REPORT TITLE:
Emergency Appropriation; HHSC


DESCRIPTION:
Appropriates an additional $20,500,000 for fiscal year 1999-2000
to pay retroactive and current fiscal year collective bargaining
increase payments to state employees assigned to the Hawaii
health systems corporation (HHSC); provided that no funds shall
be released until HHSC transmits its accounts receivables that
have been outstanding for over 60 days to the department of
accounting and general services or its nominee for collection and
repayment to the general fund.  (CD1)

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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THE SENATE                              S.B. NO.           S.D 1
TWENTIETH LEGISLATURE, 2000                                H.D. 1
STATE OF HAWAII                                            C.D. 1
                                                             
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                   A  BILL  FOR  AN  ACT

MAKING AN EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION FOR THE HAWAII HEALTH SYSTEMS
   CORPORATION.


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

 1      SECTION 1.  This Act is recommended by the governor for
 
 2 immediate passage in accordance with section 9 of article VII of
 
 3 the Constitution of the State of Hawaii.
 
 4      SECTION 2.  This emergency appropriation request is
 
 5 necessary to ensure that the Hawaii health systems corporation
 
 6 can repay the State for moneys advanced to pay retroactive and
 
 7 current fiscal year collective bargaining increase payments to
 
 8 state employees assigned to the Hawaii health systems
 
 9 corporation.
 
10      The purpose of the Act is to appropriate an additional
 
11 $20,500,000 in general funds for fiscal year 1999-2000 to repay
 
12 funds advanced by the State for the above-described employee
 
13 payments, and to partially fund the increases for the rest of the
 
14 fiscal year.
 
15      SECTION 3.  There is appropriated out of the general
 
16 revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $20,500,000 or so much
 
17 thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 1999-2000 to pay
 
18 retroactive and current fiscal year collective bargaining
 
19 increase payments to state employees assigned to the Hawaii
 

 
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 1 health systems corporation; provided that no funds shall be
 
 2 released until the Hawaii health systems corporation transmits
 
 3 all information relating to its accounts receivables that have
 
 4 been outstanding for over sixty days, to the department of
 
 5 accounting and general services.
 
 6      SECTION 4.  The sum appropriated shall be expended by the
 
 7 Hawaii health systems corporation for the purposes of this Act.
 
 8      SECTION 5.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.