Hse Referral sheet template, revision no. 00002

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		RE-REFERRAL

HB70	RELATING TO VIRTUAL-CURRENCY BUSINESSES. Adopts the Uniform Regulation of Virtual-Currencies Businesses Act and the Uniform Supplemental Commercial Law for the Uniform Regulation of Virtual-Currency Businesses Act.	IAC, CPC/JUD, FIN
HB284	RELATING TO HEALTH. Requires the Department of Human Services to compile information regarding employers with employees who receive public assistance. Requires the Department of Human Services to submit an annual report to the Legislature on the 50 employers with the highest number of employees receiving public assistance. Requires the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to share employment data for the report.	LAB, HSH, FIN
HB557	RELATING TO ENERGY EFFICIENCY. Amends the criteria for granting a solar water heater system variance. Authorizes the Director of DBEDT to impose penalties and fines for false statements on variance applications.	EEP, JUD, FIN
HB713	RELATING TO HOMELESSNESS. Establishes a 3-year Homeless Employment Grant Program that provides homeless individuals with work opportunities and connects them with service providers. Requires the Department of Human Services to submit a report to the Legislature prior to the 2020 Regular Session. Appropriates funds.	HSH, LAB, FIN
HB735	RELATING TO HEALTH. Requires the Department of Health to establish and enforce rules for the regulation of opioid treatment programs.	HLT, JUD, FIN
HB737	RELATING TO AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER. Requires Med-QUEST to seek a state plan waiver to establish a home and community-based services program for individuals with an autism spectrum disorder.	HSH/HLT, FIN
HB747	RELATING TO DISABLED PERSONS. Establishes employment first as a state policy with respect to disabled persons. Requires state and county agencies to implement this policy in hiring and all programs and services administered or funded by the State or counties. Applies employment first principles to Medicaid home- and community-based waiver programs.	LAB, FIN
HB802	RELATING TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE. Allows an employee to take family leave in addition to victim leave when the leave is related to domestic or sexual violence against the employee or the employee's minor child. Requires an employee to submit certification related to domestic or sexual violence of the employee or the employee's minor child. Requires employer confidentiality of information related to domestic or sexual violence against the employee or the employee's minor child.	LAB, JUD, FIN
HB825	RELATING TO SMOKING. Transfers regulation of electronic smoking devices from AG's office to DOTAX. Establishes procedures for licensing and permitting of electronic smoking device retailers. Increases tobacco licensing and permitting fees. Allocates $200,000 of new e-liquid excise tax to the Hawaii tobacco prevention and control trust fund.	HLT, CPC, FIN
HB856	RELATING TO ELECTRIC GRID RESILIENCY. Requires the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism, in coordination with the counties, to identify critical infrastructure locations and ensure those locations have adequate supplies of electricity during and after a natural disaster or during a state of emergency.	EEP/PVM, CPC, FIN
HB869	RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. Enacts produce safety rules in accordance with the federal Food and Drug Administration Standards for the Growing, Harvesting, Packing, and Holding of Produce for Human Consumption.	AGR/HLT, FIN
HB889	RELATING TO PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS. Establishes the Office of Public-Private Partnership and the position of State Office of Public-Private Partnership Coordinator. Adds public-private partnership project delivery methods and related conditions and requirements to the Hawaii Public Procurement Code. Requires an annual report. Appropriates funds.	LAB, FIN
HB900	RELATING TO VACCINATIONS. Authorizes pharmacists to administer vaccines to persons between eleven and seventeen years pursuant to a valid prescription. Specifies requirements pharmacists must meet prior to administering any vaccine to a person between eleven and seventeen years.	HLT/IAC, CPC, FIN
HB935	RELATING TO HEALTH. Clarifies the scope and practice of physician assistants in the State. Amends the Hawaii Medical Board to include two physician assistants. Expands bases to revoke or suspend a physician or surgeon's license. Makes conforming amendments.	HLT/IAC, CPC, FIN
HB1011	RELATING TO HEALTH. Authorizes State Health Planning and Development Agency to mandate the submission of Medicare Advantage (Medicare Part C) administrative data and healthcare services claims.	HLT/HSH, FIN
HB1035	RELATING TO THE INTERSTATE WILDLIFE VIOLATOR COMPACT. Authorizes the Department of Land and Natural Resources to enter into the Interstate Wildlife Violator Compact or similar agreement for mutual assistance in the enforcement of wildlife laws.	WLH, JUD, FIN
HB1037	RELATING TO THE UNIFORM CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES ACT. Updates section 329-38(i), Hawaii Revised Statutes, to be consistent with federal law under Title 21 of the Code of Federal Regulations to allow for the use of either words or figures, not both, to indicate quantity where electronic prescriptions are permitted.	HLT, JUD
