solar energy systems and the tax credits applicable to each. Effective July 1, 2013; applicable to taxable years after December 31, 2013.
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RELATING TO SIMULATED FIREARMS. Amends the offenses of terroristic threatening in the first degree and robbery in the first degree to include the use of simulated firearms.
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RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII SYSTEM. Authorizes the establishment of a research program on the stewardship of aquaculture and marine protected areas at the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology. Appropriates funds on a matching basis with federal funds. Effective July 1, 2013.
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RELATING TO COUNTY ETHICS COMMISSIONS. Authorizes the judicial council to nominate persons for appointment to a county ethics commission; provided that the county's charter or ordinance requires members of the commission to be appointed from nominations made by the judicial council.
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RELATING TO HEALTH. Short form bill relating to health.
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RELATING TO FOOD SELF-SUFFICIENCY. Appropriates monies to the department of agriculture to create positions within the department to monitor local food production. Requires the issuance of an RFP for the establishment of a food sufficiency baseline that determines the percentage of food locally produced and consumed. Effective July 1, 2013.
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RELATING TO GENERAL EXCISE TAX. Provides a GET exemption on amounts received by farmers for the sale of fresh farm produce intended for consumption within the State.
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RELATING TO STATE FUNDS. Amends criteria to be used in establishing and evaluating new special or revolving funds, requiring link between benefits sought and charges on users, and a clear link between program and revenue source. Effective June 30, 2013.
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RELATING TO GREENWAYS. Directs the Office of Planning to contract with a consultant to develop a plan for a statewide greenways plan. Appropriates funds. Effective July 1, 2013.
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RELATING TO THE GENERAL EXCISE TAX. Prohibits the State from paying or reimbursing contractors for the General Excise Tax.
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RELATING TO FOOD SUSTAINABILITY. Amends the State Planning Act to encourage purchases of Hawaii-grown foods by individuals and institutions, including public institutions.
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RELATING TO THE PROCUREMENT CODE. Exempts from the procurement code any contract by governmental bodies to procure fresh meat and produce, and animals and plants for use by any governmental body.
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RELATING TO MAKUA VALLEY. Establishes the Makua Valley Reserve Commission to oversee preservation and restoration activities in Makua Valley on Oahu.
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RELATING TO DEFERRED ACCEPTANCE PLEAS. Prohibits the use of deferred acceptance of guilty pleas or deferred acceptance of nolo contendere pleas by defendants charged with an offense involving the killing of another person. Clarifies the prohibition of deferred acceptance pleas by defendants charged with a violation of a protective order.
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RELATING TO VOTING. Allows election-day voter registration. Requires the closing of the voting register to be extended to election day. Requires each precinct to have enough ballots for one-third of its eligible voting population.
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RELATING TO MINIMUM HOURLY WAGE. Increases minimum hourly wage rate to $7.75 per hour beginning July 1, 2013, and recalculates minimum hourly wage rate in accordance with consumer price index, effective each January 1 thereafter. Effective July 1, 2013.
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RELATING TO PUBLIC HOUSING. Expands the scope of the definition of "public housing project" to include any housing project controlled or managed by the Hawaii public housing authority pursuant to federally assisted housing.
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RELATING TO PUBLIC HOUSING. Moves the State income tax and obligations exemption for public housing agencies from the laws governing the Hawaii housing finance and development corporation to the laws governing the Hawaii public housing authority.
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RELATING TO INTOXICATING LIQUORS IN PUBLIC HOUSING. Prohibits possessing or keeping, while on any sidewalk or common area within a public housing project, any bottle, can, or other receptacle containing any intoxicating liquor which has been opened, has a broken seal, or the contents of which have been partially removed. Adds "state low-income housing project" to definition of public housing project for purposes of liquor control.
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RELATING TO PUBLIC HOUSING DELINQUENT ACCOUNTS. Authorizes the Hawaii public housing authority to assign to a collection agency accounts for vacated units that have been delinquent at least ninety days. Authorizes the authority, with the approval of the attorney general, to delete delinquent accounts receivable records for state low-income public housing projects that have been delinquent at least ninety days.
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RELATING TO PUBLIC HOUSING PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION. Authorizes the Hawaii public housing authority to adopt policies, regulations, standards, procedures, and rental agreements for its federal programs in the manner prescribed by the federal government. Provides that federal regulation prevails in case of conflicts between state and federal regulations.
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RELATING TO HOUSING. Appropriates funds for the state rent supplement program, for homeless working individuals or families who are ready to rent permanent housing in order to obtain and maintain permanent housing.
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RELATING TO HOUSING. Appropriates funds to the department of human services to continue to administer housing first programs for chronically homeless individuals in the State.
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RELATING TO THE HAWAII INTERAGENCY COUNCIL ON HOMELESSNESS. Adds the executive director of the Hawaii public housing authority to the Hawaii interagency council on homelessness.
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RELATING TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING. Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds and the appropriation of funds for deposit into the rental housing trust fund to finance affordable rental housing development.
