THE SENATE
THE TWENTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2007
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COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS |
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Senator Rosalyn H. Baker, Chair |
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Senator Shan S. Tsutsui, Vice Chair |
NOTICE OF DECISION MAKING
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DATE: |
Monday February 26, 2007 |
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TIME: |
9:30 AM |
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PLACE: |
Conference Room 211 State Capitol 415 South Beretania Street |
A G E N D A
The following bills were previously heard in their respective subject matter committees. For this decision-making, only written comments will be accepted; no oral testimony will be accepted.
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SB 51 SD1 (SSCR94) |
RELATING TO HOME CARE. Establishes home care agency licensing requirements. Appropriates moneys to create permanent positions at the department of health to license home care agencies. (SD1)
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HTH, WAM |
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SB 69 SD1 (SSCR95) |
RELATING TO HEALTH CARE. Establishes a statewide comprehensive health care workforce map and database to compile and analyze data on the supply and distribution of all health care workers by specialty and practice location. Appropriates funds. (SD1)
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HTH, WAM |
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SB 153 SD1 (SSCR454) |
RELATING TO NATURAL DISASTER PREPAREDNESS IN HEALTH CARE FACILITIES. Makes appropriations to the department of health to assess the structural integrity of all hospitals and nursing homes in Hawaii to determine their ability to withstand different types of natural disasters. (SD1)
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HTH/IGM, WAM |
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SB 810 SD1 (SSCR97) |
RELATING TO WAIMANO RIDGE. Issues general obligations bonds for capital improvements to the Waimano ridge facilities and lands. Appropriates funds to support the Waimano ridge task force for operating expenses and for a comprehensive master plan. (SD1)
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HTH, WAM |
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SB 820 (SSCR415) |
RELATING TO DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES. Extends the repeal date of Act 303, Session Laws of Hawaii 2006, relating to community residential alternatives for persons with developmental disabilities, from June 30, 2008, to June 30, 2009.
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HTH/HSP, WAM |
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SB 952 SD1 (SSCR98) |
RELATING TO KAHUKU HOSPITAL. Authorizes the Hawaii health systems corporation to acquire Kahuku hospital on negotiated terms. Requires the director of health to assume a facilitating role during the transition period. Makes an appropriation. (SD1)
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HTH, WAM |
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SB 970 SD1 (SSCR416) |
RELATING TO DENTAL HEALTH. Makes appropriations for 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. (SD1)
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HTH/HSP, WAM |
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SB 973 SD1 (SSCR455) |
RELATING TO PUBLIC HEALTH. Ensures the community health care system remains financially viable in the face of population growth, uninsured, and under-insured. (SD1)
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HTH/HSP, WAM |
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SB 1119 SD1 (SSCR511) |
RELATING TO PUBLIC HEALTH Appropriates funding to the department of health for a state drug policy study in order to provide the legislature with information to develop a comprehensive drug policy. (SD1)
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HTH, WAM |
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SB 1253 (SSCR497) |
RELATING TO HAWAII HEALTH SYSTEMS CORPORATION CONTRACTS. Creates an exemption for the Hawaii health systems corporation from various statutory contracting requirements imposed on state agencies.
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HTH/TSG, WAM |
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SB 1282 SD1 (SSCR402) |
RELATING TO HEALTH. Appropriates moneys to establish an emergency medical services training stipend program to remedy the shortage of mobile intensive care technician paramedics and assist ten paramedic students per year who do not have access to a program. (SD1)
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HTH, WAM |
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SB 1283 SD1 (SSCR453) |
RELATING TO THE HAWAII TOBACCO SETTLEMENT SPECIAL FUND. Allows University of Hawaii to use its allotment of moneys from the Hawaii tobacco settlement special fund to pay for operating expenses of the new medical school in addition to paying debt service. (SD1)
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HTH/EDU, WAM |
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SB 1454 (SSCR505) |
RELATING TO THE HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL FACILITIES SPECIAL FUND. Renames the special fund to reflect the current name of the Office of Health Care Assurance (OHCA). Requires that all moneys collected by OHCA in the form of fees and fines be deposited into this account. Allows the moneys deposited into the special fund to be used to offset OHCA's operational expenses.
