HREF 01-25-08 1

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		HOUSE BILLS
			Committee
H.B. NO.			REFERRAL

2818	MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII. Appropriates funds for the Institute for Peace.		HED, FIN
2819	RELATING TO FIREWORKS. Prohibits open possession of consumer fireworks other than during the days and times authorized by law.		TAC, JUD
2820	RELATING TO WATER FOR IMPORTANT AGRICULTURAL LANDS. Amends the state water code to support making sufficient water available for agricultural activity on important agricultural lands.		WLH/AGR, JUD, FIN
2821	RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. Establishes tax credit for agricultural businesses on important agricultural lands.		WLH/AGR, FIN
2822	RELATING TO DROUGHT MITIGATION TAX CREDIT. Provides a tax credit equal to 50% of the costs for construction of a new drought mitigation water storage facility, or repair or reconstruction of an existing water storage facility		WLH/AGR, FIN
2823	RELATING TO DAM SAFETY. Establishes limitations on liability for damages for owners of dams and reservoirs.		WLH, JUD, FIN
2824	RELATING TO SENTENCING. Authorizes the court to sentence certain persons convicted of sexual assault in the first degree to wear a global positioning system transmitter for up to 10 years after the person's release from prison.		PSM, JUD, FIN
2825	RELATING TO THE ISSUANCE OF SPECIAL PURPOSE REVENUE BONDS TO ASSIST SOPOGY INC., IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF RENEWABLE ENERGY ON THE ISLAND OF OAHU. Authorizes the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds in an amount not exceeding $35,000,000 to assist Sopogy, Inc. with planning, designing, construction, equipping, and operating a solar farm power plant on the island of Oahu to produce electricity from solar power.		EEP, FIN
2826	RELATING TO SOLID WASTE. Suspends collection of the deposit beverage container fee. Directs the counties to revise their integrated solid waste management plans and appropriates moneys for this purpose. Requires matching funds from counties. Effective 07/01/08.		EEP, EDB, FIN
2827	RELATING TO THE EMPLOYER-UNION HEALTH BENEFITS TRUST FUND. Specifies that legislative appropriations to the trust fund do not revert to the general fund.		LAB, FIN
2828	MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE SUPER SUCKER. Appropriates moneys to provide one year of funding for the full-time operation of the super sucker project in Kaneohe bay and for the purchase of a portable super sucker unit.		WLH/EEP, FIN
2829	RELATING TO LAND USE. Amends the land use law to expand the permissible land uses within rural districts. Permits individuals under certain conditions to change land classification from agricultural to rural land.		WLH/AGR, JUD
2830	RELATING TO LAND USE. Requires counties to adopt by ordinance permissible uses and infrastructure standards within rural, urban, and agricultural districts. Clarifies permissible uses for agricultural, rural, and conservation lands. Establishes requirements for reclassification of agricultural lands to rural lands.		WLH/AGR, JUD
2831	RELATING TO WIRELESS ENHANCED 911 SERVICE. Eliminates the $0.66 monthly surcharge on wireless telephone accounts and terminates the wireless enhanced 911 fund once all moneys in the fund are expended. Effective 7/1/2008.		PSM, CPC, FIN
2832	RELATING TO ARMED SERVICES. Creates Hawaii military family relief trust program and trust fund to pay cash benefits to certain members of the armed forces who have served in active service.		PSM, FIN
2833	RELATING TO LAND USE. Allows the redesignation of certain residential subdivisions in the agricultural district into the rural district, subject to certain criteria.		WLH/AGR, FIN
2834	RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE FIFTH REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT. Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects for the benefit of the 5th representative district.		FIN
2835	RELATING TO THE NATURAL ENERGY LABORATORY OF HAWAII AUTHORITY. Transfers the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority from the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to the Lieutenant Governor's Office.		EEP, EDB, FIN
2836	RELATING TO THE PATIENTS' BILL OF RIGHTS. Conforms the law to a recent Hawaii supreme court decision by amending the Patients' Bill of Rights external review procedure under which patients may appeal a managed care plan's final, internal decision denying coverage of a health intervention.		HLT, CPC/JUD
