Bill Text: HI SR4 | 2015 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Senate Rules; Adoption of Rule 16
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-02-06 - Adopted. [SR4 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2015-SR4-Introduced.html
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THE SENATE |
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TWENTY-EIGHTH LEGISLATURE, 2015 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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SENATE RESOLUTION
AMENDING rule 16 of the rules of the senate of the twenty-EIGHTH legislature of the state of hawaii.
BE IT RESOLVED by the Senate of the Twenty-eighth Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2015, that the Rules of the Senate of the State of Hawaii, the Twenty-eighth Legislature, be amended by amending Senate Rule 16 Standing Committees as adopted on January 21, 2015, to read as follows:
Standing Committees shall be appointed for major subject matter areas at the opening of the session, or as soon thereafter as possible. The Standing Committees and their areas of jurisdiction shall be as follows:
(1) Committee on Agriculture. The purview of this committee includes those programs relating to agriculture; aquaculture, including mariculture.
(2) Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection. The purview of this committee includes those programs relating to business regulation, professional and vocational licensing, consumer protection, financial institutions, insurance regulation, public utility regulation, telecommunications regulation, the landlord tenant code, condominium property regimes, and leaseholds.
(3) Committee on Economic Development and Technology. The purview of this committee includes those programs relating to economic development, including but not limited to authorities and corporations administratively attached to the Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism unless the authority or corporation is within the purview of another Committee pursuant to this Rule; other emerging industries development; financial and technical assistance to business; film and digital media production; astronomy, biochemistry, biomedicine, biotechnology, and other scientific research and development activities; and recreation, including commercial ocean recreation activities, sports and athletics, and the Aloha Stadium; development of technology, including but not limited to the use of information storage, transmissions, processing, and telecommunications.
(4) Committee on Education. The purview of this committee includes those programs relating to early education, including the Hawai‘i P-20 Initiative, public schools, continuing education, and the public libraries.
(5) Committee on Energy and Environment. The purview of this committee includes those programs relating to energy resources, including the development of alternative energy resources; population; and environmental quality control and protection, including litter control, recycling, wastewater treatment, endangered species, invasive species and hazardous waste.
(6) Committee on Government Operations. The
purview of this committee includes those programs relating to state government
operations policy, including government efficiency[;],
procurement[;], and state facilities unless the policy, state
facility, or department is within the purview of another Committee pursuant
to this Rule.
(7) Committee on Hawaiian Affairs. The purview of this committee includes those programs relating to Hawaiian affairs, including but not limited to the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Hawaiian home lands, sovereignty, and burial councils.
(8) Committee on Health. The purview of this committee includes those programs relating to general health, maternal and child health, communicable diseases, dental health, medical and hospital services, mental health, developmental disabilities, and hospitals.
(9) Committee on Higher Education and the Arts. The purview of this committee includes those programs relating to the University of Hawai‘i, the community college system, private higher education bond financing, and other education matters relevant to higher education, but excluding the Hawaii P-20 Initiative; and culture and the arts in the State, including but not limited to programs relating to historic preservation.
(10) Committee on Human Services and Housing. The purview of this committee includes those programs relating to public assistance; Medquest; youth services; early childhood learning and care programs under the Department of Human Services; vocational rehabilitation; long term care; programs relating to the promotion of the general well-being of Hawai‘i's youth, families, elderly population, and the homeless; affordable and public housing; urban renewal; community development; and housing development.
(11) Committee on Judiciary and Labor. The purview of this committee includes those programs relating to the courts; crime prevention and control, including juvenile justice matters; criminal code revision; statutory revision; campaign spending and elections; ethics; constitutional matters; the Attorney General, Public Defender, and Judiciary; individual rights and civil liberties; public officers and employees; labor; employment opportunities and training; labor-management relations; collective bargaining; the Employees' Retirement System; and the Hawai‘i Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund.
(12) Committee on Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs. The purview of this committee includes those programs relating to public safety, corrections, the narcotics division, and the sheriffs division, military and veterans' affairs, space exploration and aerospace development, civil defense, disaster readiness, county and federal relations, state building code, and matters of concern to the counties.
(13) Committee on Tourism and International Affairs. The purview of this committee includes those programs relating to tourism, including but not limited to the Hawai‘i Convention Center, Hawai‘i Visitors and Convention Bureau, the Hawai‘i Tourism Authority; international affairs, international relations, foreign policy issues, and foreign relations.
(14) Committee on Transportation. The purview of
this committee includes those programs relating to air, water, and surface
transportation; and programs relating to transit-oriented development [and
land use for transit-oriented development] as it relates to
transportation projects.
(15) Committee on Water and Land. The purview of
this committee includes those programs relating to state planning;
sustainability; land and water management; forest management and reserve;
coastal zone management; land reclamation; naturally occurring fisheries; ocean
resources; state parks and beaches; management areas, including ocean
recreation management areas and small boat harbors[.]; and programs
relating to transit-oriented development as it relates to land use.
(16) Committee on Ways and Means. The purview of this committee includes those programs relating to overall state financing policies, including revenue enhancement, taxation, other revenues, and cash and debt management; statewide implementation of planning, programming, budgeting, and evaluation; government structure and finance."; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Senate Rule material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken and new Senate Rule material is underscored; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the amendments made to the Senate Rules by this Resolution are retroactive to January 21, 2015, upon the adoption of this Resolution.
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Senate Rules; Adoption of Rule 16
