Hse Referral sheet template, revision no. 00002

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		Committee
		RE-REFERRAL
HB36	RELATING TO FIREARMS. Amends the criteria for issuance of licenses by the respective county chiefs of police for concealed and unconcealed carry of pistols and revolvers.	PBS, JUD
HB109	RELATING TO INSURANCE. Provides insurance coverage for air travel and lodging for blind or disabled individuals living on neighbor islands requiring medical care on the island of Oahu and their attendants. Applies to health insurance policies, contracts, and plans issued or renewed after July 1, 2018.	HLT, CPC, FIN
HB156	RELATING TO REIMBURSEMENT OF PHARMACISTS. Requires insurers, mutual and fraternal benefit societies, and health maintenance organizations to recognize services provided by pharmacists.	HLT, CPC, FIN
HB189	RELATING TO POST-SECONDARY EDUCATION. Makes pilot schools that are approved and certificated by the Federal Aviation Administration subject to the oversight of the Hawaii Post-secondary Education Authorization Program.	EDN/HED, CPC, FIN
HB190	RELATING TO PRIVATE FLIGHT SCHOOLS. Requires the Department of Education to authorize private flight schools that: (1) are physically present in the State; (2) are certified by the Federal Aviation Administration; (3) offer flight instructor certificates; (4) request authorization; and (5) meet other requirements.	EDN/HED, CPC, FIN
HB242	RELATING TO CONDOMINIUMS. Establishes a condominium unit owner hotline to provide unit owners with legal information relating to disputes with a condominium's board of directors. Services are provided free of charge for qualifying low-income households.	IAC, CPC/JUD, FIN
HB248	RELATING TO HEALTH INSURANCE. Requires all health insurers, including health benefits plans under chapter 87A, HRS, to disclose on their public web sites any standards, criteria, or information used for making preauthorization decisions.	HLT, CPC, FIN
HB295	RELATING TO CONTRACTOR REQUIREMENTS. Requires contractors building new one- and two-family dwellings to provide buyers with written information on the costs associated with the installation and maintenance of a residential fire sprinkler system as well as information from the State Fire Council on the benefits of such a system.	HSG, CPC, FIN
HB309	RELATING TO IMPORTANT AGRICULTURAL LANDS. Appropriates funds to the counties to identify and map important agricultural lands. Appropriations.	WAL, FIN
HB328	RELATING TO IMPORTANT AGRICULTURAL LANDS. Provides grants-in-aids to the counties for the purpose of identifying and mapping important agricultural lands.	WAL, FIN
HB405	RELATING TO CONDOMINIUMS. Establishes a condominium unit owner hotline to provide unit owners with legal information relating to disputes with a condominium's board of directors. Requires directors of associations with 20 or more dwelling units to complete an online ethics course offered through the Real Estate Commission.	CPC, JUD, FIN
HB552	RELATING TO HEALTH INSURANCE. Ensures certain benefits under the federal Affordable Care Act are preserved under Hawaii law, including: preserving the individual health insurance mandate for taxpayers; requiring all health insurance entities, including health benefits plans under chapter 87A, HRS, to include ten essential health care benefits, plus additional contraception and breastfeeding coverage benefits; extending dependent coverage for adult children until the children turn twenty-six years of age; prohibiting health insurance entities from imposing a preexisting condition exclusion; and prohibiting health insurance entities from using an individual's gender to determine premiums or contributions.	HLT/CPC, FIN
HB578	RELATING TO PRESCHOOL OPEN DOORS PROGRAM. Expands the qualifying age for the preschool open doors program to children four years old and younger.	HUS, EDN, FIN
HB580	RELATING TO EDUCATION. Appropriates funds for the P4C Program of the University of Hawaii Uehiro Academy for Philosophy and Ethics in Education and for teachers of the Department of Education to train with the P4C Program.	HED/EDN, FIN
HB627	RELATING TO PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS. Authorizes and appropriates funds for the establishment of a State Public-Private Partnership Coordinator within Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to manage all public-private partnerships entered into by the State and manage all contracts, proposals, and negotiations associated with the State's public-private partnerships.	EDB, JUD, FIN
