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COPE Tracked Bills - Updated 02/13/2007
| Bill Title | Bill Num | Bill Summary | Text | Agenda | Hearing/Committee | Intro | CurrentStatus |
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| DAGS; Payroll Deduction; Bus Pass Purchase; County Coordination - Transportation | HB503 Status | Authorizes department of accounting and general services to implement payroll deduction for state employees who wish to buy city and county of Honolulu bus passes. Requires coordination with the city and county of Honolulu. | Text | Agenda | LAB-FIN 1-26-07 9:05 AM {LAB, FIN} | Chong, Ito, Lee, B. Oshiro, Waters, Yamane, Yamashita, Carroll, Chang, Herkes, Magaoay, M. Oshiro, Say, Sonson | H 1/26/07 - The committee(s) recommends that the measure be deferred. |
| Transportation - Transportation | SB889 Status | (DAGS; Payroll Deduction; Bus Pass Purchase; County Coordination) | Text | Agenda | TSG-IGM 2-8-07 1:15 PM {TSG/IGM} | Tokuda, Tsutsui, English, Baker, Inouye | |
| Aloha Tower Development Corporation - Transportation | HB250 Status | Allows the aloha tower development corporation to undertake projects for commercial harbors under the jurisdiction of department of transportation. | Text | Agenda | WLH-TRN 2-14-07 11:30 AM {WLH/TRN, FIN} | Ito, Chang, Karamatsu, Magaoay, Mizuno, Sagum, Chong, Herkes, Manahan, Yamane, Yamashita | |
| Environment, maritime shipping activities - Transportation | HB702 Status | Requires an environmental assessment for harbor improvements using public moneys; clarifies that traffic congestion is to be considered in an environmental impact statement process; requires the preparation of an environmental impact statement for the Hawaii superferry project; requires work to cease on Hawaii superferry until an environmental impact statement is accepted; makes appropriation to department of transportation to prepare an environmental impact statement. | Text | Agenda | EEP 2-6-07 10:00 AM {EEP, TRN, FIN} | Carroll, B. Oshiro, Waters, Chong, Ito, Lee | |
| Transportation - Transportation | HB721 Status | Allows private entities to enter into agreements to construct, improve, maintain, and operate transportation facilities in the State. | Text | Agenda | TRN 1-29-07 9:00 AM {TRN, EDB, FIN} | Cabanilla, Meyer, Mizuno, Caldwell, Karamatsu, Sonson, Tokioka, Ward | |
| Kunia Plantation Camp; Appropriation ($) - Social Services | HB832 Status | Requires the land survey division of the department of accounting and general services to establish the boundaries of the Del Monte employee housing at its Kunia camp comprising of approximately 50 acres of TMK: 1st Div: 9-2-005:002. Makes an appropriation to purchase the housing area for eventual resale to former Del Monte employees and retirees presently inhabiting the housing. | Text | Agenda | WLH 2-14-07 9:00 AM {WLH, FIN} | Magaoay, Berg, Cabanilla, Chang, Herkes, Ito, Karamatsu, Lee, Morita, Pine, Sonson, Yamane, Belatti, Bertram, Finnegan, Manahan, Mizuno, Rhoads, Sagum | H 2/6/07 - Bill scheduled to be heard by WLH on Wednesday, 02-14-07 at 9:00 am in House conference room 312. |
| Housing; Pineapple Employees and Retirees ($) - Social Services | HB835 Status | Establishes a program for low interest loans and grants for home acquisition and rehabilitation for displaced or affected pineapple plantation workers caused by the closure of Del Monte Fresh Produce. Establishes a rental assistance program for rental of safe, decent, and sanitary units for the displaced or affected workers in the private market. Provides supportive services to prepare displaced or affected workers for homeownership. Makes appropriations. | Text | Agenda | HSH 2-8-07 8:32 AM {HSH, FIN} | Magaoay, Berg, Cabanilla, Finnegan, Ito, Karamatsu, Manahan, Pine, Sagum, Sonson, Mizuno | H 2/5/07 - Bill scheduled to be heard by HSH on Thursday, 02-08-07 at 8:32 am in House conference room 329. |
| Kunia Plantation Camp; Appropriation ($) - Social Services | SB1687 Status | Kunia Plantation Camp; Appropriation ($) | Text | Agenda | CPH-WAH {} | Bunda | S 1/30/07 - Referred to CPH/WAH, WAM. |
