Allows home-schooled, high school-age students to participate as unattached competitors in individual sports available to the public school that the student would otherwise be required to attend.
Requires the use of the public utilities commission's universal service fund to provide free telecommunications access to information for individuals with print disabilities.
Increases administrative and criminal penalties for those who violate the Hawaii pesticides law.
Includes the line of voters at a voter service center, place of deposit, or its appurtenances in the prohibition of campaign related activities taking place within the 200-foot perimeter surrounding voter service centers, place of deposits, and appurtenances.
Allows the executive office of aging to relax the thirty-hour employment requirement for qualified caregivers under the Kupuna Caregivers Program during a state-declared state of emergency. Adds the option of kupuna caregiver-directed services to the kupuna caregivers program. Includes assisting the care recipient and caregiver with the enrollment process as the duty of a coach. Allows funds under the Kupuna Caregivers Program to be issued to the care recipient's financial management service provider.
Requires the auditor, with the assistance of the department of human services, to conduct a study to assess the impact of using medicaid funds to provide coverage for the treatment for homelessness, subject to federal matching funds. Requires the auditor to submit a report to the legislature. Appropriates funds.
Establishes the center to combat human trafficking, including a centralized database, within the department of the attorney general. Makes the solicitation of a minor for sex a strict liability offense of sex trafficking. Appropriates funds for the establishment of the center to combat human trafficking.
Increases the categories of women required to be covered for mammogram screenings. Requires the existing health insurance mandate for coverage of low-dose mammography to include digital mammography and breast tomosynthesis. Defines digital breast tomosynthesis. Requires health care providers to be reimbursed at rates accurately reflecting the resource costs specific to each service, including any increased resource cost after January 1, 2021.
Provides for a minimum fine of $500 and maximum fine of $4,000, in addition to any other penalty, for the misdemeanor offense of reckless endangering in the second degree under certain circumstances, such as boarding a commercial flight into the State after having tested positive for COVID-19.
Provides that a voter with special needs shall be provided a means of electronic authentication of an electronic transmission of replacement ballot that does not include the voter's handwritten signature or a waiver of secrecy.
