THE SENATE

THE TWENTY-SEVENTH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2013

 

COMMITTEE ON HEALTH

Senator Josh Green, Chair

Senator Rosalyn H. Baker, Vice Chair

 

COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY AND LABOR

Senator Clayton Hee, Chair

Senator Maile S.L. Shimabukuro, Vice Chair

 

NOTICE OF HEARING

 

 

DATE:

Wednesday, February 6, 2013

TIME:

1:15 p.m.

PLACE:

Conference Room 229

State Capitol

415 South Beretania Street

 

A G E N D A

 

SB 1085

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO OBESITY PREVENTION.

Imposes a fee on sugar-sweetened beverages.  Establishes the Obesity Prevention Special Fund to support obesity prevention programs.

 

HTH/JDL, WAM

SB 875

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO WORKERS' COMPENSATION.

Requires independent medical examinations and permanent impairment rating examinations for workers' compensation claims to be performed by physicians mutually agreed upon by employers and employees or appointed by the director of the department of labor and industrial relations.  Allows for the use of an out-of-state physician under certain conditions.  Appropriates unspecified funds.  Effective 10/1/13.  Section 3 effective 7/1/13.  Repeals on 6/30/2018.

 

HTH/JDL, WAM

SB 876

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO WORKERS' COMPENSATION.

Authorizes the employer and provider of services to notify the director of labor and industrial relations in the event of a reasonable disagreement relating to specific medical service charges.  Requires that the notice of dispute is done in writing and that the parties negotiate during the thirty-one calendar days following the date of the notice to the director.  Allows parties to request the director to render an administrative decision without a hearing in the event the parties fail to reach an agreement within the thirty-one day negotiation period.  Establishes that the administrative decision rendered by the director is final and nonappealable.

 

HTH/JDL, WAM

SB 1109

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO HOSPITAL STANDARDS FOR SEXUAL ASSAULT VICTIMS.

Adds a new part to chapter 321, Hawaii Revised Statutes, 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.

 

HTH/JDL, WAM

SB 1264

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO VOLUNTARY WELLNESS PROGRAMS.

Allows healthcare insurers, employers, and medicaid programs to offer voluntary wellness programs.  Establishes what a wellness program may and may not use as rewards or incentives for participation in a wellness program.  Protects confidentiality of participants in a wellness program.

 

HTH/JDL, CPN

SB 666

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO HEALTH.

Establishes an emergency services patient advocate program to provide assistance to and advocate on behalf of individuals receiving emergency medical care.  Makes an appropriation for the administrative costs related to establishing and carrying out the duties of the program.

 

HTH/JDL, WAM

 

 

 

 

Decision Making to follow, if time permits.

 

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FOR AMENDED NOTICES:  Measures that have been deleted are stricken through and measures that have been added are underscored.  If a measure is both underscored and stricken through, that measure has been deleted from the agenda.

 

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Senator Clayton Hee

Chair

 

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Senator Josh Green

Chair