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RELATING TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING. Defines "community land trust". Permits community land trusts to qualify for rental housing trust fund moneys, grants, and other state subsidies and funds. Appropriates funds to the rental housing trust fund for the development of affordable housing projects on state land within transit-oriented development zones and family-oriented support services near the affordable housing projects.
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RELATING TO THE NATIONAL GUARD. Prohibits a person from being eligible to serve as an adjutant general unless the person has had at least five years of service as an active commissioned officer in the Hawaii National Guard, whether army, air, or both. Grandfathers the current adjutant general. Effective July 1, 2013.
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RELATING TO THE HONOR AND REMEMBER FLAG. Designates the Honor and Remember Flag as the State's emblem of service and sacrifice by the brave men and women of the United States Armed Forces who have given their lives in the line of duty.
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RELATING TO FAMILY COURTS. Prohibits courts from considering a person's federal veterans disability benefits in determining whether to award support and maintenance allowances or the amount of such allowance to the person's spouse or former spouse. Effective July 1, 2013.
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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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RELATING TO UNIFORM MAINTENANCE ALLOWANCE. Repeals the uniform maintenance allowance for enlisted personnel. Effective July 1, 2112.
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VMI, FIN |
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RELATING TO THE JUNIOR RESERVE OFFICERS' TRAINING CORPS. Appropriates funds for six instructor positions for Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps programs in public high schools in the State. Effective July 1, 2013.
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VMI, FIN |
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RELATING TO CARE HOMES. Requires all operators of adult foster homes, assisted living facilities, expanded adult residential care homes, and community care foster family homes to hold a sufficient amount of liability insurance. Expands the definition of adult residential care home to include any facility that provides accommodations to adults with intellectual disabilities.
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RELATING TO HOMELESSNESS. Designates November as homelessness awareness month.
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RELATING TO STATE LOW-INCOME PUBLIC HOUSING. Authorizes the Hawaii Public Housing Authority to allow police officers who would otherwise be ineligible to reside low-income housing, to reside in state low-income public housing for purposes of increasing the security and safety of the residents.
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RELATING TO PUBLIC HOUSING. Requires the public housing authority to include the value of all registered motor vehicles of all tenants as an asset in the calculation for the established maximum limits of annual net income and assets for state low-income housing.
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HSG, FIN |
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RELATING TO THE HOMELESS. Establishes the return-to-home program to assist eligible homeless individuals return to their home state if there is a support network available and the support network is able to receive them. Makes appropriation. Effective July 1, 2013.
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HUS, FIN |
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RELATING TO HOUSING DEVELOPMENT. Requires that the proceeds of the housing finance revolving fund be used for affordable housing, historic preservation, and open space expenditures.
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HSG, FIN |
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RELATING TO HOMELESS PROGRAMS. Requires the designation of temporary nighttime parking lots in each county to provide locations where homeless individuals who live and sleep in their vehicles can park overnight.
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HSG, JUD |
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RELATING TO PUBLIC HOUSING. Disqualifies from state low-income housing any applicant or tenant if the applicant, tenant, or a household member owns or acquires a home within the State.
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HSG, FIN |
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RELATING TO THE FUNERAL INDUSTRY. Requires refunds to include all interest earned when terminating or canceling a pre-need funeral services or pre-need interment services contract. Requires the deposit into trust of one hundred per cent of all funds paid to purchase a pre-need funeral plan plus all interest earned. Allows a cemetery or pre-need authority to deduct certain expenses from a trust. Requires annual statements of the disposition of trust funds. Effective July 1, 2013.
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CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO MEDICINE. Directs the Hawaii Medical Board to require physician clinical practitioners to complete twelve hours of continuing medical education on palliative care every four years.
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RELATING TO SEWER SYSTEMS. Temporarily prohibits certain counties from building any new sewer system until the existing sewer system for the area with that county's largest population density is retrofitted and upgraded to meet current and future capacity.
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RELATING TO THE HAWAII EMPLOYER-UNION HEALTH BENEFITS TRUST FUND. Requires, no later than 1/1/2015, the board of trustees of the Hawaii employer-union health benefits trust fund to require every health benefits plan established or contracted to include lower deductibles and co-payments for non-tobacco smokers and other persons of low risk. Requires the board to consult with medical professionals to determine low risk behavior. Prohibits genetic factors and pre-existing conditions as being considered a behavior. Effective 7/1/2013.
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HLT, LAB, FIN |
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RELATING TO THE HAWAII EMPLOYER-UNION HEALTH BENEFITS TRUST FUND. Increases the base monthly contributions paid by the State and counties for the health benefit plans of retired employees by 30% for 10 years. Effective 7/1/13.
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RELATING TO THE HAWAII EMPLOYER-UNION HEALTH BENEFITS TRUST FUND. Revises the employer's monthly contribution for the health benefits plan of a retired employee who was hired after 6/30/13.
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LAB, FIN |
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RELATING TO THE HAWAII EMPLOYER‑UNION HEALTH BENEFITS TRUST FUND. Eliminates medicare part B reimbursements for employee-beneficiaries or spouses of employee-beneficiaries who are hired after 6/30/13. Clarifies the amount to be paid to the EUTF by public employers for the medicare part B premiums of certain beneficiaries. Effective 7/1/13.
