| Measure Title: | RELATING TO A STATE PHARMACY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM. |
| Report Title: | State Pharmacy Assistance Program ($) |
| Description: | Establishes a Hawaii Medicare Prescription Drug Assistance Program to provide benefits to certain elderly and disabled individuals to assist in defraying costs for medically necessary prescriptions under the new federal Medicare part D drug benefit program. (HB693 HD1) |
| Package: | Governor |
| Companion: | SB802 |
| Introducer(s): | SAY (BR) |
| Current Referral: | HUS/HLT, FIN |
| Date | Status Text | |
|---|---|---|
| 1/24/2005 | H | Pending introduction. |
| 1/26/2005 | H | Introduced and Pass First Reading |
| 1/27/2005 | H | Referred to HUS/HLT, FIN, referral sheet 5 |
| 2/10/2005 | H | Bill scheduled to be heard by HUS/HLT on Monday, 02-14-05 at 8:45 am in House conference room 329. |
| 2/14/2005 | H | The committee(s) recommends that the measure be deferred until 2/17/2005. |
| 2/17/2005 | H | The committees on HUS recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 9 Ayes: Representative(s) Sonson, Cabanilla, Arakaki, Green, Hale, Kahikina, Kawakami, Finnegan, Stonebraker; Ayes with reservations: none; 0 Noes: none; and 0 Excused: none. |
| 2/17/2005 | H | The committees on HLT recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 7 Ayes: Representative(s) Arakaki, Green, Cabanilla, Hale, Nishimoto, Sonson, Finnegan; Ayes with reservations: none; 0 Noes: none; and 0 Excused: none. |
| 2/17/2005 | H | Reported from the committee on HUS/HLT (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 627) as amended in (HD 1), recommending passage on Second Reading and referral to the committee on FIN. |
| 2/18/2005 | H | Passed Second Reading as amended in (HD 1) and referred to the committee(s) on FIN with none voting no and Representative(s) Fox, Halford, Ito, Morita, Moses, Saiki, Souki, Takamine, Takumi, Tanaka, Wakai excused. |
| 12/2/2005 10:33:06 AM | D | Carried over to 2006 Regular Session |
$ = Appropriation measure
ConAm = Constitutional Amendment