HI HB1483

Establishes the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation Transition Task Force within the Department of Health to study the feasibility of transitioning one or more regional systems or individual health facilities to public-private partnership status.

Task force shall examine advantages and disadvantages of such transition, including effects on quality of care, operational efficiency, financial costs and benefits to the State, and impacts on health care personnel and employees.

Task force composition includes 9 members: the Director of Health, Attorney General, Director of Finance, HHSC CEO, a corporation board member, two gubernatorially-appointed public sector representatives, the administrator of the State Health Planning and Development Agency, and the Dean of the John A. Burns School of Medicine.

Requires the task force to examine securitization mechanisms including bonding requirements of at least 50 percent of State-funded capital projects, and to study impacts of hiring out-of-state contract workers on housing markets and communities.

Task force must report findings, recommendations, and proposed legislation to the legislature no later than 20 days before the 2014 regular session; task force ceases to exist June 30, 2015.