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

NOTE: There are more recent revisions of this legislation. Read Latest Draft
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

 

 

STAND. COM. REP. NO.  695

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2011

 

RE:   H.B. No. 594

      H.D. 2

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 594, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to provide for continuing health care in Hawaii's communities by appropriating moneys to the Department of Human Services (DHS) to match the federal disproportionate share hospital funds appropriated to the State for Medicaid payments to health care providers as required for the disbursement of the federal moneys.

 

     The Queen's Medical Center, Kaiser Permanente, and the Healthcare Association of Hawaii testified in support of this bill.  DHS provided comments.

 

     Your Committee has amended this bill by changing:

 

     (1)  The appropriation amount from $9,800,000 to an unspecified amount; and

 

     (2)  Its effective date to July 1, 2030, to encourage further discussion.


     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 594, H.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.

 

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

 

 

 

 

____________________________

MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair

 

 

 

 

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