THE TWENTY-SIXTH LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2011
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COMMITTEE ON HUMAN SERVICES |
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Senator Suzanne Chun Oakland, Chair |
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Senator Les Ihara, Jr., Vice Chair |
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COMMITTEE ON HEALTH |
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Senator Josh Green, M.D., Chair |
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Senator Clarence K. Nishihara, Vice Chair |
AMENDED NOTICE OF HEARING
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DATE: |
Thursday, February 10, 2011 |
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TIME: |
1:15 p.m. |
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PLACE: |
Conference Room 016 State Capitol 415 South Beretania Street |
A M E N D E D A G E N D A
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RELATING TO MEDICAID. Creates a wellness pilot program within medicaid. Appropriates funds. (SD1)
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HMS/HTH, WAM
[Measure added on 2-7-11] |
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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. Effective upon approval.
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HMS/HTH, 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 public health, safety, welfare, and education.
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HMS/HTH, WAM |
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RELATING TO PERSONS WITH INTELLECTUAL AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES. Establishes an employment and training program under the department of human services for intellectually and developmentally disabled persons using medicaid waiver funds. Makes an appropriation.
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HMS/HTH, WAM |
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RELATING TO PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES. Establishes a medicaid buy-in program for working people with disabilities. Allows the formation of a medicaid shortfall joint legislative task force to examine issues relating to medicaid shortfalls. Makes matching fund appropriation for employment training and placement.
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HMS/HTH, WAM |
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RELATING TO MEDICAID. Requires the department of human services to create a standardized drug formulary, and transfer medicaid coverage for prescription drugs administered in the home from managed care organizations to the department. Establishes a pharmacy and therapeutics board.
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HMS/HTH, WAM |
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RELATING TO CHILDREN. Appropriates funds for various early childhood and school readiness programs.
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HMS/HTH, WAM |
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RELATING TO THE OFFICE OF AGING. Clarifies that the director of the executive office on aging shall be a deputy director of the department of health; removes salary restriction.
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HMS/HTH, WAM |
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RELATING TO HEALTH. Establishes the Hawaii patient centered health home pilot program. Establishes the Hawaii medicaid modernization and innovation council to design and implement the program. Council ceases to exist on 6/30/13.
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HMS/HTH, WAM |
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RELATING TO HEALTH CARE. Consolidates the authority, duties, responsibilities, and jurisdiction of the department of human services and the department of health, as they relate to various health care services, to the office of health care assurance in the department of health on July 1, 2012.
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HMS/HTH, WAM |
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RELATING TO HEALTH CARE. Requires health care facilities and providers to notify the state-designated advocacy services entity or agency prior to transferring an elderly or disabled patient to a treatment, rehabilitation, or long-term care facility in another state.
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HMS/HTH |
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RELATING TO CHILDREN. Establishes a hospital-based screening and assessment and intensive home visitation program under the department of health; appropriates funds from the tobacco settlement special fund and the temporary assistance to needy families fund.
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HTH/HMS, WAM |
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RELATING TO HEALTH. Requires the department of health and the department of human services to post on their respective websites reports of all inspections of care facilities by January 1, 2013.
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HTH/HMS, WAM |
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RELATING TO DELIVERY OF GOVERNMENT SERVICES. Requires the directors of DOH and DHS to collaborate with contracted health and human services providers to develop, and update annually, a health and human services delivery plan.
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HTH/HMS |
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RELATING TO HEALTH. Requires rates for medicaid reimbursements to hospitals keeping patients in beds to be equal to rates for similarly related services. Appropriates funds for increased medicaid reimbursements.
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HTH/HMS, WAM |
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 HMSTestimony@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 226, 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.
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Public Folder. A folder labeled “Public Folder” containing the testimonies for the hearing will be available for shared use by members of the public.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CALL THE COMMITTEE CLERK AT 586-6130.
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________________________________________ Senator Josh Green, M.D. Chair |
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________________________________________ Senator Suzanne Chun Oakland Chair |