REPORT TITLE:
Medical Director; Special Fund

DESCRIPTION:
Creates a hospital and medical facilities special fund in DOH to
offset the program expenses of the hospital and medical
facilities branch.  Creates a State health planning and
development special fund to offset the expenses of the State
health planning and development agency program expenses. (HB1664
CD1)

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES                H.B. NO.           H.D. 3
TWENTIETH LEGISLATURE, 1999                                S.D. 1
STATE OF HAWAII                                            C.D. 1
                                                             
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                   A  BILL  FOR  AN  ACT

RELATING TO HEALTH.



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

 1      SECTION 1.  Chapter 321, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended
 
 2 by adding a new section to be appropriately designated and to
 
 3 read as follows:
 
 4      "�321-     Hospital and medical facilities special fund;
 
 5 deposits; expenditures.  (a)  There is established within the
 
 6 department of health, to be administered by the department of
 
 7 health, the hospital and medical facilities special fund into
 
 8 which shall be deposited all moneys collected under section
 
 9 321-11.5(b).
 
10      (b)  Moneys in the special fund shall be expended by the
 
11 department to assist in offsetting program expenses of the
 
12 department's hospital and medical facilities branch."
 
13      SECTION 2.  Chapter 323D, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is
 
14 amended by adding a new section to be appropriately designated
 
15 and to read as follows:
 
16      "�323D-     State health planning and development special
 
17 fund; created; deposits; expenditures; fees.  (a)  There is
 
18 established within the state treasury, to be administered by the
 
19 state health planning and development agency, the state health
 

 
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 1 planning and development special fund into which shall be
 
 2 deposited all moneys collected under chapter 323D.
 
 3      (b)  Moneys in the special fund shall be expended by the
 
 4 state health planning and development agency to assist in
 
 5 offsetting program expenses of the agency.
 
 6      (c)  The agency shall adopt rules in accordance with chapter
 
 7 91 to establish reasonable fees for the purposes of this
 
 8 chapter."
 
 9      SECTION 3.  Section 321-11.5, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is
 
10 amended to read as follows:
 
11      "�321-11.5  Establishment of fees.  (a)  The department of
 
12 health, by rules adopted pursuant to chapter 91, may establish
 
13 reasonable fees for [facilities seeking licensure or
 
14 certification by the department for] the issuance or renewal of
 
15 licenses, permits, variances, and various certificates required
 
16 by law or by the department's rules.  The fees may include the
 
17 cost of related examinations, inspections, investigations, and
 
18 reviews.
 
19      (b)  All fees paid and collected [under] pursuant to this
 
20 section and rules adopted in accordance with chapter 91 from
 
21 facilities seeking licensure or certification by the department,
 
22 including hospitals, nursing homes, home health agencies,
 
23 intermediate care facilities for the mentally retarded,
 
24 freestanding outpatient surgical facilities, laboratories, adult
 

 
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 1 residential care homes, developmental disability domiciliary
 
 2 homes, and special treatment facilities, shall be deposited into
 
 3 the hospital and medical facilities special fund created under
 
 4 section 321-   .  Any other entities required by law to be
 
 5 licensed by the department shall also be subject to reasonable
 
 6 fees established by the department by rules adopted in accordance
 
 7 with chapter 91.
 
 8      (c)  Other than the fees collected under subsection (b), all
 
 9 other fees collected under this section and section 321-15 shall
 
10 be deposited into the environmental health education fund
 
11 established under section 321-27."
 
12      SECTION 4.  Section 321-27, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is
 
13 amended by amending subsection (a) to read as follows:
 
14      "(a)  There is established within the department of health
 
15 an environmental health education fund into which shall be
 
16 deposited all moneys collected from fees for permits, licenses,
 
17 inspections, various certificates, variances, investigations, and
 
18 reviews, pursuant to sections [321-11.5] 321-11.5(c) and
 
19 321-15."
 
20      SECTION 5.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed.
 
21 New statutory material is underscored.
 
22      SECTION 6.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.