00 Enrolled HB 168                                                                                                         
01 Relating to state certification and designation of trauma centers; creating the trauma care fund                        
02 to offset trauma care provided at certified and designated trauma centers; and providing for an                         
03 effective date.                                                                                                         
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05    * Section 1. AS 18.08.082 is amended by adding a new subsection to read:                                           
06            (c)  The commissioner shall establish special designations in regulation for                                 
07       varying levels of trauma care provided by any certified trauma center in the state that                           
08       shall be used to set compensation eligibility and amounts under AS 18.08.085. The                                 
09       designations shall be based on nationally recognized standards and procedures.                                    
10    * Sec. 2. AS 18.08 is amended by adding a new section to read:                                                     
11            Sec. 18.08.085. Trauma care fund; creation. (a) The trauma care fund is                                    
12       created. The purpose of the fund is to compensate certified trauma centers in the state                           
13       that receive a special designation under AS 18.08.082(c) and that achieve or maintain                             
14       the highest appropriate level of trauma care designation.                                                         
01            (b)  The fund consists of money appropriated to it by the legislature, including                             
02       donations, recoveries of or reimbursements for awards made from the fund, income                                  
03       from the fund, and other program receipts from activities under this chapter.                                     
04       Appropriations to the fund do not lapse.                                                                          
05            (c)  The commissioner shall administer the fund in accordance with the                                       
06       provisions of this chapter. The commissioner shall spend money from the trauma care                               
07       fund for the purpose established in (a) of this section.                                                          
08            (d)  The commissioner shall establish compensation standards under this                                      
09       section. The standards must include funding priorities for trauma centers receiving a                             
10       special designation under AS 18.08.082(c). The commissioner may seek the advice of                                
11       a special committee for review of statewide trauma care and compensation standards.                               
12            (e)  The commissioner may not provide more than 25 percent of the total                                      
13       assets, including earnings, of the fund in a fiscal year to one trauma center.                                    
14    * Sec. 3. This Act takes effect immediately under AS 01.10.070(c).