Bill Text: HI HB176 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Medicaid Buy-In; Department of Human Services; Task Force; Extension

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-02-12 - Passed Second Reading and referred to the committee(s) on FIN with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Belatti, Cachola, Coffman, Takai excused (4). [HB176 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-HB176-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  309

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   H.B. No. 176

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Human Services, to which was referred H.B. No. 176 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO MEDICAID,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to assist the Department of Human Services in its efforts to provide access to affordable health care for working individuals with disabilities by extending the activities of the Medicaid Buy-In Task Force established under Act 200, Session Laws of Hawaii 2012, by extending the dissolution date of the Task Force from June 30, 2013, to June 30, 2014.  This bill also requires the Task Force to submit both interim and final reports to the Legislature.

 

     The Department of Human Services, State Council on Developmental Disabilities, and Community Alliance for Mental Health testified in support of this measure.  An individual testified in opposition of this measure.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Human Services that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 176 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Human Services,

 

 

		____________________________ MELE CARROLL, Chair