THE SENATE

THE TWENTY-EIGHTH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2016

 

COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY AND LABOR

Senator Gilbert S.C. Keith-Agaran, Chair

Senator Maile S.L. Shimabukuro, Vice Chair

 

COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE, CONSUMER PROTECTION, AND HEALTH

Senator Rosalyn H. Baker, Chair

Senator Michelle N. Kidani, Vice Chair

 

NOTICE OF HEARING

 

 

DATE:

Friday, February 12, 2016

TIME:

9:30 a.m.

PLACE:

Conference Room 016

State Capitol

415 South Beretania Street

 

A G E N D A

 

SB 2101

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO DISTRICT COURT SMALL CLAIMS.

Establishes small claims division’s exclusive jurisdiction of cases for amounts of $1,000 or less.  Allows plaintiff to request removal of small claims cases to be heard in ordinary procedures of the district court when counterclaim is filed.

 

JDL/CPH, WAM

SB 2219

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO TAXATION.

Provides a taxpayer who hires an individual with a disability a nonrefundable tax credit for the six-month period after the individual is initially hired by the taxpayer.

 

JDL/CPH, WAM

SB 2664

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO THE EMPLOYER-UNION HEALTH BENEFITS TRUST FUND.

Requires health benefits plans under the employer-union health benefits trust fund to include all benefits required under article 10A of chapter 431, Hawaii Revised Statutes, article 1 of chapter 432, Hawaii Revised Statutes, and chapter 432D, Hawaii Revised Statutes.

 

JDL/CPH, WAM

 

 

 

 

Decision Making to follow, if time permits.

 

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FOR AMENDED NOTICES:  Measures that have been deleted are stricken through and measures that have been added are underscored.  If a measure is both underscored and stricken through, that measure has been deleted from the agenda.

 

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Senator Rosalyn H. Baker

Chair

 

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Senator Gilbert S.C. Keith-Agaran

Chair