THE SENATE

THE THIRTIETH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2019

 

COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE, CONSUMER PROTECTION, AND HEALTH

Senator Rosalyn H. Baker, Chair

Senator Stanley Chang, Vice Chair

 

COMMITTEE ON HUMAN SERVICES

Senator Russell E. Ruderman, Chair

Senator Karl Rhoads, Vice Chair

 

NOTICE OF HEARING

 

 

DATE:

Friday, February 8, 2019

TIME:

9:00 AM

PLACE:

Conference Room 229

State Capitol

415 South Beretania Street

 

A G E N D A

 

SB 531

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO HEALTH.

Makes financial exploitation of an elder by a caregiver a Class A felony.

 

CPH/HMS, JDC

SB 1231

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO THE SPOUSE AND CHILD ABUSE SPECIAL FUND.

Exempts the spouse and child abuse special fund from the central services assessment and administrative expense assessment. Amends the spouse and child abuse special fund to allow reimbursements received from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, in the year following the fiscal year in which the Title IV-E funds were expended, to be deposited and expended for state-funded share of spouse or child abuse and neglect prevention, intervention, and other related services.  Replaces "account" with "fund," and deletes "department of human services" from the title.

 

CPH/HMS, JDC

SB 417

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO HEALTH.

Requires medicaid and insurance coverage of ambulance services.  Authorizes medicaid programs, and requires private insurers, to pay for ambulance services, even if the patient is not transported, if the patient was treated in a county with a population of 200,000 or more.  Appropriates moneys for medicaid to cover ambulance services when a patient is not transported.  Appropriates funds for ambulance services covered by medicaid.

 

CPH/HMS, WAM

SB 433

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO SCREEN TIME AWARENESS.

Appropriates funds for the department of health to create and host a website and launch a public education campaign on the effects of screen time on children and teens.

 

CPH/HMS, WAM

SB 529

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES.

Authorizes the Department of Humans Services and the Department of Health to contract the services of dedicated capture managers responsible for securing grant and other funding opportunities for each department.  Appropriates funds.

 

CPH/HMS, WAM

SB 1026

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO THE HEALTHY AGING PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM.

Appropriates funds for the healthy aging partnership program to further the program's role in improving the health and well-being of Hawaii's kupuna.

 

CPH/HMS, WAM

SB 1036

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO CLINICAL VICTIM SUPPORT SERVICES.

Clarifies that clinical victim support services for victims of sexual violence and abuse are a mental health outpatient services benefit required to be covered under health insurance policies offered by health insurers, mutual benefit societies, fraternal benefit societies, and health maintenance organizations.

 

CPH/HMS, WAM

SB 1494

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO HEALTH.

Establishes a working group to evaluate current behavioral health care and related system gaps related to the continuum of care for persons experiencing substance abuse, mental health conditions, and homelessness.  Makes an appropriation.

 

CPH/HMS, 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 Russell E. Ruderman

Chair

 

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Senator Rosalyn H. Baker

Chair