THE THIRTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2022
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Senator Rosalyn H. Baker, Chair |
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Senator Stanley Chang, Vice Chair |
NOTICE OF DECISION MAKING
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DATE: |
Tuesday, February 22, 2022 |
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10:00 AM |
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PLACE: |
Conference Room 229 & Videoconference |
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A G E N D A
The following measure(s) were previously heard in their respective subject matter committees:
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RELATING TO TELEHEALTH. Allows for standard telephone contacts for telehealth purposes. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD1)
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HTH, CPN |
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RELATING TO ACUPUNCTURE. Beginning 7/1/2023, makes comprehensive updates to chapter 436E, Hawaii Revised Statutes, regarding acupuncture practitioners to reflect modernized scopes of practice, titles, and licensing and renewal requirements, including thirty hours of continuing education per licensing biennium. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD1)
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HTH, CPN |
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RELATING TO DENTAL ASSISTANTS. Allows dental assistants to perform limited duties under the general supervision of a dentist in public health settings. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD1)
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HTH, CPN |
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RELATING TO PSYCHOLOGY. Establishes licensure requirements for school psychologists to be administered by the Board of Psychology. Requires all school psychologists to be licensed by July 1, 2025. Increases the composition of the Board of Psychology to include two school psychologists. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD1)
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HTH, CPN |
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RELATING TO HEARING AIDS. Requires health insurance policies and contracts issued after 12/31/22 to provide coverage for purchases of medically necessary hearing aid models, including analog, digital, and digitally programmable, with standard features, per hearing impaired ear, every thirty-six months. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD1)
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HTH, CPN |
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RELATING TO PHARMACY BENEFIT MANAGERS. Addresses and defines pharmacy benefit manager practices. Creates enforcement authority by the Insurance Commissioner to suspend or revoke a pharmacy benefit manager's registration and impose fines. Repeals section 328-106, Hawaii Revised Statutes. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD1)
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HTH, CPN |
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RELATING TO PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS. Expands the authorized scope of practice for physician assistants. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD1)
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HTH, CPN |
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RELATING TO MENTAL HEALTH SCREENINGS. Requires that one annual mental health screening be included in health insurance coverage for diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD1)
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HTH, CPN |
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RELATING TO HEALTH. Defines "clinical laboratory director" to include certain physicians, licensed clinical laboratory scientists, and pharmacists. Amends the definition of "practice of pharmacy" to include the ordering and performing of certain Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments-waived tests. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD1)
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HTH, CPN |
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RELATING TO COVERAGE FOR MAMMOGRAPHY. Requires insurers and mutual benefit societies to cover mandated services for mammography at least as favorably as coverage for other radiological examinations. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD1)
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HTH, CPN |
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RELATING TO ACCESS TO BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICES. Allows for standard telephone contacts for telehealth purposes related to behavior health services. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD1)
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HTH, CPN |
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RELATING TO MIDWIVES. Establishes the Home Birth Task Force to investigate outstanding issues relating to regulatory scheme created by Act 32, Session Laws of Hawaii 2019. (SD1)
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HTH, CPN |
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RELATING TO MENTAL HEALTH. Establishes provisional or associate level licensure requirements for marriage and family therapists, mental health counselors, and psychologists and authorizes insurance reimbursements in certain circumstances. Allows psychologist license applicants to sit for the licensing examination before completing other requirements. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD1)
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HTH, CPN |
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RELATING TO TOBACCO PRODUCTS. Bans the sale of flavored tobacco products and mislabeled e-liquid products. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD1)
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HTH, CPN |
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RELATING TO THE ELECTRONIC PRESCRIPTION ACCOUNTABILITY SYSTEM. Amends subsection 329-101(d), Hawaii Revised Statutes, to require that a dispenser of a controlled substance report the filling of a controlled substance prescription to the State's Electronic Prescription Accountability System in real time, or report "zero" not less than once every seven days if no controlled substances prescriptions are filled. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD1)
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HTH, CPN |
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RELATING TO PSILOCYBIN. Establishes the therapeutic psilocybin working group to examine the medicinal and therapeutic effects of psilocybin and develop a long-term strategic plan to ensure the availability of therapeutic psilocybin or psilocybin-based products that are safe, accessible, and affordable for adults twenty-one years of age or older. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD1)
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HTH, CPN |
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RELATING TO HEALTH CARE. Establishes the Rural Health Task Force within the Department of Health to make recommendations on registered nurse recruitment and retention in rural areas of east Maui, Molokai, and Lanai. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD1)
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HTH, CPN |
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RELATING TO PRESCRIPTIONS. Allows the utilization of post office boxes for controlled substances prescriptions by amending the definition of "address" under chapter 329, Hawaii Revised Statutes. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD1)
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HTH, CPN |
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RELATING TO HUMAN REMAINS. Includes the use of traditional native Hawaiian burial practices in the treatment and disposal of human remains, including the use of water cremation or alkaline hydrolysis. Requires alkaline hydrolysis facilities to be licensed by the Department of Health. Requires alkaline hydrolysis facility operators to be licensed and undergo alkaline hydrolysis operator training. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD1)
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HTH/HWN, CPN |
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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.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CALL THE COMMITTEE CLERK AT (808)586-6070.
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_____________________________________ Senator Rosalyn H. Baker Chair |
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