Report Title:

Hawaii Health Systems Corporation; Membership

Description:

Adds 4 members, 2 each nominated by the senate president and speaker of the house of representatives, to the HHSC board for total of 17.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

2970

TWENTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE, 2006

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

relating to the hawaii health systems corporation board.

 

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

SECTION 1. Section 323F-3, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsections (a) and (b) to read as follows:

"(a) The corporation shall be governed by a [thirteen-member] seventeen-member board of directors which shall carry out the duties and responsibilities of the corporation.

(b) Ten members of the corporation board shall be appointed by the governor as follows:

(1) One member from region I who resides in the city and county of Honolulu;

(2) One member from region II who resides in the county of Kauai;

(3) One member from region III who resides in the county of Maui;

(4) One member from region IV who resides in the eastern section of the county of Hawaii;

(5) One member from region V who resides in the western section of the county of Hawaii;

(6) One member from region II who resides in the county of Kauai or from region III who resides in the district of Hana or on the island of Lanai; provided that in no event shall the member be appointed from the same region for two consecutive terms; [and]

(7) Four at-large members who reside in the State[.];

(8) Two members who shall be nominated by the president of the senate;

(9) Two members who shall be nominated by speaker of the house of representatives;

(10) The [eleventh] fifteenth member shall be the chairperson of the executive public health facility management advisory committee, who shall serve as an ex officio, voting member[.];

(11) The [twelfth] sixteenth member, who shall serve as a voting member, shall be a physician with active medical staff privileges at one of the corporation's public health facilities. The physician member shall serve a term of two years. The initial physician member shall be from region II, and subsequent physician members shall come from regions IV, III, and V respectively. The physician member position shall continue to rotate in this order. The physician member shall be appointed to the corporation board by a simple majority vote of the members of the executive public health facility management advisory committee from a list of qualified nominees submitted by the public health facility management advisory committee for the region from which the physician member is to be chosen. If for any reason a physician member is unable to serve a full term, the remainder of that term shall be filled by a physician from the same region[.]; and

(11) The [thirteenth] seventeenth member shall be the director of health or the director's designee, who shall serve as an ex officio, voting member.

Appointments to the corporation board, with the exception of the chairperson of the executive public health facility management advisory committee and the regional physician member, shall be made by the governor, subject to confirmation by the senate pursuant to section 26-34. Prior to the transfer date, the public health facility management advisory committees appointed pursuant to section 323-66 for each county may recommend names to the governor for each position on the corporation board designated for a region which corresponds to its county. After the transfer date, the public health facility management advisory committees appointed pursuant to section 323F-10 for each region may make such recommendations to the governor. The appointed board members shall serve for a term of four years; provided that upon the initial appointment of the first ten members:

(1) Two at-large members shall be appointed for a term of two years;

(2) Three at-large members shall be appointed for a term of three years; and

(3) Five regional members shall be appointed for a term of four years.

Any vacancy shall be filled in the same manner provided for the original appointments. The corporation board shall elect its own chair from among its members."

SECTION 2. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

INTRODUCED BY:

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