Requires health insurers, mutual benefit societies, and health maintenance organizations to cover mandated services for mammography on terms at least as favorable as the terms for other radiological examinations
Requires the State of Hawaiʻi Plant and Animal Declaration Form to be distributed, completed, and transmitted electronically.
Establishes an income tax credit for taxpayers who purchase and install a whole house water filter system.
Clarifies the deadline for submitting written protests that are based on the content of a solicitation. Effective 7/1/2112. (SD1)
Appropriates funds to the Department of Land and Natural Resources' Division of State Parks for the management of feral roosters and chickens on state lands.
Establishes ownership of any cow, horse, mule, donkey, sheep, goat, or swine, not marked or branded, and running wild on public lands to any person who intentionally feeds the animal.
Appropriates funds to the Hawaiʻi Public Housing Authority for the rehabilitation, remodeling, renovation, and repair of housing units without regard to civil service law. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
Establishes within the Office of Wellness and Resilience, the Malama Ohana Working Group to seek, design, and recommend transformative changes to the State's existing child welfare system. Allows the Office of Wellness and Resilience to contract with an administrative facilitator to provide necessary support for the Malama Ohana Working Group in carrying out its duties. Requires the Malama Ohana Working Group to report to the Legislature prior to the Regular Session of 2025 and be dissolved upon the adjournment thereof. Appropriates funds.
Transfers the Culinary Institute of the Pacific from the University of Hawaiʻi to the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism as an administratively attached agency.
Creates within the Department of Health's wastewater branch a cesspool conversion section, which will be responsible for facilitating the conversion of cesspools within the State. Establishes and appropriates funds for three full-time equivalent positions within the cesspool conversion section in fiscal years 2023-2024 and 2024-2025 and three additional full-time equivalent positions within the section in fiscal year 2024-2025. Establishes a three-year New Wastewater System Demonstration Pilot Program within the University of Hawaiʻi Water Resources Research Center to examine and demonstrate new wastewater technology systems; implement those technologies in demonstration projects in areas across the State that are identified as Priority Level 1; and establish a similar ranking system for prioritization levels for the islands of Molokai, Lanai, and Niihau. Requires the University of Hawaiʻi Water Resources Research Center to submit reports to the Legislature. Appropriates funds for the pilot program. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD2)
