COMMITTEE ON CONSUMER PROTECTION AND COMMERCE

Monday, March 1, 2004

3:00 p.m.

Conference Room 325; State Capitol

AGENDA:

HB 2143

RELATING TO BUSINESS REGULATION.

Expands the definition of gift certificate to reflect changes in retail industry technology; extends the minimum life of certificates to seven years; provides that consumers may obtain cash after utilizing 90 percent of the value of the certificate; prohibits service charges or dormancy fees; no longer requires issuers to report unclaimed amounts under the Unclaimed Property Act (HB2143 HD1).

CPC

HB 648

RELATING TO REAL PROPERTY LEASE CONTRACTS.

Requires, in leasehold renegotiations, that a rent based on fair market value shall apply even if the value is lower than existing rent and the lease contract bars the lowering of rent upon renegotiation. Allows a one-time rent adjustment to reflect fair market value for any existing lease renegotiated after January 1, 1990.

CPC

Decision making to follow.

 

Decision making only:

HB 1259

RELATING TO THE UNIFORM COMMERCIAL CODE.

CPC

HB 2974

RELATING TO PEST CONTROL.

CPC

HB 1762

RELATING TO INSURANCE.

CPC

HB 2773

RELATING TO CONDOMINIUM PROPERTY REGIMES.

CPC

HB 2774

RELATING TO SUBDIVISIONS.

CPC

HB 1729

RELATING TO CONDOMINIUM PROPERTY REGIMES.

CPC

HB 2634

(HSCR341-04)

RELATING TO SECURITIES FOR THE PROTECTION OF PUBLIC FUNDS.

EDB, CPC

HB 2966 HD2

(HSCR396-04)

RELATING TO ELECTRICITY.

 

EDB, EEP, CPC

HB 2969 HD1

(HSCR440-04)

RELATING TO SOLAR ENERGY DEVICES.

 

EEP, CPC

HB 2048 HD1

(HSCR7-04)

RELATING TO NET ENERGY METERING.

 

EEP, CPC

HB 2981

(HSCR186-04)

RELATING TO NURSES.

HLT, CPC

HB 2093

(HSCR400-04)

RELATING TO DENTAL PROFESSIONAL LICENSING.

HLT, CPC

HB 2798

(HSCR336-04)

RELATING TO THE PRACTICE OF PHARMACY.

 

HLT, CPC

HB 2092 HD1

(HSCR270-04)

RELATING TO MEDICINE AND SURGERY.

HLT, CPC

HB 2539 HD1

(HSCR258-04)

RELATING TO HOSPITALS.

HLT, CPC

HB 1472

Proposed HD1

(Available for review in Room 320)

RELATING TO TIME SHARES.

This carryover bill from 2003 will be used as a vehicle to address issues relating to the resale of timeshare units.

CPC

 

 

COMMITTEE ON CONSUMER PROTECTION AND COMMERCE AND COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY

Monday, March 1, 2004

3:15 p.m.

Conference Room 325; State Capitol

AGENDA:

HB 1839

HD1

(HSCR284-04)

RELATING TO PAIN PATIENT'S BILL OF RIGHTS.

Gives rights to pain patients. Authorizes doctors to prescribe medically necessary dose of controlled substance to treat intractable pain. Protects doctor from disciplinary action. Allows refusal to so prescribe but requires informing patient of other doctors who use opiates to treat chronic intractable pain. (HB1839 HD1)

HLT, CPC/JUD

HB 2130

(HSCR335-04)

RELATING TO MEDICAL RECORDS.

Amends the confidentiality provisions of the mental health, mental illness, drug addiction, and alcoholism law by changing "insurer" to "provider" to indicate that the provider may inform the patient of a reimbursement claim.

HLT, CPC/JUD

HB 2098

(HSCR274-04)

RELATING TO MEDICAL RECORDS.

Provides for the release of medical records of a deceased person to next of kin.

HLT, CPC/JUD

Decision making to follow.

 

Decision making only:

HB 1987

(HSCR30-04)

RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLES.

 

TRN, CPC/JUD

HB 2633

RELATING TO MONOPOLIES; RESTRAINT OF TRADE.

CPC/JUD

HB 2768

RELATING TO TRADE REGULATION.

CPC/JUD

HB 2788

RELATING TO MORTGAGE BROKERS AND SOLICITORS.

CPC/JUD

 

 

COMMITTEE ON FINANCE

Monday, March 1, 2004

Conference Room 308; State Capitol

3:30 p.m. AGENDA:

HB 2722

RELATING TO THE ALA WAI WATERSHED IMPROVEMENTS.

Appropriates funds for vegetative cover and construction of retention basins for discharge into Manoa and Palolo streams.

FIN

HB 432

RELATING TO STREAM EROSION.

Appropriates funds for a study to prevent erosion of the banks of Kawa Stream, Kaneohe, Oahu.

FIN

HB 1956

HD1

(HSCR456-04)

RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL LAND PRESERVATION.

Provides incentives for the ownership of important agricultural lands, including exemption from county subdivision ordinances for leasehold subdivisions, transferable development credits, real property and agricultural infrastructure improvement tax credits, and exemption from the use tax.

