THE SENATE

THE TWENTY-NINTH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2017

 

COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY AND LABOR

Senator Gilbert S.C. Keith-Agaran, Chair

Senator Karl Rhoads, Vice Chair

 

NOTICE OF HEARING

 

 

DATE:

Tuesday, February 21, 2017

TIME:

9:00 a.m.

PLACE:

Conference Room 016

State Capitol

415 South Beretania Street

 

A G E N D A

 

SB 98

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO COURTS.

Raises the district courts' jurisdictional limit for civil actions involving specific performance.

 

JDL

SB 339

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO INFORMATION CHARGING.

Authorizes all class B and C felony charges to be instituted by written information subject to specified exceptions.

 

JDL

SB 251

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO CAMPAIGN FINANCE.

Establishes an exemption from the prohibition against using election campaign funds to make charitable donations or to award scholarships during the period from the filing of nomination papers to the date of the general election, for candidates who are already declared elected to office after running unopposed in an election.

 

JDL

SB 442

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO CRIMINAL PROSECUTION UNDER CAMPAIGN FINANCE LAW.

Provides that the period of limitation for a prosecution under section 11-412(b) (falsifying campaign spending report) shall commence upon discovery of the alleged offense by the campaign spending commission.

 

JDL

SB 478

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO GOVERNMENT RECORDS.

Allows a member of a board to provide other members of the board any government record for which disclosure is required by section 92F-12, HRS, provided that no commitment relating to a vote on the matter is made or sought and no additional discussion other than a statement describing the record and the issue related to the government record is included in the transmittal.

 

JDL

SB 1209

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO THE SUNSHINE LAW.

Removes the limit on the number of board members allowed to have private discussions regarding the selection of the board's officers.

 

JDL

 

 

 

 

Decision Making to follow, if time permits.

 

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Testimony may be submitted up to 24 hours prior to the start of the hearing.

 

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 Gilbert S.C. Keith-Agaran

Chair