Bill Text: HI HB594 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Disproportionate Share Hospital Funds; Medicaid; Appropriation

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-0)

Status: (Enrolled - Dead) 2012-04-13 - (H) Received notice of all Senate conferees being discharged (Sen. Com. No. 747). [HB594 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-HB594-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1154

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 594

       H.D. 2

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 594, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to appropriate funds to the Department of Human Services to match the federal Medicaid disproportionate share hospital allowance allocated to the State.

 

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from Rick Keene, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, The Queen's Health Systems.  Your Committee received comments on this measure from Patricia McManaman, Director, Department of Human Services.

 

     Your Committee finds that the matching funds appropriated in this measure are necessary to draw on the federal Medicaid disproportionate share hospital funds allocated to the State.  Your Committee further finds that the combined state and federal funding will help provide continuing health care in Hawaii's communities.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the appropriation and all amounts and percentages that the State is obligated to provide to unspecified sums and percentages, to facilitate further discussion.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 594, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 594, H.D. 2, S.D. 2.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

 

		____________________________ DAVID Y. IGE, Chair