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LAB, FIN |
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RELATING TO THE HAWAII EMPLOYER-UNION HEALTH BENEFITS TRUST FUND. Limits the health insurance benefits for an employee who is first hired after 06/30/13 and who retires with at least 10 years of credited service. Provides that, if the employee retires before reaching the medicare-eligible age, the retired employee shall be allowed to enroll only in a non-medicare self plan. Requires the State or county to make a contribution towards the non-medicare self plan cost. Requires the retired employee to enroll in the medicare part B medical insurance plan if the employee retires upon or after reaching the medicare-eligible age. Requires contributions to or reimbursements for the medicare part B premium. Prohibits the retired employee from enrolling in any health benefits plan of the fund. Provides also that the spouse of a retired employee who is first hired after 06/30/13 shall not be eligible for medicare part B premium reimbursements.
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RELATING TO THE HAWAII EMPLOYER-UNION HEALTH BENEFITS TRUST FUND. Sets statutorily the state or county monthly contributions for the health benefits plans of an employee who is first hired after 06/30/14 during the employee's active service. Provides for biennial adjustment of the contributions. Makes the state or county monthly contributions for the new employee nonnegotiable under collective bargaining. Makes a new employee ineligible for group life insurance benefits.
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LAB, FIN |
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RELATING TO THE HAWAII EMPLOYER-UNION HEALTH BENEFITS TRUST FUND. Beginning 07/01/15, prohibits the Hawaii employer-union health benefits trust fund from offering medical benefits plans that pay or reimburse providers under a fee-for-service model. Requires the board of trustees to evaluate alternative payment models to replace the fee-for-service model and submit a report to the governor and legislature before the regular session of 2015. Appropriates funds for the evaluation.
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LAB, FIN |
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RELATING TO THE HAWAII EMPLOYER-UNION HEALTH BENEFITS TRUST FUND. Limits state or county monthly contribution for the health benefits plan of an employee who is first hired after 6/30/14. Provides, during active service of the employee, state or county monthly contributions for the employee that are similar to the employer contribution under the prepaid health care act. Makes the state or county monthly contribution for such an employee nonnegotiable under collective bargaining. Prohibits the board from providing a group life insurance benefits program or group life insurance program to an employee hired after 6/30/14. Provides that the spouse of a retired employee who is first hired after 6/30/14 shall not be eligible for medicare part B premium reimbursements.
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LAB, FIN |
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RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII. Temporarily exempts the UOH and the University of Hawaii board of regents from certain Hawaii public procurement code requirements. Sunsets 07/01/15.
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HED, FIN |
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RELATING TO THE HAWAII EMPLOYER-UNION HEALTH BENEFITS TRUST FUND. Provides for the automatic deposit of general excise tax revenues into the Hawaii employer-union health benefits trust fund until such time that the trust fund's unfunded actuarial accrued liability is fully amortized. Effective July 1, 2014.
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LAB, FIN |
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RELATING TO PUBLIC LAND LIABILITY. Amends and clarifies the definition of "improved public lands" in Act 82, Session Laws of Hawaii 2003, for purposes of limiting liability for public entities based on the duty to warn of dangers on public lands.
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RELATING TO RENTAL MOTOR VEHICLE SURCHARGE TAX. Requires the rental motor vehicle surcharge tax for car-sharing organizations to be prorated at 12.5 cents per hour for rentals of less than six hours and at existing per day rates at or longer than six hours. Defines car-sharing organization.
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TRN, CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT. Increases the agribusiness development corporation's limit on investments in qualified securities of any one enterprise to $3,000,000.
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RELATING TO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. Creates tax credits as an incentive for companies to expand or locate their operations in Hawaii and increase employment. Provides for an application and agreement process with the department of taxation and Hawaii housing finance and development corporation to obtain the tax credits. Repeals on 1/1/2017.
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RELATING TO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. Creates tax credits for proposed projects to be located in areas that are location efficient. Establishes procedures for the Hawaii housing finance and development corporation to determine whether proposed projects meet certain requirements necessary to qualify for the tax credit. Requires the Hawaii housing finance and development corporation to report annually to the legislature. Applies to tax years beginning after December 31, 2012. Repeals on January 1, 2017.
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HSG, FIN |
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RELATING TO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. Establishes the state smart growth public infrastructure policy. Requires state agencies involved in the planning, development, and financing of public infrastructure to consider smart growth criteria prior to approving or financing any public infrastructure projects. Requires the executive officers of each state agency involved in the planning, development, and financing of public infrastructure projects to attest that a project meets the smart growth criteria or prepare a statement of justification. Requires each state agency involved in the planning, development, and financing of public infrastructure to create a smart growth advisory committee. Precludes any private right of action. Takes effect on July 1, 2014.
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EDB, FIN |
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RELATING TO PUBLIC OFFICE. Deems a neighborhood board member to have resigned from the board upon becoming a candidate for any state or county elective office.
