THE TWENTY-SIXTH LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2012
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Senator Suzanne Chun Oakland, Chair |
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Senator Les Ihara, Jr., Vice Chair |
AMENDED NOTICE OF HEARING
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DATE: |
Tuesday, March 20, 2012 |
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TIME: |
1:45 pm |
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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 THE ISSUANCE OF SPECIAL PURPOSE REVENUE BONDS TO ASSIST THE HAWAII ISLAND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION. Authorizes the issuance of SPRBs to assist the Hawaii Island Community Development Corporation to construct an adult day care facility in Hilo, Hawaii. Effective July 1, 2030. (HB2334 HD2)
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HMS, WAM |
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RELATING TO PUBLIC HOUSING. Prohibits smoking in enclosed or partially enclosed common areas of public housing projects and state low-income housing. Requires the Hawaii Public Housing Authority to adopt rules to expand the areas to which the smoking prohibition will apply. Effective January 7, 2059. (HB46 HD2)
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HMS, JDL [Measure added on 3/15/12] |
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RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES.
Allows the department of human services to draw from other funds appropriated to the department of human services in the event the general assistance appropriation is insufficient to meet General Assistance benefits payments. Appropriates moneys from the general fund to maintain funding levels of programs for public welfare. Creates an unspecified amount of positions under the department of human services for the supplemental nutrition assistance program. Requires financial institutions to report suspected financial abuse of an elder to appropriate law enforcement. Establishes the Hawaii interagency council on homelessness, to be repealed on 6/30/2022. Authorizes the department of human services to place on its public website information and printable posters on the National Human Trafficking Resource Center Hotline. Creates a task force on human trafficking and specifies members. Allows a community care foster family home to have six months to find another medicaid client when the community care foster family home loses its only medicaid client. Changes the minimum age requirement for nurse aide substitute caregivers to be consistent with federal law, which is eighteen years. Allows for a fair and equitable reimbursement system for all clients under the medicaid program for community based caregiver services. Allows for a fair and equitable referral system for clients transferring from hospitals to community based care homes. (Proposed SD1)
Copies of the proposed SD 1 are available from the Senate Document Center and on the Legislature's website: www.capitol.hawaii.gov.
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HMS, WAM [Measure added on 3/16/12]
[Proposed SD1 revised on 3/16/12] |
The Committee previously held public hearings on Senate bill(s) that are substantially similar to the following House bill(s). Please focus your testimony on the differences, if any, between the House and Senate measure(s) listed.
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RELATING TO LONG-TERM CARE. Implements the long-term care partnership program, allowing individuals to qualify for medicaid coverage for continued long-term care prior to exhausting their assets. Effective July 1, 2050. (HB1689 HD1) |
HMS, WAM |
Decision Making to follow, if time permits.
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FOR AMENDED NOTICES: Measures that have been deleted are stricken through and measures that have been added are underscored. If a measure is both underscored and stricken through, that measure has been deleted from the agenda.
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_____________________________________ Senator Suzanne Chun Oakland Chair |