THE TWENTY-NINTH LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2017
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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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Friday, March 31, 2017 |
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9:30 AM |
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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 standing committee(s):
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RELATING TO HEALTH. Requires certain employers to provide a minimum amount of paid sick leave to employees to be used to care for themselves or a family member who is ill or needs medical care. Takes effect 1/7/2059. (SD1)
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JDL, WAM |
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RELATING TO FAMILY LEAVE. Permits an employee to take family leave in order to care for the employee's sibling with a serious health condition or upon the death of an employee's child, spouse, reciprocal beneficiary, sibling, or parent. Specifies notice and certification requirements. Takes effect 1/7/2059. (SD1)
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JDL, WAM |
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RELATING TO LABOR. Authorizes the Director of Labor and Industrial Relations or the Director's designee to issue and serve on an employer a stop-work order prohibiting the use of employee labor by the employer until the employer complies with certain provisions regarding security for payments of workers' compensation coverage for employees. Authorizes the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to issue an order of wage payment violation to the employer in violation of provisions regarding payment of wages and other compensation. Establishes penalties, enforcement, and protest procedures related to stop-work orders and orders of wage payment violations. Takes effect 1/7/2059. (SD1)
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JDL, WAM |
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RELATING TO THE HAWAII LABOR RELATIONS BOARD. Allows the Hawaii Labor Relations Board to send notices of hearing electronically; requires the party seeking judicial review to bear the cost of preparing a transcript, except as provided by law, in which case the Board shall bear the cost of preparing the transcript. Takes effect 1/7/2059. (SD1)
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JDL, WAM |
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RELATING TO EMPLOYEES. Requires each state government branch to establish a shared leave program for state employees. Allows the chief executive of a county to establish a shared leave program for county employees. Precludes a state government branch from prohibiting leave sharing between different departments or bargaining units because of administrative infeasibility. Allows an employee's designation of beneficiary form to be filed with the department where the employee is employed and permits the designation to be made through a statement that is not verified or written, including through an electronically maintained statement. Takes effect 1/7/2059. (SD1)
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JDL, WAM |
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RELATING TO CRIMINAL HISTORY RECORD CHECKS. Adds the child support enforcement agency and the departments of taxation, human services, and labor and industrial relations to the list of agencies that are authorized to conduct criminal history record checks on employees, prospective employees, and contractors who have access to federal tax information. Takes effect on 1/7/2059. (SD1)
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JDL, WAM |
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RELATING TO SMALL BUSINESS. Appropriates funds to the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to provide additional resources to the Small Business Regulatory Review Board. (HB587 HD1)
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ETT, WAM |
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RELATING TO CLIMATE CHANGE. Establishes the Carbon Farming Task Force within the Office of Planning to identify agricultural and aquacultural practices to improve soil health and promote carbon sequestration in the State's agricultural and aquacultural sectors. Appropriates funds. Effective 1/28/2081. (SD1)
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ETT/AEN, WAM |
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RELATING TO PUBLIC LANDS. Establishes procedures for designating public land redevelopment districts, planning committees, district redevelopment plans, and designated redevelopment district revolving funds. Establishes powers and duties of planning committees. Modifies public land lease restrictions. Appropriates funds. Establishes the Waiakea Peninsula Redevelopment District, Planning Committee, and Revolving Fund until 6/30/2027. Effective 7/1/2117. (SD1)
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ETT/WTL, WAM |
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RELATING TO PUBLIC LANDS. Allows lessees of certain public land to relinquish a lease during the last ten years of the term of the lease, subject to certain conditions, and allows the lessee to bid on the new lease at public auction. Appropriates funds to DLNR. Effective 3/15/2099. (SD1)
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WTL, WAM |
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RELATING TO FOOD SAFETY. Appropriates funds to DBEDT in each of fiscal years 2017-2018 and 2018-2019 to provide guidance and support regarding the FDA's industry guidance on the use of color additives, as applied to sea salt products cultivated or produced in Hawaii. Effective 7/1/2038. (SD1)
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ETT, WAM |
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RELATING TO BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT. Establishes the high-growth grant program and special fund to provide grants to qualified businesses for certain business development activities. Makes appropriations. Effective 7/1/2038. (SD1)
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ETT, WAM |
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RELATING TO THE HIGH TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION. Appropriates funds for the Manufacturing Development Program. (HB1327 HD1)
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ETT, WAM |
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RELATING TO TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT. Appropriates funds for grants to participants in application challenges so that the proof of concepts created during the challenges can be developed into prototypes suitable for local and state government. Requires matching funds. Effective 7/1/2038. (SD1)
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ETT, WAM |
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RELATING TO ENERGY. Extends the sunset date of the Alternative Energy Research and Development Pilot Program to June 30, 2019. Appropriates funds for the Program. (HB592 HD1)
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TRE/ETT, 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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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CALL THE BILLS CHIEF AT (808) 586-6800.
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_____________________________________ Senator Jill N. Tokuda Chair |
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