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HB1081
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
H.B. NO.
1081
THIRTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE, 2025
STATE OF HAWAII
A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO THE OFFICE OF WELLNESS AND RESILIENCE.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
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SECTION 1.
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The
legislature finds that the office of wellness and resilience leads efforts to
make Hawaii a trauma-informed state.
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Trauma-informed care is defined as an approach to understanding,
recognizing, respecting, and responding to the pervasive and widespread impacts
of trauma on our ability to connect with ourselves and others, our place and
the elements around us, and our ways of being.
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The legislature further finds that
strengthening policies and programs to be trauma-informed can result in better
workforce retention and recruitment.
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The
legislature finds that the office of wellness and resilience is best suited to
be a semi-autonomous authority under the department of human resources
development because of its unique oversight of, and collaboration with, other
executive state departments.
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The department of human resources development
has oversight over all other state departments on topics of focus for the
office of wellness and resilience and a trauma-informed state, including
workplace environment and well-being, training and professional development,
benefits, and recruitment and retention.
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The
purpose of this Act is to transfer the office of wellness and resilience to the
department of human resources development for administrative purposes only,
establish a wellness and resilience advisory board within the department of
human resources development, and update the office of wellness and resilience
functions.
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SECTION
2.
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Chapter
27, Hawaii Revised
Statutes, is amended by adding to part IX a new section to be appropriately
designated and to read as follows:
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Wellness and resilience advisory board;
establishment; members; roles.
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(a)
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There is established within the department,
for administrative purposes only, a wellness and resilience advisory board to
advise the office in implementing this part.
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The board shall consist of eleven members, with quorum being six
members.
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The eleven members shall be:
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(1)
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The
director of health, or the director's designee, who shall serve as the
chairperson of the advisory board;
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(2)
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The
director of human services, or the director's designee;
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(3)
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The superintendent of education, or the
superintendent's designee;
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(4)
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The
director of corrections and rehabilitation, or the director's designee;
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(5)
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The
director of the executive office on early learning, or the director's designee;
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(6)
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A
member of the judiciary, to be appointed by the chief justice of the supreme
court;
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(7)
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A
faculty member from the university of Hawaii John A. Burns school of medicine,
to be appointed by the dean of the university of Hawaii John A. Burns school of
medicine; and
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(8)
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The
following four members appointed by the
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chairperson for a term of four years:
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(A)
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The chief executive officer of Kamehameha Schools, or the chief
executive officer's designee;
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(B)
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A member of the law enforcement community;
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(C)
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A member of the nonprofit sector; and
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(D)
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A community member or nonprofit representative
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from the Compact of Free Association
islander community.
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(b)
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The wellness and resilience advisory board shall advise on wellness and
resilience through trauma-informed care in the State.
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Specifically, the advisory board shall:
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(1)
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Create,
develop, and adopt a statewide framework for trauma-informed and responsive
practice.
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The framework shall include:
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(A)
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A clear definition of "trauma-informed and responsive
practice";
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(B)
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Principles of trauma-informed and responsive care that may apply
to any school, health care provider, law enforcement agency, community
organization, state agency, or other entity that has contact with children or
youth;
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(C)
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Clear examples of how individuals and institutions may implement
trauma-informed and responsive practices across different domains, including
organizational leadership, workforce
development,
policy and decision-making, and evaluation;
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(D)
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Strategies for preventing and addressing secondary traumatic
stress for all professionals and providers working with children and youth and
their families who have experienced trauma;
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(E)
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Recommendations to implement trauma-informed care professional
development and strategy requirements in county and state contracts; and
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(F)
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An implementation and sustainability plan, consisting of an
evaluation plan with suggested metrics for assessing ongoing progress of the
framework;
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(2)
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Identify
best practices, including those from Native Hawaiian cultural practices, with
respect to children and youth who have experienced or are at risk of
experiencing trauma, and their families;
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(3)
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Provide
a trauma-informed care inventory and assessment of public and private agencies
and departments;
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(4)
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Identify
various cultural practices that build wellness and resilience in communities;
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(5)
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Convene
trauma-informed care practitioners so that they may share research and
strategies in helping communities build wellness and resilience;
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(6)
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Seek
ways in which federal funding may be used to better coordinate and improve the
response to families impacted by coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), substance
use disorders, domestic violence, poverty, and other forms of trauma; and make
recommendations, as necessary, for a government position to communicate with
federal agencies to seek and leverage federal funding with county and state
agencies and philanthropic organizations; and
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(7)
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Coordinate
data collection and funding streams to support the efforts of the board.
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(c)
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The nongovernmental members of the wellness and resilience advisory
board shall serve without compensation but shall be reimbursed for expenses,
including travel expenses, necessary for the performance of their duties.
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SECTION 3.
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Section 27-61, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended as follows:
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(1)
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By
adding a new definition to be appropriately
inserted and to read as follows:
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"Department" means the
department of human resources development.
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(2)
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By
repealing the definition of "trauma-informed care task force".