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RELATING TO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. Establishes an infrastructure program within the Hawaii housing finance and development corporation to make grants and provide assistance to municipalities for infrastructure projects on public land. Requires at least ten percent of grants be made to towns with populations of twenty thousand or less. Requires the Hawaii housing finance and development corporation to adopt rules pertaining to the application for and approval of grants. Requires the executive director of the Hawaii housing finance and development corporation to report annually to the legislature.
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HSG, FIN |
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RELATING TO ENERGY. Creates an income tax credit for development and construction costs for qualifying biofuel production facilities. Repeals tax credit 1/1/2029. Defines "oil refinery". Clarifies that an environmental assessment is required for an action proposing the expansion of an existing oil refinery.
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EEP, FIN |
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RELATING TO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. Extends the tax credit for qualified research activities for an additional five years. Clarifies the method of calculating the tax credit. Amends the definition of "qualified high technology business". Repeals existing certification requirements and establishes new reporting requirements. Requires the department of business, economic development, and tourism to conduct studies to measure the effectiveness of the tax credit and submit reports to the legislature.
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EDB, FIN |
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RELATING TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING URBAN GARDENING. Authorizes the HHFDC and HCDA to develop programs to issue development credits to projects that incorporate urban gardening programs. Requires HHFDC and HCDA to report to the legislature.
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HSG, EDB |
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RELATING TO WATERSHED INITIATIVES. Establishes a watershed initiatives program in DLNR. Subjects program employees to the civil service laws. Appropriates funds.
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WAL, FIN |
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RELATING TO SOLID WASTE. Clarifies that HPHA is authorized to contract with private businesses to divert food and green waste from public housing projects. Requires HPHA to report to the 2014 legislature on its progress on such contracts.
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EEP, HSG, FIN |
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RELATING TO TAXATION. Amends the date of filing of monthly, quarterly, and semiannual general excise tax returns from the twentieth day of the calendar, quarterly, or semiannual month to the last day.
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RELATING TO VEHICULAR TAXES. Provides that a state vehicle weight tax for one vehicle registered for certain permanently totally disabled veterans for a vehicle that has a net weight of ten thousand pounds or less, at $50 or $100 for a vehicle that has a net weight of more than ten thousand pounds.
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VMI, TRN, FIN |
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RELATING TO HIGH OCCUPANCY VEHICLES. Requires the DOT to establish a one year demonstration pilot project to designate a certain portion of the Pali highway as HOV lanes during rush hours.
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TRN, FIN |
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RELATING TO DIGITAL MEDIA INFRASTRUCTURE. Establishes an income tax credit for qualified media infrastructure projects.
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EDB, FIN |
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RELATING TO URBAN GROWTH COMMISSION. Establishes an urban growth commission to establish standards for density, building design, and infrastructure, and other standards the commission deems necessary to mitigate adverse impacts of development on the surrounding community, within urban growth boundaries.
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RELATING TO THE ELECTIONS COMMISSION. Specifies the duty of the elections commission to provide oversight of the chief elections officer.
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RELATING TO A TAX CREDIT FOR AFTER-SCHOOL PROGRAMS. Establishes a tax credit for businesses that sponsor after-school programs.
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EDN, FIN |
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RELATING TO CONTRACTORS. Increases the fine against unlicensed contractors who commit licensing violations against elders.
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HUS, JUD |
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RELATING TO EARLY LEARNING. Permits a taxpayer to designate a specified amount of the taxpayer's income tax refund to be deposited into the early learning trust fund.
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RELATING TO THE MOTOR VEHICLE INDUSTRY LICENSING ACT. Requires annual used motor vehicle site inspections. Requires motor vehicle insurance on a vehicle prior to release from auction. Requires motor vehicles to be insured prior to release from auction. Amends requirements to obtain a dealer license. Amends bond requirements in lieu of a flooring line of credit.
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TRN, CPC |
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RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. Amends permitted uses within agricultural districts. Applies section 205-5, HRS, and any ordinances, rules, or regulations adopted in accordance with section 205-5, HRS, to lands that are not within forest reserve boundaries.
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RELATING TO PUBLIC FUNDS. Requires an amount equal to the principal and interest for an EB-5 loan that financed a state project to be deposited from general excise tax revenues into the fund, the loan from which is repaid.
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VMI, FIN |
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RELATING TO STATE DEBT. Requires that payments for a debt of the State or a political subdivision, other than general obligation bonds, be a second charge on the general fund.
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RELATING TO THE HAWAII HEALTH SYSTEMS CORPORATION. Authorizes the HHSC to obtain a loan under the EB-5 program to fund a corporation project. Requires the governor to approve any EB-5 loan. Requires a legislative appropriation to expend loan proceeds for the project. Requires the corporation to include in its annual budget submitted to the governor an amount necessary to repay the EB-5 loan.
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VMI, HLT, FIN |
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RELATING TO COLLECTIVE BARGAINING. Requires that a complaint not resolved within 30 days by the Hawaii labor relations board be deemed resolved in favor of the complainant.
