Bill Text: HI SB417 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Hawaii Health System Corporation; Corporation Board; Regional System Board; Membership
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-03-23 - (H) Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1 and referred to the committee(s) on FIN with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Herkes excused (1). [SB417 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2012-SB417-Amended.html
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TWENTY-SIXTH LEGISLATURE, 2011 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO HEALTH.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. Section 323F-3, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (b) to read as follows:
"(b) The members of the corporation board shall be appointed as follows:
(1) The director of health as an ex-officio, voting member;
(2) The five regional chief executive officers as ex-officio, voting members;
(3) Two members who reside in the county of Maui who shall be appointed by the Maui regional system board;
(4) One member who resides in the eastern section of the county of Hawaii who shall be appointed by the East Hawaii regional system board;
(5) One member who resides in the western section of the county of Hawaii who shall be appointed by the West Hawaii regional system board;
(6) One member who resides on the island of Kauai who shall be appointed by the Kauai regional system board;
(7) One member who resides on the island of Oahu who shall be appointed by the Oahu regional system board; and
(8) One member who shall be appointed by the governor and serve as an at-large voting member.
The appointed board members [who reside in the
county of Maui, eastern section of the county of Hawaii, western section of the
county of Hawaii, on the island of Kauai, and on the island of Oahu] shall
each serve for a term of four years; provided that the terms of the initial
appointments shall be as follows: one of the initial members from the
county of Maui shall be appointed to serve a term of two years and
the other member shall be appointed to serve a term of four years; the initial
member from East Hawaii shall be appointed to serve a term of two years; the
initial member from West Hawaii shall be appointed to serve a term of four
years; the initial member from the island of Kauai shall be appointed to serve
a term of two years; and the initial member from the island of Oahu shall be
appointed to serve a term of four years. [The
at-large member appointed by the governor shall serve a term of two years.]
Any vacancy shall be filled in the same manner provided for the original appointments. The corporation board shall elect its own chair from among its members. Appointments to the corporation board shall be as representative as possible of the system's stakeholders as outlined in this subsection."
SECTION 2. Section 323F-3.5, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (c) to read as follows:
"(c) Each regional system shall be governed by a regional system board of directors to consist of not less than seven members and not more than fifteen members, as determined by the regional system board after the initial regional system board is established.
(1) Each regional system board shall initially consist of twelve members to be appointed by the governor under section 26-34 or as provided in this section, as follows:
(A) Four members shall be appointed by the governor within thirty days of receipt of a qualified list of candidates as follows:
(i) Two members shall be chosen from a list of four individuals submitted by the speaker of the house of representatives within fifteen days of July 1, 2007; provided that this list shall not include physicians; and
(ii) Two members shall be chosen from a list of four individuals submitted by the president of the senate within fifteen days of July 1, 2007; provided that this list shall not include physicians;
(B) Four members shall be appointed by the governor within thirty days from a list of eight individuals nominated by the regional public health facility management advisory committee within fifteen days of July 1, 2007. These individuals may be medical and health care providers and professionals, consumers, and knowledgeable individuals in other appropriate areas such as business, finance, and law; provided that these individuals shall not be physicians currently in active practice;
(C) Three physicians shall be appointed by the governor within thirty days from a list submitted within fifteen days of July 1, 2007, of six physicians nominated by a majority vote of the medical staff of the public health facilities in the regional system present at a duly noticed meeting from a list of qualified candidates submitted by the medical executive committees in the regional system; and
(D) The corporation board chairperson or chairperson's designee shall serve as an ex officio, nonvoting member of each regional system board;
(2) One member of each regional system board nominated by the speaker of the house of representatives, the president of the senate, and medical executive committees in a regional system shall be appointed for a term of two years;
(3) One member of each initial regional system board nominated by the regional public health facility management advisory committee for the regional system shall be appointed for a term of two years;
(4) The remaining
members of each initial regional system board and all members appointed thereafter
shall be appointed for terms [of three] between two and five
years[;], with the specific term length to be established at the time
of appointment by a two-thirds affirmative vote of the existing regional system
board members; and
(5) New regional system board members appointed to any regional system board after the initial regional system board shall be selected by a two-thirds affirmative vote of the existing regional system board members.
Except for the ex officio members of each regional system board, all other members of a regional system board shall be residents of the region. Each regional system board shall elect its own chair."
SECTION 3. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2050.
Report Title:
Hawaii Health System Corporation; Corporation Board; Regional System Board; Membership
Description:
Makes changes to the membership terms of the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation Board. Effective July 1, 2050. (SB417 HD1)
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