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

 

NOTICE OF HEARING

 

 

DATE:

Friday, January 27, 2017

TIME:

9:30am

PLACE:

Conference Room 229

State Capitol

415 South Beretania Street

 

A G E N D A

 

SB 132

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO STROKE AWARENESS.

Appropriates funds for a stroke awareness communications plan.

 

CPH, WAM

SB 225

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO HEALTH COVERAGE FOR BRAIN INJURIES.

Requires certain insurance contracts and plans to provide coverage beginning 1/1/2017 for treatment of brain injuries, including cognitive and neurocognitive therapy, neurobehavioral and neuropsychological testing or treatment, and necessary post-acute transition services or community reintegration activities for a period of at least twenty years from the date the injury occurred and up to a lifetime cap per person of $300,000.  Defines "cognitive rehabilitation therapy".

 

CPH, WAM

SB 188

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO SEPSIS.

Requires the DOH to conduct a one-year pilot project for sepsis education and awareness.  Appropriates funds.

 

CPH, WAM

SB 222

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO THE GENERAL EXCISE TAX.

Exempts gross receipts from the sale of mobility enhancing equipment and durable medical equipment from the general excise tax.  Amends the definition of "prosthetic device" to include devices worn on the body.  Exempts gross receipts from the repair of prosthetic devices from the general excise tax.

 

CPH, WAM

SB 122

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO MENTAL HEALTH.

Entitles designated family members and other interested persons of a person having a mental health emergency to:  notice of certain procedures and actions, option to be present in the courtroom for a hearing on a petition for involuntary hospitalization or assisted community treatment, and option to receive copies of hearing transcripts or recordings.  Requires the court to adjourn or continue a hearing on a petition for involuntary hospitalization or assisted community treatment for failure to timely notify designated persons, with certain exceptions.

 

CPH, JDL

SB 145

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO EXAMINATIONS OF FITNESS TO PROCEED.

Clarifies provisions regarding examinations of defendants' fitness to proceed in the prosecution.

 

CPH, JDL

SB 146

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO ORDERS FOR TREATMENT OVER OBJECTION.

Permits an administrative order to overcome a patient's objection to psychiatric treatment.

 

CPH, JDL

 

 

 

 

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 Rosalyn H. Baker

Chair