Reported from EDU/HHS (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 3390) with recommendation of passage on Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referral to WAM.
Summary
The bill appropriates money from the state’s general fund for the 2026‑2027 fiscal year to add full‑time equivalent positions at several University of Hawaiʻi schools, including medicine, nursing, pharmacy, dental hygiene, social work, public health, and the cancer center. It aims to ease the statewide shortage of doctors, nurses, dentists, pharmacists and public‑health professionals, especially in rural, underserved and minority communities. The measure has cleared the House and is moving to the Ways and Means Committee.
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