CAPITOL ROUNDUP
A calendar of tomorrow's hearings -- to be held at the state Capitol, 415 S. Beretania St., unless noted. Hearings marked with an asterisk (*) will air live on Oceanic 53 and TCI Cable 53.
HOUSE
Consumer Protection and Judiciary: Bills licensing charter tour operators and requiring insurance coverage for aeromedical services and medical foods for treating metabolic diseases. Decision making to follow, 2 p.m., Room 325.
Higher Education: Bills creating positions in the University of Hawaii research and cooperative extension services. Decision making to follow, 2 p.m., Room 309.
Human Services, Labor and Health: Bills requiring parents to support a minor's children, enforcing child support and providing health services for low-income persons. Decision making to follow, 8:30 a.m., Room 329.
Marine Resources, and Water and Land Use: Resolutions to establish additional marine life conservation districts and fisheries. Decision making to follow, 8:30 a.m., Room 312.
Transportation and Education: Bills allowing the use of tour buses for school-related activities and permitting property owners to remove abandoned vehicles from their land without liability. Decision making to follow, 8:30 a.m., Room 309. Education only: Bills for early childhood assessments and school health services. Decision making to follow, 2:15 p.m., Room 329.
SENATE
Consumer Protection, and Labor and Environment: Bills providing tax incentives for employers offering prepaid health care benefits to employees not entitled to mandatory coverage, and amending automatic permit approval process. Decision making follows, 9 a.m., Room 016.
Economic Development, and Health and Human Services: Bill funding home stay services for participants in the Millennium Young People's Congress. Decision making to follow, 1:30 p.m., Room 224. Economic Development only: Bills providing income tax credit for creating hotel rooms and requiring irradiated agricultural goods to be properly labeled. Decision making to follow, 6:30 p.m., Room 224. Health and Human Services only*: Bills on the medical use of marijuana, physician-assisted death and displaying advance medical directives on drivers' licenses and state identification cards. Decision making to follow, 2 p.m., Room 229.
Education and Technology, Economic Development, and Labor and Environment: Bill on tax credits for technology training, job creation or investment. Decision making to follow, 3:30 p.m., Room 212. Education and Technology only: Bills to replace the Board of Education with elected district school boards. Decision making to follow, 2 p.m., Room 212. Education, and Water, Land and Hawaiian Affairs: Bill waiving tuition for 500 additional Hawaiian students at the University of Hawaii. Decision making to follow, 6:30 p.m., Room 212.
Judiciary: Bills regulating campaign contributions and spending, creating an elections review program to set performance standards and evaluate election operations and the chief election officer, and requiring a manual vote recount when the difference is less than 1 percent. Decision making to follow, 9 a.m., Room 229.
Water, Land and Hawaiian Affairs, and Consumer Protection: Bills including Office of Hawaiian Affairs trustees in state retirement benefit programs and reviewing OHA trustees' salaries. Decision making to follow, 2 p.m., Room 225.
