HOUSE BILL REPORT

SB 5204

BYSenator DeJarnatt

Authorizing more than one hospital superintendent.

House Committe on Local Government

Majority Report:  Do pass.  (12)

      Signed by Representatives Haugen, Chair; Cooper, Vice Chair; Beck, Bumgarner, Ferguson, Hine, Nealey, Nelson, Nutley, Rayburn, L. Smith and Zellinsky.

House Staff:Steve Lundin (786-7127)

AS PASSED HOUSE APRIL 7, 1987

BACKGROUND:

Current law provides for the appointment of only one superintendent per hospital district.  Unlike other hospital districts, Pacific County Public Hospital District No. 1 operates not one but two hospitals.

SUMMARY:

Where a public hospital district operates more than one hospital, the public hospital district commission may appoint up to one superintendent per hospital.

Fiscal Note:      Not Requested.

House Committee ‑ Testified For:    Marilyn Showalter, Roberts & Shefelman.

House Committee - Testified Against:      None Presented.

House Committee - Testimony For:    Under current law a public hospital district may have only one superintendent, who is also usually the district's hospital administrator.  Unlike all the other public hospital districts in the state, Pacific County Public Hospital District No. 1 has not one but two hospitals and therefore, needs a superintendent/administrator for each hospital. 

House Committee - Testimony Against:      None Presented.