COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND COMMITTEE ON CONSUMER PROTECTION AND COMMERCE

Wednesday, February 4, 2004

1:30 p.m.

Conference Room 325; State Capitol

AGENDA:

HB 1797

RELATING TO OPTOMETRY.

Allows therapeutically certified optometrists to prescribe and use, under certain restrictions, pharmaceuticals approved by the optometry board; continues to prohibit the use of controlled substances.

HLT/CPC

HB 2005

RELATING TO PRESCRIPTION DRUGS.

Changes the name of the Rx program to Rx plus; adds new definitions of "covered drugs", "participating retail pharmacy", and "qualified resident"; establishes requirements to determine qualified residents; requires department of human services to conduct ongoing quality assurance activities; clarifies consequences applicable to nonparticipating manufacturers.

HLT/CPC, FIN

HB 2096

RELATING TO A PRESCRIPTION DRUG REPOSITORY PROGRAM.

Establishes the prescription drug repository program to receive and dispense donated prescription drugs to needy persons.

HLT/CPC, FIN

HB 1869

RELATING TO HEALTH INSURANCE.

Provides for parity of insurance payments for mental health and substance abuse benefits as for treatment of physical conditions.

CPC/HLT, FIN

Decision making to follow.

 

 

COMMITTEE ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND BUSINESS CONCERNS

Thursday, February 5, 2004

8:30 a.m.

Conference Room 325; State Capitol

AGENDA:

HB 2760

RELATING TO SEAWATER AIR CONDITIONING DEVELOPMENT PERMITTING.

Establishes a consolidated permit application and review process for the development of seawater air conditioning/thermal energy storage cooling systems to streamline the approval and permit process.

EDB/EEP, CPC, FIN

HB 2978

RELATING TO A CONSOLIDATED PERMIT APPLICATION PROCESS.

Creates a consolidated permit application and review process for the development of SWAC/TES district cooling systems to streamline the approval and permit process.

EDB/EEP, CPC, FIN

HB 2435

RELATING TO AN EXEMPTION FOR NON-FACILITIES BASED COMPETITIVE LOCAL EXCHANGE TELECOMMUNICATIONS PROVIDERS FROM STATUTORY FINANCING REQUIREMENTS.

Exempts non-facilities based resellers of telecommunications services from the prior PUC approval process for long-term financing.

EDB, CPC, FIN

HB 2437

RELATING TO CABLE TELEVISION.

Authorizes DCCA to implement a 3-year pilot program to provide additional funding to support public, educational, and governmental cable television access in underserved areas. Appropriates $800,000 for the initial year of the pilot program.

EDB, CPC, FIN

HB 2966

RELATING TO ELECTRICITY.

Allows government agencies to engage in wheeling, a concept in which electricity generated by a non-utility producer is transmitted over electric public utility transmission lines to another location.

EDB, EEP, CPC

HB 2761

RELATING TO CONSTRUCTION.

Enacts a construction professional conciliation panel law.

EDB, CPC/JUD, FIN

HB 2701

RELATING TO LABOR DISPUTES.

Prohibits a person involved in a labor dispute from hiring persons from the mainland to take the place of workers on strike.

EDB, LAB, JUD

HB 1732

RELATING TO TAXES.

Provides a tax credit for companies that implement employee assistance programs.

EDB, FIN

HB 1733

RELATING TO TAXES.

Adds a new income tax credit for taxpayers with employee worksite wellness programs.

EDB, FIN

HB 2576

RELATING TO CAPITAL FORMATION.

Adopts new capital formation incentives.

EDB, FIN

HB 2396

RELATING TO CAPITAL INVESTMENTS.

Proposes a 20% refundable tax credit for scientific research by qualified research and development companies. Clarifies the existing investment tax credit. Extends the technology infrastructure renovation tax credit. Proposes to establish a 20% business-research institute tax credit. Creates the Hawaii Private Investment Fund Program to increase the availability of equity and debt capital for the emerging, expanding, and restructuring enterprises. Appropriates $20 million from the Hawaii Strategic Development Corporation revolving fund for the operation of Program.

EDB, FIN

HB 2765

RELATING TO CORPORATE ACCOUNTABILITY.

Establishes safeguards to encourage corporate accountability and provides mechanisms to ensure efficient use of state funds given to corporations in the form of economic incentives.

EDB, JUD, FIN

Decision making to follow.

 

 

COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND COMMITTEE ON LABOR AND PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT

Thursday, February 5, 2004

8:30 a.m.

