THE SENATE

THE TWENTY-SEVENTH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2013

 

COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY AND LABOR

Senator Clayton Hee, Chair

Senator Maile S.L. Shimabukuro, Vice Chair

 

NOTICE OF HEARING

 

DATE:

Tuesday, 26th February 2013

TIME:

10:00 a.m.

PLACE:

Conference Room 016

State Capitol

415 South Beretania Street

 

A G E N D A

 

SB 504, SD1

      (SSCR240)

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO PROCUREMENT.

Prohibits governmental procurement contracts of any amount that are exclusively for the services of engineers, architects, surveyors, or landscape architects, from requiring the contractor to defend the governmental body against liability not arising from the contractor's own negligence or fault.  (SD1)

 

EGH/CPN, JDL

SB 635

      Status & Testimony

 

RELATING TO ANIMAL CRUELTY.

Establishes the offenses of cruelty to a law enforcement animal in the first and second degrees.  Adds a definition for "law enforcement animal".

 

JDL

SB 532

            Status & Testimony

 

RELATING TO BREASTFEEDING IN THE WORKPLACE.

Requires certain employers to provide reasonable time and a clean location for breastfeeding employees to express breast milk in privacy.  Requires covered employers to post a notice.  Establishes a civil fine.

 

JDL

 

SB 286

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO REAPPORTIONMENT.

Defines "permanent resident" for legislative reapportionment as any individual counted as a usual resident in the last preceding U.S. census within the State of Hawaii.

 

JDL

SB 225

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO ELECTIONS.

Adds a definition of "residency" to rules for determining residency.

 

JDL

SB 478

      Status & Testimony

PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF HAWAII RELATING TO RESIDENCY REQUIREMENTS FOR MEMBERS OF THE LEGISLATURE.

Proposes to amend the state constitution to require candidates for the state senate or house of representatives to be a resident of the State for not less than five years and a resident of the legislative district from which the person seeks to be elected for not less than twelve consecutive months prior to the next general election.

 

JDL

SB 848

            Status & Testimony

 

RELATING TO FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE.

Requires a legislator to disclose income from sources that have an interest in legislative outcomes, if a single source is $25,000 or more, or represents an amount equal to 25% or more of the legislator's total annual income from all sources, excluding legislative salary.

 

JDL

 

SB 472

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO MARIJUANA.

Establishes a civil violation for possession of one ounce or less of marijuana that is subject to a fine of not more than $100.

 

JDL

SB 1127

      (SSCR308)

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO SALES OF ELECTRONIC SMOKING DEVICES TO PERSONS UNDER 18 YEARS OF AGE.

Adds electronic smoking devices to tobacco as products that are unlawful to sell to or be purchased by persons under eighteen years of age; and requires the additional listing of electronic smoking devices to sales prohibition signage.

 

HTH, JDL

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Decision Making to follow, if time permits.

 

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FOR AMENDED NOTICES:  Measures that have been deleted are stricken through and measures that have been added are underscored.  If a measure is both underscored and stricken through, that measure has been deleted from the agenda.

 

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Senator Clayton Hee

Chair