THE SENATE

THE TWENTY-NINTH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2017

 

COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE, CONSUMER PROTECTION, AND HEALTH

Senator Rosalyn H. Baker, Chair

Senator Clarence K. Nishihara, Vice Chair

 

COMMITTEE ON HUMAN SERVICES

Senator Josh Green, Chair

Senator Stanley Chang, Vice Chair

 

NOTICE OF HEARING

 

DATE:

Monday, January 30, 2017

TIME:

3:00pm

PLACE:

Conference Room 016

State Capitol

415 South Beretania Street

 

A G E N D A

 

SB 2

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO HOMELESSNESS.

Beginning January 1, 2018, requires all health plans in the State, including EUTF health plans and medicaid managed care programs, to provide coverage for the treatment of homelessness.

 

CPH/HMS, WAM

SB 7

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO MEDICAID.

Requires the department of human services, in collaboration with the department of health, to develop a medicaid supportive housing services benefit plan through which medicaid can pay for supportive housing services for individuals who are eligible for medicaid, including applying to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services through an 1115 waiver to amend the state medicaid plan to include supportive housing services for chronically homeless individuals.

 

CPH/HMS, WAM

SB 8

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO MEDICAL ASSISTANCE.

Requires providers and health plans to gather data regarding homeless individuals' use of medical assistance programs.

 

CPH/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 Josh Green

Chair

 

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Senator Rosalyn H. Baker

Chair