THE SENATE

THE TWENTY-NINTH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2017

 

COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS

Senator Jill N. Tokuda, Chair

Senator Donovan M. Dela Cruz, Vice Chair

 

NOTICE OF DECISION MAKING

 

 

DATE:

Wednesday, March 1, 2017

TIME:

9:45 AM

PLACE:

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 subject matter committees:

 

SB 1146, SD1

      (SSCR285)

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO SCHOOL IMPACT FEES.

Exempts housing developments reserved for persons or families with incomes up to eighty per cent of the area median income located on the island of Oahu from school impact fee requirements.  (SD1)

 

HOU/EDU, WAM

SB 612, SD1

      (SSCR45)

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO AGRICULTURE.

Appropriates funds to the Department of Agriculture for the feed developer grant program and reimbursements to qualified producers for feed costs.

 

AEN, WAM

SB 249, SD1

      (SSCR185)

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO RETIREMENT.

Provides that a member of the employees' retirement system who first earned credited service as a judge after June 30, 2017, and has at least ten years of credited service and attained age sixty, or has at least twenty-five years of credited service and has attained age fifty-five is eligible to receive a pension after retirement.  Reduces the percentage of average final compensation used to calculate the retirement allowance for a member who first earned credited service as a judge after June 30, 2017, to two per cent.  (SD1)

 

JDL, WAM

SB 410, SD1

      (SSCR250)

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO COLLECTIVE BARGAINING.

Clarifies the allowable scope of collective bargaining negotiations regarding the rights and obligations of a public employer.  Takes effect 1/7/2059.  (SD1)

 

JDL, WAM

 

 

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.

 

Click here to submit written testimony to the Senate Committee on Ways and Means.

 

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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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CALL THE COMMITTEE CLERK AT (808) 586-6800.

 

 

 

 

 

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Senator Jill N. Tokuda

Chair