Authorizes psychiatrists and advanced practice registered nurses to file a petition to initiate the administrative authorization process in cases where the patient objects to treatment and is not in the custody of the director or involuntarily committed to a psychiatric facility.
Allows wild game to be donated as food. (HD2)
Establishes an income tax credit for the cost of upgrading or converting a qualified cesspool to a director of health-approved wastewater system or connecting to a sewerage system. Requires certain information regarding cesspools on real property to be included in seller mandatory disclosures on real property transactions. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
Establishes a job creation income tax credit for employers who increase the number of full-time employees in the State and make certain capital investment expenditures.
Establishes the Environmental Crimes Unit within the Department of the Attorney General. Makes the disposal of motor vehicle tires in violation of State law governing recovery of used motor vehicle tire recovery a petty misdemeanor. Establishes a $1 motor vehicle tire surcharge to be imposed on every replacement tire installed on a motor vehicle in the State after 9/30/2023. Requires tire retailers and tire wholesalers who install replacement tires to pay the surcharge to the Department of Health. Requires the Department of Health to deposit the revenues into the Environmental Management Special Fund. Allows the Department of Health to use the Environmental Management Special Fund to fund the Environmental Crimes Unit. Appropriates funds. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
Authorizes the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds to assist Honoka‘a Land Company, LLC, with acquiring, developing, and renovating agricultural facilities. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
Appropriates funds to increase medicaid payments to eligible health care providers in the State up to one hundred per cent of the current medicare rates. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
Requires health insurance policies and contracts issued on or after 01/01/2024 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. Effective 01/01/2024.
Appropriates funds for the manufacturing assistance program under the Hawaiʻi technology development corporation. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
Requires the department of human services to develop a preschool child care worker subsidy pilot program to assist in retaining qualified child care workers in licensed child care facilities for preschool children aged two through five. Sunsets 6/30/2026. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
