Bill Text: HI SB2889 | 2016 | Regular Session | Introduced


Bill Title: Hawaii Healthcare Workforce Advisory Board; Department of Labor and Industrial Relations

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-29 - Referred to JDL. [SB2889 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2016-SB2889-Introduced.html

THE SENATE

S.B. NO.

2889

TWENTY-EIGHTH LEGISLATURE, 2016

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 

 

 

 

 

 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

 

RELATING TO THE HAWAII HEALTHCARE WORKFORCE ADVISORY BOARD.

 

 

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

 


     SECTION 1.  Section 371-19.2, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (a) to read as follows:

     "(a)  There is established within the department, for administrative purposes, the Hawaii healthcare workforce advisory board, which shall include the following members or their designees:

     (1)  The director, who shall serve as the chair;

     (2)  The director of health;

     (3)  The director of the Hawaii/Pacific basin area health education center[;], University of Hawaii John A. Burns school of medicine;

     (4)  The director of the University of Hawaii at Manoa office of public health studies;

     (5)  One chancellor of a community college within the University of Hawaii system, to be selected by the other members of the Hawaii healthcare workforce advisory board;

     (6)  [One member representing a nurse training program; and] The executive director of the Hawaii state center for nursing; and

     (7)  Three representatives from Hawaii's healthcare community that represent a variety of healthcare disciplines.  The representatives shall be selected by the other members of the Hawaii healthcare workforce advisory board and shall serve two-year terms".

     SECTION 2.  Section 371-19.2, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (d) to read as follows:

     "(d)  Members of the Hawaii healthcare workforce advisory board shall serve without compensation[;provided that the representatives from the health care community], but shall be reimbursed for expenses, including travel expenses, necessary for the performance of their duties." 

     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  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.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.

 

INTRODUCED BY:

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BY REQUEST


 


 

Report Title:

Hawaii Healthcare Workforce Advisory Board; Department of Labor and Industrial Relations

 

Description:

Specifies that the nursing member of the Hawaii Healthcare Workforce Advisory Board is the Executive Director of the Hawaii State Center for Nursing.

 

 

 

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