Report Title:

Hawaii Health Systems Corporation

Description:

Transfers Kahuku Hospital into the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation upon the completion of certain conditions.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.B. NO.	785
TWENTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE, 2007
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

relating to the hawaii health systems corporation.

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

     SECTION 1.  Section 323F-1, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending the definitions of "division", "health facility" and "health system assets" to read as follows:

PART I.  GENERAL PROVISIONS

[§323F-1]  Definitions.  As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:

     "Consumer" means any individual who may utilize a Hawaii health systems facility for health services and is not a provider.

     "Corporation" means the body corporate and politic known as the Hawaii health systems corporation.

     "Corporation board" means the board of directors of the corporation.

     "Department" means the department of health.

     "Director" means the director of health.

     "Division" means the programs, services, and facilities operated by the department of health, division of community hospitals, prior to the transfer date, and Kahuku Hospital.

     "Health facility" means any one of the facilities that constitute the division of community hospitals and Kahuku Hospital.

     "Health systems assets" means all property or rights in property, real, personal and mixed, tangible or intangible, existing on the transfer date, used by or accruing to the division in the normal course of its operations and Kahuku Hospital.

     "Provider" means any supplier of medical or health care goods and services of the type provided at a Hawaii health systems facility.

     "Transfer date" means a date agreed to by the department and the corporation for the transfer of health systems assets to and the assumption of health systems liabilities, which includes without limitation, all debts or other obligations, contingent or certain, owing on such date, by the corporation."

     SECTION 2.  New statutory material is underscored.

     SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect upon approval, only if H.B. No. ____ or S.B. No. ____, making an emergency appropriation of moneys to Kahuku Hospital for payment of operational and other administrative expenses during the Chapter 11 reorganization proceeding, is passed by the legislature in any form during the Regular Session of 2007.

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