(a) Without regard to chapter 42F, the private entity or its nonprofit management entity to which one or more of the facilities of the Maui regional system has been transferred pursuant to this part may seek funds from the State for capital expenditures, as that term is defined in § 37-62, for a transferred facility for each or all of the first ten years of the lease entered into under section 323F-54. Each year’s request for funds shall be submitted to the director of finance in accordance with procedures and criteria established by the director and shall be reviewed by the director and comptroller with pertinent capital planning and expenditure documents and the capital planning procedures supplied by the private entity or its nonprofit management entity. The director of finance may include some or all of the funds requested in the executive budget of the department of health. Any appropriation made in response to a request shall be subject to the allotment system generally applicable to all appropriations made by the legislature. The department of health shall be responsible for transferring the funds allotted to the private entity or its nonprofit management entity for expenditure.
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Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 323F-59

  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • county: includes the city and county of Honolulu. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 1-22
  • Department: means the department of health. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 323F-1
  • Director: means the director of health. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 323F-1
  • Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
  • Nonprofit management entity: means a nonprofit organization duly authorized to transact business in the State, the sole shareholder or member of which is the private entity, whose principal purpose is to manage and operate a medical care facility. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 323F-51
  • Private entity: means a business organization duly authorized to transact business in the State that:

    (1) Has a certificate of need to operate one or more licensed hospitals in the State obtained from the state health planning and development agency pursuant to part V of chapter 323D; or

    (2) Is the sole member of a nonprofit management entity or hospital that has a certificate of need to operate one or more licensed hospitals in the State obtained from the state health planning and development agency pursuant to part V of chapter 323D. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 323F-51

  • Transferred facility: means a medical facility of the Maui regional system for which the right and responsibility to manage, operate, and otherwise provide health care services at the facility is transferred to a private entity or its nonprofit management entity pursuant to this part. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 323F-51
(b) After the first ten years of the lease entered into under section 323F-54, the nonprofit management entity and the private entity shall be responsible for funding all capital expenditures of the transferred facility.
(c) To qualify to request funds from the State under this section, the private entity or its nonprofit management entity shall satisfy all of the standards and conditions set out in section 323F-58(b). In addition, the transferred facility shall demonstrate that the capital projects constructed, operated, and maintained with the requested funds will be in compliance with all federal, state, and county health care planning laws and rules, land use and zoning laws and rules, environmental laws and rules, and building and health codes, rules, and regulations.

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