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LAB, FIN |
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RELATING TO COLLECTIVE BARGAINING. Prohibits: (1) a public employer from wilfully implementing or attempting to implement any term of a collective bargaining proposal without the exclusive representative's agreement; and (2) a public employee or employee organization from wilfully implementing or attempting to implement any term of a collective bargaining proposal without the employee's agreement.
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RELATING TO PERSONS INVOLUNTARILY ADMITTED TO PSYCHIATRIC FACILITIES TAKING EDUCATIONAL COURSES. Prohibits any patient involuntarily admitted to a public psychiatric facility and who is accused of committing or attempting to commit a violent crime from personally attending any educational courses outside the psychiatric facility. Allows the patient to take online or correspondence courses only if the patient pays for all of the expenses involved.
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HLT, PBS, JUD |
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RELATING TO MILITARY PERSONNEL AND THEIR FAMILIES. Creates a center for transition, immersion, and education for military members and their families during their relocation to Hawaii. Appropriates funds.
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VMI, FIN |
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RELATING TO CAMPAIGN FINANCE. Requires noncandidate committees to report contributions made, the purpose of each independent expenditure, and the name of the candidate supported or opposed by an independent expenditure.
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JUD, FIN |
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RELATING TO PUBLIC UTILITIES. Requires the public utilities commission to review power purchase agreements submitted by utilities for small renewable energy projects within ninety days. Applies to projects less than five megawatts on Oahu and less than 2.7 megawatts on islands other than Oahu. Deems power purchase agreements for those projects approved if the public utilities commission does not complete its review within ninety days.
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EEP, CPC |
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RELATING TO GOVERNMENT. Requires the department of land and natural resources to establish an inventory of public facilities on the lands of the public land trust to which state agencies hold title. Requires state agencies to provide the department with an inventory of buildings and facilities by January 1, 2014, and to provide the department with an updated report annually.
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RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLES. Repeals the requirement for special inspection and certification of reconstructed vehicles prior to operation upon a public highway.
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TRN, CPC |
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RELATING TO CADMIUM. Prohibits the sale, manufacture, and distribution in the State of children's products that contain cadmium more than .004 per cent by weight.
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HLT, CPC |
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RELATING TO TORT LIABILITY. Grants immunity to state and county agencies and employees from liability for injury or damage to persons or property arising out of hazardous recreational activities. Specifies the recreational activities giving rise to injury or damage from which private landowners are granted only limited liability under current law.
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RELATING TO THE PENAL CODE. Amends penal code to include partners in a romantic relationship as family or household members. Changes penalties for abuse and makes abuse that occurs in the presence of household member under ten a Class C felony.
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JUD |
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RELATING TO PUBLIC LAND LIABILITY. Makes permanent the limitations of liability for public entities based on the duty to warn of dangers on public lands.
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WAL, JUD |
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RELATING TO THE PUBLIC LAND DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION. Repeals chapter 171C, HRS, relating to PLDC. Repeals requirement that HCDA assist the PLDC in certain specified areas.
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RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLES. Requires the State to forward the proceeds from uncontested traffic infractions relating to the use of mobile electronic devices while operating a vehicle to the county in which the infraction was committed.
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TRN, JUD, FIN |
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RELATING TO SAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOL. Amends the fiscal year and appropriation amount for the safe routes to school program special fund. Provides that funds shall not lapse to the general fund. Effective July 1, 2013.
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RELATING TO THE HAWAII EMPLOYER-UNION HEALTH BENEFITS TRUST FUND. Adds an eleventh member to the EUTF board of trustees to represent the general public. Changes board voting to one-vote per member. Changes quorum to a simple majority of the board. Requires board action to be made by a majority of the board, except when a greater number is required by law. Imposes fiduciary duty on board members. Requires board to amortize unfunded liability of EUTF within 30 years from 1/1/14.
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RELATING TO THE PUBLIC LAND DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION. Requires the PLDC to initiate a pilot project after the adoption of rules. Prohibits the PLDC from planning, developing or implementing any projects other than the pilot project until the pilot project has been completed. Requires the PLDC to include a report on the status of the pilot project in its annual report and requires the PLDC to provide a report to the governor and legislature evaluating the pilot project upon its completion. Repeals on 1/1/16.
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RELATING TO THE HAWAII EMPLOYER-UNION HEALTH BENEFITS TRUST FUND. Amends composition and certain powers and duties of the Hawaii employer-union health benefits trust fund board of trustees. Makes appropriation.
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RELATING TO CAMPAIGN FINANCE. Makes applicable to noncandidate committees the present limit on campaign contributions to a candidate or candidate committee from nonresident persons.
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RELATING TO CAMPAIGN FINANCE. Requires noncandidate committee reports to include the name of each candidate whose nomination or election is supported, opposed, or otherwise intended to be influenced by an expenditure of the noncandidate committee, and the expenditure amounts corresponding to each identified candidate.
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RELATING TO CAMPAIGN FINANCE. Requires "super PACs" to file 2 additional preliminary campaign finance reports to ensure the disclosure of late contributions of any amount that the "super PAC" receives prior to an election.
