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.
Requires the department of education to provide training on social and emotional learning to all youth-serving educators, health care professionals and counselors, and agencies and programs, as well as parents of students enrolled in public schools or public charter schools. Appropriates funds to the department of education to conduct training on social and emotional learning.
Makes permanent an exemption from tort liability for the State and counties arising from lifeguard services, but not for gross negligence or wanton acts or omissions.
Limits tetrahydrocannabinol levels in manufactured marijuana products. Requires warning labels on packaging.
Establishes a suicide prevention task force to develop a strategic plan to reduce suicide in Hawaii by 25% by 2025.
Appropriates moneys for DOH lead poisoning prevention activities.
Entitles designated family members and other interested persons of a person having a mental health emergency to: notice of certain procedures and actions, option to be present in the courtroom for a hearing on a petition for involuntary hospitalization or assisted community treatment, and option to receive copies of hearing transcripts or recordings. Requires the court to adjourn or continue a hearing on a petition for involuntary hospitalization or assisted community treatment for failure to timely notify designated persons, with certain exceptions.
Increases the state minimum wage rate incrementally each year to attain the rate of $22 per hour beginning 1/1/22. Authorizes the department of labor and industrial relations to annually adjust the minimum hourly wage beginning on 1/1/23 in accord with the Honolulu region consumer price index. Repeals the tip credit.
Reduces the maximum fee a check casher may charge under a payday loan agreement for deferring the deposit of a check from 15% to 7% of the face value of the check.
Requires habitat conservation plans and safe harbor agreements to include the measures or actions to be undertaken to respond to individuals of the candidate species affected by take. Authorizes other funds to be deposited into the Endangered Species Trust Fund.
