6:06 → 6:41(36s)
Chair Greg Takayama opened the hearing in Conference Room 329, announced the committee and the day's agenda and said the body would hear testimony on multiple bills before decision‑making later in the session.
The House Committee on Health heard a full-day public hearing March 20 on a slate of health and regulation bills including a pilot to allow qualified psychologists to prescribe psychotropic medications on Kauai, a task force on emerging mental health therapies (including psychedelic-assisted treatments), and measures on hospital and home‑health licensing, food/drug regulation, syndromic surveillance and other items. Committee members heard dozens of in-person and remote witnesses, questioned experts on training and safety, and advanced most measures to the next stage with amendments.