| Housing; Pineapple Employees and Retirees ($) - Social Services | SB1836 Status | Text | Agenda | CPH-WAM {} | Bunda | S 1/30/07 - Referred to CPH, WAM. | |
| Long-Term Care Income Tax; Long-Term Care Income Tax Credit ($) - Social Services | HB148 Status | Establishes a long-term care income tax to pay for long-term care benefits; establishes long-term care income tax credit for amounts paid for purchase of long-term care insurance; clarifies that long-term care taxes are not state funds; makes appropriations. | Text | Agenda | HLT-HSH {HLT/HSH, CPC, FIN} | Chang, Evans, Karamatsu, Magaoay, Mizuno, Takai, Yamashita, Bertram, Herkes, Shimabukuro, Sonson, Souki, Takamine, Takumi, Tsuji, Yamane | H 1/25/07 - The committee(s) recommends that the measure be deferred. |
| Long Term Care - Social Services | SB258 Status | Establishes a long-term care income tax to pay for long-term care benefits; establishes long-term care income tax credit for amounts paid for purchase of long-term care insurance; clarifies that long-term care taxes are not state funds; makes appropriations. | Text | Agenda | HSP 2-6-07 1:30 PM {HSP, EDT, WAM} | Chun Oakland, Ihara, Fukunaga | |
| Prescription Drugs - Social Services | SB811 Status | (Rx Plus) | Text | Agenda | HTH 2-6-07 9:15 AM {HTH, CPH} | Ige, Sakamoto, Ihara, Fukunaga, Tokuda, Chun Oakland, Kim, Baker, Hemmings, Nishihara | |
| Prescription Drug Cost Containment And Affordable Access - Social Services | SB816 Status | RELATING TO PRESCRIPTION DRUG COST CONTAINMENT AND AFFORDABLE ACCESS. Prescription Drug Cost Containment; Disclosure of Gifts) (HTH/HSP, CPH) | Text | Agenda | HTH 2-9-07 1:15 PM {HTH/HSP, CPH/WAM} | Ige, Chun Oakland, Sakamoto, Ihara, Fukunaga, Kim, Baker, Hemmings, Nishihara | |
| Human Services; Self-Sufficiency Standard - Social Services | HB102 Status | Requires the department of human services to apply a self-sufficiency standard, to be established and updated annually by the department of business, economic development, and tourism to determine the amount of assistance allowance. Defines self-sufficiency standard. Requires reports to the legislature from the department of human services. | Text | Agenda | EDB 2-8-07 8:50 AM {HSH, EDB, FIN} | Shimabukuro, Hanohano, Belatti, Bertram | H 2/3/07 - Bill scheduled to be heard by EDB on Thursday, 02-08-07 at 8:50 am in House conference room 325. |
| Employment; Dislocated Workers; Notification; Penalty - Labor | HB1503 Status | Amends definitions of "closing", "covered establishment", and "employer". Requires employer to notify employees of divestiture. Imposes penalties for failure to notify employees of business closing | Text | Agenda | JUD 2-7-07 9:00 AM {LAB, JUD} | Takamine, Mizuno, Morita, Takai, Takumi, Belatti, Chang, Chong, Hanohano, M. Oshiro, Saiki, Souki, Tsuji, Yamane | H 2/7/07 - Passed Second Reading and referred to the committee(s) on JUD with none voting no (0) and none excused (0). H 2/6/07 - Reported from the committee on LAB (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 135), recommending passage on Second Reading and referral to the committee on JUD. |
| Crosscheck Requirements; Labor Representation - Labor | HB1561 Status | Establishes labor representation procedures in developments in which the State or counties have an ongoing proprietary interest | Text | Agenda | LAB-FIN 2-7-07 9:00 AM {LAB, FIN} | Sonson, Lee, M. Oshiro, Takumi, Belatti, Berg, Bertram, Brower, Cabanilla, Carroll, Chang, Chong, Hanohano, Ito, Magaoay, Manahan, Mckelvey, Mizuno, Morita, Souki, Tokioka, Yamane | H 2/7/07 - Passed Second Reading and referred to the committee(s) on FIN with none voting no (0) and none excused (0). H 2/6/07 - Reported from the committee on LAB (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 137), recommending passage on Second Reading and referral to the committee on FIN. |
