Bills of interest for MONDAY, March 21, 2011

COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION
9:00 A.M.
ROOM 309
HEARING NOTICE

SB1328, SD1 RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLE REGISTRATION
Allows for an unspecified increase in the State motor vehicle registration fee and deposits the money into the State Highway Fund. (TSUTSUI BR)

SB1329, SD1 RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLE WEIGHT TAX
Allows for increase in the State motor vehicle weight tax and deposits the money into the State Highway Fund. (TSUTSUI BR)

SB1324, SD2 RELATING TO RENTAL MOTOR VEHICLE SURCHARGE TAX
Adjusts the rental motor vehicle surcharge tax. Makes appropriation from the state highway fund. (TSUTSUI BR)


COMMITTEE ON HUMAN SERVICES/COMMITTEE ON HEALTH
9:00 A.M.
ROOM 329
HEARING NOTICE

SB1468, SD2 RELATING TO HEALTH
Establishes the Hawaii patient centered health home pilot program. Establishes the Hawaii medicaid modernization and innovation council to design and implement the program. Council ceases to exist on 6/30/13. (CHUN OAKLAND)


COMMITTEE ON TOURISM
9:15 A.M.
ROOM 312
HEARING NOTICE

SB769, SD1 RELATING TO ECONOMIC RECOVERY
Provides a tax credit for qualified hotel and resort property construction and renovations costs incurred after December 31, 2010, and before January 1, 2015. (FUKUNAGA)


COMMITTEE ON ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION/COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION
11:00 A.M.
ROOM 309
HEARING NOTICE

SB698, SD2 RELATING TO ROADWAY MATERIALS
Clarifies that state agencies may purchase roadway materials with a minimum recycled glass content. Allows use of minimum glass of ten per cent crushed glass aggregate in all basecourse and subbase. (DELA CRUZ)


COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION
2:00 P.M.
ROOM 309
HEARING NOTICE

SB1174, SD2 RELATING TO CHARTER SCHOOLS
Requires charter school budget requests for needs-based facilities funding to include a detailed explanation as to the formula used and the funding request breakdown by school. Allows charter schools to appeal charter revocations and denied reauthorizations to BOE. Requires charter schools and their local school boards to develop internal policies and procedures on ethics. Requires the Charter School Review Panel to conduct a multi-year evaluation of each charter school every six years. Establishes separate task forces to (1) determine a needs-based facilities funding formula for charter schools and (2) address issues on charter school governance, accountability, and authority. (TOKUDA)

SB605, SD2 RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Restructures the department of education into two major divisions – the academic achievement division and the administration division – and establishes two senior deputy superintendent positions to head the divisions. (KIM)

SB810, SD1 RELATING TO EDUCATION
Requires the department of education to establish high school diploma requirements that aim to establish college and career readiness. Requires the department of education to report to the legislature prior to the regular session of 2012. (TOKUDA)

SB1487, SD1 RELATING TO EDUCATION
Authorizes the department of education to close or consolidate existing schools in conformance with applicable administrative rules adopted pursuant to chapter 91, HRS. Requires the department of education to give notice to affected schools of closure or consolidation; provided that an affected school may remain open if it meets certain requirements within one year of the notice of closure or consolidation. (TOKUDA)


COMMITTEE ON CONSUMER PROTECTION & COMMERCE
2:00 P.M.
ROOM 325
HEARING NOTICE

SB1506, SD2, HD1 RELATING TO HEALTH
Establishes the Childhood Obesity Pilot Program and requires insurers to cover childhood obesity as a billable provider visit for services rendered by participating health care providers. Requires the Department of Health to work with Hawaii Primary Care Association to develop parameters and implementation guidelines for the program. Requires the Childhood Obesity Pilot Program provider participants to submit a report to the Department of Health and the Legislature no later than twenty days prior to the convening of the 2015 Regular Session. (GREEN)


COMMITTEE ON ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION/COMMITTEE ON CONSUMER PROTECTION & COMMERCE
2:30 P.M.
ROOM 325
HEARING NOTICE

SB367, SD3 RELATING TO ENERGY
PROPOSED HD1: Establishes a regulatory structure for the installation and implementation of an interisland high voltage electric transmission cable system and for the construction of on-island transmission infrastructure. Allows for the utility company to collect surcharges from its ratepayers to recover the costs of the cable installation on behalf of the cable company. Exempts the surcharges from being counted as gross income, adjusted gross income, or taxable income for tax purposes. Provides for the eventual acquisition of the cable system by the utility company from the cable company. Allows the utility company to recover the costs of acquiring the cable system and developing the on island infrastructure through an automatic rate adjustment clause and then through its rates. Allows the utility to recover the reasonable costs, as determined by the public utilities commission, of predevelopment and development in the event that the system is not completed. (GALUTERIA)