THE TWENTY-FIFTH LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2009
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COMMITTEE ON HEALTH |
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Senator David Y. Ige, Chair |
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Senator Josh Green, M.D., Vice Chair |
NOTICE OF HEARING
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DATE: |
Wednesday February 11, 2009 |
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3:00 PM |
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Conference Room 016 State Capitol 415 South Beretania Street |
A G E N D A
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RELATING TO NATUROPATHIC MEDICINE. Amends the title of the chapter regulating naturopathy to "naturopathic medicine"; defines "naturopathic medicine"; authorizes naturopathic physicians to administer parenteral therapy; authorizes naturopathic physicians to obtain Federal Drug Enforcement Administration registration; authorizes temporary license to licensed out-of-state naturopathic physicians in a declared public health emergency.
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HTH, CPN |
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RELATING TO HEALTH. Establishes the Hawaii health authority to develop a health plan to provide healthcare coverage for all individuals in the State and makes an appropriation therefor. Requires report to 2011 regular session of the legislature.
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HTH, WAM |
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RELATING TO HEALTH. Establishes a pilot program to direct payment of certain state funds to federally qualified health centers to support federally qualified health centers as patient-centered health care homes. Makes an appropriation.
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HTH, WAM |
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RELATING TO HEALTH. Requires all dialysis centers in the State to have backup generators with the capacity to sustain treatment and maintain the centers' water treatment system.
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HTH, CPN |
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RELATING TO MEDICAL TREATMENT. Requires a health care provider to disclose to patients adverse events relating to their medical treatment.
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HTH, JGO |
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RELATING TO PRESCRIPTION RECORDS PRIVACY. Protects the confidentiality of prescription records identifying a doctor or other health care professional licensed to prescribe medications by prohibiting the use of such information for marketing purposes. Ensures that the State comply with federal restrictions on the transfer and use of medicaid data.
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HTH, JGO |
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RELATING TO THE DISCLOSURE OF VITAL STATISTICS RECORDS TO LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS. Authorizes the Department of Health to provide certain public health records to law enforcement officers to facilitate criminal investigations.
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HTH, JGO |
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RELATING TO SAFE PATIENT HANDLING PROTOCOL. Requires each private hospital in the State and each community hospital within the Hawaii health systems corporation to establish a safe patient handling committee by 01/01/2010 and a safe patient handling program by 10/01/2010.
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HTH, WAM |
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RELATING TO DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH CERTIFICATES. Repeals the requirement for a sanitation certificate to be issued for county business licenses for the operation of a lodging or tenement house, group home, group residence, group living arrangement, hotel, or boarding house. The City and County of Honolulu no longer requires business licenses for these facilities because of Act 35, Session Laws of Hawaii 2001, so the sanitation certificate is unnecessary for Oahu. The counties of Kauai, Maui, and Hawaii never required a sanitation certificate for these types of businesses.
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HTH, TIA |
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RELATING TO MENTAL HEALTH. Clarifies that the provisions of section 704-412, Hawaii Revised Statutes, govern the timing and standards of decision for applications for conditional release or discharge from the custody of the Director of Health and includes a time frame for decisions on motions for conditional release or discharge.
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HTH, JGO |
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RELATING TO ADVANCED PRACTICE REGISTERED NURSES. Requires insurers, mutual and fraternal benefit societies, and health maintenance organizations to recognize advanced practice registered nurses as primary care providers. Grants global signature authority and prescriptive rights. Amends definition of advanced practice registered nurse.
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HTH, CPN |
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RELATING TO HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS. Allows nurse practitioners, clinical nurse specialists, certified nurse midwives, and physician assistants, who provide the actual care, to sign certain medical certification forms for their patients applicable to the care provided within each practitioner's scope of practice.
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HTH, CPN |
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RELATING TO HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS. Allows an advanced practice registered nurse who provides care to a patient requesting medical certification forms, the authority to sign certifications applicable to the care provided within the advanced practice registered nurse's scope of practice.
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HTH, CPN |
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RELATING TO REGISTERED NURSES. Removes, for an unlicensed foreign nursing school graduate applying for a registered nurse license in Hawaii, the requirement for a school transcript to be evaluated. Requires board of nursing to adopt rules requiring submission of the breakdown of educational program for international nursing programs form.
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HTH, CPN |
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RELATING TO STATE VETERANS' HOME. Establishes a veterans' gift account to be administered by the Hawaii health systems corporation. Also requires account to comply with reporting requirements for non-general fund information.
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HTH, WAM |
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RELATING TO PHYSICIAN ORDERS FOR LIFE SUSTAINING TREATMENT. Creates a process for a patient to direct end-of-life treatment in a standardized physician orders for life sustaining form. Requires department of health to design the form. Requires department of health and Hawaii health systems corporation to require adoption of the form in their respective health facilities.
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HTH, JGO |
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RELATING TO HEALTH. Lowers the minimum age requirement for blood donation to sixteen years old with parental consent.
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HTH, JGO |
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RELATING TO INFECTIOUS DISEASE TESTING. Proposes to expand routine HIV testing by health care providers to improve early diagnosis of HIV by removing the requirement for health care providers to obtain written informed consent and to provide pre-test counseling prior to testing for HIV.
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HTH, JGO |
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RELATING TO EMERGENCY CONTRACEPTIVES FOR SEXUAL ASSAULT SURVIVORS. Requires hospitals to provide information about emergency contraception to women who are sexually assaulted and to provide emergency contraception when requested. Provides for administrative penalties for noncompliance.
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HTH, JGO |
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RELATING TO COMPREHENSIVE SEXUALITY HEALTH EDUCATION. Requires any recipient of state funding to provide medically accurate sexuality education.
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HTH |
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RELATING TO PSYCHOLOGISTS. Authorizes prescriptive authority for qualified psychologists who practice at a federally qualified health center.
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HTH, CPN |
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Decision Making to follow, if time permits.
FOR AMENDED HEARING NOTICES: If the notice is an amended notice, measures that have been deleted are stricken through and measures that have been added are underscored. If there is a measure that is both underscored and stricken through, that measure has been deleted from the agenda.
Persons wishing to testify should submit testimony in one of the following ways by 4:00 p.m. the day prior to the hearing:
· By Email: Testimony may be emailed if less than 5 pages in length, to the Committee at HTHTestimony@Capitol.hawaii.gov . Please indicate the measure, date and time of the hearing. Email sent to individual offices or any other Senate office will not be accepted.
· By Web: Testimony may be submitted online if less than 4MB in size, at http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/emailtestimony.
· In person: 1 copy of their testimony to the committee clerk, Room 215, State Capitol.
· By fax: Testimony may 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), at least 24 hours prior to the hearing. When faxing, please indicate to which committee the testimony is being submitted and the date and time of the hearing.
Please note: If you submit your written testimony after 4:30 p.m. the day prior to the hearing, please sign-in at the staff table to testify orally. A copy of your testimony may not be available during the hearing but will be posted online for the public after the hearing.
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Please note: All testimony received by the Hawaii Senate will be posted on the Hawaii Legislature's Website. Documents made available through the Testimony hyperlink(s) above may not be posted until the start of the hearing.
Public Folder. A folder labeled “Public Folder” containing the measures and testimonies for the hearing will be available for shared use by members of the public.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CALL THE COMMITTEE CLERK AT 586-6230.
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________________________________________ Senator David Y. Ige Chair |
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