HB656	RELATING TO SCHOOL IMPACT FEES. Provides an exemption from school impact fees for housing developments constructed by nonprofit housing organizations in which the units are rented or sold to persons or families earning between thirty and eighty per cent of the area median income.	HSG, EDN, FIN
HB664	RELATING TO IN VITRO FERTILIZATION INSURANCE COVERAGE. Removes discriminatory requirements for mandatory insurance coverage of in vitro fertilization procedures to create parity of coverage for same-sex couples, unmarried women, and male-female couples for whom male infertility is the relevant factor.	HLT, CPC, FIN
HB677	RELATING TO IN VITRO FERTILIZATION INSURANCE COVERAGE. Amends insurance coverage requirements for in vitro fertilization to allow for expanded applicability.	HLT, CPC, FIN
HB687	RELATING TO INSURANCE. Adopts provisions from the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act relating to the extension of dependent coverage and the prohibition of preexisting condition exclusions. Takes effect upon the repeal of the federal act.	HLT, CPC, FIN
HB790	RELATING TO ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION. Establishes disclosure and public notification requirements for outdoor application of pesticides in various sensitive areas or by large-scale, outdoor commercial agricultural operations.	EEP/AGR, FIN
HB806	RELATING TO BULLYING. Requires educational institutions and all youth-serving agencies to create and implement anti-bullying policies. Establishes a bullying prevention task force to provide guidance. Outlines the requirements for each institution or agency's policy and specifies reporting, investigation, and appeals procedures involving incidents of bullying. Provides immunity to reporters of bullying in the event of a cause of action for damages arising from the making of a report. Requires institutions and agencies to establish annual bullying prevention programs for youth and to provide bullying prevention training to all employees and volunteers who have significant contact with youth. Requires institutions and agencies to report aggregate figures regarding bullying to the governor and requires the governor to report to the legislature regarding bullying and the effectiveness of anti-bullying policies. Appropriates funds for anti-bullying and suicide prevention efforts in the public schools.	EDN, JUD, FIN
HB841	RELATING TO SCHOOL IMPACT FEES. Exempts certain affordable housing projects from the school-impact-fee requirement.	HSG, EDN, FIN
HB842	RELATING TO THE HEALTH IMPACT OF PESTICIDES. Establishes buffer zones around schools that restrict pesticide use by any entity or person.	AGR, HLT, EDN
HB887	RELATING TO UNFUNDED LIABILITIES. Establishes the Rate Stabilization Reserve Fund within the Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund to help subsidize the costs of providing health and other benefit plans for retirees and their beneficiaries. Caps employer contributions to the OPEB trust fund, which are made to prefund the unfunded actuarial accrued liability of the EUTF, when the separate accounts for each public employer within the OPEB trust fund have a combined balance of at least $2,000,000,000.	FIN
HB888	RELATING TO ADDRESSING THE HEALTH UNFUNDED LIABILITY. Requires the auditor to study the feasibility of providing health benefits to state and county employees using a self-insured model. Makes an appropriation.	FIN
HB929	RELATING TO HEALTH. Adds specific requirements to Hawaii's existing sexuality health education law. Requires the BOE and DOE to collaborate to provide curricula information to the public. Requires students to be excused from the provided instruction upon written request by a parent or guardian.	HLT, EDN, JUD
HB965	RELATING TO PREPAID HEALTHCARE. Extends Hawaii's prepaid health care law to cover qualified independent contractors. Includes criteria to be used in determining whether a person is classified as a qualified independent contractor.	CPC/HLT, JUD
HB1277	RELATING TO COLLECTIVE BARGAINING. Establishes a collective bargaining unit for full-time graduate student assistants employed by the University of Hawaii. Delays formation of the graduate student assistant collective bargaining unit until 7/1/2018.	HED, LAB, FIN
HB1572	RELATING TO LABOR. Establishes the Hawaii Economic Security Working Group within DBEDT to analyze and make recommendations regarding economic health and stability in light of future automation, globalization, and disruptive innovation.	LAB, EDB, JUD