HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

THE TWENTY-SIXTH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2011

 

COMMITTEE ON CONSUMER PROTECTION & COMMERCE

Rep. Robert N. Herkes, Chair

Rep. Ryan I. Yamane, Vice Chair

 

Rep. Tom Brower

Rep. Hermina M. Morita

Rep. Rida T.R.  Cabanilla

Rep. Blake K. Oshiro

Rep. Mele Carroll

Rep. Joseph M. Souki

Rep. Ken Ito

Rep. Clift Tsuji

Rep. Gilbert S.C. Keith-Agaran

Rep. Corinne W.L. Ching

Rep. Sylvia Luke

Rep. Barbara C. Marumoto

Rep. Angus L.K. McKelvey

Rep. Cynthia Thielen

 

COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY

Rep. Gilbert S.C. Keith-Agaran, Chair

Rep. Karl Rhoads, Vice Chair

 

Rep. Tom Brower

Rep. Hermina M. Morita

Rep. Rida T.R.  Cabanilla

Rep. Blake K. Oshiro

Rep. Mele Carroll

Rep. Joseph M. Souki

Rep. Robert N. Herkes

Rep. Clift Tsuji

Rep. Ken Ito

Rep. George R. Fontaine

Rep. Sylvia Luke

Rep. Barbara C. Marumoto

Rep. Angus L.K. McKelvey

Rep. Cynthia Thielen

 

NOTICE OF HEARING

 

DATE:

Monday, February 7, 2011

TIME:

2:00 pm

PLACE:

Conference Room 325

State Capitol

415 South Beretania Street

 

A G E N D A

 

HB 1050

Status

RELATING TO CONSUMER PROTECTION.

Updates regulation of legal service plans.

 

CPC/JUD, FIN

HB 1051

Status

RELATING TO INSURANCE.

Adopts model regulations of National Association of Insurance Commissioners in conformity with senior investor protections in section 989A of the federal Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010.

 

CPC/JUD, FIN

HB 1052

Status

RELATING TO INSURANCE.

Adopts amendments to the insurance code to comply with the federal Nonadmitted and Reinsurance Reform Act of 2010 relating to surplus lines insurance and participate in a multi-state cooperative to collect surplus lines premium taxes and fees and distribute to the individual states the taxes and fees they assessed.

 

CPC/JUD, FIN

HB 1340

Status

RELATING TO ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURES.

Establishes an administrative rules review pilot program that requires the department of commerce and consumer affairs to examine its rules, and to identify and repeal obsolete, cumbersome, unnecessary, or overly restrictive rules.

 

CPC/JUD, FIN

HB 1220

Status

RELATING TO INFORMATION PRIVACY.

Provides a private cause of action for a victim who, as a result of an information security breach, suffers a risk of harm from identity theft.  Amends the type of notice that must be given to a person affected by a security breach.  Defines identity theft.

 

CPC/JUD, FIN

HB 1006

Status

RELATING TO THE SOLICITATION OF FUNDS FROM THE PUBLIC.

Amends chapter 467B, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to allow service of process by substitute service, allows the Attorney General to accept assurances of discontinuance and to issue cease and desist orders for violations of the law, amends and clarifies the charity registration exemptions, and clarifies the time period for the filing of a charity's annual financial report.

 

CPC/JUD, FIN

HB 972

Status

RELATING TO GASOLINE DEALERS.

Allows the Public Utilities Commission to impose a civil penalty against gasoline dealers who violate the law without the instituting of a civil action.

 

CPC/JUD, FIN

HB 337

Status

RELATING TO ATHLETIC TRAINERS.

Creates registration requirements and qualifications for athletic trainers in this State; provides exemptions; prescribes penalties.

 

CPC/JUD, FIN

HB 939

Status

RELATING TO CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATIONS.

Reduces checkbox options for a condominium association's standard proxy form by deleting the option's relating to giving proxies to the board as a whole and the directors present at the meeting.

 

CPC/JUD

 

 

 

DECISION MAKING TO FOLLOW

 

 

DECISION MAKING ONLY

 

The following measure was previously heard on Monday, January 31, 2011.  No public testimony will be accepted.

 

HB 319

Status

RELATING TO OWNER-BUILDERS.

Clarifies that owners with open permits are qualified for an exemption for the sale or lease of a property by an owner-builder in the event of hardship.

 

CPC

 

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·     Measure number; and

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Rep. Gilbert Keith-Agaran

Chair

 

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Rep. Robert N. Herkes

Chair