Requires a health carrier with a network plan to maintain a network that provides sufficient practitioners and services to meet the needs of the enrollees or members. (HB914 HD1)
Appropriates funds for a full-time associate professor and a full-time associate specialist position within the University of Hawaii Center on Aging. (HB609 HD2)
Strengthens the safe sleep policy for child care facilities for children less than a year of age, including requiring placement of children on their backs for sleeping, discussing the policy with the child's parent or legal guardian, and establishing notice and annual training requirements. Requires child care facilities to report to the Department of Human Services the death of a child less than a year of age in such a facility. (HB684 HD1)
Requires health insurance policies and contracts issued after 12/31/18 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.
Makes an appropriation to the Department of Health for the Kupuna Care Program. (HB608 HD1)
Amends article XVII of the State Constitution to provide for Referendum.
Appropriates moneys for Hawaii Public Housing Authority to hire an additional security guard to improve security and monitoring at the Alu Street gate of Kalihi Valley Homes public housing. (HB534 HD2)
Directs the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation or any appropriate entity of the State to initiate negotiations to keep the rental units of the Front Street Apartments on the island of Maui affordable or to acquire the property to provide affordable rents to households. Appropriates funds. (HB1553 HD1)
Amends general excise tax exemptions to include sales of food products by the Girl Scouts of the United States of America and the Boy Scouts of America provided that profits from those sales are used exclusively to further the purposes of the organization.
Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects for the benefit of the 28th representative district.
