Appropriates funds for the fiscal biennium 2019-2021 operating budget of the Department of Public Safety health care program (PSD 421) under the purview of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Health. (HB1420 HD2)
Establishes the Hawaii Vocational Training in Schools Task Force in the Department of Education to study the feasibility of creating vocational training programs in the department's middle schools and high schools.
Establishes a working group to evaluate current behavioral health care and related system gaps related to the continuum of care for persons experiencing substance abuse, mental health conditions, and homelessness. Makes an appropriation. (HB1448 HD1)
Establishes a pilot program for a low- or no-cost daycare for children of working parents. Appropriates funds.
Appropriates funds for the Hawaii Zero to Three Court. (HB388 HD1)
Requires telecommunications carriers to block calls to residential phone lines and personal mobile phone lines made from telephone numbers that do not match any of the telephone numbers of certain excepted entities as a means to curb scam calls.
Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to establish the Laniakea Beach Marine Life Conservation District. Prohibits certain ocean recreation activities within the District.
Provides that certain pregnant women receiving substance abuse treatment are eligible for substance abuse treatment and mental health services for an additional ten months following childbirth.
Establishes one full-time equivalent (1.0 FTE) child care site director position in the University of Hawaii Windward Community College Ke Kula Kamali‘i ‘o Hanaiaulu Hawaiian Language Immersion Childcare Center.
Requires the College of Engineering of the University of Hawaii to conduct a traffic study to identify ways to alleviate traffic congestion at the intersection of University Avenue and Dole Street in Honolulu. Appropriates funds for the study.
