Bill Text: HI HB2084 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Federal Disproportionate Share Hospital Allowance; State Match
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 15-0)
Status: (Passed) 2010-07-07 - (S) Became law without the Governor's signature, Act 203, 7/6/2010, (Gov. Msg. No. 695). [HB2084 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2010-HB2084-Amended.html
STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2997
Honolulu, Hawaii
RE: H.B. No. 2084
H.D. 1
S.D. 1
Honorable Colleen Hanabusa
President of the Senate
Twenty-Fifth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2010
State of Hawaii
Madam:
Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 2084, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE FEDERAL DISPROPORTIONATE SHARE HOSPITAL FUNDS,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this measure is to appropriate state matching funds to secure a federal disproportionate share hospital appropriation of $15,000,000.
The measure also authorizes the State to use a portion of the funds to obtain the disproportionate share hospital allowance for fiscal year 2009-2010.
Written comments presented to the Committee may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.
Your Committee finds that a federal medicaid disproportionate share hospital appropriation of $15,000,000 has been secured for Hawaii. However, these funds cannot be expended without a matching state appropriation. In 2009, the Legislature overrode the Governor's veto of a bill that appropriated the State matching funds. To date, the Governor has not released the state funds, although federal funds remain available. Your Committee finds that the state matching fund appropriation under this measure is necessary to receive the federal allowance to continue providing state medicaid coverage in the next fiscal year.
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. 2084, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,
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____________________________ DONNA MERCADO KIM, Chair |
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