| HI | SB545 | Intro
25% | Amends the definition of "community care foster family home" to allow one additional Medicaid individual to be cared for in the same community care foster family home. Requires a report to the Legislature. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
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| HI | SB3341 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Upcycled Mobile Dishwashing System Pilot Program within the Department of Health. Requires a report to the Legislature. Establishes two full-time positions within the Department of Health. Declares the general fund expenditure ceiling...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
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| HI | SB2324 | Intro
25% | Requires the State to share in the cost of county first responder personnel fulfilling state-imposed new mandates or increases in the level of service under existing programs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
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| HI | SB2135 | Intro
25% | Expands eligibility for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program to include any individual or household whose monthly income is equal to or less than three hundred per cent of the federal poverty level. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
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| HI | SB2661 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Homeless Employment Grant Program, a three-year pilot program, that provides homeless individuals with work opportunities and connects them with service providers. Requires the Department of Human Services to report to the Legislature...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
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| HI | SB2150 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Health to amend its shellfish sanitation administrative rules based on the United States Department of Agriculture's 2019 National Shellfish Sanitation Program model ordinance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
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| HI | SB2117 | Intro
25% | Amends the definition of "preceptor" to include physician assistants, registered dietitians, and social workers. Amends the definition of "volunteer-based supervised clinical training rotation" to clarify that preceptors may be compensated for the pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
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| HI | SB2458 | Intro
25% | Allows the primary caregiver to be absent from the community care foster family home; provided that the substitute caregiver is present during the absence.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
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| HI | SB3252 | Intro
25% | Amends the Hawaii State Constitution to prohibit the State from denying or interfering with an individual's reproductive freedom, including the right to choose or obtain an abortion or to choose to obtain or use contraceptives.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
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| HI | SB3224 | Intro
25% | Beginning on 7/1/2024, requires that the state supplemental payment for type 1 adult residential care homes, licensed developmental disabilities domiciliary homes, community care foster family homes, and certified adult foster homes not exceed $767. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
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| HI | SB3330 | Intro
25% | Establishes a candor process through which patients and their families, health care providers, and health care facilities can engage in open communication about how an adverse care health incident occurred, how it will be prevented in the future, and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
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| HI | SB3253 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to provide additional support and resources to families receiving benefits through the State's adoption assistance and permanency assistance programs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
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| HI | SB3201 | Intro
25% | Establishes the multifamily housing accessibility modifications grant program to facilitate the installation of accessibility modifications in certain properties. Appropriates moneys. Declares that the appropriation exceeds the state general fund exp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
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| HI | SB3278 | Intro
25% | Amends state laws governing medical use of cannabis and the medical cannabis dispensary system.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
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| HI | SB3369 | Intro
25% | Allows the Director of Health to grant an exemption from the requirement to upgrade, convert, or connect a cesspool if the State is unable to present evidence that the cesspool is affecting the State's drinking water supply or recreational waters.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
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| HI | SB2049 | Intro
25% | Establishes a five-year pilot program to allow qualified psychologists limited authority to prescribe psychotropic medications to patients under the care of the psychologist at a federally qualified health center. Requires a report to the Legislature...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB3251 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Human Services to establish a Medicaid buy-in program for workers with disabilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
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| HI | SB2918 | Intro
25% | Appropriates the function of the State Health Planning and Developmental Agency with the Department of Health. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. Establishes positions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
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| HI | SB3263 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Hawaii Home Energy Assistance Program within the Department of Human Services to assist qualifying households in paying their energy bills. Establishes the Hawaii Home Energy Assistance Special Fund. Declares that the general fund exp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
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| HI | SB3286 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Human Services to assess the feasibility of offering a 20% discount on certain goods and services for the State's low- to moderate-income elders.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
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| HI | SB3284 | Intro
25% | Specifies some of the measures the Director of Health may take in response to emergency circumstances affecting the availability of safe drinking water or the discovery of contamination in a public water source.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
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| HI | SB3254 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to increase the funding for medicaid in-home services, conditioned on the Department of Human Services obtaining the maximum federal matching funds and pursuing all other funding sources.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
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| HI | SB2371 | Intro
25% | Establishes the PFAS Testing Grant Program within the Department of Health to provide funding to assist communities, businesses, and residents throughout the State in obtaining testing services and biological sampling to identify and detect perfluoro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
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| HI | SB3292 | Intro
25% | Beginning 7/1/2024, increases the cigarette tax rate and amends the disposition of the cigarette tax revenues by increasing the amount allocated to the Hawaii Cancer Research Special Fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
