Report Title:

Skilled Nursing Facilities; Enterprise Zone Benefits

 

Description:

On 1/1/2009, treats each new skilled nursing facility or facility expanding its operations outside an enterprise zone as operating within an enterprise zone for purposes of eligibility to receive all benefits provided in enterprise zones.  Adds skilled nursing facilities to definition of "medical and health care services."

 


HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

2914

TWENTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE, 2008

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 

 

 

 

 

 

A BILL FOR AN ACT


 

 

relating to skilled nursing facilities.

 

 

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

 


     SECTION 1.  Chapter 209E, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by:

     1.   Adding a new part to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:

"Part    .  SKILLED NURSING FACILITIES

     §209E-A  Skilled nursing facilities; equal benefits; location outside enterprise zone; when.  Each skilled nursing facility located outside a designated enterprise zone that:

     (1)  Begins operation as a new facility; or

     (2)  Expands existing operations as a skilled nursing facility

on January 1, 2009, or thereafter shall be deemed a qualified business operating within an enterprise zone for the purpose of applying for and receiving all benefits provided under this chapter."

     2.   Amending the definition of "medical and health care services" to read:

     ""Medical and health care services" means medical research, clinical trials, skilled nursing facilities, as defined in title 42 Code of Federal Regulations section 440.40, and telemedicine, but not routine medical treatment or services."

     SECTION 2.  In codifying any new sections added by section 1 of this Act, the revisor of statutes shall substitute appropriate section numbers for the letters used in designating the new sections in this Act.

     SECTION 3.  New statutory material is underscored.

     SECTION 4.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

 

INTRODUCED BY:

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