HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

THE TWENTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2004

COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY

Rep. Eric G. Hamakawa, Chair

Rep. Blake K. Oshiro, Vice Chair

Rep. Kirk Caldwell

Rep. Alex M. Sonson

Rep. Jerry L. Chang

Rep. Joseph M. Souki

Rep. Robert N. Herkes

Rep. Lynn Finnegan

Rep. Ken Ito

Rep. Barbara Marumoto

Rep. Ezra R. Kanoho

Rep. David A. Pendleton

Rep. Marilyn B. Lee

Rep. Cynthia Thielen

Rep. Marcus R. Oshiro

NOTICE OF HEARING

DATE:

Friday, February 13, 2004

TIME:

2:15 p.m.

PLACE:

Conference Room 325

State Capitol

415 South Beretania Street

A G E N D A

HB 1795

HD1

(HSCR35-04)

RELATING TO FOSTER CUSTODY.

Requires department of human services to establish a protocol to implement a good faith and diligent effort to identify and locate extended family members for possible foster custody placement for a child.

HSH, JUD, FIN

HB 1862

RELATING TO CHILD SUPPORT ENFORCEMENT.

Allows filing civil action in court to require child support enforcement agency to enforce support orders and comply with state and federal laws regarding disbursement and notification regarding child support accounts. Pays reasonable attorney's fees and litigation costs if successful.

JUD, FIN

HB 1863

HD1

(HSCR81-04)

RELATING TO FAMILIES.

Expands jurisdiction of family court. Requires use of Ohana Conferencing in contested cases. Encourages use of voluntary service plans. Protects parents' rights. Requires necessary services to be provided to children placed in permanent custody of Department of Human Services. Appropriates funds. (HB1863 HD1)

HSH, JUD, FIN

HB 2025

HD1

(HSCR8-04)

RELATING TO EQUAL PAY.

Prohibits employers from discriminating between employees on the basis of sex by paying wages to an employee at a rate less than the rate at which the employer pays wages to another employee of the opposite sex for the same or substantially similar work.

LAB, JUD, FIN

HB 2238

RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLE DRIVER LICENSING.

Creates an additional fee for the issuance of a driver's license to cover costs incurred by the police department related to payment of compensation to prepare for hearing and proceedings related to a DUI offense.

JUD, FIN

HB 2294

RELATING TO FEES FOR ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS IN TRAFFIC CASES.

Increases the administrative costs imposed for processing of traffic cases and provides that additional moneys collected will be deposited in the judiciary computer systems special fund.

JUD, FIN

HB 2976

RELATING TO THE WEED AND SEED STRATEGY.

Makes an appropriation for the Weed and Seed strategy.

JUD, FIN

HB 2979

RELATING TO THE OFFICE OF PUBLIC INTEGRITY.

Establishes the Office of Public Integrity to consolidate the ethics commission, campaign spending commission, office of elections, and office of the ombudsman to increase efficiency in the delivery of services and maximize each agency's ability to ensure fairness and integrity in government.

JUD, FIN

HB 2070

RELATING TO ELECTIONS.

Establishes a comprehensive public funding program for state house of representatives candidates who agree to abide by campaign contribution and expenditure limits and meet other criteria.

JUD, FIN

HB 2333

RELATING TO PUBLIC RECORDS.

Permits an agency to ask the Office of Information Practices to place limits on a records requester whose established pattern of conduct amounts to an abuse of a process.

JUD

DECISION MAKING TO FOLLOW

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CALL THE COMMITTEE CLERK AT 586-8480.

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Rep. Eric G. Hamakawa

Chair