THE SENATE

THE THIRTIETH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2019

 

COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS

Senator Donovan M. Dela Cruz, Chair

Senator Gilbert S.C. Keith-Agaran, Vice Chair

 

NOTICE OF HEARING

 

 

DATE:

Thursday, April 4, 2019

TIME:

1:40 PM

PLACE:

Conference Room 211

State Capitol

415 South Beretania Street

 

A G E N D A

 

HB 773, HD2, SD1

      Proposed SD2

      (SSCR1402)

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, AND TOURISM.

Requires and appropriates funds for the department of business, economic development, and tourism to develop annual regional economic plans for each county to identify regional economic priorities and industry clusters and jobs within those priorities and clusters. Requires the workforce development council to develop, based on the findings of the regional economic plans, K-16 pathways and programs in each public school and public charter school that prepare students to fill the priority jobs identified in the regional economic plans. Requires participating schools to communicate opportunities to enroll in K-16 pathways, receive industry certifications, and place students in qualified internship programs to prepare students for jobs identified by regional economic plans as priorities in each geographical area. (Proposed SD2)

 

Copies of the proposed SD 2 are available from the Senate Document Center and on the Legislature's website:  www.capitol.hawaii.gov.

 

 

EET, WAM

HB 624, HD1, SD1

      Proposed SD2

      (SSCR1401)

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO THE STRUCTURE OF GOVERNMENT.

Part I: Purpose section. Part II: Establishes the Hawaii innovation and technology corporation (HITC) and consolidates powers, duties, and programs of HTDC and HSDC under HITC. Part III: Makes conforming amendments. Part IV: Repeals HSDC and transfers all duties, employees, rules, records, and equipment from HTDC and HSDC to HITC. Part V: Appropriates funds for staffing for HITC. Part VI: Establishes the Hawaii broadband office and appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2021; parts V and VI effective 7/1/2019. (Proposed SD2)

 

Copies of the proposed SD 2 are available from the Senate Document Center and on the Legislature's website:  www.capitol.hawaii.gov.

 

 

EET/HRE, WAM

HB 1248, HD1, SD1

      Proposed SD2

      (SSCR1377)

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO ELECTIONS.

Enacts voting by mail uniformly across all counties for all elections commencing in 2022. Establishes a limited number of voter service centers that would remain open from the tenth business day preceding an election through the day of the election to receive personal delivery of mail-in ballots, accommodate voters with special needs, offer same day registration and voting, and provide other election services. Allows for additional places of deposit for personal delivery of mail-in ballots. Appropriates funds for the implementation and administration of the election by mail program. Requires the office of elections to submit a report to the legislature prior to the convening of each regular session from 2020 through 2025, regarding the implementation of a vote by mail system. Requires the Chief Election Officer, with assistance from the county clerks for elections involving county offices and countywide ballot issues, to publish an online voters' pamphlet on the Office of Elections' public website and publish and distribute postcards notifying voters of the online voters' pamphlet website address. Appropriates moneys to allow the chief election officer to produce and distribute an online voters' pamphlet and voters' pamphlet postcards for each election. (SD2 Proposed)

 

Copies of the proposed SD 2 are available from the Senate Document Center and on the Legislature's website:  www.capitol.hawaii.gov.

 

 

JDC, WAM

HB 765, HD1, SD1

      Proposed SD2

      (SSCR1274)

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO COASTAL PLANNING.

Requires incorporation of sea level rise projections in all new plans and updates to existing state plans generated under the Hawaii State Planning Act. Appropriates funds for the facilitation of communications related to environmental protection, clean waters, and ecosystem preservation of the Ala Wai watershed and surrounding areas. (SD2 PROPOSED)

 

Copies of the proposed SD 2 are available from the Senate Document Center and on the Legislature's website:  www.capitol.hawaii.gov.

 

 

WTL/AEN, WAM

 


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Senator Donovan M. Dela Cruz

Chair