Mandates a community-based work furlough program for female offenders. Requires the expansion of community-based work furlough and reentry programs for female offenders. Requires state agencies that contract with these programs to submit an annual report to the legislature. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
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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)
Clarifies the group of professionals who are prohibited from knowingly referring or transferring patients to an uncertified or unlicensed care facility. Repeals the landlord exclusion. Requires the Department of Health to prioritize complaint allegations based on severity for inspections of state-licensed or state-certified care facilities. Effective 7/1/2060. (HD1)
Establishes a statewide homelessness shelter and housing data clearinghouse within the department of human services to be administered by the governor's coordinator on homelessness. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2060. (HD1)
Requires the scope of the background checks for certain individuals to include acts that the individuals committed during the age of majority. Applies to certain individuals under the scope of contractual or employment obligations relating to minors, young adults, and vulnerable adults. Effective 7/1/2060. (HD1)
Requires DOH to implement standardized quality metrics to track and address health care processes or outcomes applicable to improving the quality of care for patients having opioid use disorders and targeting through value-based purchasing improvements in outcomes for patients having opioid use disorders by 7/1/2024. Requires DOH to implement value-based purchasing based on the standardized quality metrics by 1/1/2025. Directs DOH to collect certain data regarding opioid use. Requires annual reports to the legislature. Establishes a working group to determine major shifts in operations and clinical models that substance use disorder treatment providers need to make before adjusting to efforts to incentivize new demands for higher quality care. Effective 7/1/2112. (HD2)
Creates an early lung cancer screening task force to research what steps and resources are necessary to increase early lung cancer screening in Hawaii. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2060. (HD1)
Creates a refundable blood donation income tax credit to promote frequent blood donations. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2022. Effective 7/1/2060. (HD1)
Appropriates moneys to provide one-time enhanced payments of fifteen per cent to any facility in the State licensed by medicare to provide skilled nursing or intermediate care to medicaid patients to assist with pandemic-related costs and lost revenues. Effective 7/1/2050. (HD1)
Establishes a core state behavioral health crisis services system. Provides for the designation of one or more crisis hotline centers to provide crisis intervention services and crisis care coordination to individuals accessing the suicide prevention and behavioral health crisis hotline. Requires the department of health to provide to crisis callers onsite response services using mobile crisis teams. Requires the State to fund treatment for crisis receiving and stabilization services related to 988 calls. Effective 7/1/2060. (HD1)