| HI | HB1334 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for three areas of Mental Health Crisis Response: Increased funding for 988 Hawaii CARES, creates a position for a statewide crisis mobile outreach coordinator with the goal to have statewide response 24/7, funding to increase ment...
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| HI | HB900 | Intro
25% | Establishes the fetal alcohol spectrum disorders special fund, to be administered by the department of human services, and which shall consist of federal funds and interest earned on those funds. Establishes a temporary fetal alcohol spectrum disorde...
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| HI | SB1379 | Engross
50% | Clarifies the penalty to be assessed on any person who intentionally operates a care facility without a certificate or license. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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| HI | HB935 | Intro
25% | Exempts from the general excise tax, gross receipts received from the sale of hearing aids.
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| HI | HB323 | Intro
25% | Requires the department of health to adopt rules by 6/30/2026 for amplified sound on public and private property where decibel weighted levels exceed current standards for zoning districts and residential properties where noise is excessive during ce...
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| HI | HB969 | Intro
25% | Requires the Governor to ensure continued operation of medical facilities upon declaration of a state of emergency and during times of health or pandemic emergencies. Allows hospitals to suspend elective surgeries during the period of emergency to ad...
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| HI | HB649 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for three program specialist positions within the Executive Office on Aging for Hawaii's State Health Insurance Assistance Program.
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| HI | HB518 | 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 ...
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| HI | HB410 | Intro
25% | Short form bill relating to homelessness.
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| HI | HB228 | Intro
25% | Makes it unlawful for any non-government entity or agent thereof to operate a weed whacker in or within one hundred feet of a residential zone, except between 8:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. on most days. Defines weed whacker.
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| HI | SB609 | Engross
50% | Requires health insurance policies and contracts issued on or after 01/01/2024 to provide coverage for the cost of hearing aids at a minimum of an unspecified amount per hearing aid for each hearing-impaired ear every thirty-six months. Effective 12/...
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| HI | HB813 | Intro
25% | Establishes the petty misdemeanor offense of sitting or lying on a public sidewalk. Contains exceptions, including for expressive activities that are protected by the First Amendment, and for medical emergencies.
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| HI | SB1615 | Engross
50% | Requires the Developmental Disabilities Division of the Department of Health to amend the eligibility criteria for the Home and Community-Based Services Medicaid Waiver to include individuals with an intellectual or developmental disability and a com...
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| HI | HB957 | Intro
25% | Allows health care facilities to permit terminally ill patients to use medical cannabis under certain conditions.
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| HI | HB1390 | Intro
25% | Enables the director of commerce and consumer affairs to license counselors from states which participate in the Counseling Compact.
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| HI | SB321 | Engross
50% | Establishes a working group to study the feasibility and effects of the State adopting the Advanced Practice Registered Nurse Compact. Requires a report to the Legislature. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD1)
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| HI | HB965 | Intro
25% | Requires health insurers, mutual benefit societies, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage for medication used for the treatment of obesity or weight loss management for a covered individual who is overweight and has one or more rel...
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| HI | SB608 | Engross
50% | Requires pharmacies to provide accessible prescription drug label information to individuals who have difficulty seeing or reading standard printed prescription drug container labels and inform the public that prescription drug label information is a...
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| HI | HB1433 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Adult Mental Health Division of the Department of Health to support increased behavioral health crisis stabilization beds. Creates a working group to get county input on possible sites for these crisis stabilization beds. Ef...
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| HI | HB805 | Intro
25% | Beginning 1/1/2024, allows a qualified applicant to change their sex designation on their birth certificate. Establishes information required for an applicant to change their sex designation on their birth certificate. Requires the Department of Heal...
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| HI | SB853 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds to the Executive Office on Aging for the Hawaii Healthy Aging Partnership. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD1)
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| HI | HB482 | Intro
25% | Authorizes licensed osteopathic physicians and physician assistants, in addition to physicians and advance practice registered nurses, to provide minor-initiated medical care and services. Requires the licensed health care provider to ensure that the...
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| HI | HB597 | Intro
25% | Authorizes psychiatrists and advanced practice registered nurses to file a petition to initiate the administrative authorization process in cases where the patient objects to treatment and is not in the custody of the director or involuntarily commit...
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| HI | HB1454 | Intro
25% | Authorizes naturopathic physicians to provide written certifications to qualified patients for the medical use of cannabis.
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| HI | HB1209 | Intro
25% | Establishes the offense of loitering on public property and adds trespassing on public property to the offense of criminal trespass in the first degree. Establishes the homeless case management program and special fund, administered by the judiciary ...
