THE SENATE
THE TWENTY-SIXTH LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2011

COMMITTEE ON HUMAN SERVICES
Senator Suzanne Chun Oakland, Chair
Senator Les Ihara, Jr., Vice-Chair

MEASURES DEFERRED TO FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2011

DATE:

Friday, February 11, 2011

TIME:

2:30 PM

PLACE:

Conference Room 229
State Capitol
415 South Beretania Street

DECISION MAKING ON THE FOLLOWING MEASURE(S):

SB425 SD1
(SSCR6)

Testimony

Status

RELATING TO MEDICAID.
Creates a wellness pilot program within medicaid.  Appropriates funds.  (SD1)

HMS/HTH, WAM

SB1267
Testimony

Status

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.

HMS/HTH, WAM

SB935
Testimony

Status

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.

HMS/HTH, WAM

SB125
Testimony

Status

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.

HMS/HTH, WAM

SB126
Testimony

Status

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.

HMS/HTH, WAM

SB645
Testimony

Status

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.

HMS/HTH, WAM

SB926
Testimony

Status

RELATING TO CHILDREN.
Appropriates funds for various early childhood and school readiness programs.

HMS/HTH, WAM

SB1467
Testimony

Status

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.

HMS/HTH, WAM

SB1468
Testimony

Status

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.

HMS/HTH, WAM

SB1469
Testimony

Status

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.

HMS/HTH, WAM

SB1140
Testimony

Status

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.

HMS/HTH

SB925
Testimony

Status

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.

HTH/HMS, WAM

SB937
Testimony

Status

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.

HTH/HMS, WAM

SB1141
Testimony

Status

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.

HTH/HMS

SB787
Testimony

Status

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.

HTH/HMS, WAM

SB1284
Testimony

Status

RELATING TO EDUCATION.
Amends section 302A-443, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to allow the Department of Education (1) access to monitor students with disabilities who are placed, at the Departments expense, at private special education schools or placements; and (2) the mechanism to set reasonable rates for the placement of students at private special education schools and placements.

EDU/HMS, WAM

SB891
Testimony

Status

AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS AND MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION AND SERVICES FOR THE BLIND DIVISION.
Appropriates funds for the department of human services, division of vocational rehabilitation and services for the blind to upgrade equipment and facilities for the Hoopono program.

HMS, WAM

SB127
Testimony

Status

MAKING A GRANT FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT AND OPERATION OF A COMPREHENSIVE DEAF CENTER.
Appropriates moneys for a grant to establish and operate a comprehensive deaf center.

HMS, WAM

SB150
Testimony

Status

RELATING TO BUILDING DESIGN FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES.
Allows the disability and communication access board to charge a fee to defray expenses of reviewing construction plans to ensure compliance with law.  Establishes an accessible building design special account, within the disability and communication access board special fund, for fees to be deposited and expended.

HMS, WAM

SB962
Testimony

Status

RELATING TO CHANGING REFERENCES IN THE HAWAII REVISED STATUTES FROM "MENTAL RETARDATION" TO "INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY".
Changes references in the Hawaii Revised Statutes by substituting "intellectual disabilities", or like term, wherever the term "mental retardation", or like term, appears.

HMS, JDL

SB1119
Testimony

Status

RELATING TO PARKING FOR DISABLED PERSONS.
Allows qualified applicants to receive a second removable windshield placard upon request and verification of the applicant's disability.

HMS

SB1342
Testimony

Status

RELATING TO PARKING FOR THE DISABLED.
Allows disabled parking placards to be displayed on the vehicle's dashboard if the design of the vehicle's rearview mirror precludes secure hanging of the placard.

HMS

SB1110
Testimony

Status

RELATING TO FOSTER YOUTH.
Requires the Department of Human Services to develop and administer a program assisting former foster youth with housing options.

HMS, WAM

SB1360
Testimony

Status

RELATING TO COMMUNITY CARE FOSTER FAMILY HOMES.
Amends previous caregiving requirements to specify that in Community Care Foster Family Homes approved for a maximum of three clients, the primary caregiver must be a certified nurse aide and the substitute caregiver must be a nurse aide.

HMS

SB1361
Testimony

Status

RELATING TO COMMUNITY CARE FOSTER FAMILY HOMES.
Requires a Community Care Foster Family Home to have been certified and in operation for not less than one year prior to being certified for a third client.

HMS

SB944
Testimony

Status

RELATING TO CHILDREN.
Substitutes "parenting time" wherever the term "visitation" appears in the Hawaii Revised Statutes, but only within the sections that pertain directly to relationships between children and their parents. Adds the term "parenting time" to sections that reference "visitation" between children and other parties.  Does not apply to the Uniform Child-Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act, chapter 583A, Hawaii Revised Statutes.

HMS, JDL

SB1109
Testimony

Status

RELATING TO FORMER FOSTER YOUTH.
Requires the Department of Human Services to automatically enroll foster youth who age out of the system in an appropriate medical assistance program and automatically re-enroll these foster youth until they reach age twenty-one.  Also requires the Department of Human Services to develop a program to assist these foster youth to maintain continuing medical care coverage after the age of twenty-one.

HMS, WAM

SB954
Testimony

Status

RELATING TO FOSTER CHILDREN.
Gives children in the foster care system the option to remain under the jurisdiction of the family court system until they reach the age of twenty-one; amends current law to require a transition plan for children once they have reached the age of fourteen.

HMS, JDL

SB288
Testimony

Status

RELATING TO FAMILY COURTS.
Requires a court to allow an alleged victim to be listed as "jane doe" or "john doe" within court filings in cases of alleged domestic abuse where the alleged victim has already received an order of protection, temporary restraining order, or protective order against the accused party to the petition or complaint; provided that the court determines it would be necessary to protect the privacy of the alleged victim.  Also permits courts to seal court records associated with the "jane doe" or "john doe" filing under certain circumstances.

HMS, JDL

SB1364
Testimony

Status

RELATING TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE.
Establishes a domestic violence task force to make recommendations to address domestic violence in Hawaii and then report to the legislature.

HMS, WAM

No testimony will be accepted.

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.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT THE COMMITTEE CLERK AT 808-586-6130.