AGR/WLH, FIN

HB 2849

(HSCR351-04)

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR ORGANIC AGRICULTURE.

Appropriates funds to support the establishment of an organic agriculture center and improve food security in Waianae.

AGR, FIN

HB 2800

HD1

(HSCR455-04)

RELATING TO IMPORTANT AGRICULTURAL LANDS.

Establishes the process to identify important agricultural lands (IAL) as required by Art. XI, Section 3 of the State Constitution; requires a study to provide incentives; clarifies that the identification of IALs is not contingent upon the enactment of incentives; makes effective on 7-1-2010; appropriates funds; and provides for IAL leasehold subdivision.

WLH/AGR, FIN

HB 2529

HD1

(HSCR308-04)

RELATING TO HAZARDOUS LAND.

Requires each county to identify hazardous land areas; adopt standards for building in hazardous land areas, and enact ordinances to implement standards.

WLH, JUD, FIN

HB 1946

(HSCR47-04)

RELATING TO BEACH RESTORATION AND PROTECTION.

Requires DLNR to adopt rules. Allows taxpayers whose state income tax refund for any taxable year is $2 or more to designate $1 of the same to be paid into the beach restoration special fund.

WLH, FIN

HB 1793

HD1

(HSCR50-04)

RELATING TO LAND EXCHANGE.

Directs the Department of Land and Natural Resources to enter into negotiations with the George Galbraith Estate for a land exchange of private agricultural lands situated north of Wahiawa, Oahu.

WLH, FIN

HB 2716

(HSCR428-04)

RELATING TO THE SOUTH KONA WILDERNESS AREA.

Appropriates funds to DLNR to conduct an appraisal of private lands contained within the South Kona Wilderness Area for the purpose of purchasing the land or conducting a land exchange.

WLH, FIN

HB 2528

HD1

(HSCR84-04)

RELATING TO CONSERVATION LAND.

Provides an unspecified percentage conservation land tax credit for land, not exceeding an unspecified value, donated to and accepted by the State that is situated in a conservation land use district or for a land owner who voluntarily reclassifies residentially zoned land to conservation and initiates the rezoning process.

WLH, FIN

Decision making to follow.

 

4:45 p.m. AGENDA:

HB 1335

HD2

(HSCR542)

RELATING TO TUITION WAIVERS.

Requires all UH students of Hawaiian descent to receive partial to full tuition waivers.

HED, WLH, FIN

HB 2815

(HSCR235-04)

RELATING TO EDUCATION.

Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds to take advantage of the Qualified Zone Academy Bond Program.

EDN, FIN

HB 2156

HD1

(HSCR419-04)

RELATING TO EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION.

Establishes the Governor's School Readiness Commission to develop the Open Doors Expansion Program.

HSH, FIN

HB 2022

HD1

(HSCR422-04)

RELATING TO GENERAL ASSISTANCE.

Requires review of medical records, prior to claim denial, if no mental, physical, or combination of disability is determined. Makes determination of no disability rebuttable. Requires DHS to give legible prompt notice of treatment recommendations, and gives treating doctors authority to determine whether the person has complied with treatment recommendations. Combines physical and mental disabilities for GA disability determinations.

HSH/HLT, FIN

HB 2796

(HSCR420-04)

RELATING TO STATE FUNDS.

Appropriates funds from the emergency and budget reserve fund for various health and human services programs, including grants, for FY 2004-2005 only.

HSH/HLT, FIN

HB 1860

(HSCR188-04)

RELATING TO CHILD ABUSE AND NEGLECT.

Authorizes an income tax return check-off with funds going into the Hawaii children's trust fund, domestic violence prevention special fund, and spouse and child abuse special accounts.

HSH, FIN

HB 1885

(HSCR300-04)

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR A YOUTH SUMMIT.

Appropriates funds for a youth summit to address ideas and concerns of interest to Hawaii's youth.

HSH, FIN

HB 2088

HD1

(HSCR423-04)

RELATING TO CRITICAL ACCESS HOSPITALS.

Substitutes the Department of Health for Hawaii Health Systems Corporation for state matching funds for rural hospitals. Makes permanent definition of "critical access hospital", payment methodology to these hospitals using medicare reasonable cost principles, and exemption of these hospitals from medicaid reimbursement equity.

HSH/HLT, FIN

HB 2662

(HSCR210-04)

RELATING TO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.

Establishes the Military Community Infrastructure Development Revolving Loan Fund to help military communities develop infrastructure to minimize the possibility of or the adverse effects of the closure or reduction in capacity of a military installation on the military community.

PSM, FIN

HB 2191

(HSCR217-04)

RELATING TO ENTERPRISE ZONES.

Removes provisions that restrict telecommunications from being designated a qualified business for enterprise zone purposes.

EDB, FIN

Decision making to follow.

 

Decision making only:

HCR 4

REQUESTING THE AUDITOR TO ASSESS THE SOCIAL AND FINANCIAL EFFECTS OF REQUIRING HEALTH INSURERS TO OFFER COVERAGE FOR SMOKING CESSATION.

