2007 Legislative Bill Tracking

02/13/07 HLT Testimony &

State Policy (attachment)

02/21/07 HTH Testimony

Adoption & Foster Care

HB 1356 HD1 HD2 SD1

Increases the time limit for application for a higher education board allowance. Provides former foster youth who are between the ages of 22 and 26 years of age on July 1, 2007, and who are already attending a higher education institution, the opportunity to apply for a higher education board allowance within a year. Increases the maximum age for the benefit with a maximum benefit length of 60 months. Appropriates funds. (HB1356 HD2)

SB 1442 SD2

Increases the time limit for application for a higher education board allowance from 1 year following high school graduation through the age of 21 years old, to provide former foster youth who are between the ages of 22 and 26 years on July 1, 2007, and already attending an institution of higher education the opportunity to apply for a higher education board allowance within a year. Increases the maximum age for the benefit from 21 years to 26 years with a maximum benefit length of 60 months. (SD2)

03/20/07 HSP Testimony

02/01/07 HLT/HSH Testimony

HB 1694

Establishes a presumption that consent to the adoption given by the mother of the child within days of birth is invalid. Prohibits the mother of a child to consent to adoption before birth of the child.

02/12/07 HSH Hearing

Assisted Suicide

HB 675

Allows a terminally ill, competent adult to get lethal dose of medication to end life. Prohibits mercy killings, lethal injections, and active euthanasia. Requires informed consent. Allows alternate doctor to replace attending doctor if latter declines to prescribe. Requires monitor at time of taking dose.

HFF PAS TESTIMONY

02/07/07 HB 675 Killed!

02/05/07 Hearing Notice!

01/30/07 Update!

01/25/07 Updated Alert

01/23/07 Updated Alert

01/23/07 Alert

Children's Healthcare

SB 1918 SD1 SD2

03/20/07 HLT/HSH Testimony

Creates a three-year pilot program to expand health care coverage for children in Hawaii; and appropriates funds. (SD2)

03/29/07 FIN Testimony

02/05/07 HSP/HTH Testimony

Civil Unions

HB 908

Alert on upcoming hearing

Extends the same rights and responsibilities of spouses to partners in a civil union.

02/27/07 JUD Testimony

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Darfur

HB 34

03/20/07 TIA/JDL Testimony

Prohibits the employees' retirement system from acquiring securities of companies that have active business operations with Sudan.

03/28/07 WAM

02/24/07 FIN Testimony

02/07/07 INT Testimony

01/26/07 LAB Testimony

Domestic Violence

03/28/07 HSP/CPH Testimony

Prohibits discrimination of domestic violence victims in real property transactions, specifically housing discrimination. (HB469 HD1)

02/08/07 CPC/JUD Testimony

01/29/07 HSH Testimony

SB 1209

Makes appropriation for emergency domestic violence shelters.

02/13/07 HSH Testimony

Emergency

Contraceptives

SB 1110 SD1

Requires a hospital, including a public health facility, to provide information and emergency contraception to a sexual assault victim; requires training; includes penalties. (SD1)

SFMC Testimony

HMC Testimony

Family

HB 1552

Appropriates funds for the operating costs of the family celebration commission.

02/03/07 TAC Testimony

HB 1691

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.

SB 1833 SD1

Requires that only an employee can 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. (SD1)

02/02/07 LAB Testimony

03/28/07 FIN Testimony

03/16/07 LAB Testimony

02/22/07 WAM Testimony

02/13/07 JDL Testimony

SB 999

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Appropriates funds for the operating costs of the family celebration commission.

Housing

Kukui Gardens

Various bills regarding Kukui Gardens

02/27/07 FIN Testimony

02/05/07 HSH Testimony

HB 150 HD1 HD2 SD1

Increases the share of the conveyance tax dedicated to the Rental Housing Trust Fund. Appropriates funds to repair and renovate state public housing, provide outreach and support services to the homeless, operate emergency and transitional shelters, and for Shelter Plus Care grants. (HB150 HD2)

03/20/07 HSP/CPH/WAH Testimony

02/12/07 WLH Testimony

HB 1364 HD1 HD2 SD1

Broadens participation in the State Rent Supplement Program by removing the statutory limitation on the subsidy amount (currently $160 per month) and increasing the income limits for participation to up to 70 percent of area median income. Requires the wait list for the program to include certain individuals. (HB1364 HD2)

SB 1450 SD1

Broadens participation in the state rent supplement program by removing the statutory limitation on the subsidy amount and increasing the income limits for participation from fifty per cent of area median income to ninety five per cent of area median income. (SD1)

03/20/07 HSP Testimony

02/08/07 HSH/HLT Testimony

SB 1586

Appropriates funds to establish a program to provide rental housing for the homeless in transition.

SB 1917 SD2 SD3

03/15/07 HSH/WLH Testimony

Extends the sunset date for the allocation of conveyance tax revenues to the rental housing trust fund and changes the allocation to an unspecified percentage; requires the Hawaii finance and development corporation to create an affordable housing inventory registry; and appropriates funds for various homeless and housing programs and projects. (SD3)

03/28/07 FIN Testimony

02/23/07 WAM Testimony

02/13/07 EDT Testimony

02/02/07 HSP/CPH Testimony

HPV Vaccination

HB 590

Requires health insurance policies issued in the State to cover human papillomavirus vaccination for people age 11 through 26; directs the department of health to include human papillomavirus immunization in the teen vax program.

