Bill Text: HI HB1723 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: TRICARE Program; Health Care; General Excise Tax; Exemption Extension

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-03-22 - (S) Report adopted; Passed Second Reading and referred to WAM. [HB1723 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-HB1723-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  45-12

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1723

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 1723 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE TRICARE PROGRAM,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to help maintain affordable healthcare for Hawaii's active, reserved, and retired members of the military and their families by making permanent the general excise tax exemption for certain amounts received by a managed care support contractor of the TRICARE program for the actual cost or advancement to third party health care providers.

 

     The Department of Taxation; TriWest Healthcare Alliance Inc.; Military Officers Association of America, Hawaii Chapter; and Hawaii Medical Service Association supported this measure.  The Tax Foundation of Hawaii provided comments.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Health that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1723 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Public Safety & Military Affairs.

 

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Health,

 

 

		____________________________ RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair