THE TWENTY-EIGHTH LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2016
|
Senator Suzanne Chun Oakland, Chair |
|
Senator Gil Riviere, Vice Chair |
AMENDED NOTICE OF HEARING
|
DATE: |
Thursday, February 11, 2016 |
|
TIME: |
1:20pm |
|
PLACE: |
Conference Room 016 State Capitol 415 South Beretania Street |
A M E N D E D A G E N D A
|
RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES. Appropriates funds to the department of human services to create one full-time program specialist position for Maui county within the adult protective and community services branch to oversee the foster grandparent program and senior companion programs on Maui, Molokai, and Lanai.
|
HMS, WAM |
|
|
MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR SENIOR CENTERS. Makes appropriations for grants to various senior centers.
|
HMS, WAM |
|
|
RELATING TO TAXATION. Provides a taxpayer who hires an elderly individual a nonrefundable tax credit for the six-month period after the individual is initially hired by the taxpayer.
|
HMS, WAM |
|
|
RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES. Requires the department of human services to disregard subsidies received directly by an applicant or recipient or payments made on behalf of or directly to an applicant or recipient of public assistance from the section 8 housing voucher program of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development for purposes of qualifying for the supplemental nutrition assistance program.
|
HMS, WAM |
|
|
RELATING TO MEDICAID PROVIDERS. Authorizes health care providers under the state medicaid program to ask about supplemental nutrition assistance program (food stamp) participation on medicaid certification and re-certification forms.
|
HMS, CPH |
|
|
RELATING TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE. Removes certain unnecessary and redundant reporting responsibilities of the family courts and the department of human services in cases where temporary restraining orders are sought for alleged domestic abuse involving a family or household member who is a minor or incapacitated person.
|
HMS, JDL |
|
|
RELATING TO HEALTH. Extends the date by which the Department of Health must post inspection reports for state-licensed care facilities by six months and increases the number of days to post the reports, as recommended by a legislative task force.
|
HMS, CPH [Measure added on 02/08/16] |
|
|
|
|
|
Decision Making to follow, if time permits.
Click here to submit testimony to the Senate Committee on Human Services.
Testimony may be submitted up to 24 hours prior to the start of the hearing.
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.
If you require auxiliary aids or services to participate in the public hearing process (i.e. ASL or foreign language interpreter, or wheelchair accessibility), please contact the committee clerk at least 24 hours prior to the hearing so that arrangements can be made.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CALL THE COMMITTEE CLERK AT (808)586-6130.
|
|
|
_____________________________________ Senator Suzanne Chun Oakland Chair |
|
|
|
|