2837	RELATING TO MORTGAGE FORECLOSURES. Amends certain sections of the mortgage foreclosures law to ensure that consumers and others receive important information regarding a foreclosure in a timely manner.		CPC/JUD
2838	RELATING TO RENEWABLE ENERGY. Establishes a renewable energy technology grant program to provide renewable energy matching grants for demonstration, commercialization, research, and development projects relating to renewable energy technologies.		EEP, FIN
2839	RELATING TO TAX EXEMPTIONS. Exempts from the general excise tax and use tax all equipment used directly in the generation of electricity using fuel cells, hydrogen, biomass, wind, the sun, the ocean, geothermal energy, waste heat, hydroelectric power, or landfill gas.		EEP, FIN
2840	RELATING TO HAWAII GREEN SEAL PROGRAM. Directs the department of business, economic development, and tourism to develop the Hawaii green seal program to certify businesses that meet renewable energy standards. Creates a task force to develop standards for certification.		EEP, EDB, FIN
2841	RELATING TO GRAFFITI. Establishes a reward for persons who report offenders who cause graffiti damage and establishes a schedule of fines applicable to minor children who cause graffiti damage.		JUD, FIN
2842	RELATING TO APPROPRIATIONS. Requires funds for bills passed into law through veto override to be released within 90 days of passage.		FIN
2843	RELATING TO INVASIVE SPECIES. Imposes a invasive species fee for all incoming non-containerized freight into the State. Requires the department of agriculture to assess fines for violations of section 150A-5.3, HRS (inspection, quarantine, and eradication service fees), pursuant to rules.		AGR/TRN, FIN
2844	RELATING TO MASS TRANSIT. Requires the names of transit station in any mass transit system in the State to consist of Hawaiian names, words, or phrases. Prohibits transit stations in using the same name as any existing name as any existing commercial entity or establishment.		TRN/TAC, WLH
2845	RELATING TO PUBLIC HOUSING. Confers specific power on chiefs of police to enter and enforce laws in common areas of public housing.		HSH, JUD
2846	RELATING TO MEDICAL LIABILITY TAX CREDITS. Provides a tax credit equal to an unspecified percentage of medical malpractice premium costs incurred by a physician who relocates to a rural area.		HLT, CPC, FIN
2847	RELATING TO CONDITIONAL LICENSE PERMITS. Allows conditional license permit for a person's medical needs and caregiving. Clarifies when a conditional license permit is permissible for certain commercial drivers.		TRN, JUD
2848	RELATING TO GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES. Permits state and county governments to rehire retired employees as permanent employees without affecting the rehired retirees' retirement benefits.		LAB, FIN
2849	RELATING TO ALLOWANCE ON SERVICE RETIREMENT. Makes police radio dispatchers class A members of the employees' retirement system. Exempts Act from prohibition against benefit enhancements, including reduction in retirement age when there is an unfunded liability established in section 88-122(e), HRS by Act 256, SLH 2007, section 3(2).		PSM, LAB, FIN
2850	RELATING TO THE REHIRING OF RETIREES. Authorizes state and county governments to rehire retired employees during labor shortages and for difficult-to-fill occupational areas without retirement benefit penalty.		LAB, FIN
2851	RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE FORTY-SECOND REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT. Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects for the benefit of the 42nd representative district.		FIN
2852	RELATING TO THE ALTERNATIVE ENERGY. Requires newly constructed wastewater treatment works to integrate a process for producing energy used to power the treatment works by using the sewage or by-product of the sewage, such as methane gas, for fuel.		EEP, WLH, FIN
2853	RELATING TO THE STATE BUILDING CODE. Prohibits counties from reducing the required number of toilet facilities for public use in commercial spaces intended for public use.		HLT, EDB, CPC
2854	RELATING TO PARKING FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES. Makes vehicles owned and operated by nursing facilities eligible for disabled parking license plates, placards, and identification cards.		HLT, TRN, JUD