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| HI | HB1432 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the Board of Psychology to grant prescriptive authority to psychologists who meet specific education, training, and registration requirements.
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| HI | HB1503 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Health to respond to reports about persons having severe mental illness and in need of assistance and to assess whether those persons may fulfill the criteria for assisted community treatment. Requires the Department of Hea...
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| HI | SB1454 | Engross
50% | Establishes the Therapeutic Psilocybin Working Group within the Department of Health. Requires the working group to examine the medicinal and therapeutic effects of psilocybin or psilocybinbased products on mental health, report to the Legislature be...
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| HI | HB180 | Intro
25% | Creates within the Department of Health's wastewater branch a cesspool conversion section, which will be responsible for facilitating the conversion of cesspools within the State. Establishes and appropriates funds for two full-time equivalent positi...
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| HI | HB1024 | Intro
25% | Allows for temporary permits to be issued to registered nurses and licensed practical nurses, and revises the exemptions for license.
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| HI | HB1460 | Intro
25% | Expands the definition of "private entity" to include business organizations that are authorized to transact business in the State, including nonprofit management entities that have a certificate of need or license to operate one or more community ho...
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| HI | HB1441 | Intro
25% | Explicitly provides that a patient has a right to choose to obtain an abortion, or terminate a pregnancy if the termination is necessary to protect the patient's life or health. Repeals criminal penalties for violations of certain abortion provisions...
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| HI | HB282 | Intro
25% | Establishes a five-year pilot program in the department of health to expand existing county programs that make one or more mental health professionals available to assist county first responders in responding to mental health crises in areas in the u...
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| HI | HB324 | Intro
25% | Repeals section 328J-11.5, Hawaii Revised Statutes.
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| HI | HB510 | Intro
25% | Ensures the protection and promotion of the health and well being of all infants born alive in the State. Mandates medically appropriate and reasonable lifesaving and life sustaining medical care and treatment to all born alive infants. Establishes c...
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| HI | SB668 | Engross
50% | Adopts the physical therapy compact effective 7/1/3025. Requires the department of commerce and consumer affairs to adopt rules to implement and administer the compact. Requires applicants for physical therapist or physical therapist assistant licens...
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| HI | HB703 | Intro
25% | Prohibits owners of vacant undeveloped land to cause or permit visible fugitive dust to become airborne from their land or to cause or permit visible fugitive dust that originates from their vacant developed land to be discharged beyond their land's ...
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| HI | SB442 | Engross
50% | Authorizes advanced practice registered nurses, in addition to physicians, to practice medical aid in dying in accordance with their scope of practice and prescribing authority. Authorizes psychiatric mental health nurse practitioners, in addition to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | HB553 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Hawaii reproductive care workforce special fund to be administered by the department of health to support programs that train health care professionals, increase the State's capacity to provide reproductive care services, increase acc...
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| HI | HB776 | Intro
25% | Establishes provisional or associate level licensure requirements for marriage and family therapists, mental health counselors, and psychologists. Authorizes insurance reimbursements for associate family therapists, associate mental health counselors...
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| HI | HB117 | Intro
25% | Repeals section 328J-11.5, Hawaii Revised Statutes.
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| HI | HB1198 | Intro
25% | Establishes the prevent suicide Hawaii taskforce within the Department of Health. Requires the task force to make annual recommendations to the Legislature on ways to reduce suicide rates in the State by 25% by 2025. Dissolves the task force on 1/1/2...
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| HI | HB818 | Intro
25% | Requires health insurance policies and contracts issued on or after 01/01/2024 to provide coverage for the cost of hearing aids at a minimum of $1,500 per hearing aid for each hearing-impaired ear every thirty-six months. Effective 01/01/2024.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | HB1031 | Intro
25% | Updates definitions related to the education and training requirements of psychologists; amends the screening process for applicants educated at a foreign institution.
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| HI | HB836 | Intro
25% | Appropriates moneys to the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation to retain the services of a consultant to prepare a financial sustainability plan for the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation and its member regions. Appropriates moneys.
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| HI | HB1077 | Intro
25% | Establishes the criminal offense of unlawful shipment of tobacco products. Includes electronic smoking devices and e-liquids within the definition of "tobacco products", as used in the Cigarette Tax and Tobacco Tax Law. Increases the license fee for ...
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| HI | HB882 | Intro
25% | Establishes the addiction recovery care working group to help the counties become recovery-ready.
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| HI | SB163 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds to be expended by the Executive Office on Aging for an Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias Public Health Campaign. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD1)
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| HI | HB1180 | Intro
25% | Requires health insurance coverage for various sexual and reproductive health care services.
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| 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...
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