Bill Text: HI SB2083 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Health Care; Appropriation

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-03-22 - (H) Passed Second Reading and referred to the committee(s) on FIN with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Chang, Herkes, Nakashima excused (3). [SB2083 Detail]

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2692

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2083

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2083, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to appropriate moneys to be expended in fiscal year 2012-2013 by the Department of Human Services to match the federal medicaid disproportionate share hospital allowance.

 

     Written comments in support of this measure were submitted by the Hawaii Government Employees Association and Healthcare Association of Hawaii.  Written comments on this measure were submitted by the Department of Human Services.

 

     Your Committee finds that the federal medicaid disproportionate share hospital appropriation is critically important to hospitals in Hawaii because it helps cover the uncompensated costs of health care for the State's most vulnerable population.

 

     The federal medicaid disproportionate share hospital appropriation of $10,000,000 per year is secured for the State through 2019, but to receive these funds each year, the State must match the federal appropriation.  Your Committee finds that a matching appropriation from the State for fiscal year 2012-2013 will allow for continued medicaid coverage for health care services in our communities.

 

     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 S.B. No. 2083, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

 

		____________________________ DAVID Y. IGE, Chair