THE SENATE

THE TWENTY-NINTH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2017

 

COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE, CONSUMER PROTECTION, AND HEALTH

Senator Rosalyn H. Baker, Chair

Senator Clarence K. Nishihara, Vice Chair

 

NOTICE OF HEARING

 

 

DATE:

Tuesday, January 31, 2017

TIME:

9:00 a.m.

PLACE:

Conference Room 229

State Capitol

415 South Beretania Street

 

A G E N D A

 

SB 503

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO VICTIMS OF SEXUAL VIOLENCE.

Requires health insurance coverage for case management services by licensed mental health providers for victims of sexual violence.

 

CPH, WAM

SB 518

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE.

Requires licensees under the board of barbering and cosmetology to complete a one-time, one-hour training program on intimate partner violence awareness and education.

 

CPH, JDL

SB 403

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO HEALTH INSURANCE.

Ensures certain benefits under the federal Affordable Care Act are preserved under Hawaii law, including:  preserving the individual health insurance mandate for taxpayers; requiring all health insurance entities, including health benefits plans under chapter 87A, HRS, to include ten essential health care benefits, plus additional contraception and breastfeeding coverage benefits; extending dependent coverage for adult children until the children turn twenty-six years of age; prohibiting health insurance entities from imposing a preexisting condition exclusion; and prohibiting health insurance entities from using an individual's gender to determine premiums or contributions.

 

CPH, WAM

SB 399

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO HEALTH.

Increases the authorized benefit for acupuncture treatments allowed under personal injury protection benefits provided through motor vehicle insurance.  Ties increases in payments for acupuncture treatments in with annual increases, if any, to the medicare economic index.

 

CPH, WAM

SB 390

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO APPRAISAL MANAGEMENT COMPANIES.

Establishes an appraisal management company registration program within the department of commerce and consumer affairs to conform to minimum standards established under federal law and regulations.  Establishes registration requirements, standards, and penalties for violations.  Takes effect on 1/1/2018.

 

CPH, WAM

SB 394

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO REAL ESTATE BROKERS.

Creates criminal penalties for real estate brokers for improper deposit, segregation, or disposition of client trust account funds.  Requires the principal broker to report the client trust account number and name of the managing institution to the real estate commission.  Specifies that the principal broker must report changes in the account number and account location within ten days of a change.  Authorizes the real estate commission to take action in circuit court to enforce client trust account requirements.

 

CPH, JDL

SB 396

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO SECURITY INTERESTS IN REAL PROPERTY.

Requires a mortgagee or record assignee to provide to a mortgagor or borrower, upon full satisfaction of the mortgage and discharge of the secured debt, a reassignment or release of security interests in leases and rents that served as additional security for the mortgage.  Authorizes title insurers or underwritten title companies to make demands on mortgagees and, in the absence of compliance, to reassign or release mortgagees' security interests in leases and rents on behalf of the mortgagee or record assignee, under certain conditions.  Authorizes certain entities to institute an action in any circuit court to obtain the release or reassignment instrument in the absence of compliance of a mortgagee or record assignee.

 

CPH, JDL

SB 400

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO PLANNED COMMUNITY ASSOCIATIONS.

Permits portions of the common areas of a planned community association to be conveyed, subjected to a security interest, or dedicated to the appropriate county or to the State, if at least eighty per cent of the members of an association agree in writing to that action.  Limits the ability of the board of directors to impose excessive regular assessments or special assessments, except in emergency situations, without the approval of a majority of the members of an association.

 

CPH, WAM

SB 369

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO CONDOMINIUMS.

Prohibits associations of apartment owners, boards of directors, managing agents, resident managers, and condominium owners from retaliating or discriminating against a condominium owner who files a complaint; acts in furtherance of a complaint, report, or investigation of an alleged violation of the State's condominium laws or a condominium's governing documents; or exercises or attempts to exercise any right as a condominium owner.

 

CPH, JDL

 

 

 

 

Decision Making to follow, if time permits.

 

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Testimony may be submitted up to 24 hours prior to the start of the hearing.

 

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 Rosalyn H. Baker

Chair