| HI | SB2245 | Pass | 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] | 2024-07-02
Act 144, 07/01/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1245). |
| HI | SCR81 | Pass | Urging The Governor To Ensure That Relevant State Agencies, Including The Department Of Health And Department Of Human Services, Collaborate To Explore Avenues To Ensure Continued Access To Affordable Medications For The State's Underserved Populatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
Certified copies of resolution sent, 05-31-24 |
| HI | SR67 | Pass | Urging The Governor To Ensure That Relevant State Agencies, Including The Department Of Health And Department Of Human Services, Collaborate To Explore Avenues To Ensure Continued Access To Affordable Medications For The State's Underserved Populatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
Certified copies of resolution sent, 05-31-24 |
| HI | SB2885 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishes a working group to develop a Homeless Triage and Treatment Center Program within the Statewide Office of Homelessness and Housing Solutions in the Department of Human Services. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-26
Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-26-24 4:55 PM; CR 329. |
| HI | SB2783 | Intro
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Department of Human Services for Medicaid coverage under the Children's Health Insurance Program for income-qualified pregnant persons and children, regardless of immigration status. Declares that the general fund expenditur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2180 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Human Services' program requirements for chore services to include an assessment of whether the applicant has a family member who is available and capable of providing necessary chore services for the applicant. Requires th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB2603 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 and group child ca...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB3115 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies when a relative seeking to be a resource caregiver for a child is entitled to an administrative appeal for denial of a foster home license issued by the Department of Human Services. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB2661 | Intro
Sine Die | 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
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB3118 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the Department of Human Services to provide temporary emergency assistance, case management, and other recovery services following the period covered by an emergency proclamation and establishes an Emergency Management Program within the D...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB3228 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Office of the Attorney General to identify all administrative rules, statutory provisions, accounts, special funds, and other legal provisions that require amendment to redesignate the Department of Health as the Department of Environmen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HI | SB3251 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Human Services to establish a Medicaid buy-in program for workers with disabilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB3263 | Intro
Sine Die | 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
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB3286 | Intro
Sine Die | 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
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB3254 | Intro
Sine Die | 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
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB2851 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases from $800 to $1,600 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 de...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB2785 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB2864 | Intro
Sine Die | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB2678 | Intro
Sine Die | 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
Sine Die | 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 Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB2916 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Department of Human Services to amend its rules, policies, and plan amendments necessary to ensure that medically necessary services, including applied behavior analysis services, for individuals twenty-one years of age or older with neu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB2185 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 passed-t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB623 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the Hawaii low-income home energy assistance program within the Department of Human Services to assist low-income households in paying their energy bills. Requires the Public Utilities Commission to assess ratepayers a percentage fee to f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HI | SB1474 | Engross
Sine Die | Appropriates funds to the Department of Human Services for the achievement of full funding, including estimated payment increases, of Medicaid Home- and Community-Based Services. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Human Services Committee |
| HI | SB1605 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the Homeless Programs Office of the Benefit, Employment and Support Services Division of the Department of Human Services to establish a program to acquire abandoned and vacant real properties to house individuals experiencing homelessness. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
