HJR34 Alabama 2022 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Ed OliverRepresentative

Republican

Session

Regular Session 2022

Title

Trauma Systems, Joint Committee on Statewide Trauma System Funding, recreated

Summary

A House Joint Resolution to recreate the Statewide Trauma System Funding Committee to study revenue options for Alabama's statewide trauma system and make recommendations to the Legislature.

What This Bill Does

Recreates the Statewide Trauma System Funding Committee (originally created by Act 2019-255) to explore how to fund the trauma system and to propose funding ideas to the Legislature. It defines a diverse group of members from legislative leadership, state agencies, hospitals, trauma professionals, and EMS providers, and requires leadership to be elected at the first meeting. The committee will study revenue measures, receive clerical support and compensation for members, and must deliver a findings report by the final day of the 2023 Regular Session, after which the committee will be dissolved.

Who It Affects

• Legislative members and state agencies (House Ways and Means General Fund, Senate Finance and Taxation General Fund, Governor’s Office, Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs, Office of Emergency Medical Services) involved in funding and policy decisions related to the trauma system.
• Healthcare providers and EMS organizations (designated trauma hospitals, trauma surgeons, emergency physicians, private EMS providers, public EMS providers) who participate in the committee and may be affected by potential funding changes to the trauma system.

Key Provisions

• Recreates the Statewide Trauma System Funding Committee to study revenue measures for continuing and expanding the Alabama Statewide Trauma System.
• Defines committee composition: House and Senate budget/finance chairs or designees; Governor’s representative; two EMS reps (Office of EMS); one representative from the Department of Economic and Community Affairs; two trauma hospitals; two trauma surgeons and one emergency physician; one private EMS transport provider and one public EMS transport provider.
• Requires appointing authorities to ensure diversity in race, gender, geography, urban/rural status, and economy.
• Chair and vice chair to be elected by committee members at the first meeting.
• Directs the committee to study all facets of revenue measures to support the trauma system’s continuance and expansion.
• Provides necessary clerical support for the committee’s work upon request.
• Allows members to receive regular compensation, per diem, and travel expenses per Amendment 871.
• Requires a final report with findings and recommendations to the Legislature by the final day of the 2023 Regular Session; after reporting, the committee is dissolved.

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Subjects

Resolutions, Legislative