HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

THE TWENTY-SEVENTH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2013

 

COMMITTEE ON HEALTH

Rep. Della Au Belatti, Chair

Rep. Dee Morikawa, Vice Chair

 

Rep. Rida T.R. Cabanilla

Rep. Bertrand Kobayashi

Rep. Mele Carroll

Rep. Justin H. Woodson

Rep. Jo Jordan

Rep. Lauren Kealohilani Cheape

 

NOTICE OF DECISION MAKING

 

DATE:

Friday, February 08, 2013

TIME:

10:30 A.M.

PLACE:

Conference Room 329

State Capitol

415 South Beretania Street

 

A G E N D A

 

The following measure(s) were previously heard on Wednesday, February 06, 2013.

 

HB 404

Status

RELATING TO WARNING SIGNS.

Requires premises licensed under chapter 281, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to have a sign posted on or about the premises, including but not limited to the women's restroom, that provides customers with a warning of the risks of birth defects and fetal alcohol spectrum disorders for women drinking alcohol during pregnancy.

 

HLT, CPC

HB 407

Status

RELATING TO CANCER.

Appropriates funds for the comprehensive breast and cervical cancer control program.

 

HLT, FIN

HB 411

Status

RELATING TO HOSPITAL EMERGENCY COMPASSIONATE CARE FOR SEXUAL ASSAULT VICTIMS.

Establishes a new part in chapter 321 to ensure that victims of sexual assault are provided with medically and factually unbiased information about and access to emergency contraception when receiving emergency medical care at Hawaii's hospitals for sexual assaults.

 

HLT, JUD

HB 905

Status

RELATING TO NEWBORN SCREENING.

Authorizes the Department of Health to implement point of care newborn screening, amends section 321-291 concerning the newborn metabolic screening special fund.

 

HLT, FIN

HB 909

Status

RELATING TO INFANT MORTALITY PROGRAM.

Clarifies the role of the Department of Health in reducing infant mortality rates and creates the Infant Mortality Advisory Board.  Requires birthing facility reporting.

 

HLT, FIN

HB 417

Status

RELATING TO THE HAWAII HEALTH SYSTEMS CORPORATION.

Appropriates $2,800,000 to the Hawaii health systems corporation to implement and sustain its primary care training program at the Hilo medical center.

 

HLT, FIN

 

 

 

 

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Rep. Della Au Belatti

Chair