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Senator Donna Mercado Kim, Chair |
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Senator Shan S. Tsutsui, Vice Chair |
NOTICE OF DECISION MAKING
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DATE: |
Wednesday February 24, 2010 |
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10:10am |
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PLACE: |
Conference Room 211 State Capitol 415 South Beretania Street |
The following measure(s) were previously heard by the Senate standing committee on Human Services.
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RELATING TO KUPUNA CARE. Appropriates additional funds for the kupuna care program. (SD1)
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HMS, WAM |
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MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR GENERAL ASSISTANCE. Makes appropriation out of the emergency and budget reserve fund for the general assistance program.
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HMS, WAM |
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MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE MAINTENANCE OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SHELTERS. Appropriates general funds for domestic violence shelters. (SD1)
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HMS, WAM |
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RELATING TO QUEST HEALTH CARE PAYMENTS. Restores adult dental care under QUEST.
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HMS, WAM |
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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, and health. (SD1)
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HMS/HTH/JGO, WAM |
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RELATING TO HEALTH. Exempting QUEST plans from paying interest under the clean claims act when delays are due to non-payment by government payers to QUEST plans; requires the State to pay interest on late payments to health care plans related to QUEST; appropriates funds from the Hawaii hurricane relief fund to pay for QUEST and COFA migrants and authorizes the expenditure of matching federal funds. (SD1)
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HMS/CPN, WAM |
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RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES. Requires medicaid contracts between the department of human services and medicaid healthcare insurance plan contractors to contain provisions affecting the reimbursement obligations in the policies between the medicaid healthcare insurance plan contractors and the home and community-based case management agencies. Prohibits reductions of reimbursements of more than 10%. (SD1)
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HMS/CPN, WAM |
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RELATING TO THE EMERGENCY AND BUDGET RESERVE FUND. Allows moneys from the excess general fund balance to be deposited into the emergency and budget reserve fund as a temporary source of funding for the State during times of emergency, severe economic downturn, and unforeseen reduction in revenues. (SD1)
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HMS/HTH, WAM |
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RELATING TO CHILD CARE. Appropriates moneys for child care subsidies. (SD1)
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HMS, WAM |
Decision making meeting only, no public testimony will be accepted.
Persons wishing to comment should submit their comments in one of the following ways:
· By Email: Comments may be emailed if less than 5 pages in length, to the Committee at WAMTestimony@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.
· In person: 1 copy of their Comments to the committee clerk, Room 210, State Capitol.
By fax: Comments 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 comments is being submitted and the date and time of the hearing
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.
If you require special assistance or auxiliary aids or services to participate in the public hearing process (i.e., sign or foreign language interpreter or wheelchair accessibility), please contact the committee clerk 24 hours prior to the hearing so arrangements can be made.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CALL THE COMMITTEE CLERK AT 586-6800.
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________________________________________ Senator Donna Mercado Kim Chair |