THE SENATE
THE TWENTY-SEVENTH LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2013

COMMITTEE ON HUMAN SERVICES
Senator Suzanne Chun Oakland, Chair
Senator Josh Green, Vice-Chair

MEASURES DEFERRED TO THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 2013

DATE:

Thursday, January 31, 2013

TIME:

9:45 AM

PLACE:

Conference Room 229
State Capitol
415 South Beretania Street

DECISION MAKING ON THE FOLLOWING MEASURE(S):

SB52
Status and Testimony

RELATING TO AGING.
Establishes and funds a coordinator for active aging within the executive office on aging, which is to be appointed by the director.

HMS/HTH, WAM

SB54
Status and Testimony

RELATING TO AGING.
Allows the policy advisory board for elder affairs to grant members lifetime membership, which includes all the rights and privileges of a regular member, upon approval by all regular members of the board.

HMS/HTH

SB358
Status and Testimony

RELATING TO HEALTH.
Requires the department of health and the department of human services to post on their respective websites reports of all inspections in which a violation was discovered at certain care facilities by January 1, 2015.

HMS/HTH, WAM

SB400
Status and Testimony

RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES.
Requires child care facilities, family child care homes, group child care centers, group child care homes, and infant and toddler child care centers that care for children one year of age or younger to develop, maintain, and implement safe sleep policies to prevent sudden unexpected infant deaths and sudden infant death syndrome.  Makes certain requirements of operators.

HMS/HTH, CPN

SB515
Status and Testimony

RELATING TO HOUSING.
Appropriates unspecified funds to the homeless programs office of the department of human services and the rental housing trust fund.  Appropriates unspecified funds to the department of health for substance abuse treatment, mental health support services, and clean and sober housing services, and to the department of human services for matching funds for shelter plus care grants.  Appropriates funds for a rental assistance program, also known as a shallow subsidy program.  Appropriates funds to the Hawaii public housing authority to continue to administer housing first programs for chronically homeless individuals and to reestablish the homeless prevention and rapid re-housing program.  Appropriates funds out of the rental housing trust fund.  Appropriates matching funds for the federal shelter plus care program to provide rental assistance in connection with supportive services.

HMS/HTH, WAM

No testimony will be accepted.

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 CONTACT THE COMMITTEE CLERK AT 808-586-6130.