HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

THE THIRTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2022

 

COMMITTEE ON HEALTH, HUMAN SERVICES, & HOMELESSNESS

Rep. Ryan I. Yamane, Chair

Rep. Adrian K. Tam, Vice Chair

 

Rep. Cedric Asuega Gates

Rep. Scott Y. Nishimoto

Rep. Sharon E. Har

Rep. Gene Ward

Rep. Jeanne Kapela

 

 

 

NOTICE OF HEARING

 

DATE:

Tuesday, February 15, 2022

TIME:

9:00 A.M.

PLACE:

VIA VIDEOCONFERENCE

Conference Room 329

State Capitol

415 South Beretania Street

 

 

 

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A G E N D A

 

HB 1762

Status

RELATING TO LANGUAGE ACCESS.

Requires the executive director of the office of language access to submit an annual report to the governor and legislature on compliance, complaints, resolution of complaints, and recommendations to enhance and promote language access.  Appropriates funds to establish limited English proficiency language coordinator positions in the departments of commerce and consumer affairs, health, and agriculture, and the Hawaii emergency management agency.

 

HHH, FIN

HB 1635

Status

RELATING TO HEALTH CARE.

Establishes the rural health task force within the department of health to make recommendations on registered nurse recruitment and retention in rural areas of east Maui, Molokai, and Lanai.

 

HHH, FIN

HB 1665

Status

RELATING TO HEALTH.

Establishes a core state behavioral health crisis services system.  Provides for the designation of 1 or more crisis hotline centers to provide crisis intervention services and crisis care coordination to individuals accessing the suicide prevention and behavioral health crisis hotline.  Requires the Department of Health to provide to crisis callers onsite response services using mobile crisis teams.  Requires the State to fund treatment for crisis receiving and stabilization services related to 988 calls.

 

HHH, FIN

HB 1743

Status

RELATING TO POOLS.

For purposes of the Department of Health's authority to adopt rules concerning public health and safety, defines "pool" to mean a watertight artificial structure containing a body of water that does not exchange water with any other body of water either naturally or mechanically used for swimming, diving, recreational bathing, or therapy by humans.

 

HHH, CPC

HB 2138

Status

RELATING TO EXEMPTIONS FROM CIVIL SERVICE FOR POSITIONS IN THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES.

Permanently exempts eight positions in the Department of Human Services from civil service.

 

HHH, FIN

HB 2141

Status

RELATING TO REPORTS TO THE LEGISLATURE FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES.

Removes outdated reporting requirements for the Department of Human Services, including the Office of Youth Services.  Effective upon approval.

 

HHH, CPC

HB 2145

Status

RELATING TO KUPUNA CARE PROGRAM.

Incorporates the kupuna caregivers program into the kupuna care program and adds services for care recipients, caregivers, and employed caregivers.

 

HHH, FIN

HB 2476

Status

RELATING TO SPOUSAL SUPPORT.

Allows obligees under a order solely for spousal support to elect to enforce the order pursuant to chapter 652, Hawaii Revised Statutes, rather than through the clerk of the court or the child support enforcement agency.

 

HHH, JHA

HB 2058

Status

RELATING TO THE WAIANAE COAST COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH CENTER EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT.

Appropriates funds to the Waianae Coast Comprehensive Health Center for operation of its twenty-four-hour emergency department.

 

HHH, FIN

HB 2155

Status

RELATING TO FEES.

Amends the marriage license statute to support the Hawaii Birth Defects Program, modernization of the vital statistics system, operating costs of marriage license agents, and spouse and child abuse programs of the department of human services and of the judiciary.

 

HHH, FIN

HB 2340

Status

RELATING TO CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES.

Allows for the use of a post office box number for purposes of prescription delivery so long as the physical location of the post office box is on file with the dispensing pharmacy and accessible.

 

HHH, CPC

HB 2391

Status

RELATING TO HEALTH.

Creates an early lung cancer screening task force to research what steps and resources are necessary to increase early lung cancer screening in Hawaii.  Appropriates funds.

 

HHH, FIN

HB 2405

Status

RELATING TO INSURANCE.

Prohibits health insurance companies from denying coverage on the basis of gender identity if the policy covers the treatment for purposes other than gender transition.  Requires insurance companies to provide applicants and insured persons with clear information about the coverage of gender transition services, including the process for appealing a claim denied on the basis of medical necessity.

 

HHH, CPC

HB 2318

Status

RELATING TO MENTAL HEALTH LICENSING.

Requires psychologists licensed in the State to complete at least 3 hours of continuing education per licensing biennium on topics relating to cultural diversity, cultural competence, or health equity.

 

HHH, CPC

HB 1556

Status

RELATING TO TAXATION.

Creates a blood donation income tax credit to promote frequent blood donations.

 

HHH, FIN

HB 2394, HD1

(HSCR144-22)

Status

RELATING TO MEDICAID PATIENT CARE.

Appropriates moneys to provide one-time enhanced payments of fifteen per cent to any facility in the State licensed by medicare to provide skilled nursing or intermediate care to medicaid patients to assist with pandemic-related costs and lost revenues.  Effective 7/1/2050.  (HD1)

 

PDP, HHH, FIN

HB 1933, HD1

(HSCR194-22)

Status

RELATING TO PERSONS WORKING WITH CHILDREN.

Establishes rules of ethics applicable to persons who work with children pursuant to a contract with the State.  Establishes additional procedures for persons contracted by the State to provide services to children, including fees, candor and fairness before a tribunal, standards of proof, and a process for filing complaints.  Specifies that the contracts of any person who violates the rules of ethics are voidable on behalf of the State.  Effective 7/1/2112.  (HD1)

 

GVR, HHH, JHA

HB 1794, HD1

(HSCR137-22)

Status

RELATING TO OPIOIDS.

Requires DOH to implement standardized quality metrics to track and address health care processes or outcomes applicable to improving the quality of care for patients having opioid use disorders and targeting through value-based purchasing improvements in outcomes for patients having opioid use disorders by 1/1/2024.  Requires DOH to implement value-based purchasing based on the standardized quality metrics by 7/1/2024.  Directs DOH to collect certain data regarding opioid use.  Requires annual reports to the legislature.  Establishes a working group to determine major shifts in operations and clinical models that substance use disorder treatment providers need to make before adjusting to efforts to incentivize new demands for higher quality care.  Effective 7/1/2112.  (HD1)

 

GVR, HHH, CPC

HB 2392, HD1

(HSCR162-22)

Status

RELATING TO HEALTH.

Makes an emergency appropriation for coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic mitigation, including vaccination response activities.  Effective 7/1/2050.  (HD1)

 

PDP, HHH, FIN

HB 2437

(HSCR115-22)

Status

RELATING TO TAXATION.

Establishes a $10,000 income tax credit for physicians, osteopathic physicians, and nurses who are licensed and actively practicing in the State.

 

ECD, HHH, FIN

 

 

 

 

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Rep. Ryan I. Yamane

Chair