Conference Room 309; State Capitol

AGENDA:

HB 2871

RELATING TO TOBACCO.

Prohibits smoking by public employees in public schools, on school transport, and at school-sponsored functions anywhere, except if at school function in an enclosed room not located on school premises and no student is present. Excludes smoking in public schools as a negotiable item for all public employees.

HLT/LAB, EDN

Decision making to follow.

 

COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC SAFETY AND MILITARY AFFAIRS AND COMMITTEE ON LABOR AND PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT

Thursday, February 5, 2004

9:00 a.m.

Conference Room 309; State Capitol

AGENDA:

HB 1905

RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYEES.

Establishes that if a public employee's active military pay is less than the public employee's nonmilitary pay, then the public employer shall pay the public employee the difference while on active military duty; provided that the active military duty deployment extends beyond 30 days.

PSM/LAB, FIN

HB 2804

RELATING TO THE HAWAII NATIONAL GUARD YOUTH CHALLENGE ACADEMY.

Makes the Hawaii national guard youth challenge academy a charter school. Transfers funding for public school student transfers to the academy. Exempts academy instructors from collective bargaining law and teacher licensing requirements.

PSM/LAB, EDN, FIN

HB 2504

RELATING TO SECURITY AT HAWAII HEALTH SYSTEMS CORPORATION HOSPITALS.

Transfers the functions and authority of uniformed security employees and security contracts for the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation from the Department of Public Safety to the Corporation.

PSM/LAB, FIN

HB 1805

RELATING TO THE STATE PLAN.

Clarifies the policy of the State to actively encourage the maintenance and expansion of federal investment in military facilities in the State.

PSM, WLH, FIN

HB 1806

RELATING TO MILITARY INSTALLATIONS.

Requires notification to the commanding officer of the military installation of: (1) zoning changes and (2) district boundary amendments for land within 3,000 feet of a military installation.

PSM, WLH, FIN

HB 1807

RELATING TO THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT LAW.

Requires an environmental assessment for any actions that propose any county general plan amendment or state land use commission petition to classify lands within 3,000 feet of any military installation.

PSM, WLH, FIN

HB 2367

RELATING TO CHAPTER 846E, HAWAII REVISED STATUTES.

Requires child pornographers to register as sex offenders.

PSM, JUD, FIN

HB 2368

PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE I OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF HAWAII.

Proposes a constitutional amendment to provide the public with the right of access to registration information regarding persons convicted of crimes against children and persons convicted of sexual offenses. Allows the Legislature to define registration information and set forth access procedures.

PSM, JUD, FIN

HB 2711

RELATING TO PUBLIC SAFETY.

Establishes a task force to develop programs and support services for children of incarcerated parents, as well as programs to strengthen the family bond; requires the department of public safety to implement the task force's recommendations.

PSM, HSH, FIN

HB 2803

RELATING TO DRUG ENFORCEMENT.

Adds nine investigators to the Drug Enforcement Division of the Department of Public Safety.

PSM, FIN

HB 2868

RELATING TO PUBLIC SAFETY.

Establishes a statewide first responder building mapping information system.

PSM, JUD, FIN

HB 2614

RELATING TO AN ALOHA AINA PATROL.

Establishes an aloha aina patrol function within the police department of all counties having an excess of 500,000 population, to provide security and assistance to tourists, and to act as ambassadors of aloha; pilot program to sunset 6/30/07; makes grant-in-aid appropriation out of transient accommodations tax trust fund.

PSM, TAC, FIN

Decision making to follow.

 

 

COMMITTEE ON HEALTH

Thursday, February 5, 2004

9:00 a.m.

Conference Room 329; State Capitol

AGENDA:

HB 2006

RELATING TO SUPPLEMENTAL MENTAL ILLNESS AND ALCOHOL AND DRUG DEPENDENCE INSURANCE BENEFITS.

Requires all accident and sickness contracts and policies issued by mutual benefit societies and health maintenance organizations to include at the option of the employer mental health parity supplemental coverage; establishes an income tax credit for credit for employers who purchase mental health parity supplemental coverage for their employees.

HLT, CPC, FIN

HB 2405

RELATING TO MENTAL HEALTH.

Includes obsessive compulsive disorder, dissociative disorder, delusional disorder, and major depression, within the definition of "serious mental illness."

HLT, CPC, FIN

HB 2415

RELATING TO THE PATIENTS' BILL OF RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES ACT.

