Bill Text: HI SB2240 | 2016 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Health; Vector Control; Appropriation ($)
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-04-20 - Conference committee meeting scheduled for 04-21-16 10:00AM in conference room 016. [SB2240 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2016-SB2240-Amended.html
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TWENTY-EIGHTH LEGISLATURE, 2016 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH TO REESTABLISH A VECTOR CONTROL BRANCH.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. Vector control involves controlling the spread of animals that have the potential to carry disease, from rodents to insects, including mosquitoes. However, the department of health currently has no vector control branch and its vector control unit suffered severe funding cuts several years ago.
According to a June 17, 2015, news story on KHON2, department of health officials plan to hire more workers for its vector control unit, but the department still will not have nearly as many workers as it once did. A wave of cost-cutting in 2009 eliminated dozens of workers tasked with controlling mosquitoes and rats.
The legislature finds that the current outbreak of dengue fever necessitates an appropriation to the department of health to hire more vector control employees and reestablish a vector control branch.
The purpose of this Act is to make an appropriation for the department of health to hire more full-time employees for vector control and reestablish a vector control branch.
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 2016-2017 to the department of health to hire full-time equivalent
( .0 FTE) positions for vector control, including a vector control program manager and three staff positions, and to take steps to fully reestablish a vector control branch within the department's environmental health administration.
The sum appropriated shall be expended by the department of health for the purposes of this Act.
SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2112.
Report Title:
Health; Vector Control; Appropriation
Description:
Appropriates funds to the Department of Health to hire more full-time employees for vector control and to reestablish a Vector Control Branch. (SB2240 HD1)
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