HB36 Summary

• Appropriates funds for the Department of Human Services to purchase, staff, and operate two mobile clinics serving homeless persons in ohana zones for fiscal years 2019-2020 and 2020-2021.

• Requires dollar-for-dollar matching funds from other sources, including federal funding, to access the state appropriation.

• Mobile clinic staff may include primary care providers, nurses, pharmacists, psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, social workers, outreach workers, and medical/nursing students.

• Mobile clinics must provide minimum services including non-emergency medical care, mental health and substance abuse services, dental care, pharmacy services, health insurance enrollment, and street medicine directly to homeless individuals.

• Effective date is January 1, 2059 (note: this appears to be a scrivener's error given the 2019-2020/2020-2021 funding years).