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| HI | SB3318 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Health, for all eligible participants in the District Court Jail Diversion Program, to conduct an initial screening for possible serious mental illness; a mental health assessment for all eligible participants indicated as ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
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| HI | SB3291 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the Department of Health to allow dispensaries to dispense cannabis or manufactured cannabis products to qualifying patients or primary caregivers of qualifying patients outside of the dispensary's retail store building but on the dispensa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
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| HI | SB2462 | Intro
25% | Amends the functions of the State Health Planning and Development Agency. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. Establishes positions. Makes an appropriation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
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| HI | SB3104 | Intro
25% | Allows the Governor to enter the State into the multistate Nurse Licensure Compact, which will allow a nurse who is licensed by a home state to practice under a multistate licensure privilege in each party state, effective 1/1/2026. Beginning 1/1/202...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
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| HI | SB3117 | Intro
25% | Adds a definition for "exigent circumstances;" amends the definitions of "harm" and "imminent harm;" clarifies when the police may take protective custody of a child; clarifies when the department may assume temporary foster custody of a child; creat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
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| HI | SB3193 | Intro
25% | Increases the cigarette tax and amends the cigarette tax disposition of revenues by allocating the increase in the cigarette tax amount to the Hawaii cancer research special fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB3134 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Health to implement a post-market testing program to verify the labeling on cannabis and manufactured cannabis products and monitor the shelf lives of cannabis and manufactured cannabis products.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
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| HI | SB3101 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the Department of Health to redirect persons experiencing a mental health crisis who are involved with, or at risk for involvement with, the criminal justice system to the appropriate health care system and services, including behavioral h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB3136 | Intro
25% | Establishes a travel placard to be issued to an existing permittee, allowing the person to park a vehicle at a Hawaii airport or port reserved accessible parking space and take the second placard for use at the travel destination.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB3082 | Intro
25% | Provides amendments to external review procedures to improve consistency with the National Association of Insurance Commissioners Uniform Health Carrier External Review Model Act. Requires health insurers, mutual benefit societies, and health mainten...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
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| HI | SB3005 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Homeless Services Fund. Amends the conveyance tax rates based on property values. Repeals the conveyance tax rates set separately for conveyances for which the purchasers are ineligible for a county homeowner's exemption on property t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
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| HI | SB3030 | Intro
25% | Amends the amount of funding for the Tobacco Enforcement Special Fund administered by the Department of the Attorney General by amending the amount of funds that the Tobacco Enforcement Special Fund can carry over at the end of the fiscal year; incre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
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| HI | SB2014 | Intro
25% | Beginning October 1, 2024, requires that all cartridges for electronic smoking devices and solutions for filling or refilling an electronic smoking device to be in child-resistant packaging.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB2969 | Intro
25% | Clarifies the State's midwifery law to permit care by extended family, cultural supporters, or others with whom a woman chooses to give birth. Specifies that nothing in the midwifery law shall prohibit or restrict healing practices by traditional hea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB3131 | Intro
25% | Repeals section 328J-11.5, HRS.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
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| HI | SB3140 | Intro
25% | Authorizes examination of defendants via telehealth. Amends conditions for a defendant's release or examination of fitness to proceed. Authorizes the Department of Health to implement behavioral health crisis centers. Effective 7/1/2024.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB3019 | Intro
25% | Authorizes, and establishes a regulatory framework for, the administration of psilocybin for therapeutic use.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
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| HI | SB3151 | Intro
25% | Updates section 329-104(c), HRS, to clarify who may access information stored in the electronic prescription accountability system.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
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| HI | SB1209 | Intro
25% | Conforms the amount allowable for the Hawaii expenses for household and dependent care services necessary for the gainful employment tax credit to the credit amounts allowed in the federal tax code. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/22.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
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| HI | SB2876 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Hui Hoomana task force to identify actionable priorities and financial resources to offer the State's residents universal access to affordable, high-quality healthcare and health insurance. Requires reports to the Legislature. Dissolv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
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| HI | SB2642 | Intro
25% | Requires mandatory registration for all clean and sober homes. Requires the Department of Health to ensure there is equitable distribution of clean and sober homes throughout a county. Requires an applicant to obtain written approval from the appropr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB2786 | Intro
25% | Beginning on 7/1/2024, requires that the state supplemental payment for type 1 adult residential care homes, licensed developmental disabilities domiciliary homes, community care foster family homes, and certified adult foster homes not exceed $1,136...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB2496 | Intro
25% | Establishes a gray water income tax credit to encourage the installation of qualified gray water systems certified by the Department of Health on existing residential properties and new housing developments. Effective for taxable years beginning afte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB2775 | Intro
25% | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB2678 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to increase the funding for medicaid in-home services, conditioned on the Department of Human Services obtaining the maximum federal matching funds and pursuing all other funding sources.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB2788 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Human Services to achieve the full funding, including estimated payment increases, of Medicaid home- and community-based services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
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