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SB2872
Status and Testimony
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RELATING TO REQUIREMENTS FOR CHILD CARE PROVIDERS.
Brings state law into alignment with changes to federal law regarding the
Child Care and Development Block Grant, Public Law 113-186. Requires the
Department of Human Services to establish minimum health and safety
requirements for child care providers, including applicants, household
members, employees, and prospective employees of licensed and registered
child care homes and facilities, as well as persons exempt pursuant to
section 346-152, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to be eligible to provide care to a
child whose family receives a child care subsidy from the Department.
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HMS/CPH, JDL
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SB2961
Status and Testimony
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RELATING TO FAMILY LEAVE.
Establishes a family leave insurance program, which requires employees to
make contributions into a trust fund to be used to provide employees with
family leave insurance benefits in order to care for a designated person. Appropriates funds
to DLIR to implement the program.
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HMS/CPH, JDL/WAM
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SB2203
Status and Testimony
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RELATING TO SEXUAL ASSAULT VICTIMS.
Requires DHS to pay for forensic examinations performed at a hospital of a
female sexual assault victim, where private insurance is or cannot be
utilized.
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HMS/CPH, WAM
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SB2213
Status and Testimony
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RELATING TO THE NURSING FACILITY SUSTAINABILITY PROGRAM.
Continues the nursing facility sustainability program for one additional
year. Appropriates funds out of the nursing facility sustainability program
special fund for fiscal year 2016-2017.
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HMS/CPH, WAM
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SB2396
Status and Testimony
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RELATING TO LONG-TERM CARE FACILITIES.
Provides an inflationary adjustment to the methodology used to reimburse
facilities for the long-term care of medicaid recipients for fiscal year
2016-2017.
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HMS/CPH, WAM
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SB2894
Status and Testimony
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RELATING TO HEALTH INSURANCE.
Establishes the Hawaii State Health Insurance Programs, and a State Health
Insurance Exchange for the purpose of the State effectuating the Patient
Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Prepaid Health Care Act; Repeals
the Hawaii Health Connector Law; provides appropriations to the Department of
Labor and Industrial Relations and the Department of Human Services.
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CPH/HMS, JDL/WAM
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SB2395
Status and Testimony
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RELATING TO TELEHEALTH.
Requires the State's medicaid managed care and fee-for-service programs to
cover services provided through telehealth. Specifies medical professional
liability insurance policy requirements with regard to telehealth coverage.
Clarifies requirements for establishing provider-patient relationships for
telehealth for purposes of reimbursement. Specifies reimbursement
requirements for distant site and originating site providers. Requires
written disclosure of coverages and benefits associated with telehealth
services. Ensures telehealth encompasses store and forward technologies,
remote monitoring, live consultation, and mobile health. Ensures telehealth
is covered when originating in a patient's home and other non-medical
environments. Clarifies requirements for physicians and out-of-state
physicians to establish a physician-patient relationship via telehealth.
Ensures reimbursement requirements for telehealth services apply to all
health benefits plans under chapter 87A, Hawaii Revised Statutes. Makes
other conforming amendments related to telehealth.
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CPH/HMS, WAM
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SB2560
Status and Testimony
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RELATING TO MENTAL HEALTH.
Requires the department of health to provide treatment care for homeless
individuals with serious and persistent mental health challenges as a part of
its comprehensive mental health system. Appropriates moneys from the general
fund for mental health care and treatment for homeless individuals.
Effective 07/01/16.
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CPH/HMS, WAM
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SB2886
Status and Testimony
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RELATING TO AGE OF CONSENT FOR ADOLESCENT MENTAL HEALTH
SERVICES.
To reduce barriers in accessing mental health care for adolescents by
lowering the age of consent to receive treatment from 18 years old to 12
years old.
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CPH/HMS, JDL
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SB2330
Status and Testimony
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RELATING TO THE HOSPITAL SUSTAINABILITY PROGRAM.
Continues the hospital sustainability program for one year. Appropriates
funds out of the hospital sustainability program special fund for fiscal year
2016-2017. Amends various reimbursement rates under the program to certain
private hospitals through medicaid managed care health plans, and
uncompensated care and disproportionate share hospital payments.
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CPH/HMS, WAM
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SB2085
Status and Testimony
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RELATING TO AGING.
Part I: Appropriates $5,100,000 for the kupuna care program. Part II:
Appropriates $1,710,000 for the aging and disability resource center. Part
III: Appropriates $32,000 for fall prevention and early detection services
for the elderly. Part IV: Appropriates $485,880 for the healthy aging
partnership program. Part V: Appropriates $70,000 for an Alzheimer's
disease and related dementia services coordinator position and appropriates
$200,000 for an Alzheimer's disease and related dementia public awareness
program.
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CPH/HMS, WAM
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