| 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
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| 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
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| 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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| HI | SB2468 | Intro
25% | Requires all health insurers in the state, including medicaid managed care programs, to cover annual mental health wellness examinations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
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| HI | SB2338 | Intro
25% | For policies, contracts, plans, agreements, and plan contracts issued or renewed after 12/31/2024, requires the insurers, mutual benefit societies, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage for standard fertility preservation services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
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| HI | SB2484 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for the continued implementation of the return-to-home pilot program, established pursuant to Act 94, Session Laws of Hawaii 2023, to provide eligible homeless individuals with assistance in reuniting with family and relatives in t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
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| HI | SB2668 | Intro
25% | Adopts the Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact. Requires the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs to adopt rules to implement and administer the Compact.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
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| HI | SB2852 | Intro
25% | Establishes a two-year senior access pilot program in the Executive Office on Aging to improve access to essential services and reduce wait times for seniors seeking public services through state and county government offices. Requires the Auditor to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
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| HI | SB2750 | Intro
25% | Establishes state policy to promote braille literacy for blind students. Requires the individualized education programs of blind students to include the instruction of Braille and provision of Braille instructional materials under certain circumstanc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
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| HI | SB2619 | Intro
25% | Establishes a licensing system for medical cannabis cultivation. Facilitates the transport of medical cannabis. Expands the scope of authorized actions for medical cannabis patients. Provides that qualifying out-of-state patients need not register wi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
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| HI | SB2923 | Intro
25% | Clarifies the level of environmental restoration owners and operators of underground storage tanks or tank systems that had a confirmed release must satisfy by requiring the removal of all jet fuel, including fuel additives and all compounds resultin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
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| HI | SB2472 | 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 certain long-term care facility operators to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
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| HI | SB2554 | Intro
25% | Beginning 1/1/2028, prohibits the operation of leaf blowers or string trimmers that are powered using two-stroke engines. Establishes penalties to be enforced by the Department of Health.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
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| HI | SB2916 | Intro
25% | 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
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| HI | SB2643 | Intro
25% | Amends the definition of "imminent harm" in the Child Protective Act. Clarifies the due process required for child removals, including removals by a police officer without a court order.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
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| HI | SB2956 | Intro
25% | Establishes an oral health task force to review the status of oral health in the State and make recommendations to improve the State's oral health infrastructure. Requires reports to the Legislature. Appropriates moneys. Declares that the appropriati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
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| HI | SB2807 | Intro
25% | Establishes an annual tax credit for qualified physicians who actively practice medicine in rural areas of the state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
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| HI | SB2853 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the department of health for mobile vaccination services for homebound individuals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
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| HI | SB2669 | Intro
25% | Excepts certain in-person consultation and examination requirements to establish a provider-patient relationship for the purposes of gender affirming treatment via telehealth. Excepts certain in-person consultation and examination requirements to est...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
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| HI | SB2796 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Health, to the extent allowable under federal law, to prioritize the use of water pollution control revolving fund moneys for projects by homeowners to upgrade cesspools to director-approved wastewater systems or connect ho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
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| HI | SB2464 | Intro
25% | Authorizes health care organizations to accept a health care provider's credentialing that was conducted by certain health care organizations or state agencies. Establishes a Health Care Credentialing Clearinghouse Pilot Program within the Department...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
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| HI | SB2851 | Intro
25% | 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
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| HI | SB2033 | Intro
25% | Prohibits excited delirium from being recognized as a valid medical diagnosis or cause of death in the State. Prohibits a local health officer or local agent of the Department of Health from stating on a certificate of death or in any report that the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
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| HI | SB2667 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Health to conduct a study to determine the cost and feasibility of establishing a heavy ion cancer therapy center in the State and using revenues derived from treating non-residents to subsidize cancer treatments of residen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
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| HI | SB2882 | Intro
25% | Relaxes the requirements for prescribing certain controlled substances as part of gender-affirming health care services. Expands the protections established under Act 2, SLH 2023, to include gender-affirming health care services. Clarifies jurisdicti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
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| HI | SB2660 | Intro
