THE SENATE

THE TWENTY-NINTH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2017

 

COMMITTEE ON HUMAN SERVICES

Senator Josh Green, Chair

Senator Stanley Chang, Vice Chair

 

AMENDED NOTICE OF HEARING

 

 

DATE:

Friday, January 27, 2017

TIME:

2:45 p.m.

PLACE:

Conference Room 016

State Capitol

415 South Beretania Street

 

A M E N D E D  A G E N D A

 

 

 

SB 268

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO HOMELESSNESS.

Appropriates funds to the department of human services to study the impact and feasibility of creating an integrated database of certain information related to homeless individuals for providers of homeless services.

 

HMS, WAM

SB 347

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO MOBILE CLINICS.

Appropriates funds for establishing, staffing, and operating two mobile clinics to serve the homeless population.

 

HMS, WAM

SB 748

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO CHILD CARE FACILITIES.

Requires the department of human services to post its inspection records of child care facilities on a public website and submit an annual report to the legislature of certain information from inspection records related to child care facilities.

 

HMS, CPH

SB 185

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO CHILD CARE PROVIDERS.

Requires child care providers licensed or registered by the department of human services to obtain and maintain liability insurance coverage.

 

HMS, CPH

SB 368

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES.

Requires operators of child care facilities, including family child care homes, group child care centers, and group child care homes, and infant and toddler child care centers that care for children one year of age or younger to implement and maintain safe sleep policies to prevent sudden unexpected infant deaths and sudden infant death syndrome in accordance with rules adopted by the Department of Human Services.

 

HMS, CPH

SB 522

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES.

Strengthens the safe sleep policy for child care facilities for children less than one year of age, including requiring placement of children on their backs for sleeping and establishing notice and annual training requirements; requires such facilities to report death of such a child to DHS.

 

HMS, CPH

SB 497

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO PRESCHOOL OPEN DOORS PROGRAM.

Expands the qualifying age for the preschool open doors program to children four years old and younger.

 

HMS, WAM

SB 181

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO EDUCATION.

Reestablishes eligibility for the preschool open doors program to 3- and 4-year-old children and for children in the year prior to entering kindergarten.

 

HMS, WAM

SB 745

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO CHILD PROTECTION.

Specifies certain rights of a parent or guardian after the department of human services receives a report concerning child abuse or neglect.  Requires written notice to be provided to a parent or guardian at the time of any initial face-to-face-contact with a child's parent or guardian regarding reported child abuse or neglect.

 

HMS, JDL

SB 747

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO ORDERS FOR IMMEDIATE PROTECTION.

Requires a finding of substantial evidence that a vulnerable adult has incurred abuse or is in danger of abuse prior to the issuance of an order for immediate protection when the vulnerable adult is living at home with a prognosis of six months or less to live.

 

HMS, JDL

SB 539

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO THE ELDERLY.

Makes financial exploitation of an elder by a caregiver a class     felony.  Defines "caregiver", "elder", and "financial exploitation".

 

HMS, JDL

SB 537

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES.

Appropriates funds to the department of human services to create one full-time program specialist position within the adult protective and community services branch to oversee the foster grandparent program and senior companion programs in Maui county.

 

HMS, WAM

SB 374

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO MEDICAID.

Establishes an add-on payment of forty per cent to the medicaid base rate for medicaid enrollees at long-term care facilities that have medically complex conditions requiring higher level of care.  Appropriates funds for fiscal years 2018 and 2019 to cover increased costs.

 

HMS, WAM [Measure deleted on 01-26-17]

SB 308

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO LONG-TERM CARE FACILITIES.

Provides for an annual inflationary adjustment in the methodology used to reimburse facilities for the long-term care of medicaid recipients.  Appropriates funds for the inflationary adjustment for fiscal years 2017-2018 and 2018-2019.

 

HMS, WAM [Measure deleted on 01-26-17]

SB 540

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO LONG-TERM CARE.

Converts the long-term care community living program specialist position within the executive office on aging from exempt to permanent civil service status.

 

HMS, WAM [Measure deleted on 01-26-17]

SB 530

      Status & Testimony

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE OFFICE OF THE LONG-TERM CARE OMBUDSMAN PROGRAM.

Appropriates $150,000 to the office of the long-term care ombudsman to support the long-term care ombudsman on Oahu and provide funds for contracted services through the office of the long-term care ombudsman in the counties of Hawaii, Kauai, and Maui.

 

HMS, WAM [Measure deleted on 01-26-17]

SB 507

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE.

Removes redundant investigating and reporting requirements of the Department of Human Services and the family courts in cases where temporary restraining orders are sought for alleged domestic abuse involving a family or household member who is a minor or incapacitated person.

 

HMS, JDL

 

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 Josh Green

Chair