2855	RELATING TO VEHICLE REGISTRATION. Imposes a fee for registering motor vehicles in the State that have an engine displacement larger than 200 cubic inches.		TRN, FIN
2856	RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION. Requires the department of transportation to conduct a feasibility study to implement electronic road pricing in the State. Report to legislature. Appropriation.		TRN, FIN
2857	RELATING TO TAX CREDITS. Provides a one-time nonrefundable tax credit to assist the victims of the December 2007 flood and wind storm in upcountry Maui and other areas of the 12th representative district.		PSM, FIN
2858	RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL LANDS TAX CREDITS. Provides an income tax credit for the cost of real property taxes for, or improvements made on agricultural land.		AGR, FIN
2859	RELATING TO CERTIFICATE OF NEED. Requires decision regarding issuance of a certificate of need at only 1 public hearing and within 30 days if an applicant is required to and has obtained (1) an environmental impact statement or a finding of no significant impact; and (2) all necessary county land use and zoning change permits.		HLT, FIN
2860	RELATING TO TAXATION. Exempts from general excise and use taxes the fuel sold from a foreign-trade zone for intrastate air transportation by common carriers.		EDB, TRN, FIN
2861	RELATING TO RENEWABLE ENERGY. Establishes an inter-island renewable energy facility siting process to expedite the review and action upon state and county permits necessary for the siting, development, construction, and operation of a renewable energy facility.		EEP/WLH, CPC, FIN
2862	RELATING TO WIND ENERGY. Establishes a consolidated process for the approval of permits for an interisland wind energy and undersea cable project.		EEP/WLH, CPC, FIN
2863	RELATING TO RENEWABLE ENERGY. Establishes a renewable energy facility siting process to expedite the review and action upon state and county permits necessary for the siting, development, construction, and operation of a renewable energy facility.		EEP/WLH, CPC, FIN
2864	RELATING TO ADULT ENTERTAINMENT PRODUCTS. Amends the definition of "adult entertainment products" in section 489X-1, HRS.		EDB, JUD
2865	PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO THE HAWAII CONSTITUTION ON PRIMARY AND SPECIAL PRIMARY ELECTIONS. Proposes a constitutional amendment to limit a member of a political party to voting in a primary election on a ballot for that person's political party, and no other party.		JUD, FIN
2866	RELATING TO PRIMARY AND SPECIAL PRIMARY ELECTIONS. Effectuates a constitutional amendment, if adopted, to limit a member of a political party to voting in a primary election on a ballot for that person's political party, and no other party.		JUD, FIN
2867	RELATING TO STATE HEALTH PLANNING. Repeals certificate of need process and the law governing acquisition of hospitals in relation to state health planning.		HLT/HSH, FIN
2868	RELATING TO HIGHWAYS. Requires the remittance of general excise tax revenues from liquid fuel sales to the state highway fund. Repeals provisions authorizing transfers of revenues deemed excess out of the state highway fund.		TRN, FIN
2869	RELATING TO MEDICAID HOSPITAL AND LONG TERM CARE REIMBURSEMENTS. Short form bill relating to Medicaid Hospital and Long Term Care Reimbursements.		HLT
2870	RELATING TO MEDICAID PRESUMPTIVE ELIGIBILITY. Short form bill relating to Medicaid presumptive eligibility.		HLT
2871	RELATING TO ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE. Appropriates funds for the University of Hawaii to study the medical efficacy of marijuana.		HLT/HED, JUD, FIN
2872	RELATING TO PUBLIC LANDS. Requires the department of land and natural resources to extend the recreation-residence use leases at the Koke‘e and Waimea canyon state parks for 5 years. Sunsets 01/01/12.		WLH, FIN
2873	RELATING TO STATE PARKS. Clarifies that the conservation of park resources and values is the predominant concern of the state park system.		WLH, FIN
2874	RELATING TO STATE PARKS ON KAUAI. Establishes a sub-account under the state parks special fund into which 100% of the proceeds collected from the various fees collected at the Kokee state park and Waimea canyon state park, less any net amounts due to OHA, will be deposited and used to cover the cost of repair, maintenance, and operation at the Kokee state park and Waimea canyon state park.		WLH, FIN