25% | Establishes a refundable child tax credit. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2024.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
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| HI | SB2611 | Intro
25% | Beginning on 7/1/2024: (1) requires that 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 a cert...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
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| HI | SB2489 | Intro
25% | Authorizes and establishes procedures and criteria for prescriptive authority for clinical psychologists who meet specific education, training, and registration requirements. Requires the Board of Psychology to accept applications for prescriptive au...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
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| HI | SB2785 | 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
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| HI | SB2698 | Intro
25% | Allows dogs in restaurants at the restaurant owner's or manager's discretion, provided that certain conditions are met.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
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| HI | SB2864 | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
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| HI | SB2466 | Intro
25% | Establishes a Crisis Intervention and Diversion Services Program within the Department of Health to expand existing services to divert those with mental health issues to appropriate health care services. Defines "mental health emergency worker". Decl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
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| HI | SB2899 | Intro
25% | Requires the auditor to conduct an assessment on the social and financial impacts of mandating health insurance coverage for care provided by a participating registered pharmacist practicing within the scope of the pharmacist's license. Requires a re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
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| HI | SB2887 | Intro
25% | Prohibits health maintenance organizations from discriminating against certain health care providers that meet the terms and conditions for participation established by the health maintenance organization.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
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| HI | SB2551 | Intro
25% | Beginning 1/1/2025, requires health insurers, mutual benefit societies, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage for biomarker testing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
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| HI | SB2136 | Intro
25% | Establishes fees that medical providers may charge for medical records and imposes civil penalties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
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| HI | SB2446 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the governor for the ohana zones pilot program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
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| HI | SB2456 | Intro
25% | Includes the prevention of activities within an applicant's premises and adjacent areas that are potentially injurious to the health, safety, and welfare of the public and neighborhood as a factor for determining whether a controlled substances regis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
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| HI | SB2095 | Intro
25% | Prohibits persons from receiving compensation for advising or assisting with veterans benefits.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
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| HI | SB2390 | Intro
25% | Defines "isolated wetlands" and "wetlands". Clarifies the definition of "state waters" to include wetlands and isolated wetlands. Requires the Director of Health to determine all wetlands in the State, including whether a wetland is an isolated wetla...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
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| HI | SB2382 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of the Attorney General to assist with the preparation and filing of petitions for assisted community treatment and with the presentation of the case, unless declined by the petitioner.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
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| HI | SB2370 | Intro
25% | Requires a wastewater treatment plant to test sewage sludge and any other residual material for the presence of perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances. Requires the Department of Health to adopt administrative rules for the safe disposal and s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
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| HI | SB2409 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Health to construct, establish, and operate an environmental toxins testing laboratory to test samples submitted by the public for diseases; water, air, and soil quality; and complex testing. Allows the Director of Finance ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
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| HI | SB2250 | Intro
25% | Makes an emergency appropriation to provide funds for the Department of Health to implement quality improvement recommendations at the Hawaii State Hospital. Declares that the general fund expenditure is exceeded.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-19
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| HI | SB2247 | Intro
25% | Establishes a definition for "immediate harm" and amends the definition of "imminent harm" for the purpose of the Child Protective Act. Requires a police officer who assumes protective custody of a child who is subject to immediate harm while in the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-19
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| HI | SB2261 | Intro
25% | Relating To Human Services. Short form bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-19
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| HI | SB2262 | Intro
25% | Relating To Homelessness. Short form bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-19
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| HI | SB2343 | Intro
25% | Requires the Executive Office on Aging to create a comprehensive long-term care master plan to accomplish long-term care policy goals that, when implemented, ensure the availability of a full continuum of institutional and community-based services. E...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-19
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| HI | SB2318 | Intro
25% | Amends the state supplemental payment ceiling for domiciliary care paid to recipients who are eligible for federal supplementary security income or public assistance, or both. Amends the monthly needs allowance for individuals residing in foster home...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-19
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| HI | SB2243 | Intro
25% | Establishes associate-level licensure requirements for marriage and family therapists, mental health counselors, and psychologists and authorizes insurance reimbursements in certain circumstances. Allows psychologist license applicants to take licens...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-19
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