HB 2733 Summary

• Authorizes the Director of Finance to issue general obligation bonds for fiscal year 2020-2021 to fund planning, design, construction, and equipping of new or expanded licensed psychiatric facilities.

• Appropriates bond funds to the Department of Health for capital improvement projects at psychiatric health facilities, specifically to expand forensic services at Hawaii State Hospital.

• Addresses Hawaii's shortage of psychiatric beds, which falls below the Treatment Advocacy Center's minimum standard of 50 beds per 100,000 people necessary for adequate mental health treatment.

• Allows appropriated funds to carry forward beyond the fiscal biennium, with any unencumbered moneys lapsing on June 30, 2022.

• Takes effect on July 1, 2020.