| Occupational Safety And Health - Labor | SB253 Status | Prohibits an employer from subjecting an employee to an abusive work environment; provides legal recourse for employees who have been psychologically, physically, or economically harmed as a result of being deliberately subjected to an abusive work environment. | Text | Agenda | {} | Chun Oakland, Hee | |
| Hawaii Living Wage Law - Labor | HB33 Status | Requires private firms contracted by state government to pay covered workers a Hawaii living wage of at least $9.43 an hour, to begin on 7/1/07 and adjusted thereafter. Requires DLIR to implement living wage. Establishes temporary living wage advisory committee to evaluate law. Repealed 7/1/2011. | Text | Agenda | LAB 2-7-07 8:30 AM {EDB, LAB, FIN} | Takumi, Berg, Luke, Morita, Belatti, Takamine | H 2/7/07 - Reported from the committee on EDB (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 172) as amended in (HD 1), recommending passage on Second Reading and referral to the committee on LAB. |
| Economic development assistance to adhere to certain requirements regarding job creation, job retention - Labor | HB35 Status | Requires corporate recipients of economic development assistance to adhere to certain requirements regarding job creation, job retention, investment of capital; requires uniform application for assistance; creates mechanism to track compliance; provides for recapture upon non-compliance. | Text | Agenda | {EDB, LAB, FIN} | Takumi, Takamine, Wakai | |
| Family Leave; Accrued Paid Leave - Labor | HB1691 Status | Allows an employee to elect to use accrued paid leave, including vacation, personal, or family leave, for any part of the four-week period of family leave provided under the law | Text | Agenda | LAB-FIN 2-2-07 9:00 AM {LAB, FIN} | Sonson | H 2/2/07 - The committees on LAB recommend that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes were as follows: 12 Ayes: Representative(s) Sonson, Nakasone, Evans, Lee, Luke, McKelvey, Nishimoto, Souki, Takamine, Takumi, Pine; Ayes with reservations: Represe |
| Family Leave - Labor | SB1833 Status | Family Leave; Accrued Paid Leave Description: Relating to family leave. exhausting an employee's accrued vacation time while the employee is out on family leave, as current law allows either the employer or employee ...to decide which type of leave to apply to a period of family leave. The legislature | Text | Agenda | JDL 2-13-07 10:00 AM {} | Bunda, Chun Oakland, Sakamoto, Espero, Nishihara, Hemmings, Hee, Trimble, Gabbard, English, Menor, Fukunaga, Taniguchi | |
| Wage And Hour Law, Overtime - Labor | HB1873 Status | Raises from $2,000 to $2,800 a month the maximum monthly salary over which the wage and hour laws concerning overtime pay do not apply | Text | Agenda | {LAB, FIN} | Karamatsu (br) | |
| International Trade Agreements; State Approval - Labor | HB30 Status | Requires legislative consent to bind State to international trade agreements. Creates legislative points of contact to serve as liaisons with the federal government. Creates office of trade enforcement to monitor, analyze, and assess trade and creates citizens' commission on globalization to make recommendations. include, but not be limited to: (i) More effective early warning and layoff aversion measures; (ii) Increased assistance | Text | Agenda | INT-EDB 2-7-07 8:15 AM {INT/EDB, FIN} | Takumi, Belatti, Berg, Luke, Morita, Nishimoto, Takai, Saiki, Takamine, Wakai | H 2/1/07 - Bill scheduled for decision making on Wednesday, 02-07-07 at 8:15 am in conference room 329. |
| Service Contracts Workers; Living Wage Requirements - Labor | HB760 Status | Reduces the threshold for service contract worker wage provisions from $25,000 to $5,000; requires wages to be based on United States poverty guidelines for Hawaii; requires enforcement by the department of labor and industrial relations; extends additional rights to service contract employees. | Text | Agenda | EDB 2-12-07 9:00 AM {LAB, EDB, FIN} | Caldwell, B. Oshiro, Say | H 2/7/07 - Reported from the committee on LAB (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 163), recommending passage on Second Reading and referral to the committee on EDB. H 2/2/07 - The committees on LAB recommend that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes were as follows: 11 Ayes: Representative(s) Sonson, Nakasone, Evans, Lee, Luke, Nishimoto, Souki, Takamine, Takumi, Pine; Ayes with reservations: Representative(s) |
