REPORT TITLE:
Hawaiian Ocean View Estates


DESCRIPTION:
Appropriates funds to the DOH to provide emergency advanced life
support ambulance service to the residents of Hawaiian Ocean View
Estates on the island of Hawaii.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                                                             
THE SENATE                              S.B. NO.           2370
TWENTIETH LEGISLATURE, 2000                                     
STATE OF HAWAII                                                 
                                                             
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                   A  BILL  FOR  AN  ACT

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR EMERGENCY AMBULANCE SERVICE ON THE
   ISLAND OF HAWAII.



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

 1      SECTION 1.  The legislature finds that unacceptably long and
 
 2 potentially life-threatening delays in emergency ambulance
 
 3 service have occurred in the Hawaiian Ocean View Estates area of
 
 4 the Big Island.  These delays, which can last up to two hours,
 
 5 occur when the Kau ambulance--located in Naalehu--is already on
 
 6 call.  Although emergency medical technicians with the fire
 
 7 department can provide basic life support until a back up
 
 8 advanced life support ambulance with mobile intensive care
 
 9 technicians arrives on scene, there is a world of difference
 
10 between the level of care that each kind of technician is
 
11 qualified to provide.  Delays in the provision of appropriate
 
12 emergency medical care because of geography are inhumane and
 
13 unfair.  Consequently, the purpose of this Act is to appropriate
 
14 funds to the department of health to provide emergency advanced
 
15 life support ambulance service to the residents of Hawaiian Ocean
 
16 View Estates on the island of Hawaii.
 
17      SECTION 2.  There is appropriated out of the general
 
18 revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $        , or so much
 
19 thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2000-2001, to provide
 

 
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 1 emergency advanced life support ambulance service to the
 
 2 residents of Hawaiian Ocean View Estates on the island of Hawaii.
 
 3      SECTION 3.  The sum appropriated shall be expended by the
 
 4 department of health for the purposes of this Act; provided that
 
 5 any emergency advanced life support ambulance and its crews shall
 
 6 be based at the fire station constructed by the volunteer fire
 
 7 department in Hawaiian Ocean View Estates.
 
 8      SECTION 4.  This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2000.
 
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10                           INTRODUCED BY:  _______________________