Authorizes the payment of a flat fee of $400 to a physician member of an external review panel.

HLT, CPC, FIN

HB 2469

RELATING TO CRIMINAL HISTORY RECORD CHECKS OF PERSONS PROVIDING SERVICES TO MENTALLY ILL ADULTS.

Authorizes the DOH to expand its capacity to obtain verifiable information regarding criminal history records of potential employees and contract providers to both mental health divisions.

HLT, LAB, JUD

HB 2473

RELATING TO PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING SERVICES.

Establishes the Public Health Nursing Services Program, and sets forth the roles and functions of the Program in the delivery of direct clinical nursing services.

HLT, JUD, FIN

HB 2476

RELATING TO RADIOLOGIC TECHNOLOGY.

Changes the title of "executive secretary" to "executive officer" and amends duties of the executive officer.

HLT, LAB, JUD

HB 2477

RELATING TO DRUG DEMAND REDUCTION ASSESSMENTS.

Establishes permanently the Drug Demand Reduction Assessments Special Fund.

HLT, JUD, FIN

HB 2480

RELATING TO PUBLIC MEETINGS.

Allows public meetings by video teleconference to continue even if the video connectivity is interrupted or stopped.

HLT, JUD, FIN

HB 2482

RELATING TO HOSPITAL AND PROFESSIONAL LIABILITY RISK FINANCING.

Requires the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation to organize a domestic captive insurance company to provide malpractice coverage to the Department of Health, the John A. Burns School of Medicine, and other governmental entities or quasi-governmental entities of the State involved in the provision of health care.

HLT, CPC, FIN

HB 2485

RELATING TO WEST NILE VIRUS.

Short form measure to improve the State's ability to detect, prevent, and respond to West Nile Virus.

HLT, EEP, FIN

HB 2526

RELATING TO THE CENTER FOR NURSING SPECIAL FUND.

Clarifies that the Center for Nursing Special Fund is to be administered by the UH.

HLT, HED, FIN

HB 2536

RELATING TO HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATIONS.

Requires HMOs to offer enrollees a plan to choose any willing health care provider without referral or prior HMO authorization if the provider is located in the same county and agrees to HMO terms and conditions. Allows HMO to impose higher deductible, copayment, and insurance premium for the plan.

HLT, CPC, FIN

HB 2839

RELATING TO MANDATORY HEALTH COVERAGE FOR COGNITIVE REHABILITATION.

Requires insurers, hospital and medical services plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage for cognitive rehabilitation therapy for injury as a result of traumatic brain injury to their policyholders, members, and enrollees.

HLT, CPC, FIN

Decision making to follow.

 

COMMITTEE ON ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AND COMMITTEE ON INTERNATIONAL

Thursday, February 5, 2004

9:00 a.m.

Conference Room 312; State Capitol

AGENDA:

The purpose of this informational briefing is a presentation by Mr. Peter Riggs, Director of the Forum on Democracy & Trade entitled "What's at Stake for States in the Trade Debate?" Mr. Riggs will discuss how U.S. trade commitments open up new opportunities for States, but also impact States' regulatory powers. In his presentation, Mr. Riggs will address:

The Forum on Democracy & Trade is a nonprofit organization that provides legal and technical assistance, and networking support, to State legislators and other public officials working on trade issues in their jurisdictions. The Forum is pro-trade and pro-democracy, dedicated to ensuring that States can use trade to advance economic development while safeguarding local authority.

 

 

COMMITTEE ON ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

Thursday, February 5, 2004

11:00 a.m.

Conference Room 312; State Capitol

AGENDA:

HB 2013

RELATING TO POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHERS.

Prohibits a person from manufacturing, processing, or distributing in commerce a product, or a flame-retarded part of a product, containing more than 0.1% pentaBDE or octaBDE on and after January 1, 2008.

EEP, CPC

Decision making to follow.

 

Decision making only:

HB 1848

RELATING TO EXCEPTIONAL TREES.

Establishes a tax deduction for exceptional trees.

EEP, FIN

HB 468

RELATING TO ENERGY.

Short form bill relating to energy.

EEP

HB 1692

RELATING TO RENEWABLE ENERGY.

Provides for the organization of renewable energy cooperative corporations to generate, transmit, and sell electricity. Authorizes issuance of revenue bonds to finance costs related to constructing, upgrading, and acquiring transmission facilities. Exempts cooperatives from PUC oversight.

EEP, CPC, FIN