| Employees - Labor | HB758 Status | Requires employers to allow rest or meal periods for employees that work more than five consecutive hours. Clarify the term "other wages" by excluding the reasonable cost of board, lodging, or other facilities. Repeals the exclusion of persons whose employment is governed by the federal Fair Labor Standards Act from the definition of "employee" under the State's wage and hour law. | Text | Agenda | LAB 2-13-07 8:30 AM {LAB, FIN} | Caldwell, Say | |
| Employees - Labor | SB1059 Status | Requires employers to allow rest or meal periods for employees that work more than five consecutive hours. Clarify the term "other wages" by excluding the reasonable cost of board, lodging, or other facilities. Repeals the exclusion of persons whose employment is governed by the federal Fair Labor Standards Act from the definition of "employee" under the State's wage and hour law. | Text | Agenda | {JDL} | Hooser, Ihara, Taniguchi, Chun Oakland, Baker, Kokubun | |
| Minimum Wage; Consumer Price Index - Labor | HB1690 Status | Calculates minimum hourly wage in accordance with consumer price index. Increases minimum hourly wage to $7.75 per hour beginning July 1, 2007 | Text | Agenda | LAB-FIN {LAB, FIN} | Sonson | H 1/26/07 - Referred to LAB, FIN, referral sheet 5 |
| Minimum Wage Law; Tip Credit - Labor | SB879 Status | Establishes a tip credit formula that requires a tipped employee to be paid an hourly amount of not less than twenty-five per cent below the minimum wage. | Text | Agenda | {JDL, WAM} | Kim, Tsutsui, Sakamoto, Ige, Hemmings, Ihara, Fukunaga | |
| Minimum Hourly Wage - Labor | SB1958 Status | Calculates minimum hourly wage in accordance with consumer price index. Increases minimum hourly wage to $7.75 per hour beginning July 1, 2007. | Text | Agenda | {} | Hanabusa (br) | |
| Labor And Industrial Relations - Labor | SB119 Status | Protects each citizen's right to gainful employment regardless of non-membership in any labor organization. | Text | Agenda | {JDL} | Slom | |
| Employment Practices - Labor | HB52 Status | Prohibits employers from suspending, discharging, or discriminating against an employee for taking sick leave. | Text | Agenda | LAB-FIN 1-30-07 9:00 AM {LAB, FIN} | Sonson, Chang, Morita, Carroll, Green, Karamatsu, Mckelvey, Mizuno, Rhoads, Souki, Wakai | H 1/30/07 - The committee(s) recommends that the measure be deferred. |
| Leave Sharing - Labor | HB989 Status | Allows employees to donate sick leave credits in addition to vacation credits to assist employees who are on extended leave due to illness | Text | Agenda | LAB 2-2-07 9:00 AM {LAB, FIN} | Waters | |
| Employment Practices - Labor | HB1078 Status | Prohibits an employer from discharging or otherwise punishing an employee for the lawful use of the employee's accrued and available sick leave | Text | Agenda | {LAB, FIN} | Say | |
| Employment; Worker Retention; Worker Retention Trust Fund - Labor | HB1745 Status | Establishes job security requirements to protect employees when the business for which the employees work is sold or transferred to another employing entity. Adds definition of "divestiture". Creates worker retention trust fund to receive moneys from penalties and to be used to compensate dislocated workers | Text | Agenda | EDB 2-12-07 9:00 AM {LAB, EDB, FIN} | Takumi, Belatti, Hanohano, Mizuno, Morita, Takai, Yamane, Chong, M. Oshiro, Souki, Takamine | H 2/6/07 - The committees on LAB recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 11 Ayes: Representative(s) Sonson, Nakasone, Lee, Luke, McKelvey, Nishimoto, Souki, Takumi; Ayes with reservations: Representative(s) Evans, |
