| HI | HB2426 | Engross
50% | Clarifies when a relative seeking to be a resource caregiver for a child is entitled to an administrative appeal for the Department of Human Services' denial of a foster home license. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
Received notice of House reconsideration of action in disagreeing to the amendments proposed by the Senate (Hse. Com. No. 771). |
| HI | HB1964 | Engross
50% | Requires the Department of Human Services to establish and implement a child care provider subsidy and bonus program to provide subsidies to retain the existing child care workforce in licensed infant and toddler child care centers, group child care ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
Received notice of appointment of House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 760). |
| HI | HCR143 | Engross
50% | Urging The Department Of Human Services, Department Of Health, And Judiciary To Prioritize Ensuring That Contracts For Government Services Are Adequately Resourced To Cover The Costs Of Providing Those Services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
One Day Notice 04-19-24. |
| HI | HB1533 | Engross
50% | Increases the amount of death benefits paid by the Department of Human Services to cover the cremation and disposition costs for a deceased person who was eligible for medical or financial assistance at the time of the person's death and whose body i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-16
Received notice of appointment of House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 738). |
| HI | HB1974 | Engross
50% | Increases the monthly needs allowance for individuals living in certain long-term care facilities from $50 to $75. Clarifies that the needs allowance is not intended to replace or affect funds received from the federal Supplemental Security Income Pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-12
Received notice of disagreement (Hse. Com. No. 731). |
| HI | HCR186 | Engross
50% | Urging The Governor, Department Of Human Services, And Department Of Health To Explore Avenues To Ensure Continued Access To Affordable Medications For The State's Underserved Populations Under The 340b Drug Pricing Program And Urging Hawaii's Congre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-12
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | HR125 | Pass | Urging The Department Of Human Services, Department Of Health, And Judiciary To Prioritize Ensuring That Contracts For Government Services Are Adequately Resourced To Cover The Costs Of Providing Those Services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Resolution adopted in final form. |
| HI | HR166 | Pass | Urging The Governor, Department Of Human Services, And Department Of Health To Explore Avenues To Ensure Continued Access To Affordable Medications For The State's Underserved Populations Under The 340b Drug Pricing Program And Urging Hawaii's Congre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Resolution adopted in final form. |
| HI | HB547 | Engross
50% | Requires the Department of Human Services to establish and implement a two-year Infant and Toddler Child Care Worker Subsidy Pilot Program to retain the existing early child care workforce in licensed infant and toddler child care center settings. Ap...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-25
Received notice of discharge of all conferees (Hse. Com. No. 457). |
| HI | HB222 | Engross
50% | Adjusts the method by which the Department of Human Services shall calculate payments to providers of medical care and longterm supports and services. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-25
Received notice of discharge of all conferees (Hse. Com. No. 457). |
| HI | HB1834 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds to increase the base budget of the Department of Human Services' Homeless Programs Office. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB2215 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds to increase the funding of certain Medicaid home and community-based services, including adult day programs and residential services offered in community care foster family homes and expanded adult residential care homes. Requires ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB2428 | Engross
50% | Adds a definition for "exigent circumstances" and amends the definitions of "harm" and "imminent harm" under the Child Protective Act. Clarifies when the police may take protective custody of a child and when the Department of Human Services may assu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | HB2217 | Engross
50% | Requires the Departments of Health, Human Services, and Education to research and make recommendations on any rules, policies, and amendments to the Medicaid State Plan or Medicaid 1915(c) Waiver that are necessary to ensure provision of clinically a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | HB2429 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the Department of Human Services to provide temporary emergency public assistance, case management, and other recovery services following the period covered by an emergency proclamation and establishes an emergency management program withi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB2629 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Homeless Services Special Fund. Allows counties to apply for matching funds from the Affordable Homeownership Revolving Fund for certain housing projects. Increases the conveyance tax rates for certain properties. Establishes conveyan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB2326 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for the Department of Human Services to purchase, staff, and operate two mobile clinics to serve homeless persons residing in ohana zones. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB2185 | Intro
25% | Establishes a Perinatal Implicit Bias Task Force within the Department of Human Services to examine the existing implicit bias training programs and make recommendations. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB2186 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Human Services to develop a safe parking program allowing unsheltered persons who sleep in their vehicles to park overnight on state lands. Requires a report to the Legislature. Appropriations funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB1670 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Human Services to contract the services of qualified organizations for mobile treatment clinics that provide services throughout the night. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB2539 | 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. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB2591 | Intro
25% | Appropriates moneys to the Department of Human Services for the Preschool Open Doors program. Declares that the appropriation exceeds the general fund expenditure ceiling.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To House Human Services Committee |
| HI | HB1721 | Intro
25% | Requires the Med-QUEST Division of the Department of Human Services to adopt rules authorizing reimbursements for remote ultrasound procedures and remote fetal nonstress tests.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Human Services Committee |
| HI | HB2038 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Human Services to establish state goals for poverty reduction and socio-cultural advancement that support the principles of the Hawaii State Planning Act by reducing by 50% by 2050 the number of families in the State that a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Human Services Committee |
