HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

1160

TWENTY-NINTH LEGISLATURE, 2017

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 

 

 

 

 

 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

 

RELATING TO PHYSICIAN WORKFORCE ASSESSMENT.

 

 

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

 


     SECTION 1.  The legislature finds that the recruitment and retention of physicians to serve the rural and medically underserved areas of the State are critical.  The shortage of physicians is compounded by the fact that Hawaii's physician workforce is the fifth oldest of all the states and over half will be over age 65 within 10 years.  The physician workforce assessment project has assisted with malpractice reform, thousands of hours of continuing education, loan repayment to physicians working in areas of need, advertising of all open positions in Hawaii to graduates and on the web and is working to make regional physician supply and demand maps and all available national data available on the internet.  Future efforts include state-matched loan relief to new providers in the areas of highest unmet need; promotion of Hawaii careers at mainland physician conferences; efforts to enable bonuses for providers practicing in underserved areas; and the formation an office of rural training for promoting practice in underserved areas of Hawaii.  The funding received through the physician workforce assessment will allow Hawaii to rapidly act on tangible solutions to the physician workforce shortage in order to adequately address the ongoing need for a strong physician workforce.

     The purpose of this Act is to allow the John A. Burns school of medicine to continually receive a portion of the physician workforce assessment fee to support physician workforce assessment and planning to effect the strategic recruitment and retention of physicians to rural areas and planning efforts.

     SECTION 2.  Act 18, Special Session Laws of Hawaii 2009, as amended by section 3(2) of Act 186, Session Laws of Hawaii 2012, is amended by amending section 9 to read as follows:

     "SECTION 9.  This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2009[; provided that sections 3 and 4 shall be repealed on June 30, 2017]."

     SECTION 3.  Act 186, Session Laws of Hawaii 2012, is amended by amending section 5 to read as follows:

     "SECTION 5.  This Act shall take effect on June 29, 2012[; provided that section 1 shall be repealed on June 30, 2017, and section 304A-2171(c), Hawaii Revised Statutes, shall be reenacted in the form in which it read on June 28, 2012]."

     SECTION 4.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. 

     SECTION 5.  This Act, upon its approval, shall take effect on June 29, 2017.

 

INTRODUCED BY:

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BY REQUEST

 


 


 

Report Title:

Physician Workforce Assessment Fee; John A. Burns Schools of Medicine

 

Description:

Enable the John A. Burns School of Medicine to continue receiving into the John A. Burns School of Medicine special fund a portion of the physician workforce assessment fee to support physician workforce assessment and planning efforts, including recruitment and retention of physicians, especially those serving rural and medically underserved areas of the State.

 

 

 

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