THE SENATE
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Senator David Y. Ige, Chair |
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Senator Carol Fukunaga, Vice Chair |
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DATE: |
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TIME: |
1:15 p.m. |
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PLACE: |
Conference Room 016 State Capitol 415 South Beretania Street |
DECISION MAKING ON THE FOLLOWING MEASURE(S):
(Deferred from Monday, February 5, 2007)
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RELATING TO DENTAL CARE. Expands coverage under the State's medicaid and QUEST programs to include comprehensive dental care for adults and appropriates funds to provide the additional coverage.
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HSP/HTH, WAM |
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SB 713 |
RELATING TO NURSE AIDES. Establishes certification procedures for nurse aides employed in State licensed or State certified health care settings and medicare/medicaid facilities.
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HSP/HTH, CPH |
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SB 816 |
RELATING TO PRESCRIPTION DRUG COST CONTAINMENT AND AFFORDABLE ACCESS. Requires the director of human services to establish a pharmacy best practices and cost control program including medicaid and other state public assistance health benefits plans, in which any public and private health plan may participate. Includes a prescription drug preferred list and prior authorization review process. Requires drug manufacturers to disclose economic benefits of $25 or more provided to persons who prescribe, dispense, or purchase prescription drugs.
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HTH/HSP, CPH |
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SB 970 |
RELATING TO DENTAL HEALTH. Appropriates funds for a grant-in-aid to Hawaii Primary Care Association to establish or expand community‑based dental health clinics that are operated by federally-qualified health centers to provide a continuum of dental care to QUEST‑eligible adults and children, the developmentally disabled, and the uninsured.
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HTH/HSP, WAM |
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SB 1176 |
RELATING TO CHILDREN. Amends early intervention services law to be consistent with the reauthorized Individuals with Disabilities Education Act of 2004.
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HTH/HSP |
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SB 1918 |
RELATING TO THE HAWAII CHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE PROGRAM. Creates a three-year pilot program in which the department of human services pays half of the premiums for the health care provided by a mutual benefit society to uninsured children thirty-one days to eighteen years old who are ineligible for other state or federal health care coverage. Appropriates funds. Sunsets June 30, 2010.
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HSP/HTH, WAM |
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SB 1740 |
RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH. Appropriates funds to the preschool developmental screening program, the family health services division, and the injury prevention and control section to maintain existing staff and hiring additional staff members.
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HSP/HTH, WAM |
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SB 1798 |
RELATING TO PSYCHOTROPIC MEDICATION. Adds advanced practice registered nurses to the persons who must prescribe the psychotropic medication that the department of human services may not restrict or limit coverage for under section 346-59.9, HRS. Makes technical amendments.
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HTH/HSP, CPH |
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No testimony will be accepted.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CALL THE COMMITTEE CLERK AT 808-586-6230.