Kupuna Caucus
Hawaii 2024 Regular Session
Relating To Caregivers. [HB-652]
[Senior Citizens ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Healthcare ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Funding ]
[Human Services ]
Requires the Executive Office on Aging to establish a Workforce Development and Support Center. Requires the Center to develop a Workforce Pilot Project. Requires the Workforce Pilot Project to terminate on 6/30/2026. Appropriates funds. Effective 6/30/2050. (SD1)
Sponsored by: Rep. Gregg Takayama Carried Over To 2024 Regular Session. on 12/11/2023
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Relating To Care Facility Inspections. [HB-651]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Senior Citizens ]
[Human Services ]
Requires the Department of Health to post on its website separate reports for various visits, violations, plans, and confirmations the Department performs or issues of certain care facilities. Establishes deadlines for each report type. Requires the Department of Health to log all reports in a database designed for easy public posting. Requires all facilities inspected by the Department of Health to maintain certain records and notify the Executive Office on Aging, Office of the Long-Term Care Ombudsman, and appropriate county offices on aging of
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Hawaii 2024 Regular Session
Relating To Care Facility Inspections. [SB-901]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Senior Citizens ]
[Data Privacy ]
Requires the Department of Health to post on its website separate reports for various visits, violations, plans, and confirmations the Department performs or issues of certain care facilities. Establishes deadlines for each report type. Requires the Department of Health to log all reports in a database designed for easy public posting. Requires all facilities inspected by the Department of Health to maintain certain records and notify the Executive Office on Aging, Office of the Long-Term Care Ombudsman, and appropriate county offices on aging of
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Hawaii 2024 Regular Session
Relating To Caregivers. [SB-902]
[Senior Citizens ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Funding ]
[Human Services ]
Requires the Executive Office on Aging to establish a workforce development and support center. Appropriates funds for the center's establishment. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD1)
Sponsored by: Sen. Lynn Decoite Carried Over To 2024 Regular Session. on 12/11/2023
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Hawaii 2024 Regular Session
Relating To Hearing Aids. [SB-609]
[Healthcare ]
[Insurance ]
[Public Health ]
[Disabilities ]
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 an unspecified amount per hearing aid for each hearing-impaired ear every thirty-six months. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD1)
Sponsored by: Sen. Joy A. San Buenaventura Carried Over To 2024 Regular Session. on 12/11/2023
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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Relating To Hearing Aids. [HB-818]
[Healthcare ]
[Insurance ]
[Public Health ]
[Disabilities ]
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.
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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Relating To Care Facility Inspections. [SB-901]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Senior Citizens ]
[Data Privacy ]
Requires the Department of Health to post on its website separate reports for various visits, violations, plans, and confirmations the Department performs or issues of certain care facilities. Establishes deadlines for each report type. Requires the Department of Health to log all reports in a database designed for easy public posting. Requires all facilities inspected by the Department of Health to maintain certain records and notify the Executive Office on Aging, Office of the Long-Term Care Ombudsman, and appropriate county offices on aging of
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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Relating To Health. [HB-650]
[Healthcare ]
[Mental Health ]
[Public Health ]
Authorizes advanced practice registered nurses to practice medical-aid-in-dying. Authorizes licensed advanced practice registered nurses and clinical nurse specialists with psychiatric or mental health training and licensed marriage and family therapists to provide counseling to a qualified patient. Reduces from twenty to five days, the mandatory waiting period between the two oral requests required for a qualified patient to obtain a prescription for medication. Waives the mandatory waiting period for terminally ill qualified patients who are not
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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Relating To The Hawaii State Health Insurance Assistance Program. [SB-900]
[Healthcare ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
[Senior Citizens ]
[Funding ]
[Budget and Spending ]
Requires the Executive Office on Aging to submit to the Legislature annual progress reports on the Hawaii State Health Insurance Assistance Program. Appropriates funds. (CD1)
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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Relating To Care Facility Inspections. [HB-651]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Senior Citizens ]
[Human Services ]
Requires the Department of Health to post on its website separate reports for various visits, violations, plans, and confirmations the Department performs or issues of certain care facilities. Establishes deadlines for each report type. Requires the Department of Health to log all reports in a database designed for easy public posting. Requires all facilities inspected by the Department of Health to maintain certain records and notify the Executive Office on Aging, Office of the Long-Term Care Ombudsman, and appropriate county offices on aging of
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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Relating To The Hawaii State Health Insurance Assistance Program. [HB-649]
[Healthcare ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
[Senior Citizens ]
[Funding ]
[Public Health ]
Appropriates funds for three program specialist positions within the Executive Office on Aging for Hawaii's State Health Insurance Assistance Program.
