THE SENATE
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Senator Suzanne Chun Oakland, Chair |
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Senator Les Ihara, Jr., Vice Chair |
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DATE: |
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TIME: |
1:15 p.m. |
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PLACE: |
Conference Room 016 State Capitol 415 South Beretania Street |
DECISION MAKING ON THE FOLLOWING MEASURE(S):
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RELATING TO THE EMERGENCY AND BUDGET RESERVE FUND. Appropriates moneys from the emergency and budget reserve fund to maintain levels of programs for education, human services, health.
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HMS/HTH/JGO, WAM |
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RELATING TO INTOXICATING LIQUOR VIOLATIONS INVOLVING MINORS. Establishes an immunity from prosecution for consumption of intoxicating liquor by a minor if the minor summons medical treatment for another minor who requires such treatment as a result of consuming liquor. Also applies to the intoxicated minor and one or two other minors assisting summoning minor.
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HMS/HTH, JGO |
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RELATING TO THE STATE FISCAL STABILIZATION FUND. Ensures funds are available for future fiscal emergencies by renaming and revising the Emergency Budget and Reserve Fund to create the State Fiscal Stabilization Fund and requiring five percent of general fund end of year balances to be deposited into it.
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HMS/HTH, WAM |
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PROPOSING AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF HAWAII RELATING TO THE STATE FISCAL STABILIZATION FUND. Ensures funds are available for future fiscal emergencies by creating the State Fiscal Stabilization Fund in the Constitution and requiring five percent of general fund end of year balances to be deposited into it.
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HMS/HTH, JGO/WAM |
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RELATING TO PSYCHOTROPIC MEDICATION. Allows the Department of Human Services to improve the safety and cost-effectiveness of psychotropic medication use.
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HMS/HTH, WAM |
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RELATING TO THE EMERGENCY AND BUDGET RESERVE FUND. Amends section 328L-3, HRS, to allow for moneys to be deposited from the excess general fund balance and amends 2009 session laws to prevent the total repeal of section 328L-3, HRS.
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HMS/HTH, WAM |
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RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH. Requires the department of health to develop a four-year state plan reflecting plans relating to mental health and substance abuse service delivery in each geographic service area and specifically highlighting special populations. Requires the state council on mental health and substance abuse to review and comment on the plan. Directs the department of health to review and update the plan every four years. Directs the department of health to submit a draft of the plan to the legislature before the 2011 legislative session.
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HTH/HMS, WAM |
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MAKING AN EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES TO ADDRESS THE BUDGET SHORTFALL. Emergency appropriation to address the budget shortfall for general assistance payments in January to June of 2010.
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HMS, WAM |
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RELATING TO INSURANCE. Requires health insurers to promptly pay claims for services to medicaid recipients, by repealing the exemption for medicaid claims from the clean claims law.
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HMS, CPN |
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RELATING TO PORNOGRAPHY OFFENSES AGAINST CHILDREN. Amends the offense of promoting pornography to minors to extend the prohibition against disseminating pornographic material to minors to include disseminating pornographic material to another person who represents that person to be a minor; and adds the offense of promoting child abuse in the third degree to the information charging law.
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HMS, JGO |
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RELATING TO CHILD PROTECTIVE ACT. To ensure that child protective provisions in the Hawaii Revised Statutes are consistent with federal Title IV-E provisions.
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HMS, JGO |
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RELATING TO GENERAL ASSISTANCE. To increase general assistance program efficiency by eliminating the requirement to send a ten-day pending notice requesting additional medical evidence when a determination and certification is made that an applicant does not have a physical, mental, or combination of a physical and mental disability.
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HMS, WAM |
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RELATING TO DEATH BENEFITS. To provide a State lump-sum death benefit in an amount equal to the Social Security Administration’s Lump-Sum Death Benefit for deceased medical or financial assistance recipients who are ineligible for the Social Security Administration benefit.
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HMS, WAM |
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No testimony will be accepted.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CALL THE COMMITTEE CLERK AT 808-586-6130.