Report Title:

Enterprise zones

 

Description:

Amends the definition of "medical and health care services" to specify that the definition means medical research, clinical trials, telemedicine, and medical treatment or services provided by a health care facility or health care provider. Defines "health care facility" and "health care provider" under the enterprise zones law.

 

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

813

TWENTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2001

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

RELATING TO ENTERPRISE ZONES.

 

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

SECTION 1. Section 209E-2, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended follows:

1. By adding two new definitions to be appropriately inserted and to read:

""Health care facility" includes any program, institution, place, building, or agency, or portion thereof, private or public, whether organized for profit or not, used, operated, or designed to provide medical diagnosis, treatment, nursing, rehabilitative, or preventive care to any person or persons, that is subject to chapter 323D. The term includes, but is not limited to, health care facilities commonly referred to as hospitals, extended care and rehabilitation centers, nursing homes, skilled nursing facilities, intermediate care facilities, hospices for the terminally ill that require licensure or certification by the department of health or are owned or operated by the federal or state government, kidney disease treatment centers including freestanding hemodialysis units, outpatient clinics, organized ambulatory health care facilities, emergency care facilities and centers, home health agencies, residency programs, live-in facilities for the elderly, faculty practice programs, health maintenance organizations, and other similar facilities where health care services are provided.

"Health care provider" means a Hawaii health care facility, physician, nurse, or any combination thereof."

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

""Medical and health care services" means medical research, clinical trials, [and] telemedicine, [but not routine] and medical treatment or services[.] provided by a health care facility or health care provider."

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 Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.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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