Bill Text: HI HB2559 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Mortality Review for Persons with Developmental or Intellectual Disabilities
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-02-14 - (H) Report adopted; referred to the committee(s) on FIN with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and C. Lee, M. Lee excused (2). [HB2559 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2012-HB2559-Amended.html
STAND. COM. REP. NO. 376-12
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2012
RE: H.B. No. 2559
H.D. 1
Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Sixth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2012
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 2559, H.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO MORTALITY REVIEW OF DEATHS OF PERSONS WITH DEVELOPMENTAL OR INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The Department of Health testified that the Government Accountability Office recommended to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services that states be encouraged to conduct mortality reviews to address quality of care concerns.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2559, H.D. 1, and recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Finance.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary,
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____________________________ GILBERT KEITH-AGARAN, Chair |
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