| 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 | HB2426 | Pass | 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] | 2024-07-02
Act 148, 07/01/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1249). |
| HI | HB1533 | Pass | 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] | 2024-06-28
Act 108, 06/27/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1209). |
| 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 | HB1974 | Pass | 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] | 2024-05-13
Act 018, 05/13/2024 (Gov. Msg. No. 1118). |
| HI | HB1964 | Engross
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, group child care ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-26
Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-26-24 4:55 PM; CR 329. |
| 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 | HCR143 | 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] | 2024-04-19
Resolution adopted in final form. |
| HI | HCR186 | Engross
Sine Die | 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
Sine Die | 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
Sine Die | 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
Sine Die | 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
Sine Die | 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
Sine Die | 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
Sine Die | 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 | 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 | HB2429 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 | HB2326 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 | HB2629 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 | 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 | HB2185 | Intro
Sine Die | 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
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. Appropriations funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB1670 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 | 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 | HB2539 | 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. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB2591 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 | 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 | HB1721 | Intro
Sine Die | 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
Sine Die | 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
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 House Human Services Committee |
| HI | HB2110 | 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 House Human Services Committee |
| HI | HB2111 | 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 House 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 | HB1308 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 |
