THE SENATE

THE TWENTY-SIXTH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2011

 

COMMITTEE ON HUMAN SERVICES

Senator Suzanne Chun Oakland, Chair

Senator Les Ihara, Jr., Vice Chair

 

NOTICE OF HEARING

 

DATE:

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

TIME:

1:30  p.m.

PLACE:

Conference Room 016

State Capitol

415 South Beretania Street

 

A G E N D A

 

SB 794

        Testimony

        Status

RELATING TO MEDICAID.

Requires the department of health to notify the applicable legislative standing committees of intended changes to the state medicaid program or proposed state plan amendments submitted to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.  Authorizes the legislature to enact a statute to prohibit the intended change to the program, to require the department to submit or withdraw a state plan amendment to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, or to make other changes to the program.

 

HMS, WAM

SB 978

        Testimony

        Status

RELATING TO MEDICAID.

Appropriates moneys to the department of human services for implementing a new information technology system for determining medicaid eligibility.

 

HMS, WAM

SB 953

        Testimony

        Status

RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES.

Appropriates state funds and matching federal medicaid funds for health care payments to address a funding shortfall in the medicaid program for fiscal year 2010-2011.

 

HMS, WAM

SB 785

        Testimony

        Status

RELATING TO HEALTH.

Appropriates funds to the department of human services to match the federal disproportionate share hospital allowance allocated to the State.

 

HMS, WAM

SB 788

        Testimony

        Status

RELATING TO HEALTH.

Creates presumptive medicaid eligibility for waitlisted patients.  Repeals 7/1/2016.

 

HMS, WAM

SB 285

        Testimony

        Status

RELATING TO HEALTH.

Provides for telehealth services coverage for medicaid and QUEST patients using Kona hospital's medical van program.

 

HMS, WAM

SB 964

        Testimony

        Status

RELATING TO PUBLIC HEALTH.

Provides reimbursement to federally qualified health centers and rural health clinics for services covered by all MedQuest programs.  Appropriates funds for direct medical care to the uninsured.

 

HMS, WAM

SB 951

        Testimony

        Status

RELATING TO UNIVERSAL CHILDREN'S SAVINGS ACCOUNTS.

Creates a universal children's savings account pilot project under the department of human services, open to medicaid-eligible children enrolled in the QUEST program.  Repeals 12/31/30.

 

HMS, WAM

SB 945

        Testimony

        Status

RELATING TO ASSET BUILDING.

Establishes a refundable state earned income tax credit.  Requires the department of human services to provide financial education to applicants for and recipients of temporary assistance for needy families.  Amends provisions of section 257, HRS, regarding individual development accounts.

 

HMS, WAM

 

Decision Making to follow, if time permits.

 

FOR AMENDED HEARING NOTICES:  If the notice is an amended notice, measures that have been deleted are stricken through and measures that have been added are underscored.  If there is a measure that is both underscored and stricken through, that measure has been deleted from the agenda.

 

Persons wishing to testify should submit testimony in one of the following ways by 4:00 p.m. the day prior to the hearing:

 

·         By Email:  Testimony may be emailed if less than 5 pages in length, to the Committee at [email protected] .  Please indicate the measure, date and time of the hearing. Email sent to individual offices or any other Senate office will not be accepted.

 

·         By Web: Testimony may be submitted online if less than 4MB in size, at http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/emailtestimony.

 

·         In person:  1 copy of their testimony to the committee clerk, Room 016, State Capitol.

 

·         By fax:  Testimony may be faxed if less than 5 pages in length, to the Senate Sergeant-At-Arms Office at 586-6659 or 1-800-586-6659 (toll free for neighbor islands), at least 24 hours prior to the hearing.  When faxing, please indicate to which committee the testimony is being submitted and the date and time of the hearing.

 

Please note:  If you submit your written testimony after 4:00 p.m. the day prior to the hearing, please sign-in at the staff table to testify orally.  A copy of your testimony may not be available during the hearing but will be posted online for the public after the hearing. 

 

If you require special assistance or auxiliary aids or services to participate in the public hearing process (i.e., sign or foreign language interpreter or wheelchair accessibility), please contact the committee clerk 24 hours prior to the hearing so arrangements can be made.

 

Please note:  All testimony received by the Hawaii Senate will be posted on the Hawaii Legislature's Website.  Documents made available through the Testimony hyperlink(s) above may not be posted until the start of the hearing.

 

Public Folder.  A folder labeled “Public Folder” containing the testimonies for the hearing will be available for shared use by members of the public.

 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CALL THE COMMITTEE CLERK AT 586-6130.

 

 

 

 

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Senator Suzanne Chun Oakland

Chair