Loading chat...
HI HB782
Bill
Status
1/23/2017
Primary Sponsor
Richard Creagan
Click for details
AI Summary
-
Appropriates unspecified general revenues to the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation for fiscal year 2018-2019 to improve cardiac care services at Kona Community Hospital.
-
Authorizes funds to construct a hybrid catheterization lab and operating room, including necessary renovations to existing facilities to accommodate catheterization equipment.
-
Provides annual stipends for two on-call or visiting cardiologists at Kona Community Hospital to address the lack of cardiac care services in Hawaii County.
-
Amends Chapter 321, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to allow district health officers of the Department of Health to be physicians licensed to practice medicine, preferably with experience in public health, primary care, emergency services, epidemiology, or tropical medicine.
-
Takes effect on July 1, 3000 (contains apparent drafting error in effective date).
Legislative Description
Relating To Health Care.
Appropriation ($)
Last Action
Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1 and referred to the committee(s) on FIN with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) DeCoite, Ing, Nakamura, Onishi, Woodson excused (5).
2/16/2018