Requires health insurers, mutual benefit societies, and health maintenance organizations to cover mandated services for mammography at least as favorably as coverage for other radiological examinations. Effective 7/1/2060. (HD2)
Requires all boards to livestream meetings and archive the recordings online. Requires a board to identify each item on its meeting agenda as an item for action or an item for discussion and allow for oral testimony after each agenda item. Amends time frame requirements for the posting of board meeting minutes and board packets. Requires board meeting minutes and board packets to be posted online. Effective 7/1/2112. (HD1)
Requires the department of public safety, in collaboration with the office of Hawaiian affairs, to create a Native Hawaiian rehabilitation program for prison inmates that puts an emphasis on preserving Native Hawaiian values and cultural practices. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
Requires the offender reentry office of the department of public safety to develop and implement a risk needs assessment tool that is specifically intended to assess the needs of female offenders. Requires a report to the legislature. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
Temporarily allows licensed teachers who have retired to be employed as teachers during a state of emergency and within twelve months of their retirement. Effective 7/1/2051. Repeals on 6/30/2023. (HD2)
Excludes from the State Code of Ethics' prohibition against acceptance of gifts by legislators and employees, foreign protocol gifts, gifts of aloha, invitations to certain events, and meals, under certain conditions. Defines foreign protocol gifts and gifts of aloha.
Allows the board of land and natural resources to adopt, amend, or repeal administrative fee schedules for parking fees for locations under the management of or operated by the division of boating and ocean recreation through regular or special board meetings rather than through administrative rulemaking. Effective 7/1/2050. (HD1)
Requires the office of planning and sustainable development to perform a study to refine rural district policies and make recommendations to facilitate the reclassification of lands from the agricultural district to the rural district. Requires reports to the legislature. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (HD1)
Imposes a heightened penalty of a class C felony for persons who repeatedly commit the offenses of gambling or possession of gambling records in the second degree. Raises the criminal penalty to a class C felony for the offense of possession of gambling devices. Directs all forfeited property or proceeds from sales thereof to units of state or local government that administer, manage, operate, or oversee programs addressing homelessness, substance abuse, or compulsive gambling.
