Authorizes the Department of Health (DOH) to maintain a forum on its website where specified state-licensed care facilities may post vacancy information. Requires DOH to convene a working group to discuss and provide feedback on the implementation and maintenance of the forum. Appropriates funds.
Converts the Long-Term Care Community Living Program Specialist position within the Executive Office on Aging from exempt to permanent civil service status. (HB434 HD1)
Requires adult family boarding homes and private homes that provide healthcare to the elderly or disabled to be licensed by the Department of Health. Establishes fines for operating an adult residential care home, adult family boarding home or private home that provides healthcare to elderly or disabled individuals who are unrelated to the caregiver family by blood, marriage, or adoption, or hospice home without a license.
Specifies that an unauthorized person who drives in a high occupancy vehicle lane shall be subject to a $150 fine. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
Appropriates funds for a full-time associate professor and a full-time associate specialist position within the University of Hawaii Center on Aging. (HB609 HD2)
Requires health insurance policies and contracts issued after 12/31/18 to provide coverage for the cost of hearing aids at a minimum of $1,500 per hearing aid for each hearing-impaired ear every thirty-six months.
Makes an appropriation to the Department of Health for the Kupuna Care Program. (HB608 HD1)
Appropriates funds to the department of human services to study the impact and feasibility of creating an integrated database of certain information related to homeless individuals for providers of homeless services.
Specifies license, relicense, certification, and recertification fees for community-based licensed care homes and facilities and case managers under the Department of Health. Stipulates that the fees be deposited into the general fund.
Increases from 45 days to 90 days the time by which an application and notice for a mechanic's or materialman's lien must be filed after completion of applicable improvements. (HB732 HD1)
