Report Title:

Healthy Hawaii; Use of Funding Restricted

Description:

Requires that funds appropriated from the tobacco settlement special fund and earmarked for the Healthy Hawaii program be expended solely for that purpose and not supplant general fund moneys. Restores full funding to the Healthy Hawaii program. Provides for non-supplanting of funds for Healthy Start program. (SD1)

THE SENATE

S.B. NO.

2618

TWENTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2004

S.D. 1

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

relating to health.

 

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

SECTION 1. Section 328L-4, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

"[[]§328L-4[]] Use of funds appropriated to the department. The department, immediately upon receipt of the thirty-five per cent of moneys appropriated pursuant to section 328L-2(b)(2) shall:

(1) Transfer up to ten per cent of the total moneys received by the State from tobacco settlement moneys to the department of human services for the children’s health insurance program; and

(2) Expend the remainder of the moneys received by the department solely for health promotion and disease prevention programs, including but not limited to, maternal child health and child development programs, promotion of healthy lifestyles (including fitness, nutrition, and tobacco control), and prevention oriented public health programs[.]; provided that no moneys received by the department shall supplant general fund moneys appropriated to fund programs.

For purposes of paragraph (2), the director shall convene an advisory group that shall be separate from the tobacco prevention and control advisory board, to strategically plan the development and implementation of preventive systems to achieve measurable outcomes and to make recommendations for the expenditure of these moneys. The advisory group shall be composed of nine members with expertise in the programs under paragraph (2), and shall be selected at the discretion of the director."

SECTION 2. Full funding to the Healthy Hawaii Initiative shall be restored beginning July 1, 2005. General fund appropriations shall not be supplanted with tobacco settlement moneys for the Healthy Start program, beginning July 1, 2005.

SECTION 3. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.