2875	MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR A HEALTH CENTER IN PUNA. Appropriates funds for the plans and design for a Puna health center.		HLT/WLH, FIN
2876	RELATING TO GEOLOGISTS. Requires licensure for persons holding themselves out to the public as professional geologists.		CPC, FIN
2877	RELATING TO EDUCATION. Authorizes the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds for Mohala Pua School, doing business as the Honolulu Waldorf School.		EDN, FIN
2878	RELATING TO HEALTH CARE. Ensures patient safety and quality health care by establishing direct care registered nurse-to-patient staffing requirements in health care facilities.		HLT, JUD, FIN
2879	RELATING TO PARENTAL RESPONSIBILITY. Holds parent or guardian liable for damages, injury, or death caused by child while on school grounds and requires parent or guardian to reimburse department of education for reward offered to identify the perpetrator, up to $10,000.		EDN, JUD
2880	RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE THIRTY-EIGHTH REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT. Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects for the benefit of the 38th representative district.		FIN
2881	RELATING TO PERINATAL CARE. Appropriates funds to continue operations and services for the perinatal clinic within the department of human services.		HLT/HSH, HED, FIN
2882	RELATING TO PARENTAL LIABILITY. Imposes joint and several liability on the parent or guardian of a minor under the age of 18 whose discharge of a firearm proximately causes personal injury or damage to property. Limits liability to $30,000 per person and $60,000 per incident in the case of injury or death.		JUD
2883	RELATING TO CIVIL DEFENSE. Directs the civil defense division to conduct a feasibility study on the use of the United States Navy facilities at Lualualei as a civilian emergency shelter.		PSM, FIN
2884	RELATING TO KULEANA LANDS. Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to hold any lands where the owner of an inheritable interest in kuleana lands dies intestate and there is no taker under the Hawaii Probate Code, for 10 years before passing to the Office of Hawaiian Affairs.		WLH, JUD
2885	RELATING TO TAXES. Provides an exemption from general excise taxes on certain food and medical products.		HLT, FIN
2886	RELATING TO RECYCLING. Directs one-half of any excess funds in the deposit beverage container deposit special fund to be provided to the counties as grants-in-aid to facilitate recycling programs in the respective county.		EEP, EDB, FIN
2887	RELATING TO TATTOOING. Exempts experts in the practice of Kakau, traditional Hawaiian tattooing, from current tattoo licensure laws and directs the Department of Health to work with Kahuna ka kakau to develop best practices for traditional Hawaiian tattooing.		WLH, CPC
2888	RELATING TO MEDICAL SERVICES. Appropriates funds to Kona Hospital for a program to address health care needs in the rural areas of South Kona, Puna, and Ka‘u.		HLT, FIN
2889	RELATING TO HOUSING. Requires the HHFDC to report to the legislature with a list of cost items that impact the high cost of homes in the State.		HSH, FIN
2890	RELATING TO ARCHAEOLOGISTS. Authorizes the department of land and natural resources to contract with archaeologists without regard to the procurement code. Exempts contracts between the department of land and natural resources and archaeologists from the procurement code.		WLH, EDB/LAB, FIN
2891	RELATING TO PLANNING. Requires office of planning, in conjunction with county planning departments, to develop a state land use plan that takes economic development into account and to submit the plan in a report to the legislature no later than twenty days prior to the convening of the regular session of 2009.		EDB, WLH, FIN
2892	RELATING TO ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENTS. Exempts lands from environmental impact statement law, state or county lands for specified uses of existing public street, road, highway, trail, or bikeways.		EEP, JUD
2893	RELATING TO INTRA-COUNTY FERRY SERVICE. Requires department of land and natural resources to assign priority mooring space to intra-county ferries serving a county with 500,000 or less people and at least 3 islands inhabited by permanent residents. Exempts distributors from fuel tax for fuel sold for ultimate use by the intra-county ferry service.		TRN/WLH, FIN