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HTH, WAM |
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SB 1481 SD1 (SSCR512) |
RELATING TO INTERVENTION FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSE. Establishes a pilot program for screening, brief intervention, and referral to substance abuse treatment. (SD1)
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HTH, WAM |
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SB 1629 SD1 (SSCR408) |
RELATING TO THE ISSUANCE OF REVENUE BONDS TO ASSIST HAWAII HEALTH SYSTEMS CORPORATION OR ANY OF ITS REGIONAL SUBSIDIARY CORPORATIONS. Authorizes revenue bonds to assist Hawaii health systems corporation for construction, improvement, and equipment of a new heart, brain, and spine center on Maui. (SD1)
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HTH, WAM |
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SB 1676 SD1 (SSCR450) |
RELATING TO THE HAWAII HEALTH SYSTEMS CORPORATION. Authorizes and funds creation of a captive insurance company by Hawaii health systems corporation to provide medical malpractice and hospital professional and general liability coverage to the corporation as a five-year pilot project. (SD1)
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HTH/CPH, WAM |
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SB 1678 SD1 (SSCR451) |
RELATING TO MEDICAL REIMBURSEMENT. Requires health care plans to reimburse health care providers one hundred ten per cent of the medicaid or medicare reimbursement rate in effect for the current year and updated for each calendar year thereafter. (SD1)
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HTH/CPH, WAM |
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SB 1728 SD1 (SSCR509) |
RELATING TO A TWO-YEAR HEPATITIS C DEMONSTRATION PROJECT. Appropriates funds to establish a two-year Hepatitis C demonstration project at the Waikiki health center and the west Hawaii community center to provide testing, case management, treatment, surveillance, research, and outcome. (SD1)
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HTH, WAM |
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SB 1792 SD1 (SSCR535) |
RELATING TO THE HAWAII HEALTH SYSTEMS CORPORATION. Authorizes establishment of regional affiliate corporations under the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation. Establishes powers, duties, rights, and obligations of the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation and regional affiliates. Establishes a regional affiliate corporation for the Maui region. Makes appropriations.
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HTH, WAM |
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SB 1804 SD1 (SSCR507) |
RELATING TO THE TRAUMA SYSTEM SPECIAL FUND. Establishes additional funding mechanisms for the trauma system special fund. Makes appropriations. (SD1)
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HTH, WAM |
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SB 238 SD1 (SSCR593) |
RELATING TO MENTAL HEALTH. Increases the reimbursement rate for medicaid and QUEST psychiatric services according to county population; appropriates funds for the reimbursement rate increase. (SD1)
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HSP, WAM |
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SB 248 SD1 (SSCR590) |
RELATING TO THE STATE COMMISSION ON FATHERHOOD. Appropriates funds for staffing of state commission on fatherhood. (SD1)
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HSP, WAM |
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SB 427 SD1 (SSCR610) |
RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES. Increase state supplemental payments for certain domiciliary care and requires a portion of the payment to be retained by the recipient for personal use. (SD1)
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HSP, WAM |
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SB 979 SD1 (SSCR136) |
RELATING TO SUICIDE PREVENTION. Establishes a youth suicide early intervention and prevention program. Makes appropriations. (SD1)
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HSP/HTH, WAM |
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SB 1114 SD1 (SSCR600) |
RELATING TO MEDICAID. Requires department of human services to directly reimburse sellers of over-the-counter Plan B emergency contraception to women who are recipients of medicaid, without charge to recipients, who purchase such medication. Makes an appropriation. (SD1)
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HSP, WAM |
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SB 1163 SD1 (SSCR379) |
RELATING TO FOSTER CHILDREN'S TRANSITION TO ADULTHOOD. Requires the permanent plan of certain foster children age fourteen and older to include an appropriate independent living program. (SD1)
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HSP, WAM |
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SB 1170 SD1 (SSCR380) |
RELATING TO CHILDREN. Appropriates or authorizes temporary assistance for needy families funds for the healthy start program, including enhanced healthy start, hiring of additional staff, and training. (SD1)
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HSP, WAM |
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SB 1115 SD1 (SSCR456) |
RELATING TO PERINATAL CARE. Appropriates funds for the pilot perinatal clinic within the UH medical school department of obstetrics, gynecology, and women's health to help women with a history of substance abuse. (SD1)
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HTH/HSP, WAM |
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SB 1173 (SSCR381) |
RELATING TO PERINATAL CARE. Appropriates funds to continue the pilot perinatal clinic for women with a history of substance abuse on Oahu.
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HSP, WAM |
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SB 1203 (SSCR386) |
RELATING TO SOCIAL SERVICES. Requires the department of human services to develop and implement a "cash and counseling" pilot program and appropriates funds for that purpose.
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HSP, WAM |
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SB 1447 SD1 (SSCR576) |
RELATING TO HOUSING. Corrects chapter 356D, relating to the Hawaii public housing authority, to reflect the legislature's intent to codify various acts into this chapter, and to make other necessary technical amendments. (SD1)
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HSP/IGM, WAM |
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SB 1448 (SSCR596) |
RELATING TO THE HAWAII PUBLIC HOUSING AUTHORITY. Authorizes the Hawaii Public Housing Authority's Board to set the salaries of the Executive Director and the Executive Assistant, subject to the approval of the Governor.
