| HI | HB246 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Health to post on its website an easily understandable, searchable, and sortable list of all state-licensed care facilities including information on their licenses and inspections. Requires that the list be updated within f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
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| HI | HB611 | Intro
25% | Establishes a streamlined procedure for determining parentage in cases of assisted reproduction.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
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| HI | HB747 | Intro
25% | Allows for the use of natural organic reduction for the treatment and disposal of human remains.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
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| HI | HB257 | Intro
25% | Provides that a new certificate of birth issued by the State shall include a designation of the sex of the person born, based on the genitalia of the person. Authorizes amendments of designations of sex on certificates of birth, provided that the bir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
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| HI | HB799 | Intro
25% | Authorizes physicians to practice at organized ambulatory health care facilities even if the physician does not have hospital privileges at a licensed hospital in the same geographic location as the ambulatory facility. Provides that a written transf...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
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| HI | HB561 | Intro
25% | Authorizes a registered pharmacist under contract with a covered entity for purposes of the federal 340B Drug Pricing Program to supervise via telehealth the filling or receipt of a prescription in certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
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| HI | HB474 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Health to fund one full-time equivalent (1.0 FTE) fall prevention and early detection coordinator position.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
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| HI | HB281 | Intro
25% | Exempts food and groceries from the general excise tax. Expands a 2024 session law exempting certain medical and dental services to include all medical and dental services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
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| HI | HB31 | Intro
25% | Short form bill relating to health.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
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| HI | HB112 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Health to establish and operate a free statewide mental health warm line to provide mental health support in non-emergency situations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
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| HI | HB728 | 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 to obtain an abortion and to obtain or use contraceptives.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
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| HI | HB62 | Intro
25% | Implements various nurse-to-patient ratios at hospitals and care homes. Requires the Department of Health to audit healthcare facility compliance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
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| HI | HB562 | Intro
25% | Prohibits covered entities in the State from entering into contracts with drug manufacturers that limit the covered entities' use of contract pharmacies. Voids contract provisions for certain drugs if the provisions are based on the maximum allowable...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
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| HI | HB784 | Intro
25% | Makes an appropriation for the operation of an additional ambulance for the island of Hawaii to be based in Makalei.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
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| HI | HB311 | Intro
25% | Establishes general excise tax exemptions for various medical services, including dental services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
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| HI | HB814 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for the Department of Health to develop and implement a public health and informational campaign; administer grants to prevent substance misuse among youth; and administer grants to treat substance use disorder among youth.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
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| HI | HB797 | Intro
25% | Exempts the shipment of large cigars in fulfillment of a sale by mail order from the offense of unlawful shipment of tobacco products.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
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| HI | HB700 | Intro
25% | Requires all health care providers who accept Medicare to provide a cognitive assessment as part of the Medicare Part B annual wellness visit for Medicare beneficiaries sixty-five years of age or older, with certain exceptions. Requires health care p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
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| HI | HB213 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for the Healthcare Education Loan Repayment Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
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| HI | HB647 | Intro
25% | Raises the minimum age requirement to enter into marriage from sixteen to eighteen years of age. Removes the parental consent and written approval by the family court requirements for a minor to marry. Removes spousal cohabitation after the parties a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
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| HI | HB715 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Health to issue a certificate of stillbirth, upon request of the parent or parents named on a fetal death certificate issued in the case of a stillbirth. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
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| HI | HB407 | Intro
25% | Establishes a licensing scheme for licensed certified midwives and licensed certified professional midwives, to be overseen by the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs. Re-establishes the home birth task force to provide recommendations on iss...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
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| HI | HB33 | Intro
25% | Short form bill relating to health.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
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| HI | HB215 | Intro
25% | Requires the Hawaii Medical Board to establish standards for health care providers to ensure that a patient's consent to treatment is an informed consent. Requires that informed consent for a proposed medical or surgical treatment or a diagnostic or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
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| HI | HB641 | Intro
25% | Beginning 1/1/2026, requires health insurers and mutual benefit societies to provide coverage for traditional native Hawaiian healing and cultural practices offered through a Federally Qualified Health Center or a Native Hawaiian Health Care System.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
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| HI | HB218 | Intro
25% | Requires any hospital with an operating room licensed by the Department of Health to adopt and implement policies to prevent exposure to surgical smoke.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
