Bill Text: HI SB1237 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-03-21 - Passed Second Reading and referred to the committee(s) on FIN with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Belatti, Say excused (2). [SB1237 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-SB1237-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1081

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   S.B. No. 1237

      S.D. 2

 

 

 

 

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 S.B. No. 1237, S.D. 2, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO LONG-TERM CARE FACILITIES,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to extend the operation of the Nursing Facility Sustainability Program.  Specifically, this measure amends Act 156, Session Laws of Hawaii 2012, by:

 

     (1)  Extending the repeal date of the Nursing Facility Sustainability Program to June 30, 2014;

 

     (2)  Appropriating $12,000,000 out of the Nursing Facility Sustainability Program Special Fund to be used for purposes consistent with the special fund; and

 

     (3)  Making changes to existing provisions to enhance clarity and style.

 

     The Department of Human Services, Hawaii Health Systems Corporation, Hawaii Long Term Care Association, Healthcare Association of Hawaii, Hale Makua Wailuku, Hale Makua Health Services, and Pearl City Nursing Home testified in support of this measure.

 

     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 S.B. No. 1237, S.D. 2, 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