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

MEASURES DEFERRED TO FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 05, 2016

DATE:

Friday, February 05, 2016

TIME:

10:30 AM

PLACE:

Conference Room 229
State Capitol
415 South Beretania Street

DECISION MAKING ON THE FOLLOWING MEASURE(S):

SB2872
Status and Testimony

RELATING TO REQUIREMENTS FOR CHILD CARE PROVIDERS.
Brings state law into alignment with changes to federal law regarding the Child Care and Development Block Grant, Public Law 113-186.  Requires the Department of Human Services to establish minimum health and safety requirements for child care providers, including applicants, household members, employees, and prospective employees of licensed and registered child care homes and facilities, as well as persons exempt pursuant to section 346-152, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to be eligible to provide care to a child whose family receives a child care subsidy from the Department.

HMS/CPH, JDL

SB2961
Status and Testimony

RELATING TO FAMILY LEAVE.
Establishes a family leave insurance program, which requires employees to make contributions into a trust fund to be used to provide employees with family leave insurance benefits in order to care for a designated person.  Appropriates funds to DLIR to implement the program.

HMS/CPH, JDL/WAM

SB2203
Status and Testimony

RELATING TO SEXUAL ASSAULT VICTIMS.
Requires DHS to pay for forensic examinations performed at a hospital of a female sexual assault victim, where private insurance is or cannot be utilized.

HMS/CPH, WAM

SB2213
Status and Testimony

RELATING TO THE NURSING FACILITY SUSTAINABILITY PROGRAM.
Continues the nursing facility sustainability program for one additional year.  Appropriates funds out of the nursing facility sustainability program special fund for fiscal year 2016-2017.

HMS/CPH, WAM

SB2396
Status and Testimony

RELATING TO LONG-TERM CARE FACILITIES.
Provides an inflationary adjustment to the methodology used to reimburse facilities for the long-term care of medicaid recipients for fiscal year 2016-2017.

HMS/CPH, WAM

SB2894
Status and Testimony

RELATING TO HEALTH INSURANCE.
Establishes the Hawaii State Health Insurance Programs, and a State Health Insurance Exchange for the purpose of the State effectuating the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Prepaid Health Care Act; Repeals the Hawaii Health Connector Law; provides appropriations to the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations and the Department of Human Services.

CPH/HMS, JDL/WAM

SB2395
Status and Testimony

RELATING TO TELEHEALTH.
Requires the State's medicaid managed care and fee-for-service programs to cover services provided through telehealth.  Specifies medical professional liability insurance policy requirements with regard to telehealth coverage.  Clarifies requirements for establishing provider-patient relationships for telehealth for purposes of reimbursement.  Specifies reimbursement requirements for distant site and originating site providers.  Requires written disclosure of coverages and benefits associated with telehealth services.  Ensures telehealth encompasses store and forward technologies, remote monitoring, live consultation, and mobile health.  Ensures telehealth is covered when originating in a patient's home and other non-medical environments.  Clarifies requirements for physicians and out-of-state physicians to establish a physician-patient relationship via telehealth.  Ensures reimbursement requirements for telehealth services apply to all health benefits plans under chapter 87A, Hawaii Revised Statutes.  Makes other conforming amendments related to telehealth.

CPH/HMS, WAM

SB2560
Status and Testimony

RELATING TO MENTAL HEALTH.
Requires the department of health to provide treatment care for homeless individuals with serious and persistent mental health challenges as a part of its comprehensive mental health system.  Appropriates moneys from the general fund for mental health care and treatment for homeless individuals.  Effective 07/01/16.

CPH/HMS, WAM

SB2886
Status and Testimony

RELATING TO AGE OF CONSENT FOR ADOLESCENT MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES.
To reduce barriers in accessing mental health care for adolescents by lowering the age of consent to receive treatment from 18 years old to 12 years old.

CPH/HMS, JDL

SB2330
Status and Testimony

RELATING TO THE HOSPITAL SUSTAINABILITY PROGRAM.
Continues the hospital sustainability program for one year.  Appropriates funds out of the hospital sustainability program special fund for fiscal year 2016-2017.  Amends various reimbursement rates under the program to certain private hospitals through medicaid managed care health plans, and uncompensated care and disproportionate share hospital payments.

CPH/HMS, WAM

SB2085
Status and Testimony

RELATING TO AGING.
Part I:  Appropriates $5,100,000 for the kupuna care program.  Part II:  Appropriates $1,710,000 for the aging and disability resource center.  Part III:  Appropriates $32,000 for fall prevention and early detection services for the elderly.  Part IV:  Appropriates $485,880 for the healthy aging partnership program.  Part V:  Appropriates $70,000 for an Alzheimer's disease and related dementia services coordinator position and appropriates $200,000 for an Alzheimer's disease and related dementia public awareness program.

CPH/HMS, WAM

No testimony will be accepted.

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.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT THE COMMITTEE CLERK AT 808-586-6070.