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["
"Trauma-informed care task
force" means the trauma-informed care task force established pursuant to
Act 209, Session Laws of Hawaii 2021.
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SECTION 4.
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Section 27-62, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending
subsection (a) to read as follows:
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"(a)
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There is established within the [
office of the governor, on a
temporary basis and for special purposes,
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department, for
administrative purposes only,
the office of wellness and resilience."
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SECTION 5.
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Section 27-63, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
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Functions.
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The office shall:
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(1)
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Address
issues identified and implement solutions recommended by the [
trauma-informed
care task force
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wellness and resilience advisory board
through a
cross-representation of state departments and the private sector, including
private donors;
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(2)
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Identify
common issues, unmet needs, and challenges encountered by departments and work
to solve those issues through a cross-representation of state departments and
the private sector, including private donors;
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(3)
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Seek
funding solutions using moneys that each department has access to, including
federal, state, and private sources, and work with philanthropic organizations
and other entities from the private sector to re-evaluate the State's funding
priorities and find funding solutions to implement interdepartmental
programming;
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(4)
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Establish
a procurement team that has cross-agency representation to streamline existing
department grant and funding management and meet existing fiduciary obligations
and other state requirements;
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(5)
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Interact
with community agencies, organizations, and other stakeholders to ensure the
office is meeting the needs and wellness requirements of communities throughout
the State; [
and
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(6)
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Create
a social determinants of health electronic dashboard that identifies a baseline
of needs and concerns that impede high quality-of-life outcomes[
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and
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(7)
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Provide
training and technical assistance to executive state departments and agencies
to support trauma-informed policies, practices, programs, and processes.
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SECTION 6.
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Chapter 346, part XXI, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is repealed.
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SECTION 7.
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Act 209, Session Laws of Hawaii 2021, is repealed.
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SECTION 8.
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Act 87, Session Laws of Hawaii 2023, is repealed.
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SECTION 9.
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All rights, powers, functions, and duties of
the office of the governor relating to the office of wellness and resilience
are transferred to the department of human resources development.
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All officers and employees whose functions
are transferred by this Act shall be transferred with their functions and shall
continue to perform their regular duties upon their transfer, subject to the
state personnel laws and this Act.
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No officer or employee of the State having
tenure shall suffer any loss of salary, seniority, prior service credit,
vacation, sick leave, or other employee benefit or privilege as a consequence
of this Act, and such officer or employee may be transferred or appointed to a
civil service position without the necessity of examination; provided that the
officer or employee possesses the minimum qualifications for the position to
which transferred or appointed; and provided that subsequent changes in status may
be made pursuant to applicable civil service and compensation laws.
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An officer or employee of the State who
does not have tenure and who may be transferred or appointed to a civil service
position as a consequence of this Act shall become a civil service employee
without the loss of salary, seniority, prior service credit, vacation, sick
leave, or other employee benefits or privileges and without the necessity of
examination; provided that such officer or employee possesses the minimum
qualifications for the position to which transferred or appointed.
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If an office or position held by an officer
or employee having tenure is abolished, the officer or employee shall not
thereby be separated from public employment, but shall remain in the employment
of the State with the same pay and classification and shall be transferred to
some other office or position for which the officer or employee is eligible
under the personnel laws of the State as determined by the head of the
department or the governor.
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SECTION 10.
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All rules, policies, procedures, guidelines, and other material adopted
or developed by the office of the governor to implement provisions of the
Hawaii Revised Statutes that are reenacted or made applicable to the department
of human resources development by this Act shall remain in full force and
effect until amended or repealed by the department of human resources
development pursuant to chapter 91, Hawaii Revised Statutes.
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In the interim, every reference to the
office of the governor or governor in those rules, policies, procedures,
guidelines, and other material is amended to refer to the department of human
resources development or director of human resources development, as
appropriate.
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SECTION
11.
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All deeds, leases, contracts, loans,
agreements, permits, or other documents executed or entered into by or on
behalf of the office of the governor, pursuant to the provisions of the Hawaii
Revised Statutes, that are reenacted or made applicable to the department of
human resources development by this Act, shall remain in full force and
effect.
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Upon the effective date of this Act,
every reference to the office of the governor or governor therein shall be
construed as a reference to the department of human resources development or
director of human resources development, as appropriate.
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SECTION
12.
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All appropriations, records,
equipment, machines, files, supplies, contracts, books, papers, documents,
maps, and other personal property heretofore made, used, acquired, or held by
the office of the governor relating to the functions of the office of wellness
and resilience transferred to the department of human resources development
shall be transferred with the functions to which they relate.
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SECTION 13.
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Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.
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New statutory material is underscored.
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SECTION 14.
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This Act, upon its approval, shall take effect on June 29, 2025.
INTRODUCED BY:
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BY REQUEST
Report Title:
Office of Wellness and Resilience; Office of the Governor;
DHRD
Description:
Transfers the Office of Wellness and Resilience to the
Department of Human Resources Development on June 29, 2025.
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Creates a wellness and resilience advisory
board.
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Updates the Office of Wellness
and Resilience functions.
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