| HI | HB2018 | 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
To House Human Services Committee |
| HI | HB2110 | Intro
25% | Increases the monthly needs allowance from $50 to $75. Clarifies that the needs allowance is not intended to replace or affect funds received from the federal supplemental security income program. Requires the Department of Human Services to perform ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Human Services Committee |
| HI | HB2111 | 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
To House Human Services Committee |
| HI | HB1308 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the department of health from requiring an applicant, operator, employee, or adult volunteer at a healthcare facility or, in the case of a healthcare facility operated in a private residence, any adult living in the home other than the clie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB438 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds and establishes one Pacific youth programs coordinator position within the Department of Human Services Office of Youth Services. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB879 | Intro
25% | Clarifies the purpose of the child protective act. Allows certain contact between grandparents and a child in foster care. Includes grandparents under the definition of "family". Expands the factors to be considered when providing a child with a safe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB507 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Human Services to include the name of the beneficiary of supplemental nutrition and assistance program (SNAP) benefits on each electronic benefits transfer card. Requires a photo identification to be presented when an elect...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Human Services Committee |
| HI | HB504 | Intro
25% | Requires the department of human services to develop a preschool child care worker subsidy pilot program to assist in retaining qualified child care workers in licensed child care facilities for preschool children aged two through five. Sunsets 6/30/...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB447 | Intro
25% | Repeals referral and reporting requirements for the Family Courts and the Department of Human Services that apply to cases in which a temporary restraining order is sought for alleged domestic abuse involving an incapacitated or minor family or house...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB1188 | Intro
25% | Requires the department of human services to establish a state corollary to the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program for certain higher education students. Appropriates funds. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB1309 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for state supplemental payments to certain care homes that care for clients eligible for federal supplemental security income or public assistance, or both. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB1416 | Intro
25% | Requires the department of human services to adopt rules, contingent on the approval of the Hawaii state plan amendment by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, to remove the $2,000-per-individual asset limit for eligibility for assistance ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB788 | Intro
25% | Appropriates moneys for the Department of Human Services to purchase, staff, and operate 2 mobile clinics to serve homeless persons residing in ohana zones.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB445 | Intro
25% | Requires the departments of the attorney general and human services to convene a working group to examine issues related to allowing child support payments to pass through to recipients of temporary assistance for needy families program funds and sub...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB552 | Intro
25% | Converts the human trafficking victim services fund to a human trafficking reparations fund. Revises the purpose of the fund to provide direct financial assistance to victims of trafficking. Requires the department of human services, rather than the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB1181 | Intro
25% | Requires certain amounts of child support moneys collected by the Department of Human Services for public assistance of a child to pass through to the family receiving public assistance. Requires the Department of Human Services to disregard passedth...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Human Services Committee |
| HI | HB1489 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for back payments for each medicaid-eligible client cared for by certain care homes over the last fourteen years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB249 | Engross
50% | Establishes the Hawaii child nutrition programs agency in the department of human services. Establishes a grant program to support the funding of certain initiatives for the State's public schools. Establishes three permanent full-time equivalent pos...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | HB341 | Intro
25% | Requires that child care providers provide certain information to the Department of Human Services each year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Human Services Committee |
| HI | HB1176 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for the development and maintenance of a comprehensive approach to successful prisoner reentry and integration that provides supports to inmates while incarcerated and after their release. Establishes a pilot program within the Jud...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB785 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the department of human services to appoint an existing employee to apply for and manage grants, request grant writing assistance from other state agencies, or contract or employ a dedicated capture manager for this purpose. Requires repor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB467 | Intro
25% | Requires the department of public safety, or its successor agency, in collaboration with the department of human services, to develop and establish a social work training program to assist nonviolent incarcerated individuals in the area of social wor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB453 | Intro
25% | Establishes within the Department of Human Services a 4-year pilot program to provide housing and child care vouchers to qualified applicants who will soon complete, or have recently completed, a term of imprisonment as a sentenced offender, and who ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Corrections, Military, & Veterans Committee |
| HI | HB391 | Intro
25% | Requires the department of human services to develop an infant and toddler child care worker subsidy pilot program to assist in retaining qualified child care workers in licensed infant and toddler child care centers. Appropriates funds. Sunsets 6/30...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB1417 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the elimination of funding for vacant positions in the department of human services and department of health for five years, or until the director of human services or director of health, as applicable, requests that the positions be elimin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB1343 | Intro
25% | Establishes and appropriates funds for the Office of the Reproductive Health Care Access Coordinator within the Department of Human Services for administrative purposes. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
