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Current as of January 01, 2025 | Updated by Findlaw Staff
(a) There is established within the state treasury a special fund to be known as the emergency medical services special fund to be administered and expended by the department.
(b) The moneys in the special fund shall be distributed as follows:
(1) Beginning with fiscal year 2021-2022, $3,500,000 shall be distributed each fiscal year to a county operating a county emergency medical services system pursuant to part XI of chapter 46 for the operation of that system; and
(2) The remainder shall be distributed to the department for operating the system established pursuant to this chapter, including enhanced and expanded services, and shall not be used to supplant funding for emergency medical services authorized prior to July 1, 2004.
(c) Fees remitted pursuant to section 249-31, cigarette tax revenues designated under section 245-15, interest and investment earnings attributable to the moneys in the special fund, legislative appropriations, and grants, donations, and contributions from private or public sources for the purposes of the fund, shall be deposited into the special fund.
(d) The department shall submit an annual report to the legislature no later than twenty days prior to the convening of each regular session that outlines the receipts of, and expenditures from, the special fund.
Cite this article: FindLaw.com - Hawaii Revised Statutes Division 1. Government § 321-234 - last updated January 01, 2025 | https://codes.findlaw.com/hi/division-1-government/hi-rev-st-sect-321-234/
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