Bill Text: HI SB2808 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Health Care Payments (HMS 401); Emergency Appropriation

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2012-04-24 - (S) Act 031, 4/20/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1131). [SB2808 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-SB2808-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2418

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2808

 

 

 

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. 2808 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES FOR HEALTH CARE PAYMENTS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to ensure the uninterrupted provision of medically necessary services to participants in health care programs and timely payments to contracted health plans by making an emergency appropriation to cover the budget shortfall for health care payments.

 

     Specifically, this bill appropriates the sum of $11,881,157 in general revenues for fiscal year 2011-2012.

 

     The Department of Human Services and Ohana Health Plan testified in support of this bill.

 

     Your Committee finds that this emergency appropriation is necessary to ensure that payments to medicaid health care plans and providers will not have to be deferred for a month at the end of the current 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 S.B. No. 2808 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