Report Title:

Ambulance Services; Kula

 

Description:

Appropriates funds for 24-hour advanced emergency ambulance services for the upcountry area of Maui for FY 2001-2002.

 

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

843

TWENTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2001

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

RELATING TO AMBULANCE SERVICES IN UPCOUNTRY MAUI.

 

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

SECTION 1. The legislature finds that the Kula/Makawao/ Pukalani (upcountry) region of Maui is a growing community and tourist center and includes the only rural area on Maui that does not have a twenty-four-hour, locally based advanced life support ambulance service available for its visitors and residents. Thus, in emergency situations occurring after regular ambulance service hours, the response time of ambulances from nearby communities increases by an additional fifteen to thirty minutes depending upon the location of the ambulance. The legislature further finds that in many emergency medical situations, this prolonged response time can mean the difference between life and death for individuals visiting or living in this rural community.

The purpose of this Act is to provide parity in emergency health care for residents and visitors of the Kula/Makawao/ Pukalani (upcountry) region of Maui by providing twenty-four-hour advanced life support ambulance services.

SECTION 2. There is appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $          , or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2001-2002, to provide twenty-four-hour advanced life support ambulance services for the (upcountry) region of Maui.

SECTION 3. The sum appropriated shall be expended by the department of health for the purposes of this Act.

SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2001.

 

 

INTRODUCED BY:

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