THE SENATE

THE TWENTY-SIXTH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2012

 

COMMITTEE ON HUMAN SERVICES

Senator Suzanne Chun Oakland, Chair

Senator Les Ihara, Jr., Vice Chair

 

AMENDED NOTICE OF HEARING

 

 

DATE:

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

TIME:

1:15 pm

PLACE:

Conference Room 016

State Capitol

415 South Beretania Street

 

A M E N D E D A G E N D A

 

SB 2308

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO LONG TERM CARE.

Requests the executive office on aging of the department of health to conduct an education and awareness campaign on long term care and have the campaign evaluated.  Appropriates funds for the long term care education and awareness campaign and an evaluation of the campaign.

 

HMS, WAM

SB 2309

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO LONG-TERM CARE.

Implements the long-term care partnership program, allowing individuals to qualify for medicaid coverage for continued long-term care prior to exhausting their assets.

 

HMS, WAM

SB 2321

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO LONG-TERM CARE INSURANCE.

Establishes a task force to determine the feasibility of establishing a limited, mandatory, public long-term care insurance program.

 

HMS, CPN

SB 2466

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO LONG-TERM CARE FACILITIES.

Establishes the Nursing Facility Sustainability Program Special fund into which nursing facility sustainability fees shall be deposited.  Requires the department of human services to charge and collect a provider fee on health care items or services provided by nursing facilities.  Effective July 1, 2012, and repealed on June 30, 2013.

 

HMS, WAM

SB 2307

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO KUPUNA CARE.

Appropriates funds for the kupuna care program.  Requires executive office on aging to establish a sliding fee schedule for the kupuna care program.

 

HMS, WAM

SB 2320

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO AGING.

Establishes the aging and disability resource center in the executive office on aging. Appropriates funds for the aging and disability resource center, kupuna care program, healthy aging partnership program, senior centers, and elder registration services.

 

HMS, WAM

SB 2310

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES.

Appropriates funds to the department of human services to match federal funds allocated to the State for medicaid benefits dedicated to adult vision services.

 

HMS, WAM

SB 2312

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO EDUCATION.

Authorizes certain caregivers to execute an affidavit for caregiver consent on behalf of a minor to allow the minor to participate fully in programs and services under the Individuals with Disabilities Act and section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.

 

HMS, EDU

SB 2318

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO ADULT GUARDIANSHIP AND PROTECTIVE PROCEEDINGS JURISDICTION.

Adopts the Uniform Adult Guardianship and Protective Proceedings Jurisdiction Act, to ensure that only one state has jurisdiction at any one time.  Contains specific guidelines to specify which court has jurisdiction to appoint a guardian or conservator for an incapacitated adult.  Prioritizes the states that may claim jurisdiction.

 

HMS, JDL

SB 2313

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO BACKGROUND CHECKS.

Requires the department of human services to allow persons to conduct child and vulnerable adult abuse perpetrator checks on the department's website as part of background checks for employment, volunteer, licensure, or certification purposes.

 

HMS, JDL

SB 2314

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO THE ELDERLY.

Creates the crime of financial exploitation of dependent elder and provides enhanced penalties.  Requires financial institutions to report suspected financial abuse to the adult protective services and the county police.  Requires two signatures of unrelated persons as witnesses to the execution of a power of attorney for health care.

 

HMS, JDL

SB 2450

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO SENTENCING.

Establishes mandatory minimum prison terms for certain offenses committed against persons 60 years of age or older.

 

HMS, JDL

SB 2317

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO TAXATION.

Establishes three new tax credits for caregivers:  small business caregiver leave tax credit; caregiver tax credit based on a percentage of adjusted gross income; caregiver educational cost tax credit.

 

HMS, WAM

SB 2022

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO TAXATION.

Exempts for income tax purposes any amounts received by grandparents for providing child care services to their grandchildren.

 

HMS, WAM

SB 2301

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO CHILD VISITATION.

Permits family court to award reasonable visitation to grandparents if the denial of visitation would cause significant harm to the child.  Establishes a rebuttable presumption that visitation decisions made by a parent are in the best interests of the child.  Presumption may be rebutted by certain evidence.  Identifies factors the court shall consider in awarding visitation.  Effective July 1, 2012.

 

HMS, JDL

SB 3061

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO INSURANCE.

Requires life insurance policies that offer long-term care benefits to include an accelerated death benefits provision.

 

HMS, CPN

[Measure added on 1/27/12]

 

 

 

 

Decision Making to follow, if time permits.

 

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Testimony may be submitted up to 24 hours prior to the start of the hearing.

 

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 Suzanne Chun Oakland

Chair