Report Title:

Hawaii Health Systems Corporation; Procurement Code

Description:

Removes the HHSC's exemption from the state procurement code under chapter 103D.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

2149

TWENTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2004

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

relating to the hawaii health systems corporation.

 

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

SECTION 1. Section 323F-7, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (a) to read as follows:

"(a) Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, the corporation shall have and exercise the following duties and powers:

(1) Developing its own policies, procedures, and rules necessary or appropriate to plan, operate, manage, and control the system of public health facilities and services without regard to chapter 91;

(2) Evaluating the need for health facilities and services;

(3) Entering into and performing any contracts, leases, cooperative agreements, or other transactions whatsoever that may be necessary or appropriate in the performance of its purposes and responsibilities, and on terms it may deem appropriate, with either:

(A) Any agency or instrumentality of the United States, or with any state, territory, or possession, or with any subdivision thereof; or

(B) Any person, firm, association, or corporation, whether operated on a for-profit or not-for-profit basis;

provided that the transaction furthers the public interest;

(4) Conducting activities and entering into business relationships as the corporation board deems necessary or appropriate, including but not limited to:

(A) Creating nonprofit corporations, including but not limited to charitable fund-raising foundations, to be controlled wholly by the corporation or jointly with others;

(B) Establishing, subscribing to, and owning stock in business corporations individually or jointly with others; and

(C) Entering into partnerships and other joint venture arrangements, or participating in alliances, purchasing consortia, health insurance pools, or other cooperative arrangements, with any public or private entity; provided that any corporation, venture, or relationship entered into under this section furthers the public interest; provided further that this paragraph shall not be construed to authorize the corporation to abrogate any responsibility or obligation under paragraph (15);

(5) Participating in and developing prepaid health care service and insurance programs and other alternative health care delivery programs, including programs involving the acceptance of capitated payments or premiums that include the assumption of financial and actuarial risk;

(6) Executing, in accordance with all applicable bylaws, rules, and laws, all instruments necessary or appropriate in the exercise of any of the corporation's powers;

(7) Preparing and executing all corporation budgets, policies, and procedures;

(8) Setting rates and charges for all services provided by the corporation without regard to chapter 91;

(9) Developing a corporation-wide hospital personnel system that is subject to chapters 76 and 89;

(10) Developing the corporation's capital and strategic plans;

(11) Suing and being sued; provided that the corporation shall enjoy the same sovereign immunity available to the State;

(12) Making and altering corporation board bylaws for its organization and management without regard to chapter 91;

(13) Adopting rules, without regard to chapter 91, governing the exercise of its powers and the fulfillment of its purpose under this chapter;

(14) Entering into any contract or agreement whatsoever, not inconsistent with this chapter or the laws of this State, and authorizing the corporation chief executive officer to enter into all contracts, execute all instruments, and do all things necessary or appropriate in the exercise of the powers granted in this chapter, including securing the payment of bonds;

(15) Issuing revenue bonds subject to the approval of the legislature; provided that all revenue bonds shall be issued pursuant to part III, chapter 39;

(16) Reimbursing the state general fund for debt service on general obligation bonds or reimbursable general obligation bonds issued by the State for the purposes of the corporation;

(17) Pledging or assigning all or any part of the receipts and revenues of the corporation for purposes of meeting bond or health systems liabilities;

(18) Owning, purchasing, leasing, exchanging, or otherwise acquiring property, whether real, personal or mixed, tangible or intangible, and of any interest therein, in the name of the corporation, which property is not owned or controlled by the State but is owned or controlled by the corporation;

(19) Maintaining, improving, pledging, mortgaging, selling, or otherwise holding or disposing of property, whether real, personal or mixed, tangible or intangible, and of any interest therein, at any time and manner, in furtherance of the purposes and mission of the corporation; provided that the corporation legally holds or controls the property in its own name; and provided further that the corporation shall not sell, assign, lease, hypothecate, mortgage, pledge, give, or dispose of all or substantially all of its property;

(20) Purchasing insurance and creating captive insurers in any arrangement deemed in the best interest of the corporation, including but not limited to funding and payment of deductibles and purchase of reinsurance;

(21) Acquiring by condemnation, pursuant to chapter 101, any real property required by the corporation to carry out the powers granted by this chapter;

(22) Depositing any moneys of the corporation in any banking institution within or without the State, and appointing, for the purpose of making deposits, one or more persons to act as custodians of the moneys of the corporation;

(23) Contracting for and accepting any gifts, grants, and loans of funds, property, or any other aid in any form from the federal government, the State, any state agency, or any other source, or any combination thereof, and complying, subject to this chapter, with the terms and conditions thereof;

(24) Providing health and medical services for the public directly or by agreement or lease with any person, firm, or private or public corporation or association through or in the health facilities of the corporation or otherwise;

(25) Approving medical staff bylaws, rules, and medical staff appointments and reappointments for all public health facilities, including without limitation, determining the conditions under which a health professional may be extended the privilege of practicing within a health facility, and adopting and implementing reasonable rules, without regard to chapter 91, for the credentialing and peer review of all persons and health professionals within the facility;

(26) (A) Investing any funds not required for immediate disbursement in property or in securities that meet the standard for investments established in chapter 88 as provided by the corporation board; provided the investment assists the corporation in carrying out its public purposes; selling from time to time securities thus purchased and held, and depositing any securities in any bank or financial institution within or without the State. Any funds deposited in a banking institution or in any depository authorized in this section shall be secured in a manner and subject to terms and conditions as the corporation board may determine, with or without payment of any interest on the deposit, including, without limitation, time deposits evidenced by certificates of deposit. Any bank or financial institution incorporated under the laws of this State may act as depository of any funds of the corporation and may issue indemnity bonds or may pledge securities as may be required by the corporation board.

(B) Notwithstanding subparagraph (A), contracting with the holders of any of its notes or bonds as to the custody, collection, securing, investment, and payment of any moneys of the corporation and of any moneys held in trust or otherwise for the payment of notes or bonds and carrying out the contract. Moneys held in trust or otherwise for the payment of notes or bonds or in any way to secure notes or bonds, and deposits of such moneys, may be secured in the same manner as moneys of the corporation, and all banks and trust companies are authorized to give security for the deposits;

(27) Entering into any agreement with the State including but not limited to contracts for the provision of goods, services, and facilities in support of the corporation's programs, and contracting for the provision of services to or on behalf of the State;

(28) Having a seal and altering the same at pleasure;

(29) Waiving, by means that the corporation deems appropriate, the exemption from federal income taxation of interest on the corporation's bonds, notes, or other obligations provided by the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, or any other federal statute providing a similar exemption;

(30) Developing internal policies and procedures for the procurement of goods and services, consistent with the goals of public accountability and public procurement practices, [but not] and subject to chapter 103D. [However, where possible, the corporation is encouraged to use the provisions of chapter 103D; provided that the use of one or more provisions of chapter 103D shall not constitute a waiver of the exemption from chapter 103D and shall not subject the corporation to any other provision of chapter 103D];

(31) Authorizing and establishing positions;

(32) Calling upon the attorney general for such legal services as the corporation may require; and

(33) Having and exercising all rights and powers necessary or incidental to or implied from the specific powers granted in this chapter, which specific powers shall not be considered as a limitation upon any power necessary or appropriate to carry out the purposes and intent of this chapter."

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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