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RELATING TO CAMPAIGN FINANCE. Reduces the dollar disbursement threshold that triggers the disclosure of an electioneering communication. Requires the disclosure of additional information about persons who make contributions for an electioneering communication. Expands the definition of "electioneering communications."
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RELATING TO CAMPAIGN ADVERTISEMENTS. Requires a campaign advertisement by a noncandidate committee or other person to include a notice identifying the individual who finally approved the advertisement. Removes the $5,000 maximum penalty when a campaign advertisement does not include information on the payor and approval authority of the advertisement.
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RELATING TO CHILD SUPPORT. Requires the parents of a minor mother or minor father to contribute financial support to the child of the minor mother or minor father until either the parent of the minor mother or father is no longer legally responsible to support the minor mother or father or when the minor mother or father reaches the age of majority.
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RELATING TO STANDARDS OF CONDUCT. Amends ethics law to prohibit private employer compensation of legislative interns. Amends ethics and lobbying laws to further restrict gifts and require additional reporting of expenditures.
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RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLES. Prohibits a towing operator from releasing a motor vehicle unless the party recovering the vehicle provides proof that the motor vehicle is currently registered and insured. Requires county ordinances that regulate towing operations to include this prohibition.
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RELATING TO THE USE OF DEADLY FORCE. Allows the use of deadly force when protecting one's primary dwelling against an intruder who enters the primary dwelling without invitation. Exempts the actor from civil liability for injuries or damages resulting from the use of deadly force. Repeals section 663-1.57, HRS.
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RELATING TO PART-TIME TEACHERS. Appropriates funds for court-ordered retroactive pay for part-time teachers.
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RELATING TO SUBSTITUTE TEACHERS. Appropriates funds for court-ordered retroactive pay and interest on back pay for substitute teachers.
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RELATING TO DEATH WITH DIGNITY. Allows a terminally ill, competent adult of at least 50 years of age to get lethal dose of medication to end life. Prohibits physicians and others from administering mercy killings, lethal injections, and active euthanasia. Requires informed consent. Allows alternate doctor to replace attending doctor if latter declines to prescribe. Requires monitor at time of taking dose.
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RELATING TO CONTRACTORS. Requires contractors applying for a specialty contracting license to satisfy each qualification specific to the license.
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RELATING TO FINANCIAL DISCLOSURES. Changes the deadline for financial disclosure filings by state legislators and certain other state officers and employees from May 31 to February 15. Amends the definition of "disclosure period" to mean the January to December calendar year prior to the filing deadline.
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RELATING TO EDUCATION. Amends sections 302A-411 and 302A-1132, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to make kindergarten attendance mandatory unless attendance is otherwise exempted.
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RELATING TO EDUCATION. Allows high schools to offer advanced placement courses to qualify students to be eligible to receive college credit for those courses. Defines advanced placement.
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RELATING TO TANNING. Makes it unlawful for tanning facilities and operators to allow use of tanning beds by anyone under the age of eighteen.
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RELATING TO STATE FUNDS. Appropriates moneys from the general fund for various programs relating to public health, safety, welfare, and education.
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RELATING TO GAMBLING. Amends various definitions in the gambling law to address contests of chance played to win something of value where the wager consists of an incidental purchase of goods or services.
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RELATING TO GAMBLING. Includes gambling among the types of offenses that are subject to the nuisance abatement laws. Entitles citizens who bring nuisance abatement suits against a place used for gambling to the rights and protections of victims and witnesses in criminal proceedings.
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RELATING TO PATERNITY. Removes time bar on actions to declare existence or nonexistence of father and child relationship for certain proceedings.
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RELATING TO FAMILY LEAVE. Adds definition of "sibling" to the Family Leave Law. Permits an employee to use family leave to care for a sibling, grandchild, or a civil union partner.
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RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. Establishes an agricultural development and food security program. Establishes state planning objectives to increase demand and access to locally grown foods. Establishes state planning objectives to increase production of locally grown foods. Make appropriations.
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RELATING TO EDUCATION. Makes an appropriation to the department of education to establish peer education programs in all of Hawaii's public secondary schools.
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RELATING TO FERAL BIRDS. Makes feeding feral birds that cause a common nuisance subject to a fine. Makes a second offense within five years a petty misdemeanor.
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PROPOSING A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE X, SECTION 6, OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF HAWAII TO MODIFY THE APPOINTMENT PROCESS FOR THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII. Proposes a constitutional amendment to repeal the requirement that the Governor's appointments to the UH Board of Regents be made from candidates presented by the Regents Candidate Advisory Council.
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RELATING TO AGING. Establishes and funds a coordinator for active aging within the executive office on aging, which is to be appointed by the director.
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RELATING TO EVIDENCE. Makes permanent the limited news media privilege against the compelled disclosure of sources and unpublished sources.
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RELATING TO GOVERNMENT MOTOR VEHICLES. Extends to all other county boards of water supply, the exception the board of water supply of the city and county of honolulu has to use a motor vehicle for a personal purpose incidental to the person's service or work (but not for pleasure).
