REPORT TITLE:
Waianae Coast CHC


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

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                                                        
THE SENATE                              S.B. NO.           1197
TWENTIETH LEGISLATURE, 1999                                
STATE OF HAWAII                                            
                                                             
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                   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:

 1      SECTION 1.  The legislature finds that the Waianae Coast
 
 2 Comprehensive Health Center (WCCHC) serves a population of forty
 
 3 thousand people, with the nearest emergency room being twenty
 
 4 miles away at St. Francis-West.  The legislature further finds
 
 5 that WCCHC has only one ambulance and a twenty-four hour
 
 6 emergency room.  Emergency services at WCCHC have received
 
 7 legislative appropriations since 1976.  The legislature further
 
 8 finds that the WCCHC emergency room may be closed unless
 
 9 legislative support is received.
 
10      The purpose of this Act is to appropriate funds for
 
11 emergency services at the WCCHC.
 
12      SECTION 2.  There is appropriated out of the general
 
13 revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $266,446, or so much
 
14 thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 1999-2000, and the
 
15 same sum, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is appropriated
 
16 for fiscal year 2000-2001, for emergency services at the Waianae
 
17 Coast Comprehensive Health Center.
 
18      SECTION 3.  The sums appropriated shall be expended by the
 
19 department of health for the purposes of this Act.
 

 
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 1      SECTION 4.  This Act shall take effect on July 1, 1999.
 
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 3                           INTRODUCED BY:  _______________________