THE TWENTY-EIGHTH LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2016
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Senator Jill N. Tokuda, Chair |
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Senator Donovan M. Dela Cruz, Vice Chair |
NOTICE OF DECISION MAKING
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Monday, February 29, 2016 |
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9:15 a.m. |
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Conference Room 211 State Capitol 415 South Beretania Street |
A G E N D A
The following measure(s) were previously heard in their respective committees:
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MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE ANNUAL REQUIRED CONTRIBUTION FOR THE HAWAII EMPLOYER-UNION HEALTH BENEFITS TRUST FUND. Makes an appropriation for the payment of the annual required contribution for the Hawaii employer-union health benefits trust fund.
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JDL, WAM |
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RELATING TO MENTAL HEALTH. Requires and appropriates funds for the department of health to provide treatment and care for homeless individuals with serious and persistent mental health challenges as a part of its comprehensive mental health system. (SD1)
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CPH/HMS, WAM |
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RELATING TO RENTAL HOUSING. Establishes a goal of developing or vesting the development of at least 22,500 affordable rental housing units ready for occupancy between 01/01/17 and 12/31/26. Establishes a temporary special action team on rental housing to recommend actions by the governor, legislature, and other parties to achieve the goal. Places the team under the lieutenant governor's office for administrative purposes and designates the lieutenant governor as special action team chair. Makes an appropriation. (SD1)
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HOU, WAM |
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RELATING TO THE RAPID RE-HOUSING ASSISTANCE PROGRAM. Requires DHS to establish a rapid re-housing assistance program to move homeless families or individuals into permanent housing as quickly as possible and achieve stability in that housing. Requires the program to be designed and operated to qualify for federal emergency shelter grants. Expands definition of "homeless" as applied to DHS' homeless programs. Appropriates general funds for fiscal year 2016-17. Effective 1/1/2017. (SD1)
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HOU, WAM |
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RELATING TO RENTAL HOUSING. Makes the projects of the Hawaii public housing authority eligible for grants from the rental housing revolving fund. Makes the Hawaii public housing authority eligible for the lease of land from the Hawaii housing finance and development corporation at token lease rent. Revises the preferences and priorities for the funding of projects from the rental housing revolving fund.
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HOU, WAM |
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RELATING TO HOUSING. Transfers excess moneys from the rental assistance revolving fund to the rental housing revolving fund. (SD1)
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HOU, WAM |
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RELATING TO DISPOSITION OF EXCESS REVENUES. Re-appropriates $10,000,000 in general funds to the emergency and budget reserve fund for fiscal year 2015-2016. (SD1)
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JDL, WAM |
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RELATING TO PUBLIC HOUSING. Appropriates funds for plans, design, construction, equipment, and development for the renovation, improvement, upgrade, and development of the Hawaii public housing authority's facilities statewide. (SD1)
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HOU, WAM |
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RELATING TO THE HAWAII PUBLIC HOUSING AUTHORITY. Repeals the state housing sales program of the Hawaii public housing authority.
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HOU, WAM |
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RELATING TO THE LOW-INCOME HOUSING TAX CREDIT. Increases funding for affordable rental housing development by making the state low-income housing tax credit more valuable. Reduces state tax credit period from ten to five years. (SD1)
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HOU, WAM |
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RELATING TO THE HAWAII HOUSING FINANCE AND DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION. Enables the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to develop mixed-use developments in partnership with state and county departments and agencies. Repeals the limitation on the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation's determination of the price of the sale or lease of commercial, industrial, or other facilities displaced by the Corporation. (SD1)
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HOU/PSM, WAM |
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RELATING TO PUBLIC LANDS. Exempts lands to which Hawaii Public Housing Authority holds title from the definition of "public lands" in section 171-2, Hawaii Revised Statutes. (SD1)
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HOU/WLA, WAM |
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RELATING TO PUBLIC HOUSING. Prohibits any county and the Hawaii public housing authority from disqualifying a legal nonconforming dwelling unit from the housing choice voucher program if the unit meets zoning and building code requirements and other program standards for health and safety. (SD1)
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HOU/PSM, WAM |
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RELATING TO THE HAWAII HOUSING FINANCE AND DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION. Authorizes the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation Board of Directors to set the salary of the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation Executive Director in an amount not to exceed the salary of the Director of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism. Effective 7/1/2016.
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HOU, WAM |
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RELATING TO AGING. Part I: Appropriates $5,100,000 for the kupuna care program. Part II: Appropriates $1,710,000 for the aging and disability resource center. Part III: Appropriates $32,000 for fall prevention and early detection services for the elderly. Part IV: Appropriates $485,880 for the healthy aging partnership program. Part V: Appropriates $70,000 for an Alzheimer's disease and related dementia services coordinator position and appropriates $200,000 for an Alzheimer's disease and related dementia public awareness program. (SD1)
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CPH/HMS, WAM |
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RELATING TO ENTERPRISE TECHNOLOGY SERVICES. Consolidates the Office of Information Management and Technology and the Information and Communication Services Division of the Department of Accounting and General Services, including all related information technology functions, in the Office of Enterprise Technology Services under the direction of the Chief Information Officer. Takes effect on 7/2/2016. (SD1)
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EET/GVO, WAM |
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Decision making meeting only, no oral testimony will be accepted.
Persons wishing to submit written testimony may do so up to 24 hours prior to the hearing.
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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 Jill N. Tokuda Chair |
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