| Employment - Labor | HB388 Status | Requires successor employers to retain incumbent employees upon the divestiture, sale, or acquisition of a business. Enables certain successor companies that acquire a business to also acquire its predecessor's unemployment insurance contribution assessment rate through 12/31/07. | Text | Agenda | LAB-EDB 2-2-07 9:00 AM {LAB, EDB, FIN} | M. Oshiro | H 2/2/07 - The committee(s) recommends that the measure be deferred. |
| Employment Security - Labor | HB518 Status | Removes the maximum age restriction on the unemployment insurance contribution exemption for an individual who works for the individual's parent. Lowers the maximum taxable wage base to the federal minimum of $7,000, for calendar years 2007 and 2008. | Text | Agenda | {LAB, FIN} | Nakasone | |
| Employment Security; Unemployment Insurance - Labor | HB860 Status | Provides temporary tax relief to employers by lowering the maximum taxable wage base for calendar years 2008 and 2009. Increases unemployment benefits for eligible individuals. Excludes the payment of benefits to individuals terminated from employment for wilful or wanton misconduct. | Text | Agenda | LAB-FIN {LAB, FIN} | Sonson, Lee, Bertram, Caldwell, Chong, Herkes, Magaoay, Mckelvey, M. Oshiro, Souki, Tsuji | H 1/22/07 - Referred to LAB, FIN, referral sheet 3 |
| Employment Security; Unemployment Insurance - Labor | HB1502 Status | Provides temporary tax relief to employers by lowering the maximum taxable wage base for calendar years 2008 and 2009. Increases unemployment benefits for eligible individuals. Excludes the payment of benefits to individuals terminated from employment f | Text | Agenda | LAB 2-13-07 8:30 AM {LAB, FIN} | Takamine, Hanohano, Lee, Takumi, Chang, Herkes, Mckelvey, Souki, Tsuji | H 1/24/07 - Referred to LAB, FIN, referral sheet 4 |
| Employment Security. Tax Relief to employers. - Labor | SB963 Status | (Employment Security; Unemployment Insurance) the employment office or any duly authorized representative of the department of labor and industrial relations, or to accept suitable work when offered the employment office or any duly authorized representative of the department of labor and industrial relations, or to accept suitable work when offered position offered is vacant due directly to a strike, lockout, or other labor dispute; (ii) If the wages, union or to resign from or refrain from joining any bona fide labor organization. (4) Labor dispute. For | Text | Agenda | JDL 2-13-07 10:00 AM {JDL, WAM} | Hee (br) | |
| Paycheck Protection - Labor | SB198 Status | Protects employees from paycheck deductions or withholdings they do not specifically authorize in writing. | Text | Agenda | {} | Slom | |
| Crosscheck Requirements; Labor Representation - Labor | SB749 Status | Establishes labor representation procedures in developments in which the State or counties have an ongoing proprietary interest. | Text | Agenda | TSG-JDL 2-1-07 1:15 PM {TSG, JDL} | Hooser | S 2/1/07 - The committee(s) on TSG recommend(s) that the measure be HELD. The votes in TSG were as follows: 4 Aye(s): Senator(s) Nishihara, Kim, Tsutsui, Trimble; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 0 Excused: none. |
| Employment Practices; Whistleblowers' Protection ($) - Labor | HB887 Status | Provides additional protection to public employees who report violations of the law, waste, and gross misconduct, incompetence, or inefficiency; expands the state ombudsman's responsibilities regarding whistleblowers; and appropriates funds. | Text | Agenda | JUD 1-30-07 9:00 AM {LAB, JUD, FIN} | Waters | H 2/5/07 - Passed Second Reading and referred to the committee(s) on JUD with none voting no (0) and Takamine excused (1). |
| Whistleblowers' Protection - Labor | SB1075 Status | (Employment Practices; Whistleblowers' Protection) | Text | Agenda | {JDL, WAM} | Ihara, Kim, Chun Oakland | |
