|
BILL
NUMBER |
ISSUE |
STATUS
(5/2/05) |
SAFETY NET
SB 1620 CD1 |
Appropriates from the Emergency and Budget
Reserve (Rainy Day) Fund unspecified amounts for various health and
human services. |
Third reading |
CLEAN ELECTIONS
HB 1713 SD2
|
Establishes a
comprehensive public funding program for state legislative candidates
and candidates for governor and lieutenant governor who agree to abide
by campaign contribution and expenditure limits and meet other criteria. |
Did not make
it out of conference comm.- Dead for this session |
DISCRIMINATION
HB
1715 SD1
|
Prohibits discrimination in real property
transactions on the basis of gender entity or expression, and sexual
orientation. Prohibits discrimination in blockbusting on the basis of
gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, and familial status. |
Transmitted to Governor |
|
HB 1450 SD1 |
Prohibits
discrimination on the basis of gender identity and expression as a
public policy matter and specifically with regard to employment. |
Transmitted to Governor |
|
HB 1305 HD1 |
Establishes a
pay equity task force to review any relevant information and make
recommendations for funds or specific actions to correct any
gender-based pay inequities. Prohibits employers from discriminating on
the basis of gender by paying wages to an employee at a rate less than
the rate at which the employer pays wages to another employee of the
opposite sex for equal work, except when the difference in compensation
is based on a seniority system, a merit system, a system that measures
earnings by quantity or quality of production, a bona fide occupational
qualification, or a differential based on any other permissible factor
other than sex. |
Passed into law- Act 35 |
EARLY CHILDHOOD ED
SB 35 SD2 |
Creates a
pilot program for universal access to early childhood education for
children age 5 or younger whose families are unable to afford quality
early childhood education. Makes appropriations |
House EDN/HUS
deferred-dead for this session |
SB 1634 HD1
|
Requires the DOE to assist in the expansion of
the pre-plus program by identifying unused facilities or sites for
classrooms. Appropriates funds to DOE for facility renovations and
classroom supplies and supplemental training for early childhood
education teachers and staff |
Not heard in FIN- dead for this session |
HB 1300 SD2
|
Improves early childhood education in the state
by establishing an early childhood education task force. Requires the
Department of Education (DOE) to assist in the expansion of early
childhood education by identifying unused facilities or sites for
classrooms |
Third reading |
HOMELESS
HB 806 SD1 |
Repeals amendments to section 708-814, Hawaii
Revised Statutes, made by Act 50, Session Laws of Hawaii 2004.
Establishes a new petty misdemeanor offense of criminal trespass onto
public parks and recreational grounds |
Third reading |
HOUSING
SB 179 CD1 |
Creates more
affordable rental housing. Establishes homeless programs. Provides
incentives for private developers to build affordable housing projects.
Makes administrative changes to various state housing programs |
Third reading |
LONG TERM CARE
HB97 SD2 |
Provides a tax credit to individual taxpayers
and employers for premiums paid for long-term care insurance contracts |
Did not make it out of conference comm.- Dead
for this session |
MARR & FAM THERAPISTS
SB 1228 SD2 |
Includes marriage and family therapy among the
mental illness, alcohol and drug dependence benefits required within the
hospital and medical coverage offered under accident and sickness
insurance policies and similar insurance products. |
House HLT deferred, dead for this session |
MENTAL HEALTH
SB761 CD1 |
Expands the definition of "serious mental
illness" to include delusional disorder, major depression, obsessive
compulsive disorder, and dissociative disorder. |
Third reading |
SB 1420 CD1
|
Prohibits DHS from restricting payment for, or a
recipient's access to, psychotropic medication and exempts licensed
providers from preauthorization for prescription psychotropic medication |
Third reading |
HB1051 CD1
|
Exempts prescriptions for HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis
C medications and transplant immunosuppresives from preauthorization
requirement |
Third reading |
PUBLIC SAFETY
SB 467 HD2 |
Requires the office of youth services and
department of public safety to develop and implement gender-responsive,
community-based programs for female adjudicated youth and female
offenders, respectively. Appropriates funds. |
