Bill Text: HI HB1956 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Federal Disproportionate Share Hospital Allowance; State Matching Funds

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 25-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-02-07 - (H) Passed Second Reading and referred to the committee(s) on FIN with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Takai excused (1). [HB1956 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-HB1956-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  145-12

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1956

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Health and Human Services, to which was referred H.B. No. 1956 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to appropriate $9,282,684 to the Department of Human Services to match the federal disproportionate share hospital allowance allocated to the State to ensure continuing medicaid coverage for Hawaii residents.

 

     The Healthcare Association of Hawaii, Hawaii Pacific Health, Kaiser Permanente Hawaii, Hawaii Primary Care Association, The Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii, and a concerned individual testified in support of this bill.  The Department of Human Services provided comments.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Health and Human Services that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1956 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Health and Human Services,

 

 

____________________________ JOHN M. MIZUNO, Chair		____________________________ RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair