REPORT TITLE:
Ent. Zones; Health Facilities


DESCRIPTION:
Expand enterprise zones to include health care facilities and
health care providers.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                                                        
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES                H.B. NO.578        
TWENTIETH LEGISLATURE, 1999                                
STATE OF HAWAII                                            
                                                             
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                   A  BILL  FOR  AN  ACT

RELATING TO ENTERPRISE ZONES.
 


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

 1      SECTION 1.  Section 209E-2, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is
 
 2 amended:
 
 3      1.  By adding the definitions of "health care facility" and
 
 4 "health care provider" to be appropriately inserted and to read
 
 5 as follows:
 
 6      ""Health care facility" includes any program, institution,
 
 7 place, building, or agency, or portion thereof, private or
 
 8 public, whether organized for profit or not, used, operated, or
 
 9 designed to provide medical diagnosis, treatment, nursing,
 
10 rehabilitative, or preventive care to any person or persons, that
 
11 is subject to chapter 323D, is owned or operated by the federal
 
12 or state government, or is affiliated with the John A. Burns
 
13 school of medicine at the University of Hawaii.  The term
 
14 includes, but is not limited to, health care facilities commonly
 
15 referred to as hospitals, extended care and rehabilitation
 
16 centers, nursing homes, skilled nursing facilities, intermediate
 
17 care facilities, hospices for the terminally ill that require
 
18 licensure or certification by the department of health or are
 
19 owned or operated by the federal or state government, kidney
 

 
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 1 disease treatment centers including freestanding hemodialysis
 
 2 units, outpatient clinics, organized ambulatory health care
 
 3 facilities, emergency care facilities and centers, home health
 
 4 agencies, residency programs, live-in facilities for the elderly,
 
 5 faculty practice programs, health maintenance organizations, and
 
 6 other similar facilities where health care services are provided.
 
 7      "Health care provider" means a Hawaii health care facility,
 
 8 physician, nurse, or any combination thereof."
 
 9      2.  By amending the definition of "medical and health care
 
10 services" to read as follows:
 
11      ""Medical and health care services" means medical research,
 
12 clinical trials, [and] telemedicine, [but not routine] and
 
13 medical treatment or services[.] provided by a health care
 
14 facility or health care provider."
 
15      SECTION 2.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed.
 
16 New statutory material is underscored.
 
17      SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
 
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19                           INTRODUCED BY:  _______________________