Bill Text: HI HB872 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Emergency Appropriation; Nursing Facility Sustainability Program Special Fund ($)

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2013-04-17 - Act 013, 4/16/2013 (Gov. Msg. No. 1113). [HB872 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-HB872-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  159

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   H.B. No. 872

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Health and Human Services, to which was referred H.B. No. 872 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES FROM THE NURSING FACILITY SUSTAINABILITY PROGRAM SPECIAL FUND,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to:

 

(1)  Ensure continued timely payments to nursing facilities; and

 

(2)  Prevent disruption in providing medically necessary services to program recipients,

 

by making an emergency appropriation of $12,000,000 for Fiscal Year 2012-2013 out of the Nursing Facility Sustainability Program Special Fund.  This appropriation will enable the Department of Human Services to draw down federal dollars for supplemental payments to nursing facilities to help offset uncompensated care provided to Medicaid enrollees, thus ensuring their access to quality care.

 

     The Department of Human Services, Healthcare Association of Hawaii, and Hawaii Long Term Care Association testified in support of this measure.

 

     Pursuant to the requirements set forth in Article VII, Section 9, of the Hawaii State Constitution, the Governor, in his Governor's Message No. 208 to the Legislature, requested immediate consideration and passage of this bill by the Legislature.

 

     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. 872 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,

 

 

____________________________ MELE CARROLL, Chair		____________________________ DELLA AU BELATTI, Chair