HCR 26 Summary

• Requests the State Health Planning and Development Agency and Department of Health to hold a public meeting for all certificate of need applications for proposed special treatment facilities in neighborhoods with community associations.

• Addresses the gap that certificate of need applications may be approved through administrative review without a public meeting, unlike applications subject to standard review which require at least one public meeting.

• Requests the State Health Planning and Development Agency adopt rules requiring certificate of need applicants to appear before the neighborhood board for the area where a proposed special treatment facility is located as part of the application process.

• Cites Hawaii's Sunshine Law policy requiring state government to conduct public policy formation and decisions as openly as possible and notes community frustration over inability to provide public input on certain special treatment facilities.