Adds dementia training and a passing score on an examination on that training as an option for the recertification of nurse aides working in state-licensed and state-certified health care settings other than medicare or medicaid certified nursing facilities.
Prohibits an employer from discriminating against an employee who holds a valid prescription for the medical use of cannabis.
Increases the minimum wage on 1/1/19. Authorizes the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to annually adjust the minimum hourly wage beginning on 1/1/20 in accord with the Honolulu region consumer price index.
Ensures that state and county planning efforts for the delivery of services to the aged or disabled share budgets, data, insights, strategies, goals, and definitions of success and recommendations. Reforms and improves the timely movement of funding and approvals to ensure that there are no delays in the delivery of services.
Requires health insurance coverage for case management services by licensed mental health providers for victims of sexual violence. (HB665 HD2)
Establishes a suicide prevention task force to develop a strategic plan to reduce suicide in Hawaii by 25% by 2025.
Expands the qualifying age for the preschool open doors program to children four years old and younger.
Increases, to an unspecified amount, the authorized benefit for acupuncture treatments allowed under personal injury protection benefits provided through motor vehicle insurance. Automatically increases the amount by an unspecified percentage on an annual basis.
Authorizes any continuum of care to offer a stipend to volunteers assisting in the point-in-time count conducted annually to determine the number of homeless individuals in the State, as a condition of receiving federal homeless assistance from the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development. (HB1445 HD1)
Requires health care facilities to first request transport services from an air ambulance that is contracted with the patient's health carrier when transferring a patient to another health care facility via air ambulance. Requires notification if a non-contracted air ambulance service is utilized. Establishes a procedure for dispute resolutions.
