STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2894

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 1723

       H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 1723, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to extend the general excise tax exclusion for amounts received by a managed care support contractor of the TRICARE program for the actual cost or advancement to third party health care providers.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Taxation; Military Officers Association of America, Hawaii Chapter; Oahu Veterans Council; TriWest; and HMSA.  Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Tax Foundation of Hawaii.

 

     Your Committee finds that this measure facilitates the provision of coverage to the approximately 163,000 current and former military personnel and the families of such personnel who reside in Hawaii by preventing significant increases in the cost of health care services delivered through the TRICARE program.

 

     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, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

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

 

		____________________________ JOSH GREEN, M.D., Chair