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THE SENATE |
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TWENTY-EIGHTH LEGISLATURE, 2016 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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SENATE RESOLUTION
AMENDING rule 16 of the rules of the senate of the twenty-EIGHTH legislature, regular session of 2016, of the state of hawaii.
BE IT RESOLVED by the Senate of the Twenty-eighth Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2016, that the Rules of the Senate be amended by amending Senate Rule 16 Standing Committees to read as follows:
Standing Committees shall be appointed for major subject matter areas at the opening of the session, or as soon thereafter as possible. The Standing Committees and their areas of jurisdiction shall be as follows:
[(1) Committee on Agriculture. The purview of
this committee includes those programs relating to agriculture; aquaculture,
including mariculture.
(2)] (1) Committee on Commerce [and],
Consumer Protection[.], and Health. The purview of this
committee includes those programs relating to business regulation, professional
and vocational licensing, consumer protection, financial institutions,
insurance regulation, public utility regulation, telecommunications regulation,
the landlord tenant code, condominium property regimes, and leaseholds[.];
and general health, maternal and child health, communicable diseases, dental
health, medical and hospital services, mental health, developmental
disabilities, and hospitals.
[(3)] (2) Committee on Economic
Development, Environment, and Technology. The purview of this committee
includes those programs relating to economic development, including but not
limited to authorities and corporations administratively attached to the
Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism unless the
authority or corporation is within the purview of another Committee pursuant to
this Rule[;], other emerging industries development[;],
financial and technical assistance to business[;], film and
digital media production[;], astronomy, biochemistry,
biomedicine, biotechnology, [and] other scientific research and
development activities[; and], recreation, including commercial
ocean recreation activities, sports and athletics, and the Aloha Stadium; and
population, environmental quality control and protection, including litter
control, recycling, wastewater treatment, endangered species, invasive species
and hazardous waste; and development of technology, including but not
limited to the use of information storage, transmissions, processing, and
telecommunications.
[(4)] (3) Committee on Education.
The purview of this committee includes those programs relating to early
childhood learning, early education, including the Hawai‘i P-20 Initiative, public
schools, continuing education, and the public libraries.
[(5) Committee on Energy and Environment. The
purview of this committee includes those programs relating to energy resources,
including the development of alternative energy resources; population; and
environmental quality control and protection, including litter control,
recycling, wastewater treatment, endangered species, invasive species and
hazardous waste.
(6)] (4) Committee on Government
Operations. The purview of this committee includes those programs relating to
state government operations policy, including government efficiency, [procurement,]
The Procurement Code, and state facilities unless the [policy, state
facility, or department] state government operations policy, including
government efficiency, departmental procurement, and state facilities is
within the purview of another Committee pursuant to this Rule.
[(7)] (5) Committee on Hawaiian
Affairs. The purview of this committee includes those programs relating to
Hawaiian affairs, including but not limited to the Office of Hawaiian Affairs,
Hawaiian home lands, sovereignty, and burial councils.
[(8) Committee on Health. The purview of this
committee includes those programs relating to general health, maternal and
child health, communicable diseases, dental health, medical and hospital
services, mental health, developmental disabilities, and hospitals.
(9)] (6) Committee on Higher
Education and the Arts. The purview of this committee includes those programs
relating to the University of Hawai‘i,
the community college system, private higher education bond financing, and
other education matters relevant to higher education, but excluding the Hawaii
P-20 Initiative; and culture and the arts in the State, including but not
limited to programs relating to historic preservation.
(7) Committee on Housing. The purview of this committee includes those programs relating to affordable and public housing, urban renewal, community development, housing development, and the housing of, or sheltering of, the homeless.
[(10)] (8) Committee on Human
Services [and Housing]. The purview of this committee includes those
programs relating to public assistance[;], Medquest[;],
youth services[; early childhood learning and], day care programs
under the Department of Human Services[;], vocational
rehabilitation[;], long term care[; programs relating to the],
promotion of the general well-being of Hawai‘i's
youth, families, elderly population, [and the homeless; affordable and
public housing; urban renewal; community development; and housing development.]
and services relating to homelessness.
[(11)] (9) Committee on Judiciary
and Labor. The purview of this committee includes those programs relating to
the courts[;], crime prevention and control, including juvenile
justice matters[;], criminal code revision[;],
statutory revision[;], campaign spending and elections[;],
ethics[;], constitutional matters[;], the Attorney
General, Public Defender, and Judiciary[;], and individual rights
and civil liberties; and public officers and employees[;],
labor[;], employment opportunities and training[;],
labor-management relations[;], collective bargaining[;],
the Employees' Retirement System[;], and the Hawai‘i Employer-Union Health
Benefits Trust Fund.
[(12)] (10) Committee on Public
Safety, Intergovernmental, and Military Affairs. The purview of this
committee includes those programs relating to public safety, corrections, the
narcotics division, [and] the sheriffs division, [military and
veterans' affairs,] civil defense, disaster readiness, state building
code; and space exploration and aerospace development[, civil defense,
disaster readiness,]; and county and federal relations, [state
building code,] and matters of concern to the counties[.]; and
military and veterans' affairs.
[(13)] (11) Committee on Tourism
and International Affairs. The purview of this committee includes those
programs relating to tourism, including but not limited to the Hawai‘i Convention Center,
Hawai‘i Visitors and
Convention Bureau, and the Hawai‘i
Tourism Authority; and international affairs, international relations,
foreign policy issues, and foreign relations.
[(14)] (12) Committee on
Transportation[.] and Energy. The purview of this committee
includes those programs relating to air, water, and surface transportation[;
and programs relating to], and transit-oriented development as it
relates to transportation projects[.]; and energy resources,
including the development of alternative energy resources.
[(15)] (13) Committee on Water [and],
Land[.], and Agriculture. The purview of this committee includes
those programs relating to state planning[;], sustainability[;],
land and water management[;], forest management and reserve[;],
coastal zone management[;], land reclamation[;],
naturally occurring fisheries[;], ocean resources[;],
state parks and beaches[;], management areas, including ocean
recreation management areas and small boat harbors[;], and [programs
relating to] transit-oriented development as it relates to land use[.];
and agriculture and aquaculture, including mariculture.
[(16)] (14) Committee on Ways and
Means. The purview of this committee includes those programs relating to
overall state financing policies, including revenue enhancement, taxation,
other revenues, and cash and debt management[;], statewide
implementation of planning, programming, budgeting, and evaluation[;],
and government structure and finance."; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Senate Rule material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken and new Senate Rule material is underscored; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the amendments made to the Senate Rules by this Resolution take effect upon the adoption of this Resolution.
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Senate Rules; Rule 16; Amendments; Adoption