Report Title:
Ambulance services
Description:
Appropriates $ for 24-hour ambulance services for the Kihei/Wailea and Kula/Makawao/Pukalani regions of Maui for FY 2003-2004.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
H.B. NO. |
503 |
TWENTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2003 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
making an appropriation for ambulance services for the kihei/wailea and kula/makawao/pukalani regions of maui for fy 2003-2004.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. The legislature finds that the Kihei/Wailea region of Maui is a growing community and tourist center and includes only one twenty-four hour, locally based advanced life support ambulance service available for its visitors and residents. The legislature further 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 the case of the Kihei/Wailea region, emergency situations occurring when the single overburdened ambulance is already on call, the response time of ambulances, from nearby communities, increases by an additional twenty to thirty minutes depending upon the location of the ambulance. In the case of the Kula/Makawao/Pukalani region, for emergency situations occurring after regular ambulance service hours the response time of ambulances from nearby communities increases by an additional fifteen to forty-five minutes.
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 community.
The purpose of this Act is to provide parity in emergency health care for residents and visitors of the Kihei/Wailea and Kula/Makawao/Kihei regions of Maui by providing an additional twenty-four hour advanced life support ambulance service for the Kihei/Wailea region and providing twenty-four hour life support ambulance services for the Kula/Makawao/Pukalani region.
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 Kula/Makawao/Pukalani (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. 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 Kihei/Wailea region of Maui.
SECTION 5. The sum appropriated shall be expended by the department of health for the purposes of this Act.
SECTION 6. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2003.
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