Clarifies that clinical victim support services for victims of sexual violence and abuse are a mental health outpatient services benefit required to be covered under health insurance policies. Requires the State Auditor to conduct an impact assessment and to report any findings prior to the Regular Session of 2020. (HB484 HD2)
Establishes one full-time equivalent (1.0 FTE) child care site director position in the University of Hawaii Windward Community College Ke Kula Kamali‘i ‘o Hanaiaulu Hawaiian Language Immersion Childcare Center.
Exempts locally grown produce and locally raised livestock food products from the general excise tax. (HB616 HD1)
Requires the College of Engineering of the University of Hawaii to conduct a traffic study to identify ways to alleviate traffic congestion at the intersection of University Avenue and Dole Street in Honolulu. Appropriates funds for the study.
Establishes the University of Hawaii University Promise Program to provide scholarships for the unmet direct cost needs of qualified students enrolled at any 4-year degree campus of the University of Hawaii system. Appropriates funds to establish and implement the program.
Requires the Department of Education to establish a 5-year Hawaii Scientist-to-Teacher Pathway Pilot Program to recruit, train, support, and retain qualified science, technology, engineering, and mathematics professionals as kindergarten through grade twelve teachers of those subjects in the State. Appropriates funds.
Beginning on 1/1/2020, requires that any person who is eligible to vote and applies for a new or renewed motor vehicle driver's license, provisional license, instruction permit, limited purpose driver's license, limited purpose provisional driver's license, limited purpose instruction permit, or identification card shall be automatically registered to vote if that person is not already registered to vote; provided that, upon receipt of notification from the respective county clerk, the applicant shall have 21 calendar days to opt out of automatic voter registration. Appropriates funds.
Redirects the $1,000,000 of transient accommodations tax revenues currently allocated to operate a Hawaiian center and the museum of Hawaiian music and dance at the Hawaii convention center to have the State of Hawaii Museum of Natural and Cultural History plan, design, and construct such a facility on their property.
Establishes an income tax credit for the purchase of household disaster preparedness supplies.
Requires the Department of Health to establish and enforce rules for the regulation of opioid treatment programs.