2894	RELATING TO PLANNED COMMUNITY ASSOCIATIONS. Allows for the restatement of planned community association documents.		CPC
2895	RELATING TO AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS. Requires insurers, mutual benefit societies, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage for the diagnosis and treatment of autism spectrum disorders for covered individuals less than twenty-one years of age.		HLT, CPC, FIN
2896	MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE STATEWIDE LANGUAGE ACCESS BANK. Establishes a statewide language access bank in the department of labor and industrial relations to centralize interpretation and translation services for state agencies and covered entities. Makes an appropriation.		LAB, HSH, FIN
2897	MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR ASSET BUILDING. Establishes three-year pilot project within the department of human services to conduct and expand asset building classes statewide to serve individuals with disabilities and the parents of children with a disability.		HSH, FIN
2898	RELATING TO HEALTH. Establishes the Hawaii Health Commission to develop a health plan to provide healthcare coverage for all individuals in the state.		HLT, CPC, FIN
2899	RELATING TO INTERNET SAFETY. Requires the Department of Education to establish an Internet safety education pilot project for students and community members.		EDN, JUD, FIN
2900	RELATING TO INCOME TAX. Establishes a tax credit of 50 per cent of revenues lost by bars that have had a drop in business due to the ban of smoking in public places enacted in 2006.		HLT/EDB, FIN
2901	RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLE INSURANCE. Exempts motor vehicle insurers from being required to make available to the insured, at the insured's option, personal injury protection benefits through managed care, if there are fewer than 5 managed care providers or equivalent entities within 25 miles of the claimant.		HLT, CPC
2902	RELATING TO THE ISSUANCE OF REVENUE BONDS TO ASSIST THE MAUI REGION OF THE HAWAII HEALTH SYSTEMS CORPORATION. Authorizes issuance of $150,000,000 in revenue bonds for a heart, brain, and spine center at the Maui memorial medical center.		HLT, FIN
2903	RELATING TO VERTICAL AXIS WIND TURBINES. Prohibits any county from prohibiting the installation of vertical axis wind turbines in any area zoned residential, where the vertical axis wind turbines meet certain size, output, and noise restrictions.		EEP, WLH, JUD
2904	RELATING TO INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT REVOLVING FUND. Establishes the infrastructure development revolving fund to expedite the construction of affordable housing.		HSH, FIN
2905	RELATING TO THE COLLEGE SAVINGS PROGRAM. Provides a vehicle with unspecified amounts for an annual state tax deduction for contributions made to Hawaii's section 529 college savings plan.		HED, FIN
2906	RELATING TO CERTIFICATE OF NEED. Exempts all long-term care facilities at all levels of care from the certificate of need process under the state health planning and development agency.		HLT/HSH, FIN
2907	MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR FERAL PIG ABATEMENT. Appropriating funds to the Department of Land and Natural Resources for the control and abatement of the feral pig population, including the purchase of box traps, baits, and corrals.		WLH, FIN
2908	RELATING TO AUDIT RECOMMENDATIONS. Requires the Auditor to submit an annual report to the Legislature identifying all audit recommendations more than one year old that have not been implemented. Requires all affected agencies notified by the Auditor that an audit recommendation more than one year old has not been implemented to submit a written report to the Auditor, the Senate President, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives explaining why the recommendation was not implemented and the estimated date of implementation. Requires each department, office or agency, or political subdivision subject to an audit to provide updates on the implementation of the Auditor's recommendations at intervals prescribed by the Auditor.		LMG, FIN
2909	RELATING TO THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF STATEHOOD COMMISSION. Appropriates funds for the fiftieth anniversary of statehood commission.		TAC, FIN
2910	RELATING TO TRADE SECRETS. Invalidates trade secret protections unless fair compensation is negotiated collectively with employees involved in developing the trade secret.		LAB, JUD
