Requires health benefit plans supplemental to Medicare to include contributions equal to Medicare part D premiums effective 7/1/2018, in addition to Medicare part B premiums.
Establishes one full-time equivalent (1.00 FTE) world languages institutional support position within the Department of Education. Appropriates funds to fund the position.
Authorizes the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds to assist Wahiawa General Hospital with completion of deferred facilities and maintenance projects that are necessary for the health and safety of patients and staff.
Requires marketplace facilitators, referrers, and remote sellers that meet certain requirements to remit general excise or use taxes or report sales information. Applies to taxable years beginning after December 31, 2019.
Amends various provisions of the HRS to increase protections for child victims of sex trafficking, prostitution, and commercial exploitation by increasing penalties for offenders and habitual offenders. Among other things, amends the offense of sex trafficking to impose criminal liability on a person who solicits a minor for prostitution and by imposing strict liability with respect to the age of the minor.
Transfers all upkeep and maintenance responsibilities for the state capitol and its grounds and facilities, including all full-time equivalent positions and funding necessary for salaries and maintenance, to the sergeant-at-arms of the senate and house of representatives, respectively.
Establishes a family leave insurance program, which requires employees and employers to make contributions into an insurance fund to be used to provide employees with family leave insurance benefits in order to care for a designated person. Appropriates funds to implement the program.
Requires pharmacy benefit managers to notify contracting pharmacies of changes to maximum allowable costs by the National Drug Code fifteen days prior to the change. Requires pharmacy benefit managers to disclose where an equivalent drug can be obtained at or below the maximum allowable cost, when a maximum allowable cost appeal is upheld on appeal. Requires pharmacy benefit managers to: allow contracting pharmacies to reverse and rebill claims if the pharmacy benefit manager establishes a maximum allowable cost that is denied on appeal; and pay the difference to the contracting pharmacies. Permits contracting pharmacies to decline to dispense a drug if the reimbursement is less than the acquisition cost. Permits the insurance commissioner to suspend a pharmacy benefit manager's certification if the manager does not comply with state law. Requires the Department of Health to annually report to the legislature and any other state agency on appeals and disposition.
Transfers responsibility for inspection, quarantine, and approval of aquaculture livestock from the plant quarantine branch within the division of plant industry of the department of agriculture to the division of animal industry of the department of agriculture.
