Report Title:

Ambulance service; South Maui (Kihei/Wailea)

 

Description:

Appropriates funds for 24-hour advanced emergency ambulance services for the Kihei/Wailea area of Maui.

 

THE SENATE

S.B. NO.

766

TWENTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2001

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

relating to ambulance service.

 

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

SECTION 1. The legislature finds that the Kihei/Wailea region of Maui is a growing community and tourist center and includes only one twenty-four hour, locally based advanced life support ambulance service available for its visitors and residents. Thus, in emergency situations occurring when the single overburdened ambulance is already on call, the response time of ambulances, from nearby communities, increases by an additional twenty to thirty minutes depending upon the location of the ambulance. The legislature further finds that in many emergency medical situations, this prolonged response time can mean the difference between life and death for individuals visiting or living in this community.

The purpose of this Act is to provide parity in emergency health care for residents and visitors of the Kihei/Wailea region of Maui by providing an additional twenty-four hour advanced life support ambulance service.

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 2001-2002, to provide twenty-four hour advanced life support ambulance services for the Kihei/Wailea region of Maui.

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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