For policies, contracts, plans, agreements, and plan contracts issued or renewed after 12/31/2023, requires insurers, mutual benefit societies, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage for standard fertility preservation services.
Establishes a refundable job creation income tax credit for employers who increase the number of full-time employees in the State and make certain capital investment expenditures. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
Expands the definitions of "preceptor" and "volunteer-based clinical training rotation" to allow for improved accessibility for providers to receive income tax credits. Adds dieticians, physician assistants, and social workers to the list of preceptors. Includes the director of health on the preceptor credit assurance committee. Applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2023. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
Establishes the Public Education Scholarship Program within the University of Hawaiʻi to provide students who are residents of the State with school tuition in return for a service commitment to teach in a public school classroom of the Department of Education or Hawaiʻi public charter school, under certain conditions. Appropriates funds. Effective 6/30/3000. (SD1)
Establish within the Department of Human Services' Child Care Assistance Program, a Child Care Accreditation Program to support licensed or registered child care providers to obtain accreditation from a national early learning accrediting organization. Extends the deadline by which unaccredited service providers of the Preschool Open Doors Program must commence the accreditation process and obtain accreditation. Appropriate funds.
Requires health insurance coverage for various sexual and reproductive health care services.
Legalizes, regulates, and taxes cannabis and manufactured cannabis products for adult use. Establishes the Hawaiʻi cannabis commission to oversee the regulation of adult use cannabis manufacturers and retailers. Appropriates funds.
Makes various updates to the hospital sustainability program, including amending the definition of "private hospital"; clarifying the uses of the hospital sustainability program special fund; increasing various hospital sustainability fee caps; requiring DHS to consult and negotiate with the hospital trade association regarding fee participation and rates; clarifying when the hospital sustainability fee shall be discontinued and the distribution of remaining funds; repealing the sunset dates of Act 217, SLH 2012, and Act 123, SLH 2014, to make the program permanent and permanently exempting the program from the central service and administrative expenses assessments; and appropriating funds out of the special fund. Effective 06/30/3000. (HD1)
Establishes and appropriates funds for the Hawaiʻi teacher apprenticeship program to support, recruit, develop, and retain teachers for Hawaiʻi public schools. Establishes the Hawaiʻi teacher apprenticeship program special fund. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
Appropriates funds to the department of health to develop and implement statewide media, education, and training activities for policies related to emergency examination and hospitalization and assisted community treatment for those in need of mental health intervention. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
