Bill Text: HI SB2827 | 2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Trauma System Special Fund

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2012-07-10 - (S) Act 276, 7/6/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1379). [SB2827 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-SB2827-Introduced.html

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THE SENATE	S.B. NO.	2827
TWENTY-SIXTH LEGISLATURE, 2012
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

 

RELATING TO THE TRAUMA SYSTEM SPECIAL FUND.

 

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 

     SECTION 1.  Section 321-22.5, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (b) to read as follows:

     "(b)  The moneys in the trauma system special fund shall be used by the department to support the continuing development and operation of a comprehensive state trauma system.  The trauma system special fund shall be used to subsidize the documented costs for the comprehensive state trauma system, including but not limited to the following:

     (1)  Costs of under-compensated and uncompensated trauma care incurred by hospitals providing care to trauma patients; [and]

     (2)  Costs incurred by hospitals providing care to trauma patients to maintain on-call physicians for trauma care[.]; and

     (3)  Costs to staff and operate the State's injury prevention program.

     The money in the trauma system special fund shall not be used to supplant funding for trauma services authorized prior to July 1, 2006, and shall not be used for ambulance or medical air transport services."

     SECTION 2.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.  New statutory material is underscored.

     SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

 

INTRODUCED BY:	_____________________________
	BY REQUEST

 

 

Report Title:

Trauma System Special Fund

 

Description:

Adds to the uses of the moneys in the Trauma System Special Fund the costs to staff, operate, and continue the services of the injury prevention program.

 

 

 

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