THE SENATE

THE TWENTY-FIFTH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2009

 

COMMITTEE ON HEALTH

Senator David Y. Ige, Chair

Senator Josh Green, M.D., Vice Chair

 

 

MEASURES DEFERRED TO WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18, 2009

 

DATE:

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

TIME:

2:40pm

PLACE:

Conference Room 016

State Capitol

415 South Beretania Street

 

DECISION MAKING ON THE FOLLOWING MEASURE(S):

(Deferred from Monday, March 16, 2009)

 

HB 710, HD1

Testimony

RELATING TO HEALTH.

Exempts long-term care facilities from the certificate of need process.

 

HTH, WAM

HB 808

Testimony

RELATING TO HEALTH.

Makes amendments to clarify the support and expansion of new technology in the use of telemedicine; clarifies that telehealth is within the scope of a physician's practice.

 

HTH, CPN

HB 811, HD2

Testimony

RELATING TO REGISTERED NURSES.

Removes, for a foreign nursing school graduate applying for licensure by examination for registered nurses in Hawaii, the requirement to obtain certification from the Commission on Graduates of Foreign Nursing Schools.  Requires the Board of Nursing to adopt rules requiring submission of the Breakdown of Educational Program for International Nursing Programs form and a certified school transcript.  (HB811 HD2)

 

HTH, CPN

HB 814, HD2

Testimony

RELATING TO NURSE AIDES.

Specifies the renewal period for the recertification of nurse aides and the number of continuing education hours for their recertification.  Effective 07/01/2020.  (HB814 HD2)

 

HTH, CPN

HB 895, HD2

Testimony

RELATING TO TAX ON TOBACCO PRODUCTS OTHER THAN CIGARETTES.

Increases the tobacco tax on tobacco products other than cigarettes from 40 percent to 80 percent of the wholesale price and deposits an unspecified percentage of the proceeds collected into the Community Health Centers Special Fund.  (HB895 HD2)

 

HTH, WAM

HB 896, HD1

Testimony

RELATING TO TOBACCO.

Makes permanent the retail tobacco permit law.  (HB896 HD1)

 

HTH, WAM

HB 1175, HD3

Testimony

RELATING TO TAXATION.

Increases the cigarette tax from 10 cents per cigarette to 20 cents per cigarette beginning July 1, 2009.  Effective July 1, 2020.  (HB1175 HD3)

 

HTH, WAM

HB 1372

Testimony

RELATING TO THE TRANSITIONING OF THE REGIONS AND FACILITIES OF HAWAII HEALTH SYSTEMS CORPORATION.

Authorizes a facility or regional health care system under the Hawaii health systems corporation to transition into a new legal entity, including a nonprofit or for-profit corporation, municipal facility, or public benefit corporation.

 

HTH, WAM

HB 1537, HD1

Testimony

RELATING TO AUTOMATED EXTERNAL DEFIBRILLATORS.

Specifies that any person who provides for an automated external defibrillator training program is generally immune from vicarious civil liability resulting from any act or omission of a Good Samaritan attempting to use the device to resuscitate a person. (HB1537 HD1)

 

HTH, JGO

 

 

 

 

 

No testimony will be accepted.

 

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