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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Relating To Behavioral Health Crisis Stabilization Beds. [HB-1433]
Appropriates funds to the Adult Mental Health Division of the Department of Health to support increased behavioral health crisis stabilization beds. Creates a working group to get county input on possible sites for these crisis stabilization beds. Effective 7/1/2023.
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Relating To Psilocybin. [HB-1337]
Establishes the Therapeutic Psilocybin Working Group.
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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Relating To Affordable Housing. [SB-1573]
Establishes a working group within the Office of the Governor for administrative purposes to ascertain the State's available water resources and water system source capacity and streamline well permit approval processes to further plan for the development of affordable housing. Requires the working group to inventory all available water resources statewide and identify sources of aquifer replenishment in relation to affordable housing development. Requires an interim and final report to the Legislature. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Relating To Child Welfare Services. [HB-1365]
Establishes the Malama Ohana working group within the office of wellness and resilience to seek, design, and recommend transformative changes to the State's child welfare system. Requires a report to the legislature. Appropriates funds to the department of human services for various support and resources for the child welfare services branch and the families they serve. Appropriates funds to the office of wellness and resilience for the working group. Effective 7/30/3000. (HD1)
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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Relating To Early Intervention Services. [HB-1296]
Establishes an Early Intervention Services Working Group within the Department of Health to study and recommend ways to assist and support deaf and hard of hearing children, including implementation strategies. Requires a report to the Legislature. Appropriates funds. Effective 6/30/3000. (SD1)
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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Relating To Government Records. [HB-1158]
Specifies that certain deliberative and pre-decisional government inter-agency or intra-agency records concerning an agency decision about a government action are not subject to disclosure until a decision on the action has been made or abandoned. Creates a rebuttable presumption that a matter has been abandoned three years after a prior request for such records. Allows an agency post-decision to continue to withhold directly identifying information for officials or employees lacking discretionary authority in specified circumstances. From 7/1/2023
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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Relating To Psilocybin. [SB-1454]
Establishes the Therapeutic Psilocybin Working Group within the Department of Health. Requires the working group to examine the medicinal and therapeutic effects of psilocybin or psilocybinbased products on mental health, report to the Legislature before the Regular Session of 2025, and dissolve on 6/30/2025. Appropriates funds. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD2)
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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Relating To Limited-profit Housing Associations. [SB-1462]
Establishes a limited-profit housing associations working group. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Relating To Ocean Recreation Commercial Permits. [HB-1090]
Specifies the methods by which the Department of Land and Natural Resources can issue new ocean recreation commercial permits and renew existing ocean recreation commercial permits. Specifies that new permits for ocean recreation management areas and facilities where a permit limit is implemented shall be issued by the method and order set specified, until the limit is reached. For renewal of existing permits in ocean recreation management areas and facilities where a permit limit is implemented, bases renewal of a commercial permit on seniority,
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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Relating To Medical Cannabis. [HB-1082]
Authorizes the department of health to allow a patient's written certification to be valid for three years. Defines "waiting room" within a medical cannabis retail dispensing location and clarifies public access to the waiting room. Amends the rulemaking authority for dispensary-to-dispensary sales. Permits a selling dispensary to transport an amount other than eight hundred ounces of cannabis or manufactured cannabis products with prior approval of the department of health. Amends the dispensary program licensing fee structure. Adds or clarifies
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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Relating To Broadband. [SB-1317]
Transfers the Hawaii broadband and digital equity office from the department of business, economic development, and tourism to the office of the lieutenant governor on a temporary, four-year basis. Appropriates general funds to provide required matching funds for the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment Program. Appropriates funds received by the State from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act for the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment Program. Requires the office of the lieutenant governor to convene and lead the working group established
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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Relating To The Neighbor Islands Blind And Visually Impaired Service Pilot Program. [HB-870]
Requires the department of human services to establish a neighbor islands blind and visually impaired service pilot program that supplements existing statewide services by providing training and other services to neighbor island residents who are blind or visually impaired. Requires the department of human services to establish a working group to develop a pilot program implementation plan and submit the plan to the legislature before the regular session of 2024. Requires a report to the legislature on the pilot program before the regular session
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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Relating To Addiction Recovery Care. [HB-882]
Establishes the addiction recovery care working group to help the counties become recovery-ready.
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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Relating To Career And Technical Education. [SB-1045]
Establishes a career and technical education working group to strengthen career and technical education in the State's public schools. Makes an appropriation.
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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Relating To Electronic Information Technology Accessibility For Persons With Limited English Proficiency. [SB-814]
Requires the Office of Enterprise Technology Services, in consultation with the Office of Language Access and a working group comprising stakeholders, to develop and publish, and periodically review and update, electronic information technology multilingual accessibility standards to be implemented by all state entities. Appropriates funds for one full-time equivalent (1.00 FTE) position. (CD1)
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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Relating To Human Services. [HB-780]
Requires the office of the lieutenant governor to convene a working group to examine the feasibility of establishing and implementing a kauhale pilot program based on specified criteria to provide shelter and other services to homeless individuals in the State and to submit a report of the working group's findings and recommendations, including any proposed legislation, to the legislature prior to the regular session of 2024.
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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Relating To Medical Cannabis. [SB-673]
Establishes a terminally ill qualifying patient medical cannabis use working group to study the feasibility of the medical use of cannabis by terminally ill qualifying patients in health care facilities. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Relating To Health Data Sharing. [HB-517]
Establishes the Hawaii health data exchange framework. Establishes a working group to assist the department of health on legislation developing and implementing the framework. Requires certain health care organizations to execute a health data sharing agreement by 9/1/2032. Establishes deadlines for certain entities to begin sharing health information. Appropriates funds. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Relating To Government Records. [SB-720]
Adds an exception to mandatory disclosure of government records for deliberative and pre-decisional government inter-agency or intra-agency records concerning an agency decision about a government action. From July 1, 2023, through June 30, 2027, requires agencies to report their use of the exception to the Office of Information Practices. Effective 7/1/2112. (SD1)
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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Relating To The Neighbor Islands Blind And Visually Impaired Service Pilot Program. [SB-614]
Require the Department of Human Services to: establish a Neighbor Islands Blind and Visually Impaired Service Pilot Program that supplements existing statewide services by providing training and other services to neighbor island residents who are blind or visually impaired; establish a Neighbor Islands Blind and Visually Impaired Service Pilot Program Working group and submit a pilot program implementation plan to the Legislature before the Regular Session of 2024; and submit a report on the Neighbor Islands Blind and Visually Impaired Service Pilot
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