HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
THE TWENTY-EIGHTH LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2016
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Rep. Della Au Belatti, Chair |
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Rep. Richard P. Creagan, Vice Chair |
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Rep. Mark J. Hashem |
Rep. Marcus R. Oshiro |
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Rep. Jo Jordan |
Rep. Beth Fukumoto Chang |
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Rep. Bertrand Kobayashi |
Rep. Andria P.L. Tupola |
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Rep. Dee Morikawa |
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Rep. Mark M. Nakashima, Chair |
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Rep. Jarrett Keohokalole, Vice Chair |
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Rep. Henry J.C. Aquino |
Rep. Joy A. San Buenaventura |
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Rep. Sharon E. Har |
Rep. Roy M. Takumi |
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Rep. Linda Ichiyama |
Rep. Kyle T. Yamashita |
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Rep. Aaron Ling Johanson |
Rep. Andria P.L. Tupola |
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Rep. Matthew S. LoPresti |
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NOTICE OF DECISION MAKING
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DATE: |
Wednesday, February 10, 2016 |
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9:30 am |
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PLACE: |
Conference Room 329 State Capitol 415 South Beretania Street |
A G E N D A
The following measure(s) were previously heard on Monday, February 8, 2016 at 1:30 pm.
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RELATING TO THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT SECTION 1332 STATE INNOVATION WAIVER. Authorizes the State to submit and implement a waiver from certain provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010.
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HLT/LAB, FIN |
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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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HLT/LAB, CPC, FIN |
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The following measure(s) were previously heard on Monday, February 8, 2016 at 1:45 pm.
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RELATING TO HEALTH INSURANCE. Requires the insurance commissioner and health insurers, mutual benefit societies, and health maintenance organizations to make public disclosure of rate filings information prior to a rate increase. Requires health insurers, mutual benefit societies, and health maintenance organizations to disclose aggregated claims data to group purchasers upon request.
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HLT, CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO INSURANCE. Requires managed care plans to provide claims data at no charge to a large group purchaser if the large group purchaser requests the information and meets certain requirements.
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HLT, CPC |
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RELATING TO INSURANCE. Establishes a dispute resolution process by which a dispute for a bill for emergency services or a surprise bill may be resolved. Specifies disclosure requirements for health care professionals and health care facilities, including estimated costs for health care services and information on participating provider networks. Specifies that an insured shall not be liable to a health care provider for any sums owed by an insurer. Specifies that an insurer who receives emergency services from a nonparticipating provider shall not incur greater out-of-pocket costs for the emergency services than the insured would have incurred with a participating provider. Specifies additional disclosure requirements for health insurance plans, including payment methodologies and updated participating provider directories. Requires health insurance plans to provide at least one option for coverage for at least eighty per cent of the usual and customary cost of each out-of-network health care service in inadequate network situations.
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HLT, CPC/JUD, FIN |
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The following measure(s) were previously heard on Monday, February 8, 2016 at 3:00 pm.
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RELATING TO REPORTING DEATHS TO STATE AGENCIES. Authorizes the Department of Health to continue to disclose, including through electronic means, lists of names of persons whose deaths have been recorded by DOH, to state agencies that maintain official lists of persons and are prohibited by federal law from sharing information for the lists.
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LAB, HLT, CPC |
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RELATING TO BIRTH DEFECTS. Clarifies the use of the birth defects data to include health care providers.
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HLT, JUD |
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RELATING TO OVERDOSE PREVENTION AND EMERGENCY RESPONSE. Expands access to opioid antagonists to prevent drug-overdose fatalities. Establishes the Overdose Prevention and Emergency Response Act.
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HLT, CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO EMERGENCY SERVICES. Authorizes the state director of finance to annually transfer general funds to the counties to fund lifeguard and emergency medical services personnel positions in the counties. Repeals the emergency medical services special fund.
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HLT, FIN |
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RELATING TO HEALTH. Appropriates funds to establish and staff an advanced life support medic unit in Puna on the island of Hawaii.
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HLT, FIN |
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RELATING TO EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES. Appropriates funds for emergency medical services for North Kona.
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HLT, FIN |
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MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES. Appropriates moneys for FY 2016-2017 for a 24-hour, 7-days-a-week, rapid response emergency medical services unit for the county of Kauai.
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HLT, FIN |
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MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES. Appropriates moneys to the Department of Health for FY 2016-2017 for a 24-hour, 7-days-a-week, ambulance unit for the County of Kauai.
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HLT, FIN |
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RELATING TO EMERGENCY MEDICAL CARE. Appropriates moneys to operate an additional emergency medical services unit in the Moanalua, Aliamanu, Red Hill, Salt Lake, and Foster Village areas.
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HLT, FIN |
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RELATING TO HEALTH. Authorizes public sector employees and volunteers who may have been exposed to a communicable disease through contact with bodily fluids in the course of their duties to petition a court for an order requiring testing of the person or decedent who is the source of the possible exposure. Limits disclosure of test results.
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HLT, JUD |
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The following measure(s) were previously heard on Monday, February 5, 2016 at 8:30 am.
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RELATING TO INSURANCE. Requires insurers to cover a three-month period for the first dispensing of prescription contraceptive supplies to an insured. Requires insurers to cover a twelve-month period for the subsequent dispensing of the same contraceptive supply to the insured.
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HLT, CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO CONTRACEPTIVE SUPPLIES. Authorizes pharmacists to prescribe and dispense contraceptive supplies to persons eighteen years of age or older. Specifies requirements pharmacists must meet prior to prescribing and dispensing contraceptive supplies. Requires all insurers in the State, including health benefits plans under chapter 87A, Hawaii Revised Statutes, and medicaid managed care programs, to reimburse pharmacists who prescribe and dispense contraceptive supplies.
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HLT, CPC, FIN |
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RELATING TO INSURANCE COVERAGE OF HEALTH SCREENINGS. Ensures insurance coverage for sexually transmitted disease screenings, including screenings for human immunodeficiency virus and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, during a female insured's annual pelvic exam.
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HLT, CPC, FIN |
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As this is a decision making meeting only, no public testimony will be accepted.
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________________________________________ Rep. Mark M. Nakashima Chair |
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________________________________________ Rep. Della Au Belatti Chair |
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