HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
THE THIRTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2022
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Rep. Richard H.K. Onishi, Chair |
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Rep. Jackson D. Sayama, Vice Chair |
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Rep. Della Au Belatti |
Rep. Sean Quinlan |
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Rep. Daniel Holt |
Rep. Gregg Takayama |
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Rep. Dale T. Kobayashi |
Rep. Val Okimoto |
NOTICE OF HEARING
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Tuesday, March 22, 2022 |
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9:00 A.M. |
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VIA VIDEOCONFERENCE Conference Room 312 State Capitol 415 South Beretania Street |
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A G E N D A
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RELATING TO THE HAWAII TOURISM AUTHORITY. Requires the Hawaii Tourism Authority to include performance-based incentives in all of its professional services contracts. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE HAWAII TOURISM AUTHORITY. Adds the Director of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism as an ex officio voting member of the Hawaii Tourism Authority board of directors. Adds the Director of Transportation; Chairperson of the Board of Land and Natural Resources; Chairperson of the Board of Agriculture; and the Executive Director of the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts as ex officio nonvoting members of the Hawaii Tourism Authority board of directors. Clarifies the authority and responsibility of the Hawaii Tourism Authority board of directors. Renames the tourism marketing plan to the tourism branding plan. Repeals the Hawaii Tourism Authority advisory group. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO WAGES. Increases the penalty for employers who fail to pay the wages of their employees in accordance with the State's wage and hour law and payment of wages and other compensation law, to a class C felony. Adds a minimum penalty of $500 per violation. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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RELATING TO IMMIGRANT RESOURCE CENTERS. Appropriates moneys to the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations, Office of Community Services to restore funding for immigrant resource centers. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO COLLECTIVE BARGAINING. Requires the employer to initiate negotiations on repricing of classes within a bargaining unit within thirty days of its receipt of the exclusive representative's written request to negotiate. Establishes that the employer's failure to initiate the negotiation within such time frame and the parties' failure to reach an agreement within ninety day of the exclusive representative's written request to negotiate or by January 31 of a year in which the collective bargaining agreement is due to expire, whichever is earlier, constitute an impasse to which the impasse procedures in section 89-11, Hawaii Revised Statutes, shall apply. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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RELATING TO THE HAWAII EMPLOYER-UNION HEALTH BENEFITS TRUST FUND INVESTMENTS. Exempts the Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund from disclosing certain types of alternative investment fund information under the Uniform Information Practices Act (Modified), codified at Chapter 92F, Hawaii Revised Statutes. (SD2)
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RELATING TO PUBLIC WORKS. Imposes penalty on both the person and firm upon finding of repeat violations of state law governing wages and hours of employees on public works. (SD1)
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RELATING TO TEACHER COMPENSATION. Provides automatic step increases in salaries for each year of satisfactory service completed by educational assistants, public school teachers, and principals and vice principals and increases the amount of time available to teachers for collaboration, preparation, and planning time. Appropriates funds for the automatic step increases and increasing of time for teachers to collaborate and plan. Makes an appropriation to fund an experimental modernization project pursuant to section 78-3.5, HRS, to make necessary discretionary salary adjustments for certain teachers. Repeals sections 302A-624(c) and 302A-627(a), HRS. Effective 7/1/2050. (HD1)
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RELATING TO TEACHER COMPENSATION. Appropriates funds for various teacher differentials to help address various labor shortages. Effective 7/1/2050 (SD2)
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RELATING TO TEACHER PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT. Provides an appropriation for the Department of Education to provide 21 additional hours of professional development for each teacher per calendar year. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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________________________________________ Rep. Richard H.K. Onishi Chair |
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