Report Title:

Waianae Coast CHC

 

Description:

Makes appropriation to the Waianae Coast Comprehensive Health Center for emergency services.

 

THE SENATE

S.B. NO.

494

TWENTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2001

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE WAIANAE COAST 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 (WCCHC) serves a population of forty thousand people, with the nearest emergency room being twenty miles away at St. Francis-West. The legislature further finds that WCCHC has only one ambulance and a twenty-four hour emergency room. Emergency services at WCCHC have received legislative appropriations since 1976. The legislature further finds that the WCCHC emergency room may be closed unless legislative support is received.

The purpose of this Act is to appropriate funds for emergency services at the WCCHC.

SECTION 2. There is appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $885,433, or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2001-2002, 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, 2001.

INTRODUCED BY:

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