- Rate reform (SB2001, SD2, HD1): Repeals existing no-fault system and requires rate reductions of 25 percent to 35 percent in large part by shifting medical costs in traffic accidents to victims' prepaid health insurance plans.

- Emergency appropriation (HB3520, SD1): Emergency appropriation of $4.5 million from the general fund to cover unemployment compensation claims of former state workers since what had

been appropriated has been exhausted. The Senate's Labor and money panels reported "that this emergency appropriation should not be viewed by executive departments as a remedy to the situation but as a symptom of a serious problem that requires immediate attention."

- Emergency appropriation (SB2770, SD2, HD2): Frees about $1.3 million to pay for this fiscal year's school electricity charges, which were underbudgeted.

- Emergency appropriation (SB2795, SD2, HD2): Emergency appropriation of $5.9 million for fiscal 1997 for child and adolescent mental program, which has exceeded its funding.

- Fund transfers (HB3382, HD1, SD1): Transfers more than $69.75 million in excess funds from special, trust and revolving funds to the general fund to help cover the budget shortfall.

- Fund transfers (SB2819, SD2, HD1): Transfers $33.2 million in excess funds from special and revolving funds to the general fund to help ease the budget shortfall.

- Furloughs (SB2485, HD2): Imposes unpaid leaves of 12 days on all full-time government workers and elected officials in the next fiscal year. Impact: saves state about $60 million; tantamount to a 5 percent pay cut for state employees. Also: payroll lag over one year, essentially postponing one paycheck for each state worker.

- Payroll lag (HB3441, HB2, SD2): Authorizes the governor to convert over two years - instead of one - the state payroll from predicted to after-the-fact payments, minimizing salary overpayments. Savings: $23.5 million in each of the two years.

- Rainy-day fund (SB2223, SD1, HD1): Establishes a budget stabilization fund for emergencies.

- Salary assumptions (HB2644, HD1, SD2 and SB2836, SD2, HD2): Saves $37 million that would have been paid to the state retirement system by lowering the salary-increase assumption for state workers.

- "Kiddie packs" (SB2772, SD2, HD1): Prohibits the sale of cigarettes in packs containing less than 20, so-called "kiddie packs." Penalty: maximum $2,500 fine for the first offense and $100 to $5,000 fine for subsequent violations.

- Sales prohibition (SB2280, SD2,HD1): Prohibits cigarette sales from lunch wagons that are within 1,000 feet of schools. Only allows sales of cigarettes from vending machines from bars or other establishments to which the admission age is 18. Penalty: $1,000 per day fine.

- Jurors (HB2601, HD1): Allows, as is done in two other states, people to volunteer for jury duty by giving their names to Circuit Court clerks.

- Jury duty (HB3631, SD1): Allows the court to place back in the jury pool people who fail to appear when summoned for jury duty. Also increases the current jury duty requirement of one day or one trial to two days or one trial. The two-day requirement will save the state money because fewer jurors will be summoned; it'll also increase the chances that prospective jurors will actually be selected.

- Pimps (HB2517): Makes it easier to convict pimps by repealing the requirement that the testimony of their prostitutes must be corroborated.

- Attendance (SB2380, SD1, HD2): Exempts from school attendance 16- and 17-year-olds who are disruptive in class.

- Discipline (HB3862, HD2, SD1): Establishes a zero-tolerance policy against the possession of illegal drugs and alcohol at school. Penalty: suspensions as long as a year.

- Domestic violence (HB3216, HD1, SD1): Permits police who believe someone has recently assaulted or threatened to assault another family or household member to seize all firearms and ammunition from the home of the person in question. Also imposes liability on gun owners if they fail to properly store their weapons and the guns injure someone.

- Downsizing (SB3232, SD2, HD2): Abolishes the Office of State Planning and transfers its planning functions to Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism.

- "High three" (SB1810, SD1, HD2): Reforms the way legislative pensions, the so-called "high three," are calculated, eliminating the perk to their retirement payments.

- Sunshine law (HB1866, HD1, SD1): Amends the sunshine law, which now prohibits any discussion of board matters outside publicly announced meetings, to permit private conversations between board members in certain circumstances. Would permit meetings between the governor and

members of a board to discuss issues before the board.

- OHA budget (HB3300, SD1): Eliminates general funds for Office of Hawaiian Affairs travel because OHA has spent "substantial amounts of both trust and general funds" for food, travel and car rentals. Also increases OHA's funding responsibility for some personnel from 50 percent to 75 percent.

- OHA revenues (SB1698, HD3): Slashes OHA's share of public land trust revenue from $15 million to nearly $3 million annually by redefining OHA revenues. Requires OHA's 20 percent share to be calculated off the raw land, not the value added to the land by improvements. Also excludes revenue from the Airports and Harbors divisions, rental housing programs and by the Health Department's community hospital system, which are on leased land.

- UH-West Oahu (SB608, HD2) Approves the land exchange between the state and the Campbell Estate for the UH-West Oahu campus in Kapolei.

licensees liable for the death or injury of minors to whom liquor was sold or furnished.

- Tax-related fees (HB3563, HD1, SD1): Allows fees to be charged for Tax Department seminars and workers and for disseminating research and reference materials on magnetic media and CD-ROM.

- Establishment of domestic partnerships for same-sex couples.

- Tax on some pensions.

- A tax similar to the hotel room tax on time-share units.

- Raising the tax on a pack of cigarettes from 60 cents to $1.

- Analyst: Appropriating $350,000 in the next fiscal year to bring to life the Office of the Legislative Analyst, which has existed on paper for six years but has never been a reality because it has never been funded.

- Guards: Adding eight additional security officers - a $260,000 annual appropriation - to beef up security at the state Capitol.

- Gambling: All forms of legalized gambling, including casinos, shipboard gaming, pari-mutuel racing and a state lottery.

- Animals: Allowing neighbor island farmers and ranchers to shoot and kill dogs that come onto their property and attack livestock and domesticated animals.

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