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HSP, WAM |
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SB 1450 SD1 (SSCR616) |
RELATING TO THE STATE RENT SUPPLEMENT PROGRAM. Broadens participation in the state rent supplement program by removing the statutory limitation on the subsidy amount and increasing the income limits for participation from fifty per cent of area median income to ninety‑five per cent of area median income. (SD1)
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HSP, WAM |
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SB 1672 SD1 (SSCR389) |
RELATING TO HEALTH. Amends the medicaid fee schedule law to require an annual adjustment for inflation; appropriates funds to retroactively adjust for inflation, payments made to fee-for-service providers for fiscal year 2001-2002, and bienniums 2003-2005 and 2005-2007; changes medicaid fee schedule to one hundred per cent of the 2006 medicare fee schedule. (SD1)
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HSP, WAM |
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SB 1779 (SSCR390) |
RELATING TO CHILDREN. Establishes a two-year statewide task force to evaluate and make recommendations on the State's system responses to cases of child sexual assault and exploitation. Makes appropriations for the task force.
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HSP, WAM |
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SB 1916 SD1 (SSCR391) |
RELATING TO CAREGIVING. Strengthens support of family caregivers by, among other things: extending the joint legislative committee on family caregiving; requiring the executive office on aging to conduct a comprehensive assessment of care recipients' needs and the needs of their family caregivers; and appropriating funds to expand services for care recipients and their family caregivers. (SD1)
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HSP, WAM |
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SB 1918 SD1 (SSCR612) |
RELATING TO THE HAWAII CHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE PROGRAM. Creates a three-year pilot program to expand health care coverage for children in Hawaii; and appropriates funds. (SD1)
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HSP/HTH, WAM |
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SB 1937 SD1 (SSCR392) |
RELATING TO SOCIAL SERVICES. Requires the department of human services to develop and implement a micro-credit pilot program and appropriates or authorizes temporary assistance for needy families funds for that purpose. (SD1)
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HSP, WAM |
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SB 152 SD1 (SSCR248) |
RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION. Clarifies use of moneys in state highway fund for bicycle lanes, bicycle paths, bicycle routes, and bikeways. (SD1)
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TIA, WAM |
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SB 1042 SD1 (SSCR100) |
RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION. Requires the department of transportation, to the extent practicable, to comply with county outdoor lighting ordinances at airports, harbors, and highways. (SD1)
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TIA/IGM, WAM |
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SB 1048 (SSCR101) |
RELATING TO HIGHWAY SAFETY. Requires the State, counties, and contractors performing work on a public highway to post signs warning motorists of steel plates placed in the roadway.
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TIA/IGM, WAM |
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SB 1191 SD1 (SSCR250) |
RELATING TO PEDESTRIAN SAFETY. Appropriates funds to the department of transportation for a pilot study to identify state and county intersections where the time to cross the intersection is insufficient for elderly pedestrians. (SD1)
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TIA, WAM |
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SB 1515 SD1 (SSCR286) |
RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION. Increases fines imposed on users and tenants who violate chapter 266, HRS, the department's administrative rules, or any lawful command of any harbor master, agent, or district manager. Allows for a full recovery of fines imposed on the DOT for violations of federal and state air and water pollution laws committed by harbor users and tenants. (SD1)
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TIA, WAM |
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SB 1677 (SSCR39) |
RELATING TO TRAFFIC CONTROL. Appropriates funds for the design of a Maui traffic control center.
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TIA, WAM |
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ONLY WRITTEN COMMENTS SHOULD BE SUBMITTED,
NO ORAL TESTIMONY WILL BE ACCEPTED.
Persons wishing to submit written comments should include the following information on your comments:
name, title, organization, contact information, position on the bill (support, oppose, or comments),
the decision-making date/time/room number, bill number, title, and committee to which your comments should be referred. Please submit your comments on 8-1/2 x 11-inch paper (one-sided printing) with 1-inch margins.
Submit comments in person, by fax, or by e-mail 24 hours prior to the decision-making.
a. In person:
b. By Fax: Comments may also be faxed if less than 5 pages in length, to the Senate Sergeant-At-Arms Office at 586-6659 or 1-800-586-6659 (toll free for neighbor islands). Please indicate that 25 copies are needed.
c. By E-mail: Comments may also be e-mailed if less than 5 pages in length, to: testimony@capitol.hawaii.gov (the Public Access Room, phone 587-0478). Please indicate that 25 copies are needed. Please note that the Senator's office will not accept e-mail comments.
Comments received after 4:30 p.m. the day before the decision-making will be stamped “LATE.”
If you require special assistance or auxiliary aids or services to participate in the public hearing process (i.e., sign language interpreter, wheelchair accessibility, or parking designated for the disabled) please contact the committee clerk 24 hours prior to the hearing so arrangements can be made.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CALL THE COMMITTEE CLERK AT 586-6800
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________________________________________ Senator Rosalyn H. Baker Chair |
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