| Workers' Compensation Law - Labor | HB53 Status | Subjects the employer-selected "independent medical examiner" to general medical malpractice standards as applicable in Hawaii. | Text | Agenda | LAB-JUD 1-26-07 9:05 AM {LAB, JUD, FIN} | Sonson, Mizuno, Chang, Souki | H 1/26/07 - The committee(s) recommends that the measure be deferred. |
| Workers' Compensation - Labor | HB305 Status | Authorizes recovery of attorney's fees and costs under workers' compensation law by any person who successfully defends any charge of workers' compensation insurance fraud, except criminal cases, against the person who initiates and prosecutes the action. Authorizes the insurance commissioner to investigate complaints and prosecute cases of workers' compensation fraud, provided that the complaint is against an insurance carrier, a self-insured employer, or a full-insured employer. | Text | Agenda | LAB-CPH 2-2-07 9:00 AM {LAB, CPC/JUD} | B. Oshiro, Caldwell, Sonson | H 2/2/07 - The committee(s) recommends that the measure be deferred. |
| Workers' Compensation - Labor | HB316 Status | Excludes services performed by an individual who is a member of a limited liability company or a partner of a limited liability partnership who has a distributional interest in the company or partnership of at least fifty percent, a partner of a partnership, and a sole proprietor from the definition of "employment" under the workers' compensation law. | Text | Agenda | LAB-EDB 1-26-07 9:05 AM {LAB, EDB} | Yamashita, Caldwell, Chong, Karamatsu, Magaoay, Wakai, Yamane, Chang, Herkes, Nakasone, Say, Tsuji | H 1/26/07 - The committee(s) recommends that the measure be deferred. |
| Workers' Compensation Law - Labor | HB763 Status | Amends workers' compensation law, including limiting an employer's ability to terminate benefits, authorizing the recovery of attorney's fees and costs by the injured employee, specifying procedures for medical examinations by the employer's physician, establishing fines for violations, requiring the reporting of denials of claims and relevant information, and further restricting the director of labor and industrial relations' rulemaking authority. | Text | Agenda | LAB-FIN 2-2-07 9:00 AM {LAB, CPC, FIN} | Caldwell, B. Oshiro, Say | H 2/6/07 - The committee(s) recommends that the measure be deferred until 02-13-07. |
| Workers' Compensation Law - Labor | SB1060 Status | (Workers' Compensation Law) | Text | Agenda | JDL {JDL} | Hooser, Chun Oakland, Ihara, Taniguchi, Baker, Kokubun | S 1/24/07 - Referred to JDL. |
| Occupational Safety and Health; Abusive Work Environments - Health | HB868 Status | Prohibits an employer from subjecting an employee to an abusive work environment; provides legal recourse for employees who have been psychologically, physically, or economically harmed as a result of being deliberately subjected to an abusive work environment. | Text | Agenda | LAB-EDB 1-30-07 9:00 AM {LAB, EDB, JUD} | Sonson, Ito, Magaoay, Manahan, Mizuno | H 1/30/07 - The committee(s) recommends that the measure be deferred. |
| Prescription Drugs; I-SaveRx; Governor; Reimportation - Health | HB7 Status | Directs governor to establish the State of Hawaii's participation in the I-SaveRx prescription drug program to provide residents with increased access to affordable drugs. | Text | Agenda | HLT-HSH 2-13-07 8:30 AM {HLT/HSH, CPC, FIN} | Takumi, Green, Thielen | H 2/6/07 - Passed Second Reading and referred to the committee(s) on CPC with none voting no (0) and Pine, Souki excused (2). |
| Rx Plus - Health | HB10 Status | Makes rebate agreements between drug manufacturers and department of human services mandatory. Requires the department to inform health care providers about drug costs for manufacturers with rebate agreements and those without rebate agreements. | Text | Agenda | CPC {HSH/HLT, CPC, FIN} | Takumi, Belatti, Berg, Lee, Luke, Morita, Nishimoto, Saiki, Takai, Thielen, Rhoads, Wakai | H 1/31/07 - Passed Second Reading and referred to the committee(s) on CPC with none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Berg, Takamine excused (2). |
