Report Title:
Waianae Coast Comprehensive Health Center, Emergency Services
Description:
Appropriates funds for emergency services at the Waianae Coast Comprehensive Health Center.
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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
H.B. NO. |
2794 |
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TWENTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE, 2006 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE WAIANAE COST COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH CENTER.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. The legislature finds that the Waianae Coast Comprehensive Health Center serves a population of forty thousand people in Leeward, Oahu. It has a twenty-four-hour emergency room and only one ambulance. The nearest back up emergency services are twenty miles away at Saint Francis-West.
Emergency services at the Waianae Coast Comprehensive Health Center have received legislative appropriations since 1976. Without this legislative support, the Waianae Coast Comprehensive Health Center emergency room would have to close its doors.
The purpose of this Act is to appropriate funds for emergency services at the Waianae Coast Comprehensive Health Center.
SECTION 2. There is appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $ , or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2006-2007, for emergency services at the Waianae Coast Comprehensive Health Center.
SECTION 3. The sum appropriated shall be expended by the department of health for the purposes of this Act.
SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2006.
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