THE SENATE

THE TWENTY-EIGHTH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2016

 

COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC SAFETY, INTERGOVERNMENTAL, AND MILITARY AFFAIRS

Senator Clarence K. Nishihara, Chair

Senator Will Espero, Vice Chair

 

NOTICE OF HEARING

 

 

DATE:

Tuesday, February 16, 2016

TIME:

1:18 p.m.

PLACE:

Conference Room 229

State Capitol

415 South Beretania Street

 

A G E N D A

 

SB 3112

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO VIETNAM WAR COMMEMORATION.

Appropriates funds for programs, ceremonies, and activities commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Vietnam War.

 

PSM, WAM

SB 3113

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE.

Appropriates funds for the establishment of a veterans services counselor IV position within the Office of Veterans' Services to assist all veterans, with a primary focus on female veterans.

 

PSM, WAM

SB 2256

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLE DRIVER LICENSING.

Authorizes issuance of driver's licenses with the notation of "veteran" for persons who are veterans of the Korean conflict.

 

PSM, TRE

SB 2824

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO THE AEROSPACE ADVISORY COMMITTEE.

Reduces the number of members on the Aerospace Advisory Committee from fifteen to thirteen.  Allows the members of the Aerospace Advisory Committee to elect their own committee chair from members appointed by the Governor to this body.  Effective July 1, 2016.

 

PSM, WAM

SB 2825

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO THE PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL SPACE CENTER FOR EXPLORATION SYSTEMS.

Eliminates the ex-officio National Aeronautics and Space Administration representative from the Pacific International Space Center for Exploration Systems Board.  Effective July 1, 2016.

 

PSM

SB 2917

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES.

Creates an exemption from Hawai'i Revised Statutes §343-5 for a jail facility to be built adjacent to Halawa Correctional Facility and funding therefore and makes clarifying amendments.

 

PSM, WAM

SB 3061

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO PUBLIC SAFETY.

Allows for and appropriates funds for the state department of defense Hawaii emergency management agency to assemble twenty-five civilian community teams to assist communities during emergencies and disasters and to hire a coordinator to help establish, train, and assist the teams.

 

PSM, WAM

 

 

 

 

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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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CALL THE COMMITTEE CLERK AT (808) 586-6824.

 

 

 

 

 

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Senator Clarence K. Nishihara

Chair