2911	RELATING TO EMPLOYEES. Invalidates any provision in an employment agreement that requires an employee to assign the employee's rights to an invention to the employer if the employee developed the invention entirely on the employee's own time and with the employee's own materials, with certain exceptions.		LAB, JUD
2912	RELATING TO ADULT RESIDENTIAL CARE HOMES. Allows mutual benefit societies and health maintenance organizations to operate type I expanded adult residential care homes if they employ staff meeting license requirements and hire a nonresident registered nurse to act as primary caregiver. Limits the registered nurse to act as primary caregiver for no more than care homes.		HLT/HSH, CPC, FIN
2913	RELATING TO KIDNEY DISEASE. Awards a grant to St. Francis Healthcare System to support the modified home care and community health demonstration project; requires $1,000,000 in matching funds. Effective 7/1/08.		HLT/HSH, FIN
2914	RELATING TO SKILLED NURSING FACILITIES. On 1/1/2009, treats each new skilled nursing facility or facility expanding its operations outside an enterprise zone as operating within an enterprise zone for purposes of eligibility to receive all benefits provided in enterprise zones. Adds skilled nursing facilities to definition of "medical and health care services."		HLT, EDB, FIN
2915	MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM PREPARING CANDIDATES FOR NURSES LICENSING EXAMINATIONS IN HAWAII. Appropriates $100,000 to University of Hawaii to support a program of study to prepare candidates to pass the licensing examination for nurses in Hawaii.		HLT, HED, FIN
2916	RELATING TO SMOKING. Prohibits smoking in state correctional facilities.		HLT, PSM
2917	RELATING TO HARBORS. Requires the department of transportation to allow a vessel with a mooring permit for Kewalo basin to moor in Honolulu harbor under certain conditions.		WLH, TRN, FIN
2918	RELATING TO THE HAWAII PENAL CODE. Establishes the offense of ticket scalping as a misdemeanor.		CPC, JUD
2919	RELATING TO AIR POLLUTION CONTROL. Prohibits cruise ships from burning bunker fuel as an air pollutant within five miles of Nawiliwili harbor; defines bunker fuel oil.		EEP, TAC, TRN
2920	RELATING TO FRAUD PREVENTION. Requires notary public to place seal over a succinct phrase describing document being notarized and to separately record a description of the document. Authorizes attorney general to adopt rules to prevent fraudulent use of notarized documents.		CPC, JUD
2921	RELATING TO KULEANA LANDS. Makes the office of Hawaiian affairs the trustee of any unclaimed kuleana lands. Prohibits quieting title to or claiming by adverse possession of any kuleana lands.		WLH, JUD
2922	RELATING TO FUEL TAX. Clarifies that the license tax on diesel fuel is 1 cent, rather than 2 cents if used in power-generating facilities.		TRN, EEP, FIN
2923	RELATING TO NINE HUNDRED NINETY-NINE YEAR HOMESTEAD LEASES. Reverts to the original intent that, notwithstanding any rights of the occupier or lessee, conveyance, devise, or bequest to the contrary, in the case of the death of any occupier or lessee under an existing certificate of occupation or homestead lease, the land will vest in the relations specified by law.		WLH, JUD
2924	RELATING TO THE WAIANAE COAST COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH CENTER. Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds for the expansion and renovation of Waianae Coast Comprehensive Health Center.		HLT, FIN
2925	RELATING TO LAND HAVING VALUE AS A RESOURCE TO THE STATE. Permitting the purchase of land through the Land Conservation Fund at the tax assessed value or the appraised value, whichever is higher.		WLH, FIN
2926	RELATING TO SUBSTITUTE TEACHERS. Establishes that the interim compensation of substitute teachers shall be tied to the salary or wage increases provided to licensed class II teachers of the department of education. Appropriates funds for retroactive pay and per diem increases for substitute teachers.		EDN, LAB, FIN
2927	RELATING TO PUBLIC WORKS. Amends public works law to require 3-year suspension for any government contractor that delays an investigation or falsifies records.		LAB, FIN
2928	RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE TWENTY-FOURTH REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT. Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects for the 24th representative district.