HLT, CPC, FIN

HCR 5

REQUESTING THE AUDITOR TO ASSESS THE SOCIAL AND FINANCIAL EFFECTS OF REQUIRING HEALTH INSURERS TO OFFER COVERAGE FOR OBESITY REDUCTION PROGRAMS FOR CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS.

HLT, CPC, FIN

HCR 6

REQUESTING THE AUDITOR TO ASSESS THE SOCIAL AND FINANCIAL EFFECTS OF REQUIRING HEALTH INSURERS TO OFFER COVERAGE FOR ORAL HEALTH AND HYGIENE.

HLT, CPC, FIN

 

COMMITTEE ON LABOR AND PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT

Tuesday, March 2, 2004

8:30 a.m.

Conference Room 309; State Capitol

AGENDA:

Decision making only (heard on February 27, 2004):

HB 1552

RELATING TO THE HEALTH BENEFITS TRUST FUND.

Prohibits trustees of the Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund board from serving on any other board during the trustee's term of office.

LAB

HB 2463

RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYEES.

Eliminates licensure as a performance requirement.

LAB

HB 2464

RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYEES.

Clarifies that when a civil service employee is released from a new position for inefficiency during the probationary period, that employee may be returned to a vacant comparable position, as determined by the employer, or the employee's former position as currently provided.

LAB

HB 2465

RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYEES.

Allows an employee hired through departmental internal recruitment to be subsequently appointed to the permanent position.

LAB

HB 2645

HD1

(HSCR228-04)

RELATING TO EDUCATION.

Exempts retired DOE teachers holding a teaching license from any prerequisite coursework that the department requires of other substitute teachers. (HB2645 HD1)

EDN, LAB

HB 2740

RELATING TO NOTIFICATION OF EMPLOYMENT CHANGES.

Extends from sixty to ninety days the period by which employers must notify employees and the director of labor and industrial relations of its intention to close, partially close, or relocate. Requires employers to provide written notification of the discontinuance, termination, or reduction of housing or housing assistance to employees and the director of labor and industrial relations.

LAB

COMMITTEE ON FINANCE

Tuesday, March 2, 2004

10:00 a.m.

Conference Room 308; State Capitol

AGENDA:

HB 1780

(HSCR22-04)

RELATING TO EMPLOYMENT.

Limits paid leave for government employees who attend parent-teacher conferences to two (2) hours, and clarifies that government employees are eligible to receive paid leave to attend the parent-teacher conferences of adult children who are attending a public or private school in grades kindergarten through twelve.

LAB, FIN

HB 1924

(HSCR152-04)

RELATING TO TEACHER COMPENSATION.

Requires teachers to receive their normal annual increment or longevity increase, as the case may be, for a year's satisfactory service in any fiscal year that an increase in the appropriate salary schedule is effected, except as provided by law.

LAB/EDN, FIN

HB 1778

HD1

(HSCR148-04)

RELATING TO WAGES.

Authorizes an employer to furnish to an employee an electronic record of an employee's total gross compensation, the amount and purpose of each deduction, total net compensation, date of payment, and pay period covered, in lieu of a printed, typewritten, or handwritten record, upon receipt of written authorization from the employee.

LAB, FIN

HB 2025

HD2

(HSCR304-04)

RELATING TO EQUAL PAY.

Prohibits employers from discriminating on the basis of gender 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 equal work, except when the difference in compensation is based on a seniority system, a merit system, a system that measures earnings by quantity or quality of production, a bona fide occupational qualification, or a differential based on any factor other than sex.

LAB, JUD, FIN

HB 2873

HD1

(HSCR282-04)

RELATING TO HEALTH SAVINGS ACCOUNTS.

Establishes a mechanism for individuals to open health savings accounts.

LAB/HLT, FIN

HB 2408

HD1

(HSCR383-04)

RELATING TO INSURANCE.

Allows health insurers to treat a bona fide trade association and its members as a single group for the purpose of issuing a health insurance policy, while allowing members of the bona fide trade association to opt out and obtain their own insurance. Prohibits the health insurer from requiring the association to offer only that insurer's plan. Defines bona fide trade association.

LAB/HLT, CPC, FIN

Decision making to follow.

 

COMMITTEE ON HEALTH

Tuesday, March 2, 2004

10:00 a.m.

Conference Room 329; State Capitol

AGENDA:

HB 557

HD1

RELATING TO HEALTH.

To clarify the primacy of department of health rules regarding the sale of fish. (HD1)

HLT

HCR 16

REQUESTING THE AUDITOR TO ASSESS THE SOCIAL AND FINANCIAL EFFECTS OF REQUIRING HEALTH INSURERS TO OFFER COVERAGE FOR COGNITIVE REHABILITATION.

HLT, CPC, FIN

Decision making to follow.

 

COMMITTEE ON ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

Tuesday, March 2, 2004

11:00 a.m.

Conference Room 312; State Capitol

AGENDA:

Decision making only:

HB 1840

RELATING TO AIR POLLUTION CONTROL.

Authorizes the Director of Health to regulate the discharge of fugitive dust both within and beyond a property lot line.

EEP