Hawaii Administrative Rules
Title 11 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
Subtitle 1 - GENERAL DEPARTMENTAL PROVISIONS
Chapter 186 - CERTIFICATE OF NEED PROGRAM
Subchapter 5 - REVIEW PROCEDURES
Section 11-186-51 - Conflicts of interest
Current through February, 2024
(a) No member of a subarea council, a countywide review committee, the review panel, or the statewide council shall vote on any matter respecting an applicant with which the member, the member's spouse, the member's child, or the member's parent has (or within the twelve months preceding the vote, had any substantial ownership, directorship, officership, employment, prospective employment for which negotiations have begun, medical staff, fiduciary, contractual, creditor, debtor, or consultative relationship
(b) If such a relationship exists or has existed, the member shall make a written or oral disclosure of the relationship before any action is taken with respect to the applicant by the subarea council, countywide review committee, review panel, or statewide council, to which the member belongs and the member shall make the relationship public in any meeting in which action is to be taken with respect to the applicant.
(c) Where any other conflict of interest exists, a member of a subarea council, countywide review committee, review panel, or statewide council shall be disqualified from voting in the review of an application. The provisions of chapter 84, Hawaii Revised Statutes, and the decisions, advisory opinions, and informal advisory opinions of the state ethics commission shall serve as guidelines in determining whether a conflict of interest exists.
