HB712 HD1

Report Title:

State Hospitals; Security

 

Description:

Transfers the functions and authority of uniformed security employees and security contracts of the Hawaii State Hospital to the department of health, and the Maui Memorial Hospital to the Hawaii health systems corporation. (HB712 HD1)

 

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.B. NO.	712
TWENTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2001		H.D. 1
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

RELATING TO SECURITY AT VARIOUS STATE HOSPITALS.

 

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

SECTION 1. Section 26-14.6, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (i) to read as follows:

"(i) Effective January 1, 1993, the functions and authority heretofore exercised by the director of health and the department of health relating to uniformed security employees and security contracts at various state hospitals throughout the State shall be transferred to the department of public safety.

Effective July 1, 2002, the functions and authority relating to uniformed security employees and security contracts of the Hawaii state hospital shall be transferred to the department of health in their entirety, and those functions and authority relating to uniformed security employees and security contracts at the Maui memorial hospital shall be transferred to the Hawaii health systems corporation in their entirety."

SECTION 2. All officers and employees of the department of public safety whose functions are transferred by this Act shall be transferred with their functions and shall continue to perform their regular duties upon their transfer, subject to the state personnel laws and this Act.

SECTION 3. All appropriations, records, equipment, files, supplies, contracts, books, papers, documents, maps, computer software and data, authorizations, and other property, both real and personal, heretofore made, used, acquired, or held by the department of public safety in the exercise of the functions and programs transferred by this Act shall be transferred to the Hawaii health systems corporation along with the functions or programs.

SECTION 4. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 5. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2002.