Position Statement

Palliative Care

SB 765

Precludes a charge of manslaughter against a medical caregiver whose patient dies while receiving palliative care.

02/13/07 HSP Testimony

HB 1495 HD2

Appropriates funds for palliative care resources. (HB1495 HD2)

SB 1817

Appropriates $225,000 for fiscal year 2007-2008 and $160,000 for fiscal year 2008-2009 for palliative care resources.

03/14/07 HTH Testimony

02/23/07 FIN Testimony

02/13/07 HLT Testimony

02/09/07 HTH Testimony

Protection of Children

SB 75

Authorizes public access to the public information of all convicted sex offenders through both public Internet access and on-site access.

02/05/07 JDL Testimony

SB 155

Clarifies the methods of public access to a sex offender's public information.

02/05/07 JDL Testimony

HB 356 HD1 HD 2

Establishes a motor vehicle violation that prohibits leaving a child unsupervised in a motor vehicle. Requires the examiner of drivers to test driver's license applicants for knowledge of this offense. (HB356 HD2)

03/30/07 JDL Testimony

02/13/07 JUD Testimony

HB 528 HD2

Allows a minor who is not under the care, supervision, or control of a parent, custodian, or legal guardian to consent to the provision of primary medical care and services. (HB528 HD2)

SB 1171

03/29/07 JDL Testimony

03/16/07 HTH Testimony

02/22/07 JUD Testimony

02/05/07 HSH Testimony

02/12/07 HTH Testimony

HB 1008 HD 2 SD1

Creates 3-year pilot program where Department of Human Services pays half the premiums health care provided by a managed care plan to uninsured children who are 31 days to 18 years old and ineligible for other state or federal health care coverage; Sunsets June 30, 2010. Provides children of families whose income is at or below 300% of the federal poverty level free medical care by expanding the State's QUEST-Net eligibility requirements. Establishes Hawaii Infant Care Special Fund to provide health care to infants from birth to thirty-one days of age through matching-fund, public-private partnership established by the Department of Health. Appropriates funds. (HB1008 HD2)

SB 1100

03/14/07 HSP/HTH Testimony

02/23/07 FIN Testimony

01/30/07 HLT/HSH Testimony

02/05/07 HSP/HTH Testimony

SB 1101 SD2

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Establishes a task force to coordinate resources for homeless children; establishes and appropriates funds to a special fund; sunset date. (SD2)

SB 1748

HB 1043 HD1 HD2

Establishes a task force to coordinate resources for homeless children; sunsets on June 30, 2011. Establishes and appropriates funds to the Kokua Na Keiki Special Fund. Creates an administrative grant program for DHS to award grants for programs that benefit homeless children. (HB1043 HD2)

03/12/07 HSH Testimony

02/08/07 HSH Testimony

03/20/07 HSP Testimony

02/12/07 HTH Testimony

SB 1779 HD1 HD2

Establishes and appropriates funds for a two-year statewide task force to evaluate and make recommendations on the State's system responses to cases of child sexual assault and exploitation. Specifies that when the family court determines that the child's parents cannot provide the child with a safe family home, the Department of Human Services may submit a permanent plan with a goal of guardianship and the court may award guardianship to an appropriate entity without termination of parental rights. (SB1779 HD2)

HB 326

04/04/07 FIN Testimony

03/20/07 JUD Testimony

02/08/07 HSH Testimony

02/09/07 JUD Testimony

Reciprocal Beneficiary

HB 1290 HD1 FA1

Eliminates confusion or misinterpretations regarding which "beneficiaries" of an employee killed in the performance of duty or of a deceased retiree are eligible to become EUTF employee-beneficiaries by including reciprocal beneficiaries. (HB1290 HD1)

HB 1587

1997 Bill HB 118 CD1(Act)

Ensures parity between unmarried couples and married couples by extending the benefits provided under the State's employer-union health benefits trust fund to reciprocal beneficiaries.

03/16/07 JDL Testimony

02/13/07 JUD Testimony

HFF RB Position Statement

Safe Haven

HB 1830 HD1 HD2 SD1

02/09/07 HLT/HSH Testimony

Provides immunity from prosecution to persons who leave an unharmed newborn at a hospital, fire station, or police station, or with emergency services personnel within 72 hours of the child's birth; provides immunity from liability to the hospital, fire station, or police station, or personnel who receive the newborn; requires that the person who leaves a newborn provide written information on the family medical history of the child; and requires the personnel to make a reasonable effort to obtain certain information regarding the child from the person leaving the child. (SD1)

03/30/07 JDL Testimony

03/22/07 HSP Testimony

02/27/07 JUD Testimony

Stem Cells

SB 1261

02/12/07 HTH/EDU Testimony

Sets state policy for stem cell research in the State. Requires the University of Hawaii to develop plan to establish an institute for regenerative medicine at school of medicine no later than 12/31/2008.

Trafficking

HB 1784 HD2