| Prescription Drug Cost Containment; Disclosure of Gifts - Health | HB12 Status | Requires the director of human services to establish a pharmacy best practices and cost control program including medicaid and other state public assistance health benefits plans, in which any public and private health plan may participate. Includes a prescription drug preferred list and prior authorization review process. Requires drug manufacturers to disclose economic benefits of $25 or more provided to persons who prescribe, dispense, or purchase prescription drugs. | Text | Agenda | FIN 2-7-07 {HLT/HSH, CPC, FIN} | Takumi, Belatti, Berg, Lee, Luke, Morita, Nishimoto, Saiki, Takai, Thielen, Rhoads, Wakai | H 2/7/07 - Re-referred to HLT/HSH, FIN, referral sheet 14 H 2/6/07 - Passed Second Reading as amended in (HD 1) and referred to the committee(s) on CPC with none voting no (0) and Pine, Souki excused (2). |
| Health Care Services; General Excise Tax ($) - Health | HB223 Status | Earmarks General Excise Taxes generated from health care service providers to support subsidies for hospital on-call services, emergency transport services, rural hospital health care services, affordable health care for part-time workers who are ineligible for employer provided health insurance under the Prepaid Health Care Act, and support services for people without health insurance. | Text | Agenda | LAB 2-2-07 {HLT/HSH, LAB, FIN} | Green, Hanohano, Herkes, Mizuno, Takai, Tsuji, Bertram, Souki | H 2/2/07 - Passed Second Reading as amended in (HD 1) and referred to the committee(s) on LAB with none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Har, Herkes excused (2). |
| Health Insurance Coverage; Public Employees; Emergency Hires - Health | HB393 Status | Requires the State and counties to provide health insurance to its emergency and temporary hires and part-time employees who work fewer than twenty hours a week who would otherwise not have health insurance coverage. | Text | Agenda | FIN 2-5-07 9:00 AM {LAB, FIN} | M. Oshiro, Carroll, Chang, Chong, Hanohano, Karamatsu, Lee, Magaoay, Manahan, Mizuno, Nishimoto, Sagum, Tokioka, Yamane, Yamashita, Brower, Rhoads, Souki | H 2/5/07 - Passed Second Reading as amended in (HD 1) and referred to the committee(s) on FIN with none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Takamine excused (1). |
| Health Insurance Rate Regulation - Health | HB1318 Status | Provides for the oversight by the Insurance Commissioner of health insurance premium rates. Allows the Commissioner to disapprove rates if they are excessive, inadequate, or unfairly discriminatory. | Text | Agenda | {HLT, CPC, FIN} | Say (br) | |
| Public Work Projects; Hours and Wages; Violations - Government | HB853 Status | Clarifies that a single violation refers to each separate project where the department of labor and industrial relations finds a contractor has failed to comply with chapter 104 | Text | Agenda | EDB 2-6-07 9:00 AM {LAB, EDB, FIN} | Sonson, Caldwell, Chong, Magaoay, M. Oshiro, Belatti, Berg, Bertram, Cabanilla, Chang, Green, Herkes, Karamatsu, Lee, Manahan, Mckelvey, Mizuno, Morita, Nishimoto, Rhoads, Souki, Tsuji, Wakai | H 2/7/07 - Reported from the committee on LAB (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 164) as amended in (HD 1), recommending passage on Second Reading and referral to the committee on EDB. H 2/6/07 - The committees on LAB recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 11 Ayes: Representative(s) Sonson, Nakasone, Evans, Har, Lee, Luke, McKelvey, Nishimoto, Souki, Takamine, Takumi; Ayes with reservations: no |
| Public Work Projects; Hours and Wages; Violations - Government | HB861 Status | Requires that, for public works projects that are not directly caused by a governmental contracting agency, the department of labor and industrial relations be the responsible agency for ensuring compliance with the State's prevailing wage law. Requires the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds for these projects to be promptly reported to the department of labor and industrial relations. | Text | Agenda | EDB 2-8-07 8:50 AM {LAB, EDB, FIN} | Sonson, Caldwell, Chong, Lee, Magaoay, M. Oshiro, Berg, Bertram, Evans, Herkes, Manahan, Nishimoto, Souki | H 2/3/07 - Bill scheduled to be heard by EDB on Thursday, 02-08-07 at 8:50 am in House conference room 325. |
