Specifies procedural, disclosure, notice, and other requirements for prospective reviews required by health carriers or utilization review organizations prior to certification of coverage for health care services. (HB248 HD2)
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)
Requires insurers that contract with the Department of Human Services, to provide a medically complex add-on payment of 40 percent of the Medicaid base rate for medical enrollees in long-term care facilities with complex medical, behavioral, mental health, and cognitive needs who are waitlisted at an acute care hospital. Appropriates funds for medically complex add-on payments. (HB93 HD1)
Appropriates funds to the Department of Human Services to create one full-time program specialist position within the Adult Protective and Community Services Branch to oversee the foster grandparent program and senior companion programs in Maui county. (HB616 HD1)
Appropriates funds for the Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program to support the program on Oahu and for contracted services in the counties of Hawaii, Kauai, and Maui. (HB610 HD1)
Makes an appropriation to the Department of Health for the Kupuna Care Program. (HB608 HD1)
Appropriates funds to the Department of Human Services for the Housing First Program and the Rapid Re-housing Program. Appropriates funds to the Hawaii Public Housing Authority for the State Rent Supplement Program. (HB1196 HD1)
Requires agricultural producers in an enterprise zone to have at least 50 percent of production to occur within the enterprise zones located within the same county. Extends the tax credit eligibility periods in enterprise zones for agricultural producers for an additional three years. (HB784 HD1)
Authorizes general obligation bonds and appropriates funds to the Department of Agriculture for the decommissioning and relocation of the animal quarantine station in Halawa Valley. (HB167 HD1)
Conforms Chapter 657D, Hawaii Revised Statutes, concerning civil relief for state military forces to the federal Servicemember's Civil Relief Act. Waives filing fees and court costs for a service member or other person seeking to enforce rights pursuant to Chapter 657D. (HB1526 HD2)
