HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

THE TWENTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2003

COMMITTEE ON HEALTH

Rep. Dennis A. Arakaki, Chair

Rep. Scott Y. Nishimoto, Vice Chair

Rep. Helene H. Hale

Rep. Roy M. Takumi

Rep. Michael Puamamo Kahikina

Rep. Corinne W.L. Ching

Rep. Maile S.L. Shimabukuro

Rep. Lynn Finnegan

Rep. K. Mark Takai

Rep. Bud Stonebraker

COMMITTEE ON HUMAN SERVICES AND HOUSING

Rep. Michael Puamamo Kahikina, Chair

Rep. Maile S.L. Shimabukuro, Vice Chair

Rep. Dennis A. Arakaki

Rep. Roy M. Takumi

Rep. Helene H. Hale

Rep. Corinne W.L. Ching

Rep. Bertha C. Kawakami

Rep. Lynn Finnegan

Rep. Scott Y. Nishimoto

Rep. Bud Stonebraker

Rep. K. Mark Takai

NOTICE OF HEARING

DATE:

Thursday, March 20, 2003

TIME:

9:00 a.m.

PLACE:

Conference Room 329

State Capitol

415 South Beretania Street

AGENDA

     

SB 964

SD 1

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR TREATMENT SERVICES FOR CHILD VICTIMS OF INTRAFAMILIAL SEXUAL ABUSE.

Appropriates funds for treatment services for child victims of intrafamilial sexual abuse and their families who are not serviced by child protective services. (CHUN OAKLAND)

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DECISION MAKING TO FOLLOW

 

 

 

RECONVENE COMMITTEE ON HEALTH

 
     

SB 661

SD 1

RELATING TO SEXUAL ASSAULT

Creates the sexual assault prevention special fund; raises the marriage license fee for deposit into the fund. Directs the department of health to use moneys from the fund for sexual assault prevention programs. (FUKUNAGA)

HLT, FIN

 
       

SB 963

SD 1

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE POISON CENTER

Appropriates funds for the Department of Health to operate the Poison Center 24 hours a day. (CHUN OAKLAND)

HLT, FIN

 
     

SB 1241

RELATING TO CANCER EXAMINATIONS

Repeals section 321-45, Hawaii Revised Statutes, requiring hospitals to offer a uterine cytologic examination for cancer to every female in-patient twenty years of age of older unless the exam is contraindicated by attending physician or was performed within the previous year. (BAKER)

HLT, FIN

     

SB 325

RELATING TO SPECIAL PURPOSE REVENUE BONDS

Appropriates funds to finance the costs of construction improvements and for equipping health care facilities using special purpose revenue bonds. (BUNDA)

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SB 745

SD 2

RELATING TO EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES

Requires DOH to integrate emergency aeromedical services into statewide emergency medical services. Appropriates funds for: aeromedical services for Maui county, emergency medical services at the Waianae Coast Comprehension Health Center, advance life support ambulance services for parts of Maui and Hawaii. Requires matching county funds. (BAKER)

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SB 624

SD 1

RELATING TO INFORMED CONSENT

Updates the informed consent statute and increases consistency with other informed consent law. (HANABUSA)

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SB 1356

SD 1

RELATING TO REGISTRATION OF VITAL STATISTICS

Permits a more timely reporting of cause-of-death and related medical information of deceased individuals. Facilitates a more timely registration of deaths and the issuance of death certificates and burial-transit permits by conversion from a paper-based to an electronic registration process. Redefines the term "fetal death" (stillborn) and alters the recording of fetal death events from a certificate-based to a report-based system. Authorizes a patient's next of kin to request and receive copies of the patient's medical records. (BUNDA)

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SB 1357

SD 1

RELATING TO VITAL STATISTICS REGISTRATION DISTRICTS

Streamlines the registration of births and deaths occurring in the State by the Department of Health. (BUNDA)

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SB 1361

SD 2

RELATING TO PRESCRIPTION DRUGS

Makes approved, therapeutically equivalent generic drug products substitutable within days or weeks (as opposed to months) of a new generic product release. Ensures the expedited removal of nonequivalent drugs from the state formulary, resulting in improved patient outcomes. (BUNDA)

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DECISION MAKING TO FOLLOW

PERSONS WISHING TO TESTIFY ARE REQUESTED TO SUBMIT FORTY (40) COPIES OF THEIR TESTIMONY AT LEAST 24 HOURS PRIOR TO THE HEARING TO THE HEALTH COMMITTEE'S VICE CHAIR IN ROOM 441, STATE CAPITOL OR THE HOUSE SGT.-AT-ARMS PERSONNEL IN THE TURNAROUND AREA OF THE CAPITOL BASEMENT PARKING LOT. TESTIMONY MAY BE FAXED TO THE HOUSE SGT.-AT-ARMS OFFICE AT: 586-6501 (OAHU) OR 1-800-535-3859 (NEIGHBOR ISLANDS). WHEN SENDING BY FAX, PLEASE INDICATE TO WHOM THE TESTIMONY IS BEING SUBMITTED, THE DATE AND TIME OF THE HEARING AND THE REQUIRED NUMBER OF COPIES THAT ARE NEEDED FOR SUBMITTAL. ALSO IT IS REQUESTED THAT THE COPIES BE ON ONE SIDE OF AN 8-1/2" X 11" SHEET WITH TWO HOLES PUNCHED AT THE TOP. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CALL THE HEALTH COMMITTEE CLERK AT 586-8515.

IF YOU REQUIRE SPECIAL ASSISTANCE OR AUXILIARY AIDS AND/OR SERVICES TO PARTICIPATE IN THE PUBLIC HEARING PROCESS OF THE STATE HOUSE (I.E., SIGN LANGUAGE INTERPRETER, WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBILITY, OR PARKING DESIGNATED FOR THE DISABLED), PLEASE CONTACT THE COMMITTEE CLERK AT LEAST 24 HOURS PRIOR TO THE HEARING SO ARRANGEMENTS CAN BE MADE.

 

Representative Michael Puamamo Kahikina

Chair

Representative Dennis A. Arakaki

Chair