Rep. Mark Nakashima

Co-sponsor HB 551

Passed · Hawaii House · Co-sponsor

RELATING TO HEALTH.

Prohibits the sale of flavored tobacco products and the mislabeling of e-liquids as nicotine free. Authorizes the department of health to appoint, commission, or contract for services of inspectors. Establishes two full-time equivalent program specialist positions and one full-time equivalent hearing officer position. Appropriates funds. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)

Passed Dec 11, 2023 1 co-sponsor Track

Primary HB 1197

In committee · Hawaii House · Lead sponsor

RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES.

Appropriates funds to DHS to restore basic adult dental benefits to medicaid enrollees. Requires DHS to obtain the maximum federal matching funds available for this expenditure.

In committee Dec 11, 2023 0 co-sponsors Track

Primary HB 1203

Passed · Hawaii House · Lead sponsor

RELATING TO TAXATION.

Establishes an employer child care tax credit for employers who provide or sponsor approved child care. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD2)

Passed Dec 11, 2023 0 co-sponsors Track

Primary HB 518

In committee · Hawaii House · Lead sponsor

RELATING TO MEDICAL INFORMED CONSENT.

Requires the Hawaiʻi 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 therapeutic procedure shall be obtained prior to the day of that treatment or procedure. Specifies that if the treatment or procedure is to occur on the same day it is scheduled, the informed consent shall be obtained at the time the decision is made to schedule that treatment or procedure.

In committee Dec 11, 2023 0 co-sponsors Track

Primary HB 1383

Passed · Hawaii House · Lead sponsor

RELATING TO AGRICULTURE.

Establishes a task force to identify the top ten fruits or vegetables that are imported into the State but may be commercially grown in the State. Creates an income tax credit to incentivize the production of those fruits or vegetables to obviate the need to import them into the State. Effective 6/30/3000. (SD1)

Passed Dec 11, 2023 0 co-sponsors Track

Primary HB 696

In committee · Hawaii House · Lead sponsor

RELATING TO MEDICAL CANNABIS DISPENSARIES.

Establishes system access and system integration requirements for the computer software tracking system for medical cannabis dispensaries. Requires the department of health to submit an annual report to the legislature on data captured using the computer software tracking system.

In committee Dec 11, 2023 0 co-sponsors Track

Primary HB 1341

In committee · Hawaii House · Lead sponsor

RELATING TO MEDICAID.

Appropriates funds for the achievement of full funding, including estimated payment increases, of medicaid home and community-based services. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)

In committee Dec 11, 2023 0 co-sponsors Track

Primary HB 77

In committee · Hawaii House · Lead sponsor

RELATING TO TEACHERS.

Clarifies that public charter school teachers and other personnel employed by public charter schools under the same pay schedule are included in collective bargaining unit (5). Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)

In committee Dec 11, 2023 0 co-sponsors Track

Primary HB 1446

In committee · Hawaii House · Lead sponsor

RELATING TO INSURANCE.

Lowers the amount of time in which a health insurer may initiate a recoupment or offset demand effort from a health care provider for services rendered from eighteen months to twelve months. Establishes other requirements that health insurers must follow in making repayment requests from health care providers.

In committee Dec 11, 2023 0 co-sponsors Track

Primary HB 492

In committee · Hawaii House · Lead sponsor

RELATING TO TAXATION.

Increases the state earned income tax credit from twenty to twenty-five percent of the federal earned income tax credit.

In committee Dec 11, 2023 0 co-sponsors Track