Bill Text: HI HB404 | 2015 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Hawaii Innovation Waiver Task Force; Appropriation ($)

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 7-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-01-26 - Referred to HLT, CPC, FIN, referral sheet 1 [HB404 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2015-HB404-Introduced.html

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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.B. NO.	404
TWENTY-EIGHTH LEGISLATURE, 2015
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

 

Making AN Appropriation for THE hawaii innovation waiver task force.

 

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 

     SECTION 1.  The legislature finds that Act 158 of 2014 established a state innovation waiver task force to develop a health care reform plan that meets requirements for obtaining a state innovation waiver from the Affordable Care Act.  In its first report dated December 2014, the task force recommended that the legislature, among other things, make an appropriation to the office of the governor for fiscal biennium 2016-2017 to support the work of the task force, and pay for consultants, neighbor island travel, and ordinary operating expenses related to developing a waiver that meets federal requirements.

     The legislature further finds that obtaining a state innovation waiver would be in the best interests of the people of Hawaii, who have been well-served by the Hawaii's groundbreaking prepaid health care act, which has guaranteed health care coverage for nearly all working Hawaii residents since its enactment in 1974.

     SECTION 2.  There is appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $         or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2016-2017 for the operations of the Hawaii innovation waiver task force.

     The sum appropriated shall be expended by the office of the governor for the purposes of this Act.

     SECTION 3.  This act shall take effect on July 1, 2015.

 

INTRODUCED BY:	_____________________________
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Report Title:

Hawaii Innovation Waiver Task Force; Appropriation

 

Description:

Appropriates funds to support the operations of the Hawaii Innovation Waiver Task Force for fiscal year 2016-2017.

 

 

 

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