Establishes the Emergency Department Homelessness Assessment Pilot Program to identify a possible correlation between multidisciplinary team interventions and the use of hospital emergency departments by individuals experiencing homelessness and makes an appropriation. (HB1761 HD1)
Establishes the Prevent Suicide Hawaii Taskforce under the Department of Health to develop annual recommendations to the Legislature to reduce suicide. (HB2278 HD1)
Establishes a Hawaii Beach Preservation Special Fund. Authorizes the DLNR to expend moneys from the Special Fund to acquire lands for beach preservation with prior authorization of the Legislature. Creates a working group within the Hawaii Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Commission to determine appropriate funding mechanisms for the Special Fund. Establishes a three-year North Shore Oahu Pilot Program under DLNR to explore managed retreat options. Appropriates funds. (HB2468 HD2)
Establishes requirements, conditions, and restrictions for farm dwellings and employee housing on agricultural land. Limits farm dwellings and employee housing on agricultural land to farmers and employees and immediate family members. (HB2632 HD2)
Authorizes the incorporation of housing visitability standards in the new construction of publicly funded residential housing. (HB1919 HD2)
Appropriates funds to improve the health care services related to cardiac care at Kona Community Hospital. Funds may be used for the construction of a hybrid catheterization lab and operating room and funding of cardiology staff positions to alleviate the lack of cardiac care. Permits the Department of Health to hire physicians to serve as district health officers. (HB782 HD1)
Expands eligibility and credit amount of the low income-household renters' income tax credit. Appropriates funds for the continued administration of the family assessment center for homeless families and for a housing homeless children rental assistance pilot program. Authorizes adoption of interim rules and procurement of services by federally-certified financial counselors without regard to chapters 91 and 103F, Hawaii Revised Statutes, respectively. (HB2751 HD1)
Appropriates funds to the Department of Education to install air conditioning in public schools that prioritize the project. (HB2510 HD1)
Establishes an income tax credit, limited to one credit per tax map key number, for a portion of the cost of construction or renovation for purposes of compliance with Type C residential housing visitability standards. (HB1920 HD1)
Makes permanent the regulation of athletic trainers. (HB2062 HD2)