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MAKING A GRANT FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT AND OPERATION OF A COMPREHENSIVE DEAF CENTER. Appropriates moneys for grants to establish and operate a comprehensive deaf center through the Department of Human Services. Effective July 1, 2013.
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RELATING TO LANDOWNERS' LIABILITY. Deletes the phrase "other than lands owned by the government" in the definition of "land" covered by chapter 520, HRS, the State's landowners' liability law.
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RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. Establishes maximum floor area of 2,000 square feet for a farm dwelling in the agricultural district and increases the minimum lot size in the agricultural district to five acres.
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RELATING TO FOOD. Allows food offered for retail sale to have displayed on the food a label stating "not genetically engineered" or "does not include a genetically engineered ingredient" if the statement is true.
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RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. Broadens the types of real property that may be acquired by the agribusiness development corporation for agriculture. Authorizes the issuance of $ in general obligation bonds and appropriates the funds derived therefrom for fiscal year 2013-2014 to the corporation for real property acquisitions.
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RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL LANDS. Amends various laws to remove exemptions for certain projects or activities in the state agricultural district. Effective 07/01/2013.
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RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. Requires an agricultural subdivision or agricultural condominium in an agricultural district to be approved by the relevant county council by ordinance.
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RELATING TO FOOD. Authorizes display on qualified food offered for retail sale a label stating "not genetically engineered" or "does not include a genetically engineered ingredient" if the statement is true. Makes an untrue statement a violation. Allows any person or public agency to seek an injunction to prevent or terminate a violation.
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RELATING TO OPEN DATA. Requires executive departments, boards, commissions, and agencies to make data available to the public. Absolves State for liability for deficiencies or incomplete data. Requires the CIO to enact rules to address making data sets available to the public.
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RELATING TO THE ENVIRONMENT. Requires that all loading operations of oil petroleum, petroleum products, and other non-miscible lighter-than-water substances in any state harbor must be surrounded by containment devices.
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RELATING TO EMPLOYMENT. Establishes job security requirements upon the divestiture of a covered establishment if the covered establishment employs 100 or more persons.
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RELATING TO BROADBAND. Requires the State and the counties to approve, approve with modification, or disapprove all broadband-related permits within sixty business days of submitting a permit application and a fee; provided that if no action is taken on the sixty-first business day, the application will be deemed approved. Effective upon approval, and repealed on June 30, 2018.
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RELATING TO HEARING AIDS. Requires health insurance policies and contracts issued after 12/31/13 to provide coverage for the cost of hearing aids in their base plans.
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MAKING A GRANT FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT AND OPERATION OF A COMPREHENSIVE SERVICE CENTER. Appropriates moneys for a grant to establish and operate a comprehensive service center.
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RELATING TO THE OFFICE OF HAWAIIAN AFFAIRS. Repeals eligibility for ERS, EUTF, and cafeteria plan benefits for officers and employees of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs who are paid in whole or in part by funds derived from the public land trust described in section 10-3, HRS. States that all employees of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs shall be subject to chapter 92F, HRS.
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RELATING TO AGING. Removes the salary restriction for the director of the executive office on aging that restricts the salary to not exceed sixty-nine per cent of the salary of the director of human resources development.
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RELATING TO CRIMINAL PROCEDURE. Excludes certain offenses from eligibility to be granted a deferred acceptance of guilty plea.
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RELATING TO FOOD LABELING. Establishes a violation and penalties for the misbranding of fish or fish products that results in consumer illness. Creates the fish misbranding special fund.
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RELATING TO SPORTS. Establishes the Hawaii Sports Task Force to plan and coordinate efforts to keep the Pro Bowl in Hawaii, and to secure Hawaii as a host site for a National Football League preseason and regular-season game, a world-title soccer tournament at Aloha Stadium, and a mixed martial arts Ultimate Fighting Championship tournament, at Aloha Stadium.
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RELATING TO YOUTH GANGS. Appropriates funds for the Youth Gang Response System. Effective July 1, 2013.
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RELATING TO TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDERS. Allows temporary restraining orders against harassment and domestic abuse to be issued upon the submission of oral sworn testimony or complaint to a judge by electronic means.
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RELATING TO BRAIN TRAUMA. Establishes a temporary football traumatic brain injury task force to review the issues associated with traumatic brain injury in the National Football League and propose possible solutions and support for former National Football League players who suffer from the effects of football related brain injury. Effective July 1, 2013.
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RELATING TO CRIME. Mandates minors ages fifteen to seventeen be tried as adults in cases of first degree murder when no other offenses are charged. Provides for discretionary remand of the minor to the family court in specified cases.
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RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES. Requires all medicaid recipients to provide a current advance health-care directive or complete and provide an optional advance health-care directive form to DHS.
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RELATING TO STATE FINANCES. Makes technical amendments to clarify requirements for transfers of non-general funds to the general funds.