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| HI | HB469 | Intro
25% | Requires the Disability and Communication Access Board to issue a disability travel placard to an applicant who has a valid removeable windshield placard and provides proof of travel. Effective 7/1/2027.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
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| HI | HB216 | Intro
25% | Establishes requirements for the clinical review criteria and clinical practical guidelines used to establish step therapy protocols. Provides a process for a patient to request an exception to using step therapy protocols. Establishes insurance cove...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
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| HI | HB615 | Intro
25% | Expands the protections established under Act 2, SLH 2023, to include gender-affirming health care services. Clarifies jurisdiction under the Uniform Child-Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act for cases involving children who obtain gender-affirm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
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| HI | HB71 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the smoking of cannabis and the smoking of cannabis for medical use, including via an electronic smoking device, in any area accessible by the public.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
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| HI | HB61 | Intro
25% | Requires the mayor of each county to appoint, and the county council or city council to confirm, a county medical examiner. Provides that the medical examiner for each county shall serve as the county's coroner. Makes conforming amendments. Appropria...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
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| HI | HB204 | Intro
25% | Repeals existing law that preempted local ordinances or regulations that regulate the sale of cigarettes, tobacco products, and electronic smoking devices and nullified and voided any conflicting local laws and regulations. Allows counties to adopt o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
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| HI | HB185 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the licensing of an adult residential care home, expanded adult residential care home, or developmental disabilities domiciliary home that is financed, managed, operated, supervised, directed, or owned in whole or in part by a person convic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
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| HI | HB11 | Intro
25% | Eliminates the certificate of need requirement for all health care facilities and health care services except for nursing homes, hospices, intermediate care facilities for individuals with intellectual disabilities, and ambulance service providers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
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| HI | HB237 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for the Family Health Services Division of the Department of Health to establish and oversee peer-to-peer support programs for children from birth to age five and their families, including the establishment of two full-time equival...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
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| HI | HB341 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds to assist Hawaii Island Community Health Center to purchase or lease land on the island of Hawaii and develop primary care health care facilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
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| HI | HB456 | Intro
25% | Authorizes and decriminalizes the sale of raw milk, raw milk products, and raw milk dairy products directly from producers to consumers for human consumption, subject to certain restrictions. Authorizes the direct sale of raw goat milk for pet consum...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
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| HI | HB156 | Intro
25% | Repeals existing law that preempted local ordinances or regulations that regulate the sale of cigarettes, tobacco products, and electronic smoking devices and nullified and voided any conflicting local laws and regulations. Allows counties to adopt o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
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| HI | HB32 | Intro
25% | Short form bill relating to health.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
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| HI | HB717 | Intro
25% | Beginning 1/1/2026, requires kratom products to be registered with the Department of Health and imposes labeling requirements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
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| HI | HB710 | Intro
25% | Prohibits health insurers, mutual benefit societies, and health maintenance organizations from arbitrarily denying coverage requests for gender affirming health care services when the requested service is known to be considered a standard of care and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
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| HI | HB233 | Intro
25% | Establishes a state breast milk bank under the Department of Health. Establishes the breast milk bank special fund. Appropriates moneys.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
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| HI | HB35 | Intro
25% | Short form bill relating to health.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
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| HI | HB540 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the addition of fluoride to a public water system. Preempts and voids conflicting laws, executive orders, ordinances, regulations, or rules.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
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| HI | HB729 | Intro
25% | Raises the minimum age to enter into marriage from sixteen to eighteen years of age. Repeals the authority of parents and the family court to consent to a minor's marriage. Repeals spousal cohabitation after the parties attain legal age as an excepti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
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| HI | HB248 | Intro
25% | Establishes fees that medical providers may charge for requests for a patient's medical records from the patient's family member, caregiver, or representative. Requires medical providers to respond to requests in a timely manner. Establishes penaltie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
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| HI | HB602 | 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] | 2025-01-21
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| HI | HB34 | Intro
25% | Short form bill relating to health.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
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| HI | HB598 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the imposition of cost-sharing requirements for certain diagnostic and supplemental breast examinations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
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| HI | HB240 | Intro
25% | Establishes and provides criteria for overdose prevention centers, including standards for the Department of Health to designate certain facilities as overdose prevention centers. Establishes an Overdose Prevention Center Oversight Committee. Provide...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
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