THE SENATE

THE TWENTY-EIGHTH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2015

 

COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY AND LABOR

Senator Gilbert S.C. Keith-Agaran, Chair

Senator Maile S.L. Shimabukuro, Vice Chair

 

NOTICE OF DECISION MAKING

 

 

DATE:

Wednesday, March 04, 2015

TIME:

9:15 am

PLACE:

Conference Room 016

State Capitol

415 South Beretania Street

 

 

A G E N D A

 

 

THE FOLLOWING MEASURES WERE PREVIOUSLY HEARD IN THEIR RESPECTIVE STANDING COMMITTEES:

 

SB 273, SD1

      (SSCR313)

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO IDENTIFICATION CARDS.

Allows the examiner of drivers to accept a sworn statement from a victim services organization, attorney, member of the clergy, correctional institution staff, or medical or health professional as documentary evidence of a homeless person's address, date and place of birth, occupation, or social security number.  (SD1)

 

HSH, JDL

SB 589, SD1

      (SSCR456)

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO INSURANCE.

Specifies the total number of property insurance policies that an insurer may non-renew in a lava zone during a state of emergency due to lava flow in that lava zone, with specific exceptions.  Specifies that if residential property insurance is unavailable due to a moratorium on insurance policies in a lava zone during a state of emergency due to lava flow, the Hawaii property insurance association shall remove its moratorium; permits the Hawaii property insurance association to issue new policies and provide a six-month waiting period for the policy coverage to take effect after the moratorium is removed.  (SD1)

 

CPN, JDL

SB 725, SD1

      (SSCR200)

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO DENTISTRY.

Authorizes the board of dental examiners to summarily suspend a license.  (SD1)

 

HTH/CPN, JDL

SB 736, SD1

      (SSCR224)

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO INSURANCE.

Requires an entity to send written notice to a health care provider at least thirty calendar days prior to initiating any recoupment or offset demand efforts.  Prohibits an entity from initiating any recoupment or offset efforts more than eighteen months after an initial claim payment was received by a health care provider, with specific exceptions.  Effective 07/01/2050.  (SD1)

 

CPN, JDL

SB 1071

      (SSCR521)

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO THE ACQUISITION OF FIREARMS BY LAWFUL PERMANENT RESIDENT ALIENS.

Makes it clear that the police may grant applications to acquire firearms to lawful permanent resident aliens.

 

TSI/PSM, JDL

 

 

 

 

DECISION MAKING MEETING ONLY, NO ORAL TESTIMONY WILL BE ACCEPTED.

 

Persons wishing to submit written testimony may do so up to 24 hours prior to the hearing.

 

Click here to submit testimony to the Senate Committee on Judiciary and Labor.

 

 

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.

 

If you require auxiliary aids or services to participate in the public hearing process (i.e. ASL or foreign language interpreter, or wheelchair accessibility), please contact the committee clerk at least 24 hours prior to the hearing so that arrangements can be made.

 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CALL THE COMMITTEE CLERK AT (808) 586-7344.

 

 

 

 

 

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Senator Gilbert S.C. Keith-Agaran

Chair