THE SENATE	S.B. NO.	3039
TWENTY-SIXTH LEGISLATURE, 2012		S.D. 1
STATE OF HAWAII		H.D. 1

A BILL FOR AN ACT

RELATING TO ANATOMICAL TRANSPLANTS.

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

     SECTION 1.  In December 2011, Hawaii Medical Center's two hospitals, one in Ewa Beach and one in Liliha, closed due to bankruptcy.  The closure of these two medical facilities resulted in the cessation of their hospital programs, emergency room services, and comprehensive medical services, as well as the State's only organ transplant program.

     Act 1, Session Laws of Hawaii 2012, appropriated emergency funds, subject to dollar-for-dollar private matching funds, to support services by Queen's Medical Center to perform kidney and liver transplants in Hawaii, and by the National Kidney Foundation of Hawaii to maintain its chronic kidney disease management program.  The legislature recognizes that since the closure of Hawaii Medical Center's facilities, organ transplant services in Hawaii have been transitioning to those critical kidney and liver transplant services provided by Queen's Medical Center.

     The purpose of this Act is to ensure fair opportunity in the State to receive potentially life-saving organ transplants.

     SECTION 2.  The department of health shall submit a report to the legislature no later than twenty days prior to the convening of the regular session of 2013 on:

(1)  The total number of individuals who have received organ transplants from a medical facility or center in the State since 2009, including kidney and liver transplants; and

(2)  The number of persons with:

(A)  Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV);

(B)  Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS); and

(C)  AIDS-related complex (ARC);

who have received organ transplants from a medical facility or center in the State since 2009, including kidney and liver transplants.

     SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2050.

Report Title:

Anatomical Transplants; Human Immunodeficiency Virus; Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome; AIDS-Related Complex

Description:

Requires the Department of Health to submit a report to the legislature no later than twenty days prior to the convening of the Regular Session of 2013 on the total number of individuals and the number of persons with human immunodeficiency virus, acquired immune deficiency syndrome, and acquired immune deficiency syndrome-related complex, who have received organ transplants from a medical facility or center in the State since 2009, including kidney and liver transplants.  Effective July 1, 2050.  (SB3039 HD1)

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