HRS §336-13
State pays to send patients back home
Read the official text at capitol.hawaii.gov ↗This section says the State must pay the costs of sending certain patients, who are aliens or nonresidents, back to their legal home. The money comes from hospital funds or health department money. It only covers these return expenses.
state agencies
The statute, as written — Expenses to be paid by State
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.
All expenses incurred in returning such aliens or nonresident persons to the place where they have legal residence, shall be paid by the State out of any appropriations made to the hospital in which any such person is a patient, or out of any moneys received by the department of health for this part.
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