Sen. Jarrett Keohokalole

Includes the use of traditional native Hawaiian burial practices in the treatment and disposal of human remains, including the use of water cremation or alkaline hydrolysis. Requires alkaline hydrolysis facilities to be certified by the Department of Health. Requires alkaline hydrolysis facility operators to undergo alkaline hydrolysis operator training and comply with certain Department of Health Administrative Rules. Requires sterile wastewater to be discharged into the sewer system as approved by the appropriate county. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD2)

Authorizes the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds to finance the construction of and improvements to health care facilities of The Queen's Health Systems and its nonprofit affiliates. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)

Incorporates a regenerative framework into the State Planning Act by expanding objectives and policies for the visitor industry. Requires an update to the State Tourism Functional Plan to be submitted to the Legislature no later than 20 days prior to the convening of the Regular Session of 2023. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)

Establishes a temporary fetal alcohol spectrum disorders task force within the Department of Health for administrative purposes. Requires a report to the Legislature. Appropriates moneys to establish and support the work of the task force. Authorizes the Department of Health to contract with a third party to assist the task force. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD2)

Increases the minimum wage for certain employees incrementally to $12.00 per hour beginning 10/1/2022, $15.00 per hour beginning 1/1/2024, and $18.00 per hour beginning 1/1/26.

Requires the court to appoint counsel to indigent parents upon the filing of a petition for custody or family supervision and make every effort to do so at the first hearing attended by the parents. (SD1)

Authorizes advanced practice registered nurses, in addition to physicians, to practice medical-aid-in-dying in accordance with their scope of practice and prescribing authority. Authorizes licensed psychiatric mental health nurse practitioners, clinical nurse specialists, and marriage and family therapists, in addition to psychiatrists, psychologists, and clinical social workers, to provide counseling to a qualified patient. Strengthens nondisclosure protections. Reduces the mandatory waiting period between oral requests from twenty days to fifteen days. Waives the mandatory waiting period for those terminally ill individuals not expected to survive the mandatory waiting period. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD2)

Addresses and defines pharmacy benefit manager practices. Creates enforcement authority by the Insurance Commissioner to suspend or revoke a pharmacy benefit manager's registration and impose fines. Repeals the requirement for the Department of Health to enforce the terms of private contracts pertaining to pharmacy benefit managers. Effective 1/1/2050. (SD2)

Ensures the continued existence of the low-income tiny home projects developed pursuant to the Governor's 2015 or 2018 emergency proclamations related to homelessness, or any supplemental proclamations to these emergency proclamations, by exempting the projects from certain laws for the duration of the underlying state land leases. Establishes the low-income tiny home village pilot program to provide shelter and certain services to low-income and homeless individuals. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD2)

Requires the Department of the Attorney General to provide annual reports to the Legislature on available data pertaining to the commercial sexual exploitation of children. Appropriates moneys. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)