THE SENATE

THE THIRTIETH LEGISLATURE

INTERIM OF 2020

 

SENATE SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON COVID-19

 

Senator Donovan M. Dela Cruz, Chair

Senator Michelle N. Kidani, Member

Senator Donna Mercado Kim, Member

Senator Jarrett Keohokalole, Member

Senator Sharon Y. Moriwaki, Member

Senator Kurt Fevella, Member

 

NOTICE OF INFORMATIONAL BRIEFING

 

DATE:

Friday, September 11, 2020

TIME:

1:00 p.m.

PLACE:

Conference Room 211

State Capitol

415 South Beretania Street

 

THE STATE CAPITOL IS CLOSED TO THE PUBLIC DURING THE ONGOING COVID-19 EPIDEMIC

 

A live stream of all Senate Standing Committee meetings will be available online.

Selected hearings will also be broadcast live on ‘Ōlelo Community Media.

 

Click here for the live stream of this meeting (link available shortly before the scheduled start time).

 

A G E N D A

 

The special committee will convene to assess and advise the Senate regarding a status update on the re-opening of schools and what the Department of Education is doing to manage Special Education services during the pandemic.  The Committee will also be briefed on the new Department of Health data-sharing dashboard.

 

The special committee will be meeting with the following:

 

1:00 p.m.                      Department of Education

                              Dr. Christina Kishimoto, Superintendent

 

Hawaii State Council on Developmental Disabilities

                              Ms. Deborah Kobayakawa, Chair

 

2:30 p.m.                      Department of Health

                              Dr. Janet Berreman, Kauai District Health Officer

Mr. Edward Mersereau, Deputy Director of Behavioral Health Services Administration

 

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Dr. Victoria Fan, Assistant Professor

 

No public testimony will be accepted.

 

The cable TV broadcast and/or live stream of this meeting will include closed captioning. If you require other auxiliary aids or services to participate in the public hearing process (i.e., interpretive services (oral or written) or ASL interpreter), please contact the committee clerk at least 24 hours prior to the hearing so that arrangements can be made.

 

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) 586-6800.

 

 

 

 

 

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Senator Donovan M. Dela Cruz

Chair

 

 

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Senator Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate