HI SB1233

Establishes a two-year vendor facilities pilot program task force within the Department of Health to create employment opportunities for vendors with serious mental illness, separate from the existing blind and visually handicapped vendor program.

Task force will be chaired by the Director of Health and include representatives from human services, accounting and general services, county building facilities management, Clubhouse Coalition members, and mental health organizations (NAMI, Mental Health America Hawaii, PHOCUSED, and University of Hawaii Center on Disability Studies).

Requires the task force to review existing vendor priority laws and programs, plan and design the pilot project implementation, and conduct monthly meetings.

Task force members serve without compensation but are reimbursed for reasonable expenses; task force is exempt from Hawaii Revised Statutes parts I and II of chapter 92.

Department of Health must submit annual reports to the Legislature and Governor no later than twenty days before the 2022 and 2023 legislative sessions, including findings, recommendations, proposed legislation, and funding source proposals for the pilot program.