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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Relating To Health. [SB-899]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
Authorizes advanced practice registered nurses to practice medical aid in dying or provide counseling to a qualified patient. Amends the mandatory waiting period between oral requests and the provision of a prescription.
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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Relating To Caregivers. [HB-652]
[Senior Citizens ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Funding ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Healthcare ]
[Human Services ]
Requires the Executive Office on Aging to establish a Workforce Development and Support Center. Requires the Center to develop a Workforce Pilot Project. Requires the Workforce Pilot Project to terminate on 6/30/2026. Appropriates funds. Effective 6/30/2050. (SD1)
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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Relating To Caregivers. [SB-902]
[Senior Citizens ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Healthcare ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Funding ]
[Human Services ]
Requires the Executive Office on Aging to establish a workforce development and support center. Appropriates funds for the center's establishment. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD1)
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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Relating To Hearing Aids. [SB-609]
[Healthcare ]
[Insurance ]
[Public Health ]
[Disabilities ]
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 an unspecified amount per hearing aid for each hearing-impaired ear every thirty-six months. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD1)
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Hawaii 2022 Regular Session
Relating To Driver's Licenses. [SB-2679]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Senior Citizens ]
Extends the renewal period from two years to four years for licensees who are seventy-two years of age or older but younger than eighty years of age. Takes effect 1/1/2023. (CD1)
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Hawaii 2022 Regular Session
Making An Appropriation For The Office Of The Long-term Care Ombudsman Program. [SB-2676]
[Healthcare ]
[Senior Citizens ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Funding ]
[Human Services ]
Establishes and appropriates funds for five permanent Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program Specialist Positions within the Office of the Long-Term Care Ombudsman, assigned to each county as follow: one for the City and County of Honolulu, one for the county of Maui, two for the county of Hawaii, and one for the county of Kauai. Requires the Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program Specialist to work under the supervision of the Long-Term Care Ombudsman to achieve the goals of the Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program, as mandated by the federal Older Americans Act.
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Hawaii 2022 Regular Session
Relating To Homelessness. [HB-1826]
[Housing ]
[Senior Citizens ]
[Human Services ]
[Funding ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Community Development ]
[Poverty ]
Establishes the long-term rental assistance pilot program for kupuna to be administered by the Hawaii public housing authority for individuals who are sixty-two years of age or older and are homeless or at imminent risk of becoming homeless. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (HD1)
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Hawaii 2022 Regular Session
Relating To Homelessness. [SB-2677]
[Housing ]
[Senior Citizens ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Funding ]
[Human Services ]
[Poverty ]
[Community Development ]
Temporarily expands the state rent supplement program to specifically target qualified individuals who are sixty-two years of age or older and are homeless or at imminent risk of becoming homeless. Requires HPHA to submit annual reports to the legislature. Appropriates funds. Repeals 6/30/2025. Effective 12/31/2050. (HD1)
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Hawaii 2022 Regular Session
Making An Appropriation For The Office Of The Long-term Care Ombudsman Program. [HB-1824]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Funding ]
[Healthcare ]
[Senior Citizens ]
[Human Services ]
Appropriates an unspecified amount of funds for five full-time equivalent (5.0 FTE) Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program Specialist positions within the Office of the Long-Term Care Ombudsman, assigned to each county as follows: one for the City and County of Honolulu, one for the County of Maui, two for the County of Hawaii, and one for the County of Kauai. (SD1)