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RELATING TO HEALTH. Adds definitions for "qualifying diagnosis" and "severe and persistent mental illness." Requires the adult mental health division of the department of health to provide services to people with a qualifying diagnosis, including services that are not covered by an insurance policy held by or for the benefit of the individual who seeks services. Makes an appropriation for mental health services for adults, adolescents, and children, that have been eliminated or reduced in the past two years. Makes an appropriation for substance abuse treatment and mental health support services for individuals who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless.
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RELATING TO EVIDENCE. Establishes a new rule of evidence that statements or conduct that expresses apology that are made by a health care provider concerning an unanticipated medical care outcome are inadmissible to prove liability for any claim growing out of the event.
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RELATING TO ELECTRONIC PRESCRIPTIONS. Amends the Uniform Controlled Substances Act in Chapter 329, Hawaii Revised Statutes, by adding definitions consistent with federal law, clarifying the conditions for electronic transmittal of prescriptions, and adding and clarifying violations of prohibited acts.
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RELATING TO REMOTE DISPENSING. Makes remote dispensing machines by a licensed pharmacy or pharmacist and its operations permanent.
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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.
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RELATING TO NURSING. Requires the professional and vocational licensing division of the department of commerce and consumer affairs and the state board of nursing to collaborate with the center for nursing to enable the center to obtain nursing-related data. Requires the professional and vocational licensing division to provide the center for nursing with various information through a memorandum of understanding and requires completion of a center for nursing survey as part of the license renewal requirements under chapter 457, Hawaii Revised Statutes.
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RELATING TO MEDICAL SERVICES PROVIDERS. Provides that an assault of a medical services provider who is engaged in the performance of duty be categorized as a criminal assault in the second degree.
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RELATING TO HEALTH CARE ADMINISTRATIVE UNIFORMITY. Exempts collaboration among all accident and health or sickness insurers, third party administrators, managed care plans, health care providers, and government agencies from state antitrust laws when the collaboration is intended to adopt uniform administrative procedures. Requires notice to be given to certain interested parties in advance of collaborative discussions.
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RELATING TO TOBACCO PRODUCTS. Imposes an excise tax equal to $3.20 per net ounce of tobacco for each article or item of tobacco products, other than large cigars, sold by the wholesaler or dealer on and after January 1, 2014. Requires the additional moneys collected under the excise tax to be deposited to the credit of the Hawaii cancer research special fund.
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RELATING TO DENTAL HEALTH. Requires the director of health to participate in the national oral health surveillance system. Permits dental hygienists to apply preventative sealants in a school-based dental sealant program. Requires the department of health to establish and administer a school-based dental sealant program in a high-need demonstration school and report to the legislature about the department's efforts to prioritize prevention of tooth decay. Appropriates funds to establish and administer a school-based dental sealant program in a high-need demonstration school, including plans to implement the program on a statewide level.
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RELATING TO HOMELESSNESS. Requires DHHL, in collaboration with DHHL, DOH, and OHA, to develop a pilot program to establish a kanaka village for the homeless. Requires DHHL to report to the legislature. Appropriates funds.
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RELATING TO SHIPPING. Establishes a working group to explore options for reducing the shipping time and costs for transporting goods from Molokai, Lanai, and Hana, Maui, to Oahu. Appropriates funds.
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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, 2013.
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RELATING TO KANAKA MAOLI FISHPONDS. Provides Department of Land and Natural Resources lease preferences for the reconstruction, restoration, repair, or use of kanaka maoli fishponds. Defines "kanaka maoli fishponds" as "Hawaiian fishponds." Effective July 1, 2013.
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RELATING TO CONSUMER PROTECTION. Prohibits the sale of any plastic carryout bag that is labeled inconsistently with ASTM International standards for the degradability of plastic products. Requires manufacturers and suppliers to furnish members of the public with information and documentation demonstrating compliance with this Act within ninety days of request. Takes effect 1/1/2014.
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RELATING TO THRILL CRAFT. Allows thrill craft to be used to conduct ocean cleanup activities. Requires the department of land and natural resources to adopt rules to implement such use of thrill craft.
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RELATING TO AT-RISK YOUTH. Establishes an at-risk youth task force to recommend a cost-effective, comprehensive system to address problems relating to at-risk youth and their families. Requires the at-risk youth task force to submit a report to the legislature.
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RELATING TO OCEAN RESOURCES. Deletes the "one-gallon per person per day" exception to the prohibition against the removal of sand and other beach or marine deposits, except for materials inadvertently taken, such as those carried away on the body, clothes, toys, recreational equipment, and bags, from the shoreline area or seaward of the shoreline. Creates an exemption for public emergencies and traditional cultural practices.
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RELATING TO MEDICAL MARIJUANA. Amends aspects of the Medical Use of Marijuana regime: defining adequate supply, confidentiality of growing sites, certifying physician requirements, confidentiality of patient's condition, caregiver to patient ratio, transportation of medical marijuana, qualifying visitors, and registration requirements. Effective July 1, 2013.
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RELATING TO HEALTH. Transfers departmental jurisdiction of the medical marijuana laws from the Department of Public Safety (DPS) to the Department of Health and requires DPS to assist with the transfer. Effective July 1, 2013.
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