HRS §27-1
State government handles certain statewide services
Read the official text at capitol.hawaii.gov ↗This section says the state government is responsible for certain services that affect the whole state. These include building and maintaining public schools, transporting students, burying people who cannot afford it, running public hospitals, treating government retirees, operating district courts, and working with counties to inform the public. Counties may add their own money to school projects.
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The statute, as written — Functions of statewide concern
A copy, taken August 20, 2026. The version published by the Legislature is the one that governs, and it may have changed since. Check it before relying on anything here.
The purpose of the chapter is to fix responsibility for certain functions, which are of statewide concern, in the state government. These functions which are declared to be state functions are as follows: (1) Planning, construction, improvement and maintenance of public school facilities and grounds and the transportation of school children; provided that nothing in this paragraph shall preclude the several counties from expending their own funds to supplement state funds; (2) Burial of indigents; (3) Planning, construction, improvement, maintenance, and operation of public hospitals and other public health and medical facilities; (4) Rendering of medical treatment and hospitalization services to state and county pensioners; (5) Administration and operation of district courts; and (6) Providing information and services to the public through joint cooperation with the several counties.
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