THE TWENTY-EIGHTH LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2015
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Senator Jill N. Tokuda, Chair |
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Senator Ronald D. Kouchi, Vice Chair |
NOTICE OF DECISION MAKING
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DATE: |
Monday, April 06, 2015 |
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9:05am |
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PLACE: |
Conference Room 211 State Capitol 415 South Beretania Street |
A G E N D A
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RELATING TO SMALL BUSINESS. Makes an appropriation to the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism for the Small Business Regulatory Review Board to hire additional staff. (HB774 HD1)
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EDT, WAM |
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RELATING TO TECHNOLOGY. Authorizes and appropriates funds for HTDC to provide grants to businesses with a federal small business innovation research phase II or III award. Establishes and appropriates funds for the Hawaii manufacturing capital grant program. (SD1)
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EDT, WAM |
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RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII. Appropriates moneys for positions and materials to comply with Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 and the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2013. (HB457 HD1)
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HEA/JDL, WAM |
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RELATING TO COLLECTIVE BARGAINING. Establishes UH graduate student assistants as collective bargaining unit (15), effective 12/31/2016. Requires the director of human resources development to establish a working group to submit recommendations on the rights and privileges of individuals in collective bargaining unit (15) to the legislature prior to the 2016 regular session. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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HEA/JDL, WAM |
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RELATING TO THE AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION SERVICE. Appropriates funds for critical positions in the cooperative extension service administered by the UH College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources. (SD1)
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HEA/AGL, WAM |
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RELATING TO INFRASTRUCTURE. Allows counties to use community facilities districts as a method for repayment of infrastructure development loans administered by the Hawaii housing finance and development corporation to help support infrastructure for affordable housing developments.
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HSH/PSM, WAM |
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RELATING TO COMMUNITY CARE FOSTER FAMILY HOMES. Authorizes the Department of Health to allow two individuals in a relationship with each other as a married or civil union couple to be cared for in the same community care foster family home if certain requirements are met. (SD1)
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HSH, WAM |
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RELATING TO THE HAWAII PUBLIC HOUSING AUTHORITY. Expands the Hawaii Public Housing Authority's power to dispose of property seized, abandoned, or remaining upon eviction in and at public housing projects, elder or elderly housing, or state low-income housing projects. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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HSH/CPN, WAM |
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RELATING TO THE HAWAII HOUSING FINANCE AND DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION. Authorizes the HHFDC Board of Directors to set the salary of its Executive Director. (SD1)
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HSH/JDL, WAM |
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RELATING TO PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES. Establishes within the department of human services a two-year working disabled adults pilot program to be repealed on June 30, 2017. Establishes a medicaid buy-in program for workers with disabilities to be implemented once the pilot program is complete. Appropriates funds for the working disabled adults pilot program. (SD1)
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HSH, WAM |
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RELATING TO THE INTERIM ASSISTANCE REIMBURSEMENT SPECIAL FUND. Establishes the Interim Assistance Reimbursement Special Fund into which reimbursements received from the Social Security Administration will be deposited for state-funded financial assistance payments and programs to assist individuals to qualify for supplemental security income. (HB1432 HD2)
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HSH, WAM |
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RELATING TO CONSUMER PROTECTION. Requires health insurers, mutual benefit societies, and health maintenance organizations to post and update information on drugs formularies via a public website and toll-free number for the benefit of insureds, potential insureds, and providers. Establishes a formulary accessibility working group. Effective 7/1/2112. (SD1)
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HTH/CPN, WAM |
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RELATING TO HEALTH. Appropriates funds for the purchase of one ambulance unit and operational costs for one ambulance unit to service the area of Kakaako. (HB464 HD1)
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HTH, WAM |
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RELATING TO HEALTH. Makes an appropriation for one advanced life support ambulance to be based in Makalei on the island of Hawaii and to be used from 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m., and to include a vehicle, equipment, and personnel costs. (HB481 HD1)
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HTH, WAM |
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RELATING TO HEALTH. Appropriates funds to establish an advanced life support ambulance to be based in Puna on the island of Hawaii, including the acquisition of a vehicle and equipment and personnel costs for state-certified emergency medical services personnel. (HB851 HD1)
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HTH, WAM |
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RELATING TO THE CIVIL MONETARY PENALTY SPECIAL FUND. Establishes a special fund to deposit moneys from federal fines assessed against skilled nursing facilities and home health agencies during inspections conducted by the Department of Health on behalf of the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Appropriates funds to DOH. Effective 7/1/2030. (SD1)
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HTH/HSH, WAM |
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RELATING TO EMERGENCY MEDICAL CARE. Appropriates moneys to operate an additional emergency medical services unit in the Moanalua, Aliamanu, Red Hill, Salt Lake, and Foster Village areas. (HB1063 HD2)
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HTH, WAM |
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RELATING TO REMNANTS. Clarifies the definition of the term "remnant" for purposes relating to the disposition of public lands. Prohibits disposition as a remnant of land that contains resources necessary for the exercise of native Hawaiian subsistence, cultural, or religious practices; resources that should be protected or conserved; or public access to public lands. Takes effect on 7/1/2030. (SD1)
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HWN/WTL, WAM |
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RELATING TO WRONGFUL IMPRISONMENT. Provides compensation and services to persons who can demonstrate they were wrongfully convicted of a crime and imprisoned. Effective 01/01/2016. (SD1)
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JDL, WAM |
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MAKING APPROPRIATIONS TO THE DEPARTMENT OF THE PROSECUTING ATTORNEY OF THE COUNTY OF MAUI. Appropriates funds to the department of the prosecuting attorney of the county of Maui for the prosecution of cases under the drug court and mental health court programs.
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PSM/JDL, WAM |
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Decision making meeting only, no oral testimony will be accepted.
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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 Jill N. Tokuda Chair |
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