| Hawaii Public Procurement Code; International Trade Agreements - Government | HB31 Status | Prohibits state officials from binding the State to government procurement rules of an international trade agreement without legislative action. | Text | Agenda | INT-EDB 2-7-07 8:15 AM {INT/EDB, FIN} | Takumi, Belatti, Berg, Lee, Luke, Morita, Nishimoto, Takai, Rhoads, Takamine, Wakai | H 2/1/07 - Bill scheduled for decision making on Wednesday, 02-07-07 at 8:15 am in conference room 329. |
| Coal Burning; Air Pollution Control - Environment | SB1247 Status | Prohibits the issuing of permits for new covered sources that burn or consume coal for energy needs. Prohibits the issuing of permits for modified existing sources that would increase the burning or consumption of coal for energy needs. | Text | Agenda | ENE-CPH 2-6-07 2:45 PM {} | Menor, Gabbard, Chun Oakland, Kim | S 2/1/07 - The committee(s) on ENE has scheduled a public hearing on 02-06-07 at 2:45 pm in conference room 414. |
| Vocational Agriculture And Landscape Education - Education | SB90 Status | Establishes a Vocational Agriculture and Landscape Education Program to ensure the continued supply of qualified individuals to support and maintain the agriculture and landscape industries. | Text | Agenda | WAH 2-7-07 2:45 PM {} | Sakamoto, Tokuda | |
| Agricultural Lands; Agribusiness; Kunia ($) - Economy | SB837 Status | Authorizes the agribusiness development corporation to issue revenue bonds to purchase agricultural land in Kunia from private entities. Appropriates funds to purchase the lands. Enables the agribusiness development corporation to contract with banks to provide lease management services. Allows corporation to lease agricultural lands in Kunia for up to 55 years. | Text | Agenda | WAH 2-7-07 2:45 PM {WAH, WAM} | Kokubun | S 1/31/07 - The committee(s) on WAH deferred the measure until 02-07-07 at 2:45 pm in conference room 414. |
| Aloha Tower Development Corporation - Economy | HB1275 Status | Establishes a formal partnership between the Aloha Tower Development Corporation (ATDC) and the DOT - Harbors Division for the development of selected harbor infrastructure projects on an expedited basis to meet the critical demand for harbor expansion and upgrades. | Text | Agenda | {WLH/TRN, FIN} | Say (br) | |
| Transient Accommodations - Economy | HB572 Status | Requires construction of all transient accommodations to be in compliance with the International Building Code. | Text | Agenda | TAC-EDB 2-7-07 9:00 AM {TAC/EDB, WLH} | Yamane, Brower, Ito, Manahan, Chang, Evans, Tsuji | |
| Environment - Economy | SB1276 Status | further finds that harbor improvements necessarily involve shipping activities and that new maritime shipping activities could have serious effects on vehicular traffic, transport | Text | Agenda | TIA-ENE 2-14-07 1:30 PM {} | Tsutsui, English, Baker, Hooser, Kokubun | |
| International Trade Agreements - | SB1031 Status | (International Trade Agreements; State Approval) | Text | Agenda | {TIA/IGM, JDL} | English, Chun Oakland, Menor | |
| Hawaii Public Procurement Code; International Trade Agreements - | SB1039 Status | (Hawaii Public Procurement Code; International Trade Agreements) | Text | Agenda | TIA-TSG 2-7-07 2:45 PM {TIA/TSG, JDL} | English, Chun Oakland, Nishihara, Kokubun, Baker, Hee, Menor | S 2/2/07 - The committee(s) on TIA/TSG has scheduled a public hearing on 02-07-07 at 2:45 pm in conference room 224. |
| I-saverx Prescription Drug Program - | SB817 Status | (Prescription Drugs; I-SaveRx; Governor; Reimportation) | Text | Agenda | HTH-HSP 2-5-07 1:15 PM {HTH/HSP, JDL} | Ige, Chun Oakland, Sakamoto, Kim, Ihara, Baker, Fukunaga, Espero, Nishihara, Hemmings |