REPORT TITLE:
Emergency Medical Services


DESCRIPTION:
Emergency appropriation for emergency medical services. (SD2)

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES                H.B. NO.           S.D. 2
TWENTIETH LEGISLATURE, 1999                                
STATE OF HAWAII                                            
                                                             
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                   A  BILL  FOR  AN  ACT

MAKING AN EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION FOR EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES.



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.  Additional funding is
 
 4 needed for retroactive payment of additional emergency medical
 
 5 services contract costs resulting from collective bargaining
 
 6 increases and parity wage and salary differentials for emergency
 
 7 medical ambulance personnel of the City and County of Honolulu
 
 8 and within the counties of Maui and Kauai.
 
 9      SECTION 2.  There is appropriated out of the general
 
10 revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $          , or so
 
11 much thereof as may be necessary, for fiscal year 1998-1999, for
 
12 the payment of additional emergency medical services contract
 
13 costs resulting from increases in collective bargaining costs for
 
14 emergency medical ambulance personnel of the City and County of
 
15 Honolulu and within the counties of Maui and Kauai.
 
16      SECTION 3.  The sum appropriated shall be expended by the
 
17 department of health for the purposes of this Act.
 
18      SECTION 4.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.