THE SENATE

THE TWENTY-NINTH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2017

 

COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE, CONSUMER PROTECTION, AND HEALTH

Senator Rosalyn H. Baker, Chair

Senator Clarence K. Nishihara, Vice Chair

 

NOTICE OF HEARING

 

 

DATE:

Wednesday, February 22, 2017

TIME:

9:00 a.m.

PLACE:

Conference Room 229

State Capitol

415 South Beretania Street

 

A G E N D A

 

SB 505

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO HEALTH.

Requires an opioid therapy informed consent process agreement to be executed between a patient and any prescriber of opioids within the State under certain conditions.  Requires the administrator of the narcotics enforcement division to develop and make available a template of an opioid therapy informed consent process agreement for use in the State.  Specifies the contents of the template.  Limits initial prescriptions for opioids and benzodiazepines to a maximum of seven consecutive days.

 

CPH

SB 726

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO HEALTH CARE PRACTITIONERS.

Requires health care providers to conspicuously post and communicate their specific type of licensure in their offices, communicate that information to patients in their practices, and include that information in their advertising.  Imposes penalties for licensed health care providers who include deceptive or misleading information about their qualifications in their advertising, or misrepresent their qualifications to patients.

 

CPH

SB 147

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO THE REPEAL OF SECTION 325-15, HAWAII REVISED STATUTES.

Repeals Section 325-15, Hawaii Revised Statutes, which requires United States citizens or nationals to submit a medical examination report to the Department of Health within sixty days of returning to the State under certain conditions.

 

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SB 1171

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO THE HEALTH CARE PRIVACY HARMONIZATION ACT.

Identifies the circumstances in which the State has a compelling interest in the use and disclosure of de-identified protected health information under the Health Care Privacy Harmonization Act.

 

CPH

SB 786

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO MEDICAL MARIJUANA.

Amends Hawaii Revised Statutes and Hawaii Administrative Rules to substitute references to "medical marijuana" and like terms with "medical cannabis" and like terms.

 

CPH

SB 401

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO NURSING.

Allows advanced practice registered nurses to offer care and services to minors and patients in assisted community treatment programs similar to care and services offered by physicians and other health care service providers.

 

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SB 202

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO SERVICE AREA BOARDS.

Amends statutory provisions relating to quorum and voting requirements for service area boards on mental health and substance abuse.  Designates service area boards on mental health and substance abuse within the department of health for administrative purposes.

 

CPH

SB 203

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO STATE COUNCIL ON MENTAL HEALTH.

Amends the membership of the State Council on Mental Health, defines quorum for the Council, and specifies number of votes required to constitute valid acts of the Council.  Designates the State Council on Mental Health within the department of health for administrative purposes.

 

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Decision Making to follow, if time permits.

 

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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.

 

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Senator Rosalyn H. Baker

Chair