THE SENATE

THE TWENTY-EIGHTH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2016

 

COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE, CONSUMER PROTECTION, AND HEALTH

Senator Rosalyn H. Baker, Chair

Senator Michelle N. Kidani, Vice Chair

 

AMENDED NOTICE OF HEARING

 

DATE:

Tuesday, February 02, 2016

TIME:

8:30am

PLACE:

Conference Room 229

State Capitol

415 South Beretania Street

 

A M E N D E D  A G E N D A

 

SB 2007

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO STATE COUNCIL ON MENTAL HEALTH.

Amends the principal state agencies of the State Council on Mental Health and defines quorum for the Council.

 

CPH, WAM

SB 2008

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO SERVICE AREA BOARDS.

Amends statutory provisions relating to quorum requirements for service area boards on mental health and substance abuse.

 

CPH, WAM

SB 2334

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO HEALTH SCREENINGS.

Appropriates funds for one full-time equivalent position within the department of health to implement a systematic vision and hearing program and other operating expenses of the program.

 

CPH, WAM

SB 2076

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO HEALTH CARE.

Establishes a durable medical equipment supplier licensure program for suppliers of durable medical equipment, prosthetics, orthotics, and related supplies through the office of health care assurance.  Allows license fees to be deposited into the office of health care assurance special fund.  Amends the cap on amounts of the health care assurance special fund that may be used per fiscal year.  Amends the balance of the health care assurance special fund above which moneys are deposited into the general fund.

 

CPH, WAM

SB 2397

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO DISCHARGE PLANNING.

Requires hospitals to adopt and maintain discharge policies, consistent with recent updates to federal regulations, to ensure that patients continue to receive necessary care after leaving the hospital.  Effective July 1, 2017.

 

CPH, JDL

SB 2319

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO INSURANCE.

Requires insurers to cover a three-month period for the first dispensing of prescription contraceptive supplies to an insured.  Requires insurers to cover a twelve-month period for the subsequent dispensing of the same contraceptive supply to the insured.

 

CPH, WAM

SB 2320

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO CONTRACEPTIVE SUPPLIES.

Authorizes pharmacists to prescribe and dispense contraceptive supplies to persons eighteen years of age or older.  Specifies requirements pharmacists must meet prior to prescribing and dispensing contraceptive supplies.  Requires all insurers in the State, including health benefits plans under chapter 87A, Hawaii Revised Statutes, and medicaid managed care programs, to reimburse pharmacists who prescribe and dispense contraceptive supplies.

 

CPH, JDL

SB 2323

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO INSURANCE COVERAGE OF HEALTH SCREENINGS.

Ensures insurance coverage for sexually transmitted disease screenings, including screenings for human immunodeficiency virus and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, during a female insured's annual pelvic exam.

 

CPH, WAM

SB 2315

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO JURY DUTY.

Exempts mothers who breastfeed or express breast milk from jury duty; provided that this exemption shall end when a mother is no longer breastfeeding or expressing breast milk.

 

CPH, JDL

SB 2317

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO HEALTH.

Establishes the Hawaii maternal mortality review panel within the department of health to conduct a comprehensive review of maternal deaths that have occurred in the State.  Makes an appropriation.

 

CPH/JDL, WAM

 

Pending Re-Referral to CPH, JDL/WAM

 

[Measure added on 1-28-16]

 

 

 

 

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 Rosalyn H. Baker

Chair