Makes intentionally or knowingly causing bodily injury to certain health care facility workers a Class C felony.
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Adopts the Uniform Regulation of Virtual-Currencies Businesses Act and the Uniform Supplemental Commercial Law for the Uniform Regulation of Virtual-Currency Businesses Act.
Appropriates funds to establish a pilot program for dementia screening and outreach with an emphasis on the Native Hawaiian and uninsured populations.
Authorizes a pharmacy to provide a customized patient medication package to any patient of an institutional facility or any member of the general public, subject to certain conditions.
Appropriates funds for ‘Imi Ho‘ola student stipends or for other ‘Imi Ho‘ola student support programs at the discretion of the department of native Hawaiian health of the John A. Burns school of medicine.
Requires two hours of annual in-service training in suicide prevention for all teachers, principals, and school counselors.
Requires pharmacy benefit managers to notify contracting pharmacies of changes to maximum allowable costs for any drug, identified by its 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 revoke a pharmacy benefit manager's registration 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.
Bans, beginning January 1, 2020, the import for profit, sale, and offer for sale of any cosmetic in the State, if the final product or any component of the product was developed or manufactured using animal testing performed on or after January 1, 2020. Effective January 1, 2020.
Removes non-commercial motor vehicles from those vehicles required to obtain a certificate of inspection.
Amends the definition of "physician", for purposes of health care peer review, to include physicians participating in nationally-recognized accredited graduate medical training programs that occur in a health care entity.