Bill Text: HI HCR23 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Obesity Prevention Healthcare Reimbursement Task Force

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2013-05-02 - Resolution adopted in final form. [HCR23 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-HCR23-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  930

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   H.C.R. No. 23

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.C.R. No. 23 entitled:

 

"HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION URGING THE FORMATION OF A TASK FORCE TO DEVELOP RECOMMENDATIONS FOR IMPROVING THE PROVISION OF OBESITY PREVENTION-RELATED SERVICES AND COUNSELING IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PATIENT PROTECTION AND AFFORDABLE CARE ACT,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to urge the Department of Health to establish the Obesity Prevention Healthcare Reimbursement Task Force to develop recommendations for improving the provision of obesity prevention-related services and counseling in accordance with the implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

 

     The Department of Health, Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs, Hawaii Pacific Health, Hawaii Medical Service Association, The Mestizo Association, and an individual supported this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

(1)  Changing its title to conform with the contents of the measure and to read as follows:  "REQUESTING THE FORMATION OF A TASK FORCE TO DEVELOP RECOMMENDATIONS FOR IMPROVING OBESITY PREVENTION-RELATED SERVICES AND COUNSELING IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PATIENT PROTECTION AND AFFORDABLE CARE ACT"; and

 

(2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Health that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of H.C.R. No. 23, as amended herein, and recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Finance in the form attached hereto as H.C.R. No. 23, H.D. 1.

 

 

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

 

 

		____________________________ DELLA AU BELATTI, Chair