Section 453-8.8 - Physician workforce assessment fee; license; physician workforce informationWhen a license is renewed, each physician or surgeon and each osteopathic physician or surgeon shall be assessed a fee of $60 that shall be transferred and deposited into the John A. Burns school of medicine special fund established under section 304A-2171 to support ongoing assessment and planning of the physician workforce in Hawaii, including:
(1) Ongoing assessment and planning, as well as the recruitment and retention of physicians, especially for the physician workforce serving rural and medically underserved areas of the State;(2) Providing loan repayment to physicians who commit to working in medically underserved areas of the State as part of the Hawaii state loan repayment program administered by the John A. Burns school of medicine; and(3) Providing scholarships to qualifying medical students to be determined by the John A. Burns school of medicine.Payment of the physician workforce assessment fee shall be required for license renewal.
Amended by L 2021, c 151,§ 3, eff. 7/1/2021.Amended by L 2017, c 40,§ 2, eff. 6/29/2017.Amended by L 2012, c 186, § 3, eff. 6/29/2012.Amended by L 2012, c 186, § 2, eff. 6/29/2012.L Sp 2009, c 18, §3; repealed by L Sp 2009, c 18, §9, effective June 30, 2012 [now 6/30/2017]Disbursements to special fund (repealed June 30, 2012). L Sp 2009, c 18, §4.
Physician workforce assessment report to legislature beginning in 2011 and every odd-numbered year thereafter. L Sp 2009, c 18, §5.