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Votes at a glance: Committee actions and outcomes from the Feb. 10 hearings
Summary
The Senate Committee on Health and Human Services and the joint session with Higher Education recorded multiple committee decisions on Feb. 10. This roundup lists bills the committees voted to advance, the chair’s recommended motion, and the committee outcome.
The committees recorded the following committee actions during their Feb. 10 hearings. Each line summarizes the chair’s recommendation as announced on the record and the committee’s recorded outcome.
- SB 298 (human services): Chair recommended "pass with Department of Human Services amendments" with defective date; recommendation adopted by committee.
- SB 322 (technical human services amendments): Chair recommended "pass with amendments"; recommendation adopted by committee.
- SB 299 (medical professional retention appropriations referenced in committee discussion): Chair recommended "pass with amendments"; recommendation adopted by committee.
- SB 450 (autism-related provisions): Chair recommended "pass with amendments" (remove preamble, accept DHS proposed amendment); recommendation adopted by committee.
- SB 451 (Medicaid buy-in discussion): Chair recommended "pass with amendments" and to include DHS appropriation amounts by conference; recommendation adopted by committee.
- SB 479 (Hawaii ABLE program adjustments): Chair recommended "pass with amendments" (remove specified references); recommendation adopted by committee.
- SB 710 (child welfare; task force changes): Chair recommended "pass with Attorney General concerns addressed" and removal of legislators from task force; recommendation adopted by committee.
- SB 9-57 (overdose prevention centers): Chair recommended "pass with Attorney General amendments to section 5(a) and technical amendments"; recommendation adopted by committee (see separate article for detail).
- SB 16-09 (child care): Chair recommended "pass with amendments" and accept DOH proposed amendments; recommendation adopted by committee.
- SB 9-52 (trauma-informed pilot program): Chair recommended "pass with amendments" including changing a two-year pilot to five years and blanking appropriation; recommendation adopted by committee.
- SB 8-36 (water catchment systems working group): Chair recommended "pass with amendments" including appropriation for a facilitator; recommendation adopted by committee.
- SB 8-38 (continuous glucose monitoring/health insurance): Chair recommended "pass with Attorney General and DHS amendments"; recommendation adopted by committee.
- SB 4-46 (waste management/landfill provisions): Chair recommended "pass with amendments" including Earthjustice language; recommendation adopted by committee.
- SB 10-42 (emerging therapies fund): Chair recommended "pass with amendments"; recommendation adopted by committee (see separate article for detail).
- SB 15-28 (cigarette tax / Cancer Center): Joint committees recommended "pass with amendments" and an effective date to accommodate tax administration; recommendation adopted by both committees (see separate article).
Notes: Committee announcements recorded many votes as "recommendation is adopted, chair." Individual roll-call tallies recorded on the transcript show the chair, vice chair, Senator Hashimoto, Senator Keohokalole and Senator Fevella voting "aye" in multiple roll calls; the committee adopted the chair’s recommended motions for the items listed above. Several items were deferred because a house companion bill was moving or to allow sponsors to reconcile companion language.