HB1089	RELATING TO MEDICAL EDUCATION. Appropriates funds to the Department of Health to perform a study regarding a pilot program to pay for Hawaii residents to attend a college of medicine in the Philippines in exchange for a commitment to practice medicine in Hawaii after graduation.	HLT, FIN
HB1119	RELATING TO STATE HOLIDAYS. Reestablishes La Ku‘oko‘a, Hawaiian Recognition Day, as an official state holiday.	TIA, JUD, FIN
HB1159	RELATING TO RETAIL WHEELING. Requires the public utilities commission to establish policies and procedures related to retail wheeling to enable independent power producers to sell electricity directly to end users.	EEP, CPC, FIN
HB1220	RELATING TO TIME SHARING PLANS. Eliminates the requirement that a time share developer (1) file copies of all encumbrances affecting title to all time share units in a time share plan as part of the registration process; and (2) include in the time share disclosure statement a list all encumbrances affecting title to all time share units in a time share plan. Requires that a time share disclosure statement include a description of the condominium documents only for those time share plans where the time share owners are actually unit owners either in fee or to the extent and for the purposes provided in a recorded unit lease. Permits the developer to make ministerial updates to the disclosure statement on an expedited basis.	TIA, CPC, FIN
HB1244	RELATING TO RENTAL DISCRIMINATION. Prohibits discrimination, including in advertisements for available rental units, based on receipt of income from a housing assistance program, or requirements related to participation in housing assistance programs, in rental transactions and requirements.	HSG, CPC, JUD
HB1363	RELATING TO NURSES. Requires state participation in the multi-state Nurse Licensure Compact, which will allow a nurse who is licensed by a home state to practice under a multi-state licensure privilege in each party state.	HLT/IAC, CPC, FIN
HB1377	RELATING TO AN AIRPORTS CORPORATION. Authorizes establishment of the Hawaii Airports Corporation within the Department of Transportation for administrative purposes. Sets out appointment of members to the board of directors and powers and duties of the Hawaii Airports Corporation. Transfers aeronautics functions of the Department of Transportation to the Hawaii Airports Corporation by the established transfer completion date agreed upon by the Hawaii Airports Corporation, the Director of Transportation, and the Governor, which shall be no later than 12/31/2022. Appropriates funds.	TRN, LAB, FIN
HB1383	RELATING TO MARIJUANA. Decriminalizes certain offenses relating to marijuana and establishes a schedule of monetary fines for violations. Changes statutory references from "marijuana" to "cannabis." Provides for the dismissal of charges and expungement of criminal records based solely on cannabis offenses. Establishes the cannabis evaluation working group. Requires a report to the Legislature.	JUD
HB1414	RELATING TO THE HAWAII LABOR RELATIONS BOARD. Requires the Hawaii Labor Relations Board to determine qualifications for grievance arbitrators and interest arbitrators. Requires the Hawaii Labor Relations Board to review and determine the qualifications and criteria for potential arbitrators selected under certain circumstances to resolve collective bargaining impasses.	LAB, FIN
HB1447	RELATING TO PALLIATIVE CARE. Requires the Department of Health to establish a culturally competent Palliative Care pilot program to promote public education on palliative care and establish home- or community-based palliative care projects.	HLT, FIN
HB1463	RELATING TO DELAY IN PRIOR APPROVAL FOR MEDICAL SERVICES. Exempts health care providers from civil liability in the case of the provider's patient receiving any injury or worsening of a health condition while awaiting insurer preauthorization for medical services or treatment.	CPC/JUD, FIN
HB1574	RELATING TO ELECTRONIC SMOKING PRODUCTS. Establishes the offense of unlawful shipment of e-liquid products. Includes e-liquid within the definition of "tobacco products", as used in the cigarette tax and tobacco tax law. Increases the license fee for persons engaged as a wholesaler or dealer of cigarettes and tobacco products. Increases the retail tobacco permit fee for retailers engaged in the retail sale of cigarettes and tobacco products. Allocates a portion of funds collected excise taxes on tobacco products to health education and prevention programs about the risks and dangers of the use of electronic smoking devices for youth. Repeals certain provisions of the Hawaii Revised Statutes relating to electronic smoking devices.	HLT, CPC/JUD, FIN
HB1581	RELATING TO CANNABIS. Legalizes the personal use of cannabis for persons twenty-one years of age or older. Requires licensing to operate cannabis establishments. Subjects cannabis establishment to excise taxes. Authorizes the interisland transportation of cannabis. Decriminalizes possession of cannabis. Appropriates funds.	HLT, JUD, FIN
HB1597	RELATING TO MENTAL HEALTH. Appropriates funds to the Department of Health for the establishment of a long-term care facility that admits and treats non-forensic mental health patients for in-patient or out-patient temporary case management and requires that homeless patients receive priority admission for treatment.	HLT, FIN