Report Title:

Native Hawaiian Health Care Fund

 

Description:

Requires twenty per cent of the public land trust related revenues received by the Hawaii health systems corporation to be paid into the native Hawaiian health care fund.

 

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

859

TWENTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2001

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

relating to native hawaiian health care.

 

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

SECTION 1. Chapter 10, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new section to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:

"§10- Public land trust revenues to the Hawaii health systems corporation. (a) Twenty per cent of the revenues received by the Hawaii health systems corporation from:

(1) Rent;

(2) Cafeteria revenues; and

(3) Patient service revenues, but excluding payments from medicare and medicaid;

that result from the actual use of lands comprising the public land trust, shall be paid annually into the native Hawaiian health care fund created in section 323F- .

(b) The office shall annually receive the moneys remaining in the native Hawaiian health care fund after payments for the provision of health care services for indigent native Hawaiians as provided in section 323F- ."

SECTION 2. Chapter 323F, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new section to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:

"§323F- Native Hawaiian health care fund. (a) There is created in the state treasury a special fund to be known as the native Hawaiian health care fund into which shall be deposited twenty per cent of all revenues received by the corporation as provided in section 10- . The special fund shall be used solely for the provision of actual patient services at any corporation facility for indigent native Hawaiians; provided that the charges for the services shall not exceed one hundred twenty-five per cent of fees prescribed in the Medicare Resource Based Relative Value Scale system applicable to Hawaii as prepared by the United State Department of Heath and Human Services.

(b) Any unexpended moneys in the native Hawaiian health care fund shall be paid annually to the office of Hawaiian affairs as provided in section 10- ."

SECTION 3. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

INTRODUCED BY:

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