THE SENATE

THE TWENTY-SEVENTH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2013

 

COMMITTEE ON HUMAN SERVICES

Senator Suzanne Chun Oakland, Chair

Senator Josh Green, M.D., Vice Chair

 

COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE AND CONSUMER PROTECTION

Senator Rosalyn H. Baker, Chair

Senator Brickwood Galuteria, Vice Chair

 

AMENDED NOTICE OF HEARING

 

 

DATE:

Thursday, January 31, 2013

TIME:

10:15 am

PLACE:

Conference Room 229

State Capitol

415 South Beretania Street

 

A M E N D E D  A G E N D A

 

 

 

SB 309

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO HEARING AIDS.

Requires health insurance policies and contracts issued after 12/31/13 to provide coverage for the cost of hearing aids in their base plans.

 

HMS/CPN, WAM

SB 104

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO LONG TERM CARE.

Requires the director of the executive office on aging to contract for the performance of an actuarial analysis for a limited, mandatory, public long term care insurance program for the State's working population.  Requires a report to the legislature.  Appropriates funds for the actuarial analysis.

 

HMS/CPN, WAM

SB 939

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO PUBLIC HOUSING.

Authorizes the Hawaii public housing authority to process terminations of tenancy or evictions from the federal low-income public housing program without providing a grievance hearing when permitted by the federal government.

 

HMS, JDL

Pending re-referral to HMS/CPN, JDL

 

[Measure added on 1/28/13]

 

Decision Making to follow, if time permits.

 

Click here to submit testimony to the Senate Committee on Human Services.

 

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

 

 

 

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Senator Rosalyn H. Baker

Chair

 

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Senator Suzanne Chun Oakland

Chair