Did not make it out of conference comm.- Dead
for this session |
|
HB 1750
CD1
|
Appropriates funds for community-based programs
that assist female offender in transitioning from prison back into the
community |
HB 1750 CD1- Third Reading
|
PSYCHOLOGISTS
SB1239 SD2 |
Authorizes trained and supervised medical
psychologists working in federally qualified health centers or other
licensed health clinics located in federally designated medically
underserved areas to prescribe psychotropic medications for the
treatment of mental illness. Repeals prescriptive authority July 1,
2013. |
Did not pass on Senate floor- Dead |
SOCIAL WORKERS
HB 1146 SD2 |
Requires a social worker/human services
professional with a social work degree to be called a social worker and
all others to be called human services professionals. Requires DHRD to
develop a plan for separating the social worker/human services
professional class into two separate classes. Requires new state social
workers to be licensed beginning 7/1/05. Prohibits DHRD from eliminating
the social worker series |
Transmitted to Governor |
|
SB 1773 HD2 |
Restores SW class and allows only individuals
with social work degrees to be in SW class. Creates another class for
workers who do not have SW degrees. |
Not heard in House FIN- dead for this session |
|
HB 1144 HD2 |
Establishes a student loan repayment program for
social workers in the departments of health, human services, and labor
and industrial relations |
Not heard in Senate HTH/HMS/LAB dead for this
session |
|
HCR 265 HD1/HR 196 HD1 |
Social Workers Reclassification |
Adopted |
STATE FUNDS
SB 1748 SD1 |
Limits the governor's ability to restrict funds.
Requires governor to release funds appropriated by the legislature
unless and actual revenue shortfall will occur as a result of the funds'
release. |
Not heard in FIN- dead for this session |
|
SB1749 HD1 |
Clarifies that the joint legislative budget
committee may convene during the interim between legislative sessions to
hold public hearings on gubernatorial budget restrictions and funds
withholding |
Not heard in FIN- dead for this session |
|
HB1672 CD1
|
Requires notice by the Governor to recipients of
grants under chapter 42F on the status of unreleased grants.. |
Third Reading
|
SUBSTANCE ABUSE
HB 1739 SD1
SB 1201 HD3 |
Establishes
the "Drug Busters" program in the Department of the Attorney General to
enforce crystal methamphetamine (ice) laws. Appropriates funds for ice
treatment, prevention, rehabilitation, education, environmental damage
assessments, and program monitoring initiatives. |
HB 1739 SD1 not heard in WAM- dead for this
session
SB 1201 HD3 did not make it out of conference
comm.- Dead for session |
WELFARE
SB 475 HD1 |
Increases standard of need from the 1993 federal
poverty level to an annually updated poverty level for the current year.
Includes the general assistance (GA) and aged, blind, and disabled
programs for the calculation. Removes limitation on making GA payments
only from total appropriations made for GA. |
Not heard in FIN- dead for this session |
|
HB 244 SD1
|
Requires the DHS to recognize individuals who
have not received a decision on their application for public assistance
within 45 days to be presumptively eligible until an eligibility
decision is made |
Did not make it out of Conf committee- Dead for
this session |
|
HB 957 SD1
SB 1410 HD1 |
Provides a refundable state earned income tax
credit. SB 1410 HD1 proposes to use money from TANF for refundable tax
credit |
HB 957 SD1, SB 1410 HD1- Did not make it out of
Conf Comm- Dead |
|
SB 1009 SD2 |
Extends the individual development account tax
credit for five years. Authorizes financial institutions to claim the
tax credit and use part of the private funds contributed for ministerial
purposes. Raises contribution and tax credit ceiling from $1 million to
$2 million. |
Not heard in Fin- dead for this session |
|
HB 802 SD1 |
Increases the individual development account
contribution tax credit from 50% of the amount contributed to 100% of
the amount contributed and allows the credit for an additional five
years. |
Not heard in WAM- dead for this session |
|
SB 294 CD1 |
Raises the minimum wage to $6.75 effective
January 1, 2006, and to $7.25 effective January 1, 2007 |
Third reading |
|
HB140 CD1 |
Authorizes the Sen and Hse committees having
jurisdiction over fiscal, health, and human services matters to have
joint legislative oversight responsibilities and to conduct oversight
hearings on TANF |
Third reading |
