THE SENATE

THE TWENTY-SEVENTH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2014

 

COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC SAFETY, INTERGOVERNMENTAL AND MILITARY AFFAIRS

Senator Will Espero, Chair

Senator Rosalyn H. Baker, Vice Chair

 

NOTICE OF HEARING

 

 

DATE:

Tuesday, March 11, 2014

TIME:

2:50 p.m.

PLACE:

Conference Room 224

State Capitol

415 South Beretania Street

 

A G E N D A

 

HB 1664, HD1

      (HSCR781-14)

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO FIRE PROTECTION FOR FIREWORKS.

Requires that permanent and temporary fireworks storage buildings or structures and buildings or facilities where redistribution activities are performed comply with currently adopted county building or fire codes or latest edition of nationally recognized standards.  (HB1664 HD1)

 

PSM, CPN

HB 1024, HD1

      (HSCR765-14)

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO LIABILITY.

Extends the liability protections for the actions of county lifeguards for an additional three years.  Requires the counties to report to the legislature on lawsuits against county lifeguards and the effects of the liability protections.  Effective June 29, 2014.  (HB1024 HD1)

 

PSM, JDL

HB 2139, HD1

      (HSCR644-14)

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO PUBLIC AGENCY MEETINGS.

Allows the members of public agency boards to jointly attend meetings or presentations without violating the sunshine laws if the meeting or presentation is in Hawaii and free to the public, and authorizes the members of a county council to attend in unlimited numbers.  Requires that such members of a county provide individual reports of the meeting or presentation.  (HB2139 HD1)

 

PSM, JDL

HB 2347, HD2

      (HSCR588-14)

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION CRIMINAL INVESTIGATORS.

Clarifies that Department of Taxation investigators who are subject to chapter 76, Hawaii Revised Statutes, also have police powers.  Effective July 1, 2050.  (HB2347 HD2)

 

PSM, JDL

HB 2363, HD2

      (HSCR589-14)

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO PUBLIC SAFETY.

Provides systematic reentry programming for nonviolent, low-risk drug offenders by establishing the Reentry Pilot Project for Nonviolent, Low-risk Drug Offenders.  Effective July 1, 2020, and repealed on June 30, 2016.  (HB2363 HD2)

 

PSM, WAM

HB 1570, HD1

      (HSCR769-14)

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO ABUSE OF FAMILY OR HOUSEHOLD MEMBER.

Specifies that the period of separation that a police officer can order under suspicion of physical abuse or harm is two business days from the day the order is issued.  Defines "business day" as any calendar day, except Saturday, Sunday, or a state holiday.  (HB1570 HD1)

 

PSM, JDL

HB 1858

      (HSCR632-14)

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO THE PENAL CODE.

Provides that a person who intentionally or knowingly causes bodily injury to a liquor commission investigator engaged in the performance of duty commits the offense of assault in the second degree.

 

PSM, JDL

 

Decision